this is newsnight from new tensions rise in the crisis over kashmir. trade with india and downgrades diplomatic relations kashmir is in lockdown. following india's move to scrap. also on the program. to flex more common. schools. to protect. citizens in higher tell president trump we don't want you here president is that

just condolences following the weekend's mass shooting in which 9 people. working to stop coral reef from. underwater. efforts to keep them alive. i'm well so the program. pakistan is downgrading its diplomatic relations with india as a result of the indian government's move to be folksy autonomy the part of kashmir it controls pakistan's also suspending trade and one report says it has expelled india's voigt to islam about kashmir remains in lockdown with security forces. but many shops close residents say they are running out of fresh food telephone and internet connections have also been cut indian security forces imposed

a curfew over the weekend but all communication channels blocked kashmiris outside the state had no news about the safety of their families. nasir is or has a real home. he does not know if he will be back because he does not know if he. is a police under lockdown ever since india has kept the specialist on the status of the state has enjoyed for 70 years. on his way to the airport nasir stops by this protest held in solidarity because he. lost he could see days ago that his mother of the speech. he does not know if she made it to the hospital last words she said to me i'm not feeling better tomorrow is my appointment. and there tomorrow we paced their deployment. reported. so she called north texas she could not reach out for the doctor i don't know whether my family's alive

or. not sit on the protestors have to see demands. it was the government's decision lift the communications blackout. i'm trying these arrested local leaders. many young meets in delhi to work and study have joined and they have had no word from home because we will never accept that the speed is not that of course all violent set up wanting him except that they have no movie is to . from there it's true or not which makes us all the more anxious and want it for our families and the more the state will have to answer this someone like me was living dependently for me to use now i haven't known the feeling or form sickness for it and it's for the 1st i need to use that i'm feeling homesick that i want to go home because my parents don't know why i didn't turn up at the airport i don't know if the even to the airport to fetch me. despite feels for their own safety if they protest openly they don't know what else to do it. as voices for and against

the government decision to vote it across the country mean itself is silent a complete clamp down on john list and a communications blackout has meant that anger feel and frightening rumors about the safety of loved ones back home run rampant was ok it was over yet some scoff at these one claiming that any protests against the government's decisions are anti a national and baseless. this cruel pressure not to shout down the protests against the government. or those who are you to stop the government's progress of auto what is your intent is the isis funding you are anti india foreign forces funding you what who are you. know as boys who were on board. trying to decide whether it is better to mobilize protests here.

or try to reach their families. for nasir despite the risks he knows he has to head home he has to at least try. more on pakistan certain reaction from. pakistan has previously denounced this move as illegal and has just announced that it's downgrading diplomatic relations with delhi so what effects is based likely to have. well the pakistani foreign minister has announced a little while ago that it is expelling india's high commissioner it is also calling its high commissioner from delhi that's what they mean by downgrading diplomatic ties they haven't said they're breaking alter ties they're downgrading them for no buckstone has also said that it's going to review bilateral arrangements but india and it is going to stop trade with india pakistan and india already do not have much direct trade going on so that's not going to have

a huge effect i mean essentially if you if you followed india and pakistan as long as i have this is predictable behavior and much of it is that domestic consumption for pakistan so should we expect anything more to come from pakistan well pakistani parliament also passed a unanimous resolution today condemning india for its what it sees as an effective annexation of a disputed territory which it sees as illegal and unilateral box don is going to go to the united nations security council the foreign minister said he may be traveling to china pretty soon so it is trying to reach out to its friends countries which have influence over india to bring to bring toward party intervention now india has always been clear it does not want any any mediation it does not what are the countries to be involved and they haven't really shown in the

last 2 or 3 days that they are worried or are deeply unsettled by what india has done so do you see this that as just the latest stage of this constant attempts to totting between pakistan and india because i'm thinking of this in the context of the yemen who was recently captured and then released that is there an escalation or is this just more of the side. well this is this is unprecedented what india has done in kashmir and the problem for pakistan is that it is that over the years it has created a very strong domestic lobby which seems very strongly about kashmir and the government is under pressure to do something the government doesn't know really what options it has it has very limited options because the country is in an economic mess it is under pressure to stop so-called better outfits and their funding so it can go back to fueling conflict in kashmir that was an option maybe

20 or 30 years ago which box on exercised so the options are limited and the government wants to be seen to be doing something about it taking taking it very seriously. but at the end of the day does the government care not really it's not going to have much impact on their behavior good talking to you thank you for joining us nationals ajani from. u.s. president donald trump is visiting the 2 cities that were the sites of mass shootings at the weekend groups of residents in both places and made it clear he's not welcome his 1st stop was dayton ohio and 9 people were killed in protests divisive rhetoric about people of color. he'll be in el paso in texas where 22. the border with mexico. to stay away before heading off president trump was asked how he would respond to critics who say that he's a bold white supremacists and inciting hatred. and

they don't like anything they. haven't seen whether any other kind of supremacy whether it be. any. very very concerned about something. that's going to. come from the president and joins us from. what the president hope to achieve with these visits. i'm sorry i couldn't get your question feel can you repeat it once again what does the president hope to achieve today. i think it's important for him to be here to be in dayton to this is dayton but also to visit. because he thinks that it's his duty ask president of the united states to come for the people to show the communities that the government is doing anything it can to

help them so it is a very important visit for him but of course as we could see yesterday and we can see today there are many people who say well come here that they don't want to visit because they need more time to grieve and because they think that the language he has been using is raise. and this is a language. with him talking about immigrants about mexicans about other minorities that this is a kind of language that is encouraging extremists and white supremacists so is he likely to see those sorts of protests when he when he gets to el paso. i would say it is likely that he is going to see more protests here in el paso we know that many city of. set that there are not going to me team that instead they are going to take park to take part in

a community gathering on or off the victims of the ring that can very quickly turn into a protest against the president so if they don't want the president what do people want from him. they want him to change his rhetoric they want to change he's an immigrant stance they want him to if he's saying the right words at this moment to follow through with his actions and they are fearing that in the next days he is going to take to twitter again to dehumanize mexican immigrants to talk about building a border wall here so they're fearing that nothing is really going to change despite this horrific events here in el paso.

texas thank you. all take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world forces in denmark are investigating and the headquarters of the national tax agency on tuesday night police say they're treating the blast as an attack 2 people were inside the building when it happened. no. the european union and the united states have pledged more than $55000000.00 in additional aid to zimbabwe they say in response to the united nations' appeal for funds to help the entire country the u.n. said 5000000 people in the. u.n. is also saying that north korean cyber experts have circumvented sanctions to raise $2000000000.00 for the country's weapons program the report alleges that north korean hackers have stolen funds from crypto currency exchanges like bitcoin and the found ways to make illicit to bank transfers online. but is there ways as

a result of the technical issue that led to the cancellation of around $100.00 flights after its check in system failed setback affecting thousands of passengers of course long queues at london's heathrow and gatwick airport and see airlines made computer fail to me. now to afghanistan where at least 14 people have been killed and 145 wounded by a suicide bombing in the capital kabul the taliban says it carried out the attack a car bomb detonated outside a police station and military school of the majority of the victims thought to be civilians this comes as the taliban to goes it's with the united states to withdraw its troops from afghanistan. d.w. says sandra patterson has reported extensively on the afghan war can tell us more welcome. let's start by putting these 2 events together but the taliban currently in the middle of peace talks with the united states so why carry out this bombing i

think it's about leverage at the negotiation table if we just look at this month of july if i can share the statistics with you with the u.n. has just put the maalik in the month of july alone we saw more than 1500 civilian casualties that is killed and injured and that means almost 50 casualties a day that is because of a big spike in a text like the one today we saw in kabul but also we see a rise in let's say air raids and night raids so everybody is power mongering because it is about leverage at the negotiation table taliban want to prove you know we can strike the heart of the capital at any point of. we want to and surely if you are exploding detonating a vehicle borne bomb as happened today even if you do that in front of a police station or recruitment center for the police you are meant to hit civilians because it is in the middle of the capital you know and there are civilians moving around this was

a rush hour traffic kids going to school women going shopping men going to work so yes you kill people essentially but you say it's about leverage but it's about says we won't kill civilians and then kill civilians very would mean nothing yes that's one way of looking at it they would say look this is what other people call civilian casualties happening this is the cost of war this is how we kill only our age yes it's collateral damage and the other cause in collateral damage too and they were very quick today to claim this attack because we have moved if we look at doha into a very decisive face there looks like things are being ripped up in doha in fact the u.s. chief negotiator has already left it's just technicalities left so you know it's like small teams discussing tiny bit of detail and from what we hear is the next step will be a meeting in berlin scheduled for friday so us and what hala is that will come to

the german capital and then things might move on to austria when what we would see there is really really crucial that might mean a more meaningful start of you know intra negotiations meeting also government representatives and that's something on a bit about if this is sort of previews it is this is just the taliban of united states the afghan government has had no part in these negotiations or we had 8 rounds of negotiations between the u.s. and the taliban and the afghan government really quite angry about this because they feel neglected but then one has to keep in mind that the government we're talking about is also a blogger heads there's a lot of infighting. and the taliban are refusing to talk to the government they say 1st we must see an agreement with the us about troop withdrawal and everything else comes after so this looks like even though there are there is this there's this car bomb today it looks like the peace process is moving in the right

direction or are being too i'm still a little bit hesitant to call it a peace process i would call it framework negotiations that might lead us to the road to peace because this was us and taliban it still is and we might see an agreement very soon and it looks like it you know there are a lot of promising tweets a lot of media chatter happening at the moment but i think we should be rather careful not to mistake whatever agreement is reached between the u.s. and the taliban with peace in afghanistan because that is something that only the afghans can decide upon and they haven't been part of this as of now it's very clear under present thank you so much with a group monitoring the conflict in syria is reporting that there have been clashes after damascus ascribe to cease fire agreed last week government forces reported to have captured 2 rebel held town in the northwest the truce was meant to protect the 3000000 people living in the lib region many people who had fled have not returned

because of the now defunct ceasefire. it was him ismail has decided to go back home to its good province despite the recurring airstrikes. 3 days ago he and his family moved back into their home. they had fled to northern syria where fighting has ceased but when the eclipse ceasefire was announced last week they decided to come back here. we're not counting on the ceasefire we know what the russians and our side can be like they are traitors but we couldn't stand it anymore in the north when the ceasefire was announced we came back to our home with our children out of their nature not a law that would you know. he has good reason to be skeptical for civilians the locals in fighting are mostly short. a day after he came back home bombs fell on a neighboring area just 20 kilometers away. the syrian government canceled the

ceasefire because terrorist groups had launched multiple attacks including against the syrian army. but every him is staying put despite the recent attacks. but i can't describe how i felt when i got back when you're away you miss your home you miss the earth and the trees i missed everything. ibrahim hopes that his family will be spared and that the war will finally come to an end. now to russia where firefighters are struggling to contain massive wildfires the air force has been called in to help control the places across 45000 square kilometers of siberia officials now say they've given up on some of the remotest areas the general prosecutor in moscow says some of the fires were started deliberately to cover up in the legal logging. these crews are fighting

a losing battle. above the vast expanse of the severe in forest they qualify as that simmer under the canopy. helicopters also ferry and reinforcements to combat the smoldering fire on the ground. the difficult thing with these fires is that they cover huge areas and they're hard to reach the most effective method is a comprehensive one. planes pull water from above while firefighters on the ground extinguished all the small small drink points it was 2 full and it dropped into the wild the firefighters move through the haze in search of flames fed by the foliage . smoldering planes are continuing to appear we're also using machines for adding them up we're doing our best to extinguish the fires and see what. the russian government has claimed that the fires have been reduced by a quarter but the aerial force protection service admits that it's given up on 2400000 hectares of forest are new monitoring the fires in those areas from space

greenpeace meanwhile has sounded the alarm over the environmental impact of the wildfires. it's. this represents a climate catastrophe. at the fires are releasing as much c o 2 into the atmosphere as 36000000 cars a year. the fires are also having a direct impact on people in the region the village of bobby chinee lives around 100 kilometers from the blaze but heavy small has shroud of the village creating a health hazard for residents. when the way of crime it's been a long time since we've seen smog that state around for so long and more. is that we can't breathe anymore. even in our apartment we can smell the smoke that.

it's the feeling that never leaves you there it's really hard to breathe through all this and with all this chronic cops appear in both children and adults. 10000 firefighters have been dispatched to sub area. but with fire still raging in vast tracts of land villages like this will not have a clear view of the sun for some time yet and hong kong where hundreds of people have staged a protest outside the city's space museum demonstrators shun laser beams against the walls in protest of the arrest of a student on tuesday the student has been found in possession of laser pointers which the police regard as offensive weapons lasers have been widely used by protesters in recent weeks to obscure the vision of police. the world's remaining barrier reef so need urgent help that's according to a recent call to action by unesco which says warming sea temperatures resulting from climate change are taking

a big toll well one country making progress is billy's which has the world's 2nd largest coral reef off its coast the country has passed laws to safeguard its reefs and conservationists have found the painstaking work can nurse the underwater health the underwater world back to health. with its breathtaking beauty billie's is a paradise on earth that was almost lost. the country's most prized possession lies under water the incredible biodiversity of its 7000 year old coral reef the 2nd largest in the world the reef was dying but it's now gradually being brought back to life. monique vernon is one of those fighting on its behalf. well i feel like when i look at work it's like. when they call me or say all right we're going to all do this laughing brook here check the corals here whatever it is i'm like all right let's do this let's let's wrap this let's wrap that is beneath

the surface it's clear why the reef is struggling the corals have been dying off the seawater is too warm too acidic and the frequent hurricanes have wreaked havoc here climate change is turning everything gray together with marine biologist lisa car and the fragments of hope organization monique is rebuilding the corals. overdue and so there's no time to lease right now bros are basically like the 1st of the season so just like the trees in the forest provide a habitat so there for so many others and among the coral didn't seem on the reef very meticulously after much research and careful selection they take a few fragments of some especially hardy quick growing corals then they plant them in new places several times a week they place the coral pieces in the prepared cement as they need to secure

foundation around 80 percent of the fragments survive these ones have been growing for 18 months life is returning and attracting more life with it the reef protectors work is financed by project money and donations they proudly show us the results of 8 years' work the corals here have increased from 6 percent to over 50 percent all the hard work is worth it the reef has been able to recuperate. and will stay on the water with some sharks new research has found that human activity is now the biggest factor affecting shark populations report by the zoological society of london so shocks have been pushed away from coastal towns and cities and further outs to see these. searches also found the shop's body size is significantly smaller in communities that live near human populations they discovered remote locations where. these habitats are often not in protected areas

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