she says borisjohnson is islamophobia in the party.ays boris johnson is using islamophobia in the party. she says borisjohnson is using bigotry to further his career. to use language like letterboxes and armed robbers and colourful language to further this debate is not about having a serious debate on a serious issue, it is about trying to get airtime and attention on an issue that he knows will resonate with a certain pa rt knows will resonate with a certain part of the tory party. but friends of mrjohnson say it is ridiculous that his views are being attacked and that difficult issues had to be debated. it was an erudite column with a bit of humour about the pertinent issue, that denmark have banned the burqa but boris does not think that is the answer to the issue in our country. and he made his comments, nothing to apologise for. it has all been blown out of all proportion by those who wish to call political damage. senior tories have criticised mrjohnson using offensive language. what concerns some is that it will be seized upon

even if it isa engaged in islamophobia. the amount of pressure we are putting in the labour party when it comes to anti—semitism, i think we should also pleased the lens on the conservative party and i am so glad for theresa may that she made a comment that it is not anyone's job to dictate what women should wear, there is also a misogyny problem. thank you so much. thank you. british gas is increasing prices for millions of customers, for the second time this year. the firm's standard variable tariff will go up by 3.8%, raising the annual bill for a typical dual—fuel customer by £44. the change comes into effect in october, and centrica, which owns british gas, is blaming the price rise on higher costs in the wholesale market. our business correspondent, emma simpson reports. when it's this hot there is no need to worry about heating your home but today a sting in the airfor 3.5 million british gas customers like robert chapman in lincolnshire. he's on a standard variable tariff and has been for decades. and his bill is go

for years she's been calling for an enquiry into islamophobia in the party.son‘s using bigotry to further his political career. to use language like "letter boxes" and "armed robbers" and other colourful language to have this debate, is not about having a serious debate on a serious issue. it's about trying to get airtime and attention on an issue which he knows will resonate with a certain part of the tory party. but mrjohnson‘s friends say it's ridiculous that his views are being attacked, and difficult issues had to be debated. it was an erudite column with a bit of humour about a pertinent issue that denmark has banned the burqa, but boris doesn't think that's the answer to the issue in our country, and he made his comments. nothing to apologise for. it's all been blown out of all proportion by those who wish to cause him political damage. critics say mrjohnson‘s comments will harm community cohesion. some suspect him of being deliberately provocative, ensuring he stays in the limelight after leaving government. senior conservatives have said boris johnso

biggest threat to promise to tourism a struggling leadership song a guy i got looks at whether islamophobia is becoming more acceptable and british politics. the politics of prejudice are creating a summer of discontent in the u.k. the labor party dogged by accusations of anti-semitism and islamophobia cost him a shadow over the governing conservative party triggered by the ex foreign secretary boris johnson's article in which he outlined his position against a ban on face males describing women who wear them as looking like letter boxes and bank robbers that prompted an inquiry into mr johnson's behavior and criticism from the prime minister the question of how a woman should dress is a matter for a woman's individual choice nobody should be trying to tell a woman how to dress in these tense times where the u.k. is shopping divided over issues of breck's it immigration and a higher presence of extreme right wing politics somewhat worried that the current debate is leading to a rise in hate crime especially given mr johnson's recent article. it was quite brief two weeks. thing. we've been w

in british politics slowly but surely there is an increasing islamophobia and i think muslim women being kind of the visible face of islam because obviously we are covered people can see we're muslim. we tend to be the ones that get the most hate and the most jokes made about us the hard right of the government have looked to bars johnson as a possible successor to to reason may but there to be a leadership challenge later in the year his comments may have emboldened their views but any short term success would come with a cost of alienating a whole section of britons who grow more uneasy at the direction the country's politics is headed so now you go al-jazeera london. xico cities on the most congested cities in the world with huge traffic jams and regular parts of people's commutes and then motorists are being treated to an unexpected surprise when they hit the red lights homeland has this report from mexico city. a light turns red in mexico city and something extraordinary happens. oh. this is the idea of then tia a ballet company working with the mix crew city government to take don'

islamophobia is not funny.aign to get him deselected, and he needs to be made an example, because conservatives like you come on and — it isa conservatives like you come on and — it is a joke, you should be embarrassed, i would it is a joke, you should be embarrassed, iwould be it is a joke, you should be embarrassed, i would be embarrassed to be your constituent. this is pointless, we live in a democracy, you are entitled to your opinion, i'm entitled to mine, boris is entitled to his opinion, your viewers are entitled to theirs. because we live in a liberal democracy, i am because we live in a liberal democracy, iam not because we live in a liberal democracy, i am not up for banning face coverings, but the quid pro quo of that is that we have the freedom of that is that we have the freedom of speech for people to express their views and discuss it, that comes with the territory. the culture secretary said the quid pro quo of holding a public position is to hold yourself to a high standard, not savings which p

she is a geneticist by training, who campaigns against islamophobia. shejoins me from cardiff. for having me. what did you think when he first heard these comments from boris johnson? heard these comments from boris johnson? i think his comments are islamophobic and racist, offensive and insulting also because he is dehumanising muslim bailed women and criminalising them, creating an environment of suspicion was we already face triple distillation against faith, race and our gender and now we have a high profile politician using abusive language —— triple discrimination. without a doubt it will make our lives more difficult and it will lead to a rise in islamophobic abuse. if that something you supper ordinarily anyway, before this particular article was written? definitely, i have lost count of how many islamophobic views i have faced and it has increased already after brexit and now with borisjohnson, i am not expecting this abuse to be reduced. one of the incidents i have faced was in the hospital where i used to work and someone tried to steal a bike from the hospital and i

in british politics slowly but surely there is an increasing islamophobia and i think muslim women being kind of the visible face of islam because obviously we are covered people can see we're muslim. we tend to be the ones that get the most hate and the most jokes made about us the hard right of the government have looked to bars johnson as a possible successor to reason may but there to be a leadership challenge later in the year his comments may have emboldened their views but any short term success would come at the cost of alienating a whole section of britons who grow more uneasy at the direction the country's politics is headed so now you go out jazeera london. still to come this news hour three two one zero. liftoff that's the launch of the fastest manmade object in history that's the probe on locking the scientific secrets of the sun thoughts. on andrew thomas in the northeastern indian state of assam where there's real concern about a new register of citizens which is left four million people. the concerns they're about to be made study. for the baltimore orioles break a fifty

for years she has been calling for an inquiry into islamophobia in the party.is career. to use language like letterboxes and armed robbers and colourful language to further this debate is not about having a serious debate on a serious issue, it is about trying to get airtime and attention on an issue that he knows will resonate with a certain part of the tory party. but mrjohnson's friends say it is ridiculous that his views are being attacked and that difficult issues had to be debated. it was an erudite column with a bit of humour about the pertinent issue, that denmark have banned the burqa but boris does not think that is the answer to the issue in our country. and he made his comments, nothing to apologise for. it has all been blown out of all proportion by those who wish now on bbc news, sport today. hello. this is sport today live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: afterfalling behind, johanna konta returns serve to move through to the second round of the rogers cup, beating jelena 0stapenko. dina asher smith equals the world leading

we need to go so let's look at the european political map some examples austria hungary poland islamophobia and to some it isn't hate speech again minorities. they have every day practice in these countries i don't i don't dispute with you that we have really serious and growing problems and it's the job of my agency to get the data about those problems out there in the public domain the actual experience of muslims in europe the actual experience of jews in europe put that in front of the policymakers the decision makers and then challenge them but a little early human rights committee is the problem not the solution in some countries it's not that simple and there is there's an enormous diversity of of willingness to make for better societies but it's not just the policymakers the politicians who make our societies it's also about civil society it's also about the faith groups it's the citizens themselves and a large part of our work is to engage with them and to convince them that this is something worth fighting for i will repeat my question in some countries are the governments the pro

interesting mix of absolute european democrat and a spiritual leader in islam when you try to fight islamophobia and open up your religion open up islam from a different angle how do your fellow believers see you i mean do you think you are a true muslim in their eyes in the must live of the clerics from egypt or iraq or maybe don't even care what they think. actually i do not seek the recognitions of of other people i seek the recognition of. but of course it means something to me what people think. actually we had a visitor it's it was the granny mom from the third largest mosques in the indonesia in jakarta it's called it's the mosque the granny mom he has two hundred thousand muslim this it says every friday for his friday prayer he came to the mahdi a mosque in copenhagen he prayed in a mosque and he blessed our mosque and he blessed the concept of female in months and he even quoted the one of my favorite inspirational sources which is it been out of be here from eleven sixty five until twelve forty and he said the perfect man is a woman so we have muslim spiritual great leaders who suppor

for years she has been calling for an inquiry into islamophobia in the party.ing bigotry to further his career. to use language like letterboxes and armed robbers and colourful language to further this debate is not about having a serious debate on a serious issue, it is about trying to get airtime and attention on an issue that he knows will resonate with a certain part of the tory party. but friends of mrjohnson say it is ridiculous that his views are being attacked and difficult issues had to be debated. it was an erudite column with a bit of humour about a pertinent issue, that denmark have banned the burqa, but boris doesn't think that is the answer to the issue in our country. and he made his comments, nothing to apologise for. it has all been blown out of all proportion by those who wish to cause him political damage. critics say mrjohnson‘s comments will harm community cohesion. some suspect him of being deliberately provocative, ensuring he stays in the limelight after leaving government. vicki young, there. tesla boss elon musk has suggested he's "con

mrjohnson has so far refused to apologise, amid accusations of islamophobia.r chief political correspondent vicki young. from online abuse to attacks on mosques did it crime figures suggest islam phobia is on the rise in britain. and the conservative party has faced accusations that it has not done enough to deal with incidents in its own party. and now boris johnson and now borisjohnson is underfire with prime minister backing calls to him to apologise. boris johnson used language in describing peoples appearance and has caused offence to dig it was the wrong language to use nt should not have used it. on the keyissue nt should not have used it. on the key issue of to where burke, if they choose to do so, that should be a matter for the woman to choose. writing in the telegraph, the former foreign secretary said, a total ban is not the answer but schools should be able to tell students to remove a burqa if they turn up looking like a bank robber. he went further saying, it is ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letterboxes. baroness

for years she has been calling for an inquiry into islamophobia in the party.he says borisjohnson is using bigotry to further his career. to use language like letterboxes and armed robbers and colourful language to further this debate is not about having a serious debate on a serious issue, it is about trying to get airtime and attention on an issue that he knows will resonate with a certain part of the tory party. but friends of mrjohnson say it is ridiculous that his views are being attacked and difficult issues had to be debated. it was an erudite column with a bit of humour about a pertinent issue, that denmark have banned the burqa, but boris doesn't think that is the answer to the issue in our country. and he made his comments, nothing to apologise for. it has all been blown out of all proportion by those who wish to cause him political damage. critics say mrjohnson's comments will harm community cohesion. some suspect him of being deliberately provocative, ensuring he stays in the limelight after leaving government. firefighters in california are now dea

to state that the government in denmark is against islam that's not the case we have a growing islamophobia or a growing and his i mean rhetorical propaganda in denmark but it's in the right right wing parties so the government in general they do accept islam as a religion like any other religion but. so so at a state level it's accepted and no i don't experience this kind of anti islamic retore at the state level but of course in the right wing parties at the daily basis you experience and make retore comparable again and we try to challenge that so there is push from muslims in countries like england canada france to create a separate sharia legality for them since those laws are the way of the face do you think that muslims in non islamic societies should have a separate legal system for themselves. i do not think so i think that it's that muslims all over the world i mean in european countries they should. they should accept and be a part of the constitution that is existing in the existing countries and it's also stated clearly in the koran that muslims have to. i mean submit themselve

biggest threat to promise to tourism a struggling leadership song a guy i got looks at whether islamophobia is becoming more acceptable and british politics. the politics of prejudice are creating a summer of discontent in the u.k. the labor party dogged by accusations of anti-semitism and islamophobia cost him a shadow over the governing conservative party triggered by the ex foreign secretary boris johnson's article in which he outlined his position against a ban on face males describing women who wear them as looking like letter boxes and bank robbers that prompted an inquiry into mr johnson's behavior and criticism from the prime minister the question of how a woman should dress is a matter for a woman's individual choice nobody should be trying to tell a woman how to dress in these tense times where the u.k. is shopping divided over issues of breck's it immigration and a higher presence of extreme right wing politics somewhat worried that the current debate is leading to a rise in hate crime especially given mr johnson's recent article. two weeks.

areas relating to islamophobia. how do you address that?. how do you address that? i don't believe my party has a problem with islamophobia. i do believe that my party has been slow in terms of making contact, keeping alive a friendship with muslim communities. idida friendship with muslim communities. i did a report for the party last yearin i did a report for the party last year in which i recommended that this should be a priority for the party. we've got lots of vibrant muslim members but in orderfor a political party to be effective it should represent the wider community, white, jewish, afro—caribbean and of course muslims. if it has been slow, whose fault is that? the party's hot and my fault, i started initiatives on i was german. but the party needs to understand, what i said in my report is, this is a long—term project. and the party is not effective and it represents a wider community. and thatis represents a wider community. and that is something it does need to address. we must leave it there, thank you for coming on. lord pick

when you try to fight islamophobia and open up your religion open up islam from a different angle how do your fellow believers see you i mean do you think you are a true muslim in their eyes in the muslim of the clerics from egypt or iraq or maybe don't even care what they think. actually i do not seek the recognitions of of other people i seek the recognition of. but of course it means something to me what people think. actually we had a visitor it's it was the granny mom from the third largest mosques in the indonesia in jakarta it's called it's the mosque the granny mom he has two hundred thousand muslim this it says every friday for his friday prayer he came to the mahdi a mosque in copenhagen he prayed in a mosque and he blessed our mosque and he blessed the concept of female in mum's and he even quoted a one of my favorite inspirational sources which is it been out of be here from eleven sixty five until twelve forty and he said the perfect man is a woman so we have muslim spiritual great leaders who support the mosque and of course we also met by a position because when you whe

have a few fake strikes on you tube and facebook with nebulous terms like bullying children and islamophobia jones is a controversial figure he claims the sandy hook school massacre was staged by crisis actors as a way to change gun laws in the us one of the families is now suing him for libel the first hearings in the case have been held in his texas be. he believes the nine eleven attacks were organized and carried out by the u.s. government and the government kills people by controlling the weather president donald trump is a fund he appeared on his radio show saying his reputation was amazing and he wouldn't let him down on a pioneer i don't care. i do human and i'm the one analyst rejects the idea joins is removal of freedom of speech implications first amendment does not give you a right to have a presence on a website first movement only limits governments from censoring you so what facebook and twitter are doing is not censorship it's private companies making decisions just like newspapers have always made decisions about who they will bring to their. apple has dropped his podcasts a

in the context of an increase in islamophobia, and claims tories haven't done enough to tackle anti—muslimis johnson's comments were guaranteed to make an impact. jurors have been shown cctv footage of the england cricketer ben stokes involved in an alleged "melee" outside a nightclub with two other men. stokes is one of three men accused of being involved in a violent confrontation in bristol last september. all three deny a charge of affray. the heatwave may be over in the uk, with many of us expecting rain over the coming days. but in australia — where it's winter — there's no let up in a prolonged dry spell. officials in the country's most populated state, new south wales, say that is now entirely in drought. from sydney, phil mercer reports. australia is a land well used to nature's extremes. it's the world's driest inhabited continent, but the resilience of its farming communities is being severely tested. south—eastern australia is in the grip of a drought worse than many can remember. it's had one of its driest autumns on record. winter hasn't been kind either. last month was the s

have a few fake strikes on you tube and facebook with nebulous terms like bullying children and islamophobia jones is a controversial figure he claims the sandy hook school massacre was staged by crisis actors as a way to change gun laws in the us one of the families is now suing him for libel the first hearings in the case have been held in his texas be. he believes the nine eleven attacks were organized and carried out by the u.s. government and the government kills people by controlling the weather president donald trump is a fund he appeared on his radio show saying his reputation was amazing and he wouldn't let him down and a pioneer and an exterior. other human and i come on this one analyst rejects the idea joins us removal has freedom of speech implications first amendment does not give you a right to have a presence on a web site person it only limits governments from censoring you so what facebook and twitter are doing is not censorship it's private companies making decisions just like newspapers have always made decisions about who they will bring into their forms apple has droppe

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the fla mes shop donald trump, fanning the fla m es of shop donald trump, fanning the flames of islamophobiaf islamophobia that she sees as something the conservative party has not got to grips with and is in denial about. she has tweeted about this today and said it‘s still an issue. that still no enquiry and no action on this. we heard from downing street, theresa may‘s official spokesperson said they do not support the ban on the wearing of face veils and it‘s something which would not be in keeping with british values. that's one political story today, what have labour and the arguments which continue about anti—semitism? the arguments which continue about anti-semitism? labour have this ongoing problem, certainly the jewish communities yet that the party has failed to take on the full definitions outlined in an international interpretation of anti—semitism in its new code of conduct so that‘s where this more recent flare—up of the anger over anti—semitism has come. jeremy corbyn over the weekend coming out ofan corbyn over the weekend coming out of an article, a video that he tries to p

about the burqa in the uk, we've seen, according to tell mama, an organisation which monitors islamophobiaificant rise in the number of incidents, attacks directed at muslim women in the uk wearing burqa, hijab, niqab. an organisation that doesn't have much credibility, with due respect to you. islamaphobia is real. let me refer to these statistics on the rise of islamophobic incidents in the uk. let's go back to a point i want to make, islamaphobia is the wrong term, it isn't a phobia against islam. it's a resentment of muslim behaviour. muslims are... for example, i arrived in this country as a young student many, many years ago. there was no such thing as islamaphobia and muslim bigotry, this has now arisen in the last 20—30 years when muslims are now demanding exceptionalism. for example, you are the great defender of liberal rights, and other people here. here we've a double rule here. a man cannot walk down the street masked, but somehow a woman can in the united kingdom. so, to be clear then... so, hang on, i'm saying... let's turn the temperature down a little bit, let's try and wo

talking about islamophobia, and i don't like the word, the racism against muslims in the conservativeas been going on and oi'i baroness warsi has been going on and on about. we don't talk about that. there is open season, i think, against labour and within labour. but there are many in the labour party itself... margaret hodge and ian austin, who have gone up to jeremy corbyn and told him what they thought, in rather fruity language, and now they find themselves being investigated. this is to go back to the observer splash, it's one thing tom watson is saying should be dropped, but i think we should recover to drop this disciplinary investigation to both of them. both of them lost family members in the holocaust. margaret hodge's came over to the uk as a four—year—old as a refugee. from ajewish over to the uk as a four—year—old as a refugee. from a jewish family. over to the uk as a four—year—old as a refugee. from ajewish family. ian austin comes from a jewish family, too. and this needs to be addressed, and jeremy corbyn, and this goes back to the point, he hasn't grasped the metal.

artificial obstacle means the particular obstacles to the rise of racism islamophobia some countries are against turkey's membership this is a exactly what i meant you know president is what he's saying that turkey is ready to continue their relations with the european union on the basis off the stand that's democratic standards but if you look at the obstacles because of cyprus or because of sarkozy because of that all of them are artificial and the political one ok mr foreign minister let's talk about factual of the islamic cleric in the states you've asked the states to is a terrorist or going to have values now that you tell me i know can i give you the question first yes but you have other you have to disagree with you have asked us just as well that you didn't look it when you were close to us lives are lost or died his is a he's a promoter and he's a terrorist i understand what you say you like what he did in china that's why you said islamic cleric this is exactly what i meant now you answered i'm not you i'm not going to use your leg now you are answering the years in that y

the former foreign secretary boris johnson has been accused of islamophobia after saying muslim women newspaper column, he said he was against bans on face—covering veils in public places, but added that they looked absolutely ridiculous. the muslim council of britain accused him of pandering to the far right. in indonesia, thousands of people have been left stranded after a second earthquake hit the holiday island of lombok and the surrounding area. more than 90 people are known to have died and hundreds have been injured. thousands of others have been left without shelter, and are having to camp out in the fields. our correspondent is in lombok, and sent us this report. it struck without warning, sending thousands into the streets to seek shelter. the 6.9 magnitude quake is the second to have hit the island of lombok in just over a week, causing yet more chaos, destruction and death. and it has displaced thousands who were driven out of their homes in the fear the after—shocks could bring about a tsunami. for the locals here, the quake comes all too soon after the one last week whic

on every front page about anti—semitism and he was beginning to ramble about the tory party and islamophobiaront pages away from jeremy corbyn —— taking. the thing is he might be appealing to the grassroots but then he is also annoying a lot of mps, this is the most peculiar way of doing things. this is boris. he is churchill and that this is the voice of the british bulldog and that he will be bowed down by political correctness. when you read the polling in the sunday express he still has supporters and he is supported by the public. he has got to get past the tory mps to nominate him before he gets to the point of being able to go to the membership. the other point is right, he's not just a one addition, he's a journalist and he knows this is the silly season —— he's notjust a politician. his article was about why he did not back banning the burqa, that has been forgotten. he gets paid a lot of money to think about every word he writes, so he did not do it without thinking. now the sunday telegraph. goodness knows what people are spending seven hours a day on their phones doing. this isn'

when you try to fight islamophobia and open up your religion open up islam from a different angle how do your fellow believers see you i mean do you think you are a true muslim in their eyes and the must live of the clerics from egypt or iraq or maybe don't even care what they think actually i do not seek the recognitions of of other people i seek the recognition of. but of course it means something to me what people think. actually we had a visitor it's was the granny mom from the third largest mosques in the indonesia. it's called the mosque the granny mom he has two hundred thousand muslim because it says every friday for his friday prayer he came to them i am up.

talking about that created and i refuse you and the immigrant sentiment the rise of hate groups islamophobia and also rise of terrorism and also we need to remember that. last generation of syrians millions of children in the refugee camps in all in jordan and lebanon are going to create a lot of instability in the future and the middle east so if we care about syria we have to prepare the circumstances in syria that will let these refugees go back home and these circumstances means political change political settlement and also having safety and dignity for the refugees right there will there is a law that in acted by the government in syria that confiscate the lands and the properties of the refugees who are left syria if they do not show up within thirty days this is low number ten so in order to make it easy for there if you go back to syria we need to make sure that with pressure the government that can influence this equation sites. tim i want to take our audience back to december twenty eighth when your brother man attend up at me at port with his skates and rock that i have in the. a

when you try to fight islamophobia and open up your religion open up islam from a different angle how do your fellow believers see you i mean do you think you are a true muslim in their eyes and the must live of the clerics from egypt or iraq or maybe don't even care what they think actually i do not seek the recognitions of of other people i seek the recognition of. but of course it means something to me what people think. actually we had a visitor it's it was the granny mom from the third largest mosques in the indonesia in jakarta it's called a mosque the granny mom he has two hundred thousand muslim this it says every friday for his friday prayer he came to the mahdi a mosque in copenhagen he prayed in a mosque and he blessed our mosque and he blessed the concept of female in mum's and he even quoted a one of my favorite inspirational sources which is it been out of be here from eleven sixty five until twelve forty and he said the perfect man is a woman so we have muslim spiritual great leaders who support the mosque and of course we also met by a position because when you when yo

culture as an expert to see all of root told is that in this case law makers are just jumping on the islamophobia bandwagon. it shows in my opinion more tolerance than anything else and there's nothing illegal about it so as far as the politicians are concerned that's really the only thing that they should be pronouncing themselves on yet instead they're starting to let mr annan use fifteen of islam very frankly to try and make it look bad but as far as the government is concerned there question should be ok is it legal or illegal in france putting the mail on in school is illegal so if that picture were something that were happening in school then get france would have to ask us to make a different picture because they can't. put a schoolgirl in a veil. now the leader of germany's left party is launching a new political movement called stand up one of its self-proclaimed goals is to the friend the interests of those who feel ignored by the current government. that make up yeah that's that lancaster was a copy and i sent an adolescent. because of it's been in the if you know ya them good to have

politician boris johnson is under fire over a newspaper column for which he is being accused of making islamophobia comments about face of. backers accuse the b.b.c. of shifting right. we put the claims to the b.b.c. which responded by saying it is proud to be the most trusted news provider at a cost to audiences of only forty pence a day here is some of the reaction we got earlier on r t u k. they perceive the b.b.c. is maybe shooting one person what i would say is that it's without question and indeed the b.b.c. has more or less tacitly admitted this on occasion that they have a strong liberal bias in terms of the main issues of our time i think that's absolutely undeniable i mean or whether it's on migration with the results certainly on bricks it whether it's on climate change they have tended towards a certain viewpoint and i would say this without question the fact that that makes it a bias organization the problem with this campaign is it in a way is beside the point but i would say that the main thing is that the b.b.c. particularly for example since the referendum vote has shown its colors

the former foreign secretary borisjohnson, has been accused of islamophobia — after saying muslim womenboxes". in his newspaper column, he said he was against bans on face—covering veils in public places, but added that they looked "absolutely ridiculous". the muslim council of britain accused him of "pandering to the far right". in indonesia, thousands of people have been left stranded, after a second earthquake hit the holiday island of lombok and the surrounding area. more than 90 people are known to have died and hundreds have been injured. thousands of others have been left without shelter, and are having to camp out in the fields. 0ur correspondent mehulika sitepu is in lombok, and sent us this report. it struck without warning, sending thousands into the streets to seek shelter. the 6.9 magnitude quake is the second to have hit the island of lombok in just over a week, causing yet more chaos, destruction and death. and it has displaced thousands who were driven out of their homes in the fear the after—shocks could bring about a tsunami. for the locals here, the quake comes all to