prince bearing gifts in pakistan amid criticism from the west installment gets a royal welcome in islamabad is this a new pivot to asia for the kingdom. allegations of censorship at the berlin film festival chinese director john you know pulls his film and in a d.-w. exclusive i way way says his work was blocked from selection are they being targeted by beijing censors. and a year after hosting the winter olympics chang is practically a ghost town what happens to all the empty venues in the games on. i'm melissa chan thank you for joining the program it's good to have you with us saudi arabia has pledged to invest twenty billion dollars in cash hungry pakistan it's a boost for islam a body which faces a mounting debt crisis and tensions with neighboring india and it's a p.r. boon for saudi arabia as well after international criticism over the killing of u.s. based saudi journalist jamal khashoggi last year. pakistan needs money and saudi arabia needs friends to that end saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon began his trip to asia on sunday night touching down to a red carpet welcome from

has already designated them other terrorist groups it is beijing and islamabad that are looking hands and fighting hard to prevent the global community from identifying this group to be who they are cold blooded terrorists so islam about is supplying the women followed what kind of support do you think that islamic by one is writing here. because it's it's a weapons it's their territory it's of course the supply of armaments supply of id's supply of the support that is required to conduct operations of this scale so . has any we decided to adopt a posture of india its borders with india have been close. for decades now which country in the world will close the borders with a neighbor on this they believe they are in a war like state and of course they are continuing to sustain and fund. who are not vetting the pakistan uniform but who are guarding the pakistan they take in their blood i just do want to repeat one more time that islamabad has denied these allegations but mr sharon what is it that can be done at this point to actually deescalate tensions this is you know this conflict h

correspondent there live in islamabad thank you very much indeed now we can speak to sri ram charlie who's the dean of jindal school of international affairs he's in sunny pass in northern india thank you very much indeed what's your understanding first of all of the exact location of these strikes and the damage or otherwise that was kools by. might be not our information in india he's the. terrorist training camps have been struck by the indian leader force of missouri for about chuck forty and balakot and balakot is actually outside. the region and he's in pakistan proper so in terms of the depth to which the near force went it probably crossed more than thirty kilometers across the line of control look at it and the way the reason they will evade detection was one because they had grounded in the dark of the night and to you know the pakistani air defense systems are not that strong they have something more select system and they failed to detect them and they say that they scrambled their f. sixteen jets but the we had actually a full formation of twelve jets and therefore they

respond quickly and timely manner afridi thank you very much indeed for talking to us live from islamabad thanking well we've also been speaking to his a retired commodore in the indian navy he's also director of the society for policy studies he says the situation is likely to escalate well i think it grows a shows what has back there in any response because iran also went on record and is cocky to say that in the event i mean any military action there would be a response from. so i think gain yet planners in their metrics weariest exigency as they call it there is a don't believe that there would. be a bitch and stand all elements of the indian military because i think this can lead to a certain escalation depending on how to start response this is also going to test a certain formulation that has been long that because party star has nuclear weapons they would not. we under any kind or shall we say anxiety and india will not take any military step i think that particular population is interested in what we are seeing today there yes india has demonstrators are in domes of using your ar

expecting a press conference from them some point right that city then from the pakistan capital islamabad and our correspondent on let's go over now to the indian capital new delhi and speak to our correspondent there says jamil says so we understand then that the pakistani military have been on a heightened state of alert now for several days what is the situation in india with all of these claims and as i say counter claims of these alleged aggressions if you like along the line of control. martina's you said there's been claims and counterclaims but indian officials are being very tight lipped it's a very different narrative on this side what al-jazeera has been able to confirm a few minutes ago is that locals though are in the rejoice and sectors of india that mr bush near have told analogise here at that they saw bombs fall from an aircraft but there's been no official confirmation locals also said another i'd unidentified aircraft has crashed in the area again indian officials are not confirming it this is coming from locals on the ground we can't confirm though that there was separ

islamabad denies india's claim that a large number of militants died but has vowed to retaliate . we begin this hour in nigeria where people are waiting for the outcome of last weekend's presidential election the main opposition party i is now callig on authorities to stop releasing partial results. until it can provide data on those who voted will any results point to a victorory for the incumbent president mahamadou bihari he's facing a challenge by the former vice president and businessmen atiku abubakar. dozens of people have died in an yes since campaigning began in october but let's get the very latest -- corresponded to go do it joins us now from abuja and she could tell us a bit more about the book the opposition is saying. well yes that's the main opposition party the people's democratic party or pdp it's come out to say that it is rejecting the partial results that have come out thus far -- the party actually held an emergency meeting just a few hours ago to give a set of demands one of those demands is to actually s stop the collation process were on day. two of the off

decades the pakistan based armed group jaish e mohammad says it's responsible for the attack although islamabad denies any involvement india has accused it of allowing armed groups to operate freely it's issued a diplomatic protest to pakistan's envoy in new delhi and withdrawn trade privileges offered to islam about pakistan's foreign ministry issued a statement calling the attack a matter of grave concern saying they've always condemned heightened acts of violence in the valley. has been divided between india and pakistan since one thousand nine hundred forty seven both countries claim the entire region where tens of thousands have been killed in the past three decades the latest attack targeted a large military convoy investigates the still trying to piece together how the armed group was able to strike such a sensitive target what is the nature of explosion. what does it. as india's national investigation agency begins its walk activist came out onto the streets of indian administered kashmir with many chanting anti pakistan slogans. the government to shut down into this and some areas and

had no recollection of the alleged abuse monday has been declared a holiday in pakistani capital islamabad ahead of a visit by the saudi crown prince had been so iran's trip was delayed by twenty four hours is now set to arrive for today visit starting sunday gatherings of five people or more have been banned while the crown prince is in the country there's a top stories do stay with us you're not a zero the listening post is up next. that assertion give up on me and i had thank you so much thousand everything that's trying to give us an advantage that dominic assures tallahassee on the back of after. all. if you missed it but did a little there just she seemed to see if they should get out it would be a different direction that damned if i mean that if. a woman should just burn you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week spring has been late in coming to sudan the arab spring the government there has been swift to keep a lid on the story of the on the rest france where the online harassment of female journalists sometimes comes from their

latest lines out of new delhi let's go to enron he's standing by for us and the pakistani capital islamabad it's been a very confusing picture of the last sort of twenty four to thirty alice and ron what again completely different narratives depending on who you're talking to it started with the pakistanis saying that the indian if force had released a payload on pakistani territory and that no one was injured that there was no damage no casualties we heard from the indian foreign ministry saying that many feiss were killed and now this latest incident with the pakistani government saying that they have shot down two indian fighter jets so what is the pakistani government doing about all of this now. well the pakistani government is about to issue a statement that. is going to give a televised address to the nations were addressed everything that's going on so far with a military i absolutely insisted that they did shoot down two. indian administered kashmir. and pakistani administered kashmir and that they have captured two fighter pilots they've released pictures of one of the fighter pil

would be disappointed and ok thank you very much for that come on in islamabad let's go to phase john maine our correspondent in new delhi now face india's top army command in kashmir directly they blaming pakistan and pakistan's intelligence services the i.s.i. for the attack in full lama how will india now respond to what we just heard from the pakistani prime minister this extended hand for dialogue but nonetheless said bad very firm tone from the pakistani prime minister. well india and the indian government will have to play a balancing act because they do want to show to voters here as mentioned there is an election coming up here soon in india so they have to balance on how the show to the public in india how they're handling the situation but then also trying not to escalate tensions with pakistan become a little mention that yes imran khan is not really known as a warmonger he was actually very well known in india as a cricketer and he. bill has a lot of popularity for that so it is a very good goodwill gesture but many in india believe that you know that iran doesn't have fu

an armed group behind a suicide attack in indian administered kashmir earlier this month bought islamabad denies there were any casualties or any damage done by the in d.n.a. strikes north korean leader kim jong il vietnam's capital ahead of a second summit with the us president donald trump kim was greeted by a guard of honor after crossing into the country by train. and iran's foreign minister mohammed jabbered serif is announce he's stepping down his sudden departure theories further doubt on the future of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with the u.s. called out of last year or this go back to our main story there not of the increased tensions between india and pakistan after those indian air strikes in pakistani territory we can speak to more peers who is a political analyst who's joining us live from the pakistan capital islamabad thank you very much indeed for talking to us now pakistan and india experience minor exchanges of artillery and other light fire directly on a regular basis therefore how much of an escalation is this knowledge meant to the incursions into pakistani airspac

correspondent in iran has been i believe listening in and he's joining us live from the capital islamabad we had been waiting for this address in iran and it was it was emotional appeal even to the indian saying that they're ready we are offering to cooperate and that the greatest wars have been caused by miscalculations and that they can't afford a miscalculation here. that's right people a group glued to their t.v. screens watching this address and as you say it was an impassioned plea cooler heads to prevail on the mistakes not to be making but it's also a reiteration of the prime minister's previous position where in the days after the february fourteenth the tacky bit on television in a similar address the nation away he said look if the indians have evidence please share it with us please allow us to take on these groups that was actually criticized by members of the indian government saying well actually jaish e mohammad the group have claimed responsibility for it you know where they are you know where that leaves off so why are you all. for intelligence sharing with the pakistani

that is fez jamila in new delhi we're going to go now to the pakistani capital islamabad where kemal high that is standing by for us so reaction there official government statements there rather kemal from india what is saying about this incident and how is it likely to respond to what they've heard from the indian government. august on a military. budget on the space and plug it on he had minutes to fish made and. then the bucket on a cranberry their own decided to enter. by a forcing the indian. to make a hit. of dropping whatever or didn't and ball know what david. and dave cross back into india the bucket on need. no casualties on the ground that day for today on an average day and budget on sending a signal that they did ready to face any indian attack about it on the foreign minister issued a statement i later while ago is saying that the nation should not be watered. down a minute before. students born to any indian tax code it is now this particular statement coming out of get on the indians that claiming that dav drug terrorists have destroyed the. base budget on it denying

islamabad d is saying it did so only after it crossed into pakistani airbase -- pakiststani airspace.ad that t in indian pililot been captured ordered a release immediately. boboth sides of said they want o restore calm. prime minister imran khan has called for talks. so far, his indian counterpart narendra modi has remained silent. genie: the results from senegal's presidential election are due to come out today. but counting has been underway since people went to the polls sunday. media reports based on the tallies of regional results with suggestedes counted president macky sall looks to win outright. other candidates have insisted that a second round runoff would be in evitable. self-proclaimed venezuelan president juan guaido is meeting brazilian leader bolsonaro today. venezuelan president nicolas maduro is still struggling to rally his own support. this camp has been calling for talks with donald trump, something washington has categorically ruled out. reports.ger reporter: a mass walkout of diplomats at the united nations human rights council. again, we called for dialogue wit

decades the pakistan based group jaish e mohammad says it's responsible for the attack although islamabad denies any involvement india has accused of allowing armed groups to operate freely it's issued a diplomatic protest to pakistan's envoy in new delhi and withdrawn trade privileges to islam about pakistan's foreign ministry issued a statement calling the attack a matter of grave concern saying they have always condemned heightened acts of violence in the valley. been divided between india and pakistan since one thousand nine hundred forty seven both countries claim the entire region where tens of thousands have been killed in the past three decades the latest attack targeted a large military convoy investigates the still trying to piece together how the armed group was able to strike such a sensitive target. as india's national investigation agency begins its walk activist came out onto the streets of indian administered kashmir with many chanting anti pakistan slogans the government to shut down into this and some areas and the military has imposed a curfew in the attempt to restore

it's eight a ten pm in islamabad fifteen ten g.m.t. sanjay arabia's crown prince on his first asian tour which has taken him to islamabad for us as we can see on those live pictures is also due to travel to india and china as well we've been talking about what the saudi crown prince is looking to achieve with this for his visit to asia as the crown prince of saudi arabia especially at a time when he has been somewhat shunned by his western eye lies in the wake of the yamaha shoji merger and of course the saudi led war in yemen which has been criticized in the u.s. by the u.s. congress in a number of european countries and i think has again the saudi crown prince arriving in where he's been greeted by the prime minister imraan khan one last question before we let you go and thank you so much for being with us for this live event as it happens. we talked about what the saudi crown prince hopes to achieve we talked about what asian countries hope to get how worried would the u.s. be about this what is perceived to be a pivot to asia and i

after both india and pakistan shot down each other's fighter jets and the disputed kashmir region islamabad says it's down to two indian planes and captured two pilots one's in hospital new delhi is has shut down one pakistani aircraft and lost one of its side in the bucket for his course was addicted and the indian air force responded isn't. in the elimination one part is going to get caught up well formed. by your group. or that you force. the bulk of the you have got the scene both gone courses. from this go on about is nothing. in this is. we have been fortunate if you lost one big event you want the pilot is missing in action because i'm just plain. that he is in their custody. we decided to take action today we only wanted to show india that we're able to and if you come into our land we will always retaliate to indian jets across the border and they was shot i will say the pilots are with us the problem is where do we go from here this is a very important issue i am addressing india it is very important that we use wisdom here. in the standing by for us in the indian capital new delh

islamabad says it shot d down to engine jets on wednesday. later airing a video of a man a titan. the move was in response to an indian as strike insights pakistan on tuesday. which was itself retaliation for a deadly attack on engine police earlier this month. that attack was claimed by george and muhammad the separatist group which india says enjoys free rein in pakistan. addressing policy workers early on cheese day engine prime minister narendra moody -- just unity against what he described as the enemy base garbrbage dump on see my p parti will countries brave soldiers on showining that string of the border. and across the border. to the cntry is one today. and with standing with the soldiers are how my day job on okay soccer. recent tensions have spots phase of a full blown war between the two nuclear armed nations. tuesdays as strike was the first trade across the so called line of control which serves as the de facto border since. nineteen seventy one both sides are now under pressure to calm tensions. with china the us and the e. u. calling for restraint. thanks a lot fro

let's get more now we are joined from delhi by the correspondents when they found the car and from islamabad symbol condé political and security analyst welcome to both of you and simple i'd like to begin with you because the pakistani prime minister imran khan he's been meeting with his security aides what has he been saying. i think this statement came out just less than an article and i made a very clear offer to get into the dialogue which has been his position all who as you have noted that it was an attack in the in in will live on which i started to me we are some security forces of this week were killed in the outfield in the suicide bombing oct of that attack when tensions but actually by prime minister was the only in the us i remember on heinrich gramma's in runtime range on t.v. and aust all our intelligence to be shared offered a chance to have a dialogue with this and see if there is some actionable intelligence that added on us to if it is if there is anything that india had that these attacks you know must in mind in pakistan but not that was done and we had a strike in the a

burning an effigy of pakistani prime minister imran khan knees protested blame islamabad the deaths of the the forty indian security forces in a suicide attack on thursday. what? we demand the government if it is actually angry with pakistan it if it actually hates pakista. to immediately cut all ties with pakistan. yeah india's hindu nationalist prime minister narendra modi's has vowed to that those responsible will pay the price. is the what is it. i fully understand the anger in the country. people's blood is boiling because of this attack. the expectations that the country currently has. and the emotions to do something about this. are completely natural. warner southern around the the new delhi says pakistan will noo longer h have the least favored natition trade status witit ind. and added that it woulul ramp up efefforts to isolatate it neighr from t the international commun. i could standd howevever denies accusatitions of helping insurgents the country's ruling party suggested that lady was ratcheting up tensions ahead of his upcoming reelection beds. if you shed by some analy

taliban talks question pakistan's commitment to and the war carney has repeatedly accused islamabad of providing sanctuaries to taliban fighters. the key to peace in kabul requires that we have a practical principled and inclusive plan for it but the keys to war are in islamabad roll pindi and quiet or. a peace deal could change everything in a understand if possible ceasefire will be followed by a power sharing settlement a new constitution and then elections a process of that might create a new political reality in a country that's been at war for decades. a new road and the occupied west bank has sparked controversy designed to ease traffic between jerusalem and nearby settlements israeli officials call it route four three seventy but it's opponents of called it the apartheid rose the road is separated by an eight metre concrete wall on one side the drive is israeli on the other palestinian sorry force that reports. the israeli occupied west bank is hardly devoid of barriers but few tell the story of division here in quite such a dramatic way this is road for three seventy northeast

prime minister narendra modi after observing two minutes of silence for the victims squared up to islamabad by suggesting pakistan was harboring those behind the deadliest bombing in three decades just that are these ideas that are to follow a neighboring country thinks that it will succeed in creating instability through such conspiracies in our country they should stop dreaming. what got me into it god why they will never succeed. but islamabad strongly rejected quote any insinuation that seeks to link the attack to the state of pakistan without investigations which have a claims or accusations india and pakistan's tribal ties risk taking a dangerous. did of you sonia found the car is covering the story for us in delhi she joins us on the line hi sonia a prime minister modi has promised a strong response what could that look like. i saw me that's right prime minister nouri in the movie has an emergency q order to review meeting with the top when this goes the morning and more the a says you know that those behind that ever attack would be a very heavy price and b. the huge mistake for the

joining us now with reaction is d w correspondent on the front of car from islamabad and we also have journalists are still on collets and i'd like to begin with you arsalan because we just saw imran khan saying there and he seems very keen to avert any further escalation right. yes this is not the first time the run congress passed this statement if you remember right after the incident. on the last one the similar kind of a statement we are. extended the hand of friendship to words in the other he expressed that if there are any groups often women anyone from his son india must hand over those groups with his son and we've been we've been terrific action possible the same statement saying that you know war is not the solution is the only solution and we can sort things out by having dialogue again off the indian air force inclusion and then. taking action today again imran khan has addressed the nation and he was convened his message across the border making it very clear that dialogue is the only solution and indian market son must sort everything through done in office the positiv

prime minister narendra modi after observing two minutes of silence for the victims squared up to islamabad by suggesting pakistan was harboring those behind the deadliest bombing in three decades just that it is ideas that are to follow a neighboring country thinks that it will succeed in creating instability through such and conspiracies in our country they should stop dreaming. of it. they will never succeed. but islamabad strongly rejected quote any insinuation that seeks to link the attack to the state of pakistan without investigations whatever claims or accusations india in pakistan's tribal ties risk taking a dangerous new turn. shamble shams from did have you asia is following this story for us he's currently at the munich security conference which is kicking off today so india's prime minister narendra modi has warned of a crushing response what does that mean could this go as far as india actually taking a military action against pakistan. well india claimed in the past that it carried out a surgical strike it is likely that it could do the same thing again but pakistan denied th

and this has happened in full bomb and pushed me to the diplomatic pressure is growing on pakistan islamabad is recalled its high commissioner from delhi they do see this heading. well i'm a thought it is worth noting that ties between india and pakistan have been strained and start a cli and this abuse the communication between the two countries in trees is going to create a recording to the kind of environment that it's heavily influenced by what's happening in kashmir now there was a major attack on the army back in twenty sixteen as well and over the last two and a half years that i have been very strange after the imran khan government came to bars in pakistan even the national security adviser up in pakistan that position does not exist anymore and that was one of the key channels of communication all of the channels have been very i have been very undermined by this and now that india pressing for pakistan to be isolated internationally the country has been downgraded from a most favored nation status which gives it trade benefits and there are many other a cause that india is making

khalid joining us from islamabad sunday funday car and delhi thank you so much to both. well now to the vietnamese capital have noise where u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un are just over an hour away from kicking off their second summit in less than a year the leaders are scheduled to have a brief one on one meeting followed by dinner donald trump began the day with talks with vietnamese president new in tong now the two countries signed off on a number of trade deals and trump once again held the u.s. relationship with vietnam as an example for north korea trump is pushing pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons program in exchange for economic development the talks of vietnam come eight months after a historic summit in singapore the first between a sitting u.s. president and a north korean leader. correspondent joins me now from hungary so as we've heard trump and kim will be meeting face to face today what can we expect . well i think that meeting today as you said there there's going to be a one on one conversation and then there's go

but islamabad rejected quote any insinuation that seeks to link the attack to the state of pakistan without investigation. whatever the claims or accusations india and pakistan troubled relationship is at risk of entering a dangerous new phase. and here i go to the polls tomorrow for i hope the contest for hotly contested presidential elections host of candidates competing for the top shopping club in the country's youngest ever presidential hopeful areas behind me bag ok and bo is an entrepreneur and he says he's making education is focus. on the election campaign trail in nigeria's capital who is visiting a private school he's the youngest ever nigerian presidential candidate and education is his central theme. until we start to fix education it will be difficult to fix any other sectors in our nation ok who lived in the u.s. where he worked as a mathematical lecturer he's calling for thirty five percent of the country's budget to go to war it's education. because of the school's principal a surprise to see a politician who understands education. the school receives no state support and i

and thanks to asif farooqi in islamabad.s meeting the north korean leader kimjong—un today for their second face—to—face meeting. the talks are taking place in vietnam, and follow their summit in singapore lastjune. since then, critics have claimed there's been little progress towards denuclearisation. mr trump says if north korea does give up its nuclear weapons, its future would be "awesome". our correspondent barbara plett usher is travelling with the president and sent this report from hanoi. the handshake was not quite as historic this time, but a significant moment nonetheless. president trump is counting on his personal relationship with the north korean leader to get action on denuclearisation. something he failed to achieve at their first summit last year. thank you all very much. i'll take this one. you do that one, right? he's also been emphasising the economic incentive for pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons. he highlighted that earlier during a courtesy call with his vietnamese hosts. this communist countr

prime minister narendra modi after observing two minutes of silence for the victims squared up to islamabad by suggesting pakistan was harboring those behind the deadliest bombing in three decades just that it is sad is that if our neighboring country thinks that it will succeed in creating instability through such acts and conspiracies in our country they should stop dreaming. that they will never succeed. but islamabad strongly rejected quote any insinuation that seeks to link the attack to the state of pakistan without investigations whatever claims or accusations india in pakistan's tribal ties risk taking a dangerous new turn. spain's prime minister pedro sanchez has called a snap general election after his budget was rejected by parliament the poll will be on april twenty eighth and will be spain's third election in less than four years sanchez's budget was voted down parliament on wednesday his minority socialist government needed the backing of catalan separatist parties to get the budget of clearance but they withdrew their support in protest of the trial of cattle and politicians

excuse me in a war of words or well let's get the view from islamabad a political analyst joining us on the line. time today so just last hour i was talking to sort of highly retired group commander of the pakistani air force a guy that knows his guns if you like knows how things work there. i put it to him has diplomacy run out after all these years and is this just a tit for tat is it going to come and he gave a really alarming potential outline that know it could flare up and could potentially lead to a nuclear conflagration do you share that view as well well first of all thank you very much for having me on the show. i would. like to start with the you know what i were happening between pakistan and india right now the tensions are rising. and it was actually started off by india and box money nation all together have jelled on this kind of tension and that's kind of in korean from indian sign so oxfam military park or any nation park you know meant they're all on one page. had to retaliate which box landed today it was a matter of getting into and on our pakistan not only for e

but islamabad rejected quote any insinuation that seeks to link the attack to the state of pakistan without investigation. whatever the claims or accusations india and pakistan is troubled relationship is at risk of entering a dangerous new phase. after some of the other stories making news around the world authorities in zimbabwe are trying to rescue a group of illegal gold miners trapped into flooded shops it is thought however that none are likely to have survived officials believe around forty people are trapped underground in the settlement of battles fields out west of the capital harare flooding happened on tuesday after a nearby downburst. a new report estimates of four hundred twenty million children undergoing in conflict affected areas that's a fifth of all children worldwide the study was commissioned by the international charity save the children and also said that verified cases before they called grave violations against children in twenty seventeen are the highest ever recorded . hundreds of thousands of students and i don't say in the united states observed a moment of sile

early for that thank you very much come out high deadline for us in islamabad. on to other news now and sixteen u.s. states is suing donald chon for declaring a national emergency to secure funding for his mexico border wall a coalition of states including california new york and illinois and it's accusing the president of violating the constitution trump made the declaration on friday after congress refused to grant him five point seven billion dollars he demanded for the wall the lawsuit argues that doesn't have the power to divert the funds because congress is in charge of spending that coalition says it's taking legal action to protect its residents natural resources and economic interests john hendren explains why chimes emergency declaration has met several challenges president donald trump faces his biggest challenge yet in the effort to build a wall along the u.s. border with mexico that is because sixteen states on monday filed a suit in the u.s. federal court asking the court to stop the president from moving forward with spending money based on his de

arrived in islamabad a day after he was originally scheduled to land he was greeted by prime ministeriran khan and given a red carpet welcome with a twenty one gun salute so we believe that pakistan going to be very very important country in the coming future and you want to be sure that we are part of that so we are waiting for that kind of leadership to partner with and to build a lot of things together today we signed them or use we believe it's the amount of that kind of investment is twenty billion dollars it's big for phase one and definitely. every month to be in a bigger numbers and it would be beneficial for both countries. we've talk about tourism and mr prime minister of whom i can because we plan to announce that after a few days or maybe ten days from today. we're not planning to announce that we're going to target one hundred million tourists so used to do some trick to announce you know a little number to achieve more but now we have to be committed to one hundred million tourists i kind of terms that in twenty thirty but we would reach that one one day a twenty four ho

that evolution will be speaking to mail in new delhi in just a moment but for us to come out in islamabad come on very conciliatory tone from the pakistani prime minister but also a firm one just how difficult a balancing act this is for iran khan. we're live theater member. has always been favored over dialogue with a complaint that every time pakistan talks about dialogue the indians raised the issue of. budgets gone with a whip to most hated them for a while fifty seven need to be but they had been that it didn't interest of pakistan. militants to go across the border attack india at any rate it is nor in the interest of pakistan that dictated if you would other countries to our budgets don said they. need to have a big. so it would not be over any benefit for bugger started to carry out such a deadly attack. on conference and pakistan he also said that india has to look at the reality. that there was a huge crisis and it has to be. of course imran khan as you mentioned also giving a stern warning. take it lying little in case there was any retaliation for that attack yeah indeed he is

secunder kermani, bbc news, islamabad.what is the current state of relations between india and pakistan? our diplomatic correspondent james robbins is here with his analysis. a profoundly dangerous dispute between india and pakistan over kashmir has festered for more than 70 years now. two wars have been fought over it. india and pakistan have never settled the issue, instead carving up kashmir, divided along a so—called line of control. so why is it such a flash point? well, largely because britain's colonial exit from an undivided india was so messy and violent. partition in 1947 created not one independent nation but two, predominantly hindu india and largely muslim pakistan. much of the sectarian violence was in kashmir. what really matters now is the scale of the risks in this conflict, which can genuinely be called global risks. and that's because since the 1970s, first india, then pakistan, developed nuclear weapons, creating a far more dangerous backdrop to all the current tension and violence. so why has this late

correspondent fed to me and in new delhi in just a moment but first let's go to the pakistani capital islamabad where our correspondent come on high that is standing by what more are we hearing from the pakistani government about this incident command. first of all what the budget's danny milegi is saying indian. crossed into ministers. of god capitalism would up for just a couple of days ago and then. tried to intercept the indian. turned back dropping that. normally a menorah if you are going to gain speed across the border back into india and. indian. to drop. that there were no underground nobody would. ordinances from the indian. so not reports of casualties or damage but how serious an incursion is this and how is the pakistani government watching to respond to it. foreign minister. do. make. a meeting to discuss the tensions between india and. all the foreign. and emergency meeting. within the next so we are. going to be a strong. warning to wall with. dialogue because war is not an option the prime minister of. strongly we have to give budgets on on the other hand ready for. forward. th

taliban talks question pakistan's commitment to and the war carney has repeatedly accused islamabad of providing sanctuaries to taliban fighters. the key to peace in kabul requires that we have a practical principled and inclusive plan for it but the keys to war are in islamabad role pindi and quiet or. a peace deal could change everything in a understand if possible ceasefire will be followed by a power sharing settlement a new constitution and then elections a process of that might create a new political reality in a country that's been at war for decades. well tribal chiefs and clerics in afghanistan have sought to assure the government that any polio vaccination campaign will not be targeted by the taliban the one month campaign to inoculate children under five started in january five million children in high risk areas need to be vaccinated but as al-jazeera discovered some parents are still suspicious about the vaccine as tony berkeley reports from kabul. this is all it takes just a couple of drops of vaccine and this baby has protection from polio the highly contagious virus att

acceptable and changed our plans behavior on a lot of us a defense and security analyst based in islamabad she joins us via skype from there we appreciate your time very much so pakistan says it was not involved if we a so that that were true can pakistan do something to stop splinter groups from doing these types of acts. pakistan is far from being involved in this it could have been this attack i as a pakistani journalist says the fact is funny the prison directive condemned the setback and i agreed with the families of the deceased but having said that india needs to invest spec'd in itself in its own policies in the wall crimes that has been undertaking in indian occupied us meet since nineteen ninety able since the. special problems act was implemented in the valley and ever since then did a full impunity granted to the law enforcement agencies and put it only to the india not need to carry out want to have good it may be to suppress the right. to film a nation and freedom struggle so it's not just on the slaughter from being dead and any kind of thing going through and i strongly den

is our correspondent in islamabad. tensions between india and pakistan remain at an all time high although did an offer from saudi arabia's foreign minister. that coded rabia would use its influence to try and deescalate the crisis between india and pakistan pakistan is also not taking any chances the pakistani prime minister said that he did not respond to the wild accusations from saying that it was because pakistan was hoarding a very significant conference for investment involved just on records being attended by that so did delegation he questioned as to what would be the benefit for progress on to conduct such an attack at that time which would be tantamount to separate dodging that gone friends and progress on it said they wanted to talk to india on all bilateral issues but the indian he said had already spun progress on golf whenever pakistan or for dialogue the prime minister said that pakistan one hundred feet in the region the foreign minister also created a day that day has to be based in the region however

it's issued a diplomatic protest to pakistan's envoy in new delhi and withdrawn trade privileges to islamabad pakistan's foreign ministry issued a statement calling the attack a matter of grave concern saying they've always condemned heightened acts of violence in the valley. has been divided between india and pakistan since one thousand nine hundred forty seven both countries claim the entire region where tens of thousands have been killed in the past three decades. the latest attack targeted a large military convoy investigates the still trying to piece together how the armed group was able to strike such a sensitive target what is the nature of explosion told doesn't happen what little just little subject of investigation. as india's national investigation agency begins its work activist came out onto the streets of indian administered kashmir with many chanting anti pakistan slogans the government to shut down into this and some areas and the military has imposed a curfew in the attempt to restore calm laura bow to manly al jazeera turkey's president says the u.s. hasn't put its full weig

trying to shore up support on his base ahead of elections in april come on high to has more from islamabad on the escalating tensions. andy after mad dog an indian tag inside buggers on each candidate he waits bugbears don said did not kill anybody on the ground and that the indians had to drop their bear lowered after day so i challenge my buggers on the interceptors the indians of course saying that they have killed hundreds of people to the military spokesman on the other hand saying that their dad goes through there would be feeling ordered by the court as a populated area and people would come out and body their dead if they're dead the indians had already tried to spring a surprise and he said earlier that he did not expect the indians to get away with that separate thing that buggers down right now spring that the bridle fits on the bugger sonny the prime minister had already called a national security committee of the cabinet he's made the military leadership and also all of the people of pakistan should be ready for any eventuality the bugs on the foreign minister also ahead a mil

decades new delhi claims it reacted to a militant bomb attack on its troops earlier this month now islamabad has responded as it said it would pakistan says it shot down two indian fighter jets wish cost into its airspace another indian aircraft crashed in indian controlled kashmir as you can see the situation is developing fast. stony combat jets have also been accused of entering indian air space and ground forces have been exchanging fire across the so-called line of control both india and pakistan claim they do not want war but the situation is the most tense it has been in decades. the wreckage of an indian air force helicopter draws a crowd the circumstances surrounding the downing of this aircraft are unclear but all is not well between the juggernaut neighbors india and pakistan the kashmir region has been central to the dispute between the two countries for decades. that is the world's most militarized zone a powder keg waiting to explode the latest escalation began two weeks ago when forty indian paramilitary police were killed by a suicide bombing and. according to the indian gove

that was affected was air china had to cancel its flights from beijing to the pakistani capital islamabad. passengers on air china's flight from beijing to islam about got to the airport only to find themselves stuck there after the flight was canceled some were understandably upset and had to change their travel plans. to friends do you think i'm going to. i cancel my then no but but then i'm going back to the united states you know i cannot stay is too many did important on my own expense pakistan evasion authorities closed the country's airspace wednesday after officials said their military shot down two indian warplanes and captured a pilot escalating tensions between the two nuclear arms rivals india also suspended flights through some of its northern airports on wednesday those services were back to normal on thursday but flights out of new delhi to both the u.s. and europe were disrupted. now from kashmir we take you now to a nother region some one thousand five hundred kilometers further south is the indian state of gujarat hooja rot is the home of indian prime minister narendra m

university and he's joining us also live from islamabad very good to have you with us on al-jazeera we'll start with the well prepared for mahama been some on what you make of it you know given the promises that we heard from enron khan especially on the campaign trail on being a very different kind of leader could really stand up for human rights. i think that we have seen that they would often as a white even a lot of credit would give is to with him and started the moment new to foreign direct investment in leading the government is expecting some kind of investment which could create the job market that's why we are looking at this a visit very significant and but what about you know the fact that mohamed bin psalm on has been facing a lot of criticism a lot of condemnation especially following the murder of journalist jamal kushal and again as i mentioned him on khan talking about how he was going to be a different kind of leader does what's going on now with this welcome in pakistan show that foreign direct investment that investment and pakistan the economy is a little bit at the e

says india needs to produce evidence for its claim that islamabad was behind a car bomb in the disputed kashmir region. also brazil is sending aid to venezuela and the quest of opposition leader. russia opens a passage for tens of thousands of people trying to escape from a remote syrian camp. and white house officials accused of repeatedly norene legal concerns while pushing nuclear sales to saudi arabia. welcome to the news are pakistan's prime minister has rejected india's accusations that his country was behind last thursday's car bombing in the disputed kashmir region that attack killed forty one indian soldiers but iran can ask for evidence of pakistani involvement and promise retaliation if india attacks his country but he also offered to cooperate with his neighbor to investigate the blast india's foreign ministry expressed disappointment at the pakistani leaders remarks saying failed to denounce the group jaish e mohammed which has claimed responsibility for the attack. that the prime minister of pakistan refuses to acknowledge the attack on our security forces and. as an act o