humanitarian aid fails to reach them. and why you don t need to be fit to climb mount everest. hello and welcome back to bbc news. let s return to the story dominating today. rishi sunak has asked officials to. inquiry found mr raab acted in an insulting way to civil servants and abused for our walls foreign secretary. he criticised the inquiry, saying it set the threshold for bullying too low. in his first interview since resigning, he spoke to chris mason. is this a is this a stitch up? i wouldn t describe that is this a stitch up? i wouldn t describe that way. is this a stitch up? i wouldn t describe that way. i - is this a stitch up? i wouldn t describe that way. i said - is this a stitch up? i wouldn t describe that way. i said i - is this a stitch up? i wouldn t - describe that way. i said i would. if i m true to my word, i do think it s it s a very dangerous president. it dismissed almost all of the claims against me. it found i have never once lost my temper, shou
keeping temperatures up. ahead of that we could have a frost again in scotland. clear skies in southern england and south wales and it will be chilly here. we have got the rain grinding to a halt in southern and central scotland and northern ireland and there will be some showers and a little bit of sunshine, but we could see wetter weather arriving in the far south of england and south wales. temperatures are deepening out a bit, but they are below par. ahead of that rain in scotland the temperatures could reach 16 degrees. on the second half of the weekend, broadly speaking, it is a mess. sunshine and showers in the east, we have got a north wind setting in across scotland, so that is why it is getting much colder here. it could still reach 13 or 1a in southern cold air all the way from the arctic on that northerly wind will be swooping down across the whole of the country and temperatures will be lower everywhere. and that is today s bbc news at six. you can keep up with a
welcome back to bbc news. we bring you some breaking news that s come in the last few minutes. the confederation of british industries has in the last few minutes announce its suspending all policy injune. this comes after dozens of firms paused or even cancelled their membership. a number of huge names have ditched the cbi and moved on. this includes bmw, john lewis, avi, mastercard, virgin media, lloyd s of london, schroders. these have either paused or cancelled their membership completely. the business lobbying group has been at the centre of all what only could be described as varying degrees. there really has taken a toll on the organisations. we ve seen its share resigning, stepping down. a new chair is do to take over, but we have had a lot of companies who rely on the cbi to not only lobby for them, but also to give best practice for businesses, to advise businesses on what is best practice. we ve seen one of those companies who are really the bread and butter of the
abhorrent and had previously been unaware of the claims. we can speak now to laurie at the international communications and financial world affairs commentator. she s in west london for us this evening. good to see you. a rather strange statement, suspending key activities can i suppose you have to understand what the cbi does to make sense of that. maybe you could explain it to les. the cbi is really one of the bigger lobbying groups that polices between business and government. cbi has had a bit of a reputational hit, even before all of these allegations. we will get to those in a moment. a lot of people were wondering whether the cbi had become, had lost its effectiveness, given the last governments attitude towards business. rehabilitated itself a little bit, couple of the things that cbi had been looking for, like childcare provisions did make it into the last budget, but that seems a different era now. so many company picnic companies have deserted the cbi the last coup