the eastern city of chittagong. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. the queen has expressed her hope that her platinum jubilee celebrations will focus on what brings us together, on what unites us, not what divides us. my guest on the programme has had to spend much of her career worrying about exactly the opposite, about extremism and how to counter it. she is dame sara khan. herjob now is the government s independent adviser for social cohesion and resilience. before that, she was the country s first counter extremism commissioner. born and raised in bradford to pakistani parents, she once said, there is something going horribly wrong within muslim communities. we need to have an open and honest debate about that. words which won her praise from some, but criticism from many within her own community, who said that she was fuelling rather than countering some of the prejudices about muslim people, and in partic
on what unites us, not what divides us. my guest on the programme has had to spend much of her career worrying about exactly the opposite, about extremism and how to counter it. she is dame sara khan. herjob now is the government s independent adviser for social cohesion and resilience. before that, she was the country s first counter extremism commissioner. born and raised in bradford to pakistani parents, she once said, there is something going horribly wrong with the muslim communities. we need to have an open and honest debate about that. words which won her praise from some, but criticism from many within her own community, who said that she was fuelling rather than countering some of the prejudices about muslim about muslim people, and in particular the idea that many were somehow hostile to their country and their values. dame sara khan, welcome to political thinking. thank you very much. now, we are all this week or are we all? celebrating the jubilee. is this s
He says none of this happened. He says he didnt do anything wrong here. Today we are expecting for the former publisher of the National Enquirer to be back on the stand, because he is someone who was integrally a part of all of these transactions that are said to have been made in order to sort of catch and kill stories that looked unfavourable to the former president or to the then candidate trump at the time. So he is going to be back on the stand. The defence, the former president s legal team is going to be questioning him as they continue to try and poke holes in some of these arguments that the former president , again, orchestrated this scheme illegally to disclose some of those payments. A Primary School teacher who stabbed her boyfriend and buried his body in the garden of their Terraced House in northampton has pleaded guilty to murder, during her second trial at the old bailey. Fiona beal, whos 50, was arrested last year after police found a notebook containing her plans to
After ending his coalition with the greens. The bbc understands he will not be announcing his resignation despite a conservative Confidence Vote in his leadership of the Scottish Government, likely to be scheduled for holyrood next week. Our Scotland Local Correspondent David Henderson has the story. The Bute House Agreement lasted less than 1,000 days, but it brought green ministers into government for the first time anywhere in the uk and with them came a raft of green policies. So what do voters think now theyre gone . I think its sad because i think the greens are a good influence on the snp, but i guess weve had a Minority Government before, so i guess its going to happen again. Yeah, like, ivote green most of the time. But, yeah, it hasnt been brilliant. For months, this Power Sharing Deal was under pressure, with key plans like the Deposit Return Scheme stalled, then ditched. Chanting trans rights the final straw, a row over the pause on the prescription of Puberty Blockers for