Near the border with afghanistan. Our pakistan correspondent, Caroline Davies has the latest, from the capital, islamabad. A Sunday Afternoon Political Rally by one of pakistans biggest religious parties, Jamiat Ulema E Islam. Hundreds crowded in, flags, chanting, then the explosion. Emraan was one of the rally s organisers on stage at the time it happened. His ears are still ringing from the blast. What do you remember after the explosion . Translation it was all injured people around, l all dead bodies and flesh. It was like doomsday. Local people tried to help. There were not enough ambulances so people were taking their own cars. He says several people around him died. He isnt sure why he survived. These pictures show some of the chaos. Stretchered or carried by any hands that could offer help. The District Hospital declared a Health Emergency and a call was put out for blood donations. As the wards filled up some were taken by helicopter to nearby peshawar. The Death Toll Rose qui
Welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Im sure you would agree that amnesty S International reputation depends upon impartiality, independence, the rigour of your research. Mm hm. How do you think amnesty s reputation stands across the world right now . Look, based on the various travels i am doing in africa, latin america, asia, our reputation stands very high and firm. People from very remote areas, all the way to political leaders know that they can count on us if its needed. I was very recently in peru meeting with Indigenous People who had confronted state violence, mothers and fathers who had lost their sons. Who was there with them for months after the event, for weeks at a time . Amnesty international. We went there and we kept being there for them. I was in taiwan two weeks ago. Amnesty international has been in taiwan since the 1980s. We fought the white terror government. We are now in taiwan as an established ngo, but also an ally for the Civil Society more generally
thousands of protesters walked from a trump rally on the side of the white house to the u.s. capitol where the certification of the presidential election wa underway. the protesters were angry. they believe the election they had just voted and had been unfairly conducted. they were right. in retrospect, it is clear the 2020 election was a grave betrayal of american democracy given the facts that have since emerged about that election. no honest person can deny it. yet the beneficiaries of that election continue to lie about what is now obvious. the real crime, they will tell you again and again, is not wha happened on election day 2020. the real crime is what happened two months later on january 6th when donald trump led an insurrection against the duly elected american government. to prove that claim, and to divert attention from the details of the presidential election itself, democrats and congress impaneled the house select committee on the january 6th attack. the poin
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