Aleem Maqbool
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Religion Editor, BBC News. Previous postings in the US, Pakistan, Gaza/West Bank and in Egypt #NFFC #NottsCCC
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The owners of this car dealership in Kenosha say they have sustained hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage in the last 2 nights of protests & that insurers say they don’t cover this type of destruction. “But if it actually gets justice, sure burn it 20 times” they tell me
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This was before curfew and our cameraman
@p_murt
clearly a member of the press, a block away from the White House this evening...
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The moment, this evening at Hyde Park, Stevie Wonder told us why he would be taking a break from performing....
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That actually just happened. Pres Trump: “This is not a guns situation...it’s a little too soon to go into it”
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Few "free speech" demonstrators confined to bandstand on Boston Common. Hundreds of anti-racism protestors surrounding them behind barriers
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Just been told our United flight out of Denver is overbooked. They're asking for volunteers to postpone travel. Scared.
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The evening so far in DC, a White House surrounded by fencing, a few hundred people gathered outside in something of a festive mood, but not sure DC is embracing the big screen in McPherson Square...
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Just spent the last 45 mins listening to this. Strongly recommend it
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POTUS coming in to land at Winfield House, his base for the next couple of days. The minaret of London’s Central Mosque to the left....
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Donald & Melania Trump being met by Prince Charles & the Duchess of Cornwall at Buckingham Palace. Gun salute starts...
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A few hours ago, using a drone at the US-Mexico border in Tornillo, we got a view of children being trooped around the tent camp in which they’re being detained (after having been separated from their parents by US immigration officials). Video here…
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Pres Trump monitoring Texas attack from here in Japan, a country that has all but eradicated gun crime. Here's how
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As we fly over London on the papal plane, Pope Francis had this message for the Queen
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After being greeted by the Foreign Secretary, Donald and Melania Trump get a guard of honour at Stansted
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The first of our “America First?” series reports: Why does the US have so many child brides?
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Nearly 1am in North Carolina. Jon Bon Jovi, Hillary Clinton, Lady Gaga on stage right now
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Trump administration ends Michelle Obama's "Let Girls Learn" initiative. She had said she hoped it would live on...
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Here in Brooklyn, Jewish prayers for the dead in both Israel AND Gaza. Names of Palestinians killed about to be read
http://t.co/ZsIyTcn7j4
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In 4 days with the migrants, the closest thing I’ve seen to a ‘Middle Easterner’ is me
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First trip in new role, in Ukraine with high-level delegation of Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu & Buddhist leaders (inc former Archbishop Rowan Williams) here to show solidarity with those suffering. Reports to come inc a look at Putin’s religious justification for the war
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Rahman Ali, the great man's brother. Just told me Muhammad Ali was his hero
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Utah Republicans on not voting for Trump: "I see my little girl & want her to grow up where she's being respected"
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Outside The State Rooms of Buckingham Palace ahead of the welcoming ceremony for Donald Trump...
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Speaking here in Tokyo, Trump says now is not the time to talk about guns. “Mental health is your issue here”
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A 'free speech' protestor wearing a Trump hat just had to be escorted through a baying crowd of counter protestors chanting "shame, shame"
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Right now at the home in Louisville where Muhammad Ali grew up
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Stadium emptying fast even as Pres Trump continues to speak!
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@damonwake
...funnily enough that was producer
@Nadiahuraimi
's 1st response "get others to get 2 angles when you're beaten up so it's easy to edit"
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"It is the choices Muhammad Ali made that have brought us all here today," Bill Clinton at the memorial service
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Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness, reportedly calling for a vote on a united Ireland...
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Burnley Council has just released a statement condemning the desecration of Muslim graves there (videos show several daubed in paint) with the council leader saying it was “solely intended to provoke racial tensions”
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The online version of our
@BBCNorthAmerica
investigation “Don’t Shoot, I’m Disabled” has just been published. For a long time I've been wanting to look into why so many people killed by US police have disabilities & was finally able to
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A slipped disc hasn’t been the ideal way to end 16 years abroad for the BBC and somehow it feels a strange time to be moving country, but am all the more grateful to finally be home and to be starting my new role soon…there’s a lot to do
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...turns out i didn’t quite manage to hide my surprise completely...
@russellhoward
when your confused with Allie Mcbeal live on bbc News
@AleemMaqbool
your face is a picture
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Pope Francis blesses & passes back a girl right now in Juba, South Sudan…as you’ll see the reaction of her parents when I found them is lovely (they suggested little Pauline was crying because she’d “never seen someone that colour before”)
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DC school pupils who walked out of their classrooms today to protest against Trump
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Extraordinary. Even bigger crowds of protesters outside the White House today as compared to yesterday, when legal, peaceful demonstrations were broken up with tear gas well before the 7pm curfew
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“I'm a devout Sikh - and married to a man” Thank you
@_JasvirSingh
for sharing your story
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Speaking in DC right now, Pakistani PM Imran Khan talks of being “pleasantly surprised” by his meeting with Donald Trump, describing the US President as ‘charming’ and ‘straightforward’
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Ahead of Aretha Franklin's funeral here in Detroit, I got to speak to her niece
@BrigitteFrankln
who talked of the appreciation her family had for all the tributes, but also of the loss they were feeling...
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“This was a hate crime. This man had picked on my daughter and her husband before"
http://t.co/pAc86K5bMr
#ChapelHillShooting
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What the front page of the New York Times looks like in Pakistan today
http://t.co/EBwUzb3RRz
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7pm exactly, DC, close to the White House and this is what the curfew looks like. “We’re not moving!” the chant
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Some extraordinary pics from the protest marches across the USA and beyond
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The "Lock her up!" chants ring out loud and long here at Trump HQ now as news breaks that Hillary Clinton won't speak tonight
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Aitzaz, whose friends saw him sacrifice his life to stop a suicide bomber reaching his school in Hangu, Pakistan
http://t.co/qa7ahTwpGo
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What happened to belief in God during the Holocaust & the years that followed? Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day we explore that with a panel & hear from the wonderful Lily Ebert on
#BeyondBelief
at 4.30pm on Radio 4 today. (Pic by Lily’s great-grandson
@DovForman
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Want to understand why Labour's Jon Ashworth (who in 2019 got 67% share of the vote) lost his seat to independent Shockat Adam, watch our piece from a month ago from his Leicester South constituency...
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Was privileged to see Aretha Franklin last year, where I filmed this...one of the few times in recent years she didn't cancel a concert because of ill health. She had clearly lost a lot of weight, but gave an incredible, spine-tingling performance all night. Thinking of her now.
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Daughter of Malcolm X, Qubilah Shabazz, talks of how it's been 'harder to breathe' since the death of Muhammad Ali
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Baron, searching for his brother Juan: "What has that community done to harm anyone? Why would they be attacked?"
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You’re right to. A brilliant cameraman and a wonderful guy
@malikmudassir2
Wanted to highlight the work of the BBC’s Malik Mudassir - who’s usually behind the camera (either operating it or working as a producer) - giving a clear, detailed account of the situation in Kabul on the 10 o’clock news tonight as the Taliban patrolled the streets around him
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Conservative estimates say around 25% of people killed by US police have physical disabilities, learning difficulties or suffer from mental illness. Other research suggests it’s much more.
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Little wave from the president as he boards AF1. No comments from him for now...
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Pak cricket team that won a test in their 1st tour of England this day, 1954. (Always liked this pic, taken on ship)
http://t.co/5JvONrJoYp
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Thank you to those who have asked...aside from some bruising and swelling,
@p_murt
is fine, as are
@GeeWotshela
and I. Our full report from the DC
#GeorgeFloyd
protests...
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Sweet. 'Muhammad Ali' from Bangladesh travelled 4 days to get to the funeral. Ali stayed at his home in 1978
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Obsessed with ISIS...but then no mention at all of an ISIS attack when it happens in Pakistan killing at least 80 people...
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Invade country on false pretenses...catalyse militancy/destabilisation in region...close doors to those fleeing the consequences. Seems fair
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Latest report from Puerto Rico. Luciano: "we haven’t seen any American people come to help" Trump due here tomorrow
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We met the family of 22-year-old Adam Trammell from Milwaukee, who died after being tased 15 times by police while in his own shower. Adam had schizophrenia
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Dr Rowan Williams and other religious leaders hearing the heartbreaking stories of refugees staying in a school in western Ukraine
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Our report on the christening service that was so devastatingly cut short by Tuesday's earthquake
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Video: "He was an angel" Rahman Ali, in his first interview since his elder brother, Muhammad Ali, passed away
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Miami's deserted South Beach. Evacuation order in place for this part of the city.
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Anti-racism protestors being kept some distance from the small "free speech" rally in the bandstand
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Photo taken by my dad at the official opening of the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham in the year of the Silver Jubilee
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Thanks mum, for calling me to tell me how much you owe Diana from across the road for the bread and eggs, in case you’re “not around at the end of all this to pay her”
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So it appears Trump & Putin met for long enough to approve a joint statement on Syria (news from Kremlin officials). Awaiting statement...
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Biggest cheer for Trump so far when he talks of fighting “radical islamic terrorism”
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Watch this astonishing
@BBCBlindGazza
interview
this BBC interview with a guy outside the security perimeter who claims he saw the shooter before he fired is absolutely wild
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Am in Saudi Arabia looking at the continuing repercussions of the massive Hajj stampede last week
http://t.co/rAhf9JeRKg
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Make your minds up, Pakistanis. Many who previously didn’t want the army interfering in politics are suddenly celebrating it, & some who were happy for military intervention in the past when it backed their man now see the perils. (No more Pakistan tweets from me)
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Donald Trump now at podium at residence of US ambassador here in Tokyo, expected to comment on Texas church attack...
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The crowd stands to applaud Rabbi Michael Lerner who says American Jews stand with US Muslims in light of the bigotry against them
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I was Capt. Khan’s commander in Iraq. The Khan family is our family.
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Atta from Pakistan says he's had no help & feels "humiliated" searching morgues for bodies of niece & nephew
#Mecca
http://t.co/No6ODLY1hy
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Inspiration or great divider? Our report from Alabama looking at Barack Obama's impact on the US race debate
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Has been an exhausting 6 months or so…putting my out of office reply up for a little while…
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Forget the past. If you get the chance to see
@MsLaurynHill
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Muhammad Ali's wife, Lonnie: 'America must never forget that when a cop & inner city kid talk to each other, miracles can happen'
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Many more still pouring on to Boston Common currently chanting "No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA"
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Our clip, filmed by
@p_murt
using a drone at the US-Mexico border in Tornillo, showing children being filed into tents in the camp where they’re being held (having been separated from their parents by US immigration officials)….
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Carter to Obama: Before you leave office, recognize Palestine
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RT
@QasimNauman
: This is what the front page of the International New York Times should have looked like today
http://t.co/Mr50086YSW”
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Huge discrepancies between official Hajj death toll & estimates of countries affected. Seen sights that suggest toll will rise dramatically
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