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But historians say should be returned not sold. So then china is being accused of forcing a we got women into pregnancy checks sterilization or abortion in a bid to slash birth rates and investigation by the Associated Press found evidence of a 4 Year Campaign in North Western provinces chinas government denies the allegations saying theyre not based on facts and likes to pronounce. Google says shell never forget the day chinese authorities told her her 3rd child was illegal she says she was threatened told to pay a fine of more than 2. 00 and a half 1000. 00 should be locked up in an internment camp. For they give shots and remove fetuses forcefully if they say its illegal to make you get an abortion those who didnt obey were sent to the camps now people theyre terrified of giving birth. The Associated Press investigation is based on government statistics documents and interviews with women like who say they knew people jailed for having too many children many received a prison sentence of years even decades government efforts to reduce birth rates. Are both systematic and ruthless were talking the mass forced insertion of intra youre to run contraceptive devices were talking threats of internment for those who are violent Birth Control policies zain says the brutal crackdown is part of government efforts to control the way to get people many of whom a muslim to purge them of their faith and identity. The investigation found the government had spent hundreds of millions of dollars on Birth Control and shin jang province in northwest china birthrights there decreased by about 24 percent last year compared with 4 percent nationwide but. The bottom is they want to eliminate us but they cant kill all of us its not possible because the world is watching so theyre doing it step by step with policies like sterilization imprisonment or separating men and women and making them work as forced labor as china says the camps are for reeducation part of what it calls a struggle against terrorism but Rights Groups accuse beijing of locking up more than a 1000000 people to brainwash and punish them those not to tie. A spied on. Her neighborhood felt like an open air prison she tells how she was forcibly sterilized along with about 200 other we go women. We lost a part of our body we lost our identity as women we will never be able to have children again some women say theyve been left with long term injuries a bit a reminder of everything theyve lost alexia bryan aljazeera. Thats enough in country to use in beijing and she says the policies described in the Associated Press report a much harsher than those applying to majority crime group. Now it is true that hand women have since been subject to the same fines if they have more than 2 children but they are certainly not born into any detention camps or subject to any sort of forced abortions or forced sterilizations as weve seen nor is it in this Associated Press report conversely hand women actually around the country have been encouraged to have a 2nd child because of worryingly lower birth rates across china now we also know that. People who are members of the week of community have been strongly encourage not to marry other week but into the hand majority analysts say that this is another long term policy to dilute the population of the weaker population it does appear that that would be working we know in 1949 according to official figures 90 percent of the population will weaken as in 2018 only 47 percent were weak as now Chinas Foreign Ministry today on monday responded to this report essentially calling the Associated Press report fake news it is always maintained that its policies in a National Security issue was designed to prevent terrorism and extremism and separatism that theyre in response to very violent knife and bomb attacks in recent decades but as we heard just then many human Rights Groups disagree saying that many of these measures are based on race and religion and not only do they say that up to 1000000 people are held in these detention camps which the government by the way calls for occasional Training Centers they say that many of these policies are designed to also erode the muslim week of religion and culture as well as put them under very strict almost suffocating levels of surveillance. Iran has issued an arrest warrant for donald trump the us president is one of 36. 00 people linked to januarys drone strike in iraq which killed a military commander the u. S. Says customs in the money was planning to attack diplomats and soldiers iran wants interpol to issue a wanted notice requesting the detention of trump and of the suspects the u. S. Special envoy on iran dismisses the move as a political stunt so our assessment is that interpol does not intervene and issue red notices that are based on political nature and this is a political nature this has nothing to do with National Security International Peace or promoting stability and so we see it for what it is its a propaganda stunt that no one takes seriously and makes the iranians look foolish for my french Prime Minister francois feel has been given a 5 Year Prison Sentence for fraud caught in paris found him guilty of misusing public funds and embezzlement setting up fake job for his wife and their children she received more than a 1000000. 00 and has been convicted as an accomplice partners in paris and has more details on the verdict. Posen expected in as much as prosecutors had actually requested a 5 year sentence for for also offer your wait 3 years suspended 3 is suspended for his wife penelope as well when the court obviously went with outs and handed down that verdict to the couple now the couple have left the courts their lawyers say this trial was unfair it was a sham the fossil feel was the victim of a Political Smear Campaign and they now have 10 days to appeal theyve made it very clear that they will do that now the cool found for us all feel guilty of fraud because back in 2017 allegations surface the feel had paid his wife and then the pay for several years hundreds of thousands of dollars for a job as a parliamentary systems however the court found that there was not a shred of evidence to really support the penelope actually did any work for feel and i feel has always said that penelope helped with things like correspondence emails for his constituency and how to correct his speeches but it seems that the job judge judges here at this periscope were clearly just not convinced. Rescue teams in bangladesh are searching for dozens still missing and up to 2 ferries collided on a river near the capital one of the boat sank with more than 100 passengers on board rescue workers have recovered the bodies of so if you can time the challenger is near the scene of the conditions. Right behind me is where the rescue operation is going on theres a concentration of both that a lot of people i spoke to left and come out and are off of the coast guard he told me until i left the salvage the boat they were no they exactly a number of people dead so far we know that reported by the coast guard is 30 people. Bodies have been recovered its an ongoing operation and its probably continue to build evening even at nightfall. Both one larger one carrying passenger and with smaller one. 4 collided in the morning at around 930 local time the bigger boat scaped any kind of damage or nobody was injured but the smaller boat sank and thats where the tragedy took place now we do know this sort of incident happens in bangladesh quite often despite the government promises off that theyll crack down on they is but so far we have seen that the owners of the boats carry over a load had a lot of passing yards even during Stormy Weather is that on a bike by a lot of never gave rules this is a 6000 and land waterways as you can see this is one of the busiest land riverport its called shoulder got a lot of passenger goes to and fro from other part of the country. At least 23. 00 civilians have been killed in afghanistan off the rockets fell on a Country Market in southern Helmand Province it happened near the town of sangin children are among the government is blaming the taliban an attack on pakistans Stock Exchanges ended with a nice 9 People Killed Security Forces stopped in time before they could take control of the building in karachi sort of how to use this ripple. Police helicopter hovers above the gun battle between Security Forces in gunmen attacking Pakistan Stock Exchange in karate its surrounded by a sick war and its heavily guarded. But the attackers detonated a grenade as they entered the grounds despite that they were unable to get into the Main Building Security Forces quickly reach the scene and for the attackers killing all fooled the Stock Exchange director. Despite the gun battle outside brokers huddled together inside and trading continued. Rule of the terrorists were killed at the main gate. The other the 3rd terrorist was killed at the center gate and the. Killer did i mean scared of destruction buildings so the Law Enforcement agencies the polish and the rangers played a very very vital role in combating this attack and. Destruction the Financial Hub of the market was here. With dozens of hand grenades ammunition found at the scene the heavily armed Security Forces believe they stopped the attackers from inflicting more damage in pakistans largest Stock Exchange it seems government forensics experts started collecting evidence at the scene and have searched a car used by the gunman sort of site at aljazeera. Hiders in the capital islamabad he says it could have been more serious. On the main gate. Attack and ready to get. Out of the crowd. They were bending gauged by a Rapid Reaction force of the rangers. Who put up a different neutralizing the other 2 are outside the Main Building now. Happening which ford did not name the country who could be supporting the Liberation Army was quick to take responsibility for the attack this in an organization that had been declared i attended an outfit by the United States the attack were directed at financial heart that video. Had brought food water and grenades and im your nation really wanting to take. Many people. But its what still to come here on the program and. On to indian streets in defiance of the. Hungry in just trying to stay seasonal with. The winter bites coronavirus going home. Hello there are already widespread floods along the the line of this cloud really in china havent seen a report in the Korean Peninsula or in japan but this is a seasonal rain and once more weve got a decent development in china that stretches back to unite and and eventually to the Indian Border but the this the eastern side has just brought some significant rain through japan and this is the focus the tuesday it will just be leaving the Korean Peninsula taking significant weather wet through honshu including tokyo exists a good half of wednesday as well the chinese end is drifting study science here but going north towards sichuan doesnt reach anywhere further north just yet has been up that funnels have been beyond shanghai but weve gone south again there is some rain for beijing the temperature still high your 33 that would be well humid position now given whats happening with the seasonal rains theres a bit of a gap and then you got the next line of significant raise for the South China Sea vietnam northern part of the philippines quite a good scattering of shasta south as well scattered environment magic out or should be dry wouldnt guarantee that for kuala lumpur i have to say because the main rain is following the monsoon trough out through India Bangladesh and pakistan lesser pakistan more so bangladesh and eastern india. To old to 0 we heard let me also you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen we listen this is the moment to stop all really very action this is the moment to go since right on fighting of it my dear we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the edges there are. Holding the powerful to account as we examine the u. S. Its role in the war on aljazeera. Again you want you got 0 to remind voters of stories this hour and china is being accused of forcing the weaker minorities to lower their birth rates to investigation by the Associated Press says hundreds of thousands of women are forced to undergo pregnancy checks sterilization and abortions. Former french Prime Minister france i feel has been given a 5 Year Prison Sentence for fraud and is found guilty of misusing public funds and embezzlement for setting up fake jobs for his wife and their children. A rescue team is in bangladesh searching for dozens still missing after 2 ferries collided on a river near the capital one of the boat sank with more than 100 passengers on board 30 bodies have been recovered. Now to the worlds biggest option houses coming under fire for the sale of african artifacts take a look at these 2 statues that igbo statues from nigeria and theyre among dozens of items on offer on sale at Chris Christies in paris later and their value to more than 280000. 00 but several nigerian art historians say the pieces should be sold a tall alleging they were looted during the biafran civil war in the one 960. 00 s. Which christies denies well southerlies in new york is holding several sales from choose day including this brass statue thats from dab on and thats thought we were up to 4000000. 00 has been growing pressure for artifacts to be returned to their countries of origin the issue has been highlighted by recent black lives matter protesters well its been ok to a good whos a professor in african and in african and african dispur art history at Princetown University joins us from princeton in new jersey and welcome to the program tell us more about these pieces and why theyre so important to nigeria. Well they are important part of nigeria is heritage. And as we all know nations and societies via the examples of the great town called gers of their ancestors of previous generations and so too have the. Set of objects that were stolen from eastern nigeria during the civil war. In 67 to 72 have them up for sale when we should be discussing the terms for their return because they were stolen because they were illegally taking out of nigeria that the reason i started the call for the tradition but especially for now for not going ahead with the sale of these objects if a cell should proceed looks like it is how do you then take the fight on of the time is right for the whole issue of restitution right now which should be done next. Well theres a there are immediate things that can be done which has already begun and that includes asking public collections of these objects to recognize the true provenance because right now in the museums that happened for instance theres no mention of the fact that they came out of it then they joined during the war and so the immediate thing that needs to happen is to recognize the true histories of these objects that are in western collections and then the next stage would be to enter into negotiations with the people who have them the private and public collections that have them about the arabs turn and that would take the guise of gentlemanly if you will is civil negotiation it might include Court Proceedings because there exportation from names you know where illegal at the time that they were taking right the soldiers or people tick so its going to say theres any responsibility on the private collectors on the museums and on the auction houses and also on the governments where these outfits have ended up but what about the government in nigeria and what should it be doing what does it. Yes as far as i know and as been reported by then agent media. The Nigerian Government has written to christies to object to the sale but that again is just in the immediate i suspect that authorities in nigeria should be much more invested in robust efforts to discuss the fate of these objects but also they have to do their part which is to say that they have to prepare. Places institutions infrastructure for receiving these objects when eventually they return from exile as they are currently so theres a lot of work that needs to be done on the niger and they havent done enough and i hope theyre going to do a lot more the chicory in your view is an open shut case that all artifacts should be returned or annoyance in some situations that some could say museums. Its a very complicated situation what i am campaigning for is that there are very specific instances in history well documented its not just the be nenes brassieres and sculptures in the great museums of europe there are various other instances of artworks that were taken by europeans during that period that are well documented we should start with those. Virtually impossible to argue or even its not realistic to think that every single african art or Cultural Heritage outside of a continent and can be returned but actually there are what i call the low hanging fruit in other words objects that have well documented history and out of great cultural and artistic significance we should start with those right with as i say this is the time to be talking about such things the issue of restitution im sure there will be developments. We appreciate that thanks for thank you for having me saudi arabia and the United States urging the United Nations to extend an arms embargo on iran speaking in riyadh the Saudi Foreign minister and washingtons iran envoy warned that iran would become a weapons dealer for terrorist organizations if the embargo due to end in october is allowed to expire the u. N. Burns iran from buying jet fighters Missile Defense systems and other military hardware in 2010 over its nuclear program. The u. S. President is summoning members of congress to the white house to address reports that russia offered to pay taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan president trumps of the report 1st revealed by the New York Times never reached him because intelligence agencies did not think they were credible House Speaker nancy pelosi accuses trump of siding with russias president Vladimir Putin now as the u. K. Gets ready to relax more coronavirus restrictions one english city may be prevented from doing just that there are concerns about the number of infections in leicester after a recent surge general is that. There are certain numbers coming out here in leicester that indicate that something is going on although the data is still a bit woolly its not entirely clear what or how severe it may be certainly there has been a massive uptick in testing in leicester theres a Testing Center over there through the trees behind me and what that has revealed is that in a 2 week period up to june the 23rd some 900 almost 100 new cases were detected and thats pretty high given the population count here it led to Boris Johnson the Prime Minister talking about lesters being an area of particular concern it was much talk over the weekend about it possibly becoming the 1st part of the u. K. To go into full localised lockdown to deal with a local outbreak part of the Prime Ministers socalled whack a mole strategy to deal with local outbreaks as and when and where they occur and particularly as the rest of the country is ready to shake off much of its remaining lockdown restrictions on june june july the 4th with the reopening of the hospitality sector now meetings are ongoing as we speak it appears rather that what theyre talking about is having less to remain within its current set of restrictions for a further 2 weeks beyond july the 4th in part to gather more data about the nature of this outbreak where it may be centralized and so on and how best to deal with it while telling the population in the repeat guidance to keep washing their hands to maintain social distance to keep contact outside the home to a minimum its a sort of guidance that people in this country been very used to hearing over the last few months but as the government has taken its finger more and more off the pressure button in recent weeks lifting the lockdown it is guidance that quite a lot of people seem to have forgotten. Protests against rising fuel costs have been held across india defying restrictions on gatherings because of kevin 90. 00 the opposition is calling out the government for increasing prices of the almost 3 months if not done with programmers and swan of the demonstrations in the capital new delhi. The 1st ever again i think feel at home. And it is being broken up by police thats because protests arent coronavirus restrictions but they have been called for by indias main policy the policy all over the country and thats because fuel prices have not meet every day for the past 3 weeks theyre at their highest level in nearly 2 years and this is happening bungalow bill lloyd prices are down and there was that the government does not close in on the benefit of the low cost of procurement to the people that increasing taxes on fuel now india own body has some of the highest taxes on fuel the governor said i mean the revenue people are saying that it is putting them at a time when they asked for financially india is in an economic crisis because of one of the strictest lockdowns and there have been other protests this is just the latest of a protest in the cities of in part by a transport union here in delhi on the weekend and the Congress Party says its going to ask the president to back on the fuel price hike. Well Health Workers in india have reported the biggest single day increase in corona virus infections several states are reimposing full partial lockdowns with nearly 20000 new cases was inhofe a 1000000 indians have been infected some states say they will increase testing. In chile thousands of foreign fruit pickers are in limbo because their savings are gone and borders remain closed many of from bolivia which doesnt have full diplomatic ties because of a long running territorial dispute with its neighbor and the 3rd part of our series on people stranded by the pandemic are latin america tennessean newman reports from santiago. Some have traveled thousands of kilometers from southern chile to get to this school in santiago to date a refuge for stranded bolivians but here theyre given a mattress and blankets and assigned a classroom where they join the others. Mostly Seasonal Workers who come to chile each year to pick fruit from october to march when summer ends but now its winter its raining and cold and like the rest the governments family hasnt been able to leave home and. Bolivia close the borders and declared a quarantine they didnt let buses or anyone cross not even a hospital ivins but 3 months they camped outside of their consulate asking for help but just like thousands of than cuban colombian and peruvian migrants stranded in chile theyve had to depend on charity now that their savings are gone. We have mattresses food and a roof over our heads now but no thanks the bolivian government its abandon us thats what hurts the most moderate who are working in southern chile but they declare lockdowns there too so we had to come here we dont know when we can go home. 3 women have given birth while waiting to return to bolivia. 4 others are pregnant the 300 people here have been told that following dinner no one else will be able to enter after that the plan is to put this whole school under quarantine so that everybody whos in year can be guaranteed to be called with free after 14 days then they will be taken by bus to the border with libya but it just. There is absolutely no guarantee that authorities there well open the borders to allow these people to go back home. In the last few months theyve in fact allowed 2000 bolivians who undergone certified quarantines to re enter but we cannot prove coronavirus cases in chile now one of the worlds highest many countries are understandably less eager to speed up with petri asians all this while the number of people stranded here grows but. There is a permanent flow of people were only just beginning to see the economic effects of this pandemic on my clients and temporary workers. For many the wait isnt the worst part its the feeling of being trapped and the fear of not knowing if the virus might take their lives or dosa family members back in bolivia before they can make it home you see in human aljazeera santiago. One of the next part of the series will be speaking to Cuban Migrants trapped in mexico helping to care for other travelers will be on tuesday right here of course on aljazeera and let me just nudge in the direction our website aljazeera dot com its interests all the news were covering right there and to comment and analysis that to. Say this is out there these are the top stories and china is being accused of forcing the weaker minority to lower the birth rate an investigation by the Associated Press says hundreds of thousands of women forced to undergo a pregnancy checks sterilization of abortions former french Prime Minister france or feel has been given a 5 Year Prison Sentence for fraud he was found guilty of misusing public funds and embezzlement and setting up fake jobs for his wife and their children. There is imperative that she has more details on the verdict. Expected in as much as prosecutors had actually requested a 5 year sentence for. 3 years suspended 3 years suspended for his wife. As well in the courts. And had it down. To the couple not a couple have left the courts their lawyers say this trial was unfair it was that false or feel was the victim of a Political Smear Campaign and they now have 10 days to appeal theyve made it very clear that they will do that iran has issued an arrest warrant for donald trump the u. S. President is one of 36. 00 people linked to januarys drone strike in iraq which killed a military commander the u. S. Says the money was planning to attack diplomats and soldiers iran wants interpol to issue a wanted notice rescue teams in bangladesh are searching for dozens still missing after 2 ferries collided in a river near the capital one of the boat sank with more than 100 passengers on board 30 police have been recovered an attack on pakistans Stock Exchanges ended with at least 9 People Killed Security Forces stopped the attackers before they could take control of the building in karachi. At least 23. 00 civilians have been killed in afghanistan after rockets fell on a Cattle Market in southern Helmand Province it happened near the town of sangin children are among the dead the government is blaming the. Health workers in india have reported the biggest single day increase in corona virus infections several states are reimposing full or partial lockdowns because of nearly 20000 new cases more than half a 1000000 indians have been infected because they were headlines we have more coming up right after talked to al jazeera. As countries begin easing coronavirus restrictions scientists warn of a 2nd wave of infections. After. The name and many fear the economy is be prioritised about for human life. Yet thats. Whats important for its we bring you the latest developments from across the globe coronavirus condiment special coverage. Will. Be. On february 25th brazil became the 1st country in south america to report of 1000 infection. And as the number of cases increased over the subsequent weeks and months its president with fuz to take any strong measures. He fought the state leaders who imposed lockdowns and mandated social distancing rules calling their actions economically ruinous. Also not all still refuses to acknowledge the seriousness of the global pandemic