What weve got coming up were going to meet the victims a powerful pellet guns used by Security Forces in. Kashmir. Be on this rock is the entrance to a german who. Nearly half a century. Now 117 of the survivors are suing the state sponsor. And in sport the footballer who. Will be here with all the details. Of course has been told former president Omar Al Bashir accepted 90000000. 00 from the government of saudi arabia but she was on trial on corruption charges accused of possessing foreign currency and accepting bribes remember the military removed from power in april after months of antigovernment protests and he is also wanted by the International Criminal court for war crimes and crimes against humanity for more from him orgon. Inside the courthouse behind this wall is where the countrys former president and longtime leader former president bashir had his 1st hearing with judges now his defense attorney are saying that the charges brought against him which includes corruption and bribery are not because he received the money that was found in his house after he was ousted as a person and not as the president people who were inside the courthouse have described him as being very composed very confident and like his family members who attended the session who people say were very emotional saying that he should not be tried now his defense team say that this proves the fact that there is a trial against a former president proves that the judicial is independent but theyre sure that he will come out innocent. Presenting the head of the country to troll proves that there is rule of law in the country and that no one is above the law this message is not just for the ousted government but to the incoming government the case will resume next week we cant tell you what the outcome will be but we can say that we are assured that the case is going in the favor of the defendant now the charges that we will not hear against the former president are charges that are being brought against him by the International Criminal court which include charges of work crimes crimes against humanity and genocide the Transitional Council that ousted him said that they will wait until a Transitional Government is formed and an independent and impartial judiciary is set up and that body will be the one to determine whether the former president should be tried for these crimes and if he is whether hes guilty or innocent. Now pakistan says indian Security Forces are fired across the line of control in the kashmir region several civilians are reported being killed on the pakistan administered side and both countries are blaming each other for the violence. The number of civilians of being killed in the latest escalation weve been hearing from the Pakistani Military confirming that describe for the shelling started around 13 g. M. C. On just yesterday on sunday and there have been saying that it is going to be a an ongoing situation where they see that people have been caught up in this violence they said not soldiers but civilian population has come under attack and they called us and discriminative indiscriminate firing that has continued and this is a fight since august the 5th when Indian Government decided that it was going to change the status of indian administered kashmir and pakistans interest to schmear has been an unrest theres been a lot of tension on the border weve been visiting these villages and people have been telling us that is theyre living under constant fear during the day and at night their children cannot go to school and theyre just waiting for when the next bomb is going to drop as these both sides continue to blame each other it is the people in their thousands in small villages who are stuck here. Now indias Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has talked on the phone with donald trump 2 weeks after new delhi revoked that autonomy from indian and minister of kashmir the us president and modi are said to have discussed increasing trade and preventing what they call cross border terrorism and you know its also eased some restrictions in minister kashmir but there are some big concerns about human rights abuses number of civilians say theyve been targeted by Indian Forces during the lockdown as a respect to people who suffered life changing injuries as their stories. Mohammad saw they may never regain his vision in one of his eyes he says he was hit by pellets fired by an indian soldier right after he stepped out of his local mosque because. Everything was normal there were no protests Security Forces chased us away and fired pellets at us one more person older than me was also injured he was discharged from hospital yesterday. Mom of the qs a Security Forces an indian administered kashmir of targeting kashmiris he shows us his back with scars of what he says a pellet injuries. At this month thousands here defied restrictions imposed by the authorities and protested against the Indian Governments decision to revoke autonomy. This 17 year old was one of them. We had no intentions to bury stoned but the Police Attacked and several boys were injured including me i was hit on the right side of my body by barely. Even though indian administered kashmir has been under lockdown for nearly 2 weeks. People have come out in protest in some cases the government has responded with force even admitting that a few people have been injured in the recent crisis. They shot the nigger is a member of the biggest hindu group in india that supports the governing party he says the government has used minimal force during the last 2 weeks if you have an option to fire real bullets and if you have to fire guns then obviously well choose the letter and the Supreme Court of india was very clear that in order to control law and order situation you must use minimum force in the force instance and then use the extreme forces analyst disagrees the question is that does use of guns blending of children blaming the men is it a justifiable selfdefense by the armed forces against in 2016 the new government said it would replace pellet guns with a less Lethal Weapon or on the ground any good on the surface means Security Forces are still using them against those protesting over new delhis decision to revoke autonomy. The fear is that if the protests continue in the coming days or months so will the pellet injuries on aljazeera new delhi. Lets expand on this a little bit here according to official data from the State Government 13 people died in 2016 and 4 in 2017 as a result of these pellet injuries in january of 2018 the jumma in kashmir chief minister told the state Legislative Assembly that around 6200 people had been injured by pellet guns same period july 26th through to february 27th seen at least 85 percent of the people blinded by pellet guns also have psychiatric problems that is according to a study by the Government Medical college in srinagar. Now with us from paris is julie whos the Program Officer for west and south asia at the International Federation for human rights julia thank you for your time as i watch that report and thought about the injuries that are a result of this this name pellet guns its almost a bit of a misnomer isnt it it makes it sound like just being hit by pellets but this is really dangerous stuff yes of course its an extremely dangerous weapon and the government of india justifies this saying that its for crowd control purposes but really its something that has resulted in thousands of victims with permanent injuries like you were mentioning in in the report people have been blinded for this and theres been deaths as well its its completely indiscriminate so the way that it shoots you have hundreds of pellets that that can hit anyone in the crowd so its really a very dangerous weapon but its justified by the government or the army whoever uses it because theyre saying its just because its technically nonlethal. Yes its technically nonlethal but of course it has this potentially lethal consequences. Looking at the report which your group put out and this actually goes out to goes back to march of 2019 and youve talked about human rights issue in indian administered kashmir maybe you can just give us a brief overview because. Youve got a long list it seems of of human rights concerns. Yes of course and i think its important to remember about that although you know the past 2 weeks have seen. You know some some very serious Human Rights Violations in indian administered kashmir this is really just an example of decades of Human Rights Violations in the states you know its that weve been able to document with our partners in kashmir examples of extrajudicial killings torture in forces appearances arbitrary detention under the. Kashmir Public Safety act restrictions on Civil Society harassment of human rights defenders so you know this is this is really just an example of whats been going on for decades just this year alone theres been dozens of internet blockades in kashmir so of course the past 2 weeks is probably one of the longest such blockades and of course we i think were were far from from being able to know exactly whats happening there because of the lack of information but the people the millions of people who live in kashmir have been subjected to these to these violations for a very long time so groups like yours other and human Rights Groups im guessing you dont get any access you just get denied denied entry. Exactly so theres no access to the region for International Human rights organizations for the un the un has repeatedly asked for access over the past several years and is continually being denied. And even foreign journalist have a really hard time getting in they need special permission to access in kashmir often that permission is denied so combined with then a repression of Civil Society with then kashmir you really have you know a sort of modern day iron curtain its really hard to get information and its really hard to get information out and of course you know these past 2 weeks is is kind of extreme version of this should be able to solo from the International Federation for human rights thank you very much for your time do appreciate it now in addition to this more knowledge the term for pakistans powerful army chief has been extended for 3 years as the tension intensifies with india over kashmir a prominent Opposition Leader the foreign minister and the president of pakistan administered kashmir all expressed their views in a talk to aljazeera special with some of inch of it. The attack on press freedoms in occupied kashmir i wish i was speaking from a moral ground moral high ground and i would be speaking from our high ground of my own government was not restricting some human rights and media freedoms in pakistan but having said that we cant equate our concerns about the curtailment of democracy in pakistan with a military occupation by an extremist government by the man seen as the butcher of could run my biggest fear is. The. Genocide that can take place on the inside of it we have no evidence if you. Open up open up you hear did anybody stop you you went to the elysee you make people you into in people will be allow you there because why dont you attempt and try after having been here. And make a request to the indian side and let them allow you to go to srinagar to meet the dealership over there will be allow you i doubt it so were not going to fair we have nothing to hide is that your concern that these 2 Nuclear Armed neighbors could go to war because you would be essentially on the front lines if that happens that anything can happen there can be miscalculations but before miscalculations india has taken escalate 3 steps in february this year indian Prime Minister had threatened pakistan with the use of Nuclear Weapons and at that time we had said that he doesnt know what hes talking about by if he takes that step then that would mean a nuclear armageddon. And a Nuclear Winter not just for south asia but for the entire world. All 3 of those interviews from pakistan in that special edition of talk to our 0 with osama bin shivered at these times on tuesday and wednesday on aljazeera the french president emanuel microns been holding talks with russias president Vladimir Putin this is ahead of the g. 7 summit in butte its for more on this were off to our london news into his felicity. I kemal yes the 2 leaders have been discussing the worlds major crises from iran to syria to ukraine 13 told my call that recent talks with the new craney and president have given him grounds for cautious optimism in Eastern Ukraine or than 13000 people have died since fighting broke out there in 2014 after russias annexation of crimea is hoping to agree a time frame for the next round of talks on the complex and attach a bottle has more now from for a council in southern france. The french president has made it very clear that he invited. Into his summer residence here and break our saw in order to try and persuade putin to take steps to end fighting in ukraine now the french president says that for him he feels there is a wealth a window of opportunity with the recent election of the new ukrainian president vladimir. Made it clear that he wants the fighting in Eastern Ukraine to end he made it one of his president ial Campaign Promises and emanuel back or when imagine lensky in june in paris said that he was very hopeful that the Peace Process that was started back in 2015 could be reignited what we heard also from the russian president on this very issue he said he was open he said that there is a certain promise in the 2 will discuss that later then also discuss of course other International Issues theyve made it very clear that they wanted to talk about iran present hoping that russia will use its influence on tehran to try and deescalate tensions that have been of course rising in the region ever since the u. S. Pulled out of the 2015 iran deal last year they also said that their talk about syria with france trying to urge and put pressure on russia to end the fighting in the region or also raising the issue of human rights. Or russia is to investigate alleged foreign interference in its upcoming local elections in moscow its concerned that quote foreign meddling has been encouraging on authorised rallies so fast the reports from moscow. Protests on the streets of moscow 6 weeks in a row brought an updraft end to the Russian Parliament summer recess bees held an emergency session and set up an investigative commission. Im sure that we must investigate financing from abroad that leads to interference in russias internal politics we must look at the activities of some of diplomats who are based on russian territory maybe im getting ahead of myself but i promise you we will have interesting findings. Of the protests started in july after several opposition candidates were barred from running in local elections in moscow Election Officials said signatures they needed to collect were false normally these local elections dont attract a lot of attention but banning the opposition from taking part motivated tens of thousands to protest police have arrested thousands of protesters and some say they were beaten and now face serious criminal charges this has led many more to take part 2 observers that may sound of too familiar blaming foreigners for antigovernment protests is not only seen as a way to distract russian Public Opinion from the real reasons behind a protest its also patrice these protesters negatively as being used by foreigners and this could be used to convince people not to join. On his visit to france on monday president Vladimir Putin said protestors have a right to let their voice heard but the authorities will do everything to prevent violence. No i am a guest here and it is not a good place to say that but i have to since you asked so we all know about the events related to the socalled yellow vests in which about 11 people were killed and 2005. 100 people including 2000 policeman were injured we dont want those to happen in russian capital. While Russian Politicians see the american accusations of russian meddling in the 2016 president ial elections will falls the earth are real its basically the russian version of the moon. But we dont have a person like bill or of course the hope or result weve got to compared to what he has achieved because he achieved 0 and will probably find something the Parliamentary Commission says it will summon journalists and diplomats it suspects of interference so far the us embassy has been blamed for meddling as you have used to it and the german channel. Misstep fast and aljazeera. Britains Opposition Leader has called for a general election to block and no deal breaks its Jeremy Corbyn says he will do Everything Possible to end what he called the crisis he wants parliament