tv Breakfast BBC News March 26, 2017 6:00am-7:01am BST
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police say the westminster attacker khalid masood acted alone and his motive may never be known. they also say the incident lasted just 82 seconds and there is no information to suggest further attacks are planned. the family of the police officer keith palmer who was killed have paid tribute to his selfless bravery and loving nature. good morning, it's sunday 26th march. more than 30 people are injured after a suspected gas explosion destroys a building in the wirral. in sport, lewis hamilton says a fourth world championship is there for the taking. the season is underway with hamilton starting on pole for the first race in melbourne, australia. and the blue sky thinking that's led
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to new cloud formations being officially recognised. and chris has the weather. the warmest day of the year so far yesterday with temperatures reaching 19 in parts of aberdeenshire. more of these glorious blue skies and sunshine for all of us today. thank you very much, chris. good morning. first, our main story. police say they might never find out why khalid masood killed four people near the houses of parliament on wednesday scotland yard now say they believe he was acting alone. the family of pc keith palmer, who was killed by masood, have released a statement thanking those who were with him when he died. alexandra mackenzie reports. 82 seconds. that's all it took. in that time khalid masood calls the deaths of three people on westminster bridge and injured many
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more. “— westminster bridge and injured many more. —— caused. he crashed his car into the railings, ran through a gate at the houses of parliament and stabbed pc keith palmer to death. last night, his family paid tribute to his selfless bravery, saying: police believe that massoud carried out the terror attack on his own, but are trying to establish if he was encouraged oi’ but are trying to establish if he was encouraged or directed by others. —— masood. questions remain u na nswered others. —— masood. questions remain unanswered about his route to radicalisation. he was a violent criminal before converting to islam more than a decade ago. since wednesday more than 11 people have been arrested. all have now been released apart from a 58—year—old man from released apart from a 58—year—old manfrom birmingham. detained released apart from a 58—year—old man from birmingham. detained under the terrorism act he can be held without charge for 1h days. members of the public have come to the scene
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of the public have come to the scene of wednesday's attack to pay their respects to the four people who lost their lives. also to remember the many who were injured and those who remain in hospital. alexandra mackenzie, bbc news. alexandra mackenzie is in westminster this morning with the latest. alexandra, what next for the investigation? so far this has been a fast paced investigation and police are saying they are still appealing for anyone with any information to come forward , with any information to come forward, particularly anyone who had ever met khalid masood or knew anything about him. they have said that on the day they do believe that he acted alone, but the questions they have now is did anyone help him with his preparation? was he encouraged in anyway? and what police have said in terms of the?‘ we may never know the answer to
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that. as i said in my report, pc keith palmer's family have put out a statement. they have also said they've been overwhelmed by the m essa 9 es they've been overwhelmed by the m essa g es of they've been overwhelmed by the messages of support that they've had at this very difficult time and they've said that they want to thank eve ryo ne they've said that they want to thank everyone who has reached out to them. it has obviously been a very sad and difficult time for them as a family and also the families of all the other victims. what the police have said is yes, what happened here may have been over in seconds but the impact of that will be with people for the rest of their lives. alexandra, thank you very much indeed. alexandra mackenzie live for us indeed. alexandra mackenzie live for us in westminster this morning. more than 30 people have been hurt, two of them seriously, after a suspected gas explosion in merseyside. a dance centre for children was destroyed and customers at a chinese restaurant were caught in the blast in bebington on the wirral. andy gill sent this report. the scale of the devastation shows
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just how powerful the explosion was. one building housing three businesses totally destroyed. this is what it looked like before last night. the blast was heard up to six miles away. the sound of the building blowing up was captured by a car's dashboard camera. what was that? two people were taken to a trauma unit in liverpool with serious injuries. 32 others were treated at hospitals in wirral and chester. there's a multitude of injuries that have happened but the two patients that have gone through to the major trauma unit at aintree have significant injuries. this has clearly been a huge explosion, powerful enough not only to bring down the main building and scattered debris for hundreds of yards, but also to punch huge holes in the walls of nearby buildings. ——
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scatter. the emergency services won't speculate on the cause of the blast but a number of local people said they smell gas yesterday and on friday. national grid engineers are on the scene. this incident is likely to be protracted, this is likely to be protracted, this is likely to be protracted, this is likely to last several days. very significant damage as you can tell. so it will be some time before people will be allowed back into their homes. some people whose homes had to be evacuated spent the night ina had to be evacuated spent the night in a local church. nearby roads are likely to be closed for some time. andy gill, bbc news, wirral. there's growing concern about the fate of civilians in the iraqi city of mosul, where government forces are trying to drive out so—called islamic state. the united nations has warned of a terrible loss of life and the us—led coalition said it was behind an airstrike which is believed to have killed dozens of civilians last week. our middle east editorjeremy bowen is in western mosul. thousands of people have arrived and
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have walked out of those parts of mosul still controlled by islamic state, and it's a big area, in the last couple of days and they've arrived really with just the clothes they're standing arrived really with just the clothes they‘ re standing up arrived really with just the clothes they're standing up in and maybe a few spa re they're standing up in and maybe a few spare odds and ends. they need food, they need water, they need chocolate. it's a massive humanitarian challenge and it's not nearly as big as one that may be coming, literally coming down that road in the next weeks, from where the black smoke is, which is where the black smoke is, which is where the islamic state positions are here in mosul, they are apparently 800 metres or a kilometre down that way. this is very much a theatre of war. the people who have been coming in have been talking about what they've been through. they have talked about
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air strikes that have come in in the last few days and killed, as well as killing people from the islamic state, have killed hundreds of civilians. they complaint of the jihadists have used them as human shields but they have also, in tears and anger, spoken very bitterly about the effects of airstrikes on civilians. i spoke to multiple witnesses who said that there are perhaps hundreds of bodies still lying in the rubble that people can't get to. jeremy bowen, bbc news, mosul. and after 7am we'll speak to an aid workerfrom the un's refugee agency, who has spent part of the last week in refugee camps just near mosul. the government will publish a significant part of its brexit legislation on thursday, a day after theresa may formally tells brussels that britain intends to leave the european union. the great repeal bill will give ministers the powers to change some aspects of current european laws, without needing the approval of parliament.
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our political correspondent mark lobel is in our london newsroom. mark, this could prove to be controversial couldn't it? that's right. what could be controversial is this power given to ministers to translate parts of eu law into domestic law rather than seeking the approval of parliament and having parliament scrutinise it as well. and the committee of laws and a former attorney general are seeking assurances from the government that that power will be used in that way and that they weren't just try and change the used in that way and that they weren'tjust try and change the law at will without other people having at will without other people having a say, mps and peers —— fay white. what the government wants is uncertainty, —— they won't. businesses and workers need to know where based and in two years time and they want to get rid of all the
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eu jargon currently in the laws, because that won't apply any more and it won't make sense so they need to make those changes, that's why they want these powers. what they're saying is they want to use this power for saying is they want to use this powerfor ministers to saying is they want to use this power for ministers to be able to speed through all that technical stuff that needs to be changed a nyway to stuff that needs to be changed anyway to leave more time for the actual policy changes, such as new immigration controls, a different customs agreement, which needs all the time in parliament, and to spend time doing that when they have about 40 time doing that when they have about a0 yea rs of laws time doing that when they have about a0 years of laws to change in just over two years because they'd have a little bit of extra time just after we finished negotiating, but some of those decisions might come right at the end because negotiations might go right down to the wire so they're trying to prioritise those kinds of decisions. mark lobel, many thanks. the taxi firm uber has suspended its pilot programme for driverless cars after an early model of its self—driving car crashed on a roadway in arizona. the accident is the latest in a series of crashes involving autonomous vehicles. it's not yet known whether the car was in self driving mode at the time of the crash.
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uber said it caused no serious injuries. in case you missed it the clocks went forward today. it is 6:10am. we didn't miss it here! in case you missed it, the clocks went forward this morning and some people working in the uk's tourism sector are calling for british summer time to stay. the british association of leisure parks, piers and attractions says an extra 80,000 jobs will be created due to longer daylight hours. our business correspondent joe lynam has more. half of all tourist visits to britain take in a leisure or amusement park, such as alton towers, thorpe park and the london eye. now the group that represents these parks is calling for britain to be on the same time zone as france or italy. it says doing so would create a boost worth £2.5 billion—£3.5 billion to the economy. it's a bright evenings could cut co2 emissions by half1 billion tons a
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year and prevent a road deaths annually. harper also says shipping time zones would encourage more outdoor activity and cut obesity levels, especially among children. but it has been tried before in the early 19705 when many scottish children had to go to school in the dark. it had, according to one snp politician, and absolutely devastating impact. joe lynam, bbc new5. cheryl fernandez—versini has announced that she's given birth to herfirst child, a baby boy. the singer posted a photo of her pop5tar partner liam payne, from the band one direction, cradling the newborn on social media. in the post cheryl 5aid she gave birth on wednesday, but the couple have yet to decide on a name for their son. of course if they need any help with childcare then bring them into charlie and he will be ready any time! are you sure? he will appreciate you volunteering him for that! those are the main stories this morning. chris will be here with the weather
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in around five minutes. sheryl —— cheryl fernandez—versini i5 sheryl —— cheryl fernandez—versini is on the front page of the sun. they also look at 82 seconds, all it took for khalid ma5ood to cause so much devastation. the big political story that broke yesterday was the resignation of douglas carswell from ukip, the sunday telegraph this morning predicting there would be civil war in morning predicting there would be civilwar in ukip morning predicting there would be civil war in ukip after he quit the party and they feel betrayed but they say they are better off without him, saying he's been having all sort5 him, saying he's been having all sorts of di5agreement5 him, saying he's been having all sorts of disagreements with senior members of the party in recent weeks and months. front page of the sunday time5, and months. front page of the sunday times, a picture of one of the two daughter5 times, a picture of one of the two daughters of the westminster attack on the front page, saying she defied her father and didn't convert to wearing more i5lamic 5tyle dre55. ukip'5 doe5 douglas carswell on there. at the paper says another
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tory manifesto pledge at risk —— the paper. mini5ter5 could violate another manifesto pledge a5 there5a may fires the starting gun on brexit this week, that's what the sunday time5 says. this from the mail on sunday, their reporting a near miss involving one of prince william's airambulance5 and a involving one of prince william's air ambulances and a drone, one of tho5e air ambulances and a drone, one of those little drones we know are beginning to cause bother for all sort5 beginning to cause bother for all sorts of other aircraft at the moment. lot5 sorts of other aircraft at the moment. lots of people saying there should be stiffer legislation regulating when and how those kinds of drones can be used. they've changed the world of television, though, lots of pictures from on high these days! you're watching breakfast from bbc news. the main stories this morning: the metropolitan police says khalid masood, who carried out wednesday's terror attack in westminster, acted alone and there is no information to suggest further attacks are planned. a suspected gas explosion leaves two people seriously injured and 32 others hurt after the collapse of several buildings on merseyside. also coming up in the programme...
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this catholic mass was performed nearly 500 years ago in front of king henry viii. as it's recreated using 3d sound technology, we find out why it played such a pivotal role in the reformation. england is taking on lithuania at wembley. it will also stay dry. clear skies lasting throughout the evening. overnight, days and it stays dry. cabbages falling off quickly. risk of frost patches. —— temperatures. looking at the week ahead, generally high pressure. sunny spells and staying on the warm side. across the north and west of the uk, outbreaks of rain towards the uk, outbreaks of rain towards the middle part of the week. some changes in the forecast by wednesday. here is wednesday. a bit of clout to start the day. maybe a bit misty. most of that should burn
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away. tomorrow, some decent spells of sunshine with light winds coming in from of sunshine with light winds coming infrom a of sunshine with light winds coming in from a south—easterly direction. a bit warmer across the south—east england. past of wet —— parts of western wales doing well as well. some more warriors of blue skies and shuns —— sunshine coming up. make the most of it for mothering sunday. we will be back with a more news at half past six. now it's time for the film review with jane hill and mark kermode. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. hi, again, to you, mark. what do we have this week? we have life, a science—fiction movie with jake gyllenhaal.
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and we have a real—life tale of exploration. life. it could be anything! set in the international space station? yes. a soil sample from mars is sent back from the international space station. they find a single cell organism, they are excited because it is proof of life on mars. then it becomes dormant. they decide, against the advice from the entire audience, to give it a bit of an electric shock and see what it does. ready. lowering oxygen, more carbon dioxide. are you sure it won't hurt it? every single cell is
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a muscle and nerve cell. it's in between my fingers and it's not letting go. can i make a suggestion? can ijust go in and get him? no, we are demanding quarantine. i can do this, i can. you get the general idea. i was laughing before, but i'm not now. a great cast, life. the organism picks them off getting
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more agile. it starts out as gravity, then turns into alien, then turns back into gravity. there is not a lot of originality, however, what it does is that it tells a story that you know. it feels like it is 85 minutes long. it zips along, it looks terrific. all the characters are best described as thumbnail sketches. he is the scientist person, this is the person with the... it does exactly what you expect. alien was drawing on a series of other horror movies. this is nothing you haven't seen before. here's the thing, i thought this was meant to be a horrorfilm.
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i have noticed a smile playing on your lips. there are things in it that are creepy, i enjoyed it. you are not a fan of horror. it is tension, rather than gore. there is a very famous moment in alien that is much more revolting than anything in this. but when that happened, nobody had ever seen that done before. it has been referred to as a popcorn movie for very good reason. i enjoyed it, but it is not at all original. moving on to power rangers. if you have a naff 80's tv franchise, you just reboot it now. what you have is this rebooting, it is basically the breakfast club in a superhero movie. it addresses things like autism,
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lgbtiq issues, which is interesting given a huge amount of the target audience for power rangers are younger than 12. the absolute bottom age is eight. already today i have seen people asking if they can take their four —year—olds to see it. well, no. it's a weird film, it has a little bit of violence in it. they are power rangers, they kill people. it is less leering than
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transformers, less fun than real steel, it's too long and it makes no sense but it wasn't terrible. it wasjust kind of, ok. i love it when he tells me something that can go on a poster. it's not terrible, there you have it. that's what power rangers looks like when you stick it up on a big screen. now, the lost city of z. yes, percy fawcett‘s early 20th—century explorations. the man who was described as having made an unfortunate choice of ancestors. he is told that if he goes on this exploration, it will restore his great family name. the more he explores,
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he discovers that this is what he wants to do with his life. however, where he is travelling to is dangerous and surprising. get your concertina! you want me to get it? play soldiers of the queen! come on! yes, come and sing with me. come! are you ready? # we're soldiers of the dream, my lad...# does that help, the singing?
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oddly, yes, it does. there are moments that are very strange. robert pattinson is almost unrecognisable. i think he is rather terrific. it is bautifully shot by darius. it is slow and oddly elliptical. more so than most mainstream audiences will likely be able to cope with. there are individual moments in it that are really striking. there is a moment when they come across a musical being in the jungle which reminds me of fitzcarraldo. there is also a sequence in it which is reminiscent of another werner herzog film. while i was watching it, it was strangely and even. —— uneven.
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it has been five days since i saw it and it has lingered in my mind. there are images that are very arresting, it is beautiful. a terrific performance by sienna miller, his wife who is left behind in england. it isa it is a very thankless role but she makes something of it. she really made something of this role. she is the toughest character in this movie. it is flawed but it aims high. i would rather see something aim high and fail in certain areas than something which felt like franchise fodder. it has a strangely old—fashioned feeling to it. there are moments, there is a dream sequence which is oddly reminiscent of the end of 2001. that is not something you would expect from a film like this. it is really unusual, definitely flawed but very interesting. alright, the best film? get out. you have to see get out.
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the best way of describing and is, it is kind of a horror movie. a young african—american meets his girlfriend's family and there is something creepy underneath. a rich, liberal white family. it's about post—racial america. it has great depth. it is sharp and scary when it needs to be. i know you're not a horror film fan, but it's a thriller. it's not horror, it's a thriller. it is a horror film, but it's a thriller. you'll enjoy it. and a united kingdom? again, based on a true story. his relationships outrage the government. it takes the personal and the political and puts them together in a way which is completely understandable and enjoyable, but also tells a great story. thank you very much. see you next week.
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a quick reminder that you can find all the film news you would ever want online on our website. you can find all of our previous programmes on iplayer as well. that's all for this week, thanks very much for watching. hello, this is breakfast, with rachel burden and roger johnson. coming up before 7am: chris will have the weather. but first at 6:30am, a summary of this morning's main news. police say they might never find out why khalid masood killed four people near the houses of parliament on wednesday according to investigating officers the attack lasted only 82 seconds. police believe that masood acted alone but are trying to establish if he was encouraged or directed by others. 82 seconds. that's all it took. in that time khalid masood caused the deaths of three people on westminster bridge
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and injured many more. he crashed his car into the railings, ran through a gate at the houses of parliament and stabbed pc keith palmer to death. last night, his family paid tribute to his selfless bravery, saying: police believe that masood carried out the terror attack on his own, but are trying to establish if he was encouraged or directed by others. questions remain unanswered about his route to radicalisation. he was a violent criminal before converting to islam more than a decade ago. since wednesday, 11 people have been arrested. all have now been released except for a 58—year—old manfrom birmingham.
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detained under the terrorism act, he can be held without charge for 1a days. members of the public have come to the scene of wednesday's attack to pay their respects to the four people who lost their lives. also to remember the many who were injured and those who remain in hospital. alexandra mackenzie, bbc news. more than 30 people have been hurt, two of them seriously, after a suspected gas explosion in merseyside. a dance centre for children was destroyed and customers at a chinese restaurant were caught in the blast in bebington in wirral. andy gill sent this report. the scale of the devastation shows just how powerful the explosion was. one building housing three businesses totally destroyed. this is what it looked like before last night. the blast was heard up to six miles away. the sound of the building blowing up was captured by a car's dashboard camera. what was that?
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two people were taken to a trauma unit in liverpool with serious injuries. 32 others were treated at hospitals in wirral and chester. there's a multitude of injuries that have happened but the two patients that have gone through to the major trauma unit at aintree have significant injuries. this has clearly been a huge explosion, powerful enough not only to bring down the main building and scatter debris for hundreds of yards, but also to punch huge holes in the walls of nearby buildings. the emergency services won't speculate on the cause of the blast but a number of local people said they smell gas yesterday and on friday. national grid engineers are on the scene. this incident is likely to be protracted, this is likely to last several days. very significant damage as you can tell. so it will be some time before people will be allowed back
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into their homes. some people whose homes had to be evacuated spent the night in a local church. nearby roads are likely to be closed for some time. andy gill, bbc news, wirral. us central command says it has opened an investigation into an air strike on the iraqi city of mosul which is reported to have killed dozens of civilians earlier this month. american officials have acknowledged that us—led coalition aircraft took part in the attack on part of the city controlled by islamic state fighters. the united nations has warned of a terrible loss of life. the government will set out details of its plans to bring eu law into domestic legislation on thursday, the day after theresa may is set to start the formal brexit process. the great repeal bill will bring eu regulations into domestic law, allowing them to be amended or removed after brexit. the bill will allow ministers to alter regulations without the full scrutiny of mp5 and peers.
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hong kong's new chief executive has been chosen. carrie lam, seen in the middle here, is believed to be beijing's preferred candidate. she won in the first round of voting by a specially chosen committee. pro—democracy activists had denounced the poll as a sham, arguing that everyone should have a vote. the taxi firm uber has suspended its pilot programme for driverless cars after an early model of its self—driving car crashed on a roadway in arizona. the accident is the latest in a series of crashes involving autonomous vehicles. it's not yet known whether the car was in self driving mode at the time of the crash. uber said it caused no serious injuries. in case you missed it, the clocks went forward this morning and some people working in the uk's tourism sector are calling for british summer time to stay. the british association
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of leisure parks, piers and attractions says an extra 80,000 jobs will be created due to longer daylight hours. it also says shifting time zones would encourage more outdoor activity and cut obesity levels, especially among children. it that continues to rumble! a5 as we celebrate mothering sunday today... cheryl fernandez—versini has announced that she's given birth to herfirst child, a baby boy. the singer posted a photo of her pop5tar partner liam payne, from the band one direction, cradling the newborn on social media. in the post cheryl said she gave birth on wednesday, but the couple have yet to decide on a name for their son. i'm sure there will be a fervent speculation over what it might be! the f1 season has kicked off, john, it has begun. it's here. lewis
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hamilton was looking really strong as he started in pole position, how is it going? he has to be very confident going into the new season, no nico rosberg, his teammate last year, he won the drivers title then retired, surprising everybody. in the dominant team, dominant car, should be faster this season, should play into his favour, you can see why he is confident. should we be warning ardent f1 fans not to listen? they should be watching it live. may be listening to it on 5 live! the 2017 formula 1 season is under way in australia. lewis hamilton started on pole position in his mercedes and despite complaining that the grip on the grid was poor he got off to the perfect start leading the ferrari of sebastian vettel and his team—mate valtteri bottas into the first corner. we've had 21 laps so far and vettel has inherited the lead, lewis hamilton has made his first pit stop and has now dropped down to fifth.
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england, scotland and northern ireland are all in action this evening in their latest qualifiers for next year's world cup. there'll be a minute's silence at wembley ahead of england's match against lithuania for victims of the westminster attack and manager gareth southgate understands the power of sport in such difficult circumstances. we know how important the national football tea m we know how important the national football team is for the feeling of the nation, and it's a great opportunity for everybody to pay their respects at that moment and to show that as a country we go on, you know, not only london but a country asa know, not only london but a country as a whole. that's our identity historically. there's arguably most at stake for scotland tonight, they're in the same group as england, but are fifth and if they don't beat slovenia, their hopes of qualifying would look very slim indeed. sometimes it's easy for a manager to say this is what we're going to do. sometimes you're in a position where you need a draw, win, lose or
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draw... we have to win. what we don't have to do is win it in the first five, six, seven, ten minutes. you never know in big games when your opportunity comes along. certainly a big night for them! northern ireland are well placed heading into their match with norway. they're second in the group, five points behind germany, and on course to clinch a play off place. we have the opportunity to put seven points between ourselves and norway, the opportunity to get to ten points andi the opportunity to get to ten points and i think when you get to that stage of any campaign you start to really believe it's possible and to put yourself in a position to qualify. suddenly the experience of qualifying for france, we've been through that, and these experience we know we've worked so hard to get there now. the netherlands are struggling, they lost to bulgaria, and belgium only managed a draw against greece but cristiano ronaldo scored twice as the european champions portugal beat hungary 3—0, ronaldo now has 70 international goals. belgium needed the everton striker
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romelu lukaku to rescue them against greece. he equalised in the 89th minute but belgium remain top of their group. tony andreu scored a cracking goal for dundee united, as they lifted the scottish challenge cup for the first time. they beat st mirren 2—1 in the final at fir park, this competition is for the under—20 teams from the scottish premiership, as well as the lower divisions and sides from northern ireland and wales. anthony crolla was outclassed in his bid to regain the wba lightweight title in manchester last night. he lost his rematch withjorge linares on points. in front of a home crowd, crolla went down in the seventh round, after a quick uppercut. and though he responded well, linares retained the belt on a unanimous decision. leicester took a big stride towards the play—offs in rugby union's premiership, beating local rivals northampton by 36—31. owen williams' huge penalty in the last minute of the game sealed the win for leicester and took them into that all—importa nt fourth place. elsewhere there were wins for harlequins and exeter. and leinster strengthened their position
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at the top of the pro—12 after beating cardiff blues 22—21. ross moloneyjust managing to touch down in the corner for what proved to be the winning score. england's ross fisher is out of the world golf championship match play in texas. he lost to japan's hideto tanihara in the quarterfinals but secured his place at the first major of the year, the masters, next month. chris froome's hopes of victory at the volta a catalunya were ruined yesterday as the team sky rider lost 26 minutes on his rivals in the penultimate stage. the briton, riding his first european race of 2017, had moved to second, but he and his team failed to latch on to an early breakaway and he was well beaten. alejandro valverde extended his overall lead. the stage was won by daryl impey in a sprint to the line. britain's adam yates is in fourth, froome is now 31st. there were all around golds
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for ellie downie and joe fraser at the british gymnastics championships in liverpool. downie was part of the hugely successful g b tea m at last year's olympics in rio and took the title for the first time with a string of confident performances. and 18—year old fraser was a surprise winner in the men's competition, in his first senior year. great for them to compete in front ofa great for them to compete in front of a home crowd and medals as well. the bar is so high in british gymnastics! thanks very much indeed! after king henry viii severed ties with the catholic church, he attended a latin mass at a tudor chapel in hampshire. that visit was actually a pivotal point in the reformation and therefore in british history. now that rare mass is being recreated at the same chapel using state—of—the—art 3d sound recording. ben moore reports. the last time this catholic mass
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resonated around these walls was nearly 500 years ago, and in the congregation was king henry viii. the chapel as it would have been experienced here is not what you would think of in a parish church. you wouldn't have come in and sat down at a pew and listened to a service, in fact the lord of the house would have sat above and experienced the worship going on before him. choirboys singing the mass, the priest at the altar, it would have been a different experience to what we have today. lady mass has been recreated in immersive sound, which means you can hear different parts of it as you move through the chapel. what you're trying to do is create an audio illusion, so if you were to walk into the chapel, close your eyes, you hopefully would get the impression there was a service, a
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maths, going on. obviously if you open your eyes there is no one there. at these sounds accompanied a pivotal moment in our history. —— and. henry was here trying to stifle and. henry was here trying to stifle a rebellion after his break from rome. this was the very place that, on the 17th of october 15 35, henry would have been to listen to the mass. and it wasn'tjust about religious worship, his courtiers said it was the only time they could guarantee the king was sitting still long enough to deal with matters of state. which included securing the valuable loyalty of william, lord sands, a devout catholic. of the other people who were rumoured to be involved in the rebellion do indeed rebel, but sans, the owner, doesn't. visits like this kept people like sans onside, helped cement the reformation. so it's really crucial transformative moment reformation. so it's really crucial tra nsformative moment in reformation. so it's really crucial transformative moment in british history. and with those political undertones
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long gone, the past can now meet the present in perfect harmony. benmore, bbc news. the appliance of technology! the clocks went forward overnight. the main stories this morning: the metropolitan police says khalid masood, who carried out wednesday's terror attack in westminster, acted alone, and there is no information to suggest further attacks are planned. a suspected gas explosion leaves two people seriously injured and 32 others hurt, after the collapse of several buildings in merseyside. we will be talking about people that night—time activities later on. if you are one of those who need to get up you are one of those who need to get up and go to the loo late at night, there is a new theory about what
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that might be happening. in the meantime, at 6a5, how is the weather? looking pretty good, rachel, a decent day for mother's day. for most of us, we will have these blue, sunny skies. this was seen them to us sunny skies. this was seen them to us yesterday from aboyne in aberdeenshire. here we saw temperatures up to 19.1 c. the warmest we have seen temperatures up to 19.1 c. the warmest we have seen all year. new marks being set also for wales and northern ireland, northern england not far behind. the cold start of the morning this morning, once again. clear skies at leading to quite a widespread frost or parts of northern england, northern ireland scotland. the frost is in the countryside, towns cities. temperatures above freezing. same area of high pressure as we had yesterday so similar weather. for the western isles first thing this morning, it is taking its time to clear. for shetland, begin after bring spots of drizzle but mainland
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scotland, clear, blue skies once again. the highs of 19 degrees. we might seea again. the highs of 19 degrees. we might see a few tenths of a degree higher than the two bridges were got to yesterday. we may well set the new temperature record for the uk later on this afternoon. sunshine per northern ireland, england and wales. western areas favoured forcing the highest temperatures. we have the chilly breeze coming in from the north sea. for the qualifiers later on, sunny spells at wembley. clear spells but for all of these weather, —— matches, the weather will become. —— will be calm. maybe parts of northern england, maybe a bit more in the way of clout. coming in from the north sea. the week ahead and starts off ona sea. the week ahead and starts off on a decent note. —— cloud. the same area of high pressure dominating initially but we will see changes midweek as rain moves into the north
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and west by wednesday. before we get back, monday looks like another decent day. cloudy to start with parts of eastern england having missed patches taking their time to clear. —— mist. it should get a warm through south—east england where temperatures reach17— through south—east england where temperatures reach 17— 18. western counties of northern ireland, western side of scotland and the western side of scotland and the western side of wales should see temperatures up to the high—teens. whether looking decent for the next few days. you can come again with news like that, chris. how many clouds can you name? there are now 12 new ones to learn. for the first time since 1987, the world meteorological organisation is releasing an updated version of its international cloud atlas, the global reference book for identifying clouds. we'll be hearing a bit more about that in just a moment, but if you want to know what you're
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looking at next time you look up — here's a handy little guide. gavin pretor—pinney is the founder of the cloud appreciation society. just looking at some of those clouds, are they the sort of clout we will see here in the uk? yes. they are not exotic in that sense. they are not exotic in that sense. they sound exotic. give something a latin name and it sounds exotic but you can see all of those here. why clouds? what engenders such passion for you? they are omnipresent so you can forget they are there but when you stop to look at them, i think they are the most evocative and dynamic and poetic aspect of our surroundings. they also kind of have this quality to them that makes you think about thoughts and feelings.
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these are beautiful. what are they? these are beautiful. what are they? the wavy ones, those are the new classification of clout that has come out in the cloud appreciation society called asperitas. presume ugly. society called asperitas. presume they society called asperitas. presume ugly, they have been there since time began. was it difficult to get a new one on the books? none of these clubs that have never appeared before. they are not something to do with climate change but we have new terms. in the case of the asperitas one that came out of the society, we get sent photographs from our members all over the world. we are seeing some of them now. some chaotic, turbulent waves, that is another one with a new name, velutas. quite often you can see them up ahead of storms. there is a
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storm coming ahead and you can get a roll cloud coming. they roll along maybe ten miles an hour, 20 mph. roll cloud coming. they roll along maybe ten miles an hour, 20 mphm shows you that you really know your stuff. you just know them just like that. somebody has got to know them. when you see a cloudless sky comedy think it is boring? it would take too long before we started missing something. monotonous, day after day, blue sky. lots of people would be like yate, southern california! but after a bit, we would start to feel like something was missing. —— yay- feel like something was missing. —— yay. they bring some variety and drama to our day. there is something that you always wish you were someone that you always wish you were someone else —— max something —— somewhere else. they often give an indication of what weather is to
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come, don't they? and it is not like you can tell that from a glimpse. if you can tell that from a glimpse. if you were to look outside the window and then look away, you wouldn't be able to tell but it is the way they change. if you think about clouds as the expressions on the face of the atmosphere, the wavy expression changes gives you an idea of the mood of the atmosphere. changes gives you an idea of the mood of the atmospherelj changes gives you an idea of the mood of the atmosphere. i love the fa ct mood of the atmosphere. i love the fact that we have cloud appreciation society in this country but it has gone global, hasn't it? yes, we have a3,000 members now i think in 110 countries. it is pretty international. we are all under the same sky. and a little app. there are people spotting it around the world. clouds are changing? we hear a lot about climate change. is it changing or... it is inconclusive as to whether changing temperatures or how changing temperatures are changing the clouds. there is some
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indication that they are getting higher but don't think that is quite rice. —— right. we don't know whether in a changing or warming environment, that means more clouds or fewer environment, that means more clouds orfewer or environment, that means more clouds or fewer or whether it means more low clouds or more high clouds. the important thing that is that the effect clouds have on temperatures depends on whether they are low or high. low ones are cooling, high ones overall warming. it makes the ability to predict what is happening in the climate in 50 years time really unpredictable because you don't get that feedback. really unpredictable because you don't get that feedbacklj really unpredictable because you don't get that feedback. i remember geography 0 level. cumulonimbus was my favourite. i can remember three. cirrus. the wispy ones. cumulonimbus, what you said and the third one has escaped my mind. cumulus. years of journalism
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training, has built out to this question. do you have a favourite cloud? one of the clouds that have new name is —— was called the kelvin helmuth cloud because it is a bit of a tongue twister. it looks like a breaking wave. it has a new name. flu ctus. breaking wave. it has a new name. fluctus. lovely. you might see it at the top of another cloud. it is a feature you can see sometimes over the top of another cloud. fascinating. if you have cloud questions, feel free to ask them. lim the floodgates will open. —— the floodgates. nice that we were thinking about the best question.
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what is your favourite. get into the heart of the matter. if you've just endured another night's sleep that was interrupted by multiple trips to the loo, you might be interested in a new piece of research. scientists injapan say cutting back on salt can reduce the need to go to the toilet at night. let's get more on this from marcus drake, a urologist, who's in our london newsroom. thanks very much for your time. a lot of people will be interested, me included. it sold playing a part? one of the things we have discovered is if you drink a lot of water, you have to give —— get rid of that surplus but another thing is assault. you need a good balance of water and salt. if you have too much salt, you can only get rid of it inside your durian. if you have too much, you will p more. —— urine. ——
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pee more. people worry that if they go to be loo through the night, it is an interest —— indication of something more serious. it might be something more serious. it might be something underlying it. if you have a heart problem, you might accumulate too much salt and that leads to difficulties that might make the situation worse. what is the best way to regulate the amount of salt that you taking? it is a very simple, sensible, following a healthy diet. there is a lot of salt in processed food and fizzy drinks. you will have to get rid of the surplus and that will happen through the night. and yet we need salt so it is the case of finding the right, safe level, of course. there is a low amount of salt in healthy food flecked vegetables and meat and that is fine but the difficulty comes with the additional salt that is added. —— fresh vegetables.
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with the additional salt that is added. -- fresh vegetables. looking at the background information, the current advice is to lie down for an hour during the day. does that help? it is relatively marginal. it is important that if you do that, you keep your feet high. we tend to say lie down on the sofar with your feet above your heart and that's how you get rid of surplus water but whether thatis get rid of surplus water but whether that is helpful is not proven. —— sofa. what about cutting down salt and the fact that it can help you get a better night ‘5 sleep. i5 and the fact that it can help you get a better night ‘5 sleep. is it likely to make inroads on helping us cut down our salt intake? extremely. the real health benefits of salt go way beyond improving your sleep. the earlier you do it the better. the health benefits are really important, even as early as your 305. important, even as early as your 30s. it is interesting because people think often over 60. or indeed over a0. it can go down a ——
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as young as your 305. indeed over a0. it can go down a —— as young as your 30s. if you cut down on your salt now, you reduce the risk of there being a problem in your a05. the risk of there being a problem in your 40s. professor drake, thank you. a professor of urology. ifound that rather helpful. anyway, there you are. too much information! coming up in the next half—hour, is it time to rewrite history when it comes to dinosaurs? as a major re—assessment of some long held theories is published, we find out why it now appears dinosaurs could have even originated in britain. stay with us — headlines coming—up. hello, this is breakfast, with rachel burden and roger johnson. police say the westminster attacker khalid masood acted alone and his motive may never be known. they also say the incident lasted just 82 seconds and there is no information to suggest further attacks are planned. the family of the police officer
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