Has become a challenge to the way the city has governed in recent weeks peaceful demonstrations like this one turned into street clashes between more radical protesters and riot police many expect today to be beside the Pakistani Taliban say they carried out 2 attacks that killed at least 7 people and injured many more in the northwest of the country gunmen opened fire at a police checkpoint in the outskirts of the city of Dera Ismail Khan killing 2 officers later a female suicide bomber blew herself up at the entrance to a hospital where the injured had been taken at least 2 more policemen died in the 2nd attack. Russia's Environment Minister Dmitri Cobol can this says that 5 kilo whales still held captive in a sea pen in the country's Far East will be released into the wild by the end of the summer evidence emerged earlier this year that killer whales or orcas and beluga whales were being held in cramped enclosures pending export to Chinese marine parks international outrage pressurized Russia to release a 1st batch last week the Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao has returned to his winning ways at the age of 40 beating Keith Bowman in Las Vegas to become the oldest welterweight champion in history Becchio said he would resume his responsibilities as a senator in the Philippines before deciding his next move that's the latest from b.b.c. News. This is from our own correspondent on the b.b.c. World Service I'm Pascoe hasa Hello and welcome to the program that goes behind the scenes of world news and into the lives affected coming up the Algerian soap opera that made a city a star also the midwife turned surgeons who is saving lives in Ethiopia and some pretty surprising political ideas that a Donald Trump rally including Monica isn't the u.s. President's recently described Iran as under siege as a result of tighten sanctions he introduced those sanctions come close to preventing Tehran from exporting any oil a tool Iran of course depends on its oil revenues so what is life like at the moment for ordinary Iranians how can we even find out when the Iranian government routinely blocks press freedom and jails journalists during Martin patiences recent trip there the B.B.C.'s access was controlled and as with all foreign media his crew was accompanied by government representatives at all times there is a danger of course that we only end up showing what the regime wants us to but this was a chance that we get a glimpse of something meaningful This was my 1st trip to Iran or nor mt of reading or speaking to people beforehand can ever prepare you for the moment when you 1st arrive in our time Trek Ham expect take the breakfast buffet the whole towel to resample off your horse but all women's faces were bruised and swayed then bam they Jase its arms are the result hospital nearby there was offering very decent plastic surgery at bargain prices jobs were in and then there was the weekend pool party just across the rules it was for man only the perhaps a better known face of Iran is shown at Friday prayers but even that contained a few surprises. As we were checking through security one of the workers said Don't let the Brits and they've taken our ship he was referring to there Reynie an oil tanker seized by the u.k. Off the coast of Gibraltar a small done easily and then he laughed at the joke despite all the tensions with the West there rains I met were incredibly welcoming and hospitable and the most there were thousands of washer Pers a senior cleric delivered a salmon denouncing a litany of American crying's as he saw us including a reference to the rain and passenger plane that was shot down 31 years ago by the Us killing almost $300.00 people we happened to be there and then of our surrender and then we moved on to more recent events including Iran shooting down a u.s. Drone and that was followed by choreographed chants of Death to America Death to Israel and death to England if I'm honest I fell a bit exposed but one man came up to me with a warm smile and said We used to chant Death to Russia things can change you know. For many Iranians at the moment know things are looking grand the sanctions are hearts and it's the most vulnerable people who are being hardest hit one newspaper editor told me Iran can exempt hardship but no humiliation Maybe I should have been surprised that so many Iranians we spoke to wanted to leave their country they don't see a future in Iran but as I've been told things can change I went to a poll concern around words I never thought would come out of my mouth and one of Iran's biggest stars a singer with teeth white and off to light up a dark room was belting out ballots in most other countries the fans would be on their feet dancing and perhaps declaring their undying love for the heartthrob and from solve them but in Iran it was all a bit more restrained a bit more sedate nobody was allowed to dance so instead fans were laughs swaying in their seats the audience was being policed by Eagle Eye The officers whose job it was to make sure everyone followed the rules occasionally about her and a female fans headscarf would slip and she would reveal a bit too much hair one of the washers would then start flashing a red or blue laser pointer back fender until she covered off again before the performance has been agreed that we wouldn't film people's faces but we were allowed a wide shot which would only show the backs of people's hands we pointed out that it would have been rather roll want to film a no I actually see the audience our camera man trembled off to get the shorts always going well but then everyone started getting jumpy we were asked to wait backstage the security officials were coming they wanted to see our footage. Scrutinizing our shorts Rashed Why do you Westerners always get around wrong and then the latter's go with overflew search later I looked over and I'm from l y fault may I couldn't see where we're going wrong you couldn't see any here in the dark cavern arsehole and then I realized that's not what it's all been about the security officials probably couldn't care less about the hair they were worried about falling foul of their bosses and so they needed to be seen to be doing their job it was in front one small example of the undercurrent of fear the runs through Iranian life Mohsin patience on the 1st b.b.c. News trip to Iran in 5 years Ethiopia is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women giving birth a few years ago at the Hamelin Fistula Hospital in added Saba I met a woman who was lucky to be alive but was still suffering from the complications of childbirth it had taken her 2 years to save up enough money to get to the capital for treatment 2 years of extraordinary pain but Ethiopia is making huge progress maternal mortality rates have come down by 2 thirds over the last 30 years and one key to success has been a kind of task sharing training mid-level health workers like nurses to perform emergency surgery in places where they're on a surgeon's Ruth Evans spent 4 days with one of them in dangler a small town in the I'm her region of northern Ethiopia my hands were shaking with a gentle and as I pulled on the green surgical scrubs covered my hair and hooked a face mask over my ear as I was rushing to get into theatre and exhausted woman was being wheeled along the corridor to she being in labor for 3 days and her baby was stuck. She'd come for treatment at a Smoove or will hospital one of hundreds opened in Ethiopia over the last 20 years the government has also opened new medical schools but outside the cities there are still not enough qualified doctors the nearest surgeon with 85 kilometers away but someone else was about to a parade say dignity a former nurse in her early thirty's with brown eyes and a warm freckled face frames by a pink heads. As she changed into scrubs She explained that the baby was in fetal distress not getting enough oxygen so she needed to do Mrs Arian immediately she said she did everything she could to save the woman and her child but it was a high risk case early essayed had told me how she ended up doing this and she was working as a nurse in another clinic a pregnant woman came in bleeding and in danger stage referred her to the nearest hospital and they settle but she died on the way I always remember that incident she said that was the moment she decided to compete for a place on a new masters course which would turn her from a nurse into an emergency surgical officer in 3 years less than a 3rd of the time it would normally take to train a traditional surgeon operating for the 1st time was scary she said I knew what to expect but when you hold the knife and run it through someone's skin that was something else but the 2nd one was easy a surgeon he trained the offices something to say told me he and his colleagues skeptical at this that would I let my wife be operated on by such a person this is a crazy idea but over time he changed his mind he saw the surgical offices saving lives and thought what would have happened to these patients if this person was not he back in dangler I spent 2 days following saida on wood rounds and joined in one hungers it with a new mother. The house was cool and with thick or thin walls and a high ceiling others say the checks on the 10 day old twins that did have been a ceremony roasting coffee beans over charcoal level the smell of frankincense filled the room a thick sweet coffee was delicious but left me totally Wyatt when I tossed into into my hotel bed later on say he was working a night shift and saw through 3 natural deliveries the next day state I had an emergency case so I rushed back to the hospital inside the bright white tiled operating room the surgical instruments were laid out on a tray was a woman's bump was wiped with are using the cut was quick and decisive the scalpel of burning a red stripe across her belly and then within seconds the baby was pulled out he was blue and fluffy not breathing so say to hand it into a nurse while she concentrated on the mother the nurse whisked him away wrapped in a white cloth and laid him on a bad still not moving at this point I thought this is a dead baby I can't recruit this and I turned back to save her and her patient a colleague motion for me to come back the nurse was sucking fluid from the baby's mouth and giving him oxygen with a hand pump he started rubbing his chest really quite telling the baby cry cry cry cry cry cry and at last the baby gave a squeak I heard his 1st breath a pink touch appeared around his mouth and started spreading outwards and within a few minutes his week mewling turned into a proper cry I looked at Sade and I could see she was smiling behind her facemask Big Tease was slipping down behind mine the following day I returned to the road and spoke to 1000000 ash the mother I'm at her tiny baby Emmanuelle a sick child as she fed him she thanks ager in the nurses for saving their lives if they had not been here she said I would not have my child. Raised Evans you were listening to from our own correspondent on the b.b.c. World Service I'm Pascal Harter on next stop is Algeria where the March of political progress since the ousting of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has stalled elections scheduled for the 4th of July have been postponed and there's no new date suggested the pro-democracy protesters blame the military overseeing the transition but the army complains that the opposition gives them no one to talk to life of course doesn't stop in the midst of political chaos as we know in Britain so what's it like to be in Algeria these days not in the capital but in Iran a city to the west of Algiers looking across the Mediterranean Sea to Spain here's Neal Cassady in Iran Algeria 2nd City the legacy of centuries of migration from under Lisita is still evident today jumping in a taxi only had to say. For the driver to understand my destination the Spanish word for blue is the name of a neighborhood where an enormous 1900 centuries boring stands when it closed in 1980 the Iran was the last remaining boring in Africa it's just been renovated and reopened as a conservation you. Bullfighting isn't a traditional Arab pastime but then Iran isn't a traditional city you won't see many headscarves or veils there and people are just as likely to socialize in the nighttime cabarets as in the city's cafes maybe this is why Algeria is edges t.v. Show today was recently set here a short drive across the city and you're in the old Jewish quarter of a double this summer during the month of Ramadan Argyria ignored the usual glossy Turkish and Egyptian soap operas instead everyone was talking about a homegrown show viewers got to know the neighborhood of a diet of intimately to the lives of the characters of a drama called or led Lohan which loosely means the children from respectable families on screen within these neighborhoods dusty streets and ramshackle apartment blocks a working class community deals with issues like drugs violence and poverty the soap a trade the lives of ordinary people the hopes and dreams and the bonds that hold a community together and it's the neighborhood itself which emerged as the hero Some critics said it painted the city of Iran in a bad light but to most it was an honest portrayal of life in modern Algeria holding up a mirror to a society undergoing dramatic change this great immediate Hollands is just one small example of the explosion of free speech driving out here is dramatic political revolution every week since the middle of February Algerians have filled the streets in the millions demanding an end to the corrupt and oppressive regime this ruled them for 20 years only a few months before it would have been unthinkable to openly criticize the country's leaders but these days at every protest you can see banners and hear chants calling politicians traitors thieves and sometimes much worse. Through peaceful mass mobilization Algerians have succeeded in toppling President bootlicker the 82 year old leader they'd barely seen in 6 years following his debilitating stroke his brother and close adviser has been imprisoned as have 2 former prime ministers a number of government ministers and a string of business leaders all on corruption charges the man leading this purge is Army Chief Gates but in Algiers newly reclaimed space for free speech he has not been steady either during protest marches in the press and on social media he is regularly accused of being as corrupt as those he purged or of being in the pocket of militias foreign powers join in the weekly protests on a Friday in any given city in the chance openly calling for reform are deafening it's not just in the safety of a crowd the Algerians now feel free to discuss political change talk of politics is everywhere on the steps of the National Theatre each Monday small crowds gather for public debates nothing is off limits with people regularly discussing how they can limit the power of the military or what's to be done about the country's rotten judiciary watching the citizens on the marble steps debating in public brought to mind descriptions I've read of Athenian democracy in the 4th century b.c. This newly reclaimed freedom has not gone on challenge the recently there have been arrests of opposition politicians and journalists those displaying the m a z flag representing the country's Berber ethnic minority have also been arrested accused of threatening the integrity of the country one football fan supporting the national team at the Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt was given a one year prison term for displaying a banner in the stadium demanding all politicians clear off those in power and not taking this revolution lying down. But even as they celebrate the imprisonment of those in the old guard whom they blame for the decay of their country many Algerians are wary of the military they believe this institution ever present in post-independence Algeria is trying to appease them by throwing them a few bones rather than committing to meaningful reform as we approach the bull ring in Iran that day I asked the man whether people would make much use of the giant arena he shrugged Maybe he said he then grinned and suggested the politicians in prison on corruption charges could be thrown into the ring and made to fight out for survival you know like Russell Crowe in Gladiator he said it would probably be just as arbitrary as the kangaroo cause they're being sent to but at least this way it be more entertaining for us I wasn't so sure about this idea but the fact he felt free enough to express it is a measure of how far things have changed. Neal Cassady in Algeria this week the u.s. House of Representatives declared president Trump's tweets about for Congress women of color to be racist the unusual censure was just part of a wide Aprile but the tweets calling on the Congress women all u.s. Citizens 3 of whom were born in the u.s. To go back to the broken and crime infested places from which they came played well with much of Mr trunk space so what are the real cool beliefs all often oil Trump supporta just before this particular presidential Twitter storm broke Mike Wendling was at a gathering in Scranton Pennsylvania getting to know people that I met Michael outside a dull conference room on the fringes of a pro Trump event we were inside Scranton's grand old railway station which is now a hotel one bright spot in a decaying city that has an outsized importance for Democrats a working class place that's also the home of presidential candidate Joe Biden if the challenger to the president can't win big here next year they're in deep trouble Michael in 2 friends had driven 3 hours from Maryland but he didn't want to talk much about conventional politics Republicans or Democrats or the 2020 election I would describe myself as a traditional reactionary Michael told me smiling a monarchist I tried to look unfazed Michael didn't mean that he was a fan of the Queen he explained to me in sweeping historical terms that he was against the Enlightenment against liberal democracy the people in the conference room were mostly retirees small business men and the local chapter of a group called Women for Trump I put it to Michel that this cross-section of middle America wouldn't have much time for a king. You might be surprised he said what if you told them President Trump for life they might get excited something weird is happening in the fringes of American culture 20 years ago if you were a free thinking slightly rebellious young American you might be drawn into the anti-globalization movement or get deep into environmentalism maybe you get a tattoo stop eating meat devil in drugs or underground music but those rebellions of the late 1990 s. Are now coming passe or in that killer slur of the Internet age normie marijuana is legal in many us States online streaming has made a mockery of underground anything and then there's the politics to an outsider the radical left today could seem like a dreary performance art spectacle of safe spaces and language policing. And so Michael and his friends and many others like them have been drawn to a constellation of fringe ideas all coming from a very different slice of the political spectrum they include a few monarchists and of the reactionaries chump fanboys libertarians and at the extreme ends the right race warriors ironic neo nazis actual fascists they get irritated when you lump them together but they do have at least one thing in common they hate what they call the dominant culture of political correctness I ask if Michael is a white nationalist he says No His concern is more about the form of government like he says he's a monarchist but then he tells me it's completely acceptable to advocate for the benefit of any race except for white people Michael tells me about his intellectual heroes name drops a Fre