Page 2 - 13th August News Today

Its quite challenging. it is going to need a lot of effort from me to get back to my normal life. so these are them? yes, my diaries. nearly 3000 pages. wow. and some were not returned. well, they were returned. i had to tear them up. because i was worried in case they are being taken... this starts from day one, which i wrote when i was actually taken to the prison. because it was fresh in my mind, i could write from day one. this is all through my time at the interrogation centre. 13th august ...

Political and economic rights. he introduced the law on 13th august 1956. thanks to this law, women were allowed to vote and also become politicians. im one of the founders of the tunisian womens union, and president bourguiba relied on us. reporter: in this school, 100 miles from tunis, - a teacher hammers home the newly discovered facts of female life to 60 teenagers. there are 13 such schools in tunisia, organised and staffed by the tunisian womens union, a militant and powerful body of opini...

And exiled for his trouble. since independence, hes been his nations leader. | i knew president bourguiba during the struggle against colonialism. in the equal rights law, he banned polygamy. he gave women social, political and economic rights. he introduced the law on 13th august 1956. thanks to this law, women were allowed to vote and also become politicians. im one of the founders of the tunisian womens union, and president bourguiba relied on us. reporter: in this school, 100 miles from tuni...

At the tokyo olympics. its friday, 13th august. six people, including a suspected gunman, have died in a shooting in a residential area of plymouth. police were called to the keyham area of the city at 6pm and a critical incident was declared. the victims include two women and two men and a child aged under ten. the local mp, luke pollard has called the incident "unspea kably awful". our reporter, jon kay has more. police worked through the night, securing the scene one mile from the centre of p...