measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus up to that special monday to friday. this is. coming up today and agreement on how to talk during talks. the taliban government decide on rules and procedures for further talks about the future but it took them 3 months to agree what does that mean for the future of the talks themselves. transgender lawyer. discrimination and disadvantage to practice what does a success mean things have really. transcended community. and

life changing exam during the life or turning pandemic thousands of south korean students take the national university entrance exams of the shadow of the coronavirus crisis. i'm british manager welcome to news asia glad you could join us for the 1st time in 19 yeahs the taliban and the afghan government have come to a written agreement just 3 pages long it is a document that lays out the rules of procedures for negotiations between the 2 sides aimed at ending nearly 2 decades of wall the development ends and impasse after nearly 3 months of talks in doha nato is one of a number of organizations to welcome the move saying there's no one ton of 2 such

talks. i'm not underestimating the difficulties on the risks for setbacks on disappointments on to move forward but i'm absolutely certain that the only way is . going into the afghan negotiations and therefore we support them and knowing that it will be difficult from john but that is the only option for all of those who want peace in afghanistan let's get more on this from journalist who joins me now from kabul in. 3 months to agree 3 pages should you be looking at this as a breakthrough or a sign of things to come in doha. i think it's more a sign of things you know calling it a big breakthrough is thinking giving it a little bit too much credit because just because they've agreed on say the framework and certain points really can down to diction you know how the 2 sides. were laid down to the really minute sort of points and at the end of the day as the

government said the biggest issue that needs to go forward in these peace talks is the idea of a comprehensive cease fire so i think in total you actually get some kind of a cease fire this is just still more part of a bureaucratic process speaking of a cease fire where do a levels of violence. reside in the country i mean is fighting continuing as these talks continue in doha. not only is the fighting continuing we're seeing the increase in the use of highly d.'s in motor boats in targeted killings in you know deliberate targeting. government buildings security forces and their apparatus and buildings and we're also seeing attacks that are absolutely killing civilians and we're seeing attacks in highly populated major urban centers all of these things were were against the agreement that

initially signed with washington so again this is why i say calling it a breakthrough is giving it way too much credit until we can actually see some progress in terms of something that would resemble peace of up on people so given the violence and the talks in a sense continuing. and want all the people in gone this on feeling are they confident that these talks in doha reduction amounts to something. the people i want to some they're frustrated right they they want the talks in doha to actually lead to something but at this point nothing has panned out you know there are agreements and the agreements are basically with the united states you know there was someone someone made a really good comment recently they said that you know about a year ago when you saw us our foreign military convoy on the streets of kabul you trying to avoid it at all costs because they would come under attack. and now it's

the opposite trying to chase after them because you know nothing will happen to them but the odds of civilians being targeted or out on officials or afghan security forces being targeted is very high so people are really really frustrated . it was understood if you joining me from kabul to pakistan next where despite laws recognizing transcendent people as equal citizens societies treatment of them is anything but discrimination is right from access to a decent life with opportunities for career building virtually nonexistent but i'm exception to this general rule is lawyer mission oh how journey to get where she is hasn't been easy to see have been used but you know has her sights set on an even higher goal. i have a common lot of obstacles to get to where she is today having run away from home at 18 she begged on the streets of karachi for years to survive and a full with an education she saved up the income to pay for books and even in the

lower classes eventually gaining her know what a great this year she joined the karate association and she already has her next goal in sight. order to meet a. vision my dream is to become pakistan's post transgender judge. in pakistan most transgender people are treated as outcasts rather than begging dancing at weddings all sex work often the only ways to survive. it's a life on the edge of society that carries huge risks transgender people often become the targets of physical and sexual violence and rarely find recourse to justice. and 2018 pakistan's parliament voted to recognize transgender people as equal citizens and hospitals to protect them from discrimination and violence but in reality not much has changed discriminating

attitudes and prejudice remain a fact of daily life. but raul refuses to let such experiences stand in hell way instead she uses them and her work it's the reason why many transgender clients have choice and. it is my case pertains to harassment as a working lady i face many difficulties. in understand my case better than any other lawyers it would be just by grace and progress in pakistan there are many challenges that persist for the transgender community. hoping to overcome them case by case as a lawyer and perhaps one day as a judge john mother lives across gender activist in part islam and joins me now on the line from. john murtha good to see you what drives the discrimination the transgender community in. thank you so much for inviting me i doubt it is are they defend and it comes to john standard i meant and

it's in. the have been trying to like and now we have. a prediction of price you know all that was in 2018 but the problem is the implementation so we have the problem is it's not going to be a main gate in the way that you wanted it to be implemented so the discrimination and. it's fine that people aren't getting since the days that it's taking a lot of times still here it is a lot of violence and discrimination you talk about the implementation of them all the post boss by the government how should it be implemented. it was actually this boston federal level after it didn't have it may not have. to dispense with the flight it's like the drugs they stamp. them and they want to visit and say it could be at the same time. you know

a mutant diminished and so now they are moving ahead a bit by having some anticipation so we're living in the heart of the end going to present to billy and john stanley incoming so again it's going to be a new building from the job so we are trying to govern the gaps there's government there's not baking c.d.'s the main gap was in s. and the game enough not to enter night by the ministry of information so people are going to bed about guns and they're not there i don't know i didn't get a bike. so these are the basics attitude and they don't if it can do i think back in a education if i can help and all you know then had it so be need to check and balance on back order that you know it was an event in them unleashing mechanism so these are the same problems do you think from the time that you decided to come out as

a transcendent fossum since then to know if things have improved for other people in the community. yes of course you know hair be but i repeat less educated i am the 1st time gender who was who started the bride but this done i have to find a 1st trans brain which happened after busting the law i was there i've been as and the chairperson of the 1st transgender by pakistan so these are the new kings and people ate me and my eyes enid activists we are trying to make history and by this time a big leader steps these little steps out of it it is both of you are. taking it as an escape going and it seems bent or so giving our fingers crossed and all the best to you germany thank you so much for joining us. thank you. hundreds of thousands of south korean students today start for the country's national college entrance exams told. its results can make or break could be as for

students it is the day old data education up to that point has been full this year though there was the added stress of the koran about us and demick a fact not lost on their parents all the rest of the country. they navigated the cameras in attention like a pop star's wading through popper. to a group it was probably the biggest day of the year for the country's top students for many the biggest day of their lives so far. kind of the korean society makes you study your whole life up to list point for this one exam i'm quite relieved it's going to be over soon. then there were the equally nervous parents offering last minute encouragement their offspring had endured a year of coronavirus restricted study. the exam itself was postponed

once and many were relieved it hadn't been postponed again. by the good of the good people never done if the exam was further delayed than students would feel much more psychological burden and much more inconvenience. even and then. beyond the socially distanced lines to enter there was the technology used to check students in and check whether they had a fever for thermal detectors seemingly everywhere. then there was the scenario for several dozen students taking the test after already testing positive for cope at 19 this practice run was done in a tightly restricted space in an ultra clean environment that might otherwise be a soothing quiet room for a patient not taking the most important exam of his or her life. in the more crowded hopefully coronavirus free test rooms only the teachers spoke.

and students wrote trying to ignore the thermal cameras the plexiglass in their faces and the thought that a poor grid might prevent them realizing their dreams and that's if it's very there's more no website did ever dot com. we're back to more of the same time. for over rights and home the 4th time for the. books on. the many pushed cold blood in the world right now climate change if a cop story. face is much less the way forward as one we. come

with what can really get. we still have time to a. set. of subscribers like. welcome to arts and culture as the shyly adult trial resumes in france i'll be talking to an expert on the arab world and the media also coming up today. a documentary film to warm our hearts forward shows children around the world healthy people less fortunate than themselves. 5 years ago paris was victim to a shocking turn or wrist attacked when gunmen forced their way into the offices of

the french satirical magazine charlie of door and killed 12 people injuring many more the trial of the suspects has just resumed terrorist attacks continue to happen in the country i'll be talking to an expert on islam islam and judaism in a minute 1st a look back to january 25th dina and other more recent events concerning caricature in france. the attacks took place in france 5 years apart but they shook the world the stuff of magazine in 2050 and a schoolteacher this october were brutally murdered for showing caricature of the prophet mohammed. in the 1st attack to islamic extremists on with rifles forced their way into the offices of the french the terror magazine charlie hebdo 12 people were murdered including the publisher stefan shabani a and the cartoonist the. french president francois hollande addressed the nation which will do you see that it could be today the whole republic became

a target in the wake of the carnage people came together to honor the victims the hashtag charlie became a slogan for freedom of expression. a writer for the magazine warned that this freedom was in danger absolutely titian's must act quickly otherwise there will be dramatic consequences not in years to come but in the coming months he said we don't work yet and 5 years on france is once again in shock following the beheading of schoolteacher samuel patti for teaching students about the caricature of a different president but the same message. said. the news on the day on friday samuel patti became the face of the republic. in the face of our determination to understand to learn to continue to teach and to be free dosing the . words that once again stressed the importance of freedom of expression to french culture. joining me on the line from

paris is the political scientist and documentary filmmaker dr azeem out of froward a leading expert on the arab world and particularly on the media welcome. did this attack on the offices of dog was a direct attack on the media in france it's 5 years on it's actually nearly 6 years on have attitudes changed in the media i mean has the media tone down their satire . no definitely not let me try to sum up the current french debate a lot of french people are sad like man those actions are 1st published that's a really tasteless and place. that i maybe shouldn't have today especially after i read as not as i think the french schoolteacher fans are saying you know these characters need to be published we need tutti and. the really what

makes french society what makes the french political system and what makes itself understanding of french people and the kind we are not accepting to be scared by terror and compromise are what is part of our national culture and our national political culture but what why is it that the french particularly believe so strongly in allowing literally anything to be said however critical where does this all come from. oh the french the french are half limits in terms of freedom of speech and so on so you can't incite violence to hatred and so on as you have a deep rooted french tradition from the beginning after the french revolution armenian lightman in modern times state was created. way gradually came to the conclusion as well that france has less money is total pot of freedom of speech and

then the french also would say you know and this is fashion magazines have a very special role in french society they're not they're not only satirical magazines they are also in some ways you know investigative magazines because france doesn't have a tradition of investigative journalism so a lot of. issues of french society scandals are for example that brought to the public's attention souless captions and. the fact that an athlete not bow to terror and say oh well well. there were some cartoons which even a lot of us people in france didn't like we won't do that anymore because that will will bolt to jihadi terror so you have a reaction which is going totally against against limiting for instance the new search are quite provocative. terrorists or terrible cartoons for however

briefly if you will at how important are these satirical magazines in frons you know that aren't on there are one or 2 shiling after all is maybe the 2nd most certainly wasn't part of the muslim partners called an option a. change doc which is bringing out a lot of political scandal of which that's really deep investigative work at the same time translating this investigative work also always with satirical cut terms . fascinating to talk to you. doctor it's very interesting to see what is happening in france in fact it seems to be getting sort of tougher in that way thank you for joining to us today thank you. something now that i hope will bring joy to your hearts and is full of optimism and at the same time it is a lesson to us all i'm talking about the documentary film forward made by french

filmmaker gina demised children of the future and the mind has filmed children around the world who through simple acts trying to help people less fortunate than they are. it's just what this girl we're told truths sampan you tell young. people. you don't want to. logical room is all fun to be annoying me do you. love him i love. caused the world. to have what i was a power want to change it's to me it is but is it illegal to sell what the old if it was a good suit. directors domestic i was deeply moved when he shot the scene for years 10 year old has been giving homeless people food and clothes in his town in northern france he's known as something of

a young saint. that you see comic you know a couple thinner than optimal for what i would never take so for us not going to everything it doesn't hold it up on the edge real good to move here cause. cause will. raise this money for his donations by selling his own paintings his determination not to simply accept suffering and injustice made a deep impression on the filmmaker and on the film's audiences example on that one not that serious. we showed the film in a small town in southwest france to an audience of 1000 followed by a discussion. we had gathered outside the next day the cinema manager was in town and saw several groups of children who'd set up makeshift soup kitchens for homeless people. he said it's all they told him they'd seen the film the day before and want to do what i was doing. all they want to get out was you know when i just

you know we're going to. demand stroke travel the globe meeting in filming children who are fighting to improve the world around them in europe asia. america and west africa. in guinea he met 12 year old i said to who was outraged that a girl from her school was being married off child marriage is officially banned in the country but still over 50 percent of brides are underage i said to founded a girls' association to prevent child marriage or you're still not there if you want to do was found out here's the quote i lived in my d.h. because this is why i go look at only one of many as show host that it would be seen with limited council misfiring every day if he didn't have been there many years we'd go school every year i think i know what you have been missing recently so what was it you know what i did was obviously busy did you notice how sad i whenever i said to his that an underage girl is being married off she calls the

police and does what she can to stop the wedding this child bride who was being married off to a 30 year old cousin is the 16th go she managed to save. it is the children take a lot of risks that pushed around beaten they face extreme hostility they storm into these weddings to stop them anyway they're incredibly courageous. like. that the documentary forward is an inspiring portrait of results for inventive young people who are clearly a force to be reckoned with. in the last 8. years and it's hard to think that down. yet back it got so don't we can't just wait for leaders like angela merkel and emanuel to solve the world's problems like hunger and homelessness i want my children and the children of the world to get the message of the film is everyone can do something with small or big steps we all

have the skills to solve problems that if millions of people all took a small step we could change the world. would have been better. 2 for one isn't even settling for small steps his next plan is to build a shelter for homeless people. what a wonderful uplifting film mention is again it's called forward by the french filmmaker . now some more cultured news from elsewhere in the world here in germany museums and galleries are still closed but in britain after a very strict lockdown since the beginning of november certain cultural venues are reopening. all my wednesday the national gallery in london rio de mieux z.m. that house is a collection of 2000 paintings from the 13th to the 19th centuries by the director

of the gallery. he said he thinks the reopening is important right now because it allows people to see a different view on the world and allow that imagination to take flight. and that soul for this edition i leave you with some pictures from another exhibition this one in this sicko loaded. that's in the spanish capital madrid 30 works by elusive anonymous street artist banksy he's a global phenomenon but we don't know who he be she is however his artwork saw easily recognizable.

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