aleem maqbool, bbc news.untry's lgbtq pride week, which started with thejerusalem pride march. the country's far—right police minister itamar ben—gvir has been jeered by those attending the event — there were thousands of them, despite security fears over online threats and counter—protests. our middle east correspondent tom bateman was at the event and sent us this report. the theme of this year's gay pride injerusalem is tolerance. now, there is a very specific reason for that, and that is because this is the first gay pride injerusalem since israel elected its most right wing ultranationalist government in the country's history, and a government that includes openly homophobic ministers, senior ministers, some of whom lead far right parties. now, one of those people is itamar ben—gvir. he's the police minister in israel. so he is actually responsible for the safety of all these people. he's overseeing the police operation. now he's somebody with a homophobic track history. he, in the past, has attended cou

aleem maqbool, bbc news.n south africa, ahead of a summit of major economies, the so—called brics group, in august. south africa is coming under increasing pressure to decide whether vladimir putin can attend the meeting, after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for the russian president in relation to war crimes in ukraine. russia is part of the brics group. the letters represent the five key members — brazil, russia, india, china and south africa. the presence of china and india means that the brics group represents a3% of the world's population, with more than 3.25 billion people. together, they now account for a larger share of the world's economy than the g7 group, which includes the uk and united states, and it's set to be more than half of the world's economic ouput, or gdp, by 2030. our africa correspondent andrew harding reports from cape town. at the southern tip of africa today, russia is hard at work assembling allies. the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov, joining his

our religion editor aleem maqbool reports. they won't let us go. the institution that damaged him, still has a hold on graham sawyer. but now it's notjust because of the clergyman that abused him. i was able to forgive that man from my heart many, many years ago. no, no. it's the... it's the enduring trauma of dealing with the church of england. he's now a catholic priest and moved to ireland, partly to escape the past. the trouble is, every time i have any contact from the church of england, it retraumatises me. as a teenager, graham was a victim of peter ball, the former bishop convicted of a string of six offences. it was the case that led to a massive inquiry and a scheme was set up by the church to offer support to survivors. but it's dealing with that scheme, that some survivors say, is causing their anguish now. teresa cooper has serious health problems after being drugged and abused as a child in a church—run home. she's received funds from the church scheme but has also been denied applications for help. when she criticised the scheme on s

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aleem maqbool, bbc news.son paints using her mouth — and became world famous when her pregnant form was displayed on a plinth in trafalgar square. her latest project involves designing a sculpture of the animated tv character shaun the sheep — which will form part of a new art trail in sussex. kirsteen 0'sullivan caught up with her. no challenges to grade 41. especially when it comes to art. when she was approached to join the sean by the cr trail she knew it would be physically testing. fortunately my chair goes up and down which is a really big help. but i'm not supposed to say this but i literally had to sit on his back to paint �*s head. nobody is allowed to go on them or sit on them and there was i paintbrush and mouth going, this is breaking every rule in the book. .,. , this is breaking every rule in the book. . . , . this is breaking every rule in the book. .. , ., ., ., book. tenacity and determination have certainly _ book. tenacity and determination have certainly been _ book. tenacity and determin