declared in five regions, including auckland, as strong winds and heavy rain have brought down trees and damaged power lines. now on bbc news, 100 women in conversation: priyanka chopra jonas. priyanka chopra jonas wears many hats. she s an actress, a producer and a businesswoman. she came into the spotlight after winning the miss world pageant in the year 2000, went on to to become a successful bollywood star. now, she s perhaps the only person from india to have made a real space for themselves in the entertainment industry in the west. she s one of the bbc s 100 women this year. hi! and we re going to talk to her about her career and activism. priyanka chopra jonas, thanks very much for speaking to the bbc. you re obviously a successful star in two countries on two continents, but when you were growing up, that was a very different world. when people asked you what you want to be, what did you say? and at what point did you feel that the canvas could be as big as this? no,
it s almost a week since two earthquakes devastated parts of turkey and syria, in which so far, more than 33,000 people have died. the united nations says that figure could double. remarkably though, survivors are still being pulled from the rubble. united nations aid vehicles have now begun arriving in syria, but the head of the un s relief mission says many people have a right to feel abandoned. part of the problem is that rebel groups still control parts of the north west, following years of civil war. 0ur middle east correspondent quentin sommerville and cameraman robbie wright have managed to gain access, and sent us their first report from inside the rebel held area. a border and a catastrophe shared, but in the earthquake s aftermath, syria and turkey couldn t be further apart. we ve just crossed into syria at the border crossing. there were about a dozen aid trucks, fuel tankers coming in, but actually, there were more refugees, more corpses coming out than there was
declared in five regions, including auckland, as strong winds and heavy rain have brought down trees and damaged power lines. now on bbc news, talking business. hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go take a look at what s on the show. the cities that went to sleep for the pandemic are waking up, but how much are the world s great metropolises bouncing back and can they ever get back to where they were? with hybrid and remote working still in place in much of the world, what is the impact on our great cities, their restaurants, economies and property prices? i m going to be discussing all of that with these two. dr megan walters, global head of research at allianz real estate, and julian metcalfe, the big boss of the asian food chain itsu. plus, i sit down with yuriko koike, the governor of tokyo, to get her view on how one of the world s great capitals is faring after the olympics and the pandemic. and if that wasn
declared in five regions, including auckland. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. across the world, freedom and democracy are in retreat. almost a third of the world s people live under authoritarian rule. that number is rising and that has grave implications for basic human rights. it s not that liberal democracies can t be abusive of rights, but generally their safeguards against oppression are stronger. my guest today is kenneth roth, just retired after 30 years leading the campaign group human rights watch. he s been banned in a host of countries. is it time to acknowledge his brand of human rights campaigning isn t working? kenneth roth in cambridge, massachusetts. welcome to hardtalk. great to be back, stephen. it s good to be with you. it s good to have you on the show. it is indeed quite something, leading one of the world s highest profile human rights advocacy groups for some three decades. did you leave thatjob with a sense of defeat