so call about the colonial penn program, and ask one of their representatives about a plan that meets your needs. i'm definitely gonna call about the colonial penn program. hello. you're watching "gmt" on bbc world news. i'm lucy hockings. a night of politics and a few surprises at the oscars. "birdman" swoops in to take best picture. and passionate pleas for equality and change that many people are talking about. >> it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the united states of america. another deadline for greece as it tries to avoid bankruptcy. we'll look at how the new

government is spinning its crime down on some of the austerity demands. a simple life-saving idea becomes a reality. we report from cambodia on a new global health policy that will see syringes only used once. also on the program, aaron joins us. another day in the spotlight for the bank marred by allegations over tax avoidance allegations in its swiss banking unit ppt >> hsbc dropped by 17%, although still making more than $18 billion. and now we're hearing its big boss has his own swiss bank account where he keeps his bonus money. stay tuned. we'll find out what the chief executive officer had to say not about the birds, but about his own financial arrangements. >> hello, everyone. it's noon here in london 7:00 a.m. in washington and 4:00 in the morning in los angeles. where politics took center stage

at the 87th academy awards. the two actresses who captured the main honors used their acceptance speeches to highlight equal opportunity. but civil rights immigration, mental illness, they were all raised on a night where independent films triumphed over hollywood blockbusters. from l.a., here's david willis. >> reporter: it's an evening of sumptuous glamour. the movie industry's big night out. a night when hollywood's new arrivals get to rub shoulders with some of the biggest stars on the planet. and everyone wants to talk to the man of the moment. patricia arquette was named best supporting actress for her role in "boyhood." she used her acceptance speech to make an impassioned appeal for equal rights for women. >> it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the united states of america.

>> all themes in the acceptance speeches. a middle-aged woman's battle against early onset alzheimer's disease in "still alice" gained julianne moore a best actress honor. ♪ >> "glory," the theme from "selma" not only won best original song, but brought the celebrity crowd to its feet. >> the oscar goes to eddie redmayne. >> a favorite for best actor, londoner eddie redmayne, who played stephen hawking in "the theory of everything", nonetheless, could hardly believe his luck. >> i am fully aware that i am a lucky, lucky man. this oscar -- wow! >> "birdman," the story of a fading hollywood star, played by michael keaton, took four of the top honors, including best film and best director.

♪ climb every mountain ♪ >> reporter: 50 years after "the sound of music," lady gaga channeled her inner julie andrews to perform a medley of songs, bringing the house down in the progress. david willis, bbc news in hollywood. ♪ 'til you find your dream ♪ >> what a way to end, wow, she played it deadly straight, as well, didn't she, lady gaga? with me now, karen a writer journalist, and researcher. what an interesting evening we saw. so much more political than usual, wasn't it? >> very much more. i think it's interesting that patricia arquette could step up and say these sort of things that most people would role their eyes at. i want to thank every woman that's ever given birth and it's time that all women have wage equality. and also she talks about world sanitation and ecological sanitation but it's patricia arquette and she just won, so

she's fine. >> and she was so validated by meryl streep's reaction and j.lo as well. that clip will be played over and over again. >> well half the sky, as they say, so it's not exactly that women are a minority, but she is making a point. >> what about the fact that we women went to the oscars with this backlash with the fact that all of the nominees for the acting performances were all white. we had neil patrick harris saying, tonight we honor hollywood's best and whitest -- i mean brightest. >> i felt sorry for him, because he had a tough night, and it went on for a long time. it is, it is the whitest oscars in -- well in -- well in a quite a while, quite a few years. well, i think one of the things -- they're saying it's a "12 years" backlash but there are some statistics that show that, actually because you're voting within your sector within your branch that "selma" could have been voted in but they got like 67th so they

weren't really in the -- >> and we're seeing here now, they won for best original song. and john legend when he accepted that award, talked about voting rights, justice, freedom. he talked about how many young black men in america are incarcerated. once again, politics. >> that was important. and i think he used his time well. yes, and also america is really at a tipping point right now. they've had a lot of racial issues a lot of political issues around this. and i think everyone's feeling nervous. and i think that the fact that the oscars are so caucasian this year, people are feeling very unstudy. it's going to be interesting what happens next year. >> what about the notion that this was an oscars where it was independent films that seem to be celebrated. we didn't really see the blockbusters creeping in there. and the awards were kind of evenly shared. for starters were you surprised by "birdman" winning? >> no. because i loved "birdman," and i love michael keaton and i'm sorry to see him lose.

but "whiplash" was my film of the year. five nominations, three wins and i think it's an exceptional film. it's interesting, about a year ago, they were wondering if they were going to get into sundance. so, yes, it's this magic thing that the studios can't quite do. some studios are trying it to try and get a niche audience that's not just superheros and big blockbusters. >> so why did "boyhood" not win? it was supposed to take best picture? >> it's tough. so much is political voting. i think the fact that it's nominated is a wonderful gesture towards it and a lot of people found it too subtle. it's actually a master piece of filmmaking. >> do you think this is a film we'll talk about in the years to come? do you think "birdman" is -- do you think we'll remember "birdman" won best picture? >> you know, inarritu stood up i think it was his last win, and he said, really time will tell what the good films are. in a way, the awards are just here to call attention to them but time will tell what the good films are and he's absolutely right.

>> what did you make of the best actor/best actress award? >> best actress, they were pretty much shoo-ins, although it's not -- all the nominees are top quality performers. that is a platitude, but it is true. personally, i thought that -- excuse me, i've been up all night. >> julianne moore. >> she did a wonderful job, but i think the brits showed themselves very, very strongly and i think we can be proud of our acting traditions. >> okay. well, thank you for joining us. of course one of the key things about oscars especially for me is to look what they're wearing. we all want to know about the frocks, who looked good and who didn't. we'll bring you some of those highlights a little bit later here on "gmt." but don't forget you can go to the website as well for all the details of the winners, the reaction, and the news from those afterparties. our correspondent has been at the "vanity fair" party all night and he's also contributing to the web page bbc.com/oscars. let's bring you up to date

with some other news now. the ukrainian military says it won't fall back its heavy weapons from the conflict zone in the east of the country until russian-backed rebels stop shelling its positions. a truce is meant to be enforced in the area but the latest reports speak of continued fighting. australia's prime minister tony abbott, has promised tough new anti-terrorism laws to counter what he's warned will be a long era of threats from homegrown extremists. mr. abbotts say extremists fighting with extremist groups abroad risk losing their citizenship, their right to state benefits and their freedom to travel. a court in egypt has sentenced an activist which played a major role in the 2011 uprising to five years in prison. alaa abdel fattah was convicted of violating a law that allows people to protest. and the journalists who face

terror-related charges trial has been postponed. now ooth colleague arrested with them australian peter greste was deported to australia earlier this month. well yet another deadline is looming for the greek government. it's trying, of course to stop the threat of bankruptcy. the recently elected left-wing government alexis tsipras, says it's discussing a list of reforms with its creditors that has to be submitted today. and central to its pledge is to crackdown on tax evasion and corruption. the government is hoping they can persuade the greek public that any deal will help them deliver their election promise. now joining us, a political activist. what reforms then is the greek government putting on the table today? >> well first of all, the greek government wants to change the

whole perspective of the greek tax system. they want to crack down on tax evasion and crack down on illegal gasoline and smoke consumption. and they also want to crack down on rich greeks who have sent their money abroad in recent years. especially there is a certain provision to make the greek tax authority more independent, regardless of change of government and change of the leadership. >> how is the greek government managing to spin the situation at the moment given they are going to have to give in to some of the demands of greece's creditors? >> well it is understood that the majority of greek voters especially syriza's voters were expecting some sort of a compromise with the european authorities. up to now, the information that has been given by the government

to the greek public does not include any new austerity that would make the greek public feel anger or being cheated by the pre-election pledges. but we have to wait and see what today's reform is that the greek government will send to brussels with the clues. if there are -- if the european institutions exist in near austerity, i think there will be a problem in the greek government convincing citizens and voters that they were according to their pre-election pledges. >> we focus a lot on how people feel in athens but you're on crete, which most people associate with being a holiday island. how is life for people there and what are their expectations for government? >> reporter: in crete, the poverty levels are significantly less than in urban areas. in athens, especially there is very big population part of population, which live under the poverty line.

and this has been very harsh conditions for thousands of people so i would say that tourism and exports of agricultural goods have helped some areas of greece being able to cope with the crisis. but urban areas have been very hard hit with the crisis. >> thanks so much for joining us from crete. let's take you to thailand now, where two students have been jailed for two years over a play that they put on at the university. their crime was insulting the king. police are also looking for six other people. let's take you to bangkok. our correspondent, jonathan head, was at that hearing. jonathan it may sound incredible to some people. these were young students putting on a play. what did they do exactly? >> reporter: that's all they did. and they insisted in court today, when i spoke to them that they didn't see they'd done anything wrong. but they did know what they did

was risky. the play was an allegory referring to a fictional kingdom, in which there was a king with his adviser. there were elements of the king's character that could have been made him seem as though he was -- they were referring to the current king of thailand. now, when they put this play on back in 2013 it was a different government. people were tending to test the limits a little bit more about what you could say about the monarchy. i think people felt a little less vulnerable than they have in the past. that has changed since the coup last year. the current military government has made it clear that defending the monarchy's reputation is a priority and it will not tolerate even the smallest hint of criticism. and it's gone after people who have not just been saying recently, but people may have done something in the past. they want to send a very clear message, it's time that the king is very old and we're dough for a sensitive succession. these students have fallen into that web of people they were

trying round. there was some consideration of their age. they pleaded guilty. they have no crime record before. but the judge side because it damaged the monarchy in his view, there was no choice he had to send them to prison. >> jonathan there's also a ban, of course, on demonstrations as well. do most thais feel the sense at the moment that they actually can't express any political dissatisfaction with what's happening? >> reporter: i think they understand that the rules are a great deal stricter than they were in the past. the military has made that clear. anytime there's been any attempt, to send even the smallest symbols, the military moves in very quickly. it rounds people up. any politician makes any comment that's deemed controversial, they're whipped away as well. it's not a climate of really fierce repression. these people are basically talked to they're threatened with much harsher measures and then let go. but people understand that things are much tougher. i have to say that now, eight months after the coup we're

hearing a lot many more people coming out and saying this really isn't acceptable. how are we going to discuss this country's future. have the reconciliation that the military has talked about, if people simply can't speak their minds. but on the issue of the monarchy, people have always understood in thailand that it is something that the establishment, the elite, will not tolerate. you know people respect the monarchy here, traditionally, there's a great deal of affection for the king. but they also fear the laws that surround the king. people are very very nervous and frightened about talking about the monarchy at all. it is younger people and some other activists who have come out in recent years and said well, we've got to challenge that. what the military is making clear is that the law still stands and it will be enforced now, more harshly, perhaps, than it ever has before. >> jonathan, thanks for joining us from bangkok. stay with us here on bbc world news. still to come we'll take a look at how kenya's biggest slum is getting a facelift. t, i have a wandering eye. i mean, come on.

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every day, 4,000 people around the world die because of the reuse of dirty syringes. millions are also infected with hiv and hepatitis. well, now a major campaign has been launched to reduce these cases. the w.h.o is recommending the use of a new type of syringe that can only be used once. however, it does come too late for 272 people in the cambodian village. they have already tested hiv positive. as david shipman now reports from raqqa, they received injections from an unlicensed doctor suspected of reusing his syringes. >> reporter: i'm in cambodia in the village of raqqa, which is in the grip of a health crisis because more than 200 people here have been infected with hiv. they'd all been given injections by a local unlicensed medic, suspected of reusing syringes and needles. so the question is is there any way to avoid this kind of thing from happening again?

well, with me is mark koska, who's come up with a design for a better kind of syringe. talk us through the comparison of a normal syringe and your one. this is a normal syringe, made in billions around the world, but because of the design, you can use it as many times -- >> it's easy to refill. >> exactly. and you can't sterilize them. >> there's no way of doing that in a guaranteed way? >> no. so this is an auto-disable syringe, which after use locks, and then breaks -- >> that click is the break? >> exactly. so it can never be reused again. >> now, this idea seems blindingly obvious, but you've been pushing for this for, what, 30 years. where's the resistance come from? >> i think there's resistance in many different points. from putting in legislation and policy to manufacturers changing over to a product, which quite frankly, isn't that exciting on an economic basis for them. >> they don't make a lot of money out of it? >> correct.

so there are a combination of different barriers. but it seems that we've got the perfect storm. and now with all the components, we will have a chance of putting these out around the world and replacing standard syringes forever. >> reporter: now, right now, here in raqqa, there are all of these people, young children, families, infected with hiv. it must be incredibly frustrating for you to see that? >> it's amazingly traumatic for me to see this firsthand. i travel a lot and do see it everywhere i go. but it's also motivating, to make sure that this finally takes place on a global scale. >> is it conceivable that the world would switch to single-use syringes or syringes you just literally can't use again? >> it's totally, totally possible. we've already done this with immunizations, which represents less than 10% of the injections given in the developing world.

and that has been a fantastic success. now we're targeting the 90% of what we call curative injections, the ones given here in raqqa, with reused equipment, which cause the problem. >> mark, many thanks, indeed. mark koska there. so, in fact, today, the world health organization is announcing a new policy, for the world to switch to syringes that can only be used once. they want that to happen by 2020. we'll have to see if that's going to be possible. >> our david shipman there in cambodia. nairobi's district is one of the largest slums. it's the portrait of filthy living. so much so that tourists visit the area to see just how poor people live. all that is changing now, though. bbc went to see how a facelift of the slums is changing the lives of its residents.

>> reporter: this sprawling slum is very much part of the city. it is a source of cheap labor and criminals. for a long time, its residents have lived in squalor. but lately the resident have said making their home a better place to live. it's all part of a national improvement program. the government minister is emily. >> this is now the new face. we hope that eventually even before they move to any other center of housing, this should be the minimum that people live in. the houses should at least be decent, they should be permanent, and they should have the basic standards of sanitation. >> reporter: the program involves construction of roads, clinics and an installation of streets and floodlights. looking around this part of the slum, the only permanent building i can see is this toilet. before, the residents used what they called flying toilets.

they put human wastes in paper bags and threw them as far as they could. and when you look around there are many bumps. it could be where those flying toilets landed. >> the flying toilets would make us sick but now we won't catch diseases as often as we did before. >> i didn't get a job and now i have these projects and it's giving us cash. >> reporter: but not everyone is happy. >> translator: i can see the change but as a businesswoman, i've suffered. my customers would replace the construction. >> the project was not here. and look behind me they are calling it. so i got here within a span of

100 meters you put two clinics. you clearly should uplift the one existing. >> reporter: more than 3,500 people from the slum are paid to do the cleanup and projects like vegetable farming. the project will wind up soon. the government hopes the youth will continue running the businesses on their own, but skeptics think they won't. a whale has been set free off the coast of hawaii after spending as long as a week tangled in fishing lines attached to a buoy. a group of marine specialists spotted the struggling whale from the shore and they set out to try to free it. as you can see here they used a long hook and were able to cut away most of the look. and a last look with an underwater camera seeing the whale swimming away free and capturing some fantastic footage as well. stay with us here on "gmt," coming up in the next half hour

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i'm lucy hockings. in this half hour the upcoming battle to free iraq's second biggest city mosul, from islamic state. kurdish fighters will be a key part of that operation. we're joined by kurd stan's foreign minister to talk about the challenges ahead. london fashion week is well underway. how does what we see on the catwalk, though translate, into what we actually buy in the shop? also on the program, aaron is here. i'm really worried, aaron, you're going to leave us to chase your dreams. >> lucy that's it i'm off, because british airways has

started its recruitment drive for its pilot cadet program. anybody from 18 to 55 years old can have a crack at it. and let me tell you, pilots are in huge demand. so stay tuned, because we're going to find out why the world needs more than half a million pilots in the next 20 years. oh and why there's such a lack of women in the cockpit. when islamic state fighters took over the iraqi city of mosul last year the world finally sat up and recognized that the group was going to be a big problem. well, the iraqi government and the u.s. last week gave details of a planned assault to take the city back. it heavily involves the kurdish peshmerga forces. with me now here in the studio the foreign minister of iraqi kurdistan. thank you for being with us on

"gmt." >> thank you. >> let's start by talking about this planned military operation to take back mosul. do you think it's a good idea to announce this plan, to possibly even give timings of the plan? >> well part to have the transparency and the international community talk about it, but militarily we are talking to the people to prepare ourselves for that. >> are you prepared? could peshmerga forces go in now and help retake mosul? >> peshmergas are ready to play their role but there needs to be sunni and iraqi component in order to make sure that the effort is successful. >> perhaps the bigger question is, are the iraqi forces ready? >> that's all question. we're talking to the americans and iraqi, they have to be ready. there has to be an iraqi operation, kurds are ready to play their role and contribute positively, because we haven't taken this as long as mosul is under the control of the i.s. terrorists, we do not feel safe and secure. there are a number of areas that are still within the range of their artillery and their mortars twb therefore mosul is

key to defeating iraq. >> but you say iraqi forces have to be ready. there is a general feeling out there that they're not. so what more needs to be done to get them into a position that they are ready, with your forces, to go in there and take back mosul? >> the unfortunate reality is that as a result of the policies of the former prime minister maliki the sunni component, marginalizes and excludes the political process, and his anti-kurdish policies created a situation that the iraqi army was a sectarian army not an iraqi army and it collapsed within ten hours. therefore, we have to build that kind of confidence in the iraqi army, so the people of mosul feel it's an raker army coming not a sectarian-led army coming. therefore the sunnis play an important role in this equation. the sunnis of mosul, the tribes of mosul, the sunni political figures have to be on board and we have to be working together was the situation is such it cannot afford failure. >> does the u.s. have the right

strategy in terms of fighting islamic state at the moment? because there are those who say, it's far too limited militarily to ever succeed. >> well we are grateful to the u.s.-led international coalition. we are thankful to the air strikes. but we need to see a clear-cut strategy to end isis not to limit and contain isis. because isis continuing like now, would be a dangerous threat to all of us. and no one is immune. neither from the region powers or the international community. therefore, it's a collective responsibility for all of us to work together to learn that. they are talking to us. they are talking to baghdad, but we need to do more. we have to prepare ourselves in order to carry out an operation, and that will be a heavy blow to the isis terrorists in mosul and beyond. >> how do your friends, your family, people you know feel about islamic state? because there they are, pressing right in on your borders. is it a threat that people feel every day, that they worry about every day? >> we are worried and concerned,

but we are not a threat of isis. we have proven to everybody that isis is defeatable. we have defeated them. it's not that indefensevincible power. and by the way, we have not surrendered to saddam hussein, who had everything as his disposal, including chemical weapons, we did not surrender to saddam hussein. but the point is peshmerga do need support from the international community. peshmerga need helmet night google vision as well as weapons to fight isil. >> let's say they ask to retake mosul, who then retakes the city who's in charge of governments, given there are many kurds in the city? >> one third of the city is kurdish, but we want to see a power-sharing arrangement. but the realities on the ground have changed since last year. therefore the best solution we

would see is not a centralized system it is a consideration of three sovereign states within the boundaries of iraq. that ensures the shias and share the power in iraq. >> how are your relations right now with the government in baghdad? because there are still allegations coming from them that you're not paying your dues in terms of oil revenue. i mean there has always been tension. >> well, indeed we have joined the government in order to see a different government and the former prime minister. but unfortunately, the current government has been saying the right thing, but not been doing the right thing. the current government owes the budgets of 2014. they owe the budget of january and february of this year. the very peshmerga you mentioned are fighting in the front line have not received their salary for december january, and february, and the people of kurd stan have not received their salary. we are committed to the agreement that we have reached with baghdad, we will be abiding by that agreement, but baghdad has to offer it and to show us

that they are open to this agreement. >> is there still an ultimate ambition for the independence of iraqi kurdistan? >> right now, the priority is to defeat isis. and one step before independence would be a consideration in iraq within the current boundaries to secure a better future for our people. we have suffered a lot and we have been oppressed a lot. >> can you tell us about these rumors that we've heard about peshmerga fighters that have been captured that are in cages, are being threatened perhaps, with being burnt alive, like we saw with the jordanian pilot. that there is on the table the possibility of a prisoner exchange. is this the case? >> there has been no exchange between us, because there is no way that you can deal with a terrorist group. but that will not stop us. that will not stop us. we have sacrificed a lot and there have been a large number of peshmergas who have been martyred and we have a large

number of peshmergas who have been wounded, but we will not stop. we are determined to fight them and we will defeat them. >> thank you for joining us on the program. >> thank you. if you want more on the story, we have a special section on our website on islamic state. we've got video there, analysis for you, background. there's a map you can see there that we're showing as well a look at the territory that they do have mosul being on that map too. go to bbc.com/news for more. time to join aaron now for all the business. aaron? >> lucy thanks very much. starting off with the big bank hsbc once again back in the spotlight. hello there. yes, the british banking giant has seen its profits fall by 17%, although saying that, it still made more than $18 billion. now the company which has apologized for the tax evasion scandal surrounding its swiss bank has been hit by fines, compensation for misselling, and

higher operation costs. >> the numbers are actually slightly on the downside. hsbc share price this morning has dropped by 5%. their earnings per share are down. their profits before tax are down. their return on equity that's the return they get on the mup they're investing in their business, is down. higher operating expenses. their investment bank has been struggling. they also raised a very interesting point about the european union and the possibility of britain leaving the european union, saying that that would be a risk a greater risk, than trying to reform the european union and staying in. so clearly, there are some big head winds. you've also touched, of course on the revelations overnight that stuart gulliver in the past didn't only have a swiss bank account, but also had a panamanian structure to keep the details of this has bonus payments secret. he made a remarkable point on

the conference call i've just been on with him this morning, where he said that the hong kong bank in the 1990s, anyone could look at anyone else's payments. he was the highest paid executive in hong kong. therefore he opened this swiss account to hide details from his hong kong colleagues. and in switzerland, to hide details from his swiss colleagues he opened the pan panamanian structure. he did say the panamanian structure had now been closed. i asked him directly whether the swiss bank account had been closed, and he said he wasn't getting into that. the inference being he still has some form of swiss bank account. but he made the point very very clearly, no wrongdoing. he has paid full taxes on all his earnings in the united kingdom at the top rate of tax. sop this doesn't appear to be a tax issue. it appears to be a confidentiality issue. >> we'll keep across that take. fancy a new career? it seems like pilots are in huge

demand. british airways has started today its recruitment drive. i say recruitment drive, but it's a pilot program that helps would-be flyers get a place at an approved training skill. but with the cost of training is this something to consider? take a look at this. according to boeing the manufacturer, world airlines will need look at that 533,000 new pilots in the next 18 years. it costs roughly around $90,000 to $1,000 for the training but are the salaries anything to write home about it? according to the british airline pilot's association, $60,000 is what you can earn at the lower end of the spectrum on large european carriers. i spoke earlier to an airline industry expert about what the companies need. take a listen to this. >> it's more imminent than the future. if you look at the rapid deployment of new aircraft to the gulf state airlines they put a very very urgent need to put pilots in them to fly them. in chooun it's not just about

the new aircraft. they're building new airfields or airports at a very rapid rate. so therefore people will be flying them and will need to have pilots on them. >> yep. i'm off. i'm off. i'm off. hello, skip! one of the reasons, part of the recruitment program for british airways is recruiting more women, more female pilots. only 5% of pilots around the world are female. i've got one of the 5%. emily lester is a first officer, british airways. hello, thank you for the hat. you know you're not getting it back, by the way. british airways, you're one of what 200 female pilots out of nearly 3,000 for british airways. what's wrong with that? why does the industry lag many other industries about getting women on board? >> the problem is, we're just not seeing women applying in the same numbers as men, that's something we're really looking to you've in this latest recruitment drive. >> and doing what? we hear about the science industry, certainly here in the uk, say in the last year or so

really making -- we're trying to make it sexy right to get that message to young -- it's about planting the seed early, isn't it? >> absolutely. we're beginning the work in that, going into schools and just getting the idea out there. obviously, historically it's been a very male-oriented career. that's not the case anymore, but perhaps for women growing up today, they're not getting that exposure to seeing female pilots. >> how did you start? do you have a background in aviation, a family? >> no not at all. and it wasn't really something i considered growing up. it's only when i was at university and started flying with university air squadron that i got into it and thought, i actually would enjoy a career in this. >> and you love it? >> i absolutely love it. >> this is a program. anybody -- anybody can apply. i've already got the cap, i don't even need to apply. but, no, it's 18 to 55-year-olds. no experience necessary. and then what? you go through a whole process of -- >> yeah if you've got the passion, your interested the program will take you right through from the beginning, we do about five months of technical training all the

theory, that's the heavy stuff, the ground school learning about how the planes fly and all the systems, and we go into the flying training and the hands-on stuff. and before you know it you're sitting up there in the front seat of an airbus. >> and despite what people say, you're not up there pressing a few buttons and the plane's doing the job. hands-on. >> absolutely. >> of course the computer does some. >> it's a balance. we are managing the computers and the systems, but we always do the takeoffs and the landings. >> talk about that. there is a rumor within the industry that will suggest that females make better pilots than male. all my pilot friends out there the males will -- but, you know, they say it's something to do up here. you think differently than we do? >> i would like to thing so. but we're all trained to exactly the same standards as each other. the male and the females are at the same level. >> and that's interesting, because you all, you're trained at the same level, you all make

the different grade, your paid, your salaries are all equal. many other industries, women say, men get paid more. >> you're done the training, you're perfectly equal. >> the message is for women. any girls, women, get in there, make the application pemly, good luck. i hope you'll be on board one day with you. that's it lots going on. follow me on twitter, i'll tweet you right back. hey, lucy, you'd make a good pilot. >> i should have that cap. bring it over to me aaron. >> do you want it? >> yeah bring it over. >> right, there's the cap. >> do stay with us here on b brksb >> do stay with us here on b brksbbc world news. still to come, plenty more coming up. see you in a moment.

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i'm lucy hockings. our top stories this hour. the movie "birdman" swoops in to take the top award at the oscars. it was a night that was dominated by politics. greece prepares to extend a bailout extension. some pictures to bring you now that we've just received in from ukraine. you may remember yesterday, there was a bomb and two people were killed at a rally. it was held to mark the anniversary of the uprising that toppled ukraine's pro-russian president, but 100 people were killed. there was a rally that took place and two people were killed. what you're seeing now is police

arresting a number of men after that blast. they say, police said the suspects received weapons and training from russia. so four suspects receiving weapons and instructions from russia, according to ukrainian police. just want to update you on what is happening in the rest of the country. the ukrainian military say it won't pull back its heavy weapons from the conflict zone until russian-backed rebels stop shelling its position. the context is that there is meant to be a truce enforced in the area. over the weekend, both sides said that they would start withdrawing their artillery, but what we're hearing from ukraine, from our sources there, is that there is continued fighting taking place in that conflict zone. let's return now to the uk. there's a general election coming up of course and two of the country's most senior politicians are having to defend themselves now after being caught by secret phoning.

jack straw and sir malcolm rifkind were filmed offering their services to a private company for cash. with more here's our political editor, robert brand. >> reporter: these are two of the most experienced mps around. both are former senior cabinet ministers. both men were filmed by undercover reporters posing as representatives as a fake chinese company. jack straw is heard describing how he operated under the radar. he also talks about how much he charges for his advice. >> obviously, there's the -- if we get down the track, there's the issue of what the fee -- >> oh, of course, i don't know if you have a daily rate in mind. >> normally if i'm doing a speech or something, it's 5,000 pounds a day. >> sir malcolm rip kind is claimed to have said he could see any foreign ambassador in london if he wanted, so he could provide access that is useful.

the mp is also heard saying, he doesn't get a salary. >> i am self-employed, so nobody pays me a salary. i have to earn my income, but when i'm not doing something, i can do what i like. >> jack straw has been suspended from the parliamentary labor party at his own request. in a statement, mr. straw said the discussions were about what i might do once i left the commons, not whilst i was still serving as an mp. sir malcolm told the bbc, i would not assist any company to acquire information that was not already public. he insisted this had no bearing on his role as the chairman of parliament's intelligence and security committee, which overseas the work of mi5 and mi6. a full investigation by parliament's commission of the standards is now certain, but that could take months. >> sir malcolm has also now been suspended from the conservative party as well. london fashion week it's in

full swing at the moment. well underway with over 250 designers showcasing their work to a global audience of media and retailers. but how do what we see on the catwalk translate to what we actually see in the shop. bbc has been speaking the to four people at the heart of the industry. ♪ >> reporter: although you may not wear the exact look that you see coming down the runway on a model, you will pick up little things and hints, it could be the color that's used, could be a new fabric could be a detail or embellishment like fringing or pearls or embroidery or could be the length of the skirt. >> in years gone past it could be six months to a year before the trends you saw on the runway at fashion week were saw on high

street. now that process can be as short as three weeks. and there's more demand. the internet has a effect on fashion. not just on fashion, but technology as well. people want their technology and media faster and they definitely want their fashion faster. >> high street fashions are just as relevant as others because they'll take the catwalk trends and shows and make those pieces really accessible to peel not in the industry. particular designs that have inspired collections, i would probably say celine and the pink. that pink was so popular. and everyone was wearing it. and everyone wanted it. and we bought more and more and more of it throughout the season. season. >> a lot of what we have to do is present ideas.

the ideas are what filters down. they percolate, like coffee on to the street. it is a good idea. why wouldn't you make 2,000 of them? why would you make only ten? i don't get up in the morning and think about making clothes for only two people, you know? i'm interested in actually having an influence. >> well of course the fashion on the red carpet at the oscars could be coming the way of the high street next. let's take a look at what the stars were wearing. just warning, there is some flash photography. ♪

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