Yes leader Evo Morales has said he will not negotiate with his political opponents over the country's disputed presidential election result but he has said you take part in a runoff with his closest rival Carlos Mesa it vote rigging is discovered during an audit of the official tally that's being carried out by the Organization of American States. Voters in the eastern German city of Hue if you didn't go to the polls later today to elect a regional government the right wing anti establishment party Alternative for Germany is expected to make strong gains and is predicted to double its share of the vote to around a quarter the populist radical left party is expected to top the poll. Anticorruption campaigners of criticize a decision by Papua New Guinea's government to give every member of parliament a car the government bought dozens of luxury vehicles and 80 lesser models to use a 3 d. Asia Pacific Summit last year it originally promised to sell them to recruit the costs but has failed to do so the government insists the M.P.'s will only be using the cars while on official duties. A cardigan worn by Kurt Cobain the lead singer of the rock band Nirvana has sold at auction for more than $330000.00 Victoria born reports. The green acrylic am I had cardigan is instantly recognizable for fans of nirvana as cat Cobain wore it during this performance of the band's famed m.t.v. Unplugged live album recorded just 5 months before his death in 1000 $900.00 for the touted cardigan with his band hall and various stains was one of $700.00 pieces of rock n roll memorabilia that went under the hammer at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York contains left handed fan the Mustang gets how it's he used to in the band's a new trade tour sold 426-5000 pounds b.b.c. News. This is from our own correspondent on the b.b.c. World Service I'm Pascal hasa Welcome to the program in this edition of American basketball and Chinese politics we have play by play analysis of this uneasy mix also when the banging of pots and pans sounds in your neighborhood and the smell of take gas killings to the air what to tell your child in Chile and we meet the booksellers of Latvia including a woman who escaped one of Stalin's labor camps in Siberia and evaded the Soviet secret police for 10 years 1st though to northern Nigeria West several schools have recently been raided by police at least they cool them selves schools special ones for children with behavioral mental health or addiction problems these places promised rehabilitation training and religious education but police say that inside they found the most appalling conditions hundreds of young people have now been rescued some were found in chains far from being places of healing or even schooling the institutions have been described as torture houses however when the B.B.C.'s correspondent in Nigeria my Any Jones went to find out more from the local authorities she found a disturbing reaction my sister while you are asking so many questions why don't you just report what we tell you I blink rapidly incredulous I'm sitting in the vast office of the Commissioner of Police of Katsina State near the border with. The commission a tall man of a protruding belly looks at me with a smirk a fine girl like you asking all these questions you must be very clever I sighed I'm not clever I'm just trying to do my job. My quote unquote fixer the man with hired to help us organize interviews chimes in Miami you must understand even in the u.k. The police doesn't know everything and found out that morning that this so-called fixer had failed to mention that he works for the state's governor now he's even stopping me from asking the police basic questions I'm fuming I've spent the last 30 minutes in this office trying to get answers why can't we access the school they raided yesterday why would they let us meet any of the victims I want to share the contacts of development for forty's it's a question is meant to a bar of excuses and improbable answers to school is an active crime scene all the students have left town of their parents the relevant authorities won't speak to us anyway what's truly bizarre is that less than a month for go forty's in neighboring could do no states were falling over themselves to provide us with information about the good work they'd done rescuing hundreds of men and boys from places where they'd been beaten tortured and raped but here in Katsina were coming up against the brick wall forbidden to get into the building or to speak to a neighbors and only given the Ben minimum of information where they hiding the day before at another of the supposed rehabilitation centers in the nearby town of Daraa spoken to a neighbor who seemed disturbing things but never reported anything to the police he'd witnessed young men in chains receiving karate lessons outside the building but he told me because the owner of the center was well connected he knew nothing would ever be done after all he told me I'm only a poor man I was beginning to see what he meant the police around here seemed more keen to downplay the situation than to solve the problem as the commissioner would tell us when he eventually agreed to an interview we're not trying to expose anybody what we try to do is to enlighten people ironic then that I left our interview even more in the dark. We give up on the police and head back to another center nearby which has been raided the day before but I'll fix a come Government mind that gets in our way again trying to stop us filming the house of the school's owner the final straw is when he introduces us to someone he claims is a neighbor he's a man in his forties dressed in a red cotton and trousers and he has a glossy stare he states robotically that the owner of the building where 81 people have been found in chains was a good man who tried his best we thank him for his time and sent him on his way I don't know whether to be offended or Paul that our fixer who's supposed to be the chairman of the local chapter of the National Union of Journalists thinks would fall for this obviously rehearsed testimony in the background of all this near false it's true tragedy just 24 hours before it stood nosey to and dizzy in the middle of a stuffy courtyard surrounded by dark dank cells I met a young man there who'd been held for months he was in his mid twenties fidgety nervous he told me how when he used to live there you cellmates would be beaten daily force your innate and deaf Akkad in the same rooms where he slept and adds I hailed the stench of the soiled clothes and mattresses littering the floor around us his voice breaking the former detainee described the place as hell on earth and I believed him no one knows for sure how many more of these private rehabilitation slash detention centers exist in moving Nigeria and we were fishers like the one I met seemingly keener to protect the status quo than to challenge it we may never find out my any. Money trumps human rights all too often but what about when money vast sums of it comes up against national pride in this case the national pride of the People's Republic of China and the extraordinarily lucrative market it represents for the National Basketball Association the Us vice president Mike Pence has criticized the n.b.a. For quote siding with the Chinese Communist Party and silencing free speech and he says acting like a wholly owned subsidiary of the all Thora Tarion regime for its response to a recent public relations crisis what kicked this round off a tweet in support of protestors in Hong Kong posted by the general manager of the Houston Rockets team Daryl Morey the Chinese state bridled at that and millions of basketball fans in China felt its displeasure as the American sports executives rushed to repair the damage from Shanghai Robin Brandt on the line the n.b.a. Chooses to turn there are courts everywhere in school playgrounds at the Riverside in the shadow of Shanghai's tallest skyscrapers where I sometimes get the ferry and in fire station forecourts I've got a cheap next in front of my house too shooting hoops is a good way to unwind a couple of the top teams come here and nearly 4 pre-season games they bring the whole carnival with them cheerleaders dancers mascots it's the real deal I saw it from a few rows back last year perhaps the most telling proof though of the N.B.A.'s dominance in China is the wide range of team strips that are available of what we call the fake market there where I live in Shanghai in a more controversial sign of its willingness to demonstrate its commitment the n.b.a. Even has an elite sporting Academy here in Shin joining the region of western China where up to a 1000000 Chinese Muslims are being held in reeducation camps all of which. To explain why just 7 words in a tweet from a n.b.a. Team manager caused such a meltdown here before I get to those words though I need to talk about politics sport here is one way or another administered or supervised by organizations that are controlled by the government in other words the Communist Party of China not just the sport that's played here the sport that's broadcast here to now basketball the most watched and played team game in this country the n.b.a. Is the most lucrative league is financially backed by organizations which tend to have close links with the party all of which means it's not just a sporting performance you need to look out for what players coaches and managers say matters just as much so to those 7 words there are plenty of topics that Beijing is consistently hypersensitive about Taiwan Tibet shin Jang and very much at the moment Hong Kong all of them revolve around issues of what you might call territorial integrity the Houston Rockets weren't even in China bought on a trip to Japan when the team's general manager Daryl Morey chose to tweet a message including the words fight for freedom stand with Hong Kong he quickly deleted his comment saying he hadn't meant to cause any offense but there was no apology at least not in English his apparent affront to China's sovereignty was not condemned by the man in charge of the n.b.a. Either in fact the commissioner Adam Silver defended Morey's right to comment and that is where the N.B.A.'s reputation as a league proud of its players activism came up hard against the economic consequences of giving voice to that activism here in China that failure to apologize and rectify as many foreign corporations have done when facing similar confrontations led to swift action from various arms of the Chinese state and the private firms usually so keen to be associated with American basketball to showcase n.b.a. Game. Word you to be played in China to be shown on t.v. To be streamed on the internet but almost half of the sponsors very quickly pulled their support China's state broadcaster c.c.t.v. Canceled its coverage and so did the company which had paid one and a half $1000000000.00 for the streaming rights so 3 weeks on the n.b.a. Has briefly faced an existential crisis in its biggest market outside the u.s. The rockets team games still aren't being shown here in China at all in fact state run c.c.t.v. Isn't showing any games at the moment they are though back on smartphones and whatever else people are using to watch live streaming but despite the weeks of raging reaction from China's government and some fans to those 7 words that exhibition game in Shanghai was actually very well attended a full house in fact it is hard to imagine that tens of millions of Chinese basketball fanatics children who play at break time middle aged men who started watching recordings of games decades ago teenagers who stream it on their way to school are all suddenly going to shift their support to another sport the n.b.a. Players own in a swanky shopping mall not far from my office is still very much open for business you can go there and stand alongside some of the most famous players tilting your head up compare your hand size to their size as far as the n.b.a. Is concerned that just might now be the best place to go to ask it superstars whether they really stand with Hong Kong because you won't get an answer ever there just cardboard cutouts stuck to a wall good for a photograph but no comment. Robin Brant in Shanghai you were listening to from our own correspondent with me Pascal hasa here on the b.b.c. World Service now in terms of economic growth Chile is one of Latin America's great success stories but at the beginning of the month the capital Santiago went up in a wish of public protests some of them violent dozens of people have died in the chaos the trigger was a rise in the cost of Metro tickets but the fuel which kept the protests going a sense among ordinary people that they just can't keep up with the cost of living at 1st the president Sebastien Piniella responded with hard line tactics saying the country was at war and people had to choose sides they have been thousands of arrests but as the depth and the strength of the general public's underlying anger became clearer the government has put forward a series of possible reforms this is a country with a political history of violence so when uniformed men take to the streets against demonstrate his it is a novelist the echo of the past while the protests says Jane chambers can be frightening too at 1st I thought it was just another group of students protesting you get a lot of that in Santiago but this was something different metro stations had been trashed I've seen viral videos have put a protest is chucking a television on to the line and smashing up trains president thing yet it declared a state of emergency and troops were sent out on to the streets. Many Chilean friends tell me this brings back terrible memories of General Pinochet's military dictatorship which lasted 17 years from 1973 to 1990 thousands of people were tortured and disappeared Chileans had genuinely scared that things could return to that time during the past few days lots of supermarkets were looted and many of them are now closed Kenyans are panicking about buying as a result my neighborhood very busy it's springtime red roses are in bloom and you can smell Jasmine as you walk along the leafy streets the local butcher lilies has always been popular but now neighbors patiently sit outside chatting in the sunshine waiting sometimes it takes them 2 hours to be served the metric system was shot last weekend and troops are still patrolling the stations to protect them you might be puzzled that all this has happened because of the small rise in the price of a metro ticket but it's really about so much more than that president been yeta recently by state that Chile was an oasis of calm in the rest of Latin America but what he shows the outside world is just a mosque underneath that's a lot of unrest in poverty says money while the neighborhood tailor the metric tickets are just the tip of the iceberg that's a long list of other complaints it's the inequality in society that makes people so angry politicians are paid obscene amounts of money while we struggle to get through the month Manuel points out because of the high cost of living we're forced to pay for food on credit cards and get into even more debt low wages expensive health care poor pension provision and a wealthy elite some of the reasons people are looking for change at the beginning of the week that was a slogan going around just get that Chile wake up chile interestingly that's now moved into despair Chile Chile has waken up. The protests in my neighborhood a peaceful I cycle to nearby plus and you know with my family thousands of people out there don't sing singing playing guitars and banging pots my daughter he self Chilean doesn't like the pot banging it frightens her I have to explain to her the ever since the dictatorship in the seventy's it's been a way to protest at night I wake up the sounds of helicopters thudding overhead and worry about what's going on many people are defying the curfew imposed by President been staying out on the streets groups of neighbors dressed in yellow hypos jackets wielding wooden sticks say they have to defend their property from the looting no one knows when this will end and the uncertainty makes people nervous friends keep sending me videos of the legit military and police brutality running out at home are local shops are still open as I pay for some coffee the thoughtful corner shop owner. Tells me that we have to get rid of the past and look to the future during the dictatorship they started the neo liberal model he insists they taught us that it's all about being an individual and not thinking about anyone else since I 1st started living here I've always heard about the 7 powerful families rumored to own 25 percent of Chile's wealth and how unfair it all is their regular stories of rich businessmen getting together on golf courses to fix the price of toilet paper chicken and medicines we need to create a new society where we respect and listen to each other and don't just focus on money says money or the shop owner. President Pinera angered many people lost some day by saying Cheney was at war but his tone changed over the next few days and he's now announced some reforms but many say he still hasn't gone far enough everyone I speak to is desperate for things to get back to normal My children have been off school all week and they're worried by the situation but also bored of it they want to go to parties and carry on being teenagers Santiago is hosting 2 major international events in November and December weld leaders will gather to talk about the economy and climate change I wonder my city will be ready for them. Jane chambers it's 30 years since a series of tumultuous events changed the face of Europe in 1809 the iron curtain separating the Soviet dominated eastern bloc and the capitalist democracies of the West was torn down the Berlin Wall fell and old divisions were swept away by a wave of people power but there was even more drama to follow just 2 years later the communist superpower the Soviet Union disintegrated and broke up into many new independent states our Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has been traveling across Eastern Europe looking at the legacy of communist rule by the Baltic Sea He visited a bookshop in Latvia and cause a history lesson in 1962 book lover Inara billing cram was offered the perfect job you won't have to do much she was told You can spend the whole day reading Inara jumped at the chance and began work a bookshop number 3 in Riga 57 years later she's managing director of Latvia's largest bookseller it has 35 shops including the old bookshop number 3 and it's here but Inara and I meet to talk about her life of books and her country it quickly becomes clear that the story of this shop is very much the story of Latvia in $162.00 Latvia was still part of the Soviet Union under communist rule in those days you know recalls a bookshop was like a soldier on the ideological front line they told us that we were like fighters she remembers the children's section it was full of books about Lenin Lenin's childhood Lenin and chemistry Lenin and literature one of enormous 1st tasks most of. Seemed odd to someone who loves books and she was ordered down to the basement where the Complete Works of disgraced dictator Joseph Stalin had been dumped she was told to tear the covers and title pages from each volume. By the end of the 1980 s. Latvians had little appetite for communism in August 1 19892000000 people joined hands across Latvia Lithuania and Estonia in defiance of Soviet rule what became known as the Baltic chain passed by close to the bookshop Inara took part there were so many protestors she tells me and these people felt they would get their freedom by now bookshop number 3 had reverted to its pre war 2 title Yanis. The name of the original owner communism was crumbling Latvia was casting off Salvi of labels and pushing for independence Inara introduces me to Younis Rose's grandson I know he tells me the dramatic story of the man who opened this book shop a century ago Yanis Rosa was a printer a publisher and a successful businessman but in 1940 after Stalin's secret pact with Hitler Savia troops marched into the Baltic states the bookshop was nationalized that's when it became bookshop number 3 Yanis and his wife Emma was declared borzois elements and sent to separate labor camps in Siberia Yanis died but his wife would go on to do something quite extraordinary in 1948 she managed to get out of a camp and secretly made her way from Siberia back to Latvia without documents or registration papers back in Riga she hid away for 10 years until eventually she plucked up the courage and walked into a police station she told the police so here I am I know tells me if you want to send me back to see. Iberia then do it but Stalin was dead by then the system was a little softer they allowed her to stay while his grandmother was in hiding I know parents had been too scared to tell him about her in case the child revealed the secret but when I was 12 he recalls My father came home with a lady a stranger that was the day he told me this was my grandma this is the legacy of communism in Latvia Soviet rule divided families and destroyed lives in 1900 Latvia declared independence from Moscow the following year the Soviet Union was consigned to history together with his aunt whom the Soviets had also sent to Siberia. Reclaimed the bookshop premises and revived the family business he now heads the board of the youngness Rosa publishing house I ask him how he views Moscow today I'm a little bit afraid of Russia I know segments but Latvia is in the e.u. Now and NATO I think that would stop Russia showing aggression to Latvia still I worry we lived under the Soviets for 50 years I asked Nora the same question I don't like what's happening now in Russia she says but I do know there are lots of nice people there they have great arts and culture then she adds it seems to me that Russia has 2 faces Steve Rosenberg bringing this chapter to an end but there will be more lessons from history snapshots of the present and thoughts for the future in the next edition of from our own correspondents said you join us again next weekend here on the b.b.c. World Service. This is the b.b.c. World Service where our new 5 part series looks at the legacy of the Cold War starting in the Czech Republic 30 years ago communism suddenly collapsed across central and eastern Europe we want to say thank you the generation which brought us but for some the 1909 revolution in what used to be part of Czechoslovakia didn't bring the prosperity they had hopeful own grandparents are still communist. For the euro and they see many flaws in our country and there are many flaws we ask if divisions caused by the Cold War still exist human rights were not respected and individual life did not connect to the idea that we had 30 years ago that it will just go away with the revolution that draws little bit tonight the Cold War legacy starts today at g.m.t. . Ahead on the b.b.c. World Service it's Boston calling with me Marco Werman Norma Ramirez grew up in the us dreaming of attending an elite university until her father told her the family are an authorized immigrants all of a sudden all the things that I had worked for. There was no point I mean it breaks you and then you have to find a way to keep going now she's making her case to stay in the u.s. At the Supreme Court that's on Boston calling after the news b.b.c. News if you know MacDonald the White House says President Trump will make a major statement on Sunday following reports of a u.s. Special forces operation against the leader of the Islamic state group Mr Trump himself tweeted that something very big had just happened although he gave new details u.s. Media see Mr Trump authorized the operation targeting a Baccarat Baghdadi in the Syrian province of it live on Saturday. The authorities in California of warn that unusually strong winds are about to hit an area north of San Francisco where a severe wildfire is burning u.s. Forecasters say gusts of up to 130 kilometers an hour or batter so no more County and strong winds will blow throughout the night. Catholic bishops are voted in favor of allowing married men to become priests in remote areas breaking with a centuries old tradition of celibacy within the church opponents of the idea fear of me spread through the global church boaters in the eastern German city of go to the polls later today to elect a regional government the right wing anti establishment party Alternative for Germany is expected to make gains. And Australian serial killer who kidnapped and murdered 7 hitchhikers over a 4 year period from 1909 has died in prison at the age of 74 Ivan Milat killed 3 Germans 2 Britons and 2 stray Liam's. Livia's leader Evo Morales has said that he will not negotiate with his political opponents over the country's disputed presidential election result but he said he'll hold a runoff with his closest rival Carlos Mesa if rigging is discovered during an audit and a cardigan mourned by the lead singer of Nirvana Kurt Cobain a sword for a 3rd of a $1000000.00 becoming the most expensive sweater ever auctioned the tattered garment was worn at one of the band's most famous live performances Hello from Boston I'm Marco Werman and this is Boston calling from the b.b.c. It's a program that puts a global perspective on the American experience great to be with you as it always is this week who's to Judge Norma Ramirez is asking that question because she's about to face a huge challenge you know where I am I found my narrative was there ever like you know one day I'm going to say the president she's taking the trumpet ministration to the Supreme Court trying to protect a program that allows unauthorized immigrants brought to the u.s. As children to stay here Facebook is also asking who is to judge that is who should decide what is offensive and what is not it's a big responsibility So Facebook is looking for some outside help it's a new genre I guess of governance that we're kind of stepping into here and I think that's what's most exciting about it and we're also stepping into a new era of running shoes with a shoe that supposedly makes you faster so if you're used to running in normal shoes and then you go out and you try them you're like This is weird and I don't know if I like this weirdly fast but our competitive runners who were getting an unfair advantage our program today has had me thinking about something that we're always looking for but something that also can be so elusive I'm talking about justice a sense that the rules we live by are clear and most importantly fair and that applies to road races social media and even restaurant reviews but our starting point today is immigration specifically the thousands of Liberians living in the u.s. . You are facing an ominous deadline come March next year the troubled ministration is halting a program that allows Liberians to live and work here a group of Liberians is suing the government and now their case is in federal court here in Massachusetts our reporter Tanya Caris has been following this and she's with me in the studio to tell us about this program 1st of all Tanya on the people who are at risk of losing this legal status. This program which is called deferred enforced departure or d.e.d. It allows people from certain countries experiencing war or natural disasters to stay in the u.s. Temporarily and d.d. Right now covers about 4000 Liberians most of them came to the us during Liberia's civil war which lasted for many years and Trump ended the d.d. Program because he said it's no longer in the United States foreign policy interest for them to stay here so it's set to end on March 31st that's bad news for people who have spent a huge chunk of their lives here in the u.s. People like you who she's a 28 year old Ph d. Student at u.c.l.a. And she's been living in the us and she was very terminating the program has you know great uncertainty I supposed to be filing my dissertation and the kind of interruptions of the last 2 years because of the termination has meant that I can't plan a certain future I don't know what's going on the job market looks like I don't know what the next couple years will look like for me you came to the United States when you were 6 years old have you been back to Liberia since and so I didn't want but other than that of I've never lived in Liberia so the program terminating means that I would be expected to self deport to a country of I've never lived well so Tanya she would be going back to a country she barely knows Yes and this affects not only them but their children there's at least another $4000.00 children many of them who are u.s. Citizens who would be affected by this decision and so earlier this year a group of Liberians with d.e.d. Sued the trumpet ministration to stop him from terminating the program and my understanding is they had their 1st day in federal court right yes and it was a very emotional morning there was a group of about 70 people Liberians with d.d. Status and their allies they gathered here in Massachusetts before the hearing and they were chanting. Africa. Were large. Several people spoke one of them was a fellow Janice he is a Liberian Holder he's also a social worker he is the father of 2 young American citizen children we are here today to tell Truong that we cannot go back we cannot go back we have our roots here we are war here for me I'm a social worker I'll be a social worker. Yes. And then he let everybody into the courtroom so inside the courthouse Tanya what were the arguments you heard from both sides the trumpet ministration argued that this program exists at the president's discretion he can extend it or terminate it at any time the defense argued that Trump is terminating the program based on racial animus toward immigrants and we did reach out to the Department of Justice for a comment on the allegations that the trumpet ministration is being racist and they declined to comment Tanya Karas thank you very much thank you Marco Liberians are not the only immigrants his status hangs in limbo 7 years ago President Obama sought to legitimize a status of hundreds of thousands of unauthorized immigrants specifically immigrants brought to the u.s. As children those in good standing could receive a work permit and some relief from deportation President Trump wants to end that program but he's been blocked by the courts in just a few weeks the issue will be before the Supreme Court in a case brought by a group of young immigrants including Norma Ramirez Deepa Fernandes went to meet her you might think suing the trumpet ministration feels daunting and I keep blocking Well it is phenomenal Ramirez it's stressful She's 29 and lives in Pasadena in selling California cut my bro you know me here. A few weeks ago a friend Sagna suggested an early morning hike stress relief nowhere and I had my life in my narrative was there ever like you know one day I'm going to sue the president like. Nobody ever you know has that as I'm saying yeah but he she is one of the leaven plaintiffs taking the trumpet ministration all the way to the Supreme Court to preserve her right to stay in the United States the only country she's known as home so I was born in Mexico it's a place called Ghetto which I don't know because I haven't been there since I was 5 it's tempting to lump Ramirez into a familiar. The story of the innocent child brought to this country by parents who entered without visas a young child who learns English excels at school and is American in every way but a passport in some ways this is exactly Ramirez's life but in other ways Ramirez is an example that every doc or recipient has their own story I remember I would go to school on my own you know elementary school 567 I would take the bus on my own you know my my parents they'd be working Vec kind of relationship that kind of I don't know family unity really we didn't have that for her parents it was a struggle to pay bills and feed the family immigration status really came up I always wanted to go to an I school like Harvard Yale whatever standard I remember I had a conversation with my dad or I asked him about school and he's like oh you can't go to college and I was really confused but he told me that those because you know as undocumented and we were going to be able to and so that was a really hard time as her classmates would off college applications Ramirez realized just how different she was all of a sudden all the things that I had worked for. I there was no point I mean it breaks you and then you have a fight oh it's so keep going when her dreams of going to Harvard and med school vanished because of her immigration status she had some lows and experienced feelings she's had to learn how to process Ramirez began to realize that other immigrant children might also need help overcoming these deeply rooted emotions so she decided to become a clinical psychologist she applied to study at Fuller feel logical Seminary here in Pasadena You're welcome Dhaka short for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals who signed into law by President Obama just in time to help Ramirez go to college she was relieved but when Trump halted the program it jeopardized Ramirez's future and many others but Ramirez did not join the street protests instead she's working in her community as the only way to make us know Yanick you know every night on a warm Sunday morning in Pasadena Ramirez's stopping a table at full a feel logical seminary where she's a Ph d. Student which is that it's a conference for Latin x. Faith leaders and she's asking them to take a survey to help identify the mental health needs of a congregants Sometimes it's easier to go to your faith leaders there's a relationship both are stressed and so are the 1st sort of responders the fear that many immigrants in a community living with gives rise to various mental health issues that people need help dealing with she says this is what drives normal. Therapy needs to be culturally relevant and Ramirez is at the fore of this movement at a time when people in her community are under increasing stress my hope is to be able to provide mental health resources at a low cost to Latino undocumented families our communities need. More folks that are well informed of all mental health. Set the rawest flotus is Ramirez's thesis advisor and a leader herself in trauma and mental health a repeat Norma is a very brave inspiring woman and she is learning also as a future psychologist the tools to be able to provide support for our communities while many people would be worse off if Romero's could not continue on her path she shuns the idea that she's a good and deserving immigrant someone who should be able to stay at the expense of his doctor became such a big thing that it is like Dr Dhaka What about the people that don't have to care . What about her parents and their criminalise and they're like oh well it's their fault it's like. My parents are the reason why I am where I am and they need to be respected while she's one of the faces of the court fight Ramirez also nice there are 3 quarters of a 1000000 Ducker recipients and their families waiting to see if she and her lawyer a successful and yeah that's a ton of hopes and dreams for one person to carry. Fernandez reporting there from Southern California and you're listening to Boston calling on the b.b.c. World Service with me Marco Werman every day around the globe social media companies have to make difficult and sometimes hugely consequential decisions about what images and posts can appear on their platforms and what should be taken down Facebook says it does not want to make those decisions alone anymore so now it's testing out a new idea to moderate content a reporter Lidia a man a leader who has been looking into that if you years ago now regenerator Tom Eagle and logged on to his Facebook page and posted a photo. Called Mopar girl napalm girl as it's widely known is one of the most iconic images captured during the Vietnam War in it a young girl naked tears in her eyes screams in pain as she flees a napalm bomb attack in 2016 Egland posted the image to his Facebook page along with several other photos that he felt had changed the history of warfare within hours Facebook took it down and kicked him off the platform it's in the photo violated its rules on nudity and that in some countries the photo might even qualify as child pornography. The smith was surprised upset because this is an iconic photo roll which has nothing to do 2 or showing old pornography or if this is rough when are we doing media picked up the story and posted about it on Facebook they too were censored for uploading the image even Norway's prime minister had her post removed. When she tried to chime in to England Facebook was acting like a god like super editor based in California his words when he reached out to the company to appeal he got the same canned response from some nameless Facebook employee that his post had violated their rules you know it felt pretty hopeless it didn't really matter to me the rules. For this book are so far thing a system were more about it was eventually Facebook did listen after a wave of media attention and a global protest by users the company reversed its decision it acknowledged the historical importance of the image and the value of letting users share it Facebook has to make decisions on posts like this one almost every single day many of them though don't start with well meaning Norwegian writers but with bad actors using the platform to cause harm last year during a tense hearing on Capitol Hill Facebook c.e.o. Mark Zuckerberg admitted that his company hadn't done enough to prevent that and that goes for fake news foreign interference in elections and hate speach. We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and I'm sorry Facebook recognizes the consequences the decisions it makes can have on people safety on democracy on speech and it says it doesn't want to make them alone any more so it's testing out an idea an idea that some say will have a company operating more like a government than a private corporation this idea started with Harvard law professor Noah Feldman it came to him while he was visiting California last year and went for a long bike ride up in the hills behind a lotto and it suddenly occurred to me that Facebook could really benefit by borrowing the model the constitutional courts use he thought what if there was some sort of independent body that users could turn to to challenge Facebook's the station's a panel that would advise Facebook on its policies he took the idea straight to Facebook and I discovered to my great interest that Mark Mark Zuckerberg Self been thinking for a long time about different ways to devolve power create accountability put some kind of decision making outside of the company a few months later Secor debuted the idea on the vox podcast the as reclined show you can imagine even some sort of structure almost like a Supreme Court or appeals board that is made up of independent folks who don't work for Facebook who ultimately get to make the final judgment call on what should be acceptable speech in a community that reflects the social norms of values of people all around the world Facebook wants to have this Supreme Court like panel up and running by the end of this year it doesn't have all the details sorted out but it's envisioning something like this a 40 member panel will be outsiders not Facebook employees the take on appeals from users. Who disagree with decisions made by Facebook using the company's community standards as a guide the board will issue binding decisions on what should happen to whatever piece of content they're reviewing this will be tricky work the board will have to navigate fast the different cultural norms and regulatory environments that's a challenge Facebook's McKenzie Thomas says the company is embracing It's not like we have a governance system that governs the entire world but Facebook has 2 plus 1000000000 users and it's a new genre I guess of governance that we're kind of stepping into and I think that's what's most exciting about it Facebook knows that the 40 member board won't be able to address the concerns of all those 2 plus 1000000000 users so it'll have to be picky about the cases it does take up hopefully they would be representative of larger issues that are plaguing content moderation today me and Mark is one example Thomas gave me there Facebook is accused of playing a role in the brutal violence against their Muslim minority by allowing hate filled posts and false information to run rampant on its platform Facebook has since admitted that it didn't have enough people with the language skills and cultural understanding to deal with what was happening in Myanmar Nicholas Sousa or is concerned the oversight board will have similar issues he teaches law at Queensland University of Technology in Australia I think this is something that Facebook still needs to work. Because ultimately you can create a board that is sufficiently representative of the 2000000000 people. Facebook knows this that's why the company says it's working on a roster of experts that the board can turn to for input on specific cultures and regions they also want a regional representative present for deliberations Suz are doesn't know how all of this will work so he's a bit skeptical but in general he's optimistic because he thinks this will address one of the biggest problems in content moderation. The decisions of making usually in secrets but people that we don't know and we don't have any visibility into that person when it makes a decision on a particular piece of content the board will issue a written statement explaining its opinion and if it recommends a change to Facebook's policies the company will have to respond publicly in writing sooner says this is just one step to hold the company accountable for what happens on its platform but it's a good step Tom eagle and the no regenerator at the center of the napalm girl controversy agrees but he also wants Facebook to acknowledge that it's not just a tech company but a media company that's a label that would subject Facebook to actual oversight and regulation and a label of the company has a long long resisted Lidia mentally do reporting they're building up a positive reputation online for businesses these days is everything feedback and reviews on social media and platforms like Trip Advisor and Yelp can make or break a restaurant for example but even with all of those popular platforms are still one ranking that matters above all else for fine dining establishments around the world the mighty Michelin star here in Boston we don't have Michelin star restaurants or simply no Michelin Guide for a city for any ambitious chef though the stars in that little red book determine their professional fate but one French chef is seriously questioning the legitimacy of Michelin reviews and he's gone so far as to sue the Michelin Guide Lucy has a story to some Europeans Mark is the best chef in the world more suitable. On the way as this is very giving a tour of his restaurant to a French t.v. Show office and uses ingredients he finds in the French Alps for his restaurant on his grandfather's farm and he's a character that obviously that even. From my go he's always wearing his. Signature black felt had and tinted aviators is richer the products of the region. For sure create continues and the reason why it's so cool that Emanuel have an us that has lawyer they're suing me because earlier this year the guide took away one of the stars that expressed his outrage to French media he called on it by giving the absoluteness a shit I was going to get a code to give me. The final words for a very long time so leave the best guy but he considered. The quality has decreased Covena says Michelin made a mistake reviewers thought used cheddar cheese instead of French cheese and that's particularly insulting to a French chef Covena says the ha had to sue to set the record straight it's not a question of money it's a question of owner if you're wondering how one little red book the Michelin Guide got so much power it didn't start out that way it was created in the late 1900 century by the French company Michelin tires. The guide was supposed to encourage motorists to drive to the countryside to try a new restaurant Michelin food critics would slip in and out of restaurants without Shabbes ever knowing until they saw their rating in the guide French chefs learned it could be a mysterious and upsetting process British chef Andrew Pern says he knew a colleague who was depressed about possibly losing a Michelin star before taking his own life is awful and he didn't even leave the stuff you know he's going to be demoted to take the person has experience the Michelin Guide pressure himself in the 2000 says Yorkshire pub won a star last it and regain it again during the time he was down a star person says it cost his business around $300000.00 it's a good industry which got to be a strong character and a strong person to be involved level it's not for the fainthearted it's all food writer Alexander. Braun 0 points out that in the age of Trip Advisor Yelp and Zagat it's weird that the Michelin Guide still has so much power you can serve a very famous incidents where people have tried to get fact this story as they try to step away from the system nobody knows how they make their judgments the Michelin Guides director Grendel pull in excess there is no evidence the guide is connected to any death and to mark there has concerns about his demotion Pullen ex says the guy did nothing wrong you know here don't think at all that he's made absolutely no no stems I think it was just a way to create some buzz we understand that he's quite disappointed that we change our Weekend Edition to street to to star we teach to all principle and or duty is to provide a kind and we say relevant accurate and factual regenerations Pullen x. Says Michelin's process is secretive to protect the identity of reviewer is that a manual Have a nice mark that has a lawyer says there's still going to demand more transparency there had things that would remove the pressure on new chefs is old school for younger generation because the suppression is not acceptable Covena says they're How wants his restaurant to be removed altogether from the Michelin Guide he hopes after 100 years of tradition a court ruling will make the Michelin Guide change our own Lucy moderates in reporting there today we focus a good deal on the courts and the role they play in facilitating justice courts aside when it comes to determining winners and losers nothing could be simpler than a good old fashioned race the faster you run the better you have winners losers clearly define rules and an outcome we can all accept simple enough right but athletes are always looking for an edge a little boost to make them stronger faster higher in long distance running they may have found an answer in a new kind of running shoe the Nike vapor fly but as Sarah Birnbaum now reports some at. I'd say the shoe gives runners who wear it an unfair advantage. This month Elliott choky became the 1st person to run a marathon in under 2 hours on his feet where the vapor flies Nike claims a shoe can make you 4 percent more efficient they retail for 250 dollars and since the 1st paper flies came out in 2017 they've been the go to shoe for pros and amateurs alike if you're used to running a normal shoes and then you go out and you try them you're like This is weird and I don't know it's a waitress Brendan Everett is an amateur runner in Boston he's run 2 marathons now in the vapor flies most recently a couple of weeks ago in Chicago and he says they probably help shave minutes off his time the shoe is built kind of like a rocker and rather than flexing like an ordinary running shoe it has a stiff plate in there that allows you to do that rocking motion I think with less fatigue but does all of that add up to an unfair advantage the I am a track and field governing body has been getting requests since 2017 to regulate the shoes but when Nike recently came out with a new version of the vapor flies a group of runners who wear didas complained again according to The Times of London they said the shoe is ruining the sport Thomas Allen who teaches sports engineering at Manchester Metropolitan University says every generation or so technology comes out that changes the way athletes compete think composite tennis racquets or the full body swimsuits that reduce drag the tennis racquets are allowed by the way but those swimsuits are banned from competition but really it comes down to what are the rules of that particular sport and that if a piece of equipment falls outside of those rules then it can't be used and then that would essentially then be considered cheating but Alan says exactly where to set those. Rules when it comes to technology is difficult because we have been designing running shoes for a long time and the manufacturers will claim that every time they bring out a new better than the previous And every time you could argue that we're having some kind of technology date back Allen says with the vapor flies it may be too late to reel this latest technology back in Nike has patented the design sure but it's only a matter of time he says before other manufacturers come up with their own versions I'm not a betting man but I'd put money on that Sara Birnbaum reporting there and that is our program this week our theme was who's to judge if you missed any of our stories we are in no position to judge you can find them on our website b.b.c. World Service dot com slash Boston calling or download our podcast where ever you find b.b.c. Podcasts Bos'n calling is produced a w g.b.h. In Boston and partnership with p.r.i. And p.r. X. 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World Service I'm Joe Lyneham an enigmatic tweet from President Trump says something really big has just happened speculation is mounting that the leader of the Islamic state group may have been killed will married men soon be allowed to become Catholic priests have to change we cannot keep repeating responses we have to do better in bringing the good news of Jesus Christ to everyone a 1000 years of conservative Catholic ideology could soon be coming to an end but only in one small corner of the world there's more trouble in the Catalan capital Barcelona there have been violent clashes between pro independence demonstrators and the police and it's just wonderful to see that little carrots are flourishing in this. Is an altar and outside the flock really we speak to the creator of Shaun the Sheep as well as Wallace and Gromit about making clay funny. Hello this is the b.b.c. News with Fiona MacDonald the White House says President Trump will make a major statement later today following reports of a u.s. Special forces operation against the leader of the Islamic state group of a bucker al Baghdadi Mr Trump himself tweeted that something very big had just happened although he gave new details and the moor reports several media sources in the u.s. Are saying Mr Trump's announcement relates to our Baghdadi Fox News quoting a well placed military source reported a high value ISIS target thought to be al Baghdadi had been killed by u.s. Led forces Newsweek magazine said Mr Trump authorized the mission by special forces military helicopters over Syria's province the magazine cited an army source saying Al Baghdadi was dead video has emerged from northern Syria taken at night showing several explosions and a fireball there's been no official confirmation of any of these reports the authorities in California of warn that unusually strong winds are about to hit an area north of San Francisco where a severe wildfire is burning us were cast or see gusts of up to 130 kilometers an hour who batter so no more County Chris Buckley has more water is continually being dropped by planes as far fighters try to contain the blaze in the grind the days of forecast strong hot dry winds are going to make their job much more difficult power is expected to be cut almost a 1000000 homes in the state as a precaution there are concerns that sparks from electricity lines combined with extreme winds could prove dangerous smoke is rising and spreading across California fanned by those strengthening wins. Catholic bishops have voted to recommend allowing married men to become priests in remote areas breaking with the tradition of celibacy within the church the vote follows the Vatican Synod on the Amazon region Here's John Mannus celibacy has been the norm for Catholic priests for centuries though it's always been a discipline rather than a matter of doctrine attendees of this have now voted that men who are already church deacons in the Amazon should be eligible for the priesthood whether they're single or married it could help tackle a problem which has left many remote communities without a priest but opponents fear the idea will spread throughout the global church undermining traditional orthodoxy Pope Francis will have the final say on any change there have been more clashes between Spanish police and protesters in Barcelona following another huge demonstration against the jailing of 9 Catalan separatist leaders some protesters threw bottles and fireworks at the police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets the vice president of Catalonia said separatist.