and a former lawyer. is all this attention on issues of sex, gender and identity making it easier to be trans, or not? shon faye, welcome to hardtalk. pleasure to be here, thank you for having me. it s great to have you here. i also have a copy of your book, the transgender issue, which you wrote. published last year. it s described on the cover as a landmark bestseller. it has done well. and in the intervening months since you published it, the transgender story, as we put it, the issues around transgender rights has consistently been prominent in the political debate. would it be right to assume that you are delighted those issues are so prominent? er, i think. in one way, i feel vindicated. the argument that i make in the book, essentially, is that there has been an explosion in discussion of transgender people across all forms of media and in politics. but what i argue in the book is that trans people are often not at the centre of these conversations, and the actual issu
m hm. yeah, no, no, no. run, oj, run! so, yeah. i m already scared. as you can see, a little bit scary. there s a lot of things going on here, but it is very visually stunning, as you can see there. hoyte van hoytema is a fantastic cinematographer who works with christopher nolan a lot. and jordan peele has hired for this with using, a lot of the time, imax cameras so it looks spectacular. and it s actually about spectacle. the story itself looks at spectacle. it looks at not only how we look at things and what we are thinking when we look at them but also the sort of commercialisation of spectacle. so, of course, you ve got hollywood, you ve got the fact that these guys on the edges of hollywood, they re looking at the skies as well. also, one of their great goals is to capture whatever is up there for what they call the oprah shot . they want to be famous, they want to make money and they want to get the oprah shot . but there s also a lot going on here to do with animals
migration in human history. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 2:30am in the afghan capital kabul where monday marks a year since the taliban swept back into power. the 15th of august 2021 marked their takeover of the country and caused thousands to try and leave in fear of what could lie ahead. and leave in fear of one year on life for women and girls is very different with harsh rules restricting education and employment. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet, who was in kabul last august, has returned there for this special report. it s a man s world. afghanistan is a conservative country. but the rules are now set by the ultraconservative taliban. spaces which had opened up for women have now been slammed shut. we met three generations of women whose lives speak loudly about their world. many are afraid. they don t want to be identified. this woman used to be a senior official in the finance minist
and pakistan, resulting in the largest mass migration in human history. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in the morning in singapore, and 3:30am in the afghan capital kabul where monday marks a year since the taliban swept back into power. the 15th of august 2021 marked their takeover of the country and caused thousands to try and leave in fear of what could lie ahead. one year on life for women and girls is very different with harsh rules restricting education and employment. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet who was in kabul last august has returned there for this special report. it s a man s world. afghanistan is a conservative country. but the rules are now set by the ultraconservative taliban. spaces which had opened up for women have now been slammed shut. we met three generations of women whose lives speak loudly about their world. many are afraid. they don t want to be identified. this woman used to b
liz truss of trying to avoid scrutiny of her economic plans as she prepares for an emergency budget if she becomes prime minister. a bbc investigation unmasks the man responsible for a huge online community which traded non consensual sexual images and videos of more than a hundred woman. and as a new law to make school uniforms more affordable in england misses the start of the academic year let us know about the cost of kitting out your children and whether you ve been able to make any savings. you can contact me on twitter @annitabbc and use the hashtag bbcyourquestions. and knock, knock. who s there? that s right it s the funniest joke at the edinburgh fringe comedy festival, but what is it? find out later this hour. welcome to bbc news. in the last few minutes we have got a result amongst barristers in england and wales. they have voted to go on an all out strike in england and wales next month, with almost 80% of those who took part in the ballot voting for an escal