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hello and welcome to bbc news. i'm gavin grey. the diplomatic row between the netherlands and turkey has worsened as the dutch government prevented two turkish ministers from addressing a rally in rotterdam. the turkish family affairs minister said on twitter that she was being escorted by police to the german border after being stopped from driving to her consulate in the city. dutch riot police have used water cannons to break up hundreds of turkish supporters who'd gathered to demonstrate against the dutch government's decision. sarah corker reports. in the centre of rotterdam, a tense stand—off between hundreds of pro—turkish demonstrators and dutch riot police. officers on horseback and water cannon were used to disperse the crowd who had gathered for many hours outside the turkish consulate. it was a show of anger and frustration after the dutch authorities stopped the turkish
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family minister and her convoy from entering the consulate. she travelled to the city by car after the dutch government barred turkey's foreign minister from flying there earlier in the day. and after a short negotiation, she was detained and escorted out of the country to prevent her from addressing a rally in support of the turkish president. she later tweeted: this row between turkey and the netherlands is rapidly escalating. the scenes marked a new low in diplomatic relations. sarah corker, bbc news. earlier, the turkish president, recep tayyip erdogan, accused the dutch government of acting like nazi remnants by refusing to allow his foreign minister to fly
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to the netherlands. translation: they don't know anything about politics or international diplomacy. they are very nervous, and they are cowards. they are nazi remnants, they are fascists. and for more analysis on this diplomatic spat and what's behind it, you can go to our website at bbc.com/news. at least a0 people are reported to have been killed in twin bomb attacks in the heart of the syrian capital damascus. the bombs targeted buses carrying iraqi pilgrims to the city's ancient cemetery, which houses shia mausoleums. our correspondent richard conway sent this report from the scene. this is the largest attack to hit damascus in some time. a suicide bomber detonated his device in this commercial district in the centre of damascus, killing at least a0 people, injuring dozens more. the target was shia pilgrims visiting a nearby cemetery.
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president assad wants to present his country as returning to normal, but as we can see around, from the destruction, that's a long way off. richard conway in damascus. in other news: security officials in washington have arrested a man with a backpack, who scaled a perimeter fence in the grounds of the white house. president trump was at the residence when the breach happened. mr trump described him as a troubled person and thanked his secret security staff. italian police and protesters have clashed in the southern city of naples. it's where thousands were demonstrating against the leader of the anti—immigrant northern league party. italian media says violence broke out when a group of masked anarchists hurled molotov cocktails. british police investigating the disappearance of a young girl, madeleine mccann, in portugal nearly ten years ago have been granted more funds to extend their inquiry. the additional £85,000
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will allow the search to continue for another six months. the three—year—old went missing from a holiday apartment in portugal while her parents were at a restaurant nearby. huge rival rallies have been taking place in the south korean capital seoul. the protests were for and against the country's disgraced president. park geun—hye is said to be in a state of shock following her impeachment, as her opponents press for criminal charges. despite friday's court ruling confirming her impeachment over a corruption scandal, she remains inside the presidential compound. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: england cruise to a second successive 6 nations title after crushing scotland at twickenham. a female judge has been criticised
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after warning women who get drunk that they are putting themselves in danger of being targeted by rapists. lindsay kushner qc said what she called disinhibited behaviour could put women at risk. her comments have been described by the campaigners as outrageous and misguided. frankie mccamley reports. jailed for six years for what police described as a horrifically prolonged attack. ricardo rodriguez fortes gomez was found guilty of raping a woman who had been on a night out in manchester. but, sentencing, judge lindsey kushner used her final words before retiring to issue a rape warning to women. she said... while many might see her comments as useful advice for women out
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drinking, others believe this is a backwards step. i'm very anxious that, whatever message she meant to send, it's very clear that what it has sent is the message that there's not much point in reporting. that's wrong. whatever amount of drink you've had, do report. you will be treated better than this suggests. a rape survivor herself, pavan amara now helps others through the ordeal. i think it makes all of us really quite angry. it's one thing to go around making these comments when you sit in a courtroom all day, and you are engaging in one aspect of society without engaging with the women who are experiencing this. judge kushner says she doesn't think it is wrong to teach women to protect themselves. campaigners, though, hope this will not stop other rape
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survivors from coming forward in the future. frankie mccamley, bbc news. the brexit secretary david davis is urging mps to ignore proposed changes to the government's brexit bill when it's debated in the commons on monday. the amendments include measures for a meaningful vote on the final brexit plan and guarantees on protections for eu nationals living in britain. article 50, the formal process for quitting the eu, could be triggered next week. 0ur political correspondent alex forsyth gave us this update from westminster. the brexit bill, that piece of legislation that would allow the government to start the negotiations about leaving the eu is entering its final stages here in parliament next week. the house of lords have had their say. they want changes to the bill, as you say, to protect the rights of eu citizens already in the uk,
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but also a written guarantee that parliament will get a say on the final terms of the brexit deal. tonight there's a very clear message from the government, they will not accept those changes. the brexit secretary david davis saying he wants the bill to go through with no strings attached. we know labour won't agree to that, jeremy corbyn says today what's crucial is how many tory mps are prepared to go against the government. ministers have given them a verbal reassurance that parliament will have a say on the final terms on our departure from the eu, the key question now is whether that's enough to stave off a rebellion. this is a significant moment, this is notjust a test of the prime minister's authority in the house of commons but once this bill is passed, theresa may will be able to and start the process that will end with the uk's departure from the european union. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has prompted angerfrom within his party after saying it would be absolutely fine if a second referendum was held on scottish independence. the party later issued a statement clarifying its position saying it opposed a second referendum. but it added that it was not the job of westminster to block referendums.
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0nline ticket touts who buy in bulk and then sell tickets for inflated prices will face unlimited fines under new government plans. our business correspondent joe lynam reports. when it comes to seeing your idols up close, people will sometimes pay large sums. but increasingly, fans are being priced out by robots, or bots, that snap up tickets in seconds and resell them at inflated prices. and fans are often squeezed out. it stops the youth from going to these places, from seeing these shows, it's not really fair. it's not necessarily fraud, but if people are making money out of something that it's kind of a bit like you shouldn't put such a premium on something. the rise of the internet has enabled touts to use software known as bots to automatically buy up thousands of tickets in seconds, and that's what the government wants
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to make a criminal offence with unlimited fines. we think it's unacceptable that fans are being ripped off by these computer bots buying up all the tickets and then selling them at inflated prices. so we're going to make that illegal, so that people can buy tickets more easily and fans can get to the concerts, the sports venues that they want to. but can we ever fully remove illegal ticket touts? there's always more that can be done. as long as there are people out there wanting to profit on the back of tickets, there will be people wanting to buy those tickets as well. the important thing is to sort of distil it to a good market, a market that works well for the industry, and a market that works well for consumers as well. and that might mean that official ticket sellers for popular shows will have to be far more vigilant when someone tries to suddenly buy or suddenly sell a lot of tickets. criminalising these bots which snap up tickets which fans otherwise want could work, but if they're overseas, then there's very little the government could do.
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also, ticketing experts say that the bots might in fact be real human beings, paid paltry sums of money by the illegal ticket touts to do their work — criminalising them would be fraught with problems. joe lynam, bbc news, in the west end. england have won a second successive 6 nations tournament by beating scotland by 61—21. after wins over ireland and wales, scotland had been hoping for their first triumph at twickenham for 3h years. england now equal new zealand's record of 18 successive test wins by a leading rugby union nation. joe wilson reports from twickenham. twickenham just after 2pm. any view will do. england arrived at this match unbeaten as all these spectators well knew. but they've won their games in the six nations by being good enough.
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the team which has really excelled and found a new level in the tournament, that was scotland. well, so much can change once the anthems have been sung. a minute into the game, bottom of the screen, a dangerous tackle on elliot daly by fraser brown. sin bin for him and daly‘s game was soon over. if there was a glimmer of space in the scotland defence, england had a man to exploit it, jonathan joseph, gone. scotland were stretched, worse when they lost players to injury, even worse when jonathan joseph got the ball again. commentator: 0h, commentator: oh, what a dry for jonathanjoseph! now, finally, says the coach, this is what i told you we could do. gordon reid burrowed and scored. scotland battled, but the game was gone before half—time. in the second half, joseph through, almost at a stroll. 61 points was the final measure of england's control. the six nations secured, england want more. it's ireland next weekend.
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this is a once—in—a—lifetime opportunity and we are pleased with the six nations champions but the grand slam is something we are looking forward to. it takes one win to lift the calcutta cup, it takes 19 consecutive test victories to set a new world record. so, on to dublin. joe wilson, bbc news, at twickenham. this is bbc news, the headlines: dutch police have broken up a protest by supporters of the turkish president recep tayyip erdogan in rotterdam. a retiring judge is criticised for saying women can protect themselves against potential rapists by not getting too drunk. let's return to our top story now, the diplomatic row between turkey and the netherlands. the turkish president, recep tayyip erdogan, described the dutch as fascists for barring his foreign minister from addressing an election rally in rotterdam. mevlut cavusoglu had been planning to urge turkish expatriates to back his government in next month's referendum
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on constitutional change. dutch officials refused to permit his flight to land because of concerns about public safety. mark lowen reports from istanbul. they love his nationalism, his bluntness, his standing up to the west, and today, recep tayyip erdogan doled it out. after his foreign minister was blocked from landing in the netherlands, president erdogan hit back at the dutch, his diplomacy typically undiplomatic. translation: they don't know anything about politics or international diplomacy. they are very nervous, and cowards. they are nazi remnants, they are fascists. the foreign minister had wanted to rally turkish voters in the netherlands before a referendum on boosting mr erdogan‘s powers. but, with the dutch election next week, the government there feared it could provoke tension, and feed the anti—immigrant geert
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wilders. on the campaign trail, the dutch prime minister said he wouldn't give in to turkish blackmail. this morning, on television, he made clear that he threatened the netherlands with sanctions. and of course we cannot negotiate with the turks under such threats. so then we decided, the foreign minister, the french prime minister and myself, in a conference call this morning, that it was better for him not to come to the netherlands. his country having been occupied by the nazis, mr rutte reacted bluntly to the fascist comparison. it's a crazy remark, of course. i understand they're angry, but this is, of course, way out. germany, too, was branded nazis by mr erdogan, after it blocked turkish rallies, unprecedented language among nato allies. president erdogan has an advantage with europe, turkey the most active route for migrants, and its role crucial to stemming the flow. he has used it as a bargaining chip,
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but the eu is getting increasingly frustrated with the turkish strongman. this is a classic erdogan political tactic, painting turkey as the victim of western oppression, and himself as the protector of national pride. he thrives when he and his country are seen as the underdogs, and this growing stand—off with europe will rally his nationalist support base, which he needs for a referendum victory. so vintage erdogan, pleasing his supporters, horrifying his opponents, and reiterating the sense that polarised turkey is drifting ever further from europe. mark lowen, bbc news, istanbul. aylina kilic, a journalist following turkish issues here in london, joined me earlier. she explained what president erdogan is trying to achieve. what he wants to do now is he wants to gain the support
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of the turkish diaspora, which is why he is also leading the election campaign, into europe especially. what will the scenes like this, though — we've had these pictures beamed in to us in the last few minutes. what will the scenes like this be doing domestically, do you think? well, domestically, these scenes will actually help the situation in erdogan‘s hands, because he has been campaigning for a long time for the presidential system. and, as you may know, turkey has been faced with terror attacks in the last few months. and he has always used this, and especially a july 15 coup attempt, which was the reason why he's saying that the referendum system should be resolved with a yes vote. so these scenes will actually, in his own thing, strengthen him, do you think? yes, definitely strengthen him, but at the same time it is also polarising and dividing
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the turkish society. because what they're doing is what turkish officials are saying is that those who say no are terrorists, and are siding with a terrorist organisation. as you know, the soldiers who carried out thejuly 15 coup attempt, has been branded as a terrorist organisation by turkey. so they have been using this as a way to say that people should say yes in the campaign. ok, do you think we are now likely to see more protests? is there strength of feeling, do you think, with so many turks living in other eu countries, that there is a strength of feeling, that some of these protests might now spread? definitely, yes, because it plays with the nation's voters. i mean, the nationalist leader of turkey, the party leader, he has called out to turks who are nationalists to go out on the streets in europe and protest, about what especially happened in rotterdam.
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and so i think this would especially play out into their position, because what they want to do is cause the public to have the anger against this. because obviously what's happened in rotterdam is a situation where the turkish minister has been turned away, and although this is actually a breach of the turkish constitution itself, because the turkish constitution says that no political campaign can be carried out in a foreign country for propaganda purposes. now, there are going to be lots of people who look at the language that president erdogan has used, this idea of calling them remnant nazis, fascists, and using that, particularly in the netherlands, is very, very controversial. yes, definitely. but it definitely really does help his voters to have a huge
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reason to campaign more for what they want to respond in the campaign. but do you think he had deliberately chosen those words and then used them, or do you think, when he gets up to give a speech, he is not quite sure what he is going to say, and he just happened to pluck those words out? i think he definitely knew he was going to use those words, because obviously his base, his voters, ak party voters, they obviously are coming from a rightist base. so this will affect them, so he knows what to say, definitely. a labour mp is calling for abortion legislation to be updated. the rules that say a woman must have the consent of two doctors to end her pregnancy have been unchanged for 50 years. critics say a change in the law could pave the way for sex—selective abortions and terminations on demand. jayne mccubbin reports.
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my first reaction was, i don't want to have a baby. straightaway, how am i going to care for this being, when i can't even care for myself? emily tells me why she had an abortion. she was broke, she had depression, she couldn't cope. she had to wait a month for a termination. that was the worst month of my life. i was googling ways to induce miscarriage, and i think that in itself proves it's too long. you're risking women's lives, because i could have really hurt myself during that time. you could have faced a jail sentence. i don't have any words for that. to punish a woman who is already in such an unstable and vulnerable position, what do you think you're doing to that woman's life? just under 200,000 abortions were carried out in the uk in 2015, most in rooms like this. the nhs say women should wait around two weeks, but it can be more than twice that.
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figures indicate these tablets used to miscarry are increasingly being bought illegally online, by women who refuse to wait. two doctors sign off every abortion. now, this is unlike any other medical procedure. but no other procedure involves ending a life, and that is what is key here, isn't it? we're in the 21st century. we trust women to make decisions about their lives, about their healthcare, and abortion should be no different. but others say the delay that comes with not one but two gps is essential when deciding the fate of not one but two lives. many women go for that initial consultation, and by the time they come back, actually change their minds. so it's an important step in the process to make sure women are making the right decision for them. do you have any statistics to back that argument up? well, we do know that about 30%
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of women who go for initial consultations actually never go through with the process. and the difficulty with the termination is once you have done that, if it's a rushed process, you can't change your mind. her office later said this figure had been given by a leading clinician. we could find no evidence of it. abortion is a divisive, emotive subject. while the royal college of midwives has backed the proposal, more than 1,000 midwives havejoined a "not in my name" petition. they fear it could pave the way for sex—selective abortions on demand. we didn't achieve what i always believed was what women needed, which was choice. diana monday was a key figure calling for change in the ‘60s, just as she is today. i was a lone public voice, but i was not a lone person who'd had an abortion. they were all there, the voices, but they were unheard, and unfortunately they still are. i am appalled. 50 years later on,
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we are still fighting for this. oh, my goodness. this is the hate mail? yeah. she shows me the hate mail her campaign attracted in one file. but letters from women who begged for help in another. that fine line between the rights of a woman and the rights of an unborn child will be scrutinised once again on monday. let's take a look at some of the morning's newspaperfront pages. the observer says theresa may is under fire by mps who fear she has no backup plan if the uk fails to get a trade deal with the eu. the mail on sunday also leads on the prime minister's impending plan to trigger article 50. the paper says she will fire the starting gun on tuesday. the sunday telegraph's top story is what it calls a war in the cabinet over the budget, with ministers reportedly furious at the chancellor for not warning them that he was planning to break a manifesto promise with a rise in national insurance for self—employed workers. the front page of the sunday times has rugby hero danny care flying through the air, as he scores in england's victory against scotland in
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the rugby five nations. and the sunday express reports on a potential new lead in the hunt for madeleine mccann. the paper says police have been given extra funding to follow it up. joni sledge, a founder member of the iconic pop group sister sledge, has died aged 60. together with her three sisters, she recorded several massively successful hits, including he's the greatest dancer and we are family, which went platinum, and became an anthem of unity and female empowerment. let's have a look now at the time the group came to see us at bbc news. the we are family. the music is inside our heads. i got all my sisters with me. we are family. get
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up, everybody, and seeing. # we are family. sing it with me. # sisters are all over the world. we are family. # get up everybody and seeing. —— sing. now to london's soho, where we have been taking a look at the changing nature of modern food culture, asking why did the chicken restaurant cross the road? from high street restaurant to basement food factory, how one restaurant's switch in business model mayjust be the shape of things to come. so the cost pressure in soho was huge. business rates went up 25%, our rent went up 15%. it cut into the cost of our business. it's for deliveroo.
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and in the early days we were one of deliveroo's first restaurants, and we saw how popular deliveroo was becoming. we began to think about where this is going to go. catering only to the delivery market. is there not a sadness, that a restaurant is a social place where you meet people, and if you have fewer places like that, we have lost something? it's notjust a social experience. people may not be able to cook at home, or they may not want to. maybe they will stay in and watch a game of thrones box set. i think this will never replace a restaurant. the social experience of a restaurant is completely different to this. a driver in china has ended up on the roof of a house, after trying to avoid an accident. he said that, as he tried to get out of the path of a motorised tricycle and an oncoming car, he accidentally put his foot
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on the accelerator rather than the brake. the result was, to say the least, embarrassing. fortunately nobody was injured in the incident, and he was rescued by local police. now the weather, with helen willets. hello there. saturday brought northern ireland its warmest day of the year so far. we will see some sunshine but the warmth will not be repeated today. this was the saturday evening sunset and 16 was the temperature that we reached, about 61 fahrenheit. there was 18 in the sunshine in the south and the east, and it was on the whole a fairly decent day for most. however we did have that weather front around. the rain has been pepping up with heavy bursts of rain in the south, even the odd rumble of thunder off the south coast. so we do have notjust one but two weather fronts to contend with for sunday, an awful lot of cloud, misty low cloud,
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hill and coastalfog, so for most, sunday is going to get off to a mild start. this rain in the east obviously bringing a different day for eastern england, and some damp weather in northern ireland in the morning, moving quite soon across into wales, the south—west, western scotland. remember, all the time it is going to be a gray and misty start. so a lot of low cloud around the hills and coastal fog as well. behind this first weather front and ahead of the next one we may well have some brighter weather out through the east of wales, the midlands, into parts of northern england and central scotland. but still quite murky near the east coast of scotland compared with saturday, and that next rain band is getting into the west. now, all the time, the rain in the east will be fizzling out. it looks as if the rain further west, as it heads its way in across the mainland of the uk, will tend to become more showery as well. there will therefore be a lot of cloud around and more limited brightness. it looks lovely for northern ireland in the afternoon, western fringes of the uk.
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and that means we will see some sunshine, but it will not feel as warm as it did during the day on saturday. temperatures only 12—14 degrees.

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