for much of england and stretches across into mid wales. faultless blue skies and sunshine beating down, keeping the temperature rising day on day. some thicker cloud overnight returning to eastern scotland, the north east of england, some mist and murk along the coasts, some drizzly rain for northern scotland, and then by the end of the night, some showers starting to push into northern ireland and the south west of england. it is through sunday that we are anticipating these showers becoming increasingly lively. thundery for northern ireland and northern and western scotland and with the rain arriving, we start to see things becoming cooler here. some isolated showers possible further west, but very little in the way of significant rainfall i think for england and wales on sunday. it is monday that we start to see wetter conditions coming in here. hello. this is bbc news. i m luxmy gopal and these are the headlines. writers and politicians condemn an attack on acclaimed author
the capacity to drive people over the capacity to drive people over the edge where religion has been insulted. although to be fair, we do not yet know the full motive of the suspect in this case. suspect in this case. thank you for our suspect in this case. thank you for your analysis- let s talk to our north america correspondent nomia iqbal who s outside the hospital where salman rushdie is being treated in erie, pennyslvania. we heard a little bit about the nature of his injuries. what is the latest? what more do we know? we are still waitinu latest? what more do we know? we are still waiting to latest? what more do we know? we are still waiting to get latest? what more do we know? we are still waiting to get an latest? what more do we know? we are still waiting to get an update. latest? what more do we know? we are still waiting to get an update. we - still waiting to get an update. we are expecting to hear from the hospital at some point today, certainly over the weeken
this is bbc news. i m luxmy gopal and these are the latest headlines. writers and politicians condemn an attack on acclaimed author, sir salman rushdie, who s now on a ventilator, after being stabbed on stage in the us state of new york. his agent says the 75 year old can t speak, is likely to lose an eye, has a damaged liver, and the nerves in one arm have been severed in the attack. more extreme heat is expected in the southern half of the uk over the next two days. that, as experts also warn england s drought could last into the next year. travel disruption after thousands of train drivers from 9 rail companies go on strike across the uk today. it s the latest walk out in a row over pay and conditions. documents in the us show fbi agents seized papers marked top secret when they searched the florida home
ironically, one that prides itself on trying to safeguard the freedom of speech. sir salman rushdie initially went into hiding for many years after the death threats against him first emerged, but do we know if in recent years he had been attending events like this, with a security perhaps was similar, not as strong as we would have expected? yes, he came out of hiding just before the end of the previous century. satanic verses was published in 1988, the fatwa was issued by iran s ayatollah khamenei a year later, in 89, he went into hiding forjust over nine years, during that time he had protection from armed police officers in this country and the uk at the behest of the uk government.
and is currently being supported by a ventilator. nomia iqbal, bbc news, pennsylvania. let s speak to our security correspondent, frank gardner. given correspondent, frank gardner. that sir salman ru: famously given that sir salman rushdie has famously had death threats against him, where the security preparations anywhere near good enough because? no, they were not. the venue reportedly turned down recommendations to turn down security, they did not want to see create a barrier allegedly between the audience and the venue. that has turned out to be pretty disastrous because whatever weapon the suspect used was knocked found, there was no kind of bodycheck. people s ids were checked but not the content of their bags. i have to say, who would have thought this tiny little place, 70 miles south of buffalo new york, who would have thought that would be the