post. this is d. w. news live from lynn acquitted and found innocent of blasphemy but still not free the husband of christian pakistani woman age of baby tells t w he fears for her safety off the government strikes a deal with islamist hardliners protesting the decision to free. and u.s. sanctions on our way back to iran as promised by u.s. president donald trump of the vowing to kill the iranian nuclear deal the sanctions ascents to his hard on monday targeting three major sectors of iran's economy.

i mean you could as mckinnon thanks so much for joining us a christian pakistani woman whose case has made well headlines is not yet free that's despite a supreme court decision finding her innocent of blasphemy and lifting her death sentence age of babies husband a sick must see has told you in an exclusive interview that he fears for his wife and the rest of their family safety has also now emerged the whole lawyer has fled the country the supreme court decision to acquit a stoat days of protests by islamist hardliners asia bibi was sentenced to death for blasphemy in twenty ten of the neighbors accused her of insulting the prophet mohammed. i'm joined now by sharmila shams from d.w.

asia thanks for joining us we'll. has found out the authorities all still holding asia bibi is she safe because the husband has told me that he's worried about her safety. well loss can be is not safe at all and we have seen that islamists don't do discreet and they kind of force the government to send it's been an abject and sham that's sad and the government started to summits and now it is becoming increasingly difficult for us to be to leave the country. after that in the long run station should have been screened by now she should be a free citizen but the problem is that she is not sit inside pakistan she cannot leave the country after the government struck a deal with islam is that they would take measures to to ban him from leaving the country can you tell us a little bit more about what has been told me and when he spoke to us earlier today

as conducted an interview with missy earlier this morning and he was very devoted and he said that he has already suffered a great deal he said the vents to verdict was a real hope as his daughters were looking forward to meeting their mother but now as a review petition has been filed we're under the agreement between this number six and the government the government could not block the review they have to read a little bit more all you also said it is all by islamist by the pressure on the supreme court and the judges he said that is for a legal battle for close to any years you never tried to defending a drug or should the judiciary of the government and now in the supreme court get world war dick this nominees are creating a lot of problems for the judiciary and you mentioned that briefly the pakistani government has now made a deal which should stop the violent demonstrations can you explain

a little bit more watch what it did that. well it is not the first time that dog's only government the darkest running state made such spots with islamists they have been doing it for a long time you must understand this. many analysts and experts say are being supported by the fossil pakistani military and security agencies who allegedly use then it's brought season have gone astronomy and you know so over the years these groups have become immensely powerful. pose any amendment to the blasphemy law that going to less than the law because they believe that if any amendment is made to the blasphemy law they would lose that politically over the narrative the strongest narrative ruby heard and blogs from good moves into becoming a secular state that's what they don't want that's why i asked if you can squeeze

this sort of importance for these groups they don't want any any change any amendment to the blasphemy nor. interested all standing up to these groups dealing with them with an iron hand which burns calm so i don't run steve. the government actually said under these groups and run after me in god speech left the country is going to check your brain out of. that. channel shams from delhi asia thanks so much for joining us. for having me. and you can find the full interview with a.j. baby's husband on our website that's. let's have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world now in northwestern pakistan thousands of people have attended the funeral of an influential cleric known as the father of the afghan taliban sami little hoc a prominent pakistani cleric was killed in

a knife attack at his home on friday. in egypt thousands turned out for the burial of six members of the same christian family killed in a terror attack on friday they were returning from a baptism at a coptic monastery in minya province when the bus they were traveling in was ambushed by islamic militants. are democrats and republicans in the united states are making their final pitches to voters ahead of tuesday's midterm elections and leading the charge are two presidents with rival visions former president barack obama told a rally in atlanta that democracy cannot work when peak people make stuff up without any consequences and that was clearly a dig at incumbent donald trump who warns that voting democrat would mean going back to the obama days of high unemployment low wages and open borders so with all of the rhetoric what are the issues that america merican is really care

about a washington correspondent sent us this roundup. blow up government spending you must. build the wall with the midterm elections approaching voters are under a barrage of political ads from both parties republicans got a big drop. just in case i need to rent a criminal illegals and take a moment will democrats then however i approve of town halls bad singing in this message are both trying to drill their respective messages into the political conscience of the american electorate it's getting less. real. and very confusing what are actually the topics the political agenda which make voters interested and going to the polls coming november sixth according to our

experts panel of the political topics voters really care about it the midterms are well i think the biggest issue that's forefront right now is health care the top issues in this election are the economy health care immigration trade and guns the economy health care trade and then local issues the economy it's booming sure peak for the republicans trying to get voters to cast the ballots for them the message don't vote democrats you lose your job and pay more taxes or as the president puts it democrats produce republicans produce jobs however republicans have just now started something like a blitz on the economy perhaps a template of the campaign the economy and health care always issues that are elections health care that's a bread and butter issue for the democrats the republican failed to replace the affordable care act better known as obamacare health care a winner for democrats so what happened to immigration and guns trump is clearly trying to nationalize the immigration debate nationalize the gun debate.

immigration a biggie for the president. racism the least racist person but the latest campaign ad posted on president trump's twitter account has sparked accusations of being blatantly racist politics anybody go for the common. for democrats trump is the gift that keeps on giving not only is the liberal democratic voter base fired up about going to the polls come november sixth. each specific lee wide educated suburban women who voted for trump in two thousand and sixteen who now seem to be turning to the democrats i think i share the conventional wisdom that the democrats will regain the house of representatives that the republicans will perhaps a seat or two in the. no matter what the outcome on november sixth will be the twenty twenty presidential campaign has already started since as they say here in washington every election is always a referendum on the sitting president. iran's supreme leader.

has slammed president donald trump after the u.s. announced it would reinstate all sanctions against iran how many said the u.s. would be the ultimate lose a decision and says the world disagrees with trump's decision to pull out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal or new restrictions are due to hit on monday they've been lifted for the past three is extensive sanctions will cut tail iranian oil sales exports and shipping industries as well as cutting off the country from international lenders and foreign business partners. we're joined now by the guardian's iran correspondent. dan thanks for joining us i need iran supreme leader ali come anigh has fired off a round of tweets about the sanctions let's start by taking a look at just one of them he writes the u.s. is goal in imposing sanctions is to paralyze and prevent the growth of a national economy but it resulted in

a movement toward self-sufficiency in iran the iranian nation used to import everything for years now it has developed a habit of producing everything. so can i ask you just this mean the ordinary iranians won't actually suffer under these sanctions. i mean the truth is that these sanctions are blanket sanctions and they're going to affect iranians from all aspects of life all walks of life i mean if you're an iranian the student is going to ring and patient you know you're going to be affected and that's why the sanctions are cruel i mean to be clear about it is that is our cross section because they faked ordinary iranians and the government of course the administration of president trump one support trade sanctions are targeted to the iranian state the reality as we've seen it you know five years back seven years back under the former president ahmadinejad is that it's not patients are going to suffer under the sanctions you know for example i spoke on friday to an iranian doctor who was telling me you know we have at least twelve thousand patients in iran who are suffering from bleeding disorders who were not their lives are going

to be immediately put at risk because of the sanctions because i mean of course met some is not directly affected by the sanctions but in reality in practice because of the banking restrictions that most of missouri president trump is imposing there is no way for an iranian pharmacy or a formidable company to to know by those notes and from abroad. there are any parts of iran's economy that and for such a society that will be particularly affected. i think they i mean i think the order rain ians in any industry i mean if you are as i said in the student if you're a work if your private work if you're employed by the state you're going to be affected because basically trans aim is to honest an adult country i mean i have to say that these are unilateral measures by by the united states and europe britain france germany i mean arter european countries have been adamant that they are

against these engines i mean they issued a statement yesterday that they think that the nuclear agreement back in two thousand and fifteen is working because the i.a.e.a. the international atomic energy agency it has very fired twelve times that iran is a building better off. as you say the european union strongly opposes opposes the sanctions and they finance measures to ease the consequences do you think that will have any effect at all i think i mean what is happening is and europe is coming up with its own mccann is to combat trumps sanctions and the question is whether dogma can isn't is going to work or not i mean there in reality is that a lot of big companies who do business with iran are going to be afraid are an error on the safe side and just in a pull out of iran because of the fraud from the united states because frankly i mean it is important for those companies probably in the two to be very are doing business with the u.s. what i'm doing real business with iran but we have to wait and see i mean because

these are unilateral sanctions and europe is standing against it we have to see in practice how much iran is going to be able to be the stand these measures. might come ali dagon thanks so much for your reporting. and. to football now and dortmund and by and have had contrasting results in the bundesliga lead to dortmund two one one nil though both spoke of thanks to mark or royce leave a couzens good form ended abruptly with a four one loss to healthy time under pressure by and. his side held at home by freiburg charlecote was victorious spoke and nuremberg drew two two on friday front foot go to goods when it got a now facing me like sake and there are two games on sunday turning to the bundesliga table and off to ten matches we can see that dortmund have increased their lead over by on to four points while hoffenheim move up to six in the bottom

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