To Ukraine's cooperation in investigating an American political figure a bipartisan group in Congress is still urging President Trump to reverse its decision to pull u.s. Troops from northern Syria as Turkish forces began an incursion against Kurdish fighters in the Senate majority leader Lindsey Graham and Democrat Chris Van Hollen say they'll continue pressing for sanctions against Turkey despite a 5 day cease fire Trump maintains he made the right decision it's just fires holding. The Kurds who are moving out to safer areas beyond the safe zone as we call it having a safe zone is not a bad thing it's a good thing and plenty of Turks have been killed because of conflict on their power so you know you have to look at it both ways President Trump says he doesn't want any u.s. Forces in Syria except a small number to protect the oil facilities u.s. Defense secretary Mark esper says the u.s. Mission in Afghanistan has not changed the spike the drawdown of u.s. Troops there Jennifer Glass says more on espers remarks Monday during a stop in Kabul defense secretary Mark esper says the United States remains committed to the strong security partnership with Afghanistan and counterterrorism operations remain key Scott Miller the top u.s. General in the country says he's been able to withdraw all forces and keep the mission strong and what else to the public as part of or up to this action. Over the last year or least 2000 we've reduced. Authorized strikes by 2000 your withdrawal about 5000 u.s. Forces was part of a u.s. Deal with the Taliban that is on hold for now it's unclear what this drawdown will do to that agreement if talks resume for n.p.r. News I'm Jennifer glass in Kabul and from Washington you're listening to n.p.r. News. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is projecting victory for the incumbent liberal party in Monday's national elections in Canada while preliminary results suggest that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has overcome a challenge from rival conservatives the c.b.c. Projects his party will not have enough seats in parliament to avoid having to rely on other parties to pass legislation election monitors in Bolivia are expressing concern about the results of the presidential vote there as the B.B.C.'s Candace p.f. Reports incumbent a vote moralists won the vote but only after the count was suspended for hours and then completed by hand after 24 hour poor as Bolivia's electoral council website sprang back into life to show everyone what Alice was heading for an outright win his main rival Carlos Messer has said the delay pointed to fraud adding that he would not accept the results the Constitution didn't permit ever moralists to stand for a 4th but he managed to gain permission from the Constitutional Court 2 years ago many voters have been angered by his insistence and standing again crowds have gathered in a posin of a city's accusing him of autocratic behavior and disrespecting democracy the B.B.C.'s Candace p.f. Reporting the really prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given up efforts to form a majority government in Parliament amid opposition from his chief rival former military chief many Gantz Netanyahu is facing a series of corruption cases and could face heavy pressure to step down as Israel's attorney general prepares to decide whether to indict him this is n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from Americans for the Arts committed to transforming America's communities through the arts and arts education supporting the nonprofit arts industry which employs 4600000 people nationwide learn more at Americans for the Arts dot org. Many thanks indeed for the latest hello welcome to News date with Lawrence Clare trouble on the streets in Bolivia we get the latest around the election no election in Chile but still trouble it's a business story actually we look at the economic reasons behind what's been a very successful economy and why people have taken to the streets in such numbers and also of course be shot Banzai the traditional wish of long life for the new emperor delicate Japanese choreography in the Royal ceremonial the Imperial ceremonial I should say we will explain and bring you pictures as well all that coming up here on News Day plus the sport with Matthew can you. Starting Canada with the elections they ended up being seen as a referendum on the record of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a campaign which saw his liberals and neck with the right of center conservatives what it looks like ending with a minority government for the Liberals mind you plenty of votes still to come in so let's get the latest from our correspondent in Vancouver Ditton the city gittin there what can you tell us what is the latest. So the latest is with 93 percent of the polls or votes counted very conservatives actually had a larger share of the church them liberals but the liberals are ahead so the Liberals have lost $22.00 seats their own 177. I believe worry 17730 or excuse me before the election they've lost their majority of the Canadas 338 seat parliamentary requires any party that wants a majority to secure 170 seats they are on course to win $155.00 the liberals that is the conservatives well short of their expectations they want to capitalize on Trudeau's mistakes his gaffes blackface scandal and his record in office they are looking at a bit of a cloudy picture of their leader a priest who's looking. A cloud of richer future what does it say then about the Conservative campaign if with all of the issues that you know you touched on one of them there Justin Trudeau that the scandal over blackface pictures of him putting black makeup on in his past admittedly but you know several times and him not saying he can't remember the number of times he actually did this there was also his record on environmental promises that he made not necessarily following through in government what does it say that up against somebody like that they still can't secure enough votes to win. Well. The 100. Party leader his campaign focused really on the bedrock of traditional conservative support mainly the prairie states Albertus the scratch when he didn't necessarily make any significant inroads into than metropolitan multicultural Canada in British Columbia where I am on the West Coast or indeed in the Greater Toronto Area in the east and Montreal. There was a sort of lack of an ability for the Tories to capitalise on the Liberal Party's weaknesses but in their Also significant inroads made by both the Bloc Quebecois the traditional traditionally secessionist minded party in the province of Quebec they bounced up very significantly from 10 seats to 32 seats and indeed the n.d.p. Candidate 3rd party which is a more left of center party social democratic party they had a very strong platform. Espoused by the leader checkmate Singh who just made an incident be a triumph and had entrance in the hall behind me a few minutes ago their platform was all about. Making making reconciliation more substantial move towards reconciliation with Canada's indigenous populations and and tackling climate change and and more spending for national for the for the health service so it could be good news we're hearing from the countries that left leaning Democratic Party which is talking a little bit about their policies because is this they looking like the party that Trudeau will have to prop up this minority government with. Yes it's very interesting the. Media and the pay. Even the Greens which you know who are on course to win 3 seats up from 2 thirds were talking about coalitions before the election it's not talk that Justin Trudeau particularly and wanted to entertain but be a candidate federally doesn't have a particular record for of having coalition governments and they somehow manage to a very often much more often and sort of carry on with minority governments So Justin Trudeau is likely to try to avoid any kind of formal coalition with the n.d.p. With the with the Greens and he will try likely that strike it alone but that will mean that really a vote by vote he will have to secure concessions or the support of the backing of M.P.'s from other parties Ok thank you for the out dated in the city there are correspondent in Vancouver with the latest on those elections in Canada. Morning News Day 2 top stories 2 elections to Bolivia now where the government is being accused of election fraud by the opposition after the country's presidential and parliamentary elections the electoral body said that it was won by the incumbent model is but only after the count was well in effect it disappeared for 24 hours and had to be completed manually the runner up Carlos message says he doesn't recognise the result and sadly violence has broken out in Bolivian cities in the past few hours Dan Collins is in the defacto capital of La Paz precisely what happened with the account there's been a shutdown over the website of people to leave his electoral foresty on Sunday evening the count basically stopped it wasn't updated in till Monday evening 24 hours later with a different trend on Sunday night preliminary results showed the election was headed for a 2nd round run. By the end of Monday it was a radical change which showed ever miners were edging away with the likelihood of winning the 1st round and so that increased the amount of protesters coming onto the streets in here in Paris and in other cities in Bolivia and they were facing off against ever more honest supporters and that has turned into their running battles here which the police have tried to control but there's been some very turbulent scenes here in the past tonight but tell us a little bit about what's going on this is this is a simple kind of morale as supporters versus message supporters situation is it sounds bad well it's not just a simple morality which is versus methods the parties because people are opposing them morality supporters if you like people calling out what they see as electoral fraud come from other areas of public life here and many of them belong to civil society groups called copy of those they've been out on the street in large numbers and of course it has turned quite violent as well there have been clashes here and as but also in other cities it's particularly turbulent now basically in the background we've got successful economic management he's been in power for a really long time it was a few years ago that he started tinkering with the constitution to extend his terms despite the fact that he has stuck up for core groups the farmers the trade unions that kind of thing what is happening to morale is his support and does he have enough support to basically weather what looks like a pretty big storm Well that's a very good question Lawrence I mean of course as you say once hugely popular. And most popular leader and in South America he's been present for nearly 14 years but in 2016 as you mentioned when he nor that referendum which barred him from running for a 4th term and used the courts to basically say it was a human right to run again he's received a lot of pushback on that particular from younger voters and a lot of the people who are voting for the 1st time here and that he never really known any other leader than than ever Moran it's. It deciding that they weren't democracy which is a change of leadership and if they fear that he's turning into a kind of dictator and taking a very or thorough cerium street even in rural areas and particularly in some cities which have been traditionally strongholds very former and it's like Porto see actually turning their backs on him in quite a strong manner how likely is the government's explanation that basically you shouldn't worry about the 24 hour shutdown rural votes come in later rural votes are overwhelmingly for morale is actually that's what we've seen in the past and we should expect how convincing a people going to find that well not very convincing it to a modern voting system is actually more sophisticated nowadays and it's much quicker and more technologically driven to give it you an idea of the kind of expression of that election monitors here and foreign governments have been calling out what they see is election tampering So it does leave every miner's government in a particularly difficult position it's pretty hard to say what will happen next That's John Collins in La Paz the de facto capital of Bolivia not only there but also elsewhere sucrose as well the actual capital trouble on the streets there I'm afraid to say and we'll be hearing about that throughout the program to us intruder who is giving a speech now his winning speech some might say though the polls aren't officially closed yet it looks like he has enough votes to form minority government let's have a listen. To. The French fantastic that's because of a vote if you go back to I think he was saying I think his point which was the devil say it as it says on his little or he's in English now it is easy choosing to abandon our i've heard your frustration but I want to be there to support you let us all work hard to bring our country together. The cattle. Call for. The truth and back into French again try doing the headlines in the town for English and French give it a go premium a nice trip to Canada just in true do that's as far as I can go I'm afraid but I think you know the story anyway where you got our one elsewhere thanks Justin for your inspiration elsewhere we should say the Japanese emperor Nero he too has completed his ascension to the throne with a series of elaborate ceremonies and we're going to be talking about that a little bit later with our correspondent and also in about 5 minutes time we're going to be talking about the summit between the leaders of Turkey and Russia and Matthew Kenyon is here with us well it's a good morning to no place for last year's when I look a moderate role for Neymar on the 30 man list of contenders for the Bylong door this year they call it a short list but if there are 30 names on it it's not very short European champions Liverpool have no fewer than 7 players on the list including Mohamed Salah and such your money of course World Cup winning u.s.a. Co-captains Alex Morgan American Rapinoe amongst the contenders for the women's award ask 8 match unbeaten run came to an end on Monday as they went down one nil to English Premier League new boys Sheffield United the Gunners 5th in the table return of European Champions League action tonight to Paris rammer trade by Mina Kentucky Hotspur amongst the teams in Action superstar teenager's Zion Williamson is going to miss the 1st 6 weeks of his n.b.a. Career after having mine a nice surgery that means he won't be appearing for the New Orleans Pelicans when they start the new season against reigning champions the Toronto Raptors lots of Canada on the show today later on and Roger Federer has played his 5th the 100th turn our tennis match another landmark in his extraordinary career you won't be surprised to hear that he won it over not surprised at all he'd The you do no wrong in my book thank you Matthew It's 18 minutes past the hour now let's talk about what's going on in Chile the president Sebastian Pinera has said he wants to forge a new social contract for the people and will meet with opposition leaders to try and end the protests that have Ingolf. The nation thousands of Chileans defied a military curfew to participate in them astray sions around the capital I've been speaking to one will play that interview shortly let's get more from Philip on our business desk so the backdrop to this of course is the economy is the economy thousands of Chileans defied a military curfew in order to participate with demonstrations around the capital last night all of these demonstrations were initially sparked by a rise in public transportation prices this is caused a lot of currency volatility for Chile and that is spreading out to concerns for the rest of Latin America as well but more on that in a moment we've had the president President peña he said that he's ready to meet with opposition leaders he is looking to forge a new social contract aimed at eliminating inequality what you have to remember about Chile is the presidency extremely controversial presidency and dictator Pinochet actually led to a larger amount of advancement for Chile's economy which is one of the reasons why it's the wealthiest of all the different Latin American countries because he managed to smooth through a lot of the disparities that there were however it's led to the economy as it is today which has a large amount of this inequality Here's what President Pinera said today or you know what I can do in all of them any better but what then set today we are working on a set of measures to potentially improve pensions lower the price of medicines reduce the waiting list improve the quality of health care received by our compatriots there are so many other areas we are also working on how we can generate more and better jobs improve wages regulate the increases and prices of basic services such as electricity great will at last a lot of this and. So there you are he wants to meet with the opposition leaders one of the opposition leaders think about that well here is. The leader of the opposition center left party for democracy Howard Alderman yards even though. They realized that they had to freeze this price increase in and the subway they haven't heard fully the demands of the people that lead tours no social contract and that's what the people are demand not only freezing of the hikes in the subway but in electricity and water decent pensions an increase in taxes to the rich because inequality in Chile is very significant and inequality has to be reduced. Now as I mentioned back at the start though this is getting wider than chill a President peña is now the 2nd Latin American leader this month to have to declare a state of emergency His hand of course being forced by the violent protests I think 11 people died is the is the current we have there but in Ecuador unrest blew up after President Marino ended fuel subsidies there Argentina Meanwhile they're in the grip of capital controls after voters revolted against President Makris budget cutting agenda and hand it is opponents the commanding lead ahead of the presidential elections that are out on October 27th and so you can see the spillover effect spreading through Latin America causing ripples for the financial markets further thank you very much indeed and as our been speaking to a protester who said it she was out on the streets and unprecedented number of people on the streets of a concept of the last 24 hours see things around about 20000 but because of this curfew 6 o'clock curfew in many cities at the moment across to lay she was unable to get home so plainly that interview shortly here when you say 22 minutes past the hour Clare and Florence with you very warm welcome b.b.c. World Service Russian President Vladimir Putin is welcoming Turkey's president Tayyip deadline for talks in the Black Sea resort of Sochi president Edouard has said he wants to resume hostilities in northern Syria if the terms of a temporary cease fire agreement between Turkey and their enemies the Kurdish fighters in northern Syria aren't met Let's talk more about what's on the agenda and what we expect to come out of this with Russia who's a journalist for Middle East I joins us now the situation as it is it is Turkey of course is very heavily involved Russia has a much smaller presence though a lot of influence is this a meeting between equals would you say. I mean of course not because Russia is a superpower it holds. Up and also took it doesn't want Russia because of what happened in 2000 and if you remember after the shoot down of the Russian plane 2000 to Russia that sions on turkey and it just you know about America or took interest in Syria as well but they don't want to do that but it's very important to understand that all the wires expiring tonight 10 pm local time and so the steps taken to be taken off there will be all depending on what aired on and putting it on the main problem it seems that the main disagreement over $350.00 men bitch Kolbein and comes to the all they're all look a good along the Turkish border and there are Russian forces placed on the 52 is also you know covered by Turkey intended yeah now I mean you mentioned the Russian I suppose we should almost call them observers I mean they've taken over this observe guarantor role that the Americans left when they went to the Russians and now they're along the line does it come down to the question of whether or not Russia and Putin obviously gives the nod and allows Turkey to advance we'll then. I think that will be the important question to be a question to be answered by the op There are done and putting I can see that there might be a confessions to provide Turkey on some small scale like in member because you know mention being somewhere on the Turkey wanted to. Was ition forces for a long time and United States provided promise to do so but didn't but might be a middle way which is Turkic to the public both present and on terms for a minute that they can you know be Ok they forced the Russian observers in the city on that you know if they extract mind you for the Kurdish by running from the because of so the disappearance of the Kurds is Turkey's priority I mean in return what would rush or expect would it expect Turkey to support For example political tracks the constitutional arguments which might lead to the reestablishment the kind of the strengthening of the position of Bashar al Assad in Damascus. There's been always into play but the more important question the body because Russia had been demanding the explosion. Of yes which is the radical element did it if you know you know it in the press corps nor to just the position stronger than the cost would be in opposition forces and they've been going on for years there and Russia had a lot of complaints about that area might you know it's right to expect them about the area in the same time you should understand that Russia and Turkey actually are on the same page about the u.s. Withdrawal from Jordan Syria so I'm I believe they will patch up solution there right Many many thanks indeed ratchet Rajib sort of Middle East let's go to Japan a new MONUC Emperor and there he so has completed his ascension to the throne with a series of elaborate ceremonies took the rich is in Tokyo the Tokyo bureau chief for The New York Times and has been witnessing this very elaborate ceremony. Took us through the robes a something to behold one thing yes well the Empress was wearing something like 5 layers of kimono that weighed something along the lines of about 15 kilograms or $35.00 pounds so that's a lot of weight to be carrying around a textiles the Emperor and Empress were also sitting on these incredibly elaborate Thrones. They're made of something thousands of parts that had to be reassembled after being transported from Kyoto and the Emperor was sitting up including on a. 21 foot high curtains canopy and Tyrone So this is kind of an amazing. Ceremony dignitaries from 183 countries were watching Interestingly we already had thrown the Emperor 6 months ago so this was my next one yes so what right was it has there was an official this is I'm going down wasn't exactly Well I mean it was the 1st time in over 200 years that an emperor and just hadn't abdicated that was not a he tows father Akihito and so the day after he abdicated none of he was for. Amole you know ascended to the throne but now 6 months later they're having this much more elaborate ceremony in which he's kind of proclaiming his ascension to the world or oldest monarchy in front of all the world for like 2000 guests in town dignitaries from all over the world including Prince Charles from Britain we're seeing the pictures here in the studio actually and there's a bit of I mean it looks incredible it's just such a wonderful piece of theater but there is a little bits of controversy over this because this is. It is in essence a religious ceremony not everyone's happy that the public a brain for this one tell us why we're right well it has its roots in the Shinto religion which is one of the indigenous religion of Japan which also heads in World War 2 So there are some sort of historical reasons why people get nervous about it . But in the constitution of Japan which was imposed by the American occupiers after the war stated that the emperor was no longer God and that he gained his sovereignty from the people so the symbolism of this rich ceremony that you're seeing the pictures of the embers up on this high platform looking down on the prime minister so that's kind of where the controversy symbolically arises and questioning whether this is even a constitutional ceremony basic seems to set the Emperor up on a platform above the people and that is they were so into the family ceremony that it is very expensive I'm sorry times again says it will have to leave them a total rich there reporting for us the Tokyo bureau chief for The New York Times with Ascension ceremony going on right now in Tokyo distribution a b.b.c. World Service in the u.s. 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News with Stuart McIntosh the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is on course to win reelection but without an overall majority most results from the general election and now in they put Mr Trudeau's liberals well ahead of their conservative rivals despite taking fewer votes Mr Trudeau is likely to seek the support of the center left New Democrats there have been violent protests in Bolivian cities after the election or Thor it is announced that President over Morales had won reelection in a sudden change after early results indicated he would be forced into a runoff election monitors say they're very concerned at developments in Mr Morale as his rival Carlos Messer has alleged fraud. Emperor Nero Hito of Japan has been in throned in a short ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo dressed in a copper robe narrow Hito read the proclamation of his ascension from the domed Teka Kmiec were thrown and then led a cry of Banzai or long life before a military gun salute as thousands of Chileans defied curfews to demonstrate against austerity and inequality President Sebastian Pinera said he was ready to meet opposition leaders and spoke of forging a new social contract recent disturbances resulted in 11 deaths in Israel the centrist politician and former armed forces chief Benny Gantz will try to form a government after a right wing prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted he'd failed to assemble a coalition neither man secured an outright majority in last month's elections President Putin is shortly to meet his Turkish counterpart reject Duran at Saatchi on the Black Sea The 2 men will discuss Turkey's military offensive against Kurdish forces in northeast Syria with Mr Cardew and warning he may end the current cease fire. And that is the latest news from the b.b.c. . Hello welcome is a from the b.b.c. World Service Lawrence and today could there be a new party in Botswana taking a look at that next also how forensic archaeology could help grieving families in Africa and the campaign to save daughters educated in northern India don't forget you can contact us any time you like here on the b.b.c. World Service just find us on Facebook and Twitter and you can text of whatsapp a message on anything you hear the number you need is this. For 77. 20. 5. Is often painted as an African success story stable democracy healthy economy of course based on tourism and also those Diamants But despite many free elections since independence in 1906 only one party has ever won power one family has been hugely influential in that period as well both the opposition and the government promising change in the election which takes place tomorrow it's being talked about as close and also tense and it's partly because of a switching of loyalties Let's discuss this with Daniel Cheeta the political editor of The Voice in Botswana the country's most read newspaper this is a very interesting dynamic Daniel isn't it that's going on the power of the sort of the the party of traditional power kind of the power brokers have ended up supporting the opposition or how does this come about. Little forgive me just an opportunity I wish I can say is like the b t t which is that really impact has been in power since independence in 1066 now there has been opposition we have managed to make it into 14 elections trying to take power and unfortunately it faded to only manage to get 20 seats out of the 57 so this time they are trying again to have been to get. Into some pick up switch and within 2 opposition with one party being kicked out of the question then to another one coming in those have to get a newsletter and now they are stuck tension and in the count it's a visible not at the opposition is likely to take over this time now does that mean that a new a new set of interests moves into government or are we seeing the old government rebuilt old under a new name. A new government and a new name of. Opposition is to talk even to money Facebook is totally different from the party but unfortunately for the ruling party it since it's a new party now under the new president they've got a new menu a new ideas and a new promise is the president always and. You all it took from the former president to come you know months before election now with you know hands that he has been in the city years brought a whole change to government more similar into to what the opposition has been trying to fight for quite say it's quite interesting is that the message took over from a comma and now comma is is kind of supporting the opposition and he was he and he represents the kind of the party but also the family that has been in power the you know President in common who is the son of society comer who was there from 1966 so do people actually see this as a chance for a major change in Botswana or not. Some do believe it to be a change or some don't Firstly it isn't what I'm say some too was glad you voted on these with the opposition it was doing all. They hate Did you support or taking off after come up broke away from resigned from the p.d.p. He formed his own party and now we are now that you Sparky will be supporting the opposition which is the quite u.t.c. The u.t.c. Isn't come out into another no we. Must support one don't like it most of the 2 put it in a set up with government. To do politically nearly lost the elections in Clinton because now with the come up big opposition some of the people it's been a couple gentle puzzle When I suppose you mean you just which is the main opposition people have been a supporting the u.g.c. Now with a comment behind you to see. You take it beaten say no maybe my c.c.t.v. Is a new let's try to give eat my sissy. New Old guy a chance against the old new guy it's complicated but it's interesting and we'll be watching it tomorrow as well many thanks indeed to the political editor of The Voice in Botswana most read newspaper we're told in the country that was done you'll cheat a thanks to Daniel. And Lawrence with you down it's been a breakthrough in talks between the transitional government in Sudan and the rebel groups who have been meeting in South Sudan the agreement includes rebel groups from Darfur but in the mountains and the Blue Nile region the 3 regions which is still at war the current government has vowed to reunite the country as a while ago I spoke to Mandela reporter in Juba South Sudan where they were hosting the talks Sudanese transitional government and rebel groups from there are all. There are 2 documents to agreements on official of hostilities political declared the most important document is the session of a split is because this agreement allows the reopening of humanitarian corridors in the affected by the war in. Sudan for as you know the war has been going on in there for since 2003 that is about 16 years and in the 2 areas of the mountains for Sultan quarterfinal. The war has been going there for about 8 years since 2011 these agreements will enable children agencies to take human life saving assistance to the people who are in need of humanitarian assistance in the On Click affected areas in western Sudan. And to give us an idea I mean as you say this is a conflict started way back in 2003. I mean this signing ceremony at the State House was witness by presence of South Sudan represents is it the u.n. The African Union also witness by South Sudanese opposition leader react Machar as well so every single player who needed to be there was there but how hopeful is everybody in the region that this is an agreement that can hold definitely. Hoping that the agreement will hold given the fact that the u.n. Security Council was hearing you want Sunday to back up the implementation 'd of these agreement. We count on the words of a negotiator themselves especially members of the. Transitional government generally. Ready to 'd implement this peace agreement in order to end the war in the Sudan and their representative of the rebel groups. They are committed to this peace agreement. 2019 will mark the end of war in the Sudan and the trench will be the year of peace in Sudan and according to him so that will be the 1st war torn country in Africa to implement the African Union vision of ending all the guns in Africa by trying to turn just because in Sudan at the moment of course earlier this year we had the autocratic former president al Bashir was ousted we have this joint civilian military council formed just a couple of months ago as part of a power sharing deal between protesters and generals and that is a very fragile alliance so given that as a backdrop how confident are people that this is something that can hold up when you have such a kind of newly formed Alliance in Sudan itself the u.n. Security Council and African Union peace and security. They should support this peace process because you know once agreements are fine sometimes people sign agreements for the sake of fighting but implementation is a different thing but the audience is now on the on the international community to make sure that the document signed here into were yesterday should be implemented the party should be given pressure to implement these Riemannian letter in a spirit so that they end the conflict in Sudan has been at war for. You know the boys there have no Mandel reporter in Juba in South Sudan where they were hosting those talks with historic peace agreement we hope that it will hold was signed in the last 24 hours 18 minutes to the other death of a relative is tragic of course one thing that makes it even worse is if the body is never found with a number of ongoing conflicts it's a reality for many people a group of forensic experts from Argentina along with the International Committee of the Red Cross have been South Africa training professionals from across the continent in the techniques of what's called Forensic archaeology the best ways to find and excavate human remains we went along to see what they're learning and how it can help in their own countries corrosive reports. I. Just want everything to do with. This. Very. Clear. Hidden in a shallow grave doctors from different African countries find what they spent most of the morning searching for. Slime a skull you missed even though we're digging on the grounds of a mortuary in the Tour there are now several open brain some of the remains are tied together with others I just. Each have their own story to tell how they lived but most importantly how they died we have a scenario of a crime scene where. People have been buried a human remains in the ground and we have to try and find them. And that's what we're doing right now to be able to identify them. Is a family physician in Nigeria she's helping the health ministry draft policy around for reasons. Medical services. Right now forensic up ability is at a very low level and because of that a lot of crimes are not really solved I think the most interesting thing I've learnt is that you know crime cases can really be solved you understand because it's like in my country most of the time it's interrogation and interview 8 really not as scientific as it should be. It's the only course of its kind on the continent we don't need to Dick Morris. With the war killing in Africa since 9394 we came for us to work with. After to fall along the years we work in 17 African countries investigating cases like in Central African Republic or providing training what we call building local capacity in. South prospecting Louis funder bridge is the director of the Argentine forensic anthropology team and organization founded more than 50 years ago to document human rights violations to science the skills they teach are particularly important for a continent still grappling with a number of ongoing conflicts Dr Peterson really who is from South Sudan a medical doctor looking forward to a hospital mystery you know in the context of our country it's not that the stable made me feel. Worse are going there sometimes people are missing and this causes very good record is what you've got to help a lot. Between. In the border during the war there is more than 400000 missing persons according to the Starts Now we have suffering from many of the families suffering of missing. Songs during the last 6 months or the last. Year maybe during the whole last 30 years that struck from Sudan says. This is from a mock crime scene to the lab the students are exposed to all facets of forensic anthropology and the plastic to be emptied I don't want a human remains all of the bones amount to students are just required to dig up the buildings also required to put the skeleton back together again and in that instance we will. See from the Arjun time 3 in sick team says there aren't many forensic anthropologist in Africa that's something they hope to change I hope that they will learn their techniques and they will apply it in their own context when they go back to their countries and even if this is skeleton it's still a human being is a person or it was a person. With a story. It's not just this doctor now knows every one of the bones she handles is a critical piece of the puzzle I think in the 3 burials are important we have. A pool that sees that it hurts. Until you baby And so that. Is some way in the macho. You don't even know where the body were going to keep her to. Reporting on the prospects for forensic archaeology in Africa you say from the b.b.c. World Service. What is it it's 30 minutes to get you know anything I mean you know fashion digital readouts doing me no favors Let's have a say well what's. The big hand yeah now let's go to some Let's news his. Wife's Arsenal and squandered an opportunity to close the gap on Liverpool of Manchester City with a shock one nil different to Sheffield United in the English. In the 30 man short list for the. Place for Player of the world's most expensive player. We got the return of the European champions. Manchester City hosting. Last season's. North London have only 12 points from the English Premier League this season and of course they were thrashed 72 by their 1st home game of this year's competition here is. The. Return of the Champions League the start of the n.b.a. . Has stopped the defense of their title. From the consistent young superstars. Troughed in the n.b.a. With injury could miss the 1st 2 months. After having an operation on his knee. Needed to change things around after the. Departure of the Clippers but I. Told the b.b.c. They are ready to challenge again. The other game today. Against the. News tomorrow morning. Cricketers are going on strike according to. Their tour of India. Dispute is over money conditions for the players and the structure of domestic competitions and the French player who was sent off in their Rugby Union World Cup quarter final defeat against Wales. Has retired from the International came here lost control when he aimed at the head of well. Meanwhile the referee who sent him off South Africa's part wasn't considered as a contender to take charge of either of the semifinals in Japan because of that photograph we talked about yesterday where he was snapped with a group of Welsh fans all apparently including the ref mimicking elbow aimed at the player that's a mistake I think probably from the refs more in sport today and focus on Africa here on the British. India now where the Northern states her of her Anya is making inroads into fixing its gender ratio after allegations of wide spread fee to side following years of disparity in birth numbers between male and female children the gap is finally narrowing this change is largely attributed to a national campaign called Betty but Chalo but save daughters educate daughters it seeks to stop female feet to cite the B.B.C.'s. Reports now from the village that once had the worst sex ratio in the country. I have covered your u. 200 kilometer not. To the village but now it's a small village by Indian standards but just about $6000.00 residents I have come here to meet and Giuliani who gave birth to baby girl just last month she lives in a single. Like most houses. Just outside the house is a pile of drying dung gigs. Many homes here. And bottles were related to mother in law. To put it off you had been boys 5 years ago. And of course. I'm nimble of course. I am happy very very happy she is like a goddess product you really need a baby girl that I live in too many temples to pay for to go and. Have been 50 years old is the more outspoken off the 2 but a daughter in law makes a crucial point. This word exists because of women what people don't realize is that variable the boys come from if there were no good. Does state of Hannah has over the years gained a reputation of manipulating the gender issue to suit the preference for baby boys the reason is the costly dependence had to be to marry do daughters off as it is old it has become dusted with the country's poorest 6 ratio but it can be females against a 1000 meals in 2 and 11 the situation had become so bad that the men had to look for and even buy a brides for them since from a distance. You were quickly sort of given to nearly 40 years ago Prime Minister not in the mood to campaign to save girls in in our guard duty which old Since then things have changed a lot to the issue of newborn girls but a 1000 boys went up to 918 Do you want to see you disability know how diverse record 40 years ago Bernie tired 548 against a 1000 means and now the goods outnumber the boys I asked some demand in the village they are to build this success to. Give birth to a baby girl t.v. Xico she sees that it's action by the government that has booked. Go get bad liver Earlier people used to kill girls before but but now that has stopped because of stick check on us town centers here so what do the people involved in the campaign see I have come to could hear the Civil Hospital which is about 10 kilometers from the village outside the hospital I can see a big sign board that other group of 4 smiling goes appealing to the people to cast their vote in the upcoming state elections you cannot focus on women in this state these days I'm at the deputy civil surgeon here. To achieve our targets arranged awareness campaigns and Bradley's village level but our undercover operations were most affected about raids on the illegal entry some centers determine the sex of fetuses. Clearly efforts to improve the sex ratio have paid off but changing attitudes is a slow process in parts of India giving birth to a baby boy is still highly prized average and brother with that report you're listening to news day. Right here's an idea to celebrate making roof tiles out of plastic sourced from rubbish dumps Leaks excess of this brilliant idea that you're about to hear about has led to the winner coming to London as a winner of lead 2030 it's basically a competition to find use lead practical solutions for the sustainable development goals of the u n it also means more investment for her company as well who we're talking about hope. Who joins us now here in the studios I want to start with a personal story before we talk about tiles we were having a very interesting chat about tiles which I've just been using in it my house but 1st off you came back from university and just tell us the story you were used to seeing playing fields where you live near Mombasa what it had as through so when I went back at home I found out that most of the fields that we used to play like basically turned into terms and the biggest materials in the West was the plastic and glass and is this kind of single use plastic What sort of thing is water bottles that kind of thing what sort of stuff really it's all top sorts of plastics because for Kenyan home it's very common to find plastic things in their households plastic chairs plastic cards and the last year and this is just kind of like throw it away and really in the time that you'd been at university and come back that change had happened really here because I mean this plastic items break off so it's very common for them to end up in there when the quite cheap as well yeah that's true Ray can buy another one that sort of thing yes now one of the problems that we always hear about plastic is oh it has to be the right sort of plastic to recycle into something else so how do you get around the problem of recycling the practice of plastic waste into something useful because actually what happens is that the different types of plastics are sorted. And once that happens it's very easy for recyclers like myself to know which type of plastic that they use the wind and use it saw for us basically we use plastics because it's the one that commonly is a high proportion in the way it's riser is that the but I'm thinking sort of like the chairs I would sit in a day or that kind of saying or patio tables that sort of stuff yeah the little washing basins right now you had a look at what you could recycle it into various alternatives before you got to tiles roofing tiles What else did you look at so before we actually made the roofing tiles were also making the building blocks but then we found out that the building blocks havey logistics urging transportation to their clients was very difficult also because I know a lot of people could just make them with what they've got is a boy and it was difficult to convince people that they should use green blocks other than they know more than the advantage of tiles in particular was water I mean the alternatives I'm guessing corrugated iron at one level but your you offer a better product that yes that's true because our roofing tiles aren't green products number one number 2 they're light they're unbreakable also customers do not face damages while transportations they can be used in all types of buildings in all countries in all climatically John and you were just explaining they're easy to fix which I guess believing that since now now this is lead to a company so you've basically got the idea is that you have little pickers so you give people a job yes sourcing the plastic that you then make into tiles Yes that's true because for us it was important not only to make environmental benefits but also to create the social impact as well saw because we started out unemployed and we know what it means to have no job at all there's a story isn't it you go see your degree and you end up being unemployed congratulations on a not very large one and I'm sure the 50000 is going to be well invested as well so many thanks indeed for joining us hope hope from there Mombasa. Next up on the world 5 days in northern Syria she's fire pause that was 5 days ago now on day 6 what are the facts on the ground we'll look at who is controlling northern Syria and what the past week has revealed about America's strength in the Middle East we've got the latest on the world join us for the world Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock on 90.3. This is with a weather update from The National Weather Service tomorrow will be sunny and clear with temperatures in the upper seventy's to mid eighty's critical fire weather concerns are in place Wednesday and Thursday in the Santa Cruz Mountains from California State University Monterey Bay This is member funded 90.3 k a z u Pacific Grove Monterey Salinas and Santa Cruz n.p.r. For the Monterey Bay area. Coming up with mainly just plays Judy Garland in her new movie and tells us how she worked on the vocal performances with a couple of the coaches who taught me songs and it was quite a struggle I've never attempted seeing this belters before and I came to quickly that you can't just do bench press 160 pounds on the 1st day it. Is have fee of about taking on her latest film role in American woman and how to create. On the wrapping with President Obama at the White House I remember talking to the president at the time and saying if you could sort of start slow and speed up that would sort of make it more dynamic and he cut me off with an idea of how we're just going to do what we're going to do. Ok. Coming up on the. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Shay's Stevens Kurdish fighters say they've withdrawn from a key Syrian border city it is their 1st evacuation under a u.s. Brokered temporary ceasefire agreement with Turkey N.P.R.'s Dina raff is more a spokesman for Syrian Kurdish forces which fought alongside the u.s. Against ISIS says there are no longer any of its fighters inside Russell ain the u.s. Brokered a 5 day ceasefire ending Tuesday in which the Kurds agreed to withdraw from his own 75 miles long and 20 miles deep Turkey wants to carve out a zone and push Syrian refugees now in Turkey into it almost 200000 civilians have been fleeing many of them from areas expected to be taken over by Turkish forces and Kurdish Red Crescent officials at some still remain in Russell ain the us military meanwhile says it is continuing its withdrawal of troops from northeast Syria Kurds say the move leaves them defenseless against Turkish forces and the Syrian regime Jane around n.p.r. News dough hook in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and bipartisan group in Congress is urging President trying to reverse its decision to pull u.s. Troops from northern Syria Trump says he doesn't want any u.s. Forces in the country except a small number to protect oil facilities.