my destination was the state of uttar pradesh, home to more than 200 million people.ous state in india and the most electorally significant. it also holds a less impressive statisc-- it has the second- highest reported number of rapes in the whole country. this is the woman behind one of the cases. she told us that she's been receiving death threats and is under 24/7 police protection, making it impossible to do an on-camera interview with her. she's not been publicly identified, and we've agreed to call her jaya. the man e accused of rape is kuldeep singh sengarthen a powerful politician in india's ruling bjp party. he's now in prison for jaya's rape, but still has a loyal following. ♪ ♪ we've pieced together the story of what happened from court records and our own reporting on the ground. we're following some local guides-- they're on motorbikes up here ahead. we're trying to get into jaya's village. jaya and her family are from unnao, the area kuldeep sengar represented in the state legislative assembly. they lived in the same village and were neighbors. what's ha

and even recently, some journalists have been targeted in states like uttar pradesh, have been physicallye young journalist, prominent female journalist in india today, who does quite a lot of work for western publications and media organisations, rana ayyub, she's currently facing charges of provoking riot and inciting religious enmity. and that's based on something that she actually put on her twitter feed. she says this. she says, "i cannot be a journalist. "we have become enemies of the state. "i now have to keep a low profile, hide, "switch off my phone, all in an attempt to "protect myself against a vindictive regime." now, she is clearly extremely upset about her treatment. but i just wonder whether you believe that that is a case that is representative of something much larger? she's an... i know her, she's an extremely courageous journalist, upstanding journalist who does not compromise her independence, her right to investigate and to express her opinions and within the framework of the law, if it's reasonably construed and reasonably implemented. but i wouldn't say it's complet

the chief ministers of uttar pradesh and rajasthan, and india's prime minister narendra modi, have announcednes on bbc news... prince william says he's sickened by the racial abuse of the england footballers who missed their penalties in last night's defeat to italy. he's called the online abuse of these three stars abhorrent and unacceptable. it's also been condemned by england's manager. it follows a night of heartache for england fans, as hopes and dreams of ending half a century of hurt ended in familiar despair. now on bbc news, it's time to take a look at some of the stories making the headlines from our colleagues �*across the uk'. we'll be hearing from reporters in southampton and hull shortly — but first to manchester, where there's been widespread condemnation of racist abuse targeted at manchester united players marcus rashford and jadon sancho, after england's defeat last night in the final of the euros. both players missed penalties in the shoot—out. this morning, the local community set about cleaning and covering up racist graffitti daubed on a mural of rashford in manchester.

the chief ministers of uttar pradesh and rajasthan and india's prime minister narendra modi have announcedcompanies in the world —— worth well over 1.6 trillion dollars. there's google search, google maps, google chrome and android —— and in the same company there's youtube, waze, fitbitz and the artificial intelligence pioneers, deepmind. the man in charge of all this for the last six years is sundar pichai. born in india and an engineer by training, with a love of cricket. this is the man who took over from the founders. our media editor amol rajan — also a big cricket fan — has been to talk to him at google's hq in silicon valley in california. more than what your mind says, you need to kind of figure out what your heart is excited by. sundar pichai is ceo of google and its parent company alphabet which owns youtube. he was born in 1972 in south india and studied at the indian institute of technology before moving to the us and stanford university. in 2004, hejoined larry page at google. the company was just six years old. it is so good to see you. very, very good to see you. how are yo