their reporting on a politically sensitive case in defiance of a court order and a majority pakistani muslim. from what i know of the british system has a long tradition of legal precedents do you fear that you yourself with the views that you hold may find yourself in a similar legal situation i imagine are top of the list now for being imprisoned for my views and what concerns me about tom ronson not people say well he was contempt of court he shouldn't be reporting now i understand all that i think the two key questions are or where was the swift justice for the majority pakistani muslim paedophile gangs when tommy robinson was sentence in five hours to thirteen months and secondly i see it very much you have the scriptural case here or there was an preacher was.

their reporting on a politically sensitive case in defiance of a court order and a majority pakistani muslim. from what i know of the british system has a long tradition of legal precedents do you fear that you yourself with the views that you hold may find yourself in a similar legal situation i imagine are top of the list now for being imprisoned for my views and what concerns me about tom ronson not people say well he was contempt of court he shouldn't be reporting now i understand all that i think the two key questions are where was the swift justice for the majority pakistani muslim paedophile gangs when tommy robertson was sentence in five hours to thirteen months and secondly i see it very much you have the scriptural case here or there was an preacher was alleged to have poisoned individuals on u.k. soil i don't see any difference between this cripple case with putin and what our government has done to tommy robert so they put him in prison he will not survive in prison one guard let the most of him going into his cell he's done so i think the british government is no better than put

understand all that i think the two key questions are where was the swift justice for the majority pakistani muslim paedophile gangs when tommy robertson was sentence in five hours to thirteen months and secondly i see it very much you have the scriptural case here or there was an alleged to have poisoned individuals on u.k. soil i don't see any difference between this cripple case with putin and what our government has done to tommy rope and they put him in prison he will not survive in prison one guard lets the most of gangs into his cell he's done so i think the british government is no better than putin in any regard because it silences political people that it doesn't like to hear just in the same way that it's alleged that putin did it so we are no better than russia if you are concerned that you may be next is that going to change the way you know not at all your authority if i am imprisoned for my views that it seems to me it's not the truth teller that will be in the wrong it will be the all thora t. and i would hope that there will be a new legion of of the outspoken individuals like myse

these women live in nechells, which has a large pakistani, muslim population.i'm just surrounded by foreigners. so i feel quite lonely that, you know, where is my country? but they say they are british. they would say they are british, but they don't communicate with you, you feel that as though you are not british, you are the outcast and they, you know, they say you call me an outcast, and no i'm not. i'm not calling you an outcast, you are welcome to our country the same as anybody. the challenge for the council is to make this city somewhere that people from a range of backgrounds can live and work together in harmony. the question is, how and if they can achieve that. diets designed to take inches off your waistline could end up taking years off your life. researchers in america have found that cutting down on carbohydrates in foods like pasta, potatoes and bread potentially reduces life expectancy by up to four years. here's chi chi izundu. this is the kind of carbohydrate—heavy food that, for years, has had a bad reputation when it comes to our diets. lo

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ruling pakistani muslim league locked its plurality in the election. in hudson institute washington dc reviewed the results and discuss what they mean for regional politics. this is one hour. >> good afternoon. i am the director here at the constant institute. -- hudson institute. i would like to talk about the prospects after the election. the result was a disputed pakistan regarding the pti party. he has been identified as pakistan's next prime minister and eventual savior by his supporters. he won with the support of a younger generation of pakistanis. the prior experience of government -- he was painted as a can't-do leader. he was presented to the world as financially corrupt. the circumstances of his success has raised questions. he has also adopted hyper nationalist positions. he has showed sympathy for religious extremists. electionelieve this will make little sense in pakistan's representation as a crisis state. those who are optimistic say this may be the birth of the new pakistan. pakistan a problems have deep roots. addressing that requires

ruling pakistani muslim league locked its plurality in the election.

. >> in elections last month the ruling pakistani muslim league lost its plurality in the national assembly. a panel at the hudson institute in washington reviewed the election results and talked about what they mean for regional politics. this is an hour. >> good afternoon. good to see a full house here at hudson. i am the director for south and central asia at the hudson institute. our discussion on pakistan elections and the prospects of it. on july 25th, the first election since the restoration in 2008. the results were foretold with the environment by allegations of blatant meddling by the country's all-powerful military and judiciary as well as restrictions on the media but the result was a disputed plurality. he is being identified as pakistan's next prime minister and potential savior by with the support of the younger generation of pakistanis, with the politics of corruption. with no prior experience of government he is being painted as i can do leader and as a pakistani politician he has been presented to the world as financially corrupt that many of his views and frequent u-turns

just to be crystal clear in terms of policy levels things like a pakistani goes to get a passport has to declare the bodies are not muslim that's an outrage is it not i think that is completely unrequired that's my personal view ok let's go back to the audience judgement here in the second row with losses hi i'm david frum and x. and censorship the pakistani supreme court recently called for reform of the blasphemy laws and we welcome the first step given the way in which the law is used disproportionately against muslims abused to fulfill personal vendettas and in a way that encourages extradition punishments including killings but isn't it about time that pakistan all together abolished a law that is both counterproductive and really inconsistent with a basic right to free expression freedom of religion liberty of conscience ok can i correct your facts before place on to that it is not disproportionately. bent towards minorities and i'll give you a simple fact apparently in the period of two years and this is when i was in government so this is like two to two years back there were about three hundred cases under the b

just to be crystal clear in terms of policy levels things like a pakistani goes to get a passport has to declare that what he is a non muslim that's an outrageous i think that is completely unrequired that's my personal view ok let's go back to the audience judgement here in the second row with losses hi i'm david frum and action censorship the pakistani supreme court recently called for reform of the blasphemy laws and we welcome this first step given the way in which the law is used disproportionately against muslims abused to fulfill personal vendettas and in a way that encourages extradition punishments including killings but isn't it about time that pakistan all together abolished a law that is both counterproductive and who inconsistent with the basic right to free expression freedom of religion liberty of conscience ok can i correct your facts before place on to that it is not disproportionately. bent towards minorities and i'll give you a simple fact apparently in the period of two years and this is when i was in government of this is like two years back there were about three hundred. under the blasphemy law which

the founder of the conservative muslim forum says the article was "totally out of order."opposition parties today in the pakistanith protesters calling for the head of the elections oversight body to step down, alleging fraud and other irregularities in the elections. minister elected prime says the military intervened on his behalf during the july 25 vote. the european union team that monitor the balloting has said that the results were largely credible. global news 24 hours a day, online and at tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. julie: breaking news regarding sinclair broadcast's acquisition -- aibune media, cnm reporting that sources from both companies say that tribune is likely to walk away from the deal. jimmy declined to comment. already, the deal had been thrown into question after that ftc rejected it, so there has been talk on whether they would try to persist with the deal. sinclair shares taking a little bit of a hit, tribune shares the same. we spoke with analysts, and bloomberg had a note today, a story t