alla guest. managed by. this is. from berlin tonight a saudi woman is safe in thailand she will not be sent back home saying her would be in danger they. will be allowed to apply for asylum in a third country within days earlier today she barricaded herself in a hotel room in bangkok airport saying she was fleeing abuse from her family also

coming up with the actor kevin spacey appears in a u.s. court to face charges of sexual assault and accuser says that speccy groped him two years ago when he was eighteen years old. it's good to have you with us tyee authorities tonight say that a saudi woman fleeing alleged abuse will be allowed to stay in the country until she can apply for asylum elsewhere united nations officials are aiding. noon in her bid to find a safe destination to apply for a song of the eighteen year old barricaded herself today in a hotel in bangkok until today's breakthrough with the u.n.

was reached. a sign of hope for a half mohammed. these pictures show the young saudi woman leaving the airport in bangkok together with officials from the un refugee agency the u.n.h.c.r. will assess whether she can be granted refugee status protecting her from deputation. this marks a pause in a tense standoff that began on saturday. noon arrived from kuwait where she was staying with her family she was stopped at immigration she says her passport was taken from her and officials tried to send her back to kuwait the eighteen year old then barricaded herself in an airport hotel room she drew attention to her plight on social media quickly gathering tens of thousands of followers. she said she feared for her life after her family threatened her for a noun saying islam and cutting her hair. i'm not leaving my own until i see if

you're an h c i i want. the tie or thirty's then seem to perform a dramatic about face allowing a top u.n. official to see how. we are the strong network you guys governments are there to see your students that. i'm sure your sister does not send. me that that was today the u.n.h.c.r. representative is personally here but in that he has told me that he will take no more than five days from now to give asylum status and send how on to a third country. now says she feels safe despite the arrival in thailand of her father who's a senior saudi government official her case is once again brought international attention to the kingdom and the obstacles that women face there. in the talk about

their further now i'm joined by mona eltahawy she has written extensively on feminism in the arab world she joins us tonight from montreal in canada good evening to you on a glad to have you on the show talked to me a little bit about the the situation for women in saudi arabia i know people are probably wondering is rojas alco nds is is her case is her plight similar to that of many other saudi women. yes right the only difference about rob's plight is that we've seen it play out so publicly which i believe is the main reason that it has saved up in the entire world was watching and advocating for too many cases go anonymously and we have no idea about it just to give you an idea of the magnitude of what's at stake there are at least fifteen feminists in saudi prison since may since the de facto ruler crown prince mohammed bin salmen instigated an

unprecedented crackdown on women's rights activists and feminists and they have not been charged with anything they have not been put on trial one of them has been water boarded we usually associate the word waterboarding with terrorism and that's just to give you an idea that the saudi regime thinks that feminism is terrorism and other activists have been tortured using electric shocks and flogging and several of them have been subjected to sexual harassment and one has been threatened with rape and this is because they're fighting something called the guardianship system which is exactly what russia is escaping from exactly because as a woman she is not allowed to travel outside of the country without permission from her male guardian which is exactly what she did today you have called for a sexual revolution in the middle east as part of you know the reforms that need to take place there how is that going to happen in saudi arabia. well the crux of the

sexual revolution that i'm calling for is the declaration i own my body from that declaration wanting to live freely and with dignity as rough words east part of the sexual revolution wanting to define for yourself what you do and don't believe is because of that now obviously i am in i wrote a book about this in which i go into greater lengths but for saudi arabia or any other country in the middle east and north africa it is essentially recognizing consent and agency as to principles that every woman must be able to enjoy and this is why again the guardianship system is the antithesis of this because the guardianship system subjects every woman girl in saudi arabia to the guardianship of a man to entire life from birth to death get health care so this is something that controls saudi women's lives and basically decimates consent and agency this is this is something that is completely normal in every day to me and you but this is

radical inside saudi arabia do you think the crown prince who has been challenged as the resource. friends is he going to be the man he's going to make sure that women have equal rights. not raff will be the one who would ensure that women get equal rights the fifteen to seventeen feminists in saudi prison today being tortured because they want to get rid of the guardianship system of the ones who will bring women equal rights it is not a crown prince who has fooled the world and sadly the world has bought his life that he is an emancipator woman he is not he has not invented patriarchy but he is the current one in the long line of what i call gender apartheid in saudi arabia which limits almost every aspect of a woman's life so if you want to talk about freedom for saudi women it's the same minister in prison and it's this eighteen year old incredibly courageous young

woman who said i deserve to be. there joining us from montreal and it's great to talk with you we appreciate your your insides tonight have to see you again thank you you thank. well there was a night of surprises at the golden globe awards in los angeles a number of the movie's fancied by the critics fell short of expectations bohemian rhapsody as one of the winners a biopic about the late freddie mercury singer of the british rock band queen another was the wife starring veteran actor actress glenn close a night of high drama in beverly hills rami ma at. the top price came as a true surprise. the jury chose bohemian rhapsody as best drama for rami mouth expert trail of queen front man freddie mercury his performance also earned him best actor in drama feel belongs thank you to freddie mercury for giving me the.

time i love you. this is for the world yes. been very nice glenn close was named as best actress in a drama for her role then the wife. close appeared stunned when her name was called and her deeply personal except in speech marked the emotional high point of the night. you know women we were nurture is that that's what's expected of us we have our children we have our husbands are for lucky enough and our partners for whoever but we have to find personal fulfillment we have to fill our. five three. we have to say if i can do that i should be allowed to do that. the award for best foreign

language film went to roma filmmaker alfonso ode to his childhood in one thousand nine hundred mexico he also picked up the price for best director. and lady gaga who everybody expected to climb to the stage as this year's best actress didn't have to leave empty handed together with her co-writers she received a golden globe for best original song. well the oscar winning actor kevin spacey has pleaded not guilty in a case of sexual assault he appeared in a massachusetts court to face the charge that he groped a young man back in two thousand and sixteen guilty spacy faces up to five years in prison this is the first criminal case lodged against the actor after a wave of sexual misconduct allegations curtailed his career. a crowd of reporters awaited spaces arrival at the court on nantucket island. the judge had denied the actor's request to be excused from his arraignment and ordered him to stay away

from the young man who's accused him of sexual assault. for the fifty nine year old actor this court appearance is the kind of return to the spotlight he would have preferred to avoid. it was in this nantucket bar that spacey is alleged to have plied a minor with alcoholic drinks and then sexually assault him and twenty sixteen the state prosecutor has not named the accuser. but heather a former news anchor has already said publicly that the accuser is her son who was a restaurant and toy at the time. spacey broke his silence on the allegations in a video two weeks ago he spoke in the voice of the criminal president he played in house of cards i know what you want. and you want me back. of course believed everything you know just been waiting with bated breath for him a confess it all but you wouldn't believe the worst without evidence or you would

rush to judgment with facts would you. like this court case represents one of several allegations against the oscar winner. another actor anthony rapp says he was sexually harassed by spacey in october twenty seventeen. the judge has set the next court date for march fourth. all right let's cross over now to our correspondent my swager she's following the story for us from washington good evening to you miles so let's talk about where this case is taking place in massachusetts in like it and what happened there two years ago exactly. well yes we've heard a lot of allegations flying around and these are allegations that spacey himself has been rather forceful about tonight and even not only vs but since the beginning when accusations started flying he's been very vocal defending himself defending

his career trying to salvage what's left of his legacy and what happened in that bar allegedly happened in that bar is potentially very incriminating especially considering the age of the accuser who was under age. at least alcohol alcohol wise at the time so the point is one of the. exactly that that is the point of all of the common thread in all of these accusations against ken spacey has been that it has been a lot of young men who have come forward or people who were young men at the time when they're alleging these assaults took place accusing him of at very least inappropriate behavior is you know worst criminal behavior is as a what happened in that bar is of course up to the courts to find out but it's not looking great for heaven yeah exactly i mean the who is making it via accusations

in this case was eighteen at the time which makes him in the door but the drinking age is twenty one so allegedly he became drunk and that is where the crime began will there be other cases against speaks we know there are more accusations on through. absolutely this is a question that's been asked about a lot of these men have had to reckon with past behaviors because of the rise of this me to movement a lot of the allegations specifically against casey are simply very old they're out of what would be a statute of limitations this seems to be the one to watch right now he faces as we said five years in prison if he's found guilty but he has then as we've seen very vocal about defending himself saying that this is merely a smear campaign and there are no facts to support this my sweater on the story

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