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Independence. saida el gueyed remembers when president bourguiba asked her to help him introduce the laws to tunisian women. file footage: the women who, 10 years ago, had no rights, - were contracted to a marriage by their parents, were covering their faces when they left the house, these tunisians are not doing at all badly. this is, one imagines, as emancipated as any girl can get. these swinging tunisian dolly birds represent one of the most remarkable social transformations of present times...

20-30 intelligence failures over the last 20—30 years, point and 11, we can point to nuclear and chemical weapons in iraq, we can point to the failure to spot the decline of the soviet union in the 1980s to just mention a few. i would suggest that what happened was something deeper. and it was reflecting how the united states and others approached afghanistan over these many years. there was the assumption that a national government and an institution were being strengthened. there was an assu...

The 1950s and the introduction of equal rights laws that give women the right to vote and the right to contraception and in some cases abortion. the reforms were abiding by the countrys first president following independence. for women who ten years ago had no rights, were contracted to a marriage by their parents, covered their faces when they left the house, these tunisians are not doing at all badly. this is, one imagines, as emancipated as any girl can get. these swinging tunisian dolly bird...

The wide—ranging reforms were brought in by the countrys first president following independence. saida el gueyed remembers when president bourguiba asked her to help him introduce the laws to tunisian women. rock �*n roll music plays. reporter: for women, - who ten years ago, had no rights, were contracted to a marriage by their parents, covered their faces when they left the house, these tunisians are not doing at all badly. this is, one imagines, as emancipated as any girl can get. thes sw...

Years ago, had no rights, - were contracted to a marriage by their parents, covered their faces when they left the house, these tunisians are not doing at all badly. this is, one imagines, as emancipated as any girl can get. thes swinging tunisian dolly birds represent one of the most remarkable social transformations of present times. translation: the equal rights law was the biggest ever - gain for tunisian women. president bourguiba said he was notjust a liberator of tunisia, but a liberator ...

Those images and that we saw. the desperate afghans are willing to fall off a plane because they were so afraid of what they would stay for, and the american slang out. yes. i mean, the whole thing —— of the americans are flying out. the whole thing was a surreal scene. i just hope... i go back to my one sliver of hope in all of this is that in the 20 years that have passed, afghanistan has gone through a lot of transformations, this is not the country the taliban left in 2001, this is a pre...

An interview with the taliban about this very subject. how trustworthy is that? >> reporter: well, what you are hearing there from the spokesperson, he is the kind of articulate pragmatic made cmatue voice of the taliban is not necessarily what you will hear on the streets. they want to show that they are adapting a more reasonable approach particularly on womens education. but when we went to the presidential palace, my presence was definitely causing something of a stir and they shooed me away...

Bait or not. >> exactly. so what she settled on at the end was that no matter what she does politically theyre going to attack her. and if theyre on the committee theyre going to attack her from within. if theyre not, theyre going to say this is just a political farce, so she did what she knew was right which is how can you have a committee with people on it who dont believe in the basic idea that this is even necessary, that even what we saw like what the president said happened before our eyes...

When you think about your career, when you think about the pandemic weve just been through, the transformations to come, where do you think you would put us? where do you think we are as a species in the long story that is humanity? wow, its a big question... well start big, and well get narrower as we go along. look, ive always felt there is this constant progress which comes with technology, and it almost happens whether or not humans actually want that level of progress. i go through these th...

Sundar pichai has given interviews before, but rarely as much time as this. there are no agreed questions and nothing is off limits. interview, take four. a mark. b mark. sundar, lets start by talking a bit about this moment in history. in my work for the bbc over the last few years, ive been arguing that weve been living through a kind of epoch shift. technology is central to that. when you think about your career, when you think about the pandemic weve just been through, the transformations to...