is following the story from our asia desk and he joins us now shut me up b.b. has already been acquitted what are the chances that the court will now allow the acquittal to be challenged on appeal well i think it is highly likely that bug stone stop will dismiss that beat against all the a b.b.c. quit and. the appeal by hardline islamism was accepted by the court to make sure that all legal requirements awfully fitted and i think prime minister non-fans the government also wanted to buy some time to make some political adjustments so i believe that pakistan's top court the supreme court will dismiss that view bibi's acquittal last october sparked by law and protests what's the mood in anticipation of today's hearing. well the islamist and he can look back body this lama spotty has warned the judges not to give board the goal judicial relief to be. hundreds of islamist supposed took to the streets to protest bibi's acquittal in october last year but at the moment most of the and that is in the gulf and. that is why i do not think they will be able to create many pro

or pakistan's supreme court has rejected a challenge to its acquittal of a christian woman who was charged with blasphemy now the decision means that b.b. will remain a free woman but she has been in hiding ever since october when the court overturned her death sentence and said that she was not guilty now that decision sparked widespread outrage in the country today's ruling clears the way for her to leave pakistan though it is not clear when and where she will go. she's one of the most talked about women in pakistan. pictured here shortly after her conviction in twenty ten the christian mother of five was sentenced to death for leisure remarks about islam general with fellow farm workers that refused to share their glass of water with a non muslim now free she lives in hiding no longer on death row but still in constant fear for her life. and this is why hard line islamists calling for had to be hanged. her acquittal in october last year triggered days of nationwide demonstrations. i sure hope in every corner of the country the sons of islam have voiced opposition to the supreme court verdict by going on to the streets. what kind of

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has the reaction been so far. today when the court or now . if you could be. off your b.b. the large number of people. who are present in the courtroom joining us. now and can go. according to be our no. country one hundred thirty minute. mark. and your. supreme court you have what you. are. ok so it seems that at least officially legally speaking that she now has the right to seek asylum how likely is that to happen i mean what is likely to happen to her now. she would hopefully be abroad in the coming days under the right security she is still under contract and she is in the protective custody of the security forces but we have no time for a wrench even country. and we have more on this story including an interview with pakistani lawyer and human rights activist tina jilani in about twenty minutes. now let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world the u.s. has imposed sanctions on venezuela's state oil firm curbing the country's crude exports it is the trumpet ministrations latest move in its effort to oust president nicolas maduro the embattled leader called the sancti

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b.b. and the expansion of the desert health care district to cover all medically underserved communities in the valley. it's significant because the district has an annual multimillion dollar budget that funds health care and public health programs that improve the public's health. that means more providers caring for more patients and providing much needed services like pediatric specialty care, mental health, veterans' health. senior services and provider pipeline programs. it's proof that good things happen when good people come together to do good work. i'd like to thank california a assemblyman eduardo garcia for answering the call and stepping up to be a champion for the expansion of the district. he got the bill to put expansion on the ballot passed into law and together we helped build local support by putting out fires and persuading others of the big idea. i also want to thank riverside county supervisor emanuel perez. when the expansion of the health care district was under threat, supervisor perez and i worked closely to convince other county supervisors how much our communities would gain in both improved health outcomes and incre

b.b. so take your devoted now. so far that an order ports of any violence why did indeed the. decision by the. court and headed by the new chief justice. hotel. well what reaction has there been some some of the full supposed that have been pushing so legal action against. well the government played of a care for the game what they did was to do it right which include following the supreme court were dig their own that thirty foot and great d.h. the government brain danger negotiation read the protesters because things were spinning out of control that bored the government time off to wait. thirty keithy nearly dead of the day to get love back by get it on ridge road to the head of all those pro days they were today did and that's why a lot of the steam had been taken out from the pro days however there are still warnings because the religious party wanted out for the bed of the supreme court they also wanted religion. and judges from the court to be sitting on the bench something that supreme court did not enter day and so it did great to be important to see what kind of reaction unfold on the street i think there'd be forded out on red alert and the government is

mississippi has been issuing a new standard license plate that includes the phrase, in god we trust. the new design is replacing one that featured a guitar of blues legend b.b trust, a specialty plate with an additional fee, includes pennsylvania, virginia and wisconsin. well, an astronaut accidentally called 911 from space causing panic at nasa's space center in houston. the dutch astronaut was trying to make a phone call aboard the international space station which has to be passed through houston by dialing the number 9 to get an outside line. he accidentally pushed 911 instead of o11 for the country code. alarms began going off throughout the space center. after all of this, he said he felt let down that nobody came to space to rescue him. anyway. coming up, the nfl is going virtual. the league is teaming up with amazon's alexa to get fans ready for the playoffs. that story, coming up next. ♪ we were just too busy and fabulous, too busy to think about us. ♪ i don't know what you were dreaming of. a business owner always goes beyond what people expect. that's why we built the nation's largest gig-speed network along with complete reliability. then went b

pakistan's supreme court has upheld as furtak in the case of a christian woman charged with blasphemy b.b. has been in hiding since october when the court overturned her death row conviction and declared her not guilty that decision sparked outrage among religious hardliners who have threatened her life. the u.s. justice department has charged chinese telecoms giant huawei with violating sanctions against iran and with industrial espionage the charges alleged to the arrest of while weiss chief financial officer one gel in canada washington is seeking her extradition from there. in brazil have issued warrants for the arrest of five people in connection with last week's done collapse including two engineers employed by a german safety inspection company to have sued the death toll has risen to sixty five with hundreds more still missing. the united kingdom is supposed to leave the european union exactly two months from today for exit so why in the world after two years of negotiations our british lawmakers still debating what breaks it should be tonight who will have the final say over the world

pakistan's supreme court has upheld its verdict in the case of a christian woman charged with blasphemy b.b. has been in hiding since october when the court overturned her death row conviction and declared her not guilty that decision's part outrage among religious hardliners who have threatened her life. in the united states tens of millions have been shivering and made one of the worst cold snaps in decades temperatures have plummeted to minus thirty degrees celsius in several northern states officials are warning people to stay indoors citing a heightened risk of frostbite at least four deaths have been blamed on the cold weather so far. as the u.s. and china sit down to new trade talks. criminal charges against chinese telecoms giant while ways the company is accused of violating sanctions against iran and industrial espionage. u.s. sanctions on venezuela's oil prices drives up prices all the blocks all over the world china and russia. also. helping to fuel prices in democracy. and why so little progress is made in fighting it. i'm joined on in berlin welcome to your business update for us j