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Welcome to Outlook I'm Matthew Bannister today what's it like to give birth to a baby in a war zone Dr Merriam Alger Ghani knows only too well she went into labor during an ass strike in the Yemeni capital Sana'a in 2015 suddenly a big strike and the home it's taking so I become free and then my blood become high I cannot control it by mitigations So I want to the hospital they told me they need to. See immediately in the hospital the atmosphere was tense even her doctors were panicking enlist me and try to hold the phone and try to communicate with his family I hated me told them we are civil like this and the medical thought She is my friend and she is just right and I would only just try to. Try to come down more of Mariam story after the latest news. Hello this is David Austin with the b.b.c. News the European Union's chief negotiator on how Britain leaves the block has been setting out his priorities for the 1st phase of negotiations Michel Barnier said they consisted of agreeing a way to calculate Britain's financial obligations guaranteeing the rights of e.u. Citizens living in the u.k. And agreeing a mechanism for resolving disputes in the European Court of Justice he stressed there wouldn't be a brick said Bill to punish Britain he said it was time to tackle the uncertainty caused by Britain's decision to leave the U.K.'s decision to leave to your opinion as no calls 10 months of uncertainty. We need to remove that interest and it is our time to start negotiating as soon as the u.k. Is ready to come to the table we should we should start negotiating. The clock is ticking Philippine lawmakers have rejected the appointment of the country's controversial environment secretary 10 months after she took up the position Regino Lopez angered many in the Philippines mining industry when she ordered the closure of more than half the country's existing mines citing environmental concerns Celia Hatton has more details Regina or Gina Lopez's supporters called her an earth warrior they're holding candlelight ceremonies to mark their disappointment she's been formally ousted as environment secretary others are cheering those in the Philippines powerful mining industry says Ms Lopez's move to close mines threaten more than a 1000000 jobs in one key point in her confirmation hearing she challenged one of the heads of the Appointments Commission arguing his family's Mining Corporation had destroyed a mountain in the Philippines the main Syrian opposition delegation has walked out of the latest round of Russian backed cease fire talks in a Stana the capital of Kazakstan for the 1st time a u.s. State Department official is attending the meeting as an observer hears our Arab affairs editor Sebastian Asha the delegation representing rebel fighters on the ground suspended their participation in the Istana talks shortly after they resumed for a 4th round it says the move is in protest of continuing government strikes on civilians the talks which are being held in parallel with the un Geneva process would you to focus on the idea of establishing areas where fighting could be controlled and access given to humanitarian aid Russia is describing these as deescalation zones in eastern Guta on the outskirts of Damascus and southern Syria a convoy of military vehicles. The NATO led mission in Afghanistan has been attacked by a suicide bomber in the capital Kabul officials say at least 8 people have been killed and more than 25 others injured the Afghan Interior Ministry said most victims were civilians the Islamic state group said it carried out the attack will news from the b.b.c. The Japanese prime minister Shinzo has said he wants to see changes introduced to the country's post-war pacifist constitution by 2020 in a message marking the document 70th anniversary Mr our best said the revision should make explicit a reference to Japan's self-defense forces to avoid any suggestion they may be unconstitutional the charter imposed by the United States after the 2nd World War denies Japan the right to possess a military force China has issued tighter rules governing online news providers bringing them into line with the strict communist party controls placed on more traditional media outlets Johnston worth reports from Beijing contents on China's Internet has always faced heavy scrutiny and censorship but compared to newspapers in broadcasters a regulatory gray zone has allowed a few online news portals to produce relatively independent reporting these new regulations appear to close it down completely they cover reports and opinion published by blogs websites search engines and messaging apps a Russian court has upheld a suspended 5 year prison sentence against the leading opposition activist Alexina Valmy the retrial was brought after an earlier conviction was overturned following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights Mr Novelli says the case was designed to prevent him standing in next year's presidential election his team insisted the ruling would not affect his decision to take part. Hundreds of doctors at one of India's biggest hospitals are starting self-defense classes this month to protect themselves from violent patients and relatives the lessons taught by martial arts champions will be held daily at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the capital Delhi a recent survey in one hospital suggests as many as 40 percent of doctors suffered verbal or physical attacks last year that's the latest b.b.c. News you're with Outlook the program that takes you around the world through extraordinary personal stories I'm Matthew Bannister. Today will meet the woman in Compton California who's using horses to keep kids out of street gangs there are a lot of young people who are really at some place a girl so that's how we started we have you only here to live right here you would always say now the horses are miking also we tune into the radio station that offers a lifeline to the fisherman of Kerala that's coming later but we start by focusing on the innocent victims of the conflict in Yemen over the last 2 years thousands of people have been killed in clashes between the forces of a Saudi led coalition backing the government and who the rebels some expectant mothers caught up in the fighting have lost their children while others have given birth in terrifying circumstances one of them is Dr Merriam Alger Garny who works for the charity Save the Children helping pregnant women in the area around the capital Sana'a she draws on her own experience of giving birth in 2015 my name told me how she felt when she found out she was expecting when I was become bigger and I'm still happy as a little my baby the previous one he died and before that they have some miscarriage so it's like. Pregnancy for me but when the border started. I was so afraid so you've had miscarriages before and so you thought that the pregnancy might be a risk yes because the stress that miscarriage increases with the stress also my medical situations become deteriorated I had hypertension and diabetic and whatever I hear the airplane was my plan should become high so I'm afraid to lose my baby and I would if you could describe what it was like to live day by day during your pregnancy with raids every day most of the time we hear the air strike in databases events if they are not targeting our area just to hear the airplane it's a terrible believe me and that is not safe place we just have a flat and you know you are worried that you would be targeted so even if we go to the street maybe they will target the streets of my situations become due to it so can you tell me about the actual day that you went into labor what stage of the pregnancy was that in and what happened I live near the expense of Penthouse and it's also this is the targeted area suddenly there's a big strike and the home it's shaking so I become frayed and stress then my blood pressure become high I cannot control it by medications so I want to the hospital and they told me they need to and that pigment immediately so it's less than 32 weeks so go through the pleated liver a very early birth yet when I'm giving birth to not I'm aware because they have spinal anesthesia it's not fun and it's easy the hospital in a military area. That time they target area and near to the hospitals so imagines the stress that I was go through it I feel that I will die and I will die that time and then after my blood pressure become high and they put me in a dark room but the stress is increased because I hate. The airplane and the air strike one. I think the hospital will be destroyed when I'm in it and even they try and the medical doctors and nurses to try to become can but you cannot I cannot because I just see it I'm afraid about my life I'm afraid about my baby and even I think that the medical doctor she will die and Jannot complete the operations and a lot of things but things came into my mind and presumably Marion that the medical staff must be very very concerned very worried for their lives yes because for example the anesthetic illust me and try to hold the phone and try to communicate with his family is here and we told them Don't afraid we are civil like this and the medical doctor she's my friend and she is just right and our agency try to reach Koran and Satish try to let me come down don't worry don't worry but even the light becomes flushing it's terrible to the lights were flickering and coming on and off yes yes yes I saw the face of the medical staff they are afraid and they try to do their best but at the end they are a human being of course and how long did the air raid go on for do you have any sense of time they deliver at 5 till 11 pm I still hear even if there is no air strike you just hear the air play we become more afraid from the airplane because you don't know where the bombs going to land when you hear the airplane Yes Yes And it's become more of. Stressful situation you know you just said well the next and the next would be targeted you can't imagine it. It's a horrific picture that you paint Yeah I try to remember everything it's very stressful I don't want any woman to fish it appears not want to go through that one for that reason I said I would never become pregnant again to the worst I understand was the baby Ok when she was born no she enter in a bit and then her Street apartment for 2 weeks because she has none to kill she had some problem so that made it to the incubator for 2 weeks but sands gulp. It's Ok Now during those 2 weeks where you able to stay in the hospital with her or did you visit her No No I discharged within 2 days and I came to visit her in our daily business 3 to 4 times the big day for the pristine thing but the hospital died. And it's very far from my home and it's near some military areas so sometimes I cannot access because Also my husband is very afraid that he can lose me because sometimes it's their strike the target their own genesis block and the security there not allow us but they refuse because they want to precede my baby so it's terrible for me to get to the hospital and breastfeed my child they must have been a nightmare situation and busy Mobley was a great relief when they finally allowed you to take your baby home yes it's like it's a happy day that the Allow me to get my baby home imagine during my away me and my husband and my baby and I was so happy it happened and strike in another area then I had a temper back to take longer Lord and I was staying on my friend's house till everything become quite I returned back to my home how old is your baby now 19 months and is she well now is she is she healthy Yes she is healthy she said she is healthy Thanks again and I know that you've been working as a doctor and a coordinator with Save the Children before you gave birth did your experience of childbirth change the kind of work that you were doing yes when you go through the experience you know what is the situations as a mother suffering so I know what the meaning of the miscarriage I know what the meaning when the mother's lost the baby I know what they mean when the pregnant woman cannot have any support or become a mistress for situations and she is a. About head life and baby life so I try to do my work to engage and support a lot of the Yemeni women through the program especially if for their maternity a newborn care so I try to do by myself to visit the hospital to check everything to do an assessment but Matthew there are gaps and the need is a huge that the resources is very low so I would try to do my best I understand and I mean one of the things that we should talk about is the infant mortality rate because there must be a very high infant mortality rate given what you've told me have you have you seen some terrible sights as you visited the hospitals. Yes imagines in one hospitals I visit last month and March there are more than 15 newborn died in one month in one hospital and when I ask this is because there is no medicine no medical supply and also for shortage of stuff so imagine in one hospital what about other hospitals and also when they communicate with other governorate this it is they have the numbers of newborn is very high number of miscarriages very high but you are just one person just one small group of people this sounds like an enormous problem yes yes you cannot. There are too many reason for this war but women and children are being the heaviest price they also have been given a day and their need is huge but no one no one I'm sorry. That's Ok just take any time you need just take a moment. Any support we provide any support that all the want to revote we were not treated the baby but if we stop the point this is the most support that we provide to the mothers because if you lose one baby and she have another baby she will have fled the boat but to take their children from hunger and protect their children from disease and protect their children's from war it's all of this having a terrible effect on you I can hear how emotional you are I wonder if you sometimes find it hard to cope with what you're having to deal with to cope with the distress the you're seeing. You know I'm crying now because I visit one of the hospitals a someone with mothers the medical doctor cannot. Help her because she came in in very detail it and she lost her life and his baby because the uterus was ruptured. Looks after you who's taking care of you. My family I get a great support from my family also I am happy that my family is a still life and you must be operating under enormous levels of stress does it help to talk about these things to members of your family are are they the people that you trust with your emotions my mother yes but sometimes you know with you you cannot express everything because your family has become a fate of your life so sometimes you need just to talk in general and you cannot talk what you are suffering for example if I went to an area with a dangerous area and so there is a Cannot took to this event my family they would become afraid and stressed you get me I do understand Yes I absolutely understand and I wonder what sort of conditions your family are living in. You know now I'm responsible for all my family because I helped other the other teachers and school managers and one of them sold there and they didn't have any salaries so now I'm the one who ticket I want all my family is it to the issue that there is not salary for more than 7 months and you're able to support them presumably because you're employed by the charity is that right yes so how many people are relying on you with the children's and others for example to have 3 brothers 88 people and is it difficult or easy to get hold of the essential things that you need for day to day life like food and water yes because water previously we get it through the network but now it would be a basis we both are water and there is no electricity so. It's difficult even for the food it's a high rise image and there is not salary and the food is high price so it's really difficult situations. And what is it like for you to bring up your daughter in these circumstances in these conditions. Matthew it's very difficult because I'm very happy that I have my baby a told it's vicious baby for me but every day I had a terrible tree in. Maybe because especially when I hear that I'm afraid that something would happen to me or to my baby and I pay for my baby and for all children and young men for old women in Yemen for only a many people this world to me because it's the 1st way 1st full city difficult situation Dr Marion mailed to Garnier working to help pregnant women in Yemen. Marry Him story will be our podcast today you can find loads of extraordinary personal stories on our podcast just search online for b.b.c. Outlook podcast and subscribe it's free and you'll get a daily story to entertain or inspire you. Compton a city south of Los Angeles in the USA is probably best known for the rap and hip hop music that's made that but beyond the inner city streets there's something you wouldn't expect stables full of horses i Reporter Laura Hubbard went to find out why these stables exist and by the road here in the City of Compton very much of modern gangster rap is said to have come from but except for the 4 patrol cars at the end of the block it looks like any other residential community in Los Angeles with gas stations convenience stores and sprawling single story house. Just a few blocks away traffic disperses and behind a nondescript stucco house lies. Completely different rural world it's where the contant Junior Posse stables are once you went to the gates the inner city is left behind a horse arena takes up most of the space under an expansive cloud filled sky the rain has washed out the riding in the posses and hold the celebration is underway with young people dressed in writing. Hi My name is Asia and I'm 10 and I'm How long have you been writing since January last year what do you like about it that it's a place where you can write really express yourself when you can it's just very