reporter: this is muneera khan, at work in a women's center in hyderabad.he tells us she's 19, but doesn't know exactly when she was born. muneera was only 11 years old when her parents sold her for 50,000 rupies -- the equivalent of 800 euros. muneera: no one asked me. my relatives came together and decided to marry me off to a 75-year-old man from oman. they only told me on the day of the wedding. when i saw the old man, all i could do was cry. i tried to protest and said i'm they only told me on the day of far too young. reporter: india outlawed child marriage in 2006. but in muneera's case, as with many other women here, the marriage broker used falsified documents. a corrupt imam presided over the wewedding ceremony. muneera was forced to go with the old man. for three weeks he sexually abused her in a hotel in hyderabad. then he disappeared. when the man was informed that muneera was pregnant, he divorced her -- over the phone from oman. that was eight years ago. until recently, the muslim practice of instant divorce was legal in india. muneera's daug

my first full of ascent of romans up the steep path to hyderabad casa. it's the number one tourist attraction in this small city on the neck a river. i did back out for has been intentionally kept as a ruin because it's there really look creates a special atmosphere and if i take a look around i have to say the poets and tourists have every right to be impressed . just a small section was rebuilt as a museum it shows how the rich and powerful cool for us used to this. we continue on to the marketplace. this is where you'll find the town hall and the church of the holy spirit. today the church is protestant but that wasn't always the case in the past it was a times used by catholics and then again by lutherans there were even times when both denominations celebrated mass and the church separated by a wall. this building just across from the church is a rerun nacelles gym commissioned by a coffee merchant it's no hotel that survived all the wars and fires that revenue the city and today is a listed monument. heidelberg is the quintessential student town it

focus on history and ethnology especially in my native sri lanka and also south india or and why in hyderabadlike old office medical several reasons heidelberg is a lovely town that has a good reputation it's internationally renowned because it's also a very compact town people say heidelberg actually is a village with a university and that pretty much hits the nail on the head. or does it and it's not only german students here right there from all over the world. right heidelberg is very international and so is the university we frequently have students from india pakistan bangladesh who start their master's program here. we also run a lot of summer and vacation courses. so why is heil back known as the student tell us and so that's what i thought then i think that has a lot to do with the history. heidelberg a diversity was founded in thirteen eighty six and for many decades and centuries of heidelberg population was made up of students. and. then there's the old town also known as the bar area where lots of students go out to party after they've been studying hard on the. well students and

. >> hyderabad, pakistan with all his buddies. everyone's got big smiles on their faces. they're just here to celebrate, have a good time. they got some spray, they got some confetti, they've got of course the cake, and of course when they start singing the song everybody celebrates starts spraying him. >> don't do it. don't do it. boom. >> oh, my gosh. >> all over him. >> he's on fire. >> everybody suddenly goes, slaps him down to giefire put o. suddenly there's a stunned silence and everyone's like you're all right, bro? >> those cans are aerosol cans. they have propellant inside. that is flammable. and they just shot it right over the sparkling candle. >> but what exacerbates the situation is listen, there's a pop, and that's when it gets really serious. so what i'm thinking is whatever was inside that balloon was flammable as well. once it popped it all ignited and ended up sending him to the hospital. you can see him here getting treated for what happened. clearly people were talking about him because his ears are burning. >> stupid. he is so stinking lucky that his

the recipient was bloody near banish a geneticist at the european molecular biology laboratory in hyderabad. here the d.n.a. from hanks to him had to be processed as a complex business and expensive at least for now. but the experiment was about establishing whether this kind of writing storing and reading of data actually works. what was coming from the he didn't tell us what is doing which is hindsight is still saying it was good but of course the final it told us so what we did it was a very exciting. could this be a reliable and feasible method of storing lots of data for a very long time. currently you have to pay twelve thousand dollars to archive one megabyte of data in d.n.a. then it'll cost a further large sum to have it read by a sequencing machine. instructions are needed to read it correctly. it took the team in heidelberg two weeks to read the data and reconstruct the originals. but they succeeded. the speech the sonnets the photo and the genetics text all reappeared. that was a pretty impressive achievement. but the technology is not yet ready to be deployed in every office or

hyderabad that he used to have his own t.v. show and he was often a guest on talk programs but not anymore show was cancelled he's half armenian and half greek and an opposition journalist puts him high on the list of people whom the turkish authorities consider dangerous. there are more and more friends against him. it is less to plan the way even people i knew personally started making threats young people who lived near me. i'd watched them grow up to be threatened by young people it was really depressing. hikers family are now on their way to berlin is looking forward to their arrival the members of the. band that would better when they get in here go to the germans if you can and start looking around for an apartment and take care of all the other stuff because you know horton thing is to have them here all of it always taking it which is such that the younger ones ok i'll talk to the older one. understands that i think he'll understand. i'll explain that we'll just have to make the best of things and most of the time said

also much of south asia does look five and dry will see some subtle sunshine coming through here hyderabad twenty nine degrees the weather there into me and my maybe into the far north east of india maybe also into bangladesh but i suspect it is going to me and . is seeing the wetter weather as we go warms through the next day or two i sort of any wet weather coming in across the river the next few days is fine and dry top temperature and twenty four. sponsored by the time. i serve. this time. good to have you with us on al and these are our top stories iranian president hassan rouhani has made his first days of protests against economic hardship and corruption that the government must provide. also warned protesters that violence was unacceptable. thousands are expected at a rally in pyongyang its main square as. on makes. new year's address international. says about south korea and the u.s. . and israel's governing party has passed a draft resolution. to establish israeli sovereignty and parts of the occupied west bank the vote was not binding. a man in the u.s. has been arrested after a

or so much of south asia does look five and dry will see some subtle sunshine coming through here hyderabad twenty nine degrees that west the weather there into me and my maybe into the far north east of india maybe also into bangladesh but i suspect it is going to me and the nicobar. seeing the wetter weather as we go warms through the next day or two and sort of the wet weather coming in across the river the next few days is fine a dry top temperature and twenty four. there with sponsored by qatar. in a country where parents often pick who you will marry. can have serious consequences one of the men risking their lives to protect india's. one of the fist time on al-jazeera. january. african heads of state in government. for the state of the african union were the goals set out in twenty seventeen minutes. with brand new episodes updating some of the best documentaries from over the years the biggest names in politics in business will meet in the swiss alps for the world economic forum what will be top of the agenda . engages in rigorous debate. the headline. and in a week our special cove