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 pakistan s 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 isn t 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 t
agnes callamard, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. i m sure you would agree that amnesty s international reputation depends upon impartiality, independence, the rigour of your research. 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 it s 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 so
night going out on patrols in to no man s land and try and dominate. the chinese, when they invaded, there was a long tunnel on the hook with gun placements and the chinese were throwing themselves with explosives, threw themselves into the tunnel, blew themselves up. like a suicide type attack? suicide. after months in the line, mike learned that the war was about to end. the ceasefire has been signed we cease firing at 10:00 tonight. well, more or less along the whole front, we stopped firing. we stopped shelling them, they stopped shelling us and mortar sounds went off. but they were mortar sounds, not of mortars coming at us, kind of flares going up. so we had the sky lit up by chinese and now coloured flares. celebrating it? it was a fireworks night, literally. and the next morning we got out and obviously we had a sense of elation and we got out of our trenches and actually sunbathed, because it was a lovely time of the year. and one of the chinese trenches waved to u
this follows the continuing deterioration of the security situation and poor economic and social governance. the apparent coup attempt has drawn strong international condemnation. the french foreign minister condemned all attempts to take power by force . us secretary of state antony blinken also denounced these actions. we are very closely monitoring the situation and developments in niger. i spoke with president bazoum this morning and made clear that the united states resolutely supports him as the democratically elected president of niger. we call for his immediate release. we condemn any effort to seize power by force. our reporter camilla mills is following the latest. tell us more about what happened on wednesday? we started happened on wednesday? - started to hear rumours early on wednesday there was this potential coup happening. this is because the parliamentary guards had blockaded the presidential palace and also a few key ministries. later on, this prompted crou