They stand for coming out here on this lovely saturday evening. We are very pleased to have steve waldon to talk about his new book. Sacred liberty. It is about religious freedom and what steve calls in the subtitle, americas long, bloodied and ongoing struggle for that freedom. These days we tend to think of a religious freedom as a basic fundamental principle of our democracy and one we take very much for granted. But our countrys history as they recount in a fascinating history is filled with examples of religious prosecution. In just the opening pages of his book, he recall stories of ministers brutalizing baptist ministers around the time of the resolution, the American Revolution and later catholics and jews from holding office, the banning of native american spiritual practices, attempts to exterminate women and much more. All of which underscores and despite the First Amendment, the struggle to ensure religious freedom in the United States has indeed been challenging and compet
spells, although more cloud the further north you are, all the details shortly. it s sunday, june 2nd. our main story. sir keir starmer has pledged to cut levels of legal migration to the uk, if labour wins the general election. in a newspaper interview he set out plans to prioritise british workers and crack down on businesses that break employment laws. the conservatives said no one believed the labour leader was serious about tackling immigration. our political correspondent alex forsyth has the latest. every year, people come to the uk to live, work or study. last year, net migration that s the difference between the number of people arriving and the number of people leaving was 685,000. sir keir starmer, who launched his election battle bus yesterday, has previously said that s too high. now he s promised to cut that number if labour wins the election, though he hasn t said by how much or by when. he told the sun on sunday newspaper read my lips, i will bring immig
at the geneva 0pen last month but he couldn t pull off an upset against the fifth seed here. job done for medvedev in four sets. aryna sabalenka s quest for a first french open title remains on track after she beat her best friend paula badosa to reach the fourth round. the two time australian open champion, top of your screen, was made to work hard in the first set but ran away with the second for a routine win in the end. next up for her will be america s emma navarro. no problems either here for the former wimbledon champion elena rybakina she got a commanding win over elise mertens. the world number four needing just an hour and seven minutes to beat the belgian in straight sets. she ll face elina svitolina next. bath will play northampton saints in next weekend s rugby union premiership final after a thrilling win over sale. the somerset club were bottom of the league just two years ago but will now look to lift
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