Rockets fired from Gaza but also pasted pictures of a house in southern Israel that was hit and damage environmental campaigners have hailed the British government's decision to place a moratorium on fracking in England because of safety concerns as a victory for the climate and for grassroots activism opposed to the controversial gas extraction process friends of the earth said the moratorium should be turned into a permanent ban while the campaign for Rural England said the decision would help Britain meet its climate change goals news from the b.b.c. Police in Hong Kong have fired tear gas to try to disperse pro-democracy activists gathering for an unofficial protest and in the Toria park many people are dressed in black and wearing face masks in defiance of a ban is the Chinese 2nd weekend of demonstrations in the semi autonomous territory Britain is convening a Citizens Assembly to help tackle climate change parliament is sending out letters to 30000 random households seeking their views on how to cut carbon emissions an assembly drawn from a sample of these households will meets next year Britain has said 2050 is the date for cutting greenhouse gas emissions to net 0 but it won't projectile ideas on how this goal can be achieved the Us presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has unveiled details of funding for health care plan which would be expected to cost the federal government more than 20 trillion dollars over 10 years Ms Warren a Democratic front runner in the 2020 election said Medicare for all would not raise fund raise taxes one penny for ordinary Americans but would largely be paid for by businesses and the world thinks. The final of rugby union's World Cup has just begun in the Japanese city of Yokohama with England taking on South Africa outside the stadium fans on both sides were confident of their team's chances of winning Springboks doing it but. Just too strong for the English I think it's going to be really taught I'm afraid to say I don't think you could birdie. I'm worried excited as well that to be. $1850.00 to South Africa and will be because of the forwards we love is stronger than them will succumb in and I think we can do it unfortunately for South Africa it's going to be a bit of a whitewash from a good point of view I think they're good boys big boys but if you watch our performance against New Zealand absolutely no chance b.b.c. News Hello I'm Carol what and welcome back to the world this week. The death of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi the leader of the Islamic state group marked a turning point for the militant group that emerged from political chaos in Iraq to run a pseudo state in Iraq and Syria that it termed the caliphate that lengthy news conference in the Us President Donald Trump claimed that the highest leader had died like a dog after being cornered by u.s. Special Forces detonating his suicide vest killing himself and his children inside Syria just a few kilometers from the Turkish border the group has announced a new leader leading intelligence services scrambling to work out just who he is the killing came at a key moment for Mr Trump who is facing and it tends to fire an impeachment process and we'll be hearing more about that from Washington in a moment but 1st our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen on what the killing means for slam extent and the region the loss of a chief the loss of a leader is very important in any organization and particularly in an organization like that Khan's purgatorial with almost a cult of personality that are surrounding that particular man however history in the jihadist movement shows us that in fact cutting off the head doesn't kill the body because the ideology is intact how hard will al Baghdadi be to replace forget that these organizations not everything is ordered from the top people look at what they stand for and emulate it so the people who say that they are loyal to the jihadist movement Islamic state I think these are people who will continue with the kind of atrocities that they have been come well known for if it's possible for them to do it so while it's a genuine victory it's symbolically it's very important morale wise it must be a blow to them in Islamic state the fact is the organization will continue Kurdish. Input proved vital in establishing where Al Baghdadi was and that it was definitely him what happens next for the s.d.f. For the Kurdish fighters here yes ironic given that in the space of more of us a phone call and a few tweets president Dall Trump ditched them betrayed them as allies after everything they'd done to forget that in the fight against the Caliphate of Islamic state the territorial entity that they once used to control which had its biggest was the same size as Britain the Americans were in the plains and while there are some special forces on the ground the bulk of it was done by Kurdish their forces and $11000.00 of them died so many people thought that Trump at the very least was being very ungrateful but despite all of that by all accounts the Kurds were very important in feeding intelligence into the Americans even one report says getting hold of a set of his underwear for d.n.a. Testing which they then passed on to the Americans and that that was crucial in the whole operation once where Al Baghdadi was found and killed a sign that he'd made up with another violent Islamist group that had been Islamic state group sworn enemy Yes Well he was found in killed in it live which is a fairly large error and it's the one big area of the country not controlled by the regime yet because the regime has with this Russian and Iranian friends won the war that Islamic states were very much literally daggers and guns drawn with the jihadi groups dominated by various Al Qaida type organizations that controlled it lead there's a debate about just how he ended up there and there's one suggestion that said Bias to infiltrate one of those groups and was therefore able to get itself a bit of a safe haven growing in it the fact is that once the Caliphate went I guess they had to go somewhere and a lot of them went towards it lip what it's doing. Now I mean in what form and shape does it still exist as far as one can tell it exists in terms of sleeper cells left behind it exists in terms of an ideology that people around the world for all kinds of reasons there are people who found it attractive look at all the foreign fighters who flocked to going through Turkey and crossing over into Syria crossing into Iraq as well so it exists on that sort of level as an organization which can do hit and run attacks that can plant bombs can act as a guerrilla organization what is lost is these pretensions it had to being a state that. Will want this happen now affect Syria and Iraq and the wider region because presumably the conditions that might facilitate I ses Renee soft still exist there are conditions in parts of Iraq in parts of Syria and places elsewhere in the region as well in the Middle East and North Africa which act as incubators for the whole jihadist ideology you know never mind which organization there and up and the fact is there are people who find the arguments persuasive they like what they hear for them it's a logical conclusion and while those ideologies and those incubated for jihadism continue then they will continue in whatever form because these groups have a habit of morphing from one shape into another but they continue so while they are there of course for some people there won't be peace in the area in terms of the bigger picture in Syria the big outside powers of the ones which are shaping what's going on there but you never know there might find themselves fighting Islamic state again in the future I'm talking about the Turks so I'm talking. About the Russians talking about the regime itself we'll have to see what happens particularly around it let Jeremy about the killing could have repercussions in u.s. Politics too Mr Trump certainly seemed to be glorying in it as he made his announcement it was striking then later that same day he was booed as he attended a baseball game and later in the week Democrats in the House of Representatives decided to intensify the impeachment probe I holding future hearings in public so when I spoke to Gary Donahue in Washington I started by asking him how much the bump for Mr Trump was the fact that the killing was no question that the Baghdadi capture and killing has been a positive thing for the president and of course even his opponents have had to say it was a good thing there was a lot of criticism about that press conference he gave the sort of triumphalist approach to it the kind of language he used a lot of contrast made between how he delivered his news compared to how President Obama delivered the news of the killing of some of Bin Ladin back in 2012 so I think that's something that he's being criticized for but unquestionably This is a positive for the president bear in mind that Baghdadi wasn't the kind of iconic figure that in large and walls been large enough to orchestrated an attack on the homeland brought down the Twin Towers that cetera was back that he was important and was credibly sort of central to the narrative about Islamic state he wasn't the same level of bogeyman if you like that bin Laden was and what about the Democrats decision to take the impeachment hearings public can point is that I was up on Capitol Hill on Thursday covering that vote and I think it's probably the most significant day so far in the kind of 5 week course of this impeachment investigation here we have the Democrats effectively saying we're cool. I'm for them enough to go forward with this in public here's a way we can call the Republicans bluff on this because one of the attacks the Republicans have been making is that the thing hasn't been indorsed if you like by votes in the House and of course the Democrats got their way 232 votes to 196 just 2 Democrats breaking ranks and voting against the resolution to Democrats from very tight districts where they're fighting Republicans and if you compare that to $998.00 when a similar vote to sort of authorize the impeachment process began with Bill Clinton you saw something like $31.00 Democrats vote against their own president at that stage so this was a very partisan straight down the line votes and it does open up the whole business of public hearings public testimony it puts impeachment on television in a way that the Democrats will hope will have an enormous impact what impact do you think that is likely to happen voters ahead of the 2020 lection it's interesting the polls have been shifting in a way the Democrats would like pretty gradually over the last 5 weeks so on average if you asked people across the country you get about a 10 point advantage with people who believe the president should face an impeachment inquiry versus those who shouldn't if you ask them whether he should be removed the cap is much narrower So there's a lot of people out there that believe the inquiry should happen but it shouldn't end up in the president being removed if you look in there's been some interesting work done on this in the last few days if you look at the real battleground states the 6 states where President Trump won and has to win this time where the margins were the narrowest in 2016 and I'm thinking of places like Arizona Florida North Carolina and then the sort of blue wall as they call it Pennsylvania Michigan and Wisconsin the polls haven't moved as much against Donald Trump and those. States in terms of impeachment as they have elsewhere I think in some ways that's pretty obvious because that's where the support is very telling that's something I think he will take some solace from the Democrats justification bear in mind his impeachment process is not. Overtly political their primary justification is under the Constitution this is what we should do given what we think the president has done now of course there are political motives as well and even though they are pretty certain that they won't get a conviction in the Senate and we know that 2 thirds of the Senate has to vote convict the president remove him they believe it will do enough damage up until sort of February time when we think this whole process might be wrapped up Gary O'Donoghue You're listening to the world this week the program that tells you what happened in the past 7 days and why it counts coming up the Cold War in Silicon Valley heats up have a policing free speech and propaganda and if you want to listen to us again on previous editions tight b.b.c. The world this week into your search engine. The aftershocks of the BRICs referendum continue to reverberate just as the British Prime Minister Barak's Johnson appeared to be making headway with his bill to withdraw Britain from the European Union he changed tack and won the backing of Parliament for a general election to be held on the 12th of December Rob Watson is our political correspondent I think it's got to be one of the most important elections surely since 1945 and the end of the 2nd World War because it seems to me what is at stake is not just Britain's relationship with the European Union but its entire standing in the world the nature of its economic model and in fact the very unity of the United Kingdom because there is much talked of pending on the outcome of the election that you could for example see this as having pave the way to an independence referendum in Scotland and a united Ireland going to the country that is a risky strategy is the former Conservative prime minister trees a maze reduced majority shows the last time that the u.k. Held a snap election all the way back in 2017 that's absolutely right she had a massive a lead in the opinion polls just as Boris Johnson does now and of course for them once the same thing so increase that majority in order to get done without having to rely on votes from opposition parties it went wrong for her it may well go wrong for Boris Johnson what we do know for sure and this is what they're up against is extraordinary votes of volatility I mean in the old days in this country you know when I was a kid when these things were 1st measured in the 1960 s. People are immensely loyal to their parties but if you look at what happened in 201-020-1520 extension 17 fewer than 50 percent stayed with the same party for all 3 elections so there is something a mentally inherently risky in going to lecture us at a time of extraordinary political turbulence caused of course by the shock of Bracks of Boris Johnson didn't half. The cold I don't like his withdrawal bill had got initial parliamentary approval so why was it partly to do with the weakness of the opposition Labor leader Jeremy cool been in the polls it was exactly that look the people in Downing Street aren't stupid they ran an incredibly successful vote leave campaign in 2060 they can read the same as the rest of us so they were looking at yes that enormously that the conservatives have in the polls but also they made this calculation that maybe the next time for the general election if they put it off perhaps Jeremy call been Wouldn't that be the leader of the Labor Party and again that the polling suggests he is the most unpopular leader of the opposition since records began but remember that was the same thing that series of May and her team thoughts to what degree is this election about more than bricks it didn't break city itself it was about more the Bracks I think you're right I mean I think this will be about more than Bracks but the Bracks itself is a very very complex issue so in the past elections have been pretty much about regular socio economic issues So which party do you trust best to run the nation's finances to provide public services without bankrupting the country whereas I think Bracks that as complicated things and that you now have elections which are about values as well it's about what is it to be British there about issues of identity how you feel about globalisation how you feel about multinational institutions like the European Union how you feel about our relationship with the United States it's about so many things and of course that makes it in some ways rather difficult for the political parties both the main party have provoked a lot of this realignments in British politics but it seems to me that neither of them are yet in charge of the process or are entirely comfortable with elections based on a mix of issues on a mix of the of the sort of socio economic but also throwing in those I. Use of identity and virus I mean this is very much a work in progress and is a sort of crazy revolutionary moments if you like in British politics because being no doubt is the biggest shock applied to the system pretty much since the 2nd World War robots pattern isn't his back in Argentina the workers' movement that has dominated politics there on and off since the 1940 s. Widespread dissatisfaction with rising prices spec wages and cuts to welfare programs the fuel protests among the poor and middle class alike on Sunday in the center left all that often and is turned that dissatisfaction into votes beating the incumbent Mauricio Macri the become president Mr McRae had failed to deliver on his promises the free market policies would stabilize and grow the economy the new president's former boss Cristina Fernandez to kill her own political comeback as his running mate she'd been president before Mr machree if you want something as our South America correspondent this vote was all about the economy Mr Mack who came to power in 2015 promising economic miracles really he talks about 0 poverty and shaking up the economy which with huge promises but 4 years later one in 3 Argentinians are in poverty inflation's around 50 percent unemployment is on the rise the country's in recession so people worth fed up they blamed Mr machree for a lot of the economic problems what is better often have this going to do that so different especially economically One person we need to talk about who's probably key to all of this is Christina a friend is a kid she was in power up until 2015 for 2 terms and prior to that her late husband nest Occasionally they are Peronist Christina is a very controversial figure she is a populist she introduced a lot of welfare programs that benefited Argentineans now the critics say that that . Encouraged mismanagement of the economy there was a lot of spending it wasn't necessary but nevertheless misspeaks Washington's on the streets and I was this time and time again when I was there people felt that times were much better under Christine and so in fact when I said he going to vote for Alberto or Marty Makary a lot of people like or voting for Christina you know such is her power if you like and her influence that people wanted that kind of generous spending leader back and the fact that she's now the vice president and a lot of people feel she'll have a lot of influence in the leadership of Alberta Fernandes you say influence who is actually going to be running the show is it him. Well he is the president and I think what's important is that depending on who you speak to obviously there are a lot of people who voted for him because of her but he's a center left politician who perhaps will be a bit more moderate and those who you know voted for him feel that he might be a good you know steady lead to get Argentina out of this economic crisis that it's currently in the fact is that Argentina is an economic mess and they may have promises they've talked about this endorsed era tea trying to stop the suffering of Argentinians the words that they used when they won the elections on Sunday but with you know with what money given Argentina is struggling the campaign itself passionately book peacefully is that stability likely to hold very early on the phone and is said that he would talk. To enable a steady hand over was pointed out to me that that shows just how strong a democracy it is in Argentina there's very strong ideals and that's admirable given what's going on and the fact that they've gone from right to left certainly Argentina is split seems to be a lot of respect for trying to make that transition as neat and peaceful as possible if you want this being hidden threat to every arch and we've discussed this week. The power of social media and its influence over how we behave particularly at election time the big social media companies have come in for fierce criticism for how they've been used in elections and this week Twitter announced that it would ban political advertising Facebook famously is taking the opposite route he is a media editor a mirage and the decision by Jack Dorsey founder and c.e.o. Of Twitter to ban political ads globally is more significant for its timing and the principle holds than the practical effect it will have a modern democracy political ads on Twitter are just a fraction in scale and impact of those on Facebook Mr Dorsey knew and his chief financial officer has since confirmed that this decision will have little impact on the company's bottom line they therefore calculated that they could win a thumbs up from regulators and public opinion at little cost to the business at a time when social media companies are facing much greater scrutiny from lawmakers including a possible presidential run from the Democrat Elizabeth Warren who wants to break up big tech it's handy to demonstrate to the world of politics that you're thinking hard about your responsibilities and this week's move also presented Mr Dorsey with an irresistible chance to provoke Facebook who are in a more difficult position on the subject it cannot be make of incidents that Mr Dorsey street was just a fortnight after Mark Zuckerberg speech at Georgetown University on the same subject a dividing line between the companies is useful for Twitter it puts the onus on Facebook to once again defend its stunts and it represents a minor escalation in the policy cold war between the 2 tech giants but tactics aside what of the principle it's clearly on satisfactory to have misinformation spreading around the web or to have foreign or malign actors trying to play a role in elections where they have no rightful role and using social media to wield influence on the radio there is however a big gap between the clamor and something must be done sentiment understandably felt by much of the public on the one hand and small effective regulation that protects boat. The Am Free speech on the other politics is a menu of endless trade offs in which incompatible goes conflicts and have therefore to be managed this provokes 2 questions how best to manage them and should do the managing one such trade off is between free expression and deceitful propaganda you might say something that I find offensive but as a Democrat don't I have a duty to defend your right to say it deceitful propaganda is often offensive if you wish to publish them I may not like it but my attachment to the idea of free expression may force me to accept it as the price of a free society this is a Facebook position at least what you think is a recent speech will probably depend on what you think of him and his company that's a shame there is a deeper principle a stake which is how to manage those incompatible goes I don't the question of who should manage them and decide the limits of free expression Zuckerberg and Dorsey have taken alternative positions Zuckerberg says not us please those he says Sure happy to try. Do you really want a California company deciding what you can and can't see online awesome them secure a public domain grants them enormous power that is hollow to undo Of course they already make such decisions on things like violent or white content but also get them to go further in effect turning them into editorial which is of public conversation that is John and that's not a job that will Jack Dorsey ever wanted. That's it from the well this week for now if you have any thoughts on what we've done or like us to do please contact us at b.b.c. World service via Facebook or Twitter you can use the hash tag b.b.c. Well this week and don't forget to join me at the same time next week for a look back at what's happened in the next 7 days. Distribution of the b.b.c. 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Hello I'm Tina Daley and you're listening to the program that explores the world we live in through the work out of the voices of artists Welcome to the cultural front line today it's stories from the small screen we hear how t.v. Is giving Nollywood Bollywood and Hollywood a run for their money actors writers directors and producers from some of the world's biggest series tell us the secrets behind their shows coming up with Rowan grove where the writer of the Indian t.v. Phenomena Sacred Games reveals the philosophy and politics behind the crime drama it's a human drama I've heard but also very very. Very of it of the board for your living is right. And it's been called Senegal Sex And The City the producer and screenwriter Callas decide discusses how a hit made threats to nobody in all those stories and more on this week's cultural front line. From Kabul to California our 1st guest is an Afghan refugee who's now a star of the hit American drama this is us the award winning t.v. Series now in its 4th season centers on the Pearson family and how their multi-layered family history plays out across different generations its Show want to fray to tackle difficult subjects often talking on its audience's heart strings as its characters deal with poverty addiction grief illness and the impact of war for the horrible as Stanley the impact of the war has featured heavily in her life when she left to Afghanistan have family 1st thought refuge in Russia and then in the USA when she was a child will now is This Is Us bars life is gone full circle as she plays a doctor protecting her. Family during the most recent conflict in Afghanistan I spoke to are going to study about Ted journey toward the screens I'm from Kabul Afghanistan I was born there lived there until I was 4 years old I was born in 1909 the year of the salvia It's where the future of and very very crucial year 2 our history moved to Russia when I was 4 years old escaping the Taliban and everything that was going on back home my uncle was a politician he had a pretty big role in Afghanistan for many many years my father was a musician my mother was an actress my father was very well known my uncle was very well known so we had to escape we didn't have a chance to survive there very fortunate enough to be able to leave and find a home in Russia and lived in Russia until I was 10 years old and when I was 10 the u.n. Helped me and my family and sponsored us we had a very specific case my mother was very ill and we were very very fortunate to be able to come to the United States and call this country my home will the biggest challenges you've had to face moving between different place is very different coaches it's very difficult the children you know they want to fit in they want to play with other kids and they just want to be like the other child and I faced those challenges head on when I was a kid because I was consistently moving I also lived in Kenya for 3 years because we were trying to seek asylum somewhere else maybe Europe that didn't work out so we were kind of stuck in Kiev for 3 years and then try to go back to Moscow several times couldn't go back we didn't have any papers we were immigrants refugees who did not belong and they didn't want us there either so we didn't have a place to go I just remember switching schools consistently not fitting in being different. I can look back now and take away the things that happened and look at it in a very positive way you know I speak different languages I understand the world a little bit differently than an average person my age but as a child that was very very hard you've just joined the cast of a very successful t.v. Show this is out in the United States who is your character and how does she tired with the pace and family so I play Dr Isom on she's a doctor in the middle of war in a village women are not allowed a place at that point to be doctors or have a profession so for her to leave her house every day and be a doctor and help people is she's risking her life and putting her life on line so there's a lot of things unfolding but the person who I work with closely is Jennifer Morris and I'm her ally in Afghanistan and basically she comes to me asking me for information that I know that could help her get this guy who is a terrorist and he has created a lot of problems and she asked me for this information. And promised me a part of my mom I'm not here. I haven't heard from you personally rather how do you weigh into the muck up the flood thing that you know this. Nation local equivalent of the truth is normal for the I know you need to think about a trial to her focus so you tell her to let me know you want to speak. To what I want you to probably. Hear the bomb making I need to sort of the longer we're hearing the more danger we are all in Iraq is one of the hard. Jennifer Morrison who is betraying Cassidy comes back to the United States and she has p.t.s.d. And she goes to meetings and life is just hard p.t.s.d. Is is such a topic that we need to discuss and I love the fact that the show is touching on this in a way were I believe that someone is white. And it's making a difference for them and they're not forgotten also there's a couple of other characters on the show who also were Vietnam vets who have extreme p.t.s.d. And lived their life a certain way and it's just really difficult so that's where we are so far how did your family feel about you pursuing this path the same path as your mother so my mother was never support it she was kind of bullied because of her profession and when she went she did by her own family you know you're Muslim girl you're supposed to be a certain way or specific a certain career and have a family so when I wanted to pursue a career in arts my parents have always somewhat have been supportive but I've had a lot of backlash from close family I've been told I should change my last name because of a Muslim girl being an actress being on t.v. Or doing anything anything like that is just something that's not accepted but my mother has always been supportive of my career she's always and she still is and my father is very supportive now but it's definitely challenging because it's not something that I grew up those were not my role models when I was growing up you know I was not allowed to have this role models and I picked a career at that there's an online with what an average Afghan Muslim girl should pursue what does it mean to you to be playing a strong female Afghan character in that setting Well it means everything because I stand for women's rights especially in Afghanistan I mean women don't have rights in our country that's something that at the time in a conversation they would have so for me to play a character who has a profession she's a doctor she helps people and she's an individual who's strong she risks her own life to stand up for her rights and do something so admired will it's I mean this is everything it's everything do you get feedback on your work because you are you must be a role model for many do you get feedback. From people who share Afghani heritage there is a lot of backlash but I get a lot of support as well I have girls my father's side my dad's mom she's has our Which are the Asian tribes in Afghanistan and they don't have the easiest life in Afghanistan very tough circumstances for them and that's been a factor for a very long time I've had girls write me from Afghanistan girls and tell me how much they look up to me and how I have inspired them to follow their dreams and to be strong and fight for their rights it just. Makes me so happy. The actress Bihari girl astonished this is asked is broadcast in the United States on n.b.c. On Choose days at 9 pm And now for a series that outraged the religious clerics trended on social media and even been dubbed Senegal's Sex And The City the hit drama made threats do normally a all mistress of a married man. maîtresse Do normally a is one of Africa's biggest shows with millions of fans tuning in for its female focus stories which place sexually liberated hardworking and successful women as its central character is our reporter Lisa Louise spoke to the producer I am screenwriter talents decide about creating a show for all of Senegal's women. Who list one of the 5 Senegalese but this is about the story of sin it is women generally speaking we are used to being told m l view on women and television series What's different is that the woman tells the women stories how did you come up with the idea of this show of metal unama I love I love Betty to Nick Nick. To love. Him. It all started with a column I wrote on the story of Sharon My him and it was available in a Facebook group called my book Sex cooking and wellbeing it just so happened that I met must endure of Meredith t.v. We came up with the project to showcase women and mistrust of American men attracted his attention. I thought it would be too simplistic to only focus on stories of cheating and I wanted to widen out the scope so we created of the over characters in the series and why this topic. And I could not go listen again. As a woman who has always lived in Sinegal I wanted to have women start reflecting on things so that together we can create a country where our daughters can have a nice life we only have the once in a girl and that's what we will leave behind for our daughters they need to be free today free to make their own choices without having to tell themselves that they will need to become a man's mistress or to live with a violent man walks a cock sick mother daughter relationships it's a way of telling the daughters that what I will hand down to you is that capacity to believe in yourself and in your capacity to fight for yourself 'd 'd 'd. Don't. Just mean it was easy. What kind of story line do you explore on the show and. Ne Wow the a list 105. We tell our own stories I don't like seeing the stories of extraordinary women and we are telling our stories without judging them we wanted to hold up a mirror so that women can see themselves in it I think that introspection has been quite difficult for many women who didn't like to mirror where we were holding up what do you say to people who label your show as controversial or even as explicit in a sexual way regime of Dick seduced problem vision and high strung. And I think it's a matter of generation the generation before us was a lot more restrained we are more liberated generation we are more bent always. The world we are more sophisticated and while past generations will more easily accept restrictions for us things needs to be smitten I don't have any taboos regarding sexuality and I'm not worried about it I have talked to a lot of young women who would like people to talk to them freely about sexuality is not about telling women to liberate themselves and to do what they want and to send those who are criticizing to show their career and in what they say and defend but what counts most is that we respect of a people's opinion this is what freedom of speech is about maybe I am a rebel or woman who is not like everybody else but that's my particular future as a minority and I'm asking people to respect that. How challenging was it to get your show made actually did you meet a lot of resistance on the way so to complicate. City complicated. It was very complicated in that people just didn't understand my ways especially one part of the population who is very conservative it was difficult to bear to be pointed out because they always did that in a negative way they were using a really negative term such as the fornication and the Bush very that's really strong so I was asking myself would the reaction be the same if a man had done this project would people have said this man is inciting others to funny occasionally Bush it was an enormous challenge in that I had to continue to focus on making the series while trying not to get distracted or weak and all to be afraid I needed to do that if I had to do it all over again I would not the show has received a lot of publicity How have audiences reacted and how does that make you feel. To take. More modest got quasar fashionable zoom of the moment we had very good audience figures I still don't understand Harvey's project high skyrocketed in that way I think it's also because of all the controversy triggered so people felt very needed to watch the show but even before the controversy people were watching as it has quite a controversial title and you would think it promotes infidelity and then people were surprised that beyond what the title was promising the series is telling our stories and there were charmed by that I can't even count the number of thank you's I have received from all across the world from strangers men and women have said thank you as you were able to tell women stories their accounts and passions and that's what creates a dramatic the producer and writer Calista side speaking to our reporter Lisa Louis . Have there been some it's never too. And you're listening to the call for Frontline on the b.b.c. World Service. And this is the cultural frontline on the b.b.c. World Service today we're exploring the arts of television it's often said that we now live in a golden age for the media with new streaming platforms launching worldwide and programmes being made by acting directing and writing talent that was previously only found in cinema but so often many of those shows that get headlines are American or British but we wanted to find out what's been wowing t.v. Audiences and causing debate in control to see all over the world so I asked t.v. Critic and box set connoisseur Rianna Dylan what we should all be watching welcome Rianna tell us which t.v. Shows have been making waves around the world Hi Tina said the 1st thing I like to talk about is it's pretty dark but I'm just really fascinated by this is this Italian Netflix series called baby and it's about 216 year old school girls who live in the wealthy Pearlie district of Rome and they become prostitutes so the 2nd series has just been released after the 1st series came a year ago you say it's dark but what's it about is it fictional it's not it's based on a true story of the baby squealing scandal for about 2030 and that was around 2 under-age teenage girls age 14 and 15 who were rescued from the center of a prostitution ring and all their prostitution is legal in Italy paying for sex with a minor is obviously illegal and you might remember the former prime minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi was also charged with having sex with an underage prostitute and of course Italy I think was completely shocked by all the things that are going on there are a lot of people in quite high up positions who are involved in this particular scandal as well so it did send shock waves around the country and the world why has this t.v. Series. Defiant audiences didn't like that so polite and that it dramatizes incredibly disturbing events and doesn't. As abuse or right a lot of people think who's very sleazy So how did a 2nd series happen well presumably because of all the click headlines around the 1st series and the scandal it was a fairly easy win for Netflix but also one of the screenwriters remarry Salvatore said although baby was inspired by these true life events it's actually his was a story about love not prostitution so you Series 2 might be trying to step away from the initial scandal by getting even deeper into the lives of not just the 2 teenage girls but the school friends boyfriends and parents I guess looking more at the repercussions and consequences of what has already happened Ok we all know what else has been in the spotlight recently so a few months ago it was released on Netflix which I like baby also looks at the very deprived world of teenagers except this time it's based in Jordan about a school trip to Petra which ends off that one of the school children is killed and the others come to this realization that it was Jean this supernatural spirit who will reign death and destruction down on them until it stopped and it might sound like your regular supernatural thriller but even all I'm and have been getting involved in this parliament really why well on the surface this should be a really good thing for George and it's the 1st original Arabic series on Netflix is part 4 which is huge and as I said it's teen centric so it has all of those troops like drinking drugs wearing sex pretty one of the most of in other parts of the world but really goes against the cultural and religious practice of George and the so sounds very dramatic what have they been saying so meetings with. Lots of angry tweets was sent out by and he's saying that Jin went against Jordan so. Values and traditions but what I thought was really interesting was that the royal film commissioned the r.f.c. Which was essentially set up to help Jordan's film industry compete on an international level not to regulate not to censor said because it was on a subscription platform a Netflix people can choose whether to watch it or not and that it was important to remember that Jim is fiction not documentary which I think is a very sensible attitude Rianna didn't thank you very much I will most definitely be tuning in thank you I would working Mumbaikar perceives a mystery phone call from a crime boss telling him he has 25 days to save his city that's the opening of the television drama Sacred Games it grabs its audience and refuses to let it go from the start of its 1st episode to the end of its most recent series Sacred Games is India's 1st original Netflix series and as one audience is over with its exhilarating plot and charismatic performances from Bollywood megastar Saif Ali Khan and now is a density but it also offers a gritty and done flinching look at the underbelly of one of the nation's largest cities and the fate of its citizens one of its right is the comedian and satirist of r. 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Bomb is probably going. The question is. Will be able to save. This team has done. Some super villain who wants to end the world we want to do. We want to figure out. Should we give. Even we see the newspaper even watching t.v. News because. All of. The. Around the world. But. The divisions within. The politics of the world. I believe. No how the long history every division is not. Every division. Right now in India. To bring the sense of history and. The. Choice is. The foundation stones how they can. Be lead. Playing cricket. Actually just being the final part. Well as my view for the next few. Days for this week's program. Any episode he may have missed by going online to b.b.c. . Radio and searching for us get in touch. B.b.c. . Well the same time next week with more stories of changing the world on the way until then. In America. Is the worst after. It said Miami but the. Hollywood. As a mom. Kids. 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News Hello I'm Gerri Smit police in Hong Kong have far tear gas to try to disperse pro-democracy activists gathering for an unofficial protest in Victoria Park many people are dressed in black and wearing face masks in defiance of a ban is the 22nd weekend of demonstrations in the semi autonomous territory Stephen McDonell is that thousands many thousands of protesters but the presence of large numbers of riot police for that tear gas fired already helicopters and the protesters just keep moving the idea is to stay to reduce the chances of being grabbed by the riot police who are moving ever more quickly and the words come through the pace now has shifted because it seems the police are closing in Malaysia's prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has called on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to stick together in the face of the trade war that he suggested was started by Donald Trump. Quite a big market for the former a middle. East was. On some of. The veteran leaders comments came at the start of an r.c. a Meeting in Bangkok where ministers from 16 countries across the yeah Asia Pacific region are intensifying efforts to reach agreement on a new trade partnership. The health ministry in the Gaza Strip says a 27 year old man has been killed in an Israeli air strike launched after Palestinians fired a barrel drove rockets had Southern Israel burned their reports. Video footage posted on social media shows the night sky over guards a little up with explosions and the sound of aerial bombardment the health ministry says a 27 year old man was killed during an airstrike near Can you notice in southern Gaza Palestinians said the Israelis hit bases belonging to the Islamist movement Hamas which runs Garza with the Israelis saying they were targeting terrorists Israel said it did intercepted most of the rockets fired from Gaza but also pasted pictures of a house in southern Israel that was hit and damage the German chancellor Angela Merkel has announced an investment of more than a $1000000000.00 over the next 5 years to help India develop green urban transport speaking in Delhi Mrs Merkel said some of the money will support plans to replace diesel buses with electric ones she noted the poor air quality in Delhi which is suffering from severe toxic smoke smoke the author orators have declared a public health emergency news from the b.b.c. a 2 year old German girl is fighting for her life after she was hit on the head by a whiskey bottle seemingly thrown from a passing train police said the girl and her father were climbing the stairs to the platform at Carmen in north western Germany when a train chart of her party goes pass through police stop head further down the line the head of the international mission that order thing Bolivia's disputed presidential election results has resigned just a day after the review began Arturo Espinosa who's from Mexico said he should have told the Organization of American States about a previous public statements he'd made about the election James read reports the red.