Between the 2 countries Mr Abbey you said he was humbled and thrilled describing it as an award for Africa his critics accuse him of doing this to tackle rising I think tensions within Ethiopia. Iran's national oil company says one of its tankers has been hit by 2 missiles in the Red Sea about 90 kilometers from the Saudi port of Jagger the firm said or spillage would be minimized How do you know nearly is from b.b.c. Persian Iranians are not blaming an asylum for it but they're insisting that there was no harm into the crew there was no significant harm to the ship and they are saying that no one came to help even for their insisting that there was no harm to the crew on the ship and it comes I mean recent tensions in the region as we know just yesterday Iranian foreign minister job odds are if you wrote this op ed in Financial Times saying that either we all in the region have security or we all don't have it the company denied earlier reports that it had said the missiles probably came from Saudi Arabia. The NATO secretary general yen Stoltenberg has told Turkey of its allies serious concerns about the Turkish military operation against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria Turkish troops have encircled the border towns of Ras al-Ain and. Lot in patiences on the Turkish side of the border tell our lab Aodh is one of the key times when they start to show fans of water seen in the past 24 hours a ramp up from a casualties according to latest figures we have around 30 Kurdish fighters are being killed along with time civilians here on the Turkish saw it would seem the Kurds firing back and in this town the reserve very serious incident when 3 people were killed including a 9 month old baby but from Turkey's point of view this operation is ongoing and it will continue on the ground in northern Syria thousands have been fleeing Turkey has defended his bid to create what he calls a safe zone free of Kurdish militias the Turkish Defense Ministry announced the death of the 1st turkey soldier news from the b.b.c. . The former president of South Africa Jacob Zuma has lost a bit to stop a corruption case against him from going ahead he declined for a permanent stay of prosecution from charges he'd taken bribes from a French defense company 2 decades ago a case his lawyers argued was politically motivated Filoni reports Jacob Zuma has spent many years iting this case is facing a string of charges including fraud corruption and money laundering the state has accused Mr Zuma of accepting bribes from French arms company Tullus one of the contractors who won a multi-million dollar deal to supply arms to South Africa in the 1990 s. He has pleaded not guilty to the allegations and claims the case is a political conspiracy to tarnish his name Tullus who are also in court over the matter have denied bribing Mr Zuma indigenous protesters in Ecuador have released 10 police officers and taken hostage for several hours they've been paraded on stage in front of an angry crowd in the capital Quito some police were ordered to carry the coffin of a demonstrator who died during clashes on Wednesday the protests driven by Fieri at austerity measures for the government to declare a state of emergency and move to Ecuador 2nd city guy keel the president of the European Council Donald Tosk says Armond has given him promising signals that a breakthrough deal is still possible Mr Crewe video that he told the British prime minister Boris Johnson a week ago that if London failed to provide workable proposals by today he would publicly announce that the deal would not be possible before and summit later this month Nike has shut down is athletics training program known as the Oregon project after its head coach Alberto Salazar was found guilty of doping violations has been banned for 4 years now he is supporting Salazar's appeal b.b.c. News. Hello and welcome to the 5th floor taking you behind the scenes in the language services that make up the b.b.c. World Service I'm David a man or 1st story today is undercover with the clerics it's the title of an hour long film by now while the which took almost a year to make with the help of secret filming by b.b.c. Arabic team in Iraq she exposes clerics exploiting vulnerable women and young girls for sex and money and it's happening at 2 of Shia Islam's holiest sites now Al tells us the clerics use a practice known as mortar that's temporary marriage and it's illegal under Iraqi law you might find some of the following content upsetting. Or temporary pleasure marriage is allowed in some interpretations of Shia Islam which allows a man to basically pay for a temporary wife but in our film we see how it's being used to exploit and abuse women and children your film seems to suggest it's quite widespread I mean just to put it in perspective you know the way we found the clerics that we filmed undercover we went to the holy shrines called the Me and kind of Allah and out of the 10 clerics we approached at random 8 of them agreed to facilitate one and they always say that yes this is Ok under Sharia law Yeah and that's what makes it really dangerous I mean when you think about these girls that are getting into this and then end up stuck in this trade they may because I would never think about going into prostitution for example but when you put some sort of religious stamp on something it just automatically makes it seem like it's Ok You know when you tell a young girl that what you're doing is Ok and it's allowed in religion and you know God blesses it in except for it's easier to groom them into this sort of thing why do you think so many Iraqi women are vulnerable to these temporary marriages of course it's you know as a result of the multiple wars that Iraq has enjoyed in the last 15 plus years women have been the biggest victims. Suna losing their husbands losing their livelihoods and have been left to fend for themselves and so they are vulnerable to this sort of abuse women like run exactly run after example she fled mozo when ISIS took over she came to bother them and then she was tricked into a pleasure marriage by a man so this man pretended that he was enough with her that he wanted to marry her so he married her but it turns out it's him in the cleric had agreed to make it a pleasure marriage but she had no clue a few days afterwards the man she met thought she married disappeared and he never came back and as a result of that her family rejected her because she tainted the family honor when she went back to the cleric and she told him you know the man I married a few days ago he's vanished help me find him the cleric told me you know you're not going to find him that was a temporary marriage and you're not going to find a way to make a living so I can help you I can get you more men to marry in pleasure marriages and that's how they groom these women and girls and let's also have basically the cleric becomes a pimp exactly let's talk about the customers if that's the right word you also interviewed a man called Alli he regularly pays for temporary marriage from water to have sex with women so how does he justify so he was a really interesting character actually you know he says I don't want to sleep with prostitutes because they aren't clean and that's not allowed in Islam and so he goes to the clerics because he just feels that by getting a woman or a girl from a cleric you're doing something that's religiously blessed and Ok. Ali Moore let me . If a religious man tells you the pleasure Marge is a lot but it doesn't count as sin in God's eyes it is available and it's Ok to do it why did a lot of Larson. 12 year old girls apprized because they're still fresh fresh They say she's fresh. That should be expensive 500 dollars 700 dollars 800 dollars was just what the cleric. Now this brings in one of the most shocking parts of your film and that's how young some of the girls are yes I mean one of the girls that we actually interviewed she was 16 when I interviewed tab she was well was kind of lured into have 1st pleasure marriage at 13 years old and then when she went back to the cleric who married her off to have bust husband for lack of a better word he told her you know he's gone you never going to see him again and now you're never going to find a proper husband so instead I'll help you find momentum Ari and for the last 3 years she's been doing these pleasure marriages and sleeping with these men that the cleric brings to her you know and when I spoke to her I thought you must be one of very few and she said no this is really widespread I know plenty of other girls that it's doing this and some of the clerics involved in this they're well connected or you know they're very well connected so one of the clerics actually tells us that he's linked to very powerful Shiite militia you know at 1st we thought he was just posting but we did the research we looked into his social media profiles and we actually saw pictures of him dressed in their uniform and this is the one who was secretly filmed by one of your undercover reporters here yes yes. Yes 9 years old plus there's no problem with. Going to Shari'a there's no problem. It's just that you can't enter and can do everything else. It's up to you how you want to do it she's permitted to. I mean every single round of secret filming we did was more shocking than the one before it you know our undercover reporter would come back to the hotel completely drained because you know it's very mad right. It's a terrifying position to be in because he's a really powerful people and we'd watch it through and I just I could not believe the answers that these clerics were giving him advice they were giving him you know we didn't know the scope of this investigation when we 1st set out to do it we didn't realize how far this would go and the more we found out the more we realized there was more to dig more to expose and I'm one of the sting operations you undercover reporter says he has a 13 year old girl who he wants to arrange a temporary marriage with Set the scene for us so we wanted to see if the cleric would actually go ahead with facilitating the marriage to a 13 year old girl who's a virgin without her parents' consent and without actually seeing her and say that I took on the cover of ported to a waiting taxi and then we called the 13 year old girl back she she was one of our colleagues and pretending to be a child and this is what happened next basically other colleagues of mine she was in the hotel when hearing the phone and she was ready to answer. The only question he asked her What's your name and he starts make the ceremony. The phone call basically is taking less than a 3 minute everything down here asked her Are you agree to married him. Are you agree to murder her I said yes she said yes he said Ok Go have sex with her for 24 hours. That's your undercover reporter explaining what's going on there how much was the cleric charging he charged $200.00 I think what's really important to make clear is that for all he knew our undercover reporter who was a you know an older man was about to go have sex with a 13 year old child because he had religiously condoned it but in other instances you've got the clerics actually bringing forward the girls Yes So we wanted to see just how far he would go and so we asked if he could provide the girl but obviously we asked for a woman because we didn't want to put the child in that situation and he did. But she hasn't done it before but I told her she should do it because you're a good person and a friend of mine she doesn't usually do what. The contract will be valid for one day only to wonder in the afternoon this time tomorrow would you want to sleep over and leave the following morning I report to obviously he wasn't going to go ahead with this and he told say at that that he wasn't going to go through with it and instead of letting a reporter go he was trying to pitch him an even younger girl you know he didn't want the deal to end there. I'll try and find you a younger girl maybe maybe she can find me a girl who's 141516 years old I'll go with it attract the girl and if she's young I'll bring it to you at the end of the film we see you here Broadcasting House in London and you're phoning her out and telling him what's his reaction so I tried to phone all 3 clerics that we filmed under cover but only say that I had responded RINGBACK. I just said I'm Monica and I only got to ask him my 2 fast questions which were do you facilitate pleasure marriages and he said No never never. I only do permanent Sheria marriages and then I asked him you know do you facilitate hotel rooms for people for pleasure minds and he's like no no and I was going on to ask him where or. Younger. So we sent him all the allegations in a letter afterwards but we received no response we sent also the allegations we were making to Grand Ayatollah insist on you who is basically the highest spiritual Shiite leader in Iraq and he condemned the abuse that we were exposing we did hit today that in not Jeff Grand Ayatollah Sistani's office was actually giving out the letter we sent to him and the response he made his condemn nation to marriage offices basically telling them that you can't conduct pleasure marriages in this way it's a very downbeat ending with run of the widow from more so weeping about her loss dignity in her situation is it down before you do feel hopeless at the end this is been a huge weight to carry for a whole year this whole investigation and I think leading up to the broadcast we were really hoping that crackdown on these clerics or someone would do something but that hasn't happened yet so it just feels like there's more digging to be done and the message isn't out there enough aside from that do you think your film will make a difference I hope so I hope you'll make every cleric that ever officiates a pleasure my age ever again think twice now while our market of b.b.c. Arabic her film is called Undercover with the clerics Iraq's secret sex trade and you can find it online in Arabic and English there's a link by the way also on our Web page b.b.c. 5th floor. Brain David I'm going to the 5th force in the room to prepare. It's the 5th floor the place where you get to know the journalists who report the b.b.c. News in over 40 languages and that by the way was Rama para Julie of b.b.c. Never really in that jingle Namastey Rama Still to come on this program a 30 year old Jew. Rubbery that still causing ripples between Thailand and Saudi Arabia where is that elusive big blue diamond but now let's let's lighten the load a little because it's 95 years since Walt Disney launched what was to become an animation Empire Steamboat Willie was the moving cartoon featuring a mouse with very big ears left thrilled and or inspired audience in New York but did you know Mickey Mouse was quickly taken up by comic book artist in countries like Brazil Italy England Holland and the Balkans. Why did. You. Bring the blueprint of this. As a creation Mickey Mouse and an instant hit in what was then the kingdom of Yugoslavia the comic book artist they also created their own version me commish and this dude this mouse can actually tell us quite a lot about you can have you through the ages Dimitri a video is a journalist with b.b.c. Serbian He's been digging into the archives Mickey Mouse came in 9030 it was a cartoon called Steamboat Willie and it came to this lobby in cinemas just 15 months after its New York premiere I think and that seems very soon after the launch in the USA Yugoslavia had a very big interest in movies in cinemas back in the thirty's there were like 20 cinemas in the center of Belgrade now Yugoslavs then went and made their own comic book stories of Mickey Mouse but this goes away from the Walt Disney story board right yes it was in I think 32 and that comic book was called me commish which is like some sort of translation of making out so many commercial almost like making. He would do traditional Serbian things like he would drink Rocky which is a type of brandy. It would lead to barbecue and for example when he was in Africa he would play the radio and catching radio Belgrade to hear some jazz programs he went to Africa yeah yeah keep traveled all around the world like he had similar adventures like Mickey Mouse one time he was an astronaut the 2nd time he was an engineer he was a pilot they basically copied a lot of Mickey is inventors but putting it in some sort of Yugoslavian company but it's important to know that you can solve it in obtaining any legal rights from Disney for me commish if you think the commission was more popular than Mickey Mouse I don't think it's more popular I think that they both coexisted in that way you thought they had the name movies in cinemas and everything but when it came to comics they had their own version because artists thought that it would be closer to the audience if they bring Mickey Mouse or make a major into adventures that are similar to the Raiders they consider it a huge part of a mainstream For example I've spoken to Mark reality it isn't out there and journalists currently writing a book about Disney and its connections with the slugging culture and he talked to one of the famous actors of Serbia last very savage who was born in 1926 something like that and last I remember in the thirty's while you were walking through the streets of Belgrade you could actually hear people not just kids but old older people like adults imitating voices or singing songs from Disney movies it was like a massive stereotype but it was hugely hugely popular Ok with this really cracked interest in mathematics so what happened then in the 2nd World War 941 you can have a occupied by Nazi Germany and make humanity's grand why while all the Western world kept those 2 worlds things and comics overall were banned although some of the Disney comics continued to be published in those wanting not to. Regime pamphlets so steeply because Disney's it was being used as a as a propaganda tool for Germany's enemies Yes but the general is a spoken to he found data that the only Disney movie that was played in Yugoslavia during the 2nd World War was now white because it was a German fairy tale and then that is they were in Yugoslavia considered a part of a German propaganda so after the war the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia is created and the president and then Disney makes a comeback not least because of this little character. But I mean. No one was. Talking about me. When I did. Something wrong with this I think my producer thing with the tape and she sitting opposite me. Anyway I was just thinking that you know what you saying about people in the 30s going around the streets to impress nations have a good and yeah but you have to be born in this region to do that properly it's genetics definitely and I think so why was Donald Duck instrumental in Disney coming back to the for me well that anti capitalist and Western propaganda continued because of the Soviet propaganda because after the 2nd World War in $1045.00 Yugoslavia was very close to the Soviet Union but after $948.00 it was decided that it was leverage to be more oriented toward Western culture and it turns back on Soviet Union so the editor of the newspaper politica that originally published me and Mickey Mouse comics he organized the meeting between these and he represented the pale yellow pools and the leader of Yugoslavia but he asked people if this thing could be published in Yugoslavia again and reports it will be easy to say it's of course. Why not I mean I love Donald Duck and is that true yeah that is actually true because reality to write a book about this in Yugoslavia he looked through the archives of the movie theater used to watch at his residency and Donald Duck was there of course and you know Disney himself thought about the popularity of these characters in the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia at this time that was actually pretty if I'm allowed to say interesting for Disney because it was known as anti communist. You was live it was the. Eastern Europe country that published these new comic books so what happened during the Balkans war in the 1900 Disney again was taken off the shelves what happened there yeah well then withdrew from the market you know under the sanctions there were no official comics and movies again I grew up in that era because I was born in like United one but I remember reading. Because my grandfather used to go like that in the early eighties or 7 things and I also remember the specific act because those like him while it is. Going to the forest trying to get a Christmas tree has some difficulties it's very deep in my mind even covering the story from Serbia of course for him but what about the other parts of the former Yugoslavia the other republics now I mean is the same lasting affection for Disney and me commish there I'm not sure about me committed but in other countries I think that this is also still a big thing that people remember because people tend to remember it was Slavia with greatness the object feeling that everything was peaceful everything was great so I also think that they connected with. Russia. Serbian speaking to me from Belgrade this is the 5th floor and if you're a regular listener you'll know that we were behind the scenes in the B.B.C.'s Moscow bureau a couple of weeks ago the program is up online so if you'd like to find out what it's like trying to report a country as vast as the Russian Federation or indeed what our Russian colleagues get up to when they're not chasing stories then have a listen in the meantime though here's something else we saved from the show this is our league Elizabeth a very keen and Nina has a rule for talking about a story Nina did it's about guys who make a drama out of their marriage proposals seriously frightening drama I did a story about this. Marriage Proposal said gunpoint like a man had a special organization to stage a fake drug bust so there's a company that organizes organizes fake drug drugs by so arrests So yes these are people dressed up as fake police or something yes correct they're all dressed in black with a Lycra masks over their faces and fake guns they look really scary and the girl also think that the being arrested and at some point was supposed to be a police man down the road supposed to be a drug a package of drugs and inside that is that they did box with a drink so the policeman gets a nice as a gay man to me so the fake policeman is actually the a proposer he takes off his mask and it's him it's your boyfriend they're proposing to you yeah it's the reaction of the of the women so they think is there so much relieved that most of them say yes I was told the only one the girl refused what do you think Elizabeth what would you feel if someone proposed to you like that while I would fill up for the awful and I would analyze it from various psych coverage of go see that with this kind of a desire to scare the one you love and threaten this I don't know what is in sub consciousness why is this person doing that what's his childhood was like What was his relationship with mother that I would really are and I was really so I learned sickly Yeah I was I can really go into that and some people like to be frightened don't they that's why they go to see her reforms if I like that I would also go to my own psychological i.l.s. Is why do I like that and why am I trying to do this man and I also would ask about my father my childhood my mother relationships definitely But let's ask why are those drugs busts precisely why they faking the planting of drugs and here we come to a very serious and a very somber issue is that there are a lot of fake police cases in which the police the real police want drugs to frame someone and somehow this tells you a lot about society that. While thinking this proposal some people choose a drug. Side of. The story that. The director. I guess but educated and they know their rights. She's. Represented if she wants to go. He. More difficult because of. Their rights. Proposal. And. You can. See 5th floor. Time to make a cup of coffee or even a spot of tea. Distribution a b.b.c. World Service in the us is supported by. You can get smart with your. Tools and. Smart investors. And Rice University committed to contributing to the world through education and research. And still to come on the 5th floor the protest group that brought Ecuador's capital to a standstill who are the indigenous movement in the last decades indigenous movement has been lead in protest and in 3 cases led to a resignation of the president and the indigenous movement took the late in the 3 of these protest past little theft in the Saudi royal palace 30 years ago still causing ripples in Thailand today that's after the nice b.b.c. News when Jerry Smit the Ethiopian prime minister Abu Ahmed says he's humbled and thrilled to have won the Nobel Peace Prize he described it as no board for Africa the Nobel committee in Oslo held his decisive role in ending the long running border dispute with there a trial the National Oil Company of Iran says one of its tankers has been ahead by 2 missiles off Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast it's a diverse over Strug nearly 100 kilometers from the Saudi port of Jeddah Iranian state media said an oil spill had now been stopped Turkey has carried out air raids in Kurdish held areas of northeastern Syria on the 3rd day of its offensive columns of smoke have been rising about the towns of tell or be out Russell and the u.n. Says it has disturbing reports that key parts of the local infrastructure such as power stations and have been affected NATO secretary general has told Turkey that its allies have serious concerns about the military operation yen Stoltenberg said it risks further destabilizing a volatile region the French carmaker Renna has abruptly dismissed its chief executive cheery bowler a he took up the role only 9 months ago Mr Bauer a was clear sociate of colors go on who once headed run ins earn but is now facing charges of financial wrongdoing in Japan. Indigenous protesters in Ecuador have released 8 police officers they've taken hostage after parading them before an angry crowd in the capital Quito the protests were sparked by the removal of fuel subsidies Nike has shut down its training program for elite athletes known as the Oregon project following a decision by u.s. Regulators to ban its head coach Alberto Salazar for doping the firm said it would support Mr Salazar in his appeal b.b.c. News. You did listen to the 5th floor we did it for the for language studies the. B.b.c. World Service don't go forward slash 5th floor. Thank you Daniel 70 were the mad there for you Daniel is a journalist with people b.b.c. Page in one of our language services for Nigeria and West Africa. In this half of the program the gemstone robbery that sparked a diplomatic route between 2 kingdoms 30 years ago have Thailand and Saudi Arabia buried their differences and who was the Thai cleaner who cleaned up in the Saudi royal palace now this week thousands of protesters brought Quito Ecuador as capital to a standstill there demanding the reinstatement of recently abolished fuel subsidies they have been violent clashes with security forces as the protesters barricade the city center last week President Moreno declared a state of emergency and moved his government to the coastal and more tranquil city of wacky the protesters come from something called the indigenous movement so who are the into genes and why have the protests reached this point Anna Maria Aurora is an Ecuadorian journalist with b.b.c. Mundo they were the people that belong in the 1st place to these territory and they've been there for centuries but they have also a history of discrimination they survived a colonial sation from Spain their indigenous movement in Ecuador has been very very powerful and has centuries of history of resistance in the contrie. In their recent decades they have developed a movement that is always gangs austerity they. Left I'm kind of interested in how Ecuadorian see this thing about indigenous and non-indigenous So for example what you call indigenous people are they in the majority or the minority No they are not damage already of the population affect whether we had also the colony sation from Spain so we have a very mixed population they don't have a lot of representation in parliament of Ecuador they have a party there is the name of a party that represents some indigenous in you know whether and how does that translate it's not in a Spanish ward he said indigenous towards the word means land is very important for indigenous people the land is God And so if you want to be in that party do you have to be indigenous Yes you have to be in the genus of course you see yourself as indigenous or non-Indigenous I would not because he there are indigenous because for example my last name is son is punished name but I feel I have of course in the region is blood or a culture or heritage you myself because like many people in this region you've got exactly we are all a mixed can see a little bit of being Korean you are my just imagining it yes yes yes I'm not missing it no not at all so why can't you them and a merrier join the indigenous party just because of your name you know these people leave seeing their communities and they organize quite differently and some of these indigenous in Ecuador they are completely laid it living in they are Muslim so they keep their traditions they dress differently they know how to speak Spanish but they speak. And they have a special justice indigenous justice and they kind of apply these in their communities so it's really you. I have to belong to these maybe was born in this community to be along the current protests started with demonstrations against the end of fuel subsidies they're now calling for President Lenny Moreno to stand down as a journalist could you see that coming the snowballing of the protests I think us a journalist and then we have already seen these before in the last decades in the Genesis movement has been really didn't just cherry to protest in the past and in 3 cases led to a resignation of a precedent in 199-720-0200 extension 5 there were different circumstances but all this started the way the protest on the streets because people were not happy with the government and the indigenous movement took the late in the 3 of these protests so they are actually very effective in their protest yes they are this is something that these also in their culture resistance some of the headlines talk about the city being paralyzed to the protesters money to this indigenous movement the movement leading these protests these very well organized and they have a kind of strategy they are located in the center of Ecuador and they walk to the copy tell to Quito and while they are walking in they are blocking also strategic highways is to paralyze the country for example now there are people saying that in the cold they cannot get product from their region because there is no communication anymore so they are walking to the cup it till one of the same time blocking the highways and this is a very effective if they are showing the power that they have of the same time they are going to the scene while the place which is the center of the power. Where in Ecuador he told so has been a very good his strategy and how to work in the past and the barricades they use around the Presidential Palace for example what do they use for barricades. They use everything no could be a city of course a burning tires rocks that they can use from the mountains this is Andean region and the highways are just beside the times in some cases so you dig a little bit and you can get some rocks on the highway so there's been quite a lot of disruption but is it enough disruption for the government to actually really consider moving the capital away from what's that about I think was a very a strategy these movements in the past had led to resignations of precedence and that there Rife's when the March of the protestors I arrive to day main government building to the palace to the cut on the lid and they start to protest brought this protest until this not possible anymore to keep the power they are asking you to go it's not possible for things to move the capital becomes paralyzed exactly so maybe the president of the Anymore Anna was trying to avoid that moment and moving the government to weigh a keel the coast was his move because we have to say also that in the coast indigenous movement is less powerful than in the Andean region where the cupie doll is located so he's actually moving the administration to a queue for now yet he's been criticised for Dad the opposition is saying that he's not in power anymore because he just left his office but he is saying that he is in power doing everything that the president has to do but now in a different city and he's quite bizarre you don't often hear of a government moving its administrative offices during a protest this is a picture of your city dramatic pictures smoke take us and things being thrown about but you know used to. Seeing your city streets like these that are you know Nergal is very hard to see that actually I am very impressed because you can see there is a lot of people demonstrating I was talking it would a colleague yesterday and he say there are so many people protesting and their streets in the historic center are so narrow that they are just blocked they cannot go ahead with the March they are advancing like very slow because it was a really huge demonstration that's interesting even the demonstration itself paralyzed by its own success when we don't have these protest is a peaceful city and you have a beautiful landscape with the on This Morning Times just around on some volcanoes and what's it like being an Ecuadorian sandwiched between Colombia Peru in the Pacific Ocean. Yeah it's very interesting because actually these countries below before to the same culture that incredible to her you know our cultures are very Simi Laris somehow but at the same time a bit different we have a save each year but even if it's no so famous then the city chain paid to its more delicious Thank you Ana Maria wrote an Ecuadorian journalist with our Spanish language service b.b.c. Mundo this is the 5th floor where you get to know better this the journalist who bring us the news in so many different languages now 30 years ago at Jewel Thief set off a series of events that soured relations between Thailand and Saudi Arabia agree on tight take on more was a tie working in the royal palace of Prince Feisal he made off with $20000000.00 worth of precious stones including a rare big blue diamond he was called eventually and the jewels returned or were they it's a story of a murder mystery and intrigue that still begs many questions today. Of b.b.c. Tie the guy himself green guy was a poor man from not entirely. And then he went to be to work at them the mythic stuff in the Royal Palace this was the palace of Prince Feisal who was the eldest son of King 5 years so back then in the seventy's or in the eighty's it was quite popular. To go there to get a job so he was one of them and he was desperate to get cash to help with that cost by gambling so he had to do something because he had been working with the prince for quite a while now so he gains trust from the royal family he had access to the bedrooms and she saw that sometimes a safe box was left open and he saw some valuable stuff and jewelry lying around in the bedroom so he saw the opportunity and went to that opportunity come so one day when a prince and his family went abroad for holiday so he took that opportunity to fight an excuse to be in the bathroom alone and then he took the jewelry off the safe box smack of the doubt and then send him back to his hometown in north of Thailand if I am male and he himself went back home straight away but they say that this was like 50 kilograms Well he had the whole night to work on it so he managed to smuggle out everything out you know bit by bit and then he ship the back and then once everything left he flew back home because now he got what he wanted so he had to go he must have been taking a big risk if he got court what would happen he didn't plan about it at all he just took the risk thinking that it would be Ok how did he get caught so he had to sell them to the d.m.v. Because he needed cash green guy was a poor man he had no knowledge about a diamond of gold or jewelry he knew nothing about it he only knew that this would cost something it would make him rich in the way so he sold lots of them to Jim dealers but because the guy didn't own it. Thing about this kind of thing he saw a lot of stock and a value including that rare Big Blue Diamond Well that's the thing because he couldn't tell if one is a diamond and if one is Ruby he only knew this is gold that's the only thing that he knew so any other dim stone to him is just piece of rock so he got caught and went to prison yes when he was arrested he told the police everything like I saw to this person I saw to this person so the police went on to track down and retrieve the loot back from those dealers so when you saw it like on t.v. Or in the newspaper it was I did long stretches of tables imagine you go to a banquet but on top of those tables are not edible stuff they were full of earrings necklaces bridge has pins ring all sort of thing like sparkling stuff on the table the jewels then returned to Saudi Arabia right but that's not the end of the story well it could have been a knife ending in the way because a Thai police returned the loot to be but then not long after the Saudi reported back that oh actually they were fake the return were fake and more importantly the one that they wanted was a blue diamond the red dime on it said to be about 50 carats you know it could be as big as a size of a small egg and it belonged to a ball your family they wanted that one back but it was still missing so I said What are you going to do about it so what happened next so the police have to investigate further known found out that the guy who bought quite a lot from being a Dem dealers called something or something insisted that you know I return everything I've never seen them on before in my life I didn't buy off him the police didn't believe him so they decided to abduct his wife and son in the morning when she was about to drop the son. At school they met it look like they were kidnapped by random people and then the asshole ran some of 2500000 back but after one month the police queued them because they couldn't get any more information of them something kept saying that it wasn't him he had nothing more to tell the police to the police confess to carrying out this crime they were clever enough in the way that they met it looked like a mother and a son died off car accidents it was big news at the time I remember seeing it on t.v. And you know in newspapers but with further investigation from their forensic unit it showed that it's not a car accident at all who was the Thai officer in charge of the investigation he was very famous at the time he's called to log a 10 so he was appointed to lead this investigation and turned out he was the one who ordered the murder so he turned from one day he was a hero and then the next day he was a villain and then he ended up in jail and the wife and son of the Jim dealer they were the only people who disappeared or who were victims in this story whether you know because you know what it's really complicated because a Saudi can see that the investigation didn't go anywhere they felt like they couldn't rely on Thai authorities to investigate so descended on people to Thailand so there were 3 diplomats and one businessman who was very close to the royal family but what happened to them was that the 3 diplomats were shot dead in Bangkok and then a few days later the businessman went missing and up until now we see Don No he's aware about it it's believed that he had been murdered and who is the finger pointing to as to who was behind these murders or when it happened everyone thought that the Thai police must be behind that because the complication of the investigation the death of the Jim dealers wife and son and sadly when Saudi Arabia send their own people their audit. So everyone looked at the title so why do you thinking that wow can it get any worse like more and more people got involved and they all died so your colleagues tracked down crank right just recently and interviewed him what it is feelings about what he did now well from the conversation that they had he feel very sorry about that. But he did say that he didn't realize that it would cost many lives to do to do so he didn't realize that it's going to cost major rift between the 2 nations as well because a Saudi was fery very unhappy with Thailand for example they reduce their trade level they stop imports some goods from Thailand they reduce their diplomatic relationship so they called back their ambassador and to send them chartered affair to be in Bangkok they also stopped working visa. So I don't have a huge impact on Thai Saudi relations so Krink right what did he say about the blue diamond then he said he didn't know anything about it because he couldn't even tell which one was Diamond So when we talk about blue diamond he was like I had no idea I don't even know what I'm on is it was 30 years ago is your audience still interested in this today of course because you know up until now we see Don not aware about of the blue diamond and nobody has actually seen it so it's still the question that type people want to know and we don't have any answer for the Saudi Arabia but there are some signs that Thailand and Saudi Arabia might be back to start to rebuild again in the near future and thank you sushi for my choir of b.b.c. Tai You've been listening to the 5th floor now witness history ends a week of special programming to mark a Black History Month in the u.k. This is about the World War 2 arrival of the 1st American troops in 1942 among them flowers and of African-American servicemen known as G.I.'s for Hama reports when black Americans you guys arrived in Britain in 1980 the u.s. Department of Defense produced a film to educate the young men about what sort of welcome they might receive. A bit in that reading you right here are funny you should come to any random. You come to my home in Africa. It's estimated that at least $2000000.00 American servicemen passed through the u.k. During World War 2 and tens of thousands of them were black and let's be frank about it there are college soldiers while I was a boy here and there are less social restrictions in a country that's what you heard an Englishwoman asking a colored boy if he was polite about it he was polite about it not that that might not happen at home but the point is we're not at home the point is to if we bring a lot of prejudices here what are we going to do when the African American G.I.'s were stationed in Britain us only force them to abide by the racial segregation laws that applied in the us. And is a historian and the author of Britain's brown babies it's a circle. Around 48 vast majority came from the Deep South and white g.r.s. Attack. With impunity that's what's her shocking the saying is the American soldiers were all under the jurisdiction of the American military so they had very particular jobs the backyard's Bay came and belt the air bases they were not allowed to fly they built the air bases the men tend the planes they weren't allowed in Britain to bear all the black soldiers often formed positive relationships with local people their man as an attitude made them stand out from their white American counterparts they were pretty much all over the country particularly sort of Home Counties eastern area and these areas were very white areas very white areas many people had never seen a black person before except probably on an on a film and how were the Black Sea Ice treated by the locals. Well about your eyes were awful really liked and they were see it as much more attractive than the white Jr's because they were seen as much polite so I think for many they were very attractive but no matter how attractive black g i's in the segregated us army with a bed for marrying their white girlfriends although the u.s. Military denied that there was an actual law every had to get permission from the commanding officer and invariably the commanding officers who were white would refuse it and if pushed their rational was that back in the States there were then 48 states 30 had and decision as you laws laws that forbade marriage between whites and blacks and. The local people in Ipswich were very surprised at how badly the black eyes were treated compared to the white Bab Skip's and Walt is one of about 2000 babies born to white British women and black Americans your eyes during World War 2. The people in the standard were very supportive of the black G.I.'s and so they would invite him to their homes invite him for family meals the family that I was born into they got to know my natural father very well Babs his mother was already married to an English naval officer when she met a black us Ethel Senshi Nia as adults. I guess one thing led to another when they started socializing with the local g.i. And they had you know parties and dances and things like that going on. In their relationship started to form and both my mother and her sister paired up with. Her mother fell pregnant in 1944 but she never told her black g.i. Boyfriend about the baby he returned to the u.s. Without knowing when her mother's Navy officer husband returns after the. War He didn't question whether he was Babson's father until later my skin was very fat and so she thought I think that she was going to get away with it and pass me off as as his that by the time the following late spring happened my skin started to darken significantly and it was obvious that I wasn't his child but my stepfather when he realised I was put out in the garden at the bottom of the garden and not allowed to come into the house which meant that she knew that I would have to be put into care when she was just 5 months old Babs was sent away from her family in Ipswich she lived in a children's home for the next 4 years then a foster family came forward and it seemed like a new start but Babbitts faced racial abuse at school people in the neighborhood wouldn't allow their children to play with me most of the hostility was actually encouraged by my classroom teacher he would take me out into the playground with the children and tell them that I could climb a pole like a monkey climbs a tree and then the other thing he did was he sat me at the back of the classroom and he would tell the other children that I didn't have the same brain as white children when our foster mother died Babs was removed from her foster family and placed in another children sign she was 10 years old 3 years later had Beth mother came to collect her need 14 years after she had given her up it was not the reunion that Babs had expected the matron introduced me to this woman who she said was my mother and she was a total stranger so I looked at her and I was puzzled because not only was she a total stranger but she was white and I couldn't make sense of any of this because I always thought my natural mother would be like me at this stage Bob did you know anything about your mother now. Absolutely nothing until that day when you were 14 yeah yeah yeah and how were you feeling I didn't have to say I had to go home with her. And I didn't want to Babs Gibson would had a difficult relationship with her birth mother he would split up with her husband and was abusive to her mixed race child eventually Babs left home and trained as in the us it was at this point that she started to try to find out more about her birth father but even getting basic information from the children's charity but nowadays which held her records wasn't easy they didn't want to give any information to me they just said they had a duty to protect other people's relationships not lives and it wasn't until there was the Freedom of Information Act that was passed that I decided to have another go and I went down to the nodders to ask to see my records and once I got those records then I started to trace my my roots really in America my father was alive up to his 89th birthday but then died of cancer and so I never met him and what did it mean to you to find this American family and to find out more about your birth father I think for me it means that nice to have some understanding of where I come from and it would be lovely just to know that they're interested in me as I am as interested in. Many of the so-called brown babies now in that early seventy's have spent a lifetime searching for their parents and Babs negs that being able to trace her father she is one of the luckier ones not to know anything about yourself is is really tough to go life in a family and have a whole neighborhood not want to play with you not want to let their children play video and not to understand why other than they get the wrong. I never wanted to be anything different to what I was I just wanted to be accepted who I was. That was Bob Gibson will and I was also talking to. Britain's brown babies. For reporting for witness history and closing the 5th floor here on the b.b.c. . Recognizes the nonprofit community support of the Southern Oregon field and our Tobar fest our Tobar fest as one of 2 major art of events in the Illinois Valley October 19th and 20th at our Tobar fest headquarters inside the r.c.c. 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News Hello this is Gerry Smit the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abbott Government has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end the conflict with neighboring Eritrea he said he was humbled and thrilled describing it as no war for Africa Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a Border War 2 decades ago and remained enemies until Mr Abbey moved to break the stalemate it has critics though who accuse him of doing little to tackle rising ethnic tensions within Ethiopia the B.B.C.'s Kalki Daniel is in the capital Addis Ababa there is a lot of excitement I can say in the days leading up to the I word there was a lot of buzz on foreshadow media and so as soon as he was announced that they were expressing their excitement over the Prime Minister's winning this award this ethnic strife and these problems there are a significant challenge for his administration especially since his government is leading to a general election next year which is going to be one of the most crucial elections in the country's modern history Iran's national oil company says one of its tankers has been hit by 2 missiles in the Red Sea about 90 kilometers from the Saudi port of gender the firm said the ship is now safe and the crew were on heard it also said an oil spill it would be minimised. A row between Turkey and its allies over the Turkish military operation in northern Syria has intensified on a visit to Ester Bowl the NATO secretary general u.n. Stoltenberg expressed serious concern about the risk of further destabilizing a volatile region he acknowledged what he called Turkey's legitimate security concerns but said NATO expected encouraged to and with restraint at a joint news conference with the secretary general the Turkish foreign minister level.