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For the first time since leftist Mayor Sadiq Khan was elected, more Londoners think he is performing "badly" than "well".

Speaking to Daily Monitor in an interview, Ms Linneti Kirungi, said that the current punishment against the perpetrators is very light

In the last two decades, at least 28 women in Mexico have been subjected to violence in an extreme form: acid attacks. But current healthcare laws mean the state won't cover the costs of surgery to repair the damage. DW's Johan Ramirez reports.

Former Labour MP Claudia Webbe has been found guilty of harassment after threatening to throw acid at her boyfriend's female friend.

Former Labour MP Claudia Webbe has been found guilty of harassment after threatening to throw acid at her boyfriend's female friend.

Survivors of acid attacks like Elisa Xolalpa are banding together and raising their voices in Mexico despite the country’s high rates of violence, which often targets women, and staggering levels of impunity.

At human rights lawyer said i should be in prison. in prison they know what they are doing to me. they said there would be acid attacks against your wife. >> tucker: i am sorry. we are out of time. on that sad note, i wish you good luck in recovering from this and on the time you will take off. i want our viewers to understand that happened in a country believed was free and could happen here. its real. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> tucker: thank you. paul manaforts trial just wrapped up...

Should be in prison. im in prison, they have no idea what theyre doing to me at a time when i was in prison, they come and see me in my prison cell because theres going to be acid attacks against your wife. >> tucker: were out of time on that side note, i wish you good luck in recovering from a this d the time youre going to take off and i want our viewers to understand this is happened in a country we believed was free and without our vigilance it could happen here. paul manaforts trial wrapped...

But what that means we dont know. we also dont understand -- and you sit on the foreign relations committee and thats one of the reasons i was happy to have you on tonight. is hes heading into the meeting with putin. everybodys expecting him to be tough with putin because of crimea, shooting down mh-17, whats happening with syria, the acid attacks, and of course what happened with the u.s. election. and right before he goes into it he beats up the bulwark that putin needs to respect and fear mos...

They have a degree of respect for themselves and theyre not going to be forced to do this by mockery, by the president or the people he sends to berlin. >> later in the show were going to play for people how angela merkel responded, which really made a lot of peoples eyebrows pop. and i think it was a pretty good reflection of the current state of the relationship. but what that means we dont know. we also dont understand -- and you sit on the foreign relations committee and thats one of the rea...