r'nb singer, r kelly who has been charged the majority of india's hindu rakbar khan new whiskey was taking hello there. we saw a top temperature on friday with this is bbc world news, with ten counts of aggravated, i'm reged ahmad. population, the cow was sacred and of 18 celsius across western wales our top stories: president maduro has criminal, sexual—abuse in illinois — when he left home that night but his with lots of sunshine ordered its closure to prevent has handed himself in at a police for much of the country. venezuela's president shuts part international aid from coming in. 00:00:06,978 --> 2147483051:36:48,203 earlier at the border with brazil, 2147483051:36:48,203 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 two people were killed in clashes station in chicago. in many states, slaughter of the cow wife still blames herself for what however where we held on to low prosecutors say the charges relate happened. of the border with colombia, to the alleged abuse cloud mist and fog it was quite claiming his sovereignty is under of four victims. is against the law. religious the singer denies the allegations. minorities have been traditionally chilly, temperatures no higher threat — as at least two people with less than five weeks than 8 degrees on the south coast. are killed in clashes free to farm and trading powers but for this weekend much of the same. until britain is due to leave the eu — three cabinet ministers have made there's been a crackdown by mostly sunny days, mild as well, right—wing hindu politicians and the but mornings will start quite chilly on the brazilian side. it clear they are prepared to vote at times with a bit of frost against theresa may's government, and some mist and fog around. to avoid a no—deal brexit. police. that which was seen as part meanwhile rival music concerts mrs may says mps should we see a return to mist and fog for and against president maduro back her deal or risk seeing take place in venezuela and brexit delayed. and low cloud across central, colombia. now on bbc news it's ofan police. that which was seen as part of an identity of hindu belief has southern and eastern parts r&b star r kelly hands himself time for our world. of england early on saturday. in at a chicago police station hate crimes against india's muslim been politicised to appoint where we the weather front slowly minority are on the rise, encroaching into western parts after being charged with multiple with some of the worst violence of northern ireland, bringing outbreaks of rain. sexual—abuse offences. since the death of rakbar khan, his but elsewhere largely dry. are actually witnessing notjust cow let's zoom into central southern with less than five weeks to go carried out by so called ‘cow eastern england for this morning, protection but instead what we are friend, aslam, lives in fear of as we will have some fog patches until britain is set to leave further attacks. the eu, three cabinet ministers tell vigilantes‘ — with claims violent finding is much more dangerous. we around, maybe not so much around southern counties like we saw theresa may they would vote mobs have been emboldened are finding that mobs, often against her to avoid by the government's crackdown on friday morning, but most will be on the slaughter of the country's organised mobs, are targeting further north, east anglia around sacred animal, the cow. a warning — the wash, into lincolnshire you may find parts of and as far north as east yorkshire. a no—deal brexit. individuals who have been trading in this programme upsetting. it will melt away through the morning and we should see some and razed to the ground — colombian authorities demolish cattle. the targets of hindu sunshine becoming a bit more the home of notorious widespread, this weather front across the west will bring rain a man is murdered, his crime, vigilantes are often muslim and to northern ireland and spread drug lord pablo escobar. other religious groups who trade in aslam claims that some of rakbar‘s across scotland into western wales walking cows longer road. he was cattle. human rights groups argue beaten to death. the accused, hindu attackers have not been punished and the south—west of england. their part of the crime. he points there has been a sharp rise in nationalist vigilantes. and he's not

religious —based hate crimes since to the head of the local cow alone. what we are seeing here is the skies brightening behind it the bjp came to power in 2014. the but ahead of it in the sunshine that these are people who are protection gang who aslam insists is where we will see bj p was among those who beat is friend. the highest temperatures, the bjp came to power in 2014. the bjp itself is affiliated to again 16, maybe 17 celsius, so exceptionally mild attacking religious minorities. they've chosen the path of violence. for the time of year. right—wing hindu nationalist groups. through saturday night, they've chosen the path of violence. these have long advocated hindu we will see some cloud, a bit more mist and fog developing elsewhere, the politics of the cow in india has supremacy, and ideology many fear is notice this green blue hue across south—eastern scotland, never been so fractious. the victims leading to a rise in sectarian reporting cooler off the near continent. light winds, it will be actually have usually been accused of cattle start to sunday with a touch smuggling and they are almost always everyone that we've spoken to, the of frost around. violence. local, often poorly we could have some mist and fog muslims. you think enough is being victim's families, the police, they further north which had turned done to protect muslims who live in the way and the part two educated hindus, are recruited by all talk about a difficult man to of the weekend it should be another here? very much, very much! who says nice one with sunshine around. extreme nationalist groups. these after that cold start temperatures no? human rights groups say that cow extreme nationalist groups. these cow vigilantes patrol the religious hate crimes have been on countryside like private militias. pin down. he'sjust rung us to won't be quite as high. the rise is the governing bjp came all talk about a difficult man to pin down. he's just rung us to say he will so we are going to head over these are people who are attacking into power. no-one has the right to there now before he changes his i think at best around 14 or 15 degrees. religious minorities. they've chosen ta ke into power. no-one has the right to the path of violence and the people mind. nawal kishore sharma has been high pressure with us take the law into their hands so that are coming under attack are the into the start of next week. light winds and cooler air, therefore to say the bjp is so don't be surprised if we start most vulnerable in india. the linked to other vigila ntes responsible is inaccurate and mind. nawal kishore sharma has been linked to other vigilantes attacks monday morning with a bit of frost absolutely false. many question in rajasthan. when we do eventually in there, again some mist and fog. government doesn't keep statistics meet, he denies being with his gang that will tend to burn away quickly whether the police are part of the specifically on cow violence but an through the day and monday looks organisation that campaigns for like being another fine problem. and whether the bjp— led when ace —— when they first stopped one, with light winds and plenty of sunshine. the wind a little more of a feature rakbar. government is doing enough to stop greater government transparency, across the far north—west the violence. of the country where we could see a little bit of rain. india spend, has analysed race

into the afternoon off that cold start the temperatures rising to around 15 or 16 celsius. reports go back ten years. they reports go back ten years. they report there were no lynchings in it stays very pleasant as we reach the middle part of the week, 2013 but since then, 46 people have but notice temperatures beginning to fall away into the latter part been killed and 250 injured in cow — of the week, as we lose the warm southerlies and they are replaced related violence. rajasthan has seen with a cool westerly july 2018, it was a late—night as a spate of these vigilantes killings. in the east, it borders an area with a large was in population, rakhar khan led to cows to his many of whom have farmed land from the atlantic. muslims in this part of rajasthan village. walking with him was his generations. —— muslim population. are routinely stopped and accused of friend, aslan. they say two men smuggling cattle. and notjust by appeared and fired shots, attacking this attack, also in rajasthan on cow smuggling cattle. and notjust by cow protection groups. this muslims, led to the death of a 55 them. checkpoint is run by the police. an old man. he was among a group of officer told me that the night farmers transporting dairy cars home before, they had stopped a van full of cows that he said were being from market when they were wrongly accused of taking the cattle for taken to slaughter. after a shootout, the smugglers got away. slaughter. —— dairy cows. rakbar the police insist they only target criminals who illegally time sport cows criminals who illegally time sport cows to kill. cow protection groups khan was also accused of smuggling say, though, the authorities need all the help they can get. it's this cows khan was also accused of smuggling cows to be killed, even those families as they bought them the collaboration that makes it hard to

milk. his father said they used to have no trouble when they traded at the young was a farmer was the know how rakbar khan really died. cows. those accused of killing him say they were working with the police. alleged victim of so—called muslim cowl vigilantes. he alleged victim of so—called muslim cowl vigila ntes. he lived alleged victim of so—called muslim cowl vigilantes. he lived in this village in the northern state of rajasthan along with his wife and seven children. this has led to accusations that in some areas, the peace —— the police and the vigila ntes some areas, the peace —— the police and the vigilantes gangs have become too close. so were police officers complicit in the death of rakbar khan? nawal kishore sharma readily admits he was with the police all evening, even taking these pictures of rakbar khan when injured man was in custody.

the police deny this, but they haven't been able to explain why they kept him in police custody for so they kept him in police custody for so long after the attack before taking him to the nearby hospital. this is where rakbar was admitted. it's about ten minutes drive away from where he was found by police. i wa nted from where he was found by police. i wanted to find out how long it took them to take rakbar here. and what happened?

well, they're just looking for the entry form when rakbar khan was admitted. this is the date here, this is it. it is. 21st ofjuly. so he was admitted at 4am, you can see here. yes. so that's about, over three hours after police were first notified about rakbar. rakbar khan died from multiple internal injuries. he had broken ribs, a punctured lung, a broken leg and a broken hand. the vigilantes in the police blame each other for them rakbar‘s death. several officers have since been suspended, pending the outcome of an enquiry. rajendra

singh is the chief of police and the local area. he admitted to me that m ista kes local area. he admitted to me that mistakes have been made. there were some lapses on the police side. what we re some lapses on the police side. what were the lapses? they have not followed the regular police procedure, which they were supposed to do. in that case? in that case. they should have taken into the hospital sooner? yeah, yeah. it was a big lapse. is base is at a premium outside the court in rajasthan. they worked under the shade of a banyan trees. hassan khan is working for the family of rakbar khan. he believes the vigilantes have been emboldened by the failure of the authorities to condemn the killing of muslims. it was to be vice

president of the bjp in rajasthan, ata hindu president of the bjp in rajasthan, at a hindu nationalist. he argues that the victims of vigilantes are not the —— innocent victims. it is not the —— innocent victims. it is not the —— innocent victims. it is not the first time he has defended cow not the first time he has defended cow vigilante gangs. kassim can't believe that the support for the cow vigilantes is

preventing the victims from getting justice and has appealed to the courts. we co nta cted we contacted mr ahuja several times, requesting an interview. but he never responded. the bjp national government in delhi appears keen to distance itself from ahuja's controversial views. first, distance itself from ahuja's controversialviews. first, we, that is not the party's point of view. we have been very clear, always said that an individual point of view, if the party point of view is articulated by the party. has the bj p articulated by the party. has the bjp promoted him, protected in? that make him. but the religious intolerance adding an outlet in cow vigilante attacks has links to the ruling bjp. prime minister narendra

modi rose to power with the help of a nationalist volunteer movement and there is the rss which advocates had —— hardline hindu nationalism. in 2002 he was chief minister in gujarat when anti— muslim riots broke out. more than 1000 people died. narendra modi was accused of not doing enough to suppress the violence. they later cleared of in court. by 2014 he was leaving the country. b prime minister himself, when he was campaigning for the election, actually escalated this, because he talked about a pink revolution. the pink revolution alluded to fact that india, the land of hindus, where the cow was worshipped, there is beef being exported.

by by politicising the trade in meat, critics say that narendra modi was appealing to his interbase. once he has won office promoting these ideas, there for a lies, the responsibility of ensuring there are no violent attacks. instead what we have seen as elected representatives often defending these attacks. the government insists it does not condone cow vigilantes. many people who have an interest in running a counter narrative that the bjp alone as is possible for it, i make it absolutely clear we do not tolerate any kind of violence against any kind of citizen. the government says there have always been laws against killing cattle and it has done nothing more than toughen up the existing rules. the man at in which it is spoken of, as though the whole country is in danger of lynching. it is absolutely contrary to the ground

situation. the tough new stance has not only fuelled attacks on muslims, but also on lower caste hindu dalits, who traditionally trade in leather from cows. traditionally trade in leather from cows. in some traditionally trade in leather from cows. in some areas, traditionally trade in leather from cows. in some areas, dalits have stopped processing leather than risk coming under attack from cow protection groups. the crackdown in the trade on cows and devera vigilante violence is causing knock—on problems for the economy. retired dairy cattle that might once have been slaughtered for leather and beef products are turning up in large numbers at cow centuries. —— sanctuaries.

it looks like there are a lot of cows it looks like there are a lot of cows here, is it full? having encouraged an end to the trading cows, the government must now work out what to do with the growing number of abandoned animals. in rajasthan, which is in some of the worst attacks by cow vigilante gangs, a cow ministry has been set up gangs, a cow ministry has been set up to, with a solution. the total budget for the cow ministry is apparently 500 crore

rupees, that is nearly $70 million. you said 500 crore rupees is your budget, that is a loss of money. and there is a lot of poverty in india, a loss of poverty in register. that money could be spilt on people. —— rajasthan. inafew rajasthan. in a few months time, india goes to the polls in a general election. it's striking at cow protection groups it's striking at cow protection gi’oups are it's striking at cow protection groups are often viewed as defending the law, rather than breaking it. "it the law, rather than breaking it. ——it is striking that. when i met this bjp supporter trying to become a candidate in rajasthan's local elections he was quick to defend the groups. what do you think about cow protection groups? do you support them? let's not to talk about them. people are fighting for

law and order. do you think enough is being done to protect muslims who live there? very much! very much! who says no?! prime minister modi has recently reiterated his opposition to cow violence. the canadian agger stand in the very region where rakbar khan was killed. and on stage a slap on the back for none other than local politician gyandev ahuja. three men have been charged with rakbar‘s murder. his wife is still waiting and hoping forjustice. without her husband, she must now find a way to provide for her seven

children alone.