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news asia it's good to have you with us the indian government is on its way to changing its citizenship laws the citizenship amendment bill makes it easier for refugees from of pakistan and bangladesh to in essence become india but there is a catch this new law will exclude muslim refugees talked to two refugee families about their search for a place to call home. gently mocking to india six years ago her family fled violence that of karma stone they say they were targeted because they are sick. there was always fighting there my sister was shot in the stomach my brother was shot in the foot both died we left everything behind and fled here. after coming to

india j.m.p. also lost her husband she now lives with her daughters in law and other family members in a small apartment in west delhi none of them have ballot papers a complicated application process for visas and citizenship has handicapped. her grandchildren don't have identity documents to get into school either even those who have been born in india are expected to obtain afghan passports but a proposed law that will grant citizenship to refugees like to empty my life has found their hopes. they have gone sick community has campaigned long and hard for this they see that they are indian by heritage. these people haven't had an identity for years this is a big problem they don't have passports this new bill will benefit a lot of people even the ones who have arrived more recently. but that doesn't mean all of gone migrants in delhi are celebrating. the bill eases the path to

citizenship for hindus six christians but not muslims. that into the saigon a family who arrived in india in two thousand and eleven they work together in their fourth floor apartment to make of gone on. a taste of home for the thousands of fellow refugees in the city they say they feel far safer here in delhi than back in mazar e sharif. and they're grateful that india has taken them in but it hasn't been even . savvy couldn't get people for his first four years in india he waited a year to get his first visa which was valid for two weeks another year as we had got him a twenty be a permanent now finally he has an eight month. study wishes his parents did not have to work he says citizenship would ease access to jobs and provide better incomes for him and with two brothers. but he's not talking

for. the few of gone muslim refugees he knows who try to get citizenship what ejected. other people like in these. relations we're all the same situation they should write for the same level because all we are all a human being for now fadi hopes to find a way to migrate west to jorak all the us it has been seven years since he fled afghanistan but india does not feel like home either. for more the all sort of that report nima should just joins us now from. the good to see what really is the more behind the government amending the citizenship act of one hundred fifty five. well british the narrative of the indian government is simple they are seen india

stands by the security of diligence minorities all of the countries off of ghana stunned bangladesh and pakistan just a few days ago we had prime minister intervene would be at a rally saying that india will stand by the tortured children off mother india but there's a problem with this narrative claiming that everybody who is from these six non muslim diligence can be assumed to be of indian origin also alongside that muslims are not possibly from india originally this feeds right into the hindu bias the policy of hindu bias that this nationalist government has been said to have all over the last five years and this was seen the slum before be a that has been seen in the government over the last five years again with the bigger lections coming up this could be a move. to that hindu electorate but has there been any opposition a dollar to divorce by the government well yes there's definitely been

opposition a lot of people have been critical of the fact that this move while it's the right to equality in india and reckonings to be a secular country and granting citizenship on the basis of religion is problematic opposition parties including the international congress have said this however there is also a more complicated part of the question this is reaching out in the northeastern states of india in assam for example there's a national registration of citizens over there does a sub nationalism going on the people of assam are fighting this bill because they are saying we only want to keep people who are here before a certain cut off your and we do not care what the religion this that people align hindus and allowing other diligence in but basically affect the demography of the northeast of criticism coming in from different sides but this government is standing strong on its support for the spill. on the jersey shore reporting for us from turkey thank you very much. the indian government is standing strong on

another key issue identifying. muslims this against the odds of the united nations which are stressed repeatedly that conditions in myanmar aunt safe to return to india is increasingly taking the line that the rohingya are not refugees but illegal immigrants hundreds of trying to flee to bung of theirs to avoid detention or deportation but they're not want to. refute g.'s on the run again desperate not to be sent home over recent weeks hundreds of families have left india for bangladesh fleeing the threat of deportation back to me and mom. we escaped by secretly crossing the border. how do you get we had to pay traffic is a lot of money. it was very tough for us. it took eight to nine days to get into bangladesh. well most ranger refugees sought shelter in bangladesh tens of

thousands ended up in india. regard them as illegal aliens and a security threat and of called for mass deportations some forced to flee india say they'd been living in the country for years. doing great the police in india never bothered us then the government started trying to force us back to me and. if someone was unwilling to shoot as. many would be returning to this the united nations says myanmar is still too dangerous for egypt to go back to in ravager a kind state a military crackdown continues and i think violence is still rife. how could we go back with all the violence back only when this peace. and estimated one point two million. bangladesh speaking to d w the country's foreign minister

called on the world to share the burden is not our problem the problem is the global problem we have being affected today tomorrow if this problem. my is the fear that other countries should be affected by. it to the interest of my own money into the heart of the neighboring country if there is uncertainty it will create you know instead. and instead it never is good for any country. for now the ranger remain in limbo unwanted in neighboring countries and able to return to their own. to pakistan now where the death of a sixteen year old the rest of us. bhakta widespread outrage that made it all the way up to the country's ruling are they brought him from obscene social media desk has been following the story you'll get for us are welcome what happened exactly

it's a very sad story bereshit so according to social media reports the sixteen year old man by the name of was mel was working for a wealthy lahore household will see now this picture of her that has been circulating on the internet she was faced she faced a lot of starvation and abuse. working for this household and we can see in this picture here. the amount of abuse that she faced but also in stark contrast this picture of what she looked like before. so the story goes that was a had been working for this household for about eight months and when she finally dared take a bite of their food she was she was basically beaten to death and her body was disposed of in the drain through a transit story what has been the response to her book or of these done anything of that they're going to be aired from well before that before we get to the authorities this caused a huge outrage and a discussion about child labor in pakistan and the hashtag justice for was my went

viral if we could just take a look at some of the social media responses one user tweeted this it is heartbreaking to know the cruel world we live in children are meant to play laugh be silly children are meant to live not this never this some people directly called on the authorities for action like this twitter user we're about to see calling on the ministry of human rights of the government of pakistan to take a look or take notice of the issue and that they would be grateful for for such action. have the authorities just gone to turn of the courage they're after after this hashtag went viral as we mentioned the government the ruling party of pakistan had this to say on twitter they called on directly on the minister of human rights to look into the issue and they're looking into the matter and three women in connection with this attack have been indeed taken into custody and it remains to be seen what happened i don't know whether the last stand on this was what the mall

is in pakistan that are on trial what can be done so that a case like this is never to be together we. talked to some activists on the ground and this is what one activist based in that correct she told us about this particular case and what needs to be done at the legislative level to. implement these to get good done on the road to visit first. let them. all they live. in love under that he should be in the eighty's sort of a bonus to them but. a fate that you wouldn't want to put in the letter and to say the listing must be at the close. but it's off the lid but it meant by our department i think it's. so very strong call for children's rights their peers for him from us or rid of us thank you very much before it got started for us. that's

a because if i go on like that. i don't forget to check our deed of the news on facebook as well as your next time about the flu. it's time to take one step further and fix the possible. time to smash the note and fight for the troops. hard to overcome countering and connect the law gets time support. coming up ahead of me muslims. we make up oh but we watch as ohio for the under educated folks we are the civil service and.

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a moment we'll have the latest business news from africa but first a mega merger set to create a european rail champion strong enough to counter chinese competition has been stopped in its tracks the european commission has just blocks a plan to tie up between german engineering giant siemens and france's alstom the two companies were said to merge their railway businesses to enable them to take on big o. foreign rivals in particular chinese industry leaders see r c but in a rare move the e.u. antitrust office rejected the plan over what it calls serious competition concerns let's just listen in to what your competition commission. had to say our investigation showed that the merger would significantly reduce competition in several signaling markets and for very high speed trains.