A cathedral faster than a mosque and later a museum now istanbuls landmark hagia sophia is being reconverted back into a mosque but is this an act of religious significance or political narrow minded yes this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program im Adrian Finnegan one of the worlds most famous landmarks the haggis affair museum in istanbul has been turned back into a mosque turkeys president but one says the site will be open to muslim worship in less than 2 weeks after a top court ruled that the buildings conversion into a museum in 1904 was illegal built one of the half 1000 years ago as an Orthodox Christian cathedral august affair was converted into a mosque after the awesome and conquest in force 153. 00 while unesco and greek russian and other Church Leaders of denounced took his decision its Foreign Ministry insists that its a domestic issue of National Sovereignty will bring in our guests in just a moment but 1st a report from aljazeera said im close to istanbul. The.
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protect its security interests. el salvador, deploy thousands of troops and police outside a major city in its latest crackdown on criminal games. south africa s president to cyril rem opposes, says he will not step down following an investigation into a cover of stolen money. and the leonor messy shines for argentina as they pay to strive to progress to the world war to funds. ah, welcome to the program. we begin in iran where the security unit tasks with enforcing the strict dress code has been shut down. the decision to start the morality police from operating comes up to nearly 3 months of anti government protests and violent crackdowns on demonstrations. they were sparked by the death in police custody of 22 year old student masa, a meaning in september. our reporter door said jabari is standing by for us in at tay ron hello door. so what more can you tell us about this decision? how significant is it in the wake of these protests across the country and world wide? well,
guidance patrol has now shut it down. but there was no confirmation of that closure from the interior ministry rights groups came. hundreds of people have been killed in the government crackdown on protests dos or jabari brings us more from terran. now with this latest announcement from the attorney general, it is even more unclear about how this law will be enforced. and many here believed that also this latest announcement from digital judiciary is somewhat of an attempt to try and quell the unrest that s been unfolding, cure over the past nearly 3 months. but many women feel that i ve spoken to at least say that there s gestures much too little and very, very late. meanwhile, that these 2 people have died during anti government protests in southwest and syria. demonstrate a storm, the government building and the waiter and set it on fire syrian state media, se the cloud burned official documents protest as an angry at the government because of rising prices and economic ha