A diplomatic war to export instability meanwhile police have detained around 30 journalists who were preparing to cover the latest protests in minsk the Reuters News Agency says by telephone and identity documents were confiscated interior ministry denied anyone was detained saying they were driven to a Police Station to check they had valid accreditation journalist under a voter which is in minsk and witnessed what happened. At the moment time actually just in front of the polling station where our own security was taken to be ready for the process actually take b the lead in local circles but also for control and from a. B. C. Built surveillance and a. P. Of the voters so we can clearly say the turtle is being targeted again because the. 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Democratic Vice President ial nominee coming to harris has spoken at a festival a Campaign Event she delivered a preemptive strike on President Donald Trump out of the finalized of the Republican Convention condemning his response to the coronavirus pandemic but she 1st spoke of the Police Shooting of jacob lake in connection saying america must fulfill the promise of equal justice the reality is that the life of a black person in america has never been treated as fully human and we have yet to fulfill that promise of equal justice under law. We will only achieve that when we finally come together to pass Meaningful Police Reform and broader criminal Justice Reform and acknowledge yes acknowledge and address systemic racism. Hundreds of federal and regional troops are patrolling the u. S. City of commotion after multiple nights of violent protests spot by j. Complex shooting activists are pushing for charges against the officer who shot the 29 year old 7 times the incident led to widespread protests across several cities 2 people were shot dead during demonstrations in commercial on tuesday a 17 year old suspect has been arrested and charged. One of the most powerful storms to hit the u. S. Has ripped through southern louisiana killing at least 4 people are a can or a made landfall with category 4 strength and took 11 hours to be downgraded to a Tropical Storm the storm hit the u. S. After killing 20 people in haiti and 3 in the dominican republic. Greece and turkey arent backing down over their rival territorial claims in the Eastern Mediterranean at the heart of the dispute the areas undiscovered Energy Reserves reeses parliament has now ratified a maritime boundary deal with egypt which turkey says infringes on its own territory ankara says it will hold live fire drills in the area and has extended a controversial Gas Exploration mission. As the headlines coming up the violent divisions that shaped the indian subcontinent partition orders of blood is up next more news for you after. August donna claimed the front photo of british pop as mr jinnah governor general of the new dominion arrives at the constituent assembly in karachi. August 947. A century of british rule over its indian empire comes to an end guest of honor in the muslim capital while older laid him out of bed carrying out one of our love viceregal guilt is the fall the partition of india took effect. The new nation of pakistan is cool. Meanwhile a deadly stage will set all british roll to give place to the dominion of india. A day later across a newly drawn border leaders celebrate the birth of the republic of india. Freed from colonial rule the creation of these 2 countries completes a long struggle for independence years ago we begun but it didnt. And now. Im calm when been shown to be my baby. But even before the celebrations are over chaos iraqs. Panic and fear sets in as neighborhood turns on neighbor unleashing mass violence. Millions leave their homes. The celebrations were or was marred by the blood they took place against the backdrop of perfect violence. And. People who a year before we tended to each others wedding parties drink each other raping each others daughters roasting each others babies all speak. With human passions are unleashed. None of us can can foresee what could happen. While historians recount the horrors of the past for those who lived through them its like yesterday. Were going to laud a move or have been lucky though when the yardbirds or tower monday were going to monitor. The 86 year old Joginder Singh kohli was a young teenager in india at the time. 70 years on he still remembers how muslims hindus and sikhs turn on each other. Or when they walk you know wonder if you would go if you. They really do think. With the word in the out. Of work. Again the little girl youve already been to would want to be would want to go to a. Woman from boca. Do they walk all over or bug. Her for drugs. There. Who or what do. We want. Or who are here to learn who will go. On the other side of the border in pakistan the memories are just as strong in 1947 saladin colleagues family were muslims in india hes never forgotten how he escaped the killing but others didnt. He was staying in our house on 6 september 1 19876 oclock when my mother was saying a spear i heard a shriek cowing somebody. I turned and i saw a stick with the sword in the hand coming in my sisters body and. It was the enter the. Room of my mother killed her and they ran. Toward us this is the house. Saladin fled his home in fear of his life when he returned the horror lay in front of him when i enter the house it was just making the euro the. House nothing sort of old. Then you see your own mother. Drenched in blood. And stomach open. Then started coming up. How would. How did it all come to this. Many point the finger at indias then colonial masters. When britain ruled india it was the jewel levy empires crown plundered for its natural resources. But in the devastating aftermath of world war 2 britain had its own problems on the home front. But returned to london with renewed fighting and a recent opinion in the country and bankrupted itself fighting itself to death with the nazis. And so british Authorities Say that it was the exhaustion of them power and the bankruptcy of the mother country that led to the realization that the simply no way that the british could keep this enormous empire in chains the moment to come to go head back home to a land of rationing drugs or low light and leave the exotic plagues of india behind. After decades of crushing any Movement TowardsIndian Independence postwar britain had not had the will or the might to fold on to its common. There was massive demonstrations across india and there was. An awareness that the leaders the finns struggle could call strikes and protests which would paralyze the country. Seizing the moment of british weakness 3 leaders spearheaded the push for independence. You are allowed nehru Mohammad Ali Jinnah and 100 gandhi. At 1st they shared the goal of a free and united india one country one people regardless of religion. Thousands of national pride. The great time to hear the message of gandhi leader of the demands for indias independence. Was mark my god you mobilized the masses who gave them the language of things like civil disobedience and nonviolence who spoke of the national the struggle is a struggle for truth he gave it a strong modesty fervor and he completely inspired the masses to rise up behind him or gandhi himself a lifelong preacher of nonviolence and gandhi when tom fairly quickly to establish himself as the spiritual leader of the Indian National congress led freedom struggle. The Indian National congress was a Political Party made up of elite of hindu and muslim society. It had been pushing for self rule since the turn of the 20th century. With gandhis mobilization of the masses the party transformed into a populist movement and attracted new leaders with new ambitions men like to warlow ne root never was very attracted to my gandhi and gandhi was very impressed with him and he was gone these handpicked provision to lead the the sort of Political Party the National Movement gandhi himself never took any political position didnt want one and nearly everything from leading the Indian National congress as one of its youngest ever president s to becoming eventually the 1st Prime Minister of independent india and mr nader presided over the 1st Cabinet Meeting both nehru and gandhi were hindus but the 3rd member of the influential trio was a Muslim Mohammed ali jinnah one of the legion or was an extremely interesting man educated very anglo file in fact culturally far more on your file than the new the nehru of gandhi. Over his dressed in western clothes had western habits and enjoyed his scotch and. And his source of yours and his ham sandwiches he wasnt particularly strongly Observant Muslim and a man who was hailed. As the ambassador of hindu muslim youth. A lawyer jinnah began his political life within the hindu dominated Indian National congress. Later on he also joined the muslim e a group protecting the Muslim Minority. Both parties were fighting for an independent india which at the time was ginas ultimate goal jinnah in strongly opposed to the idea of a separate muslim nation and indeed he is saying this is british divide and rule they want us to be divided weve got to stand together weve got to fight for our freedom if we dont fight for our freedom to get that we will never be free but he increasingly gets sidelined by a new Younger Generation of leadership among whom particularly there is there is never who is his nemesis handed now who calls for an indian republic is accused by the league of working for domination over the Muslim Minority but are making everyone with britains grip on india weakening nehru and the Indian National congress grew in power. Nehru wanted a new india to have a strong Central Government run by his party. This alarmed general who argued muslim majority regions should govern themselves. It was a losing battle you know realized that given the imbalance in Political Support between the league and the congress the only way the league was ever going to actually come to any significant power was by advocating a separatist plan. Thousands of kilometers away in London Records reveal deeper insights into the fall between geno any room and this is one of the repository of which the numbers. At the National Archives private letters jinnah sent to british officials shows a relationship beyond repair at this point is extremely suspicious of the congress and he feels as its purpose it would be prepared to seize power by force that the may have been infiltrated the Indian National army. And that he regrets thats the Muslim League hasnt organized in the same way so were talking a serious mistrust at this point yet i think this indicates complete breakdown in trust between between the 2 poles season and that you know its the leadership of those policies new delhi and although the scene looks quite jeana any route had 1st come together to fight the british now they were fighting each other disturbances against the Muslim League to reach the end of life by 946 any hope of a united india had evaporated order with god i believe the service of every muslim on him the break down at the top of the indian politics was mirrored on the streets as tension spilled over into violence. Chaos erupted in major cities 1st because of a grim audio post by british an indian probe during the worst drought in the history of calcutta. Road vantec in many places higher pitched battles continued between muslims and window for muslims the fear of being ruled by hindus convinced them they needed their own separate nation. Even jr the man once hailed as the symbol of hindu muslim unity now demanded an independent pakistan. After a sentry a british power in india the empires was finally forced. Charged with overseeing the withdrawal was a decorated voile officer one who would go down in infamy. Now battered. New delhi airfield and the arrival of the viceroy designate mo batten is a sort of vaguely comic character looking back. Prancing peacock who loved his roads and costumes and love to appear as the viceroy not particularly. A man of some charisma. Of great sort of personal selfworth he was received i think he you know whatever little homework he did was fairly modest and when he got to india i think it was a crash course he started meeting the various leaders had his own likes and dislikes inevitably but very quickly decided that the thing had to be this hot potato had to be dropped as quickly as possible and mr byrd his hands and those of his or those of his masters as his in the english government lauder led him on battle have taken their faces on the grounds that it became viceroy of india in march 947 britain had originally planned to leave india more than a year later in june 1988 but mountbatten wasnt going to wait that long monbiot misheard to accelerated even faster partly because he found his control on the control of the british soldiers over india slipping and so here celebrated to august 15th 947 and with that headlong rush into disaster happened with the british unable and unwilling to prevent some of the horrors that were unfolding before their very eyes horrors unleashed by hastily drawn lines on a map the north was state of punjab was home to hindus sikhs but mostly muslims it was split with one side forming the bulk of pakistan in the northeast of india the state of bengal was cut into the predominantly muslim eastern half made up another part of pakistan separated by nearly 2000 kilometers of indian territory it would eventually become the independent country of bangladesh was it well father was ill thought out. When the british had to draw a line they pulled in the Civil Servant who had never been to india before and was sitting in his cotswold garden when he was told that he had to fly next week to india and divide the country into. And no one was pleased with the line he drew inevitably. The stage was set for british road again in august 1047 as the flags of india and pakistan were raised ordinary citizens were left in the dark as to what this meant for them. On that day of partition in august that show boundary hadnt been unsuccessful the know where they were in india or pakistan where they could stay where they lived for centuries where theyd have to move and its only after the people tune into their ideas to hear whether they will now be part of pakistan or india everyone. Suddenly people found themselves on the wrong side of a new border muslims in india are hindus and sikhs in pakistan. There had been ethnic fighting between muslims hindus and sikhs before the partition set off an unimaginable massacre out of the horrors of fires like the blitz the the villages are all burning hayricks or on the platforms a literally washed with blood because hello to hindus waiting on the platform to travel to india to be massacred on another platform was covered in blood because the training just arrived from india full of dead muslims. Total chaos. In the rural areas hideous scenes of pregnant women lying with their bellies ripped open babies literally rested on the beds and journalists in 94. 00 to 7. 00 who had covered the opening of the nazi concentration camp there were 2 or 3 journalists who had covered that and then ended up covering partition and they said that they saw more gruesome things in the punjab punches side than they ever did in the concentration camps muggle born white the photographer writes a graphic description and she says you know i saw us for years but what i saw in the punjab was a 1000000 times. At the time the british estimated 200000 died in the violence the consensus today among most historians is that the death toll was at least a 1000000 and the british had lost control long before partition and that became clearly evident and visible in 947 but in a way more terrible than anyone had ever expected. It was a complete and utter mess total mirth. Some suggest that britain was aware of the impending horrors that would come with dividing up the indian subcontinent it was a mess made worse by britain abandoning its colonies so quickly in the stockmen which is which is a telegram from the Foreign Office to its evidence in the National Archives suggests british leaders knew months before that Ethnic Violence was spiralling dangerously out of control over 10000 persons have been killed and many more injured over the last 6 months of the Previous Year had been extensive communal violence to be actually use the words civil war yes yes they mention here. Widespread recrudescence a man single most an organized and spontaneous civil war. The british were pretty much aware well through the fortys that the communities were all about they didnt want to get involved in what they regarded as the subcontinen