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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source. | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
Turkey and the EU say they have a plan to stop migration | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
But already there is criticism and it's stinging. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
The UN says it may break international law. | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
We'll be live in Brussels and Turkey shortly. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
We'll have the latest on Maria Sharapova. | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
Sponsors have been reacting to her failed drugs test. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
A number of stabbing attacks in Israel during the visit of the US | :00:28. | :00:41. | |
vice-president. This is Detroit Michigan, one of the | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
states voting in the latest Republican and democratic primaries. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
We will hear specifically why Donald Trump is picking up support in this | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
city. For International Women's Day, we | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
have a report from women in Saudi Arabia, who have been sharing their | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
day-to-day lives with us. We have a plan from the EU - | :01:01. | :01:18. | |
Turkey to respond to Here it is, on the European | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Council's website. One of main points is that for every | :01:22. | :01:33. | |
Syrian migrant that arrives in Greece from Turkey | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
and is returned back there, a Syrian currently in Turkey will be | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
resettled in the EU. Before we get ahead of ourselves, | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
already the UN has objected. "An agreement that | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
would be tantamount to a blanket return of any foreigners to a third | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
country and is not consistent "EU and Turkish leaders | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
have sunk to a new low, effectively horse trading away | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
the rights and dignity of some of the world's most | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
vulnerable people." Needless to say, the EU | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
doesn't see it that way. The flow of migrants passing from | :02:12. | :02:26. | |
toweringy to Greece -- from Turkey to Greece, remains too high and | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
needs to be brought down significantly. The Prime Minister | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
confirmed Turkey's commitment to accept the rapid return of all | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
migrants coming from Turkey to Greece that are not in need of | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
international protection. When you first heard the details of this, if | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
you're like me, you're thinking how will the system work. | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
Our correspondent, Damian Grammaticas joins me now. | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
I think what it does, what it attempts to do, this idea, is to | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
address the very central problem that the EU finds, which is this | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
large number of people, taking to boats, landing in Greece from Turkey | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
and then making their way over land. What we've seen already are those | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
border closures and that has put pressure on the situation and it's | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
focussed minds, because we now see this situation in Greece with the | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
refugees and migrants who are building up there. So what this | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
addresses is first of all, the need that Europe feels, European nations | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
feel, to protect their external borders. So this deal involves this | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
plan to return anyone coming across the water back to Turkey. And the | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
second thing is crucial, that cooperation with Turkey. Because | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
Turkey itself is housing two million-plus Syrian refugees and the | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
reason people are getting up and moving is that the conditions there | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
are not acceptable for them. After years and years of living there. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
This tries to address two things, protecting Europe's borders but | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
dealing with the refugee pressures in Turkey and therefore, giving | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
Turkey the quid pro quo of shifting people who are deemed worthy of | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
refugee status into the EU. Those people who would be moved into the | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
EU, where will they go? Last time I looked, the EU didn't seem able to | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
agree on who should take how many people. This is just one of the very | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
many questions that hang over this whole plan. Because you're | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
absolutely right. The EU has talked about taking 20,000 Syrians from | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Turkey, that plan hasn't got off the ground yet. The EU has talked about | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
moving 60,000 people out of Greece to other parts of the EU. That plan | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
has only resulted in a few hundred being moved. So the question would | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
be - where would these people go? The answer would really have to be | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
to a coalition of willing countries. Within that we might see Germany, | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
the Netherlands. But we certainly would not see Hungary and probably | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
eastern European states. Hungary made very clear if there was any | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
plan to make this scheme compulsory or this idea of shifting refugees | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
into the EU compulsory, it would seek to veto it or block it, if it | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
could. What that leaves is a result untrischeme. That's what we have -- | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
voluntary scheme. That's not working already. This is interesting from | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Mark Lowen saying he's been speaking to one man, Mohammed from Aleppo in | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
Syria, saying, regardless of what the EU is planning, he's going to | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
try over and over again to go to Greece. There are many questions | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
about the way this plan will be effectively implemented. | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
It's not just the UN and Amnesty International who don't | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
Have a listen to this clip - it's a German Socialist Party MP. | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
Ankara is, of course, great. There is no harsh criticism against Ankara | :06:01. | :06:11. | |
with view of the war against the Kurdish people population, no | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
mention of the assault against the newspaper there. If you are a decent | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
politician and believing in human rights, you have to, what is | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
happening in the Kurdish area. It is awful. Massive human rights | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
violations. Everybody knows that. We've heard from the EU side of | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
things. Let's look at Turkey and why it's so keen on this plan. I | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
enlisted the help of our correspondent from BBC Turkish. | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
Turkey thinks it has played its cards really well this time. It's | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
almost got what it asked for, all of them. Turkey wanted visa-free travel | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
for Turkish citizens who wanted to travel to EU countries and | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
scheduling of that is set to be as early as June, which was initially | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
thought to be, thought to start in November, for instance. Turkey also | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
wanted speeding up of the EU negotiation, EU accession | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
negotiations, which was for a very long time stalled. Actually, for a | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
decade, this was a breakthrough. Turkey is holding summits with the | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
European Union countries every now and then. Turkey is considered a | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
very important partner etc. So, that will especially be seen as a | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
breakthrough. Turkey actually, it's offering to allow in, to take back | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
one Syrian in return for sending a south-eastern from the refugee cam | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
-- Syrian from the refugee camps. I have spoken to several migration | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
experts in Turkey. They have said they really have serious concerns | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
about how easy it will be to implement this deal, because Turkey | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
already acome dates over -- acome dates over 2. 7 million refugees. | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
Hundreds of thousands of them are not registered. There's the side of | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
international law. The UNHCR actually is concerned about whether | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
this deal will violate international law and I have spoken to ex-Turkey | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
head of UNHCR here in Turkey and he said it could be in violation of | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
international law, because Turkey does not grant Syrians refugee | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
status at the moment. And what's going to happen to these people if | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
they're sent back to Turkey, how will they be resettled in Europe, | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
they ask. Lots of background on the migrant crisis in Europe available | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
from the BBC online. That's one story dominating our attentions | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
today. This is the second one. Nike, Porsche Tag Heuer have | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
responded to Maria Sharapova Nike says its suspending | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
its relationship with her. Tag Heuer - that it | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
won't seek a new deal. Another sponsor, Danone, | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
which owns the Evian mineral water brand, simply says it's | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
following the investigation closely. And it's these kind of deals that | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
have made Sharapova the highest earning female athlete | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
of the last ten years. On the court Maria Sharapova's | :09:17. | :09:37. | |
nemesis has been Serena Williams. She was asked about this story. To | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
be perfectly honest, I think in sport and in life, there's always a | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
double standard. Always. I think that's something that no-one is - | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
everyone knows, whether it's a race thing or a sex thing. There's always | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
been a double standard and difference. However, this is a | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
different thing. I think as Maria said, she's ready to take full | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
responsibility. I think that showed a lot of courage and a lot of heart. | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
I think she's always showed courage and heart in everything that she's | :10:08. | :10:19. | |
done. This is no different. We only have one side of the story | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
at the moment, it's interesting there's been no sortage of immediate | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
support for Maria Sharapova. Her coach from when she was much younger | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
saying, "I don't think that Maria Sharapova would continue doing | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
something, especially being in the limelight. If there was something | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
she knew about." And She says, "Hold your horses on this. | :10:38. | :10:59. | |
I don't have all the facts. That of course applies to all of us. One of | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
the key questions that is driving some of the scepticism that we've | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
seen in response to Sharapova's statement is how you cannot know | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
exactly what you're taking, given the size of the team that Maria | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
Sharapova would have working with her. This is one view on that issue. | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
Maria Sharapova, like all high-profile athletes that have an | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
entourage of advisors around her, she will be able to rely on doctors, | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
coaches, nutritionists to provide her with advice. So it's | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
inconceivable that somebody wasn't monitoring what substances WADA was | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
looking at, because it was announced, I think, about 12 months | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
ago, that WADA was investigating this particular substance. It's | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
similar in some ways to other blood-boosting drugs. What this drug | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
does is to speed the flow of blood around the body. And the speed at | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
which the blood goes into the muscle helps with endurance sports. So for | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
a sport like tennis, it would be a very useful drug. We can see | :12:11. | :12:19. | |
paralegals between it and the -- par alells between the sorts of drugs | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
that cyclists have taken in the past. We've learned four other | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
Russian sportsmen and women have failed tests for this same drug. | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
Olympic speed skating champion, Evgeny Elistratov, figure skater | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
Ekaterina Bobrova, volleyball player Alexandr Markin, | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
All failing a test. Why might an athlete take this drug? We heard | :12:40. | :12:52. | |
some of the explanations in that clip. The first could be medical. | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
It's known to be used to treat diabetes and heart-related diseases. | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
Much more so in certain countries like Russia, than others. Maria | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
Sharapova's lawyer says various medical issues caused her doctor to | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
suggest this medication. The other reason is that it can effect the | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
ability to increase oxygen movement to muscles and that can have a | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
positive effect on stamina and endurance. As you might imagine, | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
BBC's tennis correspondent Russell Fuller, in California, has been | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
talking about nothing else all day. I got hold of him earlier. | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
There isn't a huge amount of shock, as I think some of the statements | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
that you've read out do illustrate. The one thing that we need to wait | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
to see is exactly how long this process begins, how long this | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
process takes, rather. I would imagine that there would be an | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
independent hearing up and running, organised by the international | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
tennis federation for some time in April, after both sides have got | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
their legal arguments in position. They normally issue a verdict a | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
couple of weeks after that. The maximum ban could be four years. If | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
they decide it was unintentional, the starting point is two years. If | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
they find no significant fault attached to the athlete, the ban may | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
only be one year. Whatever happens there, it's almost certain that | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
Sharapova's legal team will take that verdict to the court of | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
arbitration for sport. In the last couple of years, they have a history | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
of not completely overturning verdicts within tennis, but | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
certainly reducing the length of the ban. That's happened to Cilic and | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
Troitsky. I know today is a big PR push by tennis generally to get the | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
world talking about the sport. Clearly, this story isn't | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
necessarily helping, along with the problems around alleged spot-fixing | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
a couple of months ago, these have been difficult times for tennis. | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
It's awful timing for the sport. The BBC Buzzfeed investigation into | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
allegations of match-fixing was released just an hour before the | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
Australian Open began. That completely overshadowed the first | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
week of the event. It's thrown up major issues for the sport, which | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
are now being investigated by an independent report. That panel will | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
take all of 2016 to come up with their findings. Now we have one of | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
the most high-profile sporting stars on the planet, who happens to be a | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
tennis player admitting that she has tested positive for a drug. When you | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
look at the women's game, you have Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams. | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
They are the two standout names. It is a huge blow. Positive that it's | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
out in the open, there was no suggestion that it was going to be | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
covered up, that the process, the legal action taken against Maria | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
Sharapova is under way. I have to say I'm uncomfortable with some of | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
the statements that various governing bodies have made since | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
Sharapova made her statement. The chief executive of the WTA Tour has | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
been talking about Sharapova's professionalism and how she's a | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
woman of great integrity. And tennis Australia, which is where Sharapova | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
returned that positive test at the Australian Open after her quarter | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
final with Serena Williams in January and pointing out that she's | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
a great role model. I'm not denying any of that, but we need to let the | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
legal proceedings happen and for justice to take its course. If | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
you've been on the BBC website today you'll have seen our extensive | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
coverage of international women's day. As part of that, I'll play this | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
report that's been collected by one colleague who's been speaking to | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
women in Saudi Arabia about the challenges in their lives. | :16:23. | :16:36. | |
Mark caverny found -- Carney found himselves accused of taking sides | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
today. He said leaving the EU would affect Britain's financial stability | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
in the short-term. Let's listen to what he had to say. | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
In the long-term, I don't think there can be a conclusive answer to | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
that. There are ways of organising ourselves that would deliver | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
financial stability. There's certainly ways of organising | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
ourselves. I would not advocate any change to the remit or the tools of | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
the Bank of England in order to deliver monetary stability. The | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
judgment would have to be in that regard, financial stability relative | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
to competitiveness and all the other aspects of the relationship and | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
balance. In the shorter term, the transition could bring some | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
challenges to financial stability. This is Outside Source live | :17:29. | :17:40. | |
from the BBC newsroom. The UN has questioned the legality | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
of a proposed plan by the EU and Turkey to end | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
migration into Europe. We bring you the main stories from | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
BBC World Service as well. It's two years since flight MH370 | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
disappeared en route Authorities say they are still | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
confident that they BBC Chinese are | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
following that story. BBC Persian reports that Iran has | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
test-fired a number of ballistic missiles, despite pressure | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
from the US to halt such tests. And this is the moment that Adele | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
invited two men onto stage to sing. They'd recently posted a video | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
covering several of her songs - Let's start with the big story in | :18:18. | :18:37. | |
Brazil today. This is the owner of the biggest construction | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
conglomerate in Latin America. He's been sentenced to 19 years in | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
prison. This is the latest result of a massive anticorruption drive | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
called operation car wash. Our correspondent is in London today, | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
rather than Sao Paulo, and she's helped us out with this story. The | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
court sentenced that he paid over $30 million to prize to officials in | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
exchange for contracts with Brazil's oil state company. He's the sixth | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
executive sentenced to praise anyone the corruption in the operation, | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
which started in 2014. He's also the most important one. Before the | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
scandal, his company had over 180,000 employees in 21 countries. | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
He was considered the face of Brazil's economic boom in the past | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
few years. Now so far, officials and executives from Brazil's top | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
construction companies have been the main source of information to the | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
police in this case. They have agreed to reveal what they know in | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
exchange for sentence reductions. There is an expectation that this | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
company might dot same. His revelations could implicate some of | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
Brazil's main politicians and turn this case into a bigger | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
investigation. Earlier this week, Brazil's former president was | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
detained for questioning for his involvement with those construction | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
companies. This caused clashes between dozens of his supporters and | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
detractors in Sao Paulo. This is just how controversial this | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
investigation has become. She's not here for much longer, but | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
she'll be back on the programme from Sao Paulo I'm sure. It's | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
International Women's Day today. Most times on Outside Source around | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
this point in the show, we speak about the big business stories of | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
the day. Let's bring in Michelle to talk about gender balance on Wall | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
Street. My guess is, it's not great. I was on the floor of the New York | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
Stock Exchange a few hours ago, if you look around the trading floor, | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
it is still dominated by men. There was a big group of women there this | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
morning. Women in ETFs, exchange traded funds, they were there to | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
ring the opening bell in honour of International Women's Day. But it's | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
fair to say that if you look at the financial industry generally around | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
the world, there are still far too few women employed in the business. | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
In fact, mutual funds, the number of women that manage mutual fund assets | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
adds up to 2%, so 98% of mutual funds' assets are managed by men. | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
There are lots of jobs where it's more likely for a man or woman to be | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
doing it, how do we understand such a huge imbalance in the financial | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
sector? Well, interestingly, there's been a number of studies done, | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
looking at the behavioural, cognitive differences, at least when | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
it comes to trading, between men and women. There's been some interesting | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
findings. One from the University of Leicester, published just today, | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
they've released the findings, talking about the fact that if you | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
look at men they tend to take bigger risks venlt that can lead to big -- | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
risks. That can lead to bigger profits. But it can lead to bigger | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
crashes. Women didn't necessarily tend to make as much money as the | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
men in terms of profits for the firms they work for, but they also | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
didn't tend to lose as much, didn't tend to, their behaviour didn't lead | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
to the excessive risk taking that might result in a huge crash. So | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
that was part of the argument, if you like, that you hear some people | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
talk about in terms of seeing more gender equality at least in the | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
financial industry. Very interesting. Thank you for talking | :22:25. | :22:34. | |
to us about that. Michelle in New York. Next a report about | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
(Inaudible) with a BBC journalist. Here's that report. | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
When it comes to Saudi women, well most of the world (inaudible) | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
unequal and can't even drive. But unequal and can't even drive. But | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
many Saudi women say (Inaudible) So we've been asking Audi women | :22:58. | :23:09. | |
themselves. Are women in the Kingdom really that oppressed? As a Saudi | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
woman, I never felt oppressed in any means. We have in our Parliament | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
more than 30 women. She's referring to the recent and long awaited move | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
to allow women the right to vote and take part in Parliamentary | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
elections. So do they have a point? More women in Saudi Arabia graduate | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
from university than men. Contrary to popular belief, women in Saudi | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
Arabia can work and in fact, have found prominence in different | :23:40. | :23:40. | |
fields. And when it comes to social media, | :23:41. | :23:51. | |
well, let's just say they're not keeping it quiet. | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
So women in Saudi Arabia can do many things and they do. But what often | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
limits them is the fact that they need a male guardian to do, well, | :24:07. | :24:08. | |
basically anything. My name is Shahd. I'm 20 years old | :24:09. | :24:52. | |
and I grew up with a violent father. Five years ago, my mother went to | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
court asking for divorce. She fought to keep us with her. But under the | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
male guardianship law, my father won our custody. All my mother had | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
wanted was to keep us safe and divorce her abusive husband. But the | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
law gave my mother no justice. Clearly, when it comes to rights, | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
there's still many battles to fight. However, many women in Saudi Arabia | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
say that labelling them as victims only makes those battles harder to | :25:21. | :25:21. | |
fight. What an interesting report there. If | :25:22. | :25:41. | |
you want to see it again or share it with someone via Facebook or | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
Twitter, pick up the link via the BBC News website. Just search for | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
Saudi Arabia women. -- Saudi women. That's all for the first part of | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
Outside Source. I'm back in a couple of minutes. | :25:56. | :26:05. | |
you're going to be travelling into the week ahead is on the way | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
you're going to be travelling into the Middle East, or the Gulf states, | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
there could be disruption to flights in | :26:19. | :26:19. |