religious scripture to rural audiences, kathakali is now also a big draw for tourists coming here to keralas to know, how do you tell a story with your eyebrows, your cheeks, your lips and your fingers? can you teach me? to start with there, are 2a alphabets in the language, katha kali language. these alphabets are the position of the hand. so how, show me a little segment of how you would use the alphabets to tell the story. please, come. and so with the eye movements, what different types of eye movements do you have? rolling the eyes is getting excited. team those moves with some fancy footwork, and you have a performance — in theory at least. fast drumbeat. laughs. that is very good, very impressive. traditionally, a classic kathakali performance can go on for many hours, sometimes a whole night. but some modern audiences have shorter attention spans, so the artform has had to adapt. you know, the original one, it goes throughout a night, you know everything is in detail, everything is intricate. and nowadays we are condensing it for a 1.5, two hour program. so in a way we do lose our o

court has acquitted a catholic bishop accused of repeatedly raping a nun in the southern state of keralaas accused of attacking the woman 13 times between 2014 and 2016. he denied e allegations. he stepped down from his duties following protests which led to his arrest. you are watching bbc world news america. still to come on tonight's program, bbc arabic reveals secret recordings believed to be of the former tunisian president ben ali during his frantic last hours in power. that is still to come. thousands are rallying behind their president and demonstrating against sanctions imposed by the eu. here is beverly o chang. >> dressed in the colors of the flag, they are waving banners with messages of condemnation to france and the european union. and some messages toward russia. these were called for by those that have expressed support for the public saying that they cannot undertake these sanctions. in the coming days, there is likely to be some song called -- some consultation between the two countries. there are calls for dialogue. because of the crisis, they want to reduce the tensio

the biggest one i remember covering is 2016 in the southern state of kerala, when more than 100 peopleen't really had anything that was that large—scale in nature. had anything that was that large-scale in nature. yogita lima e, large-scale in nature. yogita limaye. we _ large-scale in nature. yogita limaye, we will _ large-scale in nature. yogita limaye, we will obviously . large-scale in nature. yogita i limaye, we will obviously bring the viewers was up—to—date on the viewers was up—to—date on the latest statistics on the nature of that story as we get it. for now, thank you. yogita limaye live for us in mumbai. the governor of the us state of colorado has pledged to help residents who've lost everything to rebuild their lives, after sudden wildfires destroyed 1,000 homes. tens of thousands of people were evacuated as the fires tore through suburban areas of boulder county on thursday. gary 0'donoghue has this report. winds of more than 100 mph drove the flames across more than 1600 acres of suburban colorado, which would normally have snow on the ground at this time of year. the fi

the indian state of kerala in october, as a house is swept away in a flood.re fears the rains during the season are becoming increasingly intense. flooding in australia during its wettest november in records going back to 1900. under the influence of a la nina weather pattern, forecasts point to a second consecutive wet summer for the country. but in the horn of africa, consecutive poor rainfall seasons have left 26 million people struggling for food, with drought conditions forecast to persist until at least mid—2022. in november, a powerful wind storm hit turkey, toppling buildings and ripping off roofs, with a gust of 81mph in istanbul. and we can't forget this — the container ship that blocked the suez canal for nearly a week in march, holding up the 12% of global trade that passes through it each day, all because it was apparently blown off course by a gust of wind. now back to africa, and the snow—capped rwenzori mountains on the border between uganda and the democratic republic of congo. their appearance is changing dramatically as the glacial ice that