Fighters in prison any attack on the region will eat those tired as well sleep from prison Islamic state will do you organize again dozens of climate activists arrested in Australia and New Zealand at the start of a global day of action and the impact of bricks hit our mental health I think that it's made me more withdrawn from my social group I've become hesitant about interacting with people that I know have passionate opinions that differ from mine plus 30 years after the iron curtain lifted how Russia views $989.00 those stories after the news. B.b.c. News Hello I'm Gerri Smit a Kurdish militia says u.s. Troops have withdrawn overnight from positions in northeastern Syria opening the way for a full scale Turkish invasion mole from Sasha Schlichter in a statement the Syrian democratic forces accused. Of failing in their commitments and withdrawing from the border areas with Turkey Anchorage said was now preparing for an invasion of northern and eastern Syria this morning Turkey's foreign minister tweeted that Ankara was determined to ensure Turkey's existence and security by clearing what he called terrorists from the region is not yet clear if the Americans will relinquish control of as space above northern Syria or how deep they will withdraw from the border police in Australia and New Zealand have arrested dozens of activities belonging to the extinction rebellion movement those demanding the government's act to limit climate change in Sydney Police trying to weigh hundreds of protesters who blocked a road these are the 1st planned in 60 cities across the globe over the next fortnight these people join protests in the city of Melbourne we don't want to be disruptive we just want pine action but nothing else is where. Australia we've had already the hottest month and bushfires where it's really scary what's happening in Australia for the last month I've not been working at all just helping do this because I'm in a privileged position administratively here I have a roof over my head it's not a lack of food there's no lack of water shame vital to what I could run the group was founded in Britain last year rapidly gaining traction around the world. The general manager of the Houston Rockets basketball team has apologized over a tweet supporting Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests Daryl Morey said he was merely one and they were his words merely one interpretation of a complicated event Karisma verse one e reports Daryl Mari's initial tweet showed an image that said fight for freedom stand with Hong Kong the backlash from Chinese firms has been swift sportswear brand leaning and sponsors Shanghai put on Development Bank has said they're suspending cooperation with the rockets while the Chinese state broadcaster c.c.t.v. Sports channel says it won't broadcast any more rockets games the Chinese market is a lucrative one for the American basketball team but this route has got many in China criticizing the rockets on social media platforms threatening to boycott their games 2 people have appeared at a magistrate's court in Hong Kong after a series of arrests 100 new law balance protesters from wearing face masks and 18 year old and a 38 year old were accused of illegal assembly turns of thousands of protesters wore masks in defiance of the ban as they marched through the center of Hong Kong on Sunday you're listening to World News from the b.b.c. The Supreme Court in India has ordered the earth or it is in Mumbai to hold the cutting of trees in a greenbelt and what's known as the city's last green lung the judges told officials to maintain the status quo in the are a forest environmentalists oppose cutting down the trees saying it would increase Mumbai's pollution levels President Trump has launched another vitriolic attack on senior political figures behind the impeachment proceedings against him this time targeting the House speaker Nancy Pelosi a tweet from the president accused her of knowing what he described as the lies and frauds perpetrated on the American people by Adam Schiff the Democrat who heads the House Intelligence Committee. The Taliban in Afghanistan say they have freed 3 abducted Indian engineers in exchange for the release of some senior members of the militant group 7 Indian engineers working for a power plant in the northern Baghlan Province were kidnapped in May 28th. The woman at the center of allegations of misconduct by the British Prime Minister Barak's Johnson when he was mayor of London has denied that he showed her any favoritism in an interview Jennifer Curie said Mr Johnson had never written a letter of recommendation backing her for a government job Mr Curie refused to confirm or deny rumors that the 2 had had an intimate relationship Norman Smith watched the interview there's plenty of amusing interesting anecdotes we learnt that apparently they 1st kind of bonded after she saw he had a copy of Voltaire beside him on the bar's Barson she apparently has a great interest in Shakespeare and so the 2 then started talking about classical literature we learned that she had him on her phone under the name Alexander the Great in terms of killer blows big revelations I'm struggling to see it at the moment in terms of whether Mr Johnson anyway behaved inappropriately or improperly b.b.c. News. Hello this is Dan Damon with world update from the b.b.c. In London coming up on our program the multinational company Unilever which is responsible for producing $700000.00 tonnes of new plastic each year and it says it plans to have that amount within 5 years we'll ask them how 1st u.s. President Donald Trump has given support to a Turkish military operation across the border in Syria Kurdish forces that have until now been backed by the u.s. And have been fighting Islamist rebels there are described as terrorist by Turkey and they're likely to face Turkish attacks as American forces withdraw u.s. Officials in the Pentagon and the state department of tried to persuade the president to keep an American force in the region that is not going to happen before we came on air I spoke to his so matter of fact he's a Syrian Kurdish journalist based income Asli that's the city on the border in northeast Syria people are so concerned like 1st of all the threat is that there are thousands of ice fighters in prison and thousands of ice families women and children in the region as well so any attack on the region will eat those fighters those. Families Wellfleet from present so it will be. That Islamic state will reorganize again it will be another threat on the region and of course on the world again that's on one side and additionally people are concerned with another think that if there is a Turkish. Attack on the region Turkey it will bring Syrian refugees who are living in Turkey now they will bring back to their region to the region or not in Syria unfortunately most of those refugees are from it lives from the liberals from the let's say. I say from the predominantly Arab areas from the center or the desert area of Turkey so it's so similar to what Al bath party to what the Syrian regime did in 1900 you want what's called the Arabic belt at the time it's in a region it the same they brought Arab families from Arabs from Homs from Dhaka from Aleppo to the northeast of Syria to transplant them in into the Kurdish areas and this. Of course it led to many the demographic distribution of democratic. Disruption of demographic structure in the region so this is the main concern like the May Concern of the church attack in not if Syria is disruption of the demographic structure of the region and the reorganize of Islamic States at the present is. One of the reasons that Donald Trump said he's agreed to pull outs the u.s. Forces to allow Turkey to come in is because he says the United States has been paying for those prisoners and looking after them and it's too much cost too much and it's time for the Europeans and others to take over what's the reality in your view. The problem is that. If if this this fight us of course if these fighters stay for a long time in northern Syria of course. Threats So what Trump says Tom is talking about his point is. His financial point of view all it unfortunately. Maybe doesn't know maybe. Ignore what's going on on the ground thousands of fighters on the ground and the. European countries that used to take them back of course that will cause a big threat in the region either if they are in prison or if that there will be a terrorist attack they will be fleet and there will be more threat on. Unfortunately Trant you is only economy do you think that the Kurdish forces can resist a Turkish invasion. Unfortunately I don't think so because there is no air force or. Yes they were fighting ice for a long time proficiently. But when it comes to. The fight it forces it's very hard because what happened in a frame is it's a good example to come in 2018 Yes Remind us of a day it they could they could just resist about 2 months and then they pull out. At a time out of fire to journalist based in coming which is on the border between Syria and Turkey Let's speak to us man said his research director of the anchorage Institute think tank formally an adviser to the Turkish Prime Minister thanks for being with us not a leisure How do you see this incursion this Turkish military operation going. 1st of all the 2nd coming from a very clearly positive signal president. Turkey was pushing. For a long time for such kind of. Rationing to control its borders should be free from why p g m p k k presents and it was impossible for the American administration satisfying the Kurds and satisfying and it was it was impossible and we have seen that I think Trump is thinking on is reelection I think he doesn't want to have any new trouble in the region and that's why it's giving a free hand. To make such an operation it is clear Turkey will take it but of course it's bringing some new question marks well and the reaction of the Kurdish people is going to be very negative isn't it why is it that the Kurdish forces when they're attacking so-called Islamic State and other Islam ist rebels are considered to be allies of the United States but not of Turkey . Turkey was the 1st foreign country in the region attacking I think that it was a member or you call it against ISIS and this fight Turkey has taken this is possibilities against ISIS and just having such kind of a Strat that it will release the ISIS if Turkey is coming to the region is an irresponsible way for the Americans and the Kurds if common. To be found. And the Americans control the ISIS members are already on. The problem and the Americans are in this as well. He's concerned regarding y p g p k k presence in the region and that's why this is a question mark by the Americans how will Turkey move into that area without causing tremendous disruption loss of life among civilians. I didn't. Operate if you look at the issue we have this example in front of falls and I said that it will be a huge tremendous. Problem for to Cuba it didn't happen after a while there was a huge displacement of the population for thousands of Kurdish people fled when the Turkish forces attacked after being told the 1st year of Chodesh inflow coming from Syria was from which was forced by p k k y p members to 30 and about 300000 codes are living in Turkey coming from Syria now yes it is a very big problem to bring. You know refugees to the region is changing demography right but the 1st person who changed. The shuttle is thought the people are looking not Turkey and that is why the Syrian people should live in Syria and just. Rejecting your presence in Syria is not compatible with the Syrian acts thank you from the Ankara Institute think tank Well let's speak now to someone who has recently been in the region across party British parliamentary delegation was led by the Labor Member of Parliament Lloyd Russell morrow and he joins us now you went to Conversely I think I was your what is your reaction now to this idea of the Turkish military will be moving into that area well I mix Trini disappointed there had been a deal brokered between all sides that would be able to jointly control the border region with u.s. Forces and with local defense forces 5 kilometers in and the heavy artillery would be moved up to 20 kilometers away so that everyone would feel safe what now is happening is the u.s. Leaving and giving the green light to a target. Invasion this be clear this will be a Turkish invasion of another country is extremely dangerous My view is that Turkey does not have the best interests of Syria we've already seen of course we know the history of Turkey is a genocidal nation the Armenian Genocide and things like this but we now see Turkey treating. Extremely badly. And now they want to ensure a region that has developed a peaceful settlement after the war has defeated the threat global threat of Islamic Fascism Well you're no that Turkey takes a different view of the Turkish government takes a very different view yes the. Kurdish region and. There were no so sorry the p.k. K. Are not in northeast Syria and the British and almost every other country apart from Turkey recognizes that fact the fact that Turkey has a strange view just like doing 2 has a lot takes years of. Because when they were there only being to sting Lee On my 1st trip I've been a number of times there were lots of pictures of her lab and one of the things that we said is that again a delusion is is no longer lead to the p.k. Just like Gerry Adams or you know kind of converted to political means but putting that aside my latest trip that just last week she what we saw is a great absence of those things a willingness to try and work cooperatively and they've done that with cooperation with the Turkish and American forces if texture American forces dent 5 people in leadership positions that were p.k. The kids were moving them these things were happening and this now is a very dangerous breaking of a truce that had been brokered just like in many other conflicts there is no way you can resolve this conflict through violence we must resolve it through peaceful negotiations and that's what the lawsuit and Turkey invading. The aggressive state I want you to argue goes. That with the operation in a frame the occupation last year happened it went relatively well do you agree with well it led to a nearby constituent of mine being murdered by the Turks so I don't describe that as going well I think led to N.S.A.'s soldier being attacked by the British soldier that is not what I describe going well and we now see in Africa in the kids who have lived there for many years it was always a Kurdish enclave being forced out and you had these have been put back in on the border by Turkey Turkey is no friend to the fight against Islamic fascism Turkey has helped fuel this instability and it will continue to do so they have a dangerous force and I'm afraid this is a dark day for progressive values the kids we're developing a system that of which the kids are in a minority let's be clear in northern Syria where all ethnicities were able to take part men and Arabs alike women had to take 50 percent of the positions this is what Turkey's afraid of seeing a purely stick multi-ethnic system working on their border will threaten the idea of the very nationalistic effort that and it's not Turkish people that speak live that the leader of k. Is is trying to pursue and his days are numbered we know that we've seen that in the result in the stand earlier and clearly as a war on the border will help will help bolster him going into the future electoral cycles and that is already more Thanks very much in the this is wild update. Coming up later on our program we're going to hear about the stigma that still surrounds what happens every month to almost every woman and that's a period this whole idea of a menstrual woman having some kind of impact on the society around her is socially and religiously and culturally embedded in society's going to talk about that and about new research from the b.b.c. Which shows that the painful. And Metro's says that so many women suffer during periods is underplayed because women. Are not allowed it seems to feel pain or to express it that's coming up on the b.b.c. World Service this is World update from London. This is Dan Damon in London the u.k. Prime Minister Barak's Johnson's proposals for a revised Brix it deal with the European Union seem not to be getting much support from the other 27 e.u. Members the French President Emanuel McCraw has said he'll give an answer by the end of the week that leaves very little time for any deal to be agreed before the e.u. Summit on the 17th of October in 10 days Mr Johnson is expected to phone more of his European counterparts today to try to get support for his latest proposals Well meanwhile we might learn a bit more this morning about how the u.k. Government plans to resolve the contradiction between the legal obligations set by members of parliament Mr Johnson must ask for an extension to the brakes at that line if he doesn't get a deal and his repeated warning that there will be no extension there's a hearing at Edinburgh's Court of Session on a case seeking a court order to force Boris Johnson to ask for that extension we're waiting to hear more about that Rob Watson our political correspondent is here in the world update studio there was a bit of optimism at the end of last week surrounding the new proposals especially on the border proposals for. The Irish Republican Northern Ireland that seems to have faded Well I'm not so I'm not disagreeing with your thoughts I'm not sure the optimism as the right word down I mean I think certainly on the European side they will be trying to be polite they don't want to be seen to be rejecting anything from the u.k. Out of hand and as for the u.k. Side well of course Mr Johnson's government talks up the deal that they were offering but I think there's still some doubt as to whether they really whether they're really serious about a deal or whether they knew all along with it was likely to be rejected and that this is all about optics and who's going to get the blame if everything turns nasty in a few weeks time. Writing in The Times over the weekend Michael Gove who is responsible for the no deal preparations warned island that their medicines will be in short supply I mean the whole pressure seems to be on island to persuade the e.u. The remaining $27.00 to do a deal with the u.k. Rather than the island is going to do that for the simple reason that I mean our government would fall I mean it seems to me that as the deal is currently constructed any are sick of them and couldn't survive in the domestic politics of countries other than the u.k. Accounts but I shot I think it comes down to this really time when people are trying to game what's going to happen it seems to me it depends on what does the e.u. Consider the least worst option because at this point nobody thinks are any good options when it comes to Bracks it is at least worst to do something like the Johnson deal despite the threats that it poses to the entirety of the single market the Customs Union potentially to peace in Northern Ireland or is it even worse so have a no deal Bracks or extensions the Bracks process and I guess we're going to find out the answers to those questions in a 5678910 days. We see lots of different versions of how Boris Johnson can escape having to ask for an extension of the latest which sounds highly conspiratorial is that he's going to ask the Hungary and government to refuse an extension and here's my advice to everyone listening I suspect that not even Mr Johnson knows what's going to happen we won't know what's going to happen when this the square that needs to be circled if it comes to that or not 19th of October what does he do and just remind everyone of the background of parliament passed a law saying we can't have a no deal Brax that if you haven't reached a deal with the e.u. You need to write and ask for an extension on the 19th Mr Johnston said he will obey the law but that won't be an extensive and how exactly pulls that off we don't know and we might find out thanks so much indeed Rob Rob Watson Well it does appear that the anxiety over bricks it is getting the happiness and mental health of both leave us and remain as unlike a doctor recently reported a case of bricks it related psychosis his patient was admitted to hospital tried to borrow through the floor apparently to escape the ugly climate on social media well after treatment is now said to be better patio camos been speaking to one lever who became more withdrawn and the delegates including remainders who attended a conference on bricks at a mental health organized the European Union offices in London. Martin Bradford works in NY t. And is an amateur musician. Is his name by the way but he loves to play guitar I'm signed. And supportively and I've been frustrated with everything going on I had one friend in particular who I haven't spoken to since soon after the referendum when he found out that I had voted leave the fixedly said well your vote is as ruined by retirement or words to that effect and you don't want to talk to me much since I think that it's made me more withdrawn. From my social group I've become hesitant about interacting with people that I know have passionate opinions that differ from mine I just don't want to have a fight really. He has lever hangs i-t. He likes the referendum result but not what's happened since do you think that wherever we stand on this some people have been driven to the wall by this issue yes. These people agree they've come to a conference Breck's it in mental health how are you coping. Both you know for a Mental Health Conference which both exhibiting very nice and laughing at the very beginning he says his good start. For the n.h.s. My name is Sharon and I also work for the n.h.s. And I don't mental health are British patients presenting I believe is the word with mental health symptoms due to it often. In the middle of the night having trouble getting to sleep in the 1st place then we can hang up worrying about the uncertainty of what's going to happen what's going to happen to them how it's going to affect the job search the holidays the children and we do know for a lot of people that just uncertainty is a fact. You know mental distress and I think that. The uncertainty the fact that you know we still don't have any clarity and I think it's all of that and I think people feeling very powerless one of the speakers was your source associate professor in behavioral science at Queen Mary University 1000 people were interviewed in all 28 countries and asked the same questions the numbers were gathered by the European Commission and crunched by your boss So overall we find happiness in the u.k. Compared to the European Union after the referendum result this is mostly driven from a positive attitude it was a use of those that feel being a European citizen and those who reacted strong. Into the idea that they were in a uses and what happened to their happiness so yes they were from the results their happiness increased however down the line their happiness falls by quite a bit which of course we can only speculate that that might be either because of unmet expectations or some sort of a distress associated with all the negotiations going on there is remain around to from those who feel the wrong decision has been taken Emmy van does and speaking at the conference is a psychotherapist she now offers free sessions to e.u. Nationals who live in the u.k. For a lot of the 5000000 to 3600000 even 27 citizens in the u.k. a Month point 5000000 Brits who live in Europe it has been like a process of grieving literally in June 2016 they felt as if something came to an end and they begin to realize that their lives were going to change completely one man at the event wondered if there's a cycle to all this uncertainty which has made anxious people feel more anxious I feel that people who are too much worried about this have to relearn the varying and this is just fine thank to thank you to make things to worry about and so back to Martin the lever that has been some upsides for him by looking closer to home the one thing I would say that was quite surprising was actually my wife and I have disagreed on politics most of our lives and found common ground on breakfast so perversely break has been good to my marriage. Another Rex effect on mental health you're listening to World update from the b.b.c. In London. Distribution a b.b.c. 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This is what updates with and I've been coming up on our program extinction rebellion environmental activists are gearing up the demonstrations in world cities as they demand that governments are urgently to limit climate change and it is 30 years since the events of 989 the iron curtain was lifted the Soviet empire began to crumble we'll hear how Russia looks back at that time and how the Kremlin is trying to rebuild its influence 1st the headlines. B.b.c. News with Jerry Smit a Kurdish militia says u.s. Troops have withdrawn overnight from positions in northeastern Syria opening the way for a full scale Turkish invasion the Syrian democratic forces have been the Americans may not allies in the fight against the Islamic state group in Syria but they know accuse Washington of failing to fulfill its commitments. The United Nations says is preparing for the worst in northeast Syria the un humanitarian coordinator for Syria said there were a lot of unanswered questions about the coming Operation Iraqi military authorities have admitted that excessive force was used in a district in the capital Baghdad where overnight closures between security forces and protesters left at least 13 people dead the government has now ordered the withdrawal of all Army units from Sandra city. Police in Australia and New Zealand have arrested dozens of activists belonging to the extinction rebellion movement that is demanding their governments act urgently to limit climate change a series of demonstrations have been planned by extinction rebellion in 60 cities. The Supreme Court in N.D.'s has ordered the author origin is a mum buy to hold the cutting of trees in the are a forest known as this is his last green lung the old Thora to started felling the trees on Friday to make way for a new depo for Metro trains the general manager of the Houston Rockets basketball team has apologised over a tweet supporting Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests there all more a said it was not his intention to offend the team's Chinese fans or sponsors the woman at the center of allegations of misconduct by the British prime minister Boris Johnson when he was mayor of London has denied that he showed any favoritism Jennifer are Curie refused to confirm or deny rumors that the 2 had had an end to material Asian shared arguing that she was being objectified b.b.c. News. You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service Hello this is Dan Damon with world update police in Australia and New Zealand have arrested dozens of activists belonging to the extinction extinction rebellion movement they are demanding that governments act urgently to limit climate change in Sydney Police dragged away hundreds of protesters who blocked a busy road later they charged 30 of them with committing offenses and in Melbourne these activists explained why they were taking part in protests we don't want to be disruptive we just want an action but nothing else as. Australia we've had already the hottest a month. Where it's really scary what's happening in Australia I have young children I want to be able to look them in the eye when they're adults and tell them that when I found out the extent and the severity of the crisis that we are in for a climate and I told them that I did absolutely everything within my power to be able to try and reverse that and do what I can to change that in Wellington New Zealand activists ring the government building housing the ministry granting oil and gas drilling permits. Already being a lot of protests in London we can speak to heavenly our correspondent who is in Westminster I think. Yes that's right we are on white school in fact this which you may know Number 10 Downing Street is just off Whitehall they have shot the whole of this area because of these protests by the climate's extinction rebellion now in front of us there are probably hundreds of protesters just in this area alone it's pretty good natured here and some of them on the pavement I seen some of the protesters chaining themselves together in offices and trying to pull them a number of arrests ahead of this start of the this 2 week. A demonstration of what we know from the Metropolitan Police describe this as a prolonged kiloton a protest and they're very well aware that this is going to potentially disrupt Londoners in this area and you may remember that there was a similar protest back in April which caused significant disruption in this area and some criticized offices for not acting as quickly as some people perhaps myself wanted them to given that it was causing say much disruption say they have made some arrests so far 21 at the moment and I think you can expect that number to increase is the days go on and I thank you Helen and the there in Whitehall Unilever the manufacturer of well known brands such as mom might and so on they say they have plan to harm the amount of new plastic that they use over the next 5 years might please some of those extinction rebellion protest as they use 700000 tonnes of new plastic each year at the moment I've been speaking to Richard Slater the chief officer for research and development you know in the for how they're going to do it it's really essential we bring consumers people along with us and we provide simple easy ways for them to make the right choice great avoids innovation that they love to use you know concentrates resells new forms new formats help them reduce plastic but also have a great experience as well so take me into the supermarket of the future so I think what you'll see is potentially the option to refill and reuse and store and we're piloting a number of those right now in the u.k. But also in Southeast Asia I think we'll see new forms and formats that will have no plastic options I think we'll see more concentrates and resells because of course reduces prostate but it also reduces water and energy to transpose Well what would be the difference if you were to use traditional materials that kind of thing so you know on occasions that's true plus that could be the right thing but the problem Joe. Taking one plastic bottle and putting into glass is of course the overall energy footprint on the transport and Aegean costs as well because Exactly so and plus the valuable material when it's used responsibly we just need to keep it out of the waste stream will you pay consumers pay people who are shopping to bring their bottles back and I think we've got to look at all business innovation as well so what is in it for them in order to do this it's got to make sense of people I think it's going to be a great user experience for them and it's got to make sense financially for them as well so I think where open to looking at how we would innovate to make this work so what's the great user experience and bringing back your plastic model where you can potentially make it work financially for people as well but I think the real thing is that they are able to then we're all in our own lives able to make a choice if you think about the loop pilot that we have running at the moment this for example for your deodorants or your toothpaste you buy a fantastic looking Ali minion pack that can last us that's of a lifetime and you actually just get replacements for that with very little to no plastic and and you are absolutely right because people are ready for this they know about the turtles eating plastic bags and they know the damage it's doing to fish and they know that there are a micro plastics in the food that people eat so I guess they are ready for this it's just how you make it easy and worthwhile it is going to be challenging and that's where we'll need innovation that's why we're piloting a lot of things to see what people are willing to do I do feel like now is the time that people are more willing to embrace you think about the set of products in the u.k. For example we're offering a resale set up 75 percent less plastic but it also means 97 percent less water that were transporting as well and we're seeing people willing to adopt and buy that and build into that very thing you know making a small change to make a difference I think we can find ways to make this happen with people and by. Innovating this is going to add to costs isn't it who's bearing those costs will the supermarkets agreed to help with the collection and so on oh we're certainly investing all. Innovation and already money into this to find the right solutions and we're investing in the collection and processing partnerships as well but ultimately we want to find ways to do this at scale with other partners and to find efficiencies and of course if we're really smart in certain areas you can actually take packaging out the system and images cost so I think again it's one of those challenges that we need to innovate for and find ways to do it that doesn't cost $2.00 to people's bills it's a Slater from the research and development at Unilever this is World update. It is of course 30 years since the tumultuous events of $989.00 the Berlin Wall fell the iron curtain lifted Soviet empire began to crumble this week our Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has a special series of reports on how Russia views 989 and how the Kremlin is trying to rebuild its influence has his 1st report examining whether Moscow is building a new empire Now where were you when the Berlin Wall fell I was where I am right now in the hotel only the city at Square in southwest Moscow I spent the night in 89 studying Russian in Moscow and living in this hotel and I remember that every night I sit down to watch the news on a tiny little t.v. Set in my hotel room what I saw what Soviet Bua soul was truly remarkable an empire many believed to be invincible falling apart piece by piece. From Poland to bowl Gary in 1909. Power swept away the Iron Curtain the. Familiar so cross Europe it meant freedom but it was the death knell for a superpower the to these Russian ones to forget about $989.00 by the Russian politically and for the population it was the period of Sarandon defeat political commentator shifts over believes that 30 years on Russia is trying to build a new kind of empire these people and I am and do understand that idea of restraint of the former superpower is impossible but they have other idea and they do it is to be a blackmailer to be producer Mr Chief to be the grand spoiler to be the nightmare put it in a bus and for the outside countries so this is the idea of superpower and empire the Graham spoiler has certainly been busy this morning's top story Russia's apparent interference with the Us presidential election in this is not clear that Mr scriptural and his daughter were poisoned with a military grade nerve agent of the type developed by Russia as a gator's have blamed Russian backed separatists who they say deny spoiling anything for anyone but concedes that the failure to forge a partnership with the West was a missed opportunity and reclean of is a Russian Senator we lost possibility to be real friends brothers and partners whatever in 30 years Russia has gone from being a superpower to a geopolitical mischief maker is that really the status that Russia wants we declare many times that to Russia has its own national interests and to be offered to. But needs to write a kind of new agreement for Europe in 21st century but people prefer to dictate their principles some people in there were some politicians they try to be all teachers. On Russian t.v. Studio guests accuse the West of trying to destroy the Russian state Libya that I say is good for you does it bug you so that's what the but here's a paradox away from the rhetoric of the Russian elite has property in the West educates its children in the West go shopping in the West Lilia Shevtsova believes it's a sign of a split personality when they are talking about Russians on the one hand that suspicious of the West they feel some kind of superiority to the Russians we have literature we have ballot we have Tolstoy in. But on the other hand the Indo He'll also complex in theory said that if you don't want to recognize our economy our shrinking results s. Our constant dramma that is happening to us so it's very difficult to leave what it tore my dad to and the so maybe cure outsells the better for us and for the outside world. In $1800.00 I hoped that Russia and the West would sail off into the sunset together a happy end Hollywood style but Russia isn't Hollywood it is complicated and contradictory charting a common course was never going to be easy. Reporting from Moscow they'll be more from him during this week. It's come back to the u.k. Where the commission for country extremism Denver 5 what it describes as a new category of extremist behavior hateful extremism we're going to talk to Sarah Carney who is the head of the commission for countering extremism thanks for being with us on the world update how would you define hateful extremism so we describe hateful extremism as behaviors that incite or amplify hatred against other people or is engaging in persistent hatred and hostility towards up towards of the people or is engaging in and making a moral case for violence and how that's causing serious harm to people in our country in our towns and cities in the why there's an urgent need to do more to challenge it the problem is not limiting freedom of speech but voiding of the kind of speech which not only inflames passions but actually leads to violence and how would you do that you know is our current prime minister having said in a newspaper column putting in the same context Muslim women and looking like letterboxes he didn't say that but he said that people might say that is that hateful No said Boris his comments there are not hateful and you know I don't agree with his comments there and I think it's very important that we do distinguish between Democratic debate freedom of expression you're absolutely right we need to protect that and distinguishing that from hateful extremism so our report for example shows how there are people on the far right how they're Islamist organizations that are promoting hatred amplifying hatred of other people or promoting violence that we give the example of Jacques Cousteau and I'm a member of National Action extreme right wing party who praised the actions of Thomas Maier who of course murdered the m.p. Joe Koch saying that he was a hero and that's the kind of hateful extremists language that we need to tackle in this country unfortunately we're not doing enough to counter it I think you give another example in Sunderland where fired activists exploited local tensions and one of the local Asians was branded a paedophile and they published his details online and I think that shows you that the depth of of the kind of horrors that. Activist hateful activists will go to where they will target people I mean in Sunderland we saw 13 far right demonstrations in the space of 13 months where those activists were spreading disinformation which resulted in tax nation people where you're absolutely right one of those residents he cried to me when he'd described how his details were published online and how he was he received threats and that shows you how we need to do more to counter this type of harmful extremist activity because to not to do so is causing real serious harm in our country as undermining our social fabric of our society but we must keep talking and that's the point isn't it it's not isolating the discussion it's to open it up but keep it peaceful we need to yes we need to obviously have better dialogue but what I would like to see what I'm calling on the government today is to overhaul its counter extremism strategy where they focus on better protecting victims on responding much more effectively and quickly when extremist incidents happen at the time and to do far more actually challenge hateful extremist groups individuals in our country who are causing serious harm Sarah can thank you Sara Khan who is head of the commission for countering extremism you might have a view on that. On Twitter is the way to do that this is World update from London when you view the headlines in just a moment this is the b.b.c. . Our top stories Kurdish fighters in northern Syria say u.s. Forces are pulling back from the border with Turkey after Washington said it wouldn't stand in the way of a Turkish incursion and dozens of climate activists have been arrested in Australia New Zealand and Britain at the start of a global day of action by the protest group extinction rebellion those are the top stories women often go to extraordinary lengths to hide the fact that they're having a perfectly normal bodily function their periods the b.b.c. Presenter Emma bonnet was the 1st person in the u.k. To announce she was menstruating on live t.v. News and she's written a book about why we need to smash the stigma around periods Emma suffers from the condition and Dimitrios is which makes a period very painful and which new research by the b.b.c. Has found is suffered by one in 10 women but is often ignored because women in pain aren't taken as seriously as men I asked Emma about some of the myths surrounding menstruating women still prevalent in some countries Yes I mean this idea that we talk about the broad themes that we cuddle dairy products mayonnaise will go off I believe that's still going strong in Madagascar as a myth you know that people's teeth will turn to spikes the idea of the crops will go bad if women who are menstruating go neither the fact that I don't know that was some kind of curse essentially on all sorts of life and food seems to be the theme of keeping women still very on a very serious note away from the rest of that community when they're menstruation and some of this is religion based but not all of it is it I mean religion is used to subject women to all kinds of in new kinds of humiliation and repression but it's not just that no I mean I'm looking even closer to home in the British Medical Journal I was surprised to see this latest the 852 male doctors apparently men of science also thought women would turn meat bad if practicing being Docsis for. Practicing medicine the idea that a mensch rating women still could make things go off so no I mean Pliny the Elder was also talking about this based on philosophy apparently that again you know being this whole idea of a menstrual woman having some kind of dirty impact on society around her is socially and religiously and culturally embedded in societies and that's your message isn't it that it's up to women that men should learn a thing or 2 but they don't go through this so they won't make the changes to society the word for example stop women having to feel embarrassed if they have to go to the loo during working hours and all of that it's up to women but why have women not taken on that role I think we have and we have and I think it is something we can conceal quite well we learn to do it from a very young age and it's probably not the most popular thing to say it's down to women you know make the job we've got enough to do a lot another job to your list but it's not in men's interests quite frankly there is one guy interviewed in America who took it upon himself to do an experiment for the website Buzz Feed by having a period for a week it would be a true juice machine it trippy juice in his pants and he couldn't keep up I mean I don't mean this really he said that himself he kept forgetting to change his party kept leaking he kept some to borrow shirts tie around his waist and he wasn't even having to deal with some of the hormones in the pain that go to it having a period you should feel that you are able to talk about your period when you need to that's also a very serious point because myself included a lot of women don't get diagnosed with conditions because they don't realize what's normal and what's not because they're not having enough conversations or when they go to the doctors they're not believed which is a whole throwback to the Victorian era of hysteria where women would say I am in pain and people would not believe you I personally have a condition called an Dimitrios which is very common but also poorly diagnosed. Leitz women amongst many other things not being able to conceive and I only found out when I was trying to conceive but it took 21 years to get that diagnosis but I had been to doctors and I have said repeatedly I'm on my knees with pain I'm nearly blocking out and I was prescribed strong painkillers and I started to feel I was going mad so there's a very serious side to this but there's also the joyful side to being able to be honest about some things which we all impart. Let's talk about openness you in the book you talk about cure and Gandhi she's I think she's a musician but she ran the marathon and she was just about to go for a good time period started she didn't want to use tampons so she bled as she. There was a lot of comment and quite a lot of pictures didn't appear in the papers actually. What's your view on that is that kind of opened as needed I mean it was striking We have photos of all sorts of violence and bloodshed all over the news all of the time and in the end all that resulted was a small patch of red on her running running leggings I mean it wasn't a massacre I would say you don't need to free bleed as it's called to to get this openness but there was something quite amazing about just seeing that because she's right and you want to want to tampon doesn't feel like running around in one if it's routine monthly It's not dirty. It's pretty normal it should be yes I think the reaction to some things that happened to me on the way to getting people stories about this whether it was broadcasting about it whether it was to basing somebody you know one of the headlines read woman calls is a sexist rabbi saying if men had periods the world would be a different place but it would temples be free like soap Alou row who are having to pay for the privilege of bleeding I've been called a moron by people online for this is a lot of support but I'm also really interested in the hostility towards this why so hostile Was that to be afraid of the b.b.c. Presenter Emma banner Her book is called It's about bloody time period. Well we're going to talk about Korea and we're not going to mention missile or missiles or nukes have a listen to this noise. Then now would. You know where you. As a Korean music festival underway in London and it's not just paper that is traditional Korean approach known as puns only and in the studio with me Lou who's an expert on pence already Koreans love that kind of stuff it to get to see some of the top singers they queue for days don't they to get tickets where there's a very drastic divide between the top singers and the rest who are struggling to live but that's the same in art forms across the world but yes the release stop on city singers have rock star status and they've had rocks status for decades in some cases as well why because to put it simply it is just a singer and a drama on stage it's just a very intense art form once I mean one story can go on for up to 8 hours but want to then really falling into that world the intensity that a singer has to maintain for that length of time telling wild stories by themselves the sounds of nature a battle scene whatever all by yourself it's an incredibly difficult skill and those that appreciate it are stunned and blown away when they see it what are the stories they're very ancient Well yes I mean they used to be many more there's only 5 stories preserved today and they're kind of built around these sort of fundamental human relationships often with a kind of confusion bend in terms of you know relationships between King and subject father and daughter brothers friends and so it's really these fundamental aspects of human life that it told within these stories about the creation of Korean us well yes I mean pun city is also very much these days considered. One of the fundamental art forms that represents Korean is very much presented as such when you see it abroad and it really is you can learn so much about the Korean culture by listening to the stories as you take a pop very popular not just in Korea around the world is Pan story popular with the younger generation to. Not that much there have been some quite successful attempts for kind of Cape pun city crossovers that are starting to mention Well I especially in terms of dramas you get a lot of historical dramas that like to use some of the traditional flavor in their kind of soundtracks and that has seen quite a bit of appeal but broadly traditionally not so much atrocities true Korean t.v. Is full of historical dramas isn't it not lots of men on horseback waving swords around oh yes and there you can then obviously want to get a really kind of throaty kind of puns would be backing vocal to a battle scene for example it does what quite effectively Well the k. Music Festival is on pencil really that was last night but there's lots of string instruments and been a k. Pop it's the whole range of Korean music is white isn't it really vast Well yes and I mean we're very lucky with the programs that we've got coming to see just the very album God the very tip of the what is creatively possible in Korean music so there's lots more coming there and I guess this thanks very much indeed for coming in explaining pencil We will finish with a better pencil read and join us for more world update tomorrow. Did. You know you can see by. Little me on one of the Lulu top 10 now was you know you're running or you wouldn't. Want. 2 and p.r. Nor State Public Radio show Chico and reading listener supported public radio in Northern California a broadcast service of California State University Chico where on the web. B.b.c. World Service It's 10 o'clock g.m.t. This is all of the with the newsroom u.s. 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