B.b.c. World Service it's 8 hours g.m.t. This is Weekends with. An Indian woman who was attacked and set on fire on her way to testify against her alleged rapists has died of her injuries is Germany's governing coalition hanging in the balance after Anglo-American coalition partner ponders its future and we'll be speaking live to one of Ukraine's best known writers about prospects for peace with Russia as Ukrainian president Zelinsky gets ready to meet Mr Putin. The legacy of what the novel. Began to express about gender the difference between what it's actually like to be a woman and one of the world's most famous opera houses the Vienna State Opera stages an opera by a woman for the 1st time in its 150 year history that's here on weekends. Baby same news Hello I'm Gerri Smiths one of the world's most popular discussion websites readed says he believes the counseling to Russia we're involved in the league has sensitive documents detailing trade talks between the u.s. 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We'll be hearing more from them in just a little while but 1st an Indian woman who was set on fire by a group of men as she prepared to testify against 2 she'd accused of rape has died of her injuries the 23 year old was traveling to court in the northern state of auto Pradesh on Thursday when she was set upon the case has sparked outrage in India where there was already widespread anger over a murder and rape case in the southern city of Hyderabad last week the B.B.C.'s petition is joining us from Delhi producer it's a gruesome case but remind us of what happened to this woman. Indeed c.d.i. Quite a gruesome case and as huge as you said a 23 year old woman who was on her way to reap keys hearing in the Norden state of the predation a case that she had filed against 2 men in March earlier this year she was set on fire 5 men are alleged to have the alleged perpetrators in the case including 2 a foot or 2 of her alleged rapists who are now under her dress so a total of 5 men under arrest on accusation of having set her on fire she was reportedly on her way to a train station when she was dragged by the accused men to a nearby a nearby field according to the doctors who have been who had been treating her she sustained 90 percent burn injuries and and they said that she died because of a cardiac arrest late last night. But she had been flown in to Delhi for specialized treatment but still the doctors couldn't save her that was the extent of her injuries the victim's family are quite understandably very distressed and the victim's sister has told the b.b.c. That she expects nothing less than the death penalty for the accused and that her family will continue to fight for justice she was given specialized medical treatment after this happened to her but are there any questions being raised about the level of print police protection she was given on her way to this trial. Indeed Celia there are questions over why if this mad this the alleged rapist if he was in jail by was he given be should there be stringent bail conditions for a book used and according to some reports the police also had inputs that he was stalking her so yes there is a lot of debate about when should it go betrayed betrayed to be given bail and how stringent should be conditions in a case be and. As you said this Cobbs close on the heels of another hooded figure. Of a 27 year to leave it in the southern city of Hydrabad vet also she was brazenly dragged from from the road into. Into a scrub land and raped before being set on fire so increasing anger and increasing outrage among the vice section of Indians on how the alleged accused being able to act in such impunity Ok I thank you very much that was the B.B.C.'s protest. Now let's go to Germany where the fate of Angela Merkel's governing coalition is hanging in the balance her junior partner the social democratic partner s.p.d. Are considering whether to leave the coalition after 2 years the party conference is underway in Berlin we're joined now live by Hannah Wright charge she's the deputy leader of the s.p.d. Youth branch she joins us now on the newly elected leadership has threatened to leave and you yourself in the youth wing want out you've always maintained that why don't you want to be in power. Good morning 1st of all it's not that we don't want to be in power actually so we make made our list and you know that there are so many big solutions needed for our future house to invest men's. In public transportation system Climate Protection and its location and stuff like this and all these objects need desperately solutions and we can find in the great coalition there's a sample solutions of this problems actually so our standard so will you leave. So our conference made a decision yesterday actually after. Elected Island new leaders that we will. Have to Scott Jones we'll see you with our coalition partners. Too when it comes to all of these big topics and that we want to reshape or try to reshape the next 2 years of the coalition and bend these talks are successful and then we can find common sense our common goal for the next 2 years when it comes these topics and the great coalition can have a future when there's no possible way to go for asked. Then our new leadership will talk about this and make the decision to leave or not I You just really just pushing for more power within the coalition and not really so far as it comes to this topic so for us from our useless perspective it comes to our future actually and there are so many big problems and we just try to find the right solution and it's not happening with the Social Democratic Party and when we can't have power in the coalition because of our partners if not the opportunity actually and it's not all right to go let's open this up to our 2 guests Robert Fox isn't there a problem of declining poll ratings your junior partner wishing it right across Europe and we're seeing it in the general election campaign here in u.k. Squeezed liberal sometimes the social democrats element which is not even present in our Labor Party it's a thing eluded to this yes I think one of its most bus brilliant essays on Europe even crossed the light that failed you're on to a loser I think wouldn't you agree. No I wouldn't agree actually like what happened yesterday at our conference is that you're right that the neo liberal . German social democracy across our European social democracy. Faced the last last years or a century. Is now there's now a change so yesterday happened there was the trying to elect back to social democratic roots actually marry him. So I was just running if you've hinted at then but what are some of the food lines of where the conversation has broken down if you like in terms of shed objectives within the Coalition see what do you feel needs to happen which isn't happening so what we saw the last years that we desperately need huge investments in the future when it comes to schools that need to be run away didn't we need to build up our public transportation system we desperately need in Germany it's a let's ation the whole. Actually because there are still regions in Germany who. Has as an access to Internet actually this is all the 21st century just so it's a horrible situation actually so for us we need desperately these investments and we want to have them because it comes to our future comes to the future of the situation of Germany Yes So Ok thank you very much can a return to speaking to us from Berlin Hannah is the deputy leader of the s.p.c. Youth branch. Now let's move on to Ukraine where big protests are planned for tomorrow opposition parties have called on their supporters to get out in the street to warn President Vladimir salinity not to make any concessions to Russia on Monday in Paris for the 1st time Mr Selenski is set to meet with Vladimir Putin face to face that meeting will take place 5 years into the war with Russian backed separatists in eastern Ukraine that has killed more than 14000 people the conflict erupted weeks after Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula elected 8 months ago President Selenski has said he wants to end the conflict but many are wondering what Mr Putin might ask for in return Well we're joined here in the studio live now what with Andrei Krakoff he's a Ukrainian writer and political commentator He's best known internationally for his novel death and the penguin Andrei where do we could begin as Lenski has said he wants peace but at what price Well it's a good question I think the price will be very high definitely And of course Putin is not interested in the end in this war because once the solution on bus found the next question about Trey Mia arises and nobody in Russia was to discuss Crimea So in other thing is that if we remember that after the collapse of the Soviet Union the biggest depot of ammunition in Europe was in terms nice trip as there was out there which transistor became an ruled part of now the biggest Depaul of the nation is done by us because I've been Russia was supplying Soviet time emanation together with a new emanations a new weapons to tests to then bus already for 5 years till the danger of this meeting on Monday is huge for Ukraine because we have an experienced president with no political background a pure Dillahunt who has some strange sometimes ideas but I mean the. It's idealist if you think that he can easily talk to Putin and he's trying to play the role of a tough guy but nobody knew crane believes he's a tough guy you don't think he's any match for Vladimir Putin of course not it will be actually it's like a friendly Diena between cat and my mouse very friendly I'm sure well you've traveled to eastern Ukraine what are people on the frontlines saying about prospects for peace Well I mean people who leave there they want peace but the same time they are afraid of people on the front line on the credit side they have been afraid of finding themselves in the gray zone because now actually Ukraine together with separatists sort of withdrawing their troops from the frontline and they're talking about withdrawing them for several dozens of calamitous we should leaves villages and towns without any protection so I mean the locals afraid and the. These soldiers the army is also a bit upset and. Asking questions actually what will happen if the separatists and Russians will break the agreement and will the Ukrainian army have time to come back to defend the territories which were already on the grain control government control under let's speak to you about about your work you're a keen observer of developments in your country in effect you're here in London to introduce a new book of essays written by Ukrainian journalists and writers tell us about your contribution you've written an essay about the differences between Ukrainians and Russians Yeah I mean this is the daily question I get every way in the world actually because the Russians continue to say that Ukrainians have the same it just different part of Russian people but I mean these 2 peoples with 2 different histories and 2 different mentalities I mean Russia Russians monarchist I mean their mentality is based on the historical metrics of Monarchy The only is love that's when they were fed. Up with the South they would kill one and a dog the next one Ukrainians the organized Democratic and our kids I mean they never had their own royals they were ruling that territory themselves they were actually electing the head man who was head of the army and head of the state but they never had fixed borders and they never had their own currency so I mean it's a very strange mixture of democracy and anarchy but definitely everyone had its own opinion about future and the state of affairs today this way we have 350 even more political parties registered in the Ministry of Justice and Russia as Soviet Union remains one party system where Putin's party is the main one if you want to be a civil servant you become a member of this party and you live happily ever after. Robert Fox. I agree with you I think that I can see the pope Putin is interested in bass because even more than Trump he's the great disruptor that's how he maintains his present he has to disrupt Europe so under but I would like to ask you if you use the expression great but how as a Ukrainian do you feel Ukraine as a totality has become a great great because when I look at whether it's NATO whether it's the e.u. But it talks about guaranteeing Ukraine Ukraine has asked for membership that it is treated with great time to give a great time but now you see me now you don't do you feel in a way you're a victim of super European just politics Well I I mean there is a. Victim all the theory in Ukraine that it created as we always do because victims but I am not a supporter of this theory I mean Ukraine is between the West and the east between visits by tradition and European tradition but I mean the general tendency is now to was Europe I mean if you come to key if now you won't see much difference between Kenya of good style of life and Budapest and more so and maybe even badly in of course I mean the further to the east you go the more by 17 elements you find but general I mean I was talking about this 2 mentalities and the border between them intelligence was in the middle of Ukraine 20 years ago and every year it was moving to its east so if we didn't have the conflicts in 50 years time the border between Russia and Ukraine intelligent coincide with the border between Russia and Ukraine and that would be the end of Russian influence on Ukraine I'm signing. The reception has been in Ukraine to recent suggestion during the end naysaying meeting that you're right may wish to see a greater rapprochement with Russian naval is House has not gone down in Ukraine of course it will when done very bad live because I mean it. Everybody had this to McCrone his French president and Ukrainian president he was French she has to be back in Russian supermarkets I mean he wants French economy to work and Russian market is hugely important also for Americans for everybody else so there is a very I would say shaking balance between democracy and commercial interests and now the actually commercial interests becoming more important with Bragg's it in England with the problems in Greece in Spain etc So I mean you Europe wants to be well fed and reach and not to struggle in economical and defending democratic values somewhere on the margin of. And what about becoming a lynch painting in the the Us political scene at the moment how that's great I thought I did not know and I spent 2 weeks ago 2 days in the States I mean everybody who had my passport in their hands was Smythe and say oh Ukraine you are doing a great job you're doing a great job Well I mean it's not Ukraine is doing a great job of course I mean it's Americans are doing a great job. But you got the subject for your next novel for bad I wish I could have time for all the subjects I have for the Ukraine for the nobles but I will ch