A cheer for the champions and extra time going up puts liverpool on top of the world. Protests over a new citizenship law in india are emerging as the biggest domestic challenge to Prime Minister in the mornings since he came to power opponents say its an attack on the secular constitution and discriminates against muslims while letting minorities from 3 neighboring countries become Citizens Rights groups are accusing the police of use and disproportionate force against protesters at least 23 people have been killed and more than 1500 arrested since protests began over a week ago some of the most violent have been in the Northern State of that for they surely 20 percent of the population is muslim and the northeastern states especially and asked sound or people fear and flux of hindu bengalis they say. That could put their language and culture under threat of protests have been largely peaceful and opposition control west bengal Prime Minister mortys party the b j pay is being accused of seeking electoral gains by opening the door to more than the refugees and migrants and theres also been an arrest in southern cities like chennai a place washed on as people chanted against the law and in new delhi thousands of protesters have defied bands to converge on the historic jumma must mosque so be the stress to reports now from new delhi. Police in the Northern State of the parties are not taking chances. Did vans while firing tear gas at protesters who are defying a government ban to congregate in large crowds. Every tactic is being used to quash nationwide protests against a new citizenship law the police are being accused of using Excessive Force. Was what started as a student demonstration has grown into a Larger Movement to denounce what governments often and say is divisive and discriminatory legislation. The law excludes muslims from neighboring countries from receiving indian citizenship which goes against india secular constitution the unrest in india has been discussed at a conference of Muslim Leaders in malaysia Prime MinisterMahathir Mohamad said the indian law is unfair to x. Group claims from becoming citizen even by due process i think is unfair so every boy so. This is a claim and with this kind of treatment india rejected his comment saying the law doesnt impact the status of any indian citizen or deprive any indian of any faith of her or his son. And shit the malaysian Prime Ministers remark is factually inaccurate we call apart militia to refrain from commenting on internal developments in india without the right in the standing of facts. On saturday protesters packed the streets of new delhi despite the governments ban on large crowds. The d. Lawyers from Indias Supreme Court and high courts joined the outcry were running. The discriminate among. And muslims if. Everyone. C still. Joined by people. Its one of the. Art students depicted the constitution and the governments attitude to it by painting this street its amazing the United Nation in that sense but. Its also just the idea behind it which is so vicious the idea behind the act is that every thinking human being everyone in this country will be affected and standing up for indians here are vowing to continue their defiance revolt against the law and say they wont allow the government to destroy the very fabric on which their nation is built on. To aljazeera new delhi india well lets take a closer look now at the citizenship Amendment Act and why its prompting opposition right across the country it creates a pathway to citizenship for minorities who face religious persecution and pakistan bangladesh and of spawn bought and excludes muslims opposition parties and protests to say that violates and the a secular constitution but that is not the only die. That make the morning be j. P. Has promised to implement a National Register for citizens where everyone across the country will need to prove this citizenship and if they cant they could be put in Detention Centers some communities could still be given citizenship through the sill and ship Amendment Act but its feared that millions of muslims unable to provide proof would be rendered stateless even if their families have lived in india for generations now thought in cotton as professor of law and legal theory at the university of oxford and general editor of indian law review earlier he spoke to my colleague darren abrogated and explained why the law has cost so much anger that this government has been chipping away at indias constitutional fundamentals for the last 6 years but this act does it so blatantly and so. Expressly that theres no plausible deniability in any solutions a constitutional solution so fail to stop the government from doing what it has done to the constitution and ultimately it seems that the people have decided that its upon them to save indias pluralistic Secular Democratic constitution why is the citizenship law thats caused all these processed seen by many people as a threat to indian democracy as a whole so the been a lot of threats to in a democracy of late but this is the most blatant because for the 1st time in india as a democratic independent history we are going to write religion as a qualification into our citizenship laws the law in giving fastrack citizenship to basically non muslims but also some other very subdued atheists muslims some of these communities are not covered but. In those 6 inches or cover that is that is just so blatantly against the very core of the Indian Constitution identity which is to seek to to build a nation that is not based on religious identity that is secular that is pluralistic that is diverse and is celebrated that day diversity for the last 70 or years so that its its the explicitness you know a lot of these governments policies have been sort of dog whistle politics of it Everybody Knows the gold is anti muslim but now the government felt emboldened to do not feel the need for force for the obvious as its just its blatant misses as was egregious lets move on to other news now and a turkish ship has been seized off the coast of northern libya by forces loyal to warlord going to have the a half a Spokesman Says theyre naval forces approached the box near the city of dirda so they can search and verify its cargo after us forces have pulled the ship into the port of ras and its crew are now being questioned and 3 people have been killed in libya the latest round of drone strikes by half those forces they attacked the town of them slaughter in the northwest of libya meanwhile the internationally recognized government says the drones are being piloted by the United Arab Emirates which is supporting half that without the one who has moved from tripoli. The Government Forces tried to enter the homeowner city about 65 kilometers to the south east from the capital tripoli to horner is the main stronghold for have to his forces and it has the Central Command from were from which have those generals along with the Russian Military experts are running the battles in southern tripoli thats according to the government of National Accord so Government Forces tried to open new front lines near tarhouni city but they were strong they say that they faced airstrikes by have to draw and fighter jets meanwhile a new city has witnessed clashes in its vicinity near the city of the horn the city of them silat which is about 88 kilometers to the south southeast from the capital of tripoli the city of there is among the several cities that have recently declared Mass Mobilization to prevent have to his forces from entering the capital tripoli now so that there is facing have to the forces and its southern vicinities after the Government Forces withdraw from the area and local sources in the latter say that hundreds of civilians have left their homes because of the fighting and random rockets have been landing inside the city 3 people were killed and a dozen others were wounded according to medical sources sources in the city of. Now Turkeys Parliament has backed a military deal increasing cooperation when libyas u. N. Backed government trying to defend the capital tripoli from half those forces but as mohamad the explains from istanbul it will be some time before ankara considers deploying troops. This ratification is just a ratification of the agreement between libya and turkey but whats happening it was going to happen from now on will depend on a formal request that the d. N. A. In tripoli thats the government thats recognized by the United Nations. Has to send a request to uncover so that when once they get these requests it has to go fast of parliament for another agreement and not from parliament and also for the formulation of the monday to what exactly those troops would be mandated to do in libya once they get there before they can be deployed were hearing from sources that the government he is not expecting a formal request from tripoli until probably february but that could change given the ocean water. When you get general huff that is comprised now coming out against the Government Installations and positions. Now west African Leaders have ended a summit in nigerias capital abou jahjah about increasing cross Border Security concerns leaders from the 15 member Economic Community of West African States have discussed fund raising to support the fight against increased Violent Attacks risa held a region where the boston remote area of the southern so hard desert spans many borders and includes areas dominated by groups affiliated to isolate al qaida would address reports now from above. The 56 ordinary summit of ecowas was anything but ordinary these are particularly difficult times for the region as attacks by armed groups of escalated in recent months. The rising violence in the hell in other parts of west africa dominated the speeches. Nigerias president whose country has had to deal with the threat from boko haram for the past 10 years he says closer cooperation is needed along with more International Support terrorism remains the major threat to the keys and progress of egypt. Attacks by terrorists groups remind us of the i just see to be the end do added Security Partnership to come grant into the evil of growth buddha terrorism. Echoes chairman and they just president was country recently lost 71 soldiers in an attack by an isolated group is in no doubt about the effects of the violence on member nations. Not usually do the crew very well is attracted autistic and sometimes a few such as our region has been hit hard by terrorist attacks which have intensified with every passing day threatening the Many National and regional achievements we have made the terrorist attacks continually test our resolve to fighting this scourge the leaders in the last meeting in september agreed to set up a 1000000000. 00 fund to pay for armies to fight the armed groups one 100000000. 00 of that is distributed but with many countries in the region having to fight that individual but as a low it is here that more than a 1000000000. 00 will be needed to achieve peace. Is a night ignatius special representative in west africa theres no question that a more robust response is required because what we are seeing is that the terrorist groups are still a lot of resistance and where is the resilience and capacities which we have and estimated at this knowledge there has to be a response to address the root causes of violent extremism the meeting also reviewed guineabissau us president ial elections and importantly the plan for single currency next year a course says 7 countries now meet the criteria for a single currency but its not clear if french speaking countries are using the west African Financial Community franc the c. F. A. Well ditch it and when they come is like nigeria and ghana want to adopt the plant common currency the echo which is shuttle to roll out in 2020 homage to greece. Well lets get more on this now were joined by suzanne away an associate professor at Haverford College and the author of constructing democracy in africa shes joining us live from for the delfina very good to have you with us on algis they are so they went nearly 5000 reported reported fatalities in the hell between november last year and just march this year there is obviously a big problem with security in the region whats needed to combat it well i think so this meeting is is positive that youre getting a robust Regional Response to the issue but it goes deeper than just security and military response that is there needs to be Economic Growth and and political capacity to to address tensions within populations in these countries in other words days groups that are acting are able to recruit locally and that their ability to prove right has to do with local discontent i mean we had from the u. N. Special representative in this is what he talked about he said that more needs to be done to address the root causes of extremism what are those courses in this region and how can they be addressed. Well things like widespread poverty infrastructure thats built in cities but doesnt connect villages that are deep in rural areas people are feeling very disconnected from the political situation in the Capital Cities and that leads to resentment so. You know its a question of Economic Growth addressing poverty having people who live far away from Capital Cities feeling as though the state cares about them and is interested in promoting Development Across many of these countries and so far we havent seen enough about that and thats part of the problem and i suppose that things like that take longer than pledging a 1000000000 dollars and military support was there anything to address did you see or hear of anything to address the those root causes either at the summit or what was called the extraordinary summit that was held in september. Now you know there has not been and frankly im not of a push towards those political and Economic Issues and we all recognize there is an absolute Security Threat and that means military responses are important but its not the whole story and im not convinced theres a not of a commitment from the leadership in many of these countries to address those issues as one thank you very much for your time and your expertise on this we do appreciate it for now that is susanna wing live in for the delphia thank you thank you very much. Well meanwhile French Forces have killed 335 just fighters in the mopti region of mali president a man you met khan made the announcement in a speech in the ivory coast or french army command confirmed the death toll in the operation which it said took place overnight near the march cheney and water. There pending more ahead on the news hour including a former University Lecturer in pakistan is sentenced to death on charges of blasphemy over facebook. Russia says it will go ahead with the gas pipeline to germany despite threats of u. S. Sanctions and legend helps open the new tokyo 2020 National Stadium peter would have mourned for. At least 11 people have been killed in airstrikes by syrian Government Forces and their russian allies in the latest attack on edler province a busy market was struck in the town of kim and then the main road as people were fleeing the attack syrian troops are advancing on the countrys last rebel held areas capture in 2 more villages on the southern edge of adlib the u. S. Secretary of state my pompei o says russia and china have blood on their hands after they reach out a Un Resolution to allow cross border aid into surgery on friday allowed father as on the ground in syria and he says tens of thousands of people are fleeing the bombardment thats a little. Russian in Syrian Government military jets continue to target many towns and villages in the countryside. Here in the town of samarra keep a popular market and Residential Homes were hit many civilians were either killed or injured by the strikes. At the same time other towns and it lives eastern and western countryside targeted. Is on the highway connecting aleppo and damascus. Tens of thousands fleeing areas under attack such as Marshall Newman use this road the targeting of the main towns and highways used by the residents now worsen as the humanitarian situation. A cordon pakistan has sentenced a University Lecturer to death for blasphemy janae her fetus was arrested