equality. under the skin. starts november thirteenth. this is day eight of the news live from berlin pakistan's top court frees a christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy islam as protesters take to the streets calling for mother of to be to be returned to jail while others called for the deaths of the judges who freed her also on the program. sidelined by chance of american in the past now tips to take over her job friedrich matt sun launches his

bid to become leader of germany's christian democrats. nato stages joint military exercises in northern europe involving troops on hardware from all twenty nine member states moscow just scraps the war games as a russian exercise so is the alliance ready for twenty first century conflict. welcome to the program a court in pakistan has freed a christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy well the baby was condemned to hang in twenty ten for insulting islam prophet mohammad since today's ruling thousands of islamist activists have blocked roads and ransacked government property in protest with one group even calling for the deaths of the judges overturn the sentence. she has spent most of the past eight years in

a prison cell in solitary confinement. bibi has always maintained her innocence the christian farm worker and mother of two was convicted in two thousand and ten of blasphemy she was accused of insulting the prophet mohammed after muslim women from her village objected to her drinking water from their shared class because she was christian bibi then became the first woman to be sentenced to death by hanging under pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws but now pakistan's highest court has decided to overturn the verdict and. the ruling was immediately met with angry protests by hard line islamists. the only punishment for a blasphemer is beheading they sound and we won't obey this oppression. the leaders of one islam is party have even called for the death of the judges who ruled in favor of us and bebe's release. her story began in

a rural pakistani village but what started here has stirred intense emotions around the world. in the past islamists have murdered some of those who spoke out in her favor. today's reactions show that their anger has diminished a little since her breast nearly ten years ago. yeah i never been married to everybody yeah let's get more on this from the heart of the human rights activist in pakistan who joins us from the capital islamabad welcome to team w i know that activists like yourself have been fighting for their results and sasser was sentenced in twenty ten today's news must have been very welcome. thank you very much yes it is a welcome news but the decision itself is explains and confirms some

a fuckin sons about going to perdition of the law to be using the law. and settling in and private scores and i think it's a very important decision that the supreme court ruling that they have given the sites there is an additional note by one of the judges on the on the panel and that tradition of north actually. pinpoints the issues with the existing law and the criminal procedure ordered by a stone ok so the deal with that and given that this was such a technically detailed ruling do you expect these blasphemy laws to change. that's an important question i believe and not in the short run i would say unfortunately but the thing is that these laws have been misused which takes it beyond that you know the law has problems but the law is misused which complicates

and makes the issue more complex i do not particularly personally consider people who have taken to the street to be the real cause i mean of course is you know the danger duction of such such a amendments in the constitution in the constitution provisions that the at and also the criminal procedure of court as i said by general allen that's marching through and the parliament which had said the subsequent fall of millions. of different parties were biased on since then and none of them actually took the issue seriously so it is basically the law makers in biased on end a powerful moment in student of the state which who are responsible what lies in the society and creating an issue of this magnitude all right so it was about as the way you say it it was a bad law applied badly let's talk about i see a baby she's not technically a free woman but can she really sickly stay in pakistan.

i'm not sure really because you know we haven't seen any of the blasphemy accused staying back in pakistan since even if they have not been. charged or even sentenced i mean or even try to i mean there were cases where people who have to go into exile and join the families in exile you know the whole family had to move into exile and unfortunately that is going to be the solution for her family we thank you for joining us on how to set khaliq in islamabad thank you for . one of the german chancellor angela merkel's old political rivals has just launched his campaign to succeed her as leader of her christian democratic union party critic matt says one of three high profile candidates vying to lead the center right c.d.u. after the chancellor announced on monday that she will give up the party's

leadership after eighteen years in december but stay on as chancellor is to matts or sixty two left politics to ten years ago after losing a power party power struggle with the chancellor he dismissed concerns of a new tensions with angle of machall if elected party leader launching his bed he said the c.d.u. has been suffering badly in recent polls and needs to be renewed. it's what the c.d.u. needs now is a fresh start it needs renewal. this year you need to engage in forward looking political debate. and in my view that means that the c.d.u. needs to create clarity about its core values. we need to make clear that this is a big tent party of the center and that it will remain that. a party in which those who aspires traditional economically liberal conservative

values have their place alongside those who are more socially engaged. now nato is holding its biggest military maneuver since the end of the cold war the aim is to simulate an attack on a member state by an aggressor the complex war game began last week and is called trident juncture and involves all twenty nine nato countries plus finland and sweden the exercises are being held in norway the north atlantic and the baltic sea the locations being interpreted as a sign to russia with relations still tense over moscow's annexation of crimea back in twenty fourteen it's taken months to get everything in position fifty thousand combat troops and support personnel two hundred and fifty aircraft sixty five ships and ten thousand military vehicles moscow says this is an anti russia exercise doubly reporter lars sheltie sic is with the troops and the tanks.

why. i know. blowing up obstacles. and building bridges in just a few minutes to 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 norwegian hinterlands together with troops from france the netherlands belgium and. 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. this 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 norway shares a border with russia they're not so afraid that it will be a war nothing 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 power is best war and 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 has tested. passa teeth are hidden

from the public. remote controlled weapon systems. self driving vehicles. military drones. so is this the future of warfare all those capabilities have to be reversible or it means that. the forces can rely on this capability and have to know how to do without those capabilities because. all the system can be jammed all destroy all taken by the. by someone else so the military have to to remain reversible. and that's why the airlines are still banking on tanks and boots on the ground battling daunting logistics and the elements here in the frigid no we gen climate. india has unveiled the world's

tallest stature prime minister narendra modi inaugurated the monument in a ceremony on a patel credited with uniting india after independence from britain in one nine hundred forty seven but it has been mired in controversy with locals angered by the statues high cost and the damage to the environment. he did not manage that and with pomp and tight security india's prime minister narendra modi inaugurated this statue of unity. one hundred eighty two meter tall bronze clad towering over western gujarat state. india's iron man sardar patel was the country's first deputy prime minister after india gained independence in one thousand nine hundred seventy patel played a key role in bringing the country states together. twenty odd years sept fifth

year of the my brothers and sisters. this the world's tallest statute will keep on reminding the whole world and our future generations about the person's courage capability and resolve. the art of the not be that. this so-called symbol of unification was nearly four years in the making now its unveiling is being overshadowed by protests and accusations of political point scoring the statue is part of the hindu nationalist parties effort to rebrand what it calls forgotten leaders. but their critics see this as an effort to to appropriate a national hero figure ahead of next year's national election. the four hundred million dollar project has uprooted many residents one hundred eighty five families most of them belonging to local tribes were forced to leave their homes. ahead of the inauguration local chiefs called for modi to stay away and there are

reports of activist leaders who have been detained. and despite protests authorities hope this site will be a popular tourist attraction in this remote corner of india. and they are rushing to ensure the area has enough hotels restaurants and other infrastructure to cope with the anticipated rush. well since today is halloween in many places we'll finish with news of a faced spooky creature from the deep sea underwater researches have made a surprise discovery off the coast of california this is the dumbo octopus with it soft fins of the frogs it resembling elephant is it's been named after the famous at disney characters scientists were treated to an impromptu a live show at a sea exploration vehicle encountered a rest sighting. watching

t.w. news don't forget you can always get news on the go just download the app from google player from the apple store i'll give you access.