Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240712

Hear from the families of girls kidnapped in pakistan who were forced to marry and convert to islam. And im were hard in with all of your sports news the miami heat take game one of their eastern conference final series against the Boston Celtics. So then its injured weeks of record a destructive wildfire americas Natural Disaster could be about to deliver unprecedented flooding in the next few hours the full force of harken salary is expected to hit several Southern States but the country 2 storm is moving so slowly its likely to cause days of heavy rain and with it what are being called historic floods and it will be winds of up to 170 kilometers an hour and possibly a major storm surge as well power has already been cut to 100. 50000. 00 homes and ill have to sunny those harken teddy developing out to sea with full cost is not that it could become a catastrophic kind of reform we look at the harkins in just a moment but along the west coast of the United States theyre into the 2nd week of battling wildfires the smoke from the fire is now a reach policy of europe the state of oregon is the latest hot spots from estacado has rob reynolds. Theres not much left of talent in phoenix in Southern Oregon the ferocious wildfires of recent days have reduced most of the 2 small towns to ashes the worst thing ive ever seen in my life its the same up and down the west coast near Boulder Creek california dozens of homes were incinerated heaps of rubble covered chimneys and burned out vehicles all that remain near los angeles the socalled bobcat fire is only minimally contained it is burning close to the famed mt wilson astronomical observatory and outlying suburbs 23000 firefighters are battling dozens of major fires in california and oregon more than 4000 houses have burned in california alone and tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate and drifting over it all a choking shroud of smoke and ash its making skies hazy as far away as new york Portland Seattle and San Francisco now have some of the worst air quality on the planet we started to read it and 95 rather than just that quatermass because that ash in s. T. K. To oregon 50 kilometers from Portland Police are allowing residents to return to their homes and assess the damage fires on this scale are unheard of in this part of oregon those have never happened i mean weve had fires you know open up in the national forth before theyve never been this close to us to canada and i have a. Here 33 years theyve never been this close to me candy evacuated days ago but her home is a total loss haslam stranger call you on the phone and tell you that your house is burning and its a total loss is not something you want to wake up to. Amid the destruction signs of strength and resilience this is another aspect of this terrible disaster people coming together to support one another with donations of free food water and other necessities organizers say so many donations support in here they can barely give it all away. People here say they all have to look out for one another over it is still eating all of the fresh. Breads not anything that we can do to help out families that are in need or no thank you you know with the fires and everything we kind of need to make sure that were helping out as much as we can some of the organs fires are now partly contained helped by the verbal weather but the trees will likely continue to burn until the autumn rains begin in earnest weeks from now robert oulds aljazeera has to cater for well lets get more on all of this now with Jenny Harrison and jenny weve got these devastating scenarios either side of the country really the wolf from the west and then on the officer side. And if i knew you could swap and have some not right now but yes this hurricane of course nick is a really life threatening situation this is a satellite here we on the gulf of mexico and this is the storm now were literally just hours away from this making landfall when we talk about full were talking about the center of the eye over the storm so that really is 2 maybe 3 hours away this is the progress it will be making once it actually comes on shore now the winds a fluctuation but right now that about 165 kilometers an hour and it doesnt look as if theyre going to get any stronger before it comes on shore if theyre moving a little bit quicker not quickly a told 5 kilometers an hour up to the north northeast now its all about the flooding and the storm surge now the storm surge is so dependent of course on the lying of the coast how it however low lying it is that also the time coinciding with high tides but the flooding this is a difference in are all together this system has been sitting in the gulf of mexico for the last few days it is the just. Sitting there and so this rain has been spreading across all of the southeast is coming down at about 75. 00 to 100. 00 millimeters an hour this is the sort of rain that will cause flooding and its not about to dissipate any time soon throughout wednesday once it comes on shore it will remain a hurricane and then through thursday as it has its way eastwards it will actually become a Tropical Storm so it really doesnt disappear and his time yet when it comes to the rain coming down with this storm system you can see it will develop across the path of the hurrican the the pop that it actually takes and in fact we could be saying as much as 400. 00 millimeters of rain now whilst were talking about bass out on the west coast temperatures have come down for the last few days weve seen this system working its way towards the shore as you can see here we will be seeing more rain in the for constantly for seattle but theres also cools the fog and also the smoke in the atmosphere and then down to portland weve also got the chance of some showers but it doesnt make it much further south than that right youve got this confluence of climate related is also going on have me thanks very much indeed for that lets take this on lets speak to will stephan whos a counselor at the Climate Council of australia joins us live from camera by skype or will stuff we welcome to the program and that is the thing here we cant say categorically that these wildfires and hurricanes are caused by Climate Change but they all definitely be made worse. Yeah thats actually true the way we say is that the being strongly influenced by Climate Change and there are a couple of factors that play into this one where there was the extreme hot conditions which led up to these fires but also in Northern California and oregon dry conditions and this is sort of a toxic mix for hunters we saw exactly the same thing happened in australia about 9 or 10 months ago with the enormous finest down here now were seeing it on the other side of the pacific and its a clear fingerprint of Climate Change and making what normally occur anyway fires much worse than that they were before this and the same with the hurrican theres no them queuing up but we have seen that before its just the the kind of conficker in the size of them is not yes thats right theres theres a skewness toward more intense tropical cyclones or ins and there are really 2 factors again at play here one is not because the atmosphere is warmer than it was after 50 or 70 years ago it can actually hold more water vapor so this is super charging the storms to to rain down enormous amounts of water at the same time in terms of storm surges the storms are riding on higher sea levels than were around 70 or 80 years ago so this means that you have a double whammy of more water coming out in the atmosphere its coming down on a higher sea level this actually is really exacerbates the storm surge the flooding and the damage that these storms cause will we all know about the need to cut emissions but the thing is even if we magically didnt cut emissions today the status quo would remain wouldnt and that is the status quo that is saying these wildfires raging these hurricanes pummeling these glasses cannot think this is not reversible as it. Well its a little worse than status quo weve actually built it worse conditions for the next couple of decades and even if we could magically get emissions down now well were going to see worsening conditions till around 24 years so the real test we have is to stabilize the current climate century so the next generations wont face even worse conditions and can we do that weve got these trillions of dollars of stimulus packages big injected into the Global Economy theres a real opportunity here isnt absolutely this is what i call of fork in the road we can all live there direct oldest images money into the new economy into Renewable Energy into electric vehicles into new technologies that do not meet a green Greenhouse Gases but if we go back to the old way of doing things like were attempting to do in australia with massive investment in gas were going to exacerbate Climate Change is going to get worse and we will be able to stabilize it by mid century so we are really at critical fork in the road in terms of how we deal with Climate Change professor will suffer great to get your analysis and expertise appreciate well stuff in from the Climate Council through thank you thank you well more than 650000 people have been displaced by sudans west of the floods the waters are starting to slowly recede but many counts afford to move away from the banks of the knowledge river so the doing what little they can to rebuild will speak to him or can shortly but 1st lets have her report from kathy. This is what the inside of the lot his house looks like now weeks of flooding has damaged or destroyed much of what he has. He says hes got no way of training the water out hiring a water pump is costly and hes lost too much already but he says moving elsewhere after the floods is not an option. Then my house is about 3 kilometers away from the nile and ive lived here for a number of years. Getting a plot to move elsewhere is costly with todays economy and me and my family cant afford it so ill drain the water and hope this doesnt happen again next year. Abdellatif home is one of dozens that have been damaged in his village of kalac in the southern part of sudans capital hard to. Torrential rains caused the nile to rise to levels not seen in more than a century the resulting flood damage to well over 100000 homes around sudan most were just kilometers away as the river burst its banks wiping out villages and towns and displacing more than 600000 people it forced the government to declare a 3 month state of emergency some chose to stay in their homes despite them being filled with water the man waters have been receding after nearly 3 weeks and people in the area are hoping to start the recovery but there have been problems with the drainage system and its weakness can be seen on the streets of a lot of them after rainfall since the start of the rainy season 2 months ago some of the major highways have been cut off schools and Health Facilities have either been damaged or destroyed its a site that repeats itself every year but meteorologists say this years rains are unprecedented so dans government says its focus is on helping those whove been displaced and preventing water borne diseases but more rains and floods are expected in the coming days and those displaced say the government needs to do more to help them. We want the government to give us new plots so that this doesnt happen again really who live in the banks of the nile dont have the ability to buy new plots it should be the government giving us a plot so that the problem is addressed by the root and normal houses collapse from rained off until he gets a new plot this house is all that he has he says hell do what he can to get the water out so that he and his family can return to their home and start rebuilding or lets get more on this with him in khartoum and there are all these problems with flooding as you say to come is not something that sudan can cope with alone what kind of help are they getting from the outside international. Well nic at the moment a lot of people are still cut off from the aid that they say they need a lot of them have been saying that they are still out in the open or living in their homes which have been damaged by the floods and by rains now internationally there has been a huge response countries like qatar countries like iraq. Emirates and egypt they all donated with materials to to respond to the flood emergency that is happening right now in sudan but the number of the people who are affected are rising as the rainy season continues and they are saying that this response is weak nationally the government has set up a committee to look into those who have been affected by the floods here in her to me specifically those who are living by the nile river and those whose villages were destroyed now the government reports said that those people who were living by them and in the valleys that lead to the nile were living in the long wrong location and that they should be moved now this means that they all should get ports but the government right now is also facing several crisis facing an economic crisis its facing a Health Emergency with the global corner virus pandemic but also with the diseases that are breaking out because of the stagnant water that is resulting from this floods emergency so lots of challenges in front of the government which is calling on International Donors and countries to try to help them the u. N. Has already said that only 200000 of the 650000 affected have received aid and supports internationally and from the government and that more than have remain without aid so it looks like the government right now is calling on its partners and its friends to try to help them help those whove been affected and get to better places and get shelters and avoid water borne diseases we are huge challenges. Dude who are more can go to. Plenty more still ahead here on the news hour including palestinians say theyve been betrayed as United Arab Emirates and bahrain signed deals to normalize relations with israel. Why thousands of refugees in lesbos dont want to relocate to a new shelter to a huge fire destroyed their camp last week. And baseball in a bubble will have more on how teams plan to keep playing 3 fundamental. Just like. It. So has been selected as japans new Prime Minister designate a parliamentary vote confirms who is nomination is a long time ally of former Prime Minister shooter after he resigned last month for Health Reasons so it will now seek the emperors official appointment before he takes office what mcbride is following developments from the south korean capital of seoul. A change in leader but were not really expecting a change in substance or indeed in policy. As the right hand man the trusted left tenant of shinzo served him for nearly 8 years as the chief cabinet secretary as soon as our been announced his resignation he became the heir apparent and now indeed succeeds him hes being called a continuity Prime Minister almost an interim basically his job for the next year is pretty much to mind the shop for the ruling l. D. P. Before new elections are called and Carry Forward policies we know hes very closely aligned politically ideologically with a hole to the same conservative views especially when it comes to trying to revive the economy so we can expect that sudar will basically Carry Forward those same cause they socalled are the nomics policies that were already in place and we already know in fact from the lineup. His new cabinet that is basically our base cabinet says so that is confirmation if we needed it that sudar is basically going to Carry Forward the work of his previous us. Senior palestinian figures say theyve been betrayed out of the United Arab Emirates and bahrain signed u. S. Brokered agreements to normalize relations with israel have been protests against the deal in gaza and in the occupied west Bank President donald trump says the deals represent what he called the dawn of a new middle east White House Correspondent can you help get a sense for. Its not the promised peace deal of the century between israelis and palestinians still u. S. President donald trump hailed the signing of the Abraham Accords at the white house as an historic day after decades of division and conflict we marked the dawn of a new middle east. The agreement signed between israel the United Arab Emirates and bahrain formalizes relationships already of place but now includes the opening of embassies its a pivot point they hope will end old conflicts and lead to new Cooperation Among israel and eventually even more arab nations to all over israels friends in the middle east those who are with us today. And those who will join us tomorrow i say. Earlier in the day trump hinted that other countries will also be signing diplomatic pacts with israel but well have at least 5 or 6 countries coming along very quickly and were already talking to him but noticeably absent from tuesday steel siding palestinian leadership the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates acknowledge their participation in the agreement require the preservation of current palestinian land. I thank you for choosing peace and for halting. Palestinian territories at position that reinforces our shared will to achieve a Better Future for generations to come. In the palestinian territories there were protests over the deal that also failed to ease the 13 year blockade of people in gaza the human rights activists have like into an open air prison this trump official blames palestinian leadership for refusing to negotiate separately you have the leadership from all of the time and time again refused to engage refuse to engage directly with israel their message is to go to the United Nations the European Union the road to peace is not through the United Nations through through was thrown. Through through the divisions over this deal also on full display outside the white house. His approval is that they desire to have it be still less than a block in the middle it is all that is going to be in there with believes. There are also questions in the United States about why the aber have accords are called a peace deal given none of the nations are war theres also concern the socalled peace deal is really a new military alliance of nations with a common interest to confront iran the u. S. Congress already promising to scrutinize the d. Particularly over the possible sale of f. 35. 00 fighter jets to the u. A. E. But more importantly for President Trump with less than 2 months until the us election the accords offered the optics of a Foreign Policy when it for a president behind in the polls and eager for reelection can really help get aljazeera the white house and just 2 weeks after a country brokered deal ended an escalation of violence in gaza the israeli army has resumed launching airstrikes into the strip its in several hummus targets theres no immediate word on casualties this happened just hours after a rocket fired from the territory injured 2 people in israel city of ashdod that rocket was fired at the same time as the ceremony took place at the white house. 6 people to judge a pair and quarter over the father destroyed europes largest refugee camp its left 12000 refugees on the greek island of lesbos without shelter for nearly a week a new facility has been opened and while hundreds of people have moved in thousands are wary Stephanie Deca has this report on the move once again its still a slow flow but some people are now willing to making their way into this new camp and their lives packed into bags their futures still uncertain. The authorities it circulated flyers on monday telling people that this new camp was their only option for their safety in needs could be provided for and most importantly only the people registered here will have their silent papers restarted but the majority of the 12000 or so refugees in migrants so far reaching as to cob but you. Know that there were tell number 2 i was already in prison because moria is a prison so i come here i see people and entering it once i wanted to there. The president of the European Council visited the island and toward the new camp up to meeting the greek Prime Minister in athens we managed to ask him a question it took a fire to burn down the entire cab for this dialogue to get back in International Agenda what message do you give to the refugees whove lost all hope of been forgotten technically that europe will this time not only europe other countries as well will take the responsibility to help these people to process their paperwork foster we need to take more european responsibilities and thats why you can commission weve made concrete proposals in principle next week in any case by the end of the nuns and if you do the responsibility of the Member States of the ministers of say that the governments dont want to start agreeing to one political dialogue you know how to deliver you know how to find solutions the greek Army Continues to clear this land and erect tends to make way for the thousands of refugees that need to be sheltered the challenge now to make people calm of their own accord the greek minister of migration has already made it clear that if they dont come of their own will that the police will have to get involved the new camp is necessary because morea refugee camp europes largest was burned to the ground a week ago and shes day the news that those apparently responsible for setting the fires have been caught 6 young men from afghanistan according to the greek authorities for the few who have made it into the new camp the proximity to the water seems a welcome relief tens waiting to be filled with men women children young and old their long and tiring journey their hope for a better life still on hold. Were going to live to lose was no the right stuff so lots of political focus on this problem yesterday whats happening today with the refugees. Yesterday as well we have the greek rep or the greece representative u. N. H. C. R. Thats the u. N. Body that deals with refugees you still right there just been giving a crap press conference saying basically urging to speed up the process the paperwork process the asylum process for these people to get them off the island that this is hes been touring the camp but i did ask him i said the u. N. H. C. R. I had criticize in the past morea camp because the conditions were so atrocious that which is why a lot of the refugees are reluctant to come here because they say its going to be the same is it going to be a jail or were going to be locked in a because before corona they could move around but the conditions were so bad that people are traumatized and there is no trust so of course yes what the what the fire has done is called the international spotlight back on the situation particularly here on on lesbos like you you heard in my package we had the present of u. N. County Council Council here now we have the head of greeks u. N. H. C. R. So i think the proof is going to have to be waiting to see how this is going to evolve the problem with this camp make at the moment you can probably not see but were right on the shore so its very much open to the elements this is a windy island if it rains you can only just imagine wind waves and what it does to some of the sandy ground their makeshift tents as weve seen in many other places so i think are going to have to wait and see how this goes for now the most immediate concern and what the authorities here want is for all the refugees initially to make their way willingly into this camp so theres a slow trickle thats been going on for the past 2 days or so but the majority of them thousands and thousands still remain on the streets reluctant to come here or are suffering very much indeed thats the current story in. Deca. Lets get the latest again from the United States and the latest on the Hurrican Sally jay gray joins me now live from i bill in the state of alabama and the heart can slowly making its way to land in the wind and rain i can see picking up. Get wrapped up. Then youre going to fall and theyre going to have now within the last 30 to 45 minutes officially made landfall results or valid member of the bid to be found out east of where we are right now take a look at rick and get your audio and you can see as i talk about a very good and enjoying the fall youre granted the hope that the power thats going to pick up as well and luther conditions were going to feel now for the next several hours something loads moving this film is going to really just kind of lingering for all the growth and wind and deliver this is crushing blow one aerial really from what weve gone up through the Florida Panhandle different than man if this rain and water is going to be the most serious if you were going to feet from storm virgin or readers of war 9 were also going to be. Yeah ok sorry about that voice cutting out there im sure you understand in the conditions that hes in that its always going to be problems technically but well get back to mr dakers on and see how things progress on that big system coming off. So late here on aljazeera west African Leaders agree on a timeline for malis military drone to to hand over power to civilians. To glasses in the antarctic are breaking free we hear what can be done to slow the damage from rising temperatures. And refusing to lose its another comeback when the Denver Nuggets in the n. B. A. Playoffs there will be a point to tell in sport. Frank assessments. Like we see informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of breakdown many parts of the old will meet region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate after the proxy does not the result the interest of the libyan people indepth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on aljazeera. Examining the headline that said to me business virus going around and they watch it on the news and i think you guys need to be careful unflinching journalism how relevant is the debate here in this day and age how he characterized the protest movement i would say that they are waking over the nation sharing personal stories with a global audience. Explore an abundance of world class programming the world is watching on aljazeera. I dont get you but yeah there are a reminder about top stories and people on the u. S. Gulf coast are bracing for Hurricane Sandy which is expected to make landfall in the coming hours its been upgraded to a category 2 storm that could cause life threatening floods. The white house has approved oregons disaster declaration make it possible to access federal funds several wildfires continue to burn out of control in the western states hundreds of homes have been destroyed. No he does suka has been selected as japans new Prime Minister designate a parliamentary vote confirms to his nomination is a long time ally of former Prime Minister shinzo sugo will now seek the emperors official appointment. Malis military coup leaders will have a maximum of 18 months to hand over power to a civilian government return but african mediators agree to lift all sanctions on mali but only if the military puts together a Transition Team within days nicolas haq has this report. As a president greeting mileys new strong bad colonel i see me going in addressing mollys coup leader as mr president no firm hand shakes but a warm welcome on his 1st foreign visit meeting west african heads of states where they impose sanctions on the country after you ousted president brian booker kater from power 3 weeks ago in a bloodless coup. To do you do when the military in mali is to put to police come. On to the crime. Sometimes its on the summit of. This. Now thats not being done. To silence is a man to man the. Brute to do martin mao. West African Leaders condemned the coup shutting its borders and stopping Financial Transactions with a landlocked country following the meeting they greed to an 18 month transition to full civilian rule and the lifting of sanctions if a whole Transition Team is put together in matters of days not months. On stage this weekend the military didnt have presented their roadmap in charge or where the military remains largely in power to Civil Society actors politicians and religious leaders. Took the applause as a sign of their support however the influential and 5 Opposition Movement disavowed malis military leadership in their methods. We denounced intimidation and democratic methods dating from a not of time as well as the. Need to read the ship goes against the a spear ation filching. In july the un condemned these militaries extrajudicial killings of civilians they are meant to protect they along 4000 french and european troops are fighting armed groups in northern and central mali called in the fighting are over 6000000 mali in spacing in unprecedented humanitarian crisis Counterterrorism Measures make it difficult for you Many Organizations to to have a engagement with local populations and whoever is there to represent them this has become the challenge for mileys new leadership attempting to embody the aspirations of the people and gain legitimacy both at home and abroad. Joins us live from tell us more about the road from mali and what exactly is expected of the. Well during the meeting colonel had 40 minutes to expose his roadmap and his charter he use this time instead by making a speech saying that he had the Popular Support of the 1000000 people and explained why he came to power west African Leaders want to see a civilian president and a new Prime Minister choose day they want to see the lifting of the sanctions because sanctions in place is not only affect the body and people there are crippled by the Current Situation in mali but its also affecting neighboring countries like here in senegal where 60 percent of this countrys export goes towards a landlocked country of mali now this charter this road map and this was adopted this weekend in rather in our cake way it was adopted through rounds of applause in a meeting in consultations with members of Civil Society and that didnt go well with the m 5 Opposition Movement who yesterday in a press conference described the situation and their feeling that they feel that power is being confiscated by the people and the charter is pretty clear it says that a president a Prime Minister and also a new position of Vice President would be nominated were hearing that Vice President would be a member of the military as well that would be a council of transitional transition made up of members of Civil Society politicians religious leaders now who will nominate these people and how that will be determined well that remains to be seen its up to the military leadership to come up with but whats clear is that the west African Leaders dont want to set a precedent seeing the military takeover a democratic country in their region remember there was 5 elections taking place in this region and brick enough guinea ivory coast and ghana and many many of those that were in that meeting room the president that were in that meeting with colonel go into are people that are running for reelection so they dont want to see. The military staying for too long they have 18 months to do so but they want to see a transition happen as soon as possible and of course caught in the middle of this are the 1000000 people where they want to see is a return of the state in areas where the state has has simply disappeared and think about the north and the center of the country they want to see the security situation being reestablished i want to see the schools reopened i want to see hospitals. Being staffed in face of the corona Virus Outbreak those are the demands of the money and people it doesnt matter for them if its the military or civilians doing so but thats what they want to be thats what they want to see as soon as possible and during these negotiations that weve seen there still has been attacks by armed groups like john mountainsides on the slum one with the mean and the sonic state in the greater sahar in the north of the country so theres a real desire for security from the 1000000 people and now its up to colonel and the military leadership to bring an answer to that right now the people caught in the middle is now all right nick thanks very much and very dark. Yemen is at risk of slipping away from the road to peace the Un Special Envoy is warning the increase in violence the dark humanitarian situation and the coronavirus pandemic are to play so audio arabia and the u. A. E. Were also singled out for giving nothing to this years aid appeal or diplomatic editor james bays has this in his monthly briefing to the Security Council Un Special Envoy Martin Griffiths gave a grim assessment of the situation in yemen the only glimmer of hope another effort by the un and the International Committee of the red cross to try and arrange a Mass Exchange of prisoners we expect to see the parties this week. To continue the discussion. Prisoner exchanges. Of this region will actually result. In the release of some prisoners. Some evidence of the implementation of those commitments particularly given the threat of covert dont seem in places of detention of the Security Council diplomats hope a Prisoner Exchange would be a confidence building exercise potentially leading to a wider political deal. But the news from the ground is not good violence continues to rage on the uns humanitarian coordinator says theyve had to cut funding to the most needy in part because the countries of the Saudi Led Coalition have not come up with the money they promised to give the u. N. Several that elements including the king of saudi arabia the United Arab Emirates and usa who have a ticket a responsibility which they discharged in recent years and so far and nothing and it is un. It is a peculiarly reprehensible promise money which gives people hope that they made the cope help may be on the way and to dash. I simply failing to fulfill the promise the risk of an environmental catastrophe in yemen hasnt been lifted either the u. N. Thought it had an agreement from the who is to send the team aboard the south for the damage tanker they fear could rupture spilling over a 1000000 barrels of crude oil into the red sea but theres been little progress in the risk of maritime ecological disaster has not been averted jamesburg days aljazeera. Indias official tally of corona virus cases has gone past 5000000 2nd only to the United States more than 90000 new cases have been recorded on wednesday the true number of infected people is thought to be much higher because of inadequate testing more than 82000 people have died of covert 900 in india. More than a 1000 girls in pakistan are kidnapped every year forced to marry and to convert to islam Prime Minister imran khan says the practice must stop child strafford as this report. The only body in a family a pakistani they can lose they like generations of hindus along with the partition of india 947 have lived in the Southern Province of sindh all their lives the ali says on september the 10th 3 armed men forced their way into her home and kidnapped her 15 year old daughter. I dont know what theyve done to her if she is alive or not and what about her life here 2. Police suspect pasha who is 3 years under the legal age of marriage in pakistan has been forced to convert to islam and marry a muslim man. For our Human Rights Commission of pakistan says more than a 1000 normal muslim girls were forced to convert to islam every year theres been widespread outrage at the practice among muslims and norm muslims in pakistan members of the religious minority communities have protested demanding better protection their rights. Hindus and christians make up around 5 percent of pakistans 220000000. 00 muslim majority population the government is helping to renovate around 400. 00 Hindu Temples places of worship often neglected since the partition of india more than 70 years ago by the Prime Minister imran khan has been praised for a recent program that gives indian sikhs visa free access to visit a shrine close to the border evidence he says of pakistans commitment to ensuring freedom of worship he says the kidnapping and forced conversions to islam have to stop. You cant simply. Related how can you forcefully convert someone to islam or force them into marriage either by threatening them or at gunpoint as we have heard incidents like these and sent all these practices are totally under slotnick. The terms of changing the law remain a challenge in 2016 the original sin to simply trying to pass a bill banning under eighteens from converting to another religion some muslim religious parties to the age limit. They threaten to besiege the assembly if the governor approved the bill which he then refused to sign into law a revised version of the bill was signed into law in 2019 the religious parties protested again a Parliamentary Committee on minorities and forced conversions wants to eventually make the law a political across of pakistan. Religious minorities struggled through the independence of pakistan with our muslim brothers and sisters but certain loopholes were left in the constitution which they used by certain groups against them we are fully aware and all the parliamentarians from all parties are on one page and will soon constitute a lorry gainst the brutal crimes of forced conversions in marriage. Police believe the statement posted online of cautious saying she was not kidnapped but willingly converted to islam and married a muslim man was forced they say kidnappers often threaten victims into making similar claims or if you. Could pass his home her family is destroyed the army says she cant live without her daughter and she just wants her back strengthened aljazeera. Here is House Speaker nancy pelosi is calling for an investigation into allegations of mass hysterectomies of Spanish Speaking women and those working at a facility in georgia reported several detained women did not understand why they were having operations to remove all or part of a uterus says the facility refused to test people with coronavirus symptoms and fate medical records in taney at the center likened it to an experimental concentration camp. Hundreds of people in honduras are calling for the president to step down the opposition help protests as the nation marked Independence Day police fired tear gas and use water cannon to disperse them demonstrators accuse president hold on all and one and this is government of mismanaging funds meant for tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Drought hit farmers in the mexican state of chihuahua occupying a dam saying they want to prevent a water payment to the United States under a 1944 treaty mexico and the u. S. Are obligated to share water found along the border between the 2 nations the farmers say they need the resource so their crops and repeller as more. Than this dry desert landscape is in the state of chihuahua in northern mexico just south of the us border it hasnt rained much lately and many here are concerned that crops and livestock are under threat from. Farmers like but i will get to see and tell us what little water remains in the region is about to be given to the United States under water sharing treaty signed between the 2 countries during world war 2 its us on the order of the work of others these are watch a reserve that we have collected we have to restrain from harvesting more than one crop or a year in order to subsist and not run out of water now the government shows up and say they have to pay the United States it isnt true. The issue of water is a boiling hot topic in this part of the country and protests against the decades old water treaty have been growing more and more violent in recent weeks and that it has been mostly the north its a reaction from citizens who are defending their own way water is everyones heritage water doesnt belong to anyone water is for everyone and for all mexicans that is why were outraged and this reaction from citizens is the result of this anger with the u. S. And mexico signed the water treaty of 944. 00 the United States agreed to send more water to mexico than it receives but it still requires mexico to release water from dams along some of the driest parts of the border. At level dam the largest in the state of chihuahua Mexican National guard troops are keeping watch farmers recently seized control of the dam and have attacked members of mexicos National Water commission who plan to extract water from the reservoir mexico has until october 26th of this year to pay off its water debt with the United States which amounts to some 100000000000 gallons of fresh water. Mexicos president has addressed the recent violence but claims water reserves and she well well are enough to pay both the water debt to the u. S. And supply the needs of farmers in the region the president has also suggested the conflict is politically motivated it dont matter how. They took over the kid dam which was being used to follow through with a commitment to deliver water to the United States under the treaty of 1904 but since they had a literal interest this has become a political issues. As the drought in northern mexico worsens a growing number of supporters are joining in the protest against the treaty the hopes are fading verse aleutian that will guarantee farmers access to the water they say is essential to their survival. Below al jazeera mexico city. Now the 2 of antarcticas most important glass is a weakening and starting to tear apart Scientists Say the pine island and sweets classes are being damaged by the warming of our oceans and atmosphere they already contribute to around 5 percent of global Sea Level Rise the survival of the thwaites class it has been deemed as so critical the u. S. And britain launched a multi 1000000. 00 was such mission has suffered as an environmental policy specialist at the university of california davis and she explains the changes needed to slow the melting process we actually have known present time that these glaciers were melting and they were on the track that they were on track to perhaps one day disappear completely but we didnt necessarily know was how quickly that was likely to happen and the mechanisms underlying the new studies that are coming out are showing are shedding light on that mechanism and indicating that melting is happy much more quickly than we had expected until recently there is a difference between these glaciers melting and the whole glacial system melting and we also have control over some of these things the fact that the glaciers are melting and that may be may eventually disappear or nearly completely that seems to be something that might be inevitable rate at which that happens that i think about it as a runner as you might know theres initially some distance away but you have control over how quickly you are slowly you get there and you also have control over how painful it is along the way those translate into we can have control over how quickly we act and strongly react to mitigate Climate Change which will slow the pace at which the glaciers melt we also have control over the adaptation measures that we can take so that the melting isnt as costly. Sports is next here on aljazeera and 2 teams still neck and neck because they battle to reach stanley cup winners force 6. Or. A little disappoint his new thank you nic lets start with the n. B. A. And the miami heat have drawn the 1st blood in their eastern conference final series with the Boston Celtics jimmy butler might have won the game for miami with this 3 pointer. But it was a closely fought contests and the celtics. Through levels of force over time butler putting the heat in the lead with just 12 seconds remaining on the clock he would credit this block by bam their bio to jason tatum near the end for the heats victory in game one final score 117114. And i just. You know everything that you really do. Score does come up with. A lot. Or if you are one and you know youre more. In the west the Denver Nuggets are through to the conference finals for the 1st time since 2009 drawn murray scored 40 points on a night when nicolas joked edge had a triple double as they beat the 2nd seed Los Angeles Clippers one of 489. 00 the final score to denver in game 7 its the 1st time in n. B. A. History a team has won 2 playoff series in the same post season after trailing by 3 games to one. Boom got it well 2 teams are still battling it out and ice hockey to play the dallas stars in the stanley cup final the new York Islanders and Tampa Bay Lightning were neck and neck forcing a 2nd overtime but it was jordan goal that gave the islanders the edge winning game 52 to one this when kept the islanders alive to avoid elimination in the eastern final game 6 is on thursday. After meeting with south americas Football Confederation has confirmed its qualifying matches will go ahead next month for the 2022 world cup in qatar all 10 south american nations need to play each other home and away but because of the coronavirus there are already 4 rounds behind schedule fifa president giani and tino has already ordered european clubs to release their players to play in the matches despite travel restrictions. Meanwhile south americas main Club Competition the Liberty Doris cup has resumed after a 6 month suspension due to the pandemic restrictions have been introduced to allow the games to go ahead daniel reports from buenos ayres. The Regional Football Association common ball has implemented a series of measures to deliver to doris cup can resume in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. Come a ball has designed and implemented a Detailed Program to enable us to restart our competition with dogs checked out at the return to football will be safe. Those measures include no spitting no kissing one another no exchange of shirts the obligatory use of mass through those not on the pitch and of course no fans theyve also ruled the 32. 00 clubs in the competition can choose their teams from squads of 50 rather than 30 players some will need to the Argentine Club 6 times neighbors adore is champions pocket juniors last week announced more than 20 of their players were infected so. We cant rush to be a 100 percent it doesnt exist we hope to be the best we can and im relaxed and hopeful we will be. Calm the board is allocated 95000000. 00 to help overcome the difficulties since commercial flights have been suspended and there are different degrees of lockdown in the 10 competing nations but why in this time of crisis are they playing football a top the National Team championship the americas cup has been postponed until next year and they played no Club Football here in argentina since march those hot beds of footballing passion like the iconic block of junior stadium behind me have been eerily silent. The football here is a fundamental element of many peoples lives and life must go on as part of the gradual return to some kind of normality as well as a reminder of one of the pleasures were missing i think he. Very very would challenge for south america. Because we showed that in europe they did it they played. They pretty much you know and you brought him so i think we have to do it we have to do to live by because. Then of course there are the financial implications for only clubs that. Need the money need the dollars especially. When its. In your way so they have to play. Employee they will continuing a 61 year tradition that pits the best of south Americas Club sides against one another only this year and until the final in Rios Maracana stadium in january theyve covered 19 to contend with 2. That his era one of cyrus. Real madrid star gareth bale is reportedly on the verge of rejoining his Old Premier League Club Tottenham hotspur bells agents say rail and spurs are currently in talks about a deal it seems it will likely be a loan at this stage the washer welshmen joint rael madrid 2013 for the world record 132000000. 00. And Major League Baseball poor air quality from the west coast wildfires has postponed the 2 game series between the San Francisco giants and the mariners in seattle for the other teams playing into the postseason playoffs and will be says games will be held inside bubbles families will be allowed inside as long as they quarantine with the player they are with for 7 days before the series the bubbles will be in neutral locations in texas and california. Golf 2nd major championship of the year the delayed u. S. Open tees off on thursday and as is often the case all eyes will be on 15 time major winner tiger woods hes won the open the u. S. Open 3 times but not since 2008 woods won the masters last year but at mits it gets harder as he gets older hes also says that he misses the fans. For me in particular i miss the energy and just the. Just the positiveness that the that the fans bring in but thats something that ive been playing in front of for a little over 2 decades what were dealing with right now is not what we all want but us are already and. Its the the energy this is just not quite its not quite the same without the fans defending a Tour De France champion egon bernals withdrawn from this years race ahead of wednesdays stage the colombian was not in contention for this years title he was more than 1000 minutes behind overall leader primos rutledge the 23 year old is also reportedly suffering from back problems already thats it for me was Sports Center back over to be very very much they will see you later thank you for that and that is it for this music diary will be here with another half hour of news in a couple of minutes ill be back in the legs. And life and death struggle for racial equality and a deeply on equal society view that was a spy for the Apartheid Regime in that group theyve been very Close Friends like a fan getting together 50 years after his torch and death and Police Custody aljazeera well tells the remarkable story of antiapartheid campaign. On the route south africa who fought apartheid on aljazeera. No mood out of his parents house after he got me he says he found more space to begin discussing after a run of eating it last year its now his home along with his wife daughter and home but theres really government said that he will be constructed without them permits and issues that the militia ordered last month our interview were cut short as he hears that the israeli army has arrived in the village with the bulldozer residents say soldiers gave them one minute to do. It took the found me months to build their brick house and less than an hour to see it get demolished. Theres lumps of manila home to extraordinary talent and a little bit occasion on hard work to transform child scavengers just south into professional on the arena she has the strength technically shes very strong a mixed martial arts fighter just bottle his way from the streets to success in the ring like you believe this is your stepping stone. Just last on aljazeera. America summer of catastrophe a hurricane threatening record flooding approaches the south as oregon declares a state of emergency over wildfires. Youre watching aljazeera live from the headquarters in doha and there you navigate also ahead more than 100000 homes damaged or destroyed the cleanup gets underway in sudan after weeks of flooding. Your shit is to god becomes your problems new Prime Minister as the nation faces its biggest economic downturn because of the