i'm joined now by the family lawyer radd seiger. thank you very much for being with us.ery much for being with us. tell us first about this action against the foreign office you are taking. yes, we spent two or three hours today with geoffrey robinson qc, and mark stephens, the family lawyers, and we have been through everything with a fine tooth comb. we are very clear that the foreign office's decision to advise northamptonshire police that this lady, mrs sacoolas, had diplomatic immunity, was not only wrong but also unlawful. so our first step is to issue something called a letter of claim, a prior step tojudicial review, called a letter of claim, a prior step to judicial review, and we will ask the court to quash that decision. we will ask them to say she never had immunity. if the foreign office where here, i'm sure they would say they were doing their best in this case. i'm of course. they have said right from the start that she had immunity, but it then lapsed when she left the country. we say she never had it, and it is going to have to be decided by a court. and

and we'll be speaking to radd seiger, who's representing the family, and went with them to the whitehe programme. president erdogan of turkey has insisted he will "never declare a ceasefire" to end the military offensive against kurdish forces in northern syria. he also dismissed the likely impact of us sanctions on the turkish economy, saying he wasn't worried about them. he was speaking before a visit to ankara by a high—level us delegation. four people have been detained by police in the bulgarian capital, sofia, following racist chanting directed at england's footballers on monday night. the bulgarian interior ministry said the people had been held to investigate those who are responsible for improper acts during the match. england's players were subjected to racists chants and nazi salutes during their 6—0 victory. more than a thousand children were caught with weapons in school last year, according to a survey of 29 police the survey by the press association found the weapons included knives, blades, knuckledusters and a taser stun gun. the children included a 14—year—old with

it has to happen very quickly pulled up radd seiger. believe that. i cannot believe that. can you imagine being introduced so quickly? it was quick thinking from those in the room to say no. with the press they are ready to is take pictures. and we will obviously continue talking to the family and following that story here on bbc breakfast. let's go see what is up with the weather. carol, what is happening? there is a great start the day for some of us because there a weather front moving east to west overnight. heavy pulses of rain along it that will clear for most of us through the morning and behind it, a return to sunshine. you can see nicely in the satellite picture this area of cloud. this is what has been bringing rain and it has been moving west to east clearly northern ireland initially. and as it continues to do so, what you will notice behind it is a transient ridge of high pressure and then the next area of low pressure coming our way tomorrow bringing more unsettled conditions. misty and murky conditions. misty and murky co

radd seiger, thank you for talking to us.sing disruption. 320 people have been arrested in the capital since the protests began yesterday. 30,000 people are expected to take part in a second day of action organised by the extinction rebellion group. we can cross now to keele university and speak to dr sharon george, who is a researcher and lecturer in environmental sustainability and green technology. let's begin, good morning, with those comments from the prime minister. in a way, that will give the group extinction rebellion the sort of publicity they want to continue to have around their protest? exactly, the reason these people are protesting in the first places they feel nobody is listening, and the scientific community has been saying this message for 30 years and nothing is happening fast enough, so that frustration is being felt through protests. and yet now, just at the point where the prime minister has the opportunity to listen, he comes out with that statement. yesterday i was worried that these protesters might b

that is radd seiger, who is representing the parents of harry dunn.worklife from bbc news, with sally bundock and tim willcox. across europe, the age of austerity is over. what does it mean for government debt? live from london, that's our top story on monday 1ath october. spend, spend, spend. the queen will open a new session of the uk parliament setting out the government's agenda,

dunn, we had his parents on this programme and his parents on this programme and his spokesman radd seigerlomat, anne sacoolas. nick adderley gave a clear timeline of he knew what when anti edged constraints and commentary on the case, which he said wasn't helpful —— he urged constraint in commentary. he said that officers will travel to the usa once they have their visas to interview under caution the suspect anne sacoolas. repeating that everyone is entitled toafair repeating that everyone is entitled to a fair trial. presumably, feeling the need to make that statement because there have been some theories in the last few days that potentially there was some sort of cover—up over who knew about anne sacoolas‘ diplomatic immunity and about when she left the country but about when she left the country but a clear timeline from mr adderley. we have two mps sitting here, they are not northamptonshire mps, david linden andjim are not northamptonshire mps, david linden and jim fitzpatrick, i wonder if on linden and jim fitzpatrick, i wonder ifona linden and jim fitzpatrick, i wonder if on a hu

radd seiger is the spokesman for the family and was with them at the white house.there has been a lot of activity since you joined me here in the studio about a week ago to talk about harry and his parents, culminating in this extraordinary meeting. just give us your account of what happened at the white house? well, i'm still catching my breath, we're about 12 hours on and ijust wa nted we're about 12 hours on and ijust wanted to give myself some space and time to figure outjust what happened. because at least as far as iam happened. because at least as far as i am concerned, that was a totally unprecedented and quite extraordinary meeting. we were in new york, mid—morning yesterday, doing a number of appearances on the brea kfast doing a number of appearances on the breakfast shows out here, trying to raise harry's case amongst the population here. and i got a phone call, it must have been about 11 o'clock, saying, from somebody at the white house, they could not tell me who, but a senior government official, wanted to see us, and would we please come down to was

we can talk now to the family's lawyer radd seiger.er statement that has just dropped from the fca. they said... as the foreign secretary set out in parliament, the individual involved, miss sacoolas, had diplomatic immunity whilst in the country under the vienna convention on diplomatic relations. what do you make of that? that is flatly disputed by our side. we have a serious disagreement with the foreign office on that point. we simply say that mr sacoolas was not a diplomat. we understand he is a technical officer, and as such, has no benefit of diplomatic immunity. so you are saying he didn't have diplomatic immunity, let alone her? let alone her. right. so let's trace this back. the fco get in touch with northamptonshire police and say, they cannot investigate this any further because she has diplomatic immunity. the technical term further because she has diplomatic immunity. the technicalterm is advised. so the foreign office advised. so the foreign office advised northamptonshire police that this lady, mrs sacoolas, had the ben

radd seiger is the family's advisor and spokesperson. thank you for speaking with us.ding insult to injury. even more frustration tonight than there was before the statement was made. in the house of commons. by anger and frustration, you are referring to the tweets you put out about the meeting with northamptonshire police. two sides to it, we have the police, the foreign office. the police were supposed to be looking after this, the family feel completely abandoned by both. there has been absolutely an unacceptable lack of information being provided to the family. the statement that dominic raab gave tonight, he could have given to the family directly, two weeks ago. the family directly, two weeks ago. the family feel like they were stonewalled in the meeting. we were due to be meeting the chief co nsta ble due to be meeting the chief constable on wednesday, for what we thought was going to be an open and frank and transparent meeting. told me today, earlier, that he could not do much more than offer his condolences. what we heard tonight in the house of commons, the