this is news of life for a living of course students and found innocent of blasphemy but still not free the husband of christian pakistani woman i see a baby tells you he fears for her safety off of the government strikes a deal with islamist hardliners protesting the decision to free her. also coming up u.s. sanctions are on their way back to iran as promised by u.s. president donald trump of devouring to kill the iran nuclear deal the sanctions are set to his hard on monday targeting street major sectors of iran's economy.

and in show coming up straight off of the news we'll see if legally dortmund can maintain their unbeaten run when they travel to both spoke to us will have all the rest of saturday's goals. of his mackinnon thanks so much for joining us a christian pakistani woman whose case has made world headlines is not yet free despite a supreme court decision finding her innocent of blasphemy and listing her death sentence babies husband a sick must see has told d.w. in an exclusive interview that he fears for his wife and the rest of the family's safety it is also now much that her lawyer has fled the country the supremes.

decision to quit the state days of protests by islamist hardliners he was sentenced to death of blasphemy in two thousand and ten off the neighbors accused her of insulting the prophet mohammed. you can find the full interview with these husband on our website stay w dot com and for more on this we're joined by shanta zia he's a human rights campaigner in pakistan who lives in toronto shum thanks so much for joining us now your father solomon. your father salmond says it was a former governor of punjab province he was assassinated in twenty eleven off the he demanded a pardon the a baby the supreme court has now finally ruled that she should be set free yet she remains in jail why. the religious parties and baucus on have pulled off what can only be described as a judicial judicial coup by breeding the country to a halt they have expected an agreement from the government of pakistan with

a judicial sensually handed over to this religious mob from the courts of pakistan giving them the right to do or have anybody overturned and to receive a verdict of that over all of their liking this is perhaps the most humiliating concession ever made bye bye bye bye by a nation state in the history of democracy and can only be described as a death warrant of democracy so now basically a c. a b. b. faces a shot on trial where after having spent nine years in jail after having been found innocent by the highest court in the country she is going to be retried by by a court demanded by religious small essentially. essentially demanded at gunpoint but i just want to say what what is at trial over here is not just the fate of us here bibi what is at trial is also the fate of pakistan as a nation state to decide whether it is a function of a nation state or

a theocratic moment. shunyo father was mudded because of his support for the a baby that kind of violence must be a huge to terror and for anyone campaigning for religious tolerance in pakistan. yes that's true there are very real dangers and. we face these dangers knowingly because we believe in a buck a song where our box nannies are equal regardless of race religion gender class at mississippi or any other. denomination that divides humanity and i believe this is the only pakistan were fighting for. what do you think needs to happen both religious tolerance and freedom of speech to be improved in pakistan. after four decades of very misguided domestic and geopolitical policies the country has had

a tremendous amount of very deep amount of radicalization now the country needs to go through a a systematic and well thought out the radicalization plan judicial reform such as the ruby and of the blasphemy law can really be a pot of goods. that the radicalization program would also have to come with it is is creating social justice better governance creating opportunities and of course education these are essentially the ingredients of a of a modern nation state chant of a thanks so much for your time thank you. at some of the other stories making news around the world in northwestern pakistan thousands of people have attended the funeral of an influential cleric known as the father of the afghan taliban somebody'll 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. the regional director of the un children's agency says that yemeni authorities are making it difficult to deliver a much needed humanitarian aid gets a couple or a warm that impending relief efforts could plunge the war torn country into famine nearly one point eight million children already suffer from malnutrition in yemen. iran's supreme leader has slammed president donald trump after the u.s. announced it would reinstate all sanctions against iran come in i said the u.s. would be the ultimate lose a decision washington's far reaching sanctions on iran's vital oil sales and

banking sectors are an attempt to forcing the islamic republic into negotiations to scrap its nuclear energy and ballistic missile programs the renewed structure will hit next week after being lifted three years ago. the iranian government remains on fazed by the reimposition of sanctions on monday the headline of the conservative kay one newspaper reads the u.s. can get lost but many iranians don't share this view. you can't just fight the entire world our own politicians are responsible for the current situation. the hellish it all village the solution is a new agreement with world powers above all with the united states i hope it happens soon as iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali common nay opposes a new round of negotiations during a speech in tehran he told students that president donald trump had disgraced the u.s.

if the young people of our entire country support our efforts to be independent some may not be very religious but they oppose being dominated by foreign powers. that beginning on monday at six am the trumpet ministration will reintroduce sanctions on iran's oil sales just eight countries have received a waiver to buy iranian oil nearly all international banking transactions will also be prohibited prices in iran are on the rise and so is unemployment and the currency the rio is losing value as iranian struggle to make ends meet most lack the will to fight against their own government. democrats and republicans in the united states are making their final pitches to vote says ahead of tuesday's midterm elections former vice president joe biden told a crowd in ohio that the democrats choose hope over fear unity over division and truth over lies that was a clear donald trump during

a rally in montana trump said the choice was between building progress achieved under his administration or letting the democrats take a giant wrecking ball to the economy with all of the rhetoric but what if the issues that americans really care about a washington correspondent send us this round up. 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 throw. just in case i need to round up grim new illegals and take a moment will democrats 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. real.

and very confusing what are actually the topics the political agendas which make voters interested and going to the polls coming november sixth according to our experts panel the political topics voters really care about it the midterms are well i think the biggest issue that says for for 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 the local issues the economy it's issue repeat 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. as the president puts it democrats produce mobs republicans produce jobs however republicans have just now started something like an ad blitz on the economy perhaps a template in the campaign the economy and health care are 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 else for that kind of be among four 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. it's specifically white 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 gain a seat or two in the senate was 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. it's only is counting the human and material cost of devastating storms that hit the country this week the civil protection agency says seventeen weather related deaths have been reported so far across the country gales have left an estimated fourteen million trees up for he says and the situation in the financial region has been described as apocalyptic. centuries old forests like this one and the veneta region destroyed within just a few days storm stuff battered the whole of haly since last sunday but the worst hit areas are in the north. many of the dead were killed by falling trees. in the province of billu no rinse reached hundred ninety kilometers an hour and

blue roofs off houses. sold out here and looked upward and i shouted that the roof was blown away that we were stuck five days without a phone without electricity without anything and without because nobody could reach and see as. residents here were cut off after a landslide damaged a major mountain road. and now we're worried the road might collapse. because underneath the road we saw crops have to be to support the last and i think. we pare efforts have been hampered by the heavy rains. thousands have been left without electricity but while the rain has finally stopped here weather warnings still in place for the islands of said cicely with villages have been inundated. the storm's damage in italy is estimated to run into the billions some are saying it will be decades before the region's recover.

some tennis news now a novak djokovic has ended roger federer's hopes of a one hundredth career title this week at the paris must is the serbian prevailed in the tight semifinal joke which took the first set up for a nail biting tiebreaker federal went along for the match the soon level one hundred hit back in the second set with some stunning shots the swiss great would be denied however winning the first set of the south sunday's final against car and . the bundesliga show is on just a moment with public yes he'll have all the highlights for you from the games so far this weekend including lead as dortmund full school find out if they manage to extend their advantage at the top of the table. you're

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