attacks targeting schoolgirls and in the past few weeks hundreds of girls have been hospitalised and aid agencies say they may have been singled out by religious groups. this is bbc news. now on bbc news witness history. hello. i m ben boulos. thanks forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this edition of witness history. i ll bring you important moments from the past as told by the people who were there. in this episode, we re focusing on lgbt history, stories about lesbian, gay and trans people from all over the world. coming up: we hear how lesbian activists broke through bbc security to stage a protest on live tv. plus, the fight for lgbt rights in uganda where being gay was punishable by death. how the balkans war inspired a groundbreaking film about trans sex workers. and the fight to use the word 0lympics for the very first gay games. but first to san francisco, and the aids memorial that would make headlines all over the world. activist cleve jones
this is bbc news. the headlines. a huge fire has ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in bangladesh. the blaze in cox s bazar district has been brought under control. more than 2,000 shelters had been gutted, affecting around 12,000 people. no casualties have been reported so far. after more than a decade of negotiations, un member states have agreed to establish an international treaty to protect the high seas. environmental groups say it will help reverse marine biodiversity losses. military spending in china will increase by more than 7% this year. at the opening of congress, the premier, li keqiang, called for more soldiers to be trained under combat conditions. and prince harry describes writing his memoir as an act of service in the hope that sharing details will help others. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for witness history: lgbt special. hello. i m ben boulos. thanks forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this edition of witness
almost 30 years. the us department of defence is that it was monitoring the situation but did not currently see any reason to adjust its nuclear posture. vladimir putin has that russia will station nuclear weapons in belarus. now on bbc news, witness history, women led movements. hello and welcome to witness history. i m farhana haider, at the people s history museum in manchester, with more remarkable moments from the past, as told by people who were there. in this episode, we look back at five campaigns and protest movements led by women. coming up, we ll hear about the fight for the equal right to pray for women at the western wall injerusalem, the argentinian forensic pioneer unearthing war crimes, the anti nuclear protest that was the biggest women led movement in the uk since the suffragettes, and a watershed moment for canada s indigenous people. but we start in london and a story about the strikers in saris, a group of south asian women employed in the grunwick fil
engulfed houses in the plumpang district of jakarta. now on bbc news, witness history. hello. i am hello. iam ben hello. i am ben boulos. hello. iam ben boulos. thank you forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this addition of witness history. i will bring you important moments from the past as told by the people who were there. in this episode, we are focusing on lgbt history, stories about lesbian, gay and trans people from all over the world. coming up, we hear how lesbian activists broke through bbc security to stage a protest on live tv. plus, the fight for lgbt rights in uganda where being gay was punishable by death. how the balkans war by the groundbreaking film about france sex workers. and the fight to use the word olympics for the very first gay games. but first, to san francisco, and the aids memorial that would make headlines all over the world. activist cleve jones was living there in the 1980s when a mysterious disease started killing his frien
history: lgbt special. hello. i m ben boulos. thanks forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this edition of witness history. i ll bring you important moments from the past as told by the people who were there. in this episode, we re focusing on lgbt history, stories about lesbian, gay and trans people from all over the world. coming up: we hear how lesbian activists broke through bbc security to stage a protest on live tv. plus, the fight for lgbt rights in uganda where being gay was punishable by death. how the balkans war inspired a groundbreaking film about trans sex workers. and the fight to use the word 0lympics for the very first gay games. but first to san francisco, and the aids memorial that would make headlines all over the world. activist cleve jones was living there in the 19805 when a mysterious disease started killing his friends. the suffering he saw inspired him to create one of the world s biggest ever arts projects. i talked about this ide