islamabad, pakistan's capital city, turned into a battle zone. police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the islamists but they came prepared and responded with stones and bricks. several police vans were on fire. —— several police vans were set on fire. many injured were taken to hospital. at one point the police had to retreat as hundreds more demonstrated turned up unexpectedly. after failing to disperse the islamists, the government has asked the military to restore order in islamabad. the islamists have been blocking a key highway for weeks, demanding the sacking of a government minister who they accuse of blasphemy. the protesters are defiant. translation: we're protesting against the operation, the cruel action that the government is carrying out against the lawful demand being made about our holy prophet, being made by our religious scholars and our leaders in islamabad. we curse the government and our demand is that the operation should be stopped with immediate effect. as the protests spread, they present a direct challen

protesters have returned to the streets on the outskirts of pakistan's capital islamabad an even larger numbers despite a police crackdown on saturday at least six people were killed and one hundred fifty injured when officers moved into dispersed a protest camp with tear gas and water cannon thousands of others have rallied inside iraq in roads in several cities mariana honda has the details. they have answered a call to shut down pakistan issued by a cleric and political party leader who stands in opposition to the government for three months protesters have choked the streets of islamabad when there was violence on saturday as police tried to disperse them they sprayed along highways to other major cities including lahore and karachi a lot of. this movement is not political it is the duty of the. every muslim to protect the owner of islam the protesters maintain this is not political but this is an issue that could undermine pakistan's government. it began when pakistan's norman is desired hammered introduced a bill before parliament that made no reference to the prophet muhammad pro

in pakistan far less corrupt in islamabad as police movement one hundred of these dogs protest as they've been blocking access to the nation's capital for the last two weeks. and here in germany momentum is growing like grant clinician of health conservatives and the center left social democrats something medical could actually benefit from the country's what it's called to. edith you money it's good to have you with us egyptian warplanes have hit back. militants suspected of carrying out friday's attack on a mosque in north of sinai now the jets struck vehicles and hideouts said to be used by militants in mountains nearby the death toll from yesterday's attack has gone up to three hundred five so far no one has claimed responsibility but prosecutors say the militants were carrying flags of the so-called islamic state. their images which are intended to reassure a shake a nation the military says it shows egyptian fighter planes bombing those responsible for yesterday's attack officials say they also struck a number of the militants vehicles and property but the details of the strikes are

headlines on al-jazeera the army has been called in to restore order to the pakistani capital islamabad after more than one hundred fifty people were injured in violence between police and religious protesters brought police fired tear gas and water cannon at the demonstrators as they clear their city and camp the protesters are calling for the resignation of a minister he was accused of admitting a reference to the prophet mohammed in a parliamentary bill come out harder isn't sukiyaki near the eastern city of lahore regret that gondry there's been a strong reaction they've been announcements on the market for people to come out where door that karachi literally gridlock a lot harder to paralyze because the protected are now blocking talk point for them the third day there along. the highway everything a block egyptian prosecutors say twenty to thirty gunman carrying i saw flags were behind the attack which left more than three hundred people dead egyptian military has launched a campaign in the sinai region after the attack president abdel fattah el-sisi promised to respond with bruta

protesters near the capital islamabad offices have fired tear gas and water cannon to clear the protest camp injuring more than one hundred fifty people the demonstrators have been blocking a major highway for two weeks and are refusing to leave until the law minister steps down because the minister emitted a reference to the prophet mohammed in a parliamentary bill you are hired to has more from near the eastern city of the whole. the civilian government has asked the military to come in aid of that civilian administration their primary objective would be to save dogs key installations the diplomatic ball they were in islamabad and that at a time when there is trouble spreading across the country we had added trouble in karachi protests have continued many people injured there and us and we are toward at least one person was killed near the airport now all the airports all the highways and fluting the grand trunk road that connects the north to the south as well as the motorway that connect this lombard to the provincial capital of the punjab all people are stuck on the highways take a

is protests in pakistan spread to other cities up to clashes with police killed six in the capital islamabad hotline us want to force the resignation of a minister of they accused of blasphemy. aid agencies say they're concerned about the state of revenge a muslim set to be chanting myanmar under an agreement reached and yet to speak many of the refugees don't want to go back. i'm egypt money it's good to have you with us there's been a powerful explosion in eastern china with at least two people killed and thirty injured now this is the scene of the devastation at the site. the blast occurred at a factory in the port city of mumbai oh about a hundred kilometers south of shanghai the force of the explosion was so strong that it flattened nearby buildings and damaged vehicles emergency crew are on site but police say the cause of the blast has yet to be determined let's get some more background on all this from d.w. mathias falling a who is in the chinese capital of beijing mathias it's good to see you so no official confirmation yet on the cause of this blast but do we have any indication wh

also on the program in pakistan violence erupts in islamabad as police moved in on hundreds of islamist protesters they've been blocking access to the nation's capital for the last two quit. and in german soccer its job a day in the rule of our late with crisis hit there was a dog one facing an in-form shall cut coach probably needs a victory to survive from. war. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring a good to have you with us egyptian warplanes have hit back at militants suspected of carrying out friday's attack in the. sinai the jets striking vehicles and militants believed to have been involved in the attack as well as a mountainous area where they are thought to be hiding out the death toll from yesterday's attack has gone up to three hundred five with one hundred twenty eight people injured so far no one's claimed responsibility prosecutors say the militants were carrying flags belonging to so-called islamic state. house of prayer turned into a place of carnage. these images from egyptian t.v. showed the horror of what went on inside the mosque. the attackers came in off

. —— islamabad. it struggles to deal with the carnage wrought by eight friday's mosque attack. —— egypt struggles to deal with the carnage wrought by friday's. at least 31 migrants have drowned off the coast of libya after their boat capsized on saturday morning. and was time magazine going to name president trump "person of the year"? we find out more. hello and welcome to bbc news. we begin in pakistan, where the government is calling on the army to restore order, after large protests in cities across the country. it's after scenes like this — clashes between police and hardline islamist protesters. the protestors want a government minister to be sacked, they accuse him of blasphemy. the violence in islamabad has already led to 200 people being injured at an interchange at a key highway in the city. security forces tried to break up a sit—in there, which has been going on for several weeks. the demonstrations have also spread to other cities including lahore and karachi. the violence poses

pakistan's government violence spreads to other cities a day after clashes kill six in the capital islamabad the government calls in the army after police failed to break up the protests we'll get the latest also coming up. a powerful blast in one of china's biggest ports kills at least two people and in just dozens more now police are trying to figure out what blew up. in germany has been the seagull all eyes were on the road valley derby the clash between dawn mind and shaka it was an eight goal thriller and some people are calling it the mother of all comebacks we'll have the highlights for you. i'm a money welcome. to the program in pakistan fresh clashes have broken out between islamist protesters and security forces after similar violence yesterday left six people dead and almost two hundred injured the demonstrators have been rallying on the outskirts of the capital islamabad demanding the resignation of a government minister that they accuse of blasphemy they've blocked me in routes into the city for almost three weeks now on saturday pakistani police and paramilitary forces failed t

in pakistan violence erupts in islamabad as police move in on hundreds of islamist protests as they've been blocking access to the nation's capital for the last week. and we report on the russian nuclear fuel reprocessing plant that may be spreading radioactive pollution across europe. egypt money it's good to have you with us egyptian warplanes have hit back at militants suspected of carrying out friday's attack in north of sinai now the jets struck vehicles and militants believed to have been involved in the attack as well as a mountainous area with the thought to be hiding out the death toll from friday's attack has gone up to three hundred and five so far no one has claimed responsibility but prosecutors say the militants were carrying flags of the so-called islamic state. house of prayer turned into a place of carnage. these images from egyptian t.v. showed the horror of what went on inside the mosque. the attackers came in off road vehicles surrounded the mosque and bombed it was fired upon as they try to escape. hundreds were injured many were quickly rushed to nearby hospitals

and on the line now from islamabad a journalist i thought how she must not thanks for joining us so the government has now called in the army is this a sign that it's losing control of the situation. yes that's certainly the inference that we're hearing out here from the step that they took last night late last night calling the army in need of civil power to establish control over the situation and what we've seen since then is that the army has actually not deployed any personnel and the chief are focus on the military which of course has rock on for more than half of its history and it was a very powerful institution the army chief met with the prime minister that afternoon to discuss the situation and the way forward now the question of whether the government had not been sort of situation with already in place for for the last couple of weeks because these protesters have managed to and they've been only about two thousand of them which in this context is a relatively small number it's considered to be they've been blocking this mean route into it now about for more than two weeks

we start in south asia where pakistan's military has been called in to restore order in islamabad after the police struggle to disperse hundreds of demonstrators six people died and more than two hundred were injured when officers fired tear gas and water cannon to clear their camp the demonstrators have blocked the highway for two weeks they want the law minister to step down angry after he admitted a reference to the prophet mohammed in a parliamentary bill welcome all hide a has more from so high that the city of lahore. the civilian government has off the military to come in aid of that civilly and administration their primary objective would be to save dogs key installations the diplomatic all claim in islamabad and that at a time when there is trouble spreading across the country we had added trouble in karachi protests have continued a many people injured there and us and we are toward only one person was killed near the airport now all the airports all the highways and fluting the grand trunk road that connects the north to the south as well as the motorway that connect it's nor

that's on the highway between lahore and islamabad. after a botched done by the security forces to disperse the crowds that are holding a major intersection in rawalpindi fairly late on saturday the pakistani military chief. to come back to islamabad for a crisis meeting with the country's prime minister kaukauna bhatia here the prime minister that force was not an option that the people love the military and therefore the military could not be used against the people that it could only be the last option earlier the government had. the military to come in aid of the civilian administration something that did allowed by the pakistani constitution or the pakistani military chief saying that the military was not very good deploy across the country that this was a crisis that had to be rethought is politically through dialogue the prime minister the interior minister and the chief minister of the pond job green with the military chief this is the first time since the crisis began david rails whole now it is important to see what kind of r

reports now from islamabad . after more than three weeks this sit in has turned into a celebration. of supporters of pakistan's blasphemy laws were able to force the government into giving in to their demands not only has the federal law minister step down but the government of pakistan muslim noon has also agreed to investigate itself. a crowd of just thousands cities of millions to a standstill here by choking a main artery in and out of the capital city and this really is becoming a common way and all too common a way of achieving any kind of power here in pakistan by being a disruptive force on the streets and effectively laying siege to islamabad and then making political demands but the threat of force leaders of this fringe group have been bolstered by their newfound influence on the country's political affairs pakistan was great on the basis of the belief that there is no god but allah and mohammed is the messenger of allah we know that for seventy years forward has been committed against the religion so now we should place religion on the throne. is the man at the center of

the army has been called in to restore order to the pakistani capital islamabad after more than one hundred fifty people were injured in violence between place a religious protesters earlier riot police fired tear gas. under water cannon at the demonstrators while clearing their city in camp which has been blocking main routes into the city for over two weeks the protesters are calling for the resignation of a minister who admitted to reference to a prophet muhammad in a parliamentary bill the violence has sparked solidarity protests in several other pakistani cities or come all high that has more from sue keiki nearly a whole. by reeling out of control the civilian government has asked the military to come in aid of the civilian administration their primary objective would be to save dogs key installations the diplomatic will say that it's normal bog and that at a time when there is trouble spreading across the country we had added trouble in karachi protests have continued many people injured there and us and we are toward at least one person was killed near the airport now all the airpor

called off the three week sit in by thousands of people in the capital islamabad they have been demanding stepped down over the wording of a parliamentary oath they describe as blasphemous the protests have spread throughout pakistan closing down major highways that speak to al-jazeera. arrived in islamabad come on these protests have cause huge destruction not of this minister has resigned what happens next. indeed they have called hughes disruption but warners have going to head our disobedience in section as perhaps we now see it now is seen as a major risk when you can still see behind me that people are still at the same place where their world for the last twenty two days is brought from here that the protests started but spread across the country now the only people you see here are other battered military forces the police have been withdrawn that police force failed to dislodge these people rejected the reaction across the country and it appears that it's not only the law minister who will pay the price also we are toward the interior minister of the country has come under scathi

sitting in islamabad and dad blog traffic through islamabad and between robin day for several week however the police action having faith has strengthened those protesters to come out there's also been a reaction to the police action in islamabad and now you have a problem in all major days end up on job and even in the southern province of sindh but the borders of the party are angry that the government did you doing high handed tactic in orderly and. then as you saw in that report they now want to hold a cabinet or a dog the pakistani military chief is going to be meeting their budgets on the prime minister within the next few hours he will be attempting to convince the prime minister that this is indeed a see you see issue the government and already the military to come in aid of the civilian administration but the military as you saw and report all still reluctant because it doesn't want to take on those protestors their head a job after defend the front end of the country show a political crisis brewing up again ramifications fall now why should leave the government of course he had b

supporters of a religious political party have been camped out at an intersection linking the capital islamabad to the nearby city of brown v the protests turned violent on saturday when police tried unsuccessfully to clear them out six people were killed and one hundred fifty others wounded or protesters are demanding a minister resign for a meeting a reference to the prophet mohammed in a parliamentary bill the minister says it was a clerical error that's already been fixed but they're accusing him of blasphemy a highly contentious issue in pakistan they say the changes were intended to benefit the mahdi minority whom they regard as the heretics protestors have been rallying in cities all over pakistan including islamabad lahore karachi the shower and hyderabad let's speak to al-jazeera come on hyder who joins us from color kahar on the road between lahore and islamabad come on these protests have caused huge disruptions affecting millions of people. i've. yet to give you an idea they're travelling distance from lord on the motorway about four do for an hour. however it has taken literally. f

joining us now from islamabad is journalist. good to have you with us so two weeks of protests why is it that just now violence has broken out. yes wasn't mentioned the standoff has been going on for a while the government is actually sent several negotiating teams to meet with the protest leaders over the time period at one point they even assembled a team of religious clerics to go share it with them but all of that was dissolved now earlier this week the sabar high court ordered the city couldn't station they don't have to clear the protest saying that it would cause a huge amount if it could be used to sit in the building i think a brinkman city of rawalpindi now the government also that attempted yet another round of negotiations and when that failed it seems that their patients ran out on saturday morning housing the police and were deployed to storm the protest site and to fire tear gas rubber bullets water cannon that the protesters the protesters forced back as well but it was all to no avail it seems that they were not

violence erupts in the pakistani capital islamabad a species moving on hundreds of islam is protest as they've been grokking access to the nation's capital for the last two weeks. and up to field question talks seem to shut of it chances of being in chancellor merkel's new government the greens are meeting to decide what comes next correspondent brings you an exclusive interview with the party's co-leader. i'm edith to money it's good to have you with us egyptian warplanes have hit back at militants suspected of carrying out friday's attack on a mosque in north and sinai the jets struck. vehicles and hideouts said to be used by the militants in mountains nearby now the death toll from yesterday's a talk has gone up to three hundred five so far no one has claimed responsibility but prosecute to save the militants while carrying flags of the so-called islamic state. their images which are intended to reassure i shaken nation the military says it shows egyptian fighter planes bombing those responsible for yesterday's attack officials say they also struck a number of the militants vehicles

in islamabad there we want to show you some live pictures from indonesia where of ok no on the island of bali is rumbling and spewing small goldfish or say it could erupt at any moment and they voted more evacuations from the immediate areas that's mount a goon and has been hurling clouds of ash about three kilometers into the sky since this weekend the new exclusion zone affects twenty two villages where up to one hundred thousand people live and ok no erupted last in one thousand nine hundred sixty three killing more than one thousand people and octane gay is an associate professor at australia's university of adelaide and just returned from body says people that are pretty calm. little danger at the moment from people who are well clear of the exclusion zone so that there's a limited literal danger for people to be affected find a thing such as lava if they're outside of that to ten kilometers solutions are the biggest dangers our law which is which have also been evacuated from those areas and as you said the ashes three kilometer high or more ash floyd that is now sweeping over p

are the headlines: the government in pakistan has called on the army to send troops to the capital, islamabad, after battles between police and islamist protesters. several deaths have been reported and nearly 200 people have been injured. egyptian officials investigating the killing of more than 300 worshippers at a mosque in sinai say the attackers were carrying the flag of so called islamic state. it's the country's worst attack in recent memory bangladesh says rohingya refugees, who return to myanmar following an agreement between the two governments, will have to live initially in temporary camps, because most of their villages have been destroyed. president trump and time magazine are involved in a row over whether it plans to name him person of the year. mr trump says the magazine told him he would "probably" be nominated. time says that's "incorrect". now on bbc news, it's time for the 100 women challenge: education for everyone. we are challenging teams of women in four cities around the world. to tackle everyday problems that blight their lives. in the workplace... we need a working

ordered a partial media blackout as police struggle to disperse hundreds of protestors near the capital islamabad offices of fired tear gas and home to cannon to clear the protest camp injuring more than one hundred fifty people there and stretches have been blocking a major highway for two weeks to pressure the law minister to step down over his alleged act of blasphemy against islam while hyder has more from mr k.k. about ninety kilometers from the whole. the civilian government has asked the military to come in aid of the civilly an administration their primary objective would be to save dogs key installations the diplomatic ball player in islamabad and that at a time when there is trouble spreading across the country we had added trouble in karachi protests have continued many people injured there and us and we are toward only one person was killed near the airport now all the airports all the highways and fluting the grand trunk road that connects the north to the south as well as the motorway that connects its lombard to the provincial capital of the punjab long haul all people are stuck on

nearly 100 police and others have been injured at an islamabad protest. let's go to sophia live in the capital. what more can you tell us about the root of these protests? >> reporter: well, the root has to do with the government. it all goes back to last month in october, when they were according to the protesters, a change in laws with regards to a law made by lawmakers about the finality about the prophet muhammad as the last prophet of god. because this is something very controversial because it has to do with religion and blasphemy. the government has denied it. the president has is ask for them to resign. and that has not been done. there's a constant stalemate in the capital for the past few months. a complete shutdown of traffic, and that has erupted after last night's deadline with a complete clash between police and protesters this morning in islamabad. george. >> sophia, we're looking at images of what's happening there in islamabad. what more can you tell us about the fact that the pakistani tv station, many of the private stations, have been

prime minister and the military have agreed not to use force to disperse protesters in the capital islamabad the demonstrations of angry about the wording of a parliamentary bill on saturday six people were killed as police try to break up the crowds thousands of people have blocked roads in other cities in a show of solidarity for an hunt reports. that a call to shut down pakistani issued by clerics and political party leader who stands in opposition to the government for three weeks protesters have choked the streets of islamabad when there was violence on saturday as police tried to disperse them they sprayed along highways to other major cities including a whore and catchy. this movement is not political it is the duty of every muslim to protect the owner of this land the protesters maintain this is not political but this is an issue that could undermine pakistan's government. it began when pakistan's norman is desired hammered introduced a bill before parliament that made no reference to the prophet muhammad protest is linked it to the highly contentious issue of blasphemy and while the

now protests in pakistan a dispersing from the sit in on the edge of the capital islamabad after the target of their fury a government minister resigned many though a sitting around for celebrations. they've been demanding zahid hommage step down over the side of the wording of the column entry bill which they describe as blasphemous the demonstrations gradually spread to towns and cities across to his son has more from islamabad. this is the epicenter of a protest start began praying to tour de gaulle where did the board start and by the government security forces deployed to protest that intersection called fred. that changed everything the writing then spread across the country forcing the lawmen are starved or dying but if you know tens of thousands of supporters are now gathering at this point which will be remembered for a long time to come and ignored the law minister already paid the price but did it no kidding predicted against the country doing a minister who had failed to deliver and called the problem it shows that there dysfunctional government in islamabad that cannot c

pakistan as called in the military as police struggle to disperse hundreds of protesters in the capital islamabad the demonstrators want the law minister to step down they are angry because he admitted a reference to the prophet muhammad and a parliamentary bill has more now from near the city of lahore. the civilian government has asked the military to come in aid of that clearly an administration their primary objective would be to save dogs key installations the diplomatic all claim in islamabad and that at a time when there is trouble spreading across the country we had added trouble in karachi protests have continued a many people injured there and us and we are toward only one person was killed near the airport now all the airports all the highways and fluting the grand trunk road that connects the north to the south as well as the motorway that connect this lombard to the provincial capital of the punjab long haul all are jammed people are stuck on the highways de canard move because all the intersection have been taken over by the protester and then we have also been door that the protest

the law is different to the group of protestors who sat on a main road in islamabad for three weeks. this group has its own list of demands including the resignation of the provincial law minister who was also a senior member of the ruling party and who was accused of blasphemy to run a sonoma fun denies the accusation the protesters say they won't leave this main square in lahore until like fellow protesters in islamabad their demands are also met including justice for lives lost in violent demonstrations earlier this month. ourselves about the murder of muslims cannot be forgiven and the murder of muslims is a debt on all our necks the blood of muslims that has been spilled we want justice for that protest leaders in lahore say they expect their ranks to soon swell with supporters nationwide a lot in this because. the government is not a sacred and city for us for us this government has already lost its credibility if the government goes from us kicking it and let them go this is exactly the kind of thing that government leaders in islamabad said they were worried about in the days

to come back to islamabad for a crisis meeting with the country's prime minister kaukauna bochy here guys the prime minister that force was not an option that the people love the military and therefore the military could not be used against the people that it could only be the last option earlier the government had. the military to come in aid of the civilian administration something that allowed by the pakistani constitution or the pakistani military chief saying that the military was not very good deploy across the country that this was a crisis that had to be written daughters politically into dialogue the prime minister the interior minister and the chief minister of the pun job all eg reading with the military chief this is the first time since the crisis began i did a ray of hope now it is important to see what kind of reaction comes from those protesters who have been laying siege to the entire country. quite francis has left run for a sixth a visit to myanmar and they expected to address the hinge of refugee crisis during the trip more than six hundred thousand two hundred ha

is near the eastern city of lahore and tomorrow you're on the highway between lahore and islamabad tell us how are things now under control by the security forces. on the contrary that situation is spiraling out of control across the country there are huge traffic jams because the protesters blocking point the motorway that leaned forward to islamabad it's completely standstill people are stuck on the roadside not knowing what to do there are entire families the airports. are suffering because people are not able to get to the airport or leave the airport there i head and pakistan that situation is indeed critical many people are saying that the government had mishandled the issue they were going to be ramifications from died particularly security operation that started early in the morning we also have reports that a number of people have been killed across the country over one hundred people are wounded that is the early reports that we are getting the law minister's house has come under attack the former interior minister and how it had also come under attack or not very far from tha