many credit him with creating turkey as a modern and secular nation. i went to istanbul for a rare tayyip erdogan. he was considered a man who could be a bridge between the west and islamist world. erdogan today is the course of some controversy. he's accused of coming down hard on anyone who opposes him. what are and youtube have been banned. demonstrators have been violently dispersed. the process hein is creating a more polarized turkey with the deep divisions. intense conflict is with a man who lives in self-imposed exile in pennsylvania. he is the founder of the glen movement with founders across the world. many serving the turkish government and the police and judiciary. he stopped short of calling it genocide, yet he went further than any other turkish leader had gone before and was praised for taking the step. i spoke with prime minister erdogan friday night of last week. mr. prime minister, thank you for taking time out of a busy day to see me. i'm back in one of my favorite cities in the world. >> i thank you very much. i'm glad to meet human

we are becoming a more secular nation. is true we maintain a high level of religiosity. >> we are becoming more secular. that's the trend of the future is it not? >>> oo word of the day. >> i don't think these are signs of secularism. smoking pot i bet there are people who believe in god smoke pot and people who don't. i don't think it means you have become an atheist because you smoke pot. you you there is a struggle and it is between usually people of faith and secular progressives. it has the media so they are powerful. >> i don't know where to start on this. so much error so little time. i would start with the proposition somehow all of these things are permissiveness is radically increasing. i would say one of the more remarkable phenomenon of the last 30 years is the increase in opposition to apportion of young people. you would have thought together with other trends yes the permissiveness on drugs and other stuff and on sex and all of that that you would get an increase with the permissiveness about abortion but it

the turkish country's president is credited with creating turkey as a modern and secular nation. i went to istanbul to visit the prime minister. his party was in local elections. he was interested a man to be a bridge in the world and unsuccessful in gaining admission to the european union. erdogan today is a source today of some controversy. the prime minister is accused of coming down hard on anyone who opposes him. twitter and youtube have been banned and demonstrators dispersed. some fear that in the process he is creating a more polarized turkey with deep divisions. most intense conflict is with fethullah gulen who lives in pennsylvania, a preacher and movement with followers across the world. former friends, they once supported each other. the two men are now bitter enemies and the prime minister promised to go after gulen. the prime minister acknowledged suffering of armenians in the massacres, stopped short of calling it genocide something aiarmenians have long demanded t was praised for taking the step. i talked with prime minister erred nerd his office in -- erdogan in

so there is -- we aree becoming a more secular nation. weth still maintain a high level of religiosity. is that a sphwhord.inta >> religiosity, sure. >> we are becoming more secular especially among younger people, that's becoming the trend of the future, is it not? >> bill, even if it isn't afut word. if you are big enough if you> say it becomes a word. >> word of the day.yo >> it's religiosity.ecom there is a i in there somewhere. >> got it. >> look, i don't think these are necessarily signs of secularism. smoking pot, i would bet there are people who believe n god smoke pot and some don't. i don't think it means you are become atheist if you are smoking pot. >> it's a more permissive is culture. surely you see that maybe you don't. you live in washington. it's aon more permissive culture. unfettered abortion, okay? for any reason up to the birth process there is a struggle. the struggle is between,p usually, people of faith and the secular progressives. and the secular progressives have the media in their u pocket so they are powerful.

religious requirements in the school lunch menus will not be accepted in an effort to save secularism the national front was founded in the nineteen seventies by entering the un's father wondering what in the party has attempted to distance his policies from the anti semitic and racist comments made by her father mr le pen has dismissed the holocaust is a new detail of history and has also said that the occupation of france was not a humane. she took over and took the lead. hislop and declared the holocaust is the ultimate act of barbarism i had. the pundits had gathered at the cathedral in rwanda's capital kigali to commemorate the lives of the eight hundred thousand people were killed during the nineteen ninety four massacre a week of official mourning to mark the twentieth anniversary of the genocide starts on monday the seventh of april six nineteen ninety four one hundred is it's waterproof cast with the two governments in extremist militias orchestrated the genocide to terminate that aussie minority ethnic group moderate youtube are also targets they were slashed with machetes by members of

something or the other that has contributed to islamization of pakistan, including the most secular national party, which sets in the constitution this is a secular political party. and yeah, when it came to the question of honor killings, for example, they said you know, we don't support the idea of honor killings on the basis of just religion, but basically because of posh to culture. this kind of twisted logic was again an attempt at dancing on islamist agenda. so i would argue that people make a mistake and i have made that mistake in my past myself in assuming that the number of the islamist matters, i think that the islamist actually will influence in pakistan disproportionate to their numbers by controlling the discourse, by having set up the whole argument about what it means to be a pakistani in creating the whole identity issue in pakistan that revolves around islam and therefore they end up having an advantage that is denied to sackler is to have become diluted over the years. and since washington audiences often like to hear what is a policy recommendation, my recommendation to p

as how dare the roving into the rumors and actually i might use this template the secular groups to their old nationalguard. josh and farther be at one of the instability factors to choose to further establish this tuition he's still the scanner and bred in different ways to death and what has happened. so yes does that not a very positive to say the least. if in the disarming of these illegal groups to something that can be achieved. think only on the site if you are probably now he goes on the right wing sector in slow mo then variety of different groups which for now they want power he could give was that this place and every day every day already announcing several different occasions now go and where do not give up that power. so i was there some kind of very strong determination are the key of government to keep them to their side of the agreement where there might be. i think god was very difficult for them to win top of that how much power or influence over a second really how did he ever though at this point do you think the government because the minority certainly among the government and a

viewed that conflict as having been caused by what they said was the uprising of national conscience against the secular wrong that could never be blotted out. of course that was slavery. though they made very little effort to mask their bias, they did set out when robert todd lincoln empowered them to do it to write a history of lincoln was grounded in evidence. it was roughly around 1875 the robber told them he would give them exclusive access and then began actually working on this project. by then nikolai had been appointed grand marshal of the u.s. supreme court and lived in washington and work of the capital. hey have served a term as assistant secretary of state which was the number two position at the state department and was -- no, he was about to do that but was finishing up his tenure as a top editor at the new york tribune, ironically under orsk really. he made little effort to mask their bias when they began writing but did set out to write this history in a professional way grounded in evidence. in the early days of the project nikolai spent several months interviewing dozens of individual

viewed that conflict as having been caused by what they said was the uprising of national conscience against the secular wrong that could never be blotted out. of course that was slavery. though they made very little effort to mask their bias, they did set out when robert todd lincoln empowered them to do it to write a history of lincoln was grounded in evidence. it was roughly around 1875 the robber told them he would give them exclusive access and then began actually working on this project. by then nikolai had been appointed grand marshal of the u.s. supreme court and lived in washington and work of the capital. hey have served a term as assistant secretary of state which was the number two position at the state department and was -- no, he was about to do that but was finishing up his tenure as a top editor at the new york tribune, ironically under orsk really. he made little effort to mask their bias when they began writing but did set out to write this history in a professional way grounded in evidence. in the early days of the project nikolai spent several months interviewing dozens of individual

that is absolutely what the bjp sell its hindu nationalism and this congress, sal the secularism. or actually in fact like i was saying since 1947, if you look at these wars that the indian army has thought the wars are always spot against the other communism whether there muslim sikhs, christians. it's an upper-class hindu state at war with the other. >> that remains consistent. >> it's just that one does by dave what the other does by night. >> right. but isn't there something very very marked about this moment where the private industry, the bjp is the most aggressive -- they are all aggressive but he has the record of being the chief minister, when all this incidents of violence took place who is banned from entering the united states. partly because of that but now he's very much being projected as sort of a man who is a good manager, he has vision of corporate india. there's enormous social media support. there's a branding of them. there's a branding of him and not even the united states, the uk, european government have come around. they seem to be on the verge of acceptin

national headlines a brief now the u.n. security council has voted to send twelve. thousand peacekeepers to the central african republic to bring the ongoing violence under control secular fighting has effectively divided the country into christian and muslim held areas some seven thousand french soldiers and african union peacekeeping forces have already been deployed but they failed to stop the deadly clashes from continuing. thousands of people have gathered in warsaw to commemorate the fourth anniversary of a plane crash that left the polish president and many of the country's top politicians dead of the aircraft crashed while attempting to land near the russian city of small killing all ninety six on board a pilot error blamed for the accident. a truck has swerved into the path of a school bus in the state of california killing ten people five students among the dead a shooter explosion was triggered when their vehicle slammed head on into each other investigators say the truck was trying to avoid crashing into a car when they hit the bus. now the question of just how to manage the u.k.'s aging nuclear arsenal is becoming ever more pressing but as our reports its c