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in 2022, michelle obama, amal clooney and melinda french gates came together to announce a collaboration with the aim of ending child marriage. weve been invited to their first field trip together, and theyve come to ludzi secondary school in malawi. when i was your age, there were people in my community that didnt think a girl like me, who didnt have money or wealth or connections, could do the things that i did. i even had my second—form teacher tell me that i shouldnt apply to the...

this is uzbekistan. once part of the enormous soviet union, uzbekistan is a country of arid deserts, lush mountains and ancient cities. in its long history, its been home to many civilisations, remnants of which can still be seen today. and now its more recent past is as much of a draw. im starting myjourney here in tashkent, the biggest city in the whole of central asia. its dynamic, full of young people — with almost half under the age of 30 — and its booming. though wherever you...

at the very beginning they have no emotions, but she was growing and growing and also yesterday, she was hungry because she made in her opinion a wrong exercise, it was not the way i learned, and she has fear, she is worried, and at the same time, she is able now to manage her emotions. disability — disability, in italian, it means something less. what is less? we are different talented. uplifting music. hello there. at its peak on wednesday, storm gerrit brought gu...

reframe, whose aim is to advance gender equity. keri putnam is a film executive and producer and the founder of putnam pictures. she served for 11 years as the ceo of the sundance institute, which runs the sundance film festival. prior to that, she worked as a senior executive at miramax and hbo. she is also the co—founder of reframe. welcome. thank you, its great to be here. stephanie allain is a film producer and writer and the newly elected co—president of the producers guild of...

james lowe, all the way! a cruel knife to the heart of wales. the number one side on the planet against the reigning grand slam champions. oh, my goodness! breathtaking! absolutely breathtaking! thunderous six nations spectacle. all eyes on ross byrne as he gets us under way in rome. _ the quest for the slam is still alive. _ and it has been many, many a long year since both scotland and ireland met at this stage of the championship with so much to play for. a slam on the line for irel...

the floor every day. # these are dangerous days. # to say what you feel is to dig your own grave. fight the real enemy. people say it derailed my career. but i think it re—railed my career, because i didnt want to be a pop star. # so happy christmas. # i love you, baby. # i can see..#. its true im out of it most of the time, but i can write songs when im out of it. in fact, its easier for me. # ..singing galway bay. # and the bells are ringing out for christmas day. #je taime. #je ta...

and so she didnt allow people to call me stupid or any of the words that lots of people had to deal with. i know im talking a lot about my mum, but i... i was very blessed to have the woman that i had as a mother because she was just odd enough to recognise the oddity in her child. and that was kind of groovy. i read that you left school very early, before you were supposed to... yes. ..so how were you educated? i was educated all over the place. i made a deal because i couldnt take hi...

ah, well, its actually still, for me, very exciting to be here. but im trying to understand what has happened to this land of yours, because when you arrived here, this was an intensively farmed land, wasnt it? it was. my husband, charlie, inherited it from his grandparents when he was in his early 20s, and this was back in the 1980s. and every inch of the land was ploughed, it was producing arable crops and dairy. and we fully expected to be farmers for the rest of our lives. mm. 17 y...

whos a creative director from visual effects house framestore, now, its important to remember always when youre dealing with this kind of stuff, that the ai doesnt understand what its drawing. and actually thats what gives it its unique, quirky animation style. and actually thats what gives it its unique, quirky animation style. you can see in that robot there, the controls on the front, all the buttons are rippling and glitching. yeah. it cant keep them consistent over the number of f...

i get to work here." and itjust makes me like show up more. you feel happy being in this space. i can see that. and im actually quite... when i cook, im quite manic about cleaning up as i go along, unlike my husband, who leaves a sort of minor nuclear disaster. thats me! iam... how can you cook like that? ..a total disaster. and then ijust throw everything in the sink and its a big pile of dishes. and then wejust... we work our way through it. by the way, you have so many cookbooks. i ...