tv Our World BBC News December 12, 2019 3:30am-4:01am GMT
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the debate begins on capitol hill over the articles of impeachment against president trump. the judiciary committee of the us house of representatives will vote later, ahead of a vote in the full house next week. if the president is impeached, there will be a trial in the senate in the new year. reports suggest harvey weinstein has reached a $25 million settlement with dozens of his alleged victims. but he also faces criminal trial on charges of sexual assault, and a judge has increased his bail from $1 million to $5 million for violating his release conditions. the woman who effectively leads myanmar has been defending her country against accusations of genocide at the international court ofjustice in the netherlands. aung san suu kyi said military action against rohingya muslims in 2017, which killed thousands, was the result of necessary operations against militants.
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a teenage drug dealer has been found guilty of the murder of a 14—year—old knocked off his move ahead and stabbed to death. he died in the middle of a turf war between rival drug gangs. another young life cut short, caused by knife crime in london. jaden moodie was just 1a years old when he was murdered, the final moments of his life captured on this shocking cctv footage. while on a moped, he is rammed into by a stolen black mercedes. a hooded gang armed with large knives jump out and repeatedly stab him, in an attack lasting just 1a seconds. the teenager had only moved to london from nottingham six months before he was killed. jaden was ambitious, loved life. he loved his family, he loved his grandma, and he was just fun to be around,
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because he would always playjokes on — pranks on us and things. during the two—week trial, thejury heard jaden had links to a gang, and sold drugs for them. on the night of his death, he was targeted by a rival gang, also in the east london area. on the evening jaden was killed, some of the residents living on this road here in leighton reported seeing the gang members stomping and stamping on the teenager before the car wheel spun away. the 14—year—old was left quivering, with trails of blood coming away from his body. today, 19—year—old ayoub majdouline has been found guilty of murdering the teenager and possessing a knife. he is expected to be sentenced next week. adina campbell, bbc news. now on bbc news, our world. in 2016, pakistani social media sensation qandeel baloch was murdered in her bed, the victim of a so—called honour killing. her brother and five other men, among them a celebrity cleric, were charged with her murder.
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as the court prepares to deliver its verdict, hani taha, who has followed the story in two previous our worlds, returns to qandeel‘s home town. will there be justice for qandeel, and how has her life and death changed pakistan? with adult themes right from the start. qandeel baloch was pakistan's first social media superstar. she was loved and loathed. for conservative pakistan, her videos were provocative. too provocative. injuly 2016, she was murdered for bringing shame on herfamily. six men, one of them are brother,
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stood trial for the killing. my name is hani taha and for the last three years, i have filming with the parents as they seek justice for the daughter. as the trial concludes, i'm returning to multan for the verdict and to find out how qandeel‘s life and death have changed my country. multan high court, central pakistan. qandeel‘s parents have been coming here almost weekly for the last three years. waseem, qandeel‘s youngest brother, confessed to killing her sister straight after the murder.
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anwar, qandeel and waseem's mother, is in court for the verdict. he is too good, my god. also standing trial for the murder are five other men including mufti abdul qawi, a local celebrity mufti. qandeel had taken selfies with him in a karachi hotel room. it was after these now infamous selfies that mufti qawi lost his high—profile job on pakistan's religious council. mufti abdul qawi!
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as he arrives at court, it is clear that mufti qawi still has a lot of support. barely 10 minutes later, the verdict is announced. and mufti qawi emerges from the courtroom a free man. qandeel‘s youngest brother, waseem, is given 25 years for her murder. the reamining five accused are acquitted. while qandeel‘s mother slips out the back of the courtroom to avoid the media, mufti qawi holds audience outside.
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but has justice really been done? atiya jafri was the investigating officer for the multan police. 1,000 women are murdered in pakistan every year in the name of honour. as a woman, atiya made it her mission to catch qandeel‘s killers. but having pressed charges against six men, including haq nawaz, the alleged accomplice, she now finds that there has only been one conviction.
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but atiya also feels hopeful. qandeel‘s case was the first to be tried under a new law, section 3.11. previously, families had been able to forgive those responsible for honour killings but section 3.11 removed that right. in conservative pakistan, that's a huge change. it was passed four months after qandeel‘s death and became known as qandeel‘s law.
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when i last interviewed him 2016, it took a surprising turn. after our interview finished, and with the camera not running, mufti qawi touched my face. for a man to touch a woman in pakistan, especially for a cleric to do so, is a massive deal. it was completely uncalled for. there was no reason for him to come this close and touch me, for no reason. when this incident went public, once again, mufti qawi was again in the news for all the wrong reasons.
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even as we were leaving, mufti abdul qawi is trying to defend his attitude. you don't know what to make of him. he's just. . . it's not about misreading the situation. it's about the fact that my body is my temple, you do not have a right to come close to it until i allow you access to it, that's what it is. and that is what women are fighting for day in and day out today. that's what the me too movement is about. ask me if you can cross this boundary. when qandeel was murdered, her family, especially her dad, pushed hard for the
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killers to be punished. but during the trial, it transpired thatjust months after her death, and contrary to what they were telling the press, the parents had been trying to get the court to forgive their son. qandeel‘s dad has lost his eyesight and is barely mobile. the last three years have taken their toll. when qandeel did eventually make it into showbiz,
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she became the breadwinner, appearing on tv channels across the country. she was earning enough to rent a house for her parents in multan. now, with qandeel dead and her brother in prison, the parents have had to move back to the village and are struggling to survive. mum has had to go back to work in the fields. after qandeel‘s death, supporters of the family helped them financially. the media called forjustice. but as time went on, that financial support dried up. the parents felt betrayed by the media who, by calling for justice, had pushed for section 311 to be enforced, sending their son to prison.
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cheering and applause in karachi in 2018, the first aurat, or women's march, took place in pakistan. women from every walk of life came together demanding equal rights. for many, this was the first time they had marched. in 2019, the idea spread and marches took place in every major city across the country. many women were afraid of being seen at the march in case they would be punished by their families, so whose face did they decide to use to hide their own? it was qandeel‘s. i'm on my way to meet the women artists who played an integral part in that march. hi! how are you? nice to meet you. nice to meet you too! thank you so much for having us. not at all. samya is one of the artists who took part in that first aurat march in karachi.
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so this was like a series of artworks i did and the title for this was fast girls, and it's this term that is often used to describe girls which don't fit, you know, the conventional or the traditional sort of picture that society has for us, and... what's happening on the cover? so that's me actually smoking a cigar, and ifaced a lot of backlash from my family when they found out i smoke, and so this was a sort of tongue—in—cheek kind of an artwork that i made. and so, it was just about girls being girls and then being labelled, you know, fast girls, for something so ordinary. this one is with a girl saying no to marriage, and so she has, like, sort of stomped on the groom's headgear. you've got the qandeel masks! yes! did they come from? so these are from the aurat march. yeah. and this was the first march that i've attended of any kind, and it was a beautiful experience and it was really awe—inspiring. and then someone randomly asked
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if i wanted a qandeel mask, and it was really beautiful because it felt like she's there, or she's part of the march with us. and a lot of the things that we were talking about were a lot of issues that also have a lot to do with qandeel, so it was really good to have these masks there and have her be part of the entire march with us. ok, i'm calling her now. awesome! so we're here, we were just talking about your masks. samya's friend raheema is the pakistani artist whose illustration became the mask. currently in berlin studying for her masters degree, we spoke to her online. that image really became the symbol of all our collective angst about the situation. how does that all make you feel?
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this is insane — she has 11.9 million views on this one. while we're filming, another young social media star finds herself in the middle of a scandal. she walked into the foreign office and went and sat in the prime minister's chair, and the media just went ballistic. touted as the next qandeel, hareem shah is a young woman from the north of the country. she was abroad when the scandal broke and decided not to return for security reasons, so we're going to speak to her online. hello!
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i really did not know what to say to their mother. she was really just. .. i think she was begging me to understand her position. i could sense what she was trying to tell me was my son has been more dear to me and i don't want my baby to grow old in a prison. i just feel really defeated. the thing that i didn't want to believe is that the value of a woman will always be less than that of a man. the value of a daughter will always be less than a son.
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hello there. we've already had two deep areas of low pressure affecting the weather here in the uk so far this week with another on the way. this was tuesday's rain. the day on wednesday brought lots of showers and this massive cloud is coming in for the day ahead, and we've got further lumps with those weather fronts lying across the atlantic to bring us some further spells of rain. it's notjust rain for the concern for the day ahead. as it comes into the cold air, we could see some hill snow as well. we've seen snow, showers and thunderstorms have continued in the north through the night, and with those heavy showers, the potential‘s there to continue to wash the grit off the surfaces, the roads and the pavements, so quite slick conditions through the small hours and into the morning rush. it could be quite icy, notjust in the north of course. further south we've had a lot of damp weather and temperatures are forecast even in the towns and cities to get to around freezing. so, it could be icy and frosty certainly through this morning, but already in the west,
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we're seeing that change. now, as this comes in across the moors and the welsh mountains, there could be a smattering of snow, more likely a few centimetres across northern ireland, perhaps in the hills of northern england into southern scotland. we could stay in the showery cold regime all day in northern scotland, but it's going to feel quite raw as the clouds increasing all the time, bringing this rain eastwards into that cold air and giving us snow over the hills in the north. it does eventually get a bit milder in the south and west and more showery as you can see through the afternoon, so the sunshine returns, but with it, also some stronger winds. so those strong north—westerly winds will blow the rain away from southern areas, but it kind of hangs around in the north through the night and into friday, with showers rushing in on that north—westerly. so another cold feeling day, but we're back to sunshine and showers for most on friday except, as you can see, northern and north—eastern parts of scotland with their persistent rain here, hill snow too, and heavy showers elsewhere, some hail, some thunder in there as well, temperatures perhaps doing a little better than the day ahead but feeling cold with that wind. that wind which will continue to blow through friday night into saturday, blowing our weather
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front further southward. look at this — significant snow is expected again across the alpine regions, some really strong winds as well battering central parts of europe, another very deep area of low pressure heading towards the balkans. so, there are warnings out quite widely across parts of central and southern europe as well. look at this for turin — expecting some snow on friday and we wouldn't like to rule out some wintriness across many alpine regions over the coming few days. here in the uk this weekend, it's going to stay chilly, we'll see further sunny spells and showers, but it'll often be quite windy, especially in the south, and there could be further bouts of rain and hill snow, notjust necessarily in the north. as ever, the warnings are on the website.
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this is bbc news. welcome if you're watching here in the uk, on pbs in america, or around the globe. i'm mike embley. our top stories: the debate begins on capitol hill over the articles of impeachment against president trump. harvey weinstein has reportedly reached a settlement with dozens of his accusers, and he may not have to foot the bill. the international court ofjustice is set to hear from gambia's lawyers that rohingya muslims still face an ongoing risk of genocide. greta thunberg accuses governments of avoiding real action on climate
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