appear to be g now they appear to he apparently about to now they appear to be apparently about to make good on that threat. what is not clear is when they will ta ke what is not clear is when they will take flight. even if they do... strong words from the chief executive. how much is lost and actual threat? —— blustre. executive. how much is lost and actualthreat? -- blustre. we have had a warning britain is heading for a disorderly exit from the eu. this could be european brinkmanship. of course it is eu countries they go to. everyone has skin in the game. we do care, regardless of what mrs trump's jacket was suggesting. good

to have you both with us. thank you so to have you both with us. thank you so much. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, seven days a week, at bbc.com.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you. coming up next, it's meet the author. three generations of immigrants from kenya, three lifetimes of struggle, and not only with the attitudes that he meets when he arrives in yorkshire, falls in love and starts a family. nikesh shukla's novel the one who wrote destiny is also about struggles inside herself. the daughter who struggles with cancer, a son who chooses a career as a

comedian but unfortunately isn't terribly funny. but the book is, despite its unflinching exploration of racism. welcome. it would be very easy on this subject to write a very angry book, you know, bristol book full of fire. and there is anger in this book, but fundamentally is very funny. do you think that is a better way of doing it? -- think that is a better way of doing it? —— brittle book. think that is a better way of doing it? -- brittle book. yes, i have read a lot of very heavy books about immigration and race in the last three years. i edited a collection of essays called the good immigrant, andi of essays called the good immigrant, and i am by nature a writer so i wa nted and i am by nature a writer so i wanted to get to something that got to the heart of these people in these wonderful characters. and there is this old steve allen quote about how comedy is time plus tragedy and what better way to talk about tragedy than through the prism

of comedy? well, then it is a human comedy. and it features a comedian who is not very good, who... i mean, his career is not going anywhere, and he wonders why, and everyone else knows, and i think the reader knows. it is because he is really not terribly funny. i have a real soft spot for him. i think he is one of those people who, when he finds his voice, he will start to do better. he is kind of still messing about with who hears. we are about raqs, but he is only one of the characters and really the engine of the story is the arrival of our kenyan immigrant in the 1950s, who settles not in london, which would be the normal for the era, but goes to yorkshire and discovers that it isn't rock ‘n‘ roll and girls and all the things he expected. it is slightly different. so you

immediately taking the story of its axis. and it is based on the true story of my uncle who came to the uk in the 1960s and i think, because we had relatives in huddersfield bradford, just wasn't. .. had relatives in huddersfield bradford, just wasn't... he didn't have a network in london to be able to find lodgings that were happy with having coloured folk back, so he ended up in keighley. and even though my entire family now live in london, where they were meant to end up, ithink london, where they were meant to end up, i think that is really... and i don't really have much of a connection with keighley. in the story stretches over three generations. there is one particularly poignant strand in the story, which is the daughter who has inherited the cancer that killed... the gene that produced the cancer that killed her mother and knows that killed her mother and knows that she is going to die, i mean, you are taking it had on there. yes, it is... you are taking it had on there. yes, itis...i you are taking it had on there. yes, it is... i wanted with this book to

write some british south asian characters that you just don't see. and, you know, too often the books that get published by british authors from a south asian background often tend to be about identity or radicalisation, or arranged marriages, and myjoke has a lwa ys arranged marriages, and myjoke has always been that true diversity will come when we get a brown writer writing that literary fiction where a middle—aged middle—class creative writing professor has sex with one of his students and is a bit sad for 300 pages. so my version of that was to try and write about a stand—up comedian, and the immigrant who didn't end up in london, and, in, the internal life of someone with mortality, and also there isn't... i don't think there is much fiction written from the perspective of kenyan indians whose families ended up kenyan indians whose families ended up in the uk. we talk about three generations, and they are all told

ina very generations, and they are all told in a very immediate way. and we see the kind of things, whether it is a question of health or love life or professional achievement, the things that all families go through, worrying about. but it is fascinating to hear you talking about the way you want these people to appear to be shedding, you know, the usual accoutrements of immigrant family being written about. well, yes, and more to be an honest representation of immigrant families that are out there. and so, you know, they go through all the very universal things that you describe, but sometimes those things are seen through the prism of race, because sometimes being a person of colour in this country, that element of your life is inescapable. my dad was attacked by nf members in the 1960s, and he nearly died, and to him that is racism. that visceral violence on

his body. the sharp end. yes, and so when i come home and complain about its calling me curry boyett and saying i look dirty, my complexion... you ain't seen nothing. yes, and actually it was things in the lead up to brexit where you kind of saw all the narrative around immigration turn quite toxic, and you saw the breaking point poster that my dad andi breaking point poster that my dad and i started to meet in the middle and i started to meet in the middle a little bit more, and we were able to kind of... he was able to kind of appreciate the scale of these things. so my uncle, in 1968 he tried to buy a house in huddersfield, and he was refused, they wouldn't sell the house to him, because he was brown and they didn't wa nt to because he was brown and they didn't want to devalue the area. in the race relations act had just come in that very year, and he said, you know, that is now illegal, and my uncle is the first person to ever bring a case of race to skim a nation under the race relations act. and all of this stuff kind of crops

up and all of this stuff kind of crops up in the book. and thejudgement was reserved, because it was a test case, and so there was a technicality that meant that the judge had to reservejudgement. but he did say in his summation that discrimination had occurred and that the company did change their policy after that. but my uncle and i are talking about this in 2017, when i kind of working on edits of the book, and we see this news story of this landlord in kent who has been taken to court because he won't rent out properties to asians because they stink the place out with curry, and my uncle just said to they stink the place out with curry, and my unclejust said to me, sometimes i see these things and remember how far we haven't come. what about your generation, and a generation younger than you? do you think that, in london, for example, kids of ten, 12, 15, are much less prone to the old attitudes than their parents' generation? well, that's interesting. so i live in bristol and i've been a youth worker

for the last four years. ijust bristol and i've been a youth worker for the last four years. i just wish upona for the last four years. i just wish upon a project earlier this year. and the thing that i saw with all the young people i worked with is that they are so much more politically progressive than my generation is. and, you know, when we talk about identity politics, which is sort of the stick that the alt—right beats the left with, and so on alt—right beats the left with, and so on and so forth, for young people, the sense of identity is so much more fluid and ingrained in the way that they can burst that, i don't... way that they can burst that, i don't. .. it's not way that they can burst that, i don't... it's not so much removed from them that they necessarily need to talk about it. so i have real hope for the next generation. and in a way the book traces thatjourney, not ina a way the book traces thatjourney, not in a sort of crude olay michael wade, but through the experience of one family, with all its ups and downs. in that sense, quite apart from the fun and laughter in the book on the story of hope, isn't it? yes, i would like to think so. i think, without giving too much away, i think it ends on an interesting note of hope. yes. but i think what

thatis note of hope. yes. but i think what that is about is about freeing yourself from the shackles of fate and destiny, and trying to forge your own path. and so much of each of our characters' journeys is about, like, the precarious balance between forging your own path and giving yourself to what was written, and this act that happens towards the end of the book, i hope, is a moment of hope. my book is an attempt to kind of reconcile what i think is a version of a multicultural britishness that i a lwa ys multicultural britishness that i always wanted to try and find peace with, growing up. and the title is an interesting one, given what you we re an interesting one, given what you were talking about vis—a—vis the end of the book. and it sets people on the path, i think. of the book. and it sets people on the path, ithink. nikesh

of the book. and it sets people on the path, i think. nikesh shukla, author of the one who wrote destiny, thanks very much. hello, here is your latest live update from bbc weather. how much it will be warming up for most of us in the next week, and today's top temperature, 21.3 in hampshire. next week will end up in the hottest place, very close to 30 celsius. not everyone's cup of tea, not everyone getting that hot, but widely in the low to mid—20s. cooler air moving across the uk but as high pressure moves in right across the british isles, it will cut off that flow of air. some warmer colours, warmer weather. temperatures going up day by day in the next week. this is the picture as we go through the rest of the night. a bit of patchy cloud around parts of scotland. most places, though, are clear. the wind continuing to ease. i know we have a warmup on the way, but it is quite chilly overnight and first thing in the morning. temperatures quite widely down into single figures. low single figures in the very cold

spots. it will feel fresh out of about first thing in the morning, but there will be plenty of sunshine, and the temperatures are going to recover. there is some patchy cloud in northern ireland and scotland. the cloud in the far north of scotla nd scotland. the cloud in the far north of scotland and northern isles in particular, where there will be a bit of patchy light rain and drizzle moving through. still a fairly brisk trees. but elsewhere, plenty of sunshine. maybe a little bit on the hazy side in wales or south—west england. still flow of air from the north—west, a noticeable one especially in western scotland, but lighter elsewhere. temperatures a degree or so higher compared with today, and especially the england and wales, high uv and pollen levels. if you are concerned about either of those, be aware of that. as we go into the weekend, high pressure is slipping in across the uk, buta pressure is slipping in across the uk, but a weak weather system moving around the top of it into saturday. that means the northern scotland and the northern isles some outbreaks of rainfora time the northern isles some outbreaks of rain for a time on saturday. a fairly brisk wind as well, elsewhere it is dry. i cloud making the sunshine quite hazy on saturday, but

the temperatures are edging up a few degrees, and that is certainly a process that can use in the sunday. plenty of dry weather, very light winds, lots of sunshine on sunday, and more of us into the low 20s. quite widely on sunday. as i hinted earlier, those temperatures are up further next week, and if the idea of 30 degrees fills you with horror, not everyone will get that high. at widely in the low to mid—20s, with high pressure, of course, that means plenty of fine, dry weather in the next week. keep up—to—date with the weather where you are or where you are going, the forecast is available online and through the app. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: mrs trump visits migrant children as her husband orders his administration to reunite 2,000 more separated from their parents by his policies. relatives wait for news of their loved ones as the captain of a ferry which sank is detained in indonesia. 200 people are still missing. i'm lebo diseko in london.

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