A truce. In libya turkey considers providing military help for the u. N. But government in tripoli plus. I was on a big job in kazakhstan and ill tell you how the country is trying to move away from its hydrocarbon based economy and finding investment in renewable sources. Indias cabinet has announced new guidelines and approved funds for an updated National Population register that critics fear could be used to further discriminate against muslims the survey was introduced in 2010 but for the 1st time people will be asked to share information about the date and place of birth of their parents theyll also be asked to give details about density documents like voter cards driving licenses and passports the government has approved more than 500 1000000. 00 in funding for the excise meanwhile the protests continue. Cross the country against a new citizenship law thats widely seen as on to muslim since it was passed 2 weeks ago at least 25 people have been killed in the violence elizabeth has more on the latest on wrist. Marching to the beat of their own drum thousands of people that defied a bat on public gatherings in the indian capital. They oppose a recently passed the law that grant citizenship to religious minorities from ghanas fon pakistan and bangladesh but excludes muslims i think this lawyer exists threat to the idea of a secular india as it is defined in the constitution it all took on the back of the many other groups you know things that causes all resentment against the government its not one thing its an accumulated resentment against his government a government could fix a is using ideological issues like religion to distract people from the problems facing the country their real issue is that economies on the slowdown that unemployment it is regarded neven in the last 40 years that. Distress and in order to divert attention from those issues. Brought in the people here said they wont let the government do that. Here chanting slogans against the government and the police would told earlier to detain demonstrations they just watching from the sidelines. They were even bigger protests elsewhere from asked some of the northeast to sound him in the south but the governing be j. P. Insists these are small sporadic protests being prompted by Political Parties look at the protests today it is the protest you just you just you just came from a gentleman. You know in a city of people if you have 200 people 30100 people and you say that is for this do you think thats relevant please. Give me a break by the government has launched a campaign on social media to calm the anger in the Muslim Community really want to assure them that there is really no real grounds for wanting what is a cone this act does not discriminate against them. India Supreme Court is expected to hear the case next month. For the government of the day into the movie. Since protests pose the biggest challenge since he came to power 5 years ago elizabeth pradhan al jazeera new delhi lets talk about gopalaswami hes a senior fellow at the Observer Research foundation he joins us via skype from New Brunswick new jersey brad what do you make of the timing of this announcement then by the Indian Government about updating the National Population register i mean why now and whats the thinking behind it i think its just poor timing and i dont know what the thinking behind it person but it also sense breaks taken or not and the Prime Ministers. In a way launched its Election Campaign new delhi is going into a state lakshman he launched a campaign. A couple of days ago and the expresident he was about he raised in a way he was trying to reassure but then this announcement comes at the heels of this whole citizenship amendment so you know its at one level youre trying to reassure the public that its not discriminate careered the other level youre trying to put your foot on the gas and saying were going to. Embark on such a diverse. So it is in its work i mean poorly judged and. At many levels it also but i dont know that so confuse government or not know in which direction that they want to have a bit but be very clear about one thing its very clear that theyre not going to back off from the citizenship Amendment Bill despite the protests yet given given given all the anger given all the anger and deadly violence over the citizenship law is this then how is this likely to be seen as yet another tool that will discriminate against muslims. Well i mean lets you know lets rewind it to the summer right restarted with fish in the air that may have a problem but issue with the Supreme Court was the judgment of building a temple on the disputed land and then when you come up with this the National Register of citizen just in the northeast then you come on but the citizenship bill then you know allocate funding for the National Population register so its not one data point now you know my critics might argue that that speculator these are 5 different issues in 5 Different Directions but there is a Common Element that there is a common undertone about the discrimination of muslims thats why you see a need today anger that people coming onto the streets and protesting like the gentleman on your show said where are their protests but you know thats not the point the protests are there are protests and there is an International Media and there is an outcry about this right so when you couple oldest things when you look or look at all these things in its entirety there is a trajectory there is a curve that you can plot and that curb sometimes its not in a good direction yeah and in a in a recent speech at a rally in new delhi the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi trying to calm fears saying look muslims about nothing to worry about but the n. P. R. Would do well will no doubt inflame tensions as you say and it does send mixed signals doesnt it. Yeah i mean you know like the Prime Minister. The Prime Ministers words are not essentially followed by action right i mean within 2 days you have an n. P. R. Coming out so i mean its its just too its not comfortable its if i were sitting on the other side and if you have you know the. I think that has plans of the b. G. P. Ruling party reaching out to a majority of people to reassure them and articulating their views now wouldnt that be logical 1st step then allocating funding for this and making a big announcement for this so i i worry that such steps might be too little too late and that the government wants to dowse tensions up that thats where they should have proceeded yeah and just a final point here bottom of how much longer this undermine the campaign go over the ideology of the b j p because then seem to be addressing issues like the economy as you say jobs and the crisis in the Farming Community right there is a gentleman who said you know those are real issues why are you know ok if i were like if if the legislation were passed along side of those issues where you know there was an onion crisis people are not talking about the onion crisis that theres a jobs crisis people are not talking about the jobs crisis anymore and the i. M. F. Just released its report on the you know the dangers of canadian slowdown so those are fundamental real issues and those are going to affect the people and not a not a divisive agenda like thats but the police on me thank you very much indeed for talking to aljazeera pleasure. Now at least 35 civilians mostly women have been killed in an attack in northern bettina fast fighters launched similar tenuous raids on an army base and civilians near the town of our 7 members of the local Security Forces were also killed aquino fastows president says the attack was eventually repelled and 80 rebel fighters were killed. We have to think about solidarity and National Cohesion people women for the most part were getting water and got murdered in cold blood by the terrorists while they were retreating that we must show compassion with the populations that is why all flags will fly at half mast for 2 days and all christmas celebrations are cancelled well became a fast that was once a pockets of relative calm in the sahara region but security has worsened over the past 5 years the ousting of longtime president blaise campo reign october 24th seen created a security vacuum which has been exploited by several armed groups as well as homegrown fighters groups from mali affiliated with al qaeda and i still across the border and added to the unrest since 2015 more than 700 people have been killed by the violence and almost half a 1000000 have been displaced in attacks of sword since january lets bring in William Laurance a professor of International Affairs at the George Washington university where part of his teachings focus on backing a fast so joins us live from washington d. C. William the numbers being reported dead a quite staggering 35 civilians 80 jihadist fighters killed how frequent are these sorts of attacks near the mali border and who is behind them. Where theres been hundreds of attacks this year one group said it was a 7000 percent increase in the year before but they usually have very lowly fallacy if you look at the list of attacks its one or 2 victims this is the worst attack ever as far as i know in brooklyn of which had its 1st terrorism attacks only in 2015 and both the frequency and lethality of attacks have increasing but this is much much worse and we know that islamic militants in mali who are under pressure from French Forces that do spillover into bikini fast but whats their intention with this violence some said the militants are looking to provoke some kind of intercommunal strife well thats all true but thats not the main thing going on here this is a a group led by someone from. Recruiting fighters from kenya faso even though they launch attacks from mali and while they are trying to sow chaos and they are under pressure from the french their main goal is to liberate this area and establish an Islamic State not unlike what we saw in the north of mali in in 2012 and so theyre going to keep going you know whatever the french are doing and whatever. The other secure the Security Forces in the region are doing theyre going to keep attacking and continue to recruit people because the Security Forces in burkean have themselves been committing some atrocities as have Defense Forces and so populations are kind of on the run now and they dont know who to trust and this situation is getting so bad that my former organization crisis groups latest report is about containing the jihadist explosion in burkina from infecting the 4 countries to the south not even about solving the problem within burkina faso yeah and thats an important point to make because im going to ask you how is the violence affecting ordinary people in this part of the fast so we know that thousands of people have been displaced by the violence. Over a half 1000000 displaced this year some humanitarian missions search saying over a 1000000 we have 20 percent of the population for kenya thats food in secure some facing starvation 90 percent of those fleeing the violence are just going to other parts of bikini looking for food looking to stay with relatives or or other friendly people and burkina of course is one of the poorest countries in the world and simply doesnt have the resources a lot of International Humanitarian of aid aid is available but its not getting to these regions because of the insecurity so its another one of these situations like yemen like many other places where even when there is goodwill from the International Community the aid doesnt get to the populations it needs to get to William Lawrence thank you for talking to us. Lots more still to come on the news hour including whats pushing china japan and south korea to bury decades old differences and put up a show of unity. On antigovernment protesters in iraq a project of the main Political Parties we look at the one movement that still influential. And support one of european footballs most feared strikers stuns fans by making a shocking new details later in the sport. Now at least 8 people including 5 children have been killed by a Syrian Government asked targeting a school it happened in the town of joe bass thats in italy province the last rebel held on clay that hundreds of the space syrians had been sheltering inside the school when it was hit by Syrian Government forces but by their russian allies have made steady gains since launching an offensive to retake last week more than 40 villages are now under their control well the surge in fighting prompted a turkish delegation to travel to moscow to push for a cease fire thats as a wave of Syrian Refugees fleeing the fighting living towards the Turkish Border and the u. N. Says 80000. 00 people have been displaced since the offensive intensified earlier this month when mamma though is on the turkey syria border he says refugees are now under even more pressure. Well the humanitarian crisis is huge and its keeping on growing because more and more people are being uprooted from their homes. Started with the city of martin which was the target all for the initial strikes bottle bombs underground shelling but now were seeing other places also reporting people fleeing from them after being targeted by Syrian Forces sworn a mission to take every last bit of territory that is in the homs all through our position we are right now one of the hobs for the Turkish Charity to which is helping the refugees on the other side of the border and speaking to a senior all fishel who told us that they have been trying us much as possible to help the people who are fleeing 100 under 25000 was the convoy this deadly of rising and he says there must be up to 150000 of the moment and he says they cannot provide each family with its own individual talent theyve been forced to build this must have tents on high heel to avoid flooding of course and they are commentating up 200 people in every tent have separate the men and the women but he says there is a lot of suspicion between the people because it has been home to people who. Fled to places like aleppo and other places that the regime had targeted before and he says there are so many other people who have set up tents on the sides of the road im going not want to mingle with the rest of the refugees and he fears for their health because they dont have sanitation they dont have clean water and they do not have food as well and of the moment they say that if you just cannot cook for themselves he says they are forced to to to to provide them with warm mails. Well as a former advisor to the state department on syrian issues he says without outside help it will fall to Government Forces the latest escalations around moderates now what no man is really just 15 to 20 miles south of it live city and this campaign which began in april and which has displaced about half a 1000000 people already is well on its way to probably capturing the rest of the province a foreign intervention by an outside power anyone who is worried in 2016 when i looked it was falling and was aghast at the images of people seeking refuge in europe and drowning in the mediterranean should be extremely worried because you have 3000000 people civilians there are now at risk and will do whatever they can to escape certain death and which mean pushing toward turkey pushing toward europe pushing toward lebanon pushing toward anywhere else but. The hell that the russians have created for them this is the same scenario that has been playing out in syria since 2011 homes rustans. Aleppo now its at lip we know how this is going to go and really the world has only watched it. Syrian Customs Officials have seen the assets of the countrys wealthiest businessmen as the 1st time an order has been issued for rami microphones the cousin of the president Bashar Al Assad has been accused of importing products including oil and gas without paying charges and fees in un the u. S. Have already imposed sanctions on little who reportedly control 60 percent of syrias economy well chris doyle is a middle east analyst who explains why makeover may have been targeted. The matter who family right in the sense at the core of this regime remember the heart as the last sentence the father of bashar last sent was not marriage to a nice matter which is a much looser. And now we clan and as well as the assets and in fact in many ways of her greater social standing and management whos the father rami was very much the regimes banco he is extremely rich so to see the regime taking action like this you get somebody so senior and indeed others who were part of this new crony capitalism that underpin the regime jemma demonstrates that all is not well in near in a echelons of power now theres a number of scenarios one can consider here there is an extent the regime is trying to shore up its legitimacy at a time of real declining revenues when so many syrians are destitute or below the poverty line. And are resentful of those who have millions who actually show off their wealth in a way and weve seen this or so with a man who found it theyre happy that theyre be all sorts of stories on social media and pictures of some of their family with fast cars and the like so this is resent