A bbc investigation has uncovered allegations of brutal beatings and torture by soldiers in indian administered kashmir. Its 25 days since the Indian Government withdrew the regions special semi autonomous status, clamping down fiercely on dissent and arresting thousands of people. Kashmir is claimed by both pakistan and india. The two Nuclear Armed neighbours control different sections of kashmir, and have fought two wars over it. Despite a near communications blackout, Sameer Hashmi has been inside kashmir, and sent this report. You may find some of it distressing. Behind these razor wires lies an uneasy calm. Restrictions everywhere we go. But for many kashmiris, the crackdown has come at a cost. We have come to investigate disturbing allegations. Soldiers came here, we are told, looking for violent protesters. 13 men were allegedly pulled from their beds, tortured and beaten. These brothers, like all the people we spoke to, were too scared to reveal their identities. We saw their injuries. Still in shock, this man shows pictures of his bruises. He believes he was targeted because he is a muslim. We put these claims to the army, who responded with a written statement kashmir has been mired in conflict for decades. Its one of the most militarised zones in the world. There is huge sympathy here for the militant groups, who are seen by many as fighting forfreedom from indian rule. Animosity between Indian Security forces and locals runs deep. Often, it is civilians who get caught in the battle. It is notjust one village where allegations of torture have emerged. We have been told that several people across this region have faced similar experiences. We have come to a militant stronghold. Locals led us to this house, where they say soldiers tortured a young man. His brother is a militant. Across the rest of india there will be little sympathy for the families of militants. They see them as pakistani sponsored terrorists. Many have celebrated Prime Minister modis bold move to revoke kashmirs special status. Authorities say they are gradually lifting some of the restrictions, but internet and mobile phones remain shut down. Thousands are in detention. Kashmir has been virtually cut off from the rest of the world and anger here is growing. Samir hashmi, bbc news, indian administered kashmir. Britains main opposition parties are demanding that the Prime Minister does not go ahead with his plan to suspend parliament for 5 weeks, in the run up to leaving the european union. Legal challenges are underway, and theres a rare joint statement from parties who, most of the time, are rivals. They say borisjohnson is only suspending parliament to make it harder to block a so called no deal brexit. He says he just wants more time to prepare his governments programme. Heres bbc Political Editor laura kuenssberg. Do you care about the people . Boo tempers hot, nerves frayed. Over and over. A member of the government and tory mp in cheltenham defending himself to protesters, but not entirely the governments approach. I have made my position clear, i have spoken to the chief whip about itand. Sssh. Silence time is short, but within days a swathes of mps will try to remove the possibility that Boris Johnson could take us out of the eu without a deal. With even Senior Tories on onside, they will try to change the law. It may well be that next week is the only opportunity. Im afraid it does look as if our options have now narrowed and if parliament is going to assert some control and say, well, ok if we leave with no deal, but that has to have the consent of parliament, then that would suggest that we need to move sooner rather than later. Is this the moment when polite resistance could become more aggressive action . Well, i hope it will continue to be polite, but i also think its going to be robust. Those who fear the possible turmoil over leaving without a deal seem more determined now. The Prime Minister has caused outrage. Protesters notjust in westminster and the west country today, but in norwich tonight. Borisjohnson has cut the number of days the commons will have to scrutinise exactly what is going on. Frustration at that in leeds and other cities too. The official line, its totally routine for parliament to have a breather, to be prorogued for that amount of time. There is going to be lots of time to debate before the 31st of october. Parliament will be sitting then and will be able to have whatever motions it wants. I think the outrage is phony. But one peer in the government quit in protest and may be the defence secretary gave the game away. Ben wallace certainly learned at least that even at a summit in finland there are microphones almost everywhere. Clearly more than it is . Those remarks got a less friendly welcome from number 10 who said later he misspoke. But to clip borisjohnsons wings, to outlaw no deal, tories, lib dems, the snp all need to Work Together withjeremy corbyn to get the numbers for a majority next week. What were going to do is politically try to stop him on tuesday with a parliamentary process in order to legislate to prevent a no deal brexit and also to try and prevent him shutting down parliament during this utterly crucial period. The implications for this country are very, very serious. So just weeks into office, the new Prime Minister is up against protests around the country and many mps in parliament determined to try to defeat him next week. When they come to vote the numbers might be achingly tight. But when it comes to brexit, as ever, the difference of opinion is vast indeed. Laura kuennsberg, bbc news, westminster. Colombias president has condemned the announcement by a group of former farc rebel commanders of a new offensive. Theyve called on their supporters to take up arms again. President ivan duque has said the new group will be hunted down. Its less than three years since the rebels signed a Peace Agreement. Ramzan karmali reports nearly three years after a peace deal was struck, commanders of the demobilised rebel group farc say they are returning to war. The 2016 agreement sought to end south americas longest guerilla conflict. Former farc commander ivan marquez called for a return to arms because he claimed that the colombian state had betrayed the Peace Agreement. The 2016 deal sought to formally end 52 years of war that killed over 260,000 people and forced 7 million from their homes in a bitter conflict between left wing rebels, Government Forces and state aligned pa ramilitaries. The fa rc rebel lambasted president ivan duque and his government for not keeping its end of the deal, negotiated over four years of talks in cuba. But colombias president hit back, vowing to hunt down the rebel commanders and offering a reward of 852,000 for each one captured. He also accused the rebels of instigating a criminal enterprise with support from neighbouring venezuela and its president. Translation colombians must be clear that we are not facing a new guerilla but facing criminal threats of the gang of narco terrorists who have the shelter and support of the dictatorship of nicolas maduro. And former farc commander, rodrigo londono, distanced himself from the former rebels and insisted his party would honour the peace deal. Translation with all sincerity, we are ashamed. I apologise to the people of colombia, to the international community, to countries like cuba and norway who have worked so hard to support this process. We are the vast majority. We are the best in this process. Despite the support for the 2016 deal, the sight of rebels in Army Fatigues most be the first and most significant sign that the hard earned Peace Agreement reached nearly three years ago in colombia could be starting to unravel. Just bring you a bit of breaking news and were hearing thatjoshua wong has been arrested again in hong kong. He is one of the leaders of the protest movement in hong kong. He was previously released from jail injune of this year. This weekend marks the 13th week of protests in hong kong. According to the Pro Democracy Party demosisto he was arrested this morning on his way to the south horizons station ataround 7. 30. His lawyers are now on the case. Theres been no official confirmation from the police. The bbcs andrew wood is there and joins us live. Iam also i am also seeing that this is coming from the bbc, another prominent activist has been arrested. Yes. Agnes chow is one of the senior people in the same Democracy Group is joshua people in the same Democracy Group isjoshua wong. People in the same Democracy Group is joshua wong. This people in the same Democracy Group isjoshua wong. This was confirmed to usa isjoshua wong. This was confirmed to us a short while ago. Mr man is acting forjoshua wong and agnes chow. Reports say they have been taken to the main Police Station but we do not have confidence that confirmation of that right now. Mr wong was given three charges according to his Political Group but we dont know if agnes has been detained with. It is important to know that tomorrow there was supposed to be a big ministration again here in the centre of hong kong but the police have actually said that that cannot go ahead. I dont know if that is connected at the moment, we willjust have to see. What is the suspicion, that there is a connection . So many things are so connected here in hong kong at the moment. Joshua wong has been a prominent leader of the pro democracy movement. He is 22 now but he began to protest when he was a teenager. He was very important in the pro democracy protest a few yea rs the pro democracy protest a few years back, the so called umbrella protests. He has already spent one month injail so far this protests. He has already spent one month in jail so far this year, released just before the latest round of demonstrations began in june. And he was put into jail earlier this year because of offences dating back several years relating to the umbrella protests. He is definitely someone who the authorities have an eye on. And in the past day or so they have also detained a member of a forbidden Political Party in favour of independence for hong kong, detained him at the airport. Thank you very much and we will keep an eye on the situation. Hes the first African American to win the president ial nomination of a major party, and he accepts exactly 45 years ago to the day that Martin Luther king declared, i have a dream. As darkness falls, an unfamiliar light will appear in the south eastern sky. An orange glowing disc thats brighter than anything save the moon our neighbouring planet mars. Horn toots there is no doubt that this election is an important milestone in the birth of east timor as the worlds newest nation. It will take months and billions of dollars to repair what katrina achieved injust hours. Three weeks is the longest the great clock has been off duty in 117 years. So it was with great satisfaction that clockmakerjohn vernon swung the pendulum to set the clock going again. Big ben bongs this is bbc news. The latest headlines more than three weeks after a clampdown in indian administered kashmir, a bbc investigation uncovers allegations of brutal beatings and torture by soldiers. The British Parliament prepares for a brexit showdown next week to stop borisjohnson suspending the commons. Former fbi Directorjames Comey will not be prosecuted for licking a memo about leaking a document to the press. I spoke to peter bowes. Well, this does seem to be the end of it. Significantly, as you say, he will not be prosecuted. It is a stinging rebuke of the way he dealt with those memos, seven memos he wrote in the early months of 2017, based on his private meetings with President Trump. But, significantly, he did not reveal classified information. This is a rebuke for the way he dealt with sensitive information, breaking fbi rules and, according to this report, not setting a good example to other employees of the fbi, keeping copies of those memos in his home safe. And revealing the contents in his home safe. And revealing the co nte nts of in his home safe. And revealing the contents of one of those memos to a friend who then gave the information toa friend who then gave the information to a journalist. So it doesnt look good for him but he wont be prosecuted. He is spinning it like this. He says he has been vindicated. He has been pretty vocal in his criticism, is he likely to be more so 01 in his criticism, is he likely to be more so or less in his criticism, is he likely to be more so 01 less so in his criticism, is he likely to be more so 01 less so now . In his criticism, is he likely to be more so or less so now . Well, we havent heard much in recent months, certainly in the months following his sacking by President Trump he was very vocal. He wrote a book about it which got a tremendous amount of publicity as well. But he has gone a little quieter now and the fact that he does receive significant criticism in this report may well cause him to think twice before saying anything else in public based on the information that he had during his relatively short relationship with mr trump. Peter bowes for us there. Lets get some of the days other news. Forecasters are expecting Hurricane Dorian to strengthen into an extremely dangerous storm as it heads for the us mainland. Its expected to hit between florida and southern georgia, possibly late on sunday. The eye of the storm missed the main island of puerto rico, sparing it significant damage, as it headed north west on thursday. In the light of the warnings, President Trump has cancelled a planned trip to poland. President trump is saying the us will have a Permanent Military presence in afghanistan, at least 8 thousand troops even if a peace deal is reached with the taliban. American and taliban negotiators are still trying to finalise an agreement. A genetic analysis of almost half a Million People has concluded there is no single gay gene that determines a persons Sexual Orientation. Research in europe and the us found that while there is a genetic component, it accounts for between eight and 25 of same sex behaviour across the population. Lets speak with jeremy yoder, assistant professor of biology at california state university, northridge. Hes in los angeles. Professor, good to talk to you. I know you are not involved in this study, you have commented on it widely. What do you make of it was yellow thank you, yes. This is actually a very exciting study. The largest dataset that has been applied to this Research Question and it looks to me that the researchers, those who have done the work, have thought carefully about the study design and how best to present and contextualise the results they find. What are the most significant things in it for you . So the big one is that there is pretty strong confirmation that a model we have thought has been the case is true, that many, many genes throughout the g9 contribute to Sexual Orientation and each of those genes has a relatively tiny effect gino ms. This is why previous mallace studies have found basically nothing. It exposed to some degree why variation in Sexual Orientation has been part of Human Society for basically as long as we know. Natural selection might, you would think, act against a gene that makes people not inclined to have heterosexual sex. But the fact of the matter is the individual genes that involved have slight small individual effect that many people are carrying these and they are straight. They dont have enough of the variance to make a difference. So you only have gay and lesbian people when there are enough of these variants coming together in a single individual. There must be a worry in there that he may give ammunition to the kind of people who perhaps attacked gay people on the grounds that they say being gay is not natural, that it is some kind of choice. Those same people may seize on this to suggest gene editing or embryo selection. Could it give ammunition to misguided, prejudiced people . There is that concern. It is a little bit of a rhetorical catch 22. If you dont find the genetic Effect People will say this isa genetic Effect People will say this is a choice, we can change it. If you do find individual genes, which this study does point to some individual genes that are defectively associated, people may talk about things like a cure or a test for Sexual Orientation that could be used to screen ivf embryos, for example. The authors of this study have really done a carefuljob saying that the work they have done, the work they have, would not make a particularly good test for prospective Sexual Orientation like that. Again, the effect of all the genes they are finding are so small that they dont have much predictive value. Forgive me, dont mean to interrupt you. Very interesting to talk to you. Make that last point, please. What remains to be seen is whether all of the caveats they have used in presenting these views will do thejob used in presenting these views will do the job and prevent people from trying to miss you the information like this. Itself like we will be back to this. Thank you very much indeed misuse. The World Health Organisation has announced plans to create a global registry to track research into human genetic manipulation. tx pressure has mounted for greater oversight of the technology after a chinese scientist, he jiankui, disclosed last november that he had altered the dna of twin girls in southern china. The who said that while genome editing technologies held great promise to overcome diseases once thought untreatable, they also posed unique and unprecedented ethical, social and regulatory challenges. A one legged skeleton discovered under a dance floor in russia may hold the key to a centuries old mystery involving napoleons favourite general. Charles etienne gudin died during the french invasion of russia in 1812. What are believed to be his remains were found in the city of smolensk. Samples have been sent to france for dna testing. The bbcs tim allman has the story. A solemn unveiling in moscow. The skeleton, or at least whats left of it, of a hero of the napoleonic age. Translation until today, for france, there have never been historical events like this. A general who was found, a friend of napoleon. You can see the importance of this discovery, including from franco russian relations. Charles etienne gudin de La Sablonniere was a veteran of the french revolution and the napoleonic wars. At a battle near the city of smolensk he was hit by a russian cannonball and lost his leg. A few days later he died of gangrene. His heart was returned to paris, but the rest of him remained in russia. Until earlier this year, when what are believed to be his remains were discovered in a wooden coffin buried close to where he died. It was thought his grave may have been destroyed during the second world war. Of course, the overriding question is this general gudin or not . Translation there will be a genetic analysis to confirm 150 it is him. Even if im already deeply convinced that it is him. We hope he can be welcomed with the honours he deserves. Fragments of his coffin handed over to his descendant. Soon the general himself may return home to france. Tim allman, bbc news. We will let you know how that one turns out. And finally, Kirsten Dunst has burst into tears at the unveiling of her star on hollywoods walk of fame. She has recently said she feels she hasnt got the credit her career deserves. Despite appearing in more than 50 films shes never won a major acting award. There have been two golden globe nominations and one emmy nomination. The walk of fame ceremony was also attended by her partner Jesse Plemons and film maker sofia coppola. A reminder of our top story. Security forces in indian administered kashmir been accused of carrying out beatings and torture in the wake of the governments decision to strip the region of its autonomy. The bbc heard from several villagers who said they were beaten with sticks and cables, and given electric shocks. There is much more on all the news for you anytime on the bbc website. Thank you for watching. Hi there. We saw temperatures reach 25 degrees in the south east of england on thursday. There was plenty of sunshine across the south and east of the country, closer to this area of High Pressure. But into friday, again, low pressure dominates the north and the west, where it will remain pretty windy and there will be further outbreaks of rain and, as a result, it will feel a bit cooler than it will across the south and the east. So outbreaks of rain on and off for scotland, northern ireland, into north west england, perhaps the far north west of wales, where it will be pretty windy gusts of 30 40mph. But again, across the south east, close to that area of High Pressure, another fine afternoon with sunny spells, probably around 25 degrees or so. Mid to high teens further north. Now, it stays very wet through friday night across scotland, northern ireland. This weather front is not going anywhere fast. Further south and east, overnight, it should actually be generally dry with clear spells, variable cloud, fairly breezy too, so that will stop temperatures from falling much below 11 14 degrees. So as we had on into saturday, it starts off very wet across northern and western areas, but this whether front will pivot round, moves across the rest of england and wales through saturday into saturday night, but it will be a dying feature as it reaches eastern areas. So a lot of rain falling across parts of northern ireland, south west scotland. By the time saturdays out, we could see some minor flooding in places. But as that weather front clears through, skies will brighten up behind it, with sunshine and showers, but it will be notably cooler here but, again, the last of the warm days across the south east until that weather front arrives. But that whether front will move through during saturday night, and it will open the floodgates to a much cooler north westerly, this is polar maritime air remember sunday is the first day of the meteorological autumn and it will certainly feel pretty autumnal out there. It will start off chilly. There will be plenty of sunshine around and then lots of showers will spread down from the north west. Some of these could be heavy and thundery and it will feel quite chilly when the showers turn up, with temperatures into the low to mid teens celsius for many. The high tweens, perhaps 20 or 21, across the south east. As we head on into monday, it looks like High Pressure still wants to build in from the south west. It will still have further fronts affecting scotland and northern ireland. Perhaps more cloud here with outbreaks of rain. More of a breeze, too. Those winds generally lighter further south and east, thanks to that area of High Pressure. But the air still on the cool side but perhaps a little below average. Again, the low to mid team celsius in the north. High teens further south. And as we head into next week, it looks like High Pressure wants to build in and with those temperatures returning closer to the seasonal norm. This is bbc news. The headlines a bbc investigation has uncovered allegations of brutal beatings and torture by soldiers in indian administered kashmir. Its 25 days since the Indian Government withdrew the regions special semi autonomous status, clamping down fiercely on dissent and arresting thousands of people in the region. Kashmir is claimed by pakistan and india. Britains main opposition parties are demanding that the Prime Minister does not go ahead with his plan to suspend parliament for five weeks in the run up to leaving the european union. Legal challenges are under way, and theres a rare joint statement from parties who are usually rivals. The colombian president has said his administration will hunt down a group of renegade farc rebel commanders who have renounced a peace accord and taken up arms again. Ivan duque claimed they are drug traffickers who want to terrorise colombians with the support of venezuelas president nicolas maduro. Now on bbc news the travel show