♪ the first serious incident in decades, clashes with chinese troops on the china-indian border. beijing g claims casualtlties on their siside as well. tensions firing up once again on the korean peninsula with pyongyang blowing up an office just hours after military action against the south. french health care workers take to the streets as pandemic conditions ease, calling for better pay and conditions.

hello, welcocome back to the newsroom. story,n with developing that is in regards to the clashes happening on the chinese and indian border. , as thecusing india indian army says three soldiers were killed in violent clashes. beijing saying indian troops crossed the border twice on monday, and that they had casualties on their side as well. are believed to be the first in decades in a confrontation between the two world powers. china has lodged strong protest and stern representations with india. we, again, solomon request that india follows the relevant attitude and restrains its frontline troops. do not cross the border, do not provoke trouble, do not take any

unilateral actionn that would complicate the border situation. correspondent as more. >> tensions b between china and india have been on the rise for severaweekss now, with h each side deploying thousands of additional troops on either side of the border, leadingng to an increasingly volatile situation. at the heart of this is a border dispspute handeded down frfrom h --oni times with nigerer neither beijing nor new delhihi able to agree where it acactualy ststands. there has been a war, there have been firefights, and this tuesday, it had been several decade than anyone h died duringng theseonfrontations. bubut there has been over 20 rounds of negotiations to settle this issue, alall of them hahave

been unsuccessfuso f far. beyond this s border dispute, there's also g growing rivalry between two nuclear powers. on the onene hanan china hasas n increasingly more assertive in foreign policy, and territorial claims. we've seen this over the pastt you years with china making sweeping claims on the south china sea with china exerting more control over hong kong and not excluding using force to achievevreunification with taiwan. india has been exerting more control over its border regions with the building of roads and airstrips and the shipping in of mimilitary equipment.. alall this, bolstered by thehe e relatitionship with wawashingto, d.c. the latest confrontation is just the latest manifestation of this rivalry. itsorth korea has blown up

office with h the south on its side of the bordeder. the move comes just hours after the north renewed triri to military action against the south. the offifice new the border r tn wawas opened i in 2 2018 to hele two c countries communicate better. our international commentator has more. was crereated shortly aftea summit in 2018 between north and south korean presidents in which they basically pledged to try to avoid all hostile acts. liaison office, essentially a cocommunications gagateway between the s sides, d for byby the south but baseded n nortrthern soil, not just a symbolic act, and also a functional o one. it had b been closed according o the south s since january of ths year, due e to the corononavirus pandndemic. nono one from the south, presumumably fm the e north, was babased there at ththe time the building was blown up.

we can perhaps presume i it was emptpty. why is morore subject to speculation. we gotten warnings in recentnt was readydy to army deploy troops to the dmzmz. we also knknew that it was not o happy with defecectors from the outh, had gone to the sending leaflets, propaganda, and flyers via drones into the north, often with one dollar bills, with news and south korean drama, anand with other types of things like food andd other materials. that,rth h is upset about but there's also speculation that generally they were trying to put preressure on the south o restart joint economic projects at a time with the north has been struggling, and d also upst at the state of f the nuclear talks, with the u.s., no progress, completely stalled since the last meeting between donald trump and k kim jonong-un

broke down in 2019. manufacturer pririces perhaps pt a little bitit of pressusure one south, tell the southth to get t of its talks with the u.s., and to see if anything progresses. >> moving on, chinese authorities are scrambling to bring a fresh outbreak of covid-19 under control in beijing. more than 100 cases of the virus have now been officially recorded after the city had gone for more than 50 days without a single new case. health officials are now racingg theoost testing to stem spread which has been linked to beijing's largest wholesale food market. nearbyby neighborhoods have also been placed under lockdown. this is what testing for coronavirus looks like when it is done on an industrial scale. days,he next few thousands of people will pass through these gates as china

scrambles to stop a fresh outbreak from spreadining acrors the capitatal. [speaking foreign languagege] [speaking foreign language] the authorities have reacted quickly, rolling out nearly 200 testing centers and putting neighborhoods close to the outbreak under lockdown. the latest cluster has been traced back to hear, beieing'ss largest whololesale market which was shut dowown on saturday. health officials hope that the measures they've taken will be enough to stop the virus from spiraling out of control. >> beijing is a large city and a very connected citity, so theres always a concern. i think you can see that level

of concern i in the response of the chinese authorities. we are tracking that very closely. >> this is all too familiar to residents here, the chinese capital was only just getting back to normal life. now, pockets of the city will have to put that recovery back on hold as officials try to stop aging from becoming -- beijijing from becoming another hot spot. >> inference, emmanuel macron has been visiting the factory of a pharmaceutical giant of the company is working to develop a vaccine for covid-19. dozens of faxing candidates in earlier stages have been butewed around the world a vaccine is likely to be a year or more away. french health care workers are taking to the streets across the country. this, as pandemic conditions ease in france.

they are calling for better pay and conditions, putting pressure on the french government to conduct sweeping consultations meant to set the stage for health care reform. that's go now to chris who is in front of the ministry in paris. where you are, have many of those protesters, how many are there, and what is the move like? >> certainly a lot more boisterous than they have been in recent months. several demonstrations taking place across france. doctors, nurses, health care workers, as well as a few of those yellow vest protesters demanding an increase in equipment, increase in salaries. all of this, of course, as the french president is further easing the conditions of the france locked down and saying that the country did make ways,es, but also in some

they have handled the pandemic well, not something which menik -- many medical workers would agree with. they would say they were short on equipment and one point it did look like the french health ministry was going to be overwhelmed. as you said, these health care want a renegotiation of their status. this anger dates back to before the coronavirus pandemic, months of protest from health care workers saying the state had for years cutting away at resources, they want to reset that relationship with the government. you're goingurse, --see health care workers

in all likelihood, we will see more demonstrators i in protest. -- paris. french government has sent police reinforcements along with a top official to the region to quell four nights of clashes between n rival groups. the unrest beginning last week after r a teenager from ththe fh chchechen community was attacked by local drug dealers. and the u.s. supreme court has ruled that employers who fire workers for being gay or transgender are breaking the countries civil rights laws. decision, the law prohibits discrimination based should be understood to include sexual orientation and gender identity. the ruling is a major win for workers and cons even though the court has become more conservative in recent years. had is what some activists

to say as a result. the nation's highest court, the supreme court, decided to and a knowledge the of noty, the humanity only gay, lesbian, and bisexual people, but for the first time in 51 years, for the transgender community. we should not be discriminated at the workplace. law, now our sexual orientation and gender idedentiy wiwill be the supreme law of the nation. >> the mayor of the u.s. in of atlanta has announced a series of reforms aimed at changing the way police officers in the city use force. the move coming in the wake of the death of a black man shot and killed by police. it's not just atlanta, there are

calls on congress and president reform ofmplement police departments right across the country. atlanta says she shares in the theory and grief of protesters following the death of 27-year-old rayshard brooks. now, she is to turn her anger into action. ofthat this is the beginning a great deal of work that lies ahead of us. it's very clear that our police officers are to the guardians, not warriors, within our communities. >> the mayor announcing a series of reforms for the department, de-escalation techniques required before the use of deadly force, and officers must intercede if they see colleagues responding excessively.. calls for police report have echoed across the u.s. following

the deataths of brooks, shot afr failing a sobriety test, stealing a taser, and running from police, and george floyd in minneapolis. but with 12,000 police departments in the u.s., each with their own rules on use of force and oversight, natationwie reform could only comeme fromm congreress and the white house. for his part, prpresident trump has s promised an executivive or focused on creating a database of officers accused of misconduduct andnd offering fung incentives for departments to improve. the democratic house of representatives has introduced a bill banning choke holds and no knock warrants in drug cases. senate's only black republican has proposed a 10 point plan that requires training officers on use of force. whether any of the plan becomes law, they are a far cry from the demands of thousands of protesesters calling to defund e

police. >> t that it for this edition. ♪ >> hello. we are here with -- - from --- radio. hello, n ne to see y you again. on our show, your academic research s specializeded in afr, we often heard your analysis .ere or on other channels werene last y year, you arrested as you are going to visitt your partner.

the 20threleased on march. she is still in prison in tehrhran. you were accused of crimes against the e ate, propapaganda. but what happened d on june 5, 2019? >> everything happened very fast. i h had just arrived and i was going through the formalities to get a visa at the airport as is the case nowadays,s, and it has been that waway for some time. and it was during a procedure that i was arrested. learnn and h how did you that she had been arrested? >> i actually heard her voice three weeks after i arrived at the precinct at the end of june. so between myself and d the rumor i was being interrogated, i heard someone call out a word

which means freedom. it was her voice that i heard. cell was just her a floor abobove, a and the conditioions of incarceration fr women are very much different than those for men. the conditions are not as strict. so she was actuaually able to oe me, she e recognized me, and she shouted out,t, and i very cleary recognized h her voice. i realized that she, too, was a prisoner. i saw her again. and each time we saw eacach othr was just for a few short minutes, we were able to speak sometimes, but sometimes not. you were inand t that for the prisoners of

the guardians of the revolution. >> it't's not a prison, it's not part of the interirior ministry, it is more a prison run only by --. and those e in the high-security wing are very much in isolatati. >> you could not see t the light of day, could you? >> i couldn't. you we had to stand on your tip toes to get england's of daylight. for me, i found it very hard. workaholic,c, ia work a lot in africa and i love it b because of the light and te freedom, so it was very harrowing for me. i was just trying to get a notion of time. i i tried to understanand whenen breakfast woululd be sererved, n people would come with medication, oror when you are allowed to sleepep in the evene. just an understanding of when the three meals of the day would come. time was very monotonous and

very challenging to live through. workaholic, so a it was very hard for me. i had no news from the outside, no idea why i had been detained, whatat the accusatations were, w long i was going t to be trere. it was extremely trying. it was extremely trying. >> asking the questions which may have been very long questions, , t i couldndn't ansr them. released, i started watching foreign f films. i could watch them for the content because they weree all dubbed in french. tryrying to remember the actors names were, to rebuild my memory. anand as time went on, i i would spend days trying to r remember the e names of political figures

that i i had known s so well ine past. isolation hahas not just a cut off, it is forgetting everything you've done,e, everything you've written, everything you've worked on. and that is so very trying. interrogations were g going worse andd worse, they were becoming more angngry, they woud shout at me. when you come from the quietness of your room and then your foot into a room where you have people shouting at you, shouting questions like how is it possible that you can't remember all of this? from a psychological point of view, ,'m surere they were using many t techniques used by many other countries for interrogations. >> your first contact with the outside world was the french consul? >> the firirst contact i h had h was first and foremost, at the infirmary in the prison.

because i actually was able to see e a doctor when i needed it from the prison. i had some serious ailments to deal with. i suffered panic attacacks, claustrophobia. very clear very soon that i needed to see a doctor. first off, i saw a doctor in the infirmary, and it was such a pivotal l moment for me. druggededn p pills, i was with six pills every night just to help me sleep, to deal with my stress, my heart palpitatations, and many other things. more than that, i was ablele to see time. it was a breakthrough for me because if i can getet back this nonotion of time, to understand what time of day it was, to know

when prayers would happen because every time i would hear the call to prarayer, i was able to keep track of time. and it was so important for me. july, thatfouourth of was an importantnt time for becausee i was able to let my family know where i was. i had not had any contact with them. it was the 29t9th of august i ws able to contact mymy mother by n for the very first time. and then i was also able to start t porting and requests. i asked for books to be sent to me and i had friends, colleagues and it isisbooks thanksks to them that i am here today. withtht them andnd the books, i don't know where i w would be. i would certainly y not be myse. >> for once, it was not widely known that you had b been arrested, before it was announced in july.

for you, it was only announced in october. i suppopose that changes things fromom the media speakaks about. i expect the french authorities were then able to spepeak in public. did you feel bad? >> no. it was in february that some of me aside and had a long conversation with me. because i was surprised that i had been refused such simple things as being able to call my family. the most simple things were not even being given to me. so i went onon a small hunger strike which is nothing like thatat. the interrogator said this is not really about you. it is all about the negotiations for an iranian who is in france. and he told me your time here is just to put pressure on france. and i realizeded that i was jusa bargaining chip, and that was

actually quite comforting, becacause it meantnt that there would be an end and that and would be an exchange. also it meant that my freedom wasn't tied up to legal proceedings. >> what do you think is best, being discreet or media campaign? >> i think the media coverage did play a role because one off my interrogators said that the international media thought i was dying. that wasn'n't the case. even though i was living through some very trying times. think that i was better off having the public aware of the situation because it l led to concern. by the end, i wasn't treated any better than the others. but i wasn't mistreated or abused in prison. i was still allowed to see a doctor and get medical care.

and i wasn't sentnt to anothe cell, because had that happened, it would have been the end of it for me. >> you have any recent n news? he went on a very long hunger strike. for me, i was asking very similar questions. i was wondering why i couldn't call my family, , lawyer, consulate. but she had some very clear demandnd she had seen me and when we saw i wasn't really tiptptop, and she was s very concerned by it. is why she went on a very long hunger strike. a hunger strike is a very challenging thing.

i had my ownwn small experieienn it, but you need to have very limited demands. you need to know it is going to be your last resort. i think she had very ambitious demands. the problem wiwith people onon e other siside did not really care mumuch for suchh behavior, and t just drag it out. that's why she suffereded so muh and d her kididneys surely suff. >> for the first time since you've been released, you've agreed to speak up today. what is the message you're sending? impmportant,'ss because i lived through it. i was able to exexperience it. it's very hard, harrowing. but i think i need to talk about it. and i want people to know why it is so importrtant to continue to mobilize to pporort people e lie

fariba and other research people who werere held prisoner in iran and other r countries in the ar. >> thank you very much for getting this interview to our media. thank you.

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