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this is bbc news, the headlines. the high court rules — prince harry is found to be a victim of phone hacking and awarded £140,000 in damages. he describes it — as �*a great day for truth�*. israel says it's opening the border at kerem shalom for aid — a decision welcomed by washington — and the world health organization. a british boy — found alive six years after he disappeared — is due home in the coming days. french authorities say he walked for four days through the pyrenees. and hundreds gather at the sydney opera house to remember the comedy superstar
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barry humphries. hello from the bbc sport centre. erling haaland could miss manchester city's first ever appearance at the club world cup because of a foot injury that manager pep guardiola says is being assessed �*day by day'. the striker has missed city's last two games and won't be back for the premier league match tomorrow against crystal palace. after which the team flies out to saudi arabia for a semi final at the club world cup againstjapanese side urawa reds on tuesday. i think he is going to travel with us and we will see if he is able to play in the first or second game and when we come back. no fracture, just to stress and sometimes his play recover is quicker, some by longer so, like i said, day by day, week by
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week we will have to see how he feels. the moment he does not have symptoms and does not feel pain he will be ready to play again. the premier league weekend begins tonight with two teams who managed to end a run of poor form last time out. nottingham forest welcome spurs with their manager steve cooper still the subject of rumours about his future their draw with wolves on saturday came after four straight defeats. i really don't focus on anything then what i am in control of and that, definitely working as hard as i can every day and doing my best and hopefully helping in providing a good service for the players to get ready for the next game. that is how it will always be with me. they won the t20 series in india, but england women are facing defeat in their one—off test match in mumbai. a batting collapse has handed the hosts a huge advantage, with 19 wickets falling on an eventful second day — asjoe lynskey reports. this was a day at test match turned.
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india in front and in complete control. their leaders close to 500 runs. england's tenure to win a test match looked set to go on. india's first innings saw them score 428. england's fight get there saw them —— their batterers lose patience. the direct hit took out to me both amount, not super brent try to make amends. she went past 50, but no one stayed with her. amyjones set on 12 but then fell to misfortune. caught with the help of a short field deflection off of the helmet and straight up in the air. not super brent fell to deviation, butjust from the pitch and england collapsed to 136 all out. with that ball, shermer had herfifth
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to 136 all out. with that ball, shermer had her fifth week it she let slip seven runs. india came back to back and took aim on grounds of the ground. they took six wickets but by the close and mumbai they were 478 runs ahead. india in charge with a lead that is almost out of sight. former formula 1 world champion jenson button will return to top level racing next year at the age of 44. button will drive a porsche in the world endurance championship, which includes the famous 24 hours of le mans race. the englishman retired from formula 1 in 2016, but is returning for a full season 15 years after winning his lone f1 title in 2009. i have been racing, i raised in japan and in 2018 and in a few other things. i'm racing in daytona it in 24 hours and it's great that you feel you don't maximise what you can
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achieve and you don't get the best out of yourself if you are doing one races. it's a bit more difficult. so i wanted to do a full season because of that. more on our website. chethan pathak will be with you for sportsday at 6.30pm, but that's all the sport for now. specialist police divers who've been searching for the missing british mother of three, gaynor lord, have found a body in the river wensum in norwich. norfolk police say, although the body has not yet been formally identified, gaynor lord's family has been told. she was last seen, a week ago, after leaving work early on friday afternoon. 0ur correspondent navtej johal gave us more details on the disappearance. it has been exactly a week since gaynor lord went missing and this case has had a lot of unanswered questions. but today, hugely significant development. 40 minutes ago, norfolk police
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issued a statement confirming that officers searching for gaynor lord had recovered a body from the river wensum which runs alongside wensum park, the last place where gaynor lord was seen on friday last week. this case has attracted so many questions and so much interest in the last few days. since she went missing. pictures released by the police of the 55—year—old walking — the police of the 55—year—old walking down the street in norwich city centre. she left the department
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store on_ city centre. she left the department store on friday afternoon, this is ct tv— store on friday afternoon, this is ct tv image shows her smiling, but she left_ ct tv image shows her smiling, but she left an — ct tv image shows her smiling, but she left an hour and a half before she left an hour and a half before she finished. she was then picked up on cctv— she finished. she was then picked up on cctv cameras hurrying through norwich_ on cctv cameras hurrying through norwich spending 30 minutes on the grounds _ norwich spending 30 minutes on the grounds of— norwich spending 30 minutes on the grounds of the cathedral. a friend of her_ grounds of the cathedral. a friend of her said — grounds of the cathedral. a friend of her said she was upbeat and happy and talking _ of her said she was upbeat and happy and talking about christmas just days after she disappeared. her family— days after she disappeared. her family and friends had been waiting anxiously— family and friends had been waiting anxiously for news of her whereabouts. the explosion satellite several businesses including a gym on the industrial estate. self—willed please have appeal for anyone who witnessed the incident come forward. parents of children whose deaths
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were linked to social media and the internet have accused the government of "watering down" online safety legislation. the proposed new law will be debated in parliament next week. 0ur chief political correspondent, henry zeffman reports. he was a very caring, loving soul. he always put other people first. but he never understood that he was in danger himself at any point. breck was clever, helpful, looked after his triplet siblings, and he was my right—hand man. the bereaved families for 0nline safety are parents bound together by loss linked to the online world. they were in the house of lords back injune to see this. all platforms will be required to comply with 0fcom's requests for information about a deceased child's... that was a government minister promising to give bereaved parents and coroners new powers to get information out of tech companies where a child has died in a way that might have been linked to the online world. but now the families believe the government is watering that down, with it only applying
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in cases where a child has taken their own life. breck bednar, murdered aged just 14 by a fellow gamer he met online who then posted photos of his crime on the internet. 0lly stephens, a 13—year—old, was murdered by two boys, with social media at the heart of the case. lorin and stuart were among ten parents who wrote a fortnight ago to michelle donelan, the secretary of state for science, saying they were devastated and bewildered by the government's callous change of position. i mean, we literally even celebrated, you know, and we're angry. you know, as a group, as individuals, we're angry. and it's not right to backtrack. it's not right to have something taken away that was already agreed on. you need to understand. you need to know what happened. no matter how traumatic or how brutal it is to hear, you need to hear it, because that was your child. in a reply to the families, michelle donelan said she took the commitments the government had made incredibly seriously, but that she thought her proposals achieved their aims. cases of murder are not covered, she said, because an inquest
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would usually take place after criminal proceedings. she said the police have their own extensive powers to get information from tech firms. she concluded, "i want to ensure that we work together to get this right." so now it's back to the house of lords, where the legislation in question arrives next week. there the ministers will face baroness kidron, a film director i say this more in sadness than in anger that they have slipped up so catastrophically. the government's saying that it's only relevant to children who take their own lives because the police can investigate. i mean, first of all, how do you know what has happened to a child until you get the information? and indeed, the police can only ever investigate if they think there's a crime. lorin and stuart won't be the last parents to lose children this way. this government won't be the last to face these issues. henry zeffman, bbc
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news, westminster. the effects of air pollution on hearts and lungs are well documented.. but there's now growing evidence that different pollutants also affect our brains. here's our science editor rebecca morelle. breathing in polluted air in the name of science. briony evans is a volunteer at this manchester university lab, where scientists are trying to learn about the impact of fumes on the brain. here we've got everything that we need to conduct the experiments, to expose the participants to air pollution. the team is looking at four different kinds of pollution — diesel from an engine, cleaning products, wood smoke and cooking fumes from a pork chop. the pollutants are carefully measured and piped into a giant plastic bag. are you feeling 0k? the volunteers are exposed to a different fume on every visit to see which ones have the biggest effect on the brain. you could imagine that we find that wood burning is worse than diesel, is worse than cooking,
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for example, this would then allow people to make lifestyle choices about their exposure to the different pollutants. the world health organization says that almost all of the global population — 99% — are breathing in air that exceeds the who limits on common air pollutants, and the combined effects of outdoor and indoor air pollution is contributing to seven million premature deaths every year. this makes it the leading environmental cause of premature death. are you ready? begin. the participants carry out cognitive tests before and after their exposure. while we know how air quality affects the lungs and heart, less is known about the brain. the quality of the air you breathe, over the long term, is associated with increased risks of mental illness, poor cognitive development in children, and dementia. so what we're trying to do in this
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study is understand not the nature of the association, but why there's an association. deep breath in, and blast it out. taking part in the experiments is a big commitment, but one that briony says is worth it. anything that can be done to find out things that cause us damage just in our normal way of life, that can be changed, seems like a really valuable thing to do. it will take several months to analyse the data, but the results could mean we think differently about how our everyday activities affect the air we breathe. rebecca morelle, bbc news. prince harry has been awarded £140,000 damages in his phone hacking case against the publishers of the daily mirror. a high courtjudge ruled this morning that on 15 occasions, the duke of sussex was the victim of hacking or other unlawful methods of getting stories about him. in a statement, prince harry said
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it's a great day for the truth and called on the police to launch a criminal investigation into mirror group newspapers. let's head to the newsroom. a significant moments. tell us more about the details of this judgment. it isa it is a very significant day i think for print harry who has long campaigned against what he was saying the excesses of tabloid press. today a judge found 15 of the 33 newspaper articles that he was right in his allegations that news had been obtained unlawfully by illegal methods. but we know from that is that prince harry is facing many, many accusations of thinking things and imagining things and now saying that he is actually correct and he can see a judge in the high court has said he really has been hacked. he has engaged in another other legal battles with other
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newspapers and we will see if his campaign continues. today we heard him say what he calls his mission against what he would say is the abuses of the press will continue. give me your assessment of the implications here after this judgment. in implications here after this judgment-— implications here after this “udument. , ., .., judgment. in the short term, it can 0 en the judgment. in the short term, it can open the door— judgment. in the short term, it can open the door to _ judgment. in the short term, it can open the door to other— judgment. in the short term, it can open the door to other people - open the door to other people coming forward. we heard from a privacy boiler this morning for hundreds of other potential claims could emerge and may be stories written about them based on hacking or other unlawful ways of gathering news stories. more broadly as i think prince harry could take this forward. we have had many months and many years of legal skirmishes and different sorts of battles but now he is actually for the first time has had definitivejudicial verdict and he will take that onto his next wave of law cases. it will carry on through next year and 2025 so this
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will carry on. part of this also this question about how the press behaves and also how to behave around privacy. these are all hard issues to talk about and this will keep it going ahead. he is also perfectly called for criminal prosecutions another part of his response to this. very much the response to this. very much the response through his lawyer making a statement. the prosecuting authorities, the police come another avenue he wants to open. fix, authorities, the police come another avenue he wants to open.— avenue he wants to open. a final thou~ht avenue he wants to open. a final thought in _ avenue he wants to open. a final thought in terms _ avenue he wants to open. a final thought in terms of— avenue he wants to open. a final thought in terms of reaction - avenue he wants to open. a final thought in terms of reaction we i avenue he wants to open. a final - thought in terms of reaction we have had since thejudgment, thought in terms of reaction we have had since the judgment, you thought in terms of reaction we have had since thejudgment, you refer to it to remind our reviewers, he has got several cases against other newspapers in terms of the british newspaper. find newspapers in terms of the british newsnaper-— newspaper. and they will now be lookin: at newspaper. and they will now be looking at this _ newspaper. and they will now be looking at this very _ newspaper. and they will now be looking at this very carefully. - newspaper. and they will now be l looking at this very carefully. many people who have settled before going to court in fact, most people who are part of this process, have pulled up before getting to the courtroom, prince harry has for whatever reason kept his head down
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and carried on and forced his way through and wanted to have his way in court. in prince harry own case he is part of a wider group challenging news group and also associated newspaper publishers of the daily mail so i think that will be the next wave of debates what happens next with that also we will cure again in person as we did in june, to give evidence in this case. a new report by the united nations has shed more light on the suppression of women in afghanistan. it says that the taliban government has started sending female abuse survivors to prison because state sponsored shelters have been closed. heather barr is the associate director of the women's right�*s division at human rights watch. she gave me her reaction to this report. this report documents what afghan women have
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known since august 15, 2021, which is that one of the first things the taliban did after they took over was to dismantle the whole system that had been put in place by the government and ngos to respond to violence against women. it took them a bit longer, but after that they largely dismantled the legal system. and so, you know, there's been more attention to them banning girls from education, women from work. but this is an important piece, too, of their systemic depravation of the rights of women and girls. and that crackdown is continuing and getting worse as we speak. the taliban officials have said they would ask male members of the family to make, quote, a commitment not to harm women survivors of abuse. even when i read that out, that seems absolutely extraordinary. i mean, the taliban have sent a very clear message that women are the property of their male family members. they've also said that if women go out and are not dressed as the taliban thinks they should be, they'll punish the male
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family members rather than the women themselves. so women are in this situation where their male family members are really being seen by the taliban as their owners and their keepers. it's an impossible situation for them, and they've been waiting a long time for the international community to respond appropriately to this very serious crisis, which is the worst situation for women in the world right now. i'll come back to that thought in a moment, but shelters, they have been closed. are there any sort of safe spaces for women left? well, one safe space that existed until a couple of months ago was beauty salons, which, you know, that might sound silly, but it was actually one of the only spaces where women could go and speak to other women, get advice, perhaps get some kind of protection. the taliban closed them about three months ago at a cost of 60,000 jobs for women and also the loss of one of the only spaces left where women
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could get help from other women. briefly on this, what sort of stories are you hearing in your organisation emerging as a result of everything that we've been talking about? well, it's important to say that if women are fleeing violence and are sent to prison, their cell mate may well be a women's rights protester. because one of the things that we're seeing is that the taliban are arbitrarily detaining and really forcibly disappearing a large number of women's rights protesters. we've spoken to some of them who have eventually been released after having been tortured in prison. these are the women who've come out on the streets and protested against the taliban's policies and tried to get the world to pay attention. and you mentioned the international community. i mean, it appears that they have few levers. what do you think, in addition should be being done here?
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well, malala yousafzai gave a speech in south africa ten days ago where she said that the world should recognise the situation in afghanistan as gender apartheid. i think that one of the things the international community needs to do is avoid normalising this and kind of moving on and forgetting about the situation. afghan women feel very, very forgotten by the entire world, and they want people to realise that what happens to them has implications for women's rights globally. among those giving tributes were sir eltonjohn who remembered him as a great friend and king charles who said that life really won't be the same. our said that life really won't be the same. 0ur correspondence said that life really won't be the same. our correspondence and in this report.
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hello, possums. yes, it's me, dame edna, and aren't i looking gorgeous?! talent of barry humphries. we idolised him. well, he captured who we were, and he took us to the world and everyone got to laugh and get our humour. it's not easy, yeah, but he did it. very nice to be here. 0h, he's an icon. it's a bit like the queen. he should not have died. it's not easy, yeah, but he did it. very nice to be here. 0h, he's an icon. it's a bit like the queen. he should not have died. king charles said, in a message read by a government minister, that the entertainer was a cultured and erudite man who, through his creations, punctured pomposity. dame edna surprised charles and camilla at the royal variety show in 2013. they shared a joke when she told them she had been offered a better seat.
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i suspect that all those who appeared on stage or on tv with barry's dame edna, or who found her appearing at the back of the royal box, will have shared that unique sensation where fear and fun combine. for more than 50 years, barry humphries used dame edna as a way to say the unsayable. i have had a little of work done, but not quite as much as some. but the thing is, you are still recognisable. i will miss him so much, because he wasjust onej of the most funniest people. his stories — like robin williams, like billy connolly, _ he was a raconteur of incredible importance and genius. -
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he is an important figure, but in the end, he just made us laugh, didn't he? at home and on stage. it's fitting the memorial service should be held here at the sydney opera house, given its place in australia's art and culture. for barry humphries�* fans, an opportunity to remember a man who made them laugh. the prime minister anthony albanese said this comedic giant brought such joy to every part of australia, and showered it upon the world. phil mercer, bbc news, sydney. i want to show you some great footage from the ski slopes of california. a near miss between a bear and a skier. the bear can be seen sprinting directly across a ski
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slope in the lake tahoe almost colliding with several skiers making their way down the mountain. the bear made it across the slope in the skier had filmed the close encounter and saw it reunite with his mother on the other side of the trail. one of stories now, we heard from the french authorities in the last little while telling us more about the teenager found after six years missing, alex batty his grandmother releasing a statement saying i cannot express my relief and happiness that he has been found safe and well. i spoke with him last night and it was so good to hear his was and see his face again. i cannot wait to see him when we are reunited. the main thing that is he is safe after what would have been an overwhelming experience for anyone, not least a child. so the lead statement from alex's mother
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expecting to be reunited back at home in the next day or so. hello. we've seen some drier weather developing over the past 24 hours or so, and many of us will hold on to the fairly quiet theme to the weather into the weekend, too. so mostly dry, breezy and mild, often fairly cloudy, but the exception will be across the northwest of the uk, particularly northwest scotland, where we've got some really wet and pretty windy weather on the cards. so high pressure holds on to the south, keeping things mostly dry, but these weather fronts moving in at times through the weekend across the far north of the uk will be quite persistent as they produce that heavy rainfall. now for friday evening, overnight into saturday, a lot of cloud across the board generally. some light rain and drizzle for the west of scotland. we'll see a few clear spells here in there further south, but i think enough of a breeze, enough cloud to keep things well and truly frost—free. so temperatures in the south between about 4—8 celsius, but we're staying in double figures for parts of scotland and northern ireland,
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with the wind and the cloud — and the winds are coming in from a very mild south westerly direction. importing this mild air, you can see the orange colors across the map — blue colours, colder air to the north there and where those two air masses meet, that's where we've got this frontal system, which will be a bit of a troublemaker in the far northwest. so saturday, that rain becomes quite persistent across the northwestern parts of highland, into parts of the western isles, the northern isles also seeing some rain. 1—2 splashes of rain for the likes of the cumbrian fells, perhaps northern ireland, but further south and east, we're going to be staying at dry. a bit milder than it was on friday — temperatures in double figures across the board. but then, as we move through saturday night into sunday, that rainfall continues to pile in. we could see up to about 175 millimetres of rain falling across parts of highland, towards argyll and bute. and the met office have issued an amber weather warning for that heavy rain, which is likely to cause some flooding problems across the region. so moving through sunday, then, it's looking drier further south, but a bit of rain for northern england, northern ireland. should be dry too for the east of scotland and mild —
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14 there for aberdeen, around about 11 in london. into the new week and for monday, then, that weather front slips its way further south. it's quite a weak affair, so tending to fizzle out, but it will bring a fair amount of cloud once again, a few showers around, as well. and then, further ahead, a pretty wet day for many of us, especially in the south on tuesday. stays reasonably mild and unsettled, though, through the course of next week. bye for now.
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today at six, a dramatic legal victory for prince harry as a judge rules his phone was hacked by mirror group newspapers. his lawyer read his statement outside court. it is about a systemic practice of unlawful and appalling behaviour, followed by cover—ups and destruction of evidence. the judge found the then editor of the daily mirror, piers morgan, knew that phone hacking was used he responded robustly. i have never hacked a phone or told anybody else to hack a phone. a body has been found in the search for gaynor lord, missing in norwich since last friday. the grandmother of teenager
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alex batty talks of her happiness

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