In the region the battle for Tripoli began when the warlord Khalifa Haftar who's backed by Egypt and the u.a.e. Launched an offensive he's being confronted by militias who side with Libya's u.n. Backed government there believed to have been supplied with Turkish weapons abortion rights activists have taken part in coordinated rallies across the United States to protest against several states passing tough laws to restrict terminations and limit bullets in Washington last week Alabama passed the strictest laws so far making abortion illegal at any stage of pregnancy but in total 16 states mainly in the south of either past or are debating new antiabortion measures a large protest took place outside the u.s. Supreme Court here in Washington it's the calculation of those tabling these anti abortion bills across the country that they'd be challenged and taken up by the Supreme Court where they feel thanks to the conservative justices appointed by Donald Trump they could eventually get a ruling that removes the right to have an abortion for millions of American women Argentina's former President Cristina Fernandez de Kitchener has appeared in court at the opening of a major corruption trial it comes days after her announcement that she'll run for office again this Fernandez's called the case politically motivated and world news from the b.b.c. The European Union's Border Agency from taxes launched its 1st joint operation outside the e.u. Teaming up with Albanian border guards 50 officers from 12 e.u. States will help patrol Albanians border with Greece to tackle cross border crime and Clint destine immigration. The pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson says it has been ordered to pay at least $25000000.00 to a woman who alleges that she got cancer through the use of the company's top based products the company faces more than 14000 similar claims from New York net a toughie cripple Donna also and suffers from measles feel Yoma a rare form of cancer that is caused by exposure to asbestos she said that she got it from Johnson and Johnson's baby powder and shower product which she used daily for decades the jury has awarded her $25000000.00 in compensation and will meet next week to decide on possible punitive damages Johnson and Johnson plans to appeal the decision the company maintains that its products are safe and it says a key expert witness gave false testimony which led to significant legal and evidentiary errors in football the Arsenal midfielder Henrik mythic Mkhitaryan who is Armenian says he will not play in the Europa League final in Azerbaijan next week amid security fears the player whose country has no diplomatic relations with neighboring Azerbaijan is understood to have been concerned about the safety on the pitch in Baku the competence of us a by John the government of Japan has asked foreign media to begin referring to Japanese people with the family names 1st as is the norm in East Asia Japanese names are usually reversed when written in English but the began as Western customs to code in the late 19th century the new convention comes into force later this year it means the prime minister Shinzo Abe will instead be referred to as abberations own. Hello and welcome to News Hour from the b.b.c. World Service for coming to you live from London I'm James Kamar Sami later in the program my colleague least he said to as been speaking to the director of the World Food Program he's telling us why his organization is threatening to cut off aid to parts of Yemen and they'll be another News Hour presenter in the mix will be going live to the Man Booker International Literary Award and Razia Iqbal will be there we begin though with the argument over automated facial recognition or a f r that's a tool that can cut down waiting time in passport speed up getting on to public transport and most controversial it can help with the fight against crime but it is increasingly being recognized in some circles as a threat to civil liberties last week San Francisco became the 1st city in the United States to ban facial recognition and today a court in the Welsh capital Cardiff has been hearing the 1st legal challenge to its use by a British police force the case was brought by Ed Bridges who had his image captured by a police van while he was out shopping he told the b.b.c. Why he'd taken the action well I had popped out from work one day to go and buy a sandwich around the corner I saw a van in front of me there was no signage no police officers no one giving out information so by the time I got close enough to it to see the words facial recognition technology written a long pull on the side of it I had already had my biometric data captured by the cameras in that van and that struck me as a fundamental breach of my my privacy of South Wales Police is one of 3 police forces in the u.k. That has been using facial recognition technology in public spaces since 2015 it's also no stranger to its limits when it was used at the Champions League final in Cardiff back in 2017 more than 90 percent percent of the potential matches for known soccer hooligans turned out to be wrong so when. Does the balance lie between security and privacy when it comes to facial recognition technology I've been discussing that with Daniel Castro the vice president of the nonpartisan think tank the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and Ivana battle Letty head of privacy and data protection with Gem service a private u.k. Consultancy which advises clients on digital transformation she explained how facial recognition technology is used We're talking about a more by a camera going around being able to recognize individual sort of though as you've said yourself before the evidence that we have had over the last few years is that it doesn't work and it gives us a lot of false positives and particularly doesn't work when it comes to women and black people so we are talking about facial recognition we're talking about a technology that is used not just by the police but is used for example as a an identity and not a measure So for example when you look into your phone in some cases you can use facial recognition or anything creasing really biometrics is increasingly being used as an identity tool and it's often powered by a tissue intelligence by machine learning by algorithms and they're often obscure but the issue that is a stake here is the intersection between technology and democracy and I'm not saying that it shouldn't be used but I'm advocate for is for a debate on this well well we're having a debate now let's let's bring in Daniel Castro at this point we had a lot of caviar at their Daniel and the man who's taken this case he said that his data was collected without his consent which I suppose perhaps gets to the essence of the question of privacy versus security and that that is a concern isn't it so I think there's a concern that oh a lot of people have in this case the issue that we see though is of course how do you how do you do something that's balanced right now you have. Valence cameras in public places and you have people monitoring those cameras and the goal of facial recognition is to take what is a slow and inaccurate manual process of people manually trying to identify threats through these cameras and automating that and we know that computers can do a lot of things better than humans can and identifying people's faces is one of those tasks that computers are getting better at than humans and in particular they're actually getting better at identifying people even across different races that right now there's a lot of human biases when you look at how humans identify people especially across race getting better but but a lot of surveys seem to have thrown up problems that have been identified in particular with people of color and Jen across gender those believe there's there are issues on the well no even there the computers actually outperform humans and that's something that's law lost in the conversation often the argument is that these systems have bias or that they have you know differences in performance across skin color across gender and that's true but the point is humans have those same problems and they have those problems at higher rates the difference with a computer algorithm is they're getting significantly better over time and we've seen this improvement increase even over the last 9 to 12 months and so the opportunity here is to say if we're going to use this in the public sector can we set performance requirements so that we're using the technology that is performing the best and we're creating strong competition in this area and get accountability so that we're not using any of the algorithms that perform poorly Yvon of them what about that point that the technology is improving but the technology certainly is improving and they said you think the issue is that yes it is true that humans are all biased and in itself that's not the main problem they're talking about To problem is that when you introduce a Graham semi Sheens is this has taken to a completely different scale and this is where a bias then becomes stereotype in the. Becomes a prejudice this is why I would say much without that if these things are used with their and check to their own regulated This is where the problems come the again if they are regulated Do you accept that they are you can be very useful tool in the fight against crime they can be but we need to have a discussion on this well I object is the use of this technology without having had that debate without having that the connection a conversation before we start deploying them look when you start using these machines human behavior changes if people all watch the feeblest surveille then the attitude changes the way they behave changes if they think that they are surveyed if they think they're being watched their behavior changes is this what we want this is a conversation that I think we really need to and there is another point if I may this about safeguarding I think the principles of the liberal democracies we live in and also police the way they operate they need to be based on trust they need to be they see the good relationship with the communities they operate in and I think this kind of systems can put that at real threat and Daniel I mean has the technology gone too far ahead of the regulation has has you know the laws simply not caught up with things you know there's always a dynamic of a tension between new technology the technology advances and the laws keep up and then the laws advance and the technology keeps up that tension always exist but I don't think it's fair to say there hasn't been a debate because we've been having these debates for the past 20 years about the presence of surveillance cameras in public spaces about the use of you know I made it license plate readers license tag readers about other types of biometrics so these debates have been playing out this isn't something that is really catching people by surprise I think was going to catch people by surprise is the significant impact these technologies are already having today so for example facial recognition technology has been used to identify missing children that have been victims of sex trafficking this is something though other police agencies are showing to deploy and it's highly effective that's something we should be thinking about how do we increase that not how do we slow it down we heard there from Daniel Castro of the Washington based think tank the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and from Ivana bought a letter of gems of. A corruption trial has begun in Argentina of one of the country's sitting senators but not just any senator Cristina Fernandez the Kish is the former Argentinean president she announced the weekend it should be running against the incumbent Maria machree in October's presidential election but as a candidate for the post of vice president from the courtroom today Ms Fernandez tweeted that the case against her was a smokescreen and an act of persecution So what exactly is she accused of and will it have any impact on the election and I've been speaking to Maria Esperanza Castle low and she is associate professor of political science at the National University of Rio Negro in the south of Argentina she basically accused of having directed I guess would be there were some sort of conspiracy to read the beats for public works a specific lean the brahmins so Argentino where her husband used to be governor of and she's also accused of profiting from it taking kickbacks yeah taking kickbacks what this is going to end up I really don't know but the whole situation is very muddy and very very politicized and it comes just a couple of days after she announced that she will be running in October's presidential election although not as a presidential candidate but as a vice presidential candidate that seemed to come as something of a surprise Oh I think it came as totally a surprise this is really the 1st in Argent them political history the fact that a person that according to every poll have decent shot to become the next president and voluntarily stepped down from that but advice President seen Argentina has almost no power whatsoever is she still popular she's very popular with a segment of the book elation which according to the boss is Raftery Surjit percent and she's also very unpopular. With another segment of the population that also hovers around 30 percent so she is very loved by a segment of the public eye and very hated I would say by another segment of the league what kind of role is this trial likely to play politically do you think as I understand it she has immunity is a sitting senator so even if she is found guilty she won't go to prison she wanted to prison for ass long as she's still in the Senate and everybody seems quite certain that there's not going to we have heard the before the elections this type of an Argentine are notoriously slow and in terms of the bigger political picture the economy is not doing well at the moment it would appear and in many ways that the political conditions where the i.m.f. Is seen to have put on necessary constraints on Argentina are pretty similar to the conditions when 1st a husband and she came to power up yes very much so it was very clear when at the very last years of her presidency that the Archon thank you Kaname was not you know had some problems and was not doing well this government the government of President McCree won elections with this sort of discourse say we have these problems but they are very manageable They just have to do with how bad the cure scenarios government is and now almost 4 years after that the economy has actually not improved it has become worst for most of the people in Argentina and the government that some have a lot to say about this so one way or another this trial could be decisive in October's election I really think we're going to have to wait to see how these images are digested by the Archon tieing society because this is said new development we've never had a former president in her position. We've never had a government that's running for reelection with this type of economic indicators at the same time I still believe that election he's not going to hinge on this trial alone I think that the main issue is going to be the economy he's very clear that's been the case Maria Esperanza cast Sue Loeb associate professor of political science at the National University of Rio Negra in the south of Argentina on a very interesting and potentially politically important trial in that country you're listening to news out from the b.b.c. World Service. Coming up in the program the women and girls of Sierra Leone have been pushed into prostitution after being off and by boat sometimes the whole family died due to Ebola and if was their family decided to take the child and to care for the child that running these are some times they told them there is no no money for school fees or the food was not enough that is why did he said it to go to the streets headlines at this hour the British prime minister to resign Mary has offered M.P.'s a vote on whether to hold a 2nd referendum if they approve her Breck's it withdrawal bill we're discussing that in about 5 minutes time and the u.n. Envoy to Libya says the country is facing a long and bloody war which could threaten its neighbors and the wider Mediterranean region. You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service this is news now coming to you live from our studios in central London with James Kim our Sammy. The European parliamentary elections are taking place across the e.u. Between Thursday and Sunday in France they're being held against a background of 6 months of sometimes violent protests by the so-called yellow vests 00 in their anti tax and establishment campaign severely rattled president Makram has distributed billions of euros in tax cuts and other giveaways the a still dissatisfied still out in the streets but how much influence do they still have you Schofield has been travelling through that region south of Paris to find out. When I see you I thought of that history my 1st thought has brought me to a recreational area on the banks of the river on the outskirts of the city of all the all where there is a Gilles Asian rally underway to be honest with you it's pretty poorly attended probably just a 100 or so people and their allies a bit of a who are right now because they say the police have confiscated some of their cooking equipment of all things and arrested some of their friends so they're actually trying to decide right now whether to March on the police station but they don't seem to be able to. Back out. When you know. Leadership is the big problem of the Basically there isn't any so these elections they'll vote how they please and there are a staggering 34 lists to choose from here in All in all they're anarchists an ecologist some communists believe in some of the new draft constitution for France that he's eager to discuss but what unites the more than comes to Europe is that detestation pretty much everything the e.u. Currently stands for is considering your being seeing cookie which is the European Union after all it's a shell and inside the shadow we put whatever we choose but what's been put in it so far is an economic system which is capitalistic and based on the maxim. The Prophet extracted the maximum of violence well we don't want it that's all there is to say. Next stop on this tour of the Ira I've come to a place called brioche famous for it but at least 2 things one it's canal bridge over the river on my list of I felt and 2nd because it was the tiny room here in June 1940 that Winston Churchill for a meeting with the French government in a last ditch but vain attempt to stave off the collapse of France before the invading German army. Is also the home of a woman called Shihan Shelley of can use an expression Who is the coordinator for the Laura department of President macro party. Now as also a deputy mayor of Brianna she's met many yellow vests and she says she initially had some sympathy with a cause but she also says that a good 60 or 70 percent of the religion around her no way are people in fact from the far right and that she doesn't like in fact she says voting for the m. At these elections is the only way of standing up against what she says is the looming populist enemy that's why I really organize things in there everywhere else in friends on it and that's the message I point before child this time there's a dancer and we should vote for Europe you get quite passionate about it completely because I just feeling about what's going to happen if we don't act so what is going to happen if you don't act if we don't act that would be a civil war on people would be divided and it's not Tyrone's about strange about my grandson about and they would be reading splits in French society and in Europe and I don't know. If you can be just to the north around about the town of yeah and hear of the people but he doesn't feel comfortable with its position and they're waving flags. By the roadside and getting appreciative home some farms up from the cars these are a different lot from the religion at all your new one felt were basically leftwing alternative types here they're also very ugly anti e.u. But there's no compunction about saying which way they'll vote for Marine Le Pen's arrest formidable unless you know the best Rampart against macro. Massport Yes exactly to block Makram we've got to show him that we don't want his politics anymore we've absolutely got to get ourselves out from under him and the way to do that is to vote for the only party that can meet him so that there has some less reality if over here and point to occupy members of the movement speaking to the B.B.C.'s Hugh Schofield Well there are European elections taking place here in the u.k. As well as many 3 years after the country voted to leave the European Union the reason they're going ahead is because the 1st part of the Bracks it process has become entangled in the failure of M.P.'s to approve 3 separate times the withdrawal agreement the prime minister to resign may reached with other e.u. Leaders today though having already committed to giving a timetable for her departure early next month Mrs may announce that she was giving her deal one last push she used a speech in central London to defend her decision to spend weeks trying but ultimately failing to negotiate a common Breck's a position with the main opposition Labor Party we engaged in 6 weeks of serious talks with the opposition offering to compromise but in the end those talks were not enough the labor to reach an agreement with us but I do not think that means we should give up the House of Commons voted to trigger Article 50 and the majority of them say they want to deliver the result of the referendum so I think we need to help them find a way and I believe there is now one last chance to do that robots and has been sifting through every syllable of Mrs May's speech for us so that he see anything different in this new plan. I think what's striking is how little is new because essentially you have a repeat of the argument that she's been making for the last few months which I guess could be brutally summed up as follows It's either my deal or the chaos of a no deal Brax at all the risks that might bring no backs of at all or a general election now she's tried to make it a bit more palatable to those on the opposition Labor Party by saying look if you back my deal then M.P.'s could have a vote on maybe whether we should whether way should have another referendum put this deal back to the people and also repeats of office she's made in the past to say to M.P.'s look you will get a say in the future relationship with the European Union after we've left but I mean the basic withdrawal agreements all the sort of substance everything she's voted with the e.u. It stays the same of course the danger has always been for her in making it more palatable for the opposition she makes it less palatable for her own M.P.'s and I'm just looking at Twitter and various reactions and that does seem to have been the case the you'll remember we were both in the United States the acronym d.o.a. Dead on arrival and that's what this deal feels like to me I mean it feels as though she hasn't gone far enough to win over people in the opposition Labor Party but she's gone just too far for people and particularly the pro Bracks that wing of a governing Conservative Party so we may be proved wrong but right now it seems like an enormous stretch that this deal will get or any further as I mentioned you know she's already said she will set a date for her departure and the sharks are circling and they are and people are already declaring their hand to be the next leader of the conservative party the next prime minister I mean it did it did feel almost surreal watching the reason may make the speech I mean knowing that it was going to be incredibly hard sell the country is polarized her own party divided parliament divided everybody at each other's throats and meanwhile people making speeches not not behind her back in any way but people openly competing for the leadership of the party and you. As well as I do and I guess everyone listening will know this when you are when you when you're a politician there's a moment where you have kind of maximum power normally when you've just arrived in office and all the other politicians are frightened of you they want to do what you want when you've kind of made it clear that you're going I mean the idea that politicians are going to help finance a prime minister who's on our way out and given as well that the European parliamentary elections are going to likely further polarize things on Thursday with voters going for parties which are absolutely out and out and it's all pro bricks I mean she's really facing an uphill struggle and that was our political correspondent robots and you're listening to news out from the b.b.c. World Service. Distribution of b.b.c. News Hour in the u.s. 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World Food Program on their possible suspension of aid to parts of Yemen plus one unexpected consequence of the a bowl of virus in Sierra Leone and the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for Literature in translation is announced all of that after the news. B.b.c. News the British prime minister to resign May has told members of parliament they have one last chance to deliver Bracks it in a speech Mrs May pledge that M.P.'s would get to vote on whether there should be another referendum but only if they 1st approved by revised e.u. Withdrawal bill the leader of the main opposition Labor Party Jeremy carbon called the bill as a rehash of what was discussed before the un envoy to Libya has warned that fighting on the edge of the capital Tripoli marks the start of a long and bloody war goes on Salaam a tow the un Security Council that unless the flow of arms to the country was stopped there could be a descent into chaos abortion rights activists have taken part in coordinated rallies across the United States to protest against several states passing tough laws to restrict terminations the Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer told a crowd outside the Supreme Court in Washington that Republican controlled states were waging a war against women's rights Argentinos former President Cristina Fernandez de Kitchener has appeared in court at the start of a corruption trial is Fernandez is accused of taking bribes from construction firms in exchange for inflated government contracts the pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson says has been ordered to pay at least $25000000.00 to women who alleges that she got cancer through the use of the company's Tuck based products Johnson and Johnson faces more than 14000 claims that its powders caused a Varian cancer and mesothelioma in football the Arsenal midfielder Henrik mc Atari and who is Armenian says he will not play in the Europa League final in Azerbaijan next week amid security fears he is understood to be concerned about to safety on the pitch because of political tensions between the 2 countries b.b.c. News. Coming up next the head of the u.n. World Food Programme on its threat to suspend aid to who think controlled parts of Yemen 1st so the 3 time Formula One with motor racing world champion Niki Lauder has died at the age of 70 the Austrian took the title for Ferrari and 975 and 977 and for McLaren in 1904 a family statement said he had died peacefully with them by his side when he latter was badly burned in a crash in the 1976 German grown Prix and the British Formula One driver said Jackie Stewart also a 3 time world champion was a friend of Nicky Lauder's. Niki Lauda accident and 1976 I was not at the dry confines I was home. And I of course had a boat it immediately somebody called me the number growing I know very well and it was a very fast part of the race strike that looked to me like it was a mechanical failure but the outcome of it was horrendous for Nicky and of course he was helped by more than one racing driver to try and get him out from the file that took place and sadly I'm sure his passing was much to do with not very accident because inhalation of whether it be flame whether it be talk 6 whether it be heat while trapped in the car before he was tried out of the car must have done huge amount of damage to him and find out when he was helicoptered then to hospital I understand a very good authority that he in fact passed away twice and was jumpstarted which is pretty impressive in itself but the degree of bombs that he suffered I mean just physically. But I think his bravery to come back to Monza to race the Italian Rowntree was one of the most impressive things I've ever seen and I was there are actually doing television commentary for the United States of America. And I was the on the pit lane when he was putting its helmet on and his injuries were still roll and he said. And I thought how can you possibly think about putting a for his helmet on going out in a Formula one car which has very little if any suspension movement at all it's so close to the growth and when he came in from out run took his helmet off and I was down there and he was bleeding in the head the vibrations of the car must of done even not an awful lot of damage I fully expected them not to do the race and not to go back out again but of issue is really. Tense Nicky when he was racing and obviously in my opinion extraordinarily brave to be doing that he could easily have said listen it's not for me at the moment a better wait until the next strong pre-built not at all and he went so that for me was one of the most courageous experiences I've ever seen in my whole life as a racing driver he'll be sadly missed So Jackie Stewart remembering Nicky Lauder You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service this is News Hour coming to life in London with James Kim Our saw me . On yesterday's program we heard from these as least to set about a highly unusual statement from the UN's World Food Programme in which it had threatened to suspend aid to parts of Yemen under the control of Hoofy rebels because it said it was facing sudden many obstacles to its work well Yemen is on the verge of famine 4 years into a war which has pitched the 2 things against Yemeni government forces backed by a Saudi led coalition and millions of people have now dependent on u.n. Food aid So what's going on what effect is a statement having Elise has been speaking to the director of the World Food Program that statement by the World Food Program was unprecedented and shocking and risky It seemed what the who these retaliated and sort of cooperating decided to retaliate by cutting off even more aid distribution and that in a country where we've been reporting so often the situation is so precarious the u.n. Has said repeatedly that 10000000 Yemenis are a step away from famine but the World Food Program had said there was only some who these who weren't cooperating and but others were letting them down so when I said that when I spoke to David Beasley we tracked him down in Washington the 1st thing I asked him was peace clarify the situation there are certain leaders within the Hooty authorities that are really good to work with they understand what we're trying to do they do want to make certain that the people in Yemen in the areas that they control receive the food that they deserve in the same time and we were making so much headway with Moloch Al who to you know the spiritual leader who is really speaking out in think about pliant is much pressures he possibly could to allow us to have the mechanisms in place then all of a sudden the bad element within the who tease it out as a bad element thieves if they don't care about people all they want to do is profit off of conflict and destabilization So we're hoping that the good side to prevail. No because what's at stake here is not the World Food Program what's at stake here innocent little girls and little boys that will be dying because we can't come in and do our job do what we do best is it risky though it could backfire it could lead to these to obstruct your operations even more well they're obstructing now and I think the people I do believe that the people of Yemen will will speak up rise up and say look give the World Food Programme the access it needs but if we continue the course of action we are now children to die now and so we got to do everything that we possibly can and hopefully international political pressure will be loud and clear that who tease the good who will be able to prevail in this internal fight this taking place because nobody in this situation wins and you know who loses for Sister little girls little boys and the innocent families and victims of war but how bad is this situation I mean how can you put a number on how many people are suffering if not dying from this huge problem you seem to be saying is in the in the distribution of badly needed aid you're talking about a nation that before the war started was already one of the poorest countries on Earth then after the war of course it's just been a catastrophe this is the worst humanitarian disaster on earth and out of 2930000000 people we know over 20000000 need humanitarian assistance we know that approximately 1X2W1X2W people inside Yemen are own the brink not just hungry on the brink of starvation so that's what's at stake here and if we have the access that we need we can make certain that every single innocent victim of this conflict receives the food they need and we can keep them healthy during this conflict so all this 12000000 you say are step away from famine how many of them are in the who he controlled areas and could be affected if you have to take this step of facing a suspension of your operations Yes you're talking about about said. And 5 percent of the people give or take in the controlled areas but what we're talking about 1st and foremost is they suspension pick the areas where we think there's the most diversion of food and the lack of access where the biggest problems are while we do that though in those particular type areas we will make certain that the in the children that are severely malnourished and the in the mothers like pregnant women except to get the type of support in the nutritional centers that we have in location now we can operate in those environments even even now it's just a general food distribution that is biggest problem so what we'll try to pick a spot that will have the least impact in terms of of innocent people but at the same time people are starving to death now because we don't have the access and hopeful this will bring a political solution by those who are who make these decisions you seem to be concerned about everything from the blocking of aid convoys the diversion of 8 but also the stopping the implementation of a biometric system that you say is necessary to find out who you are feeding So what is the problem with the who these is it about corruption or are they worried about this data collection I think is primarily corruption quite frankly but we have sat down extensively with them to go through that what we are asking with regards to biometrics is nothing that we're asking them that we don't ask of any other country they were operating in with biometrics and let me say this I knew you probably remember this was about a little over a year ago that we had the blockade by the Saudi led coalition Omaha data port and I just was just I want some said I was ruthless but I spoke out loud and clear against the coalition's blockade because we could not get the food into Yemen to feed the people who needed the help and at that time the who tease for so grateful the cell we thank you for all that you did this thank you for speaking out and but they were assuming that I was sort of taking their side and I said to them very clear less said look I'm not doing this because I'm taking your side. I'm doing this because as a humanitarian We want to be independent impartial and neutral and we want to operate on the standards that we operate in if I will speak out whoever crosses that line right and at that time it was a Saudi led coalition we worked through that and I told the Hutus in you crossed a line in the day you crossed the line I will speak out with regards to your actions as well and now here we are a little over a year later and I'm speaking out very clearly because this is an acceptable and it's intolerable and we cannot allow this to happen because this violates the most fundamental international standards of humanitarian principles because innocent people are suffering from food diversion theft corruption in I know all the who tease and who to leaders are not like that they're good Hooty leaders and we're hoping that they can prevail in this desperate desperate situation David Beasley the executive director of the UN's World Food Program speaking to my colleague least he said. It's more than 3 years since a deadly outbreak of Ebola in Sierra Leone was declared over up but its impact is still being felt that in a variety of ways over that time there has been a rise in the number of young Sierra Leonean girls who are working in the sex trade and among them a some of the thousands who were orphaned by a boat now correspondent Paul Adams has been to see the work of one Catholic charity in the Sierra Leonean capital Freetown and to meet some of the country's new generation of sex workers. Who did. Me in a dimly lit shack in a muddy slum on the outskirts of Freetown and found a getting ready for work choosing outfits applying makeup is 2518 where you girls going to be working tonight 55th back 50 stone Yes Is that a club or a mask. Years the 2 women will spend the night in the bars and cheap hotels that line the busy road back into town they're remarkably candid about what they do so many who say oh all these babies all look nice it looks really baby please call is absent time for some time. Of course so mom. That's I'm only going to look at. How many customers do you need to be happy. Like 7 if in one night yes that's like I'm so happy for all the apparent bravado and Fatma are not in love with their lives both say they're here because their mothers are dead for much as mother was one of almost 4000 people killed by a bola in Sierra Leone is evil I that's come to kill my mo that I'm not going to steal because my mother give me a good go away you mean. Well I know of the body to encourage any. Particular dilemma has not gone unnoticed every week a bus full of volunteers sets out from the Catholic charity Don Bosco found ball to offer moral and practical support to free town's vulnerable sex workers including a number of a boat orphans Francisca Mara supervises this effort before the number. That we find understate it quite different compared to now so we see the increase and that's just within my own project I was able to register over. That's a dream prostitution So these are all things I think saying is all it's awfully negative impact of the. Headquarters is a noisy place full of vitality street children being given a chance to live safer more loving lives when a bowler ripped through the country says Father hold a gay herself it left enormous social damage in its wake sometimes the whole family died due to Ebola and if your standard family decided to take the child and to get what the child it really needs at some times they told them there is no money for school fees or the food was not enough that is why did he cited to go to the streets Sierra Leone announced that it was a bowl of free on March the 7th 2016 but the trauma lingers on in so many ways the consequences of evil are. Normally got a source. Out of psychological or emotional For example one girl we have getting the shelter that not in this school they didn't use her name on it got it they call her Ebola Ebola come here Ebola go they are Ebola do these Ebola do that and that is why. We are still suffering the consequences of of Ebola. I don't know he was. Back in the dingy Shack Mariama and Fact matter almost ready Ebola may no longer stalk the streets of Freetown but their lives are still full of risk the flesh. Of 50000 economist in. Search of her with a condom. Thought some funny Clinton and some fat leashed at the $500.00. Because it's so mean and yes. I want to stop these jokes we that's adding his life we know that life is not good for between them and fragments are responsible for 10 people including siblings and children they might want to leave this life behind and Don Bosco will continue to do what it can to help them but for now they have futures. And that report from Freetown in Sierra Leone was by the B.B.C.'s Paul Adams just reminder if you want to get in touch with us about anything you hear on the program you can always do that via Twitter at b.b.c. News Hour is our Twitter feed or you want to get in touch with me directly you can do that at b.b.c. 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World Service this is News Hour coming to you live from London with James Kamar Sami and the ceremony has been taking place in this city tonight for the Man Booker International Prize a major Literary Award for fiction in translation that unusually but from the point of view of a language graduate like me rather wonderfully goes to both the writer and the translator and my news our colleague has been hosting the event at the round house and we can join her now live. Jamie thank you very much indeed thank you thank you and as you can hear it's not just me several 100 of the grace in the good of the literary world are here in the round house with me just in the last 1015 minutes or so the winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize has been announced for the very 1st time in the prizes history an Arab writer has won an Arab woman bright Her name is Joe Carter thank you it's called Oman you can hear it's a very popular when she's from Amman and she's sitting beside me and sitting beside her is the translator of her novel celestial bodies Marilyn booth. But the significance of this prize is is it rewards the both of the imagination of the novelist but also of the translator. Congratulations I wonder what 1st what does it mean to you because you when you came up and you were so shocked you had 10 minutes to calm down now but I just wonder I wonder what it means to you to win a prize given that really well known even a mom. Yeah I think. It. Is about 1700 years old and. That is a window has been opened to literature which is Rich deserved toward it and at the same time it has been open to all men. That congratulations and it's really interesting you talking about the tradition of Arabic literature or not. I wonder whether I can just launch straight in and ask you about. The to boos that you're breaking in having written this novel because you are writing about something that for many people will come as a real shock outside of the Arab world you're writing about slavery this is a sweep of a novel that deals with families who are a very well to do family but also a family of slave slaves or people who were slaves and and it will surprise many people that slavery was only abolished in my lifetime in 1970 why did you want to write about that subject. Sensitive subject and kind of a terrible. I think literature is the best to blood for to discuss a sensitive issue. And slavery is not execute all served to all man it's part of human history unfortunately and I always think about it and I wanted to give voices to these people and to to think about it so. I hope that my no open dialogue through. The foundation of human values Marilyn booth when you 1st read this novel in Arabic Did you love it straight away did you think this is a work that is is really worth more people hearing about. I do it very much and I actually translated it long before we had a publisher so this was one of I've done this a few times in my life and it's not a very smart thing to do but I've just found a work that I love so much I just say I'm going to translate it and then I'll write later on about publishing it. And that's the way I felt about this novel and I think you know it's true that Joe has taken on some too good is and some difficult subjects but I think a really important thing about this book is the way she does it with such empathy for everybody not just the slaves but those who are also in the position of owning the slaves and so it's a deeply empathetic. And therefore historically very deep and unusual book but the book is also about the changes that oman society Amani society has gone through from very traditional society to one which found wealth through oil and the technology that that meant it had to transform itself why is that important to you in terms of how you want to portray that society to the rest of the world. I used to think about people who lived in 19th century and 18th century and actually there. Haven't changed that much but for us and for their generation before us a to change a Robert Lee and I always think about these changes and how it effects people differently and how it effects society how how people are reacting differently to this and it effects people's lives. And many things actually so I like to think about it and write about it you talked about the tradition the long tradition of our. Literature your grandfather was a well known poet and poetry was very much something that it was shameful to not be able to to reside that you grew up in that kind of tradition. I'm getting it that I have been growing. You know environment and I used to listen to classical Arabic totally all the time so yeah but now. Things change because people are. In favor for us so it. Is a good thing for novelists. The last word to you I mean clearly this is a very important moment in terms of introducing people to the literature of Oman in a in a much wider way I wonder if you will just put that into a little context for us why you think that significant. Well I think it's significant 1st of all in that. People need to learn more about Arabic literature in general I mean there has been a lot more translated now and that's fantastic there's a lot out there but literature from the Gulf is very much not known and there's been an incredible movement of literature through not only in our mind but throughout the Gulf and it's really important to be able to make bring that to wider audience. Congratulations to both of you once again thank you to everyone here around the house thank you. 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Singer Madonna is providing the interval entertainment will be talking to some of the biggest stars in the European pop music taking part including the multi award winning of Russian singer Sergei lesser of the Love this of Miss fear and I'm trying to I can joy everything even though I understand that it's a contest and it's a competition and it will be a lot of nerves during the show and the men the Netherlands are hoping will bring them Glory Duncan Lawrence I wrote arcade behind a piano it's always been me music and most of the times me and my piano and that's what I want to show people that's who I am and with $41.00 countries competing in Tel Aviv Israel will be discussing the ongoing issues surrounding the contest all that and more coming up on the Arts our. The b.b.c. 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Withdrawal bill this is May presented a series of concessions including giving M.P.'s the chance to vote and with this should be a referendum to approve the deal our political correspondent Rob Watson assesses the Prime Minister's latest strategy to get a deal through parliament it looks to me as I was the prime minister a star and I guess there was always the danger of there says that you know she hasn't sort of moved on after encourage people from the opposition Labor Party to maybe think about voting for her Dale but it's done too much I feel like a pro Bracks that way of a governing Conservative Party but essentially British politics is already so divided and so polarized by Bracks that the the idea that I'm pacer going to come together after the bruising European parliamentary elections and say you know what let's go for a sort of a compromise if I mean it feels like a bit of a structure the United Nations envoy to Libya has warned that fighting in the capital Tripoli could descend into all against all chaos because on Salaam NATO the un Security Council some countries were fueling the conflict with arms supplies and Libya could be permanently split and in danger the region the violence on the outskirts of Tripoli is just the start of a long and bloody war on the southern shores of the Mediterranean imperiling the security of Libya's immediate neighbors and the wider Mediterranean region abortion rights activists have taken part in coordinated rallies across the United States to protest against several states passing tougher laws to restrict terminations unlimited Bullis in Washington last week Alabama passed the strictest laws so far making abortion illegal at any stage of pregnancy but. In total 16 states mainly in the south of either past or are debating new antiabortion measures a large protest took place outside the us Supreme Court here in Washington it's the calculation of those tabling these anti abortion bills across the country that they'd be challenged and taken up by the Supreme Court where they feel thanks to the conservative justices appointed by Donald Trump they could eventually get a ruling that removes the right to have an abortion.