believe in god in the personalized anthropomorphic sense in fact for a thousand years the hindu idea of god was rather like the muslim idea that is that god cannot be given a shame of former gender shape a bigger pardon cannot be touched see noon imagine could be an idea could be a spark could be a puff of air we don't know what god is right so a god without qualities is what the hindus worshiped but they realized that in fact ordinary people needed more than that they needed something they could look to a they needed for example in the basic year a lot of nature worship happened people worship trees and rivers and fire for example so they said no we better have an idea of god that actually do they err by the way the big sages the rashid's the the thinkers and writers i mean you're talking about a religion. about a thousand years into it's existence of four thousand years so that's what i'm talking about and then came up with the idea of god in a more familiar sense issue or a book one but they said since no one really knows what god looks like let's allow people to imagine god as th

the tolerant version of hindu ism you are given it versus obviously what has been seen as intolerance associated with the current indian government. you you say that hindu ism clearly accepts the possibility that abrahamic religions ups are all fine judaism christianity and islam so weak on the perhaps the greatest modern hindu preacher who in the late one nine hundred centuries made a very famous speech in chicago to the world parliament of religions said the just as all sorts of rivers flow in different parts crooked and straight into the same sea so also always of worship lead to the same god he said that i'm proud to speak of a feat that has taught the world not just tolerance but acceptance and so profoundly important idea because tolerance we are taught is a virtue but it's ultimately rather patronizing it says tolerance says i have the truth you are in error but i will make none i'm mostly indulge you in your right to be wrong very different except where is except and says much for it says actually i believe i have the truth you believe you have the truth i will respect your tr

christianity and islam so weak on the perhaps the greatest modern hindu preacher who in the late one nine hundred century made a very famous speech in chicago to the world parliament of religions said the just as all sorts of rivers flow in different parts crooked and straight into the same sea so also always of worship lead to the same god he said that i'm proud to speak of a feat that has taught the world not just tolerance but acceptance and so profoundly important idea because tolerance we are taught is a virtue but it's ultimately rather patronizing it says tolerance says i have the truth you are in error but i will make none i'm mostly indulge you in your right to be wrong very different except where is accepted and says much more it says actually i believe i have the truth you believe you have the truth i will respect your truth please respect my truth and by that logic hindu ism is willing to see the merit in every way of worship what it doesn't accept as the clip of any other faith to be exclusively right and it doesn't make any such claim itself hinduism has no equivalent o

you you say that hindu ism clearly accepts the possibility that abrahamic religions ups are all fine judaism christianity and islam so weak on the perhaps the greatest modern hindu preacher who in the late one nine hundred centuries made a very famous speech in chicago to the world parliament of religions said the just as all sorts of rivers flow in different parts crooked and straight into the same sea so also always of worship lead to the same god he said that i'm proud to speak of a feat that has taught the world not just tolerance but acceptance and so profoundly important idea because tolerance we are taught is a virtue but it's ultimately rather patronizing it says tolerance says i have the truth you are in error but i will make known i'm mostly indulging in your right to be wrong very different except where is accepted says much for it says actually i believe i have the truth you believe you have the truth i will respect your truth please respect my truth and by that logic hindu ism is willing to see the merit in every way of worship what it doesn't accept as the clip of any o

including her booker prize money to charity roy is a respected commentator one who draws the irish hindu nationalists although her admirers fear for her safety she refuses. to be seen as a martyr. but people. and i mean i'm always invited of course to present myself as this low voice who's taken on so many people and i'm so alone and i'm so brave but that's not true you know i don't know any in fact who has more arms around them than myself in this country yet roy has only written two novels twenty years after her first in twenty seventeen she published the ministry of art most happiness a journey through modern india spanning decades critical and provocative it's no easy read. i didn't want to write oh no we didn't civilized nor were the idea of what people think a normal should be you know not to write something smooth then easily digestible like baby food. one of her central concerns is the conflict between india and pakistan over kashmir the author and activist calls it a war of religion the hindu state of india she says is repressing its northern most state because its majority is m

is ideology is geared to implementing hindu majority rule through violence especially against muslims. we have not come to the stage where people are being liquidated in concentration camps know what you're talking about and i do not i mean only thing that feels very sympathetic to that kind of thing and that is not an exaggeration. but it in strong criticism of a country that is known as the world's largest democracy prime minister narendra modi is an avowed hindu nationalist but talks about modernizing the country and women's empowerment all just lip service says roy and not just from him protests over rape cases only started after women from upper classes became the victims the problem is india's caste system which no one is interested in dismantling. rapists normalised thing within the class hierarchy is it so normal for upperclassmen to just believe they own the bodies of no really you know when that huge protest happened back of butter for me with a little bit wary of. is there a hierarchy of rape victims and do some rapes count as a very not. roy has also criticised the man we'

he was a poet journalist and a moderate face of hindu nationalism to some former indian prime minister x. how bihari vachss pai is an icon to others a contradiction as a founding father of the ruling bharatiya janata party that paey was a key figure in india's growth as both a nuclear and economic power he was a risk taker and peace maker. in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight he carried out a series of underground nuclear tests alarming pakistan and the international community islam a band responded in kind sparking a nuclear arms race between the two neighbors. but one year later a grand diplomatic gesture that paey rode on the first bus was service from delhi to lahore where he attended a summit with pakistan's president in an effort to mend ties that parties also credited with india's global economic boom which was fueled by his support for the i.t. sector. to some though he was the leader of a fanatic and thousand muslim movement that would go on to polarize indian society his policies shape the face of the country his passing could mark the end of an era . the will of us get

by the head of his cremation in new delhi he was the first prime minister from the hindu nationalist be j.p. . was considered a consensus builder and successfully lead a coalition with multiple smaller policies to try to improve relations with pakistan but at the same time asserted india's nuclear power status by ordering tests when correspondent who's in new delhi andrew thomas and andrew said this is a huge figure in india's modern history. state funeral is underway right now it's. the straits of. where there are hundreds of thousands of people. well went through security to get close to where that procession would pass and right now the reeds are being laid on the coffin we've had an arranger mody the current prime minister larry for his coffin manmohan singh has just laid one down from that cove in the president here so how many karzai afghan afghanistan's long term president is also laying flowers on the coffin there so soon the coffin will be taken to its final cremation spot and this prime minister will be laid to rest but as you say a major figure in indian politics he was th

to maintain a hindu majority in the state muslims make up one third of its population so joining us from india to talk about all of this we have run i hope she's a journalist and a writer summer job but a cheater in chief advisor as spokes person for the hour sam students union are on the us and assamese resident and we also have power one carer he's a spokesman for the indian national congress party good to have you here everybody run if you could explain to outsiders what the national registry for citizens actually is an asylum how would you do it. i mean this is a just ill just evolved over dick is you know kind of figuring out who are you going to understanding who the immigrants are now has seen the maximum influx of migrants strong bond with the system ninety seven to one who have student assam for four generations their families a studio and this is an ethnic conflict and over a period of time to political parties are going to stop this conflict for communal focus as in ninety three we saw one of the books my sacrosanct. the nailing a psycho bitch when partitions took conduct at t

twenty seventeen in just one day killed ninety nine hindus and buddhists in russian state into a child. carried out an ethnic cleansing operation they wiped villages forcing people to flee to bangladesh. state used to be a separate kingdom you had vote was slums and buddhist living day that kingdom up for a kind was conquered by the burman kingdom the boundaries got redrawn oddo there were a kind king down became oddball bangladesh and the adam became part of nam mom off the independence the constitution said all people within the boundary of them ah ah citizen so you could claim that there are two way and yeah mom became citizens. on the way some of them as far as president it wasn't mine mom back then had to flee the country with his family it was after the military coup and the death of his father in prison and unclear the circumstances. before the coup. we were on top of the. president's family ruling class after the cool people were scared to talk to us in case the military came for them as well. and didn't think i would get involved in politics again when he people of burma start

disease hindu girls were brought to meet us and legibly they were kidnapped by muslim fighters who killed their families and took them to bangladesh by force. passing out. fashion of their last loudly no not that i want that money not found it was. certainly been here and it is. well not only with. all of. that not only. in august. the myanmar government reported that. the ira can go in just salvation army had attacked. the police post and government offices simul pena sleep the. ami was also already in place and rakhine state they had already brought in reinforcements to be able to deal with that so the question is how did they know to me a lot of these reports on not credible this was a good time to. try to move. out of now mom. this point of the media tour around my and the border between the country and bangladesh for not acting there again why it generated the whole. seben is seven hundred thousand people. john mccain and his republican cohorts like the bush family and others they will break cozy with ken lay who financed the bush campaigns of the bush presidency and when they got ca

in august twenty seventh teen in just one day killed ninety nine hindus and buddhists in russian state into a child the asian the mayan carried out an ethnic cleansing operation they wiped out roy hinge of villages forcing people to flee to bangladesh. used to be separate kingdom you have boat slums and bloodless living and that kingdom up for a kind was conquered by the. boundaries redrawn od of the rakhine came down became bangladesh and became. i don't know mom off independence the constitution said all people within the boundary of. citizens so you could claim that there are two way and emma became citizens. on the way some of them as far as president it wasn't mine mom back then had to flee the country with his family it was after the military coup and the death of his father in prison under unclear circumstances. before the coup. we were on top of the. presidents family ruling. after the cool people were scared to talk to us in case the military came for them as well. and didn't think i would get involved in politics again when he people of burma started demonstrating against the

he will be remembered by many as a moderate face of hindu nationalism. wrote his own poetry and, ultimately, his own history. turning to neighbouring pakistan. one of imran khan's closest friends says mr khan is a man with a plan when it comes to sorting out pakistan's problems after he becomes prime minister this weekend. hamza ali abbasi is one of pakistan's leading actors, and was with the former cricketer on the night he won the election. he spoke to the bbc‘s haroon rashid. it was a celebration, yes, but it wasn't dominated by celebration. it wasn't dominated by celebration. it wasn't dominated by a sense of victory that yes, we've won, its over now, no. imran khan was very sober, he had that sense of the possibility and right after he did the whole tv thing he came out and talked to all of us and said the struggle is over, but the hard work is just struggle is over, but the hard work isjust beginning. he prayed to allah and he prayed to god, he made us allah and he prayed to god, he made us all pray, please give us the strength and the expertise to

he was seen by many as the moderate face of the hindu nationalist party, the bjp. that's all.ards say the number of a level students receiving a and a* has risen slightly on last year.

paid to maintain a hindu majority in the state muslims make up one third of population so joining us from india to talk about all of this we have rana i mean she's a journalist and a writer someone job. is the chief advisor as spokesperson for the students' union on the us and assamese resident and we also have paul one kara he's a spokesman for the indian national congress party good to have you here everybody if you could explain to outsiders what the national registry for citizens action is and sound i would you do it. i mean this is a just a hold over dick is you know kind of figuring out who i mean god of understanding who the immigrants in assam are now assam has seen the maximum influx of migrants strong bond with these since the ninety's and if one who have student a sample for generations their families a studio and this is an ethnic conflict and over a period of time to political parties have kind of stopped this conflict for community purposes in ninety three we saw another post my sacristy against muslims the. partitions took conduct at tensions in a in a predominantly et

in the hindu caste system are considered the lowest of the low that often means being denied access toeducation and jobs and above all a lack of respect in the village of ravi opi is a two hour drive from kathmandu. lives here she belongs to the me jar cast the mountain dollars her husband left last year searching for a better job now he works in malaysia. he has never met their daughter. the mullet lunch she used to mainly tend to the household but recently her life took an unexpected turn an international climate protection and development organisation began providing agricultural training to women in the region giving priority to those whose husbands have left to find work. a project coordinator from the local n.g.o.s his regular visits today he's showing the women the correct way to plant tomatoes. when really practical it is how two groups of plants or how they can stand the. christian side stronger by christian sides so you smart it for getting them to vote organizing there was just some parts practical training already peerless course so this is how we are training these awards.

now for centuries the caste system in nepal has discriminated against members of the lowest hindu caste known as doll it's their access to jobs education is limited and they're often treated as inferior by members of other castes now an n.c.o. is hoping to improve the fate of one group of dalat women by teaching them to farm as de w.'s kilian shoots the reports from the pol the hope is that this will also lead to bigger changes. so bill has never had it easy she lives in a tiny hut with her husband and son near kathmandu every now and then she works as a daily barrage at construction sites or in the fields earning the equivalent of three or four euros she is happy but one thing really bothers her. and it's happened and yet it hasn't dally woman i face many problems living here i mean daily. when i want for someone in an opera cost house they usually don't give me food and i have to go to a cafe at the café they also need to eat my meal outside and rinse off my. dishes myself. in the hindu caste system considered the lowest of the low that often means being denied access to education and

muslims was probably deliberately set on fire and more than fifty hindu pilgrims were killed but what followed was what some of called a paul graham but it was just really violence against the muslim community where at least a thousand people in some estimates to this day said that two thousand people died now the b j p was in power not just at the national level but at the state level as well and the chief minister at the time was a name you might know narendra modi now india's prime minister those divisions haven't healed to this day and he is seen in some ways as having started that under so much live for us in new delhi andrew thanks very much indeed. newspapers across the u.s. have cleared their front pages on thursday morning to print editorials fighting back against donald trump's attacks against the media she have reports from washington d.c. . here at the newseum in washington d.c. the front pages of some of the over three hundred newspapers taking part in what was billed as an attempt to end a quote dirty war on the free press and quote we're being displayed their goals for

we want justice a simple demand from these row hindu women as they march through who to prolong. their marking the passage of exactly one year since the beginning of the crackdown by myanmar's military. against the muslim or hindu in iraq and state an anniversary the demonstrators are calling genocide remembrance day. khalid that tells us that she like so many other refugees who escaped to neighboring bangladesh in the past twelve months is all alone i'm not i don't have anyone here i don't have my brother my sister my mother they killed them all that's why i want justice. during the peaceful protests there's grief trauma and outrage on display. out they still took my children they killed everyone we want the world's help calm the world help us to get our rights and. women min young and old all members of one of the world's most persecuted minorities coming together to speak out in one glorious this is the largest demonstration that's been held by winter refugees since over seven hundred thousand of them all right here and could go on cap over the course of the past year here tod

are those missing from the list and there are many who are hindu as well as muslims can appeal few yet suggesting the porting those made stateless just a severe restriction of their rights but that's little comfort to those who citizenship is in doubt andrew thomas al jazeera langat in a sense tonight you. are still ahead on the news hour and. jorge lorenzo claim for . a title tatiana has the details from the margin. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories but it was in the truck didn't happen the boy told through the eyes of the world journalists images matter a lot in politics. as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on. they report on the stories that matter the most serious someone from the country who guides you who leads you to this story you the bottom line tells us who wrote the listening post on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where. it is time for sports. thank you very much english premier league defending champions manchester thinks they are off to a winning a thought after a two know when off well on sunday. the fourteenth a minute strike enough to ensure

india's hindu nationalist b j p party in power at both national and state level says the only way to address it is to find those they call infiltrators and strip them of citizenship they cannot order the demography or the politburo for some movie in fact right just as some in this country should do lead for. the politics of india no demography of india no. you have. in some predominantly muslim villages a majority of people are not on the list most of this crisis meeting in langley are a part of an extended family of fourteen just four of them are on the list people here think the number left off the n.r.c. list has been kept the liberally high for political reasons they say the announcement of the could be as many as four million infiltrators in assam state is meant to send a signal nationally. prime minister narendra modi's government is facing reelection next year highlighting action against illegal immigration will probably win them votes. those missing from the list and there are many who are hindu as well as muslims can appeal few yet suggesting the porting those made stateless

india's hindu nationalist b j p party in power both national and state level says the only way to address it is to find those they call infiltrators and strip them of citizenship they cannot or did the demography or the politburo for some movie in fact right just as some in this country should do lead for us or to the politics of india demography of india no. you have. in some predominantly muslim villages a majority of people are not on the list most of this crisis meeting in langley a part of an extended family of forty just four of them are on the list people here think the number left off the n.r.c. list has been kept the liberally high for political reasons they say the announcement of the could be as many as four million infiltrators in assam state is meant to send a signal nationally. prime minister narendra modi's government is facing reelection next year highlighting action against illegal immigration it will probably win the votes. those missing from the list and there are many who are hindu as well as muslims can appeal few yet suggesting the porting those made status just a se

popular at home divisive though with two thousand and two use events in gujarat after a train carrying hindu pilgrims was set on fire killing fifty as many as two thousand mostly muslim men were killed in riots many thought the state government did little to stop them but europe's then chief minister is today's prime minister on friday the renderer modi called by his guru. cremation marked the end of a new political giant andrew thomas al-jazeera new delhi. rescue workers are still digging through the rubble in genoa after tuesday's bridge collapse at least thirty eight people were killed and hundreds injured the government is now focusing its attention on its aging bridges and tunnels some of which are more than forty years old. or families continue to arrive at the us mexico border seeking a new life in the united states most remain hopeful that they will be able to enter despite the trumpet ministrations hard line policies that have jailed families and separated children from their parents. has more from texas for immigrants just released by the u.s. border patrol the first taste of freed

are those missing from the list and there are many who are hindu as well as muslims can appeal if you yet are suggesting the porting those made statements just a severe restriction of their rights but that's little comfort to those who citizenship is in doubt and to thomas al-jazeera longer in a sense to india. more than half of the fourteen districts in india's carola state have been put on high alert after the worst floods in a southern state dozens of people have died as torrential rain and landslides during india's june to september monsoon season of ravaged farmlands and prompted mass evacuations in careless state local weather department forecasts heavy rain until august fifteenth have also been warnings of flooding in low lying coastal areas. now thousands of nigerians are heading home after being displaced by violence linked to the. five years on from having their lives completely overturned by the fighting many are trading the safety of their camps in my degree for their home villages and towns i met interest reports from northeast nigeria. they set off on a two hundred eight

today offices are in the hindu temple it's part of the campaign's outreach to influential religious leaders the message is familial remain skeptical of what you read online and don't result to fight it's the campaign continues at traffic junctions across the city leaflets with police help like numbers are handed out to raise awareness about the deadly consequences of fake news. it was supposed to be a new beginning for zimbabwe but since the country voter danger lies generally election has been marred by killings violence and accusations w. has been talking with people in the capital harare. friends and family to pay their respects to see you on the force and have finally j. . me the mother of two who was killed in zimbabwe's post-election violence last week she was on her way home when she got caught in the crossfire hit in the back by a soldier's bullets it's the death of the brother joshua tambour still can't speak . choice it would look she was a big. for the bigger. stuff. we just did it when you wrote it would hit. the hypotenuse up and. god on wednesday opposition m.d.c. supporters t

today offices are in the hindu temple it's part of the campaign's outreach to entrench and religious leaders the message is familiar to remain skeptical of what you read online and don't resolve to fight it's. the campaign continues attracted junctions across the city leaflets with police help life numbers are handed out. to raise awareness about the deadly consequences of fake news. the report from sonia found occur and she joins us now from delhi high sonia numerous killings in india have apparently been motivated by rumors circulating on what is your report describe this all sounds incredible how's that possible. well there are many reasons for that you know for one there are millions of indians who are getting online for the first time on their mobile phones this is largely in areas where literacy levels on those people you know i get bombarded with information they tend to largely believe everything that they get the other thing that i learned while on the reporting trip was that you know the field of outsiders and kidnap was is really something that has prevailed for generation

all those missing from the list and there are many who are hindu as well as muslims can appeal few yet suggesting the porting those made stateless just a severe restriction of their rights but that's little comfort to those who citizenship is in doubt and to thomas al-jazeera langar in a sense to india well for more on this we're joined by sanjay hague he is a lawyer at the supreme court of india how much of this is a real concern to the government about illegal migration or long term dahmus to city and how much of it is about the vote bank and maintaining political superiority in the region. see there is a perception among the nic people of assam day that has been large scale make a donation from neighboring bangladesh over the years especially around again that the one thousand nine hundred eighty one water but by. stand was what at that point of time when the pakistan army attacked what was its own territory then in east pakistan many being morally speaking muslims fled bangladesh and then they settled down in the neighboring indian states of as sam and whispering boy the assamese f

yet one which has been scarred by a legacy of violence between hindus and muslims. the second most populated country in the world india is home to more than twelve percent of the world's muslim population. some of india's hundred fifty four million muslims live here in an area at the heart of the country's capital delhi. and a few of them will be making the annual hajj pilgrimage to mecca in saudi arabia. cool somebody go shopping for things to take on the house pilgrimage which she and her husband hafez will soon undertake. they live in or do bizarre a vibrant market area and delhi and home to more than one million muslims. pool so is on her way to the home of her son and daughter in law who also live in the area. a mother has clearly a mile both physically on it and i don't know what. our lab i'm up next how glad i. am never to get out because of the. family units and is an anomaly and. about another island now it is certainly my leg and i don't know what you will get by i am of the latter love alligator that line our drug of all of us. and not done about it not t

he's been cremated in new delhi he was the first prime minister from the hindu nationalists b.g.p. launched by was considered a consensus builder and successfully lead a coalition with multiple smaller parties to try to improve relations with pakistan but at the same time asserted india's nuclear power status by ordering tests and china for senior officials including a provincial deputy governor have been dismissed over a defective vaccines program one hundred eighty eight thousand children in shandong province are being given the injections which contained what the government called substandard medicine adrian brown has more from beijing. of the four officials who've been dismissed one is the deputy head of the organization responsible for regulating the drug industry here in china as well as the deputy governor of jilin province these dismissals were confirmed in a report in the people's daily overnight the people's daily is the newspaper of record here in china it said that the state council which is a body headed by president xi jinping had met to discuss the case and this was

minister atal bihari vajpayee has been cremated in new delhi it was the first prime minister for the hindu nationalist party b j p paes regarded as having been a consensus builder and he successfully lead a coalition with multiple smaller parties under thomas reports from new delhi. india's current prime minister was among the last to life laos next to one of its most respected. then came the last post. a new delhi. old memory place i'll tell biharis but surprise balti was gently taken from its coffin and laid on its pile. for the crowd to sort of the new gunfire. the pile was lit earlier budget place body had been taken on a perception through the streets of new delhi he didn't really be devoted to that he didn't want the man everyone. and he wanted everything but everybody. twenty five roads in the center of the council with close to allow the crowds to gather thousands of people have come through here on their way to reach the funeral rites and this is just one of many ways among the official more this is a delegation from the incoming government of pakistan imran khan about to be sworn

are those missing from the list and there are many who are hindu as well as muslims can appeal few yet suggesting the porting those made status just a severe restriction of their rights but that's little comfort to those who citizenship is in doubt andrew thomas al-jazeera langat in a sense to india. so to come in our does there are exploring the legacy of the nobel prize winning author died at the age of five. and a hot head play.