Outlook - 26/08/2010

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Baroness Warsi in flood-hit Pakistan; a Chinese sex worker's campaign; Sri Lankan widow

Baroness Warsi in Pakistan The UK cabinet minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, whose parents were originally from Pakistan, has just returned from the flood ravaged country the country. She's been talking to Audrey about her fears for relatives still living in the southern province of Sindh - one of the areas now affected as the rain waters gush downstream.

Ye Haiyan Chinese sex worker Ye Haiyan tells Audrey why she is fighting for fair treatment for her profession - despite the personal danger she's putting herself in.

Return to Sri Lanka Appapilai Amirthalingam was the last Sri Lankan politician with a mass following from the Tamil community to campaign for a solution through peaceful means. But in 1989 he was assassinated by his own people. His wife Mangayarkarasi found his body. This year she returned to their house for the first time with Saroj Pathirana of the BBC's Sinhala Service.