baroness warsi joins me now. why do you say that?” islamophobia. baroness warsi joins me now.ver three years. i have raised it with three years. i have raised it with three successive chairmen, i wrote to the prime minister about it nearly two years ago. i have submitted a plethora of cases, brought these to the attention of the party, and yet the party continues to be in denial about the extent of the problem. what do they say when you cite cases? that they will deal with cases as they arise, but they have not dealt with members of parliament who retweeted tommy robinson, who made islamophobic comments, who how's it —— who hosted islamophobics in the parliament. they have not dealt with candidates who have made vile comments like, muslims should not be in public life, should be removed from our schools, should be thrown off bridges, should be deported simply for raising the issue if —— make the issue of islamophobia. it goes on, linked groups, members, there is no sense of transparency about the process, [10 sense of transparency about the process, no detail on the number of

this from baroness warsi, a former party chairman so party loyalist, party insider. rs, pretty way the party hierarchy for three years, pretty much to no avail and the only times anything happens is when she tweets about it. in particular, she is suggesting there has been a step backwards since to may took charge and all the efforts to reach out under david cameron have in effect gone into reverse. she is now saying the party is in denial over the scale of some of and the institution is gripped by islamophobia, and she says she is raising cases on a daily basis. i have been raising this issue now for over three years, i have raised it with three successive chairmen, i wrote to the prime minister about it, nearly two years ago. i have submitted a plethora of cases, brought these to the attention of the party and yet the party continues to be denial about the extent of the problem. so what did they say when you cite cases? they say, well we deal with each case as it arises, but they haven't dealt with members of parliament to have retreated tommy robinson,... ——retweet

baroness warsi there.ing fine has lost her appeal against the case. labour says it will now support efforts to trigger a by—election in peterborough, where fiona 0nasanya is currently representing constituents as an independent mp. now, the democratic republic of congo is struggling to cope with the worst outbreak of ebola in its history. more than 500 people are thought to have died and nearly 900 people are believed to have been infected. it's affected the north kivu province, an area controlled by armed groups with a non—existent health system, making it much harder to contain. the bbc‘s senior africa correspondent anne soy travelled to beni, the town worst hit by the outbreak. in isolation, but not alone. these children are suspected to have ebola. but here, they receive care with the human touch. it's a riskyjob, but their carers are survivors of ebola who are now immune. they're helping to fight a disease that brought them misery. rachelle lost ten members of her family. back in her village, she blam

the fomer conservative chair baroness warsi says the party is in denial about islamophobia.ck cab drivers. bbc crossing divides brought these two communities together in coventry to see whether they could find common ground. the last ten years, it's changed a lot, and the work has quietened down. 50% of my takings have gone down. i think there's a lot of animosity between uber and the black cab drivers. my name's barry. i've been a private hire driverfor 30 years, licensed by birmingham. licensing laws at the moment allow us to work here. a lot of people say it's a loophole. my name is faisal riaz. i'm 43 years old, and i've been doing taxis in coventry 20 years. i invested about £150,000 into this, and i saw this as my retirement. i'm glad that we have this time to chat to each other. i got this 30 years ago, this license, and when i took it, there wasn't so much red tape as what there is to try and get this licence today. i don't really think there should be a knowledge test. any particular reason? because there's a lot of apps for navigation now that show you which roads

mohammed amin said this had to be looked at, and baroness warsi has been talking about this for years about people needing the services of baby banks, that is on the mirror. gordon brown has written a searing op—ed about this, and it seems with brexit happening the government is stalled on everything else. this is a situation about people using nappy banks to get basics for their children, their babies. anybody who has had children 01’ babies. anybody who has had children or is around children, this is serious. this is as serious as it can get. if you can't clothe your child will keep your child clean, to have to go to a place where they get these things... shouldn't that read skinned parents, rather than just mums? because it takes to parents to make a baby. yes, it is embarrassing and horrible. we have record employment, very low unemployment, and most of the people going there are probably in work. that is a problem, that people who are working are still struggling, and that is an issue. the other issue is universal credit, it seems, that the delay in people getting their payment,

the former conservative chair, baroness warsi, has accused the party of institutional islamophobia ande party members have been suspended over alleged islamophobic comments on social media. she said the prime minister and party chairman had failed to tackle the issue. a spokesman for the conservative party said discrimination or abuse of any kind would not be tolerated. the democratic republic of congo is struggling to cope with the worst outbreak of ebola in its history. more than 500 people are thought to have died, and nearly 900 people are believed to have been infected. it's affected the north kivu province — an area controlled by armed groups, with a nonexistent health system, where suspicious communities have been hostile to health workers, making it much harder to contain. the bbc s senior africa correspondent anne soy travelled to beni, the town worst hit by the outbreak. in isolation but not alone. these children are suspected to have ebola. but here, they receive care with the human touch. it's a riskyjob, but their carers are survivors of ebola who are now immune. they are

baroness warsi famously said it is the acceptable form of racism at dinner parties. a minister for the conservative government. i think there is an acceptability of it, tolerance of it, we see it in the media with commentators basically being racist or extremely bigoted and they are tolerated. we see it in the discussion going on, the way it's used in technology and i think regardless of the causes we need to be far tougher and more cautious and careful about stopping this sort of anti—islamic language and inflammatory stuff going on because whilst people making those statements are not necessarily to blame, they are creating a climate which can allow nasty extremism to faster and some inadequates to take this sort of horrendous action. bari. i do agree but i would like to drag your attention to a very important development, anti—islamism, islamophobia used to be expressed verbally and now we are at a new stage, using arms, killing against muslims. this is a huge development. this could actually drag us to another counter revenge. this will play to the hands of radic

the conservative peer, baroness warsi, says the party has a deep—rooted problem with islamophobia.ister of "burying her head in the sand" over the issue, and said efforts to modernise the party had "gone into reverse" since theresa may became leader. a spokesman for the party said discrimination or abuse of any kind would not be tolerated. a counter—terror investigation has been launched, after three small explosive devices were found at buildings at major transport hubs in london. the met police counter terrorism command say packages were found at heathrow airport, london city airport and waterloo train station this morning. let's get the latest from our correspondent robert hall at waterloo station. three locations, what more can you tell us? we got some sort of sense of the timetable. the first alert came in atjust before ten o'clock this morning that an office block near heathrow, the package in that case identical to the other two was ina case identical to the other two was in a white plastic envelope, crudely addressed to that office block, containing ajiffy addressed to that

themselves into on anti—semitism and the tories are now trying to get on the front foot, but baroness warsiis basically said that the tory party is institutionally homophobic and is insisting that they take it seriously and do something. she said that both the chairman and the prime minister theresa may have failed to deal with this comment it is interesting that the latest comments we re interesting that the latest comments were found on facebook page that was supportive of jacob rees—mogg. were found on facebook page that was supportive of jacob rees-mogg. and he went on to it and said there is no room for islamaphobes in the party, we have been very quick on it, but i do not think that is true. they have been a lot of comments about sajid javid, which is interesting. we were just talking about him obviously, we know he is at the home office and he has leadership ambitions, there are comments saying i could not bear to see islam lead the country about him being the leader. so it would be interesting to see his role in this because he is in the perfect position to really, and to assert his

it's been up to baroness warsi a tory has to actually criticize islamophobia in tory party you look in vain i think for balance in many of these things in the book. people may not remember there would be stories regularly talking about political correctness and the banning of black bin liners the banning of black sheep how do you see the problem getting to this time around they can't do that because the black sheep in the black bin liners story in the burning black coffee story these were about the individual london councils which were left very much in the media flame thrower once the g.l. c had been abolished but if we go back to stories about black bin liners and black sheep and stuff like that no those stories are not so prominent today with the much more prominent stories a propos of stories about muslims and muslims want christmas banned. piggy banks banned muslims want this and that and the other banned those are the kind of myths of today there is a very very interesting. correlation between anti jewish stories in the right wing price from the nineteenth century onwards to anti

the conservative peer, baroness warsi, says the party has a deep—rooted problem with islamophobia.ue, and said efforts to modernise the party had "gone into reverse" since theresa may became leader. a spokesman for the party said discrimination or abuse of any kind would not be tolerated. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good evening. our weather is in rather a turbulent, changeable mood at the moment. some wind and rain in the forecast for the next few days. during today, we had outbreaks of rain across northern ireland and england, and southern scotland, with some snow over high ground. here comes our next weather system, some really heavy rain sliding northwards across england into southern scotland during tonight. again on the northern edge of that rain band, we could see some snow. a chilly night in the north, a much milder one further south. but for all of us, the low pressure is firmly in charge tomorrow morning. some strong winds, 50—60 mph gusts possible for parts of the southwest of england. we will see these outbreaks of rain with some health snow c

baroness warsi.mitism allegations. the peer has been asked to review labour‘s internal complaints process, which has been strongly criticised by some mps in the party who belive an external, independent assessment is needed. now i take you to east london where they work and pensions secretary amber rudd talks about health and disability but taking questions from the media. we hear around the assessments, challenging application processes. we are told it is not accessible and that there are multiple difficulties in wrong information forms and inadequate training etc. i hear you are keen to work through those issues and improve them. will you commit to working with stakeholder organisations to input those changes at the beginning of a process, so when we have new processes the accessibility is embedded within them? an interesting question and as you rightly say, relevant to me given my experience. in fact we were just talking earlier about accessibility for blind people to jobs, talking earlier about a