acss rural india, rao says millions of acres of these commons lands have been classified as wastelandd neglected. rao's organization foundation for ecological security arranged to use a government employment program intended to relieve rural suffering to restore infrastructure, mostly to clear canals and ponds that had long dried up as silt from deforested land flowed down. w we would have come here five, 10 years ago, whld this landscape look like? >> there wouldn't have been any water here. those trees that you see there uld have been stunted saplings because there's no effective governance. there's fodder, whic or seven years ago there wouldn't have been anything. >> reporter: with reforestation, now when it rains water flows from the hills, instead of sand or silt. the resu actually hold water year round. athat serves livestock ao replenishes surrounding soil, rao says, producing br th or vegetatit can feed larger animal herds in the commons land. water left over is distributed and shared by consensus. the fountion also brings communities together in exercises to plan ahead: how m

up in a few minutes our sunday morning edition of the papers — this morning's reviewers are prashant raow york times and cityam's rachel cunliffe. before the papers, sport and for a full round up, let's cross to the bbc sport centre. we will start with a premier league. all of the bottom stoke came away with a point against liverpool. the fight goes on for another week. darren moore's escape plan for west bromwich albion is coming together, but could it be too little, too late? well, they won't go down without trying. matthew phillips sealed all three points for the baggies at newcastle. eight points from their last four matches now, but the boss is taking one game at a time. we've all played a part in getting that result today. it's another week of hard work what we have shown and together, we've all earnt a good result today and everybody can share in it. and they weren't the only big winners on the bottom of the table. southampton edged closer to jumping out of the bottom three with a 2—1 win over south coast neighbours bournemouth. commentator: here's dusan tadic! tadic, great finish

russia rao a rally that has already the entire world involved to be just witnessed pretty heated exchanges at the united nations security council the other day and if you put the political posturing aside what lies between russia and the u.k. both geographically and economic plan to some extent politically is europe is it clear to you at this point what stance europe is going to take in this whole controversy well i think i think it's pretty clear that europe has been united in its russian policy particularly since about two thousand and fourteen and that europe has been united particularly in response to this incident so i don't i don't suspect that we're going to see deep divisions emerging in europe either around this issue or or in russia policy more generally a lesser of a substantial material reason for that to happen now you said that europe is united and from what i know it's only about two thirds of the e.u. countries that actually showed solidarity with the u.k. which is not a small number by any means but at the end of the day expelling one two or even four diplomats like german

miss rao is administrative of the office of information and regulatory affairs. that's the omv office focused on regulatory review. and i hope the administrative doesn't mind me saying that, but traditionally that position has been referred to also as the administration's regulatory czar because of the functions that it has within the administration in terms of overseeing regulation. administrative rao has a distinguished background on the faculty of george mason university law school. now the skalale law school. and really as one of the leading scholars in administrative law. so i'm going to let you get the rest of her bio from the program. but i'll just say this, as many of you know, i've been involved in the administrative law area myself now for many decades. and so i'm familiar with the work of knee om ee rao and what she's has contributed to administrative law. so it's exciting to have you talk here today on the administration's policy. thank you. [ applause ] >> thanks so much, randy for that nice introduction and for the free state for inviting me to join

internet and our sunday morning edition of the papers is at 9.35 — this mornings reviewers are prashant raonew york times and city am's rachel cunliffe. good morning and welcome to bbc news. more than 200 mps have written to theresa may calling for assurances given to the windrush generation about their citizenship rights to be written into law. the letter, co—ordinated by the labour mp david lammy, said concerns over compensation, housing and legal rights had not been settled. the home secretary, amber rudd, will give a statement to the commons tomorrow afternoon. peter saull is our political correspondent tell us more about this letter. well i think it keeps the pressure on the home secretary, she will give a statement to the commons tomorrow, the letter asked a series of questions, specifically about the compensation scheme, how much the windrush migrants might be entitled to, how it would work, how they would get the papers to prove addition citizenship and it calls for all of us to be backed up by legislation. lots of questions for amber rudd to answer when she returns to the commons t

russia rao a rally that has already the entire world in the vault to be just witnessed pretty heated exchanges at the united nations security council the other day and if you put the political posturing aside what lies between russia and the u.k. both geographically and economically and to some extent politically is europe is it clear to you at this point what stance europe is going to take in this whole controversy well i think i think it's pretty clear that europe has been united in its russian policy particularly since about two thousand and fourteen and that europe has been united particularly in response to this incident so i don't i don't suspect that we're going to see deep divisions emerging in europe either around this issue or or and russia pie. more generally a lesser of a substantial material reason for that to happen now you said that europe is united and from what i know it's only about two thirds of the e.u. countries that actually showed solidarity with the u.k. which is not a small number by any means but at the end of the day expelling one two or even four diplomats

caught out by strict new laws specifying documents they need to prove how long they've been hearing this rao could not have blown up i don't more embarrassing time for the british government the very week in which your hosts the commonwealth summit in which it's busy emphasising its friendship with former colonies as it prepares to leave the e.u. . ministers told parliament they're trying to repair the damage with a special team to help the wind generation a promise to resolve their cases quickly free of charge although the government isn't sure whether some people have already been disappointed in aaron. can she tell the house how many have been detained as prisoners in their own country can she tell the house how many have been denied health under the national health service how many have denied pensions how many have lost their jobs this is a day of national shade mr speaker i shan't be able gentleman's admiration for the people who came here from the caribbean and contributed so much to our society in many many different ways and that admiration remains in place i am concerned that the h

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and sharing our rao has erupted online after the country's version of twitter threatened to censor gay related content on its platform to view social media editor karl now as one has been tracking this story bring us up to speak or they were talking about. over the weekend weibo announced new guidelines that many in china were afraid would lead to broad censorship of the . community there in china here's that official post this is from friday it's announcing a three month clean up campaign targeting concent related to pornography violence and homosexuality in the says it's in order to create a harmonious community environment and to align with china's cyber security regulations by the following day this is already taken effect some more than fifty thousand so-called violations were taken down one hundred user accounts were also closed including a popular gay rights account called gay voice so this had an immediate effect wide ranging crackdown on one of china's most popular social media telcel a bit more about the protests yeah i mean this was a big outcry there in china we saw tens of

china trade dispute that corresponded how that rao could drown out the music over spotify. well i think first of all i think it's not hard to guess what kind of company is going public today you can hear it probably but all in all of course investors are nervous about these tensions and of course they could theoretically impact the i.p.o. i.p.o. here off spotify because all in all investors might be willing to pull back more because they're simply nervous about the attention. that the music business is cut for we all know that what does fortifies chances though as a listed company. well of course spotify has huge competitors apple music for example growing really really quickly of course but if i is still the market leader here but there's one important think even if they are not planning on giving new shares out right now there are planning on having that currency off shares in the future in order to raise capital and of course that's a very important possibility here for spotify and briefly this is the new york stock exchange first. straight to the market without an inter

announcement yesterday that run for re-election, won't serve in congress again, what are you hearing about the rao succeed him as speaker of the house? >> i thought this would take longer but we did get some fast news today from whip steve scalise. he said he will not run against kevin mccarthy. if kevin mccarthy wants to be speaker, he will let him run. now, kevin mccarthy hasn't announced that yet, but it's expect. we'll see how this plays out. those two men won't run against each other. at least we than for now. >> woodruff: and if depwhends on h party has a majority in the house after this november. a that's exrengt exactly. >> woodruff: lesjardins at the capitol, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> woodruff: t pompeo confirmation hearing to be secretary of state is taking place as the administratgen confronts questions about syria. president trump and russian officials swapped warnings today about whether to strike the middle eastern nation, over asu ected chemical weapons attack. the president first said a u.s. response could come, "very soon or not so soon at all." then, at a white house meeti