as katya's gig carries on into the night, all over the headlines: the world saturday night is well under way. even though she's already allowed revellers around the globe have rung to ride a motorbike, in the start of a new decade yean is hoping her dad with firework displays held will allow her to get a car license in london and other major cities. when she turns 18. and in new york around 1 million people watched as the city's an ambition joy shares. traditional new year's ceremony, once i'm 18 i will be the ball drop, took place in times square. the united states is to send more able to drive legally. troops to protect its embassy in ghana, ruth is hoping she can in baghdad which has been attacked by thousands of protestors, angry at american air strikes. soon carry on with her education. president trump has blamed the attack on iran. the australian authorities have confirmed that a third person has died in bushfires that have ravaged the south—east of the country this week. as the night sets in, for most, saturday is almost over, but in lebanon the night more than a dozen emergency level fires are still burning is still young. across a 500—kilometre stretch spanning two states. usually here in lebanon the night life is amazing, so we won't even get back home before two or three in the morning. those are the latest headlines. this is how we wrap our day. we alljust come here and take

some drinks and chill, relax by the beach. it's 5:30am. that's it for me. have it's amazing. a happy new year, wherever you are. now, what it's like being 17 the vibe, the people, the music, in countries around the world? it's all really good. from lebanon to uganda, five teenagers, all on the brink bbc radio 1's newsbeat has been of becoming adults. meeting teenagers, and hearing all from different places, all leading very different lives. about their hopes and dreams. but, when it comes to priorities, being 17 has never been easy. teenagers around the world maybe aren't as different no longerfeeling like a child, as it first appears. but technically not yet an adult. in most countries, you can't drive, i would like to go and study abroad. drink alcohol or vote. i will visit other countries. but whether it's just but then eventually i would come hanging out with friends... back here, come back ..spending time with family... and stay in uganda. ..practising religion, going to school, going to work orjust having fun... three, two, one! ..17 is one of our most formative years. we're following five 17—year—olds my plan, and i'm pretty sure that in five different countries to see how they spend a typical saturday. most of my friends' plans, is to go to college. the nightlife is amazing. here in lebanon, it's not common for us not to go to college. from thailand to uganda...

when you tell people that we have school six days a week, they are like, "what?!" ..lebanon to russia. what is it like being 17 and is it harder to be a teenager now than ever before? for lots of teenagers, saturdays are a day of rest. no school or work and a time to catch up on some much—needed sleep. but for ruth, saturday is just like any other day and work starts early. hello. we've ended 2019 on a fairly quiet note. the best of the sunshine through new year's eve was across northern and eastern england, parts of scotland we saw she lives about a 5—hour drive along some spectacular sunsets to end the coast from the ghanaian capital the year and the decade. accra with her 5—month—old daughter. and this quieter theme continues through new year's eve underneath this area ruth never knew her birth mother of high pressure. but notice that the isobars are closer together across northern ireland and growing up, and with nowhere else scotland, so, a windier day here. and also, a cloudier day across the uk to start 2020. to go, she moved here to live that cloud could be thick enough for the odd patch of drizzle.

with a family friend when her father for most it's mainly dry through daylight hours with some passed away three years ago. brightness or sunshine across eastern counties of scotland, north—east england, perhaps north wales for a time and maybe around 1a people live with ruth into east anglia, too. in this compound in the village and on cooking day, everyone mucks in to prepare, cook and bag the chips light or gentle winds for most away from the western and northern isles ready to be sold. of scotland, where the winds will be strengthening through the day, perhaps gusts of 40—50 miles an hour. still, quite a cool feel to the day across the uk, 5—9 celsius, the top temperature, perhaps 10—11 for northern scotland and south—west england. cloud cover stays with us around 9am, it's time through the evening and overnight. again we could see for ruth to leave. some patchy drizzle. for most it's dry, although rain she will visit three markets today, will start to approach the far helping to sell enough bags of chips north—west of scotland and the west to support both her of northern ireland as we head and her daughter. towards thursday morning. but underneath the cloud cover, temperatures are going to stay above freezing. and actually, as we go through thursday, it is a milder day. these yellow, and in places orange, colours just indicating the milder south—east of ghana, air flooding across the uk. in the ugandan capital kampala, but with it comes a set of fronts, and that's going to bring some joy has already been wetter, windier weather initially across scotland and northern ireland,

awake for hours. and slowly it slides its way south and eastwards through the day, but weakening as it does. but potentially some very heavy rain across the highlands of scotland, it's saturday. i'm going to school and i have maybe 40—50 millimetres here, maths, technical drawing gusty winds as well. and physics today. this front then slides its way south and eastwards, getting into northern england, parts of wales, south—west england, driest the further south and east you are, but some gusty winds, perhaps 50—60 miles an hour for northern and western scotland and 30—110 miles joy leaves for school around 6am and it can take about an hour an hour quite widely. to commute through the so it's a wet, blustery day heavy kampala traffic. across northern and western parts when you go through school, of the uk, but mild for most, you are more likely to succeed in life. it will be in double figures. for example, i want doesn't last long as those fronts to be an architect. there is no way i am push their way south and eastwards, behind it we start to see going to achieve that except if i do the blue colours returning. go through school. so, we're back in the colder air as we go into friday. i do maths, physics and technical but what that also means is clearer conditions, drawing and next year i will finish much more in the way of sunshine. high school and i hope cloud and rain clearing away to go to university from south—east england, and study architecture. some showers peppering the north of scotland, perhaps wintry in nature, but for much of the uk, it starts from this top, on friday we'll end the week dry with much more sunshine. but it will be feeling then merges to this outermost... a little bit colder again. as for the weekend,

it's looking mainly dry. technical drawing is the smallest there'll be some spells of sunshine, class thatjoy has, little bit milder but potentially but there are still over 50 pupils. turning wetter and let me give you a rough windier into next week. example here. most people in my family, they are doing arts—related careers and i'm the only one doing this science—related career. so, i chose it for myself. 11,500 miles east, there's no lie—in for yean either. yean‘s the oldest of six, and starts her weekend by helping her parents to look after her younger brothers and sisters.

radio: # and all the roads that lead you there are winding... things are off to a more lively start in lebanon. it's mid—morning and tiffany is off to the beach. lebanon is a perfect mix of europe, arab — it's literallyjust

a mix of everything. among me and my friends, we always talk in english, but sometimes we mix it with french and arabic, it's really common to just mix these three languages together. lebanon is one of the most religiously diverse countries in the middle east with large muslim and christian populations. i'm a christian, personally, and religion here is a really big part of our lives. it's not enforced and it's not as strict as other places. good morning and happy new year! we're serious about it, but it's not like in other cultures where you have to give your welcome to breakfast. our headlines today: life to your religion. i have friends in dubai that can't even go out with guys, but i can tell you that more big ben strikes the hour. than 50% of my friends are all guys. as the new year dawns, messages of reconciliation and hope it's just really open—minded, for the coming decade. i like it a lot. the prime minister calls for an end everyone thinks it's dangerous, to division and rancour. but to be honest, i'd feel more the archbishop of canterbury urges comfortable, personally, walking in the streets at night us to reconnect with each other.

here than any other country. more deaths are confirmed so, why do tiffany and her mates and hundreds of homes have been think lebanon gets a hard time? destroyed as the damage civil war between 1975 and 1990 defined the country from the latest spread of bushfires for a whole generation. in australia continues to emerge. good morning. football's transfer window opens. and further violence in 2006 liverpool's new signing, takumi minamino, settles means that for many, in to his new surroundings. it still has a reputation as a troubled nation. i always wanted my children not to go through this, but it seems we are never going to find peace in this region. but it's how close to syria and israel it is that many people find worrying now. in truth, lebanon has been largely peaceful for over a decade, and the capital, beirut, is trying to claim back its reputation as the paris of the middle east. with the warm mediterranean sea down the coast and a bustling nightlife, many visitors see it as a perfect mix of cultures. it hasn't been completely without trouble, though. the murder of british embassy worker rebecca dykes in 2017 made many

foreigners in the country feel uneasy and there are some areas, particularly along the border with syria, where the british foreign office advise against all travel. one, two, three! i think that people that have never come to visit lebanon has a really bad idea because of what they watch on the news. but when people come here, their whole idea changes. it's late morning, and the last 17—year—old to be up and about is katya in moscow. katya has organised a gig for this evening and her friends are the headline act. the band have travelled

on the overnight train from st petersburg and are keen to see some of the moscow sights. russia is the largest country on earth, home to 142 million people.

and it's had a turbulent relationship with the west for a long time. for seven decades, it was a communist country, and russians had very little contact with people outside. communism ended in 1991, but adapting to a capitalist society has not been an easy transition. still now, fewer than a third of russians have a foreign passport and you don't have to look far to find negative stories about russia in the world's media. more is now known about the substance involved in the suspected poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter. vladimir putin has been the political face of russia either as the president or prime minister for nearly 20 years, and that means for teenagers like katya, he's the only leader they've ever known. katya's day may only justjust be starting, but forjoy, halfway through the school day, it's break time.

i have school six days a week. i would love to do other things on saturdays of course because you'd love to have that break, but now, the only break i have is sunday, and sunday is also a busy day. sunday is a church day. if i could have a saturday to myself to hang out, yeah, that would be good. i've gotten used to it. it's not so bad. by mid—afternoon, all across the world, it's lunchtime and whether that's some fast food on the beach in lebanon, a burger king in moscow, street food in bangkok or a school lunch in kampala, everyone is tucking in to something to eat. well, almost everyone. for ruth, she is still out selling. sadly, at the moment, the chips aren't selling very well either. her daughter stays at home with her adoptive mother whilst ruth is working.

20 cedis isjust under £3, oraround $3.80. it means ruth is earning more than the official absolute poverty line of $1.90 a day, set by the world bank, but she is still very poor. around a quarter of the people in ghana live below the national poverty line. but ghana is considered to be one of the more stable countries in west africa and was the first black african colony to declare independence in 1957. and it's a young country. of the 25 million people living here, 57% are under 25. english is the official language, but other african languages, like twe, akan and the language that ruth and her family speak, bantu, are all common. eventually for ruth, business starts to pick up. but despite a few sales, her takings today are still low. ruth is no longer with

her daughter's father. she says he has never seen his daughter and in her community it's not uncommon for people who have a child outside of marriage to suffer stigma. 0k, three, two, one, go! as the sun sets, tiffany and her mates move to a restaurant overlooking the sea. for dinner, we have tabbouleh, hummus and fatoush, that's usually the lebanese starters. and then we've got lebanese and fish, it is a mix. the lebanese are definitely the most open—minded. i can say that definitely. 0n the news, how they show our

country is not how it is. they show violence, we are not violent at all. conversation moves on to how lebanon compares with other countries. the foundation of everything is family here. that's what they focus on. that's very true. here, people are still 25 and living with their mum and dad. and it's not a problem. and if they get married the wife will usually still live there until they get a house. personally, i had a talk with one of my friends recently about, for the future when we get married and have kids, would we like to live somewhere else or in the country? i pick in the country because we are used to how we were raised here and we know how things work. ijust think that it's the best here. you can do everything. you can have lunch in nature and then go and party in beirut at night. you can do everything and everything is easy and fun. we are very western, i would say. open—minded.

i've met people from other countries and they would say, oh, you know drake in lebanon? you listen to music? they think we ride camels and stuff. when i moved here, they asked if we would have internet and light or live in tents. i moved from australia and they could not believe it. as night falls, 8500 miles away in bangkok, yean is also spending saturday night with her friends. for katya and her friends, it's nearly time for the gig.

seeing her friends from st petersburg has made katya reflect on how different life is for russians living outside of moscow.

by the end of the school day, it's rush hour again in kampala. joy and his best friend mark are walking straight to band practice. their band is called ypf, which stands for youth passion fellowship and is attached to the church. at the moment in the band we are doing mostly covers, but i'm working on some original music. over the years uganda has changed. right now there's more opportunities for women in school and workplaces. writing music is fun for me, and i hate being bored so i do all these things to keep active.

the church and my spiritual life are very important to me. # me love the way you handle me. # me love the way you fight for me. # me love the way you do all the things for me. # i love the way you handle the situation. # i love the way you fight for me. # i love the way you handle my situation... the vast majority, around 85%, of ugandans are christian and spending a lot of time at church is by no means unusualfor a lot of teenagers here. since its independence from britain in 1962, uganda has endured a military coup, a brutal military dictatorship and a five—year war that saw

the current president, yoweri museveni, take power in 1986. it means, for many ugandans including joy, he's the only leader they have ever known. often called the pearl of africa, around 1.3 million tourists visit uganda each year. many come to see the wildlife and go on safari. in recent years the country has been praised for its campaign against hiv and aids but also received a lot of negative international press for taking a hardening stance against the lgbt community. nearly 4000 miles away, music is very important to katya as well. slightly different genre, though. 00:21:45,707 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 rock music plays.