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In this Documentary we see Stacey Dooley go to the frontline with that Yazidi women. We see her risk her life going to shows us viewers how they live and how they have to fight for freedom. In this show we see the Yazidi women prepare to fight Isis along side the Men. In the documentary we see families tell heart breaking stories about when they where captured and tortured by Isis. I think the target audience may be towards people that may want to join the war, people of the western world. Another potential audience may be Stacey Dooley fans who follow her work. As for representation it's covers issues which are war, rape and extremism and also regional and national identity, gender and age. I think the purpose of this documentary is to highlight the issues that the Yazidi women have to face and overcome, I think also they are trying to give us a indirect message that we shouldn't take life for granted and that people should complain about their minor issue because othe

Row breaks out after four-year-old told not to wear hijab to Catholic school Source: Birmingham Mail A Roman catholic school has angered many people due to the fact that they didn't allow a four year old Muslim girl to wear a headscarf to school. It is said that St Clares school in Hemsworth have a very strict uniform policy which includes no headwear or headscarf's. The school told the parents to respect there policy. The girls father went and told the Birmingham's city council's labour cabinet member of equalities, which they then wrote to the head teacher saying how there policy goes against the equalities act . But his colleague Coun Majid Mahmood from Hodge Hill said that as a faith school St Clare’s is “maybe within its rights to insist upon a particular dress code,” just as a Muslim faith school “may require girls to wear headscarves”. A former head of equalities for Birmingham City Council, agreed saying there is no religious requirement for

Reggie Yates The Insider Reggie yates in a Texan jail Documentary In this documentary we see Reggie spend a week in a Bexar county jail in Texas where he eats , sleeps drink , bath and also works alongside with the inmates where he talks to them about why there are there and how they pass time. During his time at the jail he meets several people with different reasons to why there in jail because he wanted to find out what life in prison is like and what it does to you. During the programme we see him meet 19 year old inmate Alex who has been arrested for having a small amount of Marijuana which he was using to try relief himself from his mental illness . We then see him break down and almost attempts to take his life but Reggie gives him a few words of wisdom and he doesn't go through with it and goes to talk to therapist. I found this documentary quite interesting because I got to see life on the inside. And got to hear about people stories and why they where in there in

Boy, 13, found dead after moving from school at centre of 'bullying' row , 13 Year old Arin Lyth 15 year old Harry Gray Source: Mirror Arin Lyth was a 13 year old boy that had recently moved from Northfield school in Billingham, Teesside after being repeatedly bullied. He was the 3rd pupil at from his school to die after falling victim from the bulling the other pupils names were Harry Gray aged 15 and Elton Harland age 13. Harry Gray was found by his mother hanging from outside his bedroom. It was rumoured that someone had threatened to get him stabbed. The body of Arin Lyth was found in an area near Billingham. Elton tweeted a tribute to Harry and then when two days past he took his own life. I chose this story because I think that its horrible that people would bully someone so much causing them to take there own life, I think to myself what did these poor boys do to deserve such torment causing them to just give up on life. I feel so sorry for there parent

Muslim woman spat on while eating in restaurant says female race hate victims must speak out Source: The independent A Muslim women was spat at whilst in a restaurant. Nahella Ashraf age 46 was at a restaurant with a group of friends when a man that was described of being smartly dressed tried to drag her out of her seat then said a lot of racist remarks which followed by him spitting on her face. Ms Ashraf was really shaken up about the event. Nahella told the independent that "We'd been there for about 45 min and we'd all finished eating there was a guy behind me , I assumed he was getting up to leave but he grabbed me and was screaming at me". After this occurred someone from the counter came quickly to the scene and stood in front of her and the man asked him what was wrong with him which he replied  "How can you have her in here" following this statement he leant forward and spat at Ms Ashraf 's face. Also whilst he was being kicked o

Janet Jackson announces birth of first child – a baby boy – at age of 50 Source: The telegraph, Manchester evening news, bbc news Janet Jackson had given birth at age 50 to a healthy baby boy named Eissa Al Mana and  it is said that Janet had a stress free delivery. Janet and her husband Wissam al mana got married back in 2012. She had stated at age 44 she would love to have children but it's all in gods hands. After looking at other sources to see their view on this I came across a news article called Manchester evening news where talking about whether Janet was being selfish bringing in a child into the world at age 50. When I saw this article I was quite shocked because 50 is quite an old age to have a child because that's the age where women start to go into menopause. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing because there are pros and cons here but I think the cons out weigh the pros in this particular case because, yeah you bring in a child into the world

Paralympian forced to wet herself on train without accessible toilet Source: The Guardian 42 year old Anne Wafula Strike An award-winning Paralympic athlete says she was “completely robbed of her dignity” after a train company failed to provide an accessible toilet on a 3hr journey. British Paralympic racer was forced to urinate all over herself after the disabled toilets on the train where out of order. After this ordeal she was left humiliated and covered her face so that no one could notice it was her , she also tried to mask the smell of the urine by spraying perfume. Anne stated that “I was completely robbed of my dignity by the train company,” she also said “I would like to ask the train company when will they give me my dignity back? As a disabled person I have worked so hard over the years to build up my confidence and self-belief." she also mentioned that she could of went to the abled people toilet but she would of had to crawl and it was too far for her to go

I feared for my health': disabled actor tells of nightmare train journey  Source: The Guardian   Samantha Renke told the gaurdian that she's was upset About how people on the train blocked the disabled toilets and her reserved area with luggage. She has stated that she was scared for health after embarking on a two and a half hour train trip which didn't provide easy access to the toilets. The lack of access to disabled toilets could of caused so many health problems for Samantha because she suffers from brittle bone disease which is a disorder which results in fragile bones that break easily. which is present at birth. For those of you that may not know Samantha Renke , she is an actress who recently appeared on the malteasers advert which I wrote about in one of my weekly news about how people were put off eating chocolate because she was advertising it. I chose this story because I think that people should be more caring towards disabled people and trai