the actress comes from a respected jeddah family. fatima: i ththink there were different assumptions about what i would do w with this acacadc background. right? and suddenly, i was acting, and i think i broke a bit of these expectations. that was a bit of a shocker. reporter: but fatima doesn't want to be just an actress. in a park, she's set up a stand for her project, "the otherr story." here, she asks passers by to tell their stories. participants receive a pen and paper. anyone who can't write can dictate. fatima: the story actually says freedom is the best thing in life, and marriage should be postponed, or something like that. reporter: a project of this kind in an open space is a real novelty here. locked away, isolated, oppressed -- there is some truth to somee of t the cliches a about saudi women. but things are different for those in the middle and upper classes. they are more modern, sometimes doing without the headscarf. in this cafe, too, there's a storybox where people can post their stories anonymously. fatima meets o

there's still no real movie theatre in jeddah yet.joanna and the others hope that will soon change. their desire for culture is great. saudi society is changing changes that have been instigated from the top what was once considered impossible is suddenly possible angina after tiny can realize her dream together with her mother she was able to convince her father who was initially against the idea that she could go into the film industry. youth unemployment in saudi arabia is estimated to be between thirty and forty percent but that didn't stop joanna hooper sciences studies has got her first job working in animation. i mean i don't any sense didn't know think. and. they were making so many decisions so many. changes in this country that me things possible for us to do still come out to the world. but to jonah's sister jude with the short hair doesn't wear a headscarf in public either. her religion she says allow say that choice. this week in our global ideas series we head for nepal can music and theater help bring about badly needed

similar to each other to the west we've seen some significant some storms surprisingly yesterday in jeddah there's nothing in the immediate focus for i think the sun and mountains of saudi or yemen could see a shower or two or as honest or two in the next day or so is unlikely elsewhere but you have to say you can't entirely rule it out however there have been significant showers around in iran just to the north of terror and they are repeatable. this muslim undertakers working here are six seven days a week that's grown with a community my father purchased a black and blue sweater and stole two to do the funeral and the family we saw the stock being faltering to which i became business partners the stories we don't often hear told by the people who the gift is such a level. east and undertakers this is europe on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera china's foreign minister has taken to the stage at the u.n. to discuss trade and opening existing markets barriers and pointed remarks possibly aimed at the us why and he warned against protectionism his comments i made a deepe

in saudi arabia so now after the presence of djibouti in the area three met in jeddah to launch a peace process eighty three and somalia established diplomatic relations and in the same region in the context of a summit of the intergovernmental authority on development we got the two rival leaders in south sudan and finally signed a peace agreement imo prove that these efforts will continue to be consolidated so that the people of the horn of africa can finally turn the page on war and conflict the courageous initiative of the singapore summit between the leaders of the united states and the democratic people's republic of korea along with the recent meeting of the two korean leaders in pyongyang of there's hope for the possibility of a full and verifiable denuclearization of the korean peninsula in the context of regional security in my recent visit to colombe i was impressed by those people strong commitment to peace now reaffirmed by president. in central asia i personally witness strains and cooperation among states after those becky stan went through a peaceful political transition

similar to each other to the west we've seen some significant some storms surprisingly yesterday in jeddah there's nothing in the immediate focus for us think the southern mountains of saudi or yemen could see a shower or two or as honest or two in the next day or so is unlikely elsewhere but you have to say you can't entirely rule it out however there have been significant showers around in iran just to the north of tara and they are repeatable. under president trump finding asylum in the us has become harder than ever i have put in place a zero tolerance policy if you are going a child then we will prosecute you and that child might be separated from you thousands of families escaping violence or face separation detention and deportation as the u.s. closes its doors no shelter. again you're watching al-jazeera minder of our top stories this now foreign ministers from the gulf cooperation council have been meeting on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly in a gathering organized by u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh it is the first time a meeting like this has been held since the

marriage to her cousin ina had an arranged marriage to her cousin in a small village outside the city of jeddahoke down, though, and she married another man with whom she married another man with whom she began to live in dubai, but her family disapproved of that relationship and her second husband said that her family convinced her to come back to pakistan for a trip by saying that her father was very ill, but while she was here, it seems she died and initially the family claimed it was a heart attack, but after a lot of international pressure and a police investigation police said they believed she had been strangled and they charged her first husband with murder, although she maka delete he has denied the charge. and what his ayr mp naz shah trying to achieve with this letter to the prime minister —— what is her mp. with this letter to the prime minister -- what is her mp. since it happen, there has been very little progress in the alleged macca delete case against her alleged killer, so little progress, he has been released on bail —— progress in the case against her alleged killer. naz sha