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i wonder where the place of birth is if you are born in the air? now it is time for the weather. yesterday just about all of us got to enjoy the warmth and the sunshine. today, oui’ the warmth and the sunshine. today, our fortunes become a little the warmth and the sunshine. today, ourfortunes become a little more divided. southern and eastern areas see plenty more sunshine, that was the scene earlier from a weather watcher in kent and in the sunshine towards the south and east it will be even warmer than yesterday. further north and west, increasingly things are turning cloudy and we could see some outbreaks of rain around as well. this weather front thinking this way and particularly into scotland and northern ireland although other western areas will turn cloudy. further east europe closer to an area of high pressure, sunny skies will continue throughout the day through east wales and much of east england. certainly towards the south—east. in that sunshine, it will feel warm. a further north and west into northern ireland and the west of scotland, our weather front bringing cloud and outbreaks of
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rain, the rain turning heavy for a time across scotland, eight or 9 degrees in inverness, but from aberdeen to edinburgh, it should stay dry, cloudy at the day. north—west england turning cloudy and is the cloud moves in, because of wales and the south west will suffer. ii in aberystwyth, compare that with further east, temperatures around 25 or maybe 26 degrees. through this evening and overnight, it is all about this weather front, sinking into the south, the rain tending to brazil but behind that, all of us getting into cooler air. it isa all of us getting into cooler air. it is a band of cloud, thinking south across england and wales overnight. but i'm back, clear spells, some showers but with this north westerly airflow, temperatures dipping away between five and 9 degrees by the
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end of the night. tomorrow is going to bea end of the night. tomorrow is going to be a cooler day, not a bad day, still a fair amount of sunshine, showers as well. showers possibly wintry. one or two showers elsewhere. even where we see the sunshine, no more 25 or 20 sixes, between 12 and 15, the best we can expect in single digits. we keep that cooler feel on tuesday, many areas dry, a lot of rain across the far north—west and we stick with the cooler weather as we had through the rest the week. hello. this is bbc news. britain toughens its rhetoric over the syrian civil war. egyptian security sources report at least four people have been killed and twenty injured in an explosion in the city of tanta. swedish police confirm a number of people are in custody and being questioned following raids at addresses around stockholm. the body of the police officer, keith palmer — who was stabbed to death last month — is to be taken to the palace
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of westminster before his funeral tomorrow. coming up in a few minutes, our sunday morning edition of the papers — this morning's reviewers of the standard and the journalist and broadcaster rachel shabi. you need to get the kettle on and put your feet up for that, first we are going to the bbc sports centre. hello, we will start with formula 1, if you don't want to know the result, i suggest you look elsewhere for the next minute! after being beaten in the opening race in australia there was hamilton is back on the top step of the podium in this morning ‘sjourneys grand prix, it started in damp conditions and court at several drivers, one crash meant the safety car had to be sent
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out. sebastian vettel was as low as six after mistiming a pit stop although he recovered to come second. hamilton claimed his 54th career win, accessed up in of red bull recovered from about qualifying session to complete the podium. hamilton and vettel locked on 43 points at the top of the drivers standings. the final round of the masters is perfectly poised withjustin rose and sergio garcia low on six under. plenty of big names behind them, tim hague reports. the third round of the masters is known as "moving day" and justin rose moved right to the front of the queue at augusta. after a slow and steady start for the olympic champion, five birdies on the back nine helped him to a super 67 and he now sits joint top, at six under par. the key for me was staying patient early in the round.
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this is a golf course where you have to pick your moments and that's what worked well for me today and i'm sure that will be somewhat the game plan tomorrow. perhaps the englishman can discuss the game plan with his playing partner, sergio garcia, who's still looking for his first major. but a little luck won't harm his chances. in the creek! not so, the water somehow avoided and look how the spaniard profited. a beautiful shot and, like rose, he too is on 6—under. but they have quite a crowd chasing them, including rickie fowler and former champion jordan spieth. he hit nine shots on the 15th in the first round. but not this time. commentator: he really is a remarkable young man and an amazing golfer. and it was an equally successful day for lee westwood. he's one under in total and still has an outside chance. as does world number two rory mcilroy.
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six shots back, but it could have been much better. a double bogey at the seventh damaging what had been an otherwise good round. no moving day for rory, but perhaps he'll come good on proving day. tim hague, bbc news. watch the final round on bbc two from seven o'clock this evening listen on bbc radio five live. chelsea maintained their lead at the top of the premier league after they won 3—1 at bournemouth. marcos alonso rounded off the scoring following an own goal and a strike from eden hazard. the blues are seven points clear with seven games left to play. in england it's not easy, in this period easy, in this period because there is a lot of pressure! but i am pleased for my players, because they have shown me always great commitment, great concentration, great will to fight, to try, to have a fantastic season. tottenham remain in second place, trying to keep
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the pressure on chelsea. dele alli scored the pick of the goals at white hart lane as spurs beat watford 4—0. it was a sixth win in a row for mauricio pochettino‘s men. sunderland bottom of the league. we are not relegated yet, we will put as hard as we can, sometimes one result can change the way things look, with the games coming, if we can win then we help to get on a run. if you max three teams that are going to be relegated but everyone isa going to be relegated but everyone is a good professional, everyone gives everything, everyone fights all season. some of us we sacked in
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the middle of the season, it difficult for everyone so of course i have sympathy. terry flanagan is eyeing the biggest fight after a successful defence of his title, he won on a unanimous points decision in front of hometown fans at the manchester arena. british olympic hero nicola adams won by a unanimous points decision in herfirst professional boxing fight. the two—time olympic champion beat the argentine fighter virginia carcamo at the manchester arena, winning all four rounds with the judges. having dominated in the amateur ranks, she turned professional earlier this year. oh, it was really good. really enjoyed myself, loved the crowd. like entertaining. yeah, it was an amazing experience for the first time. i think i tried a little bit too hard to get the stoppage, but virgil says it will come with experience. the more times i box and the more rounds i get in, i'll get a bit more used
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to settling down and placing my punches a bit more. that is all the sport, now on bbc news here is maxine with the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us. with me are the home affairs editor for the evening standard martin bentham and the journalist and broadcaster rachel shabi. so let's look at the front pages this morning. we're starting with the mail. borisjohnson‘s decision to cancel his trip to russia is the lead for many of the papers. the mail on sunday reports the criticism from the kremlin as well as liberal democrat mps here. the sunday times says britain and america are preparing to accuse russia of complicity in war crimes in syria. the telegraph says vladimir putin
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will be told to pull troops from syria and withdraw support for putin in an age dish and it headed by the uk. the observer leads with a story about len mccluskey, the leader of the unite union, who wants the labour party to investigate mps who he says are plotting against him and jeremy corbyn. and the sunday express has a story about eastenders actressjune brown — who plays dot cotton — who's had eye surgery lasting 60 seconds — that she says allows her to see again! let's begin. most of the papers talk about the syria— russia situation and what the allies will do about it. the sunday times splashes on a piece by sir michael fallon, the defence secretary, setting out what the forthcoming agenda will be which will be, as it says here, turning the screws on the kremlin, holding them responsible for every death
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that happened last week because of this gas attack and saying that the russians must do much more to bring assad to heal and bring peace in syria. that is the rhetoric that is coming out. later this week the united nations is set to deliver a strong message, the question is if the russians will listen to that, it must be hoped that they do that this is going on for a long time and it is going on for a long time and it is not clear this will happen. that's the thing. now borisjohnson says he isn't going. boris johnson was due to go to moscow. he has called off that mission. the theory is, i don't know if that is true or not, but the working theory is that the us secretary of state rex tillerson is due to visit moscow this week and they have divided the workload in the sense that boris johnson will be going to the summit this tuesday to try to rally western
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support for this sort of us—led position on russia while rex tillerson handles the russian side, i don't know if that is true or not, some people have criticised boris johnson, saying he is clearly seen asa johnson, saying he is clearly seen as a liability, the fact that he has postpunk this engagement makes him look like a poodle —— post—poll engagement. if you look at the front page of the mail on sunday that is the headline! they call him a poodle. it's a difficult one. the kremlin is not easy to negotiate with and is a huge supporter of assad. is a quote in the observer saying that this, the positive scenario of what happened last week because the crucial question is whether the effect of america
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showing military force in that area suddenly changes the dynamic and makes the russians listen more rather than less, because previously they had just gone on supporting assad ever since the previous failure to carry out an air strike in the wake of a chemical attack, the russians have got ever more deeply involved, overtly supporting assad on the ground and so on, and whether this air strike last week changes the dynamic and this russian a nalyst changes the dynamic and this russian analyst in the observer suggests that it might. the russians will see america as a serious player with some weight, that's the positive pa rt some weight, that's the positive part of it, the negative part is that there's the risk of confrontation things getting worse! that's what we have to see as the next week unfolds and the weeks afterwards, as to whether putin, who clearly believes in strength himself and shows of force, response to someone and shows of force, response to someone doing the same. it is interesting that, is it not, rachel, that the usa has changed its tone on syria following this chemical
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attack. speaking to russian analysts earlier today, they were saying that having gone from "we are not interested in assad and syria, we are keeping everything inside the united states" they have now gone the other way. do you think that will make any difference to russia, the fact that the us has taken action? well. this idea, none of this would have been possible without russia backing president assad along with other players in the region, that precisely has been the region, that precisely has been the tragic problem with the syria war, that it has been sustained in a deadly way by outside players on both sides, so that any escalation oi'i both sides, so that any escalation on one both sides, so that any escalation on one side is met with an escalation on the other side. and that has been the worry. and that is why in 2013, president obama decided
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not to go ahead. and if we look at what has happened since the very limited us air strike in retaliation for that gas attack, while russia has amassed warships in syria since that happened, bombing has resumed in the area that was subjected to that horrendous gas attack. and that is the worry. it is not like this doesn't have consequences, and the consequences have to be calculated. there is no point, of course we want to see something as horrendous as a chemical attack like this. of course we want to see some kind of response to that. it is a very human reaction. but it is not something that should factor into a calibration as serious and as dangerous as this. i just want to
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move on, it's a continuation of the same discussion with the bombers backing new strikes. it is the point rachel made, the bombing continues. i suppose if you say that the chemical weapons are a step too far, it's an arguable position, because clearly those things kill people as these bombs have killed some people in the last day or so, every bomb is likely to kill somebody. from that point of view we can understand the argument but the world in general draws the line at chemical weapons. if you calculate too much, as obama did, and do nothing, it doesn't help the situation necessarily. so i don't think responding to this one thing means the whole problem will be solved. if it were to happen
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again what would the response be? if you've done it once...? again what would the response be? if you've done it once. . . ? that's the worry, it's right that chemical weapons are a red line. there are lots of things that are red lines that we have not respected either in syria or elsewhere. but let's look at what happened. in 2013 to an agreement was brokered by russia whereby bashir al—assad was supposed to get rid of his stockpile and his capacity to generate more weapons. but clearly hasn't happened. and russia has known that it wouldn't. there have been 120 red strikes, it'sjust as horrifying there have been 120 red strikes, it's just as horrifying to there have been 120 red strikes, it'sjust as horrifying to be subjected to that so we don't have any consistency and that is the problem. if you are going to have a policy needs to be consistent and consistent throughout the middle east. possibly although nowhere else is using chemical weapons at the
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moment, is there? that would be the argument of the trump administration, that they have set a new tone, and the previous failure of syria to disarm is the result of the inaction before. setting a new tone is not diplomacy. saying assad must go, as they now say, is not, what are you going to do them, who will replace them, how will you broker that agreement? look at what happened when we said that in libya and iraq. surely those are signs of what happens if you leave a vacuum where there once was... a brief comment because i want to move onto some other stories! the point is, by saying, do nothing, the example of syria... right, i'm calling a halt! let's move on. the syria vacuum has
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created a massive problem. we could discuss this for a long time, we must move on now. dirty tricks, labour mps accused of dirty tricks in union vote, says unite. len mccluskey is up for reaction. he is arguing, he is a big jeremy corbyn supporter and is claiming that the right wing of the labour party, people like tom watson, the deputy leader and so on, are backing his opponent in the election because they want to oust him to get at jeremy corbyn, basically. he alleges dirty tricks. we don't know the rights and wrongs of it. what does that tell us about the closeness of unions and political parties? that tell us about the closeness of unions and political parties7m that tell us about the closeness of unions and political parties? it is a weird one, this. this is quite an interesting interview with len mccluskey in the inside pages. i
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think there is perhaps a more interesting points than the sort of political stuff that has made the front pages, which is how unions are going to respond and stand up for a workforce in a workplace that is increasingly zero hours, contracts, that sort of gig economy climate. it's possibly a more useful conversation to the public. that this will get the headlines! the right of the party of labour will be saying, if you can't stand up for things, you can't achieve things if you are not in power and that is their argument, to save len mccluskey‘s propping up jeremy corbyn, to say that is heading for electoral disasters of the party
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needs someone with a different approach. that will be their argument. i'm going to jump over a couple of papers and go to the sunday express. this is interesting. fly—tippers. they will be forced to clea n fly—tippers. they will be forced to clean up, pick up litter, if they can be found in the first place! yes! fly-tipping is a big issue. you can see it. beside the road. utterly selfish. the story is exactly that, they are trying to do something about it. the gimmick is that they say that these people will be forced to clean up, if they can be caught first! they will have to be caught first! they will have to be caught first to clear up as part of community service. unfortunately there's quite a lot of control over what you can do, community service and so on, how many of those people would actually do it is questionable. everyone would like it stopped, the question must be educating people not to do it in the
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first place. will it put people off if they think they might get caught and have to pick up litter? no. the other angle of this story apart from what you said is that the government wants to stop councils charging to ta ke wants to stop councils charging to take non— household wants to stop councils charging to take non—household rubbish to the tip. which is the responsible thing to do when you have non—household rubbish like loads of diy materials and that kind of stuff. so that is the argument, that if people knew that they did not have to pay for that, then they would responsibly go to the tip. one of the charging issuesis to the tip. one of the charging issues is to stop builders and commercial people taking stuff to the tip. you can't go with enormous skip loads of things and say it is all household waste! this is all-day yy! -- this all household waste! this is all-day yy! —— this is all all household waste! this is all-day yy! -- this is all diy! on the other hand, people have bins that they can
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put normal litter in and a lot of people don't do that!|j put normal litter in and a lot of people don't do that! i don't think this issue will go away because of this. the final story, did you put a bet on the grand national yesterday? no. no, but a great story in the sunday telegraph of the golf widows. i think it's fantastic. they are not really widows, they golf widows because their husbands go out playing golf and they bought a horse and it won. two aspects to this story, one, it is encouraging if you are busy and your wife or partner goes out and spends in this case £30,000 each on a horse! they picked a winner, that's great! if they spent £30,000 because you were busy doing something else that is alarming! imagine if they did that every time you were busy. although it isa every time you were busy. although it is a lovely story, very uplifting, i loved it and i loved the picture. it is a great picture
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of the two ladies. anything you'd be tempted to do? by a horse with my spare 30p? laughter what did they win? they won £600,000. i might have that wrong. they did pretty well. they can probably sell the horse now for more money. they could. they have won all—round. on that note, while you are checking the numbers and thinking of buying a horse i want to say thank you very much indeed for coming to look at the papers. that's it for the papers. thank you rachel and martin. now it's time for the weather. keirin hello, yesterdayjust about
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everywhere enjoyed the warmth & chang, today our fortunes everywhere enjoyed the warmth & chang, today ourfortunes become everywhere enjoyed the warmth & chang, today our fortunes become a little more divided. southern and eastern areas seeing plenty more sunshine, that was the scene earlier from a weather watcher in kent and in the sunshine towards the south and east it will be even warmer than yesterday. further north and west, increasingly things are turning cloudy and we could see outbreaks of rain as well. this weather front sinking, especially to scotland and northern ireland although other western areas will be increasingly cloudy today. further east, closer to an area of high pressure sores sunny skies will continue through the afternoon through east wales, north—east england, the midlands, but of the west country and the south—east. and in that sunshine it will feel warm indeed. but further north and west into northern ireland and western scotland, a weather front bringing cloud and outbreaks of rain, the weather front across northern scotland, eight or 9 degrees as the rain arrives, from
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aberdeen to edinburgh it should stay dry, little cloudy and through the day, north—west england turning cloudy and as the cloud lapse in from the sea to the short the coast of wales and the south—west, temperatures will sever, 11th in aberystwyth, compared with the east, even at four o'clock we'll have to pitch is 25, maybe 26 degrees. through this evening and tonight it's all about this weather front, sinking south, the rain tending to fizzle but behind that all of us getting cooler air. so it's a band of cloud and maybe the odd spot of rain sinking south across england and wales overnight. behind that clear spells, some showers and with this north westerly airflow temperatures dipping, 5—9 by the end of the night. tomorrow will be a good day. not a bad day tomorrow, some showers, possibly wintry in northern scotland, one or two else except for eastern england, but even where we see the sunshine, norma
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temperatures of 2526, 12—15 the best we can expect and single digits in northern scotland and that cooler feel remains through the rest of the week as we stick with the cooler weather. this is bbc news. the headlines at ten. the british government toughens its rhetoric over russia's involvement in the syrian civil war. defence secretary michael fallon blames the kremlin for the civilian deaths in tuesday's chemical weapons attack — borisjohnson seeks support for a new initiative to end the conflict. this is the world's largest humanitarian crisis that we are seen and the world has come together. our current appoints, across europe... reports from egypt say an explosion in a coptic church in the city on tanta has killed at least thirteen people.
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