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lebanon after a major hike in university tuition fees police used tear gas to disperse crowds in the capital beirut responded by throwing bottles and objects is present donald trump downplayed the damage done by a suspected russian despite cyber security experts saying it could take months to unravel. he said it's pretty clear russian hackers are behind the attack the president has suggested it was china. and they've been demonstrations in sudan's capital khartoum 2 years since the uprising that removed president. thousands have been calling for an acceleration of reforms promised by the transitional government. there's all the headlines up front is next.

bagle dash is under fire for relocating her hensher refugees to a remote island off the coast human rights groups say that some are being forced to relocate and one has even called it an island detention center we'll speak with a representative from amnesty international about the growing crisis but 1st is india's far more protests continue to block major highways into new delhi as prime minister narendra modi gone too far with his agricultural reforms that is our arena . conflict last month tens of thousands of indian farmers have camped along highways outside new delhi's borders braving the cold temperatures and the risk of

coronavirus to protest controversial agriculture reforms a minister in the interim modi says the new laws are necessary to deregulate and modernize india's agriculture sector which is the primary source of income for 58 percent of indians but farmers say they were not consulted when the reforms were pushed through and worry the changes will make them vulnerable to exploitation from large corporations so as the protests enter their 4th week is there an end in sight to this standoff help us answer this we're joined by adela seeing a spokesperson of the ruling party ajanta party and again the president of the saroj india party and a member of the take his son on the line one of the farmers organizations leading the protest against i want to start with you and because of your involvement in the protests i mean you've actually been at these protest camps near the new delhi border there have been 6 rounds of talks between the government and the farmers the government has said that they are willing to make 7 amendments to the bill

including a written assurance that they will not do away with what's known as the minimum support prices for. armors the m.s.p. which is one of their biggest concern so why did the farmers reject those amendments what is it they want said in these talks that is actually very little talk. past each other and the government really doesn't want to listen to the far as the government not only wants to decide what it wants to say but it also seems to wish to decide what the pharmacy should be saving every dime government says be conceded this demand be conceded that and in the evening farmers union says it would be never demanded it is farmers are saying something very clear procedurally all these export broccoli without that without acceptance nor by a limb by limb in triple c. chips they also avoided the federal can supposedly be substantively the real deal.

is that this was dismantled compromised very seriously the existing group has a marketing system. quote farmers department discipline. farmers feel that this is a signal of the state into jobs from degree culture and bringing in not big group business get big or get your last is the kind of thing that might happen the government doesn't interest any of these things the government comes up to its white farmers are saying that the basic intent of these t. laws disturb verse many these wants to please take it up and just one final point there bush to be is that into sendai discussion we forget that these 3 laws were meant to be historic gift to the farmers of india when you give someone and that person says nothing to you actually don't want it and if you really want to give me something sure is what i really want to wear to school. so in l

a what about what you're going to are saying a basically is saying that you are talking past each other. and that specifically the government is not listening. this is absolutely a wrong decision i can say so we have always take into consideration all that is the mission and vision of the prime minister nouri ligi says he and the country prime minister he have been working for the people of our country and he is trying to improve the lightest type of all this ignorance is living in our country and he had tested he is going to improve the lives type of us as better than he became prime minister by unfortunately if i talk about most of my country then never that is a major change that absolutely the challenge is because this is a democratic country and you know social looking surveillance and the learned enough system just a moment if i may say that it's a democratic country but the way these bills were rammed through that is

a problem so 1st you bypassed the parliament in june to create them into law as a temporary measure and then when the bills by only went to parliament that was in september there was no debate about the reforms the votes were not even properly counted the bills were passed with this chaotic voice but which is basically members of parliament just yelling yes or no and based on who can yell the loudest is that really the most democratic way to pass such divisive reforms you keep saying you're a democracy no this is the only but it meant yes the discussion you know it happened and all on political bodies they were present there and by and by and they do say this yes this business should be tossed for the sake of those it just did but i think that how was it with your face that all of the operative just said i don't have a beautician just another me b.c. and then follow this is what we're busy saying getting bored because they are from one job which you can from one job and that it doesn't only point to causes of the

incompetence by those living in a country so if you want to see. analysts who are sitting right in the borders and sitting in the other present eat a never before living living in a country that is absolutely wrong and why there's a thing there because the dependency on tucker is all that is so much on getting the n.c. that is read the out there that is a nexus in between the government it is easy and capitalist banners and i don't know why certain activists and. leaders like the only the other day are getting for them. that ability has degraded use and there are many factors i can tell you sort of that why that happened it depends if you should read it is no this is the punjab and haryana they should move away from this dependency and they go i'm interested in this debt so 1st i decide to make sure that our viewers know the

sea is the government run markets again she mentioned you are unlikely to respond. number one india has by limited procedures require it's one of the seconds and procedure that even if it models written but then it was what is not at all why did god not have. on the job many point out that the place where i'm doing but i'm involved in that city not the national highway this not even one person almost from punjab these are almost all the best in the state of broad just tom and from the state attorney general and by seen that it follows the need to rule out a pm ceased their tendency on government marketing system i suspect that singh has let the get out of the back that's exactly what the father must suspect these bills are all about yes they actually read you right and you have gone to forbid farmers

fear dead existing government market existence is about to give any and dispose of. have been brought in that big business going to. decided the field of the pond so you're going to let me ask you this we've talked about m.s. pay the minimum support prices that are really sacrosanct for farmers but what's confusing and reality is very few farmers actually get those prices even the highest estimates have it 15 maybe 25 percent but most farmers and for instance we're at the heart of these protests they do benefit from minimum support prices arts protests about farmers at a certain part of the country are farmers elsewhere invested in this cause right now. you're absolutely right to be the most support priced of the government to get it is every year mainly remains of about 80 percent farmers don't benefit the most at all 20 percent bit farmers movement in organizations over the years have been

demanding that this farm and it could be turned into it and it did the 20 should become the $5060.00 instead what the government is saying is the effect of what the government is doing would be to reduce scale doll district and maybe in defining the rules what's going to beneficiaries of the system are the 1st ones to protest is remember everybody else is also joining it because what was that really saying is this means don't just this will want to give us the gift that people want and what they want is legal guttering backed me muscled price them into regular assured products that's what the farmers launch turn it into illegal gun or indeed why does the government do it and ella. unfortunately people are late mr jago you know i'm damn pushed back to go just not going to stay on this is the

steepest and force is the sector and the by dissipation in g.d.p. is only 15 to 16 pursued this is a reason they do not want to go on that people. didn't get more often they didn't want to want that new should be introduced in this is they don't want that people should go and sell their produce difficulty to whom they want to lie and you want a king that would be and this week so you get empty is it possible. is it possible you would have ended is it you know if you read it and you get you to name one country you named one country which has gotten branded to grass under anesthesia and they are happy. to see you are you going to see the got end to end this race to the bombers it is that easy to use and i mentioned earlier that it was a democratic country and lead love doolittle dick also i don't know who are

important you get but then you have to dumb decisions you need to have a strong political bias and that is what mr that in half are talking about politics and the prime minister narendra modi he is very popular but even popular leaders have limits particularly and a democracy or a he had acted deeply unpopular economic measures that the goods and services tax that massive the monetization move that bad 86 percent of the country's currency did that overnight even with those policies that hurt a lot of poor and marginalized indians he won reelection and a landslide here but now this overhaul that you're talking about that you are saying is the best thing for the farmer says overhaul of the agriculture sector that accounts for the livelihoods of more than half of all indians as you've both pointed out. has he gone too far this time by alienating farmers a very important political constituency see this is what i mentioned that mr not in

with he is the 1st prime minister. who never been stuck. under anything if he has to take a step for the nation he digs that he normally does time that he has to improve to light for us so he has taken the steps earlier also we have seen that a whole lot of credit and education he had to freeze or whatever steps he took. but he never been to and this time also he is to say that this is for the farmers i am standing with up on this i have to do more options for the farmers i have to create a good but no i don't want to do ration to get involved in it because rather than getting it so this is being understood by major major a.v.r. all the farming sector and the youngster the species they are understanding so that

have to agree one back to let me put that to you again to write so i know what she has been saying is that these changes that the prime minister wants to make are actually for the good of the farmers and there is a segment of it the farmers that are better and invested in this not working they don't want to work and the younger generation gets it it is do you agree with that where do the farmer stand on this are there different groups that feel differently and what about what she's saying that they know what's best for you because 19th century it is and i guess in democracies. what might strand described a simple well because shoot you bruce just a lot of the long. and it is absolutely. deep when it has been almost done by this tonight it looked. expose expose one of the greatest economic disaster be anything new that come to us and then i dreaded the more of your

deplorable bits mr modi is a political genius i would never did not he continues to be popular i did not deny it but does he have what to extrude and b. complex an economy like india someone who digs such knowledge decisions with him do you want to say she was just you she will stick with don't consent to get single serious economist in the country and this policy decision has been with the sort of biggest single song. in such a prime minister that the guy i really. do want to is a she got away with the media's other decisions to go to but this time is. needed on it to get it back. cool dual damage that it is seriously and i'm afraid that is the kind of mr that had to use it by just and that will be the final word

again and they'll us saying thank you so much for joining me in the arena. some 1000000 russians are muslim refugees now living there bangladesh is cox's bizarre as the threat of genocide persists and their home country me and mar with no hope of repatriation in the near future the bangladeshi government is looking for new ways to grapple with one of the largest refugee populations in the world including sending refugees to an island off the coast of bangladesh that plan has tried international outcry as human rights groups say such a move would deprive refugees of their freedom of movement and subject them to potentially dangerous living conditions as bengal destine was safe haven for the right hensher or is it turning into just another nightmare joining me to discuss this from colombo sri lanka samadi south asia campaigner at amnesty. international side of me thank you so much for joining me on up front so bangladesh has been celebrated for taking in so many refugees fleeing neighboring me and marpa now it's

under fire from human rights groups for this attempt to relocate about 100000 people to this 40 square kilometer island called basin charge your organization amnesty international has reported allegations of sexual abuse by those in charge of policing the island fortify rights of human rights organization that has been investigating crimes against humanity a memoir for years has called this island basin char an island detention center so why is the government continuing to relocate refugees there when plenty of experts have pointed out this this is not the right place there may be better options. yes we have heard accounts of allegations from refugees who are on the island allegations of sexual harassment and sexual abuse and we've called on the bangladeshi government to investigate those allegations clearly these allegations that we've heard from the refugees there or do you have not responded or are

clarified on those allegations when we sought their right to reply we don't have nations have not had the opportunity to go to the island to assess on its own and same goes for the humanitarian agencies that human rights groups are concerned is that the track to refugee situation where you have the international community contributing humanitarian assistance and where the onus is on the international community to support bangladesh and the room to refugee in a crisis as big as this it's important that all the actors have their access have their mandate to carry out the assessment that they need to determine whether the island is habitable the scientific data that is needed to the feasibility of operating between the mainland and the island and all those concerns we don't have those data yet we called on the bound issue priorities to allow amnesty international to go to the island and people themselves 'd what what what is there

what kind of conditions there are to ensure the freedom of movement between the island and the mainland what what guarantees there are so we don't know for certain whether whether the ok society bangladeshi government they have said that this relocation is necessary and an effort to improve security because of concerns and these camps which are very cramped there's been a gang related violence there that resulted and at least 8 people being killed in october and the displacement of 2000 families that the government have a point that they have to do something yes we've seen the gang violence happening up to. but that could be a pretext for for many reasons and the violence in the camp in the refugee camp in cox's bazar cannot justify a relocation to an island what it calls for is investigation independent immediate impartial investigation of who the people are behind this of this violence in the

camps that cannot be a reason for relocation to an island particularly without the participation of the refugees and the assessment being done we're not opposed to any relocation that let's let's just be clear on that we're not proposing a relocation it's bangladesh has extended its generosity at hosting the refugees i think what's more important here is to look at the participation process of the refugees if they are comparable relocate i do want to ask you that about that when you talk about the participation the government has said that they are not forcing anyone to go to this island but there are reports of people's names being added to list without consent people fleeing for fear of forcibly being relocated to these islands hunger strikes allegations of beatings is the government lying when it says it's not forcing anybody to go to this island so we've heard allegations there have been circumstances where at least europe and jesus said that their shelters were

damaged and they wanted to have them fixed but the the camp authorities said they should consider relocating to be island instead and the shelters were not thick so they feel that they relocated out of compulsion than a choice so that's that some of the experiences those one woman who spoke to amnesty international saying that her husband has been on the island since me and she didn't feel that he would come back to the camp with. being a single parent with a son he she felt that it was difficult for her to stay in the camp for this law. long and she thought that she would go reunite with her husband instead so in all these anecdotes that i've that i'm sharing with you it looks like some refugees were in the. force their way or they felt compelled to go to the island instead of i mean this is not the standard definition of a voluntary decision that we understand ok i want to talk

a little bit more specifically about the forced relocation to this island because it seems the island itself just the island not even just the conditions the island itself is dangerous it's less than 2 metres above sea level it's entirely made of felt it just a martian to see 20 years ago bangladesh is already very vulnerable to cyclons flooding storm surges so how could an island like this even be considered when it seems to just be a sitting duck basically for for a cycle so a cycle has not directly hit the island there have been a recent cycle that took place i don't i'm done but that has gone past. the island it has it has had in other places not the island they have been concerned with the embankment levels in the past that we've learned from previous short assessment that have been carried out by some agencies but these are not publicly accessible i mean for us as amnesty international we think that without going to the island

without knowing the facilities that there are we heard from the british authorities or part from other others as well but it's all hearsay so far the authorities the british authorities are saying that they have created this unrest infrastructure they've developed this infrastructure over the last 3 years they've created embankments the created a combination of with this is all good but we don't know for certain about what safeguards there are with regard to the human rights where can they go if there is any allegation of the human rights violation and what are their options to the community. to with their family members in cops is bizarre the freedom of movement the sustainable livelihood their access to education all that is i mean even if the balance authorities say that they're here where it is there's a lack of transparency that's about to get at we not have not had that opportunity to go for ourselves and see the facilities ourselves now to be fair to the

bangladeshi government many have rightly criticised the international community for failure to put enough pressure on the defacto leader of the m.r. of course that sounds on sochi to to stop the genocide in the 1st place and how much of this crisis does fall on the shoulders of the international community. i think to large extent because bangladesh is a small country it's a country of 160000000 people. and that with its own challenges economy challenge challenges employment literacy those challenges at their problem of it as well it's becoming middle income country it has it it is striving for that for that status but until that happens when you have this kind of responsibilities very little national community certainly has a role to play in supporting the refugees in supporting bangladesh with managing the refugees person as they are and and more importantly i think to expedite the

process of creating conditions in myanmar or for the returns to happen in the same problem 3 undignified conditions it's not just about the justice and accountability macan isms that's already going on that the i.c.c. has taken up to investigate and it's also going on in other. international platforms as well but having said that i think the depression needs to be put on myanmar really to to end the violence and come into the discussion with the victims with the ruined your community and recognise that they have their rights have been violated and those rights need to be guaranteed just as any other people or any other any other people of the of any country that will be the last word sodomy amnesty international thank you very much for joining us and our frank. and that is our show for this week probably back. thanks

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