shami chakrabarti political correspondent. shami chakra barti saying that political correspondent.aying that this bill if too brief will not be to labour's liking. yes, the supreme court decision would seem to have given parliament the chance to block the bill, but talking to people in the houses of parliament, the house of lords, iam not houses of parliament, the house of lords, i am not getting a sense there is an appetite for that. they will seek to make some changes, but it could well be that there are will be some conservatives coming on side with a white paper, labour will be pushing for parliament have more of a say throughout the negotiating period, they want the government to come back to parliament on all of that, and there is a question mark about this final vote that mps have been given at the end of the process , been given at the end of the process, they will be asking lots of questions about when that vote might come, is it a veto, would it send theresa may back to brussels to try to get a better deal. i don't think there are many labour mps who want to be seen to be

and in the next hour we'll talk to labour's shadow attorney general, shami chakrabarti.ave risen by almost 50% in a year — to over 120 cases. yet detectives in luton believe a majority of cases still go unreported. the bbc spoke to a victim of hate crime — targeted for her faith — who hasn't reported it to police. i was iwas in i was in town. this man came up to me and he picked up my niqab. ijust garston. it really, through me. —— gasped. for a long time i did not go to town by myself. a number of developers building high rise properties in london are paying—off councils to get out—of including ‘affordable homes' in their plans. there are dozens of tower blocks currently under construction with hundreds more in the pipeline — and many of them include little or no affordable homes. developers are instead offering tens of millions of pounds in cash to local authorities — so they can build cheaper homes elsewhere. it's already causing anger among those who say it's going to make the current housing problem, worse. the biggest problem with developments like this is that the

will be addressing the crowd when it does get under way, including the shadow attorney general, shami chakrabarties matter, and from friends of the earth. people are wanting to make their message heard. thank you for the latest. our correspondent ben ando is in cambridge. what is the state of affairs there? well, cambridge is a place where they welcome international students and they welcome students from the united states. at the moment there are around 80 undergraduates and more than 500 postgraduates who are studying here. one of them told me that one of the reasons were coming here was that he wanted to be part of what you might consider as the global community of learning. cambridge in particular has been a university town for many centuries, a place where people have come to study, to increase their learning and perhaps to put something back into what humanity knows for many years. there are probably around 500 to 600 people here. this demonstration was set up by a facebook group but has been supported notjust facebook group but has been supported not just by facebook group but has been sup

meanwhile, labour have stepped up the pressure, with shadow attorney general shami chakrabarti accusing we should not be rewarding human rights abuses by rolling out the red carpet in this country. theresa may has said america is a huge and important ally and great britain needs to think long—term. ally and great britain needs to think long-term. i'm afraid that sounds like appeasement to me. the word is in a very precarious situation at the moment and we will not make this world a safer or fairer by appeasing bullies like mr trump. i'm joined by fairer by appeasing bullies like mr trump. i'mjoined by the chair fairer by appeasing bullies like mr trump. i'm joined by the chair of the home affairs select committee, yvette cooper. this is all synthetic indignation. we knew president trump was going to do this. he is doing it. i think what doing is very dangerous, to say that he will have a ban on refugees and target muslims in the way that he is doing, i think has huge repercussions notjust in america but across the world. implications for the geneva convention on refugees, but also the w