And be willing to back it a county in one of New York suburbs is declaring a state of emergency in response to a severe outbreak of measles for the next 30 days anyone under 18 whose arm vaccinated will be barred from public spaces and those who break the rules face a fine and up to 6 months in jail a group committed to overthrowing the North Korean leader Kim Jong un says it carried out a raid last month on North Korea's embassy in Spain it says he's turned over evidence to the f.b.i. Laura because isn't solved the Spanish High Court says a group of arranged 10 dissidents and intruders made their way into the embassy that staff were boned and gagged and it were trying to force one of the senior diplomats to defect the group on its website known as the true Lima civil defense grip they say that they did not attack the embassy they see everyone there was treated with dignity but they do at mit carrying out the read Laura Baker reporting. The Indian prime minister Narendra Modi says his country is now a space superpower after a successful test to destroy a satellite you get on the my reports from Mumbai in a televised address Mr Modi declared that India's space agency had launched a missile which successfully destroyed a low orbit satellite so far only 3 other countries in the world the Us China and Russia have the capability to shoot down satellites Prime Minister Modi has said he wants to assure the international community that India does not intend to use this power against anyone and the test was part of an effort to strengthen security systems with less than 2 weeks to go for a national election the Opposition has accused Mr Modi for trying to score political points by taking credit for the achievements of the country's space agency world news from the b.b.c. The American vice president Mike Pence has warned that the u.s. Is in a new space race this time with China he said America should be the leader in space and urgency was needed speaking at the National Space Council he knows that the u.s. Will put astronauts back on the moon within 5 years 4 years earlier than previously planned he also hinted that the next American on the moon would be a woman Israel says it has carried out further airstrikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip the Israeli army said it has struck a compound used by the militant group in response to Palestinian rockets and incendiary balloons launched towards Israel 2 days over new clashes were triggered by a Palestinian rocket that injured 7 people deep inside Israel. A British man wanted on drug charges in Australia has been arrested after trying to flee the country on a Jet Ski Police say he was trying to make the 150 kilometer journey across the Tora straits to Papua New Guinea Griffith in Sydney has the story the man was spotted launching the Jet Ski of Cape York Australia's most northerly point he's thought of been armed with a crossbow and carrying enough fuel and supplies to make the journey through the Torres Strait chain of islands Border Force officers were sent to apprehend him and made the arrest on site by Island just a couple of miles south of Papa New Guinea He's due to be flown to Western Australia where there's a warrant for his arrest the British singer Roger chary best known as Ranking Roger of the 2 time band the beat has died at the age of 56 Ranking Roger was a key figure in the rise of Jamaican influence scar music in England in the early 1980 s. The 2 term bands were named for their multi-racial line ups at the time of racial tension b.b.c. News. Many thanks indeed for the latest welcome to News Day with Connie and Lawrence with more celestial news the last the u.s. Rejoins the space race by aiming to land astronauts on our largest satellite from Moon Meanwhile India coincidentally announces its arrival as a space superpower by shooting down a satellite a different satellite back down to earth breaks it the latest not something that even an astrologer can help us with I don't think. But it starts with a subject that's really high on the agenda here in the United Kingdom and it's that off there indicative voting What's that you say well it's a to do with Breck's idjit which has supposed to happen on Friday but has been delayed partly because Parliament hasn't approved the deal struck by the government the European Union they don't like that so what do they like today voting on a series of suggestions for alternative Breck's and plans it's a kind of opinion poll these indicative votes to see what might fly and that's that's what they call indicative voting with M.P.'s who will be now willing to fight a series of ballots testing support for different ideas now this stage it's pretty fair to say most people are watching with impatience exhaustion and dismay that's just in Britain what about in Europe I sat down with a virus vicar Freiburg has an interesting take on the she's a former president of Latvia She's currently the president of the club to Madrid a grouping of former leaders kind of great and good which aims to promote democracy and good governance Now interestingly she took her country in to NATO she took her country in to the e.u. So what does she think it will be like the impact of BRICs it Britain leaving the e.u. If it ever happens I fear that if it goes through it's going to encourage all sorts of movements to say well the treaties that we have signed that's just paper we can forget about them and once you start question. Being an alliance of that sort or a supra national entity that has been built up decade by decade step by step with a great deal of pain and effort and I think of goodwill it is like building a house and clearly it's certainly not a house that's completed one of the reasons that my country wished to enjoy it when we had the referendum about joining I myself as president at the time I would tell my people the new house that they were building in Europe we can at least put one brick in it and we can contribute and it's better than standing outside and not being in it and not influencing anything does Europe actually lose anything if Britain leaves I think will be very very sad why it is lost the unwilling members for decades this was a precisely I think the anchoring in a collective such as the European Union you do have different tendencies and some will be galloping off like the Canadian or ther Stephen Leacock said he jumped on his horse and rode off in all directions and the French Sometimes they jump on their horse and they ride off in all directions with ideas as to what should be done and the British have always have been I think in these last 40 years before the vote a force that 4 was respected and expected by the other countries specially small countries like mine their idea of an Ecuadorian in a healthier and mutually respectful debate what happens therefore when the balance is distorted if Britain leaves you have internal antagonists as well I'm thinking of Hungary who don't entirely play by the rules Poland also in conflict with so called European values where do you see the European project going next after Britain. I think it's going to to have some stormy weather coming in from where. From these countries that you mentioned probably but not the only ones we see stranger changes happening in Sweden Italy seems to be torn and we know that Spain has its own internal problems as well in other words breaks it would be I fear a sort of incentive for the forces of instability or the forces of destabilization of other than because your of claims of one sort of another people talk about a constitutional crisis in this country of the un written constitution now can I ask do you see Mad chaos bad planning poor governance or do you see lively democracy in action I think liveliness can at some point slide into hysteria and I think by watching the debates in your parliament which in my mind has always been the shining light of democracy and an example to us all I personally am beginning to wonder who is running the country and who is looking after the day to day affairs I think it's a sad page in the history of democracy frankly and we were expecting to be sitting here looking ahead to 11 am on Friday and we would have something concrete to talk about we don't let's just underline we don't know what happens in your heart what would you like to happen I would like for Britain to remain to be quite frank about it I think we will we will miss it if it leaves but Vajra Vica Freiburg a former president of Latvia Cari the president of the club to Madrid talking about the b.b.c. That's Britain's BRICs chaos. Let's go to India now where the. Prime Minister Narendra Modi says his country is now a space superpower alongside the United States Russia and China after a test to destroy a satellite the. Joins us from Mumbai you get what exactly did the prime minister say well he made it you know quite an unexpected announcement it was a televised address and in that he said that India has in his words become a space power because it's now acquired the capability to shoot down a low orbit satellite so what he said was today on on Wednesday here. The Indian Space Agency launched an anti satellite missile and successfully was able to destroy a low orbit satellite and that this whole mission lasted for 3 minutes what he also said interesting Leigh is that he wants to assure the international community that India does not intend to use this power against anyone but all of this was part of an effort to strengthen security and it's been sort of an objective for a long time and today he wanted to make the announcement that it's an objective that has finally been achieved it seems a bit far reaching though this ability to shoot down a low orbit satellite and then India red registers itself as a space power is that seen as a bit unusual in India or how how how is it being received. What you need does have you know pretty prolific sort of space program and it's also a very well known space program for not spending too much money unlike sort of other other countries that are heavily in the space race like the u.s. Or Rochelle or China in fact those are the other 3 countries that already have this capability so in that sense the Indian space mission has you know set out objectives in order to achieve them in the past you know the They've launched missions to the moon as well as to Mars the only recently announced that they want to sort of launch their 1st manned mission in the next 2 years as well but it's really the timing of Prime Minister more these announcement I mean there are a lot of critics out there in the opposition saying that you know barely 2 weeks to go for a national election why is the prime minister making this announcement why is he trying to take credit for the achievement of the India of the space agency that the head of the space agency could have made this announcement who are also you know sort of hearing those kind of voices and but but many people of course in India will feel a sense of pride you know in the prime minister's announcement that India is now only the 4th country in the world to have this capability. Thank you very much my last question was about the timing but you summed that up very nicely 1st that you get a limb I thank you very much for that because the u.s. Won the last space race to get a man on the moon now they gearing up for another one not with Russia but with China the u.s. Has announced it's going to redouble efforts to get Americans back on the surface of the moon the previous state they were aiming for was 2828 now Mike Pence the vice president has said Americans will land by 2024 and the next man on the moon could be a woman if they can find space suits to fit or why now though this decision is hugely expensive they've been and done it before and can it actually be done in such a short time scale a question for Dave Moshe who is senior correspondent for space science and tech Business Insider This is the 100000000000 dollar question you know can we move it up for you. Yours and I would also ask is this even possible at all given the agency's current trajectory because right now the biggest thing they have going for them literally is a rocket called the Space Launch System in this is sort of a recycled version of a recycled version of a big rocket they've spent tens of billions of dollars trying to get to this point and they have just kind of lopped off or deferred the future development of this rocket so it remains to be seen if they can even use a government system to do this that was going to be my next question we've had so much pace setting done in space recently with private companies why is the government particularly a trumpet ministration not using the private sector and putting the burden of hundreds of billions of dollars on the taxpayer This is a sort of very entrenched political kind of situation we're dealing with there are more than 10000 people working on this space launch system rocket and there are a lot of people in Congress who have a lot of jobs in their districts and are on very important committees that hold the purse strings on on some of these programs they are clinging to this space launch system when there are definitely other systems for example Falcon Heavy made by space x. That can do at least some of the capabilities that they're looking for you know launch a pretty big space capsule in a space and you know with maybe another rocket or to get enough stuff up there to get it around the moon and possibly even land something there you know NASA and and Mike Pence and President Donald Trump are looking at what space x. And others are doing and saying hey well we could probably do this cheaper with that but they have this friction to deal with with with Congress everyone knows that it was a space race back in the sixty's it was basically to show what America could do as against as against Russia as against communism obviously. The target is now China how important is that in this decision we are absolutely looking at national pride and space and I think that is the overarching impetus here is not so much strategic That is definitely part of it but based on the tenor of the vice president's speech on Tuesday you know we got many shades of patriotism in there he said we're in a space race today just was we were in the 1960 s. And the stakes are even higher and also this mention of gender equality the fact to a woman will very likely be one of the astronauts why not fantastic but you wouldn't expect that necessarily from the trumpet ministration would you it to be for I think it's I think it's refreshing to hear a vice president say something like that and I don't think it's a coincidence that this was said on Tuesday because this week we were supposed to see the 1st all female space walk which was something of a scheduling accident and I think this actually ties back to an earlier point which is can they do this by 2024 and my severe skepticism to that happening astronaut in McLean and astronaut Christina cook were supposed to walk outside the International Space Station together on Friday but McLean decided that her space it was a little bit too big on the 1st spacewalk she did this past Friday she needed a medium size space suit and they only have one of those an operation up there and cook was planning to use that then can we really trust can really trust the government to to execute a crude moon landing in less than basically less than 5 years and I think that's us deserves our skepticism but haven't asked that Dave Moshe senior correspondent from Business Insider all matters space the sun sea and technology innocense news day f.m. The b.b.c. With Lawrence Paul on Uncanny shoppin staying with the space story just weeks before he faces reelection the Indian prime minister has declared he's got a country space superpower to shooting down a satellite. It's in a test in a series of tweets he's tweeted missions shock the had was a highly complex one conducted at extremely high speed with remarkable position it shows the remarkable dexterity of India's outstanding scientists and the success of our space program he also went on to tweet it will make India stronger he says even more secure and will further peace and harmony that's one of our main headlines here this half hour and also standing by is Matthew with the hello Lawrence lots and lots of football on Tuesday Italy scoring 6 on answered goals against Liechtenstein red letter day for a phobia choir quali Atala who became the country's oldest ever goal scorer got to the edge at 36 not bad going big day for Nigeria pull on a watch yesterday as well who scored the country's fastest ever international goal we're told inside 10 seconds it certainly was on his full day before the Super Eagles as they beat Egypt one nil in a friendly if you were late into the game by even half a minute you'll have missed the key moment elsewhere weightlifting is going to be given the green light for inclusion in the Paris Olympic Games 2024 by the International Olympic Committee wants an Anti Doping agreement is in place and that deal ends 18 months of uncertainty about the sport's future in the games the i.o.c. Executive board meet later today with a future of amateur boxing on the line as well after multiple scandals surrounding that sport and we've talked a lot about the case of the Court of Arbitration for Sport brought by South Africa's double Olympic a time for me to champion Caster Semenya against international athletics governing body and its rules in particular on gender classification and testosterone remember that decision by cast has been delayed until the end of April so many of them has issued a rare statement in the last hour or 2 emphasizing that she is no threat to women's sport and saying that recent comments from President Sebastian Coe have reopened old wounds and it's a reminded her statement in in detail is a reminder of the very person. The nature of this case even though it has huge implications thanks indeed Matthew Kenny with the sport like 21 minutes past let's go to business now and one of the largest airlines in Asia Cathay Pacific is going to buy a low cost carrier Hong Kong express Philips on the business desk how much money and what do they get for it $620.00 a 1000000 u.s. Dollars they get some planes which is nice takeoff and landing slots Hong Kong which is great if you're into that kind of thing essentially Hong Kong express flies destinations by the way across Asia and it's going to become a wholly owned subsidiary of cap a Pacific this is been mooted for quite some time now where both companies that have been denying it up until today Kathy is looking to overhaul its cost structure it's looking to expand the company's only recently returned to profit back in 2018 however on Hong Kong express aside it gets a little bit interesting because zone by a company called a chair nay and they're there in financial trouble at the moment their cash strapped they took something like 40000000000 u.s. Dollars out of Asia and went on a buying spree right the way around the world stakes and things like to ship bank in Germany which isn't doing quite so well all of which is meant they're a little bit short entirely Tom money and so they needed to sell there are motivated sellers Peter Morris chief economist over descend by city and I asked him therefore if this was a good price for an airline it's an excellent price I mean I think it's 2 to the circumstances that there's a willing buyer and a willing seller and it suits both to be making that kind it's not that they're buying out something that speculative guess because there is a constraint on Hong Kong in terms of slots in terms of competition and Hong Kong Express has become increasingly a bit of a competitor at the bottom of the market to Cathay and they've been other it attempts by Jetstar and so on to set up a Hong Kong operation a knave. I want to live been thwarted by the authorities but one way or another they haven't been able to get into the marketplace so this means that Kathy gets the opportunity to address that particular part of the market clearly been growing significantly So what exactly is carefully getting here or what's it looking to buy is it looking to buy planes assets routes landing slots it's a combination of all of those but it's I mean they've got planes themselves so it it's that low cost operation but the interesting thing is for years news news Cathay Brewer proudly saying they didn't see a low cost operation as a necessary part of their business and if you look at Singapore look at Qantas at all those major players out there everybody had a bit of a go at creating a low cost entity and Cathy's point was yes but so few of them have actually worked effectively but they can see the section of the market particularly in Asia Pacific because they're the principal market there is to China and to Japan and Korea and that's been growing significantly hand as a consequence they can then address that and a bit like Qantas and Jetstar then segment between the different markets. That was Peter Morris there from a send thank you very much indeed with the business for the prompter. Let's go to the United States now where parts of New York State Rockland County has declared a state of emergency often outbreak of measles anyone under 18 who has not been vaccinated has been banned from public places in the county from midnight to this decision comes at a time of fierce debate over the issue of measles vaccination I spoke to the editor of the Rockland County Times Dillon School of he told me more about the situation that 1st reports came 6 months ago and each week we've had a new report with increased numbers is hardly a week gone by without increase and they are number of. Now we're getting up to about 150 and it's become clear that it's not abating and I think it's already really they don't want to abide by this reality and this is not what they want to accept the new normal. And now what exactly is the county declaring. The county executive declared a state of emergency which is simple right to ban children minors from going to public places. It's nice the onus each other counts to stop putting them at risk and even authorized the district attorney to arrest parents class b. Misdemeanor charge he said he does not plan to utilize those police powers but he send the message that communities that are behind on this take care of it and take care of it soon as this sounds like an extremely desperate measure one only does he feel the need to do this. Well in Rockland County we have a large 1 insular religious community mean by insular I mean the they stick to themselves and not necessarily keen to listen to the secular authorities and when the. Government started sneaking them that they needed to get their immunizations they were making progress steady progress for a number of months over the last month that progress communications broke down and the executives felt like there is actually resistance to serve their immunization and if you look at the rate of immediacy. 3 the religious community East for young people it's around 60 to 60 percent which is not nearly high enough for herd immunity so how how are you going to check whether the mine is have been vaccinated on not with they have to carry that little Cod little books into that no no that's not going to be how it plays out. He made that very clear at the press conferences now if they're doing then you'd have a backlash. People would say it's a police state how it will play out is technically on any circumstance where they discover that the parents news their kid who is it not immunized going on public under the you know the wording of the he murdered she order they could arrest them but that's not how they're going to enforce it that would be overkill the way I would expect to see it reinforced would be in the cases where there is a new case of measles then you might say a parent receive a foreign I don't think it's likely that they'll be throwing anyone in jail at this point but they're just trying to get the message out there when they're serious and 2 they have legal resources at their disposal if they want to use them. And the county government doesn't want to have been on go. That's Dillon of the editor of the Rockland County Times talking about the outbreak of measles there in Rockland County Meanwhile we're going back to the moon Iraq we're back again tomorrow Tuesday this is being launched. 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Coming up on the B.B.C.'s World Service the fight for justice and equality is inextricably linked to the law yet a 100 years since women in the u.k. 1st won the right to become lawyers can female lawyers now claim equality I'm Katie Prescott I'll be hearing from some of the women who have shaped profession that's coming up on the b.b.c. As well service off to the nice. B.b.c. News where Gerry some 8 members of parliament in the u.k. Will try to end the chaos over break said today with a highly unusual series of votes on alternative courses of action the idea is to gauge support for various options to see what can command a majority but the government has made it clear it won't necessarily be bound by the results a county in New York State is declaring an emergency in response to as if there are breakers measles for the next 30 days anyone under 18 whose unvaccinated will be barred from public spaces in Rockland County bags a nation rates have dropped steadily in the us with the rise of the antibiotics movement which falsely claims vaccines cause autism in children a group committed to overthrowing the North Korean leader Kim Jong un says it carried out a raid last month on North Korea's embassy in Spain Julie most civil defense a self-proclaimed human rights group denied using violence a Spanish judge had accused them of shackling embassy staff New Zealand Police are investigating whether a man who apparently stabbed himself to death shortly after a standoff with police in Christ Church had any links to the mosque attack or who killed 50 people 12 days ago the police discovered a cache of firearms in his house the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has had his country is now a space superpower after a test to destroy a satellite Mr Modi who is about to face an election and others that in India missile had successfully hit a low orbit satellite He added that the technology was not directed against any country the American vice president Mike Pence has warned that the u.s. Was in a new space race this time with China he said the u.s. Will put astronauts back on the moon within 5 years the 1st manned mission will head for the lunar South Pole babies Ynys. One of the really striking things when I was a young boy was this real recognition amongst women that you didn't have pictures of your children up on the walls you didn't really talk about them and it was always a real contrast with the men who always have lots of pictures of my children up and talked about the minds of not because it got to humanize them and made them look like provided. Women in the law today or business daily with me Katie Prescott I'm going to be exploring the history of the struggle for representation in the legal profession what was it like for those 1st female lawyers or the professional body organizations that all society the Ins of course where you had to go to become a lawyer you have to become a member will reject women because they were not deemed to be persons of the existing statutory legislation and has some women shaking things up and inspiring new generations we as young women are starving for icons who have not just achieved the sort of stature that she has and the success in her own career you know she has done so while fighting for everyone that's all in business daily on the b.b.c. . England in 1988 it's a time of change for many Elizabeth Dole was the 1st woman to get a law degree but she wasn't allowed to become a lawyer that was only allowed for women in 1919100 years ago so why did it take so long Donna Dennis Smith is the founder of the 1st 100 years project which celebrates the same team of u.k. Women in law but as part of the project Donna recorded some of the legal professions most influential women. I think what drives me oddly enough isn't my father just my mother because when he died so young instead of being the wife of an immensely successful businessman. She was suddenly a widow who couldn't get a proper job I remember thinking I can't do this I'm going to have a man's job my father was immensely frugal I had heard the arguing about the housekeeping money and I said What is this house keeping money I'm not going to do that. And then the stuff. But I got a very very thorough trade let me start by saying that in my day and as long as that there were only 20 years. To my name is done out then is Smith and I am the founder of the 1st 100 years project I was born in Romania I was brought up on the communism so I had no intention of being a lawyer I came over to the u.k. To go to university and work as a journalist and then later on the side to be a lawyer so I mean November 2039 I was reading one of the alumni magazines from one of the cities or there was a story about a man who was turning 100 in the corner of the article there was this photograph from 1980 there all the men that were his mates basically and one woman in the middle but I just thought Wow So if they only had one woman partner in 1980 and maybe there's an explanation about why we still struggling at the top and maybe we need to look in the history of the world when the women get allowed to be a lawyer and I discovered to my shock it was 1919 it required an act of parliament for that change to happen because all the professional body organisations that all society the Ins of course where you had to go part of a kind of rite of passage to become a lawyer you have to become a member will reject women because they were not deemed to be persons under the existing statutory legislation why $99.00 t. Just after the 1st women were getting the vote was it to do with that that suffragette movement that's of empowerment and some of the suffragettes tried to go into the bar Christabel Pankhurst was one of them and they got rejected on the same not to person ground but to some degree I think it was more. To going to make a point as opposed to necessarily to practice it was just a way of saying we should have equal rights across the board so the act of parliament basically did away with this disqualification on the basis of not being a person so in 102293 we had the 1st wave of women qualified how many were there very few because also it was quite expensive to go to the whole process so it wasn't a cheap profession to join and those of the early woman might have had a connection with the law because some of their dads might have run their own solicitors firms for example and they would have lost their sons in the war therefore they could do with a woman you know in the absence of any other child that could inherit this that Ok I would train up the girl because otherwise the farm won't have any success from planning so you know it was a kind of combination of if you are like world politics economics resourcing if you like the father we had such a you know huge death rate in the war and then allowing women in for the vote they became people they became people how does it compare to dates internationally when women were allowed to practice their 919 was the u.k. Date so obviously New Zealand was much earlier but actually this year marks under 50 years or the 1st American lawyer in the state of Iowa and I have to say she was a bit of a one hit wonder so there was a huge gap between her and the next generation coming in which is consistent with what's happened everywhere you know you have the 1st one that breaks down the barriers and then not much happens and then obviously you have been you know progression in terms of high rankings was only really after the 2nd World War Are there any stories that really stand out where do I begin there are so many lovely stories a lady who is actually still alive and we discovered her for a scrap book she basically was a barrister she was the daughter of a general and then became a queen a barrister and ended up marrying a criminal but he then got. His conviction of course so he got rehabilitated she used to its. Our stories about the sea in the you know fifty's woman would wear still gloves and you know tiny little bags you know she got told off for way wearing pink gloves the old bady So there are a lot of stories around you know either laughing at the idea women kind of joining in and kind of weeks for they have I'm sure they have the same wigs or maybe they should just have hats the bags are just not big enough to hold the fires that any lawyer would need to carry around so I have bags it captures the kind of the progress but also the kind of the social change and it's always slugging behind you know so that's really interesting but what about women in the legal profession today when it comes to entry level jobs there are more women than men but that's still not breaking through to the upper echelons one of this minority is for me to be She's the chair for Europe and the Middle East of one of the 10 largest law firms in the world Norton Rose Fulbright and she really broke the mold to get there so I came to the u.k. Properly when I was 6 so I grew up and back in a small village and English wasn't your 1st language so you had to learn that from scratch yes so I went to school not speaking any English and the 1st couple of years were a strange Bleriot when I was 8 I had begun to read so I could speak English at that point and I had a student who helps children for whom English isn't a 1st language to read and she was wonderful so she helped me over 3 years and really introduced me to books eyes developed a love of reading and a lot of language really because of her efforts and if you remember what some of your favorite books were at that time and very much I mean they're incredibly important to me Balance shoes where 3 little girls create their own identity is a book that's really important to me I love Little Women I love China and those are books which have strong women who forge identities that honed your link to their background so I suppose it's not surprising that there's a kind of. That spoke to me when I was quite a small child what was it to the little I had a real eureka moment with the law I was of lining up with Michael Moss when I was about 13 and I suddenly realized I mean it was richest a bolt of lightning that what I wanted to do was to be a lawyer at that point I'd become interested in what was happening in the world I was very interested in the anti-apartheid movement and I didn't think about another career after that and how do you square that career choice with a traditional Pakistani background where women didn't go out to work in my family no woman went out to work now a woman went to university but I had known at a very early age it was probably because of reading those books my life was not different to those 19th century women's lives and I wanted a different kind of life and I remember again at a single moment aged about 9 deciding that the only way I was going to get the kind of I wanted was if I didn't really want school because going to university was going to be my way out of a life even at that point I knew wasn't right for me did your parents support you in that no not for a long time because it just didn't make sense to them you know for them women had a particular role in life going to university and working away from home was not a part of that so when I got my place at university it was a bit of a struggle for them to accept that I was going to leave home they came round to it they started a career in the city in the 1990 s. Mustering quite a different world to up to the one what it is today there wasn't a lot of senior women around and there were very few ethnic minority you know as far out and it was very much a mono culture so if you were somebody who liked playing rugby or going to the pub on a Friday and I'd choose you really wasn't in the mainstream us sort of a little bit unusual one of the really striking things when I was a young geisha way before I have children was this real recognition amongst women that. We didn't have pictures of your children up on the walls you didn't really talk about them and it was always a real contrast with the men who always had lots of pictures of the children up and talked about them quite a lot because it empty humanize them and made them look like provided Nowadays with a job working it's not unusual for people to either work part time work from home even a part level we have some partners who work part time and I think what's really good news is that is that we're now promoting associates who are part time associates to become part time partners and you think you have to work harder than the men to get promoted I did not fit into the moment coach I didn't have a run I have on day one of my training contract thinking I'm going to be a partner here you know I thought I'll do this for a little while see how it goes and then if something more interesting comes along I'll do the something more interesting but that meant that I didn't get weighed down by the structures that might have impeded me I'm not going to become someone who stays in the population on a Friday night because that's not my idea of fun but you know I'd really like people I like getting to know them at the end of the day most of what we do is about personal relationships or how you build them I guess Mary's from person to person I've been able to find my way through I suspect that there have been subtle issues birds were probably been too thick skinned to missions them a lot of Loaf I'm still all. Mainly made up of white men yes but that's not his now reflecting the historic positions when I was old school moved certainly 50 percent of the people at old school were women now I think it's much more than 50 percent but what Loovens are now recognizing is that you can't take that talent head and be comfortable about the fact that so many of them leave without exactly what happens in the intake of women is a lot and that's the as the pyramid gets narrow as. They got women so have traditionally self selected and have chosen to leave but firms like ours and I think many others are addressing that by spotting the really capable women and as a start saying to them we think your partner material we want you to stay here and become a partner do you think sitting way you are now open as you do with what you've achieved it's helping other women and you offer to think yeah you know I can I can get to the highest levels it. Yeah and you recognize that yes I do I think role models some are incredibly important and I think the fact that I'm the chair of the for them sends out a really positive message to the women in the film I'm not actually just an alpha right across the board so I'm approached particularly by being women who are really pleased to see the time I'm in this role the 1st part is we're going to thing that distinguished them did they have families with a from certain backgrounds they are generally tough women. Say Sarah Holt who is authorized to be the hold up or is someone who who didn't put up with fools and some of the Popes who came off to have who just talk about I mean really not that much earlier than when I started this it was a tough environment it was and how they just had to get through it and they were very tough women but you know. One woman at the top of her profession in the u.s. Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg unusually for a Supreme Court justice she's an icon for women of all ages and the subject of a recent Hollywood blockbuster She's also the subject of numerous vocal fees including the notorious all be the life and times of brief Bader Ginsburg which is coauthored by Shauna Krisna a civil rights lawyer in New York what a student to n.y.u. Law school she created the notorious all beachy Tumblr account a social media account dedicated to justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her lifelong fight for equality and social justice it was the summer of 2013 there were a number of major Supreme Court decisions that came out the week that I started the blog and Justice Ginsburg dissented in a number of those cases she actually broke the record for oral dissents delivered from the bench and there were cases involving employment discrimination and affirmative action I wanted to create a space to celebrate her anti. Her life story which is really inspirational did she want to anticipate that this will be so popular so I certainly did not expect that when I started the Tumblr that you know within a few days I would have lots of t. Shirt orders that there would be write ups in New York Magazine about it the Supreme Court is really about as remote of an institution as you can imagine you hear about decisions that the Supreme Court makes when it's really hot button issues but it's it's very disconnected from the lives of most regular people most Supreme Court justices don't have the background that she does which was as a litigator a civil rights litigator she basically changed the face of constitutional law as it related to women and sex discrimination in the 1970 s. As a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union the a.c.l.u. And so she already was a pivotal figure in American history and there just aren't that many especially older women who are recognized for the contributions they've made and also just the sort of intergenerational nature of her story the fact that there are older women who can see their own stories in hers that relate to what she experienced when she you know graduated at the top of her class from law school but yet couldn't get a job we as young women are starving for icons who have not just achieved the sort of stature that she has and the success in her own career you know she has done so while fighting for everyone who wants one of his favorite. I remember the story that I learned from a professor who used to be a colleague of Justice Ginsburg's of the a.c.l.u. Talking about a white water rafting trip that they took where she insisted on sitting in the front of the boat even though she was told that because of weight distribution she should sit. In the back and she said I don't sit in the back the 1st time I met her was in her chambers before the book came out some other friends of mine who had done a different medium can't spell truth without Ruth she actually had just had a heart stent put in she said she was doing fine we asked what message Sheesh she wanted to send to her fans and she told us that we should tell them she'll be back doing push ups next week so I think that really speaks to Justice Ginsburg's tenacity will tenacity and resilience we could probably learn a thing or 2 from the notorious b.i.g. That's who from this edition of Business Daily we meet Katie Prescott produced by Sarah Trina if you have any comments about this program you can find me on Twitter at Kate Prescott and you can find more about the history of women in law by visiting 1st 100 years. To you Kate. Hello and now here on the b.b.c. World Service it's time for witness history with me my clenching today we're going back to March of 1999 when 2 men completed a remarkable journey around the world in a balloon it was a record breaking feat and a moment to savor in the history of flying and angler Swiss team have completed the 1st nonstop balloon flight around the world Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard made aviation history and their Breitling Orbiter 3 balloon legend journey started 20 days ago in Switzerland they crossed the finishing line in the skies above North Africa. It's fabulous and you were so excited and we turned a video camera on inside the capsule I thought well shake hands know we gave each other a big hug we were kind of laughing at the celebrations at 30000 feet over North Africa for Brian Jones and fellow balloonist Bertrand Piccard I think it was the British and the came back to me I realize I have my arms around on the man's neck and I'm getting into resides and celebrations also thousands of kilometers away back in the u.k. Back home in the worship village of. Brian Jones as young family joined the rest of the community in toasting their local hero. The ballooning perspective and bear in mind I was a balloonist it was the ultimate the ultimate challenge the ultimate challenge and also an amazing feat Jones and Picard had flown almost 41000 kilometers on a route that had taken them over the major continents and across the world's largest oceans braving dangerous and potentially lethal storms Bertrand Piccard whose grandfather had also been a balloonist had made 2 previous. That the record Brian Jones at the time the U.K.'s chief balloon instructor had been part of because team on one of his failed attempts so the potential of flying a balloon around the world really only came into reality with the advent of g.p.s. That made it feasible at least and so there were several attempts in the early days of the pioneering adventures to try this but none really got much further than a day or 2 before they came down so there are a lot of people going after this ultimate flight amongst those who'd already attempted to nonstop flight was multimillionaire Richard Branson who made several failed attempts his last had been in 1908 the year before Jones and Picard Jones and Picard had been told by their sponsors that this next attempt would have to be their last which added to the tensions and the pressures in the runup to their takeoff on March the 1st 999 the morning of takeoff was difficult in many ways actually better than I got out of bed I suppose a back 5 in the morning from a local hotel and we had breakfast together and we didn't really talk very much we were quite nervous obviously in fact back on the so nervous after breakfast he went back to his room and threw up parents and then we went down to the launch site and . This spectacle that we saw was this this silver shimmering form which was huge dwarfed everything around it and then to think that and my goodness we're going to have to get in this and actually fly it was pretty daunting the 2 men said emotional goodbyes to their families on the ground climbed into the specially designed pressurized capsule and then after several false starts sawed into the air over the Swiss out. They prepared for a long journey inside the tiny capsule suspended below the giant balloon one of the major issues that we had is that we didn't have any water other than drinking water and of course water is weight so each day we had a little modesty curtain where the toilet was at the back of the capsule and we would go behind the curtain and wipe ourselves down with these baby wipes and to keep a record of their flight they took turns filming each other so this is breakfast on the 11th of March at 8 o'clock in the morning. If you make already open a Tony for tomorrow it will be maybe a little dry because today it's the 10th. So the 1st 11 days which took us out beyond Taiwan the balloon performed really well and we were very happy with it I think that was the most satisfying time that I found in the whole flight where I felt that I could make this thing downs if I wanted to things were going well also they thought as they headed past Taiwan they heard that another balloon also trying to make the round the world trip had been forced down by huge storms so in order to avoid the same weather front Jones and Picard decided to head south into the huge open expanse of the Pacific Ocean but then things began to go wrong the 1st thing that happened was that we lost communications with our control center the 2nd thing that went wrong we lost 3 of our 6 burners we think that because. Group pushing the balloon hard to try to go up points we avoided that storm we need to go up to get across the smaller storms that were scattered across the Pacific we think we'd accrued so much ice that we lost those burners they were now on their own over the Pacific trying to steer their way around the storms with only some of their burners working and effectively flying blind We're still nearly 2000 miles away from flying and several run out in the middle of nowhere and not going very fast at night we knew that if you could see stars through our little plexiglass window then we were entering cloud and if we lost the stars then we probably were in cloud and we had to do something about it you probably need to understand that we were terrified it was 48 hours before they managed to restore communications with their ground. They did make it across the Pacific and then with the help of the winds of the jet stream they sped on towards Mexico but then another potential problem. Rattling over the 3. Years no one and that we're here Bryan and I together Ok we agreed this is a time when we have to talk about whether we're going to go on across the land again not any and we had a message from our control center and they said Guys sorry to say that we are recommendation is that you land in Puerto Rico because we don't think you have enough fuel to cross the Atlantic and baton and I looked he other less than 3 seconds and we just looked at her and said no way and so they pushed on over the Atlantic where by luck or design they picked up the jet stream again and suddenly they were speeding along towards the finish line over West Africa and we got right into the core of the jet stream we were doing 16170 miles an hour I mean in a balloon which is extraordinary and with the help of that jet stream they sped across the imaginary finishing line in the morning of March the 21st the record was theirs but it would take them another 24 hours to find some way to land in the middle of the Egyptian desert. It was probably the worst landing I'd ever done in a building in which at the time. You took out what thoughts went through your mind when you he was stepping down to land again. We'd set the cameras rolling after we landed because we appreciated how important this is very historical event and we're trying got a bit emotional. It's fabulous. We were just incredibly relieved. And really tired I mean we were pilots we were just flying a balloon and that's what we were doing to the best of our ability Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard still fly balloons and they still meet up on occasion to remember their amazing achievement Brian Jones was speaking to me Mike luncheon for this edition of witness history and if you'd like to hear more unique voices from history we've got a huge archive so just search online for b.b.c. Witness history this is the b.b.c. 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We'll try to end the chaos have a breakthrough today with a highly unusual series of votes on alternative courses of action but the government says it won't necessarily be bound by the results his Norman Smith today is unlikely to result in a clear alternative to Mrs May's deal but supporters hope it will begin a process to put parliament in control it's reported 16 amendments have been submitted which the speaker will whittle down to around half a dozen covering all the main breaks adoptions M.P.'s will then debate and vote on them by marking on a ballot paper their preferences as many or as few as they like the expectation is that 2 or 3 favorites will emerge which will then be put to a further vote on Monday in the hope a single alternative can be agreed the government will then be challenge to implement that policy. The European Parliament in Strasburg the president of the European Council Donald Tusk has a monitor some m p m e P's who've objected to the possibility of Britain being granted a longer extension of the regs a process because it would mean Britain taking part in European parliamentary elections in May Mr Torres said the views of remain supporters in the u.k. Must be omitted and it was unacceptable to argue that such an extension would be harmful or inconvenient your cannot be tray the 6000000 people who signed that petition to revoke Article 50. 1000000 people. For a people's vote or the increasing much already of people who wants to remain in the European Union. They may feel that they are not supposition be represented by u.k. Parliament but they must feel that they are represented by you in this chamber because they are Europeans. 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