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he seems a little unsure. the academy award... and then a bit perplexed. the drums are rolling. for best picture... faye dunaway thinks he is playing for laughs. la la land. and reads the name on the card. so it is hugs all round for the la la land crew as the team behind the feel—good musical homage to hollywood make their way to the stage. an emotionaljordan horowitz, the producer, profusely thanks friends and family. thank you to my parents. as the speeches continue, a small commotion develops. there is a mistake. moonlight, you guys won best picture. what? this is not a joke. moonlight has won best picture. moonlight. best picture. the team from moonlight, a coming—of—age drama set in the mean streets of miami, are delighted and bemused. i want to tell you what happened.
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i opened the envelope and it said "emma stone, la la land". that is why i took such a long look at faye and at you. i wasn't trying to be funny. he had been given the wrong envelope. there are duplicate sets of winners‘ envelopes produced by the oscar two auditors from accountancy practice pwc, a firm that has overseen the academy awards for more than 80 years. within hours, pwc had released a statement saying it sincerely apologised to moonlight, la la land, warren beatty, faye dunaway and oscars viewers for the error. they said the presenters had been mistakenly given the wrong envelope and when discovered, it was corrected. they are investigating how it could have happened and deeply regretted it occurred. things happen. you make a movie, a boom gets into the shot. it is human error. whatever happened, i don't know what happened, it happened, but the result was the same. we have hugged it out, the two camps.
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we are good. we will wake up tomorrow... we won't go to sleep but tomorrow we will figure out what happened. the oscar goes to... the night was memorable for other less calamitous reasons. moonlight‘s success was notjust limited to best picture. mahershala ali was recognised for his supporting role and became the first muslim actor to win an oscar. la la land might have publically missed out on the big prize, but damien chazelle won best director, becoming the youngest person to win that category. emma stone won leading actress. viola davis‘ supporting actress triumph for her role in fences was another win that helped the oscars feel a little less white this year. we can now speak to the showbiz reporter gail murphy, who is in la. i'm sure you haven't had much sleep
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over the last 24—hour is. thank you for joining over the last 24—hour is. thank you forjoining us. i'm sure a lot of people aren't going to get a lot of sleep for a long time because of this mix—up. how is it going down in tinseltown? the amazing thing is to watch the audience morphing into a deer in headlights. when the ballots are counted, two senior accountants memorise every winner and prepare two briefcases under lock and key with the presenter‘s envelopes and they stand on opposite sides and hand these to the award presenters before they go on stage. why were there two sets of envelopes? i'm not sure but the first time that something was not going right was when warren beatty hesitated over the envelope. they are still trying to get to the bottom of this hollywood caper. the story is still developing. pricewaterhousecoopers
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have come out and apologised for the mix—up to both films, issuing a statement saying that the presenters we re statement saying that the presenters were mistakenly given the wrong category and that they are investigating to see how this happened. maybe we'll find out about it... six months from now? 0k! there area it... six months from now? 0k! there are a lot of things we can talk about when it comes to the oscars. plenty to celebrate. for a long time, especially last year, it was criticised as being too white. that certainly changed with a lot of black actors getting awards and being nominated too. for two years it was oscars so white, and this year it was oscars so male. if you see the multiple people of all different shades of colours hitting the stage, you wouldn't have seen
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that five years ago. i'm not saying that five years ago. i'm not saying that we definitely wouldn't have seen it but it wouldn't have been trending and the time. you had viola davis and you had the actor from moonlight who took best supporting actor, so you have best supporting actor, so you have best supporting actor and best supporting actress, both people of colour, both winning, and that was terrific. the oscar had and that was terrific. the oscar had a huge investment on so many levels to get rid of that oscars so white andi to get rid of that oscars so white and i think they finally broke through on that. moonlight won, best picture, best adapted screenplay and best supporting actor. it was shot for less than $5 million, grossing $22 million at the box office and
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took the top prize at the golden globes and the spirit awards. in the 89 years of oscars, this hasn't happened before. it's almost like a pretty good track record, 89 years. other than a strea ker, pretty good track record, 89 years. other than a streaker, this is the most amount of controversy other than oscars so white. thanks for talking us through the oscars. plenty more about that on the bbc website. all of the reaction, the winners and losers. we're going to get some wee action to another big story tonight, people liable for compensation injuries will get bigger pay—outs under the new rules. however the changes could cost the nhs as much as £1 billion because of claims over negligent treatment. insurers say the new rules are "crazy," and are warning premiums for car owners will have to rise. let's speak to neil sugarman, president of the association
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of personal injury lawyers. hejoins us from our salford studio. a lot of people will be confused about why it has taken so long for this announcement to be made, for this announcement to be made, for this calculation to be brought in? why? that's a good question, it's all about something called the discount rate, a rate set by the lord chancellor, by law, last set in 2001 and the association of personal injury lawyers of which i'm president have been calling for six yea rs president have been calling for six years for the lord chancellor to look at the discount rate. it has taken a long time but we welcome the outcome because it's going to make a difference to some seriously injured people. how does it make such a big difference? it works on the basis that the discount rate makes certain assumptions about how people will invest compensation. the fact that they will get a potentially large amount of money, they can invest it and the income from it but experience shows that people who have been seriously injured must be
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quite careful and they are quite risk averse with their compensation, not wanting to invest in risky ways and the rate is a reflection of that. we say that the discount rate assumes that people are going to make riskier investments than they do in practice and the change today isa do in practice and the change today is a reflection of that. people can invest appropriately without their money running out, so it makes a big difference. we're talking about people who have had life changing and serious injuries. you can understand concerns that they maybe seeing an increase in their premium to cover the cost of this.|j understand that concern but on the other hand we've heard quite a lot from the insurance industry today about how they'd been taken by surprise. we suggest that that is a bit misplaced because the fact that the discount rate should have been changed a long time ago, the fact that we've been calling for it to be changed for a long time, that's not
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news to the industry and if they had been prudent and planned appropriately, this could have been factored into premiums for some yea rs. factored into premiums for some years. it shouldn't be a big surprise. they should have been planning for a long time. we've been hearing from the association of british insurers who had described it as british insurers who had described itasa british insurers who had described it as a crazy decision, so they may have known it was coming for a long time but they didn't know how much it was going to cost. they are aware of what's been happening in financial markets, what's been happening in the world of finance. the lord chancellor herself said that she had no alternative, the law requires her to do this. it's actually quite predictable. the insurance industry should have realised. one or two insurers i suspect have realised that. we mustn't lose focus, we are talking about people with life changing injuries. what this means is that the pressure will be removed from
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the pressure will be removed from the nhs and local health services who have had to subsidise their care, and will fall on the insurance industry, who have taken premiums from people and should have planned for the future prudently. that's what will happen from now on and not before time. thank you forjoining us. hundreds of leicester city fans have marched through the city centre this evening in a rally to honour their former manager, claudio ranieri, who was sacked by the club on thursday. leicester are due to play liverpool this evening in their first game without the italian, who led them to an historic first premier league title just nine months ago. our correspondent geeta pendse joined the foxes fans who came out to thank their former manager. well, the damp weather here in leicester has not dampened the spirits of these fans. they have been on a little parade march. it started off at the clock tower and now they're here. you can hear who the man of the moment is, claudio ranieri. this parade was organised by an 11—year—old boy. jack.
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he'sjust here. jack, you decided to arrange this. what made you decide do this? i wanted to share my point that he's the best manager we've ever had. and we want to thank him for what he has done. your big sister is behind you. the two of you, i understand, heard the news and were so heartbroken that you immediately thought we need to pay tribute? definitely, jack was heartbroken, he was in tears even though you might not see that. there's so many fans. i mean, for leicester last year, it was the most incredible experience. i'm not a massive football fan myself, but what claudio has bought the city, how could we not pay tribute to an incredible man? well said. all of you are here to say thank you, aren't you? all: yes. this evening is the game against liverpool, it will be the first game when ranieri isn't in charge. there is just the one thing that you will want to say. over to you, what do you want to say to ranieri? all: thank you!
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cheering time for a look at the weather. everything apart from the kitchen sink today, some rain, hail, snow, some sunshine has well and weather watchers have been doing us proud. this nice shot taken from the highlands. we will keep the variety going. hardly surprising with this satellite picture. areas of cloud producing heavy showers but some gaps in between, nailing down when the gaps are going to arrive is difficult. further wintry showers are likely overnight, moving east of england and wales. ice is a more widespread hazard over the uk when
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the wind is light. it will be cold, temperatures close to or below freezing, especially out of town. in the morning, some rain and feels no across the rest of scotland —— west of scotland. it will head south—east. ahead of that, a lot of sunshine, a bright and sunny start. the odd shower from the word go, even the odd shower from the word go, eve n a cross the odd shower from the word go, even across eastern counties. in the sunshine it shouldn't feel too bad but you may need layers because there will be a notable breeze and temperatures will fall when the showers come along. tracking south—east across england and wales as we go through the day. it will brighten up but the best of the sunshine will be across the heart of scotla nd sunshine will be across the heart of scotland where it shouldn't feel too bad. not exactly warm, temperatures in single figures and when the showers come along, they will fall bya showers come along, they will fall by a few degrees. we will say
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goodbye to this chap and as we go into tuesday we look to the south—west for the next feature from the atlantic. ahead of that, and frosty start for many places on wednesday. this front eventually will bring rain into the south—west, a question of how far north it will extend. feeling cold especially across northern areas. for the rest of the week, a strong jet stream rappelling rein in our direction. the behaviour of the jet stream, it will bend and that will determine how far north the rain goes, with some snow as well next week. expect the weather to change day by day, rain and shine and the odd risk of some snow in the north. this is bbc news.
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i'm chris rogers. the headlines at 8pm. the former prime minister, sirjohn major warns britons are being offered an "unreal and over—optimistic" vision of what brexit will look like. o bsta cles obstacles are brushed aside as if of no consequences and opportunities are inflated beyond expectation of delivery. a major inquiry into historical child abuse begins hearing evidence from those sent to australia — under a government—backed migration scheme. you will hear that these younger children were the least protected, the most vulnerable and the most abused. plans to limit access to a key disability benefit — should be reversed — according to mps — including some conservatives. a change to personal injury compensation — will increase car insurance for millions of drivers.
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