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About North Korea as competition begins at the Winter Olympics in the south the longest speech for 100 years in America's House of Representatives we have a moral responsibility act now to protect our emerges who are the pride of our nation and our American in every way but on paper Bangladesh awaits a verdict in the corruption trial of the country's opposition leader and the father of Venezuela's thriving beauty pageant business resize it compared to these feat done a lot of the really horrible I'll tell all of you you always need to be like queens from head to toe after this update. I'm Debbie Russ with the b.b.c. News. North Korea says it has no intention of using the Winter Olympics in South Korea as an opportunity to hold talks with officials from the United States a senior foreign ministry official was quoted by the state news agency as saying that Pyongyang had never begged for dialogue with the u.s. The north is holding a military parade on Thursday on the eve of the Olympics in a speech to u.s. Troops in Japan the American vice president Mike Pence said America stood with its ally South Korea 6 years ago this year North Korea said its soldiers to advance against the free people of South Korea because of the American armed forces they failed. In their war of conquest today. America stands strong with the proud and free people of South Korea and we always will. Was. The Venezuelan electoral authorities say presidential elections will take place on the 22nd of April the date set in a compromise between the government and opposition in negotiations in the Dominican Republic Katie Watson reports there's been a great deal of uncertainty over these elections including doubt over whether they'd happen at all the opposition had hoped the vote would be held in the 2nd half of this year giving parties more time to decide on a candidate with talks between the 2 sides now stalled because of disagreements over electoral conditions the political battle continues as does the uncertainty as to how the opposition will participate in the upcoming vote a large number of troops have been deployed in the band the death she capital Dhaka and around the country ahead of the verdict in a corruption trial against the opposition leader have begun. The former prime minister and her son Tarik Rahman who lives in London face charges involving international funds donated to a charitable children's trust if found guilty and sentenced to more than 2 years she will not be able to contest parliamentary polls for the end of this year. The Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said he will deliver and national apology to victims of child sexual abuse later this year he fell as an inquiry into the treatment of thousands of children abused in the care of churches schools and homes across Australia who will Griffith is in Sydney the 4 year Royal Commission inquiry and how doing evidence of abuse from survivors who say they've been denied justice for decades the final report called The abuse a national tragedy now the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says they'll be a national apology later this year the announcement adds pressure on those state governments and religious institutions who so far haven't signed up to a redress scheme which would entitle abuse survivors to tens of thousands of dollars in compensation Well news from the b.b.c. Rescue workers in Taiwan are braving precarious conditions to search an apartment building leaning at a $45.00 degree angle after an earthquake struck the tourist city of quali n on Tuesday aftershocks are threatening to totally collapse the 12 story block where most of the 60 people are still missing are thought to be traps. France has announced an end 2 years of belt tightening on military spending it's produced a bill that will see the annual outlay on the armed forces increase by 40 percent to $61000000000.00 by 2025 President Trump has complained that most European members of NATO are not pulling their financial weight. A pioneering American activist for Internet freedom John Perry Barlow has died at the age of 70 in 1990 he helped found the Electronic Frontier Foundation which campaigns for civil liberties in the digital world 6 years later he issued a declaration of the independence of cyberspace one of the defining documents of the Internet age bhalo was also a poet and wrote lyrics for the psychedelic rock band The Grateful Dead. A 4 week experiment by Austrian researches to simulate exploring the surface of muskets under way in the deserts of Oman later on Thursday the team of 6 will use robotic rovers a drone and an inflatable greenhouse in a series of experiments that I found does it was chosen for its extreme heat and the rigidity told to come in coulda is one of those taking pot very Mars like here it's actually what I look out of the window and really live in containers I actually see it for something very Martian like that after today we're actually going to be in isolation face nothing in that thing out so all the water that we have at the moment we have to ration that and also the food we have and strict attrition plan about what to eat which meals we definitely ration that but we have energy and water and food here with our b.b.c. Needs. Hello you're listening to the newsroom from the b.b.c. World Service with me Jonathan Blake the 1st day of competition in alpine skiing and curling is underway at the Winter Olympics in South Korea before the official start on Friday the games in Pyongyang are being seen as a rare opportunity of engagement between north and south the u.s. Vice president Mike Pence who arrives in South Korea in a few hours time has warned against North Korea's charm offensive at the games and we'll have more on that in a moment but 1st let's hear from Tokyo where our correspondent Rupert Winfield Hayes's been speaking to the Japanese foreign minister about whether sanctions on North Korea are working and the likelihood of any military action. This is the sound of a huge batch 8 b. 2 stealth bombers coming into land on the u.s. Pacific island of Guam these aircraft are designed to penetrate deep into enemy territory and destroy key military targets their arrival here last month intensified speculation that the trumpet ministration is preparing a military strike against North Korea. But in Tokyo Japan's foreign minister Taro Kono told me such a military strike is unthinkable South career capital Seoul is situated just 30 kilometers from the border if any military action is taken the repercussion. Outrageous so I don't think anyone seriously considering taking military methods in order to get to North Korea come to the dialogue I think we need to increase the pressure on them new sanctions imposed on North Korea last year are much tougher than any before they banned the export of coal and seafood they ordered all North Korean labor is working overseas to be sent home and crucially they cut the amount of oil North Korea can import. Along when I need to meet in his New Year message is North Korea's dictator Kim Jong un described these latest sanctions as life threatening Japan's foreign minister says this is a clear sign the sanctions are starting to work what some sunshine is biting Now we have a lot indication that sanction is actually biting and eventually there's no other way but to for them to come to the table what do you think there is is going on with this this sudden repression of the north of the Winter Olympics that's one of the indications of sanction is working they wanted to do sort of a charm offensive to South Korea but her I don't think international community ready to give them anything Taro Kono warns the world not to be taken in by Pyongyang's charm offensive or intimidated by North Korea's growing missile threat if they use their missile or nuclear capability they're going to be no more North Korea and they know it so they're just making threat. Just sitting in the middle of the sanction and eventually they're right they run out of their resources rippling filled haze with that report from Tokyo when the u.s. Vice president Mike Pence arrives in South Korea shortly he'll be accompanied by Fred will be a the father of the American student also will be a who died after he was released from a North Korean jail Mr Pen said he wanted to highlight North Korea's human rights abuses while in the neighboring South our correspondent Steve McDonell is in the Olympic resort of p. And Chang and he's been talking to me about North Korea's participation in the games we know there's quite a lot of debate about this in Japan the u.s. And also South Korea regarding the mix if you like of isolation versus engagement with North Korea where I'm standing on the side of a mountain in Pyongyang China will probably hear people is a snowmobile coming past me right now people are hoping that the Winter Olympics would bring some sort of contact with North Korea now it's not to say that they're under any illusions that this is going to be the end of problems or that North Korea is going to give up its nuclear weapons I think that in South Korea at least given how frosty relations have been in recent times it's just nice to have something different at least the there to stop talking about obliterating one another that there is this team that's coming from North Korea that Kim Jong un is sending his sister the 1st member of that ruling family to have ever visited South Korea and so you know this is what the debates all about now is not to say that in South Korea as well that everybody is welcoming them that public opinion is really divided here regarding the extent to which North Korea should be rewarded if you like for its participation in the guy and all that you know they should be back to that extreme pressure that some would rather have on North Korea following its nuclear weapons program you touched on it there Steve with the Game Stop. Answering fully on Friday how much of a sense is there of this occasion as a political one as well as the big sporting spectacle that you mentioned a lot of people in South Korea very much looking forward to. Seeing propaganda showdown here really between the u.s. And North Korea with Winter Olympics as a backdrop and then we have the opening ceremony starting here tomorrow with the u.s. Vice President you mentioned we heard it mentioned earlier that although warm is Father's going to be there on the North Korean side we've got the sister of Kim Jong Un there they all are mean imagine the possibility of my parents and you know that one of the leading members of the Kim dynasty bumping into one another buying a coffee inside the stadium or something like that and both sides really buoying to have the the upper hand when it comes to propaganda at the guy in there and being able to show who's on the right path I think for South Koreans that it would be a mistake to assume that the spite all of this that they're somehow you know again be I think gypped by all this just because North Korea is here that problem is actually going to go why Steve McDonell in Pyongyang with his thoughts on one potential photo opportunity at the Winter Olympic Games You're listening to the newsroom from the b.b.c. World Service and the deadline to avoid another shutdown of the u.s. Government is looming midnight on Thursday Washington time is when things could grind to a halt again to avoid that a budget deal agreed by politicians from both Republican and Democratic parties in the Senate must pass the Lower House of Representatives and the risk default position on both sides from Washington David Willetts reports such a deal would provide a welcome relief to the sort of budget brinkmanship Washington has become all too used to in recent years and has already been hailed as a leech of achievement for both parties in a deeply divided Congress. Was not enough in itself to avert a 2nd government shutdown in as many months it is a step forward this was the view of the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell this bill is the product of extensive negotiations among the right for the leaders and the White House no one would suggest it is perfect but we work hard to find common ground and stay focused on hearing the American people such bipartisanship might not extend to the House of Representatives However their fiscal conservatives are riposte to the fact that the bill adds hundreds of billions of dollars to the national debt was Democrats argue it fails to address the issue which sparked the last government shutdown namely immigration the House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi who made history today by delivering the longest speech there in more than 100 years 8 hours 7 minutes in total once a commitment to the plight of the so-called dreamers young people brought to this country illegally in exchange for her party's support for the budget deal every day courageous patriotic dreamers lose their status every day the American dream slips further out of reach as members of Congress we have a moral responsibility act now to protect dreamers who are the pride of our nation and are American in every way but on paper. The Senate budget deal has been criticized for the impact it will have on the federal deficit along with President Trump's tax cuts the new round of spending could boost the deficit considerably Meanwhile funding for the federal government runs out at midnight on Thursday David Willis in Washington in Bangladesh a verdict is expected soon in the trial of the opposition leader and former prime minister begun Khalida Zia together with his son who lives in London she's facing charges of corruption relating to the alleged transfer of international funds to a charitable Children's Trust Just before we came on air I spoke to a correspondent and by Hussein who's outside the court in Dhaka this is a correction charge and it happened it started in 1993 when Khaled as you know was the prime minister of Bangladesh in one shouldn't get 3. She received $1200000.00 from Kuwait for charity but thing is that the main allegation is that the college is the didn't spend those money for charity rather those money how hold them money it was transferred to another charity organization which was set up by his ill or some Parikrama and this is a mentally geisha and that when should receive the money being the prime minister she didn't the use the money orders or original arpa Strother the money was lost but the private accounts and the color business is that this is a politically motivated charges and the government is using the judiciary in an attempt to keep our way from the next general election which is sure deal that we heard on the end of this and she says she is ready to face any kind of situation whether she lands in jail or she is free it doesn't matter and she will actually think that if the judiciary is free then that she will get exemption from the charges so the verdict when it comes could will be politically sensitive What impact might it have there in Bangladesh. Definitely this is very political. Leeson city of birth date because while it is there says that the government actually wanted to keep her away from the elections and many analysts say that it colored the years convicted and our party would not going to take part in the next general election it didn't put a big question mark Rollerball this is democracy process by Hussein speaking to us from Dhaka. In Venezuela aspell Souza is known as the beauties are a man credited with molding his country's beauty queens to win more major crowns than any other nation in the world his obsession with image leaves no stone or fingernail unturned. Pulling us into the most frail nails this is very ugly The white is too strong to make appear the little beast feet done or a really horrible I'll tell all of you you always need to be like queens from head to toe. That was Mr Sousa on his t.v. Series our Latin beauty Well now after nearly 4 decades working for the Miss Venezuela organization the 71 year old has announced he's stepping down from its presidency writing I gave joy to a nation or Americas editor Candace Pierre told me more about the legacy he's left under his management Venezuela won more international competitions than any other country in the world he made it into a huge industry already was it's very much part of the Venezuelan cutting the social scene they do love beauty pageants but $50000000.00 people would watch this contest across Latin America and he turned this the the competition into a reality show with him at the heart of it and he would choose all the girls himself and advise them on clothes and makeup and hair and even what plastic surgery to have his beauty factory became the top academy in the whole country with girls vying for places at this Beauty Academy from all over the country a controversial figure. In many ways to to succeed a girl under his wing had to undergo a transformation that was often quite radical and beauty is cruel and he was a great enthusiasm for example of plastic surgery what he wanted to see was a beautiful girl being made absolutely perfect a kind of Barbie doll representation of beauty and so he had a lot of plastic surgery would take the t.v. Cameras into the surgery with him to watch the process he encouraged girls to undertake quite dangerous procedures they also had to starve themselves to look great they had to wear tight corsets to get the right waistline they had to file their teeth down they had to add to their bus line so he was encouraging girls to do quite dodgy things are America's editor Candace p.s. On the life and work of the man known as Venezuela's beauties are all smelt Souza Afghanistan is a country that knows more than most the cost of war its people have lived with conflict for nearly 40 years and to consider the cost of that on the mental health of Afghans we need only look at the statistics according to the World Health Organization 3 quarters of Afghan women and more than half the men suffer from mental health issues the b.b.c. Said hard Zand has had unprecedented access to Afghanistan's only high security psychiatric institute inherits in the west of the country. Oh yeah. It's cold small core chart surrounded by tall cracked walls covered with Bob. This is the only secure psychiatric institute in a country that's been at war for almost 40 years. This is where 300 of the most dangerous Afghan men and women are kept many of them with serious mental health problems among them are fighters from both sides of the Civil War as. Confronted by an extraordinary sight I find myself standing no more than a few steps away from 2 former enemies now chained together a former Taliban fighter and his opponent a form a freedom fighter and I'm just taking a leisure Lee walk in the crowded courtyard the 2 arch enemies take careful synchronise steps to avoid tripping over the chain that connects them with a little bit. Of them is almost not covered other than the Taliban are very good people they are of the man obviously that's rubbish but they are right because in far as the version of Islam want people you guys are you are so inclined people for doing the same thing you are crazy or don't know what you're talking about no I'm not crazy I'm perfectly fine on the face of it the 2 men would appear complete opposites but to actually connect that by more than just the change they're both victims of trauma from war which has led to serious long term psychological illness . Some of our patients were brought here by their families more others were from and collected from the streets and if you have learning difficulties some of them can't even communicate to even tell us where they're from or who they are. This is Dr Sanjay will be visiting psychiatry to my surprise the unit does not have a full time psychiatrist so it relies on his help. The facilities here are basic There are only 15 members of staff to take care of all the patients none of them medically trained dressed in black from head to toe Dr Sanjay qualified as a psychiatry only 3 years ago. Jeff at 22 patients here helps out in the kitchen a gentle and shy young man it's hard to believe that not long ago depression and schizophrenia had led to him becoming violent. That was 3 years ago when he last saw his family before they brought him here in Germany there were the moon when I 1st arrived here I didn't know where I am or why. It took about a month for it to sink in but I'm actually in the mind house. It's a good day for traffic today he's finally going home. He says if we were in the world it was only because I'm so happy to and I'm looking forward to getting back to my life and finding a job. Was the book I was just fire takes his 1st steps outside his father has come to get him. He's lucky that he has someone to pick him up years off war has meant that many of the patients families have either died or left for neighboring countries and cannot be contacted. Much like Dr Saad Juki the unit's psychiatry's tells me Morial is joined in the 1st of inclusion we actually have a few patients were treated and are reviewed to be discharged but when they have no one who can I handed over to some of my patients should not be here. That report from Afghanistan's only high security psychiatric institute for the B.B.C.'s. Debbie now has some of the stories from our news desk South Korean police have named the chairman of the electronics giant Samsung as a tax evasion suspect according to the local young hap news agency it says detectives believe League and he may have controlled bank accounts in someone else's name containing more than a 3rd of a 1000000000 dollars Mr Lee has been in hospital since suffering a heart attack 4 years ago. President of France has said he will not recognize Corsican as an official language on his 1st visit to the French Mediterranean island the president also rejected another demand by Corsican nationalists for special residency status to prevent property speculation by outsiders. And employees of a German company have donated almost 3300 hours in overtime so a colleague could look after his son with leukemia single dad and re-ask gruff has taken almost a year of being an assembly worker at a design company and Hess after his 4 year old son askance a diagnosis more than $700.00 colleagues responded to a manager's appeal. Now to a claim that some major international sports events are at risk because of climate change a pressure group called the Climate Coalition has released a report with more his Jonathan savage Montrose golf course lies on the east coast of Scotland it's the 5th oldest in the world and it's under threat we've had to move because constantly moving because inland and we've now we're now to room the problem for the town is we have the last a barrier between the sea and the town so one of our last to do is gone we've kind of the town is out into the sea that's Chris Kern and the courses director he's hoping for help from government to shore up the Junes while there's still time the Climate Coalition says this is a symptom of climate change and even more prestigious venues are risk since underuse and Royal Troon are 2 of the most famous golf courses in the world and hosts of The Open Championship this report predicts that they could be underwater by the end of the century Don Goggins is one of the authors of a combination of sea level rises and higher frequency and higher intensity of storms a combination of those 2 things leads to tomorrow's Ian and you know over time this is going to have an impact and actually like in the case of Montrose for example which is quite stark stark example you know nearly 500 years of golf in history they've already moved 3 holes they've got make some big decisions about the future now another sport under threat is cricket England hosts some of the biggest matches with teams travelling from across the world every year and of course the big Ashes series between England and Australia Dungog and says they've looked at weather records for English cricket since the turn of the century increase in disruptive cricket since then pretty much aligns with the climate trends and you can see that for example in an international cricket since 2000 thinking of 100 a one day internationals 50 of games home 29 of those have been of lost overs because of rain and that rate is almost double since 2011 this week the Winter Olympics begin in South Korea but a study released last month suggested that of the 21 cities to have hosted the games or are shared tool to more than a 3rd may be too warm by 2070. A European research team is beginning a realistic simulation of Martian living conditions in one of the least comfortable places on this planet this report from Richard Hamilton. And the new agey mission team will simulate politics on things mission unannounced and in a promotional video for the Amity 18 mission it's directed from a support center in Austria involved scientists from 20 different countries and draws on the experiences of 11 previous simulation missions the field crew will conduct experiments in the doe far desert in Amman a vast area of stony plains rocks and sand dunes in order to prepare for a manned mission to Mars in the future astronauts from 5 European countries will spend around 4 weeks there in complete isolation they will conduct 19 experiments working with robotic rovers a drone and an inflatable greenhouse Reinhart close stars whose one of the flight directors with the Austrian space for him says it's a way of carrying out tests on both the astronauts and the landscape we have human factor experiments that focus on physical and psychological factors we also look at how isolation affect our crew but on the other hand we also have a lot of 2 physical experiments that look at the properties of the landscape there and then compare this also to what we would find on Mars it is very similar that we know but we would also like to try out different experiments that look for life Richard Hamilton reporting on the potential for life on boss. 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World Service in the next 5 weeks you're going to hear some remarkable stories about women who made history in their countries today were northen ardent to meet Monica McWilliams Monica was one of the few women at the table with many men during negotiations which led to the Good Friday Peace Agreement in 1900 here how her story made history with me after the news. B.b.c. News with Debbie Ross North Korea has said it will not use the Winter Olympics in South Korea as an opportunity to hold talks with the United States a foreign ministry official said that Pyongyang had never begged for dialogue with the u.s. And this would not change the u.s. Vice president Mike Pence who'll be attending the opening ceremony has stressed that all options are on the table in dealing with the nuclear threat from North Korea. The Venezuelan electoral authorities say presidential elections will take place on the 22nd of April the date was set after the breakdown of talks between the Government and Opposition 2 leading opponents of President Maduro have been banned from standing intense security is in place in Bangladesh ahead of the verdict in a corruption trial against the opposition leader Khaled asea if she's found guilty and sentenced to more than 2 years she will not be able to contest elections should yield for the end of this year the u.s. Led coalition fighting in Syria says it has conducted air strikes against pro-government forces after what it called an unprovoked attack on the u.s. Backed Syrian democratic forces the coalition said some of its troops were present as an s.d.s. Headquarters that was attacked east of the Euphrates River which is considered a de confliction line the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said he will deliver a national apology to victims of child sexual abuse later this year it follows an inquiry into the treatment of thousands of children who were abused in the care of churches schools and homes across Australia. Research has shown that suicide rates in the United States biked by 10 percent in the 5 months after the Oscar winning actor Robin Williams killed himself in 2014 the findings reinforce other studies that indicate that more people kill themselves in the aftermath of a high profile suicide. And that's the latest Well news from the b.b.c. . You. Heard. The March of the women. Where. They called this song a him a call to battle Dame Ethel Smyth composed it in 19000 and Cicely Hamilton wrote the lyrics both women were part of Britain's women's suffrage movement and this song became the anthem. In the early 20th century women across the United Kingdom went to battle to fight for their right to vote and some even gave their lives Emily Wilding Davison was fatally injured during the famous Darby horse race some say she was trying to attach a flag to the king's horse to highlight the women's cause and then in 1900 the battle was won some although not all pretty women got their right to vote to mark their campaign and others by women the world over in the past century I can speaking with some remarkable women whose own stories made history I'm nice to set and in the next 5 weeks on the b.b.c. World Service you'll hear stories from Iceland Afghanistan Saudi Arabia and Liberia but we start in Belfast in Northern Ireland to meet Monica McWilliams one of the was one of the few women at the table with many men during the negotiations which led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 it finally put an end to the conflict which had raged for 30 years over demands for Northern Ireland to leave the u.k. And join the Irish Republic. So after 30 years of troubles 2 years of negotiations $3200.00 violent deaths the parties in Northern Ireland have reached an agreement which they all say they hope will stick to bring peace to that province. Was 14 years of age when the troubles broke out and as a very young woman at the age I became involved in the civil rights movement so I would describe myself but they and as a civil rights activist then became much more conscious of women's rights became a women's rights activist and eventually became a human rights activist So if 40 years of activism was an accidental activist I fell into every one of those and I ended up being a peace negotiator in a member of the Legislative Assembly which if somebody had asked me back then I would have said no to told I will never happen well let's go back to where it all began and it was called the troubles beginning in the late 1960 s. In Northern Ireland and how did that shape your life as a young girl in Northern Ireland Oh it had a massive effect but you know what became extraordinary became terribly ordinary my own home was bombed 3 times I tell the story that my aunt came to stay once and as Irish Catholics we were always taught to be frightened of thunder was one of the superstitious things that the devil was out as work. And so she was very frightened of thunder and she came in a bomb went off a 1000 pine bomb and it blew in the windows in the roof and I find her under the bed in my bedroom and I said Mary can come and she said What was that and I said it was above and she said thanks be to God I thought it was thunder which gives you an idea of the ridiculousness of what people were frightened of and what they should have been frightened of and then my boyfriend was murdered in 1984 by a loyalist armed group and I thought it's time to get out of here so I can run away I got a scholarship to the United States to study as postgraduate and I didn't couldn't bear sitting watching the place burning down at home or rind and being so far away and I thought as soon as I get my graduation through I'm going back and that's when everything from each changed and I got really stopped and then really got involved mostly in women's movement with women's EOD and domestic violence and that's a long time ago so when the man said where did these women come from it was as if we had only fallen out of the sky when the peace talks were declared we've been around for 30 years sitting in Monica's living room I can see through to her kitchen and on the wall there is a big poster of Martin Luther King Monica tells me she got goose pimples when she heard his soaring speeches for civil rights in the United States in the 1960 s. Decades on with her short blonde bob her self-deprecating warmth she still radiates that spirit but did she March then for women's rights absolutely not that had not crossed the Atlantic from the United States in fact that carried a slogan on a poster saying one man one vote having no idea that I wasn't included what should have been one person one vote but that came many years later but 10 years when we realize. High male dominated that movement actually was even though it was the women who were sending out all the notices to gather and have a great photograph and Yury the week after Bloody Sunday when all of us abut 800000 people on that March and the woman had organized it and they were somewhere in the background and suddenly they all said let's link arms and go to the front and that's the only photograph that's ever been taken of those women leaders many of them some of them were assassinated some of them with a sense and nobody knows their names and how often does that happen in terms of the political activism that women get involved in the Couldn't have been a civil rights movement without those women and the man stood in the next rope every one of them became famous. Famous too was the violence of that time including the day Monica mentions Bloody Sunday 1972. There are 2 man at the end of this problem plus there's another man at least very close to being dead there's 130 others up there I'm told that there are some more in these flood children I haven't seen yet I would say there are probably about 4 deaths this morning I don't know what those are doing but they're like the. British soldiers shot 28 civilians during a peaceful protest 14 of them died it had a profound impact on the conflict but when it came to women's rights it took 20 years before Monica and other women in Northern Ireland moved from grassroots activism to mainstream politics and that move has helped unexpectedly by leading men in the conservative party in London and Belfast as well as some determined women. Started many people don't believe this under John Major and we had surpassed that Mayhew here and his wife Lady Jean may here was a bit of a feminist as was Parness don't know what those titles lady and burnous you wouldn't actually think that these 2 women would be calling all women in Northern Ireland to a conference to ask where are women's voices and so they kick started it to conservative women and they asked me to organize a conference in a rural peoples call each a hill that those in the country because I wanted both urban and rural women to get the chance to realize their voices and hundreds turned up and we asked the question if there's ever peace talks in this country should women be at the table of course there was a diversity of views but the overwhelming view was high could we be locked all right when we have been trumping. Streets in the communities for 30 years and then not to have any voice so it actually started just after the cease fires the 1st cease fires in $94.00 and all of us wanted a different future of course for our children so if there was a window that was going to open up we were going to jump through it in this was the formation of what became known as the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition and I don't you see well it became the seeds of it we actually had no idea that we would form it so what we did was our stall for us was that we should write to all the political parties. If they were putting delegates at the table who would be women in their parties and they never bothered answering our letters to parties to the Commons party workers party but we figured they wouldn't be up the table so they were more serious question most of the big parties who just probably tore the letter up and put it in the bend in fact they told us later that women could wait it wasn't an important issue and that more important was you know the constitutional issue of either a United Ireland or union with Britain and we said no we've watched and waited for too long it's time for us to build and we deserve to be there so we never dreamed of forming a coalition ourselves so for pure badness we just said Ok we'll put it up to them hoping not to get elected I should add in wa well we all had leaves we all could see that we were being a fact of a community level and then the work we were doing and we always saw politicians as just talking and never getting out they were they all had lives some women were working full time most had children to care for and homes to keep running but a coalition was born they had no office not even a telephone but they did have a slogan that said we have goodbye to dinosaurs How did you come up with that. It was one of the women who said I've had enough of these dinosaurs and somebody else in the group that night show that yeah it's time to we have them goodbye and we put the 2 together so what was the reaction among the men to that slogan you used to say to all of us hi Terry you called me a dinosaur. And I would look at the posters and say Where's your name on that poster and they would say that's not there and I would say why are you self a done defying as a dinosaur. End of conversation. Getting votes mattered if women wanted to sit at the table to negotiate a way out of the troubles they needed to win more than one percent of the vote that was the system designed to include smaller parties in the peace talks so women took to the campaign trail 6 weeks of hard slog that's what women are good oh they were so supportive everybody was building teams all over the country giving people lifts and cars getting the vote 080 and we figured we wouldn't come to high up a but there was only temperate is and we worked it out that if we came in one 3rd 10 thought was a success the night before I went to bed I prayed that we wouldn't get elected that we'd done everything to put the fact that there were women available women could do this and then I thought that be all us you yourself did not want to be absolutely no out and then the other prayer that night was a come on that's got elected. And on not day I went down to the client and my 1st constituency to come in is where the guy had been born in a small village known as East London there a stroke very and the journalists all turned to me and said That's an unbelievable thought that has just come in and I said 96 1st cousins and their cousins and every partner and person that I could think of has been I don't they're voting for us and then they laughed and they said also that explains that vote and I thought about it a lot because good across all and we did hang in and that night we were the 9th party and we were elected and we were in total shock. And then came the harsh reality of how difficult except ins was going to be both on the streets don't go to them the other you know she's not even a delegate but you have to speak I don't want representatives of the women's call it is not the truth appears you know if he is right where I don't feel like in the negotiators you know vote a farce Why are you going to and jury in the talks might as well does scarse it for a bite better terms for they annihilate of jurors that discuss Well Southern Ireland that the way forward for your life with Mr Pierce do not consider that an objectionable remark to compare Hitler and fascism with the government of the Republic of Ireland current on Iraq live to your Certainly not I don't know where they honorable leader has been living and some cuckoo land of heart although. We could stick with all the the insults because we were secure enough in their sales to know this was about them and not about us it's the usual it's the poor see it's culture it's cash it's child care and most importantly it was confident and we just didn't have the confidence maybe in her sails we did believe in ourselves but at the same time we were so nervous about entering a process a bite which we knew nothing because remember some of those parties had been at the table at least 12 previous sets of negotiations. It was a baptism of fire and we literally got thrown in at the deep end and learned to swim as we went along and of course this was an election of a coalition which included women across the divide it was Catholic women like yourself and also Protestant women in our Was the other reading woman on the Protestants I yes per was a very strong working class woman community activist. And all the time we insisted that that should be the way I was teaching at the university probably perceived to be from a middle class background but my folks were from a farming rural but growing and we were very much conscious that if we ever went to do meetings. There were always be somebody from one side with somebody from the other side so that we weren't seen to be just doing meetings with their own side so you would curl because of the election between got to sit in what was described as the Northern Ireland forum for political understanding and dialogue Yeah the forum that we read name the form for monologue and misunderstanding it was a far cry from dialogue and understanding it was a monologue after monologue every day on a Friday remember on a Friday all of the delegates were allowed to come together it was like a therapeutic exercise shouldn't Theon weren't allowed to sit at the talks but they could have come to the forum but chose not to s.t.l. P. The other national party walked out. And that left very few of us as a cross community alternatives to the Unionist parties and for some reason those parties decided to believe us not for some reason they had every reason because we were challenging a lot of their thinking and they knew that we were opening up back channels to Sion Feehan who had been affiliated to a previously armed group Iranian We were talking to the loyalists here in this house and they weren't in favor of this they were referring to them as terrorists and criminals and I was standing up saying this should be known by the names of which they've got elected and every Friday they put on a body armor virtually as I went down that road to go into that forum because I knew I was going to be humiliated I was going to be subject to the most derogatory comments and occasionally physically pushed around this was because of your political views were because of your gender both Where in the country you have got risen you'll get sexism where you've got sectarianism you'll get racism and sexism the c.m. People take a prayed and not wanting any form of diversity so what were some of the insults they hurled at you parole Well the mood out is when we got up to talk I countered Yeah and called us out. And the public gallery us to be so shocked. A Greek chorus of women go home and have babies if you can't stand the heat in the kitchen get ahead of it they'd see that they'd speak up and say that and would put in the assembly how the assembly but they would walk out afterwards and clapped me on the back and say Wasn't that great fun this morning Ted I don't know what part of that you thought was humorous he didn't see it as insulting not at all nor did they see it as sexist or anything they just thought that's the nature of politics and if you can't take it it shouldn't be here was it hurtful Oh absolutely all of this was heartfelt but you couldn't some ways you couldn't that them see that they were getting under your skin you had to pretend you were a big strong woman and luckily we had a good team of woman around to something my message to women is don't do this on your own there's cut you off at the pass and they'll send you in pieces and yet you had a rather interesting response to it to inject a bit of humor and oh I remember what you're talking about it was go home and Stand By Your Man and Pearl and I got up and started singing Stand By Your Man and the whole place are rocked into laughter you're not supposed to do the floor of a very formal forum by the way you're supposed to follow protocol but we just had a hard enough. There was insult upon insult so much so they even came up with a contest called insult of the week but the future of Northern Ireland mattered far more in what they believed had to be part of any deal victims and we put the whole issue in this section called reconciliation on the need to address the issue of victims know when you have armed combatants at the table and the of all the Constitution parties the last people that sometimes they're thinking about are the victims and many of our women were victims that lost their fathers brothers myself had lost a very good friend in 74 as I said and we were Think of her we cannot get over this process of we don't put something into a peace agreement about victims it was only a few sentences but the garden. Mix tosing we were fed up with segregation integrated education so their children could go to school together. The civic forum which was a reflection of us where people could come together to on social economic and cultural decisions an advisory body to the Parliamentary Assembly the legislative body and all of that made its way in we were working on the human rights and equality issues the rights of women we managed to keep a close eye on that the role of women in public decision making because we said if this is a transformation which peace agreements and political settlements are supposed to be a boat then it can't just be about design armament demobilization and the reintegration of expression or something that's a peace process this has to be about the long term but the education of our children together about how we're going to heal in the society the hearts and harms with done. By clause argument by argument the talks went on and on and then by Easter week. Of 1998 a deal seemed almost done and by now all the main political parties were around the table it was up and down up in tone rollercoaster but holy Thursday we were almost getting there then it went belly up everything generally dollars and these processes we were up all night were all for 3 nights I was standing in the same clothes that I'd left the house and for the previous 3 days and then the snow came during that's my memory of Good Friday morning and some people started join him started doing public interviews saying we think we've got an agreement and then next minute things seem to be hard but then they were unhappy and Unionist were very on hoping. And suddenly President Clinton was known to be on everybody's phone encouraging and saying this is that folks and I got word to come and all under Mitchell was going to say this I want the leaders of each party to declare in favor of this to agreement verbal because we couldn't sign that person feel how to take it to their our core you know but so we're known as verbal signatories but it was the most tense moment that you could have ever imagined and I think I was one of the 1st started with the Alliance Party and then another small party Labor Party and I was the 3rd to declare and I thought well that's got to make its way around the table and the last party was they have a trembles and he said I am and favor and that was that Senator Mitchell stood up and said agreement has been reached the talks are over the Irish constitution and in British constitutional law to enshrine the principle that it is the people of Northern Ireland who will decide democratically their own future the agreement deals fairly with such sensitive issues as prisoners policing and decommissioning this agreement is good for the people of Ireland north and south and that was it so the women all stood I have the most beautiful photographs of us all standing hugging each other and I said to the woman Don't be crying Don't be crying because that's what they'll expect so all the records are below to cry you know nice get x. Day series The cameras are on us looked around the room and every man was practically crying and I said you can cry you know because they're all crying. 30 years of violence were coming to an end the Good Friday Agreement of April 10th 1998 was signed by the main parties of Northern Ireland and the Irish and British governments and established a new power sharing government Monica McWilliams won a seat again as one of 2 women in the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition the other picture which takes pride of place in her Belfast home is a painting of all the members of parliament sitting in session but by 2006 the Women's Coalition ran out of political steam and Monica was focusing her energies elsewhere and now you travel the world you go to You were part of the peace process in Colombia you go to buy and Mark to Burma what is your argument for the importance of women in peacemaking negotiations to gender really make that much of a difference absolutely it's not rocket science if you totally exclude the women and the have a male only dominated process then they're not representative of the people that's the 1st thing and the 2nd I think is that women are more participate through their deliberate if there are things in conflict that only help to them there are certain harms that happen to me that they're not up to my male colleagues of as if just mentioned sexual violence in Colombia trafficking a 1000000 more and so they need to bring that to the table in Syria which is the other conflict I was working on with the women do you have any regrets about the choices you made well the one worry I had was the children that they would say mommy was never here but they don't. And they're very proud of the role they played and I think they've benefited from not being these are 2 boys 2 boys and one of the many years later told me he was bullied as a result of my role which was devastating for me he didn't tell me at the time because he was so worried about my reaction so that worried me but no way did you know progress. You know very good way to end confidence. Absolutely I think what as I said my women have to believe in themselves they have to believe this is possible and believe that start with me I can do this but Seraing yourself with good support of team it was lovely to hear from you Monica 1000000 thank you very much very much enjoyed it a peace maker from Northern Ireland a history often told without the voices of women like Monica McWilliams and yet they did make a difference next week we'll travel to a very different culture to hear about a very different campaign to Riyadh to meet. One of the 1st Saudi women to fight for their right to drive we were about 47 girls with about 11 carts and we drove around and around in one of the main streets about 4 o'clock and then suddenly we were stopped by the police the police were really be we'll dirt didn't know what to make out of us at the beginning he thought we were quickly women leading away from Kuwait and we said no we're Saudi women waiting to be arrested. Hear how her story made history next week at the same time on the b.b.c. World you're listening to the b.b.c. World news on to Southern Colorado n.p.r. Station broadcast sun 91.5 f.m. From our studios in Colorado Springs Colorado you can also hear cares you see in the following communities 88.5 f.m. In West Cliff and Gardner 89 point one f.m. In La Hunter 89.9 f.m. In Lyman 90 point one f.m. In Manitou Springs 91.7 f.m. In Trinidad and Raton New Mexico 94 point one f.m. In Walsenburg unlove Fida 95.5 f.m. In Lake George and Hertz all 95.7 f.m. 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Hello I'm Debbie Ross with the b.b.c. News North Korea says it has no intention of using the Winter Olympics in South Korea as an opportunity to hold talks with officials from the United States a senior foreign ministry official was quoted by the state news agency as saying that Pyongyang had never begged for dialogue with the u.s. And this would not change the north is holding a military parade on Thursday on the eve of the Olympics Laura because reports so Korea has hailed these Winter Games as the peace Olympics but just a few 100 miles north of here around 13000 troops are parading through the North Korean capital of Pyongyang the parade is usually held in April but now on the eve of the Olympics North Korea is showing off its military might state media also announced that North Korean officials have no intention of meeting with the u.s. During the games yesterday the regime announced it would be sending Kim Jong in Sr the influential Kim your Chong there's speculation that she might be bringing a message from her brother the Venezuelan electoral law authorities have set the presidential elections for the 22nd of April after talks between the government and the opposition collapsed the move sets the stage for the likely reelection of President Nicolas Maduro Katie Watson reports there's been a great deal of uncertainty over these elections including doubt over whether they'd happen to the opposition had hoped the vote would be held in the 2nd half of this year giving parties more time to decide on a candidate with talks between the 2 sides now stalled because of disagreements over electoral conditions the political battle continues as does the uncertainty as to how the opposition will participate in the upcoming vote. The Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said he will deliver a national apology to victims of child sexual abuse later this year it follows an inquiry into the treatment of thousands of children abused in the care of churches schools and homes across Australia Hello Griffith is in Sydney the 4 year Royal Commission inquiry heard harrowing evidence of abuse from survivors who say they've been denied justice for decades the final report called The abuse a national tragedy now the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says they'll be a national apology later this year the announcement adds pressure on those state governments and religious institutions who so far haven't signed up to a redress scheme which would entitle abuse survivors to tens of thousands of dollars in compensation a large number of troops have been deployed in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka and around the country ahead of the verdict in a corruption trial against the opposition leader Khalid asea if found guilty and sentenced to more than 2 years she will not be able to contest Parliamentary.