People are calling out Earth or saying that he shouldn't have criticized policies inside China but we're also saying some people say I just want to watch my Arsenal game bring back the football let's get politics out of sports So definitely we're seeing a mixture of opinion and I think if these games continue to be polled or if China decides to punish a wider group of the Premier League we will see a lot of discontent inside China the French government official in charge of overseeing major plan changes to the pension system has resigned John Paul deliver had failed to declare a number of paid and unpaid positions he's done in behind this resignation comes at an extremely sensitive time John Paul Del of why are nicknamed Mr pensions says he overlooked declaring a string of posts and the money that came with some of them he's denied any improper motive and has offered to pay back any money he should have forfeited but it's politically embarrassing at a time when workers fear their benefits face cuts President Mark ROM's plan to overhaul the pension system is $1.00 of his flagship reforms but it's provoked an angry response workers on the 12th straight day of strikes and protests with more planned Amnesty International says Iran is continuing to carry out nationwide raids to arrest people suspected of being involved in mass protests last month ministry says its latest information puts the number of those killed at more than 300 b.b.c. News. The un Security Council is discussing violent extremism in West Africa where militants linked to Al Qaida and the Islamic state group of gained in strength Islamist forces have killed more than 230 soldiers in the region over the last 4 months despite the presence of thousands of regional and foreign troops these strange the wife of Zimbabwe's vice president Constantino to anger has appeared in court in Harare charged with attempting to murder his. Mary-Jo anger as alleged to have tried to kill her husband while he was receiving medical treatment She's also accused of a $1000000.00 worth of fraud and money laundering his under Harding in the eyes of many this case now fits a more familiar pattern the pattern of a country where corrupt elites accuse each other of assassination plots and poisonings and where the police and courts are used to settle scores a country in other words where precious little seems to have changed since the days of Robert Mugabe that sense is compounded by Zimbabwe's deepening economic crisis the country gripped by hyperinflation crippling power shortages and mass hunger the authorities in Rwanda are demolishing homes in the capital Kigali deemed to be at risk from what they describe as climate dangers hundreds of houses built on or near wetlands are being destroyed the authorities say they need to protect people from flooding and landslides following unusually heavy rains families say they have received no compensation football's world governing body Fifa has filed claims in a swith court against 2 of its most senior former officials to try to recover about $2000000.00 from them they for says the money shouldn't have been given to its former vice president Michel Platini 8 years ago the payment was approved as a gift by the president at the time Sepp Blatter the pair deny wrongdoing b.b.c. News. Hello and welcome to News Hour from the b.b.c. World Service coming to you live from London I'm James Camorra saw me in a moment as a u.s. Envoy arrives in South Korea will assess American efforts to restart talks with the North will also be hearing from a man who 1st opened the Kremlin gates to Vladimir Putin 20 years ago and from the front line school in Afghanistan where rockets and guns are replaced by bats and balls well it valid ban in government combat tons send it children to the school but their boys face each other in a much more peaceful where on the cricket field 1st so if a week is a long time in politics what is 12 months in nuclear diplomacy this time last year there was a genuine sense of optimism on the Korean Peninsula about the progress of nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington but as the u.s. Envoy to the region Stephen begin arrived in Seoul for today's meeting with the South Korean president the mood music was far more discordant ever since the leaders' summit in Hanoi collapsed in February the diplomatic process has been rather drained of dynamism and in recent weeks a new North Korea has turn the clock back rhetorical reviving one notorious insults the President Trump how it can conduct its several missile tests the most recent one just hours before Mr begins a rival and they've also given the United States a deadline of the end of this year for a new deal on denuclearize ation which is thought to include some form of sanctions relief while at a news conference in the South Korean capital Seoul Stephen begin had this message for North Korea we haven't heard any number of creative ways to proceed with feasible steps and flexibility in our negotiations to reach balanced agreements that meet the objectives of both sides. And just. As isn't the case with President Trump. I remain. Confident that all of this is possible I believe we can do this but the United States cannot do it alone therefore here today let me speak directly to our counterparts in North Korea it is time for us to do our jobs let's get this done we are here. And you know how to reach the B.B.C.'s Laura because in so probably she think the authorities in Pyongyang will react to that proposal but we're waiting to see but certainly over the last few weeks the message from her young hasn't been good they've ratcheted up the pressure and within the last week they've carried out 2 allegedly to a rocket engine test know these engines could be according to analysts for an intercontinental ballistic missile these are the kind of missiles capable of reaching the United States or it could be for a soft light will need to keep our eye on that but certainly when it comes to the mood coming from Pyongyang they do not appear to be willing to engage with the United States unless they get a deal that's acceptable to them so what would be acceptable to Pyongyang perhaps it would be significant sanctions relief certainly they pushed for that when Donald Trump and Kim Jong Il met in Hanoi in February they also appear to want security guarantees of war quite sure are they looking for the removal of u.s. Troops for instance are they looking for the exercises between South Korea and the United States military to totally end these are the kind of questions we're not sure and I think when it comes to the United States what I've been hearing there and what I understand is that within the last few months they have been trying to put together a deal at least to try to get North Korea to the negotiating table the problem that we've seen today is that Stephen beacon appears to only be able to communicate with North Korea he didn't saw all through a television camera so it does seem that the United States does want to talk it's just whether or not Pyongyang is willing to listen a lot of this deadline Steve Begin saying you know we do not have a deadline we just have go Bob is that focusing minds in America and in Seoul I'm not sure with that it's actually focusing manes in Washington as I asked quite a few members of the Washington delegation this and they all of all a consistently said to me that this is a false deadline that it's imposed by Kim Jong un but north. Has been c.d.s. All along right from April Kim Jong un said that he would give the United States to the end of the year before he would choose a new path North Korea has given itself some wiggle room we're not quite sure what that new path will be certainly they've given a bit of clue if these kind of latest strategic tests started the thing to go by but certainly when it comes to Kim Jong Un He's been clear it's up to the year end and it's up to the u.s. To make a move and Washington don't seem to be taking that deadline seriously certainly And when you heard from Steven bacon today he says we're not working against a deadline we're looking towards goals so the 2 sides differed on that generally lower of what is the mood like how sort of pessimistic there are people in Seoul a moment about this people are worried I think there was a hope that things had been different last year we couldn't be further from where we were last year last year we've had a summit in Singapore between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Il we've had several meetings between Kim Jong un and to the South Korean president and they've taken part in the Winter Olympics Airlie 2018 Asean enter Korean group as an intern in sports team so we were there last year this year there's been absolutely no discussions with so whatsoever in fact Saul has been cut out of the picture there are very few discussions with the United States and there has been an increase in testing in fact this has been one of their busiest years there's been 13 separate launches and all of them have been short range ballistic missiles which is why Washington is brush them off but it does put so within range so we are I think speaking to a number of analysts there is a lot of pessimism here about where we are I think with Stephen beating coming there were hopes perhaps that he would have face to face meetings with the North Koreans there is still time but this really is kind of Last Chance Saloon stuff the B.B.C.'s Laura because sold O'Donnell Campbell is the executive director of the arms can. Association an advocacy group based in Washington d.c. How dangerous does he think the situation is between the United States and North Korea Well I think were headed for trouble because as Laura bigger said the North Koreans I think are quite serious about a possible long range ballistic missile testing resuming that at the beginning of the year perhaps it's later in the year another nuclear weapon test explosion the problem here is that. Kim and Trump have had opportunities to pursue diplomacy towards denuclearization in peace the twin goals of the original Singapore summit but they have not had the same timeline they have not had the same ideas about sequencing perhaps even about end goals and so Tom has been wasted and I'm afraid that though Steve begins words are Pitch Perfect he's saying the right things he's saying the United States is open to clemency I think Kim Jong un perhaps has decided that he is going to try to ratchet things up put pressure on the Trump as Trump heads towards an election and in impeachment trial in order to get a better deal out of the United States and when you say end goals you you mean the very definition of the need to rise ation is still not pinned down. Well no it is not pinned down the Singapore statement back in 2018 was a good statement it was very broad in general so the 2 sides have not agreed on exactly what North Korea would need to do to denuclearize you know there are the the weapons there is the nuclear material the plutonium and highly enriched uranium there are other facilities that are used to produce these weapons and materials so how much of that and what schedule the 2 sides have never really seen eye to eye and most importantly the North Koreans have been demanding understandably. Steps on the part of the United States to build trust in order and as they say to end the United States hostile policy and instead of pursuing a step for step a series of actions that builds trust and leads towards denuclearization peace the Trump administration wants led by John Bolton a national Curry Advisor were demanding that North Korea take all of these actions upfront before they would be sanctions relief or security guarantees the kinds of things a North Koreans seem to be looking for so with this was this impasse inevitable do you think. I don't think it was inevitable North Korea is always extremely difficult to go shooting partner and I think as I said the problem has been that the diplomatic opportunities that Donald Trump created by creating this personal opening to Kim Jong un has not been realized have not taken advantage of the time and one other problem with this process is that this is a very personal type of diplomacy. You know the relationship between 2 leaders is important in a negotiation like this but it is not sufficient in order to take care of the the details that are going to be involved to verify the denuclearization of a country that perhaps has you know 20 nuclear weapons and many more missiles and perhaps more on the way would you say that the personal approach was was wrong did it provide a possible breakthrough that just simply hasn't been realized some funk Well he created an opening that wasn't there before Donald Trump took a a bold and impulsive step as he does he agreed to meet with Kim for the 1st time 1st American leadership to meet with the North Korean leader but that is not enough you can't in a 2 day meeting between 2 heads of state hammer out all of the details and you have to. Have working level meetings by diplomats like Steve beacon the special envoy for the United States to North Korea and his counterparts to to hammer out the details and that process never got under way and I think that's partly because the North Koreans thought they could get a better deal out of Donald Trump he thinks he's the best negotiator in the world and so you know perhaps what they're doing right now by my assessment is that they're putting pressure on Trump as he heads towards a 2020 lection as he's facing impeachment trial this week in the House of Representatives in order to make it more difficult for him to not to adjust the United States' position how do you think he will react to that. Well this is an unknown you know what I'm worried about is that we get back into the fire and fury exchanges that we saw in 2017 the United States and North Korea were very close to a military confrontation they could have gone nuclear I think Donald Trump needs to be very careful on his Twitter account. And I think this time however Donald Trump is probably going to be a little bit more restrained because he for political reasons doesn't want to create a crisis or exacerbate a crisis and of course the North Koreans are already you know pushing at him using not the wood that they used before. Well exactly. And well the North Koreans are prone to hyperbole and so we need to take that. Advisedly but you know what we have to remember here is that the deadline that Kim Jong un has set I think is real in the following sense that he has a New Year's Day speech we're going to find out what his decision is whether he's going to take a new turn as he says they can conduct additional long range ballistic missile tests they have been testing these engines it would be worrisome if they conducted a flight test with a missile with a solid fuel engine which has a shorter launch time and a reentry vehicle that could deliver a nuclear warhead intercontinental distances that would be a big leap now as Daryl Kimball of the Arms Control Association they are on the prospects for a breakthrough in the nuclear negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang you are listening to the b.b.c. World Service this is News Hour coming to you live from London with James Kim Asami . Coming up later on in the program a schoolboy's poem in Afghanistan Heidi. They are what they need. Wherever I look I see dangers and explosions oh god so many funerals wherever I look I see graveyards I'm lost as we keep dying burning flame of my juvenile heart tell me who will die today poem from a boy attending a school in Afghanistan which has got caught in the fighting between the government and the Taliban the headlines this hour the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has appealed for calm as violent protest against a new law on illegal migrants entered a 5th day Beijing says that the Arsenal football Mesut Ozil has been deceived by fake news when he criticised the mass detention of Muslim week is. Now listening to the b.b.c. World Service this is News Hour coming to you live from London with James Tamara Sammy. A mixed bag a lost opportunity the reviews of the Madrid cop 25 climate change conference which ended at the weekend haven't exactly been glowing So what have 2 weeks of meetings about what many of us the most pressing issue of our times actually achieved a question for both I count Dutch member of the European parliament who was part of the u.s. Delegation for the negotiations Well you know you can always say that what we achieved was clearly the drew a line and sync we're not going to agree on weak rules which is really undermining the Paris Agreement and got support for that by developing countries African Union low lying island so let us countries supported that line so I think what you may need if this is also seeing where the problems are and which countries are are really holding out against that and that states that was clearly Brazil for the Arabia and Russia and and also for example Australia Well I think that became clear but if you just look at the deal yet not much progress has been made and this is a sort of not an interim but but not one of the big. Climate Change Conference is next year in Glasgow is one of the big ones in what does this org or for that meeting Well that's of course it's a bad it's a bad start I would say next year Glasgow will be the last summit before Paris and Paris agreement officially kicks in then we have a 5 years reviewed it starts on the 1st of January 2021 so we have one chance before we get into that global review mechanism so it's the last chance that countries really put more ambition on the table because we all know what is currently on the table will by far not reduce i missions enough and will not limit global warming well below 2 degrees so we have a problem so countries need to step up well the e.u. Europe has sent we are. Willing to step up but we still need to decide which level but of course we need more countries to do that well if now you cannot get to a deal in Madrid that does not bode well for getting a big momentum for higher ambition that being pleaded next year in Glasgow so having I think as you put it smoked out the obstruct is countries like Brazil and Australia what do you do now do you spend the next year trying to persuade their governments to to change course I think that's of course part one but that to be very honest after this these weeks in Madrid it chills that's going to be difficult but still you have to try that and looking at history are the problems they're having right now with the summer heat and all the forest fires here on the how long it's Australian Government can't pretend there is no climate change but on the other hand what we also need to do is really getting a tougher line of those countries who were a bit you know sitting on the fence in Madrid and here mainly looking at India and China they were not the obstruct us but they were also not clearly saying we want more and vision and we supported you everything you know in other countries to to go for us when we you surprised by that China in recent years seems to have been taking a more proactive role in this yeah but it was also be to be expected to bid that they were a bit more on the fence in matric because of well the economic projections are going down also for China there's of course Islamic trade or some steps have been made but still there are developments that it's making China a bit nervous so we know there are internal discussions also within China how to go further and I think this is now Europe really should focus on is their relationship with China is going to be a very big deal China summit in September and that should be the moment where e.u. And China are really promoting a more ambitious outcome for Glasgow so we have basically. 9 months to really invest in that you China relationship and then we can turn Glasgow into more of a success because then you are isolated countries like Brazil and Australia but that's that's a dynamic that needs to happen very soon boss I coude member of the European Parliament part of the E.U.'s delegation that cop 25 in Madrid. 20 years ago as a millennium was coming to an end a new political era was about to begin in Russia on New Year's Eve 999 President Boris Yeltsin announced that he was resigning and he anointed of a young former k.g.b. Officer called lemma Putin to succeed him Mr Putin has effectively ruled Russia or either as president or prime minister ever since with the 20th anniversary of the Putin era approaching Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg speaking to one of those directly responsible for Boris Yeltsin's fateful choice of successor. Will Russia president is sworn into office the ceremony takes place in the throne hold of the czars in the Kremlin It makes the leader look like a monarch anointed by God but 20 years ago let me Putin wasn't sent from the heavens he was picked by his predecessor Boris Yeltsin and he's in a circle if they backed someone else Russia may have developed in a different direction but they chose Putin so why him yeah. I'm sure they'll. Have played a key role in Vladimir Putin becoming president of Russia he rarely gives interviews but he's agreed to meet me and tell his story. Mr You must have was one of Boris Yeltsin's most trusted aides he went on to marry Yeltsin's daughter and as Yeltsin's chief of staff in 1970 he hired Putin to be his deputy. Minister. I noticed immediately put in fantastic ability and he was excellent at formulating and expressing ideas he was a brilliant deputy Yeltsin and I talked a lot about who might succeed him at one point we discussed Putin has a strong candidate I said you should consider him President Yeltsin did and he backed Putin to be his successor He's next decision was to step down 6 months early the plan was top secret Yeltsin didn't even tell his wife he was resigning he asked Mr You must have to write the resignation speech which he recorded on New Year's Eve 1999 in the Kremlin. Or. All. The press will fool everyone in the room were shocked except me of course who'd written the speech people burst into tears it was an emotional moment but it was important that the news didn't leak out before the official announcement in 4 hours time so all the Kremlin stuff in that room were locked in the weren't allowed to leave. I took the tape and drove to the t.v. Center the speech was broadcast that made the that I did was here so we're going on here that night Vladimir Putin delivered his 1st t.v. Address as acting president and wished Russians a happy new millennium slow moving vehicle. 3 months later one of the election by the time he delivered his next 2 years address he replaced Russia's national anthem with the old Soviet melody. 20 years on that image Putin is still in power. Of claims that he and Yeltsin believe that Putin was a liberal a Democrat but over the last 2 decades President Putin has turned Russia into an into critic state and that was Steve Rosenberg reporting from Moscow just remind If you want to get in touch with us about anything you hear on the program you can do that on Twitter at b.b.c. News Hour is our handle or you can get in touch with me directly at b.b.c. Jamie coo and if you miss any live editions of the program there is always our podcast which we update twice a day 7 days a week is that the b.b.c. 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News India's prime minister Narendra Modi has appealed for calm as protests over a controversial new citizenship law continue to spread across the country he accused vested interest groups of stoking the unrest students across India staged demonstrations with solidarity after a police raid on a university in Delhi a court in India has convicted a former state legislature legislator of raping a teenager in a high profile case that's caused widespread anger deep singing Sangar from the governing b j p faces possible life imprisonment is that Tim said she was kidnapped and raped for more than a week by him and others the Chinese authorities of urge the English Premier League footballer Mesut Ozil to visit the shin Jiang region after he criticized the detention of Muslim weekers the Foreign Ministry in Beijing said he'd been deceived by fake news the French government official in charge of overseeing major changes to the pension system has resigned John Paul it delivered failed to declare a number of paid and unpaid positions he held which led to allegations of potential conflicts of interest the estranged wife of Zimbabwe's vice president Constantino junker has appeared in court to be charged with attempting to murder him police said marriage to a go was accused of fraud and money laundering charges totaling a $1000000.00 They are thought is in Rwanda have begun demolishing hundreds of homes in the capital which they say are at risk because of climate change course in the Philippines has rejected a case in which the authorities were seeking the return of really $4000000000.00 allegedly looted by the country's late leader Ferdinand Marcos and disarmingly the judges said much of the evidence was inadequate because it relied on photocopied documents b.b.c. News. Coming up next as protests spread across India in response to the government's citizen Amendment Bill we get a response from the ruling b j p 1st of all rabbit when the Arsenal football a message and the Chinese government on Friday the German midfielder of Turkish origin used social media to criticize China's treatment of its Muslim week in minority in Shin Jiang province and to call out other Muslim countries for not speaking out and to describe the we get as warriors who resist persecution Well today the Chinese government has issued its response and it's been an unusual one as I've been hearing from the b.b.c. Stephen McDonell in Beijing this of course isn't going down too well with the Chinese government but the interesting thing I think today from their responses rather than just come out and attack him head on as I think many of us would have expected they're saying that he just doesn't know what he's talking about that he's been deceived by fake news and that if he was to come to shin Jiang with an open mind he'd see a very different place and in fact they've put the invitation out saying to ourselves star midfielder come to China's far west and you'll see a place where religious freedoms are respected Now the interesting thing will be if Mesut Ozil was to turn around and accept that invitation whether or not they'd really let him go or in fact if he went what freedom he would have to move around the place but it is nevertheless an interesting tactic I think instead of just head on attacking what he said in him and people interfering in China's internal affairs what we normally get they deciding you know this is this is someone who doesn't know what they're talking about they've been misled they should come and see for themselves although there has been plenty of that more traditional attacks if you like over the weekend from from fans and others in China. Yes Well the biggest pain inflicted on Arsenal I guess was when China's Central Television pulled the live broadcast of the of the match for the weekend replacing it in a sort of nasty little twist with their local rivals Spurs playing and this is what they'd be worried about I mean the club wants this problem to go away quickly because they don't want to be blocked in terms of access to this very lucrative Chinese market the obvious parallel they'd be looking at the u.s. Basketball's Houston Rockets they've lost sponsorship of last live telecast of the games after the team's manager posted on Twitter supporting protesters in Hong Kong and I think for that reason we haven't heard from the Premier League and I mean Arsenal are just saying you know this is he is individual remarks we don't get involved in politics and I think they're going to try and ride out the next few days and hope that it doesn't blow up too much because relatively speaking they have beem comments on Chinese social media from fans and the like people who are saying he should butt out of politics or that Arsenal should be boycotted but not that much if you know what I mean certainly not what it could be if the Communist Party decided to open the floodgates and really encourage people to start getting stuck into and missing. I was a baby season Stephen McDonell in Beijing. You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service this is News Hour coming to you live from London with the Morris army . The protests in India against a controversial new citizenship law are showing no sign of abating from Delhi to Kolkata from Mumbai to Hyderabad student demonstrators have been out in the streets again taking issue with the citizenship amendment bill which grants citizenship to some non Muslim migrants from the neighboring countries of Bangladesh Pakistan and Afghanistan a March on Sunday in the Indian capital ended with buses and motorbikes being set alight and at least 50 people being injured as police moved in to break up the protests Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appealed for calm on the B.B.C.'s Amberson Ethirajan is in the Indian capital now I asked him whether Mr Modi strategy of taking to Twitter to try and calm the crowds has worked the purpose just are still on the streets here in Delhi I don't think it would have appealed to them because the prime minister talked about the violence was distressing and unfortunately also said disturbing public life and damage to public properties was not on the Indian it thaws this is not going to go down well with the protesters because it is undoubtedly blaming them for the violence but many protesters would say that they were not involved they had a peaceful protest in Delhi but their small group of people would describe as outsiders are involved in the while and police said some vehicles on fire engines were set on fire but what it does happen is likely police force their way into the campus the dummy I mean in us City campus in Delhi that triggered anger across India because people could see you know the radios on social media going wild and television pictures about how the police were targeting the students on the police side what they say was that they were taking necessary action to bring the situation under control but this is quite and president at Web one university students protesting and then. Simultaneously the other students from wrist of India you know India is huge with the different states different culture it's very rare for students to come to get that 11 particular issue and that is what's taken the government by surprise and the opposition parties are criticizing the government for not reaching out to the students instead blaming them it's one particular issue but different groups of people have different issues with this new bill don't name . Yes For example the people in northeastern India in states like Assam and West Bengal they border Bangladesh so what this law does is to fast track citizenship to non Muslim people who play the Lidge a specific use and from those countries some of the Muslims have been excluded but at the same time for example people in Assam feel all those people who came from Bangladesh that includes Hindu community and others it will change the demography if they were given citizenship we are talking about half a 1000000 people here they're worried about protecting that indigenous culture and identity on the other hand the rest of India feels that the whole idea of this new citizenship law on the basis of religion they think it is discriminatory towards Muslims and the founding fathers always thought about India as a secular country because you know India is a huge country with a population of more than a 1000000000 people in which 200000000 Muslims live it's one of the biggest Muslim populations in the world people have to live side by side and if you're going to discriminate against one particular community that's going to polarize people and that the support people in other parts of India are protesting against the B.B.C.'s I think in Delhi which China and see is a spokesperson for the ruling b j p party in the Indian state of Maharashtra in light of the protests of the Indian government regret anything about this new law our government that the citizenship I'm in was long overdue. Spent over 119 hours consulted with the 100 and the. Chief. As well as all political now for all those who are getting the option to come in again. This is a welcome war but if you feel that we are going to compromise the stability of the guardian of India for a few then I think that that's an unfortunate comment but isn't this something. Short term actually undermining the security when you see the images from from various parts of the country buses burning angry people angry students out in the streets this is this is stirred up anger and stirred up communities he all right it is images you have certain political parties that have propping up this kind of a war meant only to question the government they have no agenda other than means 2nd of all right and we will not subscribe to that you don't accept them that there are different communities who have different problems with this bill some who see it as license for immigrants to come in and take their jobs others who see this as being discriminatory because it does not include Muslims I don't understand was writing this kind of a conspiracy theory that reality is that the people who are protesting are welcome to do so and have democracy but to hold the government to ransom and to believe that this is your right to decide what the majority should be doing but then be elected and come to Parliament to make the change it's not just inside India though the concerns of being raised the Human Rights Council has said that the law would appear to undermine the equality before the law in shrines in India's constitution what does the United Nations Human Rights know about grassroot in the in politics this is an interim going back to India can you just explain to our listeners why you have not included Muslims in this bill you have to sign and as countries not just countries but as countries but at the Muslims all when you actually go and it was all well now thought that if you have a huge segment of Muslims who are coming into India and believing that they can use this as their choice of being that data a destabilizer that I'd. I think that's allowed but what about not about Muslims who made refuge what about we goes for example in a language are they not welcome the largest population of Muslims in India and the safest total So what is this un cry when out against Muslims we're just saying for minority refugees who have had no Indians it's where willing to give it to them No you mention the home minister had been negotiating for many hours with N.G.O.s chief ministers and parties I mean quite a few of those chief ministers even after this negotiation don't seem to accept the bill they're rejecting it refusing to implement it what are you going to do but you'll have to send a decision which is routed through parliament the states have to abide and I'm sure that if they choose not to for whatever reason they will be dealt appropriate What does that mean let the whole mistakes then there will be no more attempts to try and persuade them it's now simply a case that they need to get out of class of course me you will we've always believed in dialogue debate and discussion but if you believe that you can bulldoze us to create an atmosphere off field that's not going to work this is new India this is the India where Prime Minister more be an amateur have given their life to . Diversity and at the same time the spec the fact that we are not going to be weakening us and just on a public posturing and that was shine and see spokesperson for the ruling b j p party in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The continuing violence in Afghanistan has brought a pause to the renewed peace talks between the United States and the Taliban now with fighting raging across the country we're going to bring you now a snapshot of how one community is coping the B.B.C.'s atrophy has had exclusive access to a school in kept peace a province just north of the capital Kabul which is on the front line. The start of the day at a Monaghan secondary school district but it's no ordinary bell it's actually an empty shell from a tank dating from the servant intervention in Afghanistan in the 1980 s. Under schools 1200 pupils aged 7 to 19 and its teachers lead no ordinary lives. Before the lessons begin each day the army will have a base next door drive an armored Humvee vehicle into the school yard to protect the staff and pupils while dissing the National until. My That's because the school is sitting close to the front line between the Taliban and Afghan government forces. It's a boys' school and in this conservative area many girls don't go to school and those who do good too just to schools which are a bit further away from the fighting but still not completely safe number for the boys then there is a 10 boy. An English lesson at the school but even when the students are in the classrooms they are not safe the walls are pockmarked with bullet holes and shrapnel damage with the Taliban firing rockets at the government troops who respond with tank fire. To. The head teacher is Mohammed a you've suffered a little look at him we'll give him the live with our students come here from across the area and while no one targets them on purpose they do get caught in the crossfire over the last 20 years around 50 students and 12 teachers have been killed or injured. Heidi why are they in their high thirty's hiding wherever I look I see dangers and explosions oh god so many funerals wherever I look I see graveyards I'm lost as we keep dying of burning flame of my juvenile heart tell me who will die today you know I knew the. Year 11 pupils are mild donnish wrote this poem after one of his friends was killed by a stray bullet I was no good at it to see me but I him in a way the our friend brought him he was killed it was a very painful moment when we began hating everything about the school and decided not to come here any more but our parents and siblings purser waited us to come back Zara miles father is but I mean. He had a sort of down the line or like him despite all the dangers I send my son to school so that he studies and gains and education and achieve something because my generation have been deprived of knowledge and culture I don't want my son to suffer the same fate several of the animals classmates including me as Mohammad live and the Taliban side of the front line. The other good that I actually know the Taliban when I leave my house in the morning I 1st greet the Taliban then when I cross to the government side I greet the soldiers sometimes they start fighting each other and we get caught in the crossfire. Both Taliban and government competence send their children to the school but their boys face each other in a much more peaceful where on the cricket field. And as this student explains despite all the violence they have not given up hope. It can make our lives if we study peace and security will fall into place we can become equal with other countries in terms of economics and development. And that report was the B.B.C.'s. From Afghanistan you're listening to the b.b.c. World Service and this is news coming to you live from London. And. Distribution of the b.b.c. World Service News Hour in the u.s. Has made possible by American Public Media producer and distributor of award winning public radio content a.p.m. American Public Media with support from c 3. The software suite for digital transformation using artificial intelligence and Ohio t. To solve previously unsolvable business problems c 3 a I. And reminder of our main story today the u.s. Envoy to North Korea has expressed disappointment at hostile messages from Pyongyang about an end of year deadline but said the door remains open for a peace deal that will Kimball is with the advocacy group the Arms Control Association he told us he thinks that things are going to get worse Well I think we're headed for trouble because I think Kim Jong un perhaps has decided that he is going to try to ratchet things up put pressure on Donald Trump as Trump heads towards an election and impeachment trial in order to get a better deal out of the United States are the headlines the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has appealed for calm as violent protest against a new law on illegal migrants and to the 5th day and Beijing says the awful football a message has been deceived by fake news when he criticized the mass detention of Muslim we can use. Your listening to the b.b.c. World Service says News Hour coming to you live from London with James Kim our Sami . The world's estimated $2300000000.00 adults and children who are overweight an estimated $150000000.00 children who are on the nourished and stunted would appear to be opposing ends of the health challenge spectrum but in a new report published in the medical journal The Lancet the World Health Organization has called for a joint approach to these forms of malnutrition arguing they have a common denominator food systems that fail to provide people with healthy safe affordable and sustainable diets Dr Francesco Branca is the director of the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development at the World Health Organization he describes the Constitution as the new nutrition reality I asked him what he meant by that we mean that we have been facing for many years a challenge calls on the nutrition and food insecurity in many parts of the world and then in parallel with seeing the emergence of the obesity epidemic but we thought that they were somehow in different parts of the world and reaching different populations to nutrition realities that unfortunately this 2 forms of Mali attrition are converging converging in the same countries particularly now more 'd and more it countries with low globe middle income but often they are converging in the same communities in the same families it even in the same individuals even if at different stages of their life course what's the reason for this change well we have a number of challenges we have poor and nutrition in and realize we have inadequate breastfeeding we have to or maternal your Christian children were born with no birth without more prone to what is an environment that on the other hand is offering foods of production quality food at that high sugar and salt that cannot be handled by individuals who have been Ma-Ma wished lives on the a basis to have. How does not come in parallel with on the nutrition a child who is born with low birth weight is a child who's Dan growing into somebody who is not able to handle certain Newsham particularly socks and when exposed to an environment which is high in fat because that kind of food which is available which is a cheap food then that person will become will become an overweight individual so so there is a biological connection between the under-nutrition in the early stages of life and then the later overweight what sort of countries are we talking about these low income middle income we're talking about more and more middle income countries so we have countries like South Africa countries like Egypt or all countries in Central Asia Latin Goliad but we have a lot of countries also in sub-Saharan Africa and in South America where you have this the quick systems of these different forms of money Christian seeing are based at sea and on the nutrition is 2 sides of the same coin how does that help to address the problems we can now see that if we use the approach called the Double Duty actions so we have a number of effective programs that can address both the under nutritional the weak and what exactly are double duty actions while the w.t. Actions we propose the effect of pain but basically it's in health services to support protect and promote breastfeeding and adequate complementary feeding we need to have school feeding programs that provide adequate food without using overweight and we need to have better programs in agriculture and food systems to provide better dietary diversity and to make the healthier food more. And affordable and that was Dr Francesco Branker of the World Health Organization now on the link between being overweight and being on the national. I send now by hearing about a new film that tells a story of an underground hospital in Syria and features one rather remarkable female doctor who works in it here's the B.B.C.'s Michael Rossi all seems quiet the silence before the storm. Those are the signs of rockets being fired on Eastern off water near the Syrian capital Damascus. Those bombing signs are what open market the new documentary film called The Cave directed by city and film director Ferris Fiat and it tells the story of an underground hospital and eastern off during the revolution in Syria he said like to search about the people who have a good side not the bad things that make you feel what we are looking for as a Syrian what we are searching for. In his search for those doing good in the midst of civil war for us came across footage of a young female doctor Dr Ramani Barlow or he learnt that she worked at the cave opened as a safe place to treat patients cannot be said to come and see him see. The film tells the story of the key figures in the hospital there is Dr Ramani hospital manager Dr Saleem the surgeon some hair a nurse and doctor are another young female doctor and for Dr Ramani the difficulties she encountered as a woman are clearly shown on camera in one scene a man comes in asking for medicine for his wife and makes clear his feelings that are women shouldn't be running a hospital as far as he's concerned. Actually it's very frustrating makes me angry so many times Dr Ramani the main in my country there you could use me just because a woman I'm a doctor and I can do as other doctors can because I was in this hospital from the beginning I know all the needs this hospital I have been killed by all the hospital to grow thick it's. Some of the most difficult moments for Dr Ramani and her team were dealing with malnourished or injured children I remember child lost his arm also on me and he lost me when he went. Where's my arm you are a doctor you got to my arm. Well you got it and. Can you imagine what I feel when they say that. The resultant film but for us fire has produced is very much a documentary but it has an almost Arcturus quality to it the cinematography and the use of music the colors. A month or so from the culture from the art side and I don't want this people just to get to the movie and cry and go out forget about that and see like her when the movie and all of this conversation they can see it about any small reporter you can put it on t.v. I want to see it as a film and watch it in a way but it's the truth and reality in front of them. Now is Dr Ramani ending that report by Michael Ruff seat and that brings us to an end of this edition of News Hour from a James. And the rest of the team here in London thanks very much for listening until the next time good bye. Now I will in the b.b.c. 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News room I'm up and sitting here at houses of miles away from my home town Delhi I've been watching with concern the images and videos being sent on by my colleagues into the news from buses being torched students with bruises bleeding broken glass strewn around the university library angry exchanges between students and the police those protests have become peaceful now in the past 24 hours but on Norway a close to abating and it all centers around a new controversial citizenship law that makes it easier for non Muslims from India's neighboring Muslim majority countries to get Indian citizenship protesters allege it discriminates against Muslims remember India is secular gives equal rights to people of all religions in the Constitution the government denies the allegation and has appealed for calm week at the latest. A.b.c. News with Sue Montgomery India's opposition parties have strongly criticised the Government for a heavy police action against students protesting about a controversial citizenship law on but us Senator Ron John isn't any the leader of India's opposition Congress party Sonia Gandhi accused the government of creating an atmosphere of religious tension for political interests leaders from other political parties have demanded a judicial investigation into accusations of police brutality against educating students in Delhi over the weekend the protests in Delhi have sparked spontaneous outburst of anger across many Indian universities the prime minister Narendra Modi has appealed for calm and said the violence was unfortunate and distressing critics are warned that the new citizenship law is discriminately towards Muslims while others fear large scale influx of immigrants a coach in India has convicted a former state legislator from the governing b j p of raping a teenager in a high profile case that shocked the nation who deep sing sang our faces possible life imprisonment when he sentenced and choose to.