this is bbc world news, the headlines, president trump is accused of promoting unfounded company received theories about the apparent suicide of disgraced financierjo —— jeffrey epstein. apparent suicide of disgraced financierjo ——jeffrey epstein. he was waiting to be charged for sex trafficking crimes. police in hong kong have clashed with pro—democracy demonstrators. the un says up to a0 people may have died in recent fighting in the yemeni city of aden. earlier, the saudi led coalition carried out an airdry against its saudi led coalition carried out an air dry against its former allies the southern separatist.

police are investigating the shooting of a mosque in norway as a suspected act of terrorism and say the suspected attacker appeared to hold anti—immigrant views. at ten o'clock, clive myrie will have a full round—up of the news, first on bbc news, in a country where it is expected your extended family will look after you in your old age, what do you do if they long ago rejected you 7 old age, what do you do if they long ago rejected you? that is a question for most of the transgender community in pakistan. 0ne for most of the transgender community in pakistan. one member of the community setting up a first retirement home for transgender people. this edition of our world contains adult themes. once upon a time in the pakistani city of lahore, lived a super glam guru. ashee was the talk of the town, and after hours artist.

ashee is a khawaja sehra, someone who describes herself as neither male norfemale, in pakistan commonly known as third gender. but entertaining is the preserve of the young, and as the years went by, ashee realised more and more of her community faced destitution when they could no longer work. this is the story of guru ashee‘s quest to change the future of the third gender people in old age. the history of the indian subcontinent is rich with stories of third gender people.

during the mughal empire, from the 16th century, they were advisors to the ruling class and experts in the arts. the reality today is much less romantic. i am about to meet one of the most revered members of the community, known affectionately as guru ashee. ‘guru' literally means ‘teacher‘ — they are the elders of the third gender community, and are like surrogate mothers. tonight, guru ashee has invited me, along with her chela hs, or students, to a private party. i'm fine. you look very nice. thanks!

guru ashee and her students are expected to get the party started. singing in own language. but there is more to it than that. there is a deeply held belief that those like ashee, third gender, can bring good fortune to the soon to be married. the business of dancing at weddings has taken a hit since pakistan has moved towards a more conservative reading of islam.

upbeat music. so tonight, as the money rains down, ashee makes the most of her role as master of ceremony. i loved doing that, it was really loud and brash tonight, and it was all the things that pakistan is famous for,

and all the reasons that i love this place, and it is rare that you see something like that. but these events are few and far between. this is a family that she has history with, she has danced for them for a long time, and they take care of her. but realistically, how long is she going to be able to do that? away from the bright lights and music of lahore‘s party scene, guru ashee has been working on a project that she hopes will one day become her legacy. for the last eight years, she has been developing a retirement home for third gender people. it has everything you could need to stay well in old age — even a running machine.

0nce complete, guru ashee hopes it will become home to a0 members of her community.

though there are no official figures for the third gender community, it is estimated to be close to half a million people. it is believed that almost 5% of them are hiv positive. if you are third gender, you are 50 times more likely to be living with hiv than someone from the general population.

less than ten miles away is heera mandi, or the diamond market, one of lahore‘s worst kept secrets. almost everyone knows about this place, but it's rarely referenced in polite conversation. it is where society's outcasts have lived together for generations. it is currently home to guru ashee and many of the people who will eventually move to the retirement home. madhu, who i met at the retirement home, has invited me to her place for the evening. she rarely ever takes the night off work, so tonight i'lljoin her while she waits for clients.

madhu's got her first client of the evening, but before they get the business, he has agreed to speak to me.

madhu told me all of her clients are men and identify as straight. they are either married or, like this guy, plan on marrying a woman soon. in a fiercely patriarchal society, these men make little distinction between women and those who identify as third gender. sex workers like madhu generally charge less than women, and for some clients, that makes all the difference. whilst madhu finishes up with her client, i spend some time

with madhu's housemate nimo, who i also met at the retirement home.

sex workers have a shelflife. in the not—too—distant future, madhu is going to need help just to survive. madhu can't return to herfamily because they don't accept her as third gender. in a nation where the extended family system is the default for care in old age, what happens when that system rejects who you are? khuram lives in the diamond market area. today he is trying his best to fit in with the bearded men in prayer caps. but it wasn't always like this for khuram. in fact, khuram used to be saima.

khuram works as a tailor, making clothes for the third gender community, clothes he no longer wears himself. i want to understand why he now dresses as a man. there is this real sense of sadness, and that's because he's not

entirely being himself. he said it, he's not. khuram, that's who he was born, that's who he was assigned to be, and he was raised as a boy — and then there is saima, and saima is who he feels his spirit is. and he says straight out that he misses saima. he says saima comes out in the day a few times, in a bit of his speech or in a bit

of his attitude, but he can't live and dress, and most importantly, probably, he can't love the way he wants to. good evening, everyone. you guys are listening to fm 91 with our very special guest, guru ashee butt. tonight, on one of lahore‘s most popular radio stations, guru ashee is using her celebrity status to win over a national audience and draw attention to the plight of her people.

she is really going for it. to have references to things like hiv and to people rejecting members of their own family and social stigma — to have that on mainstream radio and to be starting those conversations in this country is pretty revolutionary, actually. the idea that being third gender is so unacceptable that it can't be tolerated is the cause of social isolation for many third gender people.

now khuram is getting older, he's attempting to conform. he's turned his back on his third gender identity. he is now a fixture at his local mosque. sure there is a spiritual element, but it's also about the practicalities of being accepted back into the care and relative stability of his family.

here, it's just accepted that third gender people will lose their dignity, families and the promise of care in old agejust for being who they are. before i leave pakistan, i want to catch up with guru ashee. today at the retirement home, she is handing out food to lahore‘s third gender community.

guru ashee is changing long—established attitudes and demanding care in later life for the third gender. the retirement home isn'tjust a bricks and mortar. it's about building a new type of future, one that brings a chance at dignity, care and love in old age to guru ashee and her community. hello, there, it is time to look at

the weather further ahead. further away from an autumnal feeling weekend and unfortunately more rainfall further north, some places having had a months worth of rain which has led to flooding, it is all down to the position of thatjet stream, they're down to the position of thatjet stream, they‘ re driving down to the position of thatjet stream, they're driving the atlantic loads across to our shores, normally to the north of us at this time of year but as you can see, for the coming week they remain, and, yes, we do have more unsettled weather to come. this was the area of low pressure that brought all the stormy weather on saturday and saturday night and all the wetter weather, too, really slow to relinquish its grip, but as it does so it allows a north—westerly wind to come through oui’ north—westerly wind to come through our shores, allowing polar air to come, so for the coming week in the first time in quite a while, temperatures look below average, so, cooler days but also cooler nights.

some sunshine as well but we will have another spell of wet and windy weather midweek. it has been wet on sunday night and into monday, the rain lingers for a time. they will be heavy showers with thunder, potentially in the south as well, but on the whole, it looks like a drier day. temperatures will be two oi’ drier day. temperatures will be two or three degrees below average but given the lighter winds and sunshine it will feel pleasant enough and i will continue into the evening, sunny spells, scattered showers, and overnight on tuesday it could turn quite chilly with temperatures getting into single figures quite widely, and nights are getting slightly longer so perhaps some morning mist and fog lingering until eight or nine o'clock but again, tuesday looks like it will have drier weather in the north and west, potential showers elsewhere, later ona potential showers elsewhere, later on a cloud shield coming in ahead of the next weather front to bring us a wane well. —— bring us some patchy rain as well. potentially from the

tiny packed isobars it will be windy. there is uncertainty as to how deep the low pressure will be on that will determine the strength of the wind but it does look like a pretty miserable day for many if you don't want the wind and rain on wednesday, perhaps getting away with just showers for scotland and northern ireland but again it stays cool for much of the week because again just like we've seen through the weekend, the low pressure moves into the north sea and allows a north—westerly wind to dominate through thursday. coming from the north—west, picking up some cool air and clean up some showers so, again, if you expose the north—west breeze, thatis if you expose the north—west breeze, that is where you will see most of the showers in northern and western scotla nd the showers in northern and western scotland but elsewhere they cannot be ruled out, the sun is still strong in august so given some daytime heating, they could be lively downpours but again that spells a dry, bright weather as well which we hope will continue to friday with this little ridge of high pressure moving in the end of the work a week so if you are showers but it doesn't last because already buy saturday we've got this next area of low pressure barrelling

down upon us. i really deep area of low pressure to potentially further weekend, covering most of the north atla ntic weekend, covering most of the north atlantic and it looks more like 0rton than august. so, as we head into next weekend it looks like we got more wind and rain so it does stay cool, they will be some sunshine but clearly there are concerns, we will keep you updated and is ever the warnings are on our website. goodbye.

tonight at ten, the government says it's getting "serious about fighting crime." but critics argue the plans are vague, and lack credibility. the promise is for 10,000 more prison places in england and wales, and police stop and search powers to be extended to tackle knife crime. the use of stop and search in right legal and professional way drives the right kind of outcomes and that's effectively what we are seeking to do. these are fairly empty, headline grabbing promises that have no evidence or resource to back them up. we've not heard a whisper on where the money is going to come from. for some, the proposals add to speculation that the government's planning a snap election. also tonight... hong kong is hit by more violent protests, as china warns britain, not to interfere, in the territory's affairs. china's just made it clear it

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