over this next half hour special we will take a closer look at the mounting challenges facing students and teachers as they head back. and france s education minister announced the country will ban schoolchildren from wearing the abaya a loose fitting, full length robe worn by some muslim women, in state run schools when classes begin this month. my colleague sumi somaskanda spoke with us education secretary miguel cardona to discuss his thoughts on the challenges facing students and teachers heading back to school. secretary, thank you very much forjoining us again on bbc news. i want to start with affirmative action because the supreme court s ruling effectively ended race conscious admissions in colleges and universities and if you look at the state of california, the uc system hasn t actually been able to meet its racial diversity goals, despite having ended race based admissions more than two decades ago. so how do you make sure that schools and universities are divers
explosion and gunfire air strikes are now a daily occurrence for the people of myanmar. more than 200 attacks have been reported since january. monasteries, hospitals, churches and schools have been hit. seven of his friends were killed. soldiers took their bodies away and burned them. the deadliest attack in april killed more than 170 people. captain zay thu aung was a pilot in the myanmar air force for 18 years. everything changed for him when general min aung hlaing seized power in february 2021, ousting the elected government. it sparked a mass uprising, demanding democracy be restored. the military responded with a violent crackdown. captain aung knew he couldn t stay, and started planning to defect. do you feel ashamed that you were once one of them? thit naong naong took part in the protests. his tattoo of the face of elected leader aung san suu kyi became one of the lasting images of the uprising. before the coup, he was a gym instructor. now he s a resistance fighter
this is noonoouri. she s a virtual character, an instagram influencer, and has worked with fashion brands and celebrities. and she s the brainchild ofjoerg zuber. well, noonoouri is a lifetime project for myself. i created her in my mind first i did a little sketch of her. and so, this was the idea, the original idea of noonoouri. noonoouri s appearance has been created using computer generated 20 graphics and motion capture. it uses a lot of manpower, so we were, at this time, like, five people in my studio and we started, like, the hair, the drawings of the of the fabric, the movement and everything and i slipped into a motion capture suit to walk as her to define her movements, her gestures and everything, but i couldn t find an investor. everybody said like, no. this is not really working. we don t want to have digital things and nobody would listen to a digital character. and the more nos i got, the stronger she grew. tell me about the record deal with warner an
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