in north london. a service of remembrance has been held. tolu adeoye was there. prayer recital. remembering the life lost and saying prayers for those whose lives were changed forever, when a man deliberately drove a van into a crowd near the muslim welfare house in finsbury park five years ago today. 51 year old makram ali was killed in the attack. darren osborne from cardiff was found guilty of terrorism related murder and jailed for a minimum of 43 years in 2018. he also injured several others, including yassin hersi. one of my legs was broken, and the other one was really, you know, damaged. i ve seen the dead body of makram ali as well there. and all that things is still fresh to my mind, even though it s been five years. it s been a really very hard time. thank you all for gathering here today to. she sobs. to remember my dad, makram ali. some people say with time it gets easier, but i believe that it never gets easy. that black hole, you always have that black hole in
what happens to this tower? what any lasting memorial here might look like is still being decided. for the bereaved, though, it is a shrine to their loved ones and a way of making sure they re not forgotten. i get drawn to it. any time i m in the area. it s kind of peaceful in a very weird way. itjust helps me heal. one night, your life can change for. l ..for ever. i can see the top of the tower from where i live. i can see my brother s bedroom window the space of where he died with his wife and his children. it s difficult, it s very difficult, but i take comfort. it s like he s still there. comfort also comes from being with each other people once connected because they lived together in a high rise block in london, now linked by a night which fractured their lives forever. only they can fully understand what they went through as they face this five year anniversary together. hello and welcome to sportsday. it s a star studded leaderboard at the us open. we bring you t
Going to freak you out. A transgender man is pregnant by his transgender female partner. Did you get that . The transgender couple have had a baby. This next story is going to freak you out. A transgender man is pregnant by his transgender female partner. Did you get that . Neither partner has had surgery, which means they conceived the baby just like any other couple. Hello. Rain is in the forecast, we have not heard that very often at all. The weather will be dominated more by low pressure this week. The rain was hit and miss over the weekend, the band of cloud brought rain for a while, but otherwise it was sunshine and showers. The cloud is arriving, and it will bring with it this area of low pressure, rain. It is coming from the south, so it will draw up cloud and heavy rain. Rain spreading across most of the uk, not much in the south east. The wettest will be over the western hills, but through the afternoon the rain eases off a bit. Where you have shelter, you could get some suns
Going to freak you out. A transgender man is pregnant by his transgender female partner. Did you get that . The transgender couple have had a baby. This next story is going to freak you out. A transgender man is pregnant by his transgender female partner. Did you get that . Neither partner has had surgery, which means they conceived the baby just like any other couple. Hello. Rain is in the forecast, we have not heard that very often at all. The weather will be dominated more by low pressure this week. The rain was hit and miss over the weekend, the band of cloud brought rain for a while, but otherwise it was sunshine and showers. The cloud is arriving, and it will bring with it this area of low pressure, rain. It is coming from the south, so it will draw up cloud and heavy rain. Rain spreading across most of the uk, not much in the south east. The wettest will be over the western hills, but through the afternoon the rain eases off a bit. Where you have shelter, you could get some suns
This whole area is the subject of territorial disputes between china and vietnam and the philippines. And others. China claims all the Maritime Territory inside this dotted red line, but its neighbours dispute this. A us warship has sailed close to triton island, which is claimed by china, taiwan and vietnam. In response, china sent military vessels and Fighter Planes to the area in response. Last night the Chinese Foreign ministry put out this statement they called it a serious political and military provocation. This was hours before a phone call between the leaders of us and china in which apparently none of this came up. I asked vincent ni from the bbcs Chinese Service to explain. They did discuss that in a very discreet way in a sense that both sides do notjuantorena relationship, they dont want a confrontational approach. It is also partly for mass consumption because this isnt the first time that it has sailed through the South China Sea and china have objected. It shows that bo