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hello, it's monday, it's nine o'clock. i'm joanna gosling in for victoria. welcome to the programme. in the last year, a record number of people — nearly 4,000 — have become victims of online dating scams. we have an exclusive report in which we hear from women who've lost hundreds of thousands of pounds to fake romances. i believed in john. i believed injohn. i believed i was helping him. iwas i believed injohn. i believed i was helping him. i was completely bowled over by him. the full film coming up at 9.15. also on the programme, the prime minister, theresa may, is set to unveil a new industrial strategy aimed at boosting the post—brexit economy, and seeing the government stepping up to "a new, active role". we'll be talking to business leaders about what they want to see in the plan. and last week, an inquest ruled that the death of dean saunders, a dad who took his own life in prison, was preventable and predictable. as a report from an independent prison watchdog is released, we hearfrom dean's father mark. hello, welcome to the programme.
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we're live until 11 this morning. we'll also be discussing what trump's been up to in his first days as president. and have you had toast this morning? government food scientists are warning that toast — along with other starchy foods like chips and roast potatoes — could cause cancer if they are overcooked. we will have your essential guide to the perfect slice. do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning. our top story today — the prime minister, theresa may, is to announce her plans to boost industry in britain. she sees the government having a new, more active role, intervening where necessary to help businesses. her strategy will be unveiled at a cabinet meeting
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in the north west of england later. 0ur industry correspondent, john moylan, has more. how can the government ensure the economy is fit for the future? for the business secretary, greg clark, places like this are part of the answer. it is a new automotive innovation centre in warwick, backed by government and industry money, designed to keep our carmakers firing on all cylinders. the industrial strategy will be committed to driving very hard, to spread the opportunities right across the country and to drive, notjustjobs, but really good, well paying jobs in all parts of the country. it will be a big part of our strategy. today, the strategy will be outlined in a new green paper, aimed at kickstarting a wide—ranging consultation on the government's new vision. that will include plans for sector deals where businesses and stakeholders in specific sectors can make the case for government support. that is just one of ten
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so—called strategic pillars which are all designed to increase productivity and drive growth. in the past, governments used industrial strategies as an excuse to back key firms or industries. it didn't always work. as we prepare for the challenge of leaving the eu, the big test of this plan will be that it doesn'tjust deliver for successful firms like this but that it reaches out to a part of the uk to deliver the government's aim of an economy that works for everybody. we will be speaking to business people later. if you have a particular interest, do let us know what you think of the new strategy. ben is in the bbc newsroom with a summary of the rest of the day's news. good morning. scientists are warning that overcooked foods including potatoes, toast, crisps and waffles could increase the risk of developing cancer.
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the food standards agency's go for gold campaign says over—browning food for more flavour and crunch produces a potentially harmful compound called acrylamide. robert pigott reports. the warning includes some of the most popular foods in the british diet, such as crisps, chips, cakes and biscuits. the longer they're cooked above 120 celsius, the more acrylamide they contain. those foods go through a browning process, which many of us like in terms of flavour and taste, but it also produces this acrylamide. the sugars in starchy foods such as your breakfast toast, combine with the molecules that make up protein, to produce acrylamide that can damage the dna in cells. we know that in animal studies it can create cancer, and so we are concerned if there is the same mechanism in people that high exposure could increase people's risk. the fsa says people should go for gold, aiming for gold and yellow in baking, roasting, frying or toasting rather than something darker.
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it says eating a balanced diet rich in vegetables will guard against cancer. cancer research uk says acrylamide might be harmful to people, but insists there are other far bigger proven dangers — being obese, drinking too much and especially smoking. ministers are under pressure to make a statement to parliament clarifying what was known about a reported trident missile misfire. during a bbc interview, the prime minister failed to answer four questions about the issue — although she insisted she had "absolute faith" in the trident system. an unarmed missile is reported to have veered off course during a test injune last year, just weeks before a vote to renew the programme. let's speak to norman smith, who's at westminster. norman, how embarrassing is this for the prime minister? it has to be
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profoundly embarrassing because trident is the cornerstone of our defence capability. the idea there might be something wrong with that and mrs may has not told mps about it, is very awkward. on top of which it, is very awkward. on top of which it came, as we know mps were voting to renew trident, to sanction spending, £40 billion worth of tax payers money, and they would want to know how reliable the system is. what we are hearing at the moment is a marked reluctance from government to give any further details on the ground about national security. in other words, if they put out information about potential weaknesses in trident, that could undermine the deterrent itself. labour argue that is simply not credible because, they say, the russians and other countries would have been well aware that this trident had gone of course. so the only people who would not have known about the problems with the system would have been the british public and the british house of commons.
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the likelihood is that sir michael fallon, the defence secretary, will either have to come or come of his own volition to the house of commons this afternoon to make a statement on the issue. it will be difficult for the government to simply repeat that this is a matter of government security —— national security committee bird which they will not talk. thank you. thank you. the world's biggest smartphone maker, samsung, has blamed faulty batteries for the fires that led to the recall of its flagship galaxy note 7. the company was forced to discontinue the device after a chaotic recall that saw replacement phones also catching fire. the korean electronics giant said it apologised for the defect, and had learned lessons from what happened. figures seen exclusively by this programme have revealed that a record number of people were victims of online dating scams in the last year. according to the national fraud intelligence bureau almost 4,000 people were defrauded by £39 million between them — the highest total ever recorded. and we'll have more on that exclusive story in a few minutes time just after this news summary.
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talks aimed at resolving the syrian conflict are due to begin this morning. the negotiations have the backing of russia and iran, which support the syrian government, and turkey, which supports the rebels. it's the first time a group made up entirely of rebel forces will negotiate with the syrian government. a police crackdown on motorists who illegally use mobile phones at the wheel resulted in nearly 8,000 drivers being caught in the space of seven days. 36 forces took part in the operation in november. the national police chiefs' council has released the figures as a new clampdown gets under way today. police say one man has been arrested after an officer was shot in belfast last night. the officer is in a stable condition after being hit twice in the arm, when a number of shots were fired from a car on the crumlin road in the north of the city. the northern ireland secretary james brokenshire said the attack was sickening. the world premiere of
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the trainspotting sequel has taken place in edinburgh. ewan mcgregor, robert carlyle, jonny lee miller and ewen bremner all feature in t2 trainspotting, 21 years after the original, which followed the lives of a group of heroin addicts. it was based on a novel by irvine welsh, and the sequel is based on his book porno. ewa n ewan mcgregor explained the affinity the actors have with their characters. there is something about these characters, we feel like we know them, they are friends of ours or something. come back to them and find out what they are up to now, it doesn't really feel like a sequel. we didn't try to remake trainspotting. danny's intention was never to do that. it's a very different kind of film, i think. that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 9.30. still to come, an exclusive report
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on online dating scams, which are at a record high. we talked to two women cheated out of hundreds of thousands of pounds in romances that turned out to be entirely fake. do get in touch. now the sport. johanna konta still flying the flag for britain in the australian open. she is in good form? amazing form. she is in good form? amazing form. she is in good form? amazing form. she is on this nine match unbeaten streak. she is the last briton left. she stormed past makarova, only dropping five games. a sign of the good form she is in. last year in this competition she reached the semifinals, herfirst this competition she reached the semifinals, her first appearance this competition she reached the semifinals, herfirst appearance in a grand slam last four. that really
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sparked off a brilliant 2016 for her. she reached the world's top ten for the first time, won second wta title. she has carried that momentum into 2017. she has not dropped a single set in this tournament. she has been rewarded with a glamour tie against serena williams. for contact, she says it will be an incredible honour to play one of the women she grew up incredible honour to play one of the women she grew up watching. no signs of nerves yet. she is certainly not showing them. she will be hard to bet against, the fact she is on this nine match winning streak. it would be fantastic. ryan mason, what is the latest with his head injury? you would have seen those quite horrific pictures yesterday of ryan mason after he clashed heads with gary cahill of chelsea. that was early in the match. both went down immediately. the medics of both teams ran onto the pitch. cahill was
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lucky enough he could walk away. ryan mason received treatment on the pitch for a good seven or eight minutes. he was eventually taken off ona minutes. he was eventually taken off on a stretcher. hull city have released a statement and said that he is ina released a statement and said that he is in a stable condition after undergoing surgery for a fractured skull. fellow players have given m essa 9 es skull. fellow players have given m essa g es of skull. fellow players have given messages of support on social media, wishing him all the best. we are expecting an update on his condition some point later today. we will keep you up—to—date. some point later today. we will keep you up-to-date. snooker, ronnie 0'sullivan continuing to set records? 41 years old and still winning things and dominating a sport he has dominated for so many yea rs. sport he has dominated for so many years. he defended his uk masters title in style. a seventh title. he was 4—1 down at one stage. then he rattled off seven frames in a row to bring it back to 8—4. from that
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point he wasn't going to relinquish the lead. for him, he says it's not about the money. it is about winning trophies. it has been that way since he was a young boy. i am sure that now he has got this title in the bag, he will be winning many more trophies later in the year. thank you. when it comes to finding love, we know millions of people in the uk now turn to the internet. but can you always be certain the person you're speaking to is real? figures seen exclusively by this programme show that in the last year a record number of people — almost 4,000 — have become victims of online dating scams. between them they were conned out of £39 million. according to the national fraud intelligence bureau, that's the highest total ever recorded. so what makes someone send vast sums of money to a person they've never met? nicola rees has been to meet the women who've lost hundreds of thousands of pounds. everything is gone, i'm facing bankruptcy, that is really, really frightening.
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i woke up in the middle of the night and suddenly realised, not only was it a scam, but this so—called john was part of this gang. i suppose the other aspect is that someone has got inside your head, and they've just brutalised you emotionally. when it comes to finding our perfect partners, millions of us use dating sites and apps. matchmaking sites are the single biggest driver of new relationships in the uk. but not everyone online is looking for love. every year, thousands of single people in the uk are conned by criminals using fake profiles on dating sites. they don't care about the victim at all, they are in this for one thing only, and that is to get money out of you. i've lost a total of about 140,000. it was over £300,000, maybe even over £350,000. so how do otherwise intelligent people fall for internet fraudsters? he was a widower with a young son,
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his wife had died of cancer, liked to look at the fun side of life, lovely, really lovely, and i was swept off my feet, i know that. nancy is a single mum from north yorkshire who runs her own business. she's asked us to protect her anonymity. in 2015, after her marriage broke down, she signed up to the uk's biggest dating site, match.com. in a matter of days, nancy discovered her strongest match was marcello from manchester, a seemingly handsome italian who was working in turkey. he seemed attractive, but that wasn't the bit that i really liked, it was the fact that we seem to have a rapport, similar values, and got on well and wanted the same thing. after just a few days, marcello persuaded nancy to move their chat off the dating website and on an insta nt—messaging service. we started to chat a lot very
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quickly, so he would message me throughout the day, sort of two or three times, and then that would start to escalate to the point that, at the very end, it was constant, from the moment i woke up till the moment i went to sleep. do you remember when he first asked you for money and what that message, the subject of that message? yes, so it was about six weeks after we'd started talking, we were getting on really, really well, he was preparing to finish a job, come back to the uk, that is when we were going to meet. he was closing down a job, he'd taken some money to go and pay the workers and been mugged. his son was in hospital and needed surgery. it was a very strange sum of money, like 3650 euros, so i was really uncomfortable sending that, but it was posed that there was a child was hurting, and that emotionally hooked me on. what happened from there? how did the money escalate? it escalated unbelievably quickly, so it was straight away
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the medicalfees, then it was, you know, money needed for food, money needed to pay the rent, money needed for taxes to get out of turkey. it was constant money. a lot of people would say, how on earth could you send so much money to a man that you'd never met? i wasn't given a lot of time to think about it, because the money was needed now, right now, right now, have you sent it? where are you? i'm here waiting, where is the money? and then i got so far in i couldn't get myself out, and i didn't want to walk away having lost, you know, £50,000 or what have you, and it's just a complete web of lies and manipulation, and you don't know which way to turn and you can't talk to anybody about it. nancy will never know who this man really is. the photos that so—called marcello sent to her were probably stolen from social networking sites. she was groomed by a fraudster.
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the tactics might seem simple, emphasising words like honest and trustworthy, and claiming to be looking for a lasting relationship. but this clever manipulation is targeted to hook a particular kind of person. the victims of this crime are almost always women, mainly in their 40s and 50s, and, like nancy, they are often professional, successful, intelligent, so what makes them so vulnerable. he sounded wonderful on the phone, and so we started getting quite friendly quite quickly, really. judith is a university professor living in hampshire. in 2015, she too decided to try online dating, logging onto another leading matchmaking site, parship. john porterfrom london was her strongest match. likejudith, he was a christian and, once again, his profile emphasised honesty and trust.
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it sounded as though he had very similar interests, he said he liked walking, he liked being active. and so, from that point of view, i felt that we would be a good match. so how soon conversation turned to money? he talked about hisjob in interior design, we talked quite a lot about his job as an interior designer, and he said that he done a lot of work abroad and that he was setting this contract up. when he went to south africa, what he said was, i've got to have a bond of good faith against me not delivering the goods. well, i have known people who been in business and they have to put up a bond of good faith, so i didn't think it was strange. he'd lost his passport, this was the story, the e—mail started getting a bit frantic, and i immediately, cos i was so believing in him,
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i immediately said, "don't worry, john, i can loan you some money." you're a respected academic, you're clearly intelligent, successful, articulate. judith, why was your judgment so poor here? because i believed injohn, i believed that i was helping him, and i was completely bowled over by him. now i look back, and i think, how can it happen? at the time it was very emotional, it was very real. the relationship was so real tojudith that you continue to go the relationship was so real tojudith that she continued to go along with john's plans, even after they became absurd. several weeks later, john told judith he had more than £15 million trapped in a safety deposit box in amsterdam. alljudith had to do was go and release it, but she would also need to provide more of her own cash. i didn't think, "it's not true," ever, strangely.
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but i did think, "this is an incredible amount of money." but he gave me instructions as to what i needed to do, and i went to an office, i met two people there. i was asked to take a handling fee. again, i didn't think anything of it, and that was 16,000 euros. and then they took me into a room, and they showed me this trunk that, a metal trunk, that had all these notes in, us dollar bills. so here you are in a room in amsterdam with two strange men and a trunk full of american $100 bills, and at no point does an alarm bell ring in your mind, "hang on, this is an incredibly strange situation"? well, yes, it was strange, not within my experience at all. but the men were
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perfectly professional. i got a so—called receipt for the money that i took as a management fee. they had an answer for everything. it was five months before judith realised that the man she thought she loved was entirely fake. so—called john porter didn't exist. judith had given her life savings to an organised criminal gangs. what was the moment that you did realise this was a scam? it was when they started asking for ridiculous amounts of money. i sought help from a they said well, this sounds to us very much like it isa scam. this sounds to us very much like it is a scam. i went to bed that night. i woke is a scam. i went to bed that night. iwoke up is a scam. i went to bed that night. i woke up in the middle of the night and suddenly realised that not only was it a scam, but this so—called john was part of this gang and i
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felt absolutely terrible. judith‘s story is not unique with as many one in three relationships in the uk now starting online, the int nit is becoming an increasingly lucrative place for cyber criminals. we've discovered that last year alone, almost 4,000 people were conned by online dating scammers with losses amounting to a record £39 million. but even the most detailed statistics can't predict the true scale of this problem. so many of these crimes will never be reported because people are simply too ashamed or embarrassed to admit they've been conned. i've come to the university of warwick to meet one of the country's leading cyber scientists. it is definitely the case that stupid
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people fall for a romance scam. they can be clever people. the criminal talks to them morning, noon and night and they send them e—mail to send them poetry, to keep them awake at night. so they groom them until they are ready to give up money to they are ready to give up money to the criminal. what kind of an impact can this sort of crime have on the victim? the aftermath is quite severe. it's, a number of cases we have learnt of people who have committed suicide, that's how severe it can be. judith and nancy were persuaded to move their conversations off the dating websites after a few days. it is a common tactic used by cyber criminals and makes them even more difficult to trace. virtually all of them say don't go off the website too quickly. so i did entirely the wrong thing, but this was encouraged partly by him, but partly because it seemed practical to do so. in a
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statement, the company pointed out their system scans. the block facilities did not manage to prevent further contact with the scammer.m was literally because it was just easier to chat. we could almost have insta nt easier to chat. we could almost have instant communication rather than waiting for an e—mail to send and be received and things like that. i had no idea that was a bad thing to do. in response to nancy's story match.com say: it is simple advice, but it isn't working. more and more people are becoming victims of this crime. each of our victims are losing on average
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£10,000. of course, by the examples that you've highlighted today, you can see that it can run into hundreds of thousands of pounds. steve profit is deputy head of the uk's national cybercrime reporting centre. a year ago, we were having 250 reports a month. we're now up to over 350 reports a month and the amount of money these victims are losing is rising steadily as well. shouldn't the police be doing more to protect the victims and crucially, to trace the criminals? they're in foreign jurisdictions. they're in foreign jurisdictions. they're in foreign jurisdictions. they're in west africa, eastern europe and places like that. it's very difficult for british law enforcement to take action against them in those jurisdictions. in enforcement to take action against them in thosejurisdictions. in most cases, by the time victims realise they've been scammed, their money is long gone. judith sent huge amounts from her natwest account. she is angry that her bank never challenged her. i reported it to my bank in
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august and the money went out in about four or five different tra nsfers, about four or five different transfers, very large amounts of money into different banks all in hong kong. and they never questioned it once. natwest sent us a statement in response tojudith‘s story. they say: how how much responsibility should the banks take? nancy believes santander should the banks take? nancy believes sa ntander should have alerted the banks take? nancy believes santander should have alerted the police about her behaviour.“ santander should have alerted the police about her behaviour. if they had flagged these transactions to the police, as suspicious and if the police had come to me, it probably would have protected me. i wouldn't have got all of my money back, but it would have saved my business. although sa ntander it would have saved my business. although santander didn't report nancy's actions to the police, they did raise concerns with her directly. they say a member of their
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fraud team specifically told nancy she maybe at risk of a romance scam and also highlighted to her that the techniques from youedsters use can be convincing, but they say this was something nancy firmly dismissed. it highlights the extreme manipulation involved in these scams, that victims are completely blind to the reality of what's happening to them. it's about manipulation. it's about control. it's about criminals who can separate themselves emotionally from a victim and feel nothing for them. i wouldn't get any of the money back. i have to tell myself that it was a complete fraud. so, feeling sorry for myself is just not an issue. you are left feeling completely worthless. these peoplejust, you are of no consequence. nicola rees with that film. we still don't know who the men
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in those photos who were used for the profiles of marcelo and john were. we understand that police have tried to trace them without success. they're clearly not connected to these scams in any way, but if you recognise them, or indeed if you are one of the men in the photos, do let us know. we'll be discussing this issue further after 10am. do get in touch with your thoughts and if you want to watch nicola's film again or share it visit our programme page: bbc.co.uk/victoria still to come, we'll be talking to business owners about what they want to see in theresa may's plan to help business in the post—brexit economy. and we look at what us president donald trump has been doing in his first days in office. now all the news with them. good morning. the key proposal is the creation of
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deals to assist certain industry sectors, including nuclear power and life sciences. mrs may will launch the plans at her first regional cabinet meeting, which is taking place in the north—west of england. an independent report into the death ofa an independent report into the death of a mentally ill man who electrocuted himself in chelmsford prison last year, has found staff failed to do enough to protect him, despite the risky may kill himself. it reported by the prisons ombudsman said dean saunders should've been in hospital, not prison. that's mac report. he was jailed after stabbing his father as he tried to stop him harming himself during a paranoid episode. scientists are warning that overcooked foods including potatoes, toast, crisps and waffles could increase the risk of developing cancer. the food standards agency's go for gold campaign says over—browning food for more flavour and crunch produces a potentially harmful compound called acrylamide. it also recommends raw potatoes are
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not stored in the fridge macro. ministers are under pressure to make a statement to parliament clarifying what was known about a reported trident missed —— trident missile misfire. the prime ministerfailed to a nswer misfire. the prime ministerfailed to answer four misfire. the prime ministerfailed to answerfour questions misfire. the prime ministerfailed to answer four questions during a television interview but insisted she had faith in trident. a missile is reported to have veered off—course during a test injune of last year, weeks before a vote to renew the programme. figures seen exclusively by this programme have revealed that a record number of people were victims of online dating scams in the last year. according to the national fraud intelligence bureau almost 4,000 people were defrauded by £39 million between them — the highest total ever recorded. the world premiere of the trainspotting sequel has taken place in edinburgh. ewan mcgregor, robert carlyle, jonny lee miller and ewen bremner all feature in t2 trainspotting, 21 years after the original,
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which followed the lives of a group of heroin addicts. it was based on a novel by irvine welsh, and the sequel is based on his book porno. that is a summary of the latest news. more at ten. now the sport. britain'sjohanna konta is through to the quarterfinals of the australian open. she beat russian makarova and will now play 22 time grand slam champion serena williams. that will ta ke champion serena williams. that will take place in the early hours of wednesday morning. ryan mason is said to be in a stable condition after undergoing surgery for a skull fracture following a clash with gary cahill. ronnie 0'sullivan came from behind to win a record seventh masters title, beating joe perry 10-7 at
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masters title, beating joe perry 10—7 at london's alexandra palace. and dave riding has become the first british skier to claim a world cup alpine medal since 1981. he finished second in the men's slalom in austria. that is all the sport for now. thank you. the prime minister is launching her industrial strategy for the post—brexit economy today, in a style that marks a more interventionist approach than previous conservative governments. theresa may will set out the ideas at her first regional cabinet meeting, in north west england. it's expected there will be a £0.5 billion boost for the so—called northern powerhouse. ben thompsonjoins ben thompson joins me live from warrington. how much of a change could there be? welcome to warrington. we're here as an oil processing plant. theresa may is expected to speak up the road from
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here, launching her industrial strategy. it is a ten point plan. this plant, all of this is the raw material that comes in. it ends up in something like this. this place isa in something like this. this place is a real example of what we will hear about from theresa may later. all of this needs to be transported around on the roads and the railways. that is the physical infrastructure, the hard infrastructure, the hard infrastructure that we will hear a lot about today. roads, railways, airports and internet connection. this is their new building. 0n the top floor, there will be the offices. downstairs is where they will introduce a big new research and development laboratory. soft infrastructure. skills, training, education for people coming up through business. that could be a real focus today. it is about how to make things more efficiently. how to
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come up with more ways of doing things. there's temple and strategy the prime minister will lay out later will include money and support. —— this ten point strategy. how do businesses gaining new ideas to keep them running? we are here in the north—west of england. there is a lot of discussion about whether decisions made down in westminster, in the south—east of england, whether that is really the best place to be making decisions that affect the north of england and other parts of the country. the prime minister will say that she wa nts prime minister will say that she wants people in all corners of the country to feel the benefits of economic growth. i have been speaking to businesses here this morning. they say that frankly these powers need to be devolved. you need to send that power from westminster to send that power from westminster to where the business is happening. that could be key. it is about giving support and money and vital resources to local enterprise partnerships and local business groups that can offer the support and training that local businesses
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need. this place absolutely is a success story. they have been manufacturing here for many years. it is the products they make here that they sell around the world. they say the manufacturing mark, the label made in england, is a huge selling point. that is what we will hear from the selling point. that is what we will hearfrom the prime minister selling point. that is what we will hear from the prime minister later, how to make this country manufacturer once again and sell our wares around the world, which could be crucial after the vote to leave the european union. after the vote to leave the european union. so, with britain's exit from the eu looming, what do businesses want to hear from the government, and will theresa may's plans go far enough? let's talk to elizabeth varley, the ceo of techhub which provides helps technology companies around the world. lynette deutsch, the ceo of recruitment company endaba. kate hills, the ceo of make it british, which promotes british manufacturing. sofia charalambous founder and director of bathroom 0rigins which sells bathroom fixtures and fittings. in a moment we'll be joined by christine gaskell, chair of cheshire and warrington
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enterprise partnership. you all obviously represent different sectors. it will be interesting to hear the perspective of how different sectors have been faring. i will start with you elizabeth. technology is an area that the government has been looking at, hasn't it? tell us about the state of the tech industry at the moment in this country? the tech industry in the uk is incredibly successful. it is booming, which is really exciting. the biggest concerns for most growing tech companies is all about people, recruitment, and funding. so we're very interested to see what comes out of the industrial strategy around helping to train people high—techjobs, around helping to train people high—tech jobs, and opportunities around helping to train people high—techjobs, and opportunities to help more companies scale up. what are you talking about, hard cash?|j
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know there are discussions on different training organisations to better prepare people for working in industry, as opposed to just doing university training. and also, we need to look at how to scale companies not just staff them. need to look at how to scale companies notjust staff them. it is very important. because going from four people to ten people is really, really challenging. and then beyond that. linnett, you represent the services sector. that is obviously an absolutely fundamental part of the economy. the initiative is trying to look beyond the services sector and see which other areas can be helped. what is your prospective? obviously we are in the people business, as i suppose businesses are. what we would like to see, which i suppose sits with the concerns,
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which i suppose sits with the concerns, perhaps with tax for small businesses. we are all pretty small businesses. we are all pretty small businesses said around here. we would like to see some proper —— corporation tax, business rates, some sort of benefits to our small businesses. most of our businesses outside of the uk. if we sadly rely just on the uk, we would be tinier than we are. trading where? europe. europe is huge. this feeling of movement is also important. you want the status quo, ideally? yeah! there isa the status quo, ideally? yeah! there is a lot of hope here! kate hills, make it british. made in england became a real selling point. do you see that? definitely. since i have been running my company i have seen a huge increase from all sorts of companies looking to re—shore
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production and start making in the uk again. anything the government can do to draw attention to manufacturing rather than services, is fantastic. the problem we had to ove rco m e is fantastic. the problem we had to overcome is how we attract our young people into the manufacturing sector. at the moment a lot of the manufacturers i know are having to use skilled workers from overseas. lots that you are bringing in there. looking particularly at the state of the manufacturing industry in this country and how much support there has been, and what specifically you would like to see? there needs to be more support. this is very much welcomed, this new strategy. we would like to see particularly the skills sector, the skills addressed and how we attract people into the industry. more funding and training. how does that get done by the government? it needs funding and quickly. we have a limited amount of time to start training up our own workforce. nowjoining us is
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christine gaskell, representing the motor industry. tell us your prospective full stop what would you like the government to do?|j prospective full stop what would you like the government to do? i think it's really important, this industrial strategy. the focus on training and skills is vital. we have a highly skilled workforce in cheshire, warrington. but we need to look at skills for the future. stem subjects, technical skills, this is good news. here in the studio, sofia, you actually import. you are looking at it from a slightly different perspective? yes. what we wa nt different perspective? yes. what we want from the government is to make doing business with europe as simple and easy as possible, with as few barriers as possible. it's easy to say, why don't we buy the products we bring in from europe? why don't we bring in from europe? why don't we buy them from the uk? they are
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not made in the uk. and if they are, it will take years for investment infrastructure to make those products. sometimes you just can't make them. the skills aren't there. we don't want regulation on the origin of the product, the wto tariffs. we wanted as simple as possible. it is an uncertain time. do you see it as an optimistic time? new opportunities for different, maybe better trade deals?” new opportunities for different, maybe better trade deals? i do. but we cannotjust maybe better trade deals? i do. but we cannot just forget our trading neighbours. in theory, go buy the products from brazil or australia. but it is not as easy asjust saying that. you have also got the transportation. maybe they don't make the product how it is made in europe. it is notjust as simple as saying, i will bring the products in from australia. elizabeth, looking
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specifically at how the tech industry has grown, would you put that down directly to government investment and a focus on the tech industry? how much of a difference does government make when it really wa nts to does government make when it really wants to drive growth in a particular area? technology growth has been happening across the uk, which is really exciting. we have seen a which is really exciting. we have seen a big growth in the cluster in london. the previous comment was very focused on shining a light on that and making sure that companies and organisations internationally knew that london and the uk is a great place to start and grow a technology business. and so, shining a light on it has been incredibly helpful, particularly in attracting talent from overseas, attracting smaller businesses to open in the uk or to base themselves here. we would like to see a continued support around that, particularly to
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encourage more people into technology jobs. encourage more people into technologyjobs. particularly increasing diversity. we would love to see more women, more people from different ethnic backgrounds, because that's the way that we're going to be able to retain competitiveness. to have the best possible talents. does it come down to money in the end? we were talking before about the financial help. is that in the end what has led to this transition? i think the actual hard cash help has not particularly been coming from government. it has been more about offering support and encouragement. putting funding into talking about and exposing the industry in the uk and internationally. that has been really helpful. so when you, kate, see what is going on in the tech industry, what can translate? we
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wanted to happen in the manufacturing industry as well. the tech industry is exciting, it is new, it is shiny. manufacturing is seen as new, it is shiny. manufacturing is seen as being from the victorian era. we need to bring the excitement of tech into manufacturing to bring it into the 215t century. of tech into manufacturing to bring it into the 21st century. how does that happen? we need to show people that happen? we need to show people that working in a factory is something to be proud of and not something to be proud of and not something to be ashamed of. that tradition has gone. it is about showing what factories look like and people thinking they look like and people thinking they look like and people thinking they look like victorian work houses. you hear of teachers telling schoolchildren that if you don't work hard at school, you'll end up ina work hard at school, you'll end up in a factory. we need them to think that it in a factory. we need them to think thatitis in a factory. we need them to think that it is something to aspire to and see more about what it is like ina and see more about what it is like in a factory, whether that means you're taking schoolchildren out on work placements and to get into manufacturing and not just work placements and to get into manufacturing and notjust into office and service jobs. in the end,
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if it's, if countries sort of rely on things being manufactured in their own country, it means things being more expensive. it becomes a wider question, doesn't it, about whether we are prepared to pay for that or whether we like the cheap imports. from the the manufacturing industry, we have got used to the cheap imports? but they will not stay cheap for long. people are predicting it will be a 20% to 30% rise in the cost of clothing we will be buying from this autumn onwards because everything in the textile industry is importedment it won't just be our own goods that will be more expensive. the difference between the two will become less. buying uk products won't be seen as a much more expensive option. how do you see that christine? the fact that we have got used to the competitive element of cheaper imports and the fact that you know cheaper production costs mean we have got used to buying cheap,
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higher production in britain presumably means prices will go up? but there is lots of manufacturing in britain and there is lots of manufacturing in the north—west. if you look at the motor industry in particular, here in cheshire and warrington we have got vauxhall motors and bentley and jlr, so there is lots of manufacturing and we need to talk these industries up. there is lots to be proud of. so what specifically, do you want to see? well, what we need to see is that we want an economy as the prime minister says that works for everyone. there is huge opportunity in the north of england and we need to rebalance the country from the south east, to the north. yes, when you look at comparisons on productivity around the country and what's happened in different areas, sheffield is quite a good example. it used to be home to be steel industry. it is 19% less productive than the national average. how do
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you fix areas where they are struggling? cheshire and warrington has the fastest growing economy outside of the south—east of england. there are good businesses out here. what we need to see is that we get the investment to open up that we get the investment to open up sites that companies are encouraged to come in and actually and grow their businesses. thank you very much. thank you all very much. let us know your thoughts on that as well. coming up, an inquest ruled that the death of dean saunders, a dad who took his own life in prison was preventable and predictable. we hearfrom dean's father, mark. it's monday morning, and donald trump's first proper day in the oval office. not that america's new president had much time to relax over the weekend. his first visit was to the cia headquarters where he made a speech to intelligence staff.
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he has invited theresa may to washington and also the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, just as the white house confirmed it's in the initial stages of discussions about moving the us embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem, a move which could threaten the peace process. he has begun the process of dismantling 0bamacare. despite all of that its a row over how many people did, or didn't, attend his inauguration on friday that's dominated media coverage over the past 48 hours and how mr trump's team have dealt with the press. this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period both in person and around the globe. even the new york times printed a photograph showing that a misrepresentation of the crowd in the original tweet. in their paper which showed the full extent of the support, depth and crowd and intensity that existed. these attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful, and wrong. don't be so overly dramatic about it, chuck.
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you're saying it is a falsehood and they're giving, sean spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that. but the point remains... alternative facts for the five facts he uttered. the one thing he got right for the five facts were not true. look, alternative facts are not facts, they're falsehoods. chuck, do you think it is a fact or not that millions of people have lost their plans or health insurance and their doctors under president obama? do you think it is a fact that everything we heard from these women yesterday happened on the watch of barack obama? he was president for the eight years. donald trump has been here more about eight hours. there is an obsession by the media to delegitimise this president and we are not going sit around and let it happen. we're going to fight back tooth and nail every day and twice on sunday. 0k, it is a shame that the cia didn't have a cia director to be with him today when he visited because the democrats have chosen, senate democrats are stalling
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the nomination of mike pompeo and playing politics with national security. that's what you guys should be writing and covering instead of sowing division about tweets and false narratives. the president is committed to unifying our country and that was the focus of his inaugural address. this kind of dishonestly in the media, the challenging about bringing our nation together is making it more difficult. there has been a lot of talk in the media about the responsibility to hold donald trump accountable. and i'm here to tell you that it goes two—ways. we're going to hold the press accountable as well. the american people deserve better and as long as he serves as the messengerfor this incredible movement he will take his message directly to the american people where his focus will always be. theresa may will be one of the first foreign leaders to meet the new president when she visits the us later this week, saying yesterday that she won't be afraid to challenge trump when he disagrees with him. so what should we make of president trump so far?
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we can now speak to amanda head, a republican who's a political commentator and radio show host. she supports donald trump. mara rudman, a democrat who worked as a national security official for both the 0bama and clinton administrations. thank you both very much. alternative facts. i think that making the inauguration about numbers is neither here nor there. there has been some shadyjournalism attached to it. there was a picture that was tweeted that was the morning of the inauguration for donald trump as opposed to right in the thick of things with the 0bama administration's inauguration so there was a little bit of falsifying of evidence there. sorry, on that, if you just look at the aerial pictures of a comparison between what happened with 0bama's inauguration and what happened with donald trump's, the picture was clear, isn't it? oh, it is very clear, isn't it? oh, it is very
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clear, but the first tweet that they put out, the picture from trump's inauguration was from, i think it was from 8am that morning. so it was before people had gotten there to fill up the spaces. mara, you're shaking shaking your head they are side by side pictures which have been put out again and again at 15 minutes before noon from 2009 and from friday of president trump's inauguration and they show market differences and the people who is making a big deal about the numbers is the president himself when he spoke at the cia headquarters and he spoke in front of the wall of fallen heroes of central intelligence agency. it is ha rd central intelligence agency. it is hard to think of more sacred places in terms of our, the united states national security and of our country's defence and that is where
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our very country's defence and that is where our very new president chose to take a stand on this particular issue.” love the democrats are now all of a concerned about the disrespect towards our services. amanda, sorry towards our services. amanda, sorry to interrupt... if the white house hadn't of sort of turned this into theissue hadn't of sort of turned this into the issue that it has become, it would have just gone away, wouldn't it? now it has become this stand—off between the white house and the press and very antagonistic relations, what does it say to the people out there? and what does it say about the sort of the focus of the administration and also trust? i think that the focus of the administration as far as the media is concerned is that you know there is concerned is that you know there isa waron is concerned is that you know there is a war on the media because the media has not been held accountable, they have been obeying 0bama for yea rs they have been obeying 0bama for years and now they realise it is
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their civic duty to hold the president responsible and that's now it has been for the last eight yea rs, it has been for the last eight years, but i'm glad they figured out that's theirjob. mara, how do you see this war on the media? well, i would say, i have the prospective of having worked in the legislative branch of our government and the executive branch of our government and in the judicial branch to our government and in the private sector. i have not worked in the media. but i can tell you in a democracy, it is often where you stand is where you sit and so prospective often changes as a professor i urge my students to have a 360 degree prospective. to see what it feels like to be as president obama said in his farewell address to walk around in someone else's shoes. i would amanda to take on that prospective a little bit. one of the strengths of our democracy is kernel a free press. when you're in the executive branch, it always like the press is beating up it always like the press is beating up on you. that's the press doing
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their job. up on you. that's the press doing theirjob. i don't think president 0bama, theirjob. i don't think president obama, i know president clinton... if that's the case the press weren't doing theirjob the last eight yea rs. doing theirjob the last eight years. i want to move on from this particular row on to what trump's first priorities are going to be and from the prospective here, one of the interesting things is the fact that theresa may is going to be the first foreign leader to visit donald trump in the white house. it's interesting that she will be talking to congressional republicans in philadelphia first. republicans who don't necessarily agree with donald trump on free trade and the whole buy american, hire american prospective. how do you see that, amanda? i think it's important for theresa may to meet with everyone and not everyone agrees with donald trump and there are a number of issues that i don't agree with donald trump, you know, he came out the victor and it is our responsibility to support him as our
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commander—in—chief and so i think that this will give her an opportunity to see multiple prospectives and when she does meet with trump after meeting with him, she and trump can have an engaging conversation and figure out the best way to move forward. and mara, i mean donald trump is making warm overtures to the united kingdom over trade. what sort of head does theresa may need to have on her when she goes in and actually meets him? well, i assume what the prime minister will do is to be looking out for the best interests of the united kingdom which is, you know, exactly what any leader would be doing. bringing into the negotiations the prospective of what's best for her country and what the interests of the other side are and that is exactly what the prospective is that mr trump would be bringing into the negotiations as well, what's in the best interests of the united states and what the prospective is of the united kingdom and how he can get the best deal for
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the united states, but understanding what the, what his negotiator is coming in and what they want out of it. thank you both very much. we'll be speaking to people who gave thousands of pounds to online dating fraudsters, and will be talking to industry experts about what they're doing to tackle the problem. let's get a weather update from carol. good morning. for some of us it is a really foggy start. did you notice that? for some, it still is, but not everywhere, because for some of us, we've had a glorious start to the day. this is a picture from one of our weather watchers of guernsey. a frosty start in york. if we look a wee bit further south, it has been really foggy and still is for some of us in lincolnshire. but we have some fog too across southern counties of england. it is quite dense. then we've got it across
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parts of the north midlands and heading up into northern england. some will lift into low cloud. some of it is doing that right at this moment. but there is thick fog around. it is freezing fog. temperatures below freezing or above. so travel disruption is possible as we have seen with the flights this morning. you can find out what is happening where you are on your bbc local radio station. as we go through the morning, we will see that fog lift. some of itjust into low cloud. increasingly becoming more patchy in nature, but still cold and if it takes a while to lift where you are and for some, it will take into the afternoon, it will feel cold. across south—west england and much of wales, it is dry. we have one or two showers across wales and the fog lifting nicely now across north—west england. we didn't have fog in northern ireland, but the coldest night this winter. still cold at the moment and still frosty. after a cloudy night, in scotland, the cloud broke allowing the temperatures to tumble so frosty, but a fair bit of
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sunshine. 0ne tumble so frosty, but a fair bit of sunshine. one or two fog patches in the southern up lands and we have fog across parts of northern england especially so the vale of york and here too, it will take its time to clear. through the day, you can see how we start to see that fog lift. some of it into low cloud, but also we will see bright spells and sunshine coming through. so quite a crisp winter's day ahead of us. temperatures in norwich only four celsius. in glasgow milder. through the evening and overnight, the wind picks up in northern ireland and western scotland. a weather front comes in from the west introducing rain t cloud builds ahead of it in the west. across england and wales once again, we're looking at freezing fog patches forming. dense patches at that. so tomorrow morning, that will drag its heels in terms of clearance for some. it may not clear at all. for others, it may just lift into low cloud. so once again, it is going to feel cold. rain pushing across scotland will
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get into northern england and north—west wales. temperature wise, for central and eastern areas, another cold day. especially under the fog, but something that bit milder out towards the west. hello, it's monday, it's ten o'clock. i'm joanna gosling, in for victoria, welcome to the programme in the last year this programme has found out that a record number of people — nearly 4,000 — have become victims of online dating scams losing 39 million pounds between them. judith was one of them. i believed in john. i believed injohn. i believed that i was helping him. and i believed injohn. i believed that iwas helping him. and i i believed injohn. i believed that i was helping him. and i was com pletely i was helping him. and i was completely bowled over by him. and we'll be speaking to two more women who lost thousands of pounds to fake romances, and asking dating sites and the police what we can do to protect ourselves, an independent report into the death of dean saunders, a mentally—ill man who took his own life in chelmsford prison last year, has found staff failed to do enough to protect him, despite the risk that he might kill himself.
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we hearfrom dean's father, mark. i was kind of angry that if things we re i was kind of angry that if things were put into place and practice, maybe we wouldn't be where we are now. and how dangerous is burnt toast? is it really worth a public campaign? we'll speak to the man who's behind it, and a celebrity chef who says it's just more scaremongering. here's ben in the bbc newsroom with a summary of today's news. good morning. the prime minister, theresa may, will today unveil the government's vision of a more interventionist, industrial strategy for britain. the key proposal is the creation of deals to assist certain industry sectors, including nuclear power and life sciences. mrs may will launch the plans at her first regional cabinet meeting which is taking place in the north west of england. an independent report into the death
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of a mentally—ill man who electrocuted himself in chelmsford prison last year, has found staff failed to do enough to protect him, despite the risk that he might kill himself. the report by the prisons ombudsman said dean saunders should have been in hospital, not prison. the 25—year—old was jailed after stabbing his father as he tried to stop him injuring himself during a paranoid episode. we will be hearing more from mark saunders later. an actor has died in australia after being shot during the filming of a music video. the man, who has been named by australian media, was on set at a bar in brisbane when the incident happened. the film crew tried to resuscitate the man but he died at the scene. it is not yet known
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whether the gun was loaded with live ammunition. scientists are advising that starchy foods like toast and potatoes are not cooked beyond a golden colour to reduce the risk of developing cancer. the food standards agency's go for gold campaign says over—browning food for more flavour and crunch increases a carcinogenic molecule called acrylamide. it also recommends that raw potatoes are not stored in the fridge. ministers are under pressure to make a statement to parliament clarifying what was known about a reported trident missile misfire. during a bbc interview, the prime minister failed to answer four questions about the issue — although she insisted she had "absolute faith" in the trident system. an unarmed missile is reported to have veered off course during a test injune last year, just weeks before a vote to renew the programme. the world premiere of the sequel to the movie trainspotting has taken place in edinburgh. ewan mcgregor, robert carlyle, jonny lee miller and ewen bremner all feature in t2 trainspotting —
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21 years after the original, which followed the lives of a group of heroin addicts. it was based on a novel by irvine welsh, and the sequel is based on his book porno. ewan mcgregor, who plays renton, explained the affinity the actors have with their characters. there is something about these characters, we feel like we know them, they are friends of ours or something. to come back to them and find out what they are up to now, it doesn't really feel like a sequel. we didn't try to remake trainspotting. danny's intention was never to do that. it's a very different kind of film, i think. that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 10.30. here is some sport. good morning. johanna konta is into the quarterfinals of the australian open. the world number nine in the
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executive —— ekaterina makarova to reach the last eight without dropping a single set. she is the last remaining briton in the draw and will now play ready to time grand slam champion venus williams. it'll be the first time against her. iam it'll be the first time against her. i am looking forward to really competing against her. she is one of, i mean, one of the if not the best player to have played the game. soi best player to have played the game. so i think to her —— to play against someone so i think to her —— to play against someone like that who you also grew up someone like that who you also grew up watching is another great opportunity for me to take a lot of experience from. what a matchup that would be. ryan mason is said to be ina would be. ryan mason is said to be in a stable condition after undergoing surgery on a fractured skull. the hull city midfielder clashed with gary cahill against chelsea yesterday. hull said mason is expected to remain in hospital
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for the next few days. we are expecting an update on his condition later. he played very well. he's good. and yeah, i'm pleased for him. i'm pleased for our team and the fans, for the club. i think today... arsene wenger was sent to the stand during his side's victory over burnley. he was unhappy with one of the decisions. a penalty given away in the 93rd minute. although he has since apologised for his behaviour. but arsenal got their own penalty in the 97th minute of the game. and it was down to alexis sanchez to secure the 2-1 was down to alexis sanchez to secure the 2—1win. wasps are into the quarterfinal of the european champions cup after a convincing 41-27 champions cup after a convincing 41—27 win over zebra. that's mac
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zebre. they will play leinster in the last eight. saracens will play glasgow. ronnie 0'sullivan has won a record seventh masters title. he beatjoe perry at alexandra palace. sullivan had been 4—1 down before winning seven frames in a row to lead 8—4. it means he has ended his run of three defeats in finals this season. it is great to get some records. i will try to nick world championships off him as well! no, listen, when i was younger i was just happy to have won one. to have won seven, someone up there just happy to have won one. to have won seven, someone up there must be looking after me. dave riding has become the first british skier to claim a world cup alpine medal since 1981. he finished second in the
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men's slalom in austria. he was quickest after the first bruntwood —— but was eventually beaten into second place by the home favourite. no britain has ever won and alpine skiing race in 50 years of the competition. what a victory. that is all the sport for now. that is all the sport for now. still to come, did theresa may deliberately mislead parliament over the reliability of trident during a key debate over whether the nuclear weapons system should be renewed? that is the claim after report of a failed missile test last year. we will be talking more about that. get in touch with everything we have been talking about this morning. get in touch with everything we have been talking about this morning. when it comes to finding love we know millions of people in the uk now turn to the internet. but can you always be certain the person you're speaking to is real? figures seen exclusively by this programme show that in the last year a record number of people — almost 4,000 — have become victims of online dating scams. between them they were conned
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out of £39 million. according to the national fraud intelligence bureau that's the highest total ever recorded. so what makes someone send vast sums of money to a person they've never met? nicola rees has been to meet the women who've lost hundreds of thousands of pounds. when it comes to finding our perfect partners, millions of us use dating sites and apps. not everyone online is looking for love. every year, thousands of single people in the uk are conned by criminals using fake profiles on dating sites. i realised that not only was it a scam but this so called john was pa rt scam but this so called john was part of the scam. judith is a university prop —— lecturer. in 2015 she decided to try online dating. john porterfrom london was her strongest match. likejudith, he was a christian who emphasised honesty
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and trust. he sounded wonderful on the phone. we started getting quite friendly quite quickly, really. john claimed to be working abroad. after weeks of daily messages and phone calls, the conversation turned to money. when he went to south africa what he said was, i've got to have a bond of good faith against me not delivering the goods. well, i have known people who have been in business and they have two pod up a bond of good faith. i didn't think it was strange. he had lost his passport. this was the story. the e—mails started getting frantic. and i immediately, because i was so believing of him, i immediately said, don't worryjohn, i can loan you some money. you are a respected academic, you are clearly intelligent, successful, articulated. judith, why was your judgment soap were? because i
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believed injohn. judgment soap were? because i believed in john. i judgment soap were? because i believed injohn. i believe that i was helping him. and i was com pletely was helping him. and i was completely bowled over by him. but as many as one in three relationships in the uk now starting online, the internet has become an increasingly lucrative place for cyber criminals. we have discovered that last year alone almost 4000 people were conned by online dating scammers, with losses amounting to a record £39 million. they're in foreignjurisdictions, west record £39 million. they're in foreign jurisdictions, west africa, eastern europe, places like that. and it's very difficult for british law enforcement to take action against them in those jurisdictions. it was five months before judith realised she had an scam. john porter didn't exist. the photo was probably stolen. judith had sent £140,000 to an organised criminal gang. i won't get any of the money
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back. i have to tell myself that it was a complete fraud. so feeling sorry for myself is just not an issue. you are dealing with the best salesman in the world. they don't have a product. theyjust want to ta ke have a product. theyjust want to take your money. they will groom you overtime. take your money. they will groom you over time. and yes, i totally can see why you would fall for that. we still don't know who the man in the photos used for the profile ofjohn was...and we understand that police have tried to trace them without success. he is clearly not connected to the scam in any way, but if you recognise him then please get in touch. nicola's full report is on the website now. if you want to share it, you can go to the website. we can speak now to val mckie, who lost £8,000 to an online dating scam. andrew mcclelland is from the 0nline dating association, which represents dating sites. steve proffitt is from action fraud, the uk's national fraud and cyber crime reporting centre. tara mcdonnell is a former police detective who has set up her own matchmaking service.
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and in cornwall is linda hull, a dancing teacher who gave thousands of pounds to a man she met on an online dating site. he turned out to be a con artist. linda, we heard in our report that it is often successful, intelligent women who are targeted by these fraudsters. how do you feel knowing that you fell victim? how do i feel now? yes. it was in 2013 it happened to me. at the time i was rather vulnerable because my relationship had finished. but at the moment i'm 0k. it was 2013. i have gained strength. and people have actually tried to scam me afterwards. and i
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recognise it now. and that helped other people as well who have been scammed. crikey, that's incredible. that you are properly scammed once but have been targeted more than once. yeah. apparently you go on a' list, i have heard. they think of it has happened once, they can get away with it again. i don't know. it has happened. compared to the first one, that was pretty clever, and the police said so themselves, because he was supposed to live in this country but he has connections in other countries. you talk about the phrase suckers list. you said you were vulnerable. that must be the key? you're vulnerable and if you're a nice person, you're not stupid or anything like that, you'rejust person, you're not stupid or anything like that, you're just a nice person who believes and you're
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honest so you are thinking they're honest so you are thinking they're honest too and some of them are very, very clever at it. they are very, very clever at it. they are very good. i know you don't want to tell us how much you lost because it was a horrible experience for you? and some of the money was left to me by my late mother, you know, it sort of hurts a lot. of course. wicked, wicked thing to do and they sort of, it's like torture. that's how i can describe it and one of the things, you feel like, he kept asking me for money. it was quite a lot and it was over a long time. it was over a year. and he kept asking me. it was like this torture and they mess with your head. i felt as though if i didn't pay him, i wouldn't get anything back and i know that sounds crazy, but i heard another woman who was on tv say exactly the same as that. val has been through it as
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well. you lost £8,000. it is like torture linda says. how was it that you were duped into giving money to someone you were duped into giving money to someone you've you were duped into giving money to someone you've never you were duped into giving money to someone you've never met before? well, i think it was interesting in the comment you had before when we we re the comment you had before when we were talking about the products, there isn't a product, but actually there isn't a product, but actually there isn't a product, but actually there is a product and that product is love. and so you are giving for love and you're helping and like linda and i can relate to where linda and i can relate to where linda is, if you're naturally a giving person and you give in relationships and someone tells you a story about them being in trouble, in my case it was a soldier who was frightened and in iraq, i could relate to that fear. i was widowed, he was widowed, that was the story. it is anything you can do to help that person. when someone you hadn't met asked you for money, didn't the radar go met asked you for money, didn't the radargo up? met asked you for money, didn't the radar go up? in relationships i would share and give anyway. i'll give to somebody who is sat in the
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street begging. i'm one of those people. it's actually, it's not really about money. money is a by—product of t what you're looking for is a relationship and love. how did it come to an end? did you clock what was going on? it was actually a comment that he made about, because he told me he was in iraq, he was a soldier and he was lonely and it was a comment he made about when he was coming home, he would only be coming to see me. he told me a story of being on his own and as i was saying to andrew before, at that moment i went, "this guy is married." at that point, i have been looking for a relationship so this person is married, that was my trigger and that was when i did my research and found other people who had been scammed with the same story. steve, you are with action fraud. is this a growing area? yes, all the statistics are showing this is growing month on month. this year to la st growing month on month. this year to last year, we're reporting 100 more
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victims per month than we did previously. that's a lot of people whose guard is completely down, going into a environment where you think your suspicions would be high because you're putting yourself in direct contact with strangers. yes. from my prospective, it is only the tip of the iceberg. we know for many reasons, because people are embarrassed and i commend everybody that comes forward, to tell their stories, to get the information out there, to warn people about this, but we know that people are not coming forward to report this. tara, you set—up an agency yourself because you had a bad experience and you are rigorous about scrutinising the people going on your website. is it easy to spot when someone is wanting to commit a fraud? well, i mean, really, the kind of business i have, everybody has actually met upfront and we know who they are and they are identity checked and they have to pay for the service as well.
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i really think it would be unlikely that we would have any traudsters coming through as members for us. that we would have any traudsters coming through as members for usm without that, how easy is it to be certain then that people aren't getting through? 0r certain then that people aren't getting through? or how easy is it for people to go on and have the dodgy profiles? i think what people need to do. there is advice given on the online dating sites, but i think it needs to be more in your case because it is clearly not working with the amount that we have now, it is the highest level ever. so it is clearly not working. i think that people need to, there needs to be more awareness and that's something i'm passionate about. i go to schools and i talk at assemblies and i talk at conferences and seminars to try and create the awareness and how to keep people safe. people need to not part with cash at all. stay online, report them to the online dating website provider. anything that they start asking for money and they have the sob store chris that
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pull at the heart strings, people need to be telling a close friend or reporting it to the police. sadly by the time it is reported to the police, it is too late. linda and val, did you talk to people that you knew when you started giving money away? were people aware around you? one of my friends, who had actually gone to america, and she phoned me and she said, "i think you're being scammed." i said, "leave me in my fa nta sy. " scammed." i said, "leave me in my fantasy. " i did. scammed." i said, "leave me in my fantasy." i did. because i was enjoying the experience and i did believe it. yes, i mean i think that's the thing, only when you're ready to hear the information will you actually receive it. linda, what we re you actually receive it. linda, what were your experiences on that front? idid were your experiences on that front? i did tell friends and when he didn't get around to meeting me, they got a little bit suspicious so i stopped telling them but i had
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given money and they said, "don't given money and they said, "don't give money. " given money and they said, "don't give money." i had already done it andl give money." i had already done it and i didn't tell themment one friend was very good and she knew the whole thing, but she was so against it and it is almost like i needed to believe it, but actually, all through it, half of me was believing it and half of me was not. in fact, when my scammer asked me, it was also about investment in my case. he was investing in oil and he asked me if, you owe ifi case. he was investing in oil and he asked me if, you owe if i wanted to asked me if, you owe if i wanted to as well. i actually, when he said this, when he asked me for the money, i went back to him or he rang me and he, i said, "are you a scammer?" me and he, i said, "are you a scammer? " which was me and he, i said, "are you a scammer?" which was ridiculous bau he wasn't going to say yes, was he? he reassured me and i made a decision to trust and that was that. andrew, you are chief executive of
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the online dating association. what are the websites and the apps doing to stop this? presumably there is not much that can be done to stop someone not much that can be done to stop someone setting up a fake account because there aren't loads and loads of checks, are there? i think it's very difficult. in the online space you can do a lot of checks, there is data available, but you have got data available, but you have got data protection areas. the picture you showed earlier of a scammer's account, that belongs to someone. so you can't necessarily block all those details because there is a legitimate person that looks likes that and sounds that and is a person someone. that and sounds that and is a person someone. you have got to get the balance right. what are they doing to spot the dodgy accounts? what they are doing, don't go off the platform, we're using analytical tools to understand the words that are being used, typical phrases that are being used, typical phrases that are being used and we can highlight those and we can block those accounts, we can ghost those accounts. so in ghosting you are allowing the account it stay active,
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but the messages don't go anywhere. so in effect you can block that person without necessarily getting in front of the wrong person. val, we're getting lots and lots of comments from people saying, "i would never fall for it." you are bright, lovely women, but as you have described, you were vulnerable women. what would you say to people who say, "i would never fall for it." who say, "i would never fall for it.“ ." who say, "i would never fall for it." ." would who say, "i would never fall for it." would you say to anyone going on a website? we have triggers. the person who scammed me, he understood me better than anybody. he understood my triggers. it is like grooming. it is very much like grooming. what i would say about it, it is great if you feel that way and you can't make judgements on what other people would do. and i think linda's point as well, you have a real sense of shame about it because for me, i felt i was being a real idiot is what i thought afterwards, but i think, you know, to go back to the
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point, don't let it change your life. don't let it, you know, i look back on the experience and gi, "it was an experience." it was more a broken heart than losing money which was, you know, was the thing for me, but broken hearts mend. life goes on. take the best out of it. take the best out of that experience. it did make me happy for a while even though it wasn't real. the happiness was real and focus on that and just move on because, you know, as i say, don't let it your change your life and don't make you somebody you're not. it doesn't mean don't love again. none of that. let's look at what were the triggers? like linda says, you can spot them. have you found love? no. i hope you do. i wish you all the best. same to you linda as well. thank you very much. let us know your thoughts if you have had
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experience along those lines as well. still to come: ministers are under pressure to make a statement to parliament clarifying what was known about a reported trident missile misfire. we'll be speaking to the chairman of the commons defence committee julian lewis at 10.30am. an independent report into the death of a mentally—ill man who electrocuted himself in chelmsford prison last year, has found staff failed to do enough to protect him, despite the risk that he might kill himself. the report by the prisons ombudsman said dean saunders should have been in hospital, not prison. the 25—year—old was jailed after stabbing his father, as he tried to stop him injuring himself during a paranoid episode. we spoke to his dad mark earlier. i began by asking him about what happened on the day he was stabbed. we spoke to his dad mark earlier. i began by asking him about what happened on the day he was stabbed. the day before he had a paranoid episode, but he was just concerned that there was a third party kind of after him and he was scared and he
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was taken on 136 section where he was taken on 136 section where he was assessed and they, we all come to an agreement that he could come home with us and he could spend the night with us in an environment that he was comfortable with. people he knew and there would be a crisis tea m knew and there would be a crisis team the following morning to kind of put into place what he would need medication and look at what's going on with him, so he was at home, our home address, and while he was there, he had another paranoid episode, but this time the third party was convinced that the third party, who was after him, was going to give him a slow torturous death so the only way he could escape that was to end his own life. and in orderfor you to was to end his own life. and in order for you to stop was to end his own life. and in orderfor you to stop him doing that, you effective let him
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sta b doing that, you effective let him stab you ? doing that, you effective let him stab you? i knew he was going to end his life and the only way i could get close to him was walk towards the knife. it just get close to him was walk towards the knife. itjust all came from there. we kind of wrestled a couple of times. he tried to like stab himself and i managed to on one occasion, i managed to get my arm across so i took the knife there and across so i took the knife there and a couple of other times. i twisted him at the last moment so sort of deflected the and stopped him from injuring himself. so because of the fa ct injuring himself. so because of the fact obviously that he had stabbed you, he was taken into custody. how concerned were you about his state of mind? 0h, very. you know, i knew
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this wasn't dean. we ended up on the floor from this wrestling and i was holding him because i knew if i let go he would try to take his life and i felt all the go he would try to take his life and ifelt all the tension go he would try to take his life and i felt all the tension go out of him and to start with, i thought it might have been sort of like kind of seeing if i'd let go of my grip on him, but he didn't. the tensionjust all come out of him and he turned to me and he said, "dad, why are you holding me?" and there was a lot of blood at the time and i i weren't sure who actually did get hurt. i said, "you've hurt your mum. you've hurt yourself and you've hurt me. that's why i'm holding you." he looked at me and said, "dad, i wouldn't hurt you. i love you." so i knew, i knew he was coming in and
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out of two different realities. when he went into custody, how would the medical health issues taken into consideration? —— how worthy medical health issues taken into consideration? the police were really good. they could see he wasn't well. they put him on suicide watch, put him in a safe suit. they was really good. they were under the impression that the mental health tea m impression that the mental health team would come out, assess him and he would be transferred into a secure he would be transferred into a secure hospital. then he could start his treatment. but eventually, the assessment team came. they interviewed dean. and because he wouldn't cooperate, bearing in mind
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he was paranoid and he had been in a police cell for something like 22 hours, he was in therefore, obviously he is not going to answer any questions. they phoned me up and said because he wouldn't take part in the interview in the assessment, that their findings are inconclusive and he would have to go through the criminal process. i said on the phone that obviously that can't be right, how can someone stand in front of you with a knife to their neck saying they will kill themselves? how can they not be something wrong with them? i said i wa nted something wrong with them? i said i wanted a second opinion. and they told me that they were there just to doa told me that they were there just to do a one—to—one, nothing else comes
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into account. obviously further down the line we find that is wrong. but at the time, they're professionals, you don't know no different. you are listening to them give you the advice. we was told we were going through the criminaljustice process. obviously our concerns were that firstly, he needs help. he needs medication. we need to find out what is going on. we were told that he would be remanded to chelmsford prison but he would go on the hospital wing. and we was under the hospital wing. and we was under the impression that it's a hospital wing. he will get medication, he will get the treatment he wants. but it's far from a medical room, will get the treatment he wants. but it's farfrom a medical room, a proper hospital. there are limited staff. they are in themselves. and
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being in his paranoid state of mind, this really is going to refuse medication. they haven't got the right to force medication. he would have been there, no medication, no proper medical structure to help them, no support. but we didn't know that. we're believing it's more like the hospital that is the prison —— but it's a prison first and itjust had a medical wing, basically. initially he was on constant watch. that was very quickly reduced to a half hourly watch. at the inquest it was concluded that that was because of financial considerations. the inquest also said there was a complacent approach to dean's state of mind. how do you feel having to hear that? you are right. when he first went in to chelmsford, the police said they would send everything over to make sure that
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they knew that he should go on suicide watch and that he would indeed take his own life. and that did go into place. but apparently, only for the weekend. it must like only for the weekend. it must like on the monday morning, on the changeover, that we haven't got the resources , we changeover, that we haven't got the resources, we haven't got the start for co nsta nt resources, we haven't got the start for constant watch, it would cost too much, he comes off. how frustrating was it for you? you were told he was in a safe cell will stop you were told he was being properly looked after. then you got the call to say he had taken his own life in an environment that you had been reassured was save frame? devastated. we couldn't believe it. we were lied and misled all the way through. 0n we were lied and misled all the way through. on our many phone calls, we was told that dean was fine, he was
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safe and he was mixing with other inmates. nelly inquest has gone through, we find there were incidents when threatened to pour boiling water over himself. —— now the inquest has gone through. you tried to suffocate himself with a plastic bag. he had self—harm, which he hadn't done before. all of this was going on and we was never told. another big thing was we was led to believe that dean hadn't requested phone numbers for us until the sunday before he died. he died on the monday. yet we find out from the inquest that he had been asking from day one and no one sorted the numbers out. we were phoning every day. and we also got no confirmation, no records showing
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that any of our messages got passed on to him as well. he has gone from a stay at home dad looking after his little one, to being totally abandoned in a prison cell. 0ver christmas as well. and trying to deal with this illness with no medication. you know everything that as gone on because of the inquest, because of the reports by the ombudsman. do you have faith, now that this is known, that things will change? the unfortunate thing is i have looked at other reports from chelmsford, from the past, and there are chelmsford, from the past, and there a re clear patterns chelmsford, from the past, and there are clear patterns of the same failings happening over and over again. i was kind of angry that if
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things were put into place and practised many inquest is a girl, maybe we wouldn't be where we are now. “— maybe we wouldn't be where we are now. —— at goal. but i can't now walk away from this without putting all the changes into place. mark saunders speaking to me earlier. christine has treated to say that dean's dad was breaking her heart. a tragic lack of care. a ministry ofjustice spokesperson said, "this is a tragic case and our thoughts are with dean saunders' family and friends. the safety and welfare of people within our custody is our top priority but we recognise that there were significant failings in his care. hmp chelmsford have already put in place a number of measures to better support offenders suffering from mental health problems following the ppo investigation into the death of mr saunders, and we will now carefully consider the findings of the inquest." ca re
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care uk, which provides health care for chelmsford prison, has given us this statement. they will be reviewing that again. ministers are being urged to make a commons statement about a failed trident test. it is being reported that an non—armed missile veered off course just weeks before a vote to renew the trident programme. during atv renew the trident programme. during a tv programme, the prime minister failed to answer questions. but she
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said she had absolute faith in the system. did you know the misfire had occurred? did system. did you know the misfire had occurred ? did you system. did you know the misfire had occurred? did you know about it when you told the house of commons, prime minister? did you know? i have absolute faith in our trident missiles. when i made the statement in the house of commons what we were talking about was whether we should renew trident, whether we should have trident missiles in the future. did you know this would happen?” think we should defend our country. i think we should play our role in nato with an independent nuclear deterrent. jeremy corbyn thinks differently. the things we shouldn't defend our country. did you know about it when you told the house of
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commons? it was a very serious issue. it was about whether we should issue a new trident when we looked to the future and have a replacement trident. that is what we we re replacement trident. that is what we were talking about. that is what the house of commons voted for. i believe in defending our country. jeremy corbyn doesn't want to defend our country with an independent nuclear deterrent. prime minister, did you know? there are tests that ta ke did you know? there are tests that take place all the time for our nuclear deterrent. what we were talking about in that... i'm not going to get an answer to this. can i ask about one other thing? that was andrew marr yesterday. drjulian lewis is the conservative mp for new forest east and the chairman of the defence select committee. he joins me live from westminster. do you just wish she had answered the question? did she know?m do you just wish she had answered the question? did she know? it would have been sensible to be more forthcoming. however, as i have said
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in previous interviews, i do believe she was put in a fairly impossible position by her predecessor. this test went wrong in june position by her predecessor. this test went wrong injune when it position by her predecessor. this test went wrong in june when it was a question of david cameron and his tea m a question of david cameron and his team being at number 10. they evidently decided to cover this matter up. she became prime minister a matter of days before the 18th of july debate, which david cameron thought he would be leading. so instead of his last action, it was her first instead of his last action, it was herfirst major action is prime minister. presumably the only way she could have disclosed this matter would have been to point the finger of accusation at a predecessor for covering this up. a tricky situation. if she did know, which she probably did, she should have spoken up. you're pretty sure she would have known? i can't be sure about that. it could have been she was reluctant to be forthcoming because she wasn't told and she
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should have been. these were the first days of taking over as prime minister. it was not as if she was used to the role. she would not have known anything about this before becoming prime minister. there was a narrow window of opportunity during which she should have known. i suspect that now the issue is out in the open, we will learn the truth of this matter. the primary responsibility lies with the people who covered up in the first place a month before she became prime minister. there was no reason to covered up. practically, it was not of strategic significance that this event occurred. whatever happens now, it's too late. the votes was had. if this had been known at the time, it may have been —— led to a different debate? it wouldn't have made to the slightest —— it wouldn't make the slightest difference to the debate. you need to know this. there
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was a majority of 355. not 31155 votes in all. it's real and 55 majority. i have been debating this issue for 35 years. the people in favour of keeping the nuclear deterrent are not for a shifting, and so are the people who take the opposite view. but doesn't the absence of it during the debate looked like it was a deliberate attempt to keep it out and avoid the consequences of what might have been had people know that at the time? admiral lord west, a former head of the navy and a labour peer, has quite sensibly pointed out in the daily mail today that this was a typical spin doctor typed decision taken back in june typical spin doctor typed decision taken back injune by the previous administration, almost certainly, and it was a very foolish decision.
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the trident missile has been tested over 160 times successfully. so there is more than a 99% reliability rate for the testing of this missile. it was utter foolishness to cover it up. but as is so often the case, the covered up is more significant than the issue which should have been made public by david cameron's government at the time. how do we get to the bottom of this? what should happen? what is almost certainly going to happen is either the defence secretary will make a statement today at 3:30pm. 0r if he does not, you can be sure the question has already gone in from the labour party and the snp, and probably the liberal —— liberal democrats, who are wholly opposed to trident, that they should be an urgent question whereby a minister, probably the secretary of state for defence, will be required to come to the house of commons to make a
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statement whether he wants to or not. that is when i would expect the matter to be cleared up. unlike —— thank you. still to come, how dangerous is burnt toast? is it really worth a public campaign? we'll speak to the man who's behind it, and a celebrity chef who says it's just more scaremongering. there could be health implications. we'll speak to the man who is behind it and a celebrity chef who says it's just more scaremongering. fresh talks aimed at resolving syria's six—year—long war are due to begin in kazakhstan's capital, asta na. the talks are brokered by russia and iran, which back the syrian government, and turkey, which supports the rebels. but it is still unclear if the representatives of the warring parties would meet face to face or communicate using intermediaries. lyse doucet is in astana. is there much hope around this?‘
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important first step was taken, but that's how you measure progress in syria's devastating war which is now approaching its sixth war. here in asta na, approaching its sixth war. here in astana, it is freezing cold, this new venue astana, it is freezing cold, this new venue for talks, for the first time syrian generals and rebel commanders sat around the same table in the same room in public, nobody walked out. both sides said they wa nted walked out. both sides said they wanted to reinforce a fragile ceasefire that is now in place. that's a first. from here on in, it gets more difficult. they haven't agreed yet to meet face—to—face. there will be talks mediated by the main sponsors, russia, turkey and iran and also by the un. and the political issues are still deeply divisive. the opposition wants to see an end to president assad's rule, but he and his delegation here say it is not on the agenda. and
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thatis say it is not on the agenda. and that is always the crucial sticking point, isn't it? it is the crucial sticking point. it has been the sticking point. it has been the sticking point. it has been the sticking point since the beginning of the uprising nearly six years ago, but so much has happened. so much has torn syria apart. more than half of the population is either a refugee, outside the country, displaced inside, or dead. nearly 500,000 people dead in the last six yea rs. 500,000 people dead in the last six years. and many, many more injured. many, many more forced from their homes. so there is a real urge, there is a real goal, on all sides in this war, to bring an end to the bloodshed. to bring calm, to neighbourhoods around syria. it doesn't mean the bigger issues have gone away, they are still there and still poisoning this conflict. but so many people just want the war to
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end. thank you very much. eating burnt toast could increase your risk of getting cancer, according to the food standards agency. the government body has issued a warning about roasting and frying starchy foods at high temperatures because it could lead to exposure to harmful chemicals. they say we should aim for a golden yellow colour like this. instead of this. so if you do happen to burn your toast this morning, is it safe to scrape off the burnt bits? music. with me is professor guy poppy. he's behind today's report, and is also the chief scientific adviser to the food standards agency. also with me is the award—winning celebrity chef, cyrus todiwala. thank you very much forjoining us. guy, i have sort of known for years
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that burnt toast isn't a good thing. tell us more about what you're saying today. many food products when you cook them at a high temperature, part of the process which creates the flavours and the texture that you like, a by product can be this chemical called acrylamide. what is new is that if you look at people's complete diet, ie the typical diet that somebody eats, whether they be an old person or young person, the total amount of acrylamide that they are getting into their body is higher than organisations like the world health organization and the foods standards agency believe is good for you. so we have identified specific products in yourdiet we have identified specific products in your diet which produce the most acrylamide and saying if you can reduce it in those products you can continue to have a mixed and varied dietand continue to have a mixed and varied diet and that would be fine. look ago the toast here then. the bit on the far left there, looks like it is not even toast, it is a bit of bread. that's barely much more toasted, but is that too much?”
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mean the one on the far end there is clearly far too much. that's got clearly far too much. that's got clear burn on the top. would you scrape that off and it will be all right? you're going to remove some of the acrylamide, but not all of it. the acrylamide forms naturally when you cook a product. mainly on the surface which is why things like crisps have high levels because there is a lot of surface in relation to the volume of a crisp. with the toast that you have there, what we're interested in is not telling you to stop eat ago product and not do this and not do that, we are saying we're interested in your diet. how much would you have to eat for it to be a problem? if you were to eat a diet high in crisps or burnt toast or roast potatoes because it is notjust from toast that you're getting this chemical, you get it from a range of other foods. i'm struggling to get to grips with what we should and shouldn't be doing? firstly things which are based on potatoes and cereals are a key part of your diet,
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but they are ones if you overcook them will generate acrylamide. we suggest cook it until its golden yellow, not beyond. if it is a product you buy in the supermarket, follow the cooking instructions, they are there to reduce the amount of acrylamide. where does the danger kick in? food is part of your overall dithe and to say you mustn't have more than one of these or two of these, because this is good and this is bad, is actually quite difficult to do. what do you think? well, i have been watching that since 4.30am, that's when my screen comes on bbc news comes on and i have been thinking. so as a chef, you get very confused as well. there is one more piece of information that will scare people immediately. like you just asked the professor, there is no clear evidence about how much one can eat, but overall, if everybody was to eat burnt crisps
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and toast and everything together, including the famous roast potato which we love very much. the crisper the better? it brings into consideration about charred meats and we know that charred meats from car coal generate poisonous levels of whatever the chemical that is sent off and all together the british public is eating a mixed diet, so maybe clarity on what kind of information people need it dissect. and choose for themselves. is it not clear? just don't eat anything that's charred? it is more clearer than it was this morning on news! you asked him specific questions. and the collective formula of eating ten different things that the body processes might have higher levels of the chemical inside then this morning, itjust came on news and everybody is thinking, "why can't i eat brown toast? " what's thinking, "why can't i eat brown toast?" what's the point in eating
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toast?" what's the point in eating toast that's pale in colour, i would rather eat fresh bread than than toasting it. the other thing that emerged is don't keep your potatoes in the fridge. is that a red line? 0ne in the fridge. is that a red line? one of the way, that this chemical forms is it is sugars combining with amino acids when cooked with protein you can get this acrylamide. if you store the potatoes in the fridge, some of the starch turns to sugar and if you're going to boil the potatoes, not at a high temperature, you won't get acrylamide forming in them. if you take the fridge—based potatoes and roast them, you will get higher levels of acrylamide than if you stored your potatoes in a dark cupboard above six celsius. are you talking about cooked or uncooked potatoes now? the uncooked potato converts the starch to sugar when
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stored in low temperatures like a fridge. in a kitchen, you would feel your potatoes and soak them this chilled water and keep them in its fridge so as much starch is released and you wash them a couple of times before you cook them. is that a good thing to do? there are steps you can do to remove the likelihood of acrylamide forming and actually, the food businesses do various stages like that to remove the likelihood of acrylamide too. we are notjust talking about consumers, we are working with the industry and professional organisations to help. it is very complicated. thank you. thank you. now, to a film that defined a generation. trainspotting made stars of the original cast, including ewan mcgregor, and now more than 20 years on, they're back. the world premiere of the movie's sequel, t2 trainspotting, took place in edinburgh last night and some fans of the film were lucky enough to get tickets.
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t—choose life. choose a job. choose a career. choose a family. choose a big television. choose television, washing machines and cars and electrical tin—openers. let's speak to catherine halliday. how was it? very nostalgic. a lot of surprises. how does it compare with the original? i do think it's
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better. it's. .. you the original? i do think it's better. it's... you feel a lot more empathy for the characters in this one. you discover a lot more about them. they've grown—up now so it's different in its own right, but there is still nods to the original there. did you meet the stars themselves? yes, actually. i saw everyone as they went past. irvine welsh ran down the carpet. he didn't stop for many people! ewan mcgregor came up to me. went to sign one of my posters, saw it was robert carlisle and went, "you are better off
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getting bobby to sign it." what is it about trainspotting, it was a massive movie and people loved it. what is it that you particularly loved ? what is it that you particularly loved? i think it's more, what is it that you particularly loved? ithink it's more, it's what is it that you particularly loved? i think it's more, it's not as hollywood, it is not as, you get the sense, real people, it feels more real. it was gritty, wasn't it. well, catherine, thank you very much. glad you got to enjoy the movie. if you want to see it, it is out on friday. tomorrow the supreme court is delivering itsjudgement tomorrow the supreme court is delivering its judgement over brexit. we will be live at the supreme court. that's from 9am tomorrow. have a lovely afternoon. bye— bye. good morning. well, the globe behind
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me says it all. it has been a frosty and foggy start for many today. some of the fog will be slow to clear away. favoured spots are likely through south—east england and north—east england. sandwiched between the two is more in the way of cloud, but it will be a cold day today. there will be sunshine, a bit more of a breeze, driving in cloud from the west. so here milder with eight or nine celsius. four or five if the fog lingers and temperatures will struggle to climb above freezing. more fog tonight across england and wales. the breeze strengthens and the cloud brings in rain across northern ireland and western scotland to close out the night, but here temperatures will hold up above freezing and that will bring some outbreaks of drizzly rain into north—west england and wales through tomorrow. again, the fog will be slow to clear away. it will do so toa will be slow to clear away. it will do so to a dry, but chilly afternoon. milder in the west can ten celsius and three celsius in the east, but take note that the fog will be back tonight. some of it dense and freezing in places. stay
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tuned to the weather forecast and your bbc local radio stations for more details. this is bbc news, and these are the top stories developing at 11am. the government launches its vision for the future of british industry — its designed to boost the economy after brexit. in the resistor says she wants people in all corners of the country to feel the benefits of economic growth, but what does it mean in practice and what can it mean for ourjobs and practice and what can it mean for our jobs and businesses? practice and what can it mean for ourjobs and businesses? i'm in warrington this morning to find out. an independent report into the death of a mentally ill man
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who electrocuted himself in prison finds staff failed to protect him, despite the risk he would kill himself. theresa may faces growing pressure to reveal what she knew about how the test firing of a trident missile went wrong. labour and the snp demand a full explanation.

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