this is bbc news 7 these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. at least eight people have died and dozens are hurt after a crowd surge on the opening night of a music festival in houston, texas. the crowd began to compress towards the front of the stage, 0k? and that caused some panic, and it started causing some injuries. former uk prime minister sirjohn major accuses borisjohnson s government of acting in a shameful manner over the owen paterson row. the organisation which enforces human rights laws warns it could take legal action against yorkshire county cricket club as another cricketer comes forward to say he was the subject of racist abuse while
and i think it is dangerous for us if this goes, if you like, unpunished, if the public aren t prepared tojust shrug their shoulders and i think it s important that conservative mps in particular make it very clear to the prime minister and to the government whips that they won t tolerate anything similar in future. so if you were in that position, you just said it shouldn t go unpunished, what would you expect to happen? what would you be asking for? i think if i was still a conservative mp, i would certainly be making it very clear that any attempt to interfere in businesses of this sort would not have my support. i think the prime minister, you know, should be aware that there is significant disquiet, i know, amongst my former colleagues as to what happened this week. there is a lot of debate about the position of the chief whip and the leader of the house of commons, but these are decisions that are made
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines. former uk prime minister sirjohn major accuses borisjohnson s government of acting in a shameful manner over the owen paterson row. i think the way the government handled that was shameful and wrong and unworthy of this or indeed any government. thousands of people take part in a march through glasgow demanding new steps to tackle global warming, one of more than 100 taking place across the uk. at least eight people have died and dozens are hurt after a crowd surge on the opening night of a music festival in houston, texas. the organisation which enforces human rights laws warns it could take legal action against yorkshire county cricket
minister sirjohn major has launched an attack on borisjohnson s goverment, calling its handling of owen paterson s recommended suspension shameful and wrong. on wednesday, the commons voted in favour of changing the system that governs the behaviour of mps, despite a recommendation by the independent standards commissioner to suspend mr paterson for 30 days. ministers backtracked following uproar from their own mps and opposition parties. here s our political correspondent ione wells. if there s one person who knows the damage allegations of sleaze can cause, it is sirjohn major. the former conservative prime minister s own government in the 1990s was brought down in part due to the cash for questions scandal. mps were offered money in exchange for asking parliamentary questions. but sirjohn claimed that, while he set up a committee to look at standards in public life to tackle this, the current government has tried to defend this sort of behaviour