i wish that there was something i could do to help. some people with shingles will have long term nerve pain which can last for a few months to a few years. don't wait until you or someone you love develops shingles. talk to your doctor or pharmacist about your risk. hello, you're watching "gmt" on "bbc world news." i'm lucy hockings. our top stories. jihadist violence killed more than 5,000 people worldwide last month. the single deadliest attack was this one in nigeria. 120 people were killed. we'll be asking the president's senior adviser why the government has not managed to stop boko haram. defeated, but still defiant, as the last of the pro-democracy demonstrators are removed from their site in central hong kong.

how do they plan to keep their protest alive? heightened emotions in ramallah, as the funeral takes place of a funeral minister. we'll look into conflicting reports about the cause of his death. also on the program, aaron joins us, and russia taking more drastic action to prop up the ruble. >> absolutely. taking russia's main interest rate to now 10.5%. it's all in an attempt to stop this, the value of its currency falling off a cliff. yes, the ruble already down more than 40% this year. the question is, will it work? and what will this mean for russian businesses and consumers? welcome to "gmt" in.

the years since the 9/11 attacks, violence carried out by al qaeda or groups inspired by a similar ideology has been a huge problem for governments worldwide. recently, islamic state has been capturing territory across iraq and syria. these are groups that subscribe to an extremely narrow interpretation of sunni islam. so what threat does jihadism pose? the bbc counted the number of reported deaths caused by certain groups for the months of october. and the result, over 5,000 people killed if jihadist violence over 30 days. let's have a closer look at what we found.

boko haram in northern nigeria is one of the deadliest

groups according to our investigation. the single deadliest was the bombing of a mosque that killed 120 people, an attack that officials blame on boko haram. so how does this group operate? well, rare interviews of obtained by the bbc offer us some fresh insight. >> reporter: the brutal work of boko haram. a survivor of two attacks by the group on his village. >> translator: they came like hupters. there were about 40 of them. one of them told me, you are finished. then he cut off my hand. then he shot in the air. >> reporter: the bbc has found that boko haram's attacks kill more civilians than any other jihadi militant group. the hallmarks are raids, suicide bombings and kidnappings. this woman escaped after living under boko haram for two months.

>> translator: i was pregnant when they abducted me. after a week, i gave birth. four days after i gave birth, we were moved. >> reporter: she was taken to a town at the center of what boko haram calls its caliphate. >> translator: we refused to convert and young men took us. they were going to kill us, but the elders intervened. >> reporter: we met her in a camp for the displaced. sense 2009, more than three million people have fled boko haram's reign of terror. but what's behind all of this violence? the little we know comes from videos like this one showing boko haram's purported leader. but in july, i met a teacher of the group's radical ideology. he refused to appear on camera or allow us to broadcast his voice. >> there are so many ideas in western education against islam. that is why i joined them. i want to die in that ideology.

allah says fight those who are fighting you. muslim or non-muslim, if you're an enemy, we'll come and attack. >> reporter: tales like this one have seen an influx of people trying to find refuge. most of the people coming here have fled simply to avoid the threat. but very few of them have actually come face to face with the rampaging militants and survived. the men in one town stood up to the insurgents. >> they will send an agent to come and spy on each, about 25 motorcycles. we have no help from our government. >> the failure of the army to protect such towns has given boko haram the edge, and in this war, it's these, the innocent, who are targeted more often than

others. bbc news, northern nigeria. >> in a moment, we'll be taking you live to talk to an adviser to the nigerian president, but first, let's go over to talk about the tactics deployed by boko haram. >> well, youlucy, we can put th in a global context. the bbc study has found that over 700 people have died from jihadist attacks in november. but the second figure on the screens also reported the number of attacks. there's a relatively small amount of attacks. 27 in nigeria. globally, over 5,000 people have lost their lives in jihadist attacks. but let's compare this with a couple of other countries particularly affected by this issue. in iraq, over 1,700 people have died, and in afghanistan, what's interesting is the number of people who have lost their lives is relatively close to nigeria, but look at the number of attacks. 152. far higher in nigeria. and that highlights the jihadist

groups in different parts of the world are operating in quite different ways. now, as you've already mentioned, the reason west africa is at the center of one of the main jihadist movements in the world is because of boko haram. they've already caused three states in the northeast of nigeria to declare states of emergency. and have a look at this. we've marked all of the places the bbc has been able to establish there were boko haram attacks in the northeast of nigeria. this is just november, remember. you get an idea of the scale of what boko haram is doing. as you already alluded to on "gmt," the biggest single attack in november took place in a major city in the north of nigeria. it was on november 28th, and the central mosque was targeted. you can see it here on the satellite image, but also many, many stills came in in the aftermath of the attack, and if we go in a little bit closer, you get an idea of the scale of destruction delivered by these kind of operations. already, we've heard from tommy.

let's turn to tommy again because he can talk about how boko haram is not just targeting nigerians, but also their democracy. >> reporter: boko haram fighters have been raiding towns in northeast nigeria as they seek to carve out their own territory. in larger cities, they've resorted to using suicide bombers, often female, to hit crowded areas. this ensures the greatest number of casualties, most of whom are civilians. the bombing of the main mosque in the city of cano was the world's single deadliest attack in november. these boko haram attacks instill great fear among the public as the group aims to topple nigeria's democratic establishment. >> for all the horrific attacks that we've seen in november, actually the single action which boko haram has carried out this year, which continues to get the most attention, is the abduction of those girls, they were taken, over 200 of them. we have heard very little about their well-being, though this video was released in may, and

of course, we ran that here on "bbc world news." since then, there's been very little quality information, but nigerians have not forgotten about them. day after day they remind us of how long they've been missing. we're on day 241 since they were taken, and despite the nigerian government's best efforts, we're still no closer to getting them back. >> thanks so much for that. quite a few issues being raised there. let's take you, where we can speak to the presidential spokesman, who joins us from there. what we have clearly seen is boko haram is absolutely defying nigeria's security apparatus. why are you not able to stop them? >> thank you very much. it is not true that the nigerian security apparatus cannot stop boko haram, but basically, what you need to understand is the modus operandi which is employed by boko haram when they do the terrorist acts, it's warfare.

when we're talking about the villages -- and if you really want to see proper ly -- over 20 of the villages, it's impossible for the military to be present in every village, and all they need to do is be sure -- they use the suicide bombers. and impact, you know, in these areas. the markets and all that. >> sir, we're having a few problems with the line to you. it's breaking up a bit. but i think many of our viewers would like to know where boko haram are getting their support from, even basic questions, like where they're getting their supplied weapons

from. >> well -- therefore they have linkages with foreign terrorist groups. the whole world -- an avenue for this sort of weapon. >> sir, i'm so sorry to have to interrupt you. we're having terrible problems to our line to the senior adviser to nigeria's president. what a shame. but just a few problems with the satellite link-up. we've got so much more about our special investigation into jihadist violence on our website, including the results of our research. you've seen some of it already. but it's interesting to also see what our definition of jihadism is. just go to bbc.com/news for more and what is happening in other countries as well. let's bring you up to date with some other news.

india's prime minister narendra modi has signed a deal with russia for the construction of at least ten more nuclear reactors. the agreement was reached during a visit to delhi by russia's president vladimir putin. mr. modi says many of the components will be made in india. the mayor of berlin has stepped down after 13 years. his phrase, poor by sexy, helped brand the city internationally as a cool tourist destination. he has been seen as a political heavyweight until his reputation was tarnished by delays and cost overruns in the berlin airport, which was due to be inaugurated in 2011, but still hasn't opened. do stay with us here on "bbc world news." still to come, as the last of the pro-democracy demonstrators are removed from their site in central hong kong, we'll find out how they plan to keep their protests alive. nothing. nada. small potatoes. no potatoes. diddly squat. big ol' goose egg. the new iphone, zero down.

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in the west bank, the funeral has taken place of a palestinian government minister who died following a clash with israeli troops during a protest. he collapsed, clutching his chest shortly after an israeli border policeman grabbed him by the throat. he was demonstrating about alleged israeli plans to expand a settlement. israeli and palestinian officials have both issued conflicting accounts now over the results of his autopsy. the chief palestinian peace negotiator says the autopsy shows that the israeli government is responsible for the death. >> the autopsy report was very clear cut he was killed. was killed in cold blood. >> saying he had heart disease and it was heart attack, just now. >> the autopsy report said he had an explosion in the major artery after being pushed,

suffocated and thrown to the ground. it could have been an explosion in the main artery. but what caused this? was the israeli soldier suffocating and beating him up. they are fully responsible. the israeli government is held fully responsible. >> speaking just a few hours ago. the bbc's kevin connolly is in jerusalem for us. we've just heard there. what do the israelis say? >> i'm unsure that the israeli and palestinian views are con flingt i -- conflicting, but they do represent very sharply different ways of looking at the same facts. the israeli government says he had a serious underlying heart condition and suffered some kind of heart attack, so it gives a very technical, very medical sense as a cause of death. as you heard there, the

palestinian view of this is that you have to look at the circumstances in which he suffered that heart attack. they say the crucial factors are that he suffered some kind of blow to the chest. so the palestinian view was that israel is directly responsible for the death of his senior palestinian official. very simply because he had a heart attack in the circumstances of that violent confrontation. >> a huge amount of anger, though, in ramallah, and there have been a few press conferences. one of the few things he's said is that the palestinian authority is considering -- even in some cases he said they will now end security cooperation with israel. what would that mean? >> well, security cooperation, the sharing of intelligence, for example, between the palestinian authority and the israeli government is an extremely important foundation of what

stability we have enjoyed here in the last cup of decades that essentially dates back to the time of the oslo accords. it has endured through some very difficult political circumstances. i think we need to wait to hear a decision in a much more formal environment before we assess what steps the palestinians are take. but the very fact that that idea is being talked about in the public domain shows you how seriously the death has taken on the palestinian side and it shows you there's a determination on that side to produce a strong political response to israel. >> kevin, thanks for the update from jerusalem. the dae is coming to an end in hong kong and so too is the occupy movement, as the last barricades are being dismantled by authorities. earlier, bailiffs were breaking down the barricades.

they were removing protesters after a deadline for them to vacate came and went. more who refused to leave were arrested by police. the camps have been in three districts of hong kong. the mong kok site was cleared last month. now admiralty leaving just causeway bay. that's a map for you of hong kong. let's take you live to the scene. so many media on site as you can see there. you can actually see the amount of photographers at the scene, and only a handful of hardcore demonstrators have been left behind after hundreds of protesters have been in this camp over the past two months have gone home. so things looking pretty peaceful at the moment. let's take you over to hong kong and get the latest from babita, who is covering events for us. is there surprise there that things have been so peaceful this evening?

>> reporter: i think there is a sense of surprise, because we were always told by police that today was going to be d-day. going to launch a massive operation to clear the main protest sites here. with that came the anticipation, and the expectation that perhaps when they had previously done so, would break out into violent clashes that we saw some weeks ago between the two sides. in fact, that could not be far from the case here today. we know the bailiffs came in at around about 10:00 this morning to remove the barricades in the surrounding areas. some two or three hours later, that's when we saw the police operation under way. it was a calm one. it was methodical. and it was purposeful. they didn't rush it. they took their time to edge along this super highway and the occupation movement for the last two and a half months. as you can see from the scenes now, it is completely clear, apart from just a pocket of protesters, some 50 protesters

still -- we think about 50 or so still remain on the scene defying those orders to move. they are, though, being arrested one by one yet again in a very calm way by the authorities here and being moved off. so i think that within the next hour or so, this scene will be very different to the one that we saw two months ago when i was standing at this very spot where tens of thousands of people here. now expecting traffic to finally flow through the heart of hong kong's financial district, the first time it's been able to do that for some time. >> the protesters might have gone home, but many of them remain incredibly angry. what are they sayi ining about they plan to continue with this protest movement? >> reporter: the anger has somewhat subsided today. a lot of the protest leaders, a lot of the campaigners that supported the occupy movement

are particularly emotional. actually very moved by the fact that their homes are being torn apart by the police here. they are saddened in that respect, but they are also very proud, what they're saying what they have achieved over the last two and a half months. the next strategy remains to be seen. they have said that the umbrella revolution, the occupy movement was just phase one of their plans. they intend to carry on many bae banners before they were taken down a few hours ago. they said, we will be back, this is just the beginning. what that means, we don't yet know, but i think it's safe to say that they have in the last two and a half months managed to politicize the next young generation of hong kongers here, and that seed has been planted regarding political reforms and dialogue. what happens next, we'll find out. >> babita, thanks for joining us with that update from hong kong. drug resistant infections will kill 10 million people a year worldwide by 2050.

that is the warning on the new report on super bugs. the analysis says global action is needed if this economic and health crisis is to be averted. here's our medical correspondent fergus walsh. >> reporter: doctors have been warning for years about the growing health threat from drug resistant super bugs. it has taken an economist jim o'neill to put the eye-watering price tag on what will happen if nations continue to ignore the problem. he says drug resistance will cost the world up to 63 trillion pounds, that's 63,000 billion pounds by 2050. put another way, that's the equivalent of 35 years of the uk's entire economic output. around 700,000 people a year worldwide are killed by drug resistant infections such as e. coli, tb and malaria. that's predicted to rise by 10 million a year by 2050, more

than currently die from cancer. >> as we've seen from a number of other worrying pandemics that break out was immediate panic about trade and travel. and so that's usually when it's a very specific in some part of the world. something like this, which is going to affect everybody, it could have a devastating impact on international trade and travel and globalization. >> reporter: mr. o'neill says it will take global action and commitment from developing nations like china and india to avert the crisis. his team will now explore how to get international agreements to limit the use of antibiotics and to encourage greater investment in drug development. fergus walsh, bbc news. the royal family in monaco is celebrating the birth of twins to princess charlene and prince albert, the reigning monarch. it's the first time twins have been born since it was founded if the 13 in the 13th century.

a girl came first, a boy second. but we've heard from prince albert in the past half and hour, and he has said it's jacque who will inherit the crown. monaco celebrating with a 21-gun salute. coming up in the next half-hour, government policies guided by fear, misinformation, and the stigma against travelers from ebola-infected countries is still crippling the fight against the disease. fedex® has solutions to enable global commerce that can help your company grow steadily and quickly. great job. (mandarin) ♪ cut it out. >>see you tomorrow. ♪

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i'm lucy hockings. in this half-hour, a major ebola outbreak may have gone unreported in a remote area of sierra leone. the u.n. says health workers uncovered a grim scene with bodies piled high. i'm going to be speaking to the secretary-general of the red cross, who says that misinformation and fear is still controlling part of the battle against ebola.

does this sound familiar? we're going to find out why pop songs in myanmar can sound surprisingly similar to western hits. >> intellectual property right, human right, we have never heard about that. also on the program, aaron is here. google, aaron, closing shop in spain. >> yeah, lucy. google closing its online news service in that country. why? well, new spanish rules now means google has to pay spanish publishers for using their content. but google says it's the publishers that will lose out from all that traffic. these guys were bringing to their sites. welcome back to "gmt." there are signs that the ebola outbreak is easing slightly in two of the three most affected countries, guinea and liberia.

but in sierra leone, the number of cases are still rising. the world health organization said on wednesday that a team had reached a remote area of the country and found several bodies in a local hospital. they are now worried that an outbreak in the region is going largely unreported. meanwhile, the head of the international red cross has warned that travel bans are preventing medical workers from dealing with the ebola outbreak in west africa, and i'm pleased to say that the head of the international red cross is with me now. firstly, how much do you feel that the response we're still seeing in west africa to ebola is being guided by people's fears, by the fact that there is still so much misinformation out there? >> yeah, fear, stigma, discrimination are real, and they are driving people underground. they are leading sometimes to totally irrational behaviors that people hide that their loved one was sick, and not wanting to add up the behaviors. that's at the local level.

it goes all the way to the international level, with borders close iing, while the o good way to contain this epidemic is to be there, where it is happening at the epicenter and show solidarity. >> so you don't think issuing travel bans is effective? >> not at all. the only way to contain the epidemic is where it is happening, and that is what is breaking the chain of contamination, and transmission. that is also what will be elevating the whole world of the burden of ebola. that is in this time, when these countries and communities need international solidarity more than ever before. >> it is quite something for your workers yesterday to be part of the group named by "time" magazine as people of the year, those that are fighting ebola. but how is it for them every day? are they sort of facing the stigmatization as well? >> the volunteers of the red

cross, they live and serve in these communities. ebola came and found them there. we hope that they will still be there working with the communities. they are on the front line, creating the trust which is required for the population to entrust them with their loved ones for treatment, with the full knowledge that in up to 60% of the cases, they will not bring them back. convincing populations also to trust them with their loved ones who are diseased. because they cannot mourn the way they used to. they cannot grieve the way they used to. and this is a true partnership bi built on trust and confidence, and respond to the epidemic. >> there are so many challenges on these aid workers. are you now able to guarantee their safety, that they will be okay? >> we do everything possible to protect them because we cannot afford losing those while on the front line, losing their lives on the line of duty. this is also -- these are our heroes. these are the sources of

inspiration that motivate us, and these are the ones showing to the cities on the street that their contribution is worth making it. these are the ones also showing the message to the governments and to the british red cross that every effort to support them underground is worth it. >> i think many of us are in awe of these workers and what they do every single day. is it difficult, though, at the moment to recruit new people to help you? >> no, indeed. at the local level, people are coming more and more into the fore to be part of the solution and be part of the solidarity. internationally, though, it is becoming more and more difficult. health workers returning to their countries are being stigmatized. their families are getting very worried, and we are pleased in the red cross that we could put 200 international staff on the ground, but we need much more. and if we do not have better facilitation, it will not happen. >> what is your sense of how the disease is being contained? because on the one hand, we are hearing that things are improving. but then just today, we had these reports from a remote part

of sierra leone that bodies are being piled up high, and they didn't even know that it was bad there. are we going to see more cases like that, do you think? >> no, we have to put the same level of effort in every aspect of the response. the treatment centers are critical. but if people do not show up, they will not serve the purpose. we need to build a trust so that people develop healthy behaviors. we need to reach out to communities so that contact tracing can happen. we need to involve for religious and community leaders as part of the solution rather than being a bottleneck and a problem. we need to do safe and dignified burials, to ensure people that their loved ones are not dead bodies to be disposed of, but they are human beings that in a safe, respectful and dignified way will be put to their last place of rest and respond to the humanity that the red cross stands for. >> thank you for joining us. you can get more on the conning

fight against ebola on our website, including that gruesome discovery of bodies in this remote area of the district in sierra leone. that's at bbc.com/news. aaron is with us now with all the business. what's happening with the ruble, aaron? >> that's what's happening. continues to happen. let me explain. good to see you. we are talking about the russian currency, the ruble. it has seen further sharp falls today. even after the central bank announced -- it raised its key interest rate by 100 basis points. what's that? by 1%. taking russia's main interest rate to now 10.5%. of course, the hope is that this will make the currency more attractive to investors despite the pain the high borrowing costs are causing russian businesses and consumers. we put some numbersing to for you. take a look at this. the ruble was trading at 55.45 against the dollar. that's about half an hour after

the bank's decision was made public. but let's be frank, since the beginning of the year, the russian ruble has fallen off a cliff, the value of it. it has fallen by 40%, hit by international sanctions on russia over ukraine. of course, also, the slump in the price of russia's main export, the black stuff, oil. all this despite moscow spending an estimated $80 billion of its foreign reserves, buying up rubles on the markets, and that hopefully was trying the prop up the price. didn't really work. let's find out more. simon smith is head of research at fx pro. it's a financial brokers firm. simon, great to have you with us on the program. this rate move didn't seem to halt the slide. i'm wondering, can we go as far to say that russia is facing a currency crisis at the moment? >> depends how you define a crisis, but i think we are there. i would say a crisis is when the government wants the exchange rate to become sort of departed from the fundamental values, the

government or authorities or central bank wants to see it higher, but is not able to get it there. there are two ways you can see that. one is putting up interest rates, but also buying their currency and selling foreign currency in return. they've said they're going to move to a free flow in early 2015. but i think today we had that 1% increase. i think in reality, it would have taken more than that to put some stability under the currency, so we're down nearly another 1% in the wake of that. i think that reflects a bit of disappointment that maybe they could have done more at this point in time. >> you mentioned the word in reality. let's talk about in reality for russian consumers and businesses. 10.5% interest rate, what does it mean for them? >> well, many things. food is an expenditure. it's a higher proportion of overall spending for lower income, so it risks at some point in time causing unrest.

also for households as well. a lot of companies have gone out and borrowed in u.s. dollars, and it's that faulty billion of that maturing in the next three months. it's a lot more expensive if you have to renee dollars. some people have also got mortgages in dollars, which we saw that in hungary in recent years. it can be a real burden on households as well for those who have borrowed currency. so it is painful, especially for the lower incomes at this point in time from the inflation side. >> very, very briefly, if at all possible. was this the only tool they've got? how do they stop this slide? >> higher interest rates is still a possibility from here. it's difficult because it then starts to impinge on the economy, but they want to see ultimately more exports. they want more revenue. but the interesting fact, oil exports are down, in the u.s. they're up threefold.

they're not having the ability to actually use revenues from oil exports to sort of boost the reserves and keep the economy going. >> it's a tough situation indeed. i know we'll keep across it as you will. we'll talk to you soon. thank you very much, mate. simon smith joining us from fx pro. let's move on. let's talk about this. google, google is shutting down its google news service in spain before a new intellectual property law in that country is introduced. let me explain. google is beginning to shut its service down on the 16th of december, next week, before the law comes into effect in january. the law requires spanish publications to charge services like google news if their content is shown on that site. for more of an explanation, theo lego has been following this story. >> reporter: google news publishes short snippets of stories from a range of online outlets. it allows users to choose where the material comes from and provides links to the original articles. newspaper publishers have frequently complained that the

service infringes their copyright. google said it decided to close the site in spain because a new property law would have forced it to pay royalties to spanish publishes for using their content. it claimed because the site didn't raise money from advertising, such an approach would have been unaffordable. the company has consistently claimed that its news service channels extra traffic to the sites whose material it carries. earlier this year, the german publisher abandoned attempts to prevent google using its material because of a sharp fall in the number of online readers. theo leggett, bbc news. >> did i really say theo lego? theo leggett. if you're as old as me, you may remember one of these. it's one of the first computers made by apple, and it is being sold in new york later today. it's the only known surviving apple 1 to have been sold directly by the man himself, steve jobs, to an individual from jobs' parents' garage.

it is expected to sell today for about half a million dollars, although another apple 1 computer was sold in october this year for $905,000. so will this have everybody rummaging through their attics, hoping to make a small fortune from their old computers? i spoke to john baddeley earlier to find out. >> when you're looking at any collectible, it's very rare, fantastic condition, great provenance, i think it's going to make well over a million dollars. >> it's a particular computer we're talking about, but i don't know, if somebody's watching the story and goes hang on, i've got an old commodore computer up there, is there money to be made in these things? >> well, maybe in the future. not now. i think a commodore now, unless it's one of the very earliest ever made or a prototype, really not worth a great deal. but i've seen even walkmans are beginning to sell for a few hundred pounds.

so there is new interest in technology within our generation. >> we'll keep across that auction. follow me on twitter. you can get me @bbcaaron. some of the experts i spoke to reckon over a million. >> i am racking my britney brai. what is in my dad's garage? >> call him, have a look. >> do stay with us here on "bbc world news." still to come, we get rare access inside a woman's prison in pakistan and hear their stories of violence at the hands of not strangers, but their own family members.

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i'm lucy hockings. thanks for being with us. the top stories this hour. a bbc investigation has found that 5,000 people were killed in jihadist attacks worldwide in

the month of november alone. police in hong kong have removed the last of the pro-democracy protesters who have been occupying sites around the city for over two months now. let's turn our attention to pakistan, where police are searching for four men who are believed to have killed a family of six in revenge for the mother leaving her first husband nearly 30 years ago. this is far from an isolated incident, but it's unusual, because in most cases it's only women who were targeted in honor killings. an equal rights group in pakistan says more than a thousand women have been murdered this year alone. yelda hakeem has gained rare access to a woman's prison, also a shelter as well for women fleeing their families. >> reporter: this is the shelter for women. a heavily guarded compound perilously close to one of karachi's most notorious neighborhoods known for its

taliban sympathies. the women here have been thrown out on to the streets by their families. their crime, being accused of adultery, which is illegal in pakistan and carries a lengthy jail time. aisha came to the shelter after being accused by her husband of having an affair.

>> reporter: while the women here have paid a heavy price for daring to stand up to their families, they're considered to be the lucky ones. karachi central prison. this is where women who are accused of committing adultery can end up. this 24-year-old who doesn't want to be identified arrived at the jail four months ago after her husband of nine years accused her of sleeping with another man. >> reporter: the woman says she doesn't have access to a lawyer and doesn't know when she'll be released. she's not alone. despite a growing middle class,

gender-based violence continues in pakistan. shari'a law influences the country's legal system, but some hardliners believe accusing women of adullry is not going far enough. i found a place where thousands of boys and young men receive their religious instruction. >> reporter: here i find little sympathy for women who stray. punishing adultery is a clear-cut duty. and as religious fundamentalism gains ground, the freedoms of pakistani women are increasingly under attack. yelda hakeem, bbc news, karachi. >> and yelda is with me now. watching your report, you just get a sense from the stories those women tell, this is just tip of the iceberg what you experienced. >> absolutely, lucy. as you were saying, we hear about these cases almost every

day. just yesterday we heard about this woman who was murdered, and her family. and 30 years after the event. the sense i got from being in pakistan, and speaking to the women in the shelter and the prison, speaking to human rights activists and lawyers, is that women in pakistan are treated as the property first of their families and those families decide who they marry. so they don't have the right to choose the man that they want to marry. to choose the basic human rights of just falling in love. and then once they are married off, they become the property of their husbands. so they essentially are owned their entire life. and if they do speak out, and if they do want to live their own lives, they end up either imprisoned or brutally murdered, suffer gender-based violence or end up in a shelter. >> are there laws that protect them? there must be some. >> pakistani law is based on what was left behind from

british india. but that is influenced by shari'a law, so pakistanis in islamic state and it's influenced by shari'a law. however, stoning and lashing, as we heard in the piece, that those clerics were calling for, is not prescribed. there was an ordinance putting place in 1979 that tried to islamize pakistan and one of things that was put in place was these adultery laws. they tried to roll back on that in 2006. having said that, tribal laws overrule many of these actual pakistani laws in the urban -- the rural areas in particular. >> okay. yalda, looking forward to seeing your report. see you soon for "impact." yalda's "our world" is coming up this weekend on "bbc world news." you can see it at these times, friday as well, so make sure you catch it. you may think you're not familiar with pop music from myanmar, but because of the country's outdated copyright laws, there's a good chance that you will recognize a few of the

country's biggest hits. there is no legal barrier to taking an existing tune and reversioning it as you please. these are known as copy songs, as jonah fisher reports. >> reporter: shakira. celine dion. etch a bit of bob dylan. pretty much anything you want, she can sing it. she's one of the leading exponents of a phenomenon that's dominated burmese music for decades, the copy song. >> when i started singing, when i started my career, i have never known that we are stealing the songs. >> reporter: the lyrics of a copy song are usually original, but the tune is pinched. often from a western hit.

>> we have never taught in our school curriculum any rights, intellectual property right or copyright or human right. we have never heard about that. >> reporter: in most of the world, you have to pay royalties if you want to make royalties from someone else's hard work, but not here. the burmese artists aren't doing anything illegal. the only copyright law here is an old british one from a hundred years ago and it's aimed more at literature than music. for years, there's been talk of a new copyright law that would bring myanmar in line with international standards and also tackle rampant piracy. the intellectual property bill is currently on its 11th draft. so i ask this man from the myanmar music association what's going on. >> that's a really simple anxious, because they don't want to do it. >> reporter: he tells me powerful groups with friends in

parliament are making money from pirated music and copy songs. this is a principled but frustrated man. his band doesn't play copy songs, and perhaps as a consequence, it suspect having much commercial success. >> i think deep down, enough of copy songs. this is the time they should start writing their own stuff. >> reporter: overwhelmed by piracy and crowded out by the copies, the purists of myanmar's music scene are struggling to be heard. jonah fisher, bbc news, yangon. >> we've been hearing here on "gmt" about the fight against ebola in west africa. we're just getting some breaking news in from geneva about a very important clinical trial of a vaccine by the company merck. this trial has been interrupted, and the reason we're hearing is that all 49 volunteers in geneva

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