Quite widely to start sunday, september, and meteorological autumn. Some sunshine tomorrow, showers get going in scotland and Northern Ireland, some moving further south and east, heavy and possibly thundery but much of south wales and toughening the bull stayed dry with 21 degrees the best we will see but most well short of that. Next week not particularly warm, a bit of a north south split, most of any rain in the north of the uk and it remains mainly dry to the south. Hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. The headlines. Tens of thousands of protestors have taken to the streets across the uk to condemn borisjohnsons decision to suspend parliament. Critics accuse the Prime Minister of trying to by pass democracy. The chancellor, sajid javid, insists his relationship with borisjohnson is fantastic, despite downing street abruptly firing one of his special advisers, sonia khan. I am not going to discuss any personnel issues, it would be inappropriate. I think my views are well understo
Think everybody should embrace it. Now its time for a look at the weather with darren betts. Hello, there. Its going to be a much cooler, fresher start to the new month. The start of meteorological autumn as well. Weve got some showers continuing overnight, particularly in scotland and a peppering in Northern Ireland. One or two coming into Northern England and wales. Further south, clearer skies. The wind will be easing a bit as well. North westerly wind bringing the cooler air and temperatures will be lower than they were last night. Plenty of sunshine to start the day across england and wales. More showers for a while over Northern Ireland. Mostly pushing the east over scotland into north east england towards the wash and some of them may be heavy and thundery. Feeling cooler and fresher everywhere. Typical temperatures may be 15, 17 degrees. A touch higher in the south of england where it should be a dry day. More sunshine to start the day. A chilly start, Atlantic Wind coming in o
my name is dwight bashir and i m the director of outreach and policy at the commission. and i know many of you are looking forward to this week s the irfa summit, which has officially got underway. we have with us the co chair of the irfa summits congressional advocacy day. so i wanna invite him, just for a minute, to say a few words. amjad khan. [applause] amjad: good afternoon everyone and welcome. this is an amazing event. on behalf of the international religious freedoms summit on the steering committee, ambassador sam brownback and dr. katrina lantos swett. we welcome all of you also to this week of the summit. one of the reasons that we planned to do this event was the amazing synergy between this amazing body uscirf and civil society and, you know, here in congress on capitol hill, why it s so important to do it here today. we have coalitions, multifaith coalitions, over 70 organizations, dozens of faith communities speaking for each other on the hill today. over 50 li
dwight: good afternoon and welcome everyone to the u.s. commissions briefing called the impact on international religious freedom. my name is dwight bashir and i m the director of outreach and policy at the commission. and i know many of you are looking forward to this week s the irfa summit, which has officially got underway. we have with us the co chair of the irfa summits congressional advocacy day. so i wanna invite him, just for a minute, to say a few words. amjad khan. [applause] amjad: good afternoon everyone and welcome. this is an amazing event. on behalf of the international religious freedoms summit on the steering committee, ambassador sam brownback and dr. katrina lantos swett. we welcome all of you also to this week of the summit. one of the reasons that we planned to do this event was the amazing synergy between this amazing body uscirf and civil society and, you know, here in congress on capitol hill, why it s so important to do it here today. we have coalitio
Accusing european governments of knowingly exposing thousands of refugees to torture and abuse in their efforts to curb migration and this report published on tuesday the Rights Group Says the e. U. s policy of containment shows little care for those actually trapped in theyd be more time. These images sparked outrage around the World African migrants at risk of being sold at auction in libya the accusation of modern day slavery triggered International Concern and you pledges to address the issue. But in a report by the Human Rights Group Amnesty International european governments are accused of not only being aware of these abuses but also actively supporting libyan authorities in stopping sea crossings and preventing refugees and migrants from leaving what we have in libya. For its a lawless country to start with and they figure that migrants are treated like a commodity we heard about. Slave auction just a week or two ago and here we are so essentially any migrant a refugee is prett