the challenges mustafa faces are no i'm ben bland with bbc news. less daunting than when we first our top story: met him, when he was five, president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort‘s jailed for 47 months. but he's no less determined. the syrian war has it's a considerably shorter spell created many mustafas, in prison than was expected children whose injuries after he was found guilty and loss will stay with them for the rest of their lives. of a number of fraud offences. his conviction stems you are watching newsday on the bbc. from the inquiry being conducted millions of syrian children can now by robert mueller. only remember living as refugees, i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. many in makeshift camps the headlines: president trump's former campaign britain says it will grant formal chairman paul manafort‘s been with no homes to return to. diplomatic protection sentenced to four years to nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, the british—iranian dual national injailfor tax fraud — ruah, who was born detained in iran. a considerably shorter when the conflict began, the foreign secretary says iran is also eight. hasn't given her the medical spell than expected. and legal aid. britain escalates efforts to secure nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe‘s release from an iranian jail, and this story is giving the dual citizen diplomatic trending on bbc.com. a pretty cobbled street in paris has protection. become such a huge hit on instagram that residents of rue cremieux are calling on the city council to restrict access to users looking to take the perfect photo. a blogger says this illustrates how i'm ben bland in london. also in the programme: the search for the perfect picture could become a problem. five years on from one of aviation‘s biggest mysteries, will the disappearance of mh370 ever be solved? that's all. stay with bbc world news. and we speak to three chinese women about empowerment, relationships and freedom as we mark and the top story in the uk:

international women's day i want to be who i am, not what the society wants me to be. live from our studios in singapore ruah is often sick. and london, this is bbc world news — she needs her tonsils out but her family can't it's newsday. afford the operation. her father can't work because his leg was shattered good morning. by a sniper‘s bullet. it's 8am in singapore, iam in london, and 8pm in alexandria, virginia where in the past hour president trump's former campaign chief paul manafort has been it crushes him to see her suffer sentenced to 47 months in prison and not be able to help. for banking and tax fraud offences. back in jordan, mustafa he had been expected to receive a much lengthier sentence — is saying his evening prayers. up to 2a years injail. shortly after the sentence was announced, paul manafort‘s defence attorney spoke briefly it's only recently that mustafa has stopped screaming in his sleep, to reporters outside the courthouse. but his grandmother still can't rest.

she lies awake, she says, as you heard in court today, mr terrified of what will happen to him when she is gone. ma nafort as you heard in court today, mr manafort finally got to speak for caroline hawley, bbc news, amman. himself. he made clear except international women's day will be celebrated around the world responsibility for his conduct. and, on friday, as people unite to champion the advancement of women's rights i think most importantly, what you and gender equality. saw today is the same thing that we in china, eight march has been had said from day one, there is a national holiday since 1949, absolutely no evidence that paul and many companies offer female ma nafort absolutely no evidence that paul employees a half—day manafort was involved with any on international women's day. collusion with any government official from a rush the bbc spoke to three women collusion with any government officialfrom a rush hour. thank you, everybody. about what it means to be a woman in modern china. —— russia. the bbc‘s gary o'donoghue has the latest from the courthouse. 47 months in prison is far less than i would rather do my own thing paul manafort could have expected. and enjoy my own life. prosecutors were pushing for up to translation: i hope all chinese 24 prosecutors were pushing for up to 2a years behind bars. but thejudge women can learn to enjoy the pleasures of sex. said that kind of sentence would be unwarranted. just before sentence i have no interest in having a baby. was passed, paul manafort spoke to the court. he was seated in a wheelchair wearing a green jumpsuit. the main stereotype of girls he said the past two years had been in china is that you are ready the most of the old ones of his life to get married, and second, and he asked the court for it's kind of normal if you go compassion. he will have to pay to college, but don't go too far.

restitution of $24 million and fines of $50,000. next week he will face like, if you ended up studying at phd, people will say you will be sentencing in a separate case in the an old virgin and nobody will marry district of columbia, where he could you because you are too get another ten years in jail. the intelligent, too knowledgeable. question now is the extent to which this is in luang prabang in laos. is co—operation, before it broke and this is a picture i took down with the special counsel robert in pyongyang in north korea. mueller, how much that will feed into robert mueller‘s final report a female solo traveller in china, especially for a lot of men, on alleged russian collusion with is not acceptable. the trump campaign and whether or some people would comment not mr manafort will gadd pardons by on my blog, saying, if a girl is travelling around the world the president for the crimes he has by herself she is just a "human sofa" because everyone committed —— will gadd pardons. is sitting on her. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. british foreign secretaryjeremy i want to be who i am, hunt has said the uk will provide "diplomatic protection" not what society wants me to be. to nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, the british—iranian mother held in iran, accused of spying. the move is unlikely to secure mrs zaghari—ratcliffe‘s immediate release, but it represents a formal translation: my company is the first recognition of her treatment by iran that london calls ‘unacceptable‘ online sex resource for women in china and we teach them how and elevates it to a formal state—to—state issue. the bbc‘s diplomatic correspondent james landale says the move to enjoy their sexual relationships. is extremely rare. china's sex education makes people here think sex is vulgar.

there is barely any reliable sex information here for adults, and i want my company to fill that void. essentially what it means, the british government has decided that the first thing we teach is that the way nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe has been treated by iran has not met women's bodies are their own. you should study it, use it and learn how to pleasure yourself. its international obligations. she some have said we have opened has not been given the right medical a new world for them, that we are like a beacon of light, oi’ has not been given the right medical or been treated properly and the law giving women their confidence. courts. so it has decided to give full protection to nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe. what it means is the situation in china this instead of being a consular is that your mother will say, issue, this is a formal legal you know, women must have children. dispute between the british government and the iranian government. in practical terms, that such stereotypes are objectifying us does not mean that iran is now to be like machines. forced to do anything, to treat are a woman's value should not lie in giving birth. ina forced to do anything, to treat are in a better way injail in tehran now is a prime time for my career. where she has been held since 2016, what it does mean is that the i never want to have a baby, british government can raise the not now or in the future. case more easily in international i am considering having an endometrial ablation. forums like the united nations, because it is not a consular issue, it is a very good way to avoid getting pregnant. as they say, it is a formal i also hope a future partner

international dispute between two nations. the britishjournalfor would consider a vasectomy. more allies and tried to put more pressure on iran. james landale you have been watching newsday. there. also making news today: i'm ben bland, in london. in pakistan, the man who led a campaign to expose one and i'm sharanjit leyl, of the country's most notorious in singapore. stay with us. so—called "honour killings" has been shot dead in the city of abbottabad. afzal kohistani drew attention to the case in 2012 in which a group of women were allegedly killed after being filmed singing a wedding song while two men danced. hgppy happy international women's day. we will be looking at the multimillion the response to an ebola outbreak in the east of the democratic republic of the congo is failing to bring the epidemic under control — dollar female will be looking at the multimillion dollarfemale hygiene will be looking at the multimillion according to the medical charity dollar female hygiene industry. doctors without borders. and putting the spotlight on india, where, despite having one of the world's the charity says this is partly due fastest growing economies to what it calls a climate in the world, most women are still not of deepening community mistrust. buying sanitary products. stay with bbc world news. in thailand, a court has ruled that hello. an opposition political party be if you thought thursday was windy, get used to it. dissolved for having nominated a member of the thai royal family very blustery weather on the way as its candidate for prime minister. all the way through the weekend into next week. last month the thai raksa chart unsettled too, wet at times. opposition party sent shockwaves throughout the country when it broke a bit of a lull as we begin friday. with convention and nominated frosty, but sunny for many of us, princess ubolrata na as their candidate. clouding over with rain later. the move comes with just here's the satellite picture. more than two weeks before this area of low pressure

has brought the windy weather, the wet weather in places on thursday. a bit of a gap between weather systems. voters head to the polls. we are in that gap as friday begins, but it's a cold we are in that gap as friday begins, but it's a cold gap. the canadian prime minister has you can see the blue showing up tried to play down the damage where temperatures will be a series of ministerial resignations at their lowest as friday starts. has done to his government. widespread frost around, scraping the ice off the car. justin trudeau said he'd made mistakes after two people resigned misty in places. lots of sunshine for most of us from his cabinet over at the start of the day. a corruption case. mr trudeau insists he acted within the law in his handling we can see more cloud pushing of the corruption scandal involving the firm snc—lavalin, across the uk during the morning but admits there was a lack of trust and then further outbreaks of rain spreading from west to east as the day goes on. increasingly light and between his ministers. patchy as it does so. notjust rain, the hills of scotland north of the central belt will see a bit of snow as well. facebook says it will try to stop the spread of misinformation about vaccines on its network. it will remove misleading content and disable accounts that continue to violate facebook‘s policies on vaccine information. it will not be as windy thursday, the company has faced pressure though it is still breezy out there. to tackle the problem. outbreaks of measles temperatures mostly in the united states and elsewhere around 7—11 degrees. a bit of snowfall also into shetland were attributed to the growing before that system begins numbers of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children. to clear away, and as we go japan is also fighting the worst into friday night, still showers pushing into the north—west of the uk on that breeze. wintry on the hills. not going to be as cold as friday

morning, by the time we're all up measles outbreak in years. and about on saturday for the start of the weekend, but it is going to be an unsettled one, with low pressure close by all the time. british and european union the atlantic is in charge negotiatiors are preparing to work of the weather, pushing through the weekend to try to break in disturbances occasionally. the deadlock over brexit, at the very least that means before a crucial vote next tuesday. we will be getting some there are nowjust 22 days to go showers, carried on strong to gale—force winds, until the 29th of march — so that will make it feel the date britain is quite cold, even though temperatures due to leave the eu. will not be too far from average. concerns are growing some wet weather at about the possibility of britain times, notjust rain leaving without a deal. but snow, especially eu officials have given the uk on hills, but also some until tomorrow to come up with fresh sunshine occasionally too. proposals for brexit negotiations. the best of the sunshine will be across the east and south—east of the country on saturday. showers already to the north—west will push further east during the day and it'll be a windy day once again. and at the international space we can expect gusts fairly widely station the inner hatch around 40—50 miles an hour, which will make it of the spacex dragon vehicle feel colder than these was being closed by astronauts. temperatures might suggest. it's so that on friday morning, some of these showers america's first private space craft might merge to give longer spells of wet can return to earth — and that will mark the end weather at times. of its test flight. plenty of showers coming it's been docked at the space in during sunday and there is a more station for the last six days wintry component to these showers, as astronauts ran tests which could see it approved by nasa so we could well see sleet or hail to lower levels out to carry people later this year. of these as well. again, it's going to be windy. these are average speeds, but gusts will be around 40—50 miles

an hour once again. temperatures a little lower on sunday, so it will feel even colder in that wind. that's your forecast. there are renewed fears over the rate at which the giant greenland ice sheet is melting. a new study suggests more rain rather than snow now falls in the long arctic winter, speeding up the process. if the ice sheet disappeared completely, sea levels could rise seven metres, threatening coastal population centres around the world. here's our science editor david shukman. a torrent of water pouring off the greenland ice sheet. there is so much ice locked away here, that if the whole lot melds the level of the sea around the world would rise by seven metres. and then once it is level and will leave it to to take the measurement. until now, scientists thought the big threat to theice

scientists thought the big threat to the ice was from the warm sunshine of summer, but there is now something else for them to worry about— brain. these pictures were taken at a research while rain was falling, and it melts the ice, not just in the summer, but also in the winter, when the ice should be expanding. a big shock for research is. it shows us that the ice sheet is. it shows us that the ice sheet is becoming vulnerable, even in winter, and that is frightening to see, because you expect there is a huge ice sheet and a lot of base and if you see the big area, the vastness of the ice sheet, and you see how vulnerable it becomes, even at times when it should gain mass. the big surprise is that even when green lane should be at its goldust, there can be flows of warm, wet hair coming up from the south, and these are happening more frequently —— greenland. after five days of clear sky conditions we have this brain. this scientist, jason box, needed

shelter from the rain on the ice sheet, and he says that global warming will make this more likely in future. there is a simple threshold, the melting point. when the temperature goes above that you get rain instead of snow. so in a warming climate it is not rocket science that we are going to have more rain at the expense of snow. two years ago i saw for myself how theice two years ago i saw for myself how the ice of greenland is melting, what happens here has the potential to threaten cities and communities on coastlines everywhere. which is why watching it so closely really matters. david shukman, bbc news. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: as syria's civil war enters its eighth year, we talk to children who haven't ever known a syria at peace. also on the programme: empowerment, relationships, and freedom. what international women's day means to these three women in china.

the numbers of dead and wounded defied belief. this the worst terrorist atrocity on european soil in modern times. in less than 24 hours then the soviet union lost an elderly sick leader and replaced him with a dynamic figure 20 years his junior. we heard these gunshots in the gym. then he came out through a fire exit and started firing at our huts. god, we were all petrified. james earl ray, aged 41, sentenced to 99 years and due for parole when he's 90, travelled from memphis jail to nashville state prison in an eight—car convoy. paul, what's it feel like to be married at last? it feels fine, thank you. what are you going to do now? is it going to change your life much do you think? i don't know really. i've never been married before.

this is newsday on the bbc. i'm sharanjit leyl, in singapore. i'm ben bland, in london. our top stories: president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort‘s been sentenced to 47 months in prison for tax fraud — a considerably shorter spell than expected. britain says it will grant formal diplomatic protection to nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, the british—iranian dual national detained in iran, due to lack of legal and medical aid. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world: the new york times looks at a superhero movie that's putting women in the spotlight.

the spacefaring comic book character captain marvel hits screens on friday. but the paper wonders why it took them so long to find a female lead. the south china morning post reports that chinese women earn a fifth less than men. apparently the average female worker earns 78.2% of the wages paid to a male employee. and the gap is widening, according to a recent study. and the japan times have brightened up their front page, with something rather colourful. a work by the artist kunihiko nohara. it's among the pieces displayed at the annual tokyo art fair. so don't forget to check it out if you happen to be there. it's been five years since mh370 went missing.

the boeing 777 was carrying 239 passengers and crew when it disappeared over the south china sea in the early hours of march 8, 2014. as the five year anniversary hits us, experts are still unable to determine what really happened to the plane. jeffrey thomas is an editor in chief covering the aviation industry for more than 40 years. do you think we will learn whatever happened to that flight? look, i certainly do. i think, we as a race, want to find things, like we found the hms sydney and others. we have a natural curiosity that drives us to find out what happens to aeroplanes and ships. we need to find this if for

no other reason than to give closure to the relatives and loved ones left behind and i believe we are very, very close and there is a lot of momentum building for another search. in the general area where we have been looking at. why now, five yea rs have been looking at. why now, five years on? because we need to find exactly what happened to this aeroplane. was it mechanical? most people say it was a human factor issue. it is extremely unlikely it was to do with the aeroplane. we need to give closure to the relatives and the technology has advanced dramatically since the original search. the company ocean infinity which did the last search have now found the argentinian submarine since then, and i nor

carrier as well. —— iron ore and they say they have improved their technology and are keen to restart the search. i gather one of the most chilling episode was when eu retra ced chilling episode was when eu retraced the route the plan took in assimilated. —— a simulator. retraced the route the plan took in assimilated. -- a simulator. in perth, we have a boeing 777 simulator open to the public and pilot for training and it was run by a klm retired ship captain and we decided to replicate the flightjust to get a sense of the field for it all. -- to get a sense of the field for it

all. —— feel. it was chilling, particularly the final part of the flight particularly the final part of the flight were there were various scenarios as to how it ended its journey. i was able to get up out of the seat and walk away and then drive home to my wife but for 239 passengers and crew that was not possible and that really sent a chill down my spine as i drove away in kingi chill down my spine as i drove away in king i could drive home. —— thinking. what other feelings as each anniversary comes and goes for the people who lost family and friends? we had the opportunity. we hosted eight relatives at an all function here in perth to commemorate, i think,

function here in perth to commemorate, ithink, the function here in perth to commemorate, i think, the third anniversary, and we were interviewing them and, as they told their stories, there was not a dry eye in the room, the sound engineer, the camera person, we were all shedding tears listening to the heart wrenching tale of a total loss. it is one thing to lose our loved one but not the note what has happened and then to be bombarded endlessly with the most ludicrous, irresponsible theories about what has happened to this aeroplane is almost a daily tear my heart out scenario and it is really quite awful. thank you very much for speaking to us. the war in syria, which has so far claimed about half a million lives, has been raging for eight years this month. among the victims are innocent children who've grown up knowing only conflict. we've been following two of them — children who are as old as

the conflict itself. caroline hawley has been back to meet them. my name is mustafa. the eight—year—old and his little sister survived a barrel bomb. it destroyed their family home near aleppo, leaving only their grandmother to look after them. safe in the cupboard is mustafa's most precious possession. it's all he has left of his father, ibrahim, who died saving him. his mother was also killed, but he doesn't even have a photo to remember her. mustafa was so badly injured he spent a whole year in hospital. twice a week he still comes for physiotherapy. he is a strong boy. he's very strong. his left hand doesn't move properly because of a piece of shrapnel in his brain. his hips were badly broken and one leg is now longer than the other.

mustafa needs help to dress and wash.