jahangir: no.ent, we all sort of anticipated after what happened the last three or four years that shale would come back. i think you see a lot of those, particularly if you look at the high-yield market that our team looks at all the time. you see that the energy in the shale sector will reemerge back. at $70 a barrel, that technology is, again, the incentive is there to cap these resources. can we stabilize at that level, that is the bigger question. in that $40 to $60 range feels more like a $50 to $60 range. yousef: a look at your median forecast for the second quarter at about $68 a barrel. that has a major impact on this part of the world. you just came back from saudi arabia, where the anticorruption probe -- they are trying to bring it to a close. it is mixed information we are getting. walk us through your experience on the ground and where you see pockets of potential opportunities and risks as well. jahangir: the purge is coming to an end, and i think they achieved a lot of what they set

you knew ms jahangir for 25 years.ample that summarises her passion for her work? well, i, after resigning as pakistan's ambassador to the us, was wrongly implicated in an affair in which i was falsely accused by the pakistani intelligence service of having communicated with the americans and trying to forestall a coup. lawyers were afraid that the deep state would not abide by their taking up my case. and ms jahangir volunteered to take up that case and fought for me. time for a look at the sport. to south korea, where red gerard was the star on day two of the winter olympics in pyeongchang. the teenage snowboarder won gold in the slopestyle on a day when seven gold medals were at stake — nick marshall mccormack rounds up the action. it's a mark of red gerard's styled at the age of 17 he was regarded as one of the favourites going into this event at pyeongchang. on the slopes, it's hard to believe the youth that lies under the clothes, but when the moment of glory had passed and he was at the centre of the world's med

jahangir: the cartel is still the cartel.s demonstrated it is as -- it is able to work together. i think there was concern they were not working together. i think over the last 12 months, they have demonstrated the ability to be cohesive, to head in the right direction. can they respond in a similar way? but the interesting story on oil at the moment is everyone is getting excited because global growth is looking good. it is a demand story that you could argue will continue to drive commodities. not just oil, but commodities broadly up. which creates the inflation risks we see coming this year. yousef: you are not worried about more supply coming out of the united states? jahangir: for the moment, we all anticipated after what happened the last three or four years that shale would come back. those, you see a lot of particularly if you look at the high-yield market that our team looks at all the time. you see that the energy in the shale sector will reemerge back. at $70 a barrel, that technology is, again, the incentive is th

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jahangir: i think a lot of clients are maintaining caution and neutrality. a pickup primarily by the rising or oil prices -- by the rise in oil prices. you see private investors and corporate looking at the market and saying, how do i cap this? the reform is playing out and it is playing out at the underground level. it is impacting humans on the grounds, and it is amazing how quickly that moves. yousef: with oil prices recovering and the u.s. dollar hovering around three year lows, where does that leave gulf credit? franklin templeton investments say they are chronically underweight. >> last year was a record year in terms of issuance. human -- you mentioned a on thecant dollar bloc fixed income landscape. our expectation is we should have another $80 billion or so. this is a significant part of the landscape. we have done a lot of research. whether we are looking to maximize returns or minimize risk, we have discovered that adding a significant proportion of debt reduces risk. we are obviously very excited about the prospects for the region. yousef: we are

the funeral of prominent pakistani human rights activist and lawyer, asma jahangir, has been held inrights throughout her career. bbc urdu's henna saeed was there and sent us this report. hundreds of people came out here at the gaddafi stadium in lahore today to pay tribute to the prominent human rights activist and lawyer asma jahangir. asma had a great fan following in pakistan, especially with women, because she was a voice for women who were suppressed here. she fought for the rights of women, and got them justice. a large number of such women, her friends, family, co—workers, they all came to her house today to see her for the very last time, then they formed groups and came here as they walked to the stadium in lahore where they offered the final funeral prayers. for the first time in pakistan, men and women stood side by side in the funeral prayers. never has this country seen this scenario, and this is what asma jahangir wanted in her life, to see men and women stand by together. asma's last wish has been granted, although there were voices from across pakistan that she shoul

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the prominent pakistani human rights activist and lawyer, asma jahangir, has died at the age of 66.spected pro—democracy activists and championed women's rights throughout her career. pakistan's former ambassador to the us spoke to the bbc earlier about the impact of her work. she stood with the people, she never cared about her personal comforts, and she stood for the blue to pakistan, targeted by the pakistani military. she stood for all pakistanis, and resisted not only the generals, but the judges who had becomes tools of the generals in many, becomes tools of the generals in any becomes tools of the generals in s. a luxury saudi arabian hotel that served as a detention centre for dozens of princes and top officials since november, has reopened. the five—star ritz—carlton in riyadh was taken over following an anti—corruption drive, headed by crown prince mohammed bin salman. germany's chancellor, angela merkel, says she had to make painful concessions to secure a coalition deal with the country's social democrats. hitting back at critics who say she sold out to stay in power, sh

the leading pakistani human rights activist, asma jahangir, has died at the age of 66.rights commission for pakistan. she also served with several united nations' missions. nobel peace prize winner malala yousafzai called her a "saviour of democracy". south korea's prime minister has indicated that certain conditions need to be met before the country's president can accept an offer to meet the north korean leader, kim jong—un. more talks were held on sunday with the delegation from pyongyang — the south said they were "frank and candid". kim jong—un's sister, kim yo jong, has now left south korea — after the highest level visit from the north since the korean war. our correspondent stephen mcdonell is in seoul and has more. opinions are definitely divided here in seoul and right across south korea as to the way forward in terms of how the government here should treat north korea. essentially, the debate goes, more engagement or keep trying to freeze them out? of course, it's more complicated than that and some would say you can still have a dialogue while maintaining ma

also making news today, the prominent pakistani human rights activist and lawyer, asma jahangir, has66. she was one of asia's most respected pro—democracy activists — and championed women's rights throughout her career. pakistan's former ambassador to the us spoke to the bbc earlier about the impact of her work. she stood with the people, she never cared about her personal comforts, and she stood for the balucha, pakistan, targeted by the pakistani military. she stood for all pakistanis, and resisted not only the generals, but the judges who had becomes tools of the generals in many, many ways. state prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against the weinstein company in new york, alleging that the studio failed to protect staff from harvey weinstein. mr weinstein has been accused by more than 50 women, but he denies allegations of non—consensual sex. a lawyer for harvey weinstein said ‘while mr weinstein‘s behaviour was not without fault, there certainly was no criminality.‘ tonga declared a state of emergency as a powerful cyclone bears down on the pacific island nation after wreaking ha

and then later on international human rights because what we need are ways of impairing more asma jahangir is the next generation of voices who understand how to use the human rights system at the u.n. and a regional level to lobby for affective change to protect and promote human rights and we need to do that in order that member states don't feel that they can with impunity simply crack down on those human rights defenders and national level sufficient i mean do you think that building momentum to words. removing countries from the human rights council for example could be productive in the near future because some of the nations have been widely accused of committing atrocities like in places like in yemen for example but then nothing has been done to address this issue is exactly there are standards that are supposed to apply to human rights council membership the standards that are being set out very clearly by the general assembly there's an expectation that member states what hold the highest standards of human rights and cooperate with the council and mechanisms all too often thoug

human rights activists known as the iron lady of pakistan has died at the age of sixty six asma jahangir has suffered a heart attack in the eastern city of lahore late on saturday and died a few hours later she was a fierce defender of women and minorities and openly criticize the pakistani military intelligence and right wing religious parties the former un special rapporteur was also chair of pakistan's human rights commission and had also served as president of the supreme court's bar association as well while moving to try and come out where the opposition says the coalition government must resign following a heavy defeat in local government elections both the party of the president and prime minister perform badly and often and as reports from columbus. the giant opposition is back in the limelight the sri lanka people's front which contested the local government elections won the largest share of the vote known locally as the p.p. the party says the ruling government has lost its mandate the result is unequivocal this is a very emphatic very clear egyptian army becoming of them the