and wide to ride the waves of the river severn. and on newsnight at 10.30pm we ll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today s big stories. plus, a first look at tomorrow s front pages. good evening. there s been a strong international response to a bbc investigation, highlighting the ill treatment of palestinian medical staff, by the israeli defence forces, at a hospital in gaza last month. our reporting includes evidence of people being detained, beaten and prevented from carrying out vital medical duties. the foreign secretary, lord cameron, says the report is very disturbing, and he s called for answers from the israelis . and the us state department has also seen the imnvestigation. israel says it took over the nasser hospital in khan younis last month, believing hamas fighters were based there. several israeli hostages, who ve been released, say they were held on the premises. israel says any abuse of detainees is strictly prohibited . o
a brighter day for you, with sunny spells. a few showers, but very windy across the far north east and into the northern isles, where it will be quite chilly for lerwick. for wednesday, will be quite chilly for lerwick. forwednesday, not will be quite chilly for lerwick. for wednesday, not a bad day stop we will start to see some sunshine around. some may stand murkiness and western areas, with some trend in the south east, after 2a degrees. low 20s further north. it will turn increasingly humid. towards the end of the week we start to tap into some warmth in the near continent. it will be turning dry and warm for many of us. this is a short lived speu many of us. this is a short lived spell of warm weather. see temperatures up to the mid 20s across scotland, may be the high 20s for england and wales. good spells of sunshine. it doesn t last long, low pressure out in the atlantic starts to sweep in during friday and that will bring showers and longer spells of rain to norther
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submerging homes and roads, in the capital seoul. at least eight people have died. the south korean president has called an emergency meeting now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. according to research in the us and the uk, roughly one in 100 people is transgender. but the fact that the debate about transgender rights has become a political and even health care battleground isn t driven so much by the numbers, but more by conflicting ideologies. my guest today has a prominent voice in that debate. shon faye is trans, a writer and a former lawyer. is all this attention on issues of sex, gender and identity making it easier to be trans, or not? shon faye, welcome to hardtalk. pleasure to be here. thank you for having me. it s great to have you here. i also have a copy of your book, the transgender issue, which you wrote. published last year. it s described on the cover as a landmark bestseller. it has done well. and in the
shon faye is trans, a writer and a former lawyer. is all this attention on issues of sex, gender and identity making it easier to be trans, or not? shon faye, welcome to hardtalk. pleasure to be here. thank you for having me. it s great to have you here. i also have a copy of your book, the transgender issue, which you wrote. published last year. it s described on the cover as a landmark bestseller. it has done well. and in the intervening months since you published it, the transgender story, as we put it, the issues around transgender rights has consistently been prominent in the political debate. would it be right to assume that you are delighted those issues are so prominent? shon laughs er, ithink. in one way, i feel vindicated. the argument that i make in the book, essentially, is that there has been an explosion in discussion of transgender people across all forms of media and in politics. but what i argue in the book is that trans people are often not at the centre of