people still allowed on the platform? i would like him to read some of the messages that i have been sent. prince harry and meghan s team say they have been invited to the king s coronation but won t confirm whether the royal couple will attend. this year s oscars feature a record number of nominees of asian heritage, we ve been speaking to one hopeful about their special recognition. i was just hoping that the movie gets finished and that people watch it and so the fact that we have come all the way this far has been so exciting. we begin today s programme in bangladesh, where a huge fire has destroyed about 2,000 shelters at a rohingya refugee camp in the south east of the country. officials say the blaze has been brought under control but around 12,000 people have been left homeless at the camp in cox s bazar and have nowhere to go. 0ur correspondent anbarasan ethirajan reports. the bamboo shelters of rohingya refugees in cox s bazar district are no match for the ragin
around 12,000 people have been left homeless after a huge fire ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in south east bangladesh. officials say the fire gutted around 2000 shelters in cox s bazar district. hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees, who escaped violence in neighbouring myanmar, have been living for years in crammed camps near the border in bangladesh. anbarasan ethirajan reports. the bamboo shelters of rohingya refugees in cox s bazar district are no match for the raging blaze. residents ran from the huts with their meagre belongings as the fire spread quickly. it s yet another blow for the rohingya refugees who had to flee their homes from neighbouring myanmar. thousands have become homeless in a matter of few hours. it will be a challenge for the authorities to rehome those affected. nearly a million rohingya refugees live in squalid conditions and camps scattered in cox s bazar district. the latest incident will put pressure on the ongoing aid effo
declaring his involvement in helping britain s former prime minister, borisjohnson, secure a loan. thousands of people in new zealand are left without power as parts of the country endure the start of a severe storm with warnings of more destruction to come. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for political thinking with nick robinson hello and welcome to political thinking. the row about how and why a rapist called adam ended up in a women s prison has shone a spotlight on a debate which in truth, has been raging notjust for months, but for years. at the centre of that debate is the charity and campaigning organisation stonewall. my guest on political thinking this week is the new chair of stonewall. he s iain anderson and he s got a cv that might surprise you. he s a lifelong conservative. he went to school with michael gove in aberdeen and he ended up running a leadership campaign for ken clarke. he s also a westminster insider who s operated behind the scenes at very
providing refuge for asylum seekers on merseyside in northwest england. now it s time for political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. the row about how and why a rapist called adam ended up in a women s prison has shone a spotlight on a debate which in truth, has been raging notjust for months, but for years. at the centre of that debate is the charity and campaigning organisation stonewall. my guest on political thinking this week is the new chair of stonewall. he s ian anderson and he s got a cv that might surprise you. he s a lifelong conservative. he went to school with michael gove in aberdeen and he ended up running a leadership campaign for ken clarke. he s also a westminster insider who s operated behind the scenes at very high level with ministers of all political parties. he set up and he now runs one of the largest lobbying firms in britain, cicero. he now fears that we are entering an american style culture war and we might in b
More of those pictures to come from around the planet, of course. Those are the headlines. Now on bbc news, addiction a Mental Health crisis . A warning, this Programme Deals with upsetting themes. Hello. Hi. Tony. Jeremy. It is april 2021 and i am in north west england meeting tony. Covid rules apply. We still have our masks on. With a bit of luck were getting the end of it. Thankfully we hit it off and that is good news because for the next year or so i will see a lot of him. When we finish with this what would you like people to understand about you and people like you that we do not understand at the moment . We feel love and hate like everybody else, we are people just like everybody else. We are human beings. Most drug addicts have a reason that they are addicted. For tony, birkenhead is home. Just across the river from liverpool. There are Drug Problems here, yes, but also an understanding of this inextricable link between addiction and Mental Health problems. This is a communit