you have set up to mosques, one in cape town, one in oxford.gether, there's no segregation. you have women lead prayers as well as men. you invite gay people to come just the same as everybody else. am i right? no... i mean, partly. men and women don't pray together, they are in two rows, right to the front, there's no partition. they're not in the back. there's a little, sort of, invisible aisle between the two. women one side to the front of the pulpit. men on the other side to the front of the pulpit. we do that. regarding people's sexual orientation or their other proclivities, we don't care. if someone enters the mosque and he hasn't paid his child benefits or whatever, we don't care. my point is we began with discussing the number of people you've reached out to that are now in your movement, and the numbers are quite small... they're growing. i was going to say, i'd imagine you'd like those numbers to grow. they are growing. do you think it helps your cause, your reach—out, if one can say the broad majority of muslims in britain today, t

have been well mark he is a professor of international politics at city university london and in oxford we crossed about calm and he is the director of the crisis research institute sorry gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to mark first in oxford on skype you know mark and. these last few programs like keep betraying my age when i can remember a good part of the history of the transatlantic relationship and they've been ups and downs they've been policy differences we can think of vietnam we can think of the illegal invasion and occupation of iraq during the reagan administration it was interim idiot missiles and they've pretty much been resolved those were problems i get the impression now that it's turning into divisions that about values and and what would the position of each in the world because the europeans after all these decades have pretty much tied themselves to the united states and have very limited options and they're not very happy about it is this a crisis of ideology and values now not just p

about it is it's a crisis of ideology and values now not just policy issues mark in oxford but i think it's a mixture of it's a crisis of early as well as a big difference disagreement about what is important and what should be principles between paris on one side and washington on the other shore so it's also about valuables in many ways the atlantic alliance from the late forty's on which was one in which the united states was to create an economic price for security and geopolitical advantage and so the marshall plan on which meant that the worst trade imbalances that were valued. they were going west european economies and initiate expensive states but overall everybody benefited now trump is saying it has to be a cost benefit analysis on that basis and putting america first means america has to come out on top and of course in schools the serious problems to european industries or finance in general because something that the united states is sort of spent most of the works at all since their actions against iran do sanctions on russia and so on which have a big effect and then al

is facing life injailfor a plot to kill 100 people in a terror attack outside the disney store on oxfordreet. more turbulence for ryanair as pilots strike in five european countries, bringing travel chaos for thousands at the height of the holiday season. 1600 people have been evacuated from camp sites after flash floods hit the south of france. and on this week's film review, jason statham stars as a rescue diver who must save his crew from a 75—foot prehistoric shark in the meg. we'll hear what jason solomons thought of that and the rest of this week's releases at 5:45pm. it's 5pm. our top story: the owner of sports direct, mike ashley, has said he aims to transform house of fraser into the "harrods of the high street", after agreeing to pay £90 million to rescue the department store chain from administration. mr ashley described the deal as a "massive step forward" and pledged to do his best to "keep as many stores open as possible". here's our business correspondent rob young. house of fraser has a long, proud history. it started in glasgow in 18119 and has been on the high street ev

facing life in jailfor plots to kill 100 people in a terror attack outside a department store on oxfordstreet. also this hour, 1600 people have been evacuated from campsites in southern france to front —— flash floods hit the region. a 70—year—old german man is missing after his caravan was swept away. and at 11:30pm i will be taking another look at the papers with our reviewers. hello, if you havejustjoined us, good evening to you. the struggling department store house of fraser has been bought just hours department store house of fraser has been boughtjust hours after it went into administration. the new owner is sports direct, led by mike ashley. he says he wants to turn the chain into the harrods of the high street. sports direct is paying £90 million for the business, which is 169 years old. at the moment, house of fraser has 59 stores across the country. of those, 31 had been earmarked for closure. in a statement, mr ashley said he would do his best to keep as many open as he possibly can. so this evening 17,500 employees of house of fraser wait to find out exactly what mike ashle

nobody takes seriously in oxford or elsewhere. my message is quite clear.to originally what islam is about, and that is the way to live in the west. if you are going to live in the west as an integrated citizen, you can't live under hadith, sharia and fatwas. it is all manufactured by men. not women. these texts have a jaundiced view of islam. this is your concept, you are looking to set up a think—tank. islam. this is your concept, you are looking to set up a think-tank. we are launching in october. here is what you say about it. people will be fascinated. you say, we need to create an indigenous british islam which is integrated into its own environment. in a way, you strike me as somebody who is calling for something akin to the 16th century reformation in the christian religion where martin luther and others in the end broke away from rome and from the catholic church but in essence, you can't have a reformation in islam because there is no rome, and there is no pope, there is no central authority. how can you have this sort of reformation? we have orth

street and madame which he said toa oxford street and madame which he said to a is contact.le could be killed. he'd earlier admitted to his contact that he couldn't drive because he was afraid of crashing. more than three months after being charged, he today pleaded guilty by video link today pleaded guilty by video link to preparing an act of terrorism in london and, when he is sentenced in november, the sentence is likely to be life. thank you, daniel sandford. china is continuing its contentious expansion in the south china sea, despite fervent opposition from its neighbours and their allies. the chinese government claims the entire area, within these lines, belongs to them. it's dredged areas of the sea in the spratly island chain to create military bases, to defend what it views as its territory. but the phillippines, vietnam, ?malaysia and brunei also lay claim to the resource—rich waters, while america says it won't sit back and allow china to dominate the area unchallenged. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield—hayesjoined a us plane on a reconnaissance flight to chart

here in the oxford union. she served as time magazine's pakistan correspondent for six years in your view how democratic would you call pakistan today and and how influential today do you think the military still is it's a fledgling democracy. so the genuine efforts towards that however the military remains preeminence there's a pattern that happens which is the civilian government would be elected they would try something else like to pursue an independent foreign policy in the first year they get hit by a political crisis then what happens is that to guarantee their survival they enter a modus vivendi with the army and they say we will see the prerogative that you wish to have your break that cycle can you break down well you need two things to happen one is there needs to be an absence of war when there is war going on the army will claim a preeminent role the other is to have competent civilian government that produces economic growth in parts of history you've had. not even his government certainly not it

is facing life injailfor a plot to kill 1000 people in a terror attack outside the disney store on oxfordstreet. 1600 people have been evacuated from camp sites after flash floods hit the south of france. a 70—year—old german man is missing after his caravan was swept away. a nine—year—old chess prodigy and his family have been allowed to stay in the uk. his father's work visa was due to expire next month. and despite billions invested into new tv programmes, a 24—year—old sitcom is the most popular show across streaming services. we'll be discussing the timeless appeal of friends. the struggling department store house of fraser has been bought, just hours after going into administration, by sports direct. its owner mike ashley says he wants to turn the chain into the "harrods of the high street". sports direct is paying £90 million for the business, which is 169 years old. house of fraser has 59 stores across the country. 31 of them had been earmarked for closure, but mike ashley said in a statement he'll be doing his best to keep as many open as possible. so this evening, the 17,500 str

street, when he decided there wasn't he came to oxford street, took a picture of oxford circus londont is not clear what his target was but he had written notes and when police searched his home they found torn up notes which suggested the extent of his planning so the first note listed the targets but also said crowded london areas long road with no bollards or barriers preventing a van mounting the pavement busiest time between 11 and midday, saturdays the busiest, he talks about how that would be ripe for an attack, he said it is expected nearly 100 could be killed. he mentioned staying the night before in the area, and van rental. he tried to cover his tracks by throwing his phone away but police managed to recover that and recover the data off it. they found a lot his planning hidden in an app, and critically they found a slightly bizarre video where he is hooded and making an oath of allegiance to the is group in syria, that was part of the key evidence against him. he was also accused of plotting to alternatively go to philippines to joinjihadist alternatively go to philippines

maybe here in the lady my name is far too i work with a local charity here in oxford called oxford against cutting ok so you have said in the past that the way the women of my group treat their genitals is their business are you saying that charities like all should pack a bag and go home and you've also said that you would even condemn female genital mutilation at all. how does that deal fit in with the human rights agenda of saving all children from you and i both know that this is not a simple question there are many different ways of doing cutting and they have different significance in different communities so we this is not an easy question but what annoys me is that we decide that african women or whoever from whichever community may not do these things to themselves and it's complicated but most people say. it's a gross violation of human you better stop. you better stop american women learn english why. and when during a good that's nice what about tree the question is do you condemn it no no you don't you don't really matter to me the way you do lots of cultural practice you know

so there was a mail order strike for six weeks, so we went looking for a very cheap music store on oxfordtreet. david: then you started filling virgin megastores. you have a lot of stores in the u.k. and other places. how many did you have at one point? richard: we had about 300 megastores around the world in all the main places, like in times square, oxford street, in the heyday when music was all that young people did, before games, mobile phones, and the other things young people do. david: was the virgin name your self-promotion of it, or were you selling things cheaper than other people? richard: virgin was synonymous with music credibility, so frank zappa, the rolling stones, so we had a very credible brand. one day, there was a young artist that came to me with this fantastic tape. i took it to a number of record companies, and none of them would put it out. i thought, screw that, we will start our own record company, and we put it out on our own record company. and it became a great success. david: so you have a record retailing company and a record production company, both called

and it was just little heard of from oxford or cambridge. and it wasjust little me.get their heads around it. they didn't know what it was. and thankfully, what i did, instead of turning around that the publisher in london with it, ijust said, stop, go away, write another book, do the best you can but make it completely different. which was every day is mother's day. yes, a contemporary novel, short, funny. if that didn't work, i would have thought i was deluded myself and stopped. but fortunately it did take. so the first decade, 12 years of my writing, was a very rocky. my morale sank sometimes. i needed a lot of self belief to keep going. but once every day is mother's day it's the right desk, and that was the desk of the literary agent who still looks after me, everything went swimmingly. comparatively. yes. and finally, a place of greater safety was published. it was, and it w011 safety was published. it was, and it won the sunday express book of the year prize. and ifelt won the sunday express book of the year prize. and i felt vindicated, innocence. i mean, yo

in discussions unmanned house and i've come here to the oxford union to go head to head with professor suppose the renowned economist un advisor and bestselling author i'll be challenging him on whether immigration is a danger to western identity and whether closing the door helps or hurts poor countries. also be joined by t.v. banjoko a british nigerian doctor and the managing director of the for. david goodhart journalist author and an advocate of much tighter controls on immigration and philip economist adviser and a supporter of open borders. ladies and gentlemen professor paul collier. an economist at the university his latest book is a migration is changing. paul collier we're both you and i were both the products of migration you're the grandson i believe of a german migrant i'm the son of indian immigrants to the u.k. in your book exodus you say that while immigration into developed countries from developing countries has had economic benefits in many ways it's been very good you also say that more and more immigration into the west poses a danger to social cohesion risks dilut

he wrote about waking up in oxford, having left the gas fire on in his room, so it got very hot.nd, he came home to trinidad regularly, as long as he was able to, and he was different, very often, so it's a kind of love hate relationship on his side and on the other side, the people of trinidad admired his life and were pleased and proud he had done so well internationally and represented the country but also resented some of the things he wrote about it and the fact that in his later years, he was being referred to asa later years, he was being referred to as a british writer born in trinidad when a lot of the subject matter, certainty of his early work, was drawn from things that happened or could have happened or the kind of things that happened in trinidad so they felt he owed trinidad a debt that he did not always acknowledge the extent that he to have. what was it, was at a certain t? but he looks down on trinidad, the place that sort of meet him? well, he talks about when he left trinidad and reached civilisation. trinidad is not the place... in his day, it had not the pla

holly kerr from oxford was both nervous and excited when she decided to have ivf.time round. if i wanted to have a baby, i came to needed to get a move on because i was 36 when i first started thinking about it. i became aware that i had not been in a relationship for some time. if i didn't go down the ivf route, it might never happen. holly is one of a growing number of single women having ivf. she used an anonymous sperm donor. how prepared are you for noah turning around and saying, i want to meet my dad? i feel very torn. when he turns 18, he can start to find out. that will be quite a poignant moment for me. if there is a chance that he has half—brothers or half—sisters, i know how much i have loved having a sister and i think that would be lovely for him to find out about. ivf involves an egg being fertilised with spam in a laboratory. the number of treatments for patients without a partner has gone up nationally. it has been over a thousand since 2014. that is an increase of 35%. oxford fertility says it is seeing the same increase and will treat more than 2

raised in trinidad, he studied at oxford and worked for the bbc before becoming a prolific author.ude a house for mr biswas, the mystic masseur, a bend in the river and the booker prize—winning in a free state. he won the nobel prize for literature in 2001, for, as the award panel put it, "works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories". he died at his home in london. judy raymond has interviewed vs naipaul many times, she is the editor in chief of daily newspaper, trinidad and tobago newsday and joined me earlier. he had a very ambivalent relationship with trinidad. there were some things that he obviously loved about it or which were embedded in him from birth. and conversely, there were also things he couldn't bear. he wrote about waking up in oxford, having left the gas fire on in his room, so it got very hot, and having nightmares that he was back in trinidad again. but on the other hand, he came home to trinidad regularly, as long as he was physically able to, he had family here, and he would slip in and out quietly, very often, so it's a kind of love—hate r

you seem to not agree with the people from oxford, which is fine. i would like to know why you seem to be on somewhat of a narrow tunnel vision and it is a short tunnel. you are saying i am dealing with these problems, and you're doing a good job talking to people, i have to say that. in the long range in terms of , people, if automation continues, and i do not agree with you that automation takes care -- one person can take it of two jobs because of automation. look at amazon and their supply chain. it does not work that way. in the long run, since you have people and you can produce more with one person and automation than with 100 people someday, but you need the 100 people to buy the products. where are we going? does your organization look at that long-range or do you keep it what you might call politically -- a political horizon of one or two election cycles? host: thank you for the question. guest: i think the wrong range is incredible -- i think the long range is incredibly important and you are asking the right question. the best way to und

is facing life in prison for a plot to kill 100 people in a care attack outside a disney store on oxfordreet. zimbabwe presidential inauguration, which had to do to ta ke inauguration, which had to do to take place on sunday has been deferred after the opposition leader. as the waters rose alarmingly. and later this evening we will be reviewing the mornings papers with henry, a political correspondent. it will be with me at 10:45pm and 11:30pm. that is all i had. now it is time for sportsday. the premier league kicks off in under two hours. hello and welcome to sportsday with me chris mitchell. and me david ornstein. i'm live at olf trafford where manchester united open the new season at home to leicester city. united are contenders but who can stop this happening again? who can stop city defending the title? katerina johnson thompson throws down her challenge at the european championships but has she left herself too much to do. and rain ruins much the day's play at lords again but england take wickets and bag at the biggest it's upon us. it's friday night and the new premier league sea

it was inspired by his own life, an oxford educated author, whose roots lay in the indentured indian was born in trinidad. all these facets of one's background, personality and life have to be explored. in 2001, he was awarded the nobel prize for literature. it was just one of many awards, but sir vidiadhar could also be gruff, prickly, his views on islam and africa ensured he had his critics. he was not afraid of upsetting people. he didn't try to keep the worst aspect of his earlier behaviour away from the sight of the biographer. in the end, it's not the personality traits, rather it's the books, the works of literature that will endure. the writer, salman rushdie, said even though they'd disagreed all their lives, he felt he'd lost a beloved elder brother. the scholarship boy from trinidad that arrived in oxford in the 50s, was always something of an outsider looking in. his gaze could be unforgiving, but it was almost always worth reading. to understand me, you've got to know that writing is the most important aspect of my life. so, it's a kind of magic. it's a kind of magic. th

here in the oxford union. she served as time magazine's pakistan correspondent for six years in your view how democratic would you call pakistan today and and how influential today do you think the military still is it's a fledgling democracy. so the genuine efforts towards that however the military remains preeminence there's a pattern that happens which is the civilian government would be elected they would try something else like to pursue an independent foreign policy in the first year they get hit by a political crisis then what happens is that to guarantee their survival they enter a modus vivendi with the army and they say we will see the prerogative that you wish to get here or can you break down well you need two things to happen one is there needs to be an absence of war when there is war going on the army will claim a preeminent role the other is to have constant civilian government that produces economic growth in parts of history you've had. not even here is going to certainly not it will come abo

he then made a list of potential attack targets in london, including oxford street and madame tussaudshe suggested a possible van attack in which 100 people could be killed, though he had earlier admitted to his contacts that he couldn't drive because he had always been afraid of crashing. today, more than three months after being charged, he pleaded guilty by video link to preparing an act of terrorism in london, and when he is sentenced in november his sentence is quite likely to be life. the england cricketer, ben stokes, has denied being very drunk and enraged when he got into a fight outside a nightclub in bristol last september. ben stokes has been giving evidence for a second day at his trial. the 27 year—old admitted throwing several punches, but said he didn't remember knocking a man unconscious. he denies affray. the man he's accused of hitting is on trial alongside him. phil mackie reports from bristol crown court. ben stokes arrived at court for the fifth day of his trial and his second in the witness box. he was shown cctv footage filmed outside the club on the night of th

lady here in the lady my name is far too i work with a local charity here in oxford called oxford against cutting ok so you have said in the past that the way the wind of my group treat their genitals is their business are you saying that charities like all should pack a bag and go home and you've also said that you won't even condemn female genital mutilation at all. how does that view fit in with the human rights agenda of saving all children from you and i both know that this is not a simple question there are many different ways of doing cutting and they have different significance in different communities so we this is not an easy question but what annoys me is that we decide that african women or whoever from whichever community may not do these things to themselves and it is complicated but most people say. wrong. as it's a gross violation of human you better stop. you better stop american women earning less why. during a good that's nice what about three the question is do you condemn it no no you don't you don't really matter to me now we do lots of cultural practice you know. yo

going to hear more from our panel of experts and we're going to hear from our audience here in the oxford union that's after the break. to. on counting the cost crippled by its currency crisis while rich venezuela takes desperate measures this deal with its struggling economy plus it has a market value of billions but is yet to turn a four year profit we delve deeper into what's going on at tesla. count you know a car and i just see it as. news is happening faster than. ever before from different places from different people and you need to be part of back you need to be able to reach people wherever they are and that means being across all social media platforms this is where our audience lives as well as in front of a t.v. they're on the smartphone they're on the tablet they're on their computer. and that's the way al-jazeera is of all due to a true media network. where their online this isn't some abstract issue we need to pay attention to their stops or if you join us on sect rather than stopping terrorism it's creating a base is a dialogue and just the community is want to add to thi

going to hear more from our panel of experts and we're going to hear from our audience here in the oxford union that's after the break. on the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise there or you have to go. and increasingly migrant farm workers are victims of vicious beatings. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who. live them undocumented and under attack this is zero on al jazeera. al jazeera is a very important source of information for many people around the world when all the cameras have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. of struggles. between police look at it is pretty much what it's pretty much full of pleasure. out of the goodness of the with the only possible but i mean the right of what used to be an intimate look at life in cuba today is what. your people think but the government that you pay your money cuba on al-jazeera. hello i'm david gopal and then these are top stories and

born in trinidad, educated in oxford, his roots, the indian workforce of the caribbean plantations.e was, he said, a writer without a home. i think we now all of us, all of us can carry five, six, nine, ten, even 20 ideas of who we are. because the world is no longer, and probably has never been, that tribal a world. that background helped bring a new voice to the story of end of empire. 1971's in a free state won the booker prize. its journey from india and the caribbean to africa combined beautiful writing and some brutal observations. in 2001, he was awarded the nobel prize for literature, but sir vidiadhar could also be gruff, prickly — he was not afraid of upsetting people. he didn't try to keep the worst aspects of his earlier behaviour away from the sight of the biographer. in the end, it's not the personality traits, rather it's the books, the works of literature, that will endure. the writer, salman rushdie, said even though they'd disagreed all their lives, he felt he'd lost a beloved elder brother. this scholarship boy from trinidad, who'd arrived in oxford in the 50s was

i had set off when i was at oxford to research that. and wrote a very academic thing as dissertations are. that kind of always nurtured this idea in the back of my mind that maybe i would return to some of that stuff and try and write some tenet was narrative nonfiction like you do. and so along the way i can encouragement from some great people including the tiger mom and here we are. among the miracles in this book as you did at least part of it in front of a federal judge. is that correct? >> it sounds like a deposition. [laughter] and evan went to law school. i never clerked for a federal judge. this has been a passion for a number of years tardy when i was in law school and then served in the obama administration and clerked for a juggernaut of law firm in a done a number of different things while i'd then there seen this project along. it's just been an incredible passion of mine to get this book to where it is now in to see it out in the world is a real blunder. >> to take us back into how you got to "the flying tigers." i get th

as was my view when ok let's go to our audience for being very waiting very patiently here in the oxford union let's go to the lady just to further on the from here yes your party p.p.p. champions of democracy but feel student substance implemented even within your own party one but two follows the next you yourself are from a political family how do you expect there to be meaningful change in the country if the people in charge of that change got there because of who they're related to rather than what they've done for the country. i don't think you can single pakistan in that hillary clinton following president bill clinton there are many many examples all over the world and she served as a senator and secretary of state what below will bhutto do before you i'm going to leave you the university student the time yes. great town in pakistan you know his mother is right there so he's. there i know i think think i. clearly the fact of the matter is that in pakistan and in all developing countries it doesn't matter where you were born ok i have been born to a privileged background and i wil

that is according to oxford economics. there is no sign there is an offering for these parties.here are no official talks. rishaad: they are having a bit of a go at u.s. energy. why is that significant? risk is potentially a because china is dependent on much of its energy imports. has become increasingly dependent. it is targeted as part of the $16 billion fuel products including propane, gasoline, diesel. it has not targeted crude just yet. watched crude imports .ake up -- tick up we have seen reports of that starting to slow. it could be they put tariffs on crude at some point down the line. cap's adjusted they might hit liquefied natural gas. it is a risk because they want and they were hoping to get some of that lng from the u.s.. it may be beneficial to australia, who supplies lng to the chinese market. they are trying to target sectors of the economy were trump would like to see growth. possibly that is part of the calculation for the chinese in hitting out. rishaad: thank you. tom mackenzie in shanghai. moving to how this escalating trade tension is weighing on the you w

terrorism. 26—year—old lewis ludlow from kent had planned to hire a van and target pedestrians on oxfordedral. he'd hoped to kill up to 100 people. he'll be sentenced in november. bowel cancer screening in england is to be offered to men and women earlier, from the age of 50, rather than the current 60. the move brings england into line with scotland. public health england says screening people younger allows the disease to be detected earlier. business leaders have called on the government to scrap its targets for net migration after britain leaves the european union. the confederation of british industry said the targets should be replaced with a new system that ensures people coming to the uk make a positive contribution to the economy. the home office said it's committed to reducing net migration to tens of thousands. warmer weather, the football world cup and the royal wedding — all helped lift economic growth in the three months tojune. the office for national statistics says britan's economy grew by 0.4% in that period, compared with a rate of 0.2% in the first quarter of the year

maybe here in the lady my name is far too i work with a local charity here in oxford called oxford against cutting ok so you have said in the past that the way that wouldn't of my group treat their genitals is their business are you saying that charities like or should pack our bags and go home and you've also said that you won't even condemn female genital mutilation at all. how does that view fit in with the human rights agenda of saving all children from you and i both know that this is not a simple question there are many different ways of doing cutting and they have different significance in different communities so we this is not an easy question but what annoys me is that we decide that african women or whoever from whichever community may not do these things to themselves and it is complicated but most people say. the w.h.o. says it's a gross violation of human you better stop. you better stop american women learn english why. and when during a good that's nice what about tree the question is do you condemn it no no you don't you don't really matter to me the way you do lots of cul

and i've come to the oxford union to go head to head with economist and bestselling author. why she seems to blame democracy for economic growth and whether her plan to save democracy by giving some voters more power and influence than others could end up killing it instead. i'll be joined by author of the production of money and one of only a handful of economists who correctly predicted the financial crisis jamie whyte director of research at the institute of economic affairs. and they form a new zealand politician and philosophy electra and jason pickel and i'm for apologist at the london school of economics and author of the divide a brief guide to global inequality and its solution. maybe the gentleman please welcome dambisa moyo. this is the first book they told where you would rob them help you with foreign aid without making the poor he's a former goldman sachs banker. more welcome to you one of the central premises of your book is that the popular discontent that we see across the west right now for example the brics vote the election of donald trump the rise of pop