people in assam state have until the end of september to appeal their exclusion from the n.r.c. list those whose appeals fail then risk losing the rights to citizenship brings and could be made stateless to the south of bangladesh the consequence of labeling hundreds of thousands of people foreigners as let's what the united nations top human rights official it's called a textbook case of ethnic cleansing no one has yet suggesting a repetition to bangladesh's north but what is happening in assam has similarities and that here makes people scared. our. i know jews might. and managers are much too old my mind finds his bronze keyed up to his religion doesn't he need to call you for the just when you should see. i am. i've only done. mine nigeria on al-jazeera. being located outside that western centric sphero of influence we're able to bring a different perspective to global events when you peel away all of the lists a ko a minute tree in the financial dog and you see the people in those words and those policies are affecting see the emotion on the face of the situation that livin

and buddhists too and india has one hundred seventy million muslims almost as many as pakistan in assam they make up more than a third of the population they feel the list is targeted at them yet the. money. would be better he had gotten them there so you know it better now my hand i have got here. the national register of citizens lists those who can prove they are. all their parents were in india before march one nine hundred seventy one that was when bangladesh became independent from pakistan a new country was impoverished hundreds of thousands fled many across the border into india's assam india's government says those that came then or since should go back to bangladesh but bangladesh doesn't view those missing from the n.l.c. list ours bangladeshi it won't take them and most missing from the list anyway say their indian roots predate nine hundred seventy one and named a man a large time gatherer. then they are. in power at both the state level in assam and nationally is the hindu nationalist but a two year janata party b j p prime minister narendra modi has been accused of stirri

people in assam state have until the end of september to appeal their exclusion from the n.l.c. list those whose appeals fail then risk losing the rights to citizenship brings and could be made stateless to the south of bangladesh the consequence of labeling hundreds of thousands of people foreigners has led to what the united nations top human rights official has called a textbook case of ethnic cleansing no one has yet suggesting a repetition to bangladesh has no effect but what is happening in assam has similarities and that here makes people scared. the occupied west bank city of hebron is on the front line of the arab israeli conflict you don't really care after a while about palestinians you don't like it i didn't like it but you just don't know but one man is standing up to israeli pressure to sell his house for an unimaginable figure the people if you don't believe that. al-jazeera world tells the story of the house that's a symbol of resistance to continuing occupation the hundred million dollar home. where and for you. there's no one way of telling the story keeping is

a robber has made senior campaign against such superstition addressing groups across the state of assam to sort fact from fiction i tell them don't believe in superstitions if you or your family is ill go see doctors and nurses don't go to a witch doctors that's superstition it's a sin don't kill people for superstition that's you're not killing witches you're killing women. in july rubbers efforts finally paid off when india's president approved a new law it out more spreading rumors of sorcery that lead to violence murder or suicide possibly it was a victory but the job's not done. a new one thing but afterwards and beliefs need to change too so these presentations continue people in the to be persuaded that believing in witchcraft only spells trouble andrew thomas al-jazeera more state india. myanmar's government leader aung sang suu kyi has been stripped of another award for failing to act of violence committed by her military m.p.'s in canada decided unanimously to strip her of the citizenship a un report accused me and miles military of committing genocide and war crimes against r

i feel that been goalie muslims and being goalie hindus of assam are being targeted and excluded fromthe list it seems there is an insider conspiracy nobody talks about it but there certainly is one but sharma one of the original petition is for the registry to be updated rejects the idea it is singling out minorities he believes. issue is one of the illegal immigration illegal they entered the country illegally and i don't think that he said anything about human rights human to be an illegal immigrant for the general there may be some human rights but for the legal immigrants you believe my god what human rights that is the thing about human rights. but back on the river island those left off the list feel life as they know it is that risk still have a final chance to appeal but i'm sure how and when it will come up with india's supreme court yet to decide on the process for now there's nothing they can do but wait and see where the shifting sands might take them next. to the u.s. now and los angeles has been hosting the seventieth emmy awards alongside all the actors making the most

from somewhere else it is painful but i feel bad about it more than thirty million people live in assam but around four million were left off the latest drop likes a deacon his family many on members of the bengali muslim minority it's unclear what exactly will happen to those left off the final list but among the possibilities i did tension or deportation since he says he'll do everything in his power to ensure his family is not split up and though he can't read or write he knows these documents are all he has to prove their links to india but life on assam's river islands can be isolating there are no government or social services nearby so city travels to the mainland in search of answers and help to fight for his family here he visits in n.g.o.s assisting people not on the list these activists want to give sidique and others hope but they also believe authorities are intent on targeting the bengali community comparisons have been made with the. dealings of the ravinia crisis in myanmar. a field have been goli muslims and been goalie hindus of asylum are being targeted and excluded f

secretary pompei was traveling to assam about to meet the newly elected prime minister imran come on with and stay here is come all hide out with an update from islamabad. moved by the. need to go down. the new government in an. already. the us alone although the. united states. have already rejected the drum. and. the american. who will be really doing it. in afghanistan as a new general taking over command of nato forces general scott miller was sworn to his new role in a handover ceremony in kabul nato faces criticism over its security strategy in the country's recent attacks but the taliban have spiked security and stability comes as people and politicians get ready for parliamentary elections next month david said me is the former deputy u.s. assistant secretary of defense for afghanistan and pakistan pakistan the armed groups have been directly linked to the recent attacks on afghan soil. in january of this year the u.s. administration cut off a lot of military funding for pakistan and said it would be looking for concrete steps that pakistan would take to decrease the columbin

company appears outraged by nato nations supplying weapons that kill children in yemen assam a cell phone is all that his father has left of the team. their last happy moments some his father is an optimistic best occasion will change anything but some are trying to change things and before we go to the yemeni capital and hear how the founder of yemen hope and relief i would i'll go barry has himself been targeted by weapons remember that britain has been selling sniper rifles to saudi arabia joining me now from santa is. a myth thank you for being on going underground how did you begin the hope and relief charity after the death of your friend i started to boston to retire in two thousand and fifteen when saudi little coalition started its bloody war in yemen so. i started to like children when i post to darfur talked. or boy his name is jamal he was suffering for a month ration inside the government rate i posted his photo and one of the journalists from us she contact me and says that you want to help the child i went to saga i received the money from this woman to the nation i went to

the shock for the assam that activists who've come here from all around germany. what we've just seen dragging someone by the hair giving them an eye injury that's shocking treatment for someone who's come here for a good cause it leaves me feeling sad and lost for words mcclish what was most. curiosity brought medical students sophie to her mother forest a week ago but she's been so affected by what she has seen that she wants to stay as long as it takes to see the forest another student sees it the same way. you talk about this mind as the biggest source of c o two in europe germany always says it's working to protect the environment but it ultimately does nothing instead and ancient forest is being cut down to set our w.e.e.e. this madness will only exacerbate the catastrophe of climate change for good scheme . in june the german government can vent a commission to come up with a timetable by the end of the year for phasing out coal that could unravel several members are threatening to resign if r.w. egos ahead with clearing the forest next month. activists sti

or the government of assam in north eastern india has passed a law making it a crime to accuse someone of being a witch murders of so-called which is our problem across parts of the country andrew thomas has been to done more to meet the woman who's led the campaign for change today she runs a shop but ten years ago and jolly has young's husband supported as a young mother and her child but when he got cancer and died and she rebuffed those who wanted to take his place she was accused of being a cannibalistic which a group of people beat her she nearly died one of those that the men shouted she's been eating humans hold her down beat out for the beat to be mercilessly i keep thinking about that dee it was the worst of my late and. no one has ever been punished for the attack and she had wasn't the first twenty years ago drunk men accused daily rubber of poisoning her husband one swung an axe others stripped her naked and chased her down the street. it's a two thousand and six people said put domi rubber and put a spell on her sick neighbor she says dozens of villages attacked her with

raja's stand is breaking off now and to just clouds not showers heaviest rain recently has been up in assam as well some in magic pradesh in the forecast we are talking about the northeast of india nepal and occasional showers to the west of that there just the breeze in the carriage is much lighter and i'm a harassed yes the a few showers here otherwise it's not a particularly wet picture which is not a big surprise in the middle east a few showers still possible in the mountains of amman could be pretty. in indonesia palm oil is a billion dollar business want to win east investigates the price the country's paying. to feed the world's. on al-jazeera. as india was updating its citizenship records around four million people in the state are at risk of becoming stateless this to be viewed by infantry these are the majority of both. how does it michael both sides of this issue talk to al-jazeera. off the back years of the mind of the top stories on al-jazeera syria's government and russia have resumed their heavy bombardment of rebel positions and leave and how my province ahead of a possible

an andrew thomas in assam state india across rural parts of this country many people still believe in witchcraft now a new level of pain passed to stop the murders and some asides but all too often one of the accusations. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. how all the big weather in europe is happening top and tail north and south of iraq there's clearly a lot of cloud going through here and the circulation in the mediterranean two different effects so first of all this is although fairly windy mainly a wet features when estonia sixty four the. he says rain but in the last twenty four hours we've had a severe go blowing of the black sea in particular answer the gene giving seventy to ninety kilometers per hour winds has caused a certain amount of damage and that's all because of what developing in the mediterranean will come to in just a second now for mainland europe you still got this rather cold bit of it pushing down the rain's going to go eastwards and moscow's fourteen drops to rather lower temps the day after down to nine the same tim

government was accused of discrimination when it failed to include four million names on a list of citizens assam has long face ethnic and linguistic tensions over undocumented immigration from bangladesh and the state government says the exercise is to identify eagle residents andrew thomas says this from longer gown in. now india supreme courts has. held people go about appealing not being on the list the idea is that people across the states will go regional offices to prove their citizenship but that is easy. said than done in some remote villages like this one nine out of ten people are not on the list and next simply don't have the financial means to go about proving less of this and yet in fact this even bigger than that they might not have the paperwork that proves that not all these people have birth certificates and lawyers if they need them are expensive so people here are concerned that even with the formal appeals process now in place at the end of this process they may remain off the list and that may render them stateless surreal and divorced from reality that's how the chairman of

country with a possible to put the into dish up pushing up towards bonk bangladesh and over towards assam state southwest though could see some very heavy rain we do have warnings in force that does include carola where the showers the set to continue into the weekend. the weather sponsored by cats are at peace. all this muslim undertakers working here is to seven days a week that's grown with a community my father purchased a black ambulance man started to do the funerals in london and the family we saw stopped being part of indonesia and became a business partner the stories we don't often hear told by the people who the gift is such a level of. east and undertakers this is europe and al-jazeera. so proud of who ming city a city with a drug problem. in a neighborhood consumed by traffic julio transforms the square into a bunch of killing children through bleak frameless street and it's. out on the street of the goo find the latin america series al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here this hour donald trump used his address at the u.n. general assembly to brag abou

consider ministration to be impure well it's now a crime to accuse somebody of being a witch in india's assam state the indian president approves the lore after several people were killed by mobs or because they were rumored to be practicing witchcraft and are thomas has been to done more to meet the woman whose let the campaign for change today she runs a shop but ten years ago i'm jolly her husband supported the young mother and her child but when he got cancer and died and she rebuffed those who wanted to take his place she was accused of being a cannibalistic which a group of people beat her she moved on to. the men shouted she's been eating humans hold her down beat out toward the beat to be mercilessly i keep thinking about that d. it was the worst of my leg and when the. women's. no one has ever been punished for the attack and wasn't the first. twenty years ago drunk men accused of poisoning her husband one swung an axe others stripped her naked and chased her down the street in two thousand and six people said put domi rubber and put a spell on her sick neighbor she says dozens of vi

the shock for the assam that activists who've come here from all around germany.hat we've just seen dragging someone by the hair giving them an eye injury that's shocking treatment for someone who's come here for a good cause it leaves me feeling sad and lost for words mcclish what was most. curiosity brought medical students to feed to humbucker forest a week ago but she's been so affected by what she has seen that she wants to stay as long as it takes to save the forest another student new york sees it the same way. you talk about this mine as the biggest source of c o two in europe germany always says it's working to protect the environment but it ultimately does nothing instead and ancient forest is being cut down to said r. w. e. this madness will only exacerbate the catastrophe of climate change for good scheme . in june the german government convened a commission to come up with a timetable by the end of the year for phasing out coal that could unravel several members are threatening to resign if r.w. egos ahead with clearing the forest next month. activist

and andrew thomas in assam state india across rural parts of this country many people still believe in witchcraft now a new law will be passed to stop the murders and suicides but all too often one of the accusations. of a rare meeting is underway in new york involving all the nations caught up in the gulf crisis that has seen qatar under blockade the foreign ministers of countries from the gulf cooperation council came together in the same room a little over an hour ago cameras allowed in for the first few moments the gathering is taking place on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly organized by u.s. secretary of state might pompei oh it is the first time a meeting like this has been held since the blockade of cutter the united arab emirates saudi arabia egypt and bahrain diplomatic and economic ties with doha in june of last year is live for us there so how sure how significant is this. has it is quite significant this is the first time that you see carter on one hand and the other countries that were posing the imposing a sea land in bargirl and qatar sitting togethe

on andrew thomas in assam states india across rural parts of this country many people still believe in witchcraft now a new laws being passed to stop the murders and suicides but all too often the accusations. how they were having had some pretty big downpours in the last day or so they're still well scattered largely i think over sumatra and northern borneo is where the satellite would suggest heavy showers have been put in there in the forecast as well so if you're in sumatra possibly kuala lumpur or maybe coaching the chances are you'll be wet but if you're further south and again jakarta stands out most of java and bali it's still warm and largely dr that is even true in the philippines not in the show a lot of clout still humid but not particularly wet at the moment to the south still active weather in australia the temp has been going up and down they're about to go down in sydney this frontal system is edging in and as it does so of course it shifts the wind direction so we're left with thirteen degrees even brighter skies in melbourne and eighteen in sydney which is a descent f

tensions over undocumented immigration from neighboring bangladesh under thomas has more from grown in assam. now india's supreme court has full ised how people can go about appealing not being on the list the idea is that people across the state were going to regional offices to prove their citizenship but that is easier said than done in some remote villages like this one nine out of ten people are not on the list and exemplary don't have the financial means to go about proving this this i'm sure in fact is even bigger than that they might not have the paperwork that proves that not all these people have birth certificates and lawyers if they need them are expensive so people here are concerned that even with the formal appeals process now in place at the end of this process they may remain off the list and that may render them stateless our jury is ancient has survived empires colonize ation and centuries of changing civilization it's been a you know sco world heritage site for more than twenty five years but many residents of the citadel in algiers risk losing their traditional way of li