tv BBC News BBC News March 24, 2017 1:30pm-2:01pm GMT
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it's red nose day and the band take that are set to join james corden tonight to sing a ‘carpool karaoke‘, as comic relief returns to tv screens to raise money for charity. there will be a short sequel to the film love actually, read writing a cast including hugh grant and many others. it will explore what the characters have been up to since 2003, some of them looking a little older than they did for teen years ago. don't we all. i mean, for me! not a great transition to the lovely helen on whether. i am going to stop. let's hope the sun shines on the fundraisers, plenty of sunshine around today, even in the south it is quite cloudy. but let's enjoy this shot, ample sunshine, some areas in the south west at the moment, it is quite great, the
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re m na nts of moment, it is quite great, the remnants of a weather front and some rain, but i'm glad to say the ring is petering out here. some rain across the far north of scotland, there is the sunshine, increasing amounts for parts of the midlands and wales. it will feel a little warmerfor most, more and wales. it will feel a little warmer for most, more sunshine, still a chilly breeze blowing against the southern half of the country, israeli quite nippy. without the breeze in the sunshine, northern ireland, parts of northern england feeling quite nice although there is patchy rain and cloud. a feature for much of the weekend, when we say for most it will be dry, the exception is the far north of scotland. in the south, you can see the cloud clearing overnight, it will be colder, again come down 2-3 , will be colder, again come down 2—3 , sharp frost in the countryside, watch out for a little bit of eyes first thing tomorrow, potentially some freezing fog. the high pressure at this time of year benefits with lovely sunshine coming through. still a keen breeze, probably likely to pick up across
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the south tomorrow, again there is the south tomorrow, again there is the cloud, otherwise, it looks fine. temperatures higher than today, responding to the sunshine, possibly 17 in the north—west of england, not that temperatures for all, a chilly nine or ten are crossed east anglia and the south—east, but wrap up warmly, you have the sunshine, it will be a bad day. we threw the clocks forward an hour as we head into wuthering sunday, it means potentially dark if you get up early enough, we will benefit from more sunshine later in the day. this is a snapshot, from north to south, the clocks going forward, we could see some sunshine to enjoy on sunday, likely to be a little bit more cloud than saturday, still cloud plaguing the far north of scotland, especially in the east and a keen breeze in the south, at 17 possible in the north—west of scotland touring sunday. warm sunshine, settled weather, basically, all of us settled weather, basically, all of us this weekend, it was to the cold
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at night with some frost, gardeners beware. howard lilyman, thank you. a reminder of our main story this lunchtime. the first pictures emerge of the man who carried out the westminster attack — police say khalid masood used a number of aliases and they've appealed to the public for more information about him. time for the sport. lewis hamilton called his opening day 99% perfect after finishing first ahead of the australian grand prix in melbourne. he was fastest in both practice sessions today, ahead of the australian grand prix. and in the second session, he was more than half a second quicker than anyone. a huge margin, with the new cars for the 2017 season potentially knocking up to five seconds off lap times. second quickest was sebastian vettel, in his ferrari. with valteri bottas third, in the other mercedes.
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the 2017 season will be contested by the new cars which are bigger and faster with five seconds shaved off lap times as the sport tries to win it new fans and new owners. my role on the racing side would be to be proactive, to work with the teams, to work with the fia, to find the right solutions to make our sport as great as possible in the future. and by great, i mean close racing, healthy teams, a true meritocracy of drivers, and all the things we know we have in a perfect world. chris smalling has returned to manchester united for treatment, after dropping out of the england squad through injury. the defender has been replaced by middlesbrough‘s uncapped ben gibson. england face lithuania in a world cup qualifier on sunday. meanwhile, england's women have returned to fourth in the fifa world rankings, equalling their highest position. the side came third in the shebelieves cup earlier this month, after a 1—0 win over the usa, and have gone back above canada. scotland remain 21st, wales move up to 33rd and northern ireland are up to 55th. wales manager chris coleman
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insists their crucial world cup qualifier against the republic of ireland tonight is not a must—win game, but admits there's a ‘desperation‘ in the squad to reach another major tournament. ireland are top of group d, after four matches unbeaten, with wales — having only won one of their qualifiers so far — four points behind them, in third. in a campaign, you get halfway and see where you are and you fight at the wrong end or the right end. so all this pressure on us is what we've always wanted. i've wished for it, dreamt about it. being halfway in the campaign and still having a say in who finishes top, who comes second, we're right in that. tottenham's dele alli has been banned for three european club games after his red card during the europa league tie against gent. the midfielder was sent off for a nasty challenge in the first half of the second leg at wembley, and the suspension will be served if spurs get into europe next season — which looks likely, with the team second in the premier league. england's attempts to arrange a fixture against new zealand
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later this year came from head coach eddiejones, and weren't motivated by commercial reasons. the rfu's chief executive insists the opportunity to play the world champions was something he had to look into. the all blacks declined the offer to play at twickenham in november. i think every rugby supporters around the country would want to see england playing the all blacks in 2017, so i felt absolutely on a bound to see if we could achieve that. although it wasn't easy and there were potentially difficult is about trying to do it, but it was worth having a go to see if we could get will be a great game. the all blacks were very straightforward and decent about it and after some discussions and deliberations, they decided they would prefer to play the barbarians, rather than england. that is absolutely their call and i can understand that. that's all the sport for now. let's cross to king's college hospital, in central london,
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where prince charles has been visiting victims of wednesday's terror attack. 50 people were injured, and you can see prince charles at king's college hospital, he has been talking and meeting to sum of those treated at king's college hospital. 50 injured, 31 received hospital treatment. two still in a critical condition. and the woman thrown into the river, a romain ian woman, she is still in hospital being treated for injuries. there has been an operation for a blood clot on her brain. our correspondent fiona lamdin is there. we can see behind you. yes, his neck
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is disappearing behind me, he is surrounded by many security guards. it is most certain to say his visit here has definitely slightly lifted the atmosphere after last night's is about five—year—old, leslie rhodes, the latest victim to die. the atmosphere was very heavy today —— 75—year—old. he went up those steps behind mejust after one 75—year—old. he went up those steps behind me just after one o'clock and the first thing he said to the doctors, i hope i am not bothering to you and you have time to talk to me. they said, we are absolutely delighted you are here. he has been inside and he has met victims and paramedics. he was first taken into the resuscitation area where victims we re the resuscitation area where victims were first brought on wednesday when they arrived here. he'sjust leaving now, his is leaving. —— his entourage is leaving. everybody is
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here trying to take selfies. a lot of crowds and everybody slightly buoyed up by his visit. thank you very much. from king's college hospital, one of several hospitals where the injured had been treated. moore is beginning to emerge about the westminster attacker khalid masood and we know that he previously lived in an east sussex village and our correspondent has been there to speak to local people who remember khalid masood. he lived here in the heart of the sussex countryside, this sleepy rural village, and he went on to strike at the heart of our democracy. i remember he was a bit ofa democracy. i remember he was a bit of a troubled character, is the best way to describe it, i think he got into a bit of a trouble in rye. locals remember khalid masood, known here as ageing or a], as a pilot low—level cronulla who attacked an
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innocent man. he was an old chap and i would not have thought he deserved to be stabbed. as i remember, and i was not in there at the time, and as remember hearing stories afterwards. it was a violent snack attack —— knife attack in this pub that most remember him for, it happened 17 yea rs remember him for, it happened 17 years ago. one person told us that masood, in his 40s, had been drinking. the pub was known as the crown and the sort and the victim was trying to protect a colleague and was slashed across the face. was trying to protect a colleague and was slashed across the facelj rememberthe and was slashed across the facelj remember the person, yes. and was slashed across the facelj rememberthe person, yes. he used a stanley knife on somebody's faith dutch face, across their chin. he was not particularly popular, no, he was not particularly popular, no, he was more or less a loner. in the last few hours, this picture of him at school in tunbridge wells has emerged. the man responsible for the carnage in london's smiling broadly for the camera in his school football team. moore is emerging
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about khalid masood and we know that he had several aliases. i've been walking around the area at carriage gates, outside the houses of parliament, where the attacker crashed his car and was able to get several metres into the parliament grounds. and he was able to stab the police co nsta ble and he was able to stab the police constable on duty, and this is what ifound. you can see armed police officers inside carriage gates, the gates we re inside carriage gates, the gates were closed, but the armed police officers right now inside. on wednesday afternoon, this is where the attacker khalid masood run—in after driving across westminster bridge, and he stabbed the police co nsta ble bridge, and he stabbed the police constable keith palmer who was on duty here. he stabbed him, and he later died of his injuries, although he was given resuscitation by amongst others the foreign office minister tobias ellwood. the attacker was shot dead by one of the
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defence secretary's close protection officers, who was armed and the nearby at the time. there are questions about security now at carriage gates and some security experts said that for too long, this has been a weak link in the security around the palace of westminster and the gates are open to long, vans coming in and out making deliveries into the palace of westminster. as pa rt into the palace of westminster. as part of a security review whether carriage gates should be looked at as having been too vulnerable. for now, the gates are closed and you can see along here floral tributes have been left for the fallen police officer keith palmer. prince charles has been visiting some of the casualties from wednesday afternoon's attack. we will show you more pictures of prince charles leaving the hospital, having talked to some of the injured are being treated. 50 injured altogether, according to police, 31
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have received hospital treatment. two still in a critical condition, one with life—threatening injuries. among the injured, two police officers on westminster bridge at the time, still in hospital with what are described by the police is very significant injuries. so prince charles with that visit to some of the wounded survivors of the attack at king's college hospital. an online appeal by the metropolitan police federation for the family of pc keith palmer, who was stabbed to death in the grounds of parliament, has reached more than half a million pounds — double its target. you can just see the live pictures of that page. £510,000. so well over half £1 million for the family of
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that police officer who died on wednesday afternoon. the flight here at the palace of westminster is flying at half—mast, the union flag. but around westminster, things are beginning to get back to normal, the roads have reopened and the police gordon has been lifted and westminster underground is open. that is the latest from westminster. back to you in the studio. many thanks. in a moment, a summary of the business news this hour. but first, the headlines on bbc news: the first photo of khalid masood, who was previously known as adrian russell ajao,emerges pictured in a football team as a teenager, as further details are revealed about the life of the 52—year—old attacker. prince charles has visited some of the injured at king's college hospital. the fourth person to be killed is named as leslie rhodes, from south london, 75.
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in the business news this afternoon... automatic compensation — that's what ofcom wants for landline and broadband customers facing slow repairs, missed deadlines and engineers' visits that fail to happen. the telecoms regulator says it could benefit up to 2.6 million customers. statutory maternity pay for uk mothers is among the worst in europe, according to analysis by the tuc. the trade union body says only ireland and slovakia have worse "decently paid" entitlements. it defines decently paid as two—thirds of a woman's salary, or more than £840 a month. robotics and artificial intelligence could affect almost a third of uk jobs by the 2030s. a report from accountancy firm pwc says manual routine jobs are most at risk — those with a human touch, like health and education, are safer. however, they don't believe that 30% ofjobs will dissappear — rather, automation could create more wealth and additionaljobs
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elsewhere in the economy. good afternoon. we will look at developments in the us over president trump's delaet health reforms. so this vote was delayed and president trump has called for an ultimatum for tomorrow. yes, absolutely, what trump has said to the house of representatives where the house of representatives where the vote will take place, they have basically said, you either vote in favour of this deal or were just going to leave obamacare in place. for many republicans, obamacare, the health care initiative put in by president obama, is wildly unpopular. president trump of course campaigned and one campaign promise
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was to repeal that. so he has really given people an ultimatum. what the signals more is that if he cannot get this through, this question is his ability as a deal—maker, somebody who is able to come in and make things happen. something he also championed during his election bid. yes, very keen to get this through. what are the stakes if it does not go through, for him? there is reputational in terms of whether 01’ is reputational in terms of whether or not he is able to get his legislative agenda pushed through. in terms of the importance on wall street, we have seen it really big advantages on wall street since the election of president trump because of key things like saying that he wa nts to of key things like saying that he wants to roll back some of those banking regulations, the $1 trillion of infrastructure spending, a lot of companies have been trading much higher as a result of that potential. so if he can get health
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ca re potential. so if he can get health care through, everything else on his legislative agenda is really put into question in terms of his ability to put it through and how much time and political capital is going to be wasted on strictly obamacare. it would really put a lot of things with regards to this administration into question if he does not get this pushed through. we watch developments from washington quite closely today. now, in the last couple of hours, an employment tribunal has ruled that a self—employed courier for a firm called excel is actually classified as a worker with rights to holiday pay. cycle courier andrew boxer argued he was entitled to one week of holiday pay, based on his work for the company. the tribunal said his claim was well—founded and that the firm "unlawfully failed to pay the claimant". now, this, of course, will back claims that some firms in the so—called gig economy are engaged in bogus self—employment. uk households added an extra £13.4 billion to their debt last month, almost 5% more than at the same time last year. figures from the british bankers' association say consumer credit
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is growing at an annual rate of 6.6%, much faster than wage growth. and just days before the uk triggers article 50 to begin the process of leaving the eu, deutsche bank has committed to moving to a new office in london. germany's biggest lender is in exclusive talks for a 25—year lease on a new building. garth ritchie, the uk boss of deutsche, told staff the move "underlines the bank's commitment to the city of london". let's look at markets. european markets on the back foot after the delayed health care vote in the white house. they believe it is crucial to president trump's promises on spending and tax cuts so some of the market is a bit lower. the engineering firm smiths group is doing well, share prices up 2%, better than expected financial results. that's all the business news.
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cricket — perhaps the most quintessentially english of sports. not something you'd immediately associate with a francophone country. and yet cricket is becoming increasingly popular in one french—speaking country, at least, rwanda. there are now 15,000 cricketers in rwanda — men and women — and two decades after the genocide, the sport is playing a role in the nation's reconciliation process. our sports correspondent, alex capstick, has been to meet rwanda's new cricketing generation. meet rwanda's opening batsman, audifax byiringiro. facilities at the only cricket ground in the country may be threadbare, but it's a new sport here, gaining in popularity. you can see the camaraderie. but what's remarkable is that not so long ago, the chances are the parents of these players were deadly enemies. “119911, more than 800,000 rwandans were killed injust 100 days. 80% of the country's children lost a family member in the slaughter. audifax was a one—year—old when his father was murdered. it was really difficult.
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it's not something that you can easily digest in your head and feel like you understand it completely. because when they were supposed to be hiding, when they were sending out dogs to hunt people, so it's really huge. even the ground where audifax plays his cricket is a gruesome reminder of what happened in this country. this plaque, just outside, describes events here when up to 2,500 people, most of them tutsis, were hacked to death by gangs wielding machetes. so many young people in this country have grown up without parents. audifax tells me he has found help in sport. cricket helped me a lot. as soon as i got in, i started to be in that family. they were my friends. that means those are the people that you are cross to. those are the people you are spending
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your whole time with. so it gave you a new start? exactly, it gave me a new start, new friends. and, yeah, it helped me in that way. and those running the sport are proud that cricket is doing its bit to heal the scars of a traumatised society. there is not a single family that you'll know that has not been affected by the rwandan genocide, so it's quite fulfilling that you can have people who have been affected in different ways play on the same team. irrespective of what their parents or their relatives did or were done to. since the genocide, the country is reinventing itself. rwanda is on the up, the economy is growing, and so is cricket. a future generation of potential players are being introduced to the game across the land. its profile is rising and it's about to get a huge lift. the new stadium, a spectacular sight anywhere in the world. but remember, this is the heart
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of sub—saharan africa. partly funded by a british charity, the ground is due for completion later this year. er, it's really... i don't know what can be more than fantastic, it's phenomenal, it's surprising that we have a ground like this. rwanda rebuilding itself. and lots of people here hoping cricket can play a leading role. a young boy has helped save his mother's life, thanks to his quick thinking and an iphone. police have released the audio of a 999 call, in which the four year old, in croydon, told an emergency services worker he couldn't wake his mother up and feared she was dead. her son managed to unlock the phone by pressing his thumb on the fingerprint lock. he then used the phone's siri function, saying ‘help', which then connected him to emergency services. let's listen to some of that call. a remarkable story. a new study suggests that nearly a third of ourjobs could be at risk because of increasing use of robots.
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the accountancy firm pwc forecasts around 30% of current roles could potentially be automated by the early 2030s. workers in transport, manufacturing and retail roles are the most at risk, but analysts say automation could also create newjobs elsewhere and improve workplace quality. let's ta ke let's take a look at the weather 110w. thank you, high pressure is heading oui’ thank you, high pressure is heading our way before the weekend, meaning a lot of dry weather. we already have dry weather, this was recently sentin have dry weather, this was recently sent in from pembrokeshire, belly a cloud in the sky here and in richmond, north yorkshire. but as yesterday, this is the picture in somerset, wet yesterday. a little rain around, travelling along the west coast at the moment, southern
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england, devon and cornwall, but petering out. cloud across the northern half, northern scotland and the northern isles. for most, fine and dry. in devon and cornwall and somerset. less cloud than your state for northern ireland, northern england and southern and central is, brighter and feeling better —— than yesterday. but into the northern ireland is, more cloud here and a brisk breeze to stay for much of the weekend. it allows a lack of frost in the north and the breeze in the south will just about escape, in the north and the breeze in the south willjust about escape, but for many, these towns and cities, it is chilly. in the countryside, below freezing. a bit of frost around tomorrow morning, potentially freezing fog, but with high pressure around, the pay off in the morning is the fine weather by day. notice the tightly packed ice bars in the south, and because of that high pressure, you have light winds in the centre and stronger winds to the
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south which makes it feel chilly despite the sunshine. in the sunshine, with the light winds, north wales and north west england could see 17 degrees. however, because we have the wind from a relatively chilly north sea, it is nine or ten for east anglia and the south east, but it will be dry, with sunshine, a nice day. and another usable day into sunday. by that stage, the clocks go forward an hour, less time in bed, but the sun is coming up later and going down later so sunshine to last until eight o'clock. north to south. we should see sunshine on sunday as well. but on balance, we see more cloud on saturday and plenty of sunshine in western areas, in the north west of scotland, we could see the highest temperature, possibly 17. 13 and 14 the highest temperature, possibly 17.13 and 14 for the highest temperature, possibly 17. 13 and 14 for most. we still have that nagging breeze in the south, they do say and —— a wind from the east is no good to man or beast. so good weather, a bit chilly
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by night. more for you in half an hour. this is bbc news. i'm ben brown at westminster, as the first picture emerges of the man who carried the terror attack. this is khalid masood as a teenager. police say he used a number of aliases, and appeal to the public for information about him. there might well be people out there who had concerns about masood, but weren't sure or didn't feel comfortable about passing information to us. i now urge anyone with such information to call us. prince charles arrives to visit some of the injured at king's college hospital. the fourth person to have been killed is named as 75—year—old leslie rhodes from south london. also in the next hour: the controversial health bill that could replace obamacare —
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