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this is bbc news, i'm julian worricker. the headlines at 8pm: theresa may says she wants a mandate from every part of the uk when she goes into brexit negotiations as she campaigns in labour's heartlands in south wales. labour sets out its approach to brexit if it wins the general election, pledging to unilaterally guarantee the rights of eu citizens already in the uk. the liberal democrat leader tim farron responds to criticism about his attitude to gay sex. i don't believe gay sex is a sin. i take the view that as a political leader, myjob is not to pontificate on theological matters. a donor conference aimed at tackling yemen's humanitarian crisis secures aid pledges of more than a billion dollars. and the parents of madeleine mccann say they'll never give the search for their missing daughter. kate and gerry mccann describe the tenth anniversary of her disappearance — next week — as a "a horrible
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marker of stolen time". donald trump's daughter ivanka defends his attitude to women at a meeting in germany. and will tv audiences warm to the personalised adverts which will call viewers by name? good evening and welcome to bbc news. theresa may says she wants a mandate from every part of the uk when she goes into brexit negotiations. the prime minister was speaking in south wales, taking the tory general election campaign into what has traditionally been a labour heartland. and she warned party workers to be wary of the polls and said they should not be complacent. from bridgend, here's our political
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editor laura kuenssberg. if the tories want headlines about a new iron lady... they are not very subtle about it. theresa may came to inspect this factory in newport. must be doing something right, shejoked. she needs to to achieve a big if, to turn wales into tory territory. it is audacious to pop up in labour land at the start. she was only with activists and friends, but her appeal is to you. give me a mandate to lead britain. give me a mandate to speak for britain. to fight for britain and give me a mandate to deliverfor britain. she would not be drawn again on whether she will raise or lower taxes. how far are you willing to go to grab seats in parts of the country, that until now have been
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a labour heartlands? i will be out and about in all sorts of areas, all part of the country, taking this message — vote for me and the local conservative candidate is a vote to strengthen our hand in the brexit negotiations. really? from coast to coast, taking places like porthcawl would be taking a lifelong labour voters like this couple, who have almost decided to do it. would be the first time ever if i do, because the valleys are a labour stronghold. i am on the border, but i voted for out in the referendum. i don't know whether to vote labour or conservative this time. my father would spin in his grave. i am a typical labour voter, but whether i will be voting labour this year, because i have no confidence injeremy corbyn. but then again i don't think i will be voting for conservative. i have put the same effort and thought into the way
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i voted last time. i voted labour last time. what about father and son, the edwards? he has been labour all his life. i think he has swung to theresa may now. definitely. she is absolutely wonderful. jeremy corbyn, goodbye. here, labour is in charge in cardiff, but even their leader admitsjeremy corbyn has some way to go. to prove himself as a leader and to prove to be a candidate as prime minister. we have some weeks to go before the poll itself, but that is the challenge. even from the start of their campaign, plied cymru will not hesitate to stir up old memories. if people are considering conservative, remember the past. the tories have not been a friend to wales. we are not rolling over for any tory to take our seats, we will be out in force.
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it is early days, but any day out on the campaign trail is precious. leaders only turn up to places where they think they are in the game. with possible gains in wales and scotland, theresa may is not just contemplating a tory majority, but hoping to make true her claim, there are no tory no—go areas. brexit might have redraw the map, but she wants to colour it blue. yet, as she swept away, it won't be easy. here are anywhere else, the tories can be sure they will always be welcome. jonathan bradbury
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let's discuss the situation in wales in more detail — with jonathan bradbury, who's professor at the department of political and cultural studies at swansea university. he joins us from cardiff. what does the choice of venue today say to you? she should be reasonably confident of making gains in wales, it does not surprise me that she is visiting early in the campaign. i would expect her to do several more visits, it should be remembered that the conservatives picked up seats in wales in the last two collections and there were six that were targets for them. going into this election. the recent polls are suggesting that they might win more than six from labour. what particular factors, do you think, lead to that possibility? labour have been stagnating in their share of the vote in westminster elections. the 2010 and 2015 results represented the two worst for labour in wales since the first world war. since then, they have had a great deal of internal strife and they cannot expect to go anything other than down in their share of the
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vote. what should be remembered is backin vote. what should be remembered is back in 2015, ukip came third in wales, getting a greater vote share than clyde cumbria. since then, there are rows and astra —— plaid cymru. we should expect things to go down considerably. there are two drives that will help them. a possible collapse in the ukip boat —— vote. -- vote. what about those who do not wa nt -- vote. what about those who do not want the conservatives to prosper? what should they come forward with? leanne wood there made reference to, in her words, the conservatives not being a friend to wales in the past, to how much did that resonate? you heard in the clip that voters have a reasonably prosody of impression of
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theresa may. —— positive. she came on a day that she published an article in the western mail, about the ability for the conservatives to negotiate a brexit that would be favourable to wales and a positive vision for the economy in particular. the way in which that has got to be combated by labour, in particular, is to defend their record in wales. it has been strongly attacked today by the conservatives. they called into question their performance on the nhs and education. public services generally. labour, if they are to be resilient in this election, must defend their record. that type of brexit in my mind as we talk as well, clearly wales voted to leave in the referendum that one of the argument is which has happened since that vote is what kind of brexit we re that vote is what kind of brexit were people voting for? will that
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play out during this campaign in wales ? play out during this campaign in wales? it's been really interesting, since the vote last year, when plaid cymru and labour campaigned hard for a remain vote, and were somewhat surprised when wales voted to leave. narrowly, but it was a leave of vote. they tried to interpret that vote. they tried to interpret that vote as wanting a relationship with the eu which is a so—called soft brexit. i think that theresa may's approach is to try and speak past that, and say, well, the labour party in particular is trying to ta ke party in particular is trying to take the welsh voters for granted. it is business as usual and they ignore the way that they voted last year. she is going to speak directly to voters in wales to make that connection between the discontent that must have sparked the brexit
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vote in wales last year, and how she can give voice to that, in looking beyond the membership of the eu to a different future for the uk. what role, if any, different future for the uk. what role, ifany, did different future for the uk. what role, if any, did the lib dems had to play in the coming weeks? they have got one seat in wales, in carried again, and they will target cardiff central which they lost last time largely due to the tuition fee policy, it was a u—turn that lost them a large university student vote. the polls are indicating at the moment that the liberal democrats are flat—lining in wales and not making breakthroughs. i do not really expect them to make much ofan not really expect them to make much of an impression on the election in wales, it will largely be a labour and conservative battle. the conservatives trying to take seats and labour trying to hold on, with plaid cymru trying to get their voice heard. and get the labour voters to switch to plaid cymru instead. jonathan bradbury, it is
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good to have your thoughts. thank you. so theresa may says this election is about giving her a clear mandate for the tough brexit talks ahead. for labour, accused of sending confusing signals on brexit, today was a chance to clarify its position. the shadow brexit secretary sir keir starmer said labour accepted that free movement of people could not continue — but suggested eu nationals could still be allowed in if they had a guaranteed job offer. he also said labour would work harder to stay within the eu's customs union — which governs trade. 0ur deputy political editor john pienaar reports. this is where the election is being decided, not in political meetings, but on the streets, in the homes and in the heads of voters. we are choosing a path for britain after brexit and on this nation dividing issue, labour is taking a gamble that will win some voters and maybe lose others. here in barking, a lot of places where people voted labour and then chose to leave the eu. today, labour is out to show it is more pro—europe, more open to compromise than theresa may's tories from the start.
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eu nationals here would keep their rights. no ifs, no buts. on day one of a labour government, we will immediately guarantee that all eu nationals currently living in the uk will see no change in their legal status as a result of brexit. day one, big commitment. after brexit, all rights of free movement across the uk border had to change, but then more clarity on labour policy. get a job offer, he told me, and you are free to come in. freedom of movement will have to go, so therefore it has to change but we need immigration that works for the communities and the economy. that means there has to be movement of people to come and work in this country. how that is managed will have to be resolved but the last thing we want is for businesses to go bankrupt. then he poured cold water on the leaver‘s dream to conquer markets beyond europe. i think it is worth keeping
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the customs union option on the table and see where we are in two years, but we have to focus on the eu trade agreement, because that is 44% of our trade. and make sure that that is our priority. not hypothetical free—trade deals elsewhere in the world? the idea of hypothetical free—trade deals in april 2019 compensating for losing the eu is something nobody is contemplating. that is why we have to concentrate on the eu trade agreement. until now, labour and the tories have been sounding more alike over brexit than either side would admit. now labour is showing more of its pro—european colours and the party needs to motivate its activists and loyal supporters. but around here and in places like this, it is a gamble. for many people, europe is a gut issue. there is enough people in this small island, otherwise it will be like a ship, we will sink. no need to let the europeans in to do thatjob? no, no need. iagree.
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no british can get a job, all the foreigners and other people coming in, they are taking them. labour says if you are european and you have a job, they are welcome. 0ur our people welcome in that way? as long as they have a job to come to and it is documented and it is notjust sort of, slipping in, then yes, no problem with that. but now it is about which side can convince the voters. what do others make of labour policy? not much. this is the first time we have heard this clarity of free movement. unfortunately for jeremy corbyn and keir starmer, many on the labour front bench don't agree with them. you have two feel sorry for him in one sense. he's trying to put a united front on a party which is split down the middle on this issue. it amounts to something too little, too late and too muddled. i am still not clear
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whether the labour party believes we should be in or out of the single market. they say they don't agree with the government's negotiating strategy but they voted for it. labour has failed to sell a clear policy line, but now it is campaign time and the task is to get people to like what is on offer. assuming they can get the voters' attention. it had to be barkin, didn't it?! and we'll find out how the latest from the election campaign and many other stories — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 this evening in the papers — our guests joining me tonight are rachel cunliffe, deputy editor of the political news website reaction, and matthew syed, columnist at the times. donors at a conference in geneva have pledged nearly $1.1 billion — that's £857 million — to yemen to help relieve what the un is calling the "world's largest humanitarian crisis". the united nations had previously asked for more than $2 billion as aid groups warn the country is on the brink of famine.
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two years of war between a saudi—led coalition supporting yemen's government and houthi rebels have devastated the country. let's speak to meritxell relano from unicef who joins us now from yemen. what is your reaction, first of all, to those donor pledges? it is very important that the international community contributes to the humanitarian response plan in yemen, the situation in the country is currently terrible because these two yea rs of currently terrible because these two years of war have destroyed the economy and social fabric of the country. families are coping with extreme measures at the moment. the basic social services are plunging into total collapse in many parts of the country. the government does not have money to pay salaries or operate health facilities in schools and water supplies, this is a dramatic situation for most families, especially children. are
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we talking about many lives being at risk at the moment? indeed. if we are considering nutrition, for example, we have 2.2 million children currently malnourished. 0ut of those, nearly 500,000 are acutely malnourished. severe and acute mulcher shown is the greatest in the world, it has increased to 100% since 2014 —— malnutrition. half of the children are in the areas most affected by the conflict. in addition, there are nearly 2 million children at risk of diarrhoea diseases, pneumonia, and we can say that we've gone back almost 10—year is in terms of under five mortality. we are finding more than 10,000 children under the age of five every
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year, in these last two years, because of this conflict. the money arrives, just over $1.1 billion, we know that is the figure now, you are hoping for more than that in the next little while. how do you spend that has effectively as you can, reaching those who need that aid the most? all un agencies have an important role to play, food security is one of the most important elements, but for us, at unicef, we have a very comprehensive nutrition and health package, which is reaching almost 5 million children, with vaccines and an integrated package of treatment for preve nta ble integrated package of treatment for preventable diseases like diarrhoea and pneumonia. and the package to prevent and cure malnutrition, and in addition, we have a big programme
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for water sanitation, water systems supporting us, and i am interested ina supporting us, and i am interested in a relocation programme where we try and keep most of the children in school but right now that is so difficult due to the lack of payment of the teacher's salaries that we are afraid many schools will close soon, in spite of these efforts but we are putting into the rehabilitation of schools, providing materials for the children, etc. and ultimately you need the fighting to stop? definitely, we are playing to the international community, whoever can influence the parties and the conflict, we are appealing for you to mediate in a peaceful solution or negotiation in this conflict and stop these grave violations against children. this is the main appeal
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that we are doing in addition to the request for additional funds for the humanitarian response plan. thank you very much for coming on. sport now, let's go over to the bbc sport centre for a round—up. chelsea are hoping to re—establish a seven point lead at the top of the premier league... and a win against southampton at stamford bridge would do it... and they got off to a good start too... eden hazard giving chelsea the lead in just the sixth minute. his fifth goal in as many games. butjust in the last five minutes or so southampton equalised... through a former chelsea player. 0riel romeu tapping in from close range to level. england and wales will meet in the qualifying tournament for the 2019 women's world cup after they were drawn together in their group today. northern ireland and the republic of ireland are also together in a group including norway and the netherlands...
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while scotland are in group two alongside switzerland. you can see the full draw on the bbc sport website. he might be about to fight in what's being called the biggest live event in boxing history but anthonyjoshua says he's still the same guy he was as a teenager. 90,000 are expected at wembley for his heavyweight unification fight against wladimir klitschko on saturday night for which the ibf champion will earn around £10 million... but he's told the bbc he hasn't changed since even before he became famous for winning 0lympic gold in 2012... someone showed me pictures today at me in 2011 here, and i'm in the same flat that i've been since 2011. it's a long time. but, so far, the simple life has worked. where we grew up, it was all about making money but being low—key and understated. you don't want to get your house burgled, you know what i mean? be understated and low—key. from when i
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was 17, that is who i am today. not much has changed. durham fast bowler mark wood has been recalled by england for their one day matches with ireland... and south africa as well as the subsequent icc champions trophy. wood has been recovering from the latest of three ankle operations... he is ina he is in a really good plays, building nicely and hopefully in the next month or so he will get more under his belt from white ball cricket. a feud goes for durham, he brings in the x factor, anyone who can bowl at 90 mph in the middle of a white ball innings has an impact and he has shown that in the past. we are lucky that we have that quality of bowler. british number three dan evans is through to the third round of the barcelona 0pen. he beat germany's mischa zverev in straight sets to set up a last—16 match against dominic thiem. thiem earlier knocked out kyle edmund. super league leaders castleford tigers will host st helens in the sixth round of the challenge cup. this evening's draw also sees holders hull fc take on catalans dragons, while last year's losing finalists warrington wolves are at home to widnes vikings. matches will be played over
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the weekend of 13—14 may. adam peaty headlines a 29—strong british swimming team for this summer's world championships in budapest. the olympic 100m breaststroke champion gained a spot in the squad automatically by winning his event at the british championships last week. 0lympic medallists jazz carlin, siobhan—marie 0'connor, james guy, duncan scott, stephen milne and chris walker—hebborn also made the squad. at the world snooker championship, mark selby rattled off five frames in a row at the start of his quarter final against marco fu, who of course had that late finish last night in beating neil robertson to make the last eight. he did respond with a couple of frames of his own... but selby ended the session with a 6—2 lead. barry hawkins has 5—3 lead over stephen maguire. tonight, on those tables... ding junhui 7—5 ronnie 0'sullivan, john higgins 8—4 kyran wilson.
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it's 1-1 still it's 1—1 still at it's1—1 still at stamford it's 1—1 still at stamford bridge. more in the next hour. studio: thank you. the liberal democrat leader, tim farron, has said he does not think gay sex is a sin — having declined to answer the question on several occasions during the election campaign. in an interview with bbc news, mr farron — who's a christian — acknowledged that the matter had become an issue for him. mr farron was speaking to our political correspondent, eleanor garnier. i think it's fair to say i've answered the question. it's a subject he's been asked about again... you won't say whether you think having gay sex is a sin... and again... does the honourable member think that being gay is a sin? and again... you said, homosexuality is not a sin. they said that you didn't answer when they asked you whether gay sex was a sin. while he said being gay was fine, until today, the lib dem leader, a committed christian, has refused to answer this question. i don't believe gay sex is a sin. i take the view that,
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as a political leader, though, myjob is not to pontificate on theological matters. this had become a talking point, an issue. in that case, if people have kind of got the wrong opinion of what i think about these issues, then that's something it is right to correct. it's taken him almost two years, since becoming the leader of the lib dems, to clarify his position. but the pressure has increased since the election was called. so, what's changed in the last 48 hours that you are now able to say that you don't think gay sex is a sin, yet for the last two years you have very blatantly swerved the question? well, i'm quite careful how i talk about my faith. i'm not... i mean, i don't bang on about it. i don't make a secret out of it. so you were either misleading people before, or you are misleading people now. which is it? so the answer to that is that i was asked a question early on, and i didn't want to get into a sort of series of questions unpicking
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the theology of the bible. isn't itjust that it is your christian belief, and you didn't want to admit it? no, that's not the case. what i want is to make sure that we deal with something that's become an issue. so this is blatant electioneering? it's a sense of understanding that, you know, the questions was asked of me a week ago. i don't think people want a political party leaders telling them what is and isn't a sin. mr farron insisted the lib dems have undoubtedly the best record on gay rights out of all political parties. but it's clear the issue and the questions around it have troubled him personally, and politically, too. eleanor garnier, bbc news, westminster. with me is polly mackenzie, former special adviser to nick clegg. he did not seem to want to talk about this a week ago but has done nothing but talk about it ever since, why are we here? it is a
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slightly unfair persecution of him on this issue, nobody else is asked about it that this was the only way to draw a line under it, we thought he closed it down by saying that being gay is not a sin in the house of commons, just before that disappeared. when asked for clarification he couldn't give it. i'm glad he has finally said something that will hopefully close this down and we can stop talking about it. it seems bizarre he could not give that clarification immediately, given that it cannot have surprised him that it was raised? it was first raised a couple of years ago when he was first elected the leader of the liberal democrats. when he was asked the question after the general election cash first asked the question he was a bit sleep deprived and made a hash of it, did not expected to come up again, the space for theological debate is not really a general election campaign. he tried to just
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not move the story on by saying i don't want to talk about theology. it was interpreted as wriggling or swerving? yes, certainly and it has been slightly unfair on him. are we meant to go through a list of everything the bible says and every sex act, asking politicians for their opinions? it would make my job most interesting! there is a wider picture. here we have a political party with the word "liberal" in it and gay rights has run through the pa rty‘s and gay rights has run through the party's dna for decades. to have this for a week being discussed is hugely embarrassing. it has been u nfortu nate. hugely embarrassing. it has been unfortunate. gay rights has been something we have campaigned on and is important to us in many of those seats that we target in the election coming up. that is why tim has had to broach this line, which is that he does not want to talk about his faith and theology, to close it down so that we can have is —— can stop
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having this conversation. and you think it is? i hope so, cathy newman of channel 4 who originally raised the question said that she would stop asking about it now that he had made it clear. that was last week. i hope so, because he is actually liberal. anyone who knows tim knows that he has fought for gay rights, he keeps talking about them and new areas, like the 93v about them and new areas, like the gay blood ban, for example, where there is still a fight to be had. to make sure that people... let's remember internationally gay rights in chechnya, russia, where i think our party has an incredibly strong record on campaigning on those issues and tim wants to leave that. hopefully it will enable him to be a trusted voice on gay rights in the way he should be, as a genuine liberal leader. thank you. a thai man filmed himself killing his baby daughter on facebook live, before taking his own life. the 21—year—old hanged his daughter, and then himself, at a deserted
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hotel in phuket on monday, reportedly after an argument with his wife. facebook sent condolences to the family for the "appalling" incident and said that the content had now been removed. it comes just days after a man in the us murdered someone on the livestreaming service. i'm joined from our oxford studio by dr bernie hogan from the oxford internet institute. good evening. how can this be, so soon good evening. how can this be, so soon after the incident in the united states, once again facebook comes under scrutiny for this kind of thing? unfortunately this kind of behaviour, we will see more normalisation of a lot more things on facebook live that people are boundary testing the system right now and this is part of that u nfortu nately. now and this is part of that unfortunately. this means we have to learn how to better manage this,
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facebook has to learn how to be more responsive, whether that involves ai. people need to be more effective in reporting this. what you mean by using ai in this situation? we need to listen to the videos and what people are saying. there's great concern about what sort of content is being put on the site and really there's not many ways, not many places for facebook to manoeuvre they have to rely on humans to watch they have to rely on humans to watch the video orfor the they have to rely on humans to watch the video or for the audience to report it effectively. but this was live so how can you stop that? you can't really. this is an example of more of the ability of social media to reach people easily for better and worse. unless you get rid of the live facility altogether of course. that is certainly a radical decision. the problem is facebook
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has almost gotten too good at this. if it wasn't facebook it would be snapchat or youtube. we cannot get rid of the live broadcasting, some will just find rid of the live broadcasting, some willjust find it easier rid of the live broadcasting, some will just find it easier than others. but what you can do is make sure something like this does not stay online for as long as 24 hours. absolutely and there should start to be sanctions if this behaviour, if this stays online long enough for it to be downloaded and then sent off to be downloaded and then sent off to another site. at this point it went to youtube as well so that's a problem. you mentioned ai, facebook are developing software, do they have a role to play here? every tool should be used. this is brand—new,
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to be able to couple the ability to produce video with the feedback from an audience the way it is, this is not something we have a good rule set for what to do. this is an u nfortu nate pa rt set for what to do. this is an unfortunate part of how society, the designers, the audience and public, we start to figure out the consequence of this but that is not going away. thank you for your thoughts. now let's catch up with the weather. a real mixed bag today, some sunshine, hail, sleet and snow, and shower clouds developed quite widely across the uk. some sunshine in between but they are really quite lively and there's plenty more showers the next few hours. they tend to fade away from central and western areas, and then the winds fall a little bit lighter. this tinge is widespread frost, and the
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temperatures will go lower in rural spots. we will see those showers spreading further inland, and some of them can be quite heavy, once again the rumble of thunder and hail mixed in but showers few and far between. we should be back into double figures across northern ireland and scotland on thursday, a fair bit of cloud and rain spreading south. good evening. this is bbc news. the headlines: theresa may says every vote for the tories will "strengthen her hand" in the brexit negotiations as she campaigns in labour's heartlands in south wales. the vote for any other party would bea the vote for any other party would be a vote for a week and failing
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jeremy corbyn propped up by a coalition of chaos which would risk our national future. the shadow brexit secretary says labour would scrap the prime minister's brexit plans and unilaterally guarantee the rights of eu citizens in the uk if it wins power. the liberal democrat leader, tim farron, says he does not think gay sex is a sin, clarifying a question he had refused to answer several times so far during the election campaign. donors at a conference in geneva have pledged more than one billion dollars to yemen to help relieve what the un is calling the "world's largest humanitarian crisis". president trump's daughter, ivanka, has defended his record on women's rights during a g20 summit in berlin. appearing alongside the german chancellor, angela merkel, she said her father had always encouraged her and demonstrated his belief in the potential of women through his employment practices. from berlin, jenny hill sent this report. taking her place among the world's
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most powerful women. the first daughter, rubbing shoulders with a chancellor, a queen and a banker. though, almost immediately, ivanka trump found herself defending a president. he's been a tremendous champion of supporting families, and enabling them to thrive. donald trump's special adviser persisted. as a daughter, i can speak on a very personal level, knowing that he encouraged me and enabled me to thrive. i grew up in a house where there was no barriers to what i could accomplish. and the first daughter has gone on to make powerfulfriends. she's accompanied her father to talks with the leaders of canada, japan and germany. her first solo overseas trip was at the direct invitation of the german chancellor. do you consider yourself a feminist?
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angela merkel‘s official agenda... interesting reaction! ..empowering women and charming one in particular. berlin wants, needs, stronger ties to the trump administration. translation: it's the strategy of dialogue, that's the most important thing. you can reach trump through his daughter. every woman should do things by her own, by her own status and by her own positions, and not because of her father's position. what you're seeing here may well mark a profound shift in the way that germany, europe, does business with the united states. ivanka trump wields significant influence with her father. the relationship that angela merkel and other leaders strike with the first daughter will be closely scrutinised on both sides of the atlantic. expect to see more of the first daughter on the international stage. in the age of trump, it seems, family comes first.
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jenny hill, bbc news, berlin. donald trump is approaching the end of his first 100 days in office. it may seem hard to believe but it's been more than five months since he was elected after a campaign that divided america and politics. and one of the most memorable moments of that campaign was during the democratic national convention when a father spoke out against him. khizr khan's son humayun was an american muslim soldier who died in the iraq war. in a moment we will be speaking to khizr khan himself but first let's remind ourselves of what he said at that convention last summer. donald trump, you're asking americans to trust you with their future. let me ask you, have you even read the united states constitution? i will gladly lend you my copy.
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now mr khan has been debating the first 100 days of trump's presidency at an event in london and joins me now. good evening. tell us about the debate and the arguments you put forward. i was invited to participate in this debate. i was against the proposition of donald trump making america great. this is what i said. he is not making america great, america remains worried, divided and concerned. let's ta ke worried, divided and concerned. let's take three examples briefly. first, i will build the wall and mexico will pay for this wall.
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mexico will pay for this wall. mexico is not paying for the wall, america is paying for the wall because he has attached to the federal government's operational budgets the budget for this wall, up to $14 billion. he may find a way of recouping that money in the future, that would be his argument. these arguments have been made time after time and this is political inexperience, and self—promotion in its worst form. disingenuous plans and propositions. secondly, iwill ban all muslims. both of the executive orders done hastily and unconstitutionally, frozen in the court of law. those two orders will be declared unconstitutional. he says he will fight them still, and
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he would say it was a ban on specific nations which are predominantly muslim, which is not quite the same thing. this is not what rudy giuliani told us. he says donald trump came to him. this is his advisor telling him, and asked i wa nt to his advisor telling him, and asked i want to implement a muslim band, how cani want to implement a muslim band, how can i do this legally. this is again political inexperience and disingenuousness. what is your third point? employment, jobs, there will be thousands ofjobs. may i include healthcare, everybody will have healthcare, everybody will have health care, there will be health ca re everywhere, everyone health care, there will be health care everywhere, everyone will have coverage and all of this. we know what happened to health care. no jobs, people are still waiting, looking towards washington towards
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trump. the point i'm putting here is we know you are not a supporter of him because we have seen what you said of him at the democratic convention and you are passing judgment on a man that's not even beenin judgment on a man that's not even been in thejob 100 days, you are rushing tojudgment, been in thejob 100 days, you are rushing to judgment, surely?” been in thejob 100 days, you are rushing tojudgment, surely? i am a very patient person, the whole nation is patient, but how can you deal with this flip—flop, promises promises? the banning of bad people coming to the united states could have been accomplished through the congressional congress. the president issued an executive order, there is an urgency, now the government is seeking more time to reply to the questions that have been raised. what it meant was this
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was not genuinely dealing with the security of our nation. that's your reading of it but you will be aware of the popularity, there was an opinion poll published in the last few days in the washington post which said if people voted today, 43% would vote trump, in other words he would win the popular vote now when he didn't in november. we talk about what took place in november. he did not. he is president through the electoral college, not by popular vote. what happened then, we are not talking about what happened today. therefore you ask for us to be patient. in democracy, this is the only option a citizen as of
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protest, speaking, expressing concern, remaining faithful to the system, that system will take care of all the unconstitutional activity that continues in the system so we have faith in rule of law. but my point you would be, while he continues to maintain the level of support he apparently does, yours is a minority voice rather than majority voice. in democracy, democracy is tyranny of majority. rule of law makes sure the minority is also heard, minority rights are also heard. i'm not worried about the polls and the numbers. this is my 107th appearance coming to london to attend debate. i have stood in front of trump supporters that have asked me this question, where rather jobs? we are worried about our healthcare. tell us what to do. my
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a nswer to healthcare. tell us what to do. my answer to them had been we have made answer to them had been we have made a decision, we have a president in the office, we must remain patient. we can protest, we can send message through congress, that is where you seen through congress, that is where you seen these town hall protests, so well attended. and the defeat of the health care proposal is a direct result of those protests, so as citizens we remain faithful to the system, we remain faithful to our country but we continue to protest in the street. time has beaten us but thank you for coming in. the parents of madeleine mccann say they will never give up searching for their missing child and described the tenth anniversary of her disappearance — next week — as a "a horrible marker of stolen time". madeleine vanished while on holiday in portugal with her parents and siblings on may 3rd, 2007. earlier our home affairs correspondent tom symonds gave us the latest from new scotland yard.
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kate and gerry mccann have put out a statement in the last 24 hours ahead of this tenth anniversary of madeleine's disappearance. as you said, it will be a stressful time for them, not least because of the publicity that will come along as a result of this anniversary, publicity they have always been concerned about, misinformation and as they say downright lies about this case that have been publicised in the past. they said however that they welcome what they call the warmth, encouragement and positivity they have experienced from the quiet majority of their supporters over the last ten years. they say kind, decent people have helped along the way. this remains a missing persons inquiry because the police have no definitive evidence that madeleine mccann is dead. she would be a teenager by this point. their investigation continues, once it
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consumed the time of 30 officers, now they are down four officers and they continue to follow leads. we are expecting the metropolitan police to say more about their work tonight but really this has been an extraordinary case. obviously deeply disturbing, overly and heavily reported in the past, and of course stubbornly unsolved to this date. an 81—year—old man has been arrested by police in scotland investigating alleged historical sexual abuse in youth football.
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the bbc understands the man to be frank cairney — who is a former official at celtic boys club. he is expected to appear at hamilton sheriff court tomorrow. the headlines: theresa may says every vote for the tories will "strengthen her hand" in the brexit negotiations as she campaigns in labour's heartlands in south wales. the shadow brexit secretary says labour would scrap the prime minister's brexit plans and unilaterally guarantee the rights of eu citizens in the uk if it wins power. the liberal democrat leader tim farron says he does not think gay sex is a sin clarifying a question he had refused to answer several times so far during the election campaign. television advertisements that will personally call you by name are to be introduced by the broadcaster, channel four. the advertisements will be broadcast to the 15 million viewers who use the channel's all four catch—up service. here is an example of a personalised ad for 20th century fox's upcoming release, alien: covenant. channel 4 dares you to come on board, alien covenant. where is it? matthew, run.
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earlier i spoke tojosh krichefski, ceo of mediacom uk, the largest media advertising agency in the country. it isa it is a new innovation in tv. it is hugely exciting. i would say personalisation, slightly different from that, but personalisation in marketing has been going along time. but what i think is hugely exciting about this is the audio element because if done well it can really ca ptu re because if done well it can really capture the audience and cut through
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the clutter, grabbing the attention of the freeware. i think if done well is the key elephant because, like anything, it's the ingredients that are important rather than format necessarily so i think our advice to advertisers would be don't forget the creativity and how important that is, because if you do you run the risk of annoying audiences, offending audiences or switching them off. if the advert isn't very good, by the time it gets to your name you might have mentally switched off anyway. exactly, and with this format i think people will learn rule of thumb as they go, whether you use the audio element early or later on, we will discover, but creativity is essential, like all advertising messages. without getting too weighed into the technology side of it, how does it
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work? in this instance what channel 4 have done, very cleverly they have logged in users on all for. when you sign up to that, they made it clear that the information will deliver targeted advertising to you. they have a database of the most popular names in the country, then they match it with people who are logged in users. if you have one of those names, you may see an offer like this in —— appearing in front of you. is there evidence to point to that it says this has worked? we did a campaign three years ago for coca—cola, where we installed people's names on the bottle. again, that was on all for, and that was
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three years ago. it was a hugely successful campaign in terms of purchase intent. people talk positively about it on social media. burglary did a campaign as well which i know drove sales. there was a real sales uplift as a result of personalisation so i think there's a lot of evidence to show it can work but it's all about the execution. what about the ethics of it? just because you have signed up to watch a particular channel, it doesn't mean you have also signed up up to having your name shouted out bya up to having your name shouted out by a particular advertiser who you might not be keen on taking advantage of. as an industry we have advantage of. as an industry we have a duty of care, for our clients but also for consumers and it's important we don't abuse the ability to personalise messages in this way
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because no one wins. the consumer will be annoyed, the advertiser will not gain from it, neither will the media company so it is very important. it'll be one of the biggest boxing bouts in recent times — at stake will be two heavyweight titles. on saturday 90,000 spectators will see britain's anthonyjoshua, who won super heavyweight gold at the 2012 london olympics, take on ukraine's wladimir klitschko at wembley stadium. our sports editor, dan roan, has been watching anthony joshua's preparations. there's some flash photography in his report. final preparations for the fight of his life. regarded as the man heavyweight box's been crying out for, anthonyjoshua is on the verge of becoming the sports biggest star. and, having granted us access to his training camp... how are you doing, bro? how are you, sir, are you well? ..he told me just what it takes to become a champion. i've broken my ribs before, my hand.
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you know, i've dislocated shoulders and stuff in the gym, but we get it right for the fight. the coaches try to reveal your potential and then it becomes a bit of an ordeal because they start pushing you to places that you've never been before. this is a new level, is it, for you? just a whole new level, completely. right. especially with the type of fight we're in as well. joshua has come a long way in a short space of time. london 2012 olympic champion, since turning professional he's unbeaten and now stands to earn in excess of £10 million from saturday's showdown. so, has fame and fortune changed him? i'm in the same flat that i've been in since in 2011. so far, the simple life has worked. where we grew up, everyone was about making money, when we were young, but it was about being low—key. understated. probably didn't want to get your house burgled, do you now know what i mean? but life hasn't always been trouble—free. joshua's brushes with the law as a teenager, growing up in a tough part of london, are portrayed in a new advertising campaign which charts his rise to the top. it's just mistakes. what people can relate to is life, journeys and what people go through. everyone goes through different struggles, so i'm just showing mine and it can connect to a certain group of people and it
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got across my message. this is the kind of preparation and dedication that's taken anthonyjoshua to the brink of sporting superstardom and he knows that if he can now win the biggest fight of his career, he'll go to a whole new level altogether. high in the austrian mountains, the man who stands injoshua's way is completing his build—up. for a decade, 41—year—old ukrainian wladimir klitschko, dominated the heavyweight division, but after losing his last fight says he's obsessed with victory. now i have a chance against young man, very ambitious, very athletic and a newcomer, a new star in boxing and heavyweight division. biggest stage they've ever had. the respectful build—up to this fight contrasts starkly with the antics, the trash talk and the brawls that have frequently brought boxing into disrepute. it's needed now and again, but it's got to be real because i don't take boxing as an act. this isn't like an act for me,
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this is a way of expressing myself and being true to myself. joshua's wasted little time in his road to the top. too good to be true, we're about to find out. dan roan, bbc news, sheffield. just ahead of the weather you may remember the teenage racing driver, billy monger, who had his legs amputated after a crash. he has thanked everyone since that happened. he said, your kind words have given me and my family the strength to get through this last week. the generosity of our motorsport family, friends and fans is truly inspirational. that message on facebook in the last few moments. now let's check on the weather forecast. it has been a pretty lively day,
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starting bright for many but we saw snow in the highlands of scotland and further south is well actually, in staffordshire, but not settling on the roads. you can see how the show accounts built up —— shower clouds built up. it's another cold night ahead, a widespread frost developing and there will be wintry showers. they will slowly be fading away from the western areas and will continue to do so. it will turn quite cold, the blue tinge on the map is the frost developing. it will turn quite cold generally speaking but there will be more cloud for eastern areas. the cold start of the day on wednesday, but i think it
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will be a bright start across much of the south—west. some showers across the tip of cornwall, otherwise a good deal of sunshine. there is that cloud in parts of the midlands, eastern england, but most of the showers are fairly close to the coast at this stage. in the west of england we have sunshine, but central, southern and eastern scotla nd central, southern and eastern scotland doing quite well. in the west of scotland always more cloud and a few showers. the main focus for the showers midweek will be central and eastern parts of england. the showers will move inland, some of them could turn out to be quite heavy. the showers are fewer and farther between the further west you go. as you go through the evening, still got some showers at first across central and eastern areas but they tend to become fewer and further between before eventually fading away. at the same time we see thicker cloud
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and outbreaks of rain spreading into the north and west. that will be the key on thursday. the weather front will spread cloud southwards but will spread cloud southwards but will also bring some slightly less cold air. in northern ireland and scotla nd cold air. in northern ireland and scotland temperatures will be rising by good or three degrees, getting back into double figures. there is that patchy rain, it should dry up in the afternoon, 12 degrees in glasgow is not so bad, and 11 degrees in belfast. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. we start with the uk election today... theresa may is in wales. voters traditionally back the labour party — but the prime minister is urging them to turn to the conservatives. a vote for any other party would be a vote for a week and failing jeremy corbyn, propped up by a coalition of
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chaos which would risk our national future. we talk to our correspondence in westminster about the political situation in wales and the political situation in wales and the labour party, giving more on the plans for brexit. the tension around the korean peninsula continues to ratchet up. a us submarine has arrived in south korean waters. and north korea is carrying out a large military drill.
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