ethiopia has banned its citizens from domestic work in lebannon but still they find ways to come to me it was that there are hundreds of workers in houses being imprisoned and not getting their rights not even their days off just they don't even pay their salary they make them work into has is that a lot of women entering lebannon as domestic workers are the most at risk under the car fare less system suicide rates among them are high and many die in failed escape attempts. it was a sudden increase in the cost of bread that sparked the protests rocking saddam since december and led to the downfall of dictator omar al bashir but as the civilian protesters grapple with the military for the future of the country tough economic conditions continue to be a fact of life for the sudanese. preparing for her next class she's an english professor at a khartoum university. it's a prestigious job but not in terms of the money it hardly brings in anything i have to work extra to survive each month. i think that it's a. hernia about fifty euros a month she struggles to get by and when she tries to w

ethiopia has banned its citizens from domestic work in lebannon but still they find ways to come here is what there are hundreds of workers in houses being imprisoned and not getting their rights not even their days off. they don't even pay their salary they make them work into houses to watch the women entering lebannon as domestic workers are the most at risk under the cuff ls system suicide rates among them are high and many die in failed escape attempts. there is a centuries old afghan tradition when the country needs to settle matters of national importance a lawyer jirga a grand assembly is called the latest involving around thirty two hundred delegates from the country's different to tribal groups is meeting to discuss peace talks with the taliban. delegates from all over afghanistan converged on kabul for the first lawyer in six years. the assembly will spend four days discussing whether to negotiate with the taliban or not. we will call on the taliban to enter into peace talks with the afghan government as we have done before look at what about. this is a common view among af

women entering lebannon as domestic workers are the most at risk under the cuff ellis system suicide rates among them are high and many die in failed escape attempts. japan is preparing to mark the end of an era on tuesday with the abdication of emperor akihito after a thirty year range he is the first japanese monarch to advocate in the. modern era but i can tell is no stranger to breaking with tradition a habit that started even before he became emperor. akihito was a groundbreaking figure long before he became emperor in one nine hundred fifty nine he married a commoner. a major taboo but the people loved it the couple recently celebrated their sixtieth anniversary. and some toshi hope their union will last that long the two wanted to marry during the akihito era they are nearly out of time with his abdication looming. i spent thirty years of my life in this era since i was a year old we have lived through catastrophes but i want to keep this time in my heart and enjoy the new era they have always to thin out the lawyer. now akihito is abdicating the first emperor to do so for two

facilitates forced labor and leaves workers vulnerable to abuse and exploitation if you look at me in lebannon there are more than two hundred fifty thousand foreign workers coming from asian and african countries to work in homes loaded i mean these workers are exempt from the normal labor laws because they are subject to the cut filesystem whose is when you don't make that feed amnesty international says the lebanese authorities make little effort to bring abusive employers to account workers can be arrested and deported if their employer reports the most having absconded from their job even if they're fleeing abuse passport confiscation is common practice making it even more difficult for migrant workers to escape exploitative labor conditions and it was a year they treat us like flavor first of all with the coffee filesystem the employer can control us in whichever way they want to because our employer can send us away whenever he wants i don't have the right to refuse i have to do whatever she wants. to should be done her way but donegal. ethiopia has banned its citizens from domestic wor

but in order to understand what drives linda got mad you have to travel to her home country of lebannon. she grew up in beirut a city shaped by war. it's here that she's realizing her latest project stung garden the architecture draws on the city's recent history for a new residential building. that if you have seen beirut in ruins and seen how nature infiltrated the space and how the whole history of beirut was revealed if it was and there was nature invading the whole city of a year hard to clear for me it was fascinating to see how nature was capable of bringing beauty even to this pure atrocity and their level at it and all of that at last if they. did i guess i wondered about this holds these opening words that are today very political and beirut sit at has these openings or traces of war nicola harvest from these openings with an filled with life again because it's right here that grows. in her adopted home of paris got mail also has major works in the pipeline. in the south of the city a new quarter is being built. lena got married together with her team in paris are working on r

in danger of collapsing many here were hoping for a miracle like josie and early christians from lebannon. they had to go if there is water on either side. but it's on fire and they can't put it out. even in france with all of its modern technology they can't put it out you were praying to god said. also this you might if men can't do it maybe the good lord will help us. so that. it's not just not true donna from paris it's not your damn of all humanity even the muslims next to us started singing with us when they saw he was singing in arabic. much of notre dame's roof had collapsed the fate of its invaluable artworks and relics was still unclear a best it was somewhat difficult for me this is the symbol of paris i'm in love with paris and its art and culture that this could happen to such a powerful symbol i can't believe. people hoped and prayed firefighters could put out the fire there never been one like this at notre dame many of the beams in the churches wooden frame were almost a thousand years old. put them through. my heart my soul. was i'm a parisian born in paris to me it's our