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honoured for their services to women honoured for their services to their individual sports but they've also helped raise the profile of their event and in doing so, have become two of britain's most successful olympians. katherine grainger has vowed she won't be doing anything else in a boat. she has, though, retired once before and allegro may have retired, too, but charlotte dujardin has her eye on the olympics with a new horse. time for a look at the weather with ben. . a story of ups and downs over the next few day but nothing overly dramatic. temperatures started low this mornings a chilly start. a widespread frost in northern parts of the country. with that, a lot of sunshine to enjoy. this is the scene in norfolk as captured by a weather watcher. the temperatures are heading up over the next few days. mild air pushing in this direction
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but don't get too excited, imagine yourself basking in warmshine, it won't be like that, there will often bea won't be like that, there will often be a lot of cloud and the weather at the moment is going downhill with cloud pushing in from the atlantic. it is going down slowly, for many getting away with a dry afternoon. sunshine turning increasingly hazy with high amounts of cloud but for northern ireland, parts of wales and south—west of england cloud thickening up and some splashes of rain by the afternoon. into this evening and tonight the rain gathers more momentum and turns heavy and sweeps eastwards. a soggy night in prospect. briefly some hill snow across scotland. maybe northern england and northern ireland as well. that mild air starts to spread itself into the south by the end of the night. 11 tomorrow in plymouth. tomorrow we have low pressure up to the north. this front which is hanging around fora the north. this front which is hanging around for a good part of
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the day in the south. what that means, really is three distinct slices of weather. southern areas, the channel islands into southern england and the south of wales starting off with a lot of cloud, outbreaks of rain but here it is pretty mild. a lot of cloud into the north midlands and north wales. there is some sunshine for northern england southern scotland and northern ireland and then a third slice of weather. blustery winds and frequent showers into northern and western parts of scotland. the three slices won't move much. there is a blustery wind for showers and a cool feel in the north. sunshine through northern ireland and southern scotla nd northern ireland and southern scotland and down into northern england. into the south remaining cloudy with rain coming or going. it is where we have the most cloud but the temperatures up to iii. here to thursday, there is an area of low pressure in the north and the bump in the isobars with a etheridge of high pressure starts to work in. what does it mean? a quiet day. a lot of dry weather. spells of sunshine, maybe some cloud and rain spreading from the west later on.
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into thursday, a cloudy day. some rain around but nothing dramatic and still pretty mild. so fairly gentle ups and downs to come. a reminder of our main story: a reminder of our main story: a bbc investigation reveals facebook‘s failings when it comes to removing sexualised images of children. that's all from the bbc news at one, goodbye from me on bbc one. hello there. you're watching bbc news, and i'm jj chalmers with a round—up of the latest sport. bbc sport understands that leicester city will offer craig shakespeare the manager'sjob until the end of the season. leicester have won both
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matches since shakespeare was named interim manager after claudio ranieri's sacking. you're watching bbc news, and i'm jj chalmers with a round—up of the latest sport. bbc sport understands that leicester city will offer craig shakespeare the manager'sjob until the end of the season. leicester have won both matches since shakespeare was named interim manager after claudio ranieri's sacking. ranieri guided leicester to the premier league title last season, but the club managed only five league wins under the italian this campaign arsenal will need to make champions league history tonight and become the first club to overhaul a four—goal first—leg deficit when they line up against bayern munich at the emirates tonight. we may be seeing a different side to arsene wenger — he's asked for a "lucid rage" from his players. the players are ready to fight, but it is always a mixture of a little bit success or a little bit belief, you know? it drops a little bit. i think we live in the world of small margins and if you drop off a little bit on the belief side, on the confidence front it looks always like you do not want to fight, but these players, i 100% believe that these players want to do well and want to win. there have been rumours of disharmony among the arsenal players, although wenger has denied that there was a training ground argument between striker alexis sanchez and his team—mates.
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there's also ongoing speculation over his future as the club's boss, but his opposite number at bayern has sympathy for him. in ourjob we have to live with critics sometimes but the most important thing is to be able to consider the right critics and i think he is a manager with a lot of experience and more experienced than others and i'm sure he will be able to react and to manage this moment, anticipation, this situation that can happen to every manager, so critics, is normal. it's a big match for england's women in their final game of the she believes cup. they play germany. mark sampson's side go into tonight's game after beating world champions usa i—o at the weekend. at tough game, all three games are tough, all three teams are ranked higher than us in the world rankings. the germans, we've beaten
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them once i've found that with the world cup which wasn't too long ago but we had tied results against them since, it will be a big test but i think we can beat them. former england batsman kevin pietersen has resigned for surrey to play in this summer's t20 blast competition. he will play his first game against essex at the ovaljuly 19th and then he'll be available for the rest of the tournament. pietersen firstjoined the club in 2010 and he says he's "absolutely over the moon to be joining surrey again." india's cricketers have pulled off a dramatic win over australia in bangaluru to level the four match test series at 1—1. australia needed just 188 to win but were skittled out for just 112. they were already in deep trouble when captain steve smith was given out by lbw. smith was unsure whether to review the decision and seemed to try to communicate with his dressing room — something that's not permitted. india skipper virat kohli was angry at smith's antics and the umpires were required to cool tempers down. ravi ashwin took six wickets as india sealed a 75—run victory. the third test is
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a week on thursday. finally, the second formula one preseason test is under way in barcelona. williams driver felipe massa set the quickest time in the morning session with britain's lewis hamilton third on the time sheets. that's all sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. i'll have more in the next hour. thank you. you're watching bbc news. facebook‘s procedures for vetting content on its pages have been strongly criticised after a bbc investigation found it was failing to remove inappropriate and sexualised images of children. the chair of the commons media committee damian collins has said it casts "grave doubts" on the effectiveness of facebook‘s systems. our correspondent angus crawford reports. the children's commissioner for england anne longfield joins us now from central london.
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what was your reaction to this? isil these images, the bbc came to me and i saw them a year ago when the first research to replace. they are disturbing images and explicit and sexualised images of children, so in my mind there can be no doubt that the images have no place in a forum like facebook and ifind it inexplicable that facebook didn't ta ke inexplicable that facebook didn't take them down when they were reported. they said they did not reach their community standards.” reach their community standardslj think reach their community standards.” think they need to dramatically review their community standards. there was a question over whether they were reviewed a machines or by actual individuals here. if they we re actual individuals here. if they were individuals, i can find no way that anyone would have any doubt
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that anyone would have any doubt that these are not acceptable to a community that can involve children as young as 13. where do you think the problem lies? facebook say they have millions of people on their site every day and it is impossible to police that thoroughly. facebook is obviously a part of national life and we all enjoy what it brings us, me included, but it is a clever company, obviously very tech savvy and it needs to take its responsibilities more seriously about providing a safer environment and one trusted by those who use it. young people tell me if they have reported to social media giants, they haven't had the response they wa nt they haven't had the response they want and many now don't report because they think there is no point. i'm asking facebook to do
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better than that. anecdotally children are getting more upset by this. calls to childline by children who say they have been upset either us 01’ on who say they have been upset either us or on the increase. young people are saying more and more that they are saying more and more that they are getting bullied online, it is a cause of anxiety and it never goes away. gone are the days you go home from school and the phone is the only way of contact, now it goes on into the evenings and the early hours, so why want to see more transparency from facebook and i wa nt transparency from facebook and i want them to tell me how many complaints they get from children and how they respond, and there should be a digital ombudsman to mediate between young people and facebook that transparency would be the first step. we asked for an interview with facebook but it is not forthcoming. transparency is
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fine but in terms of what's getting through, there is obviously a problem because when the bbc furnished them with what we have found, they reported a loss to the police. yes, and i think they took down 18 out of 100. that needs urgent review. if they are still up today they should be taken down and maybe some of those need reference to the police, so this demands more scrutiny from facebook and from others who we will be concerned about. what sort of powers should a digital ombudsman have? i'm talking about someone who will have the power to mediate, will be able to step in between the young person who was reporting the complaint and the company. it comes from the fact that young people tell me they don't get the response they would like or feel
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they are sending their complaints into a black hole, and it would have the legal powers to hold the industry to account. i have legal powers to ask for data from public bodies and i would like those to be extended to social media companies about their complaints processes, so this is a major part of everyone's life, we need to take them to account as a community. as an act of goodwill, if facebook are watching now, what would you ask them to supply us with? there was no onus on them to do that but what would you wa nt to them to do that but what would you want to hear? i would like the data from all the complaints in the last six months, the numbers and subject and their response, and that would bea and their response, and that would be a positive first step. as an act of urgency they could make it clear in response here how people can
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report and give a commitment to respond to those reports vigorously. finally, in terms of the effect this has on children, much of it will go unnoticed, unreported, and parents may have no idea what their children are seeing online. what is the long—term implication if nothing is done about this now? children are often unprepared for the digital world so i would like to see digital citizenship taught in schools, that would be a first step to give them resilience but we know children get lured into content they don't want to see through algorithms that take them places. for parents there is then opportunity for them to talk to their children about where they go online and to stay in touch. it is developing fast, children are very savvy but it takes them to places
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they don't want to go and parents need to know that. thank you for joining us. courts in england and wales are being told to consider the social and ethnic background of young offenders in greater detail, when it comes to sentencing. the new guidelines come into force injune, and have been drawn up by the sentencing council with the aim of trying to prevent re—offending. judges are being told to consider the "discrimination and negative experience of authority" young people may have experienced. they are also being told they must take into account " pa rticular factors which arise" in the case of black and ethnic minority children and young people. earlierjoanna gosling spoke to vera baird qc, who is chair of the association of police and crime commissioners, and asked her if she thought these new guidelines are on the right track. absolutely, these are very sensible, not major changes but they come from the sentencing council which is made up ofjudges and others involved in the criminal justice system, academics and almost always consult the public before it comes out with such pronouncements. yes, it is imperative to see young
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people between the age of ten and 17 as what they are, young people, who are recoverable from the mistakes they have made and bad deeds they have done and so the right approach is to see what might have contributed to those errors or those bad deeds and try to rectify them so you certainly shouldn't be blocking out anything that might have had a bad effect. what difference could it make to sentences? i don't think it's intended to make a great difference. i think the point is to focus and give clear guidance to judges and magistrates about the right things to take into account when sentencing and trying to attain that achievement of getting young people back on the straight and narrow. pretty obviously, if somebody has had the kind of good, strong, loving upbringing that most of us are fortunate enough to have had, then they are in a better position to cope with life's ups and downs
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than somebody who might have had an alcoholic or abusive parent or who have been in care for a long time was no one particularly taking care of them. it is not to say that people who suffer that kind of disadvantage invariably turn to crime but those factors do need to be recognised so they can be dealt with in the way somebody is sentenced. every hope of being able to recover a young person who isn't fully developed before they are 17 and so can be brought back. in a moment a summary of the business news this hour but first, the headlines on bbc news: facebook comes under strong criticism from charities after a bbc investigation finds the social network is failing to remove inappropriate images of children. the government is to pledge an extra cash boost for new school places in england which could be used to create new grammar schools. but labour says schools still face millions of pounds in cuts. free after two months — a 22—year old british backpacker
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is rescued after allegedly being held hostage in australia. i'm vishala sri pathma. in the business news: the chief executive of the new owner of vauxhall and opel has said that he will not be shutting plants. speaking to the bbc he said that he wants to "unleash their potential" by exporting the cars outside europe, as the brands' previous owner, general motors, did not market opel or vauxhall cars outside europe. e.on has said it will increase its dual fuel standard variable tariffs by 8.8% from next month. electricity prices will rise by an average of 13.8%, and gas prices by almost li%. e.on said that 2.5 million customers would be affected by the increases, which come into effect at the end of april. the latest house price index by halifax show that house prices rose 5.1% year on year in the three months to the end of february. the index also reveals that house
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prices are now increasing at around half the rate seen a year ago. in march last year, the annual house price growth stood at 10%. the new owner of vauxhall and opel has been speaking to the bbc from the geneva motor show about the future of the plants in the uk. carlos tavres, the boss of psa says that plants are unlikely to close because they're busy. vauxhall is operating at 82% capacity. our business editor simon jack caught up with him earlier today. we're not talking about shutting down plants because if you look at the situation, look at the psa group today, our capacity utilisation rate is 98%. it's lower at vauxhall. it's 82%, so first, it's not a dramatic number, 82% is not a dramatic number, second, for many years opel vauxhall could not export cars outside of europe. that was something that general motors didn't want them to do. psa is going to unleash
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this potential. we are going to open the gate as soon as the opel vauxhall models are using the psa ide, they will be able to export but the quality need to be superb and the cost needs to be competitive, hence the opportunity is to improve quality and costs, export, be more competitive to gather by sharing best practice. this is how we should look at things. over in the us, the trump administration is expected to begin rolling back stringent federal regulations on vehicle pollution that contribute to global warning. joining us now from the floor of the new york stock exchange is our business correspondent michelle fleury. we know president trump has been vocal about climate change, how has this manifested itself and what does
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it all mean? one of the things donald trump has been clear he wants is for us car companies to make more ca rs is for us car companies to make more cars with more american workers and in return car company says one of theissuesis in return car company says one of the issues is to do with emission standards. it seems the president is listening to what they are saying, willing to move on that and so we expect the environmental protection agency in the next few days to open up agency in the next few days to open up or sent agency in the next few days to open up orsenta agency in the next few days to open up or sent a note to reopen discussions on emission standards. these were negotiated with the obama administration in 2011 with the car—makers. at the end of its term, the epa said those rules would remain in place until 2025. there was meant to be a midpoint reevaluation, that is what we're talking about, this idea of reopening negotiations, whether
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anything changes we will have to wait and see. another pet hate of president trump is obamacare. republicans have proposed a plan to repeal it. can you tell us about that? we expect some of the committee is to start voting on it this week. it's curious that timing, giving lawmakers just a couple of days to review it. republicans have a lwa ys days to review it. republicans have always said they want to repeal obamacare and now have a plan, but we don't yet know how many people it will affect and what it will cost. the congressional budget office is the body that normally works out the cost but they haven't had a chance to do that. to give you a sense of the timeline, how fast things are moving, there will be some concern we will not find out the cost and what it will give to the deficit until some of these committees have
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already voted. some central planks of obamacare will remain in place but others will be removed, there will no longer be penalties if you don't purchase health insurance. medicaid, which helps the poorest americans, that will remain in place until 2020 but then be phased out, and tax credits, people depending on age and income will get tax credits to purchase health insurance but it may not be enough to cover the cost and the premiums. thank you, michelle. here's a look at some other stories. paddy power betfair has reported a 2016 loss of £5.7 million. underlying earnings were
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up. a chain of budgens stores has failed to find a buyer and will close, with the loss of 800 jobs. the owner of the 3a stores affected was put in administration a month ago after hitting difficult trading conditions. the stores, run by frol, are spread around the country, from dorset to norfolk to scotland, and were bought from the co—op in 2016. the remainder of the budgens chain are unaffected. and online takeaway food delivery app firm just eat has said profit before tax rose 16a% to £91.3 million in 2016, thanks in part to growth in their international businesses. and let's look at markets before we go. gambling company paddy power betfair is the top ftse faller this morning. the company said costs of last year's merger left it with annual losses of £5.7 million. but it did see revenues jump 18% higher after what it called a "tra nsformational" year. well, it certainly been a transformational day for its share
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price and the online delivery firm just eat has served up a 16a% hike in annual profits and said it's looking to take a bigger slice of the international market as uk order growth slows. it's been a top mid—cap gainer this morning after it posted a 93% rise in earnings for 2016. that's all the business news. i'll be back in an hour's time. new figures show police forces in england and wales received one call every 90 seconds about a missing person last year. that's an increase of 15% on the previous year. police chiefs believe the ageing population could be one reason for the rise. david rhodes reports. steve was a lovely, quiet lad. margaret cooper is still searching for her son, steven, nine years on, after he disappeared from his home in huddersfield. he was last seen in scotland, but despite police searches, he has never been found. that's the worst thing, is not knowing. if you've got a body, because he's died, you can have a grave or whatever, and you can put flowers there,
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and you can grieve. when you've no idea what's happened to them, there's just nothing. you're in limbo. on average last year, 370 people went missing every day, with police forces receiving over 300,000 calls, a rise of 15% on the previous year. the majority of forces say they are dealing with more missing people. i think the general public are more aware around people going missing. i think our recording practices have improved, which again will account for a rise in the numbers that we are recording. there is no one reason why people go missing, but there are some common themes. where it's an adult that's gone missing, it can be a sign of mental health issues, of relationship breakdown, of disability. where it's a child or a young person, it's often a sign that there's something wrong in the home. whatever the cause, for those left behind, there are only memories to cling to, and questions that remain unanswered.
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jane hill willjoin jane hill will join me jane hill willjoin me with the headlines but before that lets get a weather update. it's all about ups and downs with our weather in the next few days, very gentle, nothing hugely dramatic but there will be some changes around. potentially not pleasa nt some changes around. potentially not pleasant news when you look at how it has been for some of us, and with milderair it has been for some of us, and with milder air you it has been for some of us, and with milderairyou might it has been for some of us, and with milder air you might start to imagine basking in sunshine but it will not so straightforward because there is more cloud piling in from there is more cloud piling in from the west, so it will turn milder over the next few days but that does not mean it will always be sunny. still some sunshine this afternoon to scotland and eastern parts of
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england and that turns hazy as things closed over from the west and we are seeing some rain in northern ireland and the south—west of england, but it is a slow process. tonight that rain will turn heavier and sweep eastwards, for a. across scotland, maybe northern england and northern ireland and as the rain clears through for most areas it release and chilly are up to the north—west but mild conditions to the south—west to start tomorrow morning. this front will stay around in southern areas, in between a decent amount of dry weather to be had, so this is 8am, one slice of weather across the south, cloudy and damp, rain but mild, north midlands, north wales, northern ireland, the better weather tomorrow, southern scotla nd better weather tomorrow, southern scotland seeing some of that, in the north of scotland, lost it winds and
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heavy showers and a cool start to the day, and those three slices of whether stone moved much during the day, we keep the winds across the north, we keep them mainly fine weather for northern ireland and then to the south we keep the rain, but where we have the cloudy at weather is where we are likely to have the milder weather. eventually we lose the front from the south, the fresher slides away from the north and thursday is a quiet day, largely dry, some sunshine, increasing cloud from the west wing rain later on, i think friday i cloudy affair, rain at times, not a wash—out at across—the—board it does remain mild for the end of the week. keep up to date with all the changes where you were on oui’ keep up to date with all the changes where you were on our website. this is bbc news, the headlines at two. charities condemn facebook
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after a bbc investigation finds the social network is failing to remove sexualised images of children. every time it is used and clicked on by a paedophile on a facebook page, that child is revictimised, so facebook need to put children front and centre of their policies and procedures. more than £300 million for new schools in england in tomorrow's budget, which could include new grammars. caught on camera at a petrol station in australia, the british backpacker rescued by police after allegedly being held captive for more than two months. the government faces the prospect of another defeat in the house of lords tonight over the process of leaving the eu. and in the next hour, a coroner confirms that george michael died of natural causes.
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