there don't appear to be any casualties as a result of this attack there is a statement which is claiming to be put out by the iraqi police which we have not yet been able to verify but this statement is suggesting that a single katyusha rocket has landed inside the base and as i say no casualties reported but that is then led to a search of the perimeter by security forces and they say that they have found a rocket launcher which contained 11 un fired missiles now the significance of this base as you as you mentioned is that this was the base back in december which was targeted by several rockets in which a u.s. contractor died which then led to the u.s. taking action against held by the. ball a group that then led to demonstrations around the perimeter of the u.s. embassy here in baghdad with some actually being able to break into parts of that program of terror and it was shortly after that that the u.s. then carried out drone strikes here at baghdad airport which killed iranian general hossam so the money and the leader of $1.00 of the leaders of the popular popular mobilization forces on groups. the timing of this of course is significant as well because we're coming towards the end of the 40 day mourning period that has been held for cost so that money and at that time popular mobilization forces groups have been saying that they are determined that his death will be revenge however there is it's also clear that from some of the groups that they are quite prepared for a diplomatic solution to be found to push foreign troops out before they take any action thank you very much from baghdad bob matheson. the thorough corona virus death outside mainland china has been confirmed in japan this is the number of deaths inside china with 254 more announced bringing the national total to nearly 1400 more than 15000 new cases have also been reported up from just 600 the day before the record rise comes after the bay province the epicenter of the virus adopted a new method of diagnosing the infection. we're not seeing a significant shift in the pattern of mortality or severity for that matter but of this disease are still predominantly severe in those who are over 40 with a higher severity profile living increases actually with each decade after the predominantly 2 that's a rarity use amongst men rather than the women then we have to see the significant shift that profile is very much are pieces. in other areas i would say to be on the united nations is saying more than 800000 syrians have fled their homes in a province the last remaining rebel held area since december 1st majority of them women and children they have ended up in displacement camps near the border with turkey but conditions are very difficult as the cold weather sets in and storms blanket the area with snow relief workers say 10 children have died in the last week alone south africa's president cyril rama poser is using his state of the nation address to defend his record on the economy. in a speech that was disrupted several times by the economic freedom fighters on opposes that the recovery of south africa's economy and stuart huge a persistent power shortages all several state owned enterprises are in distress he also warned that public finances were under severe pressure in search of india so is the program coming up next looking at being muslim in a hindu 1st country that's the program coming up next. former . my name is arthur stasi or i'm a writer and a columnist. in this the 2nd of 2 films i'm traveling through india the country i grew up in. i want to see for myself the changes taking place amid a rising tide of him look for a hindu 1st politics these ideas which place hindus above people of other faiths stem from the very top leadership in this land of 1300000000 people. i started my journey in the holy city of our and i see in northern india. this is a deeply religious country in the middle of a battle for her soul and it is no surprise that it was this place at the hindu nationalist leader in the ranger mode he chose this election battleground republic sing its powerful symbolism in a new time. behind this image of a religiously diverse nation india faces a new mini crisis. and minorities including $200000000.00 muslims fear an underlying current of violence more brutality and death at the hands of hindu hardliners the hardliners claim injustices against him who's from muslim rule and sentries past justifies their drive to return india to a golden age as they see it and a nation where hindus come 1st hindu is making up to get back the birthplace is off his ancestors and these films i've been asking whether these ideas come from. following independence in 1947 which was closely intertwined with the bloody episode of partition some people had thought that the politics of division was finally a thing of the past in the newly created secular state of india all would be equal before the law but here the word secular would come to have a particularly indian meaning. secular in india merely meant the existence of a profusion of religions all of which were allowed and encouraged by the state to flourish. but over the past few decades a series of events occurred that threaten the very fabric of india's secular identity it set that then tiny b.g.p. political party on course to become the ruling power they are today on the 6th of december 1902 a crowd of 150000 militants supporters of the pro hindu r.s.s. descended on the barbary mosque in the northern town of a on the reputed birthplace of the hindu god rom i was standing next to the mosque when this crowd started increasing the gate broke down and the huge rush of people inside beyond the control of the of it i shouted down was a young journalist and a key witness to the events that were to unfold. what this started doing was breaking the barricade that was thematic getting all around and with the fury that could be even that was visible they walked then in within. half an hour you saw dozens of people at the mosque. with its pro hindu agenda the r.s.s. had long been agitating to destroy the 16th century mosque built by the mogul ruler barber and reclaimed the sacred ground for him booze for them the existence of the mosque was a long standing move when you saw this thing come down what did you see what. i thought about the the social and political back i said well there now this is a divide that they've created in the country they are taking us back to 147 when india was divided. in the riots that followed between muslims and hindus some 2000 people were killed for indian muslims these events meant much more than just the loss of a defunct building. businesses and i. dentity it was not the mosque was not so it was not the mosque that was important for the of that identity so do you feel that that the new politics had been born absolutely feel like a new politics of division of division began. this was a division that would change the face of indian politics one that pushed many among the 80 percent hindu majority to support the b j p at that time a relatively obscure political party. truly astonishing to hear sherrod story because it makes it so clear how the stage was set for this political drama to play out in which a defunct mosque became the vessel of religious passions. this hindu reawakening was underlined by a long running t.v. adaptation of the hindu epic the ra milan for years record numbers of indians were grouped by the series that chronicled the life of lord rum and tapped into a deep sense of pride and nostalgia among the. truly amazing for me to see because i grew up on the t.v. serial it's the raw mine and it was played to india in the eighty's to great passion and large audiences and knowing it has a kind of an edge to it because we have large audiences again we're in a stone quarry where the stones are being prepared for a future ram temple where the mosque had been demolished. for 28 years lawyers forto over the rights and wrongs of building a temple to lord ram on the site of the barbary mosque in the meantime the stones for the new temple were caught with the confidence that the situation in favor of building the long awaited temple would surely come. all those words are political tell way of i don't know much how to get by but our thoughts are well mighty monday at the door mom. american much of the monarchy at our place a value only because if we didn't in the navy to get political are we to get the locals that. is newsmaking the hindu is making up to get back down birthplaces of his ancestors. any hindu can go and make use temples in jerusalem no can i go room and build exam temple or hindu temple there no can i go to maka and build a temple there no i will not be allowed. why we are considered different when the case of your dad comes. it is the but face of arda. what we're seeing is the construction of politicians in hearts and minds of millions of people across the country i think hurtling in a direction which is potentially catastrophic. same to the idea of india that the leadership of the represented was that india would be a country where people don't matter which god you worship or if you were shipped. what language you would be in if you be an equal citizen that was elected the same to a cornerstone of all 40 stood for many of us believe that the issue was resolved for ever but it was not the major be that have succeeded in uniting. all communities into believing that there is a common enemy which is the more the also has the backing of the largest civil society organization in the world. which is which is the which is deeply connected to the ideology of indiscipline this is. the campaign to get back the sides of the barbary mosque for the hindus had been running for years. but the act that made it possible came from a completely unexpected event one that played into a negative narrative about muslims and secularism promoted by the r.s.s. . in 96 an otherwise obscure family dispute involving a muslim couple that became known as the case reached the supreme court in delhi. the has been claimed he divorced his wife islamic li by saying they were to lock on 3 occasions. are if mohammad khan was a cabinet minister at the time clock just repeated thrice and it's all over and now we have goes for the court i have already divorced and you had not divorce had on the day you had diverted. under into secular law the court refused to recognize the triple telarc islamic divorce he was ordered to pay his wife maintenance congress party pm and member of the narrow gandhi did misty rajiv gandhi initially supported the judgment his 1st instinct was the right one which was to back the supreme court decision that granted those poor old lady alimony and to encourage his cabinet ministers are a moment come you spoken to to say so in parliament and to say so with some courage in laymen's. the personal low board which represented muslims claim the award was against islamic law angry clerics demonstrated outside parliament. the stand of the personnel board was that this judgment is against islam this is interference in the slum called therefore it must change rajiv gandhi buckled under the protest of conservative clerics he went back on his decision and passed a bill that reversed the supreme court ruling the case would now be judged under muslim personal law in tightening the wife just 3 months maintenance seeing this is an assault on women's rights progressive muslims and many hindus were appalled company came under attack from both sides rajiv gandhi in the worst mistake of his life by exceeding to these conservative elements and overturning the supreme court judgement and taking away her date to maintenance indian politics took a turn from that point davies and was dead the language which was the spoke threatening language our excited by limited meeting of the parts of a low board open call was given to brag but the lead's of all those m.p.'s who defied reports and if it is which was juiced again and again definitively boudin supreme court which at that will smash the supreme court may just pieces yes . there was a discourse about appeasement to muslims the idea that people are going to work for muslims. many hindus were angered at what they saw as the state caving in to muslim demands. for years the pro hindu r.s.s. had agitated for access to the barbary mosque in new york here. to placate them rajiv gandhi ordered the site to be open for into practice. a decision that has had deadly consequences ever since. on february 27th 2002 a train was set alight just outside go dressed ation in the western state of gujarat. 58 hindu pilgrims were burnt to death they'd been returning home from the babri mosque in new york here. there was an outcry and mobs of hindu hardliners took to the streets. danica start up again as hard as get their window but to ever hold out the idea her or him door go clear join john pull her to her instead of handing the dead to their families the bodies were transported nearly 200 kilometers to the town of under about to be paraded through the streets you can tell yourself alan lobo act on the just because a lot out there are just for gases and nature in the asylum i don't get what out what they're all then. got done many other how the mind of it is going up it took me to tell you any suggest that he got his days conditioned and i. know. the reading $58.00 charge corpses through the streets was always likely to provoke further violence. but permission for the reportedly came from the then chief minister of. the ring through modi himself. in the ensuing riots over a 1000 were killed 3 quarters of them muslims. in 1902 when the mosque was demolished india changed for they were. the issue of the charbonneau. be emotive and important. the riots in. the sequence of events. that charted the path and lead the foundation for the ease of hindu supremacist politics and it led to the emergence of this leader in the mood. for long hours the good dr state authorities stood by as rioting took place prompting allegations of state complicity. saying forget i was a young police constable his unit was kept in active as people were massacred in the run up by p.m.s. . police or they can also has a thing public the cigar was your body of. one point the tanita well generally that or a matter of degree but that because you get out there that. no. but. we will need to get. you seen margaret was just 10 years old when the attacks took place. but they didn't know was that they'd want to try. again good idea if you don't. be a nobody. but you know i'm like. you know we're not. even. sure he she was at home with her husband and 3 small true. right. could it be this the initials are said by heart of the modernity but the town itself ok what he said. about trying to get them in but having the find a way of getting to tell all the what they are. bustling bit intimidating but so with a fairly. they want us out many times. advice would be needed now so we're going to maybe go away. for legit complicity in allowing the mob violence and killings to go unchecked through more he was barred from visiting the us a ban that lasted for 10 years. india is top court has ruled that a disputed religious site be given to hindus for the construction of a temple and you hardliners destroyed a 16th century mosque in 1902 spot hall riots that killed at least 2000 people. i find myself wondering how far do these events i've loved about on this journey represent an attempt at a historical record are we witnessing a recommitting of the secular character of modern undo that set of rules on which the newly founded country was established. can be. invented in there without taking into account tragedies of more than those how much we've tried to sanitize i don't think the people in the muslims of today should be blamed for what i have to if already saved their list particularly trying. to see that it didn't happen gets people's backs it's that evil securitisation it's the reactions. the stove and secularisation all by pretending that it was all a happy family all along it was and it was a very troubled history. of the muslim world to accept that yes we are muslims and we shall remain muslim but our ancestors the same as yours i would say 99 percent of the problems with the muslims and deal with because of the way they are portrayed is the descendants of the murders and looters and butchers and rapists the making common cause with people who broke the law on temple the krishna temple the kashmir issue not temple 40000 other temples but it's true that they are converted. i think where was born here for 2 months a backlash you might call it and the need for a strong leader combined with the need to assert what they thought was the hindu identity and by implication the best line and. people are coming back to the word the people are thinking to come back to their roots they are filling that. right the connect with set with their roots and their roots does not lie in christianity on the sly. identity is connected with. whether i have converted to islam my true identity was before the islam we are not proud of identify oneself with baba they were they made us. the hindu for our view of the past might sound great if you happen to be a hindu but where does this leave the non hindus naseer room became acutely aware of the challenges facing her muslim daughter growing up in increasingly pro hindu surroundings she's written a book about saad says i kept waiting for my teacher to react in school the class me. i was silent i didn't respond and i just kept sitting there i didn't really know what to do. what is it like now to grow up as a muslim child in india take you through one story in your book the boys called house and they they come and call him to go to this birthday party and then a few minutes later he comes back home the boy refused to let him maintain his house and said that he cannot share the cake with you you cannot eat together. my parents don't want you at my house and the mother said i did. was your experience growing up in india what when you say look at yourself in context of these stories what was it like for you i grew up in a different india i think it was also because of the larger narrative i doubt if we can even see the same country and. you know all we had that one national television channel to the ocean which would have this little girl who would sing. how there are so many different kinds of birds but and we had all those different kinds of birds but we're all birds together. good the beauty of being told that you are one or you know people of different identities can write a little thing that one song together in different languages also but they're singing that one song together even if we are one bottom. one of the things you can do to protect her from this environment i thought to her about india the map and show our neighbors our you know your china you put down here you have. bungled the issue you have pakistan and sri lanka that albany bers and then i say what if somebody called you chinese you laugh and say right i'm an indian the military is what is somebody calls you a bangladeshi you laugh and say they did not have occupation more than somebody called supermarket time you love and say another pakistani that kind of meted out to him and it could ruin any of the riots so because of course the assumption being that the dutch away that prejudice would play out they'd say you're a pakistani or go to pakistan because that is what is happening on an everyday basis we need leaders to make sure that no child grows up with hatred no child grows up with fear this is not about muslim kids this is about every child out there because i'm sure as a parent you'll be varied if a child to be grows up. challenge lies in so much a feature. i will choose here. where every. hello i'm maryam namazie and on that of a quick look at the headlines the 3rd coronavirus death outside of mainland china has now been confirmed in japan it comes as the number of deaths inside china surged with another 254 announced bringing the national total to nearly 1400 more than 15000 new cases have been reported up from just 1600 the day before record rise comes after who by a province the epicenter of the virus adopted a new method of diagnosing the infection meanwhile for top communist party officials have been sacked over the handling the outbreak we're not seeing a significant shift in the pattern of mortality or severity for that matter of this disease are still predominantly severe in those who are over 40 with a higher sorority profile that increases actually with each decade after the predominantly 2 that's a rarity use amongst men rather than the women and we have to see the significant shift that profile is very much a pieces. in other areas outside to be in there all the headlines a rocket attack is hit iraqi air base in cote province where u.s. troops are stationed a previous attack on the k. one base in december killed a u.s. contractor starting a chain of events which caused the real rise in reason regional tensions there are no immediate reports of injuries or deaths so far but the previous attack was blamed on the could type hezbollah group and led to retaliatory u.s. strikes including one that killed iran's top military commander qassam ceremony meanwhile the u.s. senate has passed a resolution restricting president donald trump's ability to unilaterally order military action against iran the war powers resolution force is trying to get approval from congress to clear any more strikes on iran it's been backed by several members of trump's republican party. and the united nations is saying more than 800000 syrians have fled their homes in the province the last remaining rebel held area with that number of displaced has taken place since december 1st the vast majority of them are women and children have ended up in displacement camps near the border with turkey but conditions there are very difficult as the cold weather sets in and storms blanket the area with snow relief workers say 10 children have died in the last week alone. we back with the news hour 2100 g.m.t. in about often else time on c.n.n. . the hindu fear has been the problems. it is the only major in the world which actually legitimized inequality in cost to. be among the lower castes doll it's also known as untouchables sit at the very bottom of the hindu hierarchy. they perform the lowliest tasks such as manually cleaning sewers often with no protective clothing or breathing apparatus. with a reporter the 11 deaths per month this ranks among the world's most dangerous work people saying right or is a valid i'm a lawyer he's taking us to meet some members of the community some of whom he represents. underpaying is a lot one of course but still it when they cut it back again. they call it a god i laugh or stuff like i think of stuff i think of they all mean little they're those little mean lottery carla benvar galas family or cleaners her husband was poisoned in a sewer 4 years ago 2 of her 3 sons now do the same work let's face it stream prejudice every day of their lives who are innocent by living in one of it all went down and at the end of the tank up by new clubhouse for some which are not any other level other than. yes i do like a cat but i can see what i and i did. my job was had him despite protections under the constitution dullards. untouchables are treated as outcasts how to make their neighbor who wore a tie. they can afford or not what he would. many delegates and other low cost him whose have escaped their predicament by converting to other faiths such as islam or christianity the b.g.p. control state about to predation has prepared an anti conversion law under which religious conversion would require permission from a state official human rights groups say the law is aimed at keeping delegates in their place but we've discovered a twist to this theme. one away to a village where an r.s.s. work has converted a bunch of indian muslims back to him do it by a process called carve ups which literally means homecoming. truelove a man's father was a hindu who converted to islam. a generation on he and several family members have converted back to hinduism one is the. key model of the family only the mcnally my lai of 2 things will not be how will you go from going to. the small print in india's anti conversion laws forbids enticements or intimidation to convert it's a certificate that law and mohamad is now name she law and none he's now being brought into the hindu falls and it says without any pressure. without any influence. but i. got on a bus. to . get out of got to. move on the got to. get out. of the. well but. as i got unable to get. on the go to moscow. jovian i come from to the last chandra the local r. assist leader who performed lars conversion ceremony i've been to get they have heard or. seen do you think you can with whom this is only what nothingness was 42 years ago if some magic the bomb us was going to get into we're not out there and you know that you know who's in lucky you know peace and the only one you can all ok are missing mom who have done the who are. to the world about hanna and the present a little jealous of the new young. girl we never get out what used to. be it is here becky you see in the front we. cannot go up an economic war or top in the u.k. to take is rooted in that art market bottom about get it here and it must was knee high sad me which is nice when muscles gotta be seeking muscles got on its muscles and i will get sick as a woman what you get in the not so bad girl yet think it will do me in good now most people get it you muslims i'm really nice i've got a family gives out a car got it in a given me your money but that's the come in tonight out there are going. to be in the one that's up up in. one of the other groups you could either you. hear about the city or do india keep most of them on here some barely in good times the heck you are still me can do to. make you made out that i might give the ones a bit have. a glass goner. operates under don't legally what. you did. only chain yank some magic cheese on the stump in the. well that was such a heated discussion and one of the things that made it so tense was that the r.s.s. man was really worried about coercion and especially in relation to the evangelical faiths and yet when we spoke to the guy who he had converted to hinduism one could not help but feel that there'd been a considerable amount of social pressure on him and that that had been a kind of causation. whatever the truth behind. or homecoming to the hindu for it's from within the lower castes that most conversions out of hinduism in recent years have taken place. in. but along with islam it's another ancient religious group that faces the consequences of rising hindutva politics there are $28000000.00 christians in india but 2000 year old community stretching back to the earliest days of the faith but still seen by the most hardline hindus as an outsider religion the 2 conducive way from the original faith. in 2008 in the state of eastern india several 1000 christians came under attack. $400.00 religious or die paused of all christians $60000.00 christians fled to the forest to save themselves. $6000.00 plus houses more than $300.00 in critical to restore the crown schools colleges all spittles clinics everything went on 100 people killed nuns raped. case is still going on 10 years later. and the specter fred just is depending on facts. you know depending on who is the majority. the radicalization of the structures of state the police that mistreat the junior magistracies the teachers the village self government mechanisms. all of them actually believe this is the land of the hindus and everybody else if they want to live via must live here as 2nd rate citizens nobody can feel safe unless there's in the shoulders of the muslim isee. the isolation of minorities risks becoming institutionalized in schools with so-called suffer nies ation the favoring of hindu ism over other traditions and school textbooks. whereas a stays in good with 10th grade students i mean starting a new hindu focused curriculum. it writes out much of the country's non hindu past. and army's elite allentown mistresses saying they are only just now going to fight and he believes in my mrs and tell me that i wouldn't like to lie and we had a plan i never been bad but the time. they say the word my land is the president of me fairly get india will get up memories for me was a common early. delegate. delegates of latino people still in illinois became part of this the ballot has gotten a lot of missoni close here. at open if a piece of died up being. allowed to go out. and i mean yeah but every day on monday you will. give orders going to 50 looking to keep the galaxy summit now. back to lanny again did it want to make you look back to life to have a better look at look at europe be. in the midst of humanity have the power plant. what today's 10th graders may not get to learn about is the wealth of learning and cultural blending that accompanied muslim rule in india the modeled in the study or may have been harsh and puritanical but other moguls brought a culture of openness and learning the targum hell is the supreme expression of this. it was built by the mogul ruler sharjah ha as a muslim for his beloved wife 1000 how he preached equality among hindus and muslims and he celebrated hindu festivals a tradition established by his grandfather acquire under him india enjoyed a religiously and culturally diverse existence schools for both muslims and hindus were established policies that own the loyalty and respect of hindus a blending of culture and religion in my so-called syncretism and an essential part of indian life today i mean for people sikri built by arc for which he made his capital success came through acknowledging the multiple cultures within india. here's thing quite isn't isn't trying the architecture the column the divan a house in the hole welker would hold court assimilates motifs from hindu islam christianity buddhism islam and zorro astronauts. so the pillar itself kind of stands as a testament to this mixing of faiths and this is from a man who brought brahmins near him and pundits near him to learn from them he drank the water of the gunk he had a deep root god for hindu faith and custom and belief and and i think is aim was to find in this land of many religions where he was ruling as a muslim emperor to find a way in which people could go forward it wouldn't be secularism as we know it's not in the modern european sense but it was clearly driven by a secular ideal. i'm about to see something quite extraordinary but which at the same time is peculiarly india. where the hindu temple that was partially destroyed and turned into a mosque by oren say look at that like literally the column what's interesting here is that part of this mosque complex remains a place of worship for hindus and yeah the ultimately not iconix that i am sure of and it's being kind of prepared in our prayers in the evening and i sit in this face. and you cast your eye or are you see very very typical muslim arches and then you see what is really like the pillars of a hindu temple but in the middle of that is the qibla which is the direction of prayer so both face are represented both forms of worship are occurring side by side and this to me is historical resolution. 3 other. anderson february march was through i recalled 100 people who were going to give it. a child like take it don't make sense you know. you don't know marshall the. don't know. what i think good man and that i love no hero need buckley you know wasn't. listening is absurd but again i want to know their views on the mosque and hindus most important to the kashi bushman which owns it also destroyed to build a mosque just gan might be most it could be there to pick up. iraq john moran got number limited on the courage or number of caution akasha wish not. to be sure shasta can join. in monday don't go toward europe not because we're scared but just because. hum monday by not measured by nicholas tejada. good choice now but i got the good the disk and watch money if you get the ticket in. june and must. protect your get bothered to tell you so very very interesting you know he's saying whatever happened was not a good thing it was not a good thing that happened and he says for me it was a symbol of slavery because it was built by a barber who was who and saved us licking our good beach macwhich of our lardner. our new government can get under. the rug up we made up the harder it could not really crap not do and when we shall miners i.v. ahau. so i was really struck by the similarity between these 2 men are you fiction by the warm and i was left with a strange question because when they got talking about history when they got talking about temples destroy what was to be rebuilt it was to be left there were really is irreconcilable differences between them and yet there was the civility in the suspection and it left me feeling i thought what is this separate thing is that ability to get on really what counts or do people have to result differences down to their very being easy if that's even possible. on the eve of india's independence day i'm returning to delhi. i'm starting the day at the job. a muslim college where celebrations already in full swing. and to think oh yes oh i didn't see now. do you want me to wish me. good man of the a.t.f. i didn't mean that. they are not changing. lives. if you. think. there's no doubting the commitment to these muslim students i was impressed by the scaffold pad display of unity it was on this day 72 years ago that india gained independence from britain along with the events that led to partition. at that time it became clear that india's muslims. those who chose to remain would be as much part of this nation as the hindu's when i arrived in this country i expected to find a place dramatically different from the one i grew up in instead i was pleasantly surprised to find how intact indian life still is how integrated how assimilate. and yet i cannot deny that i felt a sense of foreboding among india's 170000000 muslims a deep feeling of disenfranchisement this is a country in the grip of a historical reckoning the indian past with all its pain and complexity is being realistic it how it negotiates this passage will not merely affect india's muslims but the moral and spiritual health of the nation as a whole. it was time for me to return to my home in new york. i left india feeling encouraged and hopeful for the future of the country i'm so proud to have grown up in and call my own. but in new york a nasty shock awaited me a letter from india's ministry of home affairs and what that threatening to do is to revoke my overseas indian citizenship which allows me to live and work in india the grounds that the saying that the grounds that they're using to revoke this is that apparently i've concealed the pakistani origin of my father. and it's a very worrying letter because if it goes through i may not be able to return to india and they've i meant i have $21.00 days to respond but i have barely 24 hours to respond to this letter. i've recently written this article critical inner intermodal here in the b j p then attacked me wrongly calling me a muslim and a pakistani with no right to interfere with indian affairs with attacks such as this on critical journalists i'm as worried for my country as i am for the impact of this on myself and my family in india. my lawyer feels that there is something malicious in what the government has done there accusing me of concealing the fact that my father was pakistani which is kind of absurd because i've read books and articles for over a decade about my father's pakistani origin and about the fact that i was always a strange from him and grew up with my mother in india i can't help but feel that the reason is this time magazine article more than 250 prominent writers have petitioned the indian government on my behalf i was grateful and more than touched by their support the booker prize winning indian novelist kiran this i was one of them. i told you to dishonor my parents not to speak up talking about the india i grew up in i am afraid because i know all the minorities in india are very afraid. and when you have a country. that does not honor its minorities then it's time to be very afraid the press is under threat in india we have had many cases of books being banned in india and of writers being silenced but i think the situation is growing more acute we're talking of murder of silencing writers by murdering them by banning them books silencing the press and with you of course they came up with a technicality every new victim becomes a symbol of this oppression there were plenty of people who would have loved to sign and were really far too scared to sign is so much fear even among indians here that they will be severe repercussions on their speaking up and that they will be targeted. one by one. with a heavy heart i have to surrender my overseas indian citizenship today. well i've come out one document less and this is a kind of weird goodbye to and feels very hard for me because this is a country i've grown up in i've lived in all my life and suddenly i don't really have the right to go there anymore and i basically feel bereft of my mother my grandmother my country and and the place where i grew up. the bridge appears just past its so-called citizenship amendment bill for the 1st time in indian history it establishes a test of religion for becoming indian earlier on in this film i had asked myself are we witnessing a weakening of india secular character. the answer to my question seems frighteningly to be yes i'm reminded of something the veteran politician r. if muhammad concept about part of the in the name for india. indian tradition sees this whole continent between the sea and the hymn alya this is part of and all of those who leave the children under the taste it's not permitted to keep but still believe does not matter the gender does not matter the place of residence does not bring nothing met i who are children of the child of violet i am i a child as you are on a child of other and if someone was to say to me i'm not what do i say to him if someone is going to say someone was to a someone is going to tell me that i'm not for a son of my father to go to hell. hello and welcome back but start by looking at weather conditions across australasia this is tropical storm you see the cyclon is continuing to move southward actually bisecting both straight via a new zealand so it shouldn't cause too many problems elsewhere we've got some showers in the border between north and territory and western australia actually cloud around to parts of new south wales the stunning towards press but you look at the forecast rick so we got a few showers still showing up around the coast there between brisbane down towards sydney and a few further south as well but weather conditions for many areas not too bad or that is very hot in places there you can see how this coming in at 41 degrees celsius as we had on through into the weekend temperatures still in excess of 40 degrees in places play in the site and continues to move further towards the south and west for hobart to that southerly wind temperatures of just 19 degrees and that towards perth where the conditions geria looking to about it by 28 degrees as the high moving into northern parts of asia you can see this weather system coming across eastern parts of china bringing some storms with it that's going to continue to move away and it'll have fake southern parts of japan during the course of friday with more heavy rain expected to push in across southeastern parts of china and some heavy showers are expected to watch hong kong. in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world where digital communication technology is growing digital platforms contribute to making change and expanding civic space consequently activists face harassment states railings and increasing restrictions on the other hand digital platforms may be used to spread hate speech and trigger violence division conflict and terrorism which in turn contributes to undermining human rights. in this context the national human rights committee of qatar organizes the international conference on social media challenges and ways to promote freedoms and protect activists in cooperation with the united nations high commissioner for human rights the european parliament the global alliance of national human rights institutions and the international federation of journalists. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm maryanne demasi you're watching the news hour life from london coming up in the next 60 minutes as china records a major spike in deaths from coronavirus facials announced drastic measures. but a cruise ship stranded at sea for 2 weeks because of the virus is finally allowed to dock in cambodia also coming up. all 47 democrats 8 republicans stood up and said enough is enough. the u.s. senate passes a resolution limit.

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