Crimes and torture back into the bottle and make this a story about somebody they demonized in such a criminal way my feeling is that hes not going to get anything like a fair trial and its really quite a shame for journalism in general you might have to remind us actually there was a wiki leaks us cable showing the International Red cross met with u. S. Officials in delhi about warnings of detention and torture by indian authorities in cash when one learns these things when leaks come we know its happening i mean we dont need these leaks in fact we have people on the record talking about how theyve been tortured but it hasnt done enough to shake this government particularly against its quite criminal policies against certain targeted populations ok what i have to say they deny commission did come on this program to tell us that there is no arbitrary detention or torture currently. Being meted out in the in kashmir as you can imagine thats the Indian Governments position thats as good
Monitor and track down as many people around the country as possible to know their whereabouts to know their Health Status and weve seen this Remarkable Campaign step up in the epicenter of the virus this week what the government has started to do as starting what they pulled a sort of no household Left Behind Campaign the getting teams of people together tens of thousands of people have been mobilized government Workers Communist Party members people neighborhood and Community Volunteers and in teams theyre going household to household door to door knocking on the door doing Health Checks getting peoples contact data if anybody has symptoms theyre sent to hospitals for testing and they continuing to report all of this information and already in the dental compounds are in lockdown so you can actually leave the compound outside the restricted the times or the outside these restricted measures unless you have a very good reason so thats one example of what the government is trying to do
Joining me now from northampton massachusetts is professor. Who has been following signs of sectarian violence in the Worlds Largest democracy and use message in support of a songe was read out by Pink Floyd Founder Roger Waters in pomona square this week thanks so much for jay for coming on before we get to the multimillion multi 1000000000 dollar arms deals in india with the donald trump your reaction to the trial here in london you know the fact is that journalists like you and i who cover wall to destruction of countries or an immense debt to people like julian assigns nobody believes you until you have hard evidence and they give it to us and i think you need thats the reason why. You know determined to get assigned to humiliate him to destroy him its to sort of the story of walk crimes and torture back into the bottle and make the story about somebody demonized in such a criminal way my. Feeling is that hes not going to get anything like a fair trial and its really quite a shame
Massive voter purging with a democracy is dead in the usa also more coming up in todays going on the ground the 1st there have been allegations of a deliberate lack of coverage in the u. K. Of arguably the journalism trial of the century around the world the Julian Assange just fight for freedom in a london court has made headlines including in india where journalists found time to cover the wiki leaks founder has plunked him its donald trump state visit joining me now from northampton massachusetts is professor. Who has been following signs of sectarian violence in the Worlds Largest democracy and use message in support of a songe was read out by Pink Floyd Founder Roger Waters in pomona square this week thanks so much for coming on before we get to that multimillion multi 1000000000 dollar arms deals in india with donald trump your reaction to the trial here in london you know the fact is that journalists like you and i. All the destruction of countries or an immense debt to people l
Back to their homes and businesses after a week of turmoil in new delhi. And the wind for climate activists plans for an extension to Londons Heathrow airport. Welcome to the program turkeys military is retaliating against Syrian Army Positions after 22 of its soldiers were killed in an attack the air strike happened in syrias in the province where in the last few weeks Turkish Forces have killed or captured more than 1700 soldiers with ties to the Syrian Government turkeys president had threatened more attacks against the russian backed regime if any more of their soldiers were harmed. Meanwhile ankara has announced it will no longer stop syrian migrants trying to make their way to europe Turkish Police coastguard and Border Security have been ordered to stand down and allow any syrian migrants to cross into europe either by land or sea well the latest round of fighting as only worsen the humanitarian crisis in the country with more than a 1000000 syrians displaced at the border in th