the initiative was a personal request from her husband brendan cox. jo cox's former constituency batley and spen, where the local candidates also suspended their campaigns and joined together with the local community at a fund raising event to remember her. campaigning in the election suspended in multiple constituencies across the country today, following the request from brendan cox, jo cox's husband. this wasjo cox's seat, batley and spen in west yorkshire, up until her untimely death injune of last year. five of the six candidates in the election all came here to this open farm today, and put their campaign aside. one of the organisers is here with us. just explain to us how you felt about them not campaigning at the farm today. myself and everybody here is very appreciative that the candidates were able to set aside their differences for one hour, and very much in the spirit of brendan cox and his request they come together and raise money for charity. it's really good to see and we'd like to see more of it. what was the reaction from people today

the initiative comes after a personal request from her husband, brendan cox. to this, how did this initiative, boat? this is an open farm injo cox's former constituency, batley and spend. brendan cox made the appeal for campaigning to stop across the country for an hour today. as part of the memorial to her, that people have more in common than what divides them. the politicians, five of the six candidates standing in this constituency in batley and spen coming together, walking around with families and children together, rather than arguing, rather than the normal cut and thrust of politics. 0ne normal cut and thrust of politics. one of the organisers joins me. normal cut and thrust of politics. one of the organisersjoins me. you put the request in that they come here today, you must be pleased that they obliged? really happy that they have put their differences aside and come together, they appear to be enjoying themselves, the local community is really happy to see them. it has been a really big success them. it has been a really big success and i'm really

the initiative comes after a personal request from her widower brendan cox — the first anniversary ofa moment of rare calm in this election, several party leaders, including the greens and the lib dems, are putting politics to one side. in a mark of solidarity, labour leaderjeremy corbyn is setto visit a community centre in liverpool, and theresa may has also given her support to the idea of downing campaigning tools. focus won't be on policy, but instead on visiting local community projects. parties have asked all of their candidates to do the same. they are coming together to remember jo cox, the mp who was shot and stabbed by the far right extremist thomas mair in her constituency of batley and spen last summer. he was later given a whole life sentence for her murder. her husband brendan cox has organised the great get—together to mark the one—year anniversary of her death next month. it will see events like picnics, street parties and coffee mornings take place around the uk between the 16th and 18thjune. jo would have been incredibly touched, both by the fact that all political p

and brendan cox, whose wife was killed almost a year ago, of course.marr. still to come this morning. have you registered to vote ? morning. have you registered to vote? no. will you register to vote? no. tomorrow is the deadline to register to vote. she will not be. you need to get on it. we will find out why some people just are not interested in going to the ballot box. stay with us. we have all the headlines coming up next. hello, this is breakfast with rogerjohnson and rachel burden. coming up before 8:00am, we will have all the weather and sport. but first, at 7:30am, a summary of this morning's main news: president trump will today call on muslims to present a united front in the fight against religious extremism, in his first major speech on islam in saudi arabia. the us president will address more than a0 leaders of islamic countries, on the second day of his visit to the middle east. it follows a busy first day yesterday, in which mr trump signed commercial deals worth over $350 billion. tomorrow he will head to israel. at least 18 cia inform

the initiative comes after a personal request from her husband, brendan cox.nniversary of her murder is next month. 0ur correspondentjames waterhouse has more. ina in a moment of rare calm in this election, several party leaders, including the greens and libdems, are putting party politics to one side. in a mark of solidarity, the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, is set to visit a community centre in liverpool and theresa may has also given her support to the idea of downing campaigning tools. today's focus won't be on policy, but instead on visiting local community projects. the parties have asked all of their candidates to do the same. they are coming together to remember jo cox, the mp who was shot and stabbed by the far right extremist thomas met in her constituency of batley and spend last summer. he was later given a whole life sentence for her murder. her husband, rendon cox, has organised a great get together to organise the one—year anniversary of her death next month. it will see events like picnics, street markets taking place between the 16th and 18th

the initiative comes after a personal request from her widower brendan cox — the first anniversary of month. jo—wilfried been incredible touch, both by the fact that upward parties are posing for a moment, both by the fact that upward parties are posing fora moment, but both by the fact that upward parties are posing for a moment, but also by the public reaction. —— jo would have been touched. jo cared about drawing communities together, that is what mattered to her. 82 schoolgirls who were kidnapped in nigeria three years ago have been reunited with their families. the girls were released earlier this month as part of a deal between the nigerian government and boko haram islamist militants who had been holding them. 0ur correspondent alistair leithead reports now on the emotional reunions in the nigerian capital, abuja. the moment they‘d been waiting more than three years for — to see each other again. an emotional reunion for the newly returned chibok girls and their parents. 82 of the missing girls were released two weeks ago. it was a celebratory first meeting. but this is the sta

the initiative comes after a personal request from her widower brendan cox — the first anniversary ofrare quiet, several party leaders are putting campaigning to one side. jeremy corbyn and theresa may have both given their support to the idea of banning campaigning tools. focus will be on policy but instead on visiting local community projects. parties of us their candidates to do the same. they are coming together to rememberjo cox, the mp who was shot and stabbed by a far right extremist in her constituency last summer. extremist in her constituency last summer. he was later given a whole life sentence for murder. her widower has organised a get—together to correct the anniversary of her death basement. it will see events like picnics and coffee mornings ta ke like picnics and coffee mornings take place around the uk. jo would have been incredibly touched, both by the fact that parties are pausing for a moment, but also by the public reaction. jo cared about drawing communities together, that is what mattered to her. in the words of his late wife, there is more in common than that