Security deal with the tripoli based government. Hello im Maryam Namazie in london with the top stories from europe including u. S. President donald trump approve sanctions on Companies Involved in the north stream to gas pipeline in a move that threatens relations between washington. And the scar of bethlehem the mysterious street artist banksy unveils a dark nativity scene in the occupied west bank. Fee for Club World Cup finals kicked off in doha. Turkey on flamingo with both teams trying to win the trophy for the 1st time. Now nationwide protests over a new citizenship are emerging as the biggest domestic challenge yet to indian Prime Minister. Opponents say the law discriminates by excluding muslims while letting minorities from 3 neighboring countries become citizens at least 23 people have now been killed and more than 1500 arrested since the unrest began last week now some of the most violent scenes have been in the Northern State of georgia pradesh where 15 people have died just over the past 2 days protesters set fires and threw rocks while police have been accused of using Excessive Force and another Northern State bihar demonstrators blocked roads by lighting fires while wearing signs opposing that new law but demonstrations have been largely peaceful and states controlled by the opposition where regional leaders say they wont implement the law thousands have taken part in rallies in west bengal our correspondent reports from the capital new delhi. Police in the Northern State are not taking chances. Did vans while firing tear gas at protesters who are defying a government ban to congregate in large crowds. Every tactic is being used to quash nationwide protests against a new citizenship law the police are being accused of using Excessive Force. Was what started as a student demonstration has grown into a Larger Movement to denounce what governments often and say is divisive and discriminatory legislation. The law excludes muslims from neighboring countries from receiving indian citizenship which goes against india secular constitution and rest in india has been discussed at a conference of Muslim Leaders in malaysia Prime MinisterMahathir Mohamad said the indian law is unfair to exclude. From becoming citizens even by duplessis i think is unfair so it was. Disagreement with this kind of treatment india rejected his comment saying the law doesnt impact the status of any indian citizen or deprive any indian of any faith of her or his citizenship the malaysian Prime Ministers remark is factually inaccurate we call upon to refrain from commenting on internal developments in india without the right and the standing of facts. On saturday protesters back the streets of new delhi despite the governments ban on large crowds. d the. Lawyers from India Supreme Court and high courts joined the outcry we are running open the discriminate among those 6 jenny jones and muslims if overcautious on the road was allowed everyone was outside the johnny emily ice time and if thats still where the 1st yes. C its now close but still still getting me joined by people. Supplied with the word its one of the. Art students depicted the constitution and the governments attitude to it by painting this street its amazing that john has united the nation in that sense but. Its also just the idea behind it which is so vicious the idea behind the act its all visions that every thinking human being everyone in this country will be affected and therefore standing up indians here are vowing to continue their defiance revolt against the law and say they wont allow the government to destroy the very fabric on which their nation is built on. The aljazeera new delhi india. Now court and pakistan has sentenced a university electra to death for blasphemy jeanette have phase was arrested. 2013 accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad on facebook he spent nearly 6 years in solitary confinement waiting for his trial pakistans controversial blasphemy law carries an automatic Death Penalty the country has it to carry out a death sentence for the charge but the law has drawn widespread condemnation from Rights Groups about 40 people convicted of blasphemy are on death row in pakistan b. B. A christian woman spend more than 80 years on death row before her conviction was overturned a year ago she has since sort asylum in canada her case attracted global attention and led to the killing of punjab governor salman to syria he was shot dead by one of his bodyguards in 2011 to see oppose the blasphemy laws and had called for bibi to be pardoned 3 months later pakistans minorities minister was killed by gunman in islamabad Shahbaz Bhatti a christian had received Death Threats after suggesting that best me laws be reformed. Is in islamabad with more. Hes a fulbright scholar and of course had also. Prayed for a decade to make however a group of students then object to his Facebook Page a huge demo of blasphemy and printed 13 able to read stayed and charged with blasphemy under bug a strong law 295 of the penal code i did a bucket on penal court anyone who fires the name of the property. Provided for the sentence of death in this particular case has been unveiled. A number of the judges have already been and today they were big boys read out under maximum security inside the prison because back in 2014 his lawyer was gunned down and. He according to reports was kept in solitary confinement because of fear for to live but that particular judgment coming out inside the jail and moreton on a soft mat is vice chancellor at reply and International University and he joins us now live from islamabad via skype dr ahmed let me start by asking you for your reaction to todays fighting. Well i believe. The freedom of expression is the know the basic principles of islam but that does not mean use of language for any abuse or any poisonous statements and there is of i think this law was enacted under british later on it was revised unembarrassed by 1930 and later on they pakistan by element and senate jointly ruled the law so it becomes an act and under the act. A person who is accused has full liberty to appear and plead his case till today i believe there has not been a single execution as such but there have been accusations and judgments have been passed but not just him as have been carried out till today well as you are saying if none of the death penalties have ever been carried out does that make this an empty no and and if so why should it exist. Not to do it it simply means that if there is any to see a problem it all is go to the benefit of the accused and theres the fairness of the law is not a matter of. Law not being active. Means if its provided for all possible venues for the accused to come forward and defend and even now they are just what appealed for the person i think the law as sets is. Lawful land and if brother was it had been followed then the judgement should not be condemned when youre saying that its supposed to be in the benefit of the accused but i know a number of people have been involved in accusation of past me having killed and weve just named some of them and by some counts 75 people have been killed since the 1990 and there are concerns of people using the law for their own past no vendettas are you concerned about that. Image there isnt about a single human life but it is not because of law deal that it is because of a lot less ness they were never killed by execution given that jim and the problem is if the law provides protection then is should be respected if hes not respected then people take london one hand and law stuff from that therefore what im saying is laws has to be respected but its procedure has to be very carefully followed and im sure if there are any flaws in the procedure those must be jetted and we have a judiciary in the country where they develop dreamin and im sure they will look into it and if there is any a misstatement or missing decision that attribute taken care of by the legal court on a soft mother advice chance that repeal International University thank you for joining us on aljazeera thank you very much. Well plenty more ahead on this news hour including even more homes lost to huge bushfires in eastern and southern australia intensified by searing heat and strong winds. And lebanons new Prime Minister begins shaping the future governments outgoing data saad hariri calls for calm. And an olympic legend helps open the new torture 2020 National Stadium piece that has more in sports. Now Regional Security concerns dominated a summit of west African Leaders in nigerias capital delegates from the 15 member eco discussed fund raising to support the fight against increased attacks in the sahara region at its last meeting the body pledged a 1000000000. 00 to boost military operations in that lawless desert region while our correspondent ahmed address spoke to retired Group Command acidic a Senior Research fellow at the Nigerian Defense college he asked him if the fund can really solve the problem of Violent Attacks in the sahara. Now this site is such an out of this fund we can see its a very good sign and i think its a realisation for the leaders in the some region that they have to pull ownership of the Security Architecture in this region if you realize you know in the current times most of the support is coming from either the colonial former colonial masters or the non regional actors now its becoming clear with the experience in the g 5 so i have that the countries themselves they have to put their money where their mouth is but the problem is the 1. 00 top 1000000000. 00 fund required or requested will be enough to deal with the problems weve seen child cameroon nigeria mali burkina faso all these countries well to be honest with you looking at the at the gaps that exist in the individual militaries and the fact that right from to this militaries where not organized or structured to find counterterrorism the 1000000000 ira is a substantial amount but it may not be completely enough to have all the problems but like i said its a very good step the cost we have to see that the militaries have to be revamped they have to be equipped they have to be trained in short that they can meet the challenges that the subject is facing now youve served in the African Force in mali in 2013 what are the peculiar problems in mali and how can regional course as well as International Forces deal with the problem of time. Remember the time when the African Union went it wolli that is before the arrival of the of the of the United Nations we have problems of coordination would still exist if you remember according to the african peace and Security Architecture that is this principle of subsidiarity that is to say when a problem across the organization or organization that is nearest to the problem should act so it was based on the principle that because 1st intervened the letter of the African Union took over however among the 1st people that arent in mali there was a lot of problem of course the nation and again there was a problem of financing if i can remember correctly a lot of the finances i mean a lot of the contin just could not deploy there was lack of finances there was not a capacity until they were paying union came in with some 50000000. 00. Talks aimed at resolving disputes over the largest hydroelectric dam in africa taking place in sudans capital khartoum a 4000000000. 00 grand ethiopian a song stand on the river nile is nearing completion the ethiopians say it will provide power to 70000000 people and revitalize the economy but neighbors sudan and egypt fear it will reduce water supply for drinking and irrigation while staying in sudan aid has reached a remote rebel held area for the 1st time in nearly 9 years as have a morgan reports from blue nile states the welcome arrival of food and other essentials coincides with talks to end of fighting when she heard that aid would be arriving in the state says she walked for more than 8 hours to queue for it after more than 80 years the area controlled by sudanese rebels known as the sudans People LiberationMovement North is finally receiving humanitarian aid and qatar but did not want to miss out as well. Theres no food most of the time and because of the constant bombardment in the 1st years of the war a lot of terrible things happened they didnt care where their bombs were being dropped on people farms or livestock some of us fled to ethiopia but i could go because i didnt want to leave my home and become a refugee the words between sudans government and the s. P. L. In north erupted after the government refused to allow the states of South Kordofan and blue nile a referendum on whether to be part of sudan or the newly created south sudan as part of a 2005 peace deal the s. P. L. And north also accuse the government of impeding democracy in the United Nations says more than 2000000 people have been affected by the conflict with more than have a 1000000 displaced so prove rounds of peace talks between the s. P. L. And north and the previous government of ahmed rashid collapsed when they failed to agree on many issues including humanitarian access. Since the was also more than a series ago yeah boss has been cut off from the military and so problems of people but they bring also but many remain behind what missing the horrors of the civil war now with is coming in for the 1st time theyre waiting to speak after all of these years things are really starting to change. Most trouble held areas in the country are nearly impossible to access from the capital hot some so dans new Transitional Government which is in talks with armed groups including the s. P. L. And north changed that in december allowing aid workers to head in for the 1st time a major day a great breakthrough in an area that has not received the help that is needed none at all from the United Nations in over 9 years and when you compound the war the ton fully with the flooding that just take place these people are in need of been extremely impressed with the openness and the willingness of the leadership of bilking others to do what we need to do without getting in the way and they have given us just unimpeded access talks between sudans People LiberationMovement North leader abdul aziz and hello and the Sudanese Government are going on but many issues need to be resolved before peace the it can be signed calling for an answer don oh for. Justice. Democracy equality of the biz a problem is a show of the sharia sharia islamic law for. The macnow we were on a secular democratic. State and this is where the government is there like as the issues continue to be talked through hundreds of thousands wait and hope that whatever the outcome be aid will continue to arrive he will morgan ill get there oh yeah denial. Syrian Government Forces and their russian allies have bombed rebel held areas in the province killing 11 people the airstrikes hit a busy market and sorrow and then the citys main road as people trying to flee that attack the city of merit on the man was also targeted well milad fidel is on the ground in syria and he says that tens of thousands of people fleeing are under attack just a little portable how real. Russian and Syrian Government military jets continue to target many towns and villages in the countryside. Here in the town of sara keep a popular market and Residential Homes were hit many civilians were either killed or injured by the strikes. At the same time other towns and it leaves eastern and western countryside the targeted area. Is on the highway connecting aleppo and damascus tens of thousands fleeing areas under attack such as Merrill Newman use this road the targeting of the main towns and highways used by the residents now worsen as the humanitarian situation. There have been more closed door meetings in lebanon as the man picked to be its new Prime Minister tries to gather support from rival political blocs has held talks with the outgoing lead assad hariri is promising to form a government within 6 weeks but hariri supporters arent happy with his replacement on friday troops find tear gas at protesters blocked roads and have rocks i really has called for calm the doctor either she. Or i wish all could express themselves in a peaceful way because the army is els and it is for all the liberties and i wish if anyone is angry that he can protest peacefully in gods will the Prime Minister has conducting his consultations and we hope for good for all. Well still ahead on out. On your bike and paris to get around the strike but not everyone is finding the right. Hand turn your premier League Managers watch on im going to talk to have to have. Some lovely weather across a good parts of the middle east over the next couple days lost the