has been asked by unions and business leaders to intervene in what is seen as a growing crisis in south africa's trucking industry the fine dr a say they have no choice but to carry on working violence or no violence they have families to feed. john especially. this is out there these are the top stories and several european nations of banning all restricting travel from the u.k. trying to stop the spread of a fast moving strain of coronavirus seen in parts of the u.k. it could british governments put millions on the tough new restrictions the u.s. senate majority leader says that a deal has been reached on a massive covert 92 relief package for millions of americans this comes as shipments for the 2nd approved 1000 vaccine have begun across the united states but if your question has more now from washington the senate republican leader mitch

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the election behind us the republican party don't. you know we keep take on the u.s. politics and that's the bottom. bagel dashes under fire for relocating or hendra refugees to a remote island off the coast here in rights groups say that some are being forced to relocate and one has even called it an island detention center we'll speak with the representative from amnesty international about the growing crisis but 1st as india's farmer 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 . since late last month tens of thousands of indian farmers have camped along

highways outside new delhi supporters braving the cold temperatures and the risk of coronavirus to protest controversial agriculture reforms minister narendra modi says the new laws are necessary to deregulate and modernized 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 adel is 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 farmers 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 there is actually very little talk but both sides are bassed each other and the government really doesn't want to listen to the farthest 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 time 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 not all known by struggle and by limited procedures they also avoid it does the trick

and supposedly substantively the real deal. is that this was dismantled compromise maybe seriously the existing degree because it's a marketing system and. farmers department discipline. farmers feel that this is a signal of the state into jobs from the greek culture and bringing it not be a great 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 me it's white farmers are saying that the basic intent of these laws disturbs verse many these wants to please take it up and just one final point i wish to be is that in dissent our discussion we forget that these 3 laws lament. historic gift to the followers of the deal when you give someone and that person says no think you actually don't want it and if you really want to give me some shit is what i really

want. where you just. so you know what about what you're saying he basically is saying that you all are talking past each other and that specifically the government is not listening. this is absolutely the wrong position i can see so we have all of this to give in 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 united states of all this ignorance living in our country and he had pledged that he is going to improve to my state of farmers as very very big prime minister by unfortunately if i promise i want my country then ever 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 plainly 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 you know this is only in people but it meant yes the discussion you know it happened and on political parties they were present there and by what didn't and by and they do this yes this bill should be passed for the sake of foreigners. it was clear but i think it was a witch or a star they are the. other musicians and the only beasts and the foreigners who are

visiting hours and getting orders they aren't but in jobs which are different and that it wasn't the only one to cause a lot of the problems reading in our country so if you want to save our lives who are sitting right in the borders and sitting in the other present to eat in every part of the living living in a country that is absolutely wrong and why there's a thing that because the dependency on jobs is so much is so much on the d.n.c. that is read the out there that is a nexus in between the government it is easy and capitalist honest and i don't know why certain activists and. leaders like me only the other day are advocating for them that kept islamize that ability has defeated use and there are many factors i can tell you sort of that why that happened the dependency should read it is not this is the height and the punjab and haryana they should move away from

this dependency and the government has taken the step when this say so 1st i do want to make sure that our viewers know the sea is the government run markets again she mentioned you are likely to respond. india has by dimitri procedures require it's one of the 2nd stint procedure that even if. written but than it was 40 is not at all why did god not have. on the job many point out that the place where i'm doing that out i'm involved in that city not the national highway distance not even one person most 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 need to rule out a pm ceased their tendency on government marketing system. i suspect singh has let the ghetto back that's exactly what the father must suspect these bills are all about yes the actually read you write and you have constructed farmers fear the

dead existing government market existence is about didn't give any and disposes have been brought in. big business. is decided that she didn't so you're going to let me ask you this we've talked about m.s.p. the minimum support prices that are really sacrosanct for farmers but what's confusing and reality is very few farmers actually get those places even the highest estimates have it 15 maybe 25 percent but most farmers in punjab for instance where at the heart of these protests they do benefit from minimum support prices arts protests about farmers and a certain part of the country or farmers elsewhere invested in this cause right now . you're absolutely right the minimal support price that the government of india declares every year mainly remains on about 80 percent of families don't benefit

the most at all 20 percent that farmers movement and organizations over the years have been demanding that this farm and it could be turned into it and it did the 20 should become so if i saw the 5060 instead what the government is saying is the effect of what the government is doing would be to reduce scale district and maybe into 5. 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 we don't just this we never want to give us the gift that people want and what they want is legal guttering back minimal support the price of it you make sure products that's what the farmers want turn it into illegal gun why doesn't the government do it and a lot. unfortunately people are late mr jago you know i'm damn pushed back

to go just not going to stay on this is the cheapest and force is the sector and the participation in g.d.p. is only 15 to 16 pursued this isn't isn't there do. that people even in plumbing say it didn't get more often they didn't want to want that new don't know a lot of these should be introduced in this is a they don't want that people should go and sell their produce difficulty to whom they want to y. and you want a king that would be and this week so you get n.t. is it possible. is it possible you would have ended is it you know if you read it and you get it if you name one country you named one country which has gotten branded to grass and there and speak and they are happy i have to say yes or you can see the get into and this is true the bomber's it is that easy to use and i mentioned earlier that it was

a democratic country and lead love doolittle also i don't know who are important as we get but then you have to take dumb decisions you need to have a strong political bias and that is what mr the english have for 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 demonization 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 where they mention that mr not

in with he is the 1st prime minister. who never danced on. 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 to see 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 promise i am standing with up on this i have to give 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 it so that you'd have to agree on that 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's a segment of it at the farmers that are better and invested in this not working they don't want to work in the younger generation gets 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 from. what my friend described a simple well because shoot. just a part of the long run. and it is absolutely dead deep on it has been almost done about it's genetic. explicitly expose one of the greatest economic disaster be anything new that come to us and i'm really the more it seems you're

dumb or at bits most of all these are political genius i would never did not he continues to be popular i did not did i but does he have what did x. 2 and b. complex an economy like india someone who digs such knowledge decisions with him do you want to say she was just a she will stick with duncan so deduced single serious economist in the country and is a great cultural policy decision has been with them sort of biggest single song it's getting such a prime minister excuse the guy i really. do want ties issue got away with the media's of the decision to go to but this time is. it 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 saddam adi south asia campaigner at amnesty. international side of money thank you so much for joining me on up front so

bangladesh has been celebrated for taking in so many of our head 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 char 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 amy and mark 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 saw that their right to reply we don't have nations has not had the opportunity to go to the island assess on its own and same goes for the humanitarian agencies like human rights groups are concerned is that a 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 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 where the ok society the 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. or but that could be a pretext for for many reasons and the violence in the camp in the refugee camp in cops is bizarre cannot just because relocation to an island what it calls for is investigation independent immediate and impartial investigation of who the people

are behind the abuse 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 the list 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 most important here is to look at the participation process of the refugees if they're competent will 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 their reports of people's names being added to less 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 'd to the silence so we've heard allegations

there have the circumstances where at least your energies have said that their shelters were damaged and they wanted to have them fixed but the camp authorities said they should consider relocating to be island instead and the show has been authentic so they feel that they relocated out of compulsion than a choice so that that's some of the experiences the one woman who spoke to amnesty international saying that her husband has been on the island since may and she didn't feel that he could come back to the camp and 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 cells just emerging 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 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 farm agencies but these are not publicly accessible i

mean for us as amnesty international we think that without growing to the island without knowing the facilities that there are we heard from the british authorities or perth 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 came so that 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's hands 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 a large extent because bangladesh is a small country it's a country of 160000000 people. and that's true with its own challenges economy challenge challenges employment literacy those challenges are there for bangladesh as well it's becoming middle income country it has it ever striving for that for that status but until that happens when you have this kind of responsibility very late international community certainly has a role to play in supporting the refugees in supporting bangladesh with managing

the refugees for as long as they are and and more importantly i think to expedite the process of creating conditions in myanmar for the returns to happen in the se voluntary and dignified conditions it's not just about the justice and accountability mccann ism that's already going on that the i.c.c. have taken up to investigate and it's also going on in other. international platforms as well but having said that i think the pressure needs to be put on myanmar really to end the violence and come into the discussion with the victims with the rohingya community and recognise that their rights have been violated and those rights they have to be guaranteed just as any other people or any other any other people of the of any country and that will be the last word sata madi with amnesty international thank you very much for joining us on up front . and that is our show for this week probably back next.

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