this was no ordinary visit heavy security accompanied mulattoes dawn arrival in islamabad the police convoy proof of the threat malala still faces from the taliban much of a visit has been kept secret it included an audience with the prime minister the schoolgirl turned poster girl for human rights proud to be back home with her family. whenever i traveled in a playing or a car and saw the cities of london and new york i was told just imagine you're in pakistan you're travelling to islamabad but you're in karate. but it was never true but now today i'm very happy that all who. malala is a motion easy to understand. six years ago her activism nearly killed her taliban gunman boarded a bus asking who's malala shot in the head because of a diary should been writing for the b.b.c. highlighting the misery for women under taliban rule but while others might have chosen to stop talking malala used the global attention to keep fighting for her causes. the un general assembly showing its appreciation on her sixteenth birthday. is the day off every woman every boy and every guy. who have raise

she arrived with her parents in the early hours of this morning at islamabad airport.e gave a speech that was broadcast on state television that was really quite emotional. she broke down in tears and a number of occasions as she said it's been her dream to set foot once again in pakistan the whole time she was out of the country. it was nearly six years ago that she was nearly six years ago that she was shot in a head at point—blank range by gun men from the pakistani taliban. they targeted her because you was a campaignerfor taliban. they targeted her because you was a campaigner for barrels education in her home region in northern pakistan, which was once a militant stronghold. she survived the attack and was taken to britain for treatment and has been living there ever since. she's now a student at oxford university, in fa ct. student at oxford university, in fact. really, now, her return is simple matter doubled as emblematic of the fact security in pakistan has improved in the last few years. the level of violence committed by militant groups has drastically redu

has dreamed f returning to pakistan and walking the streets in peacehead malala's don arrival in islamabadthe police convoy, proof of the threat malala still faces from the taliban. much of her visit has been kept secret. it included an audience with the prime minister. the schoolgirl turned poster girl for human rights, proud to be back home with her family. >> whenever i travel in a plane or car in london or new york, i was told, just imagine you are in pakistan, that you are traveling to islamabad, that you are in karachi. but it was never true. but now, today i'm very happy. [applause] reporter: malala's motion -- emotion, easy to understand. six years ago her activism nearly killed her. taliban gunman boarded a bus and asked, who is malala? she was shot in the head for a diary she was writing for the bbc highlighting the misery of taliban women under taliban rule. she used the attention to keep fighting for her causes. the u.n. general assembly, showing appreciation on her 16th birthday. >> today is the day of every woman, every boy, and every guoe who has raised the voice for their r

this was no ordinary visit as heavy security accompanied dawn arrival in islamabad. the police convoy proof of the threat malala still faces from the taliban much of a visit has been kept secret it included an audience with the prime minister the schoolgirl turned poster girl for human rights proud to be back home with her family or whenever i traveled in a plane or a car and saw the cities of london and new york i was told just imagine you're in pakistan that you're travelling to islamabad that you're in karate. but it was never true but now today i'm very happy that all who. has a motion easy to understand. six years ago her activism nearly killed her taliban gunman boarded a bus asking who's malala shot in the head because of a diary should been writing for the b.b.c. highlighting the misery for women under taliban rule but while others might have chosen to stop talking malala used the global attention to keep fighting for her causes. the u.n. general assembly showing its appreciation on her sixteenth birthday. is the day of every woman every warrior and every god

joined one of the islamabad protests in early february. mainly from the mayfield dry but also heard by other drivers in north where leaders gone. down have congregate did. not keep the law and order may still drive men who have gone missing. they also warn just their warn row on water if you know. we're going walled in extra judicial killings he is blamed for killing not people lined up for this particular belief. if you have all three if your patronage and certain problems and therefore he had. gone missing he had to have gone into hiding the people who are determined they won't judge their don't want to. really they do not want fake encountered an egg accuse you're no good. now today we'll be looking at how a mass movement under the banner posturing the long march is a better feature of the past change especially in the federally administered tribal area or so known as fattah. is a founding member of the fact that he joins us from the pakistani capital islamabad i mean the law jennifer he is founder of the fata grand alliance he was memb

security was tight for her arrival in islamabad a government source described the lack of as necessary for what is a sensitive visit. use of say rose to international prominence when she was attacked by masked gunman on her way home from school in two thousand and twelve that then fifteen year old was shot in the head punishment for her defying the pakistan taliban ban on girls' education in her home district of the swat she was airlifted to britain for lifesaving treatment and has been living there since she continued her schooling united kingdom getting top grades and enrolling in oxford university she also continued campaigning for education and shovelled the world supporting local advocacy groups in two thousand and fourteen she won the nobel peace prize the youngest ever to do so age seventeen noticed pick up noticed are books and. they are lost far for weapons one child and one teacher one book and one thing can change the was. despite her worldwide acclaim many don't regard her as well me back in pakistan as some say she portrays her country a negative light and is seeking her o

right passion live from islamabad thank you very much for talking to. very much. a ferry of diplomacy sets the stage for a rest summit that when the two koreas the rival nations on thursday have chosen april twenty seventh to bring the two leaders together for face to face talks the plan was finalized his days after a nuclear armed north korea's kim jong un made his international debut with a surprise trip to china. it was a slightly awkward handshake at the start of the meeting but the leaders of the north and south korean delegations were determined to put on a united front. there have been many historic events including the recent winter olympics made possible by our combined efforts strength and determination with this in mind i would like you to convey the north korean people's gratitude to south korean government officials and their people. all the progress we have achieved today's meeting and what will happen from now on they're all happening because of the decisions made by the leaders of north and south korea it's important that we have a sincere discussi

foot in my country i travel to see the cities of london new york and imagine traveling to pakistan islamabad orkut archie but it was never true but today i'm very happy. well still ahead on al-jazeera when he had to go into a break sit those who want the u.k. to stay in the u.k. you are giving up yet. and the symbol of iraq's resilience and loss which is being unveiled in london's trafalgar square. hello we have high pressure in charge across a good part of north asia means largely fine interact for much of to paddle and also into the korean peninsula that dry weather the subtle weather the high pressure that extends its way down towards beijing where we have had some visibility problems recently some pollution problems as well trapped underneath that large area of high pressure the ante cycle and that has led to visibility is falling below five hundred metres in places across parts of northern and northeastern china over the last two or three days hopefully things will improve as we go on for the next day out so you can see some disturbed weather pushing its way in from the northwest and th

activism in twenty fourteen simple come is a security analyst joins me now from the pakistani capital islamabad fine a skype good to have you with us live on the program a sort of surprise visit back home certainly unexpected i mean why now why not come back wants she'd won the nobel prize and really make a stamp in terms of her voice on women's issues then. question absolutely i think we're never going to happen it's a great homecoming and i think she has expressed a desire to come back to pakistan on several and several occasions and i have on so why now and why not i think recently and smack the prime minister out like this on in new york if i i remember right and this official invitation for her to come to pakistan was needed at that point and i think timing was right but i just wish that they were more a little bit more at mom's warning and you know pakistan was allowed to really welcome their daughter. the most her daughter is not i mean. certainly your wish perhaps made of the wish of the wish of many others which we'll discuss in a moment but what has been out of the country has her voi

the cities of london and new york i was told just imagine you're in pakistan you're travelling to islamabad but you're in karate. but it was never true but now today i'm very happy that i'll be. as emotion easy to understand. six years ago her activism nearly killed her taliban gunman boarded a bus asking who's. shot in the head because of a diary she'd been writing for the b.b.c. highlighting the misery for women under taliban rule but while others might have chosen to stop talking use the global attention to keep fighting for her causes. the un general assembly sharing its appreciation on her sixteenth birthday. is the day off every woman every war and every guy who have raised their wife for their rights. she went on to set up her own funds the fund to promote goals education and in twenty fourteen a seventeen year old malala became the youngest ever recipient of the nobel peace prize. the physicians are trying to much attention in pakistan. it's opinion she's on a mission to shame a country a mouthpiece of the west. she remains a national hero for standing up to the taliban. but now bei

here's secunder kermani in islamabad.ople who were against education and peace, they said we won't let her come back, this is like a slap in the face. malala yousafzai will only spend a few days in the country, but this is a big moment, for her and for pakistan. which in recent years has managed to drastically reduce the threat posed by militant groups. more fall—out for australian cricket. it's already banned three players for involvement in cheating. now the head coach darren lehman says he will also stand down after this current tour of south africa — we should add he says he knew nothing of the plan to rough up the ball with sandpaper. same can't be said of the vice captain david warner, cameron bancroft and captain steve smith. they've been stripped of those roles and given bans. they're also back in australia. and steve smith's given a press conference. i'll do everything i can to make up for my mistake and the damage it's caused. if any good can come from this, if it can be a lesson to others, then i hope i can be

this is malala speaking in islamabad, pakistan, today. for the last five years, i have dreamed that i can set foot in my country. whenever i travel on a plane, car, i see the cities of london, new york. i was told, just imagine you are in pakistan. you're traveling in islamabad. it you are in karachi. it was never true. but now, today, i see. i'm very happy. amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. it's official. the leaders of north and south korea announced today that they will hold a historic meeting on april 27, coming together for talks for the first time in more than a decade. the landmark meeting between south korean president moon jae-in and north korea's kim jong-un will be held at freedom house on the southern side of the demilitarized zone. the news comes after kim's surprise trip to china this week to meet with chinese president xi jinping in his first foreign trip since taking office in 2011 and his first meeting with another head of state.

security was tight for her arrival in islamabad a government source described the lack of as necessary for what is a sensitive visit use of say rose to international prominence when she was attacked by masked gunmen on her way home from school in two thousand and twelve that then fifteen year old was shot in the head punishment for her defying the pakistan taliban ban on girls' education in her home district of the swat she was airlifted to britain for lifesaving treatment and has been living there since she continued her schooling united kingdom getting top grades and enrolling in oxford university she also continued campaigning for education and shovelled the world supporting local advocacy groups in two thousand and fourteen she won the nobel peace prize the youngest ever to do so age seventeen let us take up now just to get our books and. be our last car for weapons one child and one teacher one look. and one thing can change the world. despite her worldwide acclaim many don't regard her as well me back in pakistan some say she portrays her country and negative light and is seeking

the campaigner for female education made a televised speech from the prime minister's residence in islamabadwas her dream to live in pakistan in peace, and without fear. an unmanned chinese space station is about to make an uncontrolled fall to earth. experts aren't sure exactly when or where tiangong—i will come down. but they are pretty sure the chances of anyone being hit by debris are slim. now, we've brought you quite a lot of coverage of kim jong—un‘s visit to china this week on newsday, but here's a new look at the journey — filmed inside his carriage. you can see how the train has been fitted with two rows of what appear to be purple leather armchairs and mr kim greeting chinese officials on board. these were the first television pictures shown on his visit on north korean tv. and as you can see, mr kim seemed to be enjoying himself. more now on our top story this hour — the rapidly developing diplomatic row between russia and the us. just a few hours ago, moscow announced it was expelling 60 american diplomats, and closing the consulate in st petersburg. that mirrors the steps taken

nhe spoke to our pakis correspondent in the capital, islamabad. reporter: this was the last me malala was in pakistan, fighting for her life after being shot by militants. after nearly six years, she is a now back says she still can't believe it. malala:t is emotional, each and every thing i see. it is valuable to me, even just the warm air. i value it, and i'm enjoying it, and i'm happy to be home and to put my feet on this land again. reporter: malala has her critics in pakistan. many on social media accuse her of being aestern agent. how did it feel when you read those kinds of comments? malala: firstly, i just want to understand why do they oppose me and what is the reason behind it. i want a better future for thisn y. that is why i started speaking out for girls education. that is why i do not fear anything -- even when terroristi attacked mdoes not matter. i will continue speaking out. it did happen, and i continue my campaign for girls education. so my focus is only working for the good. it is 200 million people, and i know that 99%, more t

in my country i traveled to see the cities of london new york and imagine traveling to pakistan islamabad. but it was never true but today i'm very happy. those were the headlines here on al-jazeera more news in thirty minutes next it's inside story with elizabeth promise to stay with us. a surprise summit between china and north korea it's all smiles in beijing join ken jong un's first overseas trip as leader and the chinese remind the world that they have a crucial ball and any nuclear and missile talks with donald trump solve as the north in a stronger position this is inside story. of an ally since the nine hundred fifty s. hundreds of thousands of chinese soldiers are believed to have died in the korean war and the north spin an important offer for china ever since keeping u.s. troops allied with south korea away from the chinese border but there were nations ships out and as the north's nuclear bomb and to continental missile ambitions expanded under the leadership of kim jong un this year though diplomacy has been high on the north's agenda including groundbreaking visits to the wi

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is a founding member of the youth jirga he joins us from the pakistani capital islamabad i mean the law is founder of the fatah grand alliance he was member of the pakistani senate between two thousand and three and two thousand and seven he joins us from claiborne agency in the region and she had a shower as a co-founder of k h o r that's the sisters empowerment and awareness organization she joins us on the phone from now it's good to have you with us guess this i'm not going to lie this is quite a complicated subject so leaker and i are going to try and break it down so that everybody watching following online and sense exactly what we're talking about so the vast majority of passions hail from the tribal regions the federally administered tribal areas fattah lies along pakistan's northwest the border with afghanistan and it is made up a seven tribal agencies and six frontier reagents just over five million people live in those tribal areas according to pakistan's two thousand and seventeen census spoken by nearly everyone living there the area is subject to british colonial era rule

she spoke to our correspondent, secunder kermani in islamabad.ng for her life after being shot by militants. after nearly six years, she's now back and says she still can't believe it. it is emotional. each and every thing i see, it is valuable to me. even just this warm air, i value it, and i'm enjoying it, and i am just so happy to be home and to put my feet on this land again. malala, though, has her critics in pakistan. many on social media accuse her of being a western agent. how does it feel when you read those kind of comments? firstly, i just want to understand who, why do they oppose me and what is the reason behind it? i want a better future for this country. that's why i started speaking out for girls' education. that's why i did not fear anything, and i said even if the terrorists attack me, it does not matter, i will continue speaking out. and it did happen, and i continued my campaign for girls' education. so my focus is only working for the good. it's 200 million people, and i know that 99%, more than 99% stand with me, support me,

the view that is shared in islamabad you increasingly i think that's a view that is getting sort of more easily accepted as you see. you know as you see the play out of this war because as i said it is beyond reason to think that the seem very reasons which have gotten us to successful sort of war objectives continue to be the mainstream continue to be the objective and i won't bore you no i don't believe in the real of or believe in conspiracy theories i like to of course steer away from them but for instance a recent steve called books book claims that we were. initially the american dollar objective was not long term bases in the understand but how the region has progressed in the last many years perhaps no it is one of the goals our objectives but that's that's one mission america is one mission the u.s. is one mission right we i would still like to believe for the sake of everyone and for the sake of peace and stability that with it's the russians or the americans or the pakistanis or the indians or the ones by and large we may want to pursue meeting the different groups but by and

security was tight for her arrival in islamabad a government source described the lack of as necessary for what is a sensitive visit use of say rose to international prominence when she was attacked by mosque gunman on her way home from school in two thousand and twelve that then fifteen year old was shot in the head punishment for her defying the pakistan taliban ban on girls' education in her home district of the swat she was airlifted to britain for lifesaving treatment and has been living there since she continued her schooling united kingdom getting top grades and enrolling in oxford university she also continued campaigning for education and shovelled the world supporting local advocacy groups in two thousand and fourteen she won the nobel peace prize the youngest ever to do so age seventeen let us take up now does become our books and our brains be our last bar for weapons one child and one teacher. one book and one fan again changed the way. despite her worldwide acclaim many don't regard her as will be back in pakistan where some say she portrays her country a negative light a

lasted for nearly thirty years india accuses pakistan of provoking the uprising government leaders in islamabad deny storing undressed against the injured who was this time some meanies are moving the killing of three suspected rebel fighters in a gun battle with indian troops police say they retaliated after coming under fire during a raid on a village in an impound district two of the team and killed have been identified as engineering students the police say became rebel fighters the other hasn't been identified. and we protest just poured into the streets on news of their deaths street battles were fought with stones. and tear gas. the government ordered schools and colleges to shot to prevent more violence. that's all you got about. india is committing atrocities on us is violating the chastity of our systems which we condemn in strong words what do you want to hear. their dead bird sitting as they're bringing us to ballard's we don't want anything from anyone we're just hollywood florida last week police killed four people and two suspected fighters at a military checkpoint soldiers were

islamabad launched a counterattack we're going to thousand people have been killed in the past month as the syrian government and its russian allies attempt to seize the area from rebel fighters. palestinian president mahmoud abbas has blamed rival political faction hamm asked for an attack on the prime minister in gaza rami hundred dollar wasn't heard when the roadside bomb exploded as his convoy entered the gaza strip bassa has also hit out of the u.s. ambassador to israel and dismissed the u.s. plan for reconciliation talks with israel. what do. we offer well wishes and sleep through to our brother from below the prime minister and merge approach the head of intelligence and the rest of our brothers from the security detail that went through this despicable incident that was done by hamas in the gaza strip former french president nicolas sarkozy has been taken into custody just outside paris he is being questioned an investigation over irregularities in campaign finance french police are looking into suspected illegal funding from libya of sarkozy's two thousand and seven presiden

these pictures from pakistani television shows her with her parents at islamabad's international airportunman for campaigning forfemale education. 0ur correspondent secunder kermani is in islamabad. malala's life has changed beyond anything she could have imagined that the last five years so it is not surprised this is a really emotional return for her. absolutely, she arrived with her pa rents absolutely, she arrived with her parents in the early hours of this morning at islamabad airport and then this morning she went and met then this morning she went and met the pakistani prime minister and from his offices and she gave a speech that was broadcast on state television that was really quite emotional, she broke down in tears ona number of emotional, she broke down in tears on a number of occasions she said that it had been her dream to step foot once again in pakistan, the whole time that he was out of the country, it was nearly six years ago that she was shot in the head at point—blank range by gunmen from the pakistani taliban on a school bus, the targeted her because she was a campa