the former transport minister said _ place now. the former transport minister said she _ place now. place now. the former transport minister said she was told, - place now. the former transport| minister said she was told, when losing herjob, that her muslimness was raised as an issue at a meeting in downing street and that her muslim woman minister status was making colleagues feel uncomfortable. the chief whip in charge of party discipline, who normally keep silent in public, said that was categorically untrue, and revealed he was the person she spoke to. despite investigations, there have long been claims the tory party does not take islamophobia seriously enough. does not take islamophobia seriously enou:h. .,,.,,. .., does not take islamophobia seriously enou:h. , does not take islamophobia seriously enou:h. .,,.,,. .., , . enough. xenophobic racism is not seen as a series _ enough. xenophobic racism is not seen as a series as _ enough. xenophobic racism is not seen as a series as other - enough. xenophobic racism is not seen as a series as other forms i enough. xenophobic raci

ghani saying that when she was sacked as transport minister backin she was sacked as transport minister, she was told her muslim this was raised as an issue, and the fact that she is a muslim woman was making colleagues feel uncomfortable —— muslimness. that's what she was told at the time. one might suggest if others are uncomfortable with muslim women having this status, they should be stacked. i'll let others make that comment. —— sacked. it's really quite dramatic. mark spencer, the government's chief whip, has tweeted identifying himself as the person that miss ghani made this comment. he named himself. he says these accusations are totally false and he considers them defamatory. he highlights that when miss ghani raised the issue, when the issue was raised the issue, when the issue was raised before, she declined to refer to formal investigation. miss ghani is claiming she was sacked because she was muslim, and it's a very serious allegation. then we have the chief whip accusing her of defamation, although she did not name him, and the education secretary called for an investigati

the conservative mp nus ghani, who was sacked as transport minister two years ago, says she was toldher muslim faith was one of the reasons for her dismissal. nus ghani has told the sunday times that her "muslimness" was raised as an issue. the conservative chief whip mark spencer says she had been speaking to him, and he called her allegations "completely false". downing street has said the prime minister had also spoken to her and invited her to make a complaint, but she did not do so. 0ur political correspondent helen catt reports. the former minister as ghani is at the centre of an extremely dispute after a week in which the tories have turned on the whips, ministers and each other. nus ghani was the first muslim woman ever to speak from the dispatch box in the commons, and has claimed in the sunday times that her fate played a part of her being sacked as a minister by borisjohnson in 2020. she says that when she asked a meeting of the whips for an explanation she was told that her "muslimness" was raised as an issue during a reshuffle meeting, that her muslim woman minister stat

while the canadian transport minister has defended the measures saying, the biggest threat to her supply chain is cobit. that is why we've created the vaccine mandate for truckers. so let's cross live now to david free height lawyer on youtube or from quebec. im enormous flogger v for free as well at good to have you on the program today. there. all right, no problem. there are already wide spread reports of anti supermarket shelves in canada. how serious is the supply chain crisis? well, you know, it depends on who's twitter feed you follow because you get certain blue check mark liberal members of parliament saying there's no problem whatsoever. i went to a grocery store and look how bent plant, plentiful it is. there's no pumpkins. there was a tweet put out by someone who to that effect. i had to do a little digging to find out that it was actually an undisclosed press secretary for just intruder. another blue checkmark member of parliament saying things aren't so bad. the pictures that the conservatives are putting out are stock images, and i just had to retweet images that my own br

the conservative mp, nus ghani, who was sacked as transport minister two years ago, says she was toldhat her muslim faith was one of the reasons for her dismissal. she also says that when she told borisjohnson what happened, he told her he couldn't get involved. the conservative chief whip, mark spencer, says ms ghani had been speaking to him when she was sacked and he's called her allegations "completely false." downing street says the prime minister had invited her to make a complaint, but she didn't do so. here's our political correspondent, damian grammaticas. on the eve of a crucial week for him, this is a new dispute boris johnson has been drawn into. what johnson has been drawn into. what are ou johnson has been drawn into. what are you heping _ johnson has been drawn into. what are you heping to _ johnson has been drawn into. what are you hoping to hear— johnson has been drawn into. wiat are you hoping to hear today? johnson has been drawn into. what are you hoping to hear today? nus| are you hoping to hear today? nus ghani is now— are you hoping to hear today? nus ghani is no

the canadian transport minister joined al jazeera to defend the policy. we have mandated a vaccination vaccination for transportation sector for the airline sector for marine sector, for the rail sector last fall. and we've done it successfully. so now almost 99 percent of workers in those sectors are fully vaccinated. that is reduced infection rate. that is your reduce hospitalization, that's reduced absenteeism. and that added resilience to our supply chain. today, there are reports, the canadian prime minister justin trudeau and his family were moved to a secure location of concern. and the police. you said he felt he needed to bring in extra officers. the risk factors extend beyond the court demonstrators to those that have already indicated online and, and others forums that they're prepared to engage directly or indirectly with the events that will transpire over the next several days here. and some of them have been very clear and inside a hate encouraging acts of violence, criminality. there were no reports of violence early saturday, but there was

nus ghani says she was told she'd been sacked as transport minister two years ago in part because oflso says that when she told borisjohnson what happened, he told her he couldn't get involved. a senior government figure has called her allegations "completely false" and downing street says the prime minister had invited her to make a complaint, but she didn't do so. here's political correspondent damian grammaticas. this is a critical week. his leadership already in question, borisjohnson�*s actions are now under even more scrutiny. what are you hoping to hear today? nus ghani is a senior backbencher. she's spoken out against the taliban, led a campaign to have china's repression of uighur muslims recognised as genocide, and is proud of this moment. i congratulate my honourable friend on her appointment... and she became the first muslim woman minister to speak at the dispatch box in the commons, to a cheer. minister nusrat ghani. mr speaker, this government is committed... she lost her ministerial post in a reshuffle in 2020. she told the sunday times that when she asked for an expl

nusrat ghani as a former transport minister, the first muslim woman to speakfrom the minister, the firstak from the dispatch box in the house of commons. she was sacked from thatjob in february 2020 and a mini reshuffle and she was told that her status as a muslim woman minister was making colleagues uncomfortable and she says she dropped the matter after being told she persisted about asking about it she persisted about asking about it she would be ostracised and her career and reputation destroyed. the conservative chief whip, mark spencer, has made a highly unusual move in coming out publicly to address this and said he identified himself as the person the claims were made about and the accusations were made about and the accusations were completely false and defamatory and denied using the words she says he had used and says it was regrettable that she had not come out at the time to raise the accusation. the cheer of the foreign affairs select committee came out to say this report demands an enquiry and others like michael fabricant seeing nobody likes being sacked from a job but to

the canadian transport minister has defended the measure saying the biggest threats to our supply chain is cobit. that is why we created the vaccine mandate for truckers, but they betray hey, it's again, believe the mandate is only going to cripple the supply chain. 2 years into this we, you know they have not imposed a mandate on truckers, they were essential workers. they were the heroes of the road for whatever minority of them don't get vaccinated and i don't know exactly what that number is. they have a pretty solitary profession to begin with. and so to pretend that be and that it's the vaccine, maybe that are going to save the supply chain as opposed to actually cripple it. it's intellectual dishonesty if not overt dishonesty because even if you're double vaccinated and you get sick because you could still contract the virus, we know that you still have to isolate, even if you're double vaccinated as a trucker and become exposed, you still have to isolate lift the measures protect the vulnerable and let the healthy live a free and productive life, and maintain the very infrastruc

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of phobia within his governments, the round was exacerbated by accusations from the former transport minister, new strength. connie claims that she was demoted because her quote, muslim ness raised concerns and the ruling conservative party. the p. m. for the government takes the claims seriously and does not tolerate any kind of discrimination. as long as phobia has been a big problem in, in england and wales in recent years, according to a home office report, almost half of overcrowded religious hate crime offences last year were against muslims. that was around $2700.00 cases. that makes muslims, by far the highest targeted of all religious groups carry a seam, thinks the 1st step to prevents bigotry on this lena phobia is to define it. we need to come up with the definition that is acceptable to the majority of the people in this country. because without the acquisition, it's really hard to distinguish between what is in prejudice. and what is the people in having it definition of will be it will help us to define where the red line boundaries are. you know what is acceptable and what is

a conservative mp has said she was sacked from herjob as a transport minister because her muslim faiths uncomfortable". nusrat ghani, who was fired from the front bench in february 2020, says she was told this by a government whip. a spokesperson for the whips' office said the claims — made in the sunday times newspaper — were categorically untrue. a quick look at some of the other stories making headlines in the uk. two women have been taken to hospital after a knife attack in north west london. the incident happened along station road in harrow. police say the injured women were slashed and a third woman was punched by the suspect. a woman has been detained and taken to hospital for a mental health assessment. a man has been remanded in custody charged with the murder and attempted murder of a couple in their late 80s in derbyshire. freda walker was found dead at her home in langwithjunction near bolsover last saturday. her husband ken is critically ill in hospital. it's exactly two years ago today since china locked down the city of wuhan and its 10 million inhabitants, to try to st

a conservative party mp has said she was sacked from herjob as a transport minister in the british nusrat20, says she was told this by a government whip. a spokesperson for the whips office said the claims — werer �*categorically untrue'. it's exactly two years since china locked down the city of wuhan and its ten million inhabitants. the aim was to try to stop the spread of coronavirus from the place where it first emerged. as beijing prepares to host the winter olympics next month, it's turned to extreme measures again in the fight to maintain its strict zero covid—19 policy. 0ur china correspondent robin brant reports. 27 days into lockdown, confined to her apartment. hello... sandlin is one of millions in china still subject to the ultimate covid control. translation: when covid hit| wuhan, the country didn't have much experience dealing with the outbreak. but now it's different. it's better. she's in xian, a city famous for its motionless army of terracotta warriors, but normal life for 13 million people there has come to a halt. there's fresh evidence, too, that some people have jus

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read the sunday times story, she was fired as a minister, this is back in 2020, she had been a transport ministervative government and she was told it was because of her muslim village in making colleagues uncomfortable. if that is true what does that say about the government and conception party? the does that say about the government and conception party?— and conception party? the situation is not acceptable. _ and conception party? the situation is not acceptable. there _ and conception party? the situation is not acceptable. there should - and conception party? the situation is not acceptable. there should be. is not acceptable. there should be no racism, there should be no racism in any party and i was also disturbed by what she said. she said it is as if she was punched in the stomach. she thought humiliated, and powerless. well, she was also told that if she raised the issue, she would be ostracised by colleagues and her career and reputation would be destroyed. that is totally unacceptable. no parliamentarian should be subjected to this sort of treatment and we need to get bottom of it.

i now the transport minister wants to slash the number of loudspeaker messages we hear on ourjourneysre's got to be the obvious safety announcements, but it's things — some of the stuff they tell you, they either state the obvious, or they just say stuff that you don't really necessarily need to know at that moment in time. hot bacon roll, a cup of tea. the department for transport is holding a year long review, with train operators and passenger groups, to decide which announcements are a vital service... "this is finchley road." ..and which need to be shunted into the nearest siding. "doors will open on i the right hand side." train announcements are there to give important information — important travel information, important safety information, information about preventing terrorist attacks, keeping people safe, preventing people from leaving their belongings behind. so which of those kinds of announcements should be cut back then? "..station, brentwood." with the pandemic easing, and more of us returning to public transport, are we on track for quieterjourneys? or does the govern

she been a transport minister in the government and she was told it was because of her muslim religiongues uncomfortable. if artistry what does that say about the government and the conservative party? it is that say about the government and the conservative party?— the conservative party? it is not acceptable- _ the conservative party? it is not acceptable. the _ the conservative party? it is not acceptable. the should - the conservative party? it is not acceptable. the should be - the conservative party? it is not acceptable. the should be no i the conservative party? it is not - acceptable. the should be no racism in the conservative party or, in fact, and any party. and i was also disturbed by what she said. she said, it is as if she was punched in the stomach. she felt humiliated and powerless. she was also told on that, if she raised the issue, she would be ostracised by colleagues and her career and reputation would be destroyed. that is totally unacceptable. no parliamentarian should be subjected to the sort of treatment and we need to get to the bottom of it. to treatment and

the conservative mp nus ghani, who was sacked as transport minister two years ago, says she was toldher muslim faith was one of the reasons for her dismissal. nus ghani has told the sunday times that the issue was raised as an issue. the conservative chief whip mark spencer says she had been speaking to him, and he called her allegations "completely false". downing street has said the prime minister had also spoken to her and invited her to make a complaint, but she did not do so. in the last few minutes, she has issued a statement. "when i told the prime minister injune 2020 what had been said to me in the government whips�* office, i urged him to take it seriously as a government matter and instigate an inquiry. he wrote to me that he could not get involved and suggested i use the internal conservative party complaint process. this, as i had already pointed out, was very clearly not appropriate for something that happened on government business — i do not even know if the words that were conveyed to me about what was said in reshuffle meetings at downing street were by members of t

the uk conservative mp, nusrat ghani, who was sacked as transport minister two years ago, says she was muslim faith, was one of the reasons for her dismissal. she also says that when she told borisjohnson what happened, he told her, he couldn't get involved. downing street says the prime minister had invited her to make a complaint, but she didn't do so. the president of the conservative muslim forum lord sheikh has said that he "would like an investigation to be carried out by an independent person". somebody was trying to bully her. if what she is saying is true. you have two scenarios — parliamentarian a saying something, parliamentarian b saying something. and we need to get to the bottom of it, we need to establish the truth. the way to get the truth is to have an independent investigation done and we need to do that. and not only that, we need to look at the behaviour of some of these whips. we heard from members of parliament they have been bullied, so let's look at the behaviour of some of these whips. we cannot accept bullying parliamentarians, they have been elected. i mean,

nus ghani says she was told she'd been sacked as a transport minister two years ago, in part because of her muslim faith. she also says that when she told borisjohnson what happened, he told her he couldn't get involved. the conservative chief whip, mark spencer, says he'd been speaking to ms ghani about why she'd been sacked, and he says her allegations are "completely false." downing street says the prime minister had invited her to make a complaint, but she didn't do so. here's our political correspondent, damian grammaticas. this is a critical week. his leadership already in question, borisjohnson�*s actions are now under even more scrutiny. what are you hoping to hear today? nus ghani is a senior backbencher. she's spoken out against the taliban, led a campaign to have china's repression of uighur muslims recognised as genocide, and is proud of this moment. i congratulate my honourable friend on her appointment... when she became the first muslim woman minister to speak at the dispatch box in the commons, to a cheer. minister nusrat ghani. mr speaker, this government is committe

you the uk conservative mp nus ghani, who was sacked as transport minister two years ago, says she was muslim faith was one of the reasons for her dismissal. she also says that when she told borisjohnson what happened, he told her he couldn't get involved. the conservative chief whip, mark spencer, says ms ghani had been speaking to him when she was sacked, and he's called her allegations "completely false." downing street says the prime minister had invited her to make a complaint, but she didn't do so. here's our political correspondent, damian grammaticas. on the eve of a crucial week for him, this is a new dispute borisjohnson has been drawn into. what are you hoping to hear today? nus ghani is now a senior backbencher and was the first senior muslim women to speak in the commons — a moment she described woman minister to speak in the commons — a moment she described as importance and she has continued to speak out against the islamic state group and the tally man. group and the taliban. as a muslim woman, i will stand with people of all faiths who go against this ideology, their r

a couple — fired as a transport minister a couple of— fired as a transport minister a coupler words. _ the terms of reference, in other words, what are the rules how this enquiry— words, what are the rules how this enquiry is — words, what are the rules how this enquiry is going to be conducted, and what — enquiry is going to be conducted, and what exactly is it going to look at? the _ and what exactly is it going to look at? the reason she is pleased is because — at? the reason she is pleased is because she had originally been told. _ because she had originally been told. just— because she had originally been told, just go to the conservative party— told, just go to the conservative party and — told, just go to the conservative party and use their complaints process — party and use their complaints process. she said that was not appropriate. reacting to it this morning — appropriate. reacting to it this morning because it was breaking news this morning about this enquiry, was education _ this morning about this enquiry, was education secretary nadhim zahawi. the chief whip m

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that she had been told by a party whip that her muslimness was a reason she was sacked as a transport ministerms strongly denied by the chief whip mark spencer who said he was the whip in question and called the claims defamatory. ms ghani said she raised the issue with the prime minister in 2020 and urged him to start an inquiry but that he had told her to complain to the tory party instead. but this morning, number ten has said there will be an investigation. we take these allegations extremely seriously, i took them very seriously when they were raised 18 months ago. very glad there's an investigation taking place now. on sunday night, cabinet ministers including the health secretary sajid javid and education secretary nadim zahawi were among those calling for her claims be investigated. these are really serious allegations and you know, no—one makes those easily, it takes a lot of bravery for someone to stand up and say this and make these allegations. that's why we have to look at this quickly but thoroughly which is why the prime minister's made the right decision to have the cabinet off

that she had been told by a party whip that her muslimness was a reason she was sacked as a transport ministerclaims strongly denied by the chief whip mark spencer, who said he was the whip in question and called her claims defamatory. miss ghani said she raised the issue with the prime minister in 2020 and urged him to start an inquiry, but that he had told her to complain to the tory party instead. but this morning no 10 have said there will be an investigation. we take these allegations extremely seriously, i took them seriously when they were raised with me 18 months ago. very glad this an investigation taking place now. very glad there is an investigation taking place now. on sunday night cabinet ministers, including the health secretary sajid javid and education secretary nadhim zahawi were amanage those calling for her claims to be investigated. these are you know really serious allegations and you know no one makes those easily, it takes a lot of bravery for somebody to stand up and say this and make these allegations, which is why we have to look at this quickly, but thoroughly, which

nusrat ghani saying she was sacked as a transport minister in a mini reshuffle in 2020.er being muslim was raised as an issue, what do you make of that? first being muslim was raised as an issue, what do you make of that?— what do you make of that? first of all, it is what do you make of that? first of all. it is hard _ what do you make of that? first of all, it is hard to _ what do you make of that? first of all, it is hard to know, _ what do you make of that? first of all, it is hard to know, this - what do you make of that? first of all, it is hard to know, this is - all, it is hard to know, this is going to be denied, so we will never know if it is true or not. but it has a ring of truth. whether or not that came from the government all the wit being mean is a different matter. she says that it was her muslim woman thus that caused the problem. and that it was a very specific to her being a muslim woman as opposed to just being a muslim. i am not sure what that means. it is just very interesting because it is about the bad behaviour of the whips. as long as i can rem

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