country nicaragua 2 countries in sub-saharan africa that's rhonda and namibia and one from east asia the philippines of the 149 countries rated for gender equality overall only for the g 7 members make it into the top 20 france germany the u.k. and canada the united states only lands at position 51 there is an even further back on 70 and japan is the taillight of the g 7 group at position 110. switzerland just made it into the top 20 if you ask women there they'd probably place their own country much further down the list it's mainly down to the fact that once children are involved swiss women for off the career grid especially probable in rural regions. dolman lives on a farm in the beautiful region of argyle in switzerland and she's an advocate for women's rights many women in the region are totally dependent on their husband she says they aren't paid and have little or no social security. you've probably heard by there are problems when the couples get divorced the wife loses her home because the farm is often inherited from the husband's parents the woman married into it and when she leaves it's

time and as well as the philippines and this was called the association of southeast asia. they would lay the foundations, the association of south east asian nations. that would include singapore as well as indonesia and these three anti-communist members, malaysia, thailand, and the philippines. all of these countries would rule by conservative leads. these would fully support u.s. intervention in vietnam, during the 60s and 70s, they would pursue increasingly intimate ties, with the superpowers. supr powers. these were the vital moments of what was a wider pro-u.s. trajectory across southeast asia. now, what my book subjects is this story of the wider region is lost if we focus tightlyo on the faith. whereas a number of scholars judged the u.s. retreat from vietnam is the end of a short-lived american empire, my book considers dominos that did not fall. this dominos transformed over time and this became an informal empire of america that inclosed the south china sea and circled china. in fact, it reflects what u.s. officials had very early on from the out set of the cold war been intending. saw southeast asia as part of a great cre

philippines. some of thatis the northern philippines. some of that is quite intense. moving away from asia into australia, high pressure is dominating at the moment. the squeeze on to the south—eastsnow at lower levels and heavy rain possible. that extends into new zealand where it is pretty u nsettled. into new zealand where it is pretty unsettled. we see an improvement in wellington as we head into the in the south—east of france we had heat and humidity. in the south—east of france we had heatand humidity. in in the south—east of france we had heat and humidity. in the north and west disappointing for the middle of august. cool at times and showers with often windy weather as well. on tuesday that continues in the north west. london and paris warming up as we head into the weekend, dry and sunny elsewhere. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. in the last hour, have seen a text ofa in the last hour, have seen a text of a letter from in the last hour, have seen a text of a letterfrom borisjohnson in the last hour, have seen a text of a letter from borisjohnson to donald tusk in which he makes a proposal to replace the irish border back stop suggesting the eu and the uk

welcome back well here cross parts of southeast asia we have been seeing a lot of rain here across parts of the philippines due to a storm that's just towards the east of them now the rain is going to start to improve over the next few days get a little bit lighter that you can see those clouds right there that is the problem and we do see those outer feeder bands pushing across much of luzon so on thursday still expect to see some very heavy rain accumulating rain could lead to the flooding over there we're going to be seeing manila at a temperature of 30 degrees there but heavy rain across parts of vietnam as well as can badia we do expect that to continue as we go towards friday well for australia we are seeing a lot of active weather down here across much of the bite and into the southeast with fairly good storms pushing across that area now we do expect to see temperatures coming down as well over the next few days take a little forecast map here on thursday melbourne at 11 tasmania is going to be cold as well with hobart seeing attempts of 9 but it is going to be getting colder across much of the southeast for toria expression the higher eleva