this is safa's brain, that's marwa's brain. what we need to achieve is to effectively untwist the brains, and that is difficult, pretty difficult to do just in your head. but it is perilous. the pads are on and they are ready to shock if we need to. 0k. the bbc was given unique access to chart the complex medical and ethical choices made... this is the day, the moment of truth, and everything hasjust got to be perfect. ..in the hope of giving the girls independent lives. safa and marwa are 21 months old, and were born in pakistan. they have come to london's great 0rmond street hospital with their mother, zainab, grandfather and uncle, and are under the care of neurosurgeon 0wasejeelani. it is clearly very difficult to go through life when you are joined together like that, so it does make a very persuasive case in favour of doing... attempting the separation. the family are very clear on that. clearly, i think life being separate is better than being joined together. if we felt there was not a very, very high chance that we cou

this is marwa el bacha in beirut. >> we are here today because we are not satisfied with the newly imposed prime minister that was imposed without our consent, nor the consent of many in lebanon. we went to the streets to make our voice heard. amy: in brazil, the number of people killed by police is soaring. last year, the police killed an average of 17 people every single day accordingng to officl government data. but human rights activists say off-duty and retired police officers also regularly carry out t extrajudicial killinings s part of a state-sanctioned war on crime stoked by brazilian president jair bolsonanaro, who said criminals should "die like cockroaches." in sudan, hundreds of thousands of people poured into the streets across the country to mark the first anniversary of the mass popular uprising that ousted longtime ruler omar al-bashir. the protesters demanded justice for those killed during the popular protests last year and vowed to continue the political revolution. this is fatma ali. >> thank god the revolution is moving toward the right direction, but there is still m