. >> reporter: and, he says, his wife shanti wasn't particularly interested in discussing it. >> it'siggest taboo. wife never talks to husband, mother never talks to daughter, >> reporter: that comes at a high cost in public health. some experts say millions of girls across the developing world miss school during their periods and remain susceptible to infection throughout adulthood. sanitary pads are widely advertised in india but surveys suggest only about one in ten women uses them. at first muruganantham suggested them to his wife. >> i asked simply, there is some products in the market. why you're not using that? she instantly told we have to cut our family milk budget. >> reporter: milk budget? >> then i find it's a matter of affordability. >> reporter: he could afford one package of sanitary pads and gave it to shanti as a gift, partly to find out how they were made and why they had to be so expensive. >> the white substance inside used is cotton. then even being illiterate, i thought, why not try to make an affordable pad for my wife. >> reporter: over the next few years, he t

he had hoped to get a visit from his girlfriend, shanti's mother, christine, before he shipped out toson. but since she was arrested following his sentencing for an outburst in court, she is not allowed to visit for 30 days. >> that hurt. we never knew them rules. them rules ain't never been said to us before. so it is what it is. it's jail. so, you know, i'll call her on the phone, let her know what's going on. it's time -- it's time to start the road. go ahead and do what i got to do and the faster i go do it, the quicker i get home. >> while kelley has a prior drug conviction, this will be his first time in prison. >> but it don't scare me. because everybody i know is in prison. i've been on the streets most of my life. so everybody know me already. so -- really, scared? scared i could never be. what it is is that i'm scared that i'm always going to be dreaming about my daughter. that's the only thing that scare me. because every day is like, wow, she gone. and that's what kills me the most. i want to tell the kids out there, don't play with guns. guns kill people. whether you like

. >> vishwa shanti was started by my teacher. we have a classical dance. the vision of the organization really is to have peace for dance and allied arts. we do that one dancer at a time. so we also have the opportunity to get some of the procedures, functions, like the san francisco ethnic dance fest and we will be performing this may 27th at the sf international arts fest. >> what kind of number are we going to see coming snup. >> so our dancers today will be performing the aladapo. it is a progression of steps with movements from the head and the eye and then there are other parts of the body and eventually the stage. it really prepares the dancer to perform the most complex spaces that take place. >> who is joining us here? >> so we have bonnie surish, we have preanka and annamarie. >> please enjoy. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> san francisco international arts festival at the cowell theater in san francisco on may 27th. we want to thank all of our guests for being here. catch us on social media and catch us on asia pacific america. we go out with more dancing

. >> reporter: inside this ice shanty in northern minnesota-- >> here we go! fish out of water. >> oh, yeah, look at that. >> reporter: and i'm not talking about the walleye. >> is that a keeper or a tosser. >> reporter: chris ingraham is dressed in his pea coat and boots with the tags still on appears out of place. he works for "the washington post" and the only reason he is out here is because of an article he wrote in 2015 about a seemingly innocuous department of agriculture study that ranked places in the country on scenery and climate and chris concluded the absolute worst place to live in america-- drum roll, please-- red lake county, minnesota. and that was it. >> so i published the story. the story goes up at, like, 9:32 on a monday. by 9:37, the hate mail started rolling in. >> reporter: no way. >> like on social media and it was fast and furious and it was like nothing i had ever seen before. >> reporter: and all of it from the same zip code. >> we got some people take it personally. >> yeah, we took offense. >> how does this person have a clue? >>

. >> reporter: inside this ice shanty in northern minnesota, there's a fish out of water. >> oh, yeahnd boots with the tag still on appears equally out of place. he works for the "washington post" and the only reason he's out here is because of an article he wrote in 2015. the article was about a seemingly innocuous u.s. department of agriculture study. it ranked cities in the country based on climate. and in the article, chris concluded the absolute worse place to live in america is drum roll please, red lake county, minnesota. and that was it. >> i published a story, story goes up at like 9:32 on a monday. by 9:37 the hate mail started rolling in on social media. it was fast and furious like nothing i'd ever seen before. >> reporter: and from the same zip code. you get people who take it personally. >> yeah, we take offense. how does this person have a clue? >> he obviously didn't know what he was talking about. >> reporter: just about everyone in town took a shot at the messenger, except jason brumwell who took a different tack. >> i wanted him to come here and see it for himself,

. >> inside this ice shanty is northern mississippi there's a fish out of water. >> look at this. >>all eye. >> is that a keeper or tosser? >> chris ingraham, dressed in his peacoat and snow boots with the tag still on. chris works for the "washington post." only reason he's out here is because of an article he wrote in 2015. the article was about a seeming innocuous u.s. department of agriculture study that ranked counties in the country based on scenery and climate. in that article, chris concluded the absolute worst place americ, please, red lake county, minnesota. isn't that was it. >> i publish the story. story go up like 9:32 monday. by 9:37 the hate mail started rolling in like, i'm it was fast and furious. >> and all of it, from the same zip code. >> you get some people take it personally? >> we took offense. >> how does this person have a clue? >> he didn't know what he was talking about. >> just about everyone in town took a shot. except jay on who took a different tack. >> i wanted him to come here and see it for himself. you know, put his money where his mouth is, i guess

now it's a shanty town. many living here fled toa shanty town. 60,000, now more than double that number call it home. un soldiers patrol to keep the peace. aid agencies described this asa peace. aid agencies described this as a man—made famine, a claim disputed by the government. but nobody disputes the scale of the problem. right now there's fighting continuing and we really do need a unilateral ceasefire from the government, without that and without the fighting stopping i can't see the fighting stopping i can't see the situation getting any better. more people will be displaced, there will be more problems in terms of us being able to reach them. and the number of people who are at risk will increase. at the maternity hospital in bechu, a baby boy is born into a life surrounded by fences and barbed wire. not to keep him but to keep the raging civil war out. and foster, bbc news, south sudan. —— anna foster. anna foster in south sudan and she'll be presenting drive on bbc radio 5live from there from 4pm this afternoon. later we will have a go a