Violence from White Supremacists, neo nazis or the kkk. Arrests of passengers suspected of being drunk at uk airports or on flights see a 50 rise in the past year. A worrying rise in rural Crime Insurers say brazen thieves are forcing farmers to turn their farmyards into fortresses. And big bens bongs will fall silent next week for nearly four years for urgent repair work. And coming up in the sport on bbc news. The british team claim a successful World Athletics Championships after reaching their medal target with five in the final 2a hours in london. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. This week india and pakistan mark 70 years of independence from britain a moment of freedom that came amid one of the largest Mass Migrations the world has ever seen. The muslim Majority State of pakistan was created to both the west and the east of india, with muslims travelling in one direction, hindus and sikhs in the other. Around 12 Million People are thought to have fled the violen
In the past year. A charity says around 140,000 Vulnerable Children didnt receive help last year because their situation was not judged to be serious enough. Also, the sound of the underground. 50 years ago today, britains Pirate Radio Stations were outlawed. It led to the closure of stations which had gathered listeners by playing pp which had gathered listeners by playing pop music, rarely heard on the bbc at the time. Good morning. Its monday 14th august. Im rachel schofield. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. 70 years ago tonight, 200 years of British Colonial rule in india came to an end and the country was partitioned into two independent Nation States hindu majority india and muslim majority pakistan. The result was the one of the largest Mass Migrations ever recorded. Pakistan celebrates its Independence Day today, with india marking the occasion tomorrow. In 1947, after months of political deadlock, britain agreed to divide the country in two. A separate and mainly muslim nation, p
No surprise that as the week went on coverage of Donald Trumps presidency continued to exercise newswatch viewers. In particular, the bbcs reporting of the petition urging the government to call off the president s proposed state visit to britain, which those complaining described to us as excessive and hysterical. And of the ban on travellers from seven countries to the United States. Some felt certain aspects of that ban had been largely ignored by bbc news. The list of countries facing the travel ban were originally drawn up by the obama administration, and not invented by trump. Second, many muslim countries themselves impose a travel ban on the citizens of many, many countries, including uk citizens, simply because they have visited israel. There has been little evidence of fair unbiased reporting showing both sides of the story. Its blatantly obvious the Current Issue is not anti muslim but anti terrorist, or anti isis. But the reporters keep trying to push this question into the
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It is nearly a year, 360 days to be exact, since Radio 360 changed radio audience measurement in Australia to a holistic picture of listeners for agencies, networks and advertisers. To mark the milestone Commercial Radio & Audio (CRA) is releasing some new insights from the innovative system.