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this is bbc news. i'm annita mcveigh. the headlines at five... jeremy corbyn admits labour hadn't done enough to rebuild trust with voters — and had this message about his leadership. iam i am carrying on as leader because i am determined that we will deliver social justice in this am determined that we will deliver socialjustice in this country. a warning britain faces a "sustained and serious" level of terror threat from islamist extremists. sir mo farah insists he's a "clean athlete who's never broken the rules" after new revelations involving his coach alberto salazar. in a further sign of worsening relations between donald trump and the media, the us president has announced he won't attend this year's white house correspondents‘ dinner. also in the next hour, preparations are almost complete as hollywood prepares for the biggest night in film — the oscars. # i don't care if i know # just where i will go #. la la land is expected
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to be the big winner, with 14 nominations including best picture and best director. and manchester united lead southampton at wembley in the efl cup final, thanks to this spectacular free kick. also, england beat italy 36—15 at twickenham, but don't have it all their own way. good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has delivered a rallying call to his party after last week's defeat in the copeland by—election. speaking of the scottish labour
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party conference in perth, he said that now is not the time to retreat, run away or give up. mr corbyn‘s supporters say the constant questions about his leadership are hurting the party. earlier i spoke to our political correspondent tom barton and i started by asking him whether the speech will be enough to unite the party. the loss in copeland was difficult for the labour party. this was a seat in an area that the party has had an mp for eight decades, more than that. and a seat in which in normal circumstances, they would have expected to extend their majority halfway through a spell in parliament where they are the opposition. so to lose that seat and lose it to the conservatives is a big loss. and so, yes, jeremy corbyn‘s task today was to rally the troops on the one hand, to put forward that argument for unity and he did it pretty passionately. the resulting copeland was deeply
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disappointing and, of course, i take my share of responsibility for it. we haven't done enough yet to rebuild trust with the people who have been ripped off and sold out for decades and don't always feel that labour represent them. but now is not the time to retreat, to run away or to give up. did keir hardie give up the fight? did clement attlee give up the fight? did the miners, who for for better pay and working conditions from the first day of the mining industry? did the other client —— upper clyde shipbuilders? many more among the industrial class who were relentlessly exploited in the workplace. no, they fought back and woi'i workplace. no, they fought back and won time and time again to make their lives and all the rest of us who came after them better. that's what we all have to do now and that is what i will be doing. labour will
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be campaigning across britain for investment in decent jobs, be campaigning across britain for investment in decentjobs, homes, education for all, support for the national health service, social care and fair taxation. if we stand together, i'm confident we can turn back the tory tide and reconnect labour with our working class voters and values. what jeremy corbyn hasn't been able to do is to shake off questions about the sustainability of his leadership. is there any appetite now after copeland for anyone else to take it on, what would the third challenge? you are right that those questions are still being asked. we've heard them today from some in the party and over the last few days including, crucially, from labour's union backers, asking questions about the viability, if you like, of jeremy corbyn‘s leadership. all of that said, i get the impression that
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there is absolutely no appetite amongst his critics for a leadership challenge. like you say, just a few months ago, five months also, since the last leadership challenge, the second leadership election in as many years on the one whichjeremy corbyn won comfortably, where he extended his majority, and so, although those questions are still being asked, i don't get the impression that anybody within the party wa nts impression that anybody within the party wants those questions to be put in the form of a leadership election. certainly, you get the impression thatjeremy corbyn is confident that he can retain leadership. he was asked, after his speech today, whether he thought he would still be leader in 2020. i'm carrying on as leader because i'm determined that we will deliver socialjustice in this country. we will end the misery of people sleeping on our streets and children growing up in disgusting and disgraceful poverty and growing levels of inequality, promoted by a
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tory government. you will definitely be leader in 2020? i've given you a very clear answer, yes. pretty bullish ronjeremy corbyn, confident that in a few years at the next general election, he will still be the labour leader and i think very few in the party today would disagree with him. tom barton. the new independent reviewer of terror laws has warned that britain faces a continuing and high threat of terror attacks. max hill told the sunday telegraph that plots by islamist extremists to attack uk cities were an enormous risk. earlier, i spoke with raffaello pa ntucci, director of international security studies at the royal united services institute think thank. he said the two threats should be looked at differently. what we can say is that the security services are looking at a threat picture which, from their perspective, is as intense as it has
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ever been. if we think about the fa ct ever been. if we think about the fact that they've disrupted at least 12 fact that they've disrupted at least i2 plots in the past three years, we can see that they are disrupting plots on a fairly regular basis. we see a fairly steady stream of people showing up in court and fairly advanced plots being disrupted. so there is an intense threat picture. the difference in some ways with what we saw from the time of the ira in the 70s is that we saw more attacks going through and going up attacks going through and going up at very advanced stages, which makes the picture look very different. it is one thing to have agencies disrupting and arresting people, another tab bombs going off in places. is it risky to make the comparison between islamist extremist activity and what the ira was doing? the two threats are quite different in some way. of we are looking at the ira, they had in many ways a much more targeted approach to what they were attacking. 0ften official targets, army targets, police, where as if we look at what we see i guess, daesh also called
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islamic state doing, it really is anything that is representative of the state — churches, schools, all sorts of institutions. the para meters sorts of institutions. the parameters of what would be considered targets are transformed the nature of the sort of a track —— attack they are trying has changed the picture considerably and made it more terrifying. i would like to get your thoughts on a question i put to caroline hawley earlier and that is, as isps under increasing pressure in the middle east, does that affect in any way what they are trying to do in europe? we've certainly seen that the group has been trying to launch attacks in europe for some time and i don't think that is going to decrease become any less with their loss of territory. i think it will probably continue to increase as we see more people leaving the battlefield, but what we have to be careful of is saying that there is
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going to be some sort of a step change because suddenly the group use its territory. this is a group that has been consistently trying to launch attacks and losing their territory and their bases may in fa ct territory and their bases may in fact reduce their ability to direct the same sorts of plots as we saw before, however their attempts to instigate plots is something that has been consistently going on for quite some time. the actor bill paxton has died following complications from surgery. he starred in a number of hollywood films including titanic, aliens and apollo 13. the 61—year—old actor had two children and was married for 30 years. his family said in a statement, "bill's passion for the arts was felt by all who knew him, and his warmth and tireless energy were undeniable." britain's four—time olympic champion mo farah has insisted he is a "clean athlete who has never broken the rules." he issued a statement today after a leaked draft report by us anti—doping authorities suggested that alberto salazar, farah‘s coach, may have broken the rules to boost
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the performance of some athletes. mr salazar has been under investigation since allegations about drugs use at his american training base were made by the bbc‘s panorama programme in 2015. mark daly reports. can there be a one—two for the salazar group? it looks like it as mo farah takes gold for great britain. he's the coach and mastermind behind britain's sir mo farah and his four olympic gold medals. but alberto salazar and his nike oregon project has been under investigation by the us anti—doping agency, or usada, since a bbc panorama programme in 2015 revealed claims of doping and unethical practices. high—profile us athletes kara goucher and her husband adam made a series of allegations against their former coach. he's sort of a win at all costs person. it is hurting the sport.
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today, the first glimpse of usada's findings. an interim report by the agency has been leaked by the russian hacking group fancy bears and passed to the sunday times. the report alleges salazar used banned or unethical methods to boost performance including infusions of supplements over the legal limit of 50 millilitres, untested and potentially unlawful medical procedures and medications. and the report states that mo farah‘s alleged use of an infusion in 2014 remains under investigation. usada said it could... usada continues to investigate but serious questions now for uk athletics, who were, according to this leaked report, warned about salazar and his methods by one of their own doctors as far back as 2011. salazar maintains his athletes‘
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use of medications has always fully complied with the world anti—doping code and in exactly the way usada directed. farah has released a statement saying, "it's deeply frustrating that i'm having to make an announcement on this subject. in regards to substances, methods or dosages". he said it was clear from the coverage he'd done nothing wrong and that if usada had evidence of wrongdoing, to publish it. but questions will persist over fa rah‘s continuing loyalty to a controversial coach the doping authorities seem so determined to pursue. mark daly, bbc news. the family of a five—year—old girl
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who died of an asthma attack after her gp refused to see her have called for a criminal inquiry. ellie—may clark and her mother were turned away from their surgery in newport after arriving less than ten minutes late for an emergency appointment. ellie's condition worsened and she died in hospitalfive hours later. the gp, drjoanne rowe, was given a warning by the general medical council earlier this week. the iraqi military says it's recaptured two districts in western mosul from so—called islamic state. the area of mosul is the last is stronghold in iraq. the military says its forces overcame a number of suicide car the militants are surrounded, along with an estimated three—quarters—of—a—million civilians.
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tom robinson heads 0xfam's emergency team in iraq. he's just visited the 0xfam base on the southern edge of the fighting area where thousands of families are fleeing to and joins me from irbil in northern iraq. what conditions like in mosul?m what conditions like in mosul? it is a very significant step of the iraqi forces have ta ken a very significant step of the iraqi forces have taken and civilians have been living in very impoverished conditions within mosul for the past two and a half years. supplies are generally... access to basic services is hard to come by. when civilians flee, they are fleeing across a battle line and risking injury from war related incidents. when they arrive in oxford, it is a pretty desperate state. other established communities to the south of mosul and is it to these areas that the refugees from mosul itself are fleeing? we have un agencies trying to get two camps within the south and communities are able to ta ke refuge
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south and communities are able to take refuge in host community areas and villages to the south of mosul. there are options for people but it isa there are options for people but it is a case of keeping up with the military in need. you are preparing clea n military in need. you are preparing clean water, shelter and so on, all the things one would expect in a situation like that. we are providing support in some of the camps but my role is to focus on the first line needs, bottled water, blankets, heaters. i also understand that you are supporting two trauma centres as well. how busy are those trauma centres? today was the first day we saw a significant number of casualties so they're getting busier. they are quite busy. people directly caught up in the fighting 01’ directly caught up in the fighting or who have been injured early on in
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the fighting? it is a mixture of both. as civilians are trying to flee, or the event they are courting, it is all kinds of trauma injuries. a lot of these people have managed to survive some 30 months also under the control of is. what sort of stories are they telling your workers? there was a multitude of stories. 0bviously, they have lived under very terrible conditions for a long time and for me, the biggest concern is the fact that when the civilians tried to flee, they are having to flee across front lines. they are risking everything to try to escape from isis and to get to safety. when you see families carrying nothing but the clothes on their back and carrying their children, often children are 50 present of the population so it is
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incredibly difficult. to see at first hand is very difficult. other grateful, nonetheless, that this offensive is happening, to try to get rid of is? absolutely. a lot of families we are seeing and speaking to, they are very happy once they do reach the other side of the lines and it is quite a big change for them in these areas so people are generally happy. tom robinson from 0xfam's emergency team in iraq, thank you for your time. you are welcome. thank you. the headlines on bbc news... jeremy corbyn has urged his party to "stand together" after last week's defeat to the conservatives in the copeland by—election. the home secretary has said she agrees with a warning given that islamic state militants pose as great a threat to britain as the ira did during the 1970s. sir mo farah says reports associating him with doping allegations are "deeply frustrating." the 89th academy awards
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take place tonight — and there are a few british hopes with andrew garfield, naomie harris and dev patel all nominated. but it's the musical la la land which is tipped for the biggest success. it has 1a 0scar nominations. let's talked our arts editor will gompertz on the red carpet in hollywood. hello to you to it all those last—minute perforations being put in place for this extremely glitzy night. all the buzz around la la glitzy night. all the buzz around lala land with its 1a nominations. do you think it is going to dominate 01’ do you think it is going to dominate or might there be a few surprises? well, i think there might be a few surprises. it is a really good film.
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i know some have knocked it but for me it completely fits into the genre of the musical, starting the gold made in the french new wave in 60s and damian chas el has made a film which is escapist and fantasy but is not cynical, it is about dreams and there is nothing wrong with that. will it when 1a and win a record tonight? i don't think it will. will win 11 tonight? i don't think it will. will win" and win tonight? i don't think it will. will win 11 and win the record —— equal record? i don't think so. will it when best film? yes, probably, but there is a change of atmosphere in america at the moment. there is a country which, to say it is uncertain times, would be underplaying it. the new president has shaken everybody on both sides of the argument. perhaps la la land is just of the argument. perhaps la la land isjust a bit of the argument. perhaps la la land is just a bit too much fun, a of the argument. perhaps la la land isjust a bit too much fun, a bit too fluffy and the more serious issues will come to the four. i'm thinking about the film moonlight, which tells the story of a young black lad who lives in poverty, is bullied, disappeared inside himself, and it tells his life story. it is
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directed by barry jenkins and it tells his life story. it is directed by barryjenkins and is a very serious, poignant, thoughtful film. i think it isjust very serious, poignant, thoughtful film. i think it is just possible that that will win best film. if it doesn't, i think barryjenkins will win best director, which will make in the first black person to ever win the accolade. if he doesn't win best director, it will be damien chazelle and he will be the youngest. do you also think that tonight is going to be one of the most political 0scar ceremonies we've had? without any shadow of a doubt. we've seen the warm up speeches, meryl streep that the golden globes. we have seen a statement at the sag awards about what was like to be a muslim in america. there is no doubt that we will be having some powerful speeches. but the question is, are the speech is going to be, oh, well, thatis the speech is going to be, oh, well, that is what we expected them to
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say, or that is what we expected them to say, 01’ can that is what we expected them to say, or can somebody come up with something which is really profound and poignant and captures the moment, which isn't necessarily political on either side of the argument but somehow gets to the anxiety everyone is feeling? i think that in 1973 and marlon brando who w011 that in 1973 and marlon brando who won the oscar for the godfather who chose not only to not accept the 0scar but to send somebody up in his stead, a native american, to explain why he wasn't accepting it and it was for the treatment of native americans. it is a really powerful historical moment. can somebody come up historical moment. can somebody come up with something as powerful as that? i don't know but i think it is entirely possible. will be other political aspect of this, i suppose, to address the question whether yea r‘s to address the question whether year's nominees deal with the criticism, the "oscars so white" backlash last year. it is far, far more diverse. there are 18 black nominees compared to a very few last year. there are non—white nominees
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in allfourof year. there are non—white nominees in all four of the actor categories. it isa in all four of the actor categories. it is a possibility but i think 01, that all four of the acting 0scars could go to non—white performers. there is no doubt there has been a very big shift and whether that is just a very big shift and whether that is justa timing very big shift and whether that is just a timing issue, fences or moonlight or hidden figures are being produced from a year ago and they would have been short listed last year, i don't know. wejust have to keep an eye on things. i think in the past the record for the most amount of black people winning 0scars was three in one ceremony. i would be really surprised if that wasn't broken to my. it promises to bea wasn't broken to my. it promises to be a really interesting night. thank you very much. if you want any more details on the nominees, you can get all the details on the bbc‘s 0scars page. and if you happen to be up late at night, you will also be able to find out who all the winners are as they are announced. five people have been injured,
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three critically, after being hit by a car in south—east london this morning. according to reports, a car struck a wall and collided with the pedestrians. the driver of the vehicle has been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving. health officials have launched a campaign for what they called "a truly tobacco—free nhs". recent research shows just one in ten hospitals is enforcing a ban on smoking outside health service buildings, and public health england is urging all hospitals to offer patients help to quit. gerry jackson reports. more than a million smokers are admitted to nhs hospitals in the uk every year. many hospital trusts in england have already banned smoking, but enforcing it isn't always easy, and public health england says much more needs to be done to achieve a tobacco—free nhs. according to recent figures, one in four hospital patients in the uk are smokers. but just 28% are asked if they want
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help to stop, and only 7% are referred for treatment. public health england now wants trusts to ban smoking in and outside all nhs buildings in england and all smokers to be offered help to quit. that might include prescriptions for nicotine replacements, or a referral to a stop smoking support service, but it also wants a senior clinician employed at every hospital to make sure it happens. if you get reffered to a specialist service your chances of successfully quitting are four times what they would be, compared to if you tried a self—attempt quit. so it goes from 5% to about 20%, which may sound modest, but if you repeat this and people try again to quit, after several attempts there's a much greater chance of success. smoking is already banned by law across hospitals in northern ireland and in scotland and wales they are preparing to bring in legislation later this year.
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but the department of health in england says it has no plans to make it illegal at the moment. gerry jackson, bbc news. a £17 million investment for britain's artificial intelligence and robotics industries has been announced by the government. it's estimated the sector could add billions of pounds to the uk economy by 2035, as our business correspondent joe lynam reports. there may well be a time when robots like this are accepted as part of our everyday life. as gentle as lambs, but able to do chores like babysitting, and with the strength for more ominous services. artificial intelligence used to be the preserve of science fiction, but ai is coming and the government thinks britain will be well—placed to benefit. artificial intelligence is when machines imitate human behaviour and where robots can be trained to take important decisions without being ordered to do so by humans. i'm a sophisticated combination
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of hardware and software... the department of culture, media and sport believes ai could be worth an additional £651; billion to the uk economy within 20 years. before that, though, the government will spend £17 million on al research, including into surgical micro—robotics, as well as robots capable of operating within nuclear facilities. some may worry, though, that self—thinking computers could cause more harm than good. others say that this will happen anyway, and it's best that the uk economy benefits from it, rather than losing out. ina in a moment, we will have the weather forecast and then jointly was on bbc one for the tea—time news, but first... president trump has said he won't be attending this year's
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white house correspondents' dinner. the news came in a tweet from donald trump, in another sign of worsening relations with the mainstream press. only three other leaders have missed the annual event, which has been going on for more than a century. earlier i spoke to mark mardell, who told us why the decision not to attend had caused such a stir. people say, why are you making a big fuss about a dinner? that it is a huge event for the correspondence and for washington generally. there are pre—parties, after parties. all the big politicians are there, the big business people. networks rival each other trying to get film stars and actors and actresses along and the whole thing, the atmosphere, as well as being glitzy and glamorous, is one of, yeah, we take chunks out of each other but we can sit down and have a laugh and that is it so they will be really offended by this snub. it will matter to a lot of
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people. talking about the motive, is this the trump administration basically trying to reinforce its fa ke basically trying to reinforce its fake news agenda? saying, it isn't whether president's time to go along to this dinner? you could say he is being slightly petulant, and from what we have seen of his personality, it is relatively likely that he genuinely doesn't like these people and what's not to do with them. you look at the expression on his face when 0bama made a joke about him. he will feel rather uncomfortable sitting there, one assumes? whether he has that easy sense of humour that could cope with it and make jokes about himself and about them... i think the really important point is that this will play extremely well with his supporters. he says he went there to drain the swamp. he doesn't want to sit with the swamp. you doesn't want to be chummy. they are the enemy of the people. what is the media
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response going to be to this? this isa response going to be to this? this is a new low in relations between the us president and the media. what is the response going to be?|j the us president and the media. what is the response going to be? i think there is an error of anxiety generally about how this develops. we saw that with the briefing that excluded some people, including the bbc. do the others not take part and say, we've got to take a stand, or is that cutting off their nose to spite theirface is that cutting off their nose to spite their face and not serving the audience properly? this will be seen as another development in what a lot of people are really worried about. remember, the term fake news was coined to describe completely false, utterly false, stories peddled by some people with an agenda. no truth in them whatsoever. now donald trump is just in them whatsoever. now donald trump isjust using it in them whatsoever. now donald trump is just using it to describe stories he simply doesn't like. he is not even disputing certain facts but just saying "i don't like it so its fa ke just saying "i don't like it so its fake news". he has established a moral equivalence between sheer lies
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and the press that he doesn't like. are the people around him also concerned that he might say something which will become a story in itself, which will become problematic for him? presumably this is an occasion when for correspondence, there is a chance to grab correspondence, there is a chance to gmba correspondence, there is a chance to grab a story. i think the idea would be that 0bama's events while choreographed and scripted i would imagine he would do the same. so that would be a worry in cases of me sounded off. but it is very interesting that the president does an address on radio every week, which doesn't get that much attention. he did it on african—american history and it was really carefully scripted, really down the middle, none of those ad—libs. i think this is a battle, i guess, going on in the white house. how much do we let him be himself, which is clearly very appealing to a segment of america, and how much do we shut that down, scripting, saying "read from your autocue" and whether
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he will do that. the fifth named storm of the season has been bringing some wet and windy weather. water was running down the street in glasgow. there has been some break in the cloud and some sunshine for some. storm ewan was named by the irish meteorological service and that is where the worst of the impacts were expected. for the bulk of the uk, it has been a speu the bulk of the uk, it has been a spell of wind and rain but it has been quite wet across parts of scotla nd been quite wet across parts of scotland at the north—west of the uk. that heavy rain continues to work northwards. elsewhere, we see rain moving east, followed by a lot of showers coming in on the breeze. some of those could be heavy with hailand some of those could be heavy with hail and thunder and sleet and snow over high ground. it will turn called by don't particularly for high ground. a risk of high patches developing here. maybe a bit of ice towards the north—west of england.
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further south, not quite so called but it will be a blustery day on monday. blustery for all, a bit of sunshine but quite a lot of cloud to delivering some showers, which could contain a delivering some showers, which could containa mix delivering some showers, which could contain a mix of rain, hail, sleet and snow and thunder to go with it. it is going to feel quite chilly. after a cold start in glasgow, only four or 5 degrees in the afternoon, similar in belfast and cardiff and in the london area. the big picture looks quite breezy on tuesday and still fairly unsettled. areas of rain showers but some drier interludes. still feeling quite chilly in the breeze, single digits across the board, six or seven for glasgow in belfast, eight or nine cardiff and london. tuesday and wednesday, still low pressure but we are looking towards the south and west for this high pressure nudging in. by wednesday, a reasonable start in the north and east but a bit cold with a
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touch of frost and showers in the north and east but this weather system edges its way in during the day bringing cloud and rain but also some slightly less cold air, creeping back into double figures in plymouth and london. for the southern half of the uk, into thursday, double digit temperatures. sta rts thursday, double digit temperatures. starts off wet but not much rain by thursday afternoon. jeremy corbyn says he takes his share of the responsibility for the by—election defeat at copeland. what other solutions? you will get a chance to hear it. do you have solutions? after a rough week, he admitted labour hadn't done enough to rebuild voter trust, and had this message about his leadership. i am carrying on as leader because i am determined that we will deliver social justice in this country. also coming up on the programme: sir mo farah insists he's a "clean athlete who's never broken the rules" after new allegations involving his coach, alberto salazar. after an early scare,
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