anchor: chris, why is ramadan such a divisive figure here?orter: not just in france, but elsewhere too. his supporters, he is namely a reformed minded islamic thinker, looking to build bridges between islamic cultures and western societies, but his detractors say that he holds views of that are more conservative that he is more akin to his grandfather, ththe father of the obama -- albana. the latter into perdition has had greater currency in france than elsewhere. french public figures have been perhaps more willing to act on the example of the former moderate conservative presidential hopeful, jupe, who banned ramadan from the city where they met. and on the other side of the u.s. channel he does have a funded seat at oxford. he is on leave from that at the moment as he faces these allegations in france. and he continues to receive 4000 pounds a month for that position. anchor: thank you. reporting on that appeal today. we have the latest from the winter olympics in pyeongchang, good day for france, with a french a snowboarder. here is more

a large van, its engine revving, smashing into a group of muslims on a summer night during ramadan.e injured, terrified that the driver was going to attack again. there's a few people who were really badly hurt and couldn't move. i thought he was going to kill us. what did you think he was going to kill you with? maybe a gun, maybe a knife. this, a 999 call made at the time. the driver was brought to the ground by the angry crowd. the local imam urging them not to hurt him. everyone back! when police arrested darren osborne, he waved as he was taken away. part and parcel of living in a big city. later at the police station, he ranted about previous terror attacks on muslims, saying, "have some of that, have some of your own. at least i had a proper go." at almost exactly that time, 51—year—old makram ali was declared dead at the scene. he'd been crushed by the van. darren osborne was born in singapore, but grew up in weston—super—mare, where friends remember a violent young man. he'd just stand like that and stick a glass in yourface. he did that numerous times. osborne moved here t

continuing to feed terror right across the arab world we talked to iraqi born british professor summing ramadan his violence defacto backed by the u.k. continues to be like the minds of millions and after last night's u.k. version of the also because we speak if you would really love them in a creator a fictional british secret agent kingsmen who explains why he thinks everything from the state mandated b.b.c. to neo liberal hollywood has been ruled by scandal after scandal but this new figures show the children are at more risk from a conflict now than at any other time in the last twenty years we speak to save the children about what needs to be done to protect the next generation noticeable coming up in today's going underground but first to more of b.p. the multinational oil company once owned by the u.k. taxpayer releases its energy outlook report detailing its predictions for long term energy trends and projections b.p. the fact it has a long history for instance overthrowing a democratically elected leader in the middle east mossad dect in iran in nineteen fifty three also direct was the

continuing to feed terror right across the arab world we talked to iraqi born british professor summing ramadan his violence defacto backed by the u.k. continues to block the minds of millions and after last night's u.k. version of the oscars we speak to be award winning author miller creator a fictional british secret agent kingsmen who explains why he thinks everything from the state mandated b.b.c. the neo liberal hollywood has been rocked by scandal after scandal but this new figures show the children are at more risk from armed conflict now than at any other time in the last twenty years we speak to save the children about what needs to be done to protect the next generation all the more coming up in today's going underground but first to more of b.p. the multinational oil company once owned by the u.k. taxpayer releases its energy outlook report detailing its predictions for long term energy trends and projections b.p. the factor has a long history for instance overthrowing a democratically elected leader in the middle east mossad backed in iran and in nineteen fifty three also direct was

french prosecutors have placed the prominent muslim academic tariq ramadan under formal investigation the swiss national denies wrongdoing and is suing one of his accusers, henda ayari, a former radical islamist who now heads a secular feminist group. a second woman has claimed she was raped in 2009. 16 syrians, including several children, died recently trying to travel across the mountains from syria into lebanon. they used a route taken by thousands before them but were caught in an icy blizzard and froze to death. one of the few to survive was a small girl called sara. she's just three years old. our middle east correspondent martin patience has been to meet her. meet little sara, just three years old. the black marks on her face are caused by frostbite. smugglers abandoned sara during a blizzard as she was crossing the mountains from the war in syria tojoin her dad. she only survived because the man who dumped her was forced at gunpoint to go back and get her. but sara's mum, big sister, and granny all froze to death. now, in a lebanese hospital, sara's dad watches over her day an

stephen moore is from the english democrats party and how much a freak the chief executive of the ramadan foundation. we always have this like little cuddly thing of children where they can do no wrong because bear in mind these are children that are trained to kill they are not just good in a mock in a street bin antisocial these of a direct agenda and that agenda is to kill as many people as possible so we do have to clamp down on this our security services and police are doing a tremendous amount of work to a dentist five who those children now these are children they didn't make the choice. to go and live in syria it was their parents and we should not punish the children for the actions of the crimes of the parents i'm quite clear in terms of human rights universal declaration of human rights that we should welcome them back and help them rebuild their lives where we can help them but we should help them over there we don't have to bring them here what you've got a you got to do want people to bring them over here let them walk free while the been assessed well know what's the walkin

arriving at the muslim welfare house in finsbury park after midnight where people were leaving after ramadan prayers and one man happened to fall ill on the street c.c.t.v. footage shows the van moments before it drove into the crowd on the left of the screen. donald korn drove down this road the seven sisters road into this little cul de sac where a crowd of people were trying to help mark riley who by coincidence had fallen ill just a few moments before he plowed into the crowd as he got out of his i wouldn't say thing court said that he was smiling the local eman protected him from the crowd until the police arrived moments later the crew say that this was an attack on all londoners no. no one the police have released a call from someone who asks for help is he conscious. then specifics we hear the attack. are already come out of people are going oh oh. the police told me darren osborne acted alone but right wing extremism is a growing threat in britain we have arrested more individuals than we've ever done in relation to domestic extremism related activity. we've seen three groups descri

with stephen morris from the english democratic party and mohammad shafiq chief executive of the ramadan foundation who shared their views on the issue. we always have this like little cooler thing of children where they can do no wrong and then obviously when they do some wrong it's all we can do this we can do that to try and help them go to bear in mind these are children that are trained to kill they are not just good in a mock in a street been antisocial these of a direct agenda and the agenda is to kill as many people as possible so we do have to clamp down on this our security services and police are doing a tremendous summer worked with twenty five who those children are and what risk for children or their parents pause to the united kingdom and i think it's. it's too early to speculate about the circumstances of these children these are children they didn't make the choice. to go and live in syria it was their parents and we should not punish the children for the actions of the crimes of the parents i'm quite clear in terms of human rights universal declaration of human rights t

has ordered a prominent swiss islamic scholar to remain in custody over allegations of rape tariq ramadan was arrested in paris last week and is facing an investigation and trial over claims he assaulted two women he denies the allegations police in kenya have failed to release opposition politician begin in the guna despite a court order that he be set free immediately he's been charged with treason for participating in a controversial mock swearing in ceremony or opposition leader rather a dingo mcguinness seen here on the left who was next to it in the last week when he declared himself the people's president rejecting her. conference so he has more from nairobi. so even after a high court judge ruled this afternoon that mick gooda mast be released immediately he's still in police custody his lawyers have not been able to see him since friday police are not telling them anything the judge had ordered that he be presented before him this morning passing only by the inspector general of police that did not happen so we're waiting in court all morning then we are told he has been moved he

a muslim scholar tariq ramadan has been charged with rape in paris the oxford academic has been in policecustody since his arrest on wednesday two women accuse the fifty five year old of rape in two thousand and nine and two thousand and twelve in hotel rooms in france he denies any wrongdoing and is suing for false allegations france's president emmanuel macron heads to the french island of corsica next week where nationalists are calling for more autonomy it follows their victory in regional elections in december planning a large demonstration ahead of the president's visit david chaytor reports from jack c.l. . the full independence may still be a distant dream but nationalism has found a renewed force on this island the. not so long ago just singing the course can national anthem was enough to get beaten up by the french police here now the islanders are demanding official status for their language. expression of course you can roots was rapidly merge was the expression of political demands so the singing became hard for the political authorities to accept and not only the french but

this with stephen morris from the english democrats party and mohamed shafiq chief executive of the ramadan foundation who shared their views on the issue. we always have this like little cuddly thing of children where we can do no wrong and then obviously when they do some wrong it's all we can do this we can do that to try and help them go to bear in mind these are children that are trained to kill they are not just good in a mock in a street bin antisocial these of a direct agenda agenda is to kill as many people as possible so we do have to clamp down on this our security services and police are doing a tremendous amount of work to a dentist five who those children are and what risk those children or their parents pause to the united kingdom and i think it's. it's too early to speculate about the circumstances of these children these are children they didn't make the choice. to call and live in syria it was their parents and we should not punish the children for the actions of the crimes of the parents i'm quite clear in terms of human rights universal of human rights that we should wel

to jerusalem is seems very much to to be designed to have maximum impact it's at the start of of ramadan for muslims it's at the point at which israel will celebrate its seventieth anniversary of independence and of course it's around the time of the not the day in which palestinians mark the start of the nightmare in terms of occupation absolutely i mean nothing could be more provocative and more aggressive than such and. such as it. but this reveals two things first of all if you do how are ignored and this administration is in the united states unfortunately and second how influential mr netanyahu and his israeli lobby in washington is and when it comes to this administration i think the whole team that mr trump has put together is nothing but as i and his team that is serving israel. stop i'm interested to hear what this will not change the reality or another all right now mr trump seems to be under the impression that by taking the status of jerusalem off the table he is thereby removing one of the obstacles towards peace i mean do you agree that in some perverse way that there is m

a large van, its engine revving, smashing into a group of muslims on a summer night during ramadan. terrified the driver was going to attack again. there's a few people who were really badly hurt and couldn't move. i thought he was going to kill us. what did you think he was going to kill you with? maybe guns, maybe a knife. this, a 999 call made at the time. the driver was brought to the ground by the angry crowd. the local imam urging them not to hurt him. when police arrested darren osborne, he waved as he was taken away. part and parcel of living in a big city. later at the police station, he ranted about previous terror attacks on muslims, saying, "have some of that, have some of your own. at least i had a proper go." at almost exactly that time, 51—year—old makram ali was declared dead at the scene. he had been crushed by the van. darren osborne's route to murderous hate seems to have begun with a bbc drama last may about a pakistani grooming gang in rochdale. i buy you things and you give me things. his rage was further fuelled by last year's attacks in london and manchester.

a large van, its engine revving, smashing into a group of muslims on a summer night during ramadan.jured, terrified that the driver was going to attack again. there's a few people who were really badly hurt and couldn't move. i thought he was going to kill us. what did you think he was going to kill you with? maybe a gun, maybe a knife. this, a 999 call made at the time. the driver was brought to the ground by the angry crowd. the local imam urging them not to hurt him. everyone back! when police arrested darren osborne, he waved as he was taken away. part and parcel of living in a big city. later at the police station, he ranted about previous terror attacks on muslims, saying, "have some of that, have some of your own. at least i had a proper go." at almost exactly that time, 51—year—old makram ali was declared dead at the scene. he'd been crushed by the van. darren osborne was born in singapore, but grew up in weston—super—mare, where friends remember a violent young man. he'd just stand like that and stick a glass in yourface. he did that numerous times. osborne moved here to ca

president sisi of stifling basic freedoms by arresting potential candidates and their supporters include ramadan ross said that the nephew of former leader anwar sadat withdrew in late january he said it was to protect his campaign workers from intimidation or arrest former prime minister ahmed shafik tweeted his withdrawal from the race earlier last month after he was deported from the us where he was living in exile his lawyers say he was arrested a soon as he landed in cairo another presidential hopeful was the human rights lawyer how did alley who quit two weeks ago citing unfair conditions within the contest and then as army colonel consort he was sentenced by a military court last month to six years in prison in december after announcing his plans to run one hundred mastery of doha's for graduate studies says he's sure the president of sisi is behind this recent arrest. there's no question about the human rights record there's no question that egypt has regressed on a number of fronts obviously the upcoming elections aren't free and fair they're not transparent it's a it's a sham election

and turkey and syria is iraqi born british academic reza sami ramadan of the sun we haven't seen you for for quite. some time just before we get on with a more grim or matches you were up the war of course and this month marking the fifteenth anniversary of the biggest demonstration just as a reminder maybe specially to someone of the labor benches who voted for the iraq war what do you say to them when they apologise still saying saddam is gone. should just a quick trip to baghdad actually to see the outcome of that terrible war of aggression against the iraqi people how iraq's infrastructure was destroyed i would say this has been nullified almost the education system in collapse. very high levels of unemployment poverty people actually collecting food from rubbish dumps and so on this is iraq one of the richest countries in the wall the by its own resources arguably a president hillary clinton would have been even worse for your country some sympathy with trump who says the united states taxpayers wasted seven trillion dollars in the middle east why should he be involved i have no

point extra soldiers to search for more than one hundred girls kidnapped by boko haram in the town of ramadan hari has called the incident a natural national disaster and thousands of supporters of the anti immigrant party have held a rally in the italian city of milan in the run up to next weekend's elections. relatives of victims from friday's bombings in somalia are accusing government leaders of failing to protect their people the twin explosions in the capital mogadishu killed at least thirty eight people the group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility victoria gate and he has more. families connect the dead hours after the latest bomb and gun attacks in the capital it's four months since the largest ever truck bomb attack in mogadishu killed hundreds of somalis the lack of protection continues to cause and. the government failed to protect its people they should step down if they can't protect us from the slaughter of the constant explosions. one of the. fighters launched the attack at the start of friday prayers targeting somalia's intelligence headquarters and then the parliament. gun

girls under the age of eight from wearing the hijab to school and stop youngsters from fasting during ramadan that is and to save this is what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. the government believes it up to individual schools to set their own clothing policy and states, if there are any allegations of schools promoting ideologies in the classroom, we will not hesitate to act. this is clearly an issue which many schools across the country will be considering in order to strike the right balance. frankie mccamley, bbc news. west ham have suspended their director of player recruitment tony henry, following claims that he said the club wouldn‘t sign any more african players. in a statement, the club said they won‘t tolerate any type of discrimination. let‘s find out more from our sports news correspondent, richard conway. what is the alleged or appeared to have said? the daily mail obtained an e—mail sent from tony henry to a senior west ham official and an agent and in the e—mail it is alleged tony henry said they didn‘t want to sign any more african players. when confronted about thi

islam that ramadan legion. are. all committed to implement resolution twenty four a one against all odds we hoped that assad might respect twenty four zero one cease hostilities and allow unfettered humanitarian access to all those who need it and against all odds we hope that russia would use its influence to ensure assad's commitment to twenty four a one. but once again that hope has been crushed because so far for the people of eastern nothing has changed despite the unanimous call for a ceasefire the regime's attacks continue unabated hundreds of syrians have been killed or injured since we passed the resolution on saturday it gets worse less than twenty four hours after we demanded the cease fire there were reports that the assad regime once again used chlorine gas as a weapon such attacks demonstrate syria's complete and utter contempt for this council and the united nations. on monday one human rights organization reported eighteen tat attacks that defied this council's demands on tuesday another organization

the chinese new year, the jewish new year, ramadan, easter, lent >> stephen: toyotathon. ( laughter )alia. christmas-- >> stephen: what does saturnalia have? >> saturnalia, it's back in the winter where the sun is getting lower and lower in the sky each day and worry that maybe it will never come back. >> stephen: is saturn getting higher in the sky? >> no, but saturn is the god you pray to and celebrate. saturnalia is where everything flips, the master serves the slaves, the slave gives commands. it's an interesting roman tradition that is long gone. >> stephen: all right. >> but i'm just saying it's in that time of the year where the sun is basically reborn, so it's solstice celebrations. and christmas was put there to be a good place to sort of bring in all the pagan worshipers, who were already celebrating that time of year. >> stephen: and it worked. >> it worked, oh, yeah. >> stephen: we won. now-- ( laughter ) so, 2018, what's got you excited for 2018? ( laughter ) we won. what are you talking about? we won. what's got you excited-- >> wait, just to be clear. >> stephen: okay.

ordered a prominent swiss islamic scholar to be remanded in custody over allegations of rape tariq ramadan was arrested in paris last week and is facing a possible investigation and trial over claims he assaulted two women he denies those allegations. the new space x. jumbo rocket is preparing to blast off for its first test flight in the next hour or two while the falcon heavy is set to become the world's most powerful rocket in use which would double the liftoff power of their ships she's these launches considered a key turning point for billionaire entrepreneur a long mosques private the own space exploration technologies well the rocket has twenty seven m. in engines and it's carrying mosques tesla roadster convertible as a mock payload minutes after takeoff the two i was to do stars will attempt to land at the nearby cape canaveral air force station the sense of possibility and excitement here is really got me quite giddy actually this is the source go wrong i hope all goes right let's get more now from syria dalla is live at the kennedy space center in cape canaveral florida hi there

arriving at the muslim welfare house in finsbury park after midnight where people were leaving after ramadan prayers and one man happened to fall ill on the street c.c.t.v. footage shows the van moments before it drove into the crowd on the left of the screen down all the corner drove down this road the seven sisters road into this little cul de sac where a crowd of people were trying to help who by coincidence had fallen ill just a few moments before he plowed into the crowd as he got out of his vial i wouldn't think court said that he was smiling the local eman protected him from the crowd until the police arrived moments later the crew say that this was an attack on all londoners why do you know why the police have released a call from someone who asks for help for macro is he conscious. then. we hear the attack. are already come out of people are going to. the police told me darron osborne acted alone but right wing extremism is a growing threat in britain we have arrested more individuals than we've ever done in relation to domestic extremism related activity. we've seen three groups de

smashing intoa group band, its engine revving, smashing into a group of muslims on a summer night during ramadanhe injured terrified that the driver was going to attack again. a few people were really badly hurt and could not move. i thought he was going to kill us. what did you think he was going to kill you with? maybe a gun, maybe a knife, whatever he could come up with. this, and 999 call made at the time. a lot of people are dying. in a van? the driver tried to escape but was brought to the ground by the angry crowd. a local imam urged him to hand him unscathed to police. two officers arrived and arrested darren osborne, who waved as he was taken to islington police station. there are, after a long rant about muslims, he said," have some of that, have some of your own. at least i had a proper go." at about the same time, 51—year—old makram ali was declared said at the scene, killed by catastrophic injuries caused by being run over by the van. darren osborne was born in singapore but his sister says a troubled childhood followed in weston—super—mare. friends remember a violent young man. wel

opinion piece on al-jazeera dot com on this crisis in bangladesh in fact it was written by tariq ramadan senior vice chairman of the opposition bangladesh nationals party and who also is a son of credit asea who was convicted today dates a bit but so very relevant he argues in this piece at the very existence of democracy in bangladesh is under threat it's an interesting perspective really is on our website at al-jazeera dot com. all right we're now live on our multi view war here on the news great taking a look at the different pictures the news that agencies are feeding us i want to show you this one this is the united nations security council where a meeting is currently underway on the situation in syria the escalating violence there this is the french ambassador to the united nations who expressed concerns about the rising death toll in syria the meeting itself was called by kuwait and sweden the united nations wants a one month pause to allow for the delivery of aid in syria or keep a close eye on what's happening at the security council there and bring you all the latest lines as

before now back in two thousand and fourteen dk and why known for some other jeans they launched its ramadan collection of long flowing dresses nike the athletic brand also created its own version of the head scarf designed for women plain sports and dolce and gabbana also have a collection as well now we'd like to know what you think about this about macy's decision do you think that religion and commercialization should go hand in hand or not you can tweet me directly at leo harding agency or user hash tag a genius great thank you they get to get in talk to some fool this is something plenty of you will have views on in fact here are the contact details just run through them in detail the hash tag of course is a genius grid as the it says it's going to appear at any second now or comes. just that the hash tag is a.j. news great if you're using twitter not a problem at a.j. english is where we pop up a tweet just before the start of the show you can reply to that thread with the hash tag on facebook dot com slash al-jazeera the live stream runs between fifteen hundred sixteen hundred hours