We speak to the mayor of freetown in sierra leone, subject of a new bbc documentary. Well hear from Award Winning actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi on whats next for irans women led protests. And iranian female djs use music to defy the islamic republic. Hello, im Azadeh Moshiri and welcome to our bbc news special programme on International Womens day. Im standing in front of the Millicent Fawcett statue, here in parliament square. She was a suffragist in the 20th century, protesting to secure the right to vote for women. Its by the artist Gillian Wearing and it was made after a campaign by a feminist writer, Caroline Criado perez, who wanted to see a womans statue here in the square. Now, of course, what were about to look at for the next half hour are just some of the issues affecting women today. Theres plenty more coverage from the uk and Around The World on the bbc news website and app. So lets begin with ukraine. And after more than two years of war in ukraine, the un says mor
is going to be a permanent member of this team. we ll see. and so that is what they re working on now. and kaitlan, judge cannon, we should point out, she s a trump appointee. she did a trump-friendly ruling that was overturned months ago. i know that there are people on the prosecution team who are wary of her. how does the trump team view her? do they think that she s going to be an asset? they re thrilled. i mean, they could not be happier to have her on their team or to have her overseeing this i mean. she is a trump appointee. she was picked in the days after he lost the 2020 election. that s obviously not a comment on whether or not she s a good judge or a bad judge or indifferent. but they re thrilled because they saw how she was what her rulings were when they went to her for the special master case last fall. that was when she got overruled by an appeals court in a pretty embarrassing fashion for a judge because basically they said she was giving trump specia
out. joe biden is running and with donald trump leading the gop field, it seems ever more likely that the country will get exactly what it doesn t want, 2022 deja vu both men have dicey approval numbers. but when it comes to who americans would rather see in office, a majority of voters have repeatedly shown a distaste for trump-style drama, which makes the news today that was not about joe biden perhaps even more beneficial for democrats than anything the president could have announced earlier in new york, the civil lawsuit brought by writer e. jean carroll against donald trump has officially begun we have new details on who was picked for the jury today and what lawyers for both sides will argue in their openings, which should start in just a moment. and in georgia, we finally got an idea of what imminent means from the fulton county d.a. fani willis says a decision on whether to charge donald trump will be announced as soon as july remember, he s already been indicted fo
more ludicrous by the day and exposes republicans contempt for women. because apparently it s okay for walker to pay for an abortion, but they want harsh penalties for women who need the procedure. also tonight, less than five weeks to the midterms and republicans are pulling out all the old fear and loathing playbook, trying to scare voters about crime. also, democrats are fighting back. also fighting back is tonight s reidout democracy defender, who s working with michelle obama and a lot of other amazing people to increase voter participation. meanwhile, republicans are doing just the opposite, suppressing the vote and nominating a staggering number of candidates, who might well cancel your right to vote altogether. we begin with a crucial component of the abortion debate that often goes unscathed, often unnoticed. the men. since the birth of baby jesus, conception without sexual intercourse hasn t really been a thing. meaning it takes two to conceive. but in anti-abo
its leader stewart rhodes gets ready to stand trial, facing allegations he helped to plot to end the transfer of power through violence. plus, young iranians risking everything to demand an end to ultra conservative religious government oppression and violence against women and the outrage is only growing. we begin with the return of the house january 6th committee. we are now less than 48 hours from the committee s next public hearing on wednesday. committee members remain mostly tight lipped about what evidence will be presented. congressman adam schiff indicated it would be sweeping. still unclear is whether the committee will bring up a significant allegation from its former technical adviser, denver riggleman, who told 60 minutes that a call was placed by the white house switchboard to a cell phone linked to someone in the mob that day. you get a real aha moment when you see that the white house switchboard had connected to a rioter s phone while it s happening. th