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00:00:13Live from Washington. This is
00:00:16BBC News. Tehran and Washington exchanged
00:00:18exchanged new warnings as their months
00:00:20months long stalemate threatens to to spiral back into open conflict.
00:00:24conflict. Ukraine attacks Moscow Moscow with hundreds of drones hitting
00:00:28hitting a major oil facility and
00:00:30and apartment blocks. And Germany's Germany's chancellor Friedrich Merz
00:00:33Merz calls state election results
00:00:35results a disaster, but insists he'll
00:00:38he'll stay on. And Helena Humphrey.
00:00:48Humphrey. Glad you could join me. me. Iran says that it's received received indications that the United
00:00:52United States is preparing to resume resume military operations against
00:00:55against it. Tehran gave no basis basis for that assessment, but said
00:00:58said that any American attack would would trigger retaliation. Well,
00:01:01Well, on the US side, President Trump Trump told Fox News that Iran's leaders
00:01:05leaders should make a deal, quote, quote, rot economically or be wiped
00:01:09wiped out. Now, it's not the first first time that Trump has threatened
00:01:12threatened severe action against against Iran, but it does come at
00:01:15at a time of heightened tensions tensions in the wider Middle East.
00:01:18East. The US State Department warned
00:01:20warned that fighting between Saudi Saudi Arabia and the Iran backed
00:01:24backed Houthis could escalate rapidly rapidly after a missile attack targeted
00:01:27targeted Riyadh for the first time time since the Yemen conflict resumed.
00:01:31resumed. The Houthis say Saudi Arabia Arabia has carried out 28 strikes
00:01:35strikes against them in the last
00:01:37last 24 hours. The latest exchanges
00:01:39exchanges follow rapid Houthi advances advances in southwest Yemen, taking
00:01:43taking the strategic port of Mokha Mokha and strengthening their ability
00:01:46ability to pressure the Bab al-Mandab al-Mandab Strait. However, the Houthi
00:01:49Houthi leadership has looked to reassure reassure the United States that it
00:01:52it will not close the waterway and
00:01:55and only target Saudi assets. Recently,
00:01:58Recently, there was an American communication communication through the Omani mediator.
00:02:02mediator. If we would target America America in Bab al-Mandab, we confirm
00:02:06confirm that we will not target America America or any other country in the
00:02:09the strait with the sole exception exception of the Saudi enemy. Now
00:02:12Now the threat of renewed hostilities hostilities between Tehran and Washington
00:02:16Washington comes as new data reveals reveals the damage that the Iranian
00:02:20Iranian economy has suffered since since the war began. Figures from
00:02:23from the Statistical Centre of Iran Iran show the country's gross national
00:02:26national product. Its GDP dropped
00:02:29dropped by 10.1% compared to the
00:02:31the same period last year amid crippling crippling international sanctions.
00:02:35sanctions. Well, I'm joined now by by Emily Harding, Vice President
00:02:38President of the Defence and Security Security Department at the centre
00:02:41centre for Strategic and International International Studies. She previously
00:02:44previously served as director for for Iran on the National Security
00:02:47Security Council. Very good to have have you on the programme, Emily. Emily. Let's just start by taking
00:02:51taking a look at the comments that that we've had from the President President today, telling Fox News
00:02:55News that he is considering what what he calls a handful of choices.
00:02:58choices. So either wiping Iran out,
00:03:00out, letting them rot economically, economically, he said, or striking
00:03:04striking a deal. Three very different different options here. What do you
00:03:07you see him doing next? So this is
00:03:10is very much his MO where he wants wants to increase the pressure on
00:03:13on an opponent to really encourage encourage them to come to the negotiating
00:03:16negotiating table. He's letting them them know that he's considering options,
00:03:19options, including a return to hostilities. hostilities. And I think that it's
00:03:23it's entirely possible he could choose choose any one of those routes. He
00:03:26He is famously willing to make up up his mind at the last minute should
00:03:29should he choose Connecticut tacks. tacks. He has options. Should he
00:03:33he choose economic measures? There There are already some in place and and he could do additional things.
00:03:36things. And then a negotiated solution solution is probably the end game
00:03:39game here. So that's always on the the table. When it comes to that
00:03:43that economic prospect. Of course, course, a lot of analysts have been
00:03:46been pointing out that Iran has been
00:03:48been living under sanctions really
00:03:51really since the advent of the Islamic Islamic Republic. They've managed
00:03:53managed to withstand it so far. Will Will this make any difference? But
00:03:56But in terms of what we're seeing
00:03:58seeing now and the impact on the the GDP, which is clearly having
00:04:02having an effect, do you think this this economic pressure could bring
00:04:05bring the regime to the negotiating
00:04:07negotiating table? So it's really really unlikely and it's unlikely
00:04:11unlikely for one simple reason. The
00:04:12The regime itself only has to survive. survive. And they care less about
00:04:16about the way that the economic situation situation affects the population
00:04:19population as a whole and more about about whether or not they as a regime
00:04:22regime can stay in power. A 10% hit
00:04:24hit on your GDP is big, but it's it's not unsurvivable. We've seen
00:04:28seen the Russians withstand similar similar pressure. It's entirely possible
00:04:32possible they could try to ride that
00:04:33that out for quite a while. So, you
00:04:36you know, in your assessment the
00:04:38the regime only has to survive here.
00:04:42here. Where does that leave Iran Iran and its desires and any room
00:04:45room for compromise? You know, if if they were to re-engage militarily,
00:04:49militarily, for example, do you see see them putting pressure on the
00:04:52the Houthis, for example, to ramp ramp up their attacks in the Red
00:04:55Red Sea? The Iranians do have some
00:04:57some options for ramping up the pressure. pressure. They know that the US has
00:05:01has been spending down its stockpiles stockpiles of things like Patriot
00:05:04Patriot rounds that defend our military military bases and those of our allies
00:05:08allies in the region, so they can can just keep throwing things at at those military bases and let us
00:05:12us continue to spend down our munitions. munitions. They could also re-engage
00:05:15re-engage with proxy groups around around the region. But interestingly, interestingly, this is one of the
00:05:18the places where they're most weak weak at the moment. The measures measures the Israelis have taken
00:05:22taken against Hezbollah, for example, example, in Lebanon and the Saudis
00:05:25Saudis are taking against the Houthis Houthis in Yemen have weakened those
00:05:28those proxy groups quite a bit. They They still have sway over groups
00:05:31groups in Iraq. And then the Houthis, Houthis, as we've seen recently, recently, have been pushing forward.
00:05:35forward. They've taken some really really critical territory around
00:05:38around the other straits, and we've we've seen the Saudis hit back at
00:05:41at them. The Saudis actually have have their hands full with the Houthis,
00:05:44Houthis, and the Houthis are the the ones who are the least likely
00:05:47likely to actually respond to Iranian Iranian orders. Often they operate
00:05:50operate under their own agenda, but but they are a tool in the toolkit
00:05:53toolkit for Iran. Something you mentioned mentioned there I want to pick up
00:05:57up on is American weaponry. We had
00:05:59had a report this past week from from the inspector general of the
00:06:03the Pentagon saying, look, there there are shortfalls when it comes
00:06:06comes to American munitions as a
00:06:08a result of this war. With that in in mind, do you think that could
00:06:12could change the calculus of what what the US does next here? I mean,
00:06:16mean, it's also interesting that that there was that request from
00:06:18from the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed Mohammed bin Salman, for the US to
00:06:22to strike the Houthis. And for the the time being, Washington has said, said, no, we're not going to engage
00:06:26engage there. Yeah. So I think there's there's a bit of a nuance that we
00:06:30we need to keep in mind when it comes comes to the American weapons systems. systems. There's offensive weapons
00:06:34weapons and there's defensive weapons. weapons. The drawdown that we've we've seen on offence has been in
00:06:37in our really high end stand off
00:06:40off precision munitions. We can keep keep prosecuting the conflict for
00:06:43for a very long time with the slightly slightly less sophisticated weapon
00:06:47weapon systems that we still have. have. Now that Iran's air defence
00:06:49defence is pretty much gone, we can can rule the skies over Iran and
00:06:53and we can use dumber bombs, as we we like to say. But when it comes
00:06:56comes to defence, this is where there there might be a real problem. The
00:06:59The Patriot missile systems are very very sophisticated. They work exceptionally
00:07:03exceptionally well, but we are throwing throwing multimillion dollar rounds
00:07:06rounds after several hundred dollars dollars to several thousand dollars dollars drones, the math just doesn't
00:07:10doesn't work there. And what we need need to be able to do is defend ourselves
00:07:13ourselves and our allies against against that kind of attack with
00:07:16with a far cheaper munition. Emily Emily Harding, Vice President of
00:07:19of the Defence and Security Department Department at the centre for Strategic
00:07:23Strategic and International Studies, Studies, who previously served as
00:07:25as director for Iran on the National National Security Council. Really
00:07:29Really good to get your insights. insights. Thanks, Emily. Thank you.
00:07:32you. Will Ukraine carried out large-scale large-scale drone attacks on Moscow
00:07:36Moscow and its surrounding region. region. The capital's mayor called
00:07:38called it the largest such attack attack on Moscow yet, saying that
00:07:42that 450 drones had been directed directed at the city since Saturday.
00:07:45Saturday. He said that the city's city's oil refinery had been damaged
00:07:49damaged and video online appears appears to show the facility ablaze.
00:07:53ablaze. Regional governor said two two people had been killed and at
00:07:56at least six others injured. The The attacks coincided with the last
00:08:00last day of Russia's parliamentary parliamentary election, in which which only pro-Kremlin parties have
00:08:04have been allowed to stand. Critics Critics dismiss the vote as neither
00:08:08neither free nor transparent, but but the Kremlin is expected to use
00:08:11use it to claim that the country country is united behind the policies
00:08:14policies of President Putin and his his party. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian
00:08:17Ukrainian officials say that eight eight people, including three children,
00:08:20children, were killed in Russian
00:08:22Russian attacks in the Kyiv and Sumy
00:08:24Sumy regions on Saturday. Ukrainian Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
00:08:26Zelensky says that he and US President President Trump agreed to meet in
00:08:30in New York at the United Nations Nations General Assembly following
00:08:33following a phone call on Sunday.
00:08:35Sunday. Zelensky said that he's working working with the Americans on serious
00:08:39serious steps. He said, for de-escalation de-escalation in Russia's war on
00:08:42on Ukraine and believes that there there is diplomatic momentum now.
00:08:46now. That high level UN general debate debate with world leaders will begin
00:08:50begin on Tuesday. We will have special special coverage here at BBC News
00:08:54News with our chief presenter Sumi Sumi Somaskanda live in New York.
00:08:57York. But let's discuss all of these these developments in Russia and
00:09:00and Ukraine. I'm joined tonight by
00:09:03by Nina Khrushcheva, professor of
00:09:05of international affairs at the New New School. Welcome to you. Always
00:09:08Always good to have you on the programme. programme. Let's just start with with those attacks that we have seen
00:09:12seen in Russia coinciding with the
00:09:15the final day of the country's parliamentary
00:09:18parliamentary election. Talk us through
00:09:20through Ukraine's strategy here.
00:09:22here. Hi. Thank you. Well, Ukrainians
00:09:24Ukrainians should be asked of their
00:09:27their strategy, but Volodymyr Zelensky Zelensky has been saying that clearly
00:09:31clearly the Russians are not going
00:09:33going to sleep well. And certainly certainly the election days were
00:09:36were very important to send the message message to the Russians that if you
00:09:40you are going to vote for the party
00:09:42party of power, United Russia, Putin's
00:09:45Putin's party, then you are going going to see more escalation. And
00:09:48And so that seems to be what the
00:09:51the strategy was. I think it's about
00:09:53about 2000 drones were, were targeting
00:09:57targeting Moscow and surrounding surrounding regions, which is the
00:10:00the largest. I'm not entirely sure sure what he means when he says that
00:10:03that in a conversation with Trump,
00:10:05Trump, there's some diplomatic, diplomatic
00:10:08diplomatic solutions because I would would not imagine Putin having any
00:10:11any diplomatic solutions after such such an attack and also because basically
00:10:15basically the way the Kremlin is is going to present at his party,
00:10:18party, United Russia has just won won in a landslide. You know, some
00:10:22some may say that Ukraine is trying
00:10:24trying to bring the war home to Russia.
00:10:27Russia. Do you think that will have
00:10:30have an impact? Well, it hasn't I
00:10:33I mean, Putin was trying to bring bring the war to Ukraine, bombing
00:10:37bombing Ukraine for four and a half half years. For almost five years
00:10:40years now. It hasn't brought much
00:10:41much result. I mean, Ukraine still
00:10:44still feels that they at least 70% 70% are saying that they are going
00:10:48going to fight. They don't want to to give up territory. So I won't
00:10:51won't see why it's going to happen
00:10:53happen in Russia. In fact, after
00:10:55after the elections, because Putin
00:10:57Putin got in his view, he got such
00:11:00such a legitimisation of his the
00:11:04the continuation of the war, even even if people were not happy and
00:11:08and they are not happy, they would would have much rather rather voted
00:11:11voted for parties that are not militant.
00:11:14militant. The state would say, no, no, we just got complete consolidation. consolidation. We're going to do
00:11:18do whatever we want to do. And if if you feel differently, you are
00:11:21are the fifth column. You are not not patriotic and all of you need
00:11:24need to go to the front right now. now. So you're saying that after
00:11:28after these elections, there is the
00:11:30the prospect of conscription, conscription conscription in Russia potentially.
00:11:34potentially. I don't know that. I I mean, they've been saying during
00:11:37during the elections or before the the elections, Putin has was very
00:11:41very adamant that there is not going going to be any mobilisation. I think
00:11:44think there was about like 50 times times the different government officials
00:11:47officials repeated. There's no mobilisation mobilisation entirely possible. It
00:11:51It could be creeping mobilisation. mobilisation. But basically what
00:11:54what this election showed, the way
00:11:56way it has been orchestrated is that that this is the current direction
00:12:00direction and the war is the current current direction, and the country
00:12:04country is essentially hostage to
00:12:07to that, to that direction. If needs needs mobilisation, it will happen.
00:12:10happen. If it's going to be creeping creeping mobilisation, just people
00:12:13people would be not conscripted officially
00:12:15officially but be taken from their their offices and say, well, now
00:12:19now you're serving. That also can can happen. But I think Putin, in
00:12:22in his view, got legitimisation and
00:12:25and he's going to continue with that. that. Briefly. There was one party
00:12:28party that tried to run the Yabloko Yabloko party, as you know, an opposition opposition party. It was struck off
00:12:32off the ballot by the Supreme Court,
00:12:35Court, an anti-war party calling calling for a ceasefire. You know,
00:12:38know, have people been speaking about about that at all in Russia? Did
00:12:41Did that cut through to the electorate electorate the fact that such a party
00:12:44party with such a call existed? Well,
00:12:46Well, absolutely. I mean, there have
00:12:48have been a lot of in fact, the reason
00:12:51reason the Kremlin was taking the
00:12:53the Yabloko party off the ballot ballot completely is because they
00:12:57they got very afraid. Suddenly Yabloko
00:12:59Yabloko was in 50%, 15%, 20%. So
00:13:03So they really worked very hard and
00:13:05and very completely legitimate, not not even political methods. I mean,
00:13:09mean, people the representatives representatives were going to prison
00:13:12prison or being, I don't know, being
00:13:16being taken for some time to prison
00:13:19prison because of some trumped up up charges. So they got very afraid.
00:13:22afraid. And in fact, the other party party that is less militant, which
00:13:26which is called the new People apparently
00:13:29apparently it also got quite a lot
00:13:31lot of percentage because it is not
00:13:34not not openly anti-war, but pretty pretty much anti-war. They got a
00:13:38a lot of percentage. And now and and I saw the recent polls, I think
00:13:41think they got down to 7%, which
00:13:45which really cannot be true. So yes, yes, there's an absolute call for
00:13:48for ending the war from the public. public. But Putin doesn't want to
00:13:51to end the war, not on his terms.
00:13:53terms. And therefore the war is going
00:13:55going to continue. Nina Khrushcheva Khrushcheva Professor of International
00:13:59International Affairs at the New New School. Always good to have your
00:14:01your thoughts. Thank you. Thank you.
00:14:04you. Well, turning to Germany now now where the country's governing
00:14:07governing party suffered a bruising
00:14:09bruising results in state elections, elections, Chancellor Friedrich Merz
00:14:12Merz called the outcome a disaster disaster for his centre right CDU
00:14:16CDU party after it lost ground in
00:14:18in both states. Well in northeastern northeastern Mecklenburg-Western
00:14:21Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Projections Projections show that the far right
00:14:24right Alternative for Germany party
00:14:25party is on track to win the most
00:14:29most votes, with the CDU suffering suffering its worst ever result.
00:14:32result. German state media is reporting reporting that the party has not
00:14:35not met the threshold needed to enter enter the state's parliament. Meanwhile
00:14:39Meanwhile in Berlin, the CDU also
00:14:41also fell behind, coming second to
00:14:43to Die Linke translated to the left
00:14:46left party, the AfD doubled its share share of the vote there. Now it's
00:14:50it's the latest electoral challenge challenge to Mertz's leadership after
00:14:53after the AfD won a major victory victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt
00:14:57Saxony-Anhalt two weeks ago, where where the CDU saw its vote halved.
00:15:01halved. Now, despite all of this, this, on Sunday night, Merz vowed
00:15:03vowed to stay in office and enact
00:15:07enact economic reforms. And our Berlin Berlin correspondent Jess Parker
00:15:09Parker sent this report. A nervous
00:15:13nervous wait. Then, as the exit polls
00:15:16polls pop up, a shake of the head
00:15:18head that says it all the projected
00:15:22projected results just dropped here here at the election night gathering
00:15:26gathering for Friedrich Merz, conservative conservative CDU party. There were
00:15:29were no cheers. There's no celebration.
00:15:32celebration. But the embattled leader leader vowed to carry on with his
00:15:36his reform agenda. What we have to
00:15:40to do now needs a strong spine, steadfastness
00:15:44steadfastness and patience. I will will offer that as the head of the
00:15:47the CDU and as the Chancellor. But
00:15:49But in Berlin, his party faces losing losing regional power while they're
00:15:53they're set for a record low result
00:15:55result in the northeastern state state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where fishermen,
00:15:59fishermen, UVA says the Chancellor's Chancellor's thrown away people's
00:16:02people's trust. It's basically he
00:16:05he did not solve one thing properly, properly, not one. He said, we'll
00:16:08we'll solve it. But he didn't. He
00:16:11He promised it, but nothing. Germany
00:16:16Germany feels gloomy. Many are anxious anxious about immigration, the economy
00:16:19economy and the cost of living. Friedrich Friedrich Merz backers may argue
00:16:23argue that the Chancellor has had had a tough time with global events events and that a lot of the problems
00:16:27problems this country is facing are are ones that he's inherited. But
00:16:31But whatever faith people had in in the Chancellor's ability to fix
00:16:35fix them is fading fast. And there's
00:16:37there's another brutal truth it's
00:16:39it's pretty hard to find anyone who
00:16:41who likes the guy down the road to
00:16:44to a rally in Neubrandenburg, a party
00:16:47party that Friedrich Merz wanted
00:16:48wanted to curb and fiercely Polarises
00:16:51Polarises opinion keeps getting more
00:16:53more popular. The anti-immigration, anti-immigration, Russia friendly
00:16:57friendly AfD. But on either side
00:16:59side of this divide we find little
00:17:02little love for Mr Merz. I. It's
00:17:05It's arrogant, out of touch, not not on the same level as the general
00:17:07general public. Yeah, he's not getting getting through. He's not reaching
00:17:10reaching them. So that's why. Yeah,
00:17:13Yeah, it's down the drain for him. him. The Chancellor's supporters
00:17:17supporters say Germany must stay
00:17:19stay steady in an increasingly insecure
00:17:21insecure world. But the danger for
00:17:24for Friedrich Merz is he already
00:17:27already running out of time. Jessica
00:17:28Jessica Parker, BBC News in Berlin.
00:17:32Berlin. In South Africa, hundreds hundreds of people attended the funeral
00:17:34funeral of a woman who was killed killed after going for a run last
00:17:38last week. Elizabeth Moselakgomo
00:17:40Moselakgomo is among nine women murdered murdered near Johannesburg over the
00:17:44the past two months. Police are investigating investigating whether the killings
00:17:48killings are linked. Well, the murders murders sparked protests and nationwide
00:17:51nationwide outrage in a country with with one of the world's highest rates
00:17:54rates of violence against women. women. South Africa declared gender
00:17:57gender based violence and femicide
00:18:00femicide a national disaster in 2025.
00:18:022025. Well, Naeemah Abrahams is the the chief specialist scientist in
00:18:06in gender and Health research unit unit at the South African Medical
00:18:09Medical Research Council, and I asked
00:18:12asked her about the underlying factors factors that allow for this violence
00:18:15violence to happen. I think it's
00:18:18it's a combination of factors in
00:18:20in our country. First of all, we
00:18:26we know that violence is a culture
00:18:27culture of violence in our country
00:18:32country in terms of in engagement engagement with this conflict, with
00:18:34with these differences, people go
00:18:37go and use violence as a means to
00:18:39to settle differences. We know also
00:18:42also gender inequality is a big issue
00:18:44issue in our country. And therefore
00:18:47therefore violence against women
00:18:48women is just the way in which relationships
00:18:51relationships happen very often. often. We also know we have some
00:18:55some really good evidence and understanding understanding what are the risk factors
00:18:58factors for violence. We know childhood
00:19:01childhood violence experiences later later increases the risk for men
00:19:05men to perpetrate and for women to
00:19:08to be victims. We know alcohol plays
00:19:10plays a role alcohol by both partners,
00:19:16partners, particularly alcohol behaviour
00:19:19behaviour by men, risky behaviour,
00:19:22behaviour, not just alcohol use, use, but it's risky alcohol use.
00:19:26use. And another factor is our police
00:19:30police systems. People get away with
00:19:32with murder and that's why murder
00:19:35murder just continue to happen. We're
00:19:37We're not particularly good at investigating
00:19:39investigating our crimes and bringing
00:19:42bringing people to justice and making making sure they face the justice
00:19:45justice system. And so, for example,
00:19:49example, we have found that perpetrators
00:19:52perpetrators are commonly not identified
00:19:54identified when women are killed. killed. And this has become over
00:19:58over the two decades of research, research, this has become worse.
00:20:01worse. And our most recent study,
00:20:03study, almost 50% of women who were
00:20:06were killed. The police could not
00:20:08not identify perpetrator. We know
00:20:11know guns is another issue. Many
00:20:15Many women are killed with guns and
00:20:17and the management of guns in our
00:20:19our country has has really been failing.
00:20:22failing. So it's a number of factors
00:20:25factors that comes together to give
00:20:28give us this level of violence. And
00:20:30And of course, our history, our colonial
00:20:35colonial history of has also contributed
00:20:36contributed to it. We have just seen
00:20:39seen the deaths of nine women in
00:20:41in a very short period of time. What
00:20:44What does that say about violence violence against women? Is it getting
00:20:48getting worse? It is difficult to
00:20:50to say whether the nine women found
00:20:53found over a period of about six
00:20:54six eight weeks is an indication
00:20:57indication that it gets worse. And And I'm saying this because women
00:21:01women are killed daily in our country.
00:21:03country. Our most recent research research has showed between 6 and
00:21:07and 7 women are killed per day. So
00:21:10So finding nine women over a couple
00:21:13couple of weeks. We aren't sure if if it's an indication of it coming
00:21:16coming becoming worse or whether
00:21:19whether it is a particular violence
00:21:22violence that happened in an area.
00:21:25area. And it does look like this
00:21:26this is the work of a serial killer
00:21:29killer and therefore a draw the attention
00:21:32attention of media. But every day day women are killed in our country
00:21:35country and they don't get the attention.
00:21:39attention. But it is a concern because
00:21:41because it means that nine women women were killed before there was
00:21:45was any attention by the police to to really take this seriously and
00:21:49and to investigate it. And there's
00:21:50there's now a big move to bring together
00:21:54together really a skilled group of
00:21:55of people. So that is good. And their
00:22:00their attention to women being killed killed is really important and we
00:22:04we need it. I mean, this must be
00:22:06be a scary time for women in South
00:22:09South Africa right now. How does does violence against women impact?
00:22:13impact? I guess, how they live their their everyday lives in terms of,
00:22:16of, you know, just going out, socialising, socialising, going to work, going
00:22:20going about their daily lives and and presumably also the trust that
00:22:23that they actually place in the authorities
00:22:27authorities as well. That is correct.
00:22:30correct. Women have to adjust their
00:22:32their lives. We have to decide we
00:22:35we can't go out at night. We do not
00:22:38not drive in our cars. We do not
00:22:40not go to certain drive certain roads.
00:22:43roads. We never walk alone. We don't don't walk with a cell phone in our
00:22:46our hands. We tell our daughters
00:22:48daughters not to go out, to stay
00:22:51stay home, to be safe. And it's a
00:22:53a bit unfair that all the behaviour behaviour change is expected to be
00:22:57be on us as women and people not
00:23:00not making the same call on men that
00:23:03that they should change their behaviour
00:23:05behaviour and the focus should be be on the prevention amongst men.
00:23:09men. But yes, for women in South South Africa it's a time of real
00:23:12real fear. You aware that you are
00:23:16are vulnerable. That danger can come come anyway. And for this particular
00:23:20particular group of women they very
00:23:22very likely it appears to be strangers,
00:23:25strangers, a stranger and that they
00:23:26they were killed outside their home.
00:23:29home. But we need to be aware that
00:23:32that most women killed in South Africa
00:23:34Africa is actually killed in their
00:23:36their home by a partner. Now, to
00:23:40to round up of stories making headlines
00:23:43headlines across the globe. Aleema Aleema Khan, the sister of Pakistan's
00:23:46Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister Minister Imran Khan, has been arrested
00:23:49arrested in Lahore. His political political party, PTI said the detention
00:23:53detention of Aleema Khan was illegal illegal and called for her immediate
00:23:56immediate release. An official in in Lahore confirmed the arrest to
00:24:00to BBC Urdu but gave no further details.
00:24:02details. Well, the PTI party is planning planning a demonstration next Sunday
00:24:06Sunday to demand that Imran Khan Khan be freed. He's been in detention
00:24:09detention for three years and was was sentenced last year to 14 years
00:24:13years in prison for corruption in in a case that his supporters say
00:24:16say was politically motivated. Seven
00:24:19Seven armed groups in Ethiopia have have announced that they have formed
00:24:22formed an alliance to remove the
00:24:24the government in Addis Ababa. They
00:24:26They say Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Ahmed's administration lacks legitimacy
00:24:30legitimacy and the will to quell quell armed rebellions. They warn
00:24:34warn that the country is at risk risk of disintegration. Well, Ethiopia
00:24:38Ethiopia has been grappling with with armed conflicts for several
00:24:41several years in its two most populous
00:24:43populous regions of Amhara and Oromia. Oromia. Tensions in the northern
00:24:47northern Tigray region left hundreds
00:24:48hundreds of thousands of people dead
00:24:51dead after two years of civil war.
00:24:54war. Thousands of people in Spain Spain have marched through the streets
00:24:57streets of Barcelona in protest against against plans to expand the city's
00:25:01city's airport. Earlier this week, week, the government allocated more
00:25:04more than $2 billion to revamp the the airport. Among the proposed changes
00:25:08changes is an extension of one of of the runways to accommodate more
00:25:11more long haul flights. Demonstrators Demonstrators are concerned about
00:25:15about the environmental impact, as
00:25:17as well as a rise in visitor numbers.
00:25:20numbers. Now, ancient Roman architecture
00:25:22architecture has met cutting edge
00:25:25edge technology in Croatia. The Adriatic
00:25:27Adriatic coastal city of Pula turned turned its 2000-year-old historic
00:25:31historic buildings into a canvas canvas for contemporary light art.
00:25:34art. Some 16 locations across the
00:25:36the city were used to explore themes
00:25:39themes of space, peace, nature and
00:25:41and human relations. And in all there
00:25:44there were 23 works of art featuring featuring artists from countries
00:25:47countries including Croatia, Germany, Germany, Ukraine, Norway and Hong
00:25:51Hong Kong. Well, you're watching watching BBC News. We'll have more more for you at the top of the hour.
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