To the cause of the party and the contrary the Supreme Court in Kenya has to decide whether Thursday's rerun of the presidential election can go ahead the opposition leader says it shouldn't holding just another look. This problem calls for a new approach to dealing with the victims of modern slavery let's forget all the arguments about race let's forget all the arguments about where people originate let's forget about their immigration status what we need to do is we need to see the police respond to that as a serious organized crime and could have deathbed confession help solve a series of murders from the 1980s well here in the newsroom. Oh this is David Austin with the b.b.c. News China's ruling Communist Party has made Xi Jinping its most powerful leaders and smell to doom at its national congress it's in shrine to his name and his political philosophy in the party constitution Stephen McDonell in Beijing looks at cheatin pings philosophy it's a mixture of slogans and things which kind of seem real so the China dream for example that's a bit warm and fuzzy but in his philosophy it talks about the party being central to all things everything from factory production to what's allowed to be said in social media and kind of strangely we saw as one built one road initiative also written into the Constitution which is you know just this project of building bridges and roads between China and Europe through the stands now it's very strange I don't know are they saying that this is going to keep going for ever China's imports of iron ore and lead to concentrate from North Korea have fallen sharply over the past year here Celia Houghton latest data underlines Beijing's decision to uphold u.n. Sanctions designed to cripple the North Korean economy key North Korean exports of iron ore in lead concentrate are down 84 percent and now stand at the lowest recorded level and 60 years coal imports from North Korea are more than 70 percent lower than in 2016 the data comprises the final shipments before u.n. Sanctions took effect banning all North Korean sales of coal iron ore and lead as punishment for Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program pursued preen caught in Kenya will hold a last minute hearing on Wednesday to decide whether the rerun of the presidential election can go ahead as planned less than 24 hours later the main opposition leader right over doing has urged his supporters to boycott the rerun on Thursday saying it's a sham a president who can yet or says it must go ahead from Nairobi honest Alito reports go. Supreme Court made an unprecedented decision when it's an old of the country's presidential election and demanded a rerun now it's being asked to intervene once again and will decide less than 24 hours before the ballot is due to take place whether the election should go ahead there is ambiguity between electoral law the Constitution and how the courts have interpreted it this is bring Court has agreed to hear the last minute petition which questions whether the electoral commission and its chairman will be able to conduct a free and fair election on Thursday it's asking for a rerun to be replaced by an entirely new election which could extend the process by months the leader of Austria's center right People's Party sebastián court has invited the far right party to begin talks on forming a coalition he said their positions on tax cuts dovetailed and they had similar views on migration but Mr Cohen said the government could only be pro European. Will news from the b.b.c. . The far right nationalist Alternative for Germany has made its 1st interventions in the country's new parliament it's the 1st time in more than 50 years that a far right party has taken seats in the assembly and e.f.t. Legislator said issues such as the euro and mass immigration would not be treated differently Jenny Hill is in Berlin to know what the party wants actually to sit next to a f.t. Then paint in the chamber Germany's political parties are arranged in the Bundestag along the lines of the political spectrum while the Free Democrats the liberal pro-business party say they don't want to take up their base right next to a half day and here again perhaps gives us a sense of just how difficult it's going to be one of the M.P.'s will be sitting in the chamber at the a.f.p. Was actually expelled from Mrs Merkel a Christian Democrat Party anti-Semitism He's now back in the chamber as an m.p. And presumably likely to come out with the same sort of rhetoric again the Russian journalist who was stabbed at her radio station on Monday is showing some signs of improvement but her employer and the hospital treating her say she's still in a serious condition China Felgenhauer was stabbed in the neck at the Independent crease station the Kremlin said the attacker was as he put it a mad woman Sweden says it's been informed by Hong Kong based bookseller Greyman high has been released from police detention in China Mr Grey a Swedish citizen is believed to have been abducted while on holiday in Thailand in 2015 he was among 5 booksellers who went missing after publishing books critical of China's ruling Communist Party Crown Prince Mohammed bin Simon of Saudi Arabia has announced plans to invest $100000000000.00 in a new city and economic zone in the northwest of the country Saudi news media say the project will be a technology hub the development will be connected to Jordan and Egypt Vajra bridge across the Gulf of Aqaba and those are the latest stories from b.b.c. News. Hello I'm Jackie Leonard and you're listening to the newsroom from the b.b.c. World Service and will begin in Beijing's great hall of the people and the most powerful man in China today the country's president Xi Jinping you they are far more fun that holds one side of your eye and our shoes are that we must lead by example we must reform and improve ourselves in line with the general requirements for party building something new era we must devote ourselves to socialism with Chinese characteristics and contribute our wisdom and strength to the cause of the party and the country. Within minutes and following his example the master ranks of the Communist Party faithful of their National Congress voted as one to enshrine his vision for China's future now officially designated Xi Jinping thought in the party constitution. To me where she should do about being the more going around our sun block. With her thoughts on a momentous day for Chinese communism Here's the B.B.C.'s China Editor Kerry Gracey it is a big deal and more than 2000 delegates to that closing session of Congress voted unanimously for c. Jim pings thought it puts ping on a par with Chairman Mao to get his ideology into the party constitution during his lifetime and what it means is that no other party leader in that closed set at the top can really challenge him without at the same time undermining or threatening the legitimacy of the Communist Party itself I certainly wouldn't go so far as to say that he intends to go on and on formally at the head of the Chinese Communist Party but I think it's pretty clear now that he intends both from what you said in the opening session of Congress in terms of that 3 and a half hour speech setting out his vision for the next 30 years I think it's clear that he in 10. To be a powerful voice at the top of Chinese politics for many years ahead and many years beyond the 5 years of his presidency she dumpings watchword I think is unity is another watchword is discipline to insist that more than 2000 delegates although you know honestly for you it's quite a statement The fact is this has been unanimous and on the opening day of Congress we had see jumping lining up every single surviving senior party leader in China on the platform alongside him some in their ninety's poor in over his speech with magnifying glasses but they had to sit up there through 3 and a half hours and that really tells you all you need to know he is determined that he sits on top of the party the party sits on top of the people and China increasingly sits on top of the world and that's the pyramid message so you jumping up there on the pinnacle alone that was Kerry Gracey Swedish officials say they've been told that a Hong Kong based bookseller imprisoned in China has been released men hired Chinese born Swede published books about the personal lives of the country's politicians are Hong Kong correspondent Giuliana Liu tell us more about him Mr Grey is a Chinese born Swedish citizen who was resident mainly here in Hong Kong he was the owner of the mighty current publishing house so this was one of the biggest publishers in Hong Kong of books that are often critical of China's political elite and books that oh quite gossipy other delve often into the private lives of China's political elite the last time he was seen in public was in January 2016 so almost 2 years from now he appeared surprisingly perhaps not surprisingly but to many of us it was a surprise because he appeared splashed on Chinese state television he was in tears and he confessed he's. Said to having voluntarily turned himself in to mainland Chinese authorities he says after 12 years on the run from a drink driving conviction now many people outside China who watched that televised confession didn't believe it many people thought it was a forced confession and in fact one of his colleagues who was later released who was also detained in China told me that it was indeed a forced confession so Mr Gray has been in China for actually more than 2 years because he Michelin disappeared in October of 2015 from Thailand his friends and family believe he was actually abducted from Thailand and taken into mainland China and he wasn't the only Hong Kong based bookseller to disappear was easy That's right he was one of 5 who disappeared the other 4 were his colleagues and associates for the 5 had been released over a period of several months last year and it was only Mr go away who had been detained for so long and just to be clear is there any question that he has definitely been released now there is a question mark over his status I spoke with a spokesman for Sweden's foreign ministry and she did confirm to me that the Chinese authorities had informed them that Mr Grey had indeed been released she didn't want to give me further details but when I asked his daughter Angela Guei she actually said over Twitter that she had also heard that her father had been released but that she had not been able to contact him and that she is not really as of now I'm sure where he is she believes that he may not be completely free at the moment it was Judy on earlier in Hong Kong this is the b.b.c. World Service in London and David has the headlines President Xi Jinping is standing as China's most powerful leader in decades has been cemented by the inclusion of his political philosophy. In the communist party's constitution the Supremes court in Kenya is to hold a last minute hearing to decide whether Thursday's rerun of the presidential election can go ahead and the United States is halting military assistance to Myanmar it responds to the violent campaign against Muslims yes close to a 1000000 range of Muslims from me m r n are said to have crossed the border into Bangladesh they've been fleeing operations by the Burmese army in Rakhine state actions that have been condemned around the world Karisma of us one of the reports on the American measures in this statement the State Department says it's gravely concerned with recent events in their current state and added that it's imperative that any individuals or entities responsible for atrocities be held accountable the u.s. Says it will no longer allow any Burmese unit officers involved in the northern the current state to participate in any u.s. Assistance programs effectively cutting off military assistance to them and the u.s. Also says it's considering economic sanctions against targeted individuals associated with the violence it's looking at using the global Minix sanctions against offending individuals the sanctions allow for these advance and asset freezes and were originally designed in 2012 to target Russians guilty of human rights abuses but since 2016 they've been extended to cover human rights violators in any country that was cursed never Swanny Kenya's rerun of the disputed presidential election is due to take place on Thursday but with continuing questions being asked about whether the poll will be free and fair the Supremes court is to meet on Wednesday to decide if it should in fact go ahead earlier the main opposition leader called on his supporters to boycott the poll speaking to the b.b.c. He also rejected fears of growing insecurity expressed by western diplomats this is a problem. Because the Kenyan people do not do the following. 1st the fears and these fears. But one found it. Yes you have a problem as king and he must sit down and result is the issue holding just another location or shame illusion. The problem aid agencies meanwhile are warning that the heightened political tension has shifted attention away from a potential humanitarian crisis more than 5 and a half 1000000 people are facing starvation following nearly 3 consecutive seasons without rains in early February the Kenyan government declared a national disaster and appealed for more than $100000000.00 in assistance the B.B.C.'s Emmanuel Egan's are reports. Is the epicenter of a long and extreme drought affecting Kenya this is one of the poorest regions in the country enough to months with 3 people here have been pushed the brink of starvation today hundreds of gathered in a vast dry area dotted with the cager trees to receive much needed food aid. More than a 1000000 people here in need of assistance that's nearly everyone in this county the people describe this as the jolt in living memory one additional levels have also sharply increased is especially among children and the women just being the is here with the 2 little children. The one I used to work as a child counsellor but now I am too weak and cannot work anymore to feed my children I've come here to try and get any help I can for their house. In early February the government declared the drought a national disaster and appealed for humanitarian assistance according to the appeal much of the money would be for food water and medicine for the most wonderful it would also help in protecting life stalk which is their livelihood for majority of the affected. Areas. The un is to. Buy up to 40 percent living disparate some have been. $20.00 down from $400.00 just 5 months ago. Of come 2 which is one of that was affected by the ongoing drought and at this market the morning after seeing dozens of bringing in their I mean malls in really bad condition can barely walk one of them has just been lying on the ground arrived here around an hour and the reason they are coming to this cattle market is for the government to buy this had of cattle at a much better rate than what they have been getting from the market since the drought hit them hard. Jason k. Porn is on my site had lost more than half of his cattle to the drought. Idea. We've come here to so are we cannibals to the government but this drought has been really severe many of our animals have died the enemy fleet that we have received has helped a bit but it seems the rains will fail again and so we need the government to do much more to help us get bored you see. But critics say such interventions are too little too late in the run up to their national elections last August the plight of millions of affected by Gjelten soaring food prices dominated the political campaign but the presidential election was another in September much of the focus shifted to issues of electoral reform and the Supreme Court ruling ignoring the food crisis during that period the number of people in need of urgent aid doubled to nearly 6000000 up from just 2 and a half 1000000 in February and now with the country deep in political wrangles ahead a fresh election on Thursday humanitarian agencies a warning that things could get much worse that is the u.n. Deeply resident coordinator in Kenya and says much more needs to be done what we will be doing now is to carefully look at work with the government of Kenya work with the county authorities to look at long term development and resilience fact that we can't keep coming back to the same issue of aid and relief every 5 years because that is the pattern which it has become now what we do want to focus now is what can we do from now with the government with the county authorities to develop that resilience so that the shocks of the drought should no longer should be a thing of the past. As the campaigns for the new elections reach the homestretch the people here to kind of county hope that because this poll will bring an end to the political uncertainties and shift the focus back once again to their own plight in a way it manually guns are reporting it's been described as Africa's forgotten war fighting between Muslim and Christian militias in the central Africa. Going Republic has escalated in recent months and half the population is dependent on international aid the u.n. Secretary General Antonio Ted ash is due to arrive in the country later to see how the international peacekeeping mission can improve security Alex Duval Smith reports from the capital Bangui 3 years after the 1st of 12000 peacekeepers were deployed in the Central African Republic he when officials say the security and humanitarian situation is deteriorating even as good terrorists arrives his staff are grappling with her to get water and food to 18000 people in the town of bomb ball all in the past 3 days they've run away from rebel fighting and have gathered around a peacekeepers base it's the Portuguese former prime minister's 1st visit to a peacekeeping mission since becoming secretary general his predecessor Ban Ki moon came in 2014 the pope was here the following year yet the un is short of 60 percent of the funding it says it needs to bring relief to 2400000 people half the population who depend on aid only the capital Bangui is secure the rest of the Central African Republic is a battlefield where rebel groups with religious and ethnic identities vie for control of resources such as diamonds and gold Alex Duval's myth a scathing report on how British police treat victims of modern slavery has accused officers of letting them down at every stage report by the inspectors of Constabulary the body that oversees police forces in England and Wales concluded that too often victims weren't being taken seriously and reporter Daniel Sanford has been studying the findings what they found is essentially a police forces failing from top to bottom they found that senior officers were reluctant to turn over the story as they put it of modern slavery because they're worried about resourcing implications of. Having to deal with what they might find they discovered that forces did have a strategy for dealing with it but it was very basic and lacked detail and they found that officers on the front line didn't really understand the problem of modern slavery So for example if they came across some women involved in prostitution they wouldn't consider whether those women were somehow being forced into it and were having their passports held and made as it were couldn't escape from it's simply people working in a nail bar who turned out to have a dodgy immigration status they would refer them to immigration rather than examining whether or not they were working there in some form of servitude so was the inspectors put it victims are being let down at every stage they did find pockets of good practice but they said those were the exception rather than the rule saying that police forces just need to wake up and take it seriously and to be fair police forces say that you know they're still through the process of coming to terms with these offenses and they believe that they have improved a lot in the last few months but leaves factor to consider are you saying that the 1st question they need to be asking when they're finding people in a situation where modern slavery might be involved is whether these people could be actually victims rather than criminals and they gave the example of a Polish man who said he was being beaten with a stick that he'd been forced to work without pay for 7 years that his employer was holding on to his passport and police took no action and it was only 7 months later when the man came back as a victim of an assault after he had been attacked again that that point they realised are your here's a man who's being held in slavery and they treated him as a victim that was Daniel Sanford Well one specific manifestation of the problem is the exploitation of thousands of children from London to deal drugs around the rest of Britain Kevin Hyland who is the British government and the slavery commissioner says it underlines the need for a new approach let's forget all the arguments about race let's forget all the arguments about where people originate let's forget about their immigration status . It can sometimes be a challenge to start to look at this vulnerable people are being treated as a commodity and what we need is we need to see the police respond to that as a serious organized crime that was Kevin Hyland the British government and he slavery commissioner now to a series of killings which have long baffled the Belgian or foresees they were carried out in the early eighty's but a failure to track down the culprits even gave rise to some conspiracy theories now there might be a clue as to who committed the crimes and here in the studio to tell us more is our year regional editor Danny Abel heart 1st of all tell us more about the killings where these were particularly horrific series of robbers and killings that took place between 199905 in and around Brussels in Belgium they involved raids on things like car show rooms to steal cars there were raids on weapons dealers to steal weapons but mainly robberies of things like grocery stores and supermarkets $28.00 people were killed over the period and dozens more were wounded and the the the robbers apparently would steal sometimes they still could see like tea and coffee but they would also steal petty cash sometimes or thousands of dollars but they were never huge amounts of money they were in insignificant but maybe up to about $30000.00 the gang with had various nicknames one of which was the crazy propound killers which is the Belgian province of print that used to that surround Brussels So tell us about the new evidence that's emerged Well what's happened it's emerged that the brother of a former police officer says that he's. He's brother confessed on his deathbed back in 2015 and saying that he was actually the Suppose it ringleader of this gang person nicknamed the giant Now this man is apparently was apparently a former special forces police. Mando who reportedly was dismissed from his job in 99 he wants shortly before the the weapons the before the killing started but at the moment it's not clear whether other people there with thought to be 3 suspects involved we're not sure if any of the others are still alive and do we know what's happening now yes it's the 1st major lead in about 30 years so there is being pushed very strongly the police investigation has been taking place now we'll believe already for a few months so they could be arrests if there was we're not sure again quite where it's going to lead us there have been reports in the past that there was an official complicity and there were numerous police failings in the investigation and so and rumors of perhaps that they were linked to a shadowy far right cell within the deep state Tony thank you that was Danny able hard Well now David has some of the other stories from our news desk the u.s. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is in Pakistan for talks which are expected to focus on the conflict in Afghanistan here's a could occur money in Islamabad in August President Trump called on Pakistan to stop its support for the Afghan Taliban and its allied to her Carney network or to face consequences but his comments were met with anger by Pakistani officials u.s. Authorities have often expressed their frustration with Pakistan's regional policy while also acknowledging the country plays a key role in supplying American forces in Afghanistan paramilitary forces under the control of the Iraqi army say they were driven back an attack by militants from the Islamic state group southwest of Iraq's 2nd city Mosul the mainly Shia paramilitaries known as the popular mobilization forces said they killed $24.00 militants including suicide bombers and trapped several more in the desert a woman in Somalia has held up a large truck at gunpoint ordered the driver off and searched it for explosives the vehicle was the same model as the one used in the recent. A massive truck bombing in the capital Mogadishu which killed more than 350 people a b.b.c. Correspondent in Somalia says many people have developed a fear of the model of truck used in the bombing of the world polio day is being marked today with renewed hope that the disease is close to being eradicated worldwide this year has seen the lowest levels of polio transmission in history with just 12 cases reported globally so far Afghanistan and Pakistan are the last countries where transmission of the wild virus still occurs and I'm still a is another geisha nal device that was used by sailors to track the sun and now archaeologists working on a shipwreck off the coast of Oman say they found the oldest known example of one David Mearns a blue water recovery is part of the team that made the discovery we all know it was very special These are very rare very important objects it's a maritime astrally that we believe dates from about 149621500 we know that because it was found on a shipwreck that we know exactly the date it sank in 1503 off the coast of Oman it's a navigational device it's around objects and it has a central Alec date like a pointer which you would point to basically the sun or a star and that measures the altitude and from that the early seafarers could determine their latitude this one is quite unusual because only 107 of these objects have been found in the world most of them are very heavy they're sick bronze objects this one is a very very thin one it's round it's the right size the alligator was missing so we weren't really sure whether it was an astral a because it is a unique one and we only just covered that when a team from w m g Warrick university was sent to Muscat with their laser scanning device and found the grid ations on the backside of it used to measure the opposite sort of the Sun That was David Mearns who discovered the rare Astral Plane Stay with us if you can there be any summer long in just a moment I'm Jackie learned and you've been listening to the news from. 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News with David Austin China's ruling Communist Party has made she Jinping its most powerful leader since Nazi dawn at the closing session of its National Congress it's ensure ain't his name and his political philosophy in the party constitution she Jinping is anticorruption campaign has also been made permanent China's imports of iron ore and lead concentrate for North Korea have fallen sharply over the past year highlighting Beijing's willingness to enforce energy sanctions against Pyongyang they're down 84 percent and I'll stand at the lowest recorded level in 6 years the Supreme Court in Kenya will hold a last minute hearing on Wednesday to decide whether the country's presidential election can go ahead as planned less than 24 hours later the opposition leader Raila Odinga has pulled out of the rerun President Hu Kenyatta says it must go ahead a far right nationalist party Alternative for Germany has made its 1st interventions in the country's new parliament it's the 1st time in more than 50 years that a far right party has taken seats in the assembly paramilitary forces under the control of the Iraqi army say they were driven back an attack by militants from the Islamic state group southwest of Mosul earlier the region or forit is in Iraqi Kurdistan said their fighters had repelled an attack by Iraqi forces on an area near the Turkish border Sweden says it's been informed that the Hong Kong based bookseller game in high has been released from police detention in China Mr Gray a Swedish citizen was among 5 Hong Kong booksellers who went missing after publishing books critical of China's ruling Communist Party Crown Prince Mohammed bin Sandman of Saudi Arabia has announced plans to invest half a trillion dollars in a huge technology hub on the country's Red Sea coast the prince is spearheading a drive to prepare Saudi Arabia for the post oil era that's the latest b.b.c. News. Hello there I'm Ed Butler and welcome to business daily from the p.b.c. Today sexual harassment at work women and men in the firing line within days of my starting she explained to me she had decided that we were going to have sex and she starts saying graphic think about my body and asking me to drop pictures of myself naked and that she was drawing pictures of me yes the Harvey Weinstein case has captured global headlines but how many of us really know what Harris meant is many workers don't know what they're experiencing is sexual harassment and even if they understand that it's sexual harassment they often don't report because they fear they might lose tech jobs that there would be reputational damage and so on that's all in business daily from the b.b.c. . The fallout from the allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein show no signs of abating another filmmaker James Tobin is the latest in the limelight this week some 40 actresses are allegedly claiming he made unwanted advances but the debate has spurred something much larger about the problem in the workplace generally ordinary women from pretty much everywhere have taken to social media reflecting their own experiences at work often under the hashtag me too today we wanted to focus narrowly on people's experiences in the office or wherever they happen to work on what is and is not acceptable behavior and how much has it it may be for employers to ignore the problems that arise 1st of all listen to this week and the few of the dozens of personal testimonies given to the b.b.c. Recently mostly from women but also some men recalling workplace harassment that they faced for 3 years whilst at university I went to a lifeguard and their colleague and a year or 2 older than me would constantly great me on the side in front of Tunis and other members of staff. I would constantly tell him that he made me uncomfortable but he just continued and would joke that I loved it I was handed to porn by a coworker I was bullied by another coworker about my gender and when I asked to move teams because of the behavior I was made to feel like I was the problem and forced to have a meeting with said Bully later I was told by my line manager that I had blown things out of proportion and it was a male environment and I needed to adapt I frequently get touched on the upper arm called Darling or sweetheart I don't like it I don't invite it and I'm unsure how to respond I was sexually harassed at work by 2 men who'd worked there for a long time one of them said they'd like to put me over the desk and ravish me I did bring this up with the senior manager but he shouted at me and said it was my word against my colleague he pushed a piece of paper in front of me harsh the and said Do you want to go ahead I left in tears and signed off sick and he returned to work for a short period and then I quit. Well as you heard one of those testimonies did come from a man men much more rarely report sexual harassment but then not exempt I've been speaking to Josh Levs he's now a reporter with c.n.n. News in Atlanta but he started out his career with another media company this was at the start of my career one of my 1st jobs in media I was an intern you know I guess looking back there were some red flags that I should recognize but I was young straight out of college and I didn't know so this place assigned me to work with this one woman who was a senior at the company and she told me that she liked to work at night past midnight which just happened to be at a time when no one else was there and then within days of my starting she started getting very graphic She explained to me she had decided that we were going to have sex and she started saying graphic things about my body and asking me to draw pictures of myself naked and that she was drawing pictures of me and you know at the time I tried to downplay it and keep thanking her for what she was teaching me and most importantly do a good job but no matter what I did it just continued and then she turned hostile and started saying she was angry at me because I clearly was not going to take her out and have sex with her and it just got worse and worse Now fortunately I end up finishing that project and moving on and she ended up leaving and not being in a position to exert that kind of influence over anyone else did you bring a complaint about her to anybody at the time I did not I did not complain about it at the time and this is one reason that I absolutely understand what women say that they did not file a complaint it could throw off absolutely everything I'm convinced to this day made if I had done that I would have lost the big break that I ended up getting at that office why do you believe that it was a small company in the way that the company executives handled other little things that happened with other various people always writing off complaints in general I was brand new they didn't know anything about me and she was fully established and they liked her a lot and let's bring in Lindsay Corbin a. She's a senior consultant here in the u.k. Lindsey I mean does that sound typical Absolutely you hear this more and more now as people are becoming less afraid to speak out you're quite right people are frightened because they're frightened of losing their job but the more people that have the courage to stand up and as an h.r. Person we say to people you must speak out you must say when something is wrong because the more people that speak out the more chance we have of putting it right just to think that she understood that sexual harassment I was just going to say that no I truly don't believe she understood that and I think another big part of this problem is that so much of the time people who are carrying out acts of sexual harassment truly believe that their actions are flattering to the other person Lindsay is there an issue here what point you know flirting and joking around gets misconceived flirting and compliments when is a compliment not a compliment it is subjective but if the individual any point feels that they're being violated or in an environment that is degrading to them and they don't feel comfortable that is when it has to stop you know you can have all 3 spent or if one person feels uncomfortable with that at any point it has to start your organizations to rid flags what may be in the work well things that exactly how we were just explained that the senior boss wanted to work late when they're on their own I thought senior member of staff suddenly wants to work very late and you're on your own don't do it yeah set it up to h.r. Except Josh we have these things I think in the u.s. Parlance is known as kind of quid pro quo relationships are they that is almost a deal it's implicit anyway that you'll get some kind of promotion or preference in return for sexual favors I think that this is a big reason that people keep doing it and unfortunately that's really the key. Currency you know it's ultimately an exchange and it's a kind of land or it could be couldn't it because you might get a situation where the 1st request sounds innocent enough or at least it could be and then the next one just and each day just getting more and more suggestive more and more uncomfortable because you've agreed to the 1st of the 2nd and the 3rd maybe the 4th in the 5th sort of seemed to become inexorable I'm so glad you said that you just shot my mind back to what the experience was like because this is such an important element of it to talk about I mean when she began this I felt like comfortable but I really wanted this opportunity and you know here I am out of college with no money is my 1st opportunity you need your job you need your work I just tried to pretend that she was joking you know I would smile it off and then say let's get 5 or you know then the other person would say well you know you smiled and you didn't complain right away so therefore I went on and on and on I think really a central part of the notion here really is making sure that every workplace has people who are trained and aware and available to absolutely anyone and that there be strict procedures in place for how to handle something like this when you're at a company in which you know that your complaint will just get back to the boss which is a lot of what we've been hearing about in the news lately have been cases in the States for example in the last few years where it seems like a child was really not on the side of the complainant when some of these issues arose Oh absolutely it happens all the time and in several places that I've worked it was very well known that h.r. Was only a voice for the executives that if you went to h.r. It was going to lead to problems for you and it always did and you know they also are aware that these are individuals who work in h.r. And if a top executive wanted them gone the top executive might be able to have them gone and this is where I chose should play a part and that's where we all on the strategic some of the things looking forward and actually saying to take this business forward tinting continue to attract the brightest and the best talent and speak truth to power. You've got to provide that safe environment where they feel that they can make a complaint and it will be heard and it will be dealt with appropriately does feeling uncomfortable in and of itself divine Harris Yes it does because if you feel uncomfortable and you are feeling that you've losing your dignity or you feeling in some way offended by what's being said or you find it offensive then yes it's wrong and that person doesn't need to have you know a formal disciplinary that just be told You can't carry on that kind of conversation you can't make those kind of comments Josh Yeah I mean I agree it's about having respect for everyone involved I think in most cases being willing to state the truth and speaking of peace and make sure you are heard is very important just Loeb's and Lindsay Corbin there of us are h.r. Consultants for human resources consultancy You're listening to business daily from the b.b.c. With Ed Butler So there's a snapshot of some of the problems you might find in an office in the rich world to consider how tough it might be somewhere else with much more traditional attitudes perhaps about a woman's sexual role or where they're simply much less developed legal protection for victims Dr Jane Bill injured as a consultant who compiled a report this year for the International Labor Organization about the scale of the problem worldwide sexual harassment exists in every society and every workplace in every sector is the reality you know the problem is that many workers don't know that what they're experiencing sexual harassment and all that they've got rights to recourse in the workplace or even through the courts and even if they understand that it's sexual harassment they often don't report because they fear retaliation they might lose their jobs that there would be reputational damage to can and so on sometimes you know the culture of a society that assumes that women will be submissive to that and that when they will be sexually available to them that actuates a culture of sexual harassment in the workplace can you give us some examples of what you've heard from different places. Let me take the garment sector so we've got millions of women now working in garment factories at the bottom of the global supply chains and many of these women are very vulnerable they don't have protection from trade unions they work extremely long hours often very very tight deadlines and sexual harassment is used widely as a way of controlling the women trying to force women to be more productive it could be further humiliation physical forms of violence it could be creeping and of course it's completely counterproductive because often what happens in the end is that women leave those factories and they go and work in the factories where they're treated better is there a framework within that industry for example to enforce companies to allow some kind of redress for women who are being victimized Yes there is and that's some really good work some very very large fashion retail outlets are now developing framework agreements with the global unions for ensuring that there are rights as well as ensuring that there are workplace prestigious there are quite a few organizations now working with burns give you one example fare where Foundation based in Amsterdam so if and signs up with where they order implementation of that policy come in factories in Bangladesh India Vietnam Cambodia and so on I mean some of the good news stories are this in India Pakistan and Bangladesh they now have a pretty good legislation that requires the establishment of confidential committees on sexual harassment with independent representation. And fair where in the trade unions and others are training up workplace representatives to be part of these committees to help raise awareness most of the workforce that exists to encourage workers to make complaints Dr Jane Pell ensure that well. Let's pull all of this together with some precise definitions in the u.k. Anyway and they're joined by Definitely Romney q.c. Issues in employment and discrimination barrister here in London definitely on paper what is Harris meant how do we describe it well Harrison says one of the conduct is regulated by the Equality Act and it's defined and I actually have it here Section 26 of the Equality Act 2010 a person harasses another person if a gauge is a number wanted conduct and I'm stressing here it's unwanted conduct related to a relevant protected characteristic and the conduct has the power effect of violating be dignity or creating an intimidating hostile degrading humiliating or offensive environment and they also heresies be if they engage in um wanted conduct of a sexual nature and the conduct has one of the purposes or effects relate referred to in Paragon ones or it's beyond it's beyond sexual there I mean some of the definitions of. Listening to all of what we've heard we do things do occur to me one is persistence that does seem to be rather a key thing doesn't it he you do something and you keep on doing it even men perhaps you've been discouraged Yes that certainly would be Harrison's I mean this is like fine line. Your contributor on a charge. That has to be unwanted has drops at the woman and that's right and I'm talking about women that as we've heard it can be men but equally there is a test although you have to have a perception that you're upset it has to be reasonable so if somebody says Would you like a drink let's go out for drinks and you say no that's unlikely of itself to be Harris meant but if they keep asking you then obviously it would be because you can see that it's unwanted but they could be one big comment one big really offensive act and of course being grabbed or something like that or having really nasty porn around on the screens or calendars which of itself a single act could be. Now the other thing I want to talk about is power because obviously the Weinstein case it was pretty obvious you had huge amounts of power over his victims should should relationships even be allowed within a hierarchical office structure I mean to some firms do have no dating policy they do particularly in the States and some I think it police forces for example would have would have a rule about about their of the problems if you do have a relationship of any kind with your boss because if you don't get a raise or sorry no pun intended or if you get or if you get a bonus or something then in those circumstances people might see would only happen to you because but equally as well your boss is Gottlieb power to make you uncomfortable if you say no. I had a case where a middle aged man was was particularly fixated on a young trainee and it was her birthday coming up and he said Oh I'm taking up for dinner and she said well no action going on my boyfriend and he then turns against her and started making her life really difficult right so obviously if it's your boss it's particularly hard to say no because that's between you and your boss you're going to be more important it does raise the question can you have rules for every last detail of human interaction you know it's a pretty tough business it is pretty tough and it's also impossible because a lot of people in this building are outside and started relationships you know got married or whatever at work and so there has to be can be it's of some sort and that's why although perception is important the act also goes on to say is that reasonable in all of the circumstances so you are somebody out for a drink that's not Harrison you keep doing it that would be Harris Mint briefly some people have talked about a watershed moment with the Weinstein case a defining turning point watersheds do have a habit of coming and going day without much changing what they do and you've seen it before Fox News in other places. It's a watershed moment because I think it's really raise consciousness because the people who are speaking out are so well known but he. Could it does show you that it's very hard to stand up and people are being criticized and I think I'm fairly criticized because it's frightening to see that Daphne Romi thank you very much indeed that's it for this edition of Business Daily Do stay tuned back in the hot seat tomorrow join me that. B.B.C.'s b.b.c. . Was. Hello and welcome to witness history as told by the people who were there I mean we said I'll go and today I'm taking you back to October 1961 and the birth of a new magazine called Private Eye The magazine's part of a new era of satire in Britain and in the political deference of the forty's and fifty's and helping the country to laugh at itself after the austere post-war years I've been talking to one of the private eye founders Richard Ingram. Is $961.00 and in Britain the drab conformity of the fifty's is about to give way to the swinging sixty's and a questioning of the old rule. The 1st man's gone into space and it's the year the Beatles are discovered. And a new magazine is published which for the 1st time isn't afraid to make fun of politicians all of the media barons whose newspapers write about them. That was called Private Eye perhaps I'm not drinking I know and used the word shatter control oppression to show to deserve what it was when you were young in here early twenty's what did you will want to achieve with it was it that we want to blow open debate or was it just have about fun but Russia completely and it was fun. But particularly how much we loved that and I'm going to venture it was impressions that I heard someone in the private eye was founded by a small team of friends several of whom had been at school and then at Oxford University together as well as Richard Ingrams they included the cartoonist and comedian Willie Rushton the investigative journalist Paul Foot writer Christopher Booker and Peter Von who'd go on to found one of Britain's leading. Publishing houses sprung out of doing magazines or dogs so there was a group of us which was a slightly privatized magazine because it was very much concerned with silly gossip about what was going on at Oxford but the idea I think was originally suggested by Willie Rushton my friend who did cartoons for us he wasn't actually at Oxford and we couldn't find a cartoonist in Oxford so we really came down from London and it was his idea that this group of people shouldn't separate and go and do different things but instead of got that about Oxford the butt of their jokes and revelations would now be Britain's political leaders and the machinations of central government and power young people people to sit in pubs and think well we'll be great to start a magazine so we were we were rather like that it was early when Peter Osborne thought yes this could be a kind of venture that was worth doing as one persuaded the wealthy friend to put up 500 pounds on the 25th of October the 1st edition of Private Eye was published it was very hand to mouth Booker wrote most of the copy out on a typewriter which was then cut up and pasted on a sheet when he did all that layout and he used a letter set to do the headlines and to go illustrations himself and all that was done basically on the floor of Willis but do you remember how many copies there were I think the earliest use there were about 500 copies printed and they were served by people taking them around to cafes and pubs and bookshops and that's losing and where did the name Private Eye come from there was a great lot of talk about what the magazine should be called and 2 of them and the original back I think could be credited with calling it private by the time it came up with the suggestion of I'm so fed up with trying to think up a name for it but that was accepted. Within a year private I had achieved sort of cult. Statists it did catch on very quickly but it was very much helped by coming along at the time it did because it was set on the cusp of this this wave of that and yeah else existed like. That. So it's crisis of 1956 had shaken many people in Britain's faith in the old order and with it the deference that journalists and political commentators had traditionally showed in British political leaders by the early sixty's a new generation of writers and comedians was coming to the fore funny a narcotic unafraid they called it satire boom it wasn't just private eye on television there was the a reverent weekly news program that was the week that was. This for a moment right when members of the Benteke Labor Party are taking a secret tunnel under the dreaded havens wall. That also being the groundbreaking comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore Peter Cook went on to set up a satirical nightclub the establishment and after a few issues he became private eyes main financial backer when privatized started Peter Cook was about the most famous person in the country he was a terrifically successful. Sort of took the place by storm he was one of those people who could reduce any company to laughter very quickly and not just ordinary laughter but kind of hysteria and for him to come into the private office was a terrific booster out there in those early days they still didn't really have an office once Peter Cook but the magazine which was after issue 6 and we then were put into the waitress changing over those terms from club for a short time we can work out very well because they had this cover every note run through started. The way to children because you had to cross the they did eventually find. Office Richard Ingrams was by now the editor it was Peter Cook who'd come up with the idea of the magazine's famous front cover a big newspaper style photograph of a story of the day with the speech bubble coming out of someone's mouth saying something funny and provocative one of the 1st was when a South African prime minister who'd helped build apartheid died the speech bubble on the front cover said a nation mourns over a picture of Zuzu tribesmen dancing apparently enjoy what are your favorite jokes and that one but will you always like the picture of a man looking like Lloyd George and in Lloyd George knew my mother. George your interest notoriously promiscuous that was rather an outrageous thing to say about this great former prime minister So what was the reaction feelings of shock in a way a bit later when Cook started using his interest in private and we did this feature about. Butler who is the home secretary and called him a flabby faced old code. A pauper. And that caused a bit of a row so what was that a flurry of phone calls from Number 10 or no there wasn't the word flurry of phone calls that number 10 were in a private toll revealed the names of head of m I 6 and i Phone which again was absolutely top secret Willie Ruston and I were summoned to the Ministry of Defense but they weren't deterred few escaped private eyes pen prime ministers were given nicknames the conservative Ted Heath with gross to Heath Labor's how old Wilson was misspelt was long there were running gags the streets of shame about the national press rotten boroughs about local government there was Mrs Wilson's diary later made into a play which was a precursor to the dia Bill letters of the 1980 s. Purporting to be from Margaret Thatcher's husband Denis the right wing newspaper The Telegraph was named the Tory Graf euphemisms like Todd an emotional to be. Drunk became part of the National that's the can it was written coming and they showed it almost all of the copy the satirical copy into it was written by a little gang of people coming together 3 or 4 of us that's a time old for to grow and one person writing a book was coming out of the rest of us later there was serious investigative journalism too and there were libel suits many of them over the years but private I survived what about its influence for talking remember just to be clear if it had to be off he had success I would much rather think of private having made people love than having exercised great political influence Richard Ingram stood down as privatized editor in 1986 today the magazine is still going strong on to the editorship of his successor Ian Hislop Richard Engram's was talking to me Luisa Talca for witness. Programming is made possible by the financial support from listeners like Ian thank you for your support of k s k Anchorage f.m. 91 point one. 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