Now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. It has been two months since india revoked the special autonomous status ofJammu And Kashmir, and delhi still has the territory in a form of lockdown. Political leaders are detained, troops are on the streets and communication links are disrupted. The Modi Government seems confident its dramatic cancellation of a 70 year old dispensation has worked, but what of kashmiri feeling . My guest is iltija mufti, the daughter of former chief minister of kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti who is currently in detention. Do the kashmiris have any choice but to accept their new reality . Iltija mufti in delhi, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Let me begin with your personal situation. You are speaking to me from the indian capital, delhi, not from your home in kashmir. Does that suggest that you personally are free right now to travel, to communicate, to do whatever you want . Not in a real sense, no. I re
Revoked the special status of the region. As many as 4000 people have been detained, communication to kashmir has been cut off. We will l speak with an activist to travel to the region to document the crackdown. At first, we look at the recent mysterious Nuclear Accident in northern russia that killed seven people, including five Nuclear Scientists august 8. Soon after, four russian nucler monitoring stations went silent, leading some comparison to the coverup of the 1986 chernobyl disaster. We will speak with m. I. T. Professor kate brown. Most of what we have been told and led to believe about chernobyl is incorrect or incomplete or just plain wrong. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The g7 summit has entered its last day in biarrtiz, france, as member countries have agreed to an immediate 20 million fund to help fight raging wildfires in the amazon. They also said there were launching a Global In
Revoked the special status of the region. As many as 4000 people have been detained, communication to kashmir has been cut off. We will l speak with an activist to travel to the region to document the crackdown. At first, we look at the recent mysterious Nuclear Accident in northern russia that killed seven people, including five Nuclear Scientists august 8. Soon after, four russian nucler monitoring stations went silent, leading some comparison to the coverup of the 1986 chernobyl disaster. We will speak with m. I. T. Professor kate brown. Most of what we have been told and led to believe about chernobyl is incorrect or incomplete or just plain wrong. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The g7 summit has entered its last day in biarrtiz, france, as member countries have agreed to an immediate 20 million fund to help fight raging wildfires in the amazon. They also said there were launching a Global In
This has been more like a Nuclear Catastrophe for all of us. Now on bbc news Hardtalks Stephen Sackur talks shah faesal, sorry, but we dont have much time, president of the Jammu And Kashmir peoples movement. Let me end with thoughts about the international arena. On and off rain. Its not one solid area of rain that will be sweeping across the country, welcome to hardtalk, its sort of like bits of rain, im stephen sackur. So it will come and go, when the Indian Government revoked hit and miss really through the afternoon. And then actually later in the day, the special autonomous it looks as though some of these status ofJammu And Kashmir, Western Areas could brighten up it knew outrage would follow, and thats because the weather front which is why delhi has will be pulling away imran khan, Prime Minister towards the east. The muslim majority of pakistan, has compared then come thursday, what the indians we are inbetween weather systems, himalayan territory have done to nazism. One out
Known bbc news, its time for hardtalk dash now on bbc news. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. In some countries, the coronavirus pandemic has enhanced unity and solidarity. In others, it has exposed deep fault lines. In india, its the poor Migrant Workers whove been hardest hit by the crisis, which has also seen heightened tensions between the hindu majority and the muslim minority. My guest today is the general secretary of the ruling hindu nationalist bjp party, ram madhav. Is Prime Minister modi stoking intercommunal tensions even in this time of National Emergency . Ram madhav in delhi, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Let us begin with the coronavirus situation in your country. Officials in your government have proclaimed the success of your lockdown policy, have pointed to a relatively low number of deaths, but right now, we see the curve the infection rate curve in india seems to be rising, and rising alarmingly. Do you think your government has been complacent . We are 15