prepping for an important case lawyer calling gonzales is about to head to india's supreme court he's pushing for an independent investigation into the lynchings of about thirty people by hindu which is down to groups they were murdered in recent years for allegedly transporting cows or eating beef the rage against. against other communities and other religions is so extreme today. india is really on the brink of a precipice so that's a very important case that the supreme court is taking up today apart from handling politically sensitive cases gonzales is known as a defender of some for india's most vulnerable citizens he spent more than three decades campaigning and litigating to secure their basic rights. he's far from alone gonzales books with a team of young dedicated lawyers some have even given up lucrative corporate jobs his human rights law network provides free legal services to bonded laborers religious minorities refugees women and others go to the supreme court his petitions have led to some landmark rulings notably one of the directed india states to implement several fo

and he has criticized india's treatment of minorities and fights for the poorest of the poor human rights lawyer called income solomon's house upon the by two likelihood it will go to the alternative nobel dropped. i'm phil gale welcome to the program french president emmanuel mccraw has delivered a long awaited speech outlining his vision for the european union speaking at paris this so bone university he described current e.u. systems as weak slow and ineffective he called for a shed budget for the eurozone while cooperation on terrorism and a rapid day your average european rapid reaction force to work in tandem with nato . europe correspondent catherine martin says that a welcome catherine president visit to europe with greater cooperation and all sorts of levels how does he propose together well as far as we heard in the speech the french president seems to be willing to use the same toolbox he's used to become french president he really focuses on a very local approach to get back to the european citizens to trigger a real european debate with the europeans as citizens about the do'

india india is the country we belong to we have a different identity. we feel like. we speak our own language. we have our own customs our own history and we have no grounds to be ashamed of that. and then the chief leads us to the edge of the village to show was the grisly legacy of his ancestors. below the tree tops there's a kind of mass grave it's impossible to say whether the skulls are those of enemies or their own people. chris sharon number one question. it was the custom at the time to leave the bodies out in the wild. usually below tree. we only learn to bury our dead and when we became christians. i'll tell you look. at the way it took some time until our zing in the other naga has learned to forego violence after the end of british colonial rule they fought for their own state they achieved partial independence nagaland as a federal state within india now there's peace but other parts of northeast india are anything but idyllic. money poor a neighboring state is in crisis it too is home to many nagas but they are in the minority here they're fighting for

india is really on the brink of a precipice so that's a very important case that the supreme court is taking up today apart from handling politically sensitive cases gonzales is known as a defender of india's most vulnerable citizens he spent more than three decades campaigning and litigating to secure their basic rights. he's far from alone gonzales books with a team of young dedicated lawyers some have even given up lucrative corporate jobs his human rights law network provides free legal services to bonded laborers religious minorities refugees women and others go to the supreme court his petitions have led to some landmark rulings notably one the directed india states to implement several food security schemes that means millions of poor children now get free school lunches the supreme court of india and the high courts of the states already future for people like us and our clients it's a place we can go to it's a place where. they can get relief from persecution. and it's a very quick remedy the indian remedy of public interest litigation is unique. his organization operates fro

taller news now in india's d. united nations chief rather and turning to terrorists is calling on me and mars leaders to end quote the nightmare facing ranger refugees fleeing the country his comments come after the drowning deaths of a number of ranger refugees his boat capsized off the coast of bangladesh dozens more are missing in the last month more than half a million were hand you have fled man more because of a violent crackdown by the country's no terry against what it's calling terrorists . schools of the hinge of refugees lined the shores of beach in bangladesh. they were fleeing violence in myanmar when their boots capsized in the bay of bengal most of the dead women and children. at the united nations security council frustration over the crisis is mounting the united states is now calling for action against military leaders in myanmar formerly known as burma saying their actions have forced the rohingya to flee. we cannot be afraid to call the actions of the burmese authorities what they appear to be

all of us he's an indian human rights lawyer working to protect ranger refugees from deportation from india also coming up. on the macro begins her quest to form a new german government she's ready to talk to her former partners the social democrats they say they're going on to the opposition banks that would mean machall working with two parties that have a little in common also coming up. kurdish celebrations after a referendum on independence from iraq the problem fact that all the region the big players bitterly opposed the kurdish vote and have been pushing back. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show we start this program with the winners of what's known as the alternative nobel prize each year the right livelihood of ward honors those who defend human rights and the environment prize money totalling some three hundred thousand euros will be shared by three people the journalist khadija ishmael of john has courageously written about elite corruption in her own country undeterred by a prison sentence and ongoing harassment if yo b. as yet no bash legacy has been honored for h

experts say that india has not effectively made the structural change. it is expected that the workforce. manufacturing. skilled manufacturing which is something on which india should have focused was something which was not supported by. the farmers discontent has been growing here they are demonstrating in the capital delhi demanding that grain prices be doubled the state is the biggest consumer. one of the greats protesting a school children they are also in a special institute for children of suicide from as their attendance is meant to shake people up so this is citee no longer just accept the fact that more than ten thousand fathers kill themselves each year i would lay. this brigade. on the remainder i explained. because it is the problem of society at the moment the only response individual initiatives like this school they make it possible for children might just days smriti and the others to get what their fathers lacked a life without hunger and the chance to have a happy future. or for more on the future of role in the end the crisis is facin

a mega merger in the steel industry germany's corp and india's tata agreed to a joint venture how will they size up to the mighty chinese. and conflicted fed prepares its policy update a big test for the us dollar. i mean physical and let's do business the scene is set for a jobs battle german industrial giant twosome corp is teaming up with indian group tata merging their steel operations it's the result of a massive global steeled lot the news has sent governments and unions scrambling to save jobs. they are the second and third largest steel companies in europe the joint venture at this improved tata steel now expects to produce twenty one million tons of steel from nearly three dozen sites across the continent cheap steel imports from china and large production footprints have challenge europe's steel industry in recent years concert restructurings have done little to help the company leaders say the merger is the only alternative going forward canada under soon and no other option dealt with the fundamental problem a structural overcapacity. the new venture aims to save up to six

muslim in the war joel war made a new sydney better longing or was not been in the job of going to india and wanted to win it on don't know which so long as it was given to him. i am benevolent i'm indebted but i did log on the wall. ben-gay can read and i don't bug me. for it for the media that i was as well it will all be killed the door isn't being called badges and. i was really worried about my kids are two birds and they were really very sweet and that these their respective things muslims or whatever it may be so they never never defended me told me to remove it . allow me to play a little side felt very free. for . the amount of opportunity boys get i i think even goes should get that because that is the only way we can do was say was was. there the means are now not free i think they are one of the reason because they don't lead does as free they don't try exhibit as thing that ok the other to do the wrong. thing so they mean the first step should be taken by them then the world was maybe supported on the. last. play. and while football dreams come true in india we head to niger

feeling in the court that this man from india. of a far away country where she had never been herself was actually allowed to partake at the table and yes tell us about the reviews reviews have been pretty mixed obviously that's one of the reasons of the depiction of how things were in colonial times is rather whitewashed in that she's made to be it out to be a very tolerant soul indeed it's perhaps a bit surprising that when disappointing because judi dench and stephen frears is such a fantastic team and we saw that in fellow mina both of course are also no strangers to royalty in the movies and in fact for real film buffs this movie itself could even look like a rewarming of one thousand nine hundred seven film mrs brown that's victoria's other scandalous relationship another she played the grieving queen who rediscovers her lust for life through her friendship with a scottish servant and she actually got an oscar nomination for that one as stephen frears for his part. made the queen here starring helen mirren who did get an osc

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i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us we begin in india where officials say that more than twenty people have died in a stampede the incident happened in the financial hub mumbai on a foot bridge leading to the probably the rave railway stay. during morning rush hour dozens of people who were injured have been taken to nearby hospitals it's reported that the bridge was overcrowded with people taking shelter from heavy rains. and videos they are circulating on social media showing smartphone footage of this incident the train station connects two of the city's major local lines and police say that the stampede was triggered by overcrowding and heavy rain people were seen trying to rescue fellow commuters who were trapped in this stampede and many on social media they are angry and they are calling for reform one user writes the mumbai stampede is an extremely sad turn of events authorities must improve basic commute needs of india's financial capital indian prime minister director modi has this to say he sent his deepest condolences to all of those who have lost th

s india correspondent sonia found a car sonia let's take up that question that we heard at the end of our report was this a freak accident or could it have been prevented. well authorities here are blaming a combination of overcrowding and heavy rains for that tragedy today in mumbai but could have been prevented many here seem to think so i mean we heard a lot of reports that many people in mumbai had longed been warning that the kind of daily congestion at the two major suburban train stations where the stampede took place was really a disaster the making those two stations were used by a bulk of mumbai's local commuters we're talking of millions of people here and and that's because a number of offices have sprung up in that area and in the last decade you know many experts in mumbai have long been saying that that foot bridge was too narrow it was too old it was structurally too weak to handle the heavy crush of commuters it's also emerged today that a move by normie even written a letter to india's former railways minister last year flagging security issues urging him to carry ou

and another new form of biological pest control is being developed in india through conservation this method aims at an ecological transition so that the natural predators of pests find favorable living conditions on the agricultural land that way a lasting equity librium between pest and predator populations can be created predators aren't released anymore no beetles no wasps not hundreds and not billions they live peacefully on the fields all year round. chandrasekhar on your darva ready from the center for sustainable agriculture monitor how the insects live together in the fields they're teeming with life which is very beneficial for the farmers. here if they're for whatever that is here we have our little moth eggs with. can you see the larvae they eat leaves twenty years for that which is what is seeing usually on cotton tomato and peanut plants. they have natural predators too and. here we have commonly swings these are their eggs. these eggs of the common lace wing applied like guard posts are just waiting to happen and do battle with the moths. in the ground there are worms p

in for a shock to some cope the country's biggest steel company announced it will join forces with india's tata steel that may put thousands of people out of work in an industrial heartland that's been in decline for decades glowing hot smelters smoking furness is not that is germany's who area the industrial heartland for more than two centuries people have mined here for black coal for brown coal and for iron ore this is the home of the steel industry when ames' like two thousand and became synonymous with germany's industrialization in the nineteenth century the companies have long merged and formed doesn't cope as we know it today and now another merger has been announced the steel giant will join india's tata group to better position itself against growing competition from china the downside as with every merger jobs at stake and that has workers worried at least four thousand jobs will be shed two thousand in management and two thousand in production to cope workers are worried about their livelihood and yet another chapter of a far reaching structural change that has even seen some

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of germany's to some clue about his company's proposed merger with india's tata steel we ask him about likely job losses. plus getting rid of plastic bags why not everyone is on board monica is right up with those stories and more. is going to have the managers do no good today nothing to change you know the banks pay you money and so was the language of the bank money. speaking the truth global news that matters d.w. made for mines. going to the big w. we speak your language our spanish program on you tube. always willing someone doesn't miss you like in boito always close to the action but i'm up by the local folk ever wondered what to think if it is that up to the minute news and opinion of the background to political developments in the d.w. we bring you more of the oil. at. it could be one of the biggest nudges in the steel industry germany's to cope and india's tata have agreed to enter a joint venture the move will likely cost four thousand jobs we talk to the c f o f to scope about the future of his company. also coming up markets rally as investors across the globe away to the

course they formed to some cope and now another merger has been announced the steel giant will join india's tata group to better position itself against growing competition from china now the downside as with every murcia shops are at stake and that has workers worried at least four thousand jobs will be shed we're talking two thousand in management and two thousand in production to include workers of worried about their livelihoods and yet another chapter of a far reaching structural change that has even seen some of the once mighty mines like. turned into industrial museums. they're striking the bell and alarm they are steelworkers in both home as they took to the streets on friday their plant is threatened once to some cope and tata steel works their european business four thousand jobs are about to be cut according to management workers fear this might only be the beginning with deeper cuts to come industry experts agree that for the two steel companies a joint venture makes sense they have to compete against cheap chinese imports and not desperate to cut cost but for people in the regi

reduction in defense but it is true that yellen and fed members have done an excellent job in said india structure for the market to know exactly how this process is going to war again please on the bad side that nobody knows the real impact this will have on the bond market especially in treasury revealed and we do need to figure out where does a debt betsy's the appropriate level to a stop this process. at the new york stock exchange will follow that up with you thank you very much. back to europe now where shares in german lender spike briefly on wednesday after renewed speculation that a merger could be on the cart's according to the reuters news agency italy's unicredit recently approached the german government with an interest in merging with the state backed lender it's still early days but such a move could go ahead and it would be in that case one of europe's largest ever crossed for mergers. and speaking of fusions it's the latest move to counter europe's steel crisis german industrial giant isn't cope as merging its european operations with its indian competitor to are better

a mega merger in the steel industry germany's tousen corp and india's tata agreed to a joint venture how will they size up to the mighty china aids. and conflicted fed prepares its policy update a big test for the us dollar. i'm paying for school and let's do business the scene is set for a jobs battle german industrial giant to some corp is teaming up with indian group tata emerging this steel operations in europe it's the result of a massive global steel glut the news has sent governments scrambling to save jobs. protests have already begun at this to some coke plant where workers have set up a vigil for the jobs they're afraid to lose two thousand in management and another two thousand in production split evenly between the two companies some fear these cuts are only the beginning. here not in the form i don't expect much good to come out of this it seems that after initial cuts there's also a restructuring planned but probably not the problem is that we have to shoulder the burden of the merger we definitely stand against this if we can't stop a merger at least we'll try to get a

india's craziness least thirty minutes d.w. . three one mine is made by him better known as million. was the value towards each challenge we have all sorts of events good stories. so sad faced tournaments that i could go on for hours but the few chinese about to use a bank check it out yourself. thanks todd the stadium was so loud it was a really special event i remembered all my life everybody have a dream. and you don't need to sell your dreams when you see to it's one of the things are going well but we can still know when it's. right in all of them i always believe returned fire going to the international brand new. blood family thank international bank. a shared passion for for an exclusive journey into the sun via. the sun mia phenomenon starting october fifteenth sponte w and on mine. authorities in spain's catalonia region have vowed to defy the spanish government and push ahead with sunday's referendum on independence from spain madrid says the vote is illegal and must not take place opinion polls show cattle lands are s

broad gauge here in your life you know on india down bangladesh. it's ideal for transporting t. . the token is ready. the next station is pati cola. at one thousand eight hundred ninety one meets has its ruling because highest station time has a different dimension. they look at the employees have to expect a number of difficult times up here. roads can wash away it can rain but it was a good hour at the border sometimes we have jus frost in the morning and so animals get in the way of the train such as the sri lankan time go wild boar or did some us at the not they can cause problems. that. we haven't seen any animals and it's no surprise in this weather but at last we reached the highlight of our trip quite literally. there is thousand nader may be wanting me tonight here at that airless i mean here in particular which is supposed to be a guinness world records if you do you want to join my girls book. of records. facts and figures of really with you did you are now the highest point reached on a broad gauge raillery. it's also quite inhospitable. with two hundred and twenty fou

the british recruited highland tunnels from southern india as cheap labor. to this day tea is harvested on the unimaginably large area of two thousand two hundred and ten square kilometers a safe job for many. of the work on the plantation picking tea leaves. we thank our president for that and it's good work. and. the income from the tea plantation made the fullness alone the favorite colony of the british in those days the tea pickers only got rice as wages today they get a bit more than three euros a day working from sunrise to sunset but that's not something they like to talk about. this is where the famous comes from we're in one of the countless tea factories and wear proudly told what makes it special. young tend to live maybe the better portion of the leaf and the gold stocks and that make you at least can be the substandard materials where you have this chemical compound bad the young. they have the better quality and the flavor by the way of chemical the caffeine any less in the north and some aromatics and that's very rich when they leave. one hun

but anyway they finally did get it released and came a commercial hit in india we have a little clip maybe you can judge for yourself this is beneath a lipstick under my burka. thank you. joe. johns to. me and i mean i was seventy six my. bike you britney number three. wasn't the j. stars it was mc. why do you. think. this is but. anyway leave. me now. so we even looks like a quite like it's quite funny why was it how did they get it basically after the censorship ruling came down there is a huge social media in india and women sort of took to twitter took to facebook and protesting against mocking essentially the censors and they eventually gave in and as i said then hit the cinemas in india and became a huge hit in the world did not and the world did not end exactly more of the websites more of the websites. today we'll have more for you at the top of the hour of herself. with the. with the. life of. researchers have taken the bugle might go a comes when you go to people google and news. get money certainly doesn't make you happy. if you have to ski. she's long been a symbol of hop

hours and he also adds punish culprits not the victims now obviously amrita this struck a nerve in india where sexual violence against women of course is still a nationwide problem. a verse that has not just social media desk thank you very much for that story. now to business news in germany's next government may not be finalized yet but it will be taking over an economy in rude as then if economic growth is surging tax revenues are rising and unemployment sinking any government can rub its hands with glee the new german government once formed will be in a very nice position financially leading research institutions have amended their latest growth predictions instead of one hundred percent they now forecast one point nine percent growth for germany this year and the experts are even more optimistic about next year they've raised their previous forecast to two percent that's germany's strongest rate since twenty eleven researchers say increased consumer spending and a construction boom are the reasons for the boost. let's head over to frankfurt where conrad bruisin is standing by our fi

now from india where officials say at least twenty one people have died in the stampede the incident happened in the country's financial hub mumbai on a foot bridge leading to the elphinstone railway station during morning rush hour dozens of people who were injured have been taken to nearby hospitals it's reported the bridge was overcrowded with people taking shelter from heavy rainfall all videos are circulating right down social media showing some smartphone footage of the incident the train stations connects two of the city's major local lines police say the stampede was triggered by overcrowding in those heavy rains believe people were seen trying to rescue fellow commuters who were trapped in the stampede this is left many indians angry and they're calling out the train operator for negligence one lawyer writes at the realm unsworn enough now this unfortunate unacceptable hope accountability will be fixed instead of shifting blame a lawyer user says the mumbai stampede is an extremely sad turn of events authorities must improve basic commute needs of india's financial capital i

a majority of the gold goes to lebanon the united arab emirates and india. the gold sold by the military in twenty thirteen was worth an estimated four hundred nine million u.s. dollars according to the u.n. this is hurt the country's economy to the tune of some eight point two million u.s. dollars annually. meanwhile millions of congolese are fleeing violence that is seen fauzi killed in recent months. been roundly research as mining in the democratic republic of congo and he joins us now ben thank you for joining us what exactly does the u.n. report accused the military of doing well the u.n. group. could use the report was set up back in two thousand and four by the security council at the end of the congo was part of its mandate was to monitor the illegal exploitation of. natural resources which were thought at the time too contributed to the longevity of the wards now as your report just mentioned army officers are excluded from participating in natural resource exploitation by the congolese mining code and this latest report has cited a high rank you s

back till now and tragedy in india that in fact at least twenty two people have died in a stampede and here the accident happened during morning rush hour in mumbai a foot bridge connecting to roll way stations the bridge was reportedly overcrowded with people taking shelter from heavy rain dozens of people injured in the crush have been taken to nearby hospitals. desperately trying to help people i took the cross. this narrow bridge offered no way to escape when falling debris triggered a stampede. some people leapt over the railing while others were trampled to death . or there were too many people on the bridge people were rushing to get tight and there was nobody to help they were suffocating and they just wanted to get out of fast so they fell on each other. this was the scene on the bridge minutes. it's links to busy railway stations and at rush hour it was full of people moving in both directions local media reporting that commuters have been complaining about overcrowding for days. some say this was an accident waiting to happen people are mourning and demanding answers from th

bothered what's going on here in germany as it not only india but everybody's bothered about what's happening in germany in particular because we have very good economic relations with germany is one of our top treating but most of the prime ministers have recently met so i think having merkel you know back in the chancellor seat will be seen as a continued. policy for india and germany and for other countries in europe if i should take a little bit more out of you to your being politics then i think the big trend was how much is the shift to right going to be stopped and germany was very crucial to that you know done to the right i mean we've got less than a minute left on this so i just want to try and ask this question to you we've seen across europe and indeed the united states is this rise of populism as has the same thing been seen across asia we have seen a shift to the right in varying degrees i think around the world and an issue also and i would think part of it is the response to globalisation and the unpredictability it has brought that it is allowed many topics and them

a majority of the gold goes to lebanon the united arab emirates and india. the gold sold by the military in twenty thirteen was worth an estimated four hundred nine million u.s. dollars according to the u.n. this is hurt the country's economy to the tune of some eight point two million u.s. dollars annually. meanwhile millions of congolese are fleeing violence that is seen thousands killed in recent months. now imagine paying tens of millions for a rock and one that's not all that uncommon all the largest roll of diamond ever found known as outlined has been sold for fifty three million u.s. dollars a canadian mining company the car a diamond sold the one thousand one hundred nine counts going to british jewel the lawrence scruff the tennis ball size gem was discovered in botswana in twenty fifteen it is the largest diamond found in over a century the biggest diamond ever it was three thousand carrots and it was fractured into nine pieces to make jewels for the british royal family it was called the cullinan and was discovered in south africa in one thousand

the association is endeavoring to improve the development of up and coming players for the future in india the search is on for a future female superstar local tennis input structure has improved a lot in recent years three time grand slam champion sania mirza remembers a very different time i used to play on court. you know and there was no course to play on today we've got an academy like this so you can see we don't want amnesty bill back to where it was twenty years ago we wanted to keep moving forward and they're not the only ones development work is taking place in jakarta former player he is hoping to see more local girls playing the professional game. this woman you know if. we make them to believe that. there's plenty of work to be done there are only two asian women ranked in the world top forty both of whom are from china but with the w t a foreign news coming to singapore you know southern asia is in the spotlight former players like you. are doing their bit to help hopefully local youngsters follow in their footsteps and we have some breaking news here for you at d.w. iraqi ku

german steel giant to assen cope and india's tata steel have struck a preliminary deal to merge their european operations creating a fifty fifty joint venture if the merger goes ahead up to four thousand jobs could be lost as of a combined workforce of forty eight thousand to a single plant in germany on friday thousands of steel workers took to the streets in protest some fear these cuts are only the beginning. we're all very upset and worried about our jobs as you'd expect one plant after another is closing down they say our jobs are secure until twenty twenty but after that we'll be out on the streets. to find young people need a future that's what's important without jobs the city will die. the problem is that the workers have to shoulder the burden of the merger we're definitely opposed to us and if we can't stop the merger at least we'll try to get as many concessions to workers as possible. just unclip c.e.o. is defending the move in your line of might if you can manage it if we continue on our own the risk to jobs would have been far greater and the restructuring would be even

the british recruited highland tunnels from southern india as cheap labor. to this day tea is harvested on the unimaginably large area of two thousand two hundred and ten square kilometers a safe job for many. americans of any work on the plantations picking tea leaves. we thank our president for that and it's good work. and. the income from the tea plantation made the fullness alone the favorite colony of the british in those days the t. pick has only got rice as wages today they get a bit more than three euros a day working from sunrise to sunset but that's not something they like to talk about. this is where the famous comes from. we're in one of the countless tea factories and what proudly told what makes it special. young tender tough to leave maybe the better portion of the leaf and the cold stalks and make you at least can be the substandard body view where you have this chemical compound bad the young ladies can say they had the better quality and the flavor by then the alchemic a couple of the caffeine any less in polythene or and some aromatics an

officials in india say that at least twenty two people have died in the stampede the incident happened during the morning rush hour and one by on a foot bridge connecting to well weigh stations it's reported that the bridge was overcrowded with people taking shelter from heavy rains dozens of people who were injured in the crash have been taken to nearby hospitals. well earlier we spoke with correspondents on your falling car in delhi we asked her to tell us how this incident came about. well sara that stampede took place at about ten thirty a.m. local time this morning on a foot bridge connecting two extremely busy commuter. train stations in mumbai now those two straight stations are used by the bulk of mumbai's local train commuters because a high number of offices are concentrated in that area now really officials here are blaming overcrowding and heavy rains for the incident a spokesman said that the cupboard for bridge was unusually busy because huge number of people who were taken shelter from the waves were leaving the station at around the same time as thousands of passengers

this is newsnight from bombay india gearing up for a change saudi arabia to lift its ban on women drivers is this a sign of wider reform in this notoriously conservative kingdom also on the program . the european commission office new proposals to fix the a use migration crisis but the block is as divided as ever. germany's finance minister both gun show could be out of his job as chancellor merkel seeks ways to sweeten the deal with potential coalition partners. i feel gail welcome to the program we'll get to those stories in just a moment we'll start though with some breaking news iraqi kurds have voted yes to an independent state and by an overwhelming majority according to the you action commission more than ninety two percent of voters cast their ballots in favor of independence the referendum took place in iraq's autonomous kurdistan region and disputed areas of northern iraq despite this the government in baghdad has refused to recognize the bout it. now saudi arabia says it is going to allow women to drive this is a big leap forward for the ultra conservative nation the only one o