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1958 and 2016, tournament between 1958 and 2016, wales are aiming to reach their third successive euros and the pressure of play—off football is nothing new for the welsh who memorably beat austria and ukraine in 2022 en route to qualifying for their first world cup in 2022 en route to qualifying for theirfirst world cup in in 2022 en route to qualifying for their first world cup in years. in 2022 en route to qualifying for theirfirst world cup in years. they must replicate those performances and it is said they are moving in the right direction. we and it is said they are moving in the right direction.— and it is said they are moving in the right direction. we qualified in 2016 and go _ the right direction. we qualified in 2016 and go to — the right direction. we qualified in 2016 and go to the _ the right direction. we qualified in 2016 and go to the semifinals - the right direction. we qualified in 2016 and go to the semifinals but| 2016 and go to the semifinals but the success of that has enabled us to invest the money and give us the opportunity to qualify for the next euros which is what we did. again, a work in progress, we qualified against all the odds for the world cup, disappointing when we got there but it is a stepping stones, we have gone forward two, back one from our performances in the world cup we have learned from that. white also hoping for a spot at the world cup is ukraine who play bosnia and herzegovina later. they missed out on automatic qualification on goal difference to italy, drawing
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0-0 goal difference to italy, drawing 0—0 in theirfinal game. the? goal difference to italy, drawing 0-0 in their final game. they are aimin: to 0-0 in their final game. they are aiming to qualify _ 0-0 in their final game. they are aiming to qualify for _ 0-0 in their final game. they are aiming to qualify for their - 0-0 in their final game. they are aiming to qualify for their fourth l aiming to qualify for their fourth successive european championship. {iii successive european championship. of course we know it is going to be tough because they have an amazing team. they also have some experienced players which are going to share their experience to the others and every national team plays much better in front of their fans so we are expecting a very tough game. hopefully we can find and show our best performance. the game. hopefully we can find and show our best performance.— our best performance. the winners of the tie u- our best performance. the winners of the tie up against _ our best performance. the winners of the tie up against israel _ our best performance. the winners of the tie up against israel or— the tie up against israel or iceland, luxembourg, are two games away from their potential final against kazakhstan or greece. for the right to reach the finals in germany. lewis hamilton has praised f1 academy director susie wolff for taking legal action against the fia
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following its controversial conflict—of—interest inquiry into her last year. hamilton said he was incredibly proud of susie wolff, adding that he thought she was so brave and stands for such great values and she is such a leader. her legal case is believed to be one of defamation against a number of seniorfigures within defamation against a number of senior figures within the fia. plenty of praise for scotty scheffler since his superb victory at the players championship at the weekend with some comparing the world number one's dominance at the moment to that of tiger woods. his american compatriotjustin thomas american compatriot justin thomas understands american compatriotjustin thomas understands why. in american compatriot justin thomas understands why.— understands why. in terms of consistency _ understands why. in terms of consistency in _ understands why. in terms of consistency in who _ understands why. in terms of consistency in who has - understands why. in terms of| consistency in who has played understands why. in terms of- consistency in who has played the best, nobody holds a candle to scotty in the last couple of years but to me, dominance is winning, and winning a lot and often, but i guess when nobody has had tiger —like things, it is whoever has done it the most so i'd say probably scotty.
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cleveland cavaliers head coach jamie bickerstaffe says he has been threatened by gamblers and has reported it to the nba. he says hisjob has become more challenging because of gamblers contacting him, asking him to influence things during the games. i've personally had my own instances with some of the sport's gamblers where they got my telephone number and were sending me crazy messages about where i live and my kids and all that stuff so it's a dangerous game and a fine line that we are walking. i understand the business side of it, but it is something i believe has gone too far. that's all the sort believe has gone too far. that's all the sport for _ believe has gone too far. that's all the sport for now. _ to haiti now. the head of the united nations children's agency, unicef, says it is unable to get enough aid into the country and that many, many people are suffering serious hunger and malnutrition. gangs still control more than 80 per cent of the capital, port—au—prince, and the country
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lacks a functioning government. 0ur central america and caribbean correspondent will grant reports from haiti. to describe some of the living conditions in port—au—prince as "precarious" is an understatement. this 20—year—old student and her family had to flee their home because of gang violence and now live in a temporary camp inside an abandoned theatre. on some days, she says, they do not eat at all. "i go to school with no food, spend the day hungry and then go to bed with nothing in my stomach," she says.
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now she sees no choice but to abandon her studies. the daily struggle to find enough food in haiti is nothing new. the difference now is the scale of the emergency in food insecurity. potentially millions of people are in danger of falling into malnutrition and already do not know when or where their next meal is coming from. there are some success stories. this child was deemed dangerously malnourished a few weeks ago but a local ngo second mile was able to hospitalise him and he is thankfully putting on weight. over the years, their residential malnutrition centre has pulled hundreds of children back from the brink. mothers typically spend four weeks at the centre receiving urgent care for their malnourished children and instruction on providing high nutrition on a limited budget. the ngo says it's had huge success with just 1% of children being readmitted after they leave. with aid still barely
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making it into haiti, this work is crucial, but the ngo fears mistakes of the 2010 earthquake disaster response could be repeated in this crisis. a lot of these larger ngos fly in and fly out and they are handed all of these supplies and all of this aid and suddenly all of these funds to now hire all of these people. you are actually hiring from all of these local ngos when you could just help pay their staff members and help and give them the aid to distribute. tilling the land in haiti is dry, thankless work. climate change has meant crops of maize and beans often yield poor harvests or fail altogether. a temporary passing crisis here and aid alone will not solve it. rather it is becoming the norm and are parts of the country's
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dire new reality. will grant, bbc news, haiti. an ai tool being tested by the national health service in scotland has identified tiny breast cancer tumours in 11 women, which had been missed by doctors. the technology was piloted alongside nhs clinicians and analysed the mammograms of more than 10,000 women. our technology editor zoe kleinmann has more details. so this is one of the extra cancers that was picked up by the ai. that is so tiny. yes, it is, indeed. and you can see why two human readers would have just looked through, compared it, it looks very much the same, and would have said that that's normal. here in aberdeen, dr gerald lip has just led the first nhs evaluation of an artificial intelligence tool called mia, designed to help improve breast cancer diagnosis. the initial results are encouraging. it's almost like another colleague, and someone, a second, sort of second opinion looking
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over your shoulder and helping you. so one human reader and ai doing the next read, we could move our turnaround time from 1a days down to three days. and you know that anxiety, you've had a mammogram or any test in the hospital, i've had tests. you're kind of waiting on that result and you want to know it as soon as you can. so anxiety is another factor in this as well that we want to try and reduce. barbara's cancer was so tiny, dr lipp and his team didn't spot it, but mia did. i'm just incredibly grateful. if i hadn't had that, then i don't know when i would have found it. the early diagnosis meant that barbara needed shorter and less invasive treatments. she told me without ai, her tumour might not have been spotted for another three years at her next routine scan, by which point it would have been a lot bigger and might have spread. you say cancer and they say, "oh, i'm so sorry." and i felt a fraud because it was so small. it'sjust so easy. there's no extra appointment or anything. and then when you have the operation, it's at a very early stage.
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so it's minimal compared to what it could be. ai is good at this when it's properly trained to spot early, tiny symptoms of a specific disease. but this isn't perfect yet. it has a tendency to over—diagnose. and also because of current health guidelines, it's not allowed to learn on the job and evolve as it's used. right now, this tech is still being researched. mia was built by the medicalfirm kheiron and runs on computing power from microsoft. it was fed millions of images of scans from women around the world to enable it to recognise specific signs of potential breast cancer. within five years, some experts say ai will routinely be used in cancer diagnosis. i struggled to see some of the symptoms dr lip showed me, and i only looked at a few of them. currently, human specialists analyse up to 10,000 scans per year. the hope is that al tech like mia might one day reduce that workload
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and the strain that goes with it. zoe kleinman, bbc news. that's it from me for today. sarah campbell will be here with you next so stay with us on bbc news. hello there. well, at this time of year, with light winds and some sunshine, we can get some spring warmth. and that's what we had yesterday. warmest day of the year so far, just shy of 19 degrees in surrey. and it wasn't a bad start today. and surrey is probably one of the areas where we could see the highest values once again. different story further north and west in east renfrewshire. we've already seen some sharp showers here, all tied into this area of low pressure. and along the southern flank, plenty of isobars, so strong to gale—force gusts of winds as well. now, this has been the progress of the rain so far today. it's fairly light and drizzly as it
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moves its way across wales and north west england. but we've got some heavier bursts across western scotland and northern ireland, accompanied by gusts of winds in excess of 50 to 60 miles an hour. some brightness by the end of the day in the far north. cloudy with some brief glimpses of sunshine from time to time. so that will have an effect on what we get as our highest value. 16 or 17 degrees, though, not out of the question. through the night tonight, our weather front will continue to sink its way steadily southward. so a blanket of cloud holding those temperatures up. clearer skies and a few scattered showers at further north. so here, we're looking at around four or five degrees as a morning minimum. so we're going to start off tomorrow, then, bright and breezy, with gales or severe gales developing across the far north of scotland. and a rash of showers here. early morning rain across the south east of england will gradually ease away, but it'll take its time in doing so. brighter skies behind and temperatures down a little, 9 to 12 celsius. and that's the story
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as we go into the weekend. the milder air is gradually going to be squeezed over to the near continent, low pressure dominates for the start of the weekend, and the wind direction will play its part. it is going to be a blustery day, gusty winds widely, and that'll drive in a rash of showers from the north and west. and yes, with elevation, there could be some wintry showers in there as well. but if you dodge the showers, get a little bit of shelter and some sunshine, it still won't feel too bad. but you can see the wind gusts generally 30 to 45 miles an hour, and that'll make it feel fresher than we've seen of late, 9 to 10 celsius. a little bit quieter as we go into sunday, and hopefully fewer showers around as well. whatever you're doing, have a great weekend.
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live from london, this is bbc news. israeli forces say they've killed 50 palestinian gunmen in continuing fighting around al—shifa hospital in gaza city. the us has submitted a draught un security council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in gaza linked to the release of hostages. a new report finds many british women are owed apologies — and thousands of pounds in compensation — because of state pension changes. eu leaders are in brussels discussing whether profits
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from frozen russian assets could be used to help arm ukraine. new research shows that pregnant women working in extreme heat are at greater risk of miscarriage and stillbirth. hello, i'm sarah campbell, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. let's start with a breaking story because the us has filed a landmark lawsuit against apple, which accuses the tech giant of monopolising the smartphone market and crashing competition. in the lancet, the justice department alleges the company used its power to limit competitors as well as the options available to consumers. apple has vowed to vigorously fight the lawsuit and denies the claims. it is at the third time the company has
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