Oliver Conway

Shaharzad Akbar, who previously served as chair of the Independent Human Rights Commission in Afghanistan, is one of the organisers.

Are you frustrated that the outside world doesn't make more of these awful things that are happening, doesn't publicise it more, doesn't put more pressure on the Taliban?

What would you like to see Western women's groups and women's campaigners do to try to put pressure on their governments not to go down the road you've just described?

Shahzad Akbar talking to Justin Webb.

The boycott of what is usually one of the world's biggest TV events of the year, the Eurovision Song Contest, is growing.

Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland and Slovenia have already dropped out because of Israel's involvement.

Now Iceland is following suit.

Nick Johnson has the details.

Nick Johnson.

Finally, to a letter from 1587.

Tonight, after dinner, I have been advised of my sentence.

The words of Mary, Queen of Scots, written hours before she was beheaded.

After being in prison for 19 years, she was executed on orders from her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. Now the whole of her final letter is to go on display at Perth Museum in Scotland.

Philippa Gregory is a historian and expert on the Tudors.

It talks of her personal feelings which the Tudor women and Tudor people don't generally tend to put in writing but

Her emotion just burns through this.

And we know from there's a very, very good biography of her by the historian John Guy, who speaks of her as a serious leader and a serious queen himself.

So it's an extraordinary, an extraordinary death for a woman at the time and for a monarch at the time.

Historian Philippa Gregory.

And that's all from us for now, but the Global News Podcast will be back very soon.