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some people are staying behind to defend their homes big turia gates and be al-jazeera police in new delhi have stopped a group of athletes from returning their medals to their presidents it was meant to be an act of solidarity with farmers protesting new laws in india tens of thousands have been rallying at entry points in the capital for more than a week and they're pushing to overturn laws they say will damage their livelihoods well those with problem has more. tens of well known athletes have a vibe here in the center of the capital new delhi after travelling for the past 2 days from the states of punjab and haryana where many farmers and protesting farmers from they have been met with the largest security presence here on their way to the presidential building to return their national awards now they did make a brief stop at the main protest site single where they received a rapturous welcome from tens of thousands of farmers who were blocking a key highway it doesn't look like they're going to receive a warm welcome by president romney who has denied their request for an audience but

for was 2 weeks now elizabeth raman reports from single just outside new delhi. we have been coming here to single it's the main protest site over the past 10 days and i can tell you that the crowds are only getting bigger and so is the sentiment against the government and these 3 recent agriculture laws there are tens of thousands of farmers here on this key highway between the states of howdy out and delhi and it's a similar picture on 2 other key roads coming into india's capital region and there was a nationwide call to protest and nationwide call for a shutdown by farmers on tuesday and we have seen people around the country holding demonstrations farmers and punjab of blocked another highway in the capital chandigarh students lawyers transport banking trade unions have all been demonstrating in a number of states in the states of maharashtra west bengal in addition to people who are protesting on railway tracks and actually stopped trains again because of the fama school to shut down services by anyone who supported them now police on the borders of delhi s

camped out at the sink who border elizabeth around him has been to one of the protests in the capital new delhi. well despite farm union leaders attending talks with the government tens of thousands of promise remain on to keep highways blocking the road into the capitol region of delhi now from union leaders have told us that they're attending the talks but they're not hopeful of a breakthrough and that's because of prime minister narendra modi's comments that these laws are good for farmers that they're in the interest of farmers and fama say that that's what happened last time in the last round of talks in november that the government didn't listen that they want to write guarantees around a minimum price for they produce and to nor that is why they're protesting now and that's why they'll say they'll continue to do so until the government repeals these laws meanwhile the pharmacy have had some international support the 1st international comments about what's happening here from canadian prime minister justin trudeau who said that canada will always stand by the rights of people to peacefull

farmers have been intensifying their protests blocking highways and camping on the outskirts of new delhi they say the changes will leave them vulnerable to big corporations the government argues that deregulation is badly needed let's get more from elizabeth piron and she's joining us from new delhi so the prime minister still addressing farmers right now elizabeth what has he been saying. so promised in that in that i'm already said that everybody has been demanding reforms in the agricultural sector for decades that previous governments who are now in opposition opposition parties have been trying to pass these very haven't been able to he said that they have now stopping the protests that they jealous of him because he was able to pass. which they weren't and he asked opposition parties to stop misleading farmers now that's not going to go down well with farmers all farmers don't want to be seen as being used by any political parties we've been covering these protests for the last 3 weeks and they are very much a grass grassroots movement and the protests a very much people led and it

let's bring in our guests in new delhi. we have deeper senhor assistant professor of economics at university in delhi. joining us from oxford is nikita sued associate professor of development studies at oxford department international development. and pandey is an agriculture policy specialist and the former director of the institute for social and economic change. and he joins us from bangalore and welcome to you all our us are. i'll start with you. if i may just give a quick, brief rundown of what the main, the most significant reforms, the new laws will bring about. i would the new laws, there are 3 laws. yes, one goes with the our commerce and the it's called farmers' produce trade and commerce act. now this comes under the constitution's concordant list park occurred and there are 6 or 7 points which are covered in this law. interstate, and interstate trading are produced is free, is allowed part of me did without any kind of cess duties, etc. yes. electronic trading is permitted. trade on earth must trade a bit up ban

i mean you've actually been at these protest camps near the new delhi border there have been 6 rounds of talks between the government and the farmers the government has said that they are willing to make 7 amendments to the bill including a written assurance that they will not do away with what's known as the minimum support prices for farmers the m.s.p. which is one of their biggest concern so why did the farmers reject those amendments what is it they want sadly in these talks there is actually very little talk. past each other and the government really doesn't want to listen to the far as the government not only wants to decide what it wants to say but it also seems to wish to decide what does our most should be saving every time government says be conceded this demand be conceded that in mine and in the evening farmers union says it would be never demanded it is farmers are saying something very clear procedurally all these export broccoli without that without acceptance not all known by struggle and by limited procedures they also avoid it does the trick and supposedly substantiv

since late last month tens of thousands of indian farmers have camped along highways outside new delhi's borders braving the cold temperatures and the risk of coronavirus to protest controversial agriculture reforms a minister in the interim modi says the new laws are necessary to deregulate and modernize india's agriculture sector which is the primary source of income for 58 percent of indians but farmers say they were not consulted when the reforms were pushed through and worry the changes will make them vulnerable to exploitation from large corporations so as the protests enter their 4th week is there an end in sight to this standoff help us answer this we're joined by adela seeing a spokesperson of the ruling party ajanta party and again the president of the saroj india party and a member of the take his son on the line one of the farmers organizations leading the protest against i want to start with you and because of your involvement in the protests i mean you've actually been at these protest camps near the new delhi border there have been 6 rounds of talks between the government

tens of well known athletes have arrived here in the center of the capital new delhi after travellingfor the past 2 days from the states of punjab and haryana where many farmers and protesting farmers from they have been met with the largest security presence here on their way to the presidential building to return their national awards now they did make a brief stop at the main protest site single where they received a rapturous welcome from tens of thousands of farmers who were blocking a key highway it doesn't look like they're going to receive a warm welcome by president romney who has denied their request for an audience but pharma say that the athletes rather including a limpet gold medalist say that they support farmers they support their demands and they want to return their medals and protest against what they say is the government's ill treatment to farmers. we want to tell the government that farmers provide the food to the nation the government's been stubborn in its attitude towards farmers and it should stop behaving with arrogance these laws have been made for farmers a

the united states although infection rates have shopping for them in recent weeks elizabeth from new delhi. the daily rising. despite the fact india is testing more people now than it was then. it's still not testing as many as it should be meanwhile the indian government is busy planning the 1st phase of vaccinations which are expected to begin and january. which is the world's largest. manufacturing. and another company biotech have applied for. and the indian government has said that it could voluntary inoculations as it considers. u.s. regulators have approved a 2nd coronavirus vaccine for emergency use the rollout of millions of doses of the madonna vaccine is expected to begin this weekend tests show it's more than 94 percent effective when given in 2 doses 4 weeks apart. the u.s. congress has managed to temporarily avoid a government shutdown it's approved a 2 day extension of funding to keep agencies operating until sunday that sounds republicans and democrats tried to resolve sticking points on a 900000000000 dollars coronavirus relief package temporary freezes are being used to s

in the 1st phase of its immunization campaign let's get the latest from elizabeth put on him in new delhi obviously the scale of the problem that india is facing is huge why do they want to do a dry run rather than just going straight into a vaccination program. precisely because of the scale involved in vaccinating india's population and that is why the states. for the asian and punjab have begun this 2 day trial run of the code with 19 vaccines so a number of hospitals community and primary health care centers private facilities rural outreach center is testing everything from the transport arrangements for the vaccine to the cold storage to the deployment of workers the app that's used to register and monitor people who are receiving the vaccines crowd control centers to ensure that there's social distancing and what they're doing is around $25.00 people are coming to each vaccination session they've already been identified they mostly health health care workers who will be the 1st beneficiaries of the vaccine once it. gets emergency approval and tens of thousands of workers have been

farmers on the government to fail to reach a solution demonstrators have blocked major roads near new delhi to protest reforms that would open the agriculture industry to the private sector elizabeth rodham has more from new delhi. prime minister modi said that everyone has been demanding reforms in the agriculture sector and he said that previous governments that opposition parties have been wanting to pass the same laws but haven't been able to he said that those parties who are now stoking the protests and that jealous of him for possibly laws which they weren't able to but he doesn't want credit for the law was he just wants to make farmers happy he also asked opposition parties to stop using farmers for political gain well that's not going to go down well with farmers these protests have been going on for 3 weeks now they're very much a grass roots movement and they are people who lead with tens of thousands of families if not more continuing to block 3 major highways into the indian capital region and this week they had some good news from the indian supreme court which was hearing pe

police in new delhi have stopped a group of athletes from returning their medals to the president it was meant to be an act of solidarity with farmers the protesting new laws in india tens of thousands of been running entry points to the capital new delhi for more than a week now pushing to overturn laws they say will damage their livelihoods as above purana has more from debbie. tens of well known athletes have a vibe here in the center of the capital new delhi after travelling for the past 2 days from the states of punjab and haryana where many farmers and protesting farmers from they have been met with the largest security presence here on their way to the presidential building to return their national awards now they did make a brief stop at the main protest site single where they received a rapturous welcome from tens of thousands of farmers who were blocking a key highway it doesn't look like they're going to receive a warm welcome by president romney who has denied their request for an audience but pharma say that the athletes rather including a limpet gold medalist say that t

against a new farming law although they warn will devastate their livelihoods and the campus on new delhi demonstrators clashed with police who find tear gas and water cannon and used to tones to 4 spot protesters. i. september's last clamp to minimum prices for crops and opened the door for corporations to negotiate prices directly with farm most in addition private companies can now stockpile staple crops which could previously only be done by the government's or prime minister narendra modi insists the new rules will benefit farmers allowing them to attract an investment and choose from a large number of potential buyers and ease accused opponents of deliberately spreading falsehoods. were seen the same old misinformation against these historic agricultural for is coming from the same people who have constantly misled the farmers for decades we're working with pure intentions and without any purpose of betraying anyone. a new delhi based journalist and political commentator says the moves have simply not been thought through or. through these 3 laws that the government has brought expl

a new delhi based journalist and political commentator says the moves have been badly planned.through the laws. the government has brought in a split couple hari bottle of them is gold to replace the men with far more bathroom corporate code to do things to rule for. everything to do with chasing and the cvo can reproduce. that old leaves you're reading forcing the mafia the private good to go you have to go give you far more often lead to less crime shivery of the form of interest. so one of the most appalling breaches of covert restrictions now a top european parliament member has quit after brussels police caught him trying to avoid capture what's being described as a sex orgy officers raided what's being called a gay party which has surprised many as it was part of an anti l g b t coalition it was attended by some 20 people including european diplomats shina who had been chief whip of the european peoples party was caught carrying drugs as he fled through a window and shimmied down a drain pipe when police broke in a passer by reported to the police that he had seen a man f

joggers in new delhi take advantage of the relatively clean air after weeks of toxic small stops peoplefrom venturing outside institutions including harvard say air pollution is leading to more severe cases of the coronavirus and more deaths from it and nowhere in india a situation worse than daddy the number of. desperate situation of the indian government set up a new commission to monitor sources of pollution across 5 known for the state's health experts and barr mention a seed been warning for months that the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in pollution and the impact that would have on those because of the 19. the. i don't understand the attainder let's remind you of our top stories this hour millions of people across the u.s. state of california are back on the lockdown the stay at home order is being implemented as the state reports its highest ever number of infections more than 30001 day. versus in ghana heading to the polls to pick their president and members of parliament the main presidential contenders are none of her father and the man he replaced 4 years

a new delhi based journalist and political commentator says the moves have simply not been thought through. through these 3 laws that the government has brought in a split couple hari. is going to replace the brazilian man with far more power for corporate entities there will be greater role for a broker. in deciding everything over by chasing and the savior of are going to go to reproduce and then that all believe means you are reinforcing the mafia the private good is the invisible hand is going to be far more powerful in less time should read of the farmers interests. iran's parliament has passed a bill to raise the stakes on nuclear development unless western countries ease sanctions now watching the government to suspend un nuclear inspections and boost your a new man which meant above the levels agreed with international powers but the country's president has an rouhani criticize the bill calling it bad for diplomacy a final decision on the issue rests with iran's supremes national security council the bill passed a made up role in the country over the killing of a wrongs top nuclear

a new delhi based on a sample of school commentators says the moves have been pretty badly planned. through these 3 laws. the government has brought in a couple 100 of them is going to replace the. video far more bob through corporate entities they'll be great to rule. everything to do with chasing in the sea love for good people to reproduce. that all really means you are reinforcing the mafia the private is. going to be far more. less crime should greed of the farmers interests. let's move on to one of the most surprising breaches of covert restrictions now a member of the european parliament has quit after brussels police caught him trying to avoid capture what's being described as an orgy officers raided what was reportedly a gay party which has surprised many hours years of so i was part of an anti l g b t coalition it was attended by some 20 people including european diplomats i saw it who had been chief where part of the european people's party was court carrying drugs as he fled through a window and climbed down a drain pipe a passer by reported to the police that he had see

a new delhi based journalist and political commentator says the moves have simply not been thought through. through these 3 laws that the government has a problem if it split couple 100 in parliament it is going to replace the middleman with far more powerful corporate entities there will be greater role. in deciding everything to do with chasing and the seed love to reproduce and then that only means you are reinforcing the mafia the privately is the invisible hand that is going to be far more powerful no less consider it of the farmers interests. with less than a month to go to christmas the e.u. states are responding to mass anti lock down outraged by easing restrictions but leaders fear the plans festive gatherings could spark a fresh wave of covert 19 outbreaks our europe correspondent peter oliver has the story. european leaders are facing a balancing act between keeping covert restrictions in place to stop the spread of the virus and allowing families to be together over the festive period there's also a need to try in the piece some of those that have been out on the streets of eur

these local elections were the 1st since new delhi strip the autonomy of indian administered kashmir last year effectively an exciting parts of the disputed territory india's decision to revoke self rule in the majority muslim populated region caused anger and to many kashmiris say they use these elections to make their voices heard the good car alliance 110 of the 280 contested seats. but members of india's governing hindu nationalist b j p say that also celebrating the party won 74 seats making it the single largest winner. do you believe. this is a victory for the b j p i believe it is because of the popularity of prime minister narendra modi in our towns and villages the people have faith in our prime minister and i believe in the future we will witness development the people who wanted to spread communism have failed. but the good car alliance says the election results show majority of people want the region special status to be restored the b j p says the results vindicate the 2019 constitutional changes. they discover mint has said uniformity in rules and governance will bring

where are we headed there are highways around new delhi you can't get to the people living there as food does protesting happening what next list will easily. i mean one of the things that makes this whole issue so interesting is that it is a complete standoff and this is unprecedented like i said in the 6 years that promise to modi has been in power on the one hand you have a government that does not back down a prime minister who doesn't back down on the other hand you have farmers who are the backbone of india's agriculture sector you know which employees. as i keep saying around aha of the country many have solidarity with farmers so no one knows where this is going right now not even the government the supreme court has weighed in it's jested to the government that it shouldn't pass these laws it is just a suggestion but if the government wants a face saving climb down from these from the backlash that today's laws couldn't take that suggestion but again it's a government and a prime minister who doesn't back down elizabeth cohen i'm from al-jazeera one of our correspondents you've

government says faction rates have fallen sharply in recent weeks elizabeth per annum has more from new delhi. india has surpassed 10000000 recorded cases of the supreme court saying the 19 pandemic spread like wildfire in the country because of a lack of implementation of guidelines to stop this it's asking for better cooperation between the central and state governments it's also asking the central government to find a way to give time off to functional and health care workers who it said are exhausted physically and mentally from 8 months of tireless work the good news is that the number of daily cases the daily rise in cases is the lowest it's been since mid july that's despite the fact india is testing more people now than it was then health experts say it's still not testing as many as it should be meanwhile the indian government is busy planning the 1st phase of vaccinations which are expected to begin and january. serum institute of india which is the world's largest vaccine maker and is testing and manufacturing the oxford astra zeneca vaccine and another indian company called bottom

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is our jazeera live from doha also coming up thousands of indian farmers camp on the outskirts of new delhi in protest of proposed new laws on farm produce. we could be close to form $50000.00 americans died from this far a warning from one of the top health officials in the us after reporting the highest daily death toll since the coronavirus pandemic began. at a different type of exam season hala for 1000000 students in south korea tackle the most important day in the academic calendar. we begin this news in hong kong where the pro-democracy movement has suffered a huge setback yet another prominent activist is facing time in prison and media tycoon and pro-democracy advocate jimmy lie is the latest to be taken into police custody he'll be held until a court case in april next year he's accused of fraud it comes just a day after 3 other leaders were sentenced joshua was this child ivan lamb 1310 and 7 months in jail respectively the hong kong government says that all those activists broke the law protesters say that trumped up charges to silence critics of mainland china to view the polle

dia under a banner called one nation one system that the government has planned as a product in new delhi thanks very much as both. leaders are heading into the 2nd and final day of the summit in brussels on thursday they unlocked a more than 2 trillion dollar budget which includes covert 19 recovery measures poland and hungary have threatened to veto the deal because of conditions attached to it and it is also agreed on additional sanctions against turkey over the resources and drilling speech in the eastern mediterranean. the u.s. says it's received was it calls credible reports that eritrea and troops are involved in the conflict in ethiopia's northern t grey region or its news agency quoted u.s. officials say eritrean soldiers have been helping the ethiopian military fight the local rebel forces washington has called on them to pull out of the area ethiopia and eritrea deny the reports of 2 countries fought a long running war before ethiopia's prime minister and secured a peace agreement. lebanon's caretaker prime minister says he's done nothing wrong after being charged with negligen

terms of thousands of people have been taking part in rallies in new delhi . many have travelled from outside pharma say the new laws will put an end to minimum prices that they've been guaranteed in battle. allow private bias to determine the cost of crops. let's get the latest from zeros. elizabeth brought in who's in the single that is with us now live. so there's another day of protests. what are the latest developments? hi, adrian. so we are at one of the 2 national highways that have been completely closed, coming into delhi because tens of thousands of farmers camped out here and hundreds of vehicles behind me. they're making speeches saying that this is the time to fight against these laws and ahead. hundreds of police and paramilitary personnel and riot care watching very closely. we went to the protest site that was designated by the government 4. 'd days ago, and there are very few people, they are only a few 100 compared to the 10s of thousands that are blocking the highways. and it's because of this huge disruption to traffic coming into the indian

the government buying their progeny a guaranteed minimum price elizabeth prada reports now from new delhi. the these crowds are growing at the single border crossing between the states of hyaena and delhi and so too is their resolve to occupy this national highway for nearly 2 weeks the road has been closed to traffic as thousands of farmers camped on it in their trucks they say the government's recent agricultural laws allow large corporations to set prices for projects when farmers are already struggling to make ends meet. the government. being i don't want to be predicting you know any more by the gill aiding the market you can interface with the markets or anybody else is and see what happens fine for yourselves. single has been the epicenter of the protest movement attracted not just farmers but their supporters delhi state leader iron cage iran's political party says police barricaded him inside his home after he came here to sing good to express support for farmers on monday and a number of other opposition politicians who spoken out in support of farmers were also put under house

tens of thousands of people have been taking part in rallies in new delhi. many traveled from out of state. farmers are worried that new laws will put an end to minimum prices that they've been guaranteed, and that will allow private buyers to, to determine the cost of crops. this couple is from elizabeth cohen, who is in single liz, another day of protests, then what's the latest? another day of protests, despite the fact that we have something like 36 family does. now, attending told with the government that they would invite you to the reason why the protests are continuing though, and they're not just protests that thousands of families have blocked 2 key bashing highways going into the capital region. they are continuing because farm union leaders have told us that they don't have a lot of faith in these talks. and that is because of comments that promised. in that interim ody may saying that these a good laws which are in the interest of farmers will farmers don't see it that way . that's why the 1st round of talks were unsuccessful because fatah leader

population bomb its author an american biologist won the western world of the conditions he had seen in new delhi. overpopulation was soon blamed for everything from poverty and poor resource management to destroying the environment. some countries began experimenting with moderately and political. control. china became the poster child and its one child policy resulted in a disaster gender imbalance and like other control measures in asia it was eventually repealed but the enemy had been identified as overpopulation. so what exactly is overpopulation. it is defined by carrying capacity a slightly complicated concept which basically means the number of individuals on ecosystems resources like food water and species can sustain indefinitely but demographers have consistently got it wrong. there almost. because we have. natural resources. so we're not quite sure what the odds carrying capacity is because the variables are constantly changing one thing's for sure it's not the population element that's going to be the problem. already in the developed world the population has largely stabilized begun

elizabeth has the latest from the indian capital new delhi. prime minister modi said that everyone has been demanding reforms in the agriculture sector and he said that previous governments that opposition parties have been wanting to pass the same laws but haven't been able to he said that those parties who are now stoking the protests and that they're jealous of him for possibly laws which they weren't able to but he doesn't want credit for the law was he just wants to make farmers happy he also asked opposition parties to stop using farmers for political gain well that's not going to go down well with farmers these protests have been going on for 3 weeks now they're very much a grass roots movement and they are people who lead with tens of thousands of farmers if not more continuing to block 3 major highways into the indian capital region and this week they had some good news from the indian supreme court which was hearing petition seeking the immediate removal of farmers of protesters from highways but the supreme court said the farmers ha