Hello from doha everyone im come on santa maria this is the new sound from al jazeera and and blasphemy protest in pakistan grows and then turns violent as the military is called. Easing its blockade the Saudi Led Coalition allows the first shipments in weeks to enter yemen. With a new government moves in on Robert Mugabes old ally. And in the refugee camps of bangladesh more doubts about the agreement thats supposed to allow him to muslims to return to me and. So were going to start off with this standoff in pakistan where the military has been called in and a partial media blackout is in place but its a struggle to disperse hundreds of protesters in the capital islamabad this is after earlier on saturday police fired tear gas and water cannon to clear the protest camp more than one hundred fifty people injured the demonstrators have been blocking a major highway for two weeks and are refusing to leave until the law minister steps down this is all stemming from the fact they are angry
Hundreds of civilians have been killed and injured since the u. S. Backed offensive began in june. Then as thousands of muslims march against violence after last weeks barcelona van attack , we will speak to prominent muslim scholar tariq ramadan. And we will look at President Trumps warning to pakistan. Trumka we can no longer be silent. The taliban and other groups that pose a threat to the region and beyond. Amy all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In charlottesville, virginia, residents cheered and celebrated as wororkers covered two confederate statues one of general robert e. Lelee and another of general Stonewall Jackson with black fabric on wednesday in order to mourn the death of heather heyer, who was kikilled by a neonanazi duringa white supremacist rally in charlottesville on august 12. I feel like it is progress. I am concerned it wiwill be an invitation for people who disagree with shroudi
, we will speak to prominent muslim scholar tariq ramadan. And we will look at President Trumps warning to pakistan. Trumka we can no longer be silent. The taliban and other groups that pose a threat to the region and beyond. Amy all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In charlottesville, virginia, residents cheered and celebrated as workers covered two confederate statues one of general robert e. Lee and another of general Stonewall Jackson with black fabric on wednesday in order to mourn the death of heather heyer, who was killed by a neonazi during a white supremacist rally in charlottesville on august 12. I feel like it is progress. I am concerned it will be an invitation for people who disagree with shrouding the statue to come back here. I have concerns about that. The real resolution that i would like to see is the statue coming down. I feel really impatient about that at this point. But i also feel
Hundreds of civilians have been killed and injured since the u. S. Backed offensive began in june. Then as thousands of muslims march against violence after last weeks barcelona van attack , we will speak to prominent muslim scholar tariq ramadan. And we will look at President Trumps warning to pakistan. Trumka we can no longer be silent. The taliban and other groups that pose a threat to the region and beyond. Amy all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In charlottesville, virginia, residents cheered and celebrated as wororkers covered two confederate statues one of general robert e. Lelee and another of general Stonewall Jackson with black fabric on wednesday in order to mourn the death of heather heyer, who was kikilled by a neonanazi duringa white supremacist rally in charlottesville on august 12. I feel like it is progress. I am concerned it wiwill be an invitation for people who disagree with shroudi
To china and mexico. Plus, a look at how were not blameless in the u. S. President obamas aggressive are are attack on are journalists. Heres more on whats ahead. Worldwide outrage today aan egyptian core has are convicted three journalists. For doing their job. Aiding the Muslim Brotherhood. All three of them vehemently deny those charges. The white house is condemning the verdicts. The prosecution of journalists for reporting, flowts the most basiflouts the. Freedom of expression. There are currently 167 journalists in prison around the world. What is going on here . What about freedom of the press . We begin with the ruling that has outraged journalists and activists around the world. Three al jazeera journalists have been convicted in egypt on charges of conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood, spreading false news and endangering national security. Peter greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed have denied the charges. The three men were sentenced to seven years in prison on those c