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welcome to. 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 to attempt suicide and after she went to the police should receive death threats in short a gang rape that changed her life forever for the past seventeen years fought for justice she's been through three courts and many legal hurdles. where many

others would have fiend. booked our miles from a small farming village called me a while 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 to sit in 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 a life is bigger than the one who kills. mokhtar mys case ignited international rage her rapist refined guilty and sentenced to death but seventeen years on after receiving repeated 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've been through. and 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 quote from what it is to the way to them i thought my may yet achieve her goal but from all we have a thought in the slum about human rights activist funds on a body is very welcome to. the most thought my has continued to fight for justice for seventeen years how is she perceived in pakistan. perceived as a fight and she's seen someone you know who speaks of the office all those things. but then they are not to speak out and she is considered as a weiss or suppose and i think dr. who. 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 she is a day off or she despite the fact that she still hasn't got justice from trouble and legal institutions have i think societies that she is she is. going to respect and people you know really. as it is or isn't he doing it 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 a general on the order of the local guide but then giant she was you know she was ordered to be gained weight so i think we need to go for that better logicians systems you know if this inflow of education system should be judged very much you know in five. i mean even it now and but then so i think the state has to

do if you need to step should celebrate you know the convention should be available if the doorsteps of people who want to have to go to these informal justice systems that they picked out cliques to get thinking in spanish and i don't think it's obviously i think that the kind of evidence which is why if you go from the victim that needs to be changed i think the victim's statement should be sufficient and that will focus i didn't should be shifted to the to the accuse you know it's just a book and by he started to take things the police does not believe stop it he they often in such cases they do not get there every day and so i don't know enough to know what the prosecution has to distance in this and hopefully that happens in the near future offers on a body speaking to us from islamabad thank you very much for the capital of the philippines now we're just suffering a severe shortage of water on the west and you know as for sets in manila began to run dry off at the start of the dry season on this month but the city's water

supply is say that is only part of the problem it's a lack of infrastructure as well residents are having to cope with severe rationing with no water warning at all to the city could face up to twenty one hours a day without more time for the next three months some people have to resort to filling buckets with water from fire engine. and let's get more on this from leader bruce i'm not santos who is joining me from manila now and i get to see you i just want to show after the few talking 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 or 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 still with no choice but to spend precious time

collecting water that just sounds like a terrible way to apply one of the basic necessities of life and as i understand it you spoken to residents water of they've been telling you how they're coping i spoke to the residents of monday new young which is one of the hardest hit areas and some of them are angry some of them resigned but the rest all of them are just really tired of having to wait for water one resident that they carried 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 you know 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 a mega metropolis like a manila but what just goes to situation to become so bad and i think it is part of

the problem the rest of 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 turnips 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 to peers of the government in the authorities concerned well perhaps not taking this problem seriously enough and looking for time to tubes from him when in time there were already productions 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 illini as the nominee of the dry spell has a really worsened the problem we have seen the water levels and certain down snow where it and this is where we get most of the water supply and as i doze reporting for us from the middle of 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 librarians are caught off with children a rare opportunity for reading and learning outside of school. there are no quiet rules at this library it's all about play. reading. and entertainment the shortage of public libraries in jakarta means this space has become a big hit with the local kids that live there i like it because i love listening to

story telling stories are fine we get it's exciting. just a few years ago this fly over was strewn with rubbish and frequented by gangs but then with just books paint and green astroturf for the children to sit on the library's organizers got to work several murals and plant a book says later the air is reputation began its transformation. in that i want to make the image of this area under the bridge more positive to the people . before this place was perceived very negatively but 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 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 after school sessions. not the cause of where this place is people who are passing by can start enjoying hand and children can play while also learning that having 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. 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.

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