Melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us afghan president wins a 2nd term by just a hair with 50. 6 percent of the vote his opponent up to a lot of do a lot won at 39. 5 percent the results come at a critical time just a few days ago the United States and the taleban got back on track with a truce and the promise it would pave the way for the Afghan Government and the taliban to hold talks and reach some kind of political settlement honey pledged he would deliver. This is a victory for the will of the afghan people. We want to last in peace thats what this country demands and out team god willing we bring that peace to afghanistan. The election was held back in september 2019 it has taken months to vote count giving the president s challenger Abdullah Abdullah the chance to call the whole theme a sham that. For them the result announced today was one of election robbery or a coup against democracy on up a trail of the people and we consider it to be illegal for our citys share was born yet you know if you get every department or any. Other part i love part of these fraudsters will be remembered with shame in the history of afghanistan a moment and we announce our inclusive government of afghanistan. Joining us is journalist ali latif in kabul. Says that he is the one who has won that what is the National Mood in response to those comments. The National Mood overall is that you know people are very frustrated with selection theyre very tired of it you know theyve dealt with it for 5 months and theyre ready for it to be over theyre ready for people to move on for a new government to come into power and for things to really start you know working again. As for you know after last Pacific Response i think a lot of people have this question of well what can he do if he doesnt accept it you know he says he wants to create a new inclusive government but how would you go about doing such a thing and how would you prove that you ended up winning and so it sounds like what youre saying is that abdullah doesnt have the support needed in order to really cause political problems can be Afghan Government sort of ignore him and just go on with business as usual. I mean so far it seems like thats exactly what the government is doing is exactly that is ignoring him and you know just letting him speak but its not even so much about that he doesnt have the local support because he definitely has local support but the bigger issue in afghanistan is the International Support you know no one has stood up from the International Community now saying they havent graduated the president but they also havent come out and said that they support dr of the law and his claims either and what we have to remember is that the entire of one government is almost completely funded by foreign money and Foreign Forces in terms of the military and foreign support for paying that of on military so its very difficult to to really take on this this government without the support of Foreign Countries when you talk about the International Role so the big question is does this political many crisis sets the u. S. Taleban shoes back on anyway. I dont think itll set it back i think if anything it gives the taliban more leeway it gives them more ammunition because theyll be like look you held an election it took 5 months to come to a resolution and now you have one government being declared in the president ial palace and you have one government being declared in the other part of the city and you know the 2 main parties in this election couldnt get along with each other i think that actually pays very plays very well into the taleban hands at this point. Ali the t. V. Thank you. One of pakistans most prominent government critics is being threatened with trumped up charges of terrorism global kerry speaks truth to power against the countrys military and has gone after the Prime Minister iran khan and his relationship with the generals shes in selfimposed exile and she joins us now from the u. K. School does this threat from Pakistans Federal Investigation Agency surprise you and how serious is this yes it was not a surprising it was actually very shocking ive gotten used to our breaking news and but. They have summoned me and will judge terrorism and or you know shes my properties and extradite me and this is all an extremely shocking and a few days after that he also wrote to the u. K. Government to downing street and home office and but in office and its a 4 page or not 4 pages long net which asks the u. K. Government to slap me with huge speech judges endeavors and judges according to the news reports. Because what should we be if youre there they may not be able to extradite me so theyre instigating my government here to bring these charges against me and it has also been sniffing around the i. S. I. Actually has been sniffing around my residential address here in the u k. If been detained before in pakistan what do you think would happen if you did go back. Lets cornered by it seemed i was abducted i was not to taint this was not nothing legal. And of course if i go back my life. Will be under serious threat which it is even here because theyre pursuing the even in the u. K. Now put your situation in context you for example been tweeting about new government rules on social media tell us about that thats hilarious actually you know most new media whos specifically mention bieber by consignee origin residing abroad theyre quite restrained date that we are out of their reach and for that they want to force i dont know how they think they can do that force International Internet and social Media Companies to design to open and register offices and be physically present and then describe. The same penalties huge penalties like 500000000 rupees if if those companies then i dare do not. Block are going down and our accounts. This is a this is part of an ongoing crackdown which started at least 34 years ago they have the. Go mainstream Digital Media in control they have the print media oh yeah what does this all say about enron hans government. It its about it and in a shooting we found it that it was only to many extreme that is going this because it used to do this during other governments as well but we knew that the syrian governments were launching but they were on the side of the beach but. Now it is getting more and more evident that the iran time government is actively siding with the military because the previous is a now is hurting the iran from government as well the economy is in a downward spiral he has been criticized for that in simply that the things the Human Rights Violations and so on and so forth and hes gone back on everything he ever say so now hes actively colluding with the military in and denting to silence any and or dissent pool because i thank you. Defectors in north korea now getting involved in politics in their new south korean home theyve formed a new party accusing president ins government for failing to protect refugees from the north correspondent frank smyth has more. South koreans head to the polls in april to elect a new 300 Member Legislature among the candidates will be a high level defector from north korea recruited by south koreas new conservative book. Hoas visited this venue the Seoul Foreign Correspondents Club before following his defection the former north Korean Deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom denounced the north korean leadership and kim jong un and suggested the current liberal south korean government was wasting its time in its peacemaking efforts taste said he was inspired to run because he wants to protect the human rights of North Koreans after 2 recent defectors suspected murders we repatriated by the south korean government im absolutely sure that one be. Cute and if we are united again who will go 1st to north korea its also said he would work for North Koreans in the south to give them better Educational Opportunities to lead a unified korea if someone is. In the rebbe save me to the peeper all to the policy. You dont dream that you can see people not really hes screaming on the wall hes screaming no you dont give up your seeding efforts and let them die in the riba no tape has said he believes that kim jong un regimes days are numbered and favors denuclearization before engagement with pyongyang so real number if i do get elected i believe that there needs to be a very clear clause in south korean law that declares how cooperation between the north and south can be resumed with denuclearization so that north korean policy does not go back and forth according to politics isnt what the. Some long standing lawmakers of the liberal Democratic Party question the motivations behind todays candidacy. A young man who likes to show off in public. And so he decided to run for congress with the conservatives and i am tossed mr say to increase right wing power in south korea and create an end to north korea peace atmosphere on the korean peninsula. Has spoken little of south korean issues and his newly formed United Future Party still hasnt announced for which district he plans to run. Thats it for now head over to our web site b w dot com for slash asia to view this show online and for other stories from the region and tell us what you think over social media what more youd like to see we leave you with preparations for the hindu festival shirat tree in nepal it marks the victory of knowledge over darkness and ignorance thank you for watching and well see you next time. In the heart of climate change. Conference most of. Whats in store. For the future. For 2 major cities. Inside. Turkey. Its all happening. Really. Your link to news from africa and the world. 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