your mail is standing by for us in the indian capital new delhi but first let's go to iran khan he is live and then we are waiting to hear from pakistan upon this to amman consarn in the meantime all space close to commissioner croft in pakistan and iran how serious an escalation is this. well that's a very serious escalation and it just goes to show you the how seriously the pakistanis are taking the security situation in the country the fact that they have shut them but i have to say it is standard operating procedure when tensions this high between india and pakistan the idea behind this is to simply keep control of the airspace and try and get as little traffic as possible in the air so the pakistanis can monitor any indian activity that might be coming across the border but it's not just the aspace there's been a lot of clashes on the ground over the line of control in pakistan i've been to kashmir and indian administered kashmir as well so it's not just the. flying over from india but the conscious on the ground as well the pakistani army salute the insistent that they did shoot

from new delhi. in the past few hours is even more fighting in indian administered kashmir several soldiers as well as a deputy inspector general of the kashmir police have been injured the police officer has been taken to hospital with a bullet injury to his leg and this is from the battle that began late on sunday where security forces that corner two gunmen holed up in a house there in that incident four soldiers and a civilian the man who owned the house were killed the gunmen fled were later pursued and found another battle ensued and those two gunmen were killed now this comes just days after that massive suicide bombing on thursday killed at least forty one paramilitary troopers is really rage tensions in the area as well as between india and pakistan. of course but it is monitoring developments from pakistan's capital. tensions between india and pakistan are running high after recent attacks in india now administered kashmir. the indian then quickly putting the blame of responsibility on augu

al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program pakistan recalls that some bassett are from new delhi as tensions in indian administered kashmir continue to escalate venezuelans fleeing to brazil described how unbearable their lives have been even before the latest crisis and we report on iraq's fight to revive a sports with an illustrious history in the country. thank you for joining us we start the program in nigeria where the president has called for an investigation into why the country's presidential election was postponed by a week mohamedou biharis ruling party held an emergency meeting in the capital of abuja on the election commission surprise the situation to move the vote to saturday that i jury and they don't criticize the commission saying it needed to explain its quote incompetence he also called for the reasons behind the delay to be made public but only after polling takes place. definitively. why such incompetence many of his son. has to be explained to the nation after the election we have to know exactly what happened and. i know it's our employees to. make sure tha

let's bring in our guest for this edition of inside story from new delhi. professor and dean of the gentle school of international affairs in london bitterest schofield a historian who's written a book on the conflict and in islamabad imtiaz gul head of the center for research and security studies in the capital markets of pakistan thanks for joining us here on inside story. i come to you first relations between india and pakistan have never really normalized since independence and the subsequent partition of the subcontinent in one nine hundred forty seven in two thousand and nineteen one can't really see this getting any better in the light of what's happened in the last what thirty six hours. that's right and i think it's taken on a new dimension if you could take the historical standpoint and nine hundred forty seven it was our territory and then you know it marched into something else kind of an independent struggle by some kashmiri muslims in the pakistani support and now you know increasing the last two decades of sort of more we're seeing that it so

the crises between new delhi and if. it should be under. your new delhi. but so did weighing in on this particular dispute is concerned with an attempt to deescalate the crisis that you saw in that report by phase. two and that's issue aside this is an important visit to pakistan is that which is to kill billions of dollars in investment from saudi arabia but how significant also for the saudis which attending east in search of allies. where that's an interesting question because the so did. something that was simply that so did not realize that they are isolated in some regions of the water and therefore they are now trying to focus also primarily because of the progress on china economic order dulce so did want to become a part of the chinese have red gums that they're so does of course and raise billions of dollars in budgets on perhaps the highest rates also the chinese announced over forty five billion dollars and then brought structural projects in all of that so did warn people to people relationship to focus on the prime minister cone britain's. do

as well from new delhi. in the past few hours as more fighting in indian administered kashmir several soldiers as well as a deputy inspector general of the kashmir police have been injured but the police officer has been taken to hospital with a bullet injury to his leg and this is. from the battle that began late on sunday where security forces that corner two gunmen holed up in a house now there in that incident four soldiers and a civilian the man who owned the house were killed the gunmen fled were later pursued and found another battle ensued and those two gunmen were killed now this comes just days after that massive suicide bombing on thursday killed at least forty once paramilitary troopers has really reached ten cities in the area as well as a tween india and pakistan. or saudi arabia has promised to help deescalate tensions between the two countries crown prince mohammed bin someone is preparing to head to india after visiting pakistan have been demonstrations in new delhi ahead of his arrival prot

al-jazeera new delhi. two bomb blasts in syria's northwestern city of idlib have killed at least fifteen people and injured fifty more the u.k. based the syrian observatory for human rights says the bombs went off in the neighborhood during rush hour it has been hit by several bombings in recent months but a wounded and killed scores of people the city is controlled by there. which is formerly an affiliate of al qaida. the commander of the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces called for up to fifteen hundred international soldiers to remain to help finish off i saw the kurdish lead as the commander in chief made the remarks during a visit by general joseph votel the head of u.s. central command he also expressed hope that america would stop its plans for a total troop withdrawal but votel said the pullout is. kurdish authorities meanwhile in northern syria say that they won't release the eight hundred foreign eisel fighters being held in prison insisting it's up to individual countries to take responsibili

let's bring in our guest for this edition of inside story from new delhi. professor and dean of the gentle school of international affairs in london the tory schofield a historian who's written a book on the conflict and in islamabad india's goal head of the center for research and security studies in the capital markets of pakistan thanks for joining us here on inside story. i come to you first relations between india and pakistan have never really normalized since independence and the subsequent partition of the subcontinent in one nine hundred forty seven in two thousand and nineteen one can't really see this getting any better in the light of what's happened in the last what thirty six hours. that's right and i think it's taken on a new dimension if you could take the historical standpoint and nine hundred forty seven it was our territory and then you know it marched into something else kind of an independent struggle by some kashmiri muslims in the pakistani support and now you know increasing the last two decades of sort of more we're seeing that it s

pakistan has recalled its ambassador from new delhi as tensions in the indian mists of cash mc continue to escalate at least four indian soldiers and two rebels have been killed in a gun battle and none of them paul won the district a twenty four hour curfew is currently in force officer forty four security personnel died in a suicide bombing on thursday august on bass group josh mohammad claimed responsibility for the attack will get the latest from come on. just a moment but first let's go to fest in new delhi for us so a significant development phase with pakistan recalling its ambassador to india and as volatile as continuing in kashmir. baucus on recalling its ambassador officially for consultations but it's being seen as a retaliation for india blaming it for last week's attack india has been launching a campaign to isolate pakistan on the international stage both diplomatically and economically and baucus town is fighting back there saying that they're being blamed though without any proof let alone an investigation and they say instead india should be focusing on the intelligenc

happened the situation has definitely escalated all right fred jamil live from the indian capital new delhi thank you write to other news now the nigerian president has won a second four year term the election commission says he won more than fifteen million votes in saturday's delayed election hot the main opposition p.d.p. has accused the ruling party of rigging the polls from the capital of his how. president mohamed to behati supporters minute visit to the at the party headquarters in a preacher confirmation that prada has won four more years of power in nigeria africa's biggest economy and top oil producer. moving. in the. world. at the main opposition leader has called for the cancellation of results in some states his party p.d.p. says some voters will add intimidated or bribed charges the ruling a.p.c. party rejects all results being on now. by the independent national electoral commission m that is incorrect. on a step that will throw our party under some nigerians worry a disputed election could lead to violence occurred it has been increased in most parts of the country as a prec

our correspondent in new delhi soni sally current spoke with professor happy among jacob a specialist in india's foreign policy she began by asking him how significant today's strikes in pakistani kashmir. if it indeed has been carried out be indeed a broken sum of money is not this is probably the first time since nine hundred seventy one that india has gone into me not but it's not this is pretty bad thank you maybe in many ways. clearly this clearly so well. to know it's. the twenty sixth it's what you can strike the criticism because specter was clearly punitive in nature in me at the ministry of external affairs for this morning strike to. be emptied but i don't necessarily believe he is so by by sort of calling it preemptive sort of going one notch high you and by getting this hour in that may not but it's not you've got you've gone one step one more step for the thing you're looking out. and then proceed to get ready to strike against not just on this morning by so i think of this for the more but it's all what doesn't he want to eat because it's so peaceful india but the south

pakistan has recalled that's high commissioner from new delhi as tensions rise over thursday's suicide bombing in indian administered kashmir several soldiers and suspected fighters were killed on monday as government forces such for those involved in the last. a new round of trade talks between the united states and china are set to be held in washington on tuesday and follows last week's negotiations in beijing which ended without a deal but negotiators say some progress has been made at resolving the ongoing trade war between the world's two largest economies china correspondent adrian brown joins us now live from beijing adrian what do you make of where we are in the talks at the moment and who has the upper hand. well as you said both sides say the progress was made last week but let's remember these talks would not be continuing in washington at the end of the week if more progress had been made so we are i think at a stage where china is beginning to accept that the negotiating strategy that had served it so well in the past simply isn't working i think china wants a deal but it

for pakistan to take action in a moment first to be able to report on india's for reaction from new delhi that first years hi there and islam a bad. tensions between india and pakistan remain at an all time high although they didn't all fall from saudi arabia's foreign minister are there out of your bag that coded abia would use its influence to try and deescalate the crisis between india and pakistan pakistan is also not taking any chances the bug italian prime minister said daddy did not respond to the wild accusations from n b a saying that it was because pakistan was holding a very significant gone friends 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 conduct such an attack at that time which would be tantamount to separate dodging that go on friend and progress on it's a wonder dog to india on all bilateral issued by d.n.d. and he said he had already gone progress on gulf whenever pakistan or for dialogue the prime minister said that bogged down one hundred feet in the region of foreign m

reports now from new delhi. another day of violence in indian administered kashmir among those killed four indian soldiers and a civilian after a prolonged gun battle between indian security forces and two gunmen who also died at least one of the gunmen is believed to have been a member of the pakistani based armed group jaish e mohammed which claimed responsibility for thursday's suicide bombing that killed at least forty one indian paramilitary troops. this upsurge in violence is further raising tensions between the two countries and prompting protests india says jaish e mohammed than other armed groups are allowed to operate freely inside pakistan from where they launch attacks on indian forces baucus on denies its involvement and says it's being blamed without any proof and without any investigation but there's anger on the streets we should take revenge the separatist leaders of these rebel fighters are in touch with most of them. there should be a whole our soldiers by the border of being mahsud for the co

our correspondent in new delhi soni sally current spoke with professor happy man jacob a specialist in india's foreign policy she began by asking him how significant today's strikes in pakistani kashmir are if it indeed has been carried out the baby broken some of my time this is probably the first time since ninety seven you wanted it you have gone and you mean by this time i mean this is pretty bad thank you mean in many ways. clearly this is all. about to notify you of. the twenty six you thought you could strike the criticism because microsoft being the putative in nature. of the ministry of external affairs for this morning striking out. to you i don't necessarily believe you. get pm keep going one notch higher by getting this out. you've got you've gone one step one more step for the thing you're looking at. i'm going to see them get ready to strike against pakistan this morning yes so i think of this for the more but it's all about what doesn't. because it's a piece for the governor's office. and easy you don't like to see this is never going to happen. the first time since nine

out for live from london also coming up on the program pakistan recalls that some bastard are from new delhi as tensions in indeed administered kashmir continues to escalate the u.s. president trump says a new day is coming in last night america as he pledges is support for venezuela's opposition leader. and we report on iraq's find to revive a sports with an lustrous history across the region. hello thank you for joining us we begin the program in nigeria where the president has called for an investigation into why the country's presidential election was postponed by a week the electoral commission approved the resumption of campaigning after the vote delayed while madiba hari's ruling party held an emergency meeting in the capital of abuja on the election commission's surprise the station to move the vote saturday the nigerian leader criticize the commission saying it needed to explain its quote incompetence he also called for the reasons behind the delay to be made public but only after the polling takes place. we have exactly what happened. well some adventure is leading presidential can

very shortly where again the prime minister is due to address the nation but for his says go to a new delhi face so india's top army commander in kashmir blaming the i.s.i. but what evidence are they providing. we're just going off what the common narrative that india always gives its here in india it's a well believed fact well believed in their mind that baucus ston that these armed groups are based on pakistani territory and that they're with impunity and in many cases they do have evidence on that this specific case they haven't presented any though because they're also one of the things of this news conference was trying to cover over the intelligence lapse that occurred many analysts and critics are saying that one of the reasons this attack happened the first place was a major lapse in intelligence why was of the convoy the paramilitary convoy so large why didn't anyone check the road why was a civilian vehicle allowed and how could so much explosives be gathered by one group and tell just officials not know about it so they're trying to shift the attention away from there for one th

in new delhi for us. palestinians are preparing to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of a massacre in hebron with demonstrations on friday twenty nine of them were killed when an american israeli settler opened fire inside a mosque on the twenty fifth of february one thousand nine hundred ninety four and as harry forces reports from the occupied west bank the consequences of that mass shooting are still being felt even from a hillside overlooking her bronze old city it's clear that this is an ancient place rich in human heritage but also visible fault lines of human conflict holding to the traditions of the abrahamic faiths judaism christianity and islam abraham himself along with his wife his sons and their wives are buried in the caves above which the ybor amy mosque now stands since israel occupied the west bank in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven jews and muslims have prayed here separately divided over the past twenty five years the division has deepened and the muslim side the call to prayer re

thank you very much for that that is fez you mean with the latest in new delhi thank you. still ahead on the bulletin a more on the allegations of sex abuse against migrant children held in custody in america and they have new evidence linking the saudi government to the nine eleven attacks in new york. blowing up in the united states i learned that the first amendment is really key to being against the freedom of the child is going to be up to the men and women for the resources that are available but it's an al-jazeera story is that we just don't tell you what the subject of the story wants to know the government is not willing to do the one thing the demonstrators want to apologize for what al-jazeera does we ask the questions so that we can get closer to the truth. everything we do is being analyzed it's being weighed and measured under those lists months. and it's not just i phones there's almost like things i mean most small phones of these days at the moment we are in a state of the universe let's start and did something that was. good rather take the risks of democ

forces that was on february the fourteenth a pakistan based group claimed responsibility for that a new delhi blamed islam a bad allegations pakistan is reject right fred shemale is our correspondent in the indian capital first so let's go to america and he's our correspondent in islamabad and in iran we've heard and seen your namesake the prime minister imran khan striking a very reasonable tone if you like and in suggesting that a better sense needs to prevail saying pakistan has no wish to escalate the situation and get into a conflict with india. that's right in his televised address to the nation which i have to say was watched by many people just simply looking around where i am people were very interested to see where he would take this and this was a very impassioned plea for cooler heads to prevail he gave examples from history where tensions have escalated into war war the wars become a thing within themselves and what he's also saying is that pakistan would defend its own borders and did defend its own borders but now he wants to sit down with the indian prime minister and talk thi

some of the picture as we go on into sassed i just notice it cools off a touch for new delhi the cloud just sinking a little further south was just freshen up a touch say high around twenty four. hours well on friday some bits and pieces of clout with the possibility of right to the south. donald trump has talked of a special bowl with kim jong un. now the u.s. president and north korean leader ought to meet again this time in vietnam were both very honored to eight months after making history in singapore and they strike a deal on nuclear weapons. and finally and the korean war follow us on the twenty seventh of february for special coverage on al-jazeera. arabic. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories on al-jazeera there are ports they'll be no further evacuation of civilians from last played in syria on thursday several truckloads of people have left the village but who was in the east of the past two days the battle to wipe out the young group is taking place in the area. the rescue effort has been called off in bangladesh is capital dhaka right for a huge blaze told through

do anything that might escalate violence with baucus on itself thank you for that live for us in new delhi. in other world news sixteen usa says suing donald trump for declaring a national emergency to secure funding for his border war with mexico the coalition us asynchronous california new york and illinois and it's accusing the president of violating the constitution trott made the declaration on friday after congress refused to grant him the five point seven billion dollars he wanted for the wall the lawsuit argues that john doesn't have the power to divert the funds because congress is in charge of spending the coalition says it's taking legal action to protect its residents natural resources and economic interests john hendren explains why chomsky 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

wow the reaction from new delhi in a moment but first iran khan reports from islam about. what caused this indian fighter jet to crash is disputed between these two nuclear rivals but it was evidence that pakistan and india were confronting each other in the skies above the borders and it prompted this appeal from pakistan's prime minister to india's leader nur interim ot. sort of harm you but 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 were shot down i will say the pilots are with us the problem is where do we go from here. that you have nic tell us the pakistani air force says it shot down two indian warplanes after they crossed into its territory in the disputed region of kashmir one crashed in the district of goma. and i have firstly we need to clear the rubble and then deal with the injured after that the air force technical team.

continue to feel stuck in the middle of the conflict without an end in sight as jamil al jazeera new delhi now a public hearing as begun in bangladesh of the results of december's disputed election the opposition says promised to shake a scene as landslide win was rigged and it's calling for a new vote under a neutral government has more now from. several hundred people gathered here at the bangladesh supreme court auditorium for a public hearing on the controversial december thirty election this was called opposition l.-i the national unity front the candidates shared their experience what they face before during and on that day off the election i spoke to an independent analyst as to what they want to achieve through this kind of public airing this is what professor there are children had to say. to all the information together and make them. think about the election. and. this is part of that. to make people the opposition members they're still continue to face harassment intimidation and false charges by the authorities and most cases they're not allowed to speak in public rallies they

some of the picture as we go on into sassed i just notice it cools off a touch for new delhi the cloud just sinking a little further south was just freshen up a touch say high around twenty three celsius here in doha as well on friday some bits and pieces of cloud with the possibility of writing to the south. when you're from a neighborhood known as a hotbed of radicalism. you have to fight to defy stereotypes. but in the meeting. the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them but in all modern history one man when they. will be given survived the initial little. some of the books are this is you the. amount just zero. welcome back just a quick look at the top stories this hour now there are reports that civilians will no longer leave syria's east and village of by on thursday u.s. backed rebels are preparing to launch a final assault on the area which is icily last wrong hold. at least seventy people have died in bangladesh's capital dhaka are after a five ripped through several buildings and pope francis has opened a landmark meeting on child sex abuse in the cathol

indian soldiers on the fourteenth of february or it will speak to fez jamil our correspondent in new delhi in a little bit first of all though let's go to our correspondent in ranker and he's in the pakistan capital islamabad so the news then in around the practice on this close it says space to commercial flights is a serious escalation in terms of the the state of emergency that is being experienced by parts of the country. that's absolutely right the shutting down all the space to civilian traffic is serious but it's also standard operating procedure when tensions are they so to level now what we're hearing from the ministry of foreign affairs and the army are very strong statements when it comes to the downing of the indian aircraft now the army in the ministry of foreign affairs insists that two fighter jets were downed on one pilot has been arrested and two were killed in the last hour we've seen footage been released by the pakistani all the of the downed aircraft pictures of the captured pilot himself so the pakistanis are saying that we have this man in custody this did happen how

has more from new delhi. in the past few hours has been more fighting in indian administered kashmir several soldiers as well as a deputy inspector general of the kashmir police have been injured the police officer has been taken to hospital with a bullet injury to his leg and this is from the battle that began late on sunday where security forces that corner two gunmen holed up in a house now there in that incident four soldiers and a civilian the man who owned the house were killed the gunmen fled were later pursued and found another battle ensued and those two gunmen were killed now this comes just days after that massive suicide bombing on thursday killed at least forty one paramilitary troopers is really race tensions in the area as well as between india and pakistan. is monitoring developments for us from pakistan's capital. tensions between india and pakistan are running high after recent attacks in india now administered kashmir over forty indian soldiers the indian then quickly putting the blame of r

thank you for joining us pakistan has called back at some basset or a from new delhi as tensions in indian administered kashmir continue to escalate at least four indian soldiers into rebels have been killed in a gun battle in the northern pole juana districts a twenty four hour curfew is currently in force after forty one security personnel died in a suicide bombing on thursday pakistan based hama had claimed responsibility for the attack now we have correspondents covering this story from both islamabad and new delhi will speak to come out in just a moment but first a phase john mail in new delhi face diplomatic tensions and more violence i understand in indian administered kashmir bring us up to speed for a with what's been happening on the ground. fawley in the last couple of hours there's been more injuries among security personnel several soldiers as well as one of the deputy inspector generals of the police have been taken to hospital with injuries the police officer we have learned has a bullet injury in the leg so this is a continuation of the counter we speak again late on sunday

on both sides of the border so much depends on how the two countries move from this point and if new delhi chooses to act militarily and after pakistan's just shooting claim today things good began really out of control in my opinion what are the incentives for delhi to ratchet up tensions and what are the incentives for pakistan to also respond with force i think both countries in the rulers the government of prime minister khan's government in pakistan and indian prime minister modi are also looking at the domestic audience we know that the elections in india or in may. prime minister modi does not want to appear as a weak leader and after india's strike on pakistani soil on tuesday it is very difficult for prime mr han to not do anything so both countries both their leaders are actually trying to wait to their people in their respective countries that they are not weak and that is the danger here because this could really late into a full blown conflict now what are some ways they can deescalate this conflict. i think it is really important that the international community acts now the

border shelling between india and pakistan and suspicious kashmir region comes a day after both new delhi and islamabad so they shut down each other's fighter jets pakistan says it's down to indian planes and captured the pilots and prime minister and one can is calling for dialogue india says it shot down one pakistani aircraft and lost one of its own negotiations to end afghanistan's seventeen year war have been paused for a few days talks between senior taliban officials and the u.s. special peace envoy sound like little that are expected to resume in cattle on saturday afghan taliban co-founder and political chief of dog ali baradar has been leading the discussions. a dispute between two train drivers is being blamed for causing a crash in cairo which killed at least twenty people forty others were injured when the speeding train slammed into a barrier the capsule's main station and at least twelve children including five newborn babies have died in iraq refugee camp on syria's border with jordan since january aid groups blamed freezing weather and poor conditions last month while an

overseas four hundred million liters of sewage comes from new delhi every day of more than half of that is left untreated. prime minister narendra modi's government has been pumping millions of dollars into projects to clean up india's rivers. but environmental experts say it's not working the believe government has been not five years under the water act against any polluter so far as the human is concerned in the country was it not more than twenty three is that existed under the provisions of the what the prevention of pollution act which provides for him but isn't meant by michelin for any person who is actually polluting our river. the hindu community considers through the sacred but it ceremonies carry their own breasts the gun the design you look at it then it's people who doubted the river is the residents who made it impure but for me it's not dirty i drink this water too. for many the river kinds is the spirit but the mix of sewage and pollution is also damaging health and destroying livelihoods laura doesn't badly al-jazeera. still ahead and then big scale legend lindsay vonn

river which flows through new delhi also polluted environmentalist can survive with needs of liters of sewage or dumped into the river every day. reports. at first it seems these fishermen are paddling to snow but the foam resting on the murky black water is sewage parts of the illinois river flowing through new delhi have been labeled dead best so polluted very life is able to survive yet many people depend on the river for their livelihood. or the pollution aphex business left with the fish used to try for now they cannot survive. because the entire city's waste is being dumped into the yemenite ever the government doesn't do anything to clean it. it's illegal yet industrial waste rubbish and untreated sewage are dumped into the young. almost four hundred million liters of sewage comes from new delhi every day and more than half of that is left untreated. prime minister narendra modi's government has been pumping millions of dollars into projects to clean up india's rivers. but environmental experts say it's not working the delhi government has still not filed a single case under the

and we'll have more of that but later on in the news hour but let's go to the indian capital new delhi our correspondent as jimmy is joining us live from there i believe we've heard from prime minister morty on these tensions what's he been saying. elizabeth he hasn't been speaking about directly about the situation unlike pakistani government officials in fact what we heard today was much more of a political cry what's happened is it was more lashing out at the office vission prime or sooner and there movie was speaking to party workers and volunteers at fifteen thousand locations across the country through an internet forum and there he said the opposition should stand united the country should stand united as it not doing so would be more allies india's meet india's military now since the the attacks in february fourteenth that sparked this entire incident the february fourteenth attack that the suicide bombing that targeted about forty indian paramilitary troops the opposition stood united with the government here is a bit they said we are with the government we stand behind it is

let's go live now to fez jemaine in new delhi so what so what spin happening now what is the latest you're hearing right now. well the latest we heard is that this battle is still going on there hasn't been any firing in the past few hours but about three or four hours ago it was reported that several soldiers and police officers have been injured from gunfire and were taken to hospital now as you mentioned a big part of this battle which began nearly twenty four hours ago began when security forces surrounded a home in a village in the district of indian administered kashmir there was a gun battle between two gunmen four soldiers and a civilian were killed and the gunman escaped security forces vengefully caught up with him several hours later there's another gun battle and then the two gunmen were then killed and then a few hours later we have this latest with those soldiers and police officers being injured as well so this just cause a high lights that that one incidents that happened last week where at least forty paramilitary soldiers were killed would really raise tension this

in our panel now in islamabad mo a political commentator in pakistan and geo strategic analyst in new delhi skype sanjay cack editor of witness kashmir one thousand nine hundred six to two thousand and sixteen and a specialist on the kashmir conflict and in london. a senior lecturer in international relations at the department of war studies at king's college london a very warm welcome to all of you at night if i can start with you because a lot has happened or when's the jets downed lives lost plenty of competing narratives what's the situation as you see it. well right now i think that in some senses the sort of mutual retaliation of air strikes is actually getting us hopefully to a situation in which we can start deescalating india has achieved its objectives in terms of hitting supposedly jaish e mohammad camps inside of pakistan but then pakistan feels especially since its own. challenges in terms of its airspace following the capture of bin laden in two thousand and eleven. feels like it needed to respond to this abrogation of its own airspace and now it has done so and actually. coul

has recalled its high commissioner from new delhi as tensions rise in indian administered kashmir four indian soldiers two suspected members of an armed group on a civilian were killed during a gun battle in on monday government forces are still looking for suspects involved in a suicide bombing thursday that killed more than forty of its paramilitary troops fans jamil has more from new delhi. in the past few hours it's been more fighting in indian administered kashmir several soldiers as well as a deputy inspector general of the kashmir police have been injured the police officer has been taken to hospital with a bullet injury to his leg and this is from the battle that began late on sunday where security forces at corner two gunmen holed up in a house there and that incident four soldiers and a civilian the man who owned the house were killed the gunmen fled were later pursued and found another battle ensued and those two gunmen were killed now this comes just days after that massive suicide bombing on thursday killed at least forty once paramilitary troopers is really race tensions

all right let's go to france shemale our correspondent who is in the indian capital new delhi says he very much is the indian government is determined to be tough on on him what it considers to be a very important dispute both with. and internally and it's administered part of kashmir. martine that's exactly what's going on but the government is actually taking a couple different routes prime minister narendra modi right now is addressing a pre-election rally roger start to retired military personnel and there he is saying to the personnel and also to the country to the media that india is safe in my hands i filled my promise of the tally aiding and i will not let the country be erased now the foreign minister who the foreign secretary rather who we also heard from he took a little bit different route he was saying that this was a preemptive strike that they only targeted jaish e mohammed the armed group that publicly claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing earlier this month that killed indian paramilitary forces and that they didn't target the pakistan military they didn't ta

indian administered kashmir earlier this month we'll speak to our 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. stron

let's go live now to fez jamil he's in new delhi for us sometimes first will just tell us a bit more about this latest violence. well laura this latest violence began late on sunday when security forces engage in a gun battle with armed gunmen who are holed up in a house in india that mr bush near that's when four soldiers and one civilian the man who's the owner of the house were killed security forces then pursued the gunmen and then later on monday there was another gun battle where the two gunmen were killed and security forces are saying now at least one of the men may have been responsible in their belief for the attack last week that killed at least forty paramilitary soldiers and what's this case in session court of justice all about what to expect saying from that today. well the timing of this court case that the i.c.j. is completely coincidental the decision was made by the court in december to hold it now this revolves the case of bush on job that he's a retired indian naval officer and india says he's a businessman who was kidnapped taken to pocket stand where he was the

overspill hundred million liters of sewage come from new delhi every day and more than half of that is left untreated. prime minister narendra modi's government has been pumping millions of dollars into projects to clean up india's rivers. but environmental experts say it's not working the delhi government has still not find a single case under the water act against any polluter so far as the human is concerned in the whole country was in not more than twenty years that existed under the provisions of the water prevention of pollution act which provides for imprisonment punishment for any person who is actually polluting a river. the hindu community considers through the sacred but it ceremonies carry their own risks the design of the got there. it's people who dirty the river is the residents who made it impure but for me it's not dirty i drink this water to. bury the river kinds is the spirit but the mix of sewage and pollution is also damaging healthy and destroying livelihoods laura bassett badly al-jazeera. so you may remember the new horizons probe which captured images of the ul

to deescalate the crisis and that is emanating from days i read today coming out of new delhi. the foreign minister interesting the idea to inform their security council the five member. he feared and it would weeks ago that he feared. india was going to create a bashing atmosphere of bashing ahead of the election. and said that they may even regard to some sort of mission a grand job in order to. do extreme measures to ward things are quite serious and of course pakistan thing they're doing maximum constraint. now weighing and that expected by the crown prince. so we should he read that international diplomacy can defuse the crisis because india. is a bilateral issue and blaming the i.s.i. for india is something that is not new i don't think that india can afford any cross or escalation in this crisis because it's not going to go down well on either side of the border and. even within india that such rhetoric may lead to something which both countries cannot afford and just how difficult a balancing act for the pakistani prime minister imran khan we know has been very keen to

proof for pakistan to take action in a moment as jimmy will report on india's full reaction from new delhi first though here's kamau hyder in islamabad. tensions between india and pakistan remain at an all time high although dayton all far from saudi arabia and foreign minister are there out of your bag that so did a b i would use its influence to try and deescalate the crisis between india and pakistan pakistan is also not taking any chances the bug italian prime minister said that he did not respond to the wild accusations from and they are saying that it was because pakistan was holding a very significant gone friends 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 conduct such an attack at that time which would be tantamount to separate dodging that go on friends and progress on it said he wanted to talk to india on all bilateral issue but the andean he said had already done progress on gulf whenever pakistan or for dialogue the prime minister said that bogged down one hundred feet in the reg

welcome to the news grid india airstrikes add to the standoff between two nuclear armed rivals new delhi hits targets close to the border of pakistan and pakistan administered kashmir in the wake of the recent suicide attack on security forces both countries have come out with conflicting claims on the impact of the strike. kim jong il and donald trump are in vietnam for a second that some of their hosts went to war with washington but both sides are now major trading partners does vietnam provide a model for trump on kim on building economic and diplomatic ties from scratch and the resignation of iran's foreign minister is laying bare a power struggle between moderates and conservatives amplified by washington's exit from the nuclear deal by mohammad javad zarif president hassan rouhani. indicated he wants a reef to stay. where the president there's only one foreign policy and only one foreign minister. has been convicted on multiple counts of. social media or action so that story said tweets us throughout this. great. lead. here with the news grid we're live on air we're streaming onli

say the reason for that may partly be not to further antagonize baucus don but on the streets of new delhi use of the strike was welcome. india has given a perfect apply to pakistan and this reply was a much needed one. and vs countrymen are extremely happy and we want to tank in the forces. it won finished istead it isn't right to give them an answer if they keep it to be able to finish them. but the government is trying to keep the situation because indian officials are calling the air strike preemptive because their intelligence showed jaish e mohammad was planning another suicide attack there also describing it as nonmilitary because no pakistani military was targeted their explanation is being seen as a way to deescalate tensions between the countries but since then there have been raids and clashes in indian administered kashmir. indian security forces conducted morning raids against separatist leaders in srinagar imposing a curfew on the city and shutting off the internet. but a number of protesters defied the curfew and clashed with security forces. people living here say they've b