Pictures coming from rebeccas home town of bukwo. Close to the kenyan border in uganda. Last night, on friday, family members, friends and activists against gender based Violence Viewed Rebeccas coffin at the Funeral Home in the kenyan town before her body was brought back to her hometown. We heard her mother was wearing a Souvenir Bag at the time, that the athlete had received at the Paris Olympics where she competed in the marathon. Patience akumu is a ugandan lawyer she told me what lessons needed to be learned from Rebecca Cheptegeis violent death. We need to reflect about the ways in which women, no matter their social status, ways in which women, no matter theirsocialstatus, no ways in which women, no matter their social status, no matter what they have achieved in life, are still expected to bow to the expectations of society, evenif to the expectations of society, even if it kills them. Domestic violence is still a reality for many women in africa, in euston africa. The statist
Know if you come in contact with someone who is infected it doesnt infringe on privacy. And on peter stand with your sports with prosecutors dropped one of 2 cases against a form of fee for prison sick thats what. It is one month since the World Health Organization declare the Coronavirus Crisis a pandemic more than 1700000. 00 people around the world have been infected and the death toll is now above 103000. 00 but there is cautious optimism in spain where the number of daily that says fallen for a 3rd day in a row still 510 people died in the last 24 hours but that is the smallest jump in 1000 days with 16000 deaths its one of the worst hit countries in europe. Along with italy where more than 18000 people have died a nationwide lockdown has been extended until early may and people had been urged to stay home over the Easter Holiday turkey is now imposed a 2 day curfew in 31 provinces that does include istanbul and ankara the death toll has surged above 1000 and the u. S. They have r
Englands squad has been announced for the european qualifiers against bulgaria and kosovo. The most interesting inclusion, tyrone mings. We will tell you who is in at 2 30pm. Thanks ben. And louise lear has all the weather. Autumn is just around the corner and perfect weather for some of us in the harvest but the clouds are threatening in the winds are strengthening. I will tell you when and where this is happening shortly. And maybe the hay joke will work. Also coming up. How the discovery of this four million year old skull of an ape in ethiopia is challenging ideas about how the first humans evolved. This is afternoon live. The government insists mps will have time to debate the uks departure from the European Union as the backlash grows against plans to suspend parliament for five weeks. While cabinet ministers insist the move simply follows precedent, one senior tory the government whip in the lords, lord young resigned, saying prorogation risks undermining the fundamental role of
To block the suspension of the uk parliament. The other main stories on bbc news at five. Ellie gould the 17 year old stabbed to death in may another teenager Thomas Griffiths pleads guilty to her murder. A warning to eat less red meat, cut down on transport if the uk is to meet emissions targets. And, the discovery of a four million year old apes skull in ethiopia that could change our understanding of how humans evolved. Its five oclock, good evening. Our top story is that mps opposed to a no deal brexit, are considering their response to the governments decision, to suspend parliament for five weeks. The formerjustice secretary, david gauke, said next week could be the only opportunity to make their case in the commons, today saw the first resignation from the government, over its plans. Lord young, a whip in the house of lords, says proroguing parliament, risked fundamentally undermining the institution. Ruth davidson has quit too, as tory leader in scotland. But while she says she
there will be a review, obviously. i really can t comment on that. my remit was seven weeks and eight games to keep us in the premier league and unfortunately, ifailed. a terrible season for leicester city, just three wins in theirfinal17 games, just the one clean sheet since november. this was the reaction from some fans outside the king power stadium. we tried our hardest. no, i think we deserved it, because we ve not played well. them players are not playing for the club, for the shirt. disappointing, - but what can you do? poor all season. the whole season has been not right from the word go. the belief wasn t there. you can tell the club has been quite toxic, the players on the pitch, the heart hasn t been there. our motto, foxes never quit, and we quit a long time ago, i m afraid. losing, losing, losing . it s what you get, isn t it? rodgers should have gone seven months ago when we lost to brighton, tottenham. .. we shouldn t have come to this. we ll come straight ba