Biggest transport companies and after years of planning and several false starts in saudi arabia state owned Oil Giant Aramco again public trading. The upper house of Indias Parliament has approved a controversial bill that will grant citizenship to minorities who face religious persecution in pakistan and bangladesh and of gonna stop but the bill has stood because it excludes muslim refugees from the 3 neighboring countries opposition politicians and Rights Groups say the exclusion of muslims as part of the governments and the National Said genda but defending the bill the home minister says Indias Muslim citizens have nothing to fear. It is a question of giving citizenship to people who have come because of religious persecution minorities or any. Muslims need not worry i want to say this clearly nobody needs to worry if anyone threatens you or scares you dont get scared this is their interim government that is moving with the spirit of the constitution so the minorities will get full protection. So a curfew has been imposed in parts of the Northeastern State of mass demonstrations against the bill have turned violent the protesters oppose the bill for a different reason there they say indigenous communities will be marginalized if a large number of hindu migrants from they should granted citizenship the protests are also taking place in neighboring through a state where large migration from one of the issue over the past few decades has already reduced the indigenous population to a minority well for more on this lets bring in on child war she is joining us live from new delhi so despite those large protests on child the bill has passed as expected. Absolutely theres a bit and it was always expected to be the case because the government had the numbers it was very clear that the government is going to push this bill through it has been in the manifesto or the Hindu Nationalist Party that is currently governing this country for a very long time and that was one of the 1st things that the whole minister of this country amish are said when the proceedings began in the upper house today he said that they have the peoples mandate to make sure that this bill passes through thats how we started however in a democracy its also about what the minorities think and not just worked a majority is even if it is a majority view majorities view is so lots of questions as far as this legislation is concerned is going to soon this been assumed going to be a law and now several different kinds of objections have been released you spoke about protests that have taken place in the north east of india and that is because people there have opposed the presence of bengalis both hindus and muslims for a very long time they say theyre trying to protect their culture but also livelihood thats their reason and these protests we believe are expected to continue as a preventive measure. Law enforcement authorities there have imposed a curfew they have also they will be shutting down the internet it still sort of working as im in touch with people there but over the next few hours its going to be a complete shutdown we believe our indian army has been is on standby there one columns of 70 soldiers so one column is on standby in assam and 2 columns are on standby in tripoli where also weve seen protests now the big question is will this government come up with some sort of a formula to please us with the concerns of the people in the north east of india and what that formula is going to be 7 states 5 states have been exempted from the citizenship Amendment Bill soon to be law and 2 states as having to put up their partial exemptions so weve seen massive protests continue there. So protests the largest protests weve seen so far interestingly. By those who dont want. These migrants and refugees from bangladesh being given citizenship regardless of their religion whether theyre hindu or whether theyre muslim but elsewhere in the country they have also been protests and people taking part and those say that the citizenship Amendment Bill it is anti muslim and anti secular and that they will challenge this in the Supreme Court because they see it as being against the Indian Constitution. That is correct so this would be it is expected to be challenging the Supreme Court many top legal minds of said that it is unconstitutional it is against 2 very very prominent articles in the constitution one of them says that you cannot discriminate on the basis of religion creed and. Sex but this one many believe is discriminating on the basis of religion now there is a clause in it that if exceptions can be made if they are reasonable but that is what is going to be zooming argued by the government and the court that this in fact is a reasonable. Classification to be made now weve got to sort of wait and see how this plays out in the courts but right now on the streets actually weve not seen as many protests as one would have imagined one would because of the nature of this bill going against some analysts say against the secular nature of the Indian Constitution of india we have seen some protests in the National Capital weve seen protests. In universities where most of the students come from the minority community. And delhi and a Legal University in. These people are saying that look you got to look at this bill in conjunction with the National Register of citizens which is a practice that was conducted about an exercise that was conducted. To determine who is an indian citizen and it left out 2000000. 00 people saw the muslim opposition leaders and activists are saying that now this is going to be this exercise is going to be conducted all over india and when that happens hindus will find it easier to prove their citizenship but its not going to very easy for the muslims until thank you for that for now that one child born with the latest live in new delhi and finds and must the as vice chancellor at a high the bods now so universal nor. Their concern is not communal we had seen the national sending men enough. And they believe not easter they are not bothered about their religion after. Seeing their. Local culture and local languages under there and since people from bangladesh. Holding anyone who is. Initially when this movement got started to get go we had enough mic guard and we had a cutoff date of 24 march 1701 so now it means by extension well some of the area other than our east. Who are putting bringing forward the start of the party of the 7 but pretty far in there will be a large influx of from bangladesh who would migrate to leave the area and who will get in citizenship so its the law goes and in men but what they are seeing that is that theres little ill say in india on the secular character of the constitution and you know some of their concerns are jamiel because. It seems that Indigenous People are increasingly in the minority. Lets move on to other news now a new leader Aung San Suu Kyi defended her country against allegations of genocide and the International Court of justice on wednesday she called the accusations misleading city insists the military has been conducting a legitimate operation against armed groups and that action has been taken against the use of Excessive Force on tuesday so she said through graphic accounts of mass murder and rape detailed against the military that a geisha stem from a 27000 crackdown which forced more than 700000 muslim rwanda to flee to neighboring bangladesh 10 deadly genocidal intent on the part of the state that actively investigates prosecutes and punishes so this in offices who are accused of wrongdoing although the focus here is on members of the military i can assure you that appropriate action would also be taken against civilian offenders in line its due process there will be no tolerance of Human Rights Violations in the rakhine or elsewhere in the im not requiring to day suffers an internal conflict between the buddhist african army and Myanmar Defense services muslims are not a party to this conflict but may like other civilians in the conflict area be affected by security measures that are in place. We pray the court to refrain from taking any action that might give rate the ongoing conflict an Armed Conflict and peace and security and a cart and wayne hay has more from the hague. I dont think there were any surprises in this speech given by. Anyone hoping for any sort of contrition from her. Sympathy towards the plight of the rich would have been disappointed she did sympathize with those who have been displaced because of the violence in Rakhine State particularly she said the hundreds of thousands who were forced to flee neighboring bangladesh what she didnt do was respond to the specific harrowing allegations that were laid out by gambian legal team. Of rape. And torture carried out by Security Forces as they went through those. In Rakhine State and she didnt address the root causes of the problem and the fact that the rich have always been regarded as Illegal Immigrants in the end they are discriminated against through laws and rules that are targeted directly at them and they have little or no rights those sorts of things were not addressed by her and what i have to say was a fairly general and broad speech by her. Now u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o has announced new sanctions on iran but says he is open to more dialogue with pedaling to free american president is the latest sanctions target one of the countrys Largest Airlines mahaan air and an iranian shipping network the u. S. Says has been used to send weapons to help the rebels in yemen payors has washington wont deviate from its campaign of targeting irans economy through sanctions as long as its malign behavior continues so will our campaign of maximum pressure today im announcing designation of 3 iranian Transportation Companies that have to run import items for its weapons of mass destruction programs these programs involved siphoning the funds away from the oppressed iranian people and they are going to regimes campaign of terror and intimidation homan throughout the world. Shares in saudi arabia state trying or giant iran could have officially begun trading on Riyadh Stock Exchange opening 10 percent higher than the initial Public Offering price it is now the worlds most valuable listed company they can engage reports. All the bells and whistles for one of the most eagerly awaited stock offerings in history after years of planning and several false starts shares in saudi arabia state owned oil giant to remco have begun trading on riyadhs to double the exchange as a result of the oil produces shares rose by 10 percent it follows a crucial week for the firm obtaining the largest ever initial Public Offering raising 25600000000. 00 for less than 2 percent of the company this puts its value at 1. 00 trillion dollars but that phil short of the 2 trillion dollar valuation saudi arabia wanted and the 100000000000. 00 it hoped to write how to get the valuation up from the 1. 7 trillion which was achieved in the ib your to the 2 trillion. And i suppose to a large extent how does saudi arabia now make up for the 75000000000. 00 that it probably expected to get but but didnt saudi arabia derives most of its money from oil exports but a recent drone attack on its facilities in the east took out more than half of its Oil Production it caused concern among International Investors who will likely be watching to see what happens next they had also been concerns the government would force saudi billionaires who had been detained at the ritz carlton in riyadh as part of an Anti Corruption crackdown back in 2017 to via ram kosko. This was always stuck to be a win for the saudi government one way or other they were going to bring the appellate the market and this is exactly what they have done if they use was anywhere else in the world there would be an investigation to find out who was ramping up shares but when the government story theres various all the markets can do with the market value of about 1. 00 trillion dollars now aramco is well on its way to hitting the 2 trillion dollar target set out by Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin some on nicola gage aljazeera. Still ahead on the long term time is running out and as for politicians seek to avoid the election here. Trying to milk every last one of the u. K. Party needs on the last day of campaigning before thursdays election. Hello quite cold and in some places not very good air quality thats that is the winter lot for china already because to be honest at the moment it looks very pretty shankars max is 13 hong kong says 21 the humidity is down and the northeast monsoon is blowing steadily so when stockton is really cold for the north but not so much his even showing the worst of 14 degrees and with the northeast monsoon blowing you expect showers down the eastern side of the deck and plateau east and thats industry lanka well theyre taking a step back at the moment whats coming in across pakistan moving up towards the far north is rain or snow depending your height above sea level active Winter Weather which will show itself with again some floods certain amount of snow spreading all across the hard ground and the himalayan platter and indeed exactly hit kathmandu a wet day for you on friday with a few shows spurge further south in india now it was wet yesterday in qatar its went today in the u. A. E. By thursday it looks fine but of blowing 25 degrees and 122 in riyadh and opposing wind direction this is going to bring something out of the interior thats quite dusty in riyadh and then charles return for the gulf on friday. Capturing a moment in time. Snapshots of us. Of the stories. Providing us into someone elses work. The. Inspiring documentaries impassioned filmmakers. Witness on aljazeera. The watching aljazeera of mind of our top stories this hour a controversial bill in india has been approved by both houses of Parliament Grant citizenship to minorities and some neighboring countries but muslim refugees have been excluded. Young minds leda has defended the country against allegations of genocide at the International Court of justice who chooses the cases misleading and that International Action could harm peace and reconciliation and shares in saudi arabia stay tried all company have officially begun trading on Riyadh Stock Exchange the company made history with the largest ever initial Public Offering last week raising 25600000000. 00 now israeli politicians have just a few hours left to form a government or face that unprecedented election in a year a promise to Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival benny gantz failed to form a Ruling Coalition after septembers vote they and other politicians in parliament would then given 21. 00 days to agree on a document and that deadline expires at midnight local time on wednesday if they fail palm and would automatically be dissolved and new elections must be held within 90 days well lets bring in our correspondent harry forsett hes live for us in west jerusalem so any hope harry that we could see a breakthrough before the midnight deadline. Well thats 5 hours and 42 minutes away and even given the context of the uncharted political territory that were in at the moment in this country i think that would be a an upset of really Epic Proportions for anything other than a 3rd election to be ushered in by midnight tonight there have been some reporting that Benjamin Netanyahu is ready to concede one of the key demands from his rival benny gantz that he gives up any claim to parliamentary immunity with regard to the 3 separate Corruption Cases that he has been indicted in but his likud party then came out and said that that was not the case and once again blamed benny gantz and his blue and white party for failing to join likud in a National Unity government the situation remains pretty much as it has been for nearly 3 months now since the september the 17th elections both sides have preconditions for serving together in a National Unity government messenger who says that he would have to go 1st in any rotational Prime Minister arrangement even if its just for a few months benny gantz has said that he would not sit under an indicted Prime Minister and those positions have not shifted and the other key player Avigdor Lieberman who has a party with some 8 seats in the Israeli Parliament the knesset has said that he would only serve in a unity government trying to bring those 2 sides together ruling out serving in a right Wing Coalition with Benjamin Netanyahu and so we are still in that situation there has been some progress today but thats only on legislation trying to set the date of the election of a station which we expect to go through just before the midnight deadline and that date being much the 2nd 2020 and so harry how is that israeli public failing about a 3rd action or a look at. Not good there is a lot of gloom around the polls all suggest that its the last thing that israelis want the israeli president has been calling on politicians to avert that at all costs its expensive some 500000000 israeli shekels so thats. More than sort of 150000000. 00 u. S. Dollars theres also the expense to the economy from lost productivity on that day and theres the sheer exhaustion with this entire process which has got nowhere over so many months now and the polls suggest that there is likely to be a 3rd inconclusive result if as is likely there is now a 3rd election in terms of the blame Benjamin Netanyahu is getting most of that 41 percent lieberman about 25 percent of israelis blaming him according to a poll this week of just 5 percent blaming benny gantz and so one thing that is notable is that bet against does seem to be at his blue and white party extending their lead 37. 00 seats in a putative the parliament next time around 33. 00 full it could but even then that wouldnt give him the required 61. 00 seats in a coalition to form a government so really this crisis just grinds on and people are looking for another 3 months worth of electioneering and then what after another result which could be very similar to the last 2 harry thank you for that for now that is how a 4th of the latest line western are slim. Now hundreds of displaced syrians are appealing for International Aid after their makeshift camp and all that flooded theyve been living in tents without Running Water or electricity since their homes came under attack by Government Forces the torah gate and the reports. In the biting cold these boys make their way of course blooded scrubland to a makeshift camp which is surrounded by dirty water winter rains have made already appalling conditions at this camp in newton almost unbearable for families who have nowhere else to go. And they set up this camp in somalia after fleeing bashar as oppression. Only to be at the mercy of relief agencies or between 2 evils the camp is like an island were living in a swamp i call on International Relief agencies and the u. N. To look at us with some or were not asking for palaces really have preferred to die under shelling suffered these terrible. Attacks on the province have intensified in the last 2 months the Assad Government backed by russian air power is determined to retake the last remaining rebel stronghold the increase in attacks is worsening the humanitarian crisis aid agencies estimate nearly a 1000000 syrian the huddled in camps like this one. Weve been without water all day we have to walk a Long Distance to get our hands on anything weve run out of money with no income and no relief aid is reaching us here where left with nothing not even a loaf of bread and this mud as you see adds insult to injury. More heavy rain and cold weather is forecast families who left their homes to escape government as strikes and barrel bombs they were turning is not an option but neither is staying here. Unless they get more help victoria gates and b. And which is there. Now u. K. Party leaders have been staging their final rallies before thursdays general election less than 24 hours to go well the race is getting tighter and Opposition Party is a fighting hot paul brennan reports. The final day started before dawn for the Party Leaders every hour vital as the campaigning draws to a close from north to south and in the other direction a frantic last push to get their core messages across to voters. Prime minister began his day to day ari the metaphor of course based on delivering in his case delivering rexs exhaustion and tension are inevitable at this stage of the campaign and the hash tag fridge gate began trending on social media after one of johnsons 8 swore in exasperate us journalist for a participant come on the good morning person Prime Minister. Prime minister appeared to retreat into a walk in the fridge to escape the media but he warmed up enough by the time he reached his next stop at a pipe factory indaba tomorrow of course facing the country to get things done. During the last books i read today we love. You 2 years. To the way we see this Economic Policy on. The top 5. Thank you choice. Is Jeremy Corbyn the Labor Party Leader whos been lagging behind in the opinion polls but is still optimistic of a late turnaround he began his day in glasgow laying out what a labor government would mean for voters thank your elected government that would eliminate Child Poverty across the bridge that they can elect a government that will end the cruelty of the injustice of the vessel credit. Thank you lecture government. That will give hope to the next generation by investing properly in education for the future all across. If you do in scotland the nationalist s. N. P. Leader was offering a fresh choice of vegetables and if you are sturgeon a greengrocers in edinburgh urging voters to back her party to block Boris Johnsons bracks it people dont want to have the cuts to Public Services if we dont want to be dragged beautiful again so willing to have borders johnson as Prime Minister then vote a 2nd key to make sure we take our future into own hands and build a Better Future for scotland and in south west london the liberal democrats are concentrating very last drops of Campaign Energy on targeting conservative seats which voted to remain in the e. U. In the 2016 referendum this is been a Difficult Campaign for the liberal democrats but poll ratings sliding steadily throughout the 5 weeks and their leader Joseph Wilson excluded from the head to head televised debates but in certain remain leaning seats the party could yet still spring some surprises every vote matters weve got an amazing team its in the campaign trail and i still believe we can stop forest johnson stop breaks and build a Brighter Future the opinion polls suggest the conservatives have just enough support to secure a majority government but the margin of error in those polls is big enough to mean that a result could still go either way brennan aljazeera southwest london. Now south african president says the countrys power were overturned to normal by the end of march a week of heavy rains across south africa calls the weekend for structure to be hit by blackouts and thats had a major impact on the economy with mining firms forced to cut production on monday because of power shortages rather poses said the state Power Company is working to stabilize the supply. Now the governor of nairobi has been granted bail after being arrested on suspicion of involvement in a multimillion dollar Corruption Scandal mike sancho member of the Ruling Jubilee Party has denied accusations of Money Laundering forging documents and warden contracts to his Close Friends were tackling corruption was a major part of president a whore kenyattas 2017 Reelection Campaign and dozens of arrests have been made but its crackdown has not led to any high profile convictions now greenlands ice sheet is melting at an alarming rate 7 times faster than in the 1990 s. A new analysis of satellite data shows its losing about 250000000000. 00 tons of ice every year and the losses are continuing to accelerate since 1902 melt water from greenland has raised global sea levels by one centimeter and that puts millions more people at risk from flooding with thousands of protesters have been rallying in sydney to demand action on Climate Change after months of out of control bushfires across parts of australia demonstrators accuse the government of ignoring a plant emergency the fires have been made worse by and sees the really hot conditions and drought. Now Time Magazine has chosen. As its person of the year the teenage swedish climate activists has emerged as a global figure over the past 12 months including a high profile journey across the atlantic by sail boat so that she could address the United Nations the news was announced while phonebook was in madrid where the un is holding a major conference on Climate Change which she was photographed i ever genia gave her. Earlier the drest summit and told leaders they werent doing enough to hold the global temperature rise. Finding Holistic Solutions is what the cop should be all about. But instead he seems to have turned into some kind of opportunity for countries to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition. Countries are finding clever ways around having to take real action. You know again i mean theres a problem in doha with the headlines on our dizzier a controversial citizenship bill in india has been approved by both houses of parliament will grant citizenship to minorities who face religious persecution in pakistan bangladesh and of god as Dhanbad Muslim refugees have been excluded the opposition says its discriminatory myanmars leader Aung San Suu Kyi has defended her country against allegations of genocide of the International Court of justice on wednesday when she called that because asians misleading sochi insists the military has been conducting a legitimate operation against armed groups and that action has been taken against the use of Excessive Force on tuesday sochi sat through graphic accounts of mass murder and rape detailed against the military validation stemmed from a 27000 crackdown which forced more than 700000 muslim or hanging to flee to neighboring bangladesh turned deadly genocidal intent on the part of the state that actively investigates prosecutes and punishes so this in offices who are accused of wrongdoing although the focus here is on members of the military i can assure you that appropriate action would also be taken against civilian offenders in line its due process there will be no tolerance of Human Rights Violations in the rakhine or elsewhere in myanmar. U. S. Secretary of state to mike pompei who has a balanced new sanctions on iran bought says hes open to more dialogue with the head on to free american president as well the latest sanctions target an iranian shipping network the u. S. Says has been used to send weapons to help the rebels and yemen as well as the countrys Largest Airline mahaan air and shares in saudi arabia state ronald company have officially begun trading on beyond Stock Exchange the company made history with the largest ever initial Public Offering last week raising 25600000000 dollars those are the headlines on aljazeera do stay with us what this is coming up next. Digital media and the maria ressa is the founder of learn side. Reports he is fake news it is whatever power doesnt like the president of the philippines abroad rico ditto take says he wants to kill as many people involved with drugs as possible and lists his critics as a public enemy. 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