in 2016, just after her murder, i travelled to the village in rural punjab where qandeel was born.t of the world, women stay at home and are rarely seen. this is the house where she grew up. mohammed azeem, her father was a farmer and her mother, a housewife. qandeel had six brothers and two sisters. qandeel spent her childhood in his room. it wasn't long after this photo was taken that in keeping with local tradition, qandeel was married. but her marriage only lasted a year. after her divorce in 2007, qandeel settled in multan, a city a couple of hours drive from her village. it was also around this time that qandeel started making videos for social media. for pakistan, her videos were provocative and daring. but her dream was to make it into the mainstream. like so many other girls trying to break into the scene, the reality was anything but glamorous. to earn money, qandeel was probably working as an escort. as qandeel‘s ambition grew, she left multan for karachi, entering the heart of pakistan's entertainment industry. qandeel‘s appearance on pakistan's idol thrust her into the

however, ithink the manage the third largest party in punjab.sily controlled the situation with force. after his speech, his speech should have been ideally or in normal circumstances followed up with furious action, and it wasn't. there was tremendous dithering on the part of the government. so what will happen next? because mr khan is on a state visit in china, i understand, so what happens next for the country? well, we gripped in absolute fear right now and tremendous disappointment, if this goes through, which actually means that the debate from the blasphemy law being amended has now shifted to a bunch of violent people or mobs taking the law into their own hands and the government ‘s rent the vat. —— surrendering to that. they are uncertain about the outcome. however, it is very much about the appeasement with the religious hardliners, and we are still waiting to see what comes of it. sorry to interrupt you. thank you very much. more now on our top story and the news that a met office report says the uk has experienced more weather extrem

your father salmond to say it was a former governor of punjab province he was assassinated in twenty eleven off the he demanded a pardon the a baby the supreme court has now finally ruled that she should be set free yet she remains in jail why. the religious parties and baucus on have pulled off what can only be described as a judicial judicial coup by breeding the country to a halt they have expected an agreement from the government of pakistan with a judicial was i centrally handed over to this religious mob from the courts of pakistan giving them the right to do to do or have any verdict overturned and to receive a verdict of that over all of their liking this is perhaps the most humiliating concession ever made bye bye bye bye bye a nation state in the history of democracy and can only be described as a death warrant of democracy so now basically a c. a b. b. faces a shot on trial where after having spent nine years in jail after having been found innocent by the highest court in the country she is going to be retried by by a court demanded by a religious model essentially. essen

in exile in toronto sean thanks for joining us your father so moms has a was a former governor of punjab province he was assassinated in two thousand and eleven off the heat a mom does a pardon to ozzie a baby of the supreme court has now finally ruled that she should be set free yet she remains in jail why is this. where the big religious parties and baucus on have pulled off what you can only describe as a jew judicial who right by bringing the country to a halt extracted an agreement from the government which essentially in essence hands over all judicial powers away from the courts so far has gone through to these religious groups giving them the power to have verdicts overturned and and and and to to have a verdict of the of their liking essentially at gun point this is perhaps the most humiliating concession ever made by the state to focus on two religious groups so what we're now going to see is you have to be a woman who has spent nine years in prison and has been has been acquitted by the highest court of the country now awaiting a sham trial but interestingly what is on trial w

at least three people have been killed by a grenade attack on worshippers in india's punjab state followers of the neuron cari spiritual group were targeted in the city of amr it's our denomination is considered heretical by most sikhs the religious majority in that region. british prime minister to resign may's says the next seven days in the breaks of process will be critical for britain in an interview she said she would not give her backing to a plan to leave the european union until the two sides agreed on what their future relationship will be european ministers are set to discuss that plan this week but as briggs it begins to take shape many who voted to leave the e.u. don't like what they see d. w. visited an english town where it seems that a number of people have even changed their minds. this is one of britain's most years skeptic communities here it's just to the east of london seventy percent of people voted to leave the e.u. many of them were young people after a week of drama at westminster but did the under thirty's think now was the point i believe in this is going to be a

around the city but so far north read that security for that situation is in the tense also in the punjab province to province in the badly hit that did that stop them province of sindh and the province of the fun job head in islamabad also that situation is tense educational institutions are close you can see traffic on the road but tensions are indeed running high and how what's the general feeling is about the way the government has responded to this given given the current tensions . well the government has got to go to. and they really love god and for the rate of the state the courts are. the prime minister to. take the law into their own weekend see a procession coming here they're shouting slogans but they're small and numbered the military spokesman well if they're defeated. and that the military should not be dragged into day. life force in. the speaker of sri lanka's parliament says he will reconvene parliament earlier than planned as he tries to end the ongoing constitutional crisis president zuma seen his decision to replace the prime minister with former president mahinda ra

imprisonment or even death and harsh punishments also stand for those who support the baby take the punjab governor some on to say if he was assassinated by his bodyguard in twenty eleven for wanting to reform these laws the federal minister for religion. was also killed off the simply calling for her release but from support for the assassinations the rights when pakistan's islamist party or the tail pay began to grow they have called for mass protests if the blasphemy law is touched they even say the country supreme court just as if to himself that they've attending s.e.'s sentence the patron in chief of t.l.p. mohammad off sol qadri has issued the verdict that says the chief justice and all those who ordered the release of deserve death mobs with the basij of losing trust in the overall governance and they feel that if there is a problem then. the system may not be. efficient to dig up the issues and come up with justice in fact. there are cases in matters also via the mob has. killed people but this is not confined to just go on because it is the trust of the system. people coming to t

imprisonment or even death and harsh punishments also stand for those who support the baby take the punjab governor so mom to see if he was assassinated by his bodyguard in twenty eleven for wanting to reform these laws the federal minister for religion but the was also killed off to simply calling for her release but from support for the assassinations the rightwing pakistan's islamist party or the tail pay began to grow they've called for mass protests if the blasphemy law is touched me even say the country supremes court judge just deserve themselves attending a see a sentence the patron in chief of t.l.p. mohamed off saul carbury has issued the verdict that says the chief justice and all those who ordered the release of us year deserved. mob's been the basij of losing trust in the overall governance and they feel that if there is a problem then the d. d. system may not be. efficient to dig up the issues and come up with a kind of justice in fact these are. matters also we are the more. people but this is not confined to just. because it is the trust of the system. leach stool. people c

relatives of more than a family all say he was stabbed by unknown attackers in his home in central punjab province twice held roles as a member of pakistan's parliament and towards some leaders of the taliban. the trumpet ministration has announced since returning all of the u.s. sanctions on iran which were lifted on to the twenty fifteen nuclear deal more on that from roslyn jordan in washington. the u.s. state department and treasury department have announced that effective five g. on monday november fifth all u.s. sanctions targeting iran's energy and financial sectors will be reimposed and more than seven hundred people are going to be added to the u.s. sanctions list this is part of what washington is calling its maximum pressure strategy in order to convince the government that it needs to change its policies its destabilizing policies in the trumpet ministrations words and terms of supporting the assad government in syria in terms of supporting hooty fighters in yemen civil war and in terms of trying to build a nuclear weapons arsenal the trumpet ministration says that the obama a

the community kitchen is called longer are in punjab the. women sit on the left side of the hall and men on the right. up stairs a ceremonial reader called grants he recites passages from the sikh holy book. this couple is to be married later today so the reading is focused on the proper conduct of newlyweds was. the bride's name as her mate she works as a teacher. was the scout is wrapped around the couple's hands to show that they must now take responsibility for each other. you. have a different culture he's not a seat and the seat is a yeah and you know each other for two years and getting married. then as i was telling me in india there will be a great need sixty sixty five lives in the city it's your hearings and all of these other sixteen i went from head to toe and it's considered auspicious that you use all of these in your wedding day so that's why indian rights are actually more made up because of this is considered very lucky and it's also like you anybody who has been house with all this money wants to consider us to go to such

killed in an attack on the prayer hall of a minority religious sect in the northern indian state of punjab at least ten others were injured when two men on a motorbike threw a grenade into a group of near and carry worshippers fighting between the minority community and some members of the why this sikh faith has been going on since the early one nine hundred eighty s. crucial talks to ensure lanka's political deadlock have failed president my three parter city center chad an unsuccessful meeting of political leaders on sunday the term all began when he sacked his prime minister replaced him with former president mahinda rajapaksa parliament has since passed to no confidence motions against rajapaksa but he's refusing to go. and let's take you through some of the headlines here in al-jazeera now u.s. president don trump says he hasn't listened to recordings of the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi is there too graphic the u.s. government is expected to release a report into the killing on tuesday political hay and has more from washington d.c. . even after he's been briefed by his

the governor of punjab, who spoke out on her behalf was killed only seven years ago and a leading memberthe same year, both of them. for speaking out against the way in which this woman has been treated. this is a matter of freedom of conscience and freedom of faith and we support the freedom of individuals to practice their faith or no faith all over the world. so, seeing this woman being victimised because of her christian beliefs in pakistan is extremely worrying and i think we should not only be offering her asylum but we should be making it clear to the pakistan government that we view this with extreme seriousness. what would you like the pakistan government, the pakistan authorities, to do about this case? prime minister khan is very new in office and he has a reputation to make and he can make it in one of two ways. either he can become the spokesman for a hate—filled mob and watch a poor woman and herfamily be lynched or he can help her to escape from the threat of violence that we are seeing and help her into asylum, either into the united kingdom or canada or the united states

the governor of punjab, who spoke out on her behalf, was killed, only seven years ago.the way in which this woman has been treated. this is a matter of freedom of conscience and freedom of faith. and we support the freedom of individuals to practice theirfaith, or no faith, all over the world. so, seeing this woman being victimised, because of her christian beliefs in pakistan, is extremely worrying. and i think we should not only be offering her asylum, but we should be making it very clear to the pakistan government that we view this with extreme seriousness. a 17—year—old college student stabbed to death in south london has been named. malcolm mide—madariola was fatally stabbed outside clapham south tube station on friday afternoon. he was the second student in the space of 24—hours to be stabbed in london — after 15—year—old jay hughes was attacked near a chicken shop in bellingham in south—east london. voters in the french pacific islands of new caledonia have decided to remain part of france. an independence vote was promised three decades ago, after a violent cam

the governor of punjab, who spoke out on her behalf, was killed only seven years ago.bhatti, was killed in the same year. both of them for speaking out against the way in which this woman has been treated. this is a matter of freedom of conscience and freedom of faith. and we support the freedom of individuals to practise theirfaith, or no faith, all over the world. so, seeing this woman being victimised, because of her christian beliefs in pakistan, is extremely worrying. and i think we should not only be offering her asylum, but we should be making it very clear to the pakistan government that we view this with extreme seriousness. it's been four years since the tower of london captured the public‘s imagination by filling their moat with ceramic poppies to mark the centenary of world war one. to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the war, each evening from 5pm tonight, around 10,000 torches will be lit by beefeaters, representatives from the armed forces and volunteers. the sea of fire will light up the moat and walls of the tower until 9pm, at which poi

people have been killed since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight they included the governor of punjab province saul munto cyr was killed by his bodyguard eight years ago off to calling for bibi's release party. stan's only christian minister shahbaz bhatti was shouted a year later after pushing for reform and judges recently sentenced a man to death for murdering student michelle khan who was falsely accused of blasphemy despite the threats to their lives bibi supporters say they believe her case and what it stands for is worth fighting for so here's a guy for al jazeera the man accused of killing eleven people at a pittsburgh synagogue on saturday now faces a total of forty four federal charges in addition to murder and attempted murder robert bowers is also charged with hate crimes and firearms offenses issued to appear at a second hearing in federal court on thursday u.s. national security adviser john bolton says that washington doesn't want its friends and allies to be hurt by it sanctions against iran they'll come into force on monday after president trump pulled out of the twen

the protests that brought this country to world war two and downstairs were happening mostly in the punjab province and then the province of say and the southern port city of karachi it is important to note that there was less violence and hardly any obstacles or shared and the high before was province all the province of baluchistan what the people of pakistan have seen is a minority hijacking the majority of the race also it should be noted that this political party was given permission by the election commission to become a mainstream political party and now they are threatening the government the state and institutions over a controversial law that should have been changed long time ago all the blasphemy laws and bug astonish considered a double edged sword and there needs to be council of elders particularly the religious parties to come out with a consensus that this law should not be misused to mistreat the minorities or to throw accusations that anybody of being disloyal to their religion they did something that the government will have to come to grips read they will after strateg

networks have been suspended in parts of the country and schools across the most populous province, punjaba bibi will be barred from leaving the country. earlier i spoke to dr akbar ahmed from the american university, and former pakistan high commissioner to the uk, and i asked him how much support these protests have in the country. 0ne these protests have in the country. never knows th strength 0ne never knows the nature and strength of a mob, and this is a mob. it only grows, and suddenly it's descending on sharks and government buildings. they are currently pending the three supreme courtjudges who are bold enough to give the physician. they were announcing that those three should be killed under islamic law. they we re be killed under islamic law. they were inciting the soldiers to rebel against their own commander in chief, and the even included the prime minister. in that sense they have already provoked the people of pakistan. a very high emissions that yes there can be an agreement, but if we go back and settle down, i'm not so sure, the government has to tackle this very delicate

the governor of punjab who spoke out on her behalf was killed only seven yea rs on her behalf was killedof the cabinet was killed in the same year. both of them for speaking out against the way in which this woman has been treated. this is a matter of freedom of conscience and freedom of freedom of conscience and freedom of faith, and we support the freedom of faith, and we support the freedom of individuals to practice their faith or no faith all over the world. seeing this woman being victimised because of her christian believes in pakistan is extremely worrying, and i think we should not only be offered her asylum but making it clear to the pakistan government that we view this with extreme seriousness. what would you are the pakistan government to do about this? the prime minister is very new and offers, he has a reputation to make. he can make it in one of two ways, either by becoming the spokesperson for a hate filled mob and watch a poor woman and her family be lynched, filled mob and watch a poor woman and herfamily be lynched, or he can help her to escape from the threat of viol

prominence in early 2016 when the man who had killed a governor, the assassin of the governor of punjabeen defending a jet back in 2011 when she was first put on death row and that man again the landmark modern mentaljudgement by the supreme court was, his death penalty was upheld and he was hanged for assassinating the governor whoever it was and he was an anti—blasphemy, working against path and the harsh blasphemy laws. the producers to the streets at that point since then the government has capitulated to them multiple times in 2016 and 2017 and now it in 2018. in 2018 and became a political party register with election commissioner of pakistan and does it did not win any seats in parliament they garnered more than 2 million votes out of 50 million votes that were recorded in pakistan. so they are not a significant force when it comes to being part of all actual early but they're able to exercise a huge amount of street power that's the mainstream political parties and in particular the incumbent government is always very afraid of. and just briefly a final thought for her who was a

killed in an attack on the prayer hole of a minority religious sect in the northern indian state of punjab at least ten others were injured when two men on a motorbike threw a grenade into a group of near don carty worshipers fighting between the minority community and some members of the wider sikh faiths have been going on since the early one nine hundred eighty s. . now it has never happened before in the history of apec summit until now leaders attending the meeting failed to agree on a final statement after two days of meetings in papua new guinea the asia pacific economic cooperation summit was less about working together and more about individual statements andrew thomas reports from port. international summits usually end with planned communiques not chaotic scenes and the prime minister being bundled out of the conference room who that peter o'neill papua new guinea's prime minister had just been telling reporters about the success of the apec summit he'd been hosting and trying to leave without taking questions on its dramatic failure but leaders are not being able to agree on ev

death in pakistan relatives of some say he was stabbed by unknown attackers in his home in central punjab province twice held roles as a member of pakistan's parliament and had told some leaders of the taliban. here's what's coming up view on this news our sri lanka's ousted prime minister tells al-jazeera democracy in his country is under threat. jamal khashoggi is case just one of many the c.m. making the dangerous journalists face in twenty eight. and a multi-million dollar wrestling event goes ahead in riyadh despite a backlash from fans and residents in the wake of the. united nations is once again spoken out about the conflict in yemen and the humanitarian disaster that's unfolding there as a result within the past hour secretary general antonio guterres said the ceasefire must be reached and that there are glimmers of hope that a political solution is possible the u.n. and our partners are already feeding eight million people in yemen without urgent action up to fourteen million people feel the health of the population would be out of three ski in the coming months to avert imminen

religious schools and in the religion and in the my daughters we want to we want to try the same thing in punjab and other part of the part of the country pakistan is a big country and you see we have. made this very small segment even a small segment by any means is not small when you have you know the contested election and got about two million votes so that means there are a few quite maybe people hundred thousand people they are there we need to have attracted a good deal with them we have defused the protests and now it's a time to go on the religious extremism and rest assured that the government is committed to that we will. rebuild all we can to basically. be the decision for him talking to us our child the minister of information thanks for being with us all right still ahead on al-jazeera when we come back donald trump appears to delay u. turn on a threat to shoot on documented migrants at the border. from crisis to opportunity the huge influx of venezuelan refugees into colombia may have a silver lining. from the clear blue sky of the doha moony. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the

people have been killed in an attack on a prayer hall of a sikh sect in the northern indian state of punjab at least ten others were injured when two men on a motorbike threw a grenade into a group of worshippers belonging to the nothern cutty sent fighting between the minority community and some members of the way to seek faith has been going on since the early one nine hundred ninety s. eighty's rather no group has claimed responsibility for the attack on sunday. in northern california the search for human remains has been stepped up in the aftermath of the devastating wildfires there seventy seven people are confirmed dead and about one thousand missing as kristen salumi discovered the city of chico is struggling to accommodates an influx of evacuees. evacuees from the wildfires take solace in some music and the company of newfound friends but their retreat to a church shelter has brought new challenges an outbreak of norovirus and other gastrointestinal problems well i threw up for three days and. my parents for three days i was sick three day. about thirty people fell sick in this shel

schools across the most populous province, punjab, have been closed.ads have been blocked by protesters. reports from pakistan say the authorities have reached an agreement with protesters who've been demonstrating against the acquittal. under the agreement, aasia bibi will be barred from leaving the country. i'm joined from our washington studio by dr akbar ahmed from the american university, and former pakistan high commissioner to the uk. thank you for speaking to us here at bbc news. first off, this latest development that an agreement has been reached between the protesters. i take it they are part of the tlp and the pakistan government. there are rumours and reports, a lot of this is still murky. the prime minister of pakistan and china right now. a lot of the reports need to be confirmed, but there are reports that some agreement has been reached with the tlp, the religious parties, at the same time there are reports that aasia bibi has been taken abroad, she is somewhere in europe in hiding. there are also reports recently confirmed the need to

government just for example the delhi government says the whole john of the state governments of punjab need to stop their farmers from setting off fires the central government similarly fosters long blame to the delhi government but what needs to be done on every level is to implementing important changes in the kind of fuel standards that have been used to put limitations on very polluting because they are clueless as well let's improve the public infrastructure to have better public transport to have people opt out from using private vehicles to use and public transport and even something like putting restrictions more restrictions on firecrackers can help but clearly there's a lot of pushback not just from the government but from people as well and once again we're breathing i stopped sick and as we were last. night me said well with the very latest on the ground there thank you so much. now the trial of the notorious mexican drug lord joaquin guzman also known as el chapo has opened in new york prosecutors allege that he smuggled tons of drugs to the united states including cocaine

stabbed to death sami al-haj an ally of prime minister a man khan was attacked in his home in central punjab province on how close a member of parliament and had told some leaders of the taliban. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including the toughest sanctions yet that's what the u.s. government says it's imposing on iran's energy and financial sectors. you think you've got with you we have the numbers here. refusing to bow out sri lanka's sacked prime minister tells al-jazeera democracy is under threat. and in sports simone bienne her way into the record books at the world gymnastics championships in carter and she's not finished yet. u.s. president donald trump has backtracked from suggestions the military sent to the border with mexico would shoot migrants if they threw rocks at officers he made the comments on thursday referring to central american migrants trying to reach the united states on foot but now he's backed off that threat. what they did to the mexican military is that straight. with rocks were very seriously injured and they were throwing rocks in their face they do

the traffic the live eight party reached an agreement with the punjab government and the federal governmentn which they the government agreed that they would not resist any effort to hold a review of the decision reached by the supreme court and the second thing is that the government they've agreed but they would in fact start the process through. this late being placed on the exit control list which in turn would prevent her from leaving the country but as yet we've had no updates on that whether it's on the government on the acting on those two points still remains to be seen and at the moment the family is still very much hopeful that the original decision announced last wednesday namely the acquittal will in fact her head and in fact that the. the the statement issuing the the request for her release i will go ahead sir give we're in a situation where we just don't quite know what's going to happen john given that given what you're saying do you know anything more about the security that might be being provided for her and also about her how her family is doing what does the future hol

corrupt low-level employees at an indian bang, punjab national were able to fraudulently certify swift messages stealing $1.8 billion. it is the largest electronic bank robbery in history. in fact, it is the largest bank robbery in history. in october, 2016, an estimated 1.2 million internet-connected devices were hacked, and turned into a bot net that for several hours made prominent web sites unavailable across europe and north america. including cnn, and fox news. "the new york times," and "the wall street journal." increasingly, physical machines, are being connected to the internet, to augment their capabilities. they're wired through servers that are owned and maintained by private and trusted intermediaries. the so-called internet of things. pacemakers from saint jude's hospital have been hacked. baby monitors from trend net have been hacked. and jeeps from jeep have been hacked to the point where they can be remotely commandeered and driven off the road. those vulnerables are inescapable in systems that have single points of failure. it doesn't matter if the point of failure is

the protests that brought this country to over two hundred downstairs were happening mostly in the punjab province and then the province of se and the southern port city of karachi it is important to note that there was less violence and hardly any obstacles or terror day and the high before while province all the province of baluchistan what the people of pakistan have seen as a minority hijacking their majority the rate also it should be noted that this political party was given permission by the election commission to become a mainstream political party and now they're threatening the government the state and institutions over a controversial law that should have been changed long time ago all the blasphemy laws and bug astonish considered a double edged sword and there needs to be council of elders particularly the religious parties to come out with a consensus that this larger not be misused to mistreat the minority or to throw accusations that anybody of being disloyal to their religion they did something that the government will have to come to grips read they will after strategize