modi is a hindu nationalist and tensions have been growing between the country's hindu majority and itsughter of cows for meat. muslims eat beef. but the cow is a sacred animal in hinduism, regarded as a mother figure. translation: if i find someone killing my mother cow, i won't hesitate to kill him. i don't need the police or the authorities. i will give him punishment. i'm the court. i give the verdict. vijaykant is so passionate about protecting the cow he and his supporters take to the streets. they've been told they've got no permission to stop vehicles, but they're stopping them anyway. stopping these lorries to see if they're carrying any cows. translation: i have information that they are smuggling cows in a truck like this. cow vigilantes have been increasingly active across the country since modi took power and there have been murders. this muslim man was accused of illegally transporting cows for slaughter by a different group of vigilantes. they beat him to death. avoiding communal conflict is crucialfor india. this new bridge isjust one of scores of major new infrastructur

modi is a hindu nationalist and tensions have been growing between the country's hindu majority and itsaughter of cows for meat. muslims eat beef. but the cow is a sacred animal in hinduism, regarded as a mother figure. translation: if i find someone killing my mother cow, i won't hesitate to kill him. i don't need the police or the authorities. i will give him punishment. i'm the court. i give the verdict. vijaykant is so passionate about protecting the cow he and his supporters take to the streets. they've been told they've got no permission to stop vehicles, but they're stopping them anyway. stopping these lorries to see if they're carrying any cows. translation: i have information that they are smuggling cows in a truck like this. cow vigilantes have been increasingly active across the country since modi took power and there have been murders. this muslim man was accused of illegally transporting cows for slaughter by a different group of vigilantes. they beat him to death. avoiding communal conflict is crucialfor india. this new bridge isjust one of scores of major new infrastructu

then in east bengal 300 hindu villagers were ransacked and many people killed. and did your parents tried to protect you from what was going on, what did you understand of all of that and that anger at what was happening for such a young boy? what happened to me ijust realised that my father had a business in what is now west bengal. and there is one of the servants was entertaining some friends of my father. and they were talking, they were unfortunately hindu but they were our friends. and they were talking about kidnapping my mother because she was a beautiful woman. so the servant rushed to my mother and said, let‘s go to your brother ‘s house in calcutta because there is a problem. soi calcutta because there is a problem. so i remember with my mother hursley

hindus were in the majority, muslims made up about a quarter of the population.could be agreed to keep them in a single, undivided nation. so independence also meant partition. creating not one but two self—governing countries. at the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, india will awake to life and freedom. the new borders were drawn up in just five weeks. 0n the 14th of august 1947, british india was heading to its end. over the course of two days, partition was also launched. a new largely muslim state of pakistan was born while the new india was celebrating its independence. but millions of people, muslims, hindus and sikhs, found themselves on what they regarded as the wrong side of the new borders. 12 million or more refugees fled from one newly created country to the other. fleeing from their looted, bloodstained towns comes a new exodus. a million displaced persons. independence has not yet brought them peace. rejoicing turned quickly into horror and mourning. the new governments were ill—equipped to deal with such a panicked mass migration

subcontinent would not be oppressed by a hindu majority.mount of violence that maybe no one anticipated. but it was something that many indian muslim leaders had campaigned for. nowadays it is quite common to hear in pakistan the point of view that india is trying to sabotage pakistan isa india is trying to sabotage pakistan is a kind of punishment for breaking away. the legacy of bitterness that was created by partition is something that still continues to have modern repercussions. and india celebrates independence day tomorrow, how big occasion will that be? injust a tomorrow, how big occasion will that be? in just a few hours from now you can already see the building behind me being lit up, that is the parliament building where the first minister made historic speech that we had in the fort from james robbins. there's a sense of excitement and anticipation but also subdued celebration at the same time. it is not seen such a big occasion apart from the fact that it isa occasion apart from the fact that it is a public holiday. india today

into two independent states muslim majority pakistan and hindu majority india. the british plan took effect at the start at midnight on the eve of august fourteenth nineteen forty seven. and it triggered one of the greatest migrations of modern history and devastating violence alison sergeant takes into. i. thought that it. when in doubt take their place. a little breezy and then august fifteenth nineteen forty seven. india is formally declared independence from the british empire. crowds gathered to hear the announcement in the capital new delhi and greet their first prime minister jawaharlal nehru. a man chosen by his mentor mahatma gandhi. hello. while across the new border in karachi mohammed ali jinnah was sworn in as the governor general of another new state and muhammad ali jinnah. laws hommage to the bus stop pakistan. the partition of hindu majority india and muslim majority pakistan sparked a mass migration. as over ten million muslims hindus and sikhs rush to get on the right side of the dividing line. among them was a twelve year old boy named so hin

many muslims fled east and west out of hindu—dominated india.ions of hindus and sikhs headed the other way. but today, it's the birth of their nation, that pakistanis are celebrating. reeta chakrabarti is in lahore. george, lahore feels like one giant st party and you can probably hear it, there are flags and horns and fireworks. pakistanis are celebrating two things, the end of british colonial rule and also the splitting from india. pakistan was created as a homeland for the sub continent ‘s muslim people but there has been a debate going on about exactly what sort of country it should be. i have been looking at the hopes of the country's founding father and looking at how differently his vision has been interpreted by people today. in pakistan's former capital karachi, mohammadjinnah‘s home is preserved with care and reverence. jinnah led the creation of pakistan, but today his legacy is hotly contested. just what sort of nation did he envisage? mohammad ali jinnah, pakistan's first governor general. as the british left colonial india, jinnah

for the people of kutch, india and pakistan or hindu/muslim it's not that important.se, but they're living in harmony and the relationship between these two different groups is brotherly. when two countries were created from one, indelible scars were left on the psyche of the subcontinent. archive: independence has not yet brought them peace. rejoicing turned quickly into horror and mourning. in traumatic scenes, more than a million people died in religious rioting, and many millions more were displaced. this all used to be one, but now it's divided in two. and now the border itself has become a tourist attraction. that way is pakistan? that way is pakistan, about 70 kilometres up north. that is where the india—pakistan border is, which lies along the middle of kutch, which is a geographical valley. at nearly 500 metres above sea level, the highest point, kalo dungar hill, allows us a dramatic view of this geological phenomenon, the rann, or desert of kutch, which continues into pakistan. i wanted to get up closer to this natural wonder. it's quite incredible, the san

for the people of kutch, india and pakistan or hindu/muslim it's not that important.t they're living in harmony and the relationship between these two different groups is brotherly. when two countries were created from one, indelible scars were left on the psyche of the subcontinent. archive: independence has not yet brought them peace. rejoicing turned quickly into horror and mourning. in traumatic scenes, more than a million people died in religious rioting, and many millions more were displaced. this all used to be one, but now it's divided in two. and now the border itself has become a tourist attraction. that way is pakistan? that way is pakistan, about 70 kilometres up north. that is where the india—pakistan border is, which lies along the middle of kutch, which is a geographical valley. at nearly 500 metres above sea level, the highest point, kalo dungar hill, allows us a dramatic view of this geological phenomenon, the rann, or desert of kutch, which continues into pakistan. i wanted to get up closer to this natural wonder. it's quite incredible, the sand. i m

even though the town is more than 80% hindu, and hundreds of kilometres from the border.s. the news started coming that the army is coming. huge tanks and trucks and jeeps and artillery and guns and everything is there. junagadh state was besieged by the other three sides also. an economic blockade was ordered, cutting off supplies of food and resources into the region. eventually, junagadh acceded to india and the nawab fled to pakistan. yet, to this day, 70 years on, his great grandson still lays claim tojunagadh and the episode lingers as a reminder of the last days of the raj in india. and 65 kilometres down the road, in the gir sanctuary, the nawab‘s legacy as an animal lover extraordinaire continues, with the most regal of creatures. now, lions may have iconic status here. they're a royal symbol, they're in hindu mythology but, at the beginning of the last century, they were threatened with extinction. i'm going somewhere now which is the only natural abode of the asiatic lion. the nawab preserved vast tracks of this forest to provide lions with a stable habitat, an

modi is a hindu nationalist and tensions have been growing between the country‘s hindu majority and its sacred animal in hinduism regarded as a motherfigure. translation: if i find someone killing my mother cow, i won‘t hesitate to kill him. i don‘t need the police or the authorities. i will give him punishment. i‘m the court. i give the verdict. he‘s so passionate about protecting the cow he and his supporters take to the streets. they‘ve been told they‘ve got no permission to stop vehicles, but they‘re stopping them any way. stopping these lorries to see if they‘re carrying any cows. translation: i have information that they are smuggling cows in a truck like this. cow vigilantes have been increasingly active across the country since modi took power and there have been murders. avoiding communal conflict is crucialfor india. this new bridge isjust one of scores of major new infrastructure projects. the country‘s doing well — the fastest growing large economy in the world. there is a lot for india to celebrate today but the prime minister knows keeping this country growing depends on k

raj was a hindu. yasmine a muslim. we used to meet at the terrace.r like, putting my hands like this against the moon, "one day i'll give you this moon." that parting of each other was most, i would say, unbearable. she was crying, i was crying, and we hold the hand again with each other. and slowly, slowly, slowly, we left each other. i could see that she is looking at me, til that end. one day we were quite happy, and in the evening, we were made to just leave the house and walk. harchet bains was 11 years old and living in a seikh village in punjab. there had been riots nearby. his family no longer felt safe in muslim—majority pakistani, and travelled by foot in a line to india. it became bigger and bigger as we walked along, because other villages alsojoined us. and in the end, it was miles long. i remember the army men telling us, be close together. it's very dangerous. it is firing going on. people are killing other people, so be very, very vigilant. fleeing from their looted, bloodstained towns comes a new exodus, a million displaced persons..

many muslims fled east and west out of hindu dominated india. but today, it's the birth of their nation, that pakistanis are celebrating. reeta chakrabarti has been following events in lahore. pakistanis are celebrating the end of british colonial rule and the splitting off from india. there has been a debate going on about what sort of country it should be. i have been looking at the founding father's hopes and how that vision is being interpreted today. in pakistan's former capital, karachi, mohammed jinnah‘s home is preserved with care and reverence. jinnah led the creation of pakistan, but today his legacy is hotly contested. just what sort of nation did he envisage? mohammed ali jinnah, pakistan's first governor general. as the british left colonial india, jinnah was desperate to secure the rights of the muslim population. the answer was a separate state, pakistan. 0ur object should be peace within and peace without. but peace seems often to have eluded this nation, both within and without. poverty and security remain major issues, and the

many muslims fled east and west out of hindu dominated india. but today, it's the birth of their nation that pakistanis are celebrating. reeta chakrabarti has been following events in lahore. lahore feels like one giant st party the moment. you can probably see that. flag s, the moment. you can probably see that. flags, horns and of course fireworks. they are celebrating two things. the end of colonial rule understood enough of india. pakistan was created as a homeland for the subcontinent‘s muslim people but there has been a debate going on about what sort of country should be. i have been looking at the hopes of the country's founding father, mohammadjinnah, and of the country's founding father, mohammad jinnah, and looking of the country's founding father, mohammadjinnah, and looking at how differently his vision is being interpreted but people today. in pakistan's former capital karachi, mohammadjinnah‘s home is preserved with care and reverence. jinnah led the creation of pakistan, but today his legacy is hotly contested. just what sort of

girl was 10 when she saw her grandfather and uncle's killed by hindu mobs.ht or nine of my family members were killed. many families were ruined. there was no place to live. muslim -- a fellow muslim shares similar memories of violence. relations between india and pakistan should be good. there shouldn't be violence. all fighting should come to an end. pakistan and india should live together peacefully. pakistan have fought three wars since independence. primarily over the sovereignty of kashmir, a disputed region in the himalayas. the nations of celebrate their joint 70th birthday. >> in other news, jamaican sprinter usain bolt has retired. this came from last night in london. 19 athletes from russia took part that they did not compete officially. for their home country since it is still suspended because of a doping scandal. as he retired, usain bolt took a swipe at doping athletes. he said if you go out of your way to cheat you should be banned for life. >> i've always been open. i have said it. i feel like they should get a if you go out of your way to c

many muslims fled east and west out of hindu—dominated india. sikhs headed the other way. but today it was the birth of their nation, that pakistanis were celebrating. reeta chakra barti reports from lahore. in pakistan's former capital karachi, mohammad jinnah's home is preserved with ca re and reverence. jinnah led the creation of pakistan, but today his legacy is hotly contested. just what sort of nation did he envisage? mohammad ali jinnah, pakistan's first governor general. as the british left colonial india, jinnah was desperate to secure the rights of the muslim population. the answer was a separate state, pakistan. our objective should be peace within and peace without. but peace seems often to have eluded this nation, both within and without. poverty and security remain major issues and the debate over the role of islam rages on. a powerful message of inclusion... for this leading politician, jinnah's vision was for a secular pakistan, one that hasn't been fulfilled. i think mrjinnah would still be looking at moving us forward if he wer

many of ourfriends are hindu and we do not have any problem., young children should not have to see that but millions of them did as we know. does that reverberate down to the next generation? my mother was 17 at partition, almost an adult and so she had vivid memories but also i guess an understanding of what was unfolding. the story she told me when i was growing up, just of how quickly the violence happened. they thought they were going to go back after a few days, they did not believe it would be permanent and four had the journey was punctuated by this great fear of sexual violence. she fortunately escaped that but worked in a refugee camp and she saw that women had been raped and mutilated. and so those images lived with her forever but she also suffered sexual harassment from men in her community. so they we re from men in her community. so they were a group of women playing together? yes, so her memory was not of muslims against hindus and sikhs, but of men against women and this acute sense of the particular vulnerability and injustice

many hindus came to india. it was not just the country that was divided, families were divided too.lems began. because when india and pakistan went to war in 1965, the government laid claim to our properties. there was an act of parliament called the enemy property act, which empowered the government to take over, temporarily, the properties of pakistanis. it was notjust our family which was affected, thousands of families were affected. the properties are worth billions of dollars. but, our issue is, that only my father took pakistani nationality. i have always been an indian. my mother was always an indian. we had to fight our case from the lowest to the highest court and in every court, we've won. and the supreme courtjudge said, that by no stretch of the imagination, could i be considered an enemy and considered me the heir to my father's properties. but then the government went and change the laws and the battle has begun again. i suppose, like so many people in india and pakistan, we are still caught up in the repercussions of partition and the acrimonious relations between in

india was home to 400 million people with hindus were the majority. and order. it is with nojoy in my heart that i commend these proposals to you. though i have no doubt in my mind that this is the right course. so, independence also meant partition, creating not that one but two self creating countries. the new borders were brought together in five weeks. 0n the 14th of august 1947 british india was heading to attend. over the course of two days partition was also launched. the new largely muslim state of pakistan was also born while the new india were celebrating its independence. millions of people, muslims and hindus and sikhs, find themselves in what they regarded as a lot wrong sides of the new borders. 12 million or more refugees fled from one newly created country to another. fleeing from the bloodstained towns comes a new exodus, 1 million displaced persons. rejoicing turned quickly to horror and mourning. the new governments were ill—equipped to deal with such a panicked mass migration. one of the largest in history. there was a wave of mass

brenda modi is a hindu nationalist and tensions have been growing between the country's hindu majorityer of cows for meat. muslims eat beef but the cow is a sacred animal in hinduism, regarded as a motherfigure. translation: animal in hinduism, regarded as a mother figure. translatiosz animal in hinduism, regarded as a mother figure. translation: if i find somebody killing my mother kauai will not hesitate to kill him. i don't need the police or the authorities. i am the court, i give the verdict. vijay is so passionate about protecting the cow, he and his supporters take to the streets. they have been told they have no permission to stop vehicles but they are stopping them anywhere. stopping these lorries to see if they are carrying any cows. translation: these lorries to see if they are carrying any cows. translationzlj have information that they are smuggling cows in a truck like this. co—vigilantes have smuggling cows in a truck like this. co—vigila ntes have been smuggling cows in a truck like this. co—vigilantes have been increasingly active across the country since modi took pow

hindus, sikhs and muslims who had lived in relative peace tore each other apart., just a teenager at the time. he helped attack a hindu politician who had been calling for calm after a muslim man was killed. translation: someone struck him on the head with a brick. then a cry went up. "whoever doesn't hit him isn't a real man." me and the rest of the crowd beat him to death. do you ever regret your role in the killing? our people were being murdered. how could we tolerate that? we wanted to kill even more. i am still proud of what i did. up to1 million people were killed in 1947, many of the most brutal attacks were on the trains carrying refugees into and out of pakistan, across the divided province of punjab. naseem begam is the eldest of five generations of her family living together in the city of gujranwala. the train she and her five—day—old baby were travelling on to pakistan was targeted by sikhs. translation: we hid under the luggage. they came on board slashing everyone, cutting theirfaces, their legs, gouging their eyes. there were piles and piles of bo

check how many they -- urdered by the hindu extremists. ow many ladies, they are raped extremists? they are not just a single in america, where hindu ies of the extremists, they are explained or highlighted. you is that anybody from india who belongs anybody from india who belongs to muslim family, kindly give them a explain. thank you very much, sir. host: that is hussein from new york. yesterday onook in c-span and you can see online, reflects the cost of health care companies who provide it. carolyn johnson wrote about an saying that the large companies, according to the headlines say health care rise to $14,000 per worker. the stories 5% average hike is comparison with double-digit premium increases affordable s in the care act marketplace have been requesting, citing financial and enges by marketplace threats to discontinue federal subsidies, the fifth year in a employers say their cost multiplies age increase and general enflation, see ot volatility you are nothing public exchanges. this is a nonprofit organization companies,rs inclu

the buddha of bamiyan statues in afghanistan's hindu region stood 165 feet tall. but the taliban didn't want these reminders of hindu history. so they blew them up. it happened before 9/11. the world was outraged. these statues had stood for nearly two-thousand years. it was simply wrong to destroy reminders of afghanistan's history. so what does this say about some american cities? it's become fashionable to remove civil war statues that are reminders of our nation's past. for example, statues were torn-down in new orleans; st. louis; orlando; and frederick, maryland. face similar threats in annapolis, maryland and charlottesville, virginia. removal of historical statues is shortsighted. clearly, there have been ugly chapters in american history. but ripping down statues and similar imagery doesn't alter that history. instead, they should serve as important reminders of our past. to help guide our behavior going forward. the soviets thought they could alter history by airbrushing photos. but it was a fraudulent attempt to pretend people and events never existed.

from now on people started realising that hindu muslim is cannot live together in india.i. every age, great men are born. gundy was one of this. -- ghandi. ghandi did not want petition. this great calcutta killing is a black spot in the cultural history. we have a special series of features on partition all this week on bbc world news. and there's much more on our website too. along with lots of personal stories you will also find an interactive timeline, explaining more about why partition happened 70 years ago. the actor daniel craig has confirmed he will be coming back as the british secret agent james bond. the 49 year old says, it will be his final outing as the 007 spy. but it's not the first time he's said that. chi chi izundu reports. months of speculation, will daniel craig comeback for a fifth time? will you return is james bond? yes. he is the seventh actor to take on bonn and the most successful commercial if stop it broke the billion—dollar mark with sky fall. despite the cars and martinis, and of course, the women, after the release of spectre daniel said he

a slim aslim girl a slim girl met a hindu boy during a family holiday in kashmir.ing. desperate, the boy ran to the refugee camp for hindus. officials sent her to india with refugees. within four days of arriving in india, the girlfound within four days of arriving in india, the girl found the boy's address and sent him a message. he rushed to the camp to meet her. before officials could act, the pa rents before officials could act, the parents quickly got the couple married at the golden temple. but the girl's family wanted their daughter back and sought help from the pakistani government, saying she had been abducted. by then, india and pakistan had agreed to return thousands of women who had been abducted from either side of the border in the days following partition. the social worker was in charge of the operation. ismat was told she would have to go active pakistan. jidu was devastated and asked the social worker to help them but if ismat was allowed to stay, things would have beenjeopardised. so she stayed in pakistan forjust a week. but she would stay at th

the hindus started realising that we are going to be in trouble.s muslims who took the leading part but on the second, third day...from the second, thrid day it started to be hindu part. mainly the hooligans, they started creating chaos. and they started killing. while walking down this street, i saw within the dust pits, mutilated part of leg, hand, and skulls. i started shivering. from now on people started realising that hindu muslims cannot live together in india. there must be pakistan. in every age, great men are born. gandhi was one of these. gandhi never wanted partition — never. but at last, he said when you do not want to be together, to this extent you become communalized, then devided. this great calcutta killing is a black spot in the cultural history. we have a special series of features on partition all this week on bbc world news. and there's much more on our website too. simply go to... along with lots of personal stories you will also find an interactive timeline, explaining more about why partition happened 70 years ago. he's bac

between hindu, sikh and muslim neighbours. sikh and muslim neighbours. one evening, i was home alone with my children when i heard an angry mob outside. i feared for my life. i work my children and we fled in the middle of the night —— woke. i left everything behind and i buried my wedding jewellery in the dirt, hoping one day i would return to find it. we walked alone through the dark knight, which was lit up only by the fires of people's homes being set in the distance —— night. —— satellite. when we finally reached the train station it was packed with people. lots of families became separated. we squashed into an overloaded train heading towards the new border. the heat was suffocating. during thejourney new border. the heat was suffocating. during the journey the train stops suddenly for a long time. everyone became scared. we we re time. everyone became scared. we were afraid we would get attacked by mobs. thankfully, there were soldiers on our train, so we were able to continue ourjourney. but then the attackers managed

hindus were in the majority, muslims made up about a quarter of the population.on. so independence also meant partition. creating not one but two self—governing countries. at the stroke of the midnight hour when the world sleeps, india will awake to life and freedom. the new borders were drawn up in just five weeks. 0n the 14th of august 1947, british india was heading to its end. over the course of two days, partition was also launched. a new largely muslim state of pakistan was born while the new india was celebrating its independence. but millions of people, muslims, hindus and sikhs, found themselves on what they regarded as the wrong side of the new borders. 12 million or more refugees fled from one newly created country to the other. fleeing from their looted, bloodstained towns comes a new exodus. a million displaced persons. independence has not yet brought peace. rejoicing turned quickly into horror and mourning. the new governments were ill—equipped to deal with such a panicked mass migration, one of the largest in history. there was a wave of massacres

between hindus and muslims, there we re between hindus and muslims, there were simple things like, hindusgeneration, do you feel people have managed to come through it's i feel like the people i am surrounded with personally, they do not see these differences. the fact that i have got a bengali best friend, considering what happened between bengalis and pakistanis, that says a lot. i think most of our younger generation does not see that device, we are more open and willing to know one another. thank you very much, all of you. it has been a very positive message coming from the people who have discussed this issue here in birmingham today, but of course, the difficulties between india and pakistan continue. the feeling certainly industry and today has been that the two countries need to come together. —— the feeling in this room. they stay the same language, eat the same food, and even though they are now two countries, three if you include bangladesh, they have a lot in common, that is what should be celebrated. a pensioner who was stabbed while trying to save the life of the labour mp,

a quote or two to destroy the enemies of our religion does throw to choose the christians and the hindus and the russians and the shia they are asked to destroy them all and get these back to his glory and of the quote we also found out that he is telling several times to syria to preach in a private islam is t.v. station and he's telling also to saudi arabia we are he is a tour guide for believers in mecca. how did you get hold of the audio with this tape preacher. to all your fellows we've got at the end of a very very long investigation my colleagues had to talk with several sources to get the confidence and at the end these older fellows but just the proof of their long investigation the proof about what on the dance hate speech in this mosque. how can it authenticity be verified. we checked the documents on several levels by more than two experts the cheated on the level of the language of course we checked it on the linguistic level and we checked it also on the level of the count didn't before publishing we had to be very very sure it's authentic it's the words so far what i want

trump has said, we look forward to a day when "people of all faiths, christians, muslims, jewish and hindus can follow their hearts and worship according to their conscience." the state department will continue a severance to make that a reality. recently nominated ambassador at large for international religious freedom, governor brownback will be the highest ranking official to take up this important post. we look forward to his swift confirmation. the i think my many colleagues at the department and overseas who contributed to this report, specifically the office of international freedom, including senior on global justice issues, special advisor for religious minorities in the previous ambassador at large, david sapp or stein. --david silverstein silverstein. we look forward to working with congress and the administration to continue america's indispensable role as a champion of religious freedom the world over. thank you very much. i have no response to his decisions in all it this time. we continue to be interested in finding a way to get to dialogue, but that is up to him. >> [indisce

trump has said, we look forward to a day when "people of all faiths, christians, muslims, jewish and hindus can follow their hearts and worship according to their conscience." department will continue a severance to make that a reality. recently nominated ambassador at large for international religious freedom, governor brownback will be the highest ranking official to take up this important post. we look forward to his swift confirmation. colleagues aty the department and overseas who contributed to this report, specifically the office of international freedom, including senior on global justice issues, special advisor for religious previouss in the ambassador at large, david sapp or stein. we look forward to working with congress and the administration to continue america's indispensable role as a champion of religious freedom the world over. thank you very much. i have no response to his decisions in all it this time. be interested in finding a way to get to dialogue, but that is up to him. >> [indiscernible] >> tomorrow, two veteran journalists from voice of america talk about the recen

his communal thinking, his association with hindu extremists, his background, where there was this massacresomehow we expected that when narendra modi would became —— become the prime minister he would rise above this, but i have to say we are all so disappointed because narendra modi has notjust disappointed pakistanis, he's disappointed muslims in india, he's disppointed all the liberal section in india which — which enjoyed the fact that india had this multicultural society. he's taken india to a society where a lot of people, when i was growing up, used to say, they were worried that in india they would not be treated properly, they would not be treated as equal citizens. narendra modi has taken india right there. where my parents‘ generation used to fear that the reason there needs to be a partition is because muslims would not be treated fairly in india and that is what narendra modi has proved. and we'll have a special week of coverage to mark 70 years of partition and the independence of india and pakistan here on bbc news. you can get more information on the dedicated partition pag

has said, we look forward to a day when "evil of all faiths, christians and muslims and jewish and hindu, can follow their hearts and worship according to their conscience." this state department will continue its efforts to make that a reality. nominated ambassador for religious freedom sam brownback will be the highest-ranking official to take up this post. we look forward to his swift confirmation. i thank my colleagues at the department oversees who contributed to this report from specifically the office of international religious freedom, including a senior advisor, a special advisor, and the previous ambassador at large. working withrd to congress and the administration to continue america's indispensable role as a champion of religious freedom the world over. thank you very much. --mr. secretary, do you [indiscernible] i have notillerson: response to his decisions at all at that time. >> [indiscernible] secretary tillerson: we continue to be interested in finding a way to get the dialogue, but that is up to him. thank you. >> [indiscernible] [captions copyright national cable sate

partition resulted in muslims moving to the newly formed state of pakistan and hindus moving to independentllions of people affected, the owner of one sweets franchise eventually managed to thrive in a new homeland. but it was a painful and challenging journey— here's his story. partition was very bad for many. it was for us, we had to start again from zero. we had three restaurants, and some shops here. they were of quite a large size, but due to partition, we had to move to bombay. any establishment takes decades to build, and it only takes an hour to destroy. the clientele base was totally destroyed. it was hard work in mumbai. we could not import our customers from karachi. we could not import oui’ customers from this is the house where we came and stayed. it was almost like a dormitory. all our employees came and stayed with us for a number of yea rs before we and stayed with us for a number of years before we could establish our business again. the memory cannot be wiped out entirely. the pain is still there. the mockery of the whole thing is that it was not a question of religion or

moving on to the partition of india, which triggered the largest mass movement of people ever, hindusg to the newlyformed state of pakistan. among the millions affected were people with flourishing businesses they had run for decades. 0ne suites franchise eventually thrived in a new homeland, but it was a painful and challenging journey. partition was destructive for everyone. we had to start once again from zero. we had the restaurant in karachi, and due to partition we had to move to bombay. business takes years to build and it can take minutes to destroy. 0ur base in karachi was totally destroyed. developing and bombay, it is hard work in bombay. it is not imported from karachi. well, this is the house where we had come and stayed here. it was almost like a dormitory. and all of those who came from karachi stayed with us for a number of years before we could establish alternative arrangements. the memory cannot be wiped out entirely, and therefore the pain is still there. the mockery of the whole thing is that it was not a question of i that religion or politics or state, then what

. >> and so when hindus and buddhists and christians all sorts of christian, when you get together, how do you start? >> that's so true. we bring the beauty of our partitions together. let me tell you what my religion has taught me about how to live sustainably and with social and economic equity and we kind of lay those treasures out and they inspire each other and then we press each other to see if we can shed some of the particularism in our traditions and see if we can move towards this earthlings module. and i think the bay area is a place where it can happen is a willingness to see how even within our traditions there is the opportunity to cultivate a sense of unity, of human interdispense. >> you're optimistic that religion can then begin to talk with each other about i don't know care of the earth in their own traditions. people presbyterian that would probably involve some sort of confession that we haven't always at least from the protestant point of view we have more of a domination than an involving mode. >> yes, this is one of the challenges that the current globalization.

while hindus and sikhs headed in the opposite direction.an now celebrates its independence day on august 14th and india on august 15th. former cricketer and pakistani politician imran khan spoke to the bbc‘s inzy rashid — he says the situation between india and pakistan is the "worst it's ever been". partition was five years old when i was born so i vividly remember the trauma of the partition. trauma suffered by the people all around us and we grew up with this hatred, there was this hatred against india. when you were playing cricket against india, what were the crowds like? the crowds were so passionate about you beating india and they forced the players to really play... it almost transcended it, as if it was no longer a cricket game, it was more than a cricket game when you played india and that was forced by the crowds. did it ever get to a point where it turned violent? the crowds. did it ever get to a point where it turned violent7m 1987 the crowds were hostile. i remember playing a test match and it wasn't very pleasant because nor

the tower have come out here i said here and there is they are hindus out how it all doesn't it take to scuff fields now now radios. and we have also been contacted by a couple from the start they believe that they've recognized their granddaughter who is also called maria the girl says she saw both her parents die and that she is originally from the. continuing to look for the relatives of these children if you have any information that could help please do contact us at the e-mail address on your screen right now children at r.t. t.v. dot ru. and other news the american civil liberties union hailed a historic victory of through a case involving the cia's torture program was settled on thursday was filed against two psychologists who raked in more than eighty million dollars developing the country's all the agency's so-called enhanced interrogation program because of their status as private contractors the lawsuit targets of the most private citizens the plaintiffs were to torture survivors the family of girl run on a man who died in a secret cia prison partially declassified cia re

a woman standing on the sidewalk outside of a hindu temple caught the eye of these robbers. three of them. one guy attacking her going after her necklace. while the accomplice waits there with a scooter and another guy. see him down the street also running defense. >> moped-based robberies are becoming a real thing around london. >> what bothers me is this is in front of a holy place. >> they wrestle this poor woman down to the ground, take the necklace, and take off. police in london looking for this guy. but oh i so wanted that dude from the previous video to just run in this frame and put on a tackle. >>> these two videos are broughtous by the #nailed it. let's start with the directional drill. it's the kind of thing to do to put piping and wiring. i was fascinated by this video because i wondered how they did this. you use this cool machine. >> is it called a ditch witch? >> yeah. >> i had this as a summer job one year. >> you're kidding. >> i swear. >> this is good. you might be able to help out. i was like how do you know where it's going? >> right. how do you know it

>>> in mercer county, investigators are looking in doet of a 16-year-old boy from a fall inside a hindu temple. it happened thursday at the temple on main street in robbinsville. the steteen was doing volunteer work in the attic when he fell about 45 feet. he died about an hour later. investigators say it was an apparently accident. >>> today family, friends in the philadelphia community will remember lois fernandez, she founded the city's odunde festival. she tied at the a she died at the age of 81. funer funer funeral services will be held this morning in south philadelphia. >>> today we want to help thousands of pets across our area find their forever families. it's our annual clear the shelters event and you are taking a live look at some of the playful kittens right there at the bracndywine valley spca. all adoption fees are waived at the 50 locations today. we need your help to clear the shelters. go to nbc10.com or the nbc 10 app to find a location nearest your neighborhood. >>> eclipse excitement. coming up, local astronomers give us a look at the history set to happen in the sk

it leads to a series of amazing fifth century caves lined with relief sculptures dedicated to the hinduiva. if you can't make it across the water, you can stay right in the middle of mumbai, where there is plenty to see. stop by a streetside coconut vendor. they are everywhere. and if you are still jet lagged, the electrolytes will help. one of my favorite hole in the walls in all of mumbai is -- there is just one choice here, bright and flavorful food which is like all-you-can-eat sampler platters. the restaurant was passed down from father to son, and the son is very enthusiastic about his locally sourced cuisine. since india has gone cashless, ask to add a 10% tip before settling the bill. you can also charge tips for bellhops and housekeeping back at the hotel. after lunch, hit the streets and find the perfect piece of india to take back home. d popli and sons is any family affair, where the owner keeps the real jewels hidden in the back room. the owner's son designs many the pieces himself, and sources the rest from jaipur. antiques are huge in india, but you can't take anything th