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A day after Iran and Israel announced that they were halting strikes on each other after a post by US President Donald Trump urging both parties to stop, Trump said negotiations with Iran were going well.
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00:03Hello and welcome, I am Pranayupadhyay and you are watching India Today Global.
00:07Tensions in West Asia remained high despite a pause in direct strikes between Iran and Israel.
00:12A day after both sides announced that they were halting strikes following Trump's post
00:17urging both sides to stop the attacks, Washington says negotiations with Tehran are progressive.
00:24President Trump, speaking in New York, said talks with Iran are ongoing
00:27and described them as going well, while maintaining that U.S. naval blockade remains fully in place.
00:34Meanwhile, Iran's top negotiator has accused the United States of violating ceasefire
00:39and warned that Tehran will respond to what it calls war crime.
00:43We begin with the latest developments.
00:51A day after Iran and Israel announced that they were halting strikes on each other
00:55after a post by U.S. President Donald Trump urging both parties to stop,
01:01Trump said negotiations with Iran is going well.
01:06He said this to reporters after attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden.
01:12Trump added that two crew members of a United States Army Apache helicopter
01:17were safe after the gunship went down near the Strait of Hormuz.
01:23We have ongoing negotiations in Iran and with Iran, and that hasn't stopped.
01:31And we could have at least an idea by one or two days from now, but I think it's going
01:38well.
01:39The blockade continues to hold 100 percent.
01:43Nothing is getting through our blockade.
01:45No oil, no income, no nothing.
01:47Nothing's getting through the blockade.
01:49There's a report that an army helicopter went down on the Strait.
01:53Can you give us an update on that?
01:54Are the soldiers okay?
01:56The pilots are fine, yeah.
01:59Nobody injured.
02:02We are going to issue a report tomorrow, but the pilots are fine, yeah.
02:07As Trump administration continues its blockade,
02:10Iran's top negotiator and parliament speaker,
02:13Mohammad Bakir Kalibov, said Tehran will turn the naval blockade into another defeat.
02:20Earlier, Israel had hit a petrochemical company in the Iranian city of Mahersheir.
02:25While no casualties were reported, potential losses and damages were assessed.
02:30In retaliation, the IRGC attacked a petrochemical plant in Israel's Haifa,
02:35along with two military bases.
02:37The extent of damage at all three sites were unclear.
02:41Iran had blamed the U.S. for the ceasefire violations.
02:46Though Israeli officials said they halted attacks at Trump's behest,
02:50eight people were killed, entire city, from Israeli strikes.
02:53Emergency workers battled a fire following an Israeli missile strike hit near the Red Cross building.
03:07After Iran attacked Israel, I instructed the IDF to strike military and economic targets through Iran.
03:13We did that as well.
03:14At the moment, the fire has ceased.
03:16Because after we struck the terrorist regime in Tehran, it stopped attacking us.
03:22If the terrorist regime makes the mistake of attacking us again, we will respond with force.
03:28Because Israel has the full right to self-defense, and we exercise it whenever necessary.
03:37As Israel vows to pound Lebanon, in what they call self-defense,
03:44Lebanese army chief was in Rawalpindi to meet Field Marshal Asim Munir.
03:49Army commander General Rudolf Heikel was welcomed with a guard of honor.
03:55The discussions between the army chiefs focused on strengthening training co-operations
03:59and institutional linkages between the armed forces.
04:03With Mahasweta Lala, Bureau Report, India Today.
04:11And moving on, let's talk about some good news.
04:14Good news for skilled immigrants in the United States.
04:17A federal court in Boston has struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 H-1B visa fee,
04:22calling it unlawful and beyond presidential authority.
04:26The ruling comes as a major relief for thousands of foreign professionals,
04:30particularly Indians, who make up the largest share of H-1B visa holders.
04:34However, the decision could face a legal challenge in a higher court.
04:38Here's more in this story report.
04:51It's a good news for skilled immigrants in the United States.
04:55A federal court in Massachusetts, Boston, has struck down the Trump administration's
05:00$100,000 H-1B visa fees and called it unlawful.
05:06The judge said the fee was not a penalty, but a tax that the Republican president lacked
05:12any authorization from Congress to issue and that the U.S. State Department and U.S.
05:18Citizenship and Immigration Services could not implement it.
05:22In December 2025, a different federal court in Washington, D.C. had upheld the fee hike
05:28brought by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
05:32These federal judges are really giving us a hard time.
05:36It's really crazy what's going on with the court system.
05:39They are giving us a very, very hard time and they shouldn't be doing it.
05:43They're hurting our country very badly.
05:45In September 2025, Trump hiked the fee for application of H-1B visa from an average of $2,000 to
05:53$100,000.
05:55This fee was to be paid by employers who need to sponsor skilled immigrants for work in the U.S.
06:02The policy aimed to discourage companies from using the program,
06:06which the Trump administration saw as displacing American workers,
06:11which the Trump administration saw as displacing American workers.
06:17Trump during his first term signed an order to scale up scrutiny of visa applications and detect any frauds.
06:24Indian immigrants constitute a large section of H-1B visa holders in the U.S.
06:30According to a data, around 70% of H-1B visas were approved for Indian workers in 2024,
06:38followed by the Chinese, who were at a distant 11 to 12%.
06:43According to news agencies, rejection rates for H-1B visas soared to 24% in 2018,
06:51compared to 5 to 8% under the Obama administration
06:55and 2 to 4% under the Joe Biden-led government.
07:01But the verdict by the federal court is being seen as a major boost to Indians,
07:06seeking to work in the U.S.
07:08Sources say the order could be challenged in an appellate court.
07:13With Mahasweta Lala, Bureau Report, India Today.
07:20So what lies ahead for the H-1B visa program?
07:24To discuss this issue, I am being joined by Professor Seetal Kalantri.
07:27She is an eminent lawyer and also professor of law at the Seattle University.
07:32Welcome to India Today, Seetal.
07:34Thank you for having me, Brune.
07:36Professor Seetal, Trump administration has received yet another setback from the U.S. court.
07:41After a reciprocal tariff, now the court has struck down the $100,000 fee for the H-1B visa applicants.
07:49And President Donald Trump announced it as a big achievement and as a big policy measure.
07:56In your opinion, in your view, what option President Donald Trump is having now?
08:00And do you see administration going for a judicial review?
08:03How tenable that review could be?
08:07This court is a trial court, and there are two layers above it, an appellate court as well as the
08:16Supreme Court.
08:17And the Trump administration has already said that they will appeal it first to the First Circuit, which is the
08:26appellate court, and then to the Supreme Court.
08:29Typically, that's how it works, but the Supreme Court may issue an opinion even before or issue an order before
08:37it reaches the full First Circuit review.
08:41So clearly, it's going to be a challenge, and there is another case that has come out, I think I'd
08:49mentioned, from a different trial court, another federal court in D.C., that came to an opposite conclusion.
08:55So there's even more reason for a higher judicial review.
09:00But certainly, Seetal, this court verdict has come as a big relief for the skilled foreign professionals and their employers
09:07in the United States.
09:08But is it only a temporary relief or a permanent one?
09:11What legal options do these professionals or the U.S. corporations have to make it a lasting policy position as
09:18far as the H-1B visa program is concerned?
09:20Basically, what the opinion said is that President Trump has exceeded his authority in issuing this $100,000 fee.
09:32It seemed to them, the court, as a tax.
09:36And only Congress has the authority tax, and they can delegate that, but they did not in this case.
09:41And so the other opinion in the D.C. court said that, well, the president has authority over immigration, which
09:51they do.
09:52So under the Constitution, the president can regulate immigrants coming in and out, but under the Constitution, the president can't
09:58also just impose a tax.
10:00So those two provisions will be extricated and decided by the higher courts.
10:06At this point, you know, if the administration follows the order, they ought not to be charging that fee for
10:14new applicants starting from this moment on.
10:18Now, they can always delay applications.
10:20We don't know what the administration will do.
10:24What this is really good news about is that the courts are trying to cabin the sort of anti-immigration
10:36policies of Trump.
10:38This particular judge had also issued the birthright citizenship decision, which also challenged Trump.
10:46And this particular judge relied on the tariff case in saying, look, the Supreme Court has already said that unless
10:53Congress specifically tells you you can do a tariff for this particular reason, you can't.
10:59So I think there's this growing corpus of decisions that are really trying to cabin the president.
11:07And he's obviously very upset about that.
11:11Obviously, President Donald Trump is upset.
11:13And in fact, he has also raised question that these courts and these judges are working against the America First
11:19policy.
11:19Thank you very much, Seetal, for joining with us and sharing your thoughts and your perspective and legal position on
11:25this issue.
11:26Thank you very much.
11:28And moving on, let's talk about the POJK situation as well.
11:32More than 200 injured, hundreds detained and an entire region pushed to the brink.
11:37That is the human cost of the latest crackdown by Shehba Sharif and Asim Munir-led hybrid nizam of Pakistan.
11:44In POJK, Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
11:47Protesters were demanding cheaper electricity, lower prices of essential commodities, basic human rights,
11:52and an end to political manipulation through reserved refugee seats in POJK assembly.
11:58They were opposing reservation of 12 seats for refugees in July 27 elections to the region's legislative body out of
12:0745, up for grab.
12:08More in this report.
12:26A rebellion is brewing in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
12:30And the anger is directed squarely at Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Army Chief General Asim Munir.
12:38For weeks, resentment had been building over inflation, governance failures, political rights, and Islamabad's heavy-handed control over the region.
12:48Now that anger has erupted onto the streets.
12:57The latest unrest began after authorities banned the Joint Awami Action Committee, or JAAC,
13:04a grassroots movement that has spearheaded protests across POJK.
13:09Authorities followed up with arrest and sweeping crackdown ahead of a region-wide shutdown call.
13:20What followed were deadly confrontations.
13:24As protesters poured onto the streets, security forces cracked down.
13:29The violence has claimed 27 lives, while more than 200 people have been injured in clashes stretching from Rabal Court
13:37to other parts of POJK.
13:39Internet disruptions, mobile service restrictions, mass detentions, a ban on public gatherings, and a communications blackout.
13:49Human rights violated, one after another.
14:01The police are killed.
14:23But the anger is no longer confined to POJK.
14:28Hundreds of Kashmiris gathered outside Pakistani missions in London and other cities across
14:34the United Kingdom, protesting against the atrocities of Pakistan's government and military
14:40establishment.
14:46Slogans such as ''Hum Cheen Kar Lenge Azadi'' and ''Pakistan Army Go Back'' echoed through
14:52the protests.
14:54At least 50 UK MPs have written to the Foreign Secretary expressing concerns over the situation
15:01in POJK.
15:03The parliamentarians have raised questions over reported arrests, restrictions, the ongoing
15:09crackdown and the communication blackout.
15:13India has also taken a serious note of the situation in POJK, with the Ministry of External
15:19Affairs calling on global community to hold Pakistan accountable for its crimes and abuses.
15:25There are reports of police brutality which you would have seen.
15:29There are several reports in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in which several people have been killed.
15:35there are several more who have been injured.
15:38We hope the international community will hold Pakistan accountable for its misdeeds and
15:44its abuses.
15:46The protesters demanded basic rights.
15:49Instead they received bullets.
15:52And that truly exposes how Kashmiris are being treated in Pakistan.
16:05And protests are not only happening in POJK but are also happening in different cities of
16:10the world including London and now I am being joined by Mr. Amzad Mirza, POJK's human right
16:16activist from London.
16:17Welcome to India today Mr. Mirza.
16:22Thank you for having me.
16:23Yeah.
16:23Good to have you with us.
16:25And my first question to you would be what exactly is happening in POJK?
16:29We are getting all these disturbing reports.
16:32And this clearly shows that the Pakistani military regime, the hybrid Nizam of Pakistan is going
16:37on an all-out crackdown on people, those who are raising their voices for the legitimate
16:43demands.
16:43What exactly you are picking up from your sources and your contacts in POJK?
16:49Well, thank you very much for having me.
16:51Actually, Pakistan attacked the sovereign state of Jammu and Kashmir on the 22nd of October
16:591947.
17:00This is what we call the second invasion because Pakistan cannot enter its paramilitary forces
17:10or Punjab police or military into POJK unless the prime minister or the president or both write
17:20a request, a formal request to the Pakistan government to send in troops.
17:26And the POJK prime minister is saying that I have sent no such request and I don't know how
17:32they have entered and why they have entered.
17:34Well, I tell you why they have entered.
17:37They have entered because they do not want any kind of dissent in POJK.
17:44The leadership of the Joint Awami Action Committee who is leading these protests is pro-Pakistan.
17:50There is no doubt about that.
17:52But beneath the workers, the protestors, the youth, the students, they are raising slogans
18:00for Azadi from Pakistan.
18:02So there is a divide between the leadership and the masses as well.
18:07The leadership is asking for restraint.
18:09They are saying goli mat, maro mat, baar na niklo, ye na koro.
18:13But the youth is now fighting back because what happened on the 7th June, on the night of
18:21the 7th June was that people were sitting outside the combined military hospital in Ravla
18:26court and they asked them to, they asked the local police to disperse them, the Pakistani
18:33rangers.
18:34The local police refused.
18:37They said we can't open fire on our own citizens.
18:39So then the ranger officer took out his, draw out his pistol.
18:45But Mr. Mizra, the larger question remains here is this is not a one-off incident.
18:49This is happening over the period of three years.
18:52As we have seen multiple times, multiple locations, similar kind of protests are erupting in that
18:57region.
18:58As a human rights activist, as a prominent voice for the rights of people there in POJK,
19:03do you see that with the reports of arrests, crackdown, deaths, internet blockade, do you
19:10see there is a cause, there is a reason for the international community to raise their
19:13voice and concern and do some kind of action as far as, and putting pressure on the government
19:19of Pakistan?
19:20Well, we have been waiting for the international community, including the government of India,
19:25to intervene for the past 79 years we have been waiting.
19:29And I think this time it is absolutely clear that this is an invasion.
19:34This is, we call, the second invasion by Pakistan of the Strait of Jumu and Kashmir.
19:39And I have appealed to the United Nations Security Council, I have sent a message to them that
19:46the emergency session of UNSC must be convened at the earliest, so that this brutal killing
19:53of unarmed civilians can be stopped.
19:56And irony is that, Mr. Mirza, that Pakistan sits in the United Nations Security Council?
20:02Yeah, but so does India.
20:05Now, India is not there right now, but you rightly said, and you said that you have written
20:11to the United Nations Security Council to convene an emergency session as far as the situation
20:16is concerned.
20:20Well, I have asked the United Nations and the United Nations Security Council.
20:27So India is part of the United Nations, so they can raise the issue over there.
20:35But the United Nations Security Council, if they do not bring Pakistan to task this time,
20:43then I think this will become out of control.
20:46The anger that has spilled over from POJK into the...
20:49That is the biggest worry, Mr. Mirza.
20:51Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts and sharing your perspective with our viewers.
20:55You're welcome.
20:55And this is the situation in POJK.
20:58And now, let's see what else is making news across the world in World Integrance.
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21:35Trump became the first sitting U.S. President to attend the finals.
21:39The boos ended when the U.S. flag followed him on the screens.
21:48And fans cheered when New York Knicks players were shown.
22:02The leaders of France and Germany have agreed to scrap a landmark project to develop and build a new generation
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22:09The German Chancellor and French President discussed the troubled project on the sidelines of the EU Western Balkan Summit in
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22:18and concluded there was no prospect of breaking months of deadlock.
22:23The project, which centers on a core fighter jet supported by drones and linked by a classified combat cloud,
22:29had been in doubt for months as the two sides were discussing specifications and control.
22:43A man in his 30s believed to be Somalian has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a serious
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22:55He remains in police custody.
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