Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. Its International Womens day. Its a celebration more than a century old, begun by trade unionists, socialist work parties, and women struggling for the right to vote. The world of women in the 21st century will be unrecognizable for a young adult of a century ago. Women around the world enjoy the same legal status as children in many places. Cant inherit or own property. Couldnt testify in courts of law, spent much of their adult lives pregnant and dying more often in childbirth or suffering the longterm effects of frequent childbirth. Undervalued. And the profits they created throwed into the hands of men. Today, things are undoubtedly better. Women vote, lead countries, run businesses, earn advanced, divorce, control their fertility, things that would have been stunning to women when International Womens day began. Thats something, but today, its far from equality. Whether youre hauling water back to your home in east africa, planting rice patt
Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. Its International Womens day. Its a celebration more than a century old, begun by trade unionists, socialist work parties, and women struggling for the right to vote. The world of women in the 21st century will be unrecognizable for a young adult of a century ago. Women around the world enjoy the same legal status as children in many places. Cant inherit or own property. Couldnt testify in courts of law, spent much of their adult lives pregnant and dying more often in childbirth or suffering the longterm effects of frequent childbirth. Undervalued. And the profits they created throwed into the hands of men. Today, things are undoubtedly better. Women vote, lead countries, run businesses, earn advanced, divorce, control their fertility, things that would have been stunning to women when International Womens day began. Thats something, but today, its far from equality. Whether youre hauling water back to your home in east africa, planting rice patt
A gunman in an Abortion Clinic in colorado and high levels of sexual abuse and violence against children we raise the alarm. First, fighters who were opposed to the Syrian Government say that they managed to retake 15 villages in aleppo province. In the push they killed 40 soldiers and other progovernment fighters. The armed group al nusra front released this video of what it said was damage caused by artillery shelling of a village. Aleppo has for three years ban a Battle Ground between the army and other groups, it is strategically important as a lies on the border of turkey. Aleppo is 300km north of damascus, is one of the oldest and syrias oldest industrial hub. More on this. Hashem ahelbarra is in antakia in Southern Turkey. Tell us about where you are, what you can hear and sea. Im in an area not far from the Syrian Border. You might see behind me the mountains that syria, and thats where theres defensive fighting over the last 48 hours, syrian artillery pounding rebel conditions
Ready to deal with a possible american crisis. A stunning reversal for brazils president Dilma Rousseff forced into a run off election with rival aecio neves. Plus. In hong kong you are looking live. Protesters appear to have heeded the governments warning. The chief executive threatening to take all actions necessary to make sure schools and government offices open monday morning, and they have. A different scene, a handful of protesters remain. Adrian brown joining us in hong kong. Its 11 00am monday morning. Im hooking at live images, this is a busy area with a lot of traffic. There seems to be little activity. Can you set the scope for us. Yes, there has been a bit of activity in the last few minutes. The barricades were pushed aside by the police station, and vehicles carrying more plain clothed officers drove into the complex goodnight me. This is where the hong kong chief executive has his office. A significant development, Civil Servants able to return to their deaths. Ordinari
Sellement plan for settlement plan for eastern jerusalem. How these trunks could build a supersmelling machine. We begin the newshour in iraq, where we are getting reports of intense fighting in the center of the country between i. S. I. L. , and sunni fighters. Some of the worst fighting has been happening in the town of heath thats in Anbar Province. And one provin Shall Council member there said that 90 of that city had been overrun by i. S. I. L. But sunni fighters, backed by the iraqi army have reportedly been trying to drive them out. Imran khan is joining us from the capital to tell us how that effort is going, imran, to drive out the i. S. I. L. Fighters. Well, in the early hours of morning, i. S. I. L. Fighters went into the town, taking over key government buildings. What happened afterwards is very quickly sunni militias backed by the iraqi army went into the town and began the fight to take the city back. This was a pitched fight. According to the mayor of the town itself,