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Will go to Zimbabwe it's unclear how long President Mugabe can hang on to power or pretty but when is the blue because if that's the case we'd say that by when is the we should be able to put in following bigger than Facebook the Chinese company 10 cent does not valued at over half a trillion dollars and the head of the Benedict in the trial of general Rocco mothers for war crimes we'll hear from a survivor of the massacre entrapment it's on the trauma inflicted on those left behind surviving turned out to be a lot more difficult going to recover so well. You know people have been true they know what it's like those stories after the news. Hello I'm really Nicky with the b.b.c. News simper please former vice president him assignment and gag order who sacking by President Mugabe triggered a military takeover and search his former boss to resign immediately he said Mr Mugabe should accept the will of the people or face humiliation the governing party Zanu p.f. Has to say launch impeachment proceedings against Mr Mugabe who is still refusing to stand down a former Zimbabwean Minister Eric much younger of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change says the length of the impeachment process will depend on how Mr McCarthy responds brain tissue and is actually a disciplinary hearing brought against Mugabe so it will depend on our response is he going to want to extend this with all the details the details come out I don't think so if I were neutral vision I would not have been waiting for this to come from the police in Nigeria say at least 50 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the northeastern town of movie a police spokesman said dozens of others were injured when the attacker blew himself up at a mall during morning prayers is high college reports from a butcher the mosque in Watertown was packed with watches when the bomb awestruck witnesses speak of 3 youngest member bodies at the scene and I just are officials not a mouse bait told the b.b.c. That the Dust Bowl is likely to rise because many people are seriously wanted in the blast but there are a militants have recently stepped up suicide bombings in the last of Nigeria after the military to capture territories previously controlled by the group the Russian president Vladimir Putin said the defeat of the Islamic State movement in Syria was both close and inevitable he was speaking in Sochi where he met President Assad who was on an unannounced visit to Russia the Syrian leader praised Russia's role in defeating the rebellion and said they were now focused on making progress towards a political solution 2 years ago President Assad was on the brink of defeat before Russia's military intervention. The German government minister has called on Germany's 2nd largest party the Social Democrats to reconsider its opposition to forming a coalition with the center right alliance Christian Schmidt said it would be a way of solving Germany's political crisis and in the national interest My personal expectation as the Social Democrats who refused up to how to or p. Prepared to step into a government that they should really think their position and what encouraged them to do this step to Lety for the country and somehow for Europe this very important essential Democrats again rejected the idea following the collapse of Mrs Merkel's essence to find an alternative coalition Well news from the b.b.c. . China's biggest social network and gaming firm Tencent Holdings has become the 1st Asian firm to join the list of companies with a market value of more than $500000000000.00 bigger than Facebook $0.10 biggest revenue earner is an app called We chaps used by a 1000000000 people every month mostly in mainland China Robin branches in Shanghai what started out as a messaging platform now lets you pay or direct taxi invest get a takeaway 10 centers hoping to expand its offering abroad crucially that ability to pay using a scan of the app but it's proving difficult to get users outside China to embrace it the company has long agreed to censor content here in line with the demands of the Chinese government and there are also a persistent concerns about security because unlike some other messaging apps communications on it are not encrypted Amnesty International says revenge or Muslims in Myanmar are facing state sponsored institutionalized discrimination amounting to apartheid Anna Neistat of Amnesty says the hinges has been prosecuted for decades and face a range of abuses reckon they have turned into open air time this. Year to be did they. Act. And hope that. They are. From the outside while nearly $90000.00 people in Hong Kong of Applied to buy just over $600.00 subsidized apartments revealing a severe shortage of affordable housing in the Chinese territory the apartments will be sold at 30 percent less in the marketplace it has been an unusual sight in the stereo northern territory of quite a crocodile 3 metre long adult reptile nicknamed Pearl was spotted on the Adelaide River near Darwin on Sunday crocodiles usually range from great green in color b.b.c. News. Hello you're listening to World update from the b.b.c. In London uncensored cheat a defacto leader of the in Ma said she hopes her country will be able to really calm a date the 600000 right enjoy refugees when they can return from Bangladesh Well more about the details of that also we'll hear from a British member of parliament who's a doctor she's just back from visiting camps in Bangladesh. And a morning in the clinic the same stories occurring I will never again be. On that path children in the last 10 years old it's not just 6 months old people with people who skate you know it's the men mad men think that it's going to be very I see very thin right. As well maybe I'm still out there. That's risen on an Khan member of parliament Dr she'll be talking to us in about 20 minutes time or so before that Zimbabwe's really Condit says it will begin impeachment proceedings today against President Robert Mugabe he's 93 years old he's defied demands from his policies on a p.f. To resign he's insisted a regular cabinet meeting will take place later today the party's chief whip love moment Ok says the impeachment process should swiftly result the matter what plea by when is it will be said yes that's the key we've played that by when is the we should be able to put in following the mentality that is that allow does right to usurp which is no power which is not right when government but he's quoting. The vice president it's probably clearly there denigrating the I mean and those are the check how realistic then for the hope program paid impeachment I mean speaking to the maybe Brown he's in Harare and just before we come on I asked him what's going to happen next well the Parliament begins to sing this afternoon here in Harare and what will happen really is that they will introduce Ana p.s. Will introduce the notion. To impeach him if that's agreed by a simple majority at the 2 houses of parliament the National Assembly in the Senate then they set up an investigative committee to investigate whether he has their own grounds to impeach and there are various grounds under asco $97.00 of the Constitution under which a president can be impeached serious misconduct incapacity violation of the Constitution failure to obey the Constitution that kind of thing so if that committee does agree there are grounds and recommends that he is in peace and they can put that to a 2nd vote in both chambers that would need to majority of both chambers the National Assembly and the Senate and Zanu p.f. Who are pushing this Mr Mugabe's own party they are suggesting that it could be wrapped up incredibly quickly perhaps within a couple of days there is there were a lot of nostalgia surrounding Robert Mugabe a week ago the youth wing was saying they would go on supporting him that seems not to be the case now but are there others who might come out on his behalf on the streets I'm not sure about coming out onto the streets but I think there are certainly some Zanu p.f. M.P.'s who will still still support him we're not sure how many or how many or even still in the country it's very difficult to say until Parliament resumes. To be honest this 2 thirds majority that they do need to impeach him is by no means an end and Zanu p.f. Would would need to rely on a vote of the opposition including the m.d.c. And the m.d.c. Is saying actually Well we're not going to support this automatically although you know they detest Robert Mugabe probably more than anyone in this country they want concessions from Zanu p.f. Particular about free and fair elections next year they want indecisions for those elections so they want to go on a deal with on a p.s. The 4 giving their votes in favor of impeaching Robert Mugabe Otherwise they say they won't vote to impeach him. Bizarrely you might think the opposition here could end up keeping this to make a hobby in the presidency and I suppose it's one of the good signs. That a man who had an iron grip apparently for decades is being thrown out in a way that does follow the rules well I mean all along that the military who launched the sake of his last Wednesday have been trying to make out that this was not a coup d'etat they many observers would describe it is that they don't want to be seen as fulfilling the leader of this country out at gunpoint as it were in the start of an old fashioned African coup they want this all to happen constitutionally their 1st choice of course was for him to resign it was a free will a hopes they had persuaded him to resign over the weekend but then of course he made that televised statement where almost everybody was expecting him to resign and he didn't then Sony p.s.s. a Deadline for him to resign and he didn't say it doesn't look like he is the Ging of his own volition they are going to have to use parliament but as you say yes whole situation I see is what the military wants they want this to be seen around the world and around Africa to be seen as a fairly legal constitutional process and spend Brown in Harare in Russia the Kremlin just released details of a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad his survival as president of Syria is credited with the backing that his forces have got from Russia let's hope to Sarah Rainsford our correspondent in Moscow what's being said. Well as you say this is a meeting that happened on. Monday but we're just finding out about it's a day later which is presumably says curity reasons and what we're finding out is that President Putin and President Assad held this meeting in Sochi it dissipates and residents that and essentially this is the 2 men coming together to declare the fight against what they called terrorist groups in Syria to be almost inevitable and to say that it is time to move towards a political solution in Syria and clearly judging by the fact these 2 men was standing side by side an extremely friendly atmosphere at the meeting the suggestion was that President Assad would play a part in the political future which of course is something which has been to speak good for a very long time but I think the other key message was coming from both men who also met with Russia's senior military figures that Russia has played a decisive role in this turn of events you remember it was just over 2 years ago that Russia began its military campaign in Syria to support Syrian government forces that and today what we saw on t.v. Here was President Assad thanking Russia's military for keeping his country together and essentially for saving him 2 very symbolic in terms of the meeting that was happening in terms of the substance obviously now that the move towards the political process will be extremely complex that certainly Russia is clearly seeking to play an important role in that part was Russia's involvement in Syria playing back home in Russia. Well I think generally people want to see this conflict over the military part of what's happening in Syria over far as Russian troops are involved it's not a particularly popular conflict even though it's been presented for the very beginning is purely about the fight against international terrorism and therefore in Russia's interest I think the important context the message is that this is in the run up to a presidential election in Russia which will happen in March if President Putin is indeed going to run as we expect them certainly he would like to see himself going into the selection of the man who backed the the winning side in Syria so I think that's important and not domestic context Sara thank you so Rainsford in Moscow the UN's envoy to the Middle East Nicholas in my dental office one of the conflicts could once again engulf Gaza if a deal fails to return control to the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority more than a dozen Palestinian political groups are meeting in Cairo today the Islam is group Hamas has run Gaza for over a decade but last month signed a reconciliation agreement with its secular rival Fatah Middle East Correspondent Tom Bateman reports from Gaza. There is no power in much of Gallagher city at night you need to come down to darkness fueled by generators or polishing cars go if you remain in the grip of an electrician he crisis poverty the crippling blockade. Because it's right. There is no I don't see grainy ultrasound printouts in the home of the value to one she had Styron's cancer untreated she says since 2015 most chemotherapy drugs and radiotherapy are unavailable in Gaza this month I was told that the Mossad the house at the head of my she said for 2 years she's been unable to get a permit for Israel on the route to Egypt has been blocked Israeli and Egyptian access restrictions have been imposed on girls they say because of security concerns that she had to bomb. Crossing leading to Cairo can reopen for good what's it been like knowing that you need history and that it's available outside Gaza. Cannot go yet what kind of pressure is that what I'm hearing from your family. The longer it goes on the more sick I become it's getting worse because I haven't touched chemotherapy for 2 years I hope that God will come situation that there will be a consideration and I will be able to leave Gaza and get this treatment. Because . There was cheering in Gaza last month as knowledge if in fact reconciliation deal was signed between Fatah and Hamas. The stark contrast to the brutal clashes of a decade ago when Fattah forces were ousted the technocratic government could now pave the way for full control by President Mahmoud Abbas and the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority this road has been tried before and gone nowhere this time though some signs of change we drive south from Gaza City. A bit of a rougher crossing point. As a fairly small concrete structure some big block iron gates. Of a perspective now. Straight across the right across the bridge. Takes even to the Sinai Peninsula in 3 to. The 1st time in a very long time there are Palestinian Authority officials here only rather than you know Hamas officials from the Egyptian flag flies alongside a flag. That they don't expect. To politics with each other again and then continue the suffering they need something is going to take place between us but I'm not I've made you set is a form of political adviser to the Hamas leadership. He knows his deal faces major obstacles biggest of all the group's 25000 strong armed wing with Israel and the West seeing a mass as a terrorist group giving concessions and hoping guys can have a comprehensive national reconciliation with the Palestinian Authority to walk together it's hardly a concession is it if Hamas won this reconciliation but still have it its own private army this is not thought to fight this is for defending ourselves with this is not going to be seen today talks in Cairo involve 13 Palestinian factions for the power play between Hamas and Fattah will be most crucial there is pressure on Mr a bass to reverse punishing budget cuts on Gaza the demand from him is for one north already and one gun that he pursued Jabril rigid around the Fatah Central Committee . To let the militias. Fascists. Issue. Should be under control this should not be used by anyone because he. Says. The truck. Here in the street here will drinking water whether reconciliation can help the dire humanitarian situation is the most important question for many of its 2000000 residents previous attempts have failed they will hope against the odds this time can be different after Tom Bateman reporting from Gaza you're listening to the b.b.c. World Service I'm Diane Dimond with world update. And coming up later on our program a poll for a documentary on a British t.v. Channels found that 61 percent of married Muslim women in misled women in the u.k. Have not had a separate civil ceremony to make their marriage legal under British law so what we're discovering is that this 5 and there was some women you know. Which means that they're not protected by the right to marriage. And there was something even consigning in the finding. Of those women did not realize that the niqab ceremony was no need to evacuate now I will talk to a lawyer who's involved in trying to deal with that problem later here on the b.b.c. World Service with the ruling party of them probably about to begin impeachment proceedings against Robert Mugabe the man that he sacked as vice president has told him to resign or face humiliation that's our top story this is the b.b.c. This is Dan Damon in London in just a few minutes time we'll hear from a British parliamentarians who's just back from Bangladesh where she's been meeting the right hinge on Muslims who fled Meanwhile Myanmar's de facto leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi has said she's hoping for an agreement very soon with Bangladesh to repent reate those for him just 600003 hinges have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh since the summer when the Army launched a violent campaign against them Jonathan Head joins us live from Bangkok this is a huge amount of people Jonathan what is on time such a hopeful. Well at least the government now openly acknowledges they have to come back to not to rat numbers Mind you in the the Nam our military has challenge the UN's estimate of how many people have gone across interestedly suggesting that they aren't all from Myanmar that's yet to be worked out but I'm considered she has been talking with her Bangladesh counterpart on this a of this Asian European foreign ministers summit has been taking place in Myanmar for the last couple of days and the band of the dish kind of mother stayed on for another couple days to continue talking so they presumably they're hammering out what's called a joint working group this is going to be Officials from both sides who are going to oversee the beginning of the process of repat ration but this is just a start there are immense obstacles and obviously the numbers of people involved are huge Many of them are traumatized by the violations they say they suffered at the hands of the Burmese military they won't want to go back without some form of international guarantees and right now no international agencies are being allowed into Rakhine state you can't even begin to prepare for the return of people who've lost everything his village is a been burnt it will be a very long and drawn out job and nobody thinks large numbers of refugees are going to be going back in the near future but there is at least the beginnings of a deal a step forward and I think diplomats are very keen to encourage that ultimately if the problems in reclined state are going to be addressed it has to be with the cooperation of the Yemeni government however guilty it may be or its military may be of abuses there would have to be a lot of protections offered to the revenger when they were just here Jonathan from a lawyer for Amnesty International Anna Neistat describing what they concluded about life or injure in Myanmar. And they. Segregation and discrimination our own homes. With all aspects of their lives being used to dealing with stress. And their rights being violated on a daily basis. We have concluded that it is down and down to the crime against humanity of the party Jonathan do you think that it can reckon recognized in any way by Aung San Suu Kyi by people in power in Myanmar. Not openly I mean it's probably a bit much them to accept it but I think Young says he she knows I mean just before this crisis erupted with the attack by Ranger militants and in August and then the dread 3 retaliation by the military she had launched excepted a commission by the for me and Secretary General Kofi Annan which looked at addressing the long term problems the deep divisions in Rakhine state the poverty and one of them was the status of people there wasn't very open about it but Kofi Annan was quite clear that the systematic discrimination which Amnesty is details and we've known about it for a long time is very very visible when you go there I mean some of the range of the confines to squalid almost like concentration camps but that has to stop and I miss it she says she still committed to implementing an report on paper how government says it will address this the problem is the climate is very hostile very hinges there's a huge amount of prejudice it would be a very tough job for any government Johnson had speaking from Bangkok Jonathan thank you well a member of parliament in the u.k. And a former humanitarian aid doctor has been to meet some of the range of Muslims who have been forced to flee Myanmar she's Roseanna Alan conches a member of Parliament for one of the London constituencies Here's a short extract from a diary that she recorded for us while she was on the Bangladesh Myanmar border. The morning in the clinic saying stories are coming out of every thing that is. On their back children in the last few years old it's not the 6 month old people with the people with gay people or seen them mad men in front of their very eyes people who've been raped. As well maybe if you fill out the bill. Rosanna Allen can come into our studio short while ago and told us more it was quite horrific I went to work in a clinic as a doctor with medical able and I witnessed firsthand the most harrowing accounts that can only be said to be tantamount to evidence of genocide. I met people who had literally lost everything I met a man who was hiding in the bush is as he saw his village 3000 strong raised to the ground the homes were burned men were dragged away tortured killed dismembered the women were dragged by the hair and gang raped and children as they tried to escape were brought back and thrown on to burning fire including babies I met people who had lost all of their family members 7 year olds who had to bury their own parents and be carriers for their 2 year old siblings who had who were also and had nothing had made that treacherous journey into Bangladesh over the border to seek shelter only to find it in camps over on their Is there no facilities to shelter with minimal is not enough food and all they have of the clothes on their back and some of them don't even have that. As a doctor a medical doctor before you came into politics you worked in humanitarian crises didn't did yes did you see anything like this. Witness many oval things in the field of humanitarian medicine or the years that simply stood out because it's entirely avoidable I've worked same conflicts saying natural disasters but this was the witnessing of over a 1000000 people in Bangladesh with the most horrific stories to tell as a result of just who they are and for me the entirely avoidable nature of it all is what makes it so sad but I'm here today to say that we need to call it what it is it is genocide we need to stop banding around different terms like ethnic cleansing which isn't a crime this is genocide where I have seen the testimonies I've heard the injuries I've seen the pain it's been afflicted it's genocide and we must act tomorrow doctor we're taking our program to The Hague where the sentence comes out it she was involved in what have been a buzz there and server that is to be handed down right the purpose of that tribunals and later the International Criminal Court was to stop or at least to make it harder for the kinds of outrages to take place which is I I'd say that currently we are bystanders to a genocide look what happened in Rwanda we blinked at the genocide because at all of the messages have been out there for a long time in the region we have to act we we have to take somebody needs to be tried for this these are gross violations of human rights these are acts of the most heinous nature and it's important that we recognize what's going on but in order to have humanitarian action in the way that we need to is it needs to be called out. Ethnic cleansing isn't a crime genocide is but no one is calling upon them and. I've been speaking to some of those who were caught up in what happened in Boston and they say looking at the t.v. Now it's Muslims again they're always killing Muslims they believe that. I think any innocent loss of life regardless of who they are and where they are is a tragedy a tragedy that must be avoided at all costs the Rwandans when Muslim but yes this particular group of people are a Hindu Muslim but I think that is somewhat irrelevant the point is it's happening and it's happening to people on mass and we have to do something about it was an island can a member of parliament in Britain maybe Saddam Damon on Twitter if you want to comment this is wild up tight. Distribution of the b.b.c. 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The time to minister was that attack in northeastern Nigeria killed as many as 50 people to a given place but the Chinese company $0.10 lab values would add over half a trillion dollars We'll find out more and ahead of tomorrow's verdict Generac or not it should the Hague will speak to a survivor of this revenue from Africa on living with the guilt being alive those stories after the news headlines. B.b.c. News with Eileen McHugh some bubblies former Vice-President hemis and Min and Gallagher who sacking the President Mugabe triggered the military takeover has urged his former boss to resign immediately in a statement from an undisclosed location he said Mr Mugabe should accept the will of the people and go straight away or face humiliation in Harare the governing party is due to launch impeachment proceedings against him today Lisa Nigeria say at least 50 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the northeastern town of movie yet attacker blew himself up at the mosque during morning prayers Moebius is state in the state of a mama where Boko Haram militants have been a to Russian President Vladimir Putin said the defeat of the Islamic State movement in Syria was both close and inevitable he was speaking in such a where he met President Assad who was on an unannounced visit to Russia Mr Putin said he had wanted to hear the Syrian leaders feelings on the peace process which he'll discuss with Donald Trump and regional bidders China's biggest social networking gaming firm Tencent Holdings has become the 1st Asian firm to enter the group of companies with a market value of more than $500000000000.00 bigger than Facebook $0.10 biggest revenue earner is an app called We Chat He used by a 1000000000 people every month mostly by users in mainland China. Myanmar's state to leader own son Suchi says she's hoping for an agreement very soon with Bangladesh on the repatriation of Britain's your muslims for a meeting she hosted of Asian and European foreign ministers in Sochi said everything possible needed to be done to ensure stability nearly 90000 people in Hong Kong as applied to buy just over 600 subsidized apartments being a severe shortage of affordable housing in the Chinese territory b.b.c. News. Allows your listeners a world update from the b.b.c. In London coming up why 2 thirds of Muslim marriages in the United Kingdom not legally recognise will talk about that in just a few minutes before that let's continue our coverage of what's happening in Zimbabwe the former vice president m a son. Has released a statement calling for President Mugabe to resign immediately currently Mr Gaga is in a non-disclosure location after fleeing Zimbabwe unfair of an alleged plot to kill him a motion to remove Robert Mugabe from power will be heard by the country's parliament later Grace to enjoy is a Zimbabwean feminist activist forced to flee to Uganda is a lot of nervous excitement but also I think because it was so desperate to get Mugabe to cause we're not so clear on what exactly you would do we I think we could be video only great imagine we could be helping then appears clean up this mess we the party and forgetting that we are citizens of them that we probably will be given the kind of country let's talk about that with Will manga his editor the symbolically a newspaper joining us from Johannesburg just before I Os go back to the next stage let me ask you about this fast step or at least the steps that the parliament would like to take which is to remove or of Mugabe just think that it's just going to happen however cumbersome it might be. You know the. True. Joy out of the element fitting that. What they look like how did you stay true to the movie what they will lose you the agreements the opposition m.d.c. Is agreeing to support the motion they will agree to set up in Maine and then Committee. Members of various political parties they will look into it but it's a good bill it so it would look at the tribes who got in would be allowed to take. That attention to something in brilliant lawyers. Delete it. But once that committee is this little important back to the politicians and the 2 holes that the city today will have to pass. To take the majority then at that point you know it cannot be true and all the signs are that this will happen and will go peacefully one about the next I stand well because to put it politely the former vice president now apparently in the attendant Amazon. Is not at least in historic terms a natural Democrat. You know he's got expects me. To be. Really. People are afraid. To think. They don't want to. Go but they're not sure. If he is the right. And indeed as we heard from our correspondent Ben Brown the m.d.c. Might not vote for the impeachment which sounds certainly counter-intuitive but of course as you say Wilf worried that they're simply endorsing Zanu p s continued grip on power thank you very much indeed that's will from Bangar editor of the Zimbabwean newspaper in Johannesburg forced to flee the of course described as an enemy of Zimbabwe will have to see when things change sufficiently well for him and others have been changed to return you're listening to World update from the b.b.c. In London more bad news from Nigeria a suicide attack in the northeastern town of movie 50 people reported to have been killed it's our College joins us from our bureau in the Nigerian capital Abuja what details are we getting a shot. Well done what was gathered so far is that it's a side Boma truck in most packed mosque during the early morning prayer determinate in their explosives because we are not sure where there is a male or female for for killing many people the police according to the news agency the news agency the police are saying 50 people killed my have spoken to the state government of Israel he told me 27 and then more than 40 injured so the casualty figures are still unclear and then attack is coming really at a time that bombings are on the increase by suspected Boko Haram militants because they are losing territorial swear losing control to the army. Well basically that is what they are for it is saying that the militant group Harve now been using truth I've gone means because it has lost territories. Like bombings according to the military something that very difficult to contain or to prevent but many people are saying yes well the military have regained control of some Boko Haram territories I mean Boko Haram I mean territory 3 girls really controlled by Boko Haram but these bombings are also very fine that the militant groups are still capable of striking and the military as well as other security agencies have to work hard to ensure Boko Haram is finally defeated so the communities there in the north east are really worried and many people are saying that the recent spate of bombings I really and I mean and worry. Thanks for the moment of facing us Ishak Khalid's from a butcher if we get more news on that we'll bring it to you this is wild update. A poll for a documentary on a British t.v. Channel has found that 61 percent of married Muslim women in the u.k. Have not had a separate civil ceremony that would be needed to make them marriage legal under British law. So what we're discovering is it free society and the same women in all Saturday and not married in the eyes of the new toll which means that they're not protected by the right which marriage break and there was something even more confining in the finding. Of course of those women did not realize it then Mikasa ceremony was no need to be recognised they thought they were married with the full protection of the no. Fault of the documentary and helping put that together with the lawyer con I also how does it happen in a country that is so governed by the rule of law and clued ing in family law there are women who are not in fact legally married it is a shocking fact that British born and raised women on less protected under the laws of this country then foreign women who have for Nari Jase. Ha How does it happen these women think they're married yes so generally we're finding in my practice of over 25 years as a family lawyer I've had clients from abroad in the u.k. And a lot of them have been Muslim clients because I'm a specialist in Islamic family law and Asian law because of that I've dealt with more than 5000 cases now and the recurrent scene for me for the last 15 years has been a rising trend not to register their marriage under civil law so they are entering into religious marriages they regard themselves as varied so does the husband so does the minister the mom. That's carrying out the ceremony but nobody has worked out is that under the Marriage Act $949.00 only 3 face have to register. The Church of England Jews and Quakers so this was pre immigration $949.00 was the last time the law was updated and since the sixty's we've had nothing my Gratian from countries which you'd think would be covered so Hindus Sikhs Muslims none of them are covered and they have to volunteer to register their marriage because of this confusion and especially for listeners from other countries it will be interesting to know any marriage registered abroad is legally recognized in the u.k. So it's very strange conundrum where if you're a Muslim woman or Hindu woman married abroad the u.k. Will accept you as a legally married woman that if you are the same woman who is in Britain having a ceremony there if you didn't take steps to register that marriage under civil law you are not protected we have no cohabitation or living together rights so you can be made homeless or destitute overnight when has it become an issue in the cases that you've been doing so I spotted this trend about 2000 since then I have been saying that the trend is rising so from 20 percent and then now more than 60 percent in the survey that's out today are not legally married Sadly for me the March is that breakdown specially among the under forty's it's more like 80 percent that I come across so it's going up every year rather than down or not seems to be a danger then not just for the women but for the children if there isn't an obligation a legal obligation a registered marriage so particularly for most women because there's 3000000 plus Muslims in the u.k. So this proportionately they are affected more because smaller community that easily to govern and rule to the smaller communities of Hindu Sikhs is my. Ali Muslims are 100 percent registration but because he's got such a large body without any leader from about 30 different countries there's no central message going out and that's why my campaign register our marriage sets out to unite all that information in one place and it's saying to to the government please reform the law so that not your 3 phase but all faiths are made to register their marriages one of the I think troubling aspects of what the survey found out anyway is substantial proportion of these women are in public a mess marriage is on a substantial proportion of those didn't want that but they didn't get a vote and that's a very interesting point about that survey I have noticed a disturbing trend towards polygamy in my cases and in the breakdown cases it is a very high number who are suffering polygamy but they also find that if their marriage is not registered it's that much easier for the husband to enter into a polygamous marriage in this country is an offense of imprisonment up to 7 years to enter into bigamy but these marriages are not regarded as marriage so it's just like having a girlfriend and therefore there's no law against it very interesting Lee abroad nearly every Muslim country has limitations on polygamy and very tight controls for example you have to in one country like Pakistan get the permission of the 1st wife in writing registered with the local union council in other countries you have to go to court to get permission but in the u.k. It's a free for all so any man can say it's my right I can have up to 4 wives and because women have not taken the time to learn about this law make rules the men can have it that their way and they're never being challenged and I always say when you talk about polygamy you look at the verse don't drop the 1st half of the sentence which is if you cannot do justice to the orphans. And that is not really relevant now is it. Congress and this in turn on the issues facing Muslim women married probably not under British law although they think. That's part of a Channel 4 documentary probably of it will be online if you want to see it sometime later let's talk about a company now that has in its name a rather meager amount of money 10 cents but actually it's worth half a trillion dollars must you run and is a channel China in southwest China and he's an expert on the finances of companies like that one of the things I learned Matthew which I have to tell you doesn't make me feel all that much better if that had I or indeed anybody else invested $9000.00 in the i.p.o. Of this company in 2004 to be worth a 1000000 dollars Now missed Yes you have been bailing incredible run especially that he had the share price has grown over 110 percent. And that there are a lot of I have evolved are as well and they are incredible run to the 2 giants in China I have have had a very good very good performance this year and very strong financial results as well the case report came out the 10th empathy I got and then through all the end of this negative patients life is this is basic math that China's population is very big and so if you have a company the successful profits are going to be big. Well part of it is that this is that I'm trying to log this Internet company China has the largest Internet population in the world is over 700000000 people that that's twice the state so there is no market that has this kind of scale and for sure valving quite frankly and that means that. You know the numbers every number in China is pretty big and this company is right a large amount of influence online especially on the mobile phone in China where content products Chinese people spend about 60 percent of all time on the mobile phone in some kind of content product. So they really have a stranglehold and that now they're sort of squeezing it and that's where the the revenues and profits are now starting to come to for Taishan of them all the hard work they put in a very long period of time. Which is one of them as successful as a which has really that flagship product and it's a messaging platform it's sort of similar to what that but it's grown into something that is completely different in the way Chinese people use we chat is almost like an operating system in the to enjoy in terms of the features and functionality that it offers and you can buy pretty much anything you want to buy and you can contact your friends incredible amount of content consumed on the platform the average Chinese equivalent of the novel pump for We Chat video and there's all kinds of things so it's really something that's quite special and we don't really see that outside of China that we're going to be my next question I mean to understand in the u.k. What about another possible. Well I actually pulled next gen platforms ajor is quite good but when you when you look at the global picture you'll see that Facebook kind of dominates this area because with the quad what Zach and they also have by messenger and so these are the dominant messaging platforms in most part of the world but in an age or is quite different the reason people do have slightly different habits in how you use their phones in Japan we have a lot called Line which completely dominate that market in South Korea we have something called Cow talk that I mean even in Vietnam has more to market but they have their own market leader as well so yeah there was definitely a difference in how people use messaging in Asia Matthew thank you Matthew Brennan from Channel China you're listening to wild update from the b.b.c. In London. Headline just now Zimbabwe's sacked vice president Emerson non-God glass has refused to meet President Robert Mugabe despite the army saying discussions between the 2 men would take place and the suicide bomber killed at least 50 people at the mosque in northeastern Nigeria You're listening to well up to date on tomorrow our program will come from the Hague in the Netherlands the there to talk about for the 1st victim the case against homeland if he was the former Bosnian Serb military commander who was accused of 11 counts of war crimes including genocide crimes against humanity and all of this related to the war in Bosnia including the massacre in Srebrenica our special correspondent Allan little has been to Bosnia hearing reports from a country still struggling to recover from a conflict that ended more than 20 years ago. This is the village of Nova casaba it's a predominantly Muslim village in the heart of Republika Srpska the Serbian thoughts of Bosnia and during the war the Muslim population here were driven out of many of their homes were destroyed or many of them come back and rebuilt their lives. Parents 5 years ago set up this school for the children. It has 118 pupils a primary school age up to about 13 or 14. Until 5 years ago these children were in school in the Republican subscale education system the parents revolted against them because they said the whole school curriculum denied the existence of Bosnian nationhood and Bosnian statehood and was designed to reinforce a specifically said b.n. National identity which excluded their children. In the last year of marriage who survived the massacre of strapon it's by forces loyal to Gen Ruckel not a chin 1905 has 2 children at school. A lot of course still I think he succeeded that plan to divide us is still succeeding in a way also ethnic cleansing calling is a basic right for all children no matter what their nationality anything you don't have a calling then we can't live here. On large forces water separate Serbs from nonsense in a country where it always lived together in the 3 and a half years of Bosnia's war more than a 100000 people were killed and many times that number forcibly removed their homes often destroyed $11000.00 died in the season bombardment of Sarajevo alone there were mass deportations force expulsions concentration camps mass murder and extermination all these are charges that appear on luggage is indictment. If you rush there are so many costly to listen live. Coverage. As you can the office of the Serbian military veterans association in eastern Sarajevo which is to say the parts of the capital now in the service half of the country I met Gordon Chang of us right come lunch remains a folk hero to him I think a large painting of his old commander he showed me the associations war photos but even among old soldiers there's a weariness with the past and with the war that still shapes life here. You should know that a good percentage of war veterans on both sides become alcoholics He told me or addict and a good number committed suicide because they couldn't deal with their poverty I would not let my child fight another war not one of my old war comrades would give their children to another war we draw to leave. It's 22 years since the last shots were fired but you don't have to go very far and sorry able to be sensitive people because of the war I'm standing outside what was a very prestigious location one of the venue for the 94 Winter Olympics the place looks awfully derelict even though it's still in use this visible physical decay reflects a kind of paralysis in the country's political institutions post-war Bosnia has been strikingly resistant to reform it remains stuck in poverty so much so that many people are now simply giving up and getting out the population is shrinking year on year it's now 20 percent smaller than it was before the war. And this is right call Nottage speaking in the summer of 1995 he was recorded on videotape at a meeting he held with representatives of the Muslims of structure and its Bosnian Serb forces have just captured the town and the rounding up of the Muslim population has already begun and the tape is chilling Nottage is calm controlled the Muslim men across the table from him visibly terrified. In the days that lay ahead Bosnian Serb forces would murder $8000.00 men and boys it was the worst single atrocity of the war and for this that it is accused of genocide one of the men at the table was distributed a schoolteacher Knesset munge he survived the mass excuse used but I've never forgotten his menacing Exchange with those years most notorious war leader for North Korea call at one moment he said to me the destiny of your people was in your own hands you will have side whether they survive or disappear. I mean did you understand that at the time to be a threat to kill thousands of people. Yes I took it as a threat but I didn't think I would kill so many people and they even killed children 401516 years old and men over 70 and all I couldn't believe that they killed people like that right of you know if you. Had the school know because Arbor children are taught a curriculum that is quite different to the lessons the local serve children receive this in a sense is what General run cold blooded for his war for Serbs and norms Serbs to live separate lives he will learn soon whether he is to spend the rest of his life in prison but in the country he fought a war to dismember the divisions the conflict imposed deep friend endure a little reporting from Bosnia my we had from one of the survivors of the massacre in Srebrenica nested Manjit in Allan's report another who survived Yaga cheese survived because he was a translator for the Dutch troops who were supposed to be protecting the population there. And I went on to become a journalist and a prominent Bosnian politician I spoke to him about what it means now to have seen all the some photos and to see Iraq come later on trial. To be honest I mean surviving turned out to be a lot more difficult than a cut so one bag and it's it's a very neat learning very personal animal and you know people in truth they know what it's like and yeah maybe seeing me I don't seem like a change in course it only helps you know I was just in the great you know across my mind that is the irony of life because that I would see in the grade in the week that the College of judgment will be handed down and the starting point of that process was an ally 12th in British argument when I met him so you know. But that's only one level of it and on the other hand you know you can't forget that whatever it is a happened to you is part of the bigger picture and then there needs to be a reckoning we need to take stock of what happened people like me we have all the reasons to be deeply dissatisfied with the work of the tribunals but I think in the end of the day people I think mean that I've always supported when I look at all the wrong things about it and we'll get all the good things about it I mean the good will always prevail and. You know as frustrated as it has left many of us and again if you look at the bigger picture there is this issue of what have we actually learned from from the one year genocide you know you and I are having this conversation at the time when we're not in this bottle Asian being murdered systematically in younger you know never again is never again apparently not only you know for pretty much everyone except except Muslims you know I know it may sound a little harsh but you cannot help feeling that way and it's a large survives the 7 it's a massacre Well tomorrow our program will come from The Hague as we wait for the verdict of the try. File for genocide another war crimes against radical Nottage among says he'll join us Barnet I mean to hell h. 2 is from Bosnia she was an advisor to the U.K.'s Foreign Secretary William Hague Peter Robinson who acted as a defender for Radovan counterattacks the political leader in Bosnia who's already been found guilty of genocide the point about the court the international criminal tribunal for Yugoslavia was that it should have a proper process of law and whatever the allegations people should be allowed to defend themselves properly and he'll explain that also we'll hear from Richard Goldstone who was the 1st prosecutor in the setting out of the i.c.c. Why and we'll hear from a witness Mr Moggs she survived 7 s. As she testified against Iraq or not it's against rather than courage it and against others at The Hague that's our program coming from the hay Crum the International Criminal Court on criminal trial get on the former Yugoslavia Tomorrow join us for that on world update. 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