President Donald Trump has imposed a staggering 245 per cent tariff on Chinese imports, intensifying the ongoing trade war between the two largest economic powers.
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00:00Trump vs China trade war escalates
00:07US slaps 245% tariffs on China
00:16China warns won't stay silent
00:25Tit for tat, tariffs put world on edge
00:32Trump or China, who will blink first?
00:40That is our top focus on Five Live
00:43245% additional tariff, massive escalation in US-China trade war
00:56Donald Trump administration has announced a massive 245% tariff on Chinese imports to the United States of America
01:03And these sweeping tariffs are in response to China's retaliation imposing tariffs on US exports to China
01:11China has also put restrictions on procurement of several exports from the United States of America
01:18Including Boeing aircraft for Chinese airlines
01:21And Donald Trump, since he's taken an America first policy
01:25It's being taken altogether to a new level imposing additional tariffs on China
01:30And this latest round of tariffs that escalates these tariffs on some goods to 245%
01:37Is being justified on security grounds, on national security grounds
01:42The United States has accused China of restricting supplies of critical high-tech material
01:47That was being exported to the US and so far in larger quantities
01:52So for example China has restricted supply of germanium, antimony, gallium to China
02:00And these are elements that are required
02:02These are very critical military supplies
02:04Or critical supplies for aerospace
02:07For the American armed forces
02:09And also for the semiconductor industry
02:12So this trade war has just escalated
02:15It's escalated to a new high
02:16China has responded
02:18Saying the tariff war that has been initiated
02:20By the United States of America
02:22There would be retaliatory action by Beijing
02:26And the action that's been taken by Beijing so far
02:30Has been described as reasonable and legal
02:34So what does this mean for the US in the times ahead?
02:37China
02:38What does it mean for China?
02:39What does it mean for India?
02:40And what does it mean for the global economy?
02:42Because there are several economists who say
02:45This is a short-shot recipe for disaster
02:48It will lead to recession
02:50But has the US war-gamed it in the long run?
02:53I'm Gaurav Savant
02:54We explore
02:55But as always
02:56Let's get started
02:57With the headlines
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04:22The Donald Trump administration in the United States of America
04:40Has overnight announced a massive escalation in tariffs imposed on Chinese imports to the United States of America
04:47Taking the U.S.-China retaliatory tariff war altogether to a new level
04:53China has accused the U.S. of initiating this tariff war
04:56Insisting Beijing's response so far has been reasonable, legal and aimed at safeguarding Chinese interests
05:03So Trump administration has overnight announced a massive new 245% tariff on Chinese imports to the U.S. on some items
05:16And the sweeping tariffs are in response to Chinese retaliation after the initial round of additional tariffs imposed on China
05:24So China's retaliation includes U.S. exports to China
05:31And China has also put restrictions on procurement of Boeing passenger aircraft for Chinese airlines
05:37Donald Trump's America first policy has led to this massive trade war
05:44Additional tariffs on China are now being justified on national security grounds
05:49The United States has accused China of restricting supplies of critical high-tech material to the U.S.
05:55So information that is being received indicates that China has restricted the supply of gallium, germanium and antimony
06:04And China has restricted supplies that are very critical for military, aerospace and semiconductor industry in the United States of America
06:13China has accused the United States of threatening and blackmailing Beijing
06:18China in a statement has said they seek dialogue that's based on equality, respect and mutual benefit
06:27The President has made his position on China quite clear
06:34Although I do have an additional statement that he just shared with me in the Oval Office
06:39The ball is in China's court
06:41China needs to make a deal with us
06:43We don't have to make a deal with them
06:45There's no difference between China and any other country
06:48Except they are much larger
06:50And China wants what we have
06:52What every country wants
06:54What we have
06:55The American consumer
06:57Or to put it another way
06:58They need our money
06:59So the President again has made it quite clear
07:01That he's open to a deal with China
07:03But China needs to make a deal with the United States of America
07:06The tariff war was initiated by the U.S. side
07:11And China took necessary countermeasures to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests
07:16As well as international fairness and justice
07:19Which are completely reasonable and lawful
07:21China's position has always been clear
07:24There is no winner in a tariff or trade war
07:27China does not want a fight
07:29But it is not afraid of a fight either
07:31If the U.S. truly wants to resolve the issue through dialogue and negotiation
07:36It should stop its practice of maximum pressure
07:38And cease with threats and blackmail
07:41Instead, it should engage in talks with China on the basis of equality, mutual respect and reciprocity
07:47But what does this tariff war mean?
07:51What will this tariff war lead to?
07:54What does it mean for China?
07:55What does it mean for the United States of America?
07:57What does it mean for global economy?
07:59My colleague Rahul Kamal spoke exclusively to Martin Wolf
08:02The Chief Economic Commentator at the Financial Times
08:05He insists that Trump's tariffs are lunacy
08:09Utter lunacy
08:10And that the Chinese President Xi Jinping will not buckle under U.S. pressure
08:16Listen in
08:17What do you make of China's policy response to Trump's tariffs?
08:24Far from buckling down, Xi Jinping seems determined to fight on
08:29Do you think he has the right, from China's point of view
08:33The right pushback strategy
08:35Who suffers more in the end?
08:37China or the United States?
08:39Well, I don't know whether he's right or not
08:44But I thought it was inevitable
08:45The Chinese are
08:47China is a very major power
08:49It's a very proud country
08:51It feels very strongly that it was humiliated in the 19th century
08:57And it's not going to be humiliated again
09:00So to bow down to a bully like Trump
09:04And clearly he is a bully
09:05Will be very humiliating for Mr. Xi
09:08And I think more broadly for the Chinese elite
09:10So I always thought they wouldn't do so
09:13They would resist
09:14They have clearly worked very hard over many years
09:22To Trump-proof, if you like, their economy
09:26And I think they will be in reasonable shape to do so
09:32The trade impact will be significant
09:35Particularly if, in the long run
09:37The Americans are able to attack indirect Chinese exports
09:41As I discussed
09:42Direct exports from China to the US are not that huge
09:45They can clearly survive
09:47If they attack, all the indirect exports
09:49Will be more significant
09:51But China finally has huge policy room
09:54It can expand demand
09:56If it wants to
09:57Public sector debt
09:58Government debt
09:59Is very modest
10:01It can clearly
10:03Borrow more
10:04And spend more
10:05It can transfer money to households
10:08Which need it
10:09It has a weak economy anyway
10:11And that would motivate them
10:13I think to do these sorts of things
10:15So I think they have a pretty fair degree of
10:18Maneuver
10:19Room for Maneuver
10:20But that seems to be against Xi's
10:22Economic instinct
10:24You know, while he's a communist
10:26He doesn't seem to be a socialist
10:28And this kind of public welfare social sector spends
10:31From what he's said and done so far
10:33Seem to be against his economic instinct
10:35Yes, that I think is right
10:37But there's an even more important instinct for survival
10:40And the...
10:42I've just been in China a couple of weeks ago
10:44And they are very...
10:46The technocrats I spoke were very clear
10:49That they are thinking about serious stimulus policies
10:53Really serious
10:54And Mr. Xi knows very well
10:56Given that there's a weak demand already
10:58There's a risk of deflation
11:00He will be told by people that if they allow this
11:03To tip them over into a serious deflationary problem
11:07With all the debt problems that will create
11:09In the private sector
11:10In the local authorities sector
11:12That will be very bad for him
11:14So in the end
11:15I expect the Chinese to be pragmatic
11:17Usually they have been
11:19So who will be the last man standing
11:23Given that there are intense attacks taking place
11:26And counterattacks taking place
11:27Between the US and China
11:29Who will blink first?
11:31Joining me on this India Today special broadcast
11:33To talk more about this 245% tariffs
11:36That have been imposed on Chinese goods
11:39Is Business Today editor Siddharth Zarabi
11:42Siddharth, there were reports
11:44With Chinese retaliatory tariffs
11:46And restrictions on Boeing aircraft
11:48In procurement by Chinese airlines
11:51The US may be forced to reconsider its decision
11:54That was the conversation till yesterday
11:56But clearly Donald Trump doesn't appear to be backing down
12:00At least as of now
12:01So is this that game of brinkmanship
12:04Being escalated to another level?
12:06Who blinks first?
12:07Well, very clearly we are in a trade war winter, Gaurav
12:16And this is between thankfully just the United States and China
12:20Because the rest of the world is paused
12:22But this 245% headline grabbing number
12:27Where does this come from?
12:28What really lies behind it?
12:30The White House said that China faces up to 245%
12:36And some people, some observers have construed this as another 100%
12:42Add on to the 145% tariff that was existing
12:46Well, that's not the case
12:48There are certainly items that face 245%
12:51Primarily syringes and needles for example
12:54And then there are various slabs
12:57Lithium ion batteries which are so crucial to electric mobility
13:01And other usages are at 173%
13:06Why 245?
13:08245 is on account of the fact that
13:11These are the clubbed rate of all the existing tariffs
13:16So the base rate, then the rate that prevailed prior to Donald Trump taking office again
13:25Even Joe Biden had imposed some tariffs
13:27And Trump in his first administration had done that
13:30Then the fentanyl tariffs
13:31Then there are sector specific tariffs for example
13:34On steel, on aluminium, on automobiles
13:37And then finally the reciprocal trade tariff bombshell of the 2nd of April
13:42When you add that up, it's 245%
13:45But it's not uniform 245%
13:47That depends on where that basket was
13:50What was the base rate
13:51So it's pretty complicated
13:53For example, books are at 0%
13:55But toys are at 145%
13:57So what is Donald Trump specifically targeting in China?
14:03What is that big message that he's sending out?
14:05What is the impact on consumers in the US?
14:08What will the impact be on China?
14:10These are several issues that the world is grappling with
14:13Because reports suggest there is massive disruption already in supply chains
14:17And many Chinese goods are no longer either cheap or readily available in the United States of America
14:25So this is a battle that is being fought at this stage with tactical responses in mind
14:36In some ways in trade terms, America straight away escalated this fight into a nuclear battle really
14:45It did not wait for a conventional arms battle to start, it went ballistic straight away
14:51What has China done?
14:52Two actions that show us the calibrated differential response
14:57The first one being, by denying Boeing a market in China, which is the world's largest civil aviation market outside of the United States
15:08You are hurting a symbol of American manufacturing
15:12That company has had its own fair share of problems
15:15Will this impact their business?
15:17Maybe they will divert it to the other countries including India, which is a very large buyer
15:24The second bit is the denial of rare earths, which will impact America's high technology sector
15:29But remember at the heart of it, the battle, the game plan hasn't changed
15:34And we have discussed that previously
15:36The American game plan is very simple
15:39Attack China and reduce its capability in manufacturing
15:44Because China has scale which is much higher than the United States
15:48Let me just give you two data points
15:51Yes
15:52China produces 20 times the amount of cement that America does
15:5713 times steel
15:593 times cars
16:01And twice that much power
16:03So imagine the differential
16:05And this is what America wants to sort of do away with
16:09The question remains
16:11Can Donald Trump in four years
16:13Unwind what took 40 years to happen
16:15The rise of China
16:17The jury is out on that
16:18But in the short term
16:20It's very clear that this is a battle that is being fought very very hard
16:24Okay, stay with me for a moment
16:26So you heard Martin Wolf
16:28Kowal also spoke to a professor of Chinese history and business at Harvard University
16:34Professor William Kirby about this ongoing tariff war between the US and China
16:39What's the thinking?
16:41Let's listen in to a small excerpt of that interview
16:46In the belligerence with which Xi Jinping has hit back
16:49He's not come to the negotiating table like Trump said
16:52We'll have a meeting, we'll try and talk things out
16:54She doesn't seem interested, why is that?
16:56Well, you know, I don't think any country
16:59Could not react to the kind of aggressive tariffs
17:04As this near declaration of economic war by the United States on China
17:09At least so it appears at this 145% rate
17:13That does not apply to all goods, for example
17:16And some of the most important goods and most valuable goods are exempt from those tariffs
17:21It's really quite a complex and messy situation
17:25But I don't think President Xi would have had any choice but to respond
17:29And it isn't just President Xi
17:31I think any Chinese leader would have no choice but to respond in some way or other
17:35And I can guarantee you that if India were suddenly hit with a 145% tariff increase
17:42Mr. Modi, I think, would be hard-pressed not to respond to this
17:47This is what governments do
17:49They have to respond, they have domestic constituencies
17:52They have to, if there is to be a negotiation
17:55They will want to go in with a stronger rather than weaker hand
17:58And there are, you know, thousands of American businesses in China
18:04Thousands, millions and millions of Americans who regularly are customers of Chinese goods
18:10These are all constituents in what had been a largely beneficial economic, bilateral economic relationship
18:18Between the United States and China over the last quarter century
18:21Will this tariff war lead to an economic decoupling between Beijing and DC
18:26Given how intertwined these two economies are, is that even possible?
18:31Is the world likely to be divided into two trading blocks?
18:35Right, I think it is possible, I think it's unlikely, but I think it is possible
18:41These two countries in many ways could not be more intertwined in their economies
18:47More mutually reliant one on another in their economies
18:52And at the same time, you have a history of US-China relations
18:58At times when we were deeply involved, for example, politically and militarily in China in the 1940s
19:04And they were the total cutoff of relations from the early 1950s until the early 1970s
19:13And really until the early 1980s in practical terms
19:17So it is possible to see decoupling, but that was a period of enormous tragedy, we must remember
19:23It's a period when Americans and Chinese fought each other in the utterly needless Korean War
19:29It is a time in which all business contacts were severed
19:35All academic contacts, which had been very robust between American and Chinese universities
19:41Were severed
19:43And if we believe that decoupling is somehow to the benefit of either the United States and China
19:51Then we actually don't know our history at all
19:53So there are multiple apprehensions about this tariff war
19:59And Siddharth, one of those apprehensions are global fears of recession
20:03Recession in the United States of America
20:05Problems in China, problems across the world
20:09You've been speaking to your sources
20:11Both in North Block and South Block in India
20:14And in the Capitol Hill
20:16And in the United States of America
20:19Has Donald Trump war-gamed this?
20:22Is this a very dangerous game of Russian roulette that's being played with China?
20:26Just to see who blinks first and who's the last man standing?
20:31At least in terms of the rollout
20:34We perhaps hadn't anticipated or imagined
20:38But this is a script that Donald Trump actually started off in his first term
20:43In some ways, him not coming to power again at that time
20:48Meant that there was a brief interruption
20:50He's come back now and clearly has upped the ante
20:54With regard to the impact
20:56I just want to quickly draw on the India impact
20:58Because in all of this
21:00It is very, very significant to note
21:03The key question is
21:05Can the United States decouple from China
21:09Reduce its dependence
21:11And reclaim its earlier hitherto position
21:14Several decades ago
21:16As the world's number one manufacturing power
21:18Make no mistake
21:20China is the world's dominant manufacturing superpower
21:23In fact
21:24It cannot do it alone
21:26And that is why
21:28The trade deals that are being currently discussed
21:30Including with India
21:32Amongst the handful of countries along with Korea and Japan
21:35Where serious discussions are underway
21:37And this 90 day pause will tell us
21:39What will happen to the global economy
21:41If the United States is able to stitch together
21:447-8 major deals
21:47Apart from the smaller ones
21:48Because the number of countries as the US has said
21:50Is 75 negotiations
21:52But if it is able to do the big 8-10
21:55Including with India and other major manufacturing
21:59And economies across the world
22:01It will mean that the United States has created an alliance
22:05Remember it went to war
22:07In Iraq and others
22:09With the alliance
22:10Where it was the primary mover and shaker
22:13In some ways
22:14In trade terms
22:15It will have to have allies
22:17Along with itself
22:18To take on China
22:19And by all reckoning
22:21If you were to total up the GDP
22:23Of all the major economies in the world
22:25Whether it's Australia, Canada, the EU, Japan, Korea, India, everything
22:29That is almost 60 trillion dollars
22:32Versus China's 18 trillion dollars
22:35So yes, this will take time to pan out
22:37But my money is on the fact that
22:40If the United States is able to stitch together
22:43An alliance that wants to take on China
22:46And many countries have different issues with China
22:51Including India for example
22:53Then I think
22:54There might be a very different ending
22:55To what seems like a very very messy affair
22:58At this point of time
22:59It does appear to be messy
23:00But it remains to be seen
23:02Who has the staying capacity
23:05Who is willing to stay in this battle
23:07For longer
23:08For long term goals
23:10Because remember
23:11Ultimately
23:12There can only be
23:13One victor
23:14Either China
23:15Or America
23:16And China clearly
23:18Wants to be number one
23:19Should that happen
23:20Would that be advantage India
23:22Or a massive disadvantage
23:24For India
23:25Given what China has been doing
23:26At India's borders
23:28Claiming
23:29It wants good ties with India
23:31Despite what happens
23:33At the borders
23:34And we'll be tracking that story
23:35Very closely
23:36Thank God Zarabi
23:37For joining me here
23:38On this India Today special
23:39Many thanks
23:40So this US vs China trade war
23:42Is escalating
23:43On Tuesday
23:44Beijing ordered a halt
23:46To Boeing jet deliveries
23:48And this was in response
23:49To tariffs imposed by Donald Trump
23:51Donald Trump has since imposed
23:53Additional tariffs
23:54Taking that total
23:55245% on some goods
23:57Now this trade war
23:59Has put the world on edge
24:00But who holds the aces
24:03In this
24:04And more importantly
24:05Like we've been saying
24:06Who will blink first
24:07Let's find out
24:08China has raised the stakes
24:12Against the US
24:13Beijing has now ordered
24:15Its airlines
24:16Not to take any further
24:17Deliveries of Boeing jets
24:18In response to the US decision
24:20To impose 245% tariffs
24:23On Chinese goods
24:24Beijing has also asked
24:26That Chinese carriers
24:27Halt any purchases
24:29Of aircraft related equipment
24:30And parts from US companies
24:32China has already halted exports
24:36Of six critical rare earth minerals
24:38And magnets
24:39Which are refined and produced
24:41Only within its borders
24:42These are needed to make everything
24:44From cars
24:45Drones
24:46Masais
24:47And semiconductors
24:49In the face of external uncertainties
24:55China will insist on joining hands
24:57Rather than throwing punches
24:59Tearing down walls
25:00Instead of building barriers
25:02Connecting instead of decoupling
25:04We will continue to expand the circle of trade friends
25:07Become a stronger magnet for investment
25:10Develop with high quality
25:12And open to the outside world
25:14At a high level
25:15To inject more stability and positive energy
25:18Into the world economy
25:19Chinese President Xi Jinping
25:22Is in Hanoi
25:23In his most direct effort
25:25To form up alliances
25:26In an all out trade war
25:28Against the US
25:29He heads for Cambodia next
25:31His first trip to the country
25:33Nine years
25:34And then to Malaysia
25:36China had early approached
25:37India, Australia
25:38And even Saudi Arabia
25:39To form an axis against the US
25:42All this effort
25:43To blunt Donald Trump's trade attack
25:45China refused to blink
25:47And hit back with 125%
25:50China and the US
25:52Enjoy a significantly
25:53Symbiotic trade relationship
25:55US was China's largest trade partner
25:58In 2024
25:59But had a massive trade deficit
26:01Burning a $263 billion hole
26:04In its budget
26:07The top US exports to China
26:09Included $16 billion worth
26:11Of oilseeds and grains
26:13Which kept China's poultry business running
26:15Also as of March 27
26:18China had purchased
26:1922.12 million metric tons
26:21Of US soya beans
26:23For shipment in 2024-25
26:25Which ends on August 31st
26:28Other exports included
26:30Electrical equipment and fuel
26:32Both strategic in nature
26:34Machinery, aircraft and parts
26:36Plastics and pharma
26:38Comprised the other top exports
26:40Top imports from China
26:42Include mobile phones
26:44And other gadgets
26:45Laptops and appliances
26:46Toys
26:47Plastic products
26:48Prefab materials
26:50Textiles
26:51And footwear
26:53The world's two largest economies
26:55Are locked in a bitter battle
26:56With neither side willing to back down
26:59Bearer report
27:00India today
27:01So it's not just tit for tat tariffs
27:06China's hitting back in the US
27:07By promoting direct sales of luxury goods
27:09At significantly lower prices online
27:13From designer handbags
27:14To clothes
27:15To cosmetics
27:16American TikTok and social media
27:18Flooded with Chinese suppliers
27:20Peddling branded goods
27:22For much less
27:24Even as Donald Trump and Xi Jinping engage in a battle of tariffs on the world stage
27:32Something incredible is unraveling on social media
27:35Chinese manufacturers have taken tariffs to heart
27:40And have flooded social media sites
27:43With exposes of how everything
27:45From luxury handbags
27:47High-end sneakers
27:48To prefab houses and boats
27:50Are built in China
27:51And at a fraction of the sticker price
27:54This parking bag
27:56At Hermes boutique
27:57Will cost you
27:5838,000 USD
28:00This video
28:01Exposes how
28:0238,000 dollar Hermes bags
28:04Are made in China
28:05For allegedly below
28:071,400 dollars
28:091,400 USD
28:11For one parking
28:12Out of factory
28:13Here are the details of accessories
28:15For uber luxury brands
28:17Like Chanel
28:18Estee Lauder
28:20Louis Vuitton
28:21And Dior being produced
28:22For a few dollars
28:23On the Chinese assembly lines
28:25For this one
28:26For example
28:27This one
28:28Like
28:29One piece
28:30One piece
28:31And the cost of it
28:32Yeah
28:33Another video
28:34Claims that
28:35Branded products
28:36Being sold
28:37For hundreds of dollars
28:38In upscale showrooms
28:39Are being built in China
28:40For just
28:416 to 8 dollars
28:42Lululemon
28:43Lululemon
28:44Sells this jacket
28:45For nearly
28:46100 dollars
28:47But here
28:48Only cost you
28:496 to 5 bucks
28:50This post
28:51Goes on to claim
28:52That the reality
28:53Of lifestyle
28:54Footwear brand
28:55Birkenstocks
28:56Being produced
28:57At just
28:5810 dollars
28:59A piece
29:00Black
29:01Dollars
29:0210 dollars
29:03And 10 dollars
29:04Always 10 dollars
29:05The United States
29:06Of America
29:07Has imposed
29:08145%
29:09Tariff
29:10On Chinese
29:11With China
29:12Hitting back
29:13With 125%
29:14Tariff
29:15China
29:16Is also exempt
29:17From the 90-day
29:18Pause
29:19On the reciprocal
29:20Tariffs
29:21China wants
29:22To make a deal
29:23They just
29:24Don't know how
29:25Quite to go about it
29:26You know
29:27It's one of those things
29:28They don't know how
29:29Quite
29:30They're proud people
29:31And President Xi's
29:32A proud man
29:33I know him very well
29:34And they don't know
29:35Quite how to go about it
29:36But they'll figure it out
29:37In the process
29:38Of figuring it out
29:39But they wanna make a deal
29:40China, China, China
29:42Get your LED sign
29:43With factory price
29:44In China
29:45Who doesn't like
29:46A shiny gold LED sign
29:48There are also some
29:49Below the belt videos
29:50Reflecting the deep
29:51Divisions creeping in
29:52Between the two
29:53Big world economies
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30:40A news is coming in
30:41From the United States
30:42Of America
30:43U.S. President Donald Trump
30:44Has slammed the Harvard
30:45University
30:46Trump has posted a message
30:47On social media
30:48Saying everyone knows
30:50That Harvard
30:51Has lost its way
30:52They hired from New York
30:54And Chicago
30:55At ridiculously high salaries
30:57And fees
30:58Two of the worst
30:59And most incompetent
31:01Mayors
31:02In the history
31:03Of our country
31:04To teach
31:05Municipal management
31:06And government
31:07These two radical left fools
31:11Left behind two cities
31:13That will take years
31:14To recover
31:15From their incompetence
31:16And evil
31:17This is what
31:18Donald Trump
31:19Writes about the mayors
31:20He's also
31:21He then goes on to write
31:22Harvard has been hiring
31:24Almost all
31:25Woke
31:26Radical left
31:27Idiots
31:28And bird brains
31:29Who are only capable
31:30Of teaching
31:31Failure to students
31:32And so called
31:33Future leaders
31:35Look just to
31:37The recent past
31:38At their plagiarizing
31:39President
31:40Who so greatly
31:41Embarrassed Harvard
31:42Before the United States Congress
31:44When it got so bad
31:46That they just couldn't
31:47Take it anymore
31:48They moved
31:49This crossly
31:50Inept woman
31:51To another position
31:52Teaching
31:53Rather than
31:54Firing her
31:55On the spot
31:56Since then
31:57Much else
31:58Has been found out
31:59About her
32:00But she remains in place
32:01Many others
32:02Like
32:03These
32:04Leftist
32:05Dopes
32:06Are teaching at Harvard
32:07And because of that
32:08Harvard
32:09Can no longer be considered
32:10Even a decent place of learning
32:11And should not be considered
32:13On any list of worlds
32:15Great universities
32:17Or colleges
32:18Now according to
32:19US President Donald Trump
32:20He claims
32:21Harvard
32:22Is a joke
32:23Teaches hate
32:24And stupidity
32:25And should no longer
32:26Receive federal funds
32:28Thank you for your attention
32:29To this matter
32:30Is what
32:31He goes on to write
32:32It's very rare for a president
32:36To diss one of the best known universities
32:40In the world
32:41That's produced
32:42Some of the most outstanding thought leaders
32:45Across the world
32:46But that's US President Donald Trump for you
32:48As Bengal begins its slow journey
32:52On the road to recovery
32:53After the violence
32:56And the arson
32:57And the vandalism
32:58And the targeting of Hindus
33:00By radical Islamists
33:01Some who
33:02According to the Bengal government
33:03Came from across the border in Bangladesh
33:05The political conflict in the state
33:07Has intensified
33:08West Bengal Chief Minister
33:11Mamata Banerjee
33:12She met imams in Bengal today
33:14And launched her sharpest attack
33:16On the Narendra Modi government
33:18Calling the unrest in Murshidabad
33:21A pre-planned conspiracy
33:23The TMC has in the past blamed
33:25Not just central forces
33:27But including the border security force
33:29But also certain other elements
33:31Of engineering the situation
33:33By getting people from across the border
33:35Carry out riots
33:37Target Hindu homes
33:38And then go back across the border
33:40The BJP hit back and hard
33:43Saying how could this happen
33:45Mamata Banerjee is responsible
33:47And the Thirmul Congress
33:48For the targeting of Hindus in Bengal
33:50So with both sides trading charges
33:52And this blame game
33:54The real challenge actually lies
33:56In rebuilding the community
33:58Because many Hindus are now afraid
34:00To return to Murshidabad
34:02Some are hiding in Malda
34:04Some others have crossed over
34:05Into Jharkhand
34:07And this is not the first time
34:08That Hindus have left Bengal
34:10Remember after the assembly election results
34:12Too a large number of people
34:14Had fled several to Assam
34:16We get you more in this report
34:21A semblance of normalcy
34:23Has returned to large parts of West Bengal
34:25Murshidabad district
34:26But the scars of recent communal violence
34:29Are still fresh
34:30Chief Minister
34:31Maumata Banerjee
34:32On Wednesday
34:33Addressed a gathering
34:34Of Muslim clerics in Kolkata
34:35She launched a fierce attack
34:37On the central government
34:38And the BSF
34:39Also pointing fingers at the Congress
34:41Even as she called the riots
34:43A conspiracy
34:44If people are in Bangladesh
34:45If they are in Bangladesh
34:46If they are in Bangladesh
34:47If they are in Bangladesh
34:48If they are in Bangladesh
34:49Then it's the central government
34:50It's the Israeli government
34:51To build a border
34:53We do not build the border
34:54We do not build it
34:55We do not build it
34:56Modiji ji
34:57We will request
34:58To control the people
34:59Do I call a lock-tock a control coru and musidabad jela holo she taken to
35:05mother mode the party even it's a pre-planned communal rights
35:12momata urged the Muslim community to stay calm and not fall into what she
35:17calls the BJP's trap she announced 10 lakh rupees compensation to the families
35:22of those killed and promised new homes under the Bangalore body scheme along
35:27with relief for affected shopkeepers okay BJP get corner there and now get
35:34okay get more than a deal at a utility to have it now more than a band up new to
35:41to hold a after a heartbeat I don't know the dish and talking up there at the
35:46band the BJP mounted its own counter-offensive led by leader of
35:54opposition Subhendo Adhikari the BJP MLS held a rally in Kolkata holding
35:59posters of the violence and dubbing the day Hindu martyrs day central agency
36:05of the National Human Rights Commission will visit Murshidabad to probe incidents of Hindus being targeted and the killing of Hargobindo Das
36:12and his son Chandan Das and his son Chandan Das and his son Chandan Das is the
36:26story of the National Human Rights Commission will visit Murshidabad to probe
36:30incidents of Hindus being targeted and the killing of Hargobindo Das and his son
36:35Chandan Das and his son Chandan Das as the TMC and BJP train
36:39accusations on the ground stories are of loss grief
36:44on the ground stories are of loss grief and a slow road to recovery
37:02bureau report India today
37:13and the Supreme Court is to resume hearing on the fuck amendment act case tomorrow there are 73 petitions in the Supreme Court
37:31the Supreme Court challenging the buck amendment act the Supreme Court is likely to pass an interim order
37:38it is that is expected there was some who sort of stay on the buck amendment act will that come tomorrow that remains to be seen the Supreme Court is to pass an interim order on multiple issues and especially three issue number one should
37:52should and can work properties be denotified issue number two the role of collector or the district
38:01magistrate or the commissioner is that restricted is he a fact-finding body or will he give a decision and can and should non-muslims be part of the
38:13VACF board I want to quickly cut across to India today's legal editor Nalini Sharma
38:20joining us with the latest on this big story Nalini 73 petitions in court
38:24lot of arguments made take us through some of the prominent one points and
38:30counterpoints that were made and observations of the Supreme Court Nalini
38:35well Gaurav the viewer should know that the Supreme Court in fact was very keen on passing the order today itself they had identified three main concerns on which several questions were even raised to the central government through solicitor general Tushar Mehta who was representing the center before the Supreme Court three judge bench
38:52what were these three main concerns that the Supreme Court had regarding the act number one was regarding denotification of these VACF bodies now according to these acts that anybody that is not officially registered as a VACF property is going to be denotified once that is brought into force the question that the court had is that any property that has been recognized as a VACF property by the court whether it be VACF by user or VACF by deed can that not be denotified at least for now till the time the court is hearing the matter
39:20that was the first question that they had asked the central government the second question they had asked the central government was regarding the role of the collector
39:27now what is happening according to the act is that the collector is given the duty of holding an enquiry as to whether a particular property is a VACF property or a government property
39:35now during the time that this enquiry is going on it is said in the act that this property cannot be considered to be a VACF property in that interim period
39:43so the court has questioned whether or not this proviso whether in the interim period the property is not considered to be VACF property should this be allowed to continue or should they stay this particular provision
39:54the third and the most important that the Supreme Court has asked is regarding the inclusion of non-Muslim members into the VACF boards and the central VACF council
40:03the Supreme Court has said that this should be limited to two and although the solicitor general has given his statement on record that it will be limited to two
40:10the court has also said that this should only be ex-official members and not any of the other members
40:16so on these three aspects the solicitor general has sought some time to place his arguments before the Supreme Court tomorrow
40:22he has requested them to not pass the interim order today that request has been accepted at 2pm tomorrow the government will get some time to place their arguments on these aspects
40:31and then the Supreme Court will decide whether there will be a stay on some aspects of the act or not and whether the act will be allowed to be enforced in its entirety or not
40:39so there were several pertinent points that were raised and let's take this point by point
40:45there was one issue about the court made an observation about a 15th century or a 16th century or a 17th century VACF property or a place of worship
40:55which may not have documents that remains VACF property that remains a place of worship
41:02did the court make an observation on that and what happens to a property that has since been declared a protected monument
41:12so Gaurav the first part of the question that you raised will be tackled by the Supreme Court in the first point that I stated as to whether or not such properties should be denotified
41:20now the concern of the petitioners was that how VACF by user actually works is that there are no official deeds in place or documents in place that recognize that property as a VACF property
41:32it's considered to be a VACF property by virtue of the fact that it's been used for VACF purposes for several years
41:37so should such properties be re-notified or not is the main question that the Supreme Court was considering because that was one of the biggest points of objection that even the petitioners had raised
41:47saying that there are so many old properties that have been VACF properties by virtue of the fact that they've been used as VACF properties
41:54and it's not possible to find the documents of all these monuments and masjids that have been functioning from the 14th to the 15th to the 16th century
42:02the chief justice agreed with him and the chief justice did say that it's not possible to find these documents
42:07so in that case whether or not the court can intervene and the court can step in and take matters into their own hands
42:13and assure that there is some sort of a balanced interim order that's passed so neither of the two sides neither of the two parties feel like it's tilted in their favour
42:22and at the same time the court is also handling the matter so that the hearing can go on and the matter can be decided in its entirety as soon as possible
42:29keep tracking that story Nalini I will come back to you for more
42:34there's more breaking news that's coming in regarding the situation in West Bengal
42:48The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs will visit Bengal is what sources are telling India today
42:54the MP, Saumitra Khan has demanded that the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs should visit Murshidabad
43:01the centre of targeting of Hindus as the BJP puts it
43:06Saumitra Khan has written a letter to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs chairperson Radhamohan Das Agrawal
43:12he wrote that the committee is going to visit the state soon to assess the situation on ground in Bengal
43:19should they come and in such a situation the committee should also send a delegation to Murshidabad
43:24so that the reality on ground can be ascertained
43:28he said that the committee should also call the state's Director General of Police and the Superintendent of Police of Murshidabad
43:34so that a detailed report can be shot about the investigation that has been carried out so far in this case
43:43listen in
43:45Mr. Radhamohan Nagarujji
43:47I have given a letter to the point
43:49when you come to Murshidabad
43:50come to youriziert
43:51we must go to Murshidabad
43:54and
43:55Murshidabad
43:57police
43:58DGP
43:59and Murshidabad
44:00SP
44:01and
44:02Murshidabad
44:03How did the investigation come up? How did the arrest come up?
44:07And why did the investigation come up in Puschi Mangal?
44:11Why did the investigation come up in Hindukam?
44:15That's why I have written to Radha Mohan Ji as a standing committee member of the Home Affairs.
44:21And the Bengal BJP chief Shukhando Majundar is at the BJP Bengal police headquarters.
44:34He's reached the police headquarters to talk to the police about the violence that has taken place and the targeting of Hindus in Bengal.
44:46The West Bengal BJP is seeking a meeting with the state DGP listening.
44:56The call for riot was given from the loudspeaker of the masjid.
45:01If BJP comes into power and this type of incident happens,
45:05we will ban masjid or any other religion campus
45:10which will be used in case of provoking the riots in any area of West Bengal.
45:16What's the pressure on the outside of the city?
45:20You could have said to send an answer in Bangla Jameal,
45:25all of the customers can be active.
45:28That's why the government allows us to do their activities about being done.
45:33The war in the war was about during this time,
45:36There is a video available now that the PFI was active there, the PFI organized a camp there and at the ending ceremony of that camp, the local MLA, Maninoul Islam, he was present and when the PFI was banned throughout the country, lots of people arrested.
46:04Those are related to PFI, but no one in the state of Oiz Bengal was arrested by the Oiz Bengal police. So that's why an indirect indulgence is there from the administration of the state.
46:34This is a milking country. So if I say that if the people give blood, it's good blood. The problem is that the blood and the milk are eating, the blood we eat, the blood we eat, the blood we eat, the blood we eat.
46:50If we eat, the blood we eat, the blood we eat, the blood we eat, the blood we eat, and the blood we eat, common Hindu, aalabh Hindu we eat.
46:57When will they be?
46:59We will not have a chance to do it.
47:01We have not been in the U.P.
47:02We have no democracy.
47:04We have no constitution.
47:06We will not be in the constitution.
47:07We will not be in the constitution.
47:10How do you know the constitution?
47:11Today, at 5.00am,
47:148 victims and 1 children,
47:18the refugee camp,
47:20which was in the constitution of the Nagar,
47:22the constituency assembly,
47:25। । । । । । ।
47:55। । । ।
48:25। । । । । ।
48:55। । । । । ।
49:25especially Bangladeshis were brought from Bangladesh and other states in Bengal to create rakaas and to make violence in Murshidabad.
49:34But state BGP believes that is not the reality, that is not true.
49:37So BGP state president Shukantor Mojumdar along with the state BGP leadership has brought 11 victims who have been affected by the violence in Murshidabad to West Bengal Police Headquarters,
49:52which is Bhavani Bhavan in Kolkata, to meet West Bengal Police Chief, the DGP Rajiv Kumar.
49:57And Shukantor Mojumdar wants the DGP to hear the truth, the reality, whatever they have experienced directly from the victims who have experienced the violence in Murshidabad in last four to five days.
50:12And after arriving at West Bengal Police Headquarters, Shukantor Mojumdar found that the door is locked and Kolkata Police has made a corridor,
50:21over here to stop BGP team, and they have been already stopped by Kolkata Police in front of the state police headquarter main gate.
50:31And after that, Shukantor Mojumdar had a conversation with Kolkata Police, but police told Shukantor Mojumdar that the DGP Rajiv Kumar is not present over here right now,
50:41he is busy in his work, but Shukantor Mojumdar is not willing to leave that place without meeting state police DGP Rajiv Kumar.
50:48After that, State BGP President Shukantor Mojumdar is waiting with the 11 victims of Murshidabad violence in front of the main gate of Bengal Police Headquarter, Bhavani Bhavan.
51:02Right now, he is still waiting to meet Bengal DGP, but DGP is not over here.
51:08As per the sources, DGP was in Murshidabad since last four days.
51:12He was monitoring the situation, he was overseeing the situation, sitting in Murshidabad himself.
51:18So, DGP is not present over here, but Shukantor Mojumdar has said that he will not leave that place without meeting West Bengal Police DGP Rajiv Kumar with the 11 victims of Murshidabad.
51:30Okay, keep tracking that story. I will come back to you for more.
51:34Rajesh Saha reporting on Shukantor Mojumdar sitting with the victims of the Murshidabad violence outside the DGP's office in Kolkata.
51:44I want to move on to the other big, big story that's coming in.
51:48Major reaction from the Congress Party President on the Enforcement Directorate charge sheet against Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi in the National Herald case.
51:56Congress President Malik Arjun Kharge has said, and I quote,
52:00There is nothing in this case referring to National Herald, the newspaper.
52:06He said it was shut down for some time due to financial trouble.
52:10Sonia Gandhi tried to revive it with loans and donations.
52:15Now they say that it is wrong to take a loan.
52:19The BJP is working against the law.
52:23What is wrong is wrong and we will prove it.
52:26Our protests will be held nationwide and we want to tell the people that we are being troubled unnecessarily uncored.
52:35The Congress Party has carried out a series of protests not just in the national capital but across the states in the country.
52:45Let's listen in to Malik Arjun Kharge will get you more.
52:47The BJP has produced this law.
52:59We will teach on the legislation.
53:07We will keep it wrong.
53:37Insisting that was the turning point from where relations between India and Pakistan went south and never recovered.
53:45The external affairs minister's remarks come days after 26-11 Mumbai terror attacks.
53:50A key plotter, Captain Tahwur Hussain Rana of the Pakistan Army was extradited to India by the United States of America.
53:58So, the external affairs minister, he's repeatedly exposed Pakistan's state-sponsored radical Islamist terror.
54:09He's gone to the extent of saying that Pakistan, the DNA of Pakistan, it has deceit and it has bigotry.
54:15Listen in.
54:16India has changed.
54:20I wish I could say Pakistan has changed.
54:26They, unfortunately, are in many ways continuing the bad habits.
54:33They are continuing a very negative way of approaching India.
54:42And what has happened is today, I think, you know, when I look back,
54:49I would say the 26-11 Mumbai terrorist attack, I would regard it in many ways as the turning point.
55:03I think that was when Indian public opinion across political parties, average Indian said,
55:11you know, this is now too much, you know, the country cannot accept this kind of behavior from a neighbor.
55:21Now, I think that feeling was very, very strong in society.
55:27It may not have been entirely understood at that time by the government of the day.
55:32That's a different matter.
55:34And the tragedy remains that Pakistan has taken absolutely no action against the perpetrators of 26-11 Mumbai attacks.
55:43But then Pakistan hasn't taken any action against the perpetrators of the parliament attack,
55:47the Pulwama attack, the Pathan court attack, the Sanjuan military station attack,
55:52a series of Pakistan state-sponsored terror attacks in India.
55:56And we'll track that story.
55:57That is all I have for you on 5 Live this evening.
55:59Many thanks for watching.