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It took her three days to get here, a refugee camp in bangladesh, just inside the border. I cannot find my husband, my parents, my other children. Doctors treating the rohingyas say they are seeing more such cases of Sexual Violence. I find this 22 year old rohingya woman inside her tent, trying to put her baby to sleep. She says she was raped by a burmese soldier inside her home, while others kept watch. Her husband, who is missing, was the village cleric. Translation how can i tell anyone abou...

The bbc has heard disturbing accounts of Sexual Violence and brutality against Rohingya Women and children whove fled the military crackdown in myanmar. The rohingya a muslim ethnic minority live in Rakhine State in mainly buddhist myanmar, but more than 500,000 are now living in refugee camps on the southern tip of bangladesh. A warning you may find some of the details in sanjoy majumders report distressing. The memory is still fresh, the pain very raw. Her village inside myanmar was attacked t...

Where people are already queueing at a voting station for a referendum on independence for catalonia thats a vote that the Spanish Government considers illegal and has tried to stop. Spanish police earlier sealed off polling stations and raided a Communications Centre where votes were due to be counted. The polling stations are due to open in just under three hours time. From barcelona, heres tom burridge. Those against the referendum last night took to the streets. A sea of spanish flags outsid...

To contraception under former president 0bamas Affordable Care act. The rule allows employers and insurers to not provide Birth Control if doing so violates their religious beliefs or moral convictions. 55 million women benefited from the 0bama era rule, a which made companies provide free Birth Control. The American Civil Liberties union has challenged the new rules in court in san francisco, and the state of massachussets is doing the same. Speaking to reporters white house secretary Sarah Huc...

Could deprive around sixty million american women of access to free contraception. The Us Department of health said employers and Insurance Companies can now exempt themselves on religious or moral grounds from providing contraceptive pills and other methods of Birth Control. The bbcs peter bowesjoins me now from los angeles. Tell us more about this provision. This goes back to the 0bama era, is that correct . Yes. It goes back to 2009 when the Affordable Health act was introduced and a lot of d...

Provision. At the end of the day it was included so that only religious institutions could effectively veto on that decision to supply contraceptives free of charge to women who wanted them. Now, under donald trump, its being extended to include all employers. So if they decide for their own religious or moral reasons that they do not want to supply the women that they employ, essentially the funds through their health funds to pay for contraceptives, they will have the right to do that. How div...

Responsible for undermining the election process and he has also proved the expulsion of 35 Russian Diplomats from the United States. Three weeks before donald trump is sworn in as president , mr obamas said that all americans should be alarmed by russias actions. Russia said it would order adequate reply. As our correspondent reports. Russia stands accused of trying to help donald trump become president. Moscow had been warned but now it is being punished for interfering in us elections. The to...

Is deepening this hour. It all began when a minister in president erdogans government was blocked from addressing a rally in rotterdam. That prompted mr erdogan to describe the dutch government, led by mark rutte, as nazi remna nts. A second Turkish Minister has now been stopped from entering the netherlands, and in ankara, the dutch ambassador has been told he isnt welcome. Mark lowen reports. They love his nationalism, his bluntness, his standing up to the west, and today Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...

President Donald Trumps Campaign Team colluded with russia during the 2016 us election thats according to a top lawmaker. Devin nunes, head of the house of Representatives Intelligence Committee also said there was also no evidence that barack obama had ordered Wiretap Surveillance of mr trumps headquarters, trump tower. Lets get more on this with laura bicker whojoins us live from washington. First of all on the statement about collusion with russia what have we heard . When it comes to the acc...

Cardiff and swansea have gone into local lockdown tonight, the government has defended its decision to allow hundreds of thousands of students in england to return to university for the new term despite several outbreaks of coronavirus on campuses. Thousands of students have had to be confined to their rooms, but the culture secretary, oliver dowden, says its important their studies arent sacrificed because of the virus. But a member of the governments advisory body modelling the spread of the p...