bbc‘s devina gupta reports.nch a new collection. after a disappointing year, it desperately wants to turn around its fortunes in its single biggest market, india. but the timing is tricky. the indian economy is facing a slowdown, and everything from demand to spending has been affected. so the fashion house has started building a customer base beyond the big cities. 65% of the population is under 35. it‘s tech savvy, it‘s very aspirational. in terms of the growth profile, what is quite telling, 50% of our business comes from the metros — the delhis, mumbais, the hyderabads, and so on. but the other 25% comes from tier—two, tier—three cities. even big firms like amazon, who have been operating in india for around six years, are yet to turn profitable here. that said, it has just invested $5 billion in india. much of it has been used to create a global centre in hyderabad. spread over 9.5 acres, this is amazon‘s largest campus across the world, where it plans to employ nearly 15,000 people in software development

devina gupta, bbc news, daily. —— dehli.by penguins. but in a suburb on phillip island, around 137 kilometres south of the australian city of melbourne, the world's largest colony of a species known as the ‘little penguin' has done just that. it's a place where tourists have flocked to since the 1920s to see the nightly ‘penguin parade'. in 1985, the state government took an extraordinary step — it decided to buy every piece of property on the summerland peninsula and return the land to the penguins. peter dann is research director at phillip island nature parks. he's worked there since the early eighties and was one of the authors of a study that led to the summerland property buyback. he described to me how this worked. it was a very complicated process but far more civilised than i expected. we determined the trends in the penguin population, which we re in the penguin population, which were serious, the population was going down very rapidly. and there we re going down very rapidly. and there were a number of obvious cau

the bbc‘s devina gupta reports. 23—year—old jyoti in delhi is seven months pregnant.ate mother who has agreed to rent a womb for nearly $7,000. translation: i got married at the age of 17. my husband lied to me about his work, he was jobless, and he used to beat me. i left him and came here with my two children. i decided to be a surrogate mother now because my children are young and they won't ask me any awkward questions. i'm in a small house in delhi, which is a hostel for surrogate mothers. there are two rooms here with eight beds facing each other. there is an air conditioner, a television and a cook, which is a luxury for the surrogate mothers here who are from underprivileged backgrounds. they have to stay here during the course of their pregnancy, where their diet and their medication is monitored very closely. rajkumari was a surrogate mother for a baby girl recently. she comes to this hostel for a prenatal check—up. and is using the money to provide for her own three—year—old child. translation: what else can i do? should i sell my kidney to get money? there

devina gupta, bbc news, dehli.cape town at the start of a 10—day tour of southern africa. visiting one of the city's townships which has the highest murder rate in the country, meghan spoke out against violence against women and praised those who had, in her words, stood up for what was right. 0ur royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, sent this report. they both know this trip needs to be a success after recent missteps and negative headlines. no time to waste then. harry and meghan dispensed with a red—carpet welcome and came straight to a township. the exuberance of the welcome masks the fact that nyanga township has the highest murder rate in south africa. the couple had come to show their support, for a refuge for women and children. and amid all the hugs and the handholding was the serious message — violence against women is a huge problem here. and meghan marked out her determination to be heard. while i'm here, with my husband, as a member of the royal family, i want you to know that, for me, i am here wit

devina gupta, bbc news, hyderabad.ounced seinfeld, one of the most popular sitcoms in television history, is heading to the streaming service from 2021. the deal comes after netflix suffered the loss of two popular licensed tv shows, friends and the office in recent months. let's look at the markets. as you can see, asia—pacific bourses have open for trading. japan was closed yesterday due to a public holiday but it has open and lacklustre trade today, not much going on in the nikkei 225, down by a 10th of a percent and the all 0rdinaries giving back 0.3%. in about 50 minutes we will see the latest from the hong kong stock exchange and the hang seng index. thank you so much for investing your time with us. i'm rico hizon. sport today is coming up next. this is bbc news. the top stories this hour: luxembourg's prime minister has launched a furious attack on the british government and its approach to brexit. president trump has pointed the finger for the attack on saudi arabia's oil facilities, saying, "it looks like it

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