turned into tragedy this is not the kind of. way to islamist terror. exclusive report from a destroyed city. in the sights of fire starts. on. the. side of. the needs of the world's most densely populated cities.

well. it's good to have you with us we begin in pakistan where the country's supreme court today. adjourned an appeal in a case that has been in the international spotlight for more than a decade seventeen to be exact it is the case of. a woman from a village in punjab province gang raped in two thousand and two by men from a rival tribe as an act of revenge an act that pushed my two attempts and i. should receive death threats in short a gang rape that changed her life forever for. justice she's been through three courts and many legal hurdles. where many others would have failed.

booked our miles from a small farming village called me a while or in two thousand and two when her twelve year old brother was accused of having illicit relations with a woman from a rival clan the village council ordered her to be raped my admits she attempted to kill herself twice after her rape but then she decided to fight back today then on the second day there were educated people standing with me they were encouraging me there were also people from the media from civil society and that's when i thought it's better to fight and die because the one who saves the life is bigger than the one who kills. mokhtar mys case ignited international outrage her rape is to find guilty and sentenced to death but seventeen years after receiving a piece of death threats for speaking out she's still fighting for justice five of

the men convicted of her rape were acquitted by the horror high course on the sentence of one man was reduced to life imprisonment the acquittals were upheld by pakistan's supreme course so this month my went back to the supreme court to petition against them it's through her decision to speak out that mokhtar my has become a symbol of strength for voiceless and oppressed women a world renowned advocate of women's rights in education she set up two schools for girls and a women's refuge just a few hundred meters from where she was raped and she's driven by one clear goal. it isn't easy to always repeat what i have been through. it's very hard for me. but i want those people to be punished. because i do not want anyone else to become another my. oh this is my aim in the middle of the.

the court verdict as to where to them i thought my may yet achieve her goal but from all we have a thousand islam above human rights activist funds on a body is very welcome to. the most thought of mine has continued to fight for justice for seventeen year how is she perceived in pakistan. perceived as a fight and she's seen someone you know who speaks of the awful all those things. but then they are not able to speak out and she is considered as a weis or suppose and i think. that's been. because of the social pressure to not shoot and try to get justice i think. in most cases and who are volunteering for them and it's not that they've been able to take what you know she's considered as a. general and he. she and she is

a day of school despite the fact that she still hasn't got justice from trouble and even institutions have ideas for societies that she is she is. going to respect and people you know really. isn't he doing it all by leonie by. what would you say needs to change in pakistan through and show all that was more thought of my went through nobody else has to go through . so there are two teams obviously first of all late she was in there you know on the order of the local guide but just the giant she was you know she was ordered to be gained weight so i think we need to get to nato for that better legislation systems you know if this inflow of education system should be just very much in flux. i mean even it now and but it has been so i think the state has to.

step she's sort of great you know the convention system should be available at the door steps of people who do not have to go to these informal justice systems we have a patriotic to get thinking in spanish and the other thing is obviously i think that the kind of evidence if you wired you know from the victim that needs to be changed i think the victim's statement should be sufficient and the poor folk loaded should be shifted to the to the accuse you know it's just a booking by he started to take to the police there's no i believe stop it e bay often in such cases they do in order to get there every day and so i don't know enough to know what the prosecution has to distance in this and hopefully that happened in the near future offers on a body speaking to us from islamabad thank you very much. to the capital of the philippines now which is suffering a severe shortage of water on the west and he has four sets of manila began to run dry off at the start of the dry season of this month but the city's water supply

that is only part of the problem it's a lack of infrastructure as well residents are having to cope with severe rationing with manure no water warning that thoughts of the city could face up to twenty one hours a day without more time for the next three months some people have had to resort to filling buckets with water from fire engines. and let's get more on this from the doubles and the santos who's joining me from manila now and a good to see you know this water shortage that we talked about has been ongoing for weeks as the situation at all improved. the situation has only slightly improved and by that i mean that residents at least now don't have to line up for hours to get water ration by fire trucks or scoop it out from the swimming pool water has begun flowing from the taps but only for a few hours a day leaving many residents with no choice but to spend precious time collecting water that's just sounds like

a terrible way to acquire one of the basic necessities of life and as i understand it you spoken to residents what have they been telling you how are they coping. i spoke to the residents of munda lujan which is one of the hardest hit areas and some of them are angry some of them are resigned but the rest all of them are just really tired of having to wait for water one resident mr kerry daria told me that at the height of the crisis he spent as much as four hours a day after work to wait in line to get water from a fire truck now he gets water from his taps for about two hours in the morning and he collects from there and he says that he wants to consider himself lucky because his sibling still doesn't have water and has to go to mr john darrius house every day to take a back this is unimaginable thinking about this happening in the middle metropolis like a manila but just goes to situation to become so bad and i think it is part of the

problem bereshit this is a mega city. the water authorities and the water service providers do not have adequate infrastructure to support the growing population of the city so immediately what they need to do is start looking for turn it's of sources of water and improve the existing water infrastructure and meanwhile you know the citizens are just saying that they're joking and help this effort along by praying for rain it appears that the government and the authorities concerned well perhaps not taking this problem seriously enough and looking for time to tubes some more in the well in time there were already predictions of a water shortage and a water crisis from a few years back if current infrastructure was not improved however water authorities are saying that because of certain bureaucratic backlog they weren't able to get these water infrastructure improvements up and running and this so the

inability to create and improve the existing water infrastructure plus the onset of the ilene yes the nominal or the dry spell has really worsened the problem we have seen and the water levels and certain snow where it and this is where we get most of the water supply. and i saw her boarding for us from a money love thank you very much for that update we're going to a place of play and creativity now that's thriving in the indonesian capital despite choking coffee and initial opposition from local gangstas this open air children's library in jakarta all for children a rare opportunity for reading and learning outside of school. there are no quiet rules at this library it's all about play. breeding. and entertainment the shortage of public libraries in jakarta means this space has become a big hit with local kids but i like it because i love listening to story telling

stories are find me good it's exciting. just a few years ago this fly over was strewn with rubbish and frequented by gangs but then armed with just books paint and green astroturf for the children to sit on the library's organizers got to work several murals and plan to boxes later the area's reputation began its transformation. in that i want to make the image of this area under the bridge more positive to the people. but before this place was perceived very negatively there was a lot of rubbish gangsters were here and made the locals living in the area feel anxious but then we arrived and provided free books because we wanted to bring books closer to the community and that the idea didn't go down well with the locals that first parents were afraid their children would be kidnapped or hit by

a car and the resident gangs needed persuading to find new turf but it worked and today it's not uncommon to see up to seventy children attending afterschool sessions. in the course of where this place is people who are passing by can start enjoying hand and children can play while also learning to have been any complaints about the smell the rubbish or the rumble of traffic yet but just in case they use a sound system to drown out the noise. many more such stories on our website. and be sure to check us out of his book as well. i believe you know with a huge inflatable mickey mouse lookalike floating in hong kong's victoria it's a work of art actually by american artist because it's your neck that over.

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