In and is unlikely to return to kind of command he reports General Pervez Musharraf with accused of treason for having declared a state of emergency in Pakistan in 2007 and he was facing widespread opposition to his role the case has dragged on since 2013 with Mr Musharraf having spent the past 3 years living in Dubai claiming to be in need of medical treatment there despite the fact it's unlikely to be carried out this death sentence is unprecedented buckets and powerful military have controlled the country directly or indirectly for much of its existence but no other ruling general has ever faced this kind of trial the chairman of the South Korean electronics giant Samsung leasing who has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for sabotaging labor union activities $25.00 other current and former employees were also found guilty in the same case they've been involved in finding out personal information about union members and using it to encourage them to leave the union news from the b.b.c. Lebanese security forces have clashed with supporters of the Shia movements has been our and animal who were trying to break up anti-government protests in Beirut hundreds of young men on motorbikes rode into downtown Beirut waving flags in apparent response to a video they believe in song to cheer figures. Firefighters in Australia have been working to prevent an out of control mega far in New South Wales from reaching a power station much of a stranger is facing a week of exceptional heat with far fighters facing bushfires on both sides of the continent from Sydney his film The Mount Piper power station came under a sustained attack by embers from an out of control mega fire near Sydney the facility generates 10 percent of the electricity in New South Wales Australia's most populous state Fire crews have work to stop the ignition of stockpiles of coal conservationists of warn that should they catch fire they did meet toxic fumes which would aggravate air pollution across the region the European Space Agency has postponed the launch of its 1st mission dedicated to the study of distant worlds the rocket carrying the telescope was to be launched in French Guiana but it was delayed because of a late technical hitch affecting one of its boosters the key Obst telescope will be used to study planets orbiting other stars to find out more about their composition and structure. Police in northern Thailand are hunting a convicted serial killer who was released from prison for good behavior but is now the prime suspect in the murder of the 51 year old woman some cared to put in poor young received a life sentence in 2005 for killing 5 women who worked in Thailand sex industry he was let out of prison 7 months ago under a program that is meant to relieve serious overcrowding in time jails b.b.c. News. Thank you very much listening to the news room from the b.b.c. World Service with all of the Conway General Pervez Musharraf burst on to the world stage in 1909 when he seized power in Pakistan in a bloodless coup he declared himself president in 2001 before siding with the Americans in their war on terror after 911 that put him on a collision course with Pakistani militants sympathetic to the Taliban over the border in Afghanistan he survived a number of assassination attempts but found it harder to see off political battles in Pakistan in 2007 he faced protests after sacking the chief justice and was eventually forced from power but not before he declared a period of emergency rule and that decision has led to his death sentence that was announced a few hours ago. Mohammed sane is in the Pakistani capital Islamabad for us to tell us about the case against Pervaiz Musharraf right thank you but when the show up he became president and once he took over from the government 99 cool which was also a very unconstitutional act but this trial which took place in Islamabad and which had been going on for 2030 in is about his decision in 2007 when he really imposed an emergency in the country and the idea was to extend his rule so once the government came in power and that is what this started to put him on trial for and essentially when you abrogate the constitution now cornerbacks any law that article 6 which is about treatment and the reason trial is about once you abrogate Constitution in any way or so boarded you are liable to punishment or death or life sentence so this particular case has been going on for almost like 6 years now for close to 6 years the different government came in they tried to delay it as much as they can but eventually the courts have given a remarkably it's a historical or addict in the history of Pakistan but it is essentially about politics the initial trial was. Triggered by his old nemesis now i Sharif whoever threw in that coup in 1909 and the military will be watching this very closely Oh absolutely the in fact it has been almost 3 hours and the word it came out and we have not heard a single thing from the Pakistani military even though the D.J.'s p.r. Manager us a couple of us quite or have a Twitter user he often sends out tweets about these things but on the other hand the government often shows they have not given any on the record a statement on t.v. Or anywhere else but one of the Federal Minister for Chaudhry he has been very constantly tweeting and we tweeting material with support of Musharraf has done and saying that we should have had a bitters in what he did so other people should also be considered treasonous and they should also be hanged there is what this conversation going on sorry to interrupt but he is now in Dubai apparently for medical treatment so will the sentence ever be carried out the that's the that is the big question how much government is willing to bring him back and actually to fears the justice even despite the fact that government itself tried to delay this particular word and the special court said no that's not going to happen we have given him a shot of a lot of chances now much of a few weeks ago he released a video from the hospital bed in the bay where he was supposedly getting a treatment he said you can come and try me over here and ask me for anything is he going to come back mostly most unlikely what the government can do and what the military are going to do about this these are the big question that we're looking into. Right now Ok Abbott many thanks indeed Mohammed a saying in Islamabad from dark in Kenya to Cox's bizarre in Bangladesh from Zaatari in Jordan to Moria and less boss the number of people living in refugee camps continues to swell as many as 70000000 people around the world have been displaced from their homes now a u.n. Summit on refugees in Switzerland is aiming to tackle the migrant crisis meeting was opened by the u.n. Secretary General Antonio Tara sht. I urge you to be bold and concrete in the pledges to make these a moment for him be sure he's a moment to jettison a model of support that too often left refugees for their kids with their lives on halls confined to camps just scraping by unable to fly a confluence morea on the Greek island of less bosses one of the starkest reminders of the refugee problem psychologists working with people there have told the b.b.c. They are seeing an increasing number of children self harming and attempting suicide global health correspondent to their Muslim Dar reports from the island. Morea camp on Lesbos was designed for around 2000 people there are now almost 18000 living here most of them in tents more than 7000 of them children the conditions in the camp a desperate and deteriorating with access to medical care extremely limited the medical charity medicine some from here says it's overwhelmed by the number of children needing psychological support they've had more than 150 referrals in the last 2 months alone including 2 children who tried to kill themselves Angela moderately is an m.s.f. Psychologist and says children fleeing war torn countries are not getting the support they need only a child experience something traumatic as to have the time and space to recover does not allow children to recall the. Child. Children banging their head against a wall pulling their hair off the Greek government says it's planning to move $20000.00 migrants offloads boss and neighboring islands but early next year that thousands more are still arriving every month. Reporting from Moria refugee camp a large uneven correspondent image and folks the u.n. High Commissioner for Refugees Philip Granby if the main purpose of the summit in Switzerland was to raise more money I don't think it's only a budget issue of course we need resources and let's think outside Europe let's think Africa let's think Middle East Asia or Latin America this is where the bulk of the refugee crises are and there we need resources and we need different resources not just humanitarian money for short term responses but development money for education jobs the impact on the environment all this is also about policy about good laws about inclusion of Refugees International systems of health and education but when you talk about. Policy and good laws and so on many of the countries which would have maybe the space or the money you argue to take more refugees are going in the opposite direction I'm just wondering whether you think you have gone wrong I hope not but I am certainly also very upset by it that I always say that when I go to the big refugee receiving countries in Africa or the Middle East and I have to make the case for borders to remain open so that people literally who rule running for their lives can find safety Affan increasingly hear the response well what about rich countries pushing people back building walls making laws difficult for Refugees saw this forum is also about a sense of sharing this responsibility more this is a fundamental tenet of the Refugee Convention which I think is still very valid today what would you say to just your average person in your Who says it's just a problem it's not my problem and I think what happened in Europe in 201516 showed that Norwegian is immune from this phenomenon of mass movement of people and I think that it is important to remember that these are people that are a fleeing from very real problems human rights violations conflict war violence sometimes personalized violence and I think the sense of sharing the pain of refugees and sharing the responses to make them feel better feel protected is important and restoring the sense of solidarity in Europe is one of the fundamental European values the u.n. High Commissioner for Refugees Philip Grundy talking to image and folks this is the news or I'm from the b.b.c. World Service or mind of our headlines from Gerry the former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has been said. Instant absentia to death for high treason the u.n. Secretary general has opened a global summit on refugees with the code for bold action and they've been further protests across India against a new citizenship law that excludes Muslim refugees ferocious wildfires are continuing to wreak destruction in Australia with fears that a power station near Sydney is under threat $700.00 homes have already been destroyed and the city is shrouded in smoke Forecasters say heatwave could bring the hottest day on record Rob Rogers is the rule fire service commander for New South Wales he said things could get even worse in the coming days by no means people should underestimate the potential for how bad these days can be Saturday looks potentially the worst day but Thursday will be bad enough so people need to just price themselves do that pre-planning most of all know what you're going to do if I threatens you don't wait until it's there before you decide it will bring everything we can to bear we'll have large air tankers more than 100 other aircraft available because whilst we're very concerned about the glass was mounting for there's is more than 100 fires burning throughout the state any one of them could cause us problems over ensuring days when our group of former fire chiefs is criticised the Government for not doing enough to tackle a crisis Greg Mullins is the former Fire Service commissioner for New South Wales here in New South Wales the fires are totally unprecedented more country has been burned 3 times more homes lost than our worst previous fire season in history and the fires are still burning we have a hate wife coming who knows what that and the driving force behind this is climate change you know decades of service we've seen us try to become drier hotter and extreme weather conditions far more severe our Sydney correspondent Phil Mercer told us more they are called the emergency leaders for climate action and they say that they will convene their own emergency. Summit on Australia's bushfire crisis with or without Australia's federal government they accuse the prime minister here Scott Morrison of a lack of leadership and they want this summit to address how Australia can be prepared for more intense bushfires in a changing climate Australia's responses like a military style operation to these types of natural disasters the federal government is spending another $8000000.00 on area or firefighting capacity so Australia is well used to fighting bushfires but there is a concern here that the annual bushfire season is not only more intense but it's lasting longer and starting earlier from us in Sydney that in recent years it's become received wisdom that blue light from mobile phones makes it harder to get to sleep but British scientists say that may not be true after all online health is a Michelle Roberts told me about their research they wanted to look at the effective different types of light and they got mice they controlled whether the light was bright or dim and also started switching around the color that the mice could see I mean we've had this idea for a long time that blue light the type that comes off your mobile phone or off computer screens the artificial light that we all spend a lot of time in front of might actually be keeping us awake because our body clock is set to normally sync with daytime with sunlight so we're awake during the day and we feel sleepy at night what they found with these mice is that when they set the lighting to dim blue light is actually more restful than the yellow light which seems to conflict with what we expect and they found that bright light of any kind was bad for trying to get sleep which is probably not that surprising So they're saying that at the moment we all seem to be putting on filters to try and stop this blue light from artificial screens but perhaps we're doing the wrong thing perhaps made. Something warmer a sort of more yellow light isn't it and the blue is actually a little bit more restful but really the key here is bright light bad did light better if you want to get a good night's sleep now they've done a study on My Space will automatically apply to humans and if so how we got it so wrong all this time obviously with my studies we always have to have this clause we don't know we need more research it's got to be done in humans too there has been quite a bit of interest already Everybody likes to sleep well also there's a lot of question marks over what if you need to flip your body clock so people who are working overnight that need sleep in the day had the best tackle that I think at the moment the only advice people can give is have a good sleep routine blackout blinds a good wind down before you go to bed and limits the amount of bright light you're getting from things like screens and so why did we have this assumption that blue light was bad blue light is a short wavelength where is warmer light is a longer wavelengths and the blue light seems to be more exciting to the Ari also the sun actually even though it looks warm it contains a lot of blue light this sort of end of the spectrum and that was the thing that people thought was causing a lot of stimulation but this research seems to suggest it dim levels actually that's not true it's more of the warm wider wavelength section of light that might be doing this job on line half at a certain a show Roberts It's been a month since high tide struck Venice causing devastating flooding in the Italian city famous for its canals a multi-billion dollar system of flood gates that's been under construction for years should have prevented the disaster but the project called Mo's has been delayed and mired in corruption and there are now questions about whether it is the lifeline Venice needs or is in fact doomed to fail Italy correspondent Mark Lowen has been trying to find out onto more there. I mean so experimental electromechanical module. Works on one of Italy's most ambitious and controversial engineering projects in its history the most a floodgate system barriers built at the 3 inlets to the Venice Lagoon to protect it from outer or high tides. When we have to raise up. With burn. Through these 5 boats so they raise up floating then when it's finished the event of high tide we extract the air through. 5 but so they were down in their initial position. In this underground tunnel 12 meters below the sea level feels like it goes on forever it's 420 meters long flanked by tables pipes and wires construction began 16 years ago he was due to finish in 2014 but that's not been pushed back to 2022 and it's been a den of legal problems 35 people were arrested for corruption in relation to the project including the former mayor of Venice the problem is the Victorian government too big to fail Marco but our valley is an activist Why does he see the project as the problem not the solution these parts even if the most it's not working already totally rights to destroyed then there are objections of course earning the maintenance and then last but not least like climate change issue because raising a good. Talk to take out a system like motor which is very old in terms of design Marco Belinelli ending that report by Mark Lowen now Jerry's here with a look at some of day's other stories the Mozambican or porridge is a detaining 12 Iranians for allegedly shipping drugs off the coast to the northern province of God do the crew of the vessel are reported to set it on far moments before their arrest police say the fire destroyed the approximately one and a half tons of heroin suspected to be on board. Here in Britain the next Archbishop of York has spoken of his hopes that the country can move on from the divisions caused by bricks it it's been announced for the Bishop of chance for it Stephen control will take up the new role when Dr John Sentamu retires in June next year Bishop Kontrol told the b.b.c. He welcomed the Prime Minister Abbas Johnson's talk of bringing the country together one nation must also mean one humanity and the tragedy of the post bricks it Britain. It has been that we've started defining each other by how we all voted on one day in whatever it was 26 days and that's actually a very un British way of doing things were I really really hope we can put that behind us now earned an international team of paleontologist researching 6000000 year old fossils in Venezuela say the region was once home to an 8 metre long joined Cayman that was able to move between rivers in a study published in The Journal life researchers said that the poorer Saurus had an extra vertebrae bone in its hip which helped support its 3 ton weight when it was out of the water although climate change is thought to be harming plant species around the world some 2000 new varieties are named every year for 2019 the new findings by the Royal Botanic Gardens here in London include a waterfall orchid and a miracle berry Dr Martin cheek is a botanist at Kew Gardens he told my colleague Candy that one of the finds wasn't actually made by a scientist this was a Turkish pediatrician who while on holiday one weekend spotted an unusual Snowdrop took photos of it put up on Facebook and a Ukrainian Snowdrop fanatic going through Facebook found pictures of this realize they were something extremely unusual and contacted her went out with her to find these plants collect samples and then brought this to the attention of one of my colleagues Evan Davis who you know drop specialists you're going to be bombarded with holiday pictures now but tell us about your own discovery the so-called waterfall orchid this is a plant that I collected last year in Guinea a country in West Africa where there's a whole family of plants that just grow in waterfalls they need pure water every rock to grow on many of them are highly localized So having found out about this waterfall. And being in Guinea is part of our topical important plant in his program I get there and find out what species of this family were there and in the course of that I found this plant which is only known from this waterfall to trouble it faces is that there's a hydroelectric dam planned for this site and if that goes ahead if no measures is taken the risk that this species will become extinct and that is a problem with many of the new species the eve discovered that they are at risk of extinction but many of them have really interesting medicinal properties some of them to most plant species on the planet have not been even looked at for their potential applications for man kind medicinal or otherwise but there's a fungus that you found which could be useful for arthritis That's right and more than that apparently this fungus from China which uniquely grows on one species of bamboo in southwest China in you know the bodies have compounds of a class called hyper Kremlin's which have very high biological activity including those you've mentioned but also those antibiotics with many other medical applications there's a lot lot of excitement in this class of compounds that are produced by this fungus botanist Dr Martin cheek now have you ever fancied owning a rock God's old guitar a letter written by a screen legend or a platinum record to a London auction house bottom's is putting on an end tain Mint memorabilia sale today which will see dozens of lots going under the hammer but they won't come cheap the museums David Lewis has had a look at what's on offer. It's only rock n roll but if you'd like to buy it here's your chance to claim some early Christmas presents care of some of Britain's rock royalty there's Mick Jagger's old guitar for starters Plus a 960 s. Bass from fellow Rolling Stone Bill Wyman. Or why not plump for Queen front man Freddie Mercury's famous white cotton trousers with red and gold piping from their final 986. But none of these come cheap Mercury's trousers alone cost anywhere between $20.00 to $27000.00 perfect for any good old fashion lover boy that's far from the price is lot on offer that will be status quo guitarist Francis Rossi's $960.00 s. Green Fender Telecaster which is expected to go for up to $200000.00 John badly the managing director at Barnum's said Rossi was just ready to give up the instrument this particular guitar came directly from Francis Rossi he'd had it for 45 years enjoyed it played with it bought it in 1968 for 45 pounds and he thinks it's time to move it on other highlights on offer this Tuesday lunchtime include Pink Floyd's large prop banner from the film the wall a Bob Marley backstage pass or even John Lennon's 959 Liverpool college of art exam results sheet you could even bid for spice go Geri Halliwell as bright orange platform train is. Expected for ice between $11.00 and $1300.00 take place with that report a quick update on that refugee summit the Turkish president has called for the resettlement of a 1000000 Syrian refugees in peace own over the border that's it for now from the newsroom. Distribution of the b.b.c. 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News where Gerry Smit the un secretary general and Tanya good Terry has opened a global summit on refugees with a call for bold action to address the plight of tens of millions of people forced to flee their homes by conflict or persecution he said the right to asylum was under assault and children were being separated from their families. The Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has used in the election rally to accuse the opposition of fermenting fear among Muslims His comments come as protests spread across India against an amended citizenship law that discriminates against Muslims Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan has said the millions of Muslims could flee India. A special court in Pakistan has sentenced the former president Pervez Musharraf to death the high treason is the 1st military ruler to be convicted of this crime General Musharraf has been living in Dubai since 2016. The chairman of the South Korean electronics giant Samsung leasing Hong was has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for sabotaging labor union activities $25.00 other current and former Samsung employees who were also found guilty firefighters in Australia have been working to prevent an out of control mega far in New South Wales from reaching a power station which generates 10 percent of the state's electricity they're trying to stop the stockpiles of coal from catching fire the Bank of England estimates that $5000000000.00 worth of investments have been pulled from Hong Kong since April due to continuing political tensions there Hong Kong Central Bank has repeatedly denied that there are signs of significant flows of capital and your thought is in Turkey have arrested more than 170 people accused of links to the group it blames for the failed coup of 2016 b.b.c. News. I'm on the 3rd floor of a heritage building in downtown Toronto Canada it's bright brick walls big windows desktop Macs lining the walls everything is white even the bricks Hello. And I. Am here to meet Devon no last name I'm 7 I'm the program manager here everybody wrote Why are we holding back your last name. So that I can continue to do this work and not endanger my own security and the security of the people that I'm helping to move 6. Devon's work is dangerous but she's not in anywhere near as much danger as the people she's helping Devan works here at Rainbow railroad an organization that gets people out of countries where their lives are at risk for being gay in a nutshell we move people from places where they're being actively persecuted by the state or. By the society in that country to a place of freedom where they can be themselves. I mean 0 You're listening to the documentary on the b.b.c. World Service We're going to go on a journey following 2 people as they make a bid for a better life and try to save their own lives and the organization that is making it possible it's a story about love that begins with a story about hate and we start with Devon and a couple she's helping to bring to Canada. Yes So we have a couple as being couple from a dos that suit to travel tomorrow evening and we're kind of just getting props a lot of the logistics had to quickly is that couple faced an emergency and so we moved everything faster than we usually move it so we're just wrapping up those final is just 6 getting ready for them to come to what happened they've been homeless and. Carious housing for some time and then this past weekend their house was lit on fire by an individual that was previously kind of hunting them down and trying to commit hate crimes against them actually actively succeeded in committing a crime against them and we are worried about their safety in Barbados being gay can be punishable by life imprisonment and that's if the government gets involved hate crimes by every day people against the population are common and often violent Devon says the fire was put out and the couple weren't harmed physically everyone is scared he'll try again maybe something worse so the rainbow railroad team decided to get them out immediately when were they supposed to be coming like when was this planned to happen we've accelerated the process by about a month so we had 4 more weeks to prep and we moved it to about 3 days 3 days to get them out of Barbados and into Canada. The couple were calling them Jane and Patricia pseudonyms necessary for their safety because the process of getting them out is dangerous. There is an obvious historical parallel here you might have heard of the Underground Railroad it ran in the 1900 speech mean the United States were slavery was legal to Canada where it had been outlawed it wasn't a literal railroad nor was it literally underground it was a series of routes with safe houses dotted along the way African-Americans would go from stop to stop hiding in the shops and basements of abolitionists heading north across the United States and up crossing the border hoping to start a new free life in Canada it was incredibly dangerous a false move or trusting the wrong person could have disastrous results for the people escaping and for the people helping them. The Underground Railroad is where Rainbow railroad got its name rainbow railroad work and over a dozen countries all with strong in. Laws from prison to the death sentence so we have assisted people from 14 different countries and 20000 most of the folks we have committed to creep in but a lot come from Middle East North Africa Eastern Europe sub-Saharan Africa Latin America. And they get a lot of requests we got 1300 requests in 2018 and we moved 200 people this year they've had even more requests 3000 people have contacted them as of December 21000 every 1 of them wants to escape so with Borders closing in Europe and anti immigrant tensions rising more and more people are coming to Canada. What are the conditions around them coming here I mean are they coming as refugees can you explain a bit about how it works in general they're going to have to go through a bunch of legal processes in order to be here and to ensure their safety and so I can't really go to into depth about what happened prior to them arriving or what their status in the country will be right there is a lot of that in this story details Devon won't or can't say this organization they stress over and over they're not doing anything illegal but they do use loopholes routes open and close all the time and part of that is based on how much information countries know what different organizations are doing with Jane and Patricia arriving tomorrow the team are rushing to get everything done in time there's a longer list of must haves and then there's a laundry list of like would be nice to haves so we've cut a lot of that would be nice to have us in preparation to make sure they don't die waiting this has happened before a lot is hanging in the next few days. We make arrangements to meet the next night I'm going with Devon to the airport to meet Jane and Patricia I'll see you tomorrow. Yes 930 but I don't see Devon the next day instead I get a phone call so I got an early warning message that we're going to have to move stuff away. I can't really go into too many details of what happened but we have to we have to hold off right now. Are they safe relatively speaking I were doing what we're doing everything we can to keep them keep them safe as they wait Ok Well thank you. But a week later I get an email new flights are booked we trust nothing until the couple are in the air but when they are we had to the airport bus you know right it's a bit after 11 pm. Or so if I meet up with Devon at the Rainbow railroad headquarters and we catch an Uber to Pearson International Airport Yeah we're headed to Pearson Slate The snow has delayed arrival time so out we're just headed to the arrivals area to pick them up. It is the coldest night of the year it's January pushing minus $37.00 doesn't want me drawing attention to us at the airport and a microphone will do that so sitting in the back of the car I try to maneuver away to hide the thing I end up putting the recorder in my pocket and sliding the microphone down my sleeve this will explain the crunchiness for the next bit. We get to the airport check the arrivals board they're still in flight so we wait. How long we've been here. And. We got here alive in 30 and. So some time the weather and various other impediments are not in our favor. But finally Devon gets a text looks like they've landed and they are just going through immigration so they should be fairly soon. We've been at the airport for 4 hours something is going on behind the scenes with immigration and the couple hasn't come out yet Devon won't explain any of what's going on on the record. Then another text she's sexing means saying that they're Ok and on their way down by is 326. am. Finally the couple are free to go and we had to meet them but they're. There. As Jean and Patricia walk up the 1st thing I notice is that they don't have any luggage just a backpack each the 2nd thing I notice. Is their shoes their shoes look brand new like new shoes for a new life time a c k m j m. M pushes Hello hey guys feeling tired my bad but. Yes he's all right you ready to see your coats Yes please. There's gold but yeah. Ok so we got some clubs we've got a hot meal was nervous as you say you did something good. For you she's last seen but not as much as the. Ok one if you try on this one that they're both the same size so let's see if they're too big or is equal to that Ok. Yeah right now you're all Canadian 3. But that's all it takes Ok let's go grab a cab and will take you to warm beds. You tell me a bit about like kind of what you're feeling right now now that you're you're here you know that I'm here a little asleep in the skeer because with not knowing. Fully you was there happen after. That there's this moment we're walking along Jane and Patricia carrying their backpacks wearing their new unfamiliar parkas with the tags still on when they gently reach for each other's hands but it's not the comfortable casual grasp that most couples take for granted they reach but they barely brush before they let go and I chime in you can do that and I will say yeah. I hope so is what Jane just said they smile at me but they don't try to hold hands again. And then as we step out the doors the winter night wipes all thoughts of hand-holding from everyone's mind. 'd again you know and more like you tomorrow make it thank. You graduations you know when the. Weeks pass then months the couple get settled in and I follow their progress from a distance I hear that they have some trouble landing consistent housing and 6 months later I check in hi hi you do in it's been a long time isn't the groceries I'm Ok Jane and Patricia welcome me into their home it's a ground floor apartment and it's hot completely unlike the last time we met it's late July is small book it's called Festival and we're happy here because we've asked for a lot of stuff since we've been here been into the shelter Yeah enjoy me they've had a bumpy start since I met them at the airport Dana Patricia have moved 4 times and they spent some time in a shelter they told Devon and the rest of the rainbow railroad team what was going on and the organization stepped in the volunteers set them up with this apartment the building is slated to be demolished this coming January so he donated it while he still has it for now they're living rent free while they get their footing Ok have a television. Have a Play Station 4 go flat have 2 beds. Yeah. We haven't the rain we're in work to get the l.b.j. To flag. Is everything the remote flag hangs over her window its colors filtering through the sunlight the traces in there's no kitchen table or couch so Jane grabs a lawn chair and puts it across from the bed where she and Patricia sit down we start chatting Jane is confident and she tells me her story I realize from a very young age. 12 exploring but and how to keep a secret for a while. Just like a tomboy. But it was hard on my family Barbara this is a very sick Christian upbringing so they got the idea. That 2 women should be together. Nation. And we should. 6 growing up kept the fact that she's a lesbian secret for as long as she could but eventually her family figured it out because I had my parents they couldn't hide anymore. And then someone walked in on me and a friend it was but. She was kicked out of her house and had to move in with her grandma her cool grandma as she calls her the one person at the time who was Ok with her being gay but things got worse from there well I have been charged for having sex with a girl. Yes and I was only 16 at the point of time handcuffing me treating me like I'm a criminal. The girl Jane was caught with was also a teenager they'd met playing football hit it off we got her we got dressed everything and the police come by Masuda door so much guns everything took me to the police station I spent 2 nights in holding my family. Was hard on them because I think they were claiming virus Jane says there was this one moment in the whole ordeal that stood out to her it wasn't even the arrest itself it was when she went to court for her sentencing this was the only time she was scared only when I went to the courthouse dressed like a man I went in dressed like because I was a stud I was just full. Told me to sit down he didn't want to try and tell me to never come back and do just like that I'm not a man and I didn't think that I should be asking for gay rights I think I should be free to express who I am in any way we all barn roof. You're free to do whatever you want to I should be free to do the scene but it is by the laws you can be charged can be locked up for it and then a few years later Jane Patricia from into just to be honest. From there we were inseparable and we're good you met over the foreman she came by I mean. We had pizza far 1st. Yeah. It was nice Where did you think the 1st time you met or. Why did. She have me saw she don't follow instructions so that followed they were. Yes she was annoyed but Patricia had her own 1st impressions of Jane she really was. And when did that annoyance turn to something more because you've moved across the world together yet possibly still going she said oh yes she's still annoying but I still love her. I don't know just she was nice to me and everyone and she was there for me to everything that was going through my family and she was there I could always depend on her. How does that make you feel to hear that. Patricia is quiet shy for the most part she lets Jane take the lead I ask her what life in Barbados was like for her and she starts telling me the kinds of things that people would call her growing up really. Funny or look a little well a boy. Those Neo's. You get call and. Stuff laid out is be said she'll. If Patricia sounds anxious talking about this Jane steps in to explain that it's for a good reason. And what a nightmare notion that wasn't the 1st thing it would and then they were coming home from a supermarket she was a time. We were small for tablets she was her I was a her or her faces had bruises. Like Jane and Patricia had been coming home from the grocery store when a group of guys jumped them Jane was Ok but Patricia was hurt and I asked them for more details Patricia doesn't want to talk about it and the whole thing seems like a blur What's clear though is that while this incident was especially bad it was also one of many Instead I ask Patricia what it's like now what she's trying to focus on here I guess simply being more open about whom you put your hand on her shoulder or her hand in public. Some things which you go slow my hand this stiffen a little bit catch myself and it's really I could loose over here so keep still keep it look this little stuff like that. Start to get used to and what does it mean now to be able to hold each other's hands in public for me me everything I can be me I'm free I'm happy. I'm happy to be honest even free holding hands it's such a simple thing and that's why I keep coming back to it it's the symbol of everything these women have been through. Jane took the lead on reaching out to Rainbow railroad she heard about the organization through a friend and looked them up online that's where most of their clients come from word of mouth then Google searches. Jane sent an email and got a response asking her about her life her partner Devon told me Rainbow railroad are rigorous about making sure the people are who they say they are not just that they're really in trouble but that they're really gay it's all part of protecting the underground roots and then they got an email back an offer to come to Canada if the railroad had said if they'd gotten back to you and said no thanks sorry we can't help you what do you think your lives would be like now but to commit suicide . I couldn't take it anymore it was too much I mean I'm a weak person but. Probably get a boy to see if it could come across in the book I don't know if it was by a con put to my head see it 18 years old and this true all about it was just keep going up the optimist up just keep stop it and it was bought you needed to get out really did this I've probably I don't want to say it is by probably to kill somebody or someone it probably killed me I would have to do it myself but it was by a. It is fright but. I have no brother tell me he assured me. You know anything in a crisis. It would as Jane talks Patricia stops watching her and instead stares down at her hands which are in her lap I mean what's it like for you hearing her say that. That's a lot. What do you think your life would be like now. And I'm sure. You might not have heard. Let us not possibility 6 RINGBACK RINGBACK. I called Devon to check in. Hello Devon thinking Ok Devon it's a c. How are you I am visiting the couple in their apartment it strikes me for a 2nd as I don't know you bring people to a new country and then what happens to them next rainbow railroads mandate is to move people away from danger to a different life but they don't do extensive settlement work instead over those 1st few weeks they hand people off to a patchwork of other organizations like legal aid and community housing while they get back to what they do we have to keep moving and organizations that are here in China that support newcomers are the ones that pick up where we leave off and I wonder what are Jane and Patricia living off of the answer is essentially determination the kindness of strangers community organizations and a small government stipend while they wait to be granted work permits under it all there is this tension a very political one about whose responsibility newcomers are. But ultimately there is one very important detail here these folks shouldn't have to relocate in the 1st place they're being persecuted merely because of their sexual orientation or gender identity or expression they should be able to live free and well live at home their home countries this shouldn't be happening in the 1st place. In 12 of those countries you can be sentenced to death. Since they came here we've moved 60 other people from a whole slew of other countries all over the world and we need to continue doing that work because there's more of them out there that are waiting and we received 1500 requests to hear this phone call with Devon It was in the summer I checked with her since and those numbers have now more than doubled. On June 23rd Toronto has its pride parade trying to upright is huge it's one of the biggest in the world I get there early and stake out a spot in the cheering glitter incrusted crowd to watch the rainbow railroad float pass. Jane and Patricia are on it Jane is wrapped in a rainbow flag the same one from her window she's wearing it like a cape. I've never seen so many people in my whole entire life. It was me to others all play it with those awesome I honestly thought. It want to be grand but the number of people that was there is I thought the whole of kind of the. Full prayed that be. Decelerated us. Thank you also being gay not normal for me to see you know people just living their happy everyone's happy. When I 1st met Devon back in the rainbow railroad offices I asked her a question about what she hoped for Jane and Patricia and she gave me a very realistic answer she hoped they'd survive some really difficult times but she also said something else as me not being an optimist if you want to hear me like optimist version it's like I hope they would beautiful life and make the like really I want them to Will. Love each other I want them to like walk on one hand on the street I want them you know go to a bar together and like make it on the dance floor I want them to do whatever they want to do. And like previous to this that could have been band of their life so that's kind of what I want is a simple thing you know. Devon tells me this story about how one point she's getting up on the float and she looks over and she just sees them Jane and Patricia were kissing this we kiss in front of all these people how they felt comfortable to do that. This whole circle moment. And tool room or board and forever grateful. And we can't wait to volunteer. You know this time. We want to we want to help I really want to help and I want to help people the same way of being how they really want to thank you because this is. To civilise every day. The rainbow railroad was a coproduction with the doc project from c.b.c. 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