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in the past year. a charity says around 140,000 vulnerable children didn t receive help last year because their situation was not judged to be serious enough. also, the sound of the underground. 50 years ago today, britain s pirate radio stations were outlawed. it led to the closure of stations which had gathered listeners by playing p°p which had gathered listeners by playing pop music, rarely heard on the bbc at the time. good morning. it s monday 14th august. i m rachel schofield. welcome to bbc newsroom live. 70 years ago tonight, 200 years of british colonial rule in india came to an end and the country was partitioned into two independent nation states hindu majority india and muslim majority pakistan. the result was the one of the largest mass migrations ever recorded. pakistan celebrates its independence day today, with india marking the occasion tomorrow. in 1947, after months of political deadlock, britain agreed to divide the country in two. a separate and ....
pakistan became independent from britain, we will speak to an indian film director. welcome to outside source. our top story. the red cross says more than 200 people have been killed with many more are missing after landslides in sierra leone. this happened on the outskirts of the capital, freetown, which has been hit by heavy rain in the last two days. it is understood the worst of the disaster happened in the full side region. snatched video on a mobile phone shows a torrent of mud and water carrying away everything in its path. this driver risked his life on a bridge all but overwhelmed by the flash floods. freetown is an overcrowded coastal city. about 250 bodies have it has few defences against heavy rains. they come every year but not usually with quite such ferocity. around 250 bodies have been recovered so far, the authorities fear there could be many more trapped in the ruins of houses. a bbc reporter is there. i went down to the spot myself and you could se ....
good evening and welcome to bbc news. the government says that it wants people and goods to be able to move seamlessly across the border between the irish republic and northern ireland after brexit much as they do today. in their latest proposal for life outside the eu, ministers say there will be no return to check points and border posts. but critics argue the plan raises as many questions as answers not least, what s to stop eu migrants coming into the uk from ireland through an unsupervised crossing? our ireland correspondent chris buckler gave us this update from narrow water on the irish border. people who live at this border rarely recognise it. but could all that to change once the other side of this water is still inside the eu and this part is outside of the european union? today, alongside the phrases we have heard so often like there needs to be a seamless border, we heard another from the british government, that there needs to be an unprecedented solut ....
might them is kathy. i are so mother and close that we call each other sisters. i have been asked to welcome everybody here today. we are here to remember heather heyer, and to say goodbye. some of us are here as family and others are friends, old and coworkers, but that s more like family to heather. and some of us are just here out of respect for a young woman who lost her life defending the .ights of people i would like for us to carry her legacy on by doing the same thing. protecting the rights of everyone. the family is humbled and deeply , theful for the outreach outpouring of love from the community, and the generosity. we need to thank the funeral services, the paramount, the limousines and the police department who have kept a secure today. , heather se grandfather will share some remembrances. repeat thatike to we thank you for coming. me say that i am here to speak of heather s childhood, i knew her quite well. she lived in our home for some years, her youn ....
and some of us are just here out of respect for a young woman who lost her life defending the rights of people. and i would like for us to carry her legacy on by doing the same thing respecting the rights of everyone. the family is humbled and deeply grateful for the outreach and the outpouring of love from the community, and generosity. we especially need to rank the jf bell funeral services, the ,aramount, the space downtown the limousine company, and the police department have kept us all secure today. time, elwood schrader, heather s grandfather, is going to share some remembrances. elwood: i would like to repeat that we thank you for coming. we are absolutely in all at this outpouring of affection. awe of this outpouring of affection. i am to speak of heather s childhood, for i knew her quite well. she lived in our home for some years, her younger years. i have rocked her to sleep times, andmany sometimes, we went to sleep together in the chair. i sang to her. i ....