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round in april but mr macron is considered the favourite to win a run—off vote. scientists in britain have created artificial embryos using two types of stem cells from mice, in what they say is a world first. the researchers at cambridge university say their artificial embryo could lead to better fertility treatments. now it is time for our news review. what's making headlines around the world 7 first we have the new york times online reporting on us attorney generaljeff sessions stepping aside from investigations into alleged russian interference in the us election. the paper says he faces a "storm of criticism" over undisclosed meetings with the russian ambassador last year. shares in snap, the parent company of snapchat, soared more than 40% in their market debut. that's a story on the front page of the financial times.
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the paper says the company is now worth two and a half times its social media rival twitter. a unit of bitcoin is now worth more than an ounce of gold. forbes online reports on that story, saying that the price of the digital currency has been rising steadily and on thursday, finally, surpassed gold for the first time in the currency‘s history. le figaro looks at french presidential candidate emmanuel macron and the unveiling of his manifesto. it says the centrist candidate has been accused for months over the vagueness of his programme but is trying to break free from that image with his new proposals. the daily telegraph reports that a group of scientists is saying artificial human life has the potential to soon be grown in a laboratory, after they created a living mouse embryo using only stem cells. moving away from the james bond stereotype, the guardian says britain's secret intelligence service,
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known as mi6m will increase efforts to recruit black and asian spies —— known as mi6, will increase efforts to recruit black and asian spies to deal with modern day threats. joining us is cornelia meyer, the ceo of business consultancy mrl corporation. good morning. good morning. let's start with the trump administration, as ever, butjeff sessions in particular and his attorney general, how much trouble is he in? quite a bit of trouble because it is... if you lie under oath, that is perjury, he is the attorney general, so it is not a good idea to perjure yourself, and what i was surprised with was he was careless, he said, you know, i didn't meet him as a presidential candidate, i met him as a member of the senate committee dealing with
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security and foreign affairs. well, great, and then he should have said, and asa great, and then he should have said, and as a lawyer he is probably good at saying, in my capacity as a memberof the at saying, in my capacity as a member of the presidential campaign, i never met him, but... he didn't do that, he said, i never met him, period. i understand the russian ambassador wants to meet people, he wants to put the feelers out, as did the german ambassador, every ambassador in moscow, so it is unfortunate, his wording was unfortunate, his wording was unfortunate, it is coming back to bite him, and it has created such a stir because it is also mike flynn, the national security advisor, because he didn't disclose having met him, that is grave. and if president trump loses a senior member of his team, that wouldn't be
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good, would it? it wouldn't be good but what i am much more concerned about than losing a member of the senior team is he hasn't identified the assistant secretaries and appointees, so it you are germany or britain, who can you talk to? yes, you can talk to the foreign minister, they can go to mexico and make a speech, but then he needs the undersecretary, the assistant secretary, to follow up on this and do the work. some say the russians know who to talk to, i mean, the russian ambassador has done a good job of reaching out. may have the same thing, they need the senior working with, they need the under secretaries and assistant secretaries and assistant secretaries to discuss issues. let's move on to the financial times and a story about snap shares, it was an incredible debut and we saw that
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with twitter but it failed to sustain it, do you think there is a difference? i think there is a difference, but the difference is it surged and it doesn't make profits and you have no voting rights with the shares, that is quite unusual. how can it work, a company with no money... 7 how can it work, a company with no money... ? people are expecting that the future revenue for advertising will be high and i can see some rationality and that, because snap is used by people between five and 15, so if you get consumer goods, if you get your ads in, you might ca ptu re a you get your ads in, you might capture a whole generation. remember the jingles we grew up with, we may never forget, the jingles we grew up with, we may neverforget, and the jingles we grew up with, we may never forget, and we look at marmite, we look at harrow bow, and we think of the jingles. good point. bitcoin, yes. overtaken. .. we think of the jingles. good point. bitcoin, yes. overtaken... something else i don't understand. this
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currency that has overtaken gold in terms of value, this is volatile, thatis terms of value, this is volatile, that is the point to make. it is incredibly volatile at unlike oil or something else it is correlated to nothing, not correlated to a currency, the volatility is that it is unregulated, you see the chinese have blocked it, because it is unregulated, if you want to get money out of it in the way of capital controls, bitcoin is the way to do it, which is why you see family offices investing in it. what has given it a boost is that looking at whether there might be a bitcoin etf, so if they improve it as a etf. .. exchange etf, so if they improve it as a etf... exchange traded... etf, so if they improve it as a etf. .. exchange traded... yes. etf, so if they improve it as a etf... exchange traded... yes. if they prove it, you know, in that
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category, they expect another 300 million to flow in. if they don't prove it, it will probably go down again. i wish i bought some initially. that is what i think. if it falls, you will be glad. and you know, mr branson will accept it if you want to go tour. you could be one of the space tours with bitcoin. let's turn to france. emmanuel matt —— macron, wanting to be people for everyone. i heard him say france is not reform of all, we willjust read d raft not reform of all, we willjust read draft everything, so i thought that was interesting —— reformable. his economic programme lacks specificity. it is like president trump's state of the union address when he put out the ideas and lacked specificity. is it a good idea when
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campaigning not to be pinned down, but to give people some... what i am worried about, francois fillon might be dropping out, might be staying m, be dropping out, might be staying in, certainly losing people, macron is so many things to so many people, and there are quite a few centre—right people who people will vote for, if he drops out they might go towards marine le pen, and as you said, in the second round macron is slated to win, but if too many supporters of fillon got0 marine le pen, that would be bad, because she wants to go out of the euro. tapped on the shoulder to become a spy? no, sadly not. what i think mi6 is trying to do is to make it abroad, reflect society more and let's look at it. if you are a spy, you have to
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go to asia and the middle east, so having people of that heritage is probably a good idea. they have been advertising for a few years at it hasn't really worked because they still have to go out and tap people on the shoulder, have a quiet drink and say, have you thought about working for the government?m and say, have you thought about working for the government? it is a good idea, the mi6 is doing a stellar job, good idea, the mi6 is doing a stellarjob, and good idea, the mi6 is doing a stellar job, and we good idea, the mi6 is doing a stellarjob, and we need mi5 and mi6 still in this country. we will have to leave it there. thank you. that is it from us, have a good day. yes, see you soon. hello. the winter months were quite dry. the first week of march is trying to turn that around. and certainly, during friday, many of us will see some wet weather at some stage of the day, and all the way through the weekend
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it is looking very unsettled. we'll get to that. this is how early friday is looking. and we're dragging in some rainfall from the south, so already across a large part of southern england, south wales, edging through the midlands, and into east anglia, as the day begins. another area of wet weather producing a bit of hill snow for parts of the far north of england and southern scotland. let's take a look around things at 8:00am in the morning. so a wet start across southern england, but you can see that rain advancing through more of wales, the midlands, east anglia, at this stage. it is only going to move further north, so eventually it will get into northern england. but, as you can see, some of us in northern england and into southern scotland seeing some rain, and some snow as well. some of us, even modest elevations, could be waking up to a covering of snow here. further north, in scotland, it is a frosty start. still a few showers in the far north. so, as we go on through friday, we are taking rain northwards through england and wales. eventually, by late afternoon, and into the evening, that should be across much of northern england. we will pivot an area of rain,
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starting just to flirt with the eastern side of northern ireland, through northern ireland by the end of the afternoon. the best of the sunshine, without a doubt, will be in northern scotland. turning a bit dry, though, in the afternoon in south—east england, and it actually could feel quite mild, given any brightness. one or two spots mayjust reach 13 or even 14 celsius. a few heavy showers reaching through parts of south—west england and wales as we go through friday night. the rain marching further north, across into southern scotland, eventually into the central belt, staying with us into northern ireland. frost—free for most as saturday begins. will be frost, though, across northern parts of scotland. so that takes us on to the weekend, and friday. well, the theme of the wet weather continues into the weekend. we will see more rain at times. some of that could be quite heavy and persistent, and particularly on saturday, with this area of low pressure just stalling its rainfall from northern ireland and into parts of scotland, whereas further south there will be still some areas of rainfall or showers, but it is not going to be a washout all day long. but we will see raining for much of the day, we think, into northern ireland and southern and eastern
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parts of scotland. and, particularly through eastern scotland, it will be quite cold with that rainfall, and there will be quite a lot of snow developing into the grampians. further south, it is showers. and then, on sunday, it looks like it turns a little bit better. still a few showers around for scotland and northern ireland. we see another area of rainfall pushing its way through england and wales, with temperatures at around seven to 10 celsius. soggy for the weekend. hello, this is breakfast, with charlie stayt and steph mcgovern. a warning for patients in england about the risk of getting medication online. the health regulator says companies may not be prescribing the right drugs, carrying out thorough checks, or have clinicians with the best qualifications. good morning, it is friday 3 march.
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