government are feeling in their security measures. he says maybe have his fellow drug shop owners are too afraid to open their businesses he has no idea why the attack started or when they will stop. baghdad. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines south korea's capital has imposed tough new coronavirus measures as it struggles to contain a rise in new infections gatherings of more than 4 people are now abandoned seoul and to neighboring regions and hospital capacity for critical cases is to be doubled by the end of this year probably has the latest for us from sell these measures will come into force 2 days from now when it will limit private gatherings of people either indoors or outdoors to basically 4 people and no more than that these are the toughest restrictions that we've seen being put in place they're

obviously been put in place now because there's a real concern about family gatherings for the year and holiday period what that might do to this surge that we're seeing in the number of cases now it was going to be just in effect in the soul metropolitan area but it's also been announce now that the neighboring provinces to seoul which basically account for around half of south korea's population will also see the same restrictions congressional leaders in the u.s. have reached a deal on a 900 $1000000000.00 covert $1000.00 relief package for millions of americans as also comes as deliveries of the madonna vaccine have now begun across the country and growing number of countries are banning all restricting travel to and from the united kingdom trying to stop the spread of a more contagious strain of the crying a virus that's been identified in parts of the u.k. the bands have impacted european markets which have opened to lower. and saudi arabia has also suspended all international flights now for a week and closed its land and sea board is due to that new strain of corona virus

from the u.k. the government has ordered anyone who's returned from will pass through european country over the past 3 months to get tested immediately and doctors in kenya have joined other public health care workers on a nationwide strike they want better protection and more effective equipment for treating private 19 medical workers began protesting earlier this month saying they won't stop until their demands are met spyware sold by an israeli private intelligence firm has been used to hack the phones of dozens of al jazeera journalists that's according to citizen lab researchers at university of toronto the digital security watchdog says the unprecedented cyber attack is likely to have been ordered by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. well those are the headlines i'll have another bonus and for you here on al-jazeera off the front. just synced an arab spring swept through countries across the middle east and north africa in a series of interviews we explore the legacy of the revolution that changed the

political landscape of the region to me says former president. discusses the arab spring 10 years ago. bangladesh is under fire for relocating or hendra 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 the 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 . since late 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 and yes 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 adele 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 sadly in these talks there 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 does our most should be saving every time government says be conceded this demand be conceded that in mine 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 group has a marketing system and. farmers department discipline. farmers feel that this is a signal of the state into jobs from record shop and bringing in 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 quite as far as us saying that the basic indent 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 farmers of india 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 a wrong decision i can say. we have all of this to give in consideration all that is the mission and vision of the prime minister nouri ligi since the end of the country prime minister he had been working for the people of our country and he is trying to improve united states of all this ignorance is living in our country and he had pledged that he is going to improve to my state of flux as very beginning prime minister by unfortunately if i promise i want my country whenever that is a major to have so many things happened is because this is a democratic country and you know so she looking surveillance and the learned enough system to just a moment if i may you 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 the way but it meant yes the discussion you know it happened and all of the medical bodies that were present and by what didn't and by and they do this yes this bill should be passed for the sake of farmers. but i think that how as a witch or a star they are this and other musicians and the only beasts and the foreigners who

are visiting hours and getting orders they are but in jobs which are different up and that it wasn't only point 2 causes of the problems reading enough country so if you want to save the pilots who are sitting right at the borders and sitting in the outer present eaten every family living living in a country that is absolutely wrong and why there is a thing that because the dependency on the job is so much is so much on a 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 the only the other day are getting for them their captors lamas that ability has defeated use and there are many factors i can tell you sort of that why that happened a dependency should read it is not this is the height that 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 right markets again she mentioned you are unlikely to respond. india has by dimitri procedures require it's one of the 2nd stint procedure but even if. written but than it was what is not at all why did doc not have. on the job me point out that the place where i'm doing that out i'm involved in that city not the next we dissed not even one person most from punjab these are almost all the best in the state of broad just top and from the state attorney general and by seen that it follows need to rule out. their tendency on government pocketing system. i suspect. because look at the ghetto back that's exactly what the pharmacist these bills are all about yes they actually treat you right and you have constructed

farmers fear the dead existing government market existence is about didn't give any and disposes have been brought in and big business going to. decided that she didn't apply 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 with confusing and reality is very few farmers actually get those places even the highest estimates have it 15 maybe 25 percent but most farmers 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 minute remains of about 80 percent vamos don't benefit the most at

all 20 percent it follows movement and organizations over the years have been demanding that this far magically 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 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 is gifted we never want to give us the gift that people are not and what they want is legal garnering back minimal support price demanded it you make sure products that's what the farmers launch turn it into illegal gun or indeed why doesn't the government do it and a lot. unfortunately people are late mr jago you know i'm damn pushed back

if you go just kind of stay on this if she posted a horror of course it is a sector and the participation in g.d.p. is only 15 to 16 episodes this is that isn't there do you want to go on that people in wyoming say that they should get more often didn't want to want that new dental all these should be introduced in this is a they don't want that people should go and sell their produce deputy to whom they want to lie 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 as if you know if you read and you get if you name one country you name one country which has gotten out when did you cross under anesthesia and they are happy. to say you are going to see the got end to end this brace to the bombers it is that easy to look and i mentioned earlier that it was

a democratic country and leave love doolittle also i don't know who are in position to get but then you have to take 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 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 what i mentioned earlier that

mr knight in we can see 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 say that this is for the promise and i am standing with up on this i have to do more options for the farmers i have to create a i 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 with 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 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 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 but 19th century it is and i guess in democracies from. what my friend described a simple shoot. just a part of the long run. and it is absolutely. deep when it has the action. done about it and that it will be. expose one of the greatest economic disaster be

anything new that contradict us and i'm really the more you're dumb or at. least 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 it takes to complex an economy like india someone who digs such knowledge decisions with do you want to tell you she will stay just as she will stick with biggest single serious economist in the country and what is it just as big dig with some sort of biggest single song. and such a prime minister excuse 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 if you sit 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 live near 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 a safe haven for the right hensher or is it turning into just another nightmare joining me to discuss this from colombo sri lanka saha mahdi 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 mark and 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 in me and more 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 wanted 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 in the truck 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 assessments 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 so we don't know for certain whether where 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 opposing 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 comfortable relocate i do want to ask you that about that when you talk about their 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 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 and with of. being a single parent with a son he she felt that it was difficult for her to stay in the camp for this law. and she thought that she would go reunite with her husband instead so in all these anecdotes that i have 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 a celt just a mercian 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 the 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 data are not publicly

accessible i mean for us as amnesty international we think that without growing to be 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 and for a structure that developed this infrastructure over the last 3 years they've created embankments they've 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 bombers authorities say that they're here where it is there's a lack of transparency that's back home so we not have that 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 ruin 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 of the people of the of any country that what they the last word sodomy amnesty international thank you very much for joining us and our frank. and

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