kings ii punjab picked up glenn maxwell for $1.5 million us. 11 punjab picked up glenn maxwell for $1.5 the g20 format with 5000 runs, gotten of the g20 format with 5000 runs, gotte n over of the g20 format with 5000 runs, gotten over 5030 times and 85 wickets. we are now going to bangalore, where another australian international was picked up. the destructive opening batsman aaron finch himself, $620,000. this will now be his eight different ipl franchise, would you believe. and going back to the kolkata knight riders, they have added the world cup winning captain himself, eoin morgan bought for $735,000, and he is expected to lead the team this season. is expected to lead the team this season. that is just a snapshot of the huge sums of money involved. the league itself last year was valued at almost $7 billion, making it one of the most lucrative sports leagues in the world. now, asad shafiq admitted he'd never seen spin like it on a day—0ne pitch in karachi after pakistan's batsmen were skittled out for under 200 on the opening day of the second test against sri lanka. in about thre

at the end of the paddy harvest every year farmers in the northern states and punjab often burn the crops that is left behind. are severely limited by hand it will take around 8 to 10 hours and they would be higher labor costs or the process is very time consuming. 20000000 tons of agricultural waste is by. during this period causing a severe worsening of equality in the region. our eyes were become very watery there were problems in our building. and there was a lot of noise around us noisier than a lot of people were going aboard crop stubble burning and pollution causing by that so reports really really are going to present their canard really how we're going to why. why you can hardly lose something when the crops. with you actually worn and. korea labs was set up by uncle kumar. and. in 2014. incubated at the indian institute of technology in delhi korea labs is working with farmers in how they are now and punjab to make crop residue profitable and prevent it from being burnt the startup has developed the technology to manufacture tableware like plates and bowls from the crops which

to be ironed out but when you have such their limbs antagonism towards this act from states like punjab which are about a very large sikh community carolina has a large christian community in the west bengal which of course has about a large hindu. majority but also that you know but the damage he appeals to the muslim community is well and the sentiments of those that community that feels under threat at the moment is a nation wide consensus not be speaking to people here generally they think that the bill will be challenges that bring both us but the congress party spokesman who has also said that they are taking this to the supreme court that report later in the day the fight has just begun really as far as the opposition are concerned it will be interesting to see how the government reacts of these sorts of demonstrations gatherings as aggressively india sees local elections in various states and whether it resonates in terms of the policies that are coming out of new delhi or whether but a few people on the ground ok so how raman in new delhi thank you. still ahead if you want i'll

it is hard to believe that a girl from a village in rural punjab has changed my country for ever.he british isles has been responsible for bringing fierce gusts of wind to ireland and here it is on the final approach towards the south—west of the country where we are seeing strong winds and wales, south—west england, seeing some very strong winds as well and all of this means we could see some disruption into the first part of monday morning with tree branches down but the severe gales will slowly ease through the day and what we will be left with four monday is a complex low working in towards europe and we get these cold, northerly winds plunging south across the uk and that means in terms of the weather it isa that means in terms of the weather it is a dry day was sunshine, however there will be showers working down the north channel across the isle of man into the north west of england and certainly lots of showers through the day in northern scotland and a few of them will come down the north sea just clipping eastern areas, particularly norfolk. temperatures between five and

it is hard to believe that a girl from a village in rural punjab has changed my country for ever.ting the weather here in the uk so far this week with another on the way. this was tuesday's rain. the day on wednesday brought lots of showers and this massive cloud is coming in for the day ahead, and we've got further lumps with those weather fronts lying across the atlantic to bring us some further spells of rain. it's notjust rain for the concern for the day ahead. as it comes into the cold air, we could see some hill snow as well. we've seen snow, showers and thunderstorms have continued in the north through the night, and with those heavy showers, the potential‘s there to continue to wash the grit off the surfaces, the roads and the pavements, so quite slick conditions through the small hours and into the morning rush. it could be quite icy, notjust in the north of course. further south we've had a lot of damp weather and temperatures are forecast even in the towns and cities to get to around freezing. so, it could be icy and frosty certainly through this morning, but already in

it is hard to believe that a girl from a village in rural punjab has changed my country for ever.icjet strea m have a very strong atlanticjet stream which is accelerating to 180 mph and strong jet streams make intense areas of low pressure. 0n the satellite picture, we don'tjust have one area of low pressure but two, won here and here, in these areas of low pressure combined make the storm with a squeeze on the isobars on the southern flank in the area of this low pressure and that's where we will see the strongest winds diving into coastal parts of ireland and eventually across england and wales late on sunday night. weather—wise, on sunday, windy day nationwide, a day of sunshine and showers, and they will merge together to give lengthy spells of rain at times in northern ireland and scotland as colder air moves in so it will feel cooler than it has done on saturday. temperatures still 10—13d but the winds will continue to strengthen. as we had through sunday afternoon and the evening, a swathe of strong winds will accelerate the winds up to 80 mph gusts on the western coast of

it is hard to believe that a girl from a village in rural punjab has changed my country for ever. going to close out the old year and bring in the start of the new. first of all, let's not get too far ahead of ourselves, let's see how sunday is shaping up. not a great deal of change to a saturday in that we have a weather front still there across the north and north—west of scotland and it doesn't look as though the pattern further south is that much different to saturday other than we think there's a better chance of there being somewhat drier air coming into the south—eastern quarter of the british isles which will help to break up some of the cloud so a better chance of seeing a bit of sunshine. 8—10c here, but under the more complete blanket of cloud over the north of scotland you could be looking at 12, 13, possibly even 1a degrees. there are signs of a change as we go into monday in that that weather front will slowly begin to show signs of wanting to come a bit further south, a lot of cloud around during the course of monday night so relatively speaking for the time of year

it is hard to believe that a girl from a village in rural punjab has changed my country for ever. of wind. looking at the top gust, well, that was recorded in capel curig in the north—west of wales, where we had a gust of 78mph. but quite widely, really, across northern england, scotland and wales we had gusts well up into the 60s of miles an hour, and there was reported some disruption out and about as well. the squally band of rain has been pushing its way clear and now ourfocus is on showers following. you can see this line of showers just out to the west of ireland. this is a trough that's going to be quite important for our weather. the other thing you'll notice as well is that it is going to feel quite a lot colder, looking at the weather picture for wednesday. so with more detail, if you're heading outside over the next few hours, showers will continue for northern ireland and scotland. wintry, may have some snow up over the high ground in scotland, where things get a little bit slippy. 0therwise temperatures only just above freezing. so probably not frosty but feeling cold

it is hard to believe that a girl from a village in rural punjab has changed my country for ever.ettled one, particularly for the second half of the weekend, as low pressure takes over, bringing strong winds — gale force winds for many of us — and also showers or long spells of rain, some of which will be heavy in places. however, i have got to stress the weekend doesn't start off on such a bad note, thanks to this ridge of high pressure. winds will be lighter for a while. but we look to the west, this area of low pressure which will arrive late in the day across northern and western areas. so, indeed, for much of england and wales, it should be a dry start with some sunny spells around. the further north and west that you are, though, the clouds will increase through the day, as will the south—westerly wind. and the rain will begin to pepper, particularly across scotland. it will be heavy across some western areas. temperatures not bad for the time of year — highs of around 10 or 11 degrees. and then through saturday evening and saturday night, that wet and windy weather sweeps a

it is hard to believe that a girl from a village in rural punjab has changed my country for ever.y and murky start in many parts of the uk. it's going to stay mild throughout the weekend. in fact, by sunday, some spots could get up to 14 or 15 degrees. it should slowly turn a little brighter as well but there will always be some rain at times towards the north—west. this is the earlier satellite picture. and what we've had is a moist south—westerly flow across the british isles bringing a lot of cloud, some mist, some murk, some drizzle, and the thicker cloud up to the north—west associated with this waving frontal system here, which will continue to feed rain into parts of northern ireland and scotland through the day ahead. so this is how saturday's weather shapes up. across england and wales, yes, a lot of cloud, mist and murk to start. the odd spot of drizzle, but it should be basically a dry day. and i'm hopeful that cloud will break up to some extent — particularly across parts of north wales, and merseyside and parts of north—east england as well. rain will feed into parts

the indian institute of technology in delhi korea labs is working with farmers in how to honor and punjab to make crop residue profitable and prevent it from being burnt the startup has developed the technology to manufacture tableware like plates and balls from the crop stop which in its original form has no market value the end product is eco friendly and cheaper than its plastic counterparts. after collecting that a straw from the fields has to be job done and. then it is the main where it will be washed the garden the sound that comes along with it will be washed over. so far the founders are doing most of the work on their own to clean the rice straw the use the normal washing machine. some chemicals added in order to loosen the fibers. then the rice straw esteemed and turned into a paste. the founders call the beast. this is what gets processed into table with. labs is working on another innovation to decentralize operations and manufacturing and put the onus on farmers to recycle the crop arrestee. our model is basically that. machine will sell those small manufacturing owners who

help the country save billions of dollars every year on import of vegetable oil in the government of punjab a culture department launched of maggots flagship program that they're developing put a hole into an olive valley since. 201516 in this project we have the planted almost more than 1000000 olive trees on and off for 800 acres you can say 3200 hectares and 750 different farmers who walked by the fate of this project nord only a day or live tree a grade carbon sink or a drill also a straw blind erosion and experts say their dead will also mitigate the effects of climate change the potential for all lives in pakistan is great not only religious order country on the map of oil exporting and all if we're getting the concrete it will also help raise revenue for poor farmers live across this is a very beneficial and really useful important especially for decision it was this is the sort of place where you don't have. many legs for the resources initially are delivered for 4 to 5 years but then when you get don't work you've got did your dental does. what 30 years compare bugger. and. there a

country we are seeing protests at different levels civil society students activists west bengal kerala punjab parts. and even telling garners so this is not going away a couple and the fact that state ministers have become involved somehow i think it was. only the one from west bengal but maybe up to 5 of them getting involved in protests. yeah indeed i mean the prominent one is month the ban the chief is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to opposition politics many decades ago she actually part of the congress party she left the congress party formed talk own party called trinamool which is based in west bengal and she ousted then the majority communist party to basically rule that states of my own 1520 years and she she is a force to be reckoned with and basically she saying that her political party her supporters will be out on the streets from monday on was obviously it's tuesday now we're expecting very large protests in west bengal over the next few days that we're also hearing that civic leaders and political leaders in mumbai and maharastra are also set for large demonstration

has since sought asylum in canada had a case attracted global attention and led to the killing of punjab governor salman to see if he was shot dead by one of his bodyguards and 2011 to see oppose the best meal laws and had called for bibi to be pardoned 3 months later pakistan's minorities minister was killed by gunmen in islamabad shahbaz bhatti a christian had received death threats after suggesting that the blast me laws be reformed but our correspondent come out hide it is in islamabad and he says should have fears came to pakistan from the united states and was hired as an industry trichet professor. it's a fulbright scholar enough god has also. prayed for did i get to make however a group of students then objected to his facebook page a q demo of blasphemy and printed 13 able to read david and charged with blasphemy under buck get stung all to 95 of the penal code that did the pockets on penal codes anyone who defies the name of the prophet. provides for the sentence of death in this particular case has been in jail. 6 long. a number of the judges have already been and today they w

very hard across much of the region i want to show you some video across much of the region this is punjab the visibility is coming down with very dense fog temperatures only reaching to about minus 4 to about minus 3 degrees and overnight it's into the minus double to single digits this a very cold very stagnant air across much of the area we're going to be seeing much of the same over the next few days new delhi a little chilly for you as well with the terms of their of about 60 degrees down towards the south though finally we're getting a break from that very heavy rain that was also affecting parts of sri lanka up towards kolkata though it is going to be a partly cloudy day with attempt a few up $22.00 degrees and then very quickly across the gulf we are going to be watching increase of rain across parts of somalia with attempted there of $27.00 degrees and as we go towards sunday more heavy rain across the region. and that's because technological and peace and binoculars and group public teat live side by side. in its last episode life ops challenges canyon up developers to help small

it happened with a certain set of circumstances and similar restraints were put into place in the punjab introduced done in good rock the point is when these restrictions were put also in places like bengal in a stamp it was because tens of thousands of people were killed in the partition violence now right now these restraints have been put into place because we had a choice of either having temporary restraints or permanent loss of lives you haven't told me what these people had done 4000 people in german kashmir after your ogust. changes if you like in the status of kashmir why 4000 people were detained you haven't told me why i don't know that it is 4000 but i will tell you that if the same detentions had happened in 94748 which we believe should have happened then we would have been integrated to india now so you don't you don't know why these people know i do know why these people many of them have gone. on the record questioning the constitution of india questioning the larger question unable they are allowed to question but they are not allowed to take arms they are not allowed t

political leaders in the states of carola punjab and west bank said publicly they will implement the law leading to a potential conflict with new delhi. it is the beginning of something very personal you know you 1st put a star then you put people to a ghetto then you finally take them to then point out this unfortunate it could be the beginning of what could result in. disenfranchisement of a very significant population in india. the numbers here may present the indian prime minister different remote he with his biggest challenge since august the 5th when he stripped indian administered kashmir the only state in india to have a muslim majority population and it's autonomy that in november his government want a historic court battle between hindus and muslims ownership of a disputed religious site i tell you with a pradesh and now this the see a muslims are the only ones affected the law also prevents inducing tamils. from gaining citizenship critics say secular protections ingrained in the indian constitution now under threat and it seems that a long political social and cultural fi

against citizenship and also she feels that within her state the act itself like many other states in punjab and carola are also saying their state leaders saying they will not cooperate with the way that the act has to try and identify illegal immigrants because of the way that it is proportionally seen as being against the muslim minority here or muslim speaking migrants that have come into bangladesh now that agitation is ongoing and what the bam and she has done in west bengal which is obviously the state next to bangladesh she's also said that she's not going to cooperate in the national registration of citizens this is like a new censorship of the public that hasn't really been done since 951 and it's a nationwide project purpose initiated by central government in delhi to try and find out who is living where in a general sense this campaign is that so by not cooperating one of the most populous states said a huge message and. it's not really a big fan of the b j p government and we can expect that sort of agitation on the political level to continue we saw also that priyanka gandhi th

acted signed into law on stay is actually implemented across the states of india not several pretty punjab west bengal of all stated that they're not going to implement the law in the way that the b.g.p. led government would like what they're suggesting the suggestion jesus is that they might dilute the law to allow those that haven't got the registration papers that the identification that they from. the citizens will be allowed in that particular state because of. the citizen amendment bill which is about allowing hindus from countries that. border india to get citizenship as well as those of us here in the country that are being asked to prove that they have several generations that heritage here in the it's still a very complicated scenario and that uphill struggle is going to cause a great political social and cultural heart to people and i don't think that it's a particular scenario is going away very soon but we should see what happens there but we tend to fact i'm not somebody who has been called the west bengal on sunday very similar to what we're seeing here again thousands of pe

mindanao the region still recovering from a series of earthquakes in october jimmy allen dorgan is in punjab where family members of the missing are waiting for news. we're in the town of where that involve all those who are one of the areas bearing the brunt of the earthquakes devastation we are right in front of what used to be a 3 story building now this is what's left of it this was a grocery mart where people used to go to to buy their provisions both the tome and their offices it is believed that several people remain still trapped at the ground floor of what used to be the ground floor of this building from where i am i can still hear rescuers trying to break in breaking glass is hoping that there will still be survivors rescuers have been telling us they have been working overtime since the earthquake struck sunday afternoon several bodies have already been pulled out and they said that as early as monday morning someone was still able to send a message asking for help from inside they have already lost contact since over there some of them are actually relatives of those missing hop

opposition are trying to get out and that message is being replicated across states such as terror punjab and in west bengal the west bank or on sunday we're expecting a very large gathering of trinamool congress supporters led by the band the g. the chief minister that also denouncing what the central government in new delhi want to implement a soon as they possibly can for the moment it seems that the government may have a much longer fight on their homes and reports now from the city of guwahati that in asked some state where 2 people have died in those protests. 17 year old musician was killed in police fighting in go harty in the capital of assam where thousands have come out on the streets to protest against indian government citizenship amendment act his family is india's they say while they have lost their son a nice become a martyr in the largest struggle to protect assamese culture that by ensuring that no more migrants get indian citizenship and settle down in assam they don't want anybody else to protest their lost all young men to stop the protests this incident has impacted

she has since sought asylum in canada her case attracted global attention and led to the killing of punjab governor. he was shot dead by one of his bodyguards in 2011 syrup pose the laws and had called for a b.b. to be part and now 3 months later pakistan's minorities minister was killed by gunmen in islamic shahbaz bhatti a christian had received death threats after suggesting blasphemy laws the reforms to the hides or is in islam about that he says join a toughies came to pakistan from the united states and was hired as an english literature professor. he's a fulbright scholar enough god had also. prayed for good academic work however a group of students then objected to a facebook page a q. demo of blasphemy and printed 13 able to read david and charged with blasphemy under buckets tang's law $295.00 of the penal code that did the pakistan penal court anyone who defies the name of the prophet. provided for the sentence of death in this particular case he had been in jail granted. a number of the judges have already been and today they were day gourds read out under maximum security insi

opposition are trying to get out and that message is being replicated across states such as carola punjab and in west bengal by west bengal on sunday we're expecting a very large gathering of trinamool congress supporters led by my band the g. the chief minister that also denouncing what the central government in new delhi want to implement a soon as they possibly can for the moment it seems that the government may have a much longer fight on the house. a us house panel has recommended the impeachment of president donald trump this is another crucial step in the process that has divided congress and really the whole nation the full house of representatives is expected to vote in favor of impeachment at some point next week this report from the white house correspondent kelly aka. another foreign visit to the white house overshadowed by domestic politics as the president apparent why sat on comfortably in the oval office u.s. president donald trump railed against the democrats pushed to impeach him in congress for his dealings with ukraine's president it's a witch hunt it's a sham it's a h

from bangalore route up to the punjab students there out and it's a range of religious backgrounds that they come from this law is is deemed to be something that strikes the heart of the constitution about everybody's liberty everybody's freedom to worship the way they want and everybody's opportunity and legal right to protest when they do not like what the government does people here felt this morning that we have the right to protest against the law that we disagree with and they were arrested and put on buses so. thank you. so 5 years of the bull that sank off the coast of mauritania say they would risk the same journey again to reach europe at least $62.00 people were killed when the ball went down earlier this month nicholas hub met some of them in the gambian city of bar where the finke full journey began. it's a journey that still haunts him. why did the others die secret you funders and why did he survive. on board we're friends and neighbors from bar all hoping to make it to europe he says they had meticulously planned the trip for weeks but the ocean often brings the unexpect

she has since sort asylum in canada her case attracted global attention and led to the killing of punjab governor salman to syria he was shot dead by one of his bodyguards in 2011 to see oppose the blasphemy laws and had called for bibi to be pardoned 3 months later pakistan's minorities minister was killed by gunman in islamabad shahbaz bhatti a christian had received death threats after suggesting that best me laws be reformed. is in islamabad with more. he's a fulbright scholar and of course had also. prayed for a decade to make however a group of students then object to his facebook page a huge demo of blasphemy and printed 13 able to read stayed and charged with blasphemy under bug a strong law 295 of the penal code i did a bucket on penal court anyone who fires the name of the property. provided for the sentence of death in this particular case has been unveiled. a number of the judges have already been and today they were big boys read out under maximum security inside the prison because back in 2014 his lawyer was gunned down and. he according to reports was kept in solitary conf

political leaders in the states of carola punjab and west bank said publicly they will implement the law leading to a potential conflict with new delhi. it is the beginning of something very personal you know you 1st put a star then you put people to it get to the new finally take them to the end point out this unfortunately could be the beginning of what could result in. disenfranchisement of a very significant population in india. the numbers here may present the indian prime minister with his biggest challenge since august the 5th when he stripped indian administered kashmir the only state in india to have a majority population and it's autonomy that his government won a historic court battle between hindus and muslims ownership of a disputed religious site i tell you. this the see a muslims are the only ones the law also provides inducement tumbles. and for citizenship critics say secular protections ingrained in the indian constitution are now under threat and it seems that a political social and cultural fight is on the cards for prime minister durant remote and the indian gove