Pushed through the news. And defined. Before. Welcome to the program theres been a terror attack in pakistans commercial hub the city of karachi the target was the Stock ExchangeBuilding Police say the force of the 6 people before they themselves were killed and. Looking for clues where the attack began Officials Say the 4 gunman drove the car to the pakistan Stock Exchange throwing grenades at a security post they then open fired with automatic weapons trying to fight their way in they didnt last long all 4 gunmen were killed by Security Forces before they could enter the Stock Exchange. Of the. Good the. Good and the. I mean going to get up just. Saw the Law Enforcement agency is the bulletin that in years played a very very vital role and come back to. The gunman killed at least 3 people 2 guards and a Police Officer police found large supplies of ammunition explosives and food on the militants and say its possible they had planned for a long siege the assault was like they claimed but the Baluchistan Liberation Army the separatist group has been responsible for a string of attacks in recent years demanding independence from pakistan for the resource rich baluchistan province the Stock Exchange is pakistans largest located in a high security zone bomb disposal teams were called to clear the building of any remaining explosives. Lets just bring you some more background on this for more im joined by my colleague shows of janani from. The attack has been claimed by benoit separatists what do you know about this socalled north just liberation army. Well this is the militant group which has been active in the province of baluchistan for many years now and they have targeted Security Forces there but also behind the chinese attack on the chinese consulate you mentioned 2 years ago in karachi theyve also attacked a 5 star hotel in the port of the water where china is building a huge Infrastructure Project and in the seaport so they are at all odds but the Pakistani Army the Chinese Development in baluchistan but the pakistani officials believe that they are backed by hostile foreign intelligence agencies and theyve basically point a finger at india and the intelligence and agency role which has in the past been linked to extremist violence what is behind that well for many years going to achieve Political Violence it was also subjected to violence by al qaeda and taliban groups but in the last 3 to 4 years that situation has really improved. Pakistani army and police have really gone after many of these Islamist Groups and separatist groups so this comes after you know after a long time and that is why theres a lot of very the country is facing coronavirus it is canonically sinking and so this attack. Is a source of worry but officials are saying they have managed to respond quickly and able to save lives and that is why it was wrapped up within like 4 hours because if you spoke of economic problems that is facing is this attack on the Stock Exchange likely to shake confidence in pakistans financial one. Well the Investor Confidence was already low in pakistan this is even before. I came along and made matters worse clearly this will have a psychological impact because pakistani Stock Exchange is seen one of those a high risk high return Stock Exchanges in emerging markets so theres a psychological impact but i think you know in a country like pakistan which just seems so much violence the government vincere you know if you were actually we did well weve prepared and we were able to stop you know more blood bought. And the divil going to carry on august and economic problems. Are already quite severe and this only make it a bit worse sure there jelani from asia thank you very much an investigation by the Associated Press news agency has found that the Chinese Government is forcing ethnic minority women to undergo various forms of Birth Control in a bid to reduce the Muslim Population a. P. Says it has evidence that women in the far Western Region of have been subject to. And even abortion to slush both rates. 2 months in a Detention Camp in jan yan has left scars on some rich da what but even once she was released this month though wasnt free along with other we know women in her area she was forcibly sterilized. Cut them off why dont the polish have on party we lost our identity as women we want never be able to have children again they cut out one of our organs its gone. To. Go on our own mazak narrow only escaped Detention Camp. Like them or it she also has 3 children to avoid prison for the multiple births she was ordered to pay a huge fine if shed already been forced to accept an i. U. D. Birth control device now she feels one of the lucky ones because they were Muslim American the way they did shots and rimu fetuses forcefully the wrong approach kimya thought they would ask the spouses permission or anything else for it it will. Cost if they say its illegal they make you get an abortion those who didnt have bay were sent to the camps now people are terrified of giving birth wasnt long until. March china has relaxed its one child policy across the country according to this investigation in zhang yang its tightened sterilise ations among women in the northern province of increased dramatically in 28243 were officially recorded but in the rest of the country there were just 32. Experts say this is all about beijing exerting control. As part of its policy to try to control the widows populations that do not grow as quickly and rapidly are easier to control as part of beijings course of social reengineering strategy in the area china though has hit back at these revelations you are going with you are told all crucial the media report is purely for all tyria motives and baseless i also want to emphasize that both ethnic minorities and han people need to act in accordance with the law. Iva. Many though see this investigation as yet more evidence that china is trying to cut its muslim and minority populations by any means necessary. Now to some of the other stories making the news at this at least 28 people have died in the. In the ferry capsized off the condition the boat was reportedly carrying around 100 passengers when it was hit by a larger vessel rescuers are continuing to search the river for victims. The locked out of the northwestern german city of go has been extended for another week the move follows an outbreak of the. At a Meat Processing plant that sold 1500 people infected by contrast of instructions in the neighboring district of bottom of expired midnight on wednesday as well as for the state of not trying best failure. German authorities are investigating about 30000. 00 suspects in a probe into a paedophile that back in the west of the country cybercrime investigators say they want to quote drag the perpetrators of child abuse out of the anonymity of the internet. In just 2 days germany will take over the presidency of the 27 member European Union. And french president. A meeting of this to discuss the transition changes in the rotating presidency but this time its last opportunity to define how european legacy before should have ties next shes expected to take firm control of pushing through the use multi 1000000000 euro rescue plan. Some call that the driving force of euro and now that the pandemic is seeking the e. U. To the core german chancellor Angela Merkel and french president Emmanuel Mccall seem to be closer than ever and that attend them didnt see eye to eye at the beginning of the pandemic now they asked sending more united t. V. But for the cooperation and the friendship between france and germany calls on the us to send a signal even if we know that they are 27. 00 even Member States i believe that if gemini and friends even impose it is something that will promote the formation of opinion in europe that. We must act we must act european so that we come out of this crisis well and stronger. Back in may france and germany propose an unprecedented e. U. Recovery fund of 500000000000 euros now they must carry fire to details and gain support from the e. U. Is 27 Member States the e. U. Commission back to Franco German plan for both leaders this is also a chance to be a european they can see a common goal was a notable difference and go americas Approval Ratings at home a skyrocketing while a man my colleagues faced with criticism over his management of the current up i was crisis. And standing by for us in mess about where the meeting is taking place is you dont have correspondent hunt around and smack him in micro meeting face to face for the 1st time in portugal and whats on that agenda today. While on the one hand this is all part of a coordination of policy between germany and france that has a long tradition in other words part of a long series of summit meetings where they try to coordinate policy and at the same time its very important that this is happens just a couple of days before germany takes over the presidency of the European Union in other words its setting as signal sending a signal that. France is very much involved in the way that germany is going to coordinate and run e. U. Policy in the next 6 months or so at the same time they are obviously much more urgent issues at hand the result of the corona crisis and the questions of how those are going to be resolved so thats both the long term coronation and the short term Crisis Management are on the agenda here today and back on and mccraw also seeking support from all the e. U. States for european stimulus plan as you know that you referred to will they get the backing they need. Thats very much open an open question at the moment it was not on the cole who proposed this 500000000000 euro Fund Reconstruction funds just about 6 weeks ago then the euro could p. And commission other words kind of the government of the European Union agreed to that and added a further 250000000000 euros to that plan but there is a group of people within of a group of countries within the European Union that are resisting these plans the idea is that some countries in the european will be given grants out of this money out of this fund that they do not have to repay and a group of countries including sweden and denmark and they didnt send all street are opposed to that they say that all these monies should be given as loans its those 4 countries that need to be persuaded at the moment we dont know whether they will be on side eventually hans brant speaking to us from meserve thank you very much for that update. And finally a dramatic rescue off the coast. And italian. Group spotted this creature in trouble. And exhausted young. Trying. To free itself. The way in an operation last thing over to the group. Illegal fishing boats it was a lucky escape of the team. 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