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welcome. it's good to have you with us we begin first in thailand where political uncertainty is growing off the general election the first poll since. the country's election commission has now said that the probe party has won the popular vote it said based on preliminary results the home tab backed. up so you had eight point four million votes the main opposition put. in the coup. seven point nine million votes but the official winner of the election. that's because the election commission hasn't yet announced how many seats each party. that has promoted a confident response from the pro army. couple moment.

we are confident that we can form a government. we're not rushing to compete with anyone but based upon what we're expecting it's even clear today he knew we are confident that we will go ahead with forming a government. now a lot of that confidence is down to how the next prime minister of thailand will be chosen has a total of seven hundred fifty seats and they are divided between two hundred fifty military appointed seats in the senate and the remaining five hundred in the lower house that essentially means that to reach the hof a mock of three hundred seventy six the military needs only one hundred twenty six more seats in addition to the two fifty already in the senate the opposition knows this and has agreed to band together to fight the pro-military. claim to power at least seven parties have built

a democratic alliance and stake their claim to form the next government the alliance came together on wednesday and comprises the main opposition party and its rival the democratic party the relatively new future forward party headed by young billionaire out on is also out of this alliance. of telephones body came third in the vote count speaking to deed of the news he said the coalition is facing heavy odds as it tries to form the next government. election result is not decisive enough it's pro-democracy camp is now having a pow half off half of the parliament. parliament has five hundred seats. having a power four hundred and two hundred forty seven two hundred forty nine seats so we need a few more seats we need more pro-democracy party to join this coalition in order

to stop this down that we are trying very best our best to be able to form the next government however i have to mention the role of the airport that senators. n.c.p. o.b.j. and the military be jim is now appointing in the process of at pointing senators and two hundred fifty senate apply that senators have the right to water for the next prime minister as well so even though we could form a major already coalition together the two hundred and fifty wards form the senate as they. overturn wise of the people and form the next government so is that a given that the military will form the next government let's put that decision on a political scientist an associate professor john a long gone university in bangkok suppose we are glad you could join us so is it a given that the ministry is going to form the next government given the of the

have a two fifty seat advantage in parliament. it's highly likely that this is what we're going to see it's not so much directed at the military will form the government but the military has arranged for the constitution to be set up in favor of the military and it'll military parties will form a government and let's buy general but you have to seize power was the current prime minister so it looks like you'll be a military one town backed element coalition and with a former general and she thought that went as the next prime minister because the rules have been written that way just beating about those rules heading into this and they're going to want this at all affect contest in thailand between the prole horndog parties and the opposition parties. and i know it was not fair because the rules were written to in favor of the military to have long term supervision over

type politics but at the same time we had no choice in thailand we've had military government for almost five years we've had no lashon for almost eight years so you know for thai people and the only way to get past this period at least we some kind of election i'll come and i'll be elected government even though it will be less and symbolized by the military you know along that we can try to work with that but without the election we cannot get past a military government not an ideal situation then overall how do you view this does this leave thailand more divided than ever and if so what does that mean for the country. kellen has been divided and polarized for the last fifteen years is been up and down we've had three constitutions since one thousand nine hundred seven and we've had two military coups in two thousand and six two thousand and fourteen judicial dissolution of the ruling party in two thousand they so a very volatile political space in thailand this time i think we're seeing the same

cycle of you know a coup leading to a constitutionally named to election and maybe more cool this is a cycle we've seen three times in the last fifteen years however and this time we have a new monarchy new king and new era and i think that maybe this time it might be different maybe there will be some kind of a potential compromise if the playing field and the level can be fair you know when you have an unfair playing field when one side has the advantage sometimes as side will keep winning and it will still be ruling so if you have a fair fair deal then maybe both sides would be willing to to compromise and accommodate what other that's what we're looking for a while and we're living there for the time being thank you so much for speaking to our thinking on bombs of iraq you can draw us from bangkok. to pakistan next but a case involving two hindu sisters is drawing attention to the usual forced conversions among the country's religious minorities authorities are investigating whether the sisters were abducted coerced into converting to islam and then forced

to marry. hindus are part is the largest religious minority but this to make up a very small percentage of the population the latest census data show they number just about one point six percent the vast majority live in pakistan's sim the province as do the family in this particular instance they say they were celebrating the hindu festival of holy when. were allegedly abducted the allegations grabbed public attention off the sobering videos related to the case where. the two sisters arrived doesn't climb about high course flanked by security officials their lawyer says they acted of their own free will when they come versa to islam and marry. but docs disputed by their family who say they're just thirteen and fifteen years old the judge has placed them in government custody until all the facts are established. activists say

underage girls are being kidnapped from pakistan's hindu community and their abductors treated with impunity. they say victims are often manipulated into making false statements in course. this high profile case has even triggered a he said exchange of words with neighboring hindu majority india india's foreign minister has intervened with several tweets including this one where she says she asked india's high commissioner in pakistan to send a report on the matter that prompted a tetchy reply from pakistan's minister for information and broadcasting he said it was an internal issue he added that india should focus on protecting. the rights of its own minorities pakistan's government has ordered an inquiry into the case and the results are due to be presented in course next week. for more i'm joined by

family shams a from our best good to see you how big is the problem of false conversion in parts of. british it is a huge problem in pakistan we have to understand pakistan is a majority indian country society. but we need to understand that when we say forced conversions we only talk about the kidnapping of. matted all of. that has been happening and this happened in the case of vienna but there are also cases when religious minorities. christians and these they embrace islam but that's the only way they can climb up the ladder the economic and social so that is in my opinion also forced conversion because religious minorities suffer from immense discrimination on so many levels in

pakistan that's the only way they can prosper that they can climb up the social and economic so all these contribute to in my opinion should be defined as forced conversions all the new laws forming in pakistan and plans to tackle this discrimination. well dissing the assembly boston law in two thousand and sixteen not actually a law it never became a law of bill was passed but then the lawmakers kind of. were pressured by extremists in islam as to to to not ratified the bill so it never became a law there are progressive laws in pakistan but there has been no implementation on it so laws become totally meaningless when the administration the government actually cannot enforce those laws and kind of you know make sure that religious minorities don't suffer any kind of discrimination by is it so hard to enforce the

laws. well you seem to in this case when these two girls were allegedly kidnapped and then photos due to maddy the people who kidnapped them. they already have powerful people there are. very few plans associated with strong political parties in these prudence's especially in the sindh programs so they're relic inducted people deaf you to this day up awful tribal leaders they control the administration local administration police and all these these kind of things so it becomes very difficult for law enforcement agencies to try to act against these people economically with full. i mean often even there for the time being i was speaking to us on this. today really even now with

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how did move become a gateway to islamist terror. an exclusive report from a destroyed city. philippines in the science of virus starts april eleventh on t.w. . a report shows a huge number of africans want to leave their countries could this be the next wave of mass migration. zambia finds itself in a death trap how's it going to get out. and more bad news for boeing reports the enemy still system was on when that ethiopian airlines flight crashed. i mean physical and let's do business four out of ten africans a considering emigration that's according to the pan african research institute

afro barometer it conducted a survey of forty six thousand people across thirty four countries and these are the results twenty nine percent of those who said they wanted to leave said they'd choose another country in the region they're already living in twenty seven percent are considering europe twenty two percent wish to go to north america the reasons given for wanting to emigrate were also diverse forty four percent said they wished to look for work elsewhere twenty nine percent indicated that they'd like to escape poverty but most of the african surveyed who wanted to leave their countries tended to be from cities with higher educational backgrounds so brain drain could be on the cards for governments but not all migrants actually get so they hoped for destination many from west and central africa landed refugee camps in morocco. behind these walls here in casablanca a makeshift refugee camp built by these migrants from africa.