Generates debate on what is models and what is not. Come from. Im British Military welcome to. Its good to have youre with us there is anger in bangor theres often news of the gang rape of a woman in the countrys salt went public the woman was stripped beaten and assaulted by a group of men who also filmed the crime and made the video public student organizations of activists demonstrated in the capital dhaka against the incident they are demanding amongst other things speedy trials in rape cases and Capital Punishment for rapists authorities have so far at least 6 people in connection with the case. Need to spoke to some of those participating in the protests this is what they said. We have come out today to give a strong answer to those across the country who are playing with women and childrens lives in the name of sexual harassment. And identity. And despite being molested today in a public bus by the attendant i have come to protest how much more do we have to bear we dont want such a bangladesh i want freedom i want to save my mother i want to save my 2 year old sister from all this we dont want this kind of a country surrounded sam is a lawyer and a human rights activist she joins me now from the bonavista capital talking. Do women in bangladesh feel safe in their country i think unfortunately not and its at the moment theres a huge crisis on where women and men together suggesting about the total lack of security for women in the speech of extremely violent and grandest rapes that have been reported but as a general rule i think that women dont feel safe whether its on the roads or in the or in their workplaces. Different forms of gender based violence are quite the faces and there really is a kind of impunity in these cases that we see which leads to this sense of insecurity that there arent enough efforts to prevent it and when these incidents happen we dont see in general we dont see effective prosecutions so for most women the fear of violence wherever you live is very much a daily reality you spoke about prosecution and the protesters are demanding for instance speedy trials and Capital Punishment for rapists are you saying that the legal system in bangladesh is. Victims of rape for instance. I mean i think these demands a disturbing and theyre disturbing because they show a lack of confidence they show a kind of destruction of confidence in the Legal Process and i think they come out of a sense of extreme frustration in people that they can count on the legal system to work to confound and getting justice for victims and survivors of violence so they come from that space but what we really need is not not calls for the brutal violence of death penalties and you know extreme punishments i think what we need is to look at what is not working in our system why it is that the majority of women who experience violence we have we have data showing that not more than 2 or 3 percent of those women ever seek any kind of protection from anybody they never seek any kind of legal remedy because they dont feel that they have access to the system so i think those are the places where things need to change the police need to listen to women they need to accept complains when they need to them they need to investigate them promptly in the fission leave we need to have protection for victims we dont have that in place a local mission has drafted the law almost 10 years ago of us going for urgent measures to be put in place to ensure protection for victims and witnesses the law still hasnt been considered by a parliament and many people are talking about this is an epidemic of violence an epidemic of violence against women happening during the epidemic in the pandemic of of it and theres no reason for us not to address it its not the 1st time weve seen these kinds of protests the gathering storm this time we have seen the biffle and in the many times in the process weve seen it its only when people galvanize on the street its only when these demands a need that finally the state responds and tries to make some changes speaking of a response from the state bar now this has a woman Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina then we think that safety of women would be a priority issue for the government so that all these recommendations that have been made in the past can be implemented is it told a priority. I believe its a priority in the sense that there are certainly policy measures that are in place there are high level political commitments also made by the Prime Minister has and by this government about protection against violence against women we have specialized legislation on violence we also have mechanisms like the police have a victim have Victim Support Centers medical hospitals in many districts have a one stop crisis and so in a sense the architectures parky there we have part of the legal system the Legal Framework also the air but not only in bangladesh but in many of us south Asian Countries a Legal Framework is is up still a largely colonial framework so even the definitions of of rape come from the from victorian lower they dont theyre not in theyre not consistent with our new our modern understandings of basic rights human rights and our Constitutional Rights and so on so i think although there are policy commitments in place a lot needs to be done to overhaul our legal system to ensure that it is rights friendly and it is women friendly and its not the case but even more critically i think the real problem is in force and of the laws that we do have and meant much of the current protest is about this enormous sense of frustration and resentment that the Legal Process is not a fair process its a highly politicized process and its a process in which influence whether bought by money or bought through political political pressure can change the course of proceedings for victims thats why women dont get justice the end of the day and thats those are some of the recent cases that have catalyzed these protests are exactly about that that highly politically influential connected people are involved in these processes and you know there was a time and i thank you so much speaking to us around saying thank you. To pakistan next but a biscuit advertisement has set off a debate on what is moral and immoral in islamic pakistan the control of a seat of old around a well known actress in pakistan or out dancing in an adventist bun for a famous biscuit brand i ought to to this video. Im sure that is a biscuit that eventually shows up further ahead in this advertisement but to help us understand what the entire controversy is all about im joined the studio by did a be nice job very welcome how does a biscuit advertisement generate a debate on what is moral and what is not and. This man has. Done because i think some sections of society are not happy to see our pockets on evil men dancing like this and are brought and one of the journalist who did it at the beat of i. C. His more conservative journalist and he started this debate on social media by tweeting. Now don think it will be used to sell biscuits wasnt pakistan created in the name of islam and british this tweet was liked by more than 15000 pakistani and it was indeed we did almost 4000 times so he gained a lot of support on social media but he was countered by a more progressive pakistani science minister for about charlie who said i mean street y. You keep searching for where you got it why dont you do something productive so a debate got quite intense and interesting and i think pakistan a feminist and theyre going to mannys you summed up it like that if your tank woman done thing is sexual rather than beautiful you are the one with the problem so the debate antony of the big news bit about diverting so much out proved how calm it is i think this outreach highlights the very 4th lines that exist and Pakistani Society there are competing views and competing ideologies in pakistan so there are people who want a more kilpatricks state you know people who want a strict implementation of the rules and because don i think theyre of like to have a system of countries like saudi arabia but then there are people in pakistan who want a more liberal country they want a more open society they want pakistan to become a part of Global Community and a country where women are not suppressed and women can express themselves and can view what they want to be in this increased cons of or to some other fodder do is this a recent phenomenon or does not so what if it is it has changed from what it was in sixtys and seventys to what it is now today and pakistan it was in 80 s. When islamization and suppression of women started there was a minute to dictator who pushed for a country which has more stricter origin of islam. And he pushed for the country very women stay at home dont go out and buy the equally along with woman along with men in the society and i think if you talk to buy goods on some of them have a funny memory to use or what pakistan was like in sixtys and seventys and i know one of my College Principals used to tell us that when she was young she could wear a sleeveless shirt and would cycle to her college in the heart but i as a woman could not do that i did not have i did not enjoy that kind of freedom in pakistan so over a year things have changed and i think theres a sense of fear among liberals that islamisation has influenced masses in pakistan and you see when there were Something Like this happens people who have more conservative views they gain a lot of support what the more liberal voices in society are doing worse is being heard. Again its a difficult question to answer Civil Society in pakistan is increasingly docking about human rights they are showing their concern about women rights and then when theres a very Strong Movement in pakistan women march are its also called audix march and it has gained a lot of attention of open men and women in pakistan and this movement is basically docs about hypocrisy is that exist in Pakistani Society theyre very provocative and very walk about whats happening in pakistan and of course attracts a lot of negative attention and the criticism from the more conservative segments and pakistan is of the idea but i think this is any movement that also libya the hypocrisy is that exists in Pakistani Society especially when it comes to ward off women and back is done i think you see a lot of b. C. A lot of concern among the Civil Society recently there was an incident in pakistan of that a woman was raped late night on a motorway and the local police chief actually just criticised the woman that you know she was there as she was out at. Wrong time on board and there was a lot of outrage and anger among pakistani people and the kind of pressure the government of pakistan needs to do something so that woman in pakistan i see if and i think there are people talking about it showing concerns and i think died to me of beacon of hope and his driver thank you so much for coming in and break this down for us thank you. And thats it for today theres more on our website to go vote flash were back tomorrow at the same time consumed by. Where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a new town with the painter ship with just one to the shadow and a few newspapers when official information as attorneys have walked off the streets of many canvassed and they have problems with the same point to the social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and. On the 4th just a science when it comes to the fans of the human scene or microphones who have decided to put their trust in us. My name is jenny paris and i werent. American poet louise glick is this years nobel prize laureate for literature the decision by the Swedish Academy surprise not just the world but also the author herself. Here she is back in 2016 with president barack obama but it was apparently pleasant we shocked when she received an Early Morning call from stockholm with the news the Nobel Committee said they chose her for her quote unstable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal. And for more about the nobel prize in literature im joined by my colleague mike a crew guy mike how big of a surprise is this when no one had her on the list but this was the case and the reason he is that somebody once no one expected to win so surprise has become the rule right as you might say but after the announcement we were all searching for photos of her. And that and that manny shes not really famous but is not a nobody its just obvious that poetry has not the weight that novelists do maybe. Its also may be a safe choice and just because after all the criticism in the last year we all expected a female writer right now most authors male or female can only dream about getting back Early Morning call from stockholm what do we need to know about louise glick well that she is one of the most important living poets from the United States. Shes from new york shes 77 years old i was when gary in jewish roots lives in massachusetts now is also a professor of english at Yale University she has also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 at the National Book award in 2014 for a collection what iris yeah and shes the 1st american to win this prize since up in 2016 but you know he was a musician and i think its only 4 years ago lets talk a little bit about the prize itself so the jury that decides who gets this prize is the Swedish Academy its swedish literature experts living in sweden which i mean yes right now in the last years theyve theyve talked about maybe expanding their view of the world a little bit how they made good on that promise what is what is the signal what signal are they sending with louise. Here 1st of all the importance of poetry beside of all that. They really promise in the last year is to expand their horizons trying to be more global less european more diverse and we have now a very important poet from the United States shes a woman what about asia what about africa what about their talents the committee promise to have all of this from those continents on their list and that was really nobody so in this way the result is a bit disappointing but of course the best should win right now i do think that this diversity is part of a new discussion around the prize how respected how relevant is the nobel prize today especially after the scandals of the last years absolutely the reputation of the economy suffered greatly the choice of the austrian writer peter hunt for example was a gamble with his polarizing attitude to what the back and was and then the biggest scandal in the history of this price was of course about this couple the husband of one of the members of the comments he was accused of sexual abuse financial misconducting he also broke the rules when it came to keeping the price when a rapper he told police is always going to win in advance exactly it was all an awful story and all of this exposed problems with a lack of transparency and obviously its a very very exclusive club and maybe it still is and i dont know if this is really up to date and now adays Michael Krueger thank you so much for coming on the show thank you. And some more news now from the art world a 700 year old scroll has sold for 34000000 euros at an auction in hong kong the work by chinese master ren renfe is titled 5 drunken princes returning on horseback now it was chinas last emperor who transported the scroll out of the forbidden city in 1902. Dead animals on display in london that can only mean one thing the wild child of the 1990 s. Damien hirst is back the artist curated his own formaldehyde filled retrospective from his own collection of his own work worth hundreds of millions of pounds and its still shocking today. Also in london this years freeze week and art fairs have kicked off but with the coronavirus its a much quieter affair only some of the art is physically on display like these sculptures most galleries are trying to sell works online. Sometimes artists help us see whats right in front of our noses take walls for instance theyre everywhere walls protect us from intruders and from bad weather there is space to hang art walls also limit peoples freedom of movement at borders or in prisons so what do artists think about walls theres a new exhibition in stuttgart. Banging your head against a wall here maurits your cattle and takes the saying a step further. 30 artists says she works of art all try to answer the question what is a wall the walls presented at the concert Museum Stuttgart reveal artist answers from the past 50 years this war is means village sram built it all rather destroyed it is specially for the exhibition. Its also i made a hole and the idea is that the spatial elements can then permeate each other and create openings new perspectives annoy distinctiveness for. Another perspective is introduced by berlin artist g. B. Leave. The best necessarily in the west people imagine walls as something stable something that cant be moved to something made of stone or brick im originally from korea and wanted to give the subject an asian perspective in an interview in Asian Countries will also more perceived as something flexible more permeable. Walls in arent. Much more than the bare surfaces of a white cube style gallery. Here theyre even kind of cozy at least at 1st sight. Idea ive read from past before who get this work by the rest of who rather is about the viewer seeing the wallpaper as beautiful but on closer inspection you discover that the only mental pattern is a collection of violent scenes. The exhibition addresses the topic of ones own 4 walls which we generally make beautiful with paint or wallpaper but often its these private spaces where violence takes place are the bad for a road n