so many people wanted a foster strong leader at a time of crisis. aah! russia renews its attacks against ukraine's at major cities with as strikes and missiles. moscow says it's cleared the entire urban areas. mario pool of ukrainian force is off to seizing one steel plant. though some troops are still holding out in another. ah, hello, i'm sorry, i'm noisy in london, you're watching al jazeera. and so coming up on the program, a taliban accuses pakistan of carrying out as strikes on the afghan territory with reports of at least 30 people killed. south africans brave the latest reign to

search for dead relatives and clean drinking water after this week's floods. and 3 chinese astronauts return to earth after 6 months and space countries longest mission. ah, we start with ukraine. first we're rusher is followed through on its threat to launch more long range attacks following the sinking of its black sea flagship moskva, ukraine's government says 8 cities have been hit now in the past 24 hours. air raid sirens of again, been sounding in cave. missiles were fired at the capitol, the last 2 nights hitting a tank or pear factory and killing at least one person. russian warplanes also bomb the western city of live and renewed shelling on saturday evening as killed one person in har keith earlier on. miss elsie a residential area of the city that kill 2 people. another 32 were injured. algae 0

is charles stratford has this report now from the capital cave. the aftermath of get another russian missile strike in court. give this mainly russian speaking city . ukraine's 2nd largest, the sop at some of the worst shilling since rushes invasion. holden, 7 weeks ago until merchants he service his say at least one person was killed and many more injured in this attack. the cause the fire to spread into residential areas not important enough. around 11 o'clock to day, the emergency services received a message that an enemy missile had had a 5 story administrative building, a risky team, and tanker trucks was dispatched to the scene in the town of trots he, annette in the so me region north west of con, give families gather to more some of the latest victims. the un says that more than 1900 civilians have been killed, including at least

a $162.00 children. since the war started, russian forces laid a mines in the cemetery before withdrawing from the area a couple of weeks ago. a father cries over his dead son's grave. civilians and soldiers are buried here. you could as bullet foot on kill could thrust. we held a funeral for my son when they liberated trotted units. we were afraid thinking maybe some of the russian fascists are still here and they'll blow up the grave. we put a photo of him there. how he always was always smiling, always cheerful, always positive. there was selling hundreds of kilometers away in the western city of levine, where local authorities say, all russian missiles were intercepted on saturday morning volunteers, prepared humanitarian aid. please do not stop helping us do not stop providing us with him and tearing assistance because more and more people are clean their homes

and they need your help. please don't stop helping us after a 2nd attack in 2 days on the ukrainian weapons facility in the capital give the ukrainian military warned, or potentially more to come was age inoperable. one year, due to the presence of russian warships armed with sea launched cruise missiles in the black sea, there is an increased threat of the occupier using missile arms against the defense industrial facilities and logistics infrastructure of our state. if the bodies lie on the streets in the besieged port city of murray or pal, where russian forces, again said they had taken full control of a steel plant. the ukrainian army denies that same marines and members of the as of battalion are still defending their positions. in the giant soviet built factory in a city almost completely destroyed. and from where thousands of civilians have been unable to escape. the ukrainian president vladimir zalinski is warning russia not

to in his words eliminate the last remaining ukrainian soldiers inside the besieged city of mariel pool. or it will be the end of peace talks. peace talks to the russian president vladimir putin recently described as having reached a dead end cha, stratford al jazeera, here or so. so there has the latest on what's been happening this evening and capital cough, a raid sirens sounding on there over the city frequently tonight. and there are some reports that the reports of the explosions. however, we cannot confirm about any strikes or explosions in, in, in, in key year. just early in the day. in the morning today. with there were russia attacked a tank, prevent repairing factory in kia and one person was killed. 3 people,

at least 3 people were, were injured yesterday. also, russia had a strike over another plant in q, which is very much close to any international airport. and that was a, another military factory which was producing and repairing the did the missiles, including the anti shit me science as well. are now in the development of for moscow as bond british prime minister, boris johnson and several other u. k. government ministers from entering russia kremlin, says it's in response to british sanctions imposed over the war and crane accused the u. k. of hostile actions and of deliberately aggravating the conflicts. well, at least 300000 ukrainians of arrived in germany since the war started from many its reminder of syrian refugee crisis. a time when berlin was criticized for not doing enough is dominic cane our ports. it's hope that lessons have been learned helping the progress go,

the process of it go more smoothly. this time. tuesday morning and stieglitz and follow reesa and her children. it's time for breakfast as ukrainian refugees. they're currently living with a host family. the transition from walls own to berlin suburb was initially hard, but already her children are learning german and larissa says she feels this country has been very welcoming and knowing it's completed for dylan palmer, the government has been very supportive. they've given us money health insurance. they've helped us a lot. we don't feel like refugees. we have the same rights as germans. it's helped to make us feel like we have a 2nd home here in the nearly 2 months since the war began. many millions of people have fled ukraine. fewer than one in 10 of them has come to germany, making the sort of journey that millions of other refugees made in the last decade . when the people getting off trains in the big cities were mostly syrian. although the then german government said it could cope with their arrival,

there were many problems once they arrived, the 1st thing was that they had to stay in the massacre with asian follow reception in the reception center. and that could last month, sometimes years before they found on their own housing. so that was a huge challenge. and the 2nd is when they come with a family kits they have to go to school. so are integrating them into school learning the language and learning though and drama. they offer the school system. although the situation for refugees here is better now. that experience has etched itself onto the collective memory and forced politicians to change policy in oil bonus like young and at least the new government has offered support on a large scale to the federal states. this has allowed us to give refugees better opportunities for integration. this is a clear message. we're doing a better, we're doing it differently and we've learned from the mistakes of the pastor. there

is another important difference between then and now ukrainians have the right to visa free travel across much of the u. syrians do not, which helps to explain why most of the ukrainian refugees in europe have not come to germany. where as most of the syrians did so when ministers say that they are dealing with the problems now better. that might in part be because the need for resources is being tested fall less than it was back then. dominant came al, jazeera berlin. ah, now taliban authorities in the afghan capital of summoned pakistan's ambassador to cobble to protest about alleged military thrice inside afghanistan. by pakistani forces local media in the southeast of the country saying that pakistan's apples killed at least 30 people in the province of hosp. explosions were also hired in

near by cru, not province. women and children are report to be reported to be among the dead. and horse focused on is denied carrying out a strikes which follows recent fighting with the pakistani taliban edition. well, am i rashid as a journalist in foreign policy specialist? he's written books about the taliban. and he is saying, focused on as long accused afghanistan of harboring pakistani taliban fighters. yes . today bremen phone bill with you, including an officer, by back is tonya taliban, and tanking blank is donny territory from of gun to star. now it's a very complicated situation, but basically the b b r and say we are not harboring anybody, but the fact remains that the bank studies lubano mostly hold up in the side of god is don, where they receive some kind of support from

b r taliban government now there was an agreement with the international lack of 2 years ago, which is my bond and reached the thought of on promise that they would not have any in foreign minister and some oil. well valued yet to be or israeli police have released more than $400.00 palestinians detained during violence at the alex. i'm most compound on friday. 30 people is still in detention or at least 150 pallet. things were injured. one is right, the police fight tick gas and rob a bullet neighboring georgia in the custodian of the holy sites and occupied east jerusalem as condemn the right is a flagrant violation. we go now to south africa. the eastern coast has been bracing for more rain and heavy winds. often nearly 400 people died in devastating floods in and around the city of durban. earlier this week, rescue teams are still searching for survivors in positive quizlet natal province.

the authorities say at least 13000 homes have been damaged with 4000 completely destroyed. people living in high risk areas have been edge to move to community facilities like schools and holes. clean water is very scarce with officials promising to deploy water tank has, and i mean, the miller reports now from dub and not only has the flooding killed, hundreds of people destroyed homes and businesses. it's also badly damaged infrastructure in and around the port city of durban. here in amanda, there's been no electricity running water or at least 5 days. and people have to cue at what is essentially a burst water pipe to connect water in buckets. many of them walking several kilometers to get they assembly districts local work that you

ever since the floating started, we have had no water and had to walk from far about 30 minutes to get here. and we have to go back and forth to get enough water for the laundry to cook. and we have to keep coming here while it does. when we do, do i feel awkward if we spend the whole day here? because when you're down there, we start fetching our own water and then we have to help others because you can see it's risky. so you have to help them. some of them are small kids and if they go down, they may get hurt. one, south african president for i'm a poor has described the flooding, mud slides, and land slides as catastrophic. one of the worst incidents south africans have seen in decades. more than 40000 people have been affected. some of them displaced . and it's likely that the death toll will rise in the coming days as parties are found under rubble under destroyed homes and other buildings. there is concern about the worsening weather conditions. but for now,

the rain seems to be limited to a drizzle in many parts of the provinces and people continue to try and mop up. but it continues to be situations like this where there's limited access to utilities, necessities and people are complaining that the government hasn't done enough to help people in situations like this. despite promises from the government that they're doing everything they can to help the people affected al jazeera life from london. lead such teams in the philippines go from rescuing people to retrieving bodies off to tropical storm meggy and the manager and his efforts to celebrate new year fall flat as its opponents boy called the normally festivities. ah

hello there. it's a bit of an east west divide when it comes to the weather across europe. at the moment. we've got unsettled conditions, plaguing the southeast corner, with heavy rain and strong winds. and we're going to see a bit of a dramatic cool down here. but behind that plenty of fine and dry conditions with lots of sunshine and things looking very settled across the north west on sunday. the rain isn't very far away. you can see it's starting to edge. and but lots of funny spells, particularly for southern areas of england. by the time we get into monday. however, you can see that rain rolling in scandinavia. it is looking largely fine and why high pressure in charge here? i'm looking more settled for much of the mediterranean particular for western areas . we've still got wind warnings out for southern areas of its city. we could see some heavy rain in sicily when warnings as well for croatia. we read when warnings

out this very strong winds and that wintry and wet mix rolling across the balkans, bringing temperatures down very dramatically in places like bucharest in romania, 8 degrees. dramatic drop from saturday as that rain rolls in is going to get wet and windier as well for greece and turkey. we had for the west, we got some heavy rain from northern areas of spain, but lots of sunshine for barcelona. 900 degrees celsius. ah. the stage is set and it's time for a different approach. one that is going to challenge the way you think was wor inevitable. i just want the started to please doing it. they're not doing the right thing. let's leave simplicity to the headlines. join me as i take on the lies, dismantled misconceptions and debate. the contradictions do we have a real democracy here in the united states? it's not a political florida, it's a roekel. insurgency are mark lamond hill and it's time to get up front right here

on out 0. lou ah, welcome back to watching al jazeera ly from london. our following developments in afghanistan were local media in aust province as saying that military strikes by pakistani forces have killed at least 30 people. this includes women and children taliban, a summons pakistan's ambassador to cobble to protest the attacks russia as follow through on its threats to launch more long range attacks in ukraine, following the sinking of its black sea flagship, the moskva missiles have struck. hark eve, i'm a capital keith. while war planes have on a western city of moscow says its troops have cleared the entire urban area of

mario pool of ukrainian forces. after seizing control of the alleged steel plant, they said that some ukrainian soldiers are still blockaded in the as of stone steel works. but one of the most important religious and cultural sites in ukraine has adopted a novel approach to protects itself from attacks. i having no defense at all, in one con, explains from cave just a few steps as we traveled back in time, a 1000 years since the fear church is the oldest most important religious site in eastern europe. it's a unesco heritage site. and it's easy to see why was one of the forms of control shows this is cassandra said that we are located now in the central part of sid.

sophia cathedral got a 1000 year old monument, which was built in $1011.00. it is a symbol of our state. it is both ukraine's and the world's heritage. and there are many authentic, 11th century frescoes and mosaic reserved. here. there is not such a large number of preserved mosaics anywhere else in eastern europe with those. and what happened to me from here in front of the 6 meter mosaic image of mother or ranta, made out of millions of small pieces of smouldering, of a 150 shades of different colors. victory above me is an image of christ panel crater, surrounded by angels hollow, the main treasure of sophia, or the authentic 1000 euro, ongoing frescoes and moses. it's impossible to take them down from the wall to put them in boxes and place in some bomb shelters to day or same as 1000 years ago. these mosaics are on the walls and they are priceless, maintaining these valuable frescoes, m as i acts as

a year round task. but since the war began, work has started to you. but one thing also stands out. unlike other important buildings, there's no defensive measures here to protect the compound, no sandbags or blast rules. the management of the church compound has declared it a demilitarized zone, especially navine on the 1st day of the war, we had to close the museum. at the moment, all our museums are closed for visitors, and our monuments are conserved in the muzzle on the territory of the cathedral. there is no single military nor any weapons. there is only a small number of workers who maintain the facilities and official. there's a saying in arabic, trusting god, but to have it your camel saints of is hoping that it status is one of the oldest most important historical sites in eastern europe will give it some protection. however, the church compound is surrounded by strategic sites, including key ministries. during the 2nd world war, it is said that german bombers avoided targeting the church. but today,

not everyone shares the belief that if the capital is attacked again, it's cultural heritage will be sped. so much so that this is mel a common sight starters boarded up and hidden away among called o 0 cave. and now rescue teams in the philippines. a continue to search for people still missing. after tropical storm, maggie struck the islands almost a week ago. heavy rainfall triggered landslides, which devastated eastern and southern coastal areas. more than a 160 people have been killed. at least a 110 are missing though, from central lady province jamila allan doke, and has this report, ah, we are following a government emergency team that's been in the village of cont douglas for nearly a week. hundreds of families once lived here, but a major landslide reduced a once thriving community to rubble. their work has been difficult for days. they

have retrieved the bodies and the outskirts of the village and are slowly digging for more. can bag thus is just one of the many areas devastated by tropical storm maggie earlier this week. but the skill of the death and damaged has shocked many in the provinces so reeling from the effects of another typhoon. 4 months ago, president rodrigo to 30 arrived in lee to late on friday. he visited hospitals, full of rescued civilians. the smell of decaying bodies is quite overwhelming. just behind me is, is a neighborhood that rescuers took several days to access. it may seem close from where we are, but they actually had to go around and secured the perimeter in order to reach that area. now the focus of responders. now, i've gone from rescue to retrieval in the town of paula,

but it s martinez last 16 members of her family. it took several days before their bodies were retrieved, located in la noah. now up update. i still feel as if they're here. they're still alive. it's quite a shock, molly, though it terribly also lost his daughter and 2 grandchildren must have to pardon, it hurts my chest, hurt. i just spoke to them that the before the martinez family has set up this tent and just like hundreds of others here, the are in desperate need of eved. so there is no time to grieve. jamal allan doug and al jazeera ball. my lead to province central philippines. several people have been injured in india after violence broke out during a religious festival. members of the muslim and hindu can you see is attacked each other in the deli, during a hindu procession. police officers remove the injured last sunday. a man was killed during riots at another festival in the state of my dea pradesh.

i mean last new year is usually a raucous affair with days of celebrations. at all culminates in mass water fights in the streets. but this year it's look very different after opponents of the country's military, like government boycotted official new year events. alexia bryan reports me on mars new year before the coo streets, full of people, several days of partying and throwing water, ending in traditional celebrations. but this year in march of the biggest city yang gone, it's quieter. many choosing to stay at home, answering the opposition call to boycott events organized by the military leadership. you know, we have civil wars in many places of the country. we should not be happy while others are in trouble,

thus why we are showing our solidarity with them. for many and me and my it's not a happy start to their new year. after yet another 12 months spent under military rule, another $365.00 days living in the shadows. this woman is too scared to show her face. you did, you know, a really, we don't have the chance to enjoy the festival, like those in neighboring countries. but we are in the middle of a revolution and people are joining in. we are proud of that. there are no longer daily protests in me, emma, which began when the military seized power in february, last year. subsequent brutal crack down against the demonstrators means more often now, resistance is shown by their absence monitoring group. se security forces have killed hundreds of people and raised entire villages. determined to suppress any form

of descent. several 1000 people fled into neighboring countries. about 200000. others are displaced in myanmar. yes. into the soul. austin, yo la hobby. i've been really utilize you every away. they're still going on by the owner, which they had one for this week. so this guy wrote, former goes along with the military, did organize some celebrations, but few attended security was tight and the mood reported to be tense. local people believe this is a cleansing ritual and the water washes away bad luck and changes behavior. those who stand against the military are hoping to see it does indeed bring change and peace. alexia brian al jazeera. we have some news from the united

states. now police in south carolina, say 12 people have been injured, and a shooting inside a shopping center. in the city of columbia, 10 people was short and 2 others were injured in a stampede at the columbian has sent him all 3 people have been detained. belize say the shooting appears to stem from a conflict. among the suspects. the french president has been campaigning and must say add of next week's run off election. a manual mark one is hoping to win over the left wing voters. in fact, john, look, man, i'll sure. in the 1st round, they run off between a micron and his right when rival marine the pan, it takes place in 8 days time. ah. meanwhile, police in pairs of his tear gas and pepper spray on demonstrated marching against the far right crowds of been protesting against marine la pans campaign, and hoping to prevent her winning the next round. thousands of people turned out for similar protests in dozens of other french towns and cities. on now to shanghai,

the cities reported a record number of symptomatic clothing cases. this is other cities around china, impose emergency measures. employees and gian in the north west and seizure in the east have been told to work from home. residents have also been warned, not to go out unless it's necessary, just raising concerns about food shortages. but in other news, re, chinese astronaut, a, back on earth after a record breaking, 6 month mission to china's fuss by station china is excluded from the international space station. so it's going alone with this multi $1000000000.00 space program, or bud unmanly has more loyal taunts down in north, china's in a mongolia both 3 take notes. that's chinese astronauts are on solid ground up to 6 months in space. first to be pulled out of the cap. phil mission, commander jayson gong down here. she was you. we thank president changing,

paying for his concern and care. we thank the people for the support and encouragement. little not for he was followed by colleagues. one yeah, ping and yeah, going food. the shun jo. 13 mission recorded a few. furth for china. one became the 1st chinese woman to complete a space walk. and who was china's longest crude missions i to oh, they shook with loons from geo kwan satellite launch center in the gobi desert in mid october. hours later, it talked with china's unfinished orbital space station, t and gone there. the astronauts got to work carrying out experiments. i'm preparing for the construction of new space modules and delivering fine lectures. that includes all 3 questions, please keep students back on her. so what's next for beijing? well, china has put billions of dollars into space programs. it hopes to sent humans to

the moon by 2029 and build a base them for that. but for now the take not trio have wrapped up their mission. i will no doubt, be spending time adjusting to gravity here on earth. lore about manly, on to theora. ah, just a great look at the main stories this our russia is follow through on threats, to launch more long range attacks in ukraine, following the sinking of its black sea flagship, a muscular missiles strike, the capital key of wild war plains have formed the western city of liveth has also been renewed. shelling in the last few hours of it has killed one person in har. keith earlier missiles hit a residential part of the city, killing 2 people in injuring 32 rushers, deny targeting civilians, algiers. at charl stratford. it brings us more now from inside ukraine. we know

that there are hundreds of thousands of people still inside the city. i visited it a month ago and went into underground shelters. or the metro station, for example being used, people living in pretty terrifying conditions in those bunkers. and as you, as, as we say, there are daily daily attacks happening on car q. and we understand it as, as a, is, is as a result of a push by russian forces form areas around car cave heading south trying to take greater control of more territory in those eastern regions. in lou ganske and don etzky almost go thing its troops have cleared the entire urban areas. mario pl of ukrainian forces off to seizing control of the iliad steel plant. but it said some ukrainian soldiers are still blockaded in the as all cells still works as been footed showing damage and all these sites are in our guidelines. the taliban

government in the afghan capitalist, some in pakistan on basset to cobble to protest alleged military strikes inside afghanistan by pakistani forces local media in the south, each of the country, se, pocket stones and 4th killed at least 30 people and host province explosions was hired including all women and children are reported to be among the dead in pakistan, denied carrying out the strikes which follows recent, fighting with the pockets donnie taliban is ready. police have really more than $400.00 palestinians detained during violence at the alex and last compound on friday. 30 are still in detention, at least $150.00 palestinians were injured. and israeli fight against unlocking for let's up front is next. the climate has changed every year for millions of years, decades of talk, but little action is all about distract, create confusion to create smoke and mirrors. the shocking truth about how the climate debate has been systematically separated. the oil industry was

a main bank roller or opposition to contact the campaign against the climate. do you think that's a bad thing? more shooting did was fiercely, absolutely on, on disease. on march 15th, a high court in india's 7 state of could not take her up. held a ruling banning that he job in schools and universities since the band was 1st introduced far right mobs have reportedly been heckling young women wearing he jobs on their way to school. and now the gates to those schools and colleges have been shut to them, leaving the women vulnerable to violence. this decision is just the latest in the slew of laws and policies that discriminate against indian muslims and other minorities in the country. so can india still claim to be the world's largest democracy when minorities continue to be stripped of their human rights and face increasing attacks from hindus, the premises? mobs, that's our conversation this week on upfront. ah,

joining me to discuss the treatment of minorities in india are runa, are you? indian journalists opinion columnist with the washington post and author of gucia dot files anatomy of a cover up shadow alum lawyer for the supreme court of india and aka patel chair of amnesty international india and the author of our hindu rush through what it is, how we got here. thank you all for joining me on up front or on. i'm going to start with you. on march 15th, the high court in the state of connecticut upheld a ban on wearing he job in school. the court argued that it is not quote essential to islam and that they must foster a secular environment for weeks far, right my the been heckling women wearing he job on the way to school. but the irony of this is that while there's a claim for secularism, these mobs are wearing software on scarves, a symbol associated with hindu with them and they're shouting hail lord graham. is

this really about secularism, or is this just an attack on muslims? so much everything that has been happening in, in india since 2014 in the guard above protecting muslim boom. busy has been an attempt to kind of attack the muslim ness and the religious practices and identity of people in this country. i mean, the kinetic are high court if i may say, was extremely disappointing. and these are goods who want to study, who want to get educated and they're being ok, you know, they have been deprived of the education just because they have asked for their right to be on the job. it basically points to in the us continuous decline into this right. having him do fundamentalism, every muslim practice now is not going to be questioned whether it was c a, whether it was not allowing muslims to offer no mas in public. they're really tickled by right wing fundamentalist and now this isn't is

relentless. it is relentless to the point that being in the us. teams does seem to have normalized this every day. hate against the muslim minority. even nothing actually surprises us any more. i mean this mind, this despair i think is, has now become a part of my life, and it only gets was from acar. you're the chair of amnesty international india. when you hear those types of words, every day, hate of muslim citizens around. i said, what do you make of it? but you take. so there's been a series of laws that have targeted economic, social, and cultural laws, lights off of muslims, of political rights, were taken away from them. before this, in their dozen houses are 200000000 muslims, but it doesn't have a single chief in the store, which will be the same as a governor in the us. we've got 303 people in the legislative assembly. the looks over which would be your us house of communist. none of it was almost him from,

from the ruling party. so that is deliberate. wanted to go up, but i did that kept about not giving tickets to contest. and they kept separately from what the political system does. the laws is that look at how the state can, how that and believe muslims we have, it was the burden of proof also on marriage. so india has criminalized in 7 open states of interface marriage between muslims and hindus and adult ones. testimony that she changed her friends or 3 relation is insufficient evidence for the stand. it is for the managing matting and the premonition letting in to prove to a local officer that there was no gorge in the state to undo the marriage, even the ones that have children. this is the law in this guy. so i'm glad you brought this up because it speaks to a legal matter, shut it up, i want to ask you about this, because in india you have article 14 of the constitution which guarantees equality

before the law. article 15 prohibits discrimination based on religion and article 25 guarantees the right to freely profess practice and propagate religion. it would seem to me that these bands and these everyday actions that we're talking about are examples of contravention of the law. how was this judgement able to pass the high court and how in everyday life are we not able to see a contradiction between what's happening on the ground and these sort of broader ideals of, of the, of the nations constitution? the judgment mark couldn't have gone any other way. because in the way that this whole job debate was think the question before the court is, is it, is it an essential religious practice? is it the core of the most in region to better his job? and the court said that it's not, but it's a very odd, unimaginative framing of the problem. the state has said to the court that we

believe in freedom and dignity. and we want to encourage practices that are not dead or get pre to women's rights. and we want to encourage individual choices. the presumption is that all of this, the wedding of the job beaches. but the court never examined any of it. the court did not go into the matter whether girls wear his job by individual choice or not. the court didn't examine whether the reading of the job or not reading of the job breeches, freedom, and dignity. the court just endorsed that point of view. and without any kind of examination, the court has held that where he job is a violation of freedom and dignity. so we will not have indian citizens seen in public like that. and what god therefore does is to give to the public if to the indian public, an idea of food. a good citizen is an idea of who an aberration is. and therefore,

you have cases across india where people are snatching his jobs from young girls and young women. and the think that this is a form of connection that they're indulging in because they have the courts endorsement. so to my mind, but the primary thing that this judgement has done is to, is to constitute an idea of a good indian citizen. i want to push on this because again, it's 6 of the treatment of muslims in the country, runa, this year marks the 20th anniversary of the good at mass massacre. the anti muslim program that happened during prime minister modi's tenure as chief minister of goods at years later were now thing hindu nationalists calling for a genocide and an ethnic, cleansing of muslims and complete silence is coming from the government. what has happened over the last 20 years that allowed this kind of anti muslim hate to spread? and where does hindu supremacist ideology fit into all of this conversation?

well, my net in the more the new movie has been the poster boy or for him to nationalism . in fact, he has been sold as the pin do lido, who will bring back the renal supremacy. let us not for a moment believe that indians for voting for the interim or the will being for development or voting for cause addition or find my goes why it's like that. let us not have been for a minute believe that the entire proceeding that we're going and going not to go high court. and all that is taking place is nothing to do with the constitutional fundamental right of. busy implement this is back on the muslim identity, which has continued the reason that the muslim woman and that her job of being is being taken off by men in public. you saw the 1000000 attempts in 2002 mister movie was chief minister of good. it's just to repeat, i mean, honestly, nothing surprises me anymore because this is the culture that now used to that we

normally, to the extent where the average hindu has been told that the muslim in india is taking your thought is taking what was rightfully your has been up fees over the years, and mr. moby is bringing back the road and, and which is why sort of winning election despite and on performance? he has made the muslim the enemy of the state for the average in do this is being done by the back to support of those in follow that idea. that idea of enemy of the state is really important. one because human rights watch says that authorities in india have already adopted laws that systematically discriminate against muslims. but also that prejudice have infiltrated independent institutions like the police, like the courts. for example, after the 2020 delhi riots where hindu mobs massacre $53.00 people, mainly muslims, an independent investigation discovery evidence during the ride showed that several policemen were being injured. muslim men, 5 of them lying on the street,

forcing them to sing the indian national anthem just to prove their patriotism. you're a lawyer, i gotta ask you, ah, 1st of all, beyond the absurdity of this actual incident, does india still have an independent judiciary? i think it doesn't work. we do have an independent judiciary somewhat, but it's that, that the system is getting in the way and i'll explain myself. you. you mentioned the, the deli po, groom and that sort of emerged from very widespread protests that were happening in the week of the, the special a regime brought in by this government, the citizen amendment act and the national register for citizens which sort of reconfigured the idea of citizenship, which left muslims, betty scared and wisdom students and muslims, but generally out on the streets. protesting. in december of 2019,

the police entered one of our central universities in delhi, jamie emilia, la mia. at night and assaulted students. the students went to court the next day, challenging police faction, and weaver before the supreme court. what failed from the supreme court was 1st get off the streets and stop building stones and bend. we'll help you. so this was, this was an orderly remark which had no basis in law. it had no basis. in fact, because you, you, you can't say to students that i will, i will protect you from disproportionate police action. only if you stop protesting . but what it did was it, it more the popular sentiment when he said stop building stones, there was a glitch in kitch paid between simply just in delhi, in kashmir, in palestine everywhere. and that's when we started to hear about the global conspiracy. so what does a do, what, how, how does it begin formed the most subject him, india,

must be the subject is seen as somebody who's just always agitated, who's very prone to violence, who's always conspiring, and was always disloyal. and on top of that, just the fact that you are out on the streets, there's not even any allegation that you were armed, but just the fact that you were out on the streets must embed bodies and now being equated with people weapons, i go to the organisation genocide watch has sounded. the alarms warning betty full fledged genocide against muslims could happen in india or the president of the organization says our view is that it is a huge danger in india because it won't be the state that carries out any genocide . it will be mobs, the worry about a genocide in india, and more specifically are these mobs being in bold and if not outright supported by the state. the answer to the 2nd question is yes,

that the state does support and emboldened mobs in india and we have examples. so the state has led grow. it's monopoly over violence in bugs of the copper to city of india. so that bug, so this city daily that i am where muslims have been allocated space by the state to pray on friday. but mobs have gum and retorted and force them to get off. and the state has come to the mob. similarly, in parts of this country, there are spaces in which muslims bend food went eggs where models have asked them to leave those spaces. and the state has agreed with the moms and let go over to monopoly or violence. so i knew you would the idea that in india, the primary aspect of must violence, which is that the state abandoned its rule in bliss. do i feel

the fact that a genocide might take place? i do, i think that what is happening in india is slow. but that every day we have to order something or the other that deals with how muslims the willingness and every day the state doesn't respond to come in and act against those. we're seeing these things. i think that the guarding in the public spaces and is quite poisonous and i think it is very danger this the size of the state in south asia, very small. we don't have the capacity to be able to control loves, once they are unleashed, it appears to me that under the b b, what the government of this bank will unleash moms and other than ring them in attacks. from the far right hindu nationalist have extended to other minority groups as well, like christian in my the pradesh last year in january hindu nationalist stormed a church shouting hindu supremacy slogans and punched pastors in the head. they've

also burned down churches and smashed that use of christ looking at the situation. many would think whoever is not hinder with under threat have india become a country without religious freedom? well, mark the a dock when the cushion minority, just like the muslim minority, is not a recent phenomenon. back in the day in the ninety's gram stain was a missionary, was born a life with his 2 children in a car by hindu nationalist. and one of the people, one of who's accused of fighting this is now a minister in mr. moore. these government fathers, dan swami. another just read priest was fighting for the rice of dr. booth. he was arrested for sedition this. he's your the madam is abc was not even given, being to come out to, to do, to receive the medical treatment. that man died because of the complicity of the

feed. and the unfortunate bit is that the average indian does not feed these crimes us criminal as one mentalist enough i was watching because for me to fall into the room that is now being used as a propaganda. if you do it all over the country, i've never appeared in 25 minutes because the. ready visuals are read all muslims in cult gap. a blue light has been in this and hindu at the time that we are living in. and there were people in the kid were shooting at the time. i'm, we're slim, was at that. and i was, i had to leave the period 25 mid because the, the lady sitting next to me with abusing muslims. and i got into an argument and they literally made me live. and when i was leading, she said young go to pocket. i mean, it didn't happen to me or the upper middle club privilege can woman imagine what happened to muslims who do not had the same privilege? so many i was saying in india. yeah. so, so let's talk about the kashmir files. the film portrays the exodus of kitchen miti

hindus in the ninety's and some say the film skew to kind of this history is fanning anti muslim sentiment. in addition to what i described, there are reports of audience members and theaters across india are standing up at the end of the film and shouting slogans like, shoot the traitors, kill them, referring to muslims. of course, our prime minister mowdy has praised the movie in several beads. apd ruled states have made the film acts free, shook to what extent do you believe? but messages like this are considered hate speech as opposed to freedom of speech. and where do you draw a line? that's a difficult question. also mark, see that the law is, is very, very clear about what is hate speech or what is not protected speech. and that to speech that is directly inciting violence, the spark in about a cake, dest. but the problem, the teeth speech is that it's, it's never that it's, it's never just a spark in the powder keg. he,

it speech is all this cumulative you, you're billed on it over over years and years of such portraying a community in a particular way. but unfortunately, it's difficult for the law to then penalize somebody who's, who's building on accumulative discourse of, of hatred. and i think that is the, that is the problem that the indian guards are struggling with. so gosh me, fires in itself is just a very badly made film of propaganda film. it, it is a problem can be banned the film on its own or can be banned b, the activity, the interactive activity that is going on around it after that. and i see you are looking to jump in there. yeah. my, this is north of brooklyn gander failing. this is not like, i mean that's the only time i defy the shower. it's it's, it's not a badly meat for it is already been all of you read it. hate speech. you with the invention of spreading hatred against muslims in an i been roy the supreme court

engaged. i should have literally given orders to not clean. it is living, breathing heat against muslims. there is an actual problem push me to find its, again, forced to flee out of the value. but the read this has been misconstrued in the foot of it is leading to hatred against muslims in a, in a read that i have not missed before. we've been talking a lot about listen populations, but there are also many non muslim populations who have been discriminated against in the country as well. are awkward. ah, even among hindus, there is vast discrimination against dallas, for example, who are designated as the lowest cast in india's cast system. according to the national campaign on valid human rights, a crime is committed against valid every 18 minutes. 13 ballads are murdered per week, and 3 dallas women are raped every single day. just to give you an example. in 2019, the young man was beaten to death by upper cast people for simply eating in front

of them at a wedding reception. that same year, a minor was tied up with a rope and also beaten to death for trying to enter a temple. the conviction rates for crabs against though its remain very low though . is this all a reflection of religious nationalism? or is this something more structural, more systemic? it's more structural and a do more systemic and has been going on for quite a while. i don't think that we should attribute to the b g b thing that have been present in india for decade. certainly the abuse of the aids of ballads who she knew guts in the constitution and the peoples of india called the should you or james had been going on for decades? if not for centuries. i think what is happening today and has been happening for some time in that the state is enthusiastic about enforcing those violations. so

for instance, the lead to other issue because they lose their lives to a former direction. one is called renovation in, in their sure, the james, their feet. this is true also of nation. your tribes, the need to be bills of this country who have a form of constitutional protection by law, but which they lose should they change their feet. if i may add to that mock, may i just add something to what i said? i agree with that. it's be all these have had structure violence and we've always had explicit violence on dallas. it's on women on tribe people, all of that. but earlier i taught this operated on the margins of the state, these but these were the few do the things that happened. i think that has changed now. the violet violence against muslims now and even the lips now its its on

apology, attic, and its unapologetic because the court, the media, public discourse, all pains them as people who are outside did outside those who don't aberrations so that the state and the mob state can take it upon themselves to correct those aberrations. so this violence, in fact, seem to be in the service of the nation. you are constituting a better nation state by being violent against these communities. as opposed to earlier when it was, it seemed to be outside the ideal for modern state or we've been talking about violence against minorities and a legal system that's allowing all of this to happen. but this stuff continues. what does that hold for the future? so it's a good question mark, i wish i had and i could have been as a muslim myself, i feel like you know, as a privileged muslim and up on we do talk monthly. i'm, i must confess. i mean, the chances of might and, and my family members of getting lynched on the streets so you can be far, much,

much less than a been a normative block. mostly what i mean, what more do indian muslims need to see to, to, to have creep in this country where apartheid and all 4 genocide are becoming a part of our daily life. i vish me and other muslims in the country could see some or could be some semblance of all unfortunately, people in this country, the majority seemed to be debating in the heat that is being extended against muslims and it's been happening. the heat is being emboldened due to the complicity of the very meaning people in this country who are not speaking loud enough. i want to thank you all for joining me on up front, snaps the pleasure to talk to. in this episode, some of our guests imply that members of india's ruling body, t, jeanette to party, the b j. p. along with members of state governments and law enforcement had been

complicit in discrimination and even violence against minorities either through direct action or lack of adequate response. we put these statements to senior members of the b j. pete, the prime minister's office and the ministry for home affairs, asking them for their perspective or a specific response. at the time of this recording, we have yet to receive any acknowledgment of our messages. allies of the b j. p. point to statements made by prime minister to render mowdy such as the one in 2019 made to members of parliament. he said, we have to move shoulder to shoulder without discriminating on the basis of cast sect and religion. following the deli riots in february 2020, which left 53 people dead, 40 of the muslims. modi tweeted, peace and harmony are central to our ethos. i appeal to my sisters and brothers of delhi to maintain peace and brotherhood at all times. it is important that there is com and normalcy restored at the earliest. should we hear back from india's government. once this program has aired, we will be sure to post their response online. that's our show. thank you for

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