this is g.w. news live from berlin freedom for a woman sentenced to death in pakistan and anger on the streets. hard line islamists have called for death to the judges who overturned a woman's blasphemy conviction aasia bibi has been sentenced to hang for insulting islam police are bracing for more protests. also coming up nato was launched joint exercises in northern europe with military hardware and tens of thousands of troops from all twenty nine member countries russia says the overs are and anti russian

exercise but are they really preparing for a twenty first century conflict. and do have you had to hunt doris to find out why so many feel threatened and are fleeing that country for the u.s. even as president trying to tighten the u.s. southern border. i'm so misconducts good to have you with us a court in pakistan has freed a christian woman sentenced to death by hanging for blasphemy a mother of four r.c.m.p. was condemned to death in two thousand and ten she was the first woman in the country to receive a death sentence for insulting islam her cases caused widespread outrage among both human rights groups and hard line islamists extra security forces were deployed in the capital after islamists threatened violence upon her release. let's get more on the story with. asia also

a baby has been fighting for her life for nearly a decade now tell us more about her story well it's been a really tragic story. in two thousand and nine she was accused of blasphemy by her neighbors. it was a very bad thing about drawing water from a rebel so that shows how religious minorities christians are treated in pakistan with contempt they are discriminated against so that escalated and in two thousand and ten she was arrested we must understand and in pakistan the blasphemy is punishable to death the court sentenced to death. the lahore high court in two thousand and fifteen upheld. the charges and today the supreme court of pakistan. which the decision was headed by liberal activists

and rights groups in pakistan cheryl it's been a long and difficult ordeal for us you know what's going to happen to her now will she be able to stay in pakistan and what about her family. well it will be almost impossible for us here bibi to stay in pakistan i don't see her staying in pakistan i think she will be taken out of the country as soon as possible she will be flown out to the u.k. where her relatives us staying so i believe that the government the state willian government headed by prime the stream. would not want to take any risk keeping inside pakistan we see that already islamized have taken to the streets they are agitating burning di as they have blocked roads so we know that this lamas are pretty powerful in the country and the civilian governments have. kind of surrendered to their power in the past so i don't see because it's a very sensitive issue and the judges about and the threat the civilian government

is under pressure i don't think. bibi would be sitting in pakistan on channel you mentioned islamists are protesting police are bracing for violence tell us more about how this case in particular is really divided pakistanis. but must understand we need to analyze islamist narrative the state narrative of pakistan islamists they have been supported by the military in the. allegations that the still support them as proxies in afghanistan in kashmir. to put pressure on the of gone government and the indian government the religious groups think if there is any compromise you see why. is so important for them as they believe if the blasphemy laws blasphemy laws get in the eighty's repealed or even amended slightly would be

a compromise on the negative and that would pave the way for a secular pakistan and the pakistani authorities even the military because the us has been accusing them of supporting islamists in afghanistan and so the pakistani state itself does not. weaken islamised but now the supreme court decision gives us hope and the rights activists have ignored the supreme court's controversial decisions in the past and now everybody is appreciating the decision it might be the beginning of something which might be. in the future all right shaima shams from asia for us thank you so much thanks for having me on the show. let's catch up now some other stories making news around the world a man is dead after he detonated an explosive at russia's intelligence agency that's according to officials now it happened at the entrance of the federal security service in our county three employees were injured at the attack which is

being treated as terrorism was reportedly carried out by a local seventeen year old. officials in indonesia believe they may have found the fuselage of the ill fated lion airplane in the java sea sonar technology is being used to find the downed aircraft which crass just crashed just minutes after takeoff all one hundred eighty nine people on board are pursued and dead the country's transport minister has ordered the removal of several lion air staff a helicopter crash in afghanistan has killed twenty five people including senior government officials the army helicopter was traveling towards herat province when it crashed into a mountain killing everyone on board an official blame bad weather but the taliban has claimed responsibility and the world's largest statue has been unveiled in india the one hundred eighty two metre tall bronze figure is a tribute to independence hero sardar patel prime minister narendra modi inaugurated the statue calling patel of beacon of hope but critics are angry at the

destruction of natural resources and the four hundred million dollars cost nato has begun holding its largest military exercises since the end of the cold war it's mainly taking place in norway and all twenty nine nato member states plus finland and sweden are involved in the vast security operation is called trident juncture it will stretch into parts of the north atlantic in the baltic sea it's taken months to get everything in position fifty thousand troops and support personnel two hundred fifty aircraft sixty five naval vessels and up to ten thousand military vehicles are now in the region moscow has called the maneuvers quote an anti russian exercise. company the troops and tanks. why. i know. blowing up obstacles.

and building bridges in just a few minutes two capabilities that the german army is bringing to try to juncture . but i've these old school skills still needed in times of hybrid warfare and cyber attacks as a result after the ukraine crisis we saw that it is more important to change back from stability operations to hire tens of thousands of what we see and as an interest to move larger formations and heavy equipment and that's had not been trained and done with within the last ten years far from the russian border germany has set up its operational headquarters in the know we've been into lands together with troops from france the netherlands belgium and lot of. germany alone has brought ten thousand soldiers up here to norway and just into tanks weapons and other supplies it's a massive logistical challenge designed to improve the speech with which nato members could in a worst case scenario come to each other's rescue. the huge influx of people

and equipment more than fifty thousand soldiers from thirty one countries is a true test for the host nation norway. but the attitude among the public is there really positive support for nato here is among the highest of all member states and not just because no way shares a border with russia they're not so afraid that there will be a war or not but that's a lot of things happening in the world so you never know how so nato is important for us of course well i believe russia has become a big threat in the last two years and i wouldn't need new we need to show where our power your best war in the world and i know i could be part of it but it's not like it's something i think about but some of nato is testing. the passive to use are the population. remote controlled weapon systems.

self driving vehicles. military drones. so is this the future of the workfare all those capabilities have to be reversible or it means that. the forces can rely on this capability and have to have to know how to do without those capabilities because. the system can be jammed all destroy all taken. by someone else so the military have to remain reversible. and that's why the alliance is still banking on tanks and boots on the ground battling daunting logistics and the elements here in the frigid no we climate. all right let's get more on the story now davies teri schultz was part of a team reporting in norway and she joins us for more hi terry so does this military drill have real use or is it just

a show of force. nato very much wants to show russia even though it says this is against an unnamed aggressor that if it dared to issue a credible threat to a nato ally that all twenty nine countries would be there and this trident juncture exercise was a huge huge practice for military mobility. some of these forces have to travel a long way to get to someplace like norway or the baltic states or or poland where the threat would probably be issued and they needed to practice literally driving that far and i was told that some tanks showed up with summer tires some troops showed up for summer socks so it's good to practice now where there's there you know where they're really they really don't need to go into battle kerry besides colder conditions why are we seeing this drill now what about the timing russia would like to make us think that this is all in relation to recent events but in

fact the no we did military told me that they had bid to host these exercises back in two thousand and thirteen now that of course is before russia annexed crimea that doesn't mean that those events didn't very much shape with the exercises that we're seeing today the the huge number of troops that are there the different kind of exercises. practicing you know if troops really did come across the border those things have been very much shaped by the events in ukraine and will continue to be practiced because nato is admitted to itself that it has sort of lost it's lost its edge when it comes to territorial defense and that's very much what trying juncture is focused on now kerry russia also still planning to test navy missiles off the coast of norway are we seeing an ask elation of tensions here. tensions are already high that can't be denied i don't think that anybody's so worried about these new missile tests that russia and now nst because they actually notified nato as is required by international agreement that they were going to conduct these tests and

nato secretary-general you installed were warned russia to stay within the limits prescribed by these international agreements but at the same time i would point out that the south or new nato headquarters still timbered will meet the russian ambassador so the diplomatic track the two track approach that nato always likes to talk about is very much in the works so diplomacy is happening here in brussels even as these huge exercises are taking place in norway all right terry szell's reporting for us from brussels thank you terry. stephens here with business on a leading digital currency celebrating a big milestone today right silly we're talking about bitcoin today is the tenth anniversary of the cryptocurrency founded at the outset of the great recession the cryptocurrency was supposed to usher in a digital revolution in payments just about a year ago it had a price run of its life before falling back down to earth now today there's still a lot of hope and and plenty of hype sometimes even those who really want it aren't sure how it works. in the heart of moscow there's

a small and conspicuous shop it may look normal but inside it's a different world the world of bitcoin. there are a fake chocolate bitcoins as well as virtual bitcoins on servers for many of the crypto currency remains a great mystery even though russia produces more bitcoins than almost any other country. it was picked because of the good it yeah actually customers come to us and say i wanted but i don't know what it is and here like in an apple store we explain to them that it's possible to make bitcoins on these machines they're told that they can buy it or equip themselves to make it anywhere. and i feel like. the crypto currency is created in heavily guarded block chain data centers like this one in st petersburg bitcoins are bought and sold and the transactions are recorded here currently there are more than seventeen million bitcoins in circulation each

worth more than six thousand dollars at the end of last year the currency was booming its value rocketed to almost twenty thousand dollars before collapsing even after a decade in circulation the bitcoin is still not a mainstream currency even though many say it's just a secure block chain technology allows highly encrypted transactions to be carried out and recorded more than a bit more than you can believe it or not but from an economic point of view you think companies and for individuals will currencies a much more effective than any exchange that country's economy is now depend on economic data. but the crypto currency is not one hundred percent secure hackers have stolen large sums a bit points in several countries authorities often warn consumers about what's called crypto jacking and that has weighed on bitcoins reputation and value. and joining us now to talk. but more about bitcoin and where it stands ten years

later is there until the business end welcome. so ten years later the revolution has really happened yet but are we any closer. to answer that question that you have to really kind of look at the promises that came out in the beginning of bitcoin you know it was a product of the great recession in two thousand and eight when it was originally proposed in a white sheet which is actually anniversary that we're celebrating today the anniversary of that white sheet being published it basically was a suggestion of a way to create a digital currency that remove the power from the banks and the governments right now all our currency are secured are backed up by big banks and governments saying look we trust this currency it still has value the idea behind bitcoin was you're going to replace that that monopoly from the big banks and say ok by using an encrypted system and an open ledger system that we refer to as block chain now individual users can guarantee the safety of their own money using encryption right and they all idea was we'd be able to replace cash with that it would have the additional pain revolution and we really haven't seen that crop up yet i mean the

hurdles to using bitcoin for individual users are still far too high and there just aren't enough shops except in them so right now we're not really that much closer to where we were towards that digital revolution than maybe five years ago six years ago we talk about this open letter we talk about replacing sort of the legacy banking system here this is all very complicated for a lot of people is there a better public understanding a big one at this point or has it been replaced by a lot of this maybe speculation that we saw last year well i think speculation is the right word i actually think that because of the two you know by bust cycles that we've seen right now with bitcoin with some of the prices they're going up to almost twenty thousand dollars a bitcoin i really think most people the public don't really have a good understanding of what bitcoin is what block chain technology is i mean for most people it's kind of another way to get rich quick schemes and i mean it did create a lot of legitimate millionaires i've spoken to some people who started mining when they were in college and suddenly they're like oh i have two hundred eighty bitcoins in a harddrive my god i'm a millionaire. i mean it made

a lot of people really really rich but a lot of people lost a lot of money too because at the end of the day i don't really think that coin is a good investment i mean it's a nonproductive asset class and if you're pumping that much money into a nonproductive asset class what you're really doing is you're actually just speculating you're not really investing long term so you don't think it's a good investment others disagree look into your crystal ball and tell us what is the future of because well i mean that's anyone's guess if you talk to proponents. bitcoin really did the world a service by creating the whole idea of crypto currency i mean there's dozens are actually there are hundreds of crypto currency is at this point and it also created blocking technology and proponents of blocking technology say these open digital leisure's will make borders obsolete it'll secure our food processing it will basically that they have hundreds if not thousands of possible solutions but right now despite millions and billions of dollars of seed capital we haven't really seen any good solutions for blocking technology so i mean right now it's kind of gray zone we don't really know where this is going however remember the internet was

a product of the sixty's e-mail was a product of the seventy's twenty thirty years later that completely revolutionized how we doing business so right now we don't have a lot of good solutions for block chain and for bitcoin cryptocurrency is in general but who knows will be in twenty five years so a lot of hope a lot of hype in there but maybe something for the future and film business thank you very much thank you and just in time for halloween zombies and evil clowns are among the job openings at an amusement park in southern spain but horror land is more than just a scary good time it's a temporary break from a frightening employment outlook in the region where coal miners are hard hit by job losses. there is definitely money to be made in making people scream. the fully fledged scream park concept has been a money spinner in the u.s. for decades but has been slow to take off in europe. hurrell and is based in an abandoned coal mine and power station north of barcelona the spanish government has

vowed to close down most of its coal mines by the end of the year and mining areas are looking to tourism and other industries more than one hundred people now work at hora land including more than ninety actors in elaborate costumes and makeup interacting with state of the art animatronic robots that. will look for two different kind of people on the one hand we were looking for actors and specially we wanted them to have experience in the field of acting and also to have an academic background and on the other side we looked for us or stud or is we'd like people that he's able to to make an impact to scare people. in the screen park grounds visitors can pose for selfies with characters from their favorite splatter films and there's a frightening variety of horrific attractions to choose from including some based

on popular horror movies i. thought it's very exciting i'd say i'm very surprised it makes you shiver a little but above all it's surprising it's very exciting it would exceed that. but the new jobs are not permanent. the attraction is only open at certain times of year starting with halloween season when it's open for two weeks in october and november so far it's proving a success all twenty two thousand five hundred online halloween tickets are already gone. back to sue me now with the growing issue in the u.s. mexican border thanks steven that's right the trumpet ministration has announced it will send more than five thousand troops to shore up the mexican us mexican border as a convoy of central american migrants travels north now the procession is composed of thousands of central americans were seeking a better life in the u.s. they've been on the road for more than two weeks they've been traversing the river

is a sleeping on the side of the road and relying on food and water handouts along the way the group is currently in mexico about sixteen hundred kilometers from the u.s. border if donald trump's plan is put into action they will encounter about as many troops as are currently stationed in iraq and syria combined many of the migrants started their journeys in honduras a country plagued by poverty sexual violence and gang brutality. is travel to take to hear from those fleeing their homes. every friday armed gangs forced these young barbers to cut their hair on one occasion they were caught up in a shootout with police the barbers close their cell and to escape but lived in constant fear for their lives that's why they decided to abandon their homes and said so for the united states. goofy and they.

had to go to the gang members to cut their hair. but i couldn't keep doing it out of fear. i said if they spoke about it with my cousin and we decided to flee. and i was more afraid and just want to work in peace. as well as violence economic problems are pushing people to migrate almost three quarters of all hundred and live in poverty according to some estimates and more than half of the self employed there live in extreme poverty. who can go and i mean there were we are searching for a better homeland and opportunities to work where we want to move our families forward people cannot bear the situation any longer the crisis has been getting worse for years and it's happening because of the political situation that's why people are fleeing now they have nothing to eat but by i'm supporting these

migrants they're fleeing because there's no work here how can donald trump treat them as murderous. no poverty and hundred us is on the right even though the government has invested more in social programs. this woman has tried seven times to reach the united states only once did she make it across the border only to be deported but her situation is so desperate that she plans to try again. your book i just can't go on like this even if i could find a job i wouldn't earn enough to support. the babies just to love me i have three children who need to be fed. on her last journey she was fleeing an abusive husband she took her three children on the arduous trip they suffered hunger and illness

eventually they were arrested by mexican authorities and deported. this is the by two and i reported it to the police and sought protection in mexico as i fled with my three children he notified the migration authorities and was spent eight months in detention. women suffer other types of violence they are victims of domestic and sexual abuse and are threatened by gangs who try to recruit their children. that's why twenty percent more women than men are fleeing honduras according to a migration expert. say live. they are pressured into prostitution or off forced to live with people who are involved in organized crime . it's a symptom of the vulnerability of women. migrants or refugees it's hard to draw a line in a country where desperation and danger go together for them escape seems the only

option. just reporting for us there. now if you think you had a bad day take a look at these pictures from toronto canada where an employee of the city's transit agency had his car literally swallowed up by a sinkhole in the city's courtland's industrial area it's good to. go appeared after a water main broke unleashing a torrent of floodwater the driver was able to escape the car just in time before it was partially submerged almost completely submerged. right we just have time for a reminder of our top stories that we're following for you here on a court in pakistan has freed a christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy. has been on death row since two

thousand and ten police are bracing for large scale protests a hardline islamist party has called for the death of the judges who freed b.p. . and nato is holding large scale military exercises in northern europe with tens of thousands of troops from all twenty nine member countries across wheaton and finland participating russia in the new version are ending and tired russian exercise. thanks for watching to get the head to our web site at www dot com for all the latest news and information around the clock you can also follow us on twitter our handle there actually we'll be back at the top the hour.

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