That the legislation had become a weapon for harassment for the l g b t community in India campaigners outside the court waiting for the ruling began cheering as the word leaked was made public with some even breaking into tears they say the ruling is a landmark for gay rights in India just about reexamining a Supreme Court ruling from 2030 in which the earlier law the South Korean authorities have confirmed that President moon Jane will meet the North Korean leader Kim Jong un in Pyongyang later this month Mr Kim met officials from school who've been in North Korea to arrange the taunts Laura Baker isn't still president mean will visit Pyongyang for 3 days he will become the 1st says Korean leader in more than a decade to visit Pyongyang later this month that welcomed by Kim Jong into the side create envoys was warm it was friendly and it appears that the 2 sides have managed to speak frankly in a press conference they say is Korean envoys have said that Kim Jong Il has expressed his frustration with the world that they are not believing his will today you could rise a strong earthquake has struck the Japanese island of Hokkaido killing at least 8 people the quake caused a series of landslides dozens are now missing. Rescuers fear people have been trapped inside their homes but the mudslides in the town of at Zuma local authorities side it might take up to a week to restore power supplies to the island. President Trump is arge the New York Times to unmask the senior administration official who wrote an article for the newspaper which is that the u.s. Government colleagues were working to frustrate parts of his agenda Mr Trump described the anonymous writer as gutless and even implied the publication was treasonous in nature the author praise some of the administration's achievements but said Mr Trump's impulsiveness had resulted in ill and formed and reckless decisions President Trump slammed the New York Times as a phony media outlet so when you tell me about some anonymous source within the administration probably was failing and probably a year for all the wrong reasons now and the New York Times is trailing if I weren't here type believe the New York Times probably wouldn't even exist. Rich. World news from the b.b.c. The United States is orange the Nicaraguan government to release all anti-government protesters it says have been detained over the past 5 months for political reasons speaking at the United Nations Security Council the u.s. Ambassador Nikki Haley accused President Daniel r. Takers government of denying its own people their basic human rights. Expectations of a breakthrough are low ahead of today's round of peace talks in Geneva which are aimed at building confidence between the warring parties in Yemen the conflict now on its 4th year has killed more than 10000 people and forced more than $3000000.00 Yemenis from their homes Yemen's government backed by Saudi led coalition is fighting who the rebels aligned with Iran the u.n. Special envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths society hopes to see the rival sides in the same room we're not going to waste time and we're looking forward to getting our friends from San are here and participating fully in the consultations I know they want to do I've spent a lot of time talking to them and their leaders I know they want to be here and we're going to make sure they can they can come here and do that Britain will brief the United Nations Security Council later on the arrest warrants it is issued for 2 Russian men suspected of having carried out a nerve agent attack in the English city of someone's very the British prime minister to resign May has said it is almost certain the attack was approved by senior Russian officials Moscow denies it has anything to do with the poisoning the president of the world's smallest Republic naru is demanding a formal diplomatic apology from the biggest China the president of the Pacific Island nation Baron Waka refused to let the Chinese representative speak out of turn during the Pacific Islands Forum hosted by now Ruud the Chinese delegation then stormed out of the meeting Mr Waqar called the Chinese diplomat insolent and a bully for wanting to break protocol b.b.c. News. Thank you yes we're going to just get doing so let us welcome and it's County. In a moment lifting its ban on gays and yes more anger also from President this time directed at the New York Times find out why. British findings. In the next. Let's go to India now where a big decision has just been announced on gay rights the Supreme Court has ruled that consensual same sex in intercourse is legal the case has been going on for several years and judges have overturned a controversial no dating from colonial times which made gay sex a criminal offense we're joined live now by her. Based in Mumbai and he's an. Rights activist Welcome to the program your reaction this was a unanimous decision by all 5 judges What's your reaction I think at this time that that family reaffirm our belief in the Constitution because. Because because this was Section 377 infringed on our on our civil liberties on our basic human rights it gave the right to for anyone to peek into our bedrooms and to say that this kind of sexism are so now with this this paves the way for a lot of other reforms I think the next step would be to get our anti discrimination laws and trace our people in laws in place of more education is what would be needed now so I can time and I'm absolutely elated there's like a 2nd see them start where finally we have tone of British law out of sorts front out of the country and we have also are at the same time we're very down Section 377 so if there is an event one consensual sex between. Even of the same sex that still decline but only when it's not all consensual sex between adults and private which are stunts and which is which is which is being Dixon's like and it's constantly being referred to as a colonial rule as a British you know but what's the new cool attitude to would same sex relationships because those as she says he was saying needs needs to change to educate education absolutely India generally I mean before the British is a common if you look at our compose our scriptures you'd find a lot of lot of sexuality and gender. Videos of sexuality and genders you'll find homosexuality heterosexuality and everything every lesbian is and everything would be there it is it is often after the. Event was introduced and in fact if you didn't see all the cards and. Read written and had colonies all those colonies are still struggling with Section 307 where they take up all your Ganda you see all of them struggling with Section 27 women so this and and it's and it's it's another thing that that that. I mean in London it's absolutely legal to get married to a person of their own gender but then but. The deposit I mean the colonial deposits are still. Still dealing revealing the dead serious of this they've created not just plain Yeah but for. Vets of the world as well there's every every country that's fighting a colonial law can take a lesson from India and understand that there are just changes here and changes have to come and just move right just and sorry to interrupt there is just before the snow was ruled How was you what was it like living in a country where you felt at that time that this was was was illegal and how do you feel now. That for this. War what you saw happen and some means there are many lives that are pushed under the carpet of people the best and I think we might have dropped that line with we've lost the line to her but he was just telling us about what it means to him as an. Rights activist that's a breaking story that the Supreme Court in India has ruled that consensual same sex intercourse will now be made illegal. Later today Britain will brief the United Nations Security Council on the arrest warrant it has issued for the 2 Russians accused of carrying out beloved agent attack in Salzburg in South England or was it a British prime minister tourism a seed that there Tuck was almost certainly approved at a senior level in Moscow officers also believe that the names that they were travelling under but Alexander petrol and Bashir of fake the scruples who were poisoned survived but a British woman who was poisoned some months later died Russia has always denied that it was behind the attack let's talk to Ben anymore he's a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council digital for as a club and he's monitored social media trends and flows great to have you on Ben what have you noticed. Well that the 1st thing is that the reaction has been rather more muted than I would've expected if you look at the volume of traffic on social media there's been quite a lot of commentary but it hasn't been a huge spike which is rather surprising. Inside that you've seen the majority of comment has been factual it's been reporting what the prime minister said and then there's a particular group of well known program in voices who've been very quick to attack and say that you can't believe it and they've been putting forward various different reasons why the British government must be lying must be fake reasons like what. For example one of the main stories going around at the moment is that the photos issued by the Metropolitan Police of the 2 men arriving at Gatwick airport have the same timestamp down to the 2nd and therefore must have been faked . Which is a fairly weak argument and would only hold water if you believed that Gatwick Airport only actually had one arrivals corridor with a camera in it another argument is that the names which the British government cited are very common in Russia and that therefore they must have been made up whereas in fact what the prime minister said was what that these were aliases so by definition they were made up so it's really an attempt to muddy the waters and to try and throw in some confusion without really having much evidence to do it on and it is from very vital counsel we seeing a lot of activity from boats as well it's mostly from verified accounts the the main commentators who are attacking the u.k. Government's line are very well known that real people some of them work for Russian government outlets some of them are British individuals who appear to believe the same line there has been a certain amount of traffic from automated accounts Balts but that looks like it's been incidental it doesn't look like the bots are being used to push a particular message it's more like they're reacting to a trending topic which is already popular and they're just jumping on the traffic to try and sell their own particular product and I wonder how different this story is I wonder they are able to do this when compared Are you saying therefore that a lot of the u.k. Commented is a sticking to the facts as was reported by Jews of May when juxtaposed to the Russians who seem to be a bit more on the attack what about the rest of the world I wonder if you know the us for example is getting involved in this. The traffic that I've seen from the us was mainly factual reporting a lot of it was the breaking news so all the different u.s. News outlets have been tweeting and posting about the breaking news about what the prime minister said in. Sidebar there's been a certain amount of anti u.k. Commentary from the normal. American blogosphere which is program Lin And interestingly there's also been quite a lot of criticism of Donald Trump from the u.s. Critics of Trump who say look what the Russians have done in Britain and Trump is still trying to make friends with Putin so there's been a domestic twist in America but the majority of the traffic was fairly straightforward factual reporting and this is something we often see at the start when the mainstream media report a story the Kremlin outlets try and push their narrative but they really they really can't get through however what happens as the time goes on the mainstream outlets move on to another topic the Kremlin and outlet still remain on the same topic so it's further down the line that they start trying to have an impact. But meanwhile think you very much is senior fellow with the Atlantic Council digital forensic research lab and the world wakes to yet another headline about the u.s. President but could this perhaps be the most explosive it's from the New York Times and it reads I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration I work for the president but like minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations the this opinion piece comes the day after except Bob Woodward's book on the chump White House suggested that he's top officials have been engaged in an administrative coupe to tar to protect the nation from the president that is and but this letter is anonymous the one that appears in The Times and it was open to attack from the Us president take a listen if the failing New York Times has an anonymous editorial Can you believe that anonymous really got us a godless editorial. When doing a great job the poll numbers are through the roof our poll numbers are great and guess what nobody is going to come close to beating me in 2020 because of what we've done now Elaine see Commack is a senior fellow in the governance studies program She's also served in the White House from one. $193.00 to 1907 under President Bill Clinton she says this letter confirms what was already suspected in Washington what's going on is something that many of us in Washington who've been in the government and been in a White House have suspected for some time which is that there are a group of people around the president who take enormous abuse from him and would not take that in any other normal circumstance but who have been staying in their jobs frankly in order to protect the country from a very erratic and a very difficult leader and suddenly that was confirmed today which is that suspicion come from though there's one issue where it constantly pops up and that is NATO so from the very beginning the president has said bad things about NATO complained about NATO etc only to have the entire rest of his foreign policy team David that ones that are no longer there essentially contradict him and back channel to NATO countries but we've seen this for 2 years the president of the United States saying one thing in his tweets and his his you know various meanderings to Fox News in the morning and the u.s. Government saying something else sometimes quite opposed to that and actually doing something else Ok so who can they be these people that you refer to as the shallow State Well I think that they are the foreign policy team is clearly the most important in this chief of staff Kelly obviously Secretary Madison's secretary of defense. Probably even John Bolton where the people immediately around the president seek to essentially change what he has said sometimes absolutely contradicting him and sometimes trying to you know make as we say a lemonade out of lemons but this is an extraordinary letter because it's a letter that essentially confirms that the top White House aides are sort of appalled at the president's behavior appalled at his lack of knowledge and are working hard to make sure that he doesn't do any damage back to the let's add this letter is anonymous the New York Times has published it we don't know how high the past and behind this ranks but how high would he or she have to be so that we can really take this letter seriously a probably at the level of assistant to the president that level just because they're the people that see the president in his unguarded moments it could also be a group Letteri could be not one person it could be a composite of you know Mitt several people around the president because they it takes a great deal of courage to write something like this right I mean you use the word courage but the president has called it got place but he would do that when course when when we look at President chump and and what we see is he simply gets up in the morning and says what he wants to say this invariably sort of causes confusion for those people around him who are trying to lead doesn't it well yes because 1st of all he contradicts himself there's a great deal of evidence that he does not work through policy in a systematic. He doesn't look at options he isn't presenting options memos which is standard fare of the presidency I wrote many of them myself in other words his executive skills are quite bad we've seen this we've heard it many many times and I think it's coming to some kind of crisis here Elaine see Commack who also served in the White House from 1903 to 1907 under President Bill Clinton 20 minutes after a little clock here in London let's get the latest sports news you can is here Hello Allen didn't go until 2 o'clock in the morning at Flushing Meadows last night as they have the last couple of nights at the u.s. Open tennis but they still got an enthralling encounter in the late night match Novak Djokovic up against a conqueror of Roger Federer that's astray and John Millman it's Djokovic who goes through and he went through in straight sets actually 636464 but that makes it sound easy and it really wasn't it was a proper tough contest for Djokovic not only because of the conditions Melman he admitted made it very hard for him nonetheless it is the serve who goes through and he will face Kenya she Cory in the semifinals on Friday night she Korey having earlier ousted Marion church in a match which did go to 5 sets and just over 4 hours initial Cory's progress means there's a Japanese player in both the men's and women's semifinals because Naomi Asika won through and will play Madison keys in the last 4 of the women's semi's later on today actually and so late night tennis much later tonight will feature those women semifinals were rounded up for you tomorrow morning u.s. T.v. Punters will have a bit of a choice because the n.f.l. Returns later today Philadelphia Eagles last season's Super Bowl winners host the Atlanta Falcons in the opening game of the new n.f.l. Season we'll be talking about the football we might be talking about other stuff as well. But you can thank you very much less Now switch off focus to business news an unpleasant day yesterday for the bosses of Facebook and Twitter they had to head up to Capitol Hill in Washington d.c. To some very difficult questions from both political parties Philip punches you're the bigot. They dig it out well they tried to give me a hard time they weren't really very successful there were 2 different sites this 1st of all there was an appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee and you can think about a little bit like Essentially Russia gate the companies were being asked about security the upcoming u.s. Election tampering and frankly Russia and all things there are about the vice chairman of the hearing of the Intel Senate Intelligence Committee was Senator Mark Warner and he said he was deeply disappointed that Google hadn't joined Facebook and Twitter to come along but he did say that it was not up to the tech companies alone to deal with the problem each of you have come a long way with respect to recognizing the threat we saw an important action by your companies to make political advertising more transparent and we discussed this yesterday by complying with the term Center club which are I put forward in the honest ads Act In addition as the chairman mentioned sense last September you've identified and removed some bad actors from your platforms. The bad news I'm afraid is that there's still a lot of work to do and I'm skeptical that ultimately you'll be able to truly address this challenge on your own I believe Congress is going to have to act but once they were done with out in front of the Senate it wasn't all over Jack Dorsey is the chief executive of Twitter then had to walk across Capitol Hill meet with the House Republicans in order to discuss other issues and you can think of that as essentially shadow banging gate he had to answer questions about whether or not there's a bias against conservatives libertarians and so on is online platform you know a little spoiler alert here he said there wasn't and they disagreed with him and that was about it. But it's not been a good little Facebook has it it is not there's new web research out from Pew Research Center's is a study on adults in the United States and Facebook usage is down effectively use is age 18 or older 54 percent of them have said that they have adjusted their privacy settings in the last 12 months following the Cambridge analytical fall out they haven't adjusted their privacy settings to make themselves more open to the public quite the contrary at the same time is that 42 percent say that they've taken a break from checking the platform for at least several weeks and among adults 26 percent of no deleted the Facebook app from their cell phone but within that figure if you just look at those between 18 and 2944 percent have deleted Facebook's app from their phone Philip I'm sure we thank you and now to a story from France that parents teachers and even students all over the world will relate to mobile phones have been banned from all school yes banned until pupils turn 15 so has this gone down with the school children themselves we heard from Nicholas Hammond who's the head must of the British school in Paris and these 2 students you know up and Burnaby Fos the headmaster we are broadly happy I think with the decision by the French legislature your to ban mobile phones from schools for a young girl. Students and the reason for that is sweet believe that it builds on what most schools already had in their school rules students are allowed to bring the phone to school but they're not allowed to use it in the classroom increasingly I think we've found that distraction and phones are distracted function within schools and as a consequence what we all had already asked our students to put them away I think parents also beginning to say that they're a little bit worried about screen time they're a little bit worried about how much attention children paid less phones and actually it's a really nice opportunity for us to refocus on learning which of course is our core activity clearly they'll be some children who are going to be anxious they'll be a fear of missing out they'll be worried about where their phone is and so on and so forth but I think in a very short period of time this week come the norm No And but I believe you your students starting with you nor are you happy I'd say I'm fairly happy although I can recognize some of the cons to these kinds of bans for example say you're in a magazine situation and you don't have your fire in hand and what about you but to be one of the pros of having a phone school though is not Ok and will contact so say you decide to go home with a friend after school and you mongers know about it and he's going to pick you up you can just text us saying not to come pick you up after school and Missing someone doesn't make much of a difference given that to school like yours which is a lot of i Pods for example is now going to restrict access to technology to the People's I think the most important thing for children is that they have a managed and a sensible access to technology we are not at school our students do use i Pad but i Pads within the course of the school day but obviously we as a school take measures to ensure that we're guiding the children in the correct direction in terms of their i Pad use of school rather than having a free for all situation where children may simply stumble into things the relief deeply unpleasant through no fault of their own read but did it have to take legislation for this to happen. Does that tell you about parents or does that tell you about teachers I think I would be very careful about offering an enormous amount of criticism to parents but 1st I think that what we're looking at here is a reinforcement of a larger and why discussion that's going on not only in education but in why decide to I think there's a reason off home survey though suggests that British adults check that telephone all their smartphone once every 12 minutes I think we all need a bit of a reality check a little bit of time of course the thought of this legislation gives us the opportunity not only to reinforce what we think ought sensible limits in terms of screen use but also it's a way of provoking a why discussion about technology at society let's Nicholas how men had Must of the British school in Paris and to students know. And yeah I think finally found a reason not to buy my son a phone is for a while why don't you just move to France just a little little kids your age in France don't have phones yeah but that's something that's been it cuts any want but then again it takes me back to you know when we were kids we didn't have mobile phones we had conversations and if we played outside we made our own toys and Matthew Kenyon had an opinion that since well I don't what I'd say as I say we should ban fans from everywhere but to look at your social media straight away and doing that right now. Except I'm just going to check my twitter 1st. Comedy show but you can have a sports desk Philip pompous. Attitude has been brilliant of your news day good morning distribution of the b.b.c. Broad service and the u.s. Is supported by c 3 I o t addressing the roads most challenging problems with the convergence of artificial intelligence io t. And elastic cloud computing more at c 3 io t. . 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News a 5 judge bench of India's Supreme Court has ruled that gay sex among consenting adults is legal in historic ruling that John just described the ban on gay sex dating from colonial times as irrational and arbitrary president when Jian of South Korea will meet the North Korean leader Kim Jong un in Pyongyang for 3 days later this month the summit will be the 1st time in more than a decade that is South Korean leader has visited the North Korean capital prosecutors in South Korea have demanded that the former South Korean President Lee Myung bak saw him for 20 years in prison and pay a $13000000.00 fine Mr Li who was in power from 2008 until 2013 has been on trial in Seoul on charges of corruption an earthquake in Japan has left at least 8 people dead and dozens more are missing the quake on Hokkaido Island caused a series of landslides president trampers demanding the New York Times name a White House official behind an article which harshly criticizes his leadership the unnamed official wrote that members of the administration were working to protect the country from President Trump's worst inclinations the newspapers of the piece added value to the public's understanding of what was going on Britain will brief the un Security Council later on the arrest warrants issued for 2 Russian men suspected of having carried out a nerve agent attack in the English that of someone's very Moscow denies it has anything to do with the poisoning of Sergei scruple a former spy and his daughter Yulia the British fashion brand Burberry has announced that it will stop the practice of destroying its unsold goods in July a report revealed that last year Burberry destroyed unsold products worth more than $35000000.00 to protect its brand b.b.c. News. Now on b.b.c. World Service the compass team Hill presents the 1st part of our series on the Black Sea. Life and. I think. Fishing town called and chandeliers and microwave openings and computers teen thing these let the kids live in a little bit. This is 7th kilometer of outdoor markets near address or in Ukraine one of the great sports of the Black Sea traders who everywhere between Shanghai and Warsaw come here to buy and sell and the faces are as varied as the merchandise in. This place started with a few people driving out to the edge of town sporting news paper on the ground and just put in whatever goods they happen to have and graduate's got bigger and bigger and bigger. After the breakdown of the Soviet Union there was a great demand of any consumable goods we had nothing nothing was possible to get. And immediately some people realize that it's possible to bring these goods from Turkey and a little bit later from China that's Roman more can stand of the shipping company. Whatever you need to make it became the biggest in the eastern Europe if. All this is in steel shipping containers and. Open up the front with a. Cross because it's already in the morning it's still very hot sun and what it reminds me most of is that the covered market you know the ancient often covered markets in a stumble on the other side of the sea the atmosphere actually of course they don't have steel shipping containers that they have is. Exactly the modern equivalent of up to. 70 percent of the goods. On the 7 kilometers coming by sea. And with the goods over the Black Sea come those who sell them. I'm Tim he will and in this 3rd part of on the Black Sea My 4 huge for the compass here on the b.b.c. World Service I'll be finding out about the people as well as the commodities that have crossed and still cross its waters the Black Seas waves up turkey in the south Ukraine and Russia or in the north the Balkans in the West and the Caucasus mountains an ancient routes to China in the east it's been a trading hub and marketplace for millenia. The m.p. Countless is a $25000.00 ton the prize the Black Sea between a stumble and the to me of course in Georgia it's also a gateway to Armenia and Azerbaijan whole railway trains on and off the ship as well as container lorries and today their cattle trucks to. Cool down on the pier you or he was except my sister. She's cool Daniela and she comes down to the open air cargo deck several times a day to look after the cows feeding and watering them and cleaning them out but it's a long 10 day journey most of it by road time guys with my husband always drive with my house spent like one trying to get them we drive 21 hours that you take turns Yes it's very cool to see a bunch of your. Yes I mean the thing we know. Now is that it has been no problem with atheists we don't gel with Dr Phil. I have. I want to shout but I have not stopped I told I have time but I think it's not looking very. I have they may have to but I think it's not my. Ideal is the only woman driver on this overwhelmingly male ship she's joined a world where family life is sacrificed to the relentless rhythms of the road and according to the rhythms of the ferry the men will down their supper of fried chicken and rice and then head upon deck for a smoke they're mainly Ukrainians and Georgians and their common language is Russian. So he's taking worth of fresh green piled on stews and salads is just one of the many things that unite the peoples of the Black Sea you can actually smell the chill possibly in coriander on these ferries. It's packed away in refrigerated containers but I feel as though I can and the fragrance wafting over the waves is keeping old connections alive the men who transport the ones who belonged to the same country the u.s.s.r. But who more than 25 years now they've been citizens of separate posts States. The truckers of the Black Sea stay friends but all the conflicts around them which should be increased with the emergence of new states often force them to change routes to navigate a constantly shifting map of trade restrictions right now they're only enjoying one another's company on the ferry because they can't take their Ukrainian exports by road through Russia Moscow at loggerheads with Ukraine over Crimea doesn't allow it we are extremely vulnerable to political changes in the region. Because ferry service is cheap and they're very much connected on the local markets and local political situation if the political sedation stabilize in the Black Sea It could be booming area because the market is underestimated and every single underestimated here last year we had big gross because Russia bend and growing in trends of. Kazakhstan into Central Asia countries and a lot of vegans trucks they started to use our ferry service to Georgia and last year when Russia in Turkey had the problems with this Russian aircraft the Russian accomplished. Immediately next day we lost 50 percent of the volumes in the line between Ukraine and Turkey because a lot of cargo swore in transit to Russia Russians banned Turkish impaired and immediately it's made the problem for so we are like a breach. Between East unrest in northern and southern banks of the Black Sea. And of course if in this bridge there are problems it's hits us of course. There is no. One victim of that ban is this Turkish trucker I met on another ferry. So I'm talking to you knows. What it is in book writing my name is Eunice I'm bringing Tommy toast to Ukraine sometimes to me Tunes cherries because it's lemons he'd like to take his tomatoes through Ukraine to Russia you get a better price there but Russia will that the men and Eunice can't travel south to the Middle East either the just the block on time that clearly if the now it's terrible the borders are close to the Syrian border the Russian border to it musin over the trucks coming through ever so there is no money for truckers no longer I used to drive to Syria to some of the Arabia to Dubai but really now all the borders are closed. And. The number of borders in this region has been increasing for more than a century part of a steady process of State Building we just approaching back to the now so you can Port of the to me sit right at the far eastern end of the Black Sea in Georgia the town and this whole coastline below the Caucasus Mountains has changed rules time after time but for millennia people cultures languages and religions mingled freely until in the 19th century the 2 rival empires of the Black Sea Russian and ottoman began to stamp their authority on these shores in a new way then came century because they keep on why because often bad is the ottoman and their Russian trying to become national impact us and then you see Derry is a Greek social anthropologist she traces patterns of migration around the Black Sea the Russian empire to become predominantly Russian speaking a Christian Orthodox empire so they consider the Muslims especially the Muslims living in the Caucasus in the South their border as dangerous and the Ottoman Empire started to consider them minorities the Armenians and the Greeks for example as dangerous as well so ethnic Greeks and other Christians for Edge north across the sea to Russia and Muslims fled in the opposite direction south over the water to Turkey and the wider Middle East roughly speaking we're talking about 1000000 Muslims from the North Caucasus that means. A party ends is moving to the Ottoman Empire gradually. And for example in terms of the Christians the 1st harassed and census speaks about 2 100000 Greeks living in there as an empire 100000 living in the south part in the Caucasus. But I got hurt. Yeah but I got. This but I stopped quite high up in the mountains here and the house and since spreading warm tree. And. Me. It's a really strong smell it's a really strong smell which is command of homemade cheese very sharp salty homemade cheese I can't see it was I can see smell it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The young man who's singing on this farm in up north along the coast from back to me is called. He was born in Russia but he's singing in the language of his grandparents who moved here from Ottoman Turkey Pantech the old Greeks dialects of the Black Sea his relative Nikolai plays the lira all-I are 3 stringed instrument played on the Black Sea since the earliest times now though they're among tiny little ones for rushing Greek community here a century after grandparents came most Greeks have left again this time from mainland Greece even though that's a country where their families never lived what's left is their songs. Never make it sound good in our tradition this song from our tribe is the wonder from tribes and yeah from tribes on top assume that we call it trappers and that was the. Name of the other side of the Black Sea Yeah Constantinople stumble so. Many places from Turkey. And great people sing that song and many others so we have this tradition in our hearts we don't forget it. Everybody who lives here people know that. Weddings some of celebration when we meet each other we remember. Our history and because. If we don't have a history we don't have nothing that's why in our songs every time we remember in saying that so just tell me the Greeks and come back and forth across the Black Sea So what's the Black Sea mean for the Greeks. It's hometown. Yes because in a Black Sea in. Constantinople interrupt a zone and home in. Crimea. So everybody think history is like a Greek city Yeah like Greeks see. The Greeks of this region will see people at home on every Coast is on time times or even from classical antiquity but the. Tiny nation of the Caucasus lived only from time immemorial on one shore they were warriors people of the mountains and in the roar of the waves they hear something very different from the Greeks. Alec is a local ethnic house artist with a magnificent twill to stash who comes every day to a waterfront cafe to play chess with friends what I ask him innocently just the Black Sea into him. Or her will prove. It's a difficult question because the Black Sea is a symbol of evil. Look at 1st I think I misheard him he just said that the sea is a symbol of evil not good rebut your. Yes I'll explain what you mean. When would. Be fighting Russia for 15 years and couldn't withstand the assault anymore and now Iran says there's decided we had to leave and when the boat sailed hold over the sea towards Turkey our elders were drowned our children were drowned the fish aid their corpses and that's the reason why even to this day we don't eat fish from the sea that's a really important question that's really amazing I mean it's just a dumb just I'm staggered by it but by that I really and that's just an extraordinary thought so to me type in looking at the facts in a completely different different way and this is about the 1st time anyone said anything like this to me so really what I like what you're saying is that the demand the rave. About Christ people is is very well done work for the man. But now for his people the out because as also for the Greeks the time had sophistry and turning again the tapestry of migrations is being disentangled and sneak out cars and other peoples of the Caucasus and coming back again from that diaspora. Mohammed any from Syria came to. Be for 40 years with my wife now I have daughter and new baby. Muhammad and his wife Susannah are descendants of those upper class Ians and other Caucasus people who left here 150 years ago in the terrible forced migration that we just heard about but now I pass here has become a de facto independent state even though most of the world refuses to recognize it and it's encouraging the great great grandchildren of the deportees to return from wherever they fled to Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East. So this is this is much you know. This is a building for it but. They give. For the people who came. From Syria Jordan People also from Jordan. Over 30. 5 years. Their young daughter doesn't speak the outhouse language yet though she knows several of those Hugo and. In our. Russian tales in. The families of Mohammed and Susannah who lived in Syria for 5 generations they were home there but 6 years ago the Civil War began. I did everything I wanted her. Cars everything insisted I did there is nothing really in the last days. I don't want him in here village she. Along with about 15. People they will underground just to be safe I mean. They came to us some people say from. So many names for these groups so we cannot know who is these people. Starting to say that they are good people they want to save us then after 10 days the government the government come and take them out of this. Place eventually they fled to. The Homeland across the sea they knew only from grandparents Charles. Not your feet 3. Homes everything about the not sure. How they see it very very beautiful country people are very good something like that. This is my dream or all the time not also before the war in Syria. Like. I want to come to my home long but what did you know when you were in Syria what did you know about the deportations it was a war between Empire. Of. Russian empire. Take so many people some people say that they came here. To save us like they are Muslims just to protect us from. Russia I don't know exactly some people said like this but this new version is well some people say not the Took you but that is simply that the Russians drove you out the Russians expelled you some people say doubt which is a bit different yes it's different story and there is a big difference between these 2 stories there is no truth story for me it's not important for me for this story because it is 160 years and. It's not so important for me it is so long. And these did it's not a very important story it's very old and our parents didn't say anything about it to living peace this is the most important for me and for her because we understand each other. But the peace that they're enjoying here in an unrecognized breakaway state is very fragile on the shores of the Black Sea a lot of conflicts live on and that's one reason why there are no common versions of history one reason to why the outcast people believe they need that own country in order to protect their unique traditions and language. Posts famous for special songs as guttural songs sounds and whistling and says singing and touching in song like. Call service and so on so it's a very peculiar one station which is very difficult to grasp actually and if English has had a home in $27.00 constantly Lisak us has around 70 or so it's and they're all new to Wells and. In the next part of my journey on the Black Sea produced for the compass on the b.b.c. 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Section 377 challenge in a court of law in 199424 years and many appeals later aside judge bench of the Supreme Court has given this final word in 2009 and sensual intercourse between homosexuals will be criminalized for the 1st time only to be made criminal again in 2013 after an appeal but in 2017 the Supreme Court made the right to privacy a fundamental right painting the way sort of a real look at the colonial law that governs private sexual act the South Korean authorities have confirmed that President moon Jane will meet the North Korean leader Kim Jong un in Pyongyang for 3 days later this month with the details Laura Baker Kim Jong Il appeared to greet the envoys from South Korea as good friend is the photographs show the 2 sides laughing together and shaking hands in a press conference the returning official said Mr Kemp ring new takes commitment to the complete Dave Euclid isolation of the Korean peninsula and said it was his farewell to work with South Korea to achieve a lasting peace settlement president may well become the 1st South Korean leader in more than 10 years to visit Pyongyang in just a few weeks time it's hoped he cannot as an intermediary and restart stalled talks between the United States and North Korea a strong earthquake has struck the Japanese island of Hokkaido killing at least 8 people the quake caused a series of landslides and in the town of at Zuma Rescuers fear people have been trapped inside their homes some 3000000 people on the island are also with on tonic tricity.