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council meets over the disputed kashmir region and india is not happy about it no agreement on a statement but china described serious concern over the situation. ceo of cathay pacific with cement hong kong protest this as the thohousands gathered in the city centre ahead of what's said to be another huge weekend of demonstrations. and u. s. lawmakers she had to leave so she won't visit israel even after the country were first a ban onn her entry she's called israel's conditions to see her
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grandmother opprpressive. welcoe back to the france twenty four newsroom i'm charlie james the u. n. securirity council says india andnd pakistatan i it shod refrain from taking unilateral action the disputed region of kashmir. this according to china's you an envoy who spoke after the council met o on the issue for the first time in nearly fifty years. the fifteen member council met behind closed doors at the request of china and pockets done. earlier this month and year removed to the muslim majority regions decades old autonomy but the area on security lockdown. india's ambassador to the united nations responded after the meeting slamming international interference listen. we don't need international busybody still i try and tell us how to run our lives the i. to billion plus people in. the know how to add to and a commitment to democracy unlike those who are now trying to speak to me. have not whose experience is
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extremely limited we have vast experience we will fulfill our goals via committed to addressing the difficulties some of our people have. and please give us the e time and space e to address these thank you very much. for more on this story friends reports international affairs editor arman georgian joins us in the studio thank you so much sir for being here. china rarely requests security council meetings so why do you believe they were inclined to do so ovover kasashmir and look at the security council potentially do here. well the reason they did it is because china is very old ally of pakistan on it's an alliance that goes back to nineteen fifty one. full china pakistan on is sort of routes to central asia and the indian ocean and for pakistan to have china as an ally that gives practiced on a- very valuable counterweight to. india but- actually if you look at the set
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of. the tone coming out of the security council that doesn't seem to be a huge amount of movement on the issue. let's take a listen to the chinese ambassador now to the u. n. speaking. outside the security council just a little bit idea. the secretary general. also issued a statement and a few days ago. and did judging from what i have heard from the discussions. a difficult council member is half ex president they are serious concern concerning the conscious sedation yeah job more cashier. they are also concerned about that the human rights situation there and also is that general we do. of members *-*- parties concerned should refrain from taking and
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a young man that for action which might further aggravate the tension there since. the tension is already worried tense and very dangerous. yes and not exactly the most stinging criticism and of india that from pakistan's key ally china and so china doesn't seem to have secured strong supports for its position among the other permanent members of the council the us and the u. n. and russia i'm not saying any appetite for intervention the u. k. as a colonial as the former colonial power is treading carefully between. india and pakistan on it's called for calm and frances lately taking a similar approach i mean the pakistani take on this meeting is that the mere fact that the security council has discussed this issue for the first time in more than fifty years that's already being painted as a victory said the pakistani
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ambassador set. people in the region may be locked up but their voices were heard today at the united nations so that's the sort of the pakistani spin on it if you will but as i said no sign of any major act and in that you and body. not diplomatic back and forth is going on we have to reremember that it's still very tense in this actctual region on the ground there it just ahead of this meeting hundreds of protesters came out clashing with police there what is india and that its hands are now. and the main at the chief secretary full. indian cashman has said that. telephone lines will start being restored from friday he is from from tonight and what's he didn't say when. internet and mobile phone services would be restored and ask for restrictions on freedom of movements that again to be.
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that is going to be reviewed area by area according to the chief secretary of indian kashmir. but you didn't mention the protests at that happened off the friday prayers in various locations we can certainly expect more protests to go to. to continue particularly as restrictions on movement a gradually eased will almost certainly see protests demanding the india reinstate article three seven of the constitution and obviously. the months for the release of hundreds of political leaders and activists some of him had detained actually outside jam and cash me. a twenty fours armand georgian thanks so much for helping us understand the story. nenext in the ongoingg protests in hong kongng have claimed a high profile corporate casual t. ceo of cathay pacific resigned on friday following a plunge in the local airline share price. the company has been under
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pressure from chinese authorities to rein in employees who support the pro democracy demonstrators. more protests are planned for this weekend including what could be a very large rally on sunday and friday night thousands gathered in the city's financial center with one objective to get the attention of the international community. reporter charles pellegrino there. hong kong's pro democracy movement gathered in the heart of the city this friday with a new strategy a plea of support to the international community. after over two months of making their demands of not being heard by the hong kong government or beijing there now faced with the relalative silence from foforeign governments.. actually like that virtually lying on us out because we- believe that the government would i'm. sorry but then after like two months off. we didn't see any any response. and then right now we
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are actually having the moment for example from the american. we are here for international support because as hong kong as we are a small group we cannot find the freedom or a- candle. two demands have been made this evening first off the united kingdom should declare that the agreement reached with china in nineteen eighty four has been breached that agreement guarantees a high level of autonomy. to the territory second the united states should impose financial sanctions on individuals who have suppressed civil liberties in hong kong we need some. afrikan of support by people coming in even light. present ensemble called going to help us i see says to die. and that you hope the u united kingdom will. go through some policy about. phone call. i want to raise international concern about what's happening here in hong kong it'll say punish the top officials and hong kong. in the past week or so donald trump has been more
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vocal about the situation in hong kong he recently tweeted that he thinks she jim king should meet personally right here with protesters it's unclear that the chinese president would receive a warm welcome. israel has partly reversed its decision to block to american congress women from entering the country. one of the democratic lawawmakers for she had to o leave has now been authorized to visitt her palestinian relatives in the west bank. as lonong as her trip sticks to a huhumanitarian agena until he responded on twitter saying she won't accept israel's conditions. the lights have turned from red to green for this us congress woman. but i was up to israel gave her the all clear to touch down proceeded to leap took to twitter to say she went to be visiting her palestinian grandmother. and her relatives in the west bank. silencing me and treating me like a criminal is not what she w wants for me t would kill a piece of me. i have decided that visiting my grandmother under these
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oppressive conditions stands against everything i believe in. fighting against racism oppression and injustice and some of the content the tone of the tweets was a far cry from what the democrats pens to the israeli government's open nights. when she found to a body to fight that conditions. i wowould like to request admittance to israel in order to visit my relatives and specifically my grandmother who is in her nineties. this could be my last opportunity to see her i will respect any restrictions in w will not promote boycotts against israel during my visit. after proving that request on humanitarian grounds on friday israel's interior minister soon labeled the letter a provocation to embarrass his country. adding that to leeds hatred of israel outweighs her love for her grandmother. to leave and another muslim congress woman in israel critic ill hand mall. plans to tour the west bank and jerusalem next week before the us president urged israel to
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block that visits. trump some precedents had requests to a foreign country to deny entry to elected americans has sparked fierce reprove along both sides of the atlantic with some critics saying the move threatens to undermine the usually rosie ties between the us and israel. ebola hasaspread to a new region in the democratic republic of congogo authorities announced that a woman has died from the virus in the province of south kivu. for seventh month old child has also been confirmeded to be infected and more e than one hundred others could be at risk from contact allergy kim has the story. it's what authorities have been dreading the most the spread o of the bola. the congolese health ministry announced on friday the highly contagious virus has reached a new province. two cases have been confirmed in south kivu adding to the provinces of north kivu nd tory
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where many have been killed in the year l long outbreak. in south key room the story see one of the two patients has already died. leleme see me this. one e ctim has passed away it was awful. we saw one of h her children a baby. the club has tested posisitive. not only is alive and receiving cash ourselves right. the woman had been identified as a high risk contact with another a bullet casing benny she had traveled seven hundred kilometers south by bus to one get where she died on tuesday night. last month the bowler reach the city of goma in north kivu raising cononcerns that the epidemic could cross the border into rhonda. now the two new cases in south keevil have heightened fearsrs of the virus is spreading far and wide. since the oututbreak began in august of last year boleh has claimed the lives of sosome
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nineteen hundred people in the democratic republic of c congo. useless dads and on adventurous women these are two gender stereo types that got tv ads bands in the united kingdom this week. this was thehe first implementation of a law that went on the books in june which makes adds perceived as sexist illegal trago and our colleagues and friends to tell you more. astronauts in orbit. two and a half later in the coming year olds. ellsworth apparently not doing much a tool. the current that's never legal as is this a ten it's a market jeez. john wanted attention from others when doctor guessing about the kids. the u. k.'s advertising standards authority has come down hard looking into what is considered sexist young boys and girls were to grow up thinking as a result of you know why this is side so indications also having seen sense in our is depicted an absolute time that only certain
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things were available to them as a result of that gendo so girls thinking they kanshi sekaran pods. boys thinking they conger up looking off to kids as well as girls kind and all those kinds of things are what this rule was introduced to prevent. it's the result of annual which went on to the bookoks in june two mixed reactitions from brits we keep having the same events stay on debate with a moving forward if it's offending people then. yeah make a change remember the guys one on of see things jackie was wrong. not much in much of me that but now it's a case of wool i am forty six and get it recently big brands are denying accusations of sexism and advertises a crying foul of the perceived to ship we'll return that stage where we're banning all sorts of scenarios you concept somebody in the future presumably. putting food in the kitchen because if you show a man doing it it's a gender stereotypes if you show a woman doing it it's a gender stereotyping you get complaints from another angle and so again you copp show people burning food in the kitchen if you want
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edition of all calls today when allah. in the south of france for one of the most prestigious photography. festivals in the world. live longer without lost all summer. and it's very much a platform for professionals to exchange with the public. allll styleses and artistic t trends e reprpresented. here for this shw we have the pleasure of welcoming. eventually crime the aussie hello thanks for being here. thanks for my- you have a solo show here so in a way you've been put forward by organizes. what does it represent for you i imagine you'llll pretty. on it yes. our lives. you know it's a very important moments in the career of any photographer. and it's also something like. landmark as ways so when you start working photography. i guess i'm cautiously approaches we use. you expect these moments
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where you're working thisis on here. it's the place where everyone gets together once a year to discovering new. or confirm photographers. such a huge honor to come for the first time here and with a solo show that is a- is not there are a perspective but in a way it's. a it's convinces about ten years s of work. title when this side so it is isn't supposedly attributed to aristophanes and as in greek today was. very evident for me the living are all of us and the. days are over these communities around the world where. your community revision native people living in and then the corporation title or you made so that the have no papers and even then and of course saviors and prostitutes. are those the dead socially
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seem dead. and then suddenly they started. like that. was a everything put together . before we talk more about this euron let's take a moment to hear from the da iraq's over their home complete doll hey he told the reports that got in a shovel what to watch out. for and it's very eclectic selection take a listen. cycle don't cyclele takes with fifty years fifty exhibitions occurred at fifteen more than usual. the way of looking to the past with a certain number of projects thank you for the z. is that he's with revisiting
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the seventies and eighties. such as movie done the spanish photography movements and your name let did the dna of allah is also looking to the future to explore to fifty years ahead that need to discover future town that's- the amount so it's this bridge between past and future that we've tried to build in this fiftieth auditionn of the festival. celebrating one hundred years. sid abel gets fifty years in the past fifteen a future. the director came under fire last year when a group of eminent photography a specialist. i published an open lots according for more women to be a selected at ala and it does seem that he did take the criticism on board. making quite some changes for this edition. falls on cats are getting a shovel what brings us a reports often meeting with the iconic photographer susan as alice from magnum agency. annals so this report will take your deep into the work of helen levitt's witith a. very poetic shelves of new york take a look. julia. to receive the
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first woman in motion award that only half. of all the preaching in. the subpoena for me. and i hope this will work. actually his presence to the many great women. who deserves more recognition. to celebrate a career spanning more than forty years and still have knowledge the contribution of women to photography. often criticized for its gender bias the e odd fefestival is reworkig its image. it still isn't equal representation but this year fifteen women are exhibiting their work as opposedd to only three lalast year. among them susan makes a loss and her portraits of strippers made in small town america in the nineteen seventies. harbor foresees the potential f for
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change in the wake of the me to move. what calling out. for recognition. knowledge minutes of the a absence of women we're building a momentum where people are more conscious and more concerned so that's possible. just check in fifteen years which is. in the early seventies i would never mentioned it would be such an up hill battle. before her another american women helen levitt's helped crack the glass ceiling. the late for tiger for spend her life dococumenting every day new york but was often overshadowed in her time by the men with whom she worked. it's jujust in france fr all the requests or orders ship issues just in preparing f for walker evans but as she took this era influences and give me something to you. and this
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would be able to want to turn the exhibitition. that's all she took the decisive moment in every but. she made all stars. once dubbed the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time live it is being honored at left with a show of a hundred and thirty prince many of which had never been publblhed. a momoment of hope fr the many women still fighting for space. in galleries and museums. so we are back with eventually crime you don't see what dvds legendary photographers susan miss alice soul had enough it's- i represent for you on a an example to find inspiration inn that wororks maybe. seventy differently. and i and i must. speak can live a more about schism is a list because her can work on the value of. three first ground breaking work. has been on. one of m my references for the work i started in. video in everywhere on the warner bros two thousand sailors. so yes inspiration and
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news for example in the sense of. it was always exciting for me to know that there are women out there that he lied to a i've- made of travis of departurures. and over a a of creation on youour solo sure you'll soda exhibition hand now brings together many parts of your work from the years is that one project it's very special to you to your heart. but maybe change the way you see also even life. yes i ththink. it's six of the guard t the gate said throw the project that. you know to. be the answer to this question because it's- it has been the first time i became conscious of what i want to do both of photography and film. i don't know if i laid back or i went fast forward but i just took the time to understand how i want to deal with reality at times. and all these notions of documentary of fiction only these things just started. to reveal themselves through executive tickets at that if an
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nba roots fictions you max african and asian maids who find themselves. in a foreign country with very little hope of integration. how did you find these mates and how difficult was it may be to convince them to. sell it you take pictures of them. not difficult a thorn in beirut. what i discovered again going back in the forties w wn i always like to visit the menu concert when i go in the cities. i i mean i i discoverede existence of these women. lost in a in a city that is so close before you cancel made of many strata and they would add another one too it's like a new. article geography so it was not difficult to. go towards them a what was t the twist was w wheni discovered the- you know the concept of. making them where the size of a beauty contest that that was the most challenging and i mean it was like a game. is it fair to say that some migration is very
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much a recurring themes youour work working will say on n peope who are marginalizedd and ostracized. i would i would go for migration for. for example or as i said again displacement it's. b. r. notions in the hearts of my work. i am you were born in greece of course you also attended some of the most prestigious schools. in france but you are greek you senior country go for very difficult times recently. with ththe economic crisis what's yor points of view on the situation in the country and are you hopeful for the future. i live grease. over the desire to discover the world's. . and hi thank k margaret the never. way far away from us i wanant to place my yoke upon during the years of the crisis is when i found i discovered my own country and my own culture. other more friday ninights. i so
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much more humanity and tenderness i h have more tenderness of both. and even though i'm i feel sad and i feel affected my family staying there. i think the future holds something much betetter for greece and i and i want to be there now in the change to feel its people and to film the newcomers the other countries that are in in greece and i also feel. like a stranger coming back to this when i. rarancheria cririme you'll see thank you very much for taking the time. to us it's the end of our special s so on the fiftieth anniversary of really at home for. a dollar they will and the festival on september twenty second i'll leave you with pictures from a very different type of exhibition some according this rule photography. or roll ons the photographers. all amateurs all self taught artist many who are homeless or with mental illness as i leave you with these
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