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this is bbc news. the headlines at four: downing street is disputing claims in the german media of a fractious dinner last week with european commission president, jean claude juncker, and theresa may. three teenage women are arrested on suspicion of terror offences in raids linked to a police operation in north london on thursday in which a woman was shot and injured. also, scuffles in paris as rallies are held by both candidates in the presidential election. there have been clashes on the sidelines of a may day parade as protestors demonstrate against far—right presidential candidate, marine le pen, who's made a scathing attack on her rival. police say the burglars who shot dead dorset homeowner guy hedger wore balaclavas, were armed with a shotgun and stole jewellery in a pre—planned raid. leading social media firms are "shamefully far" from tackling illegal and dangerous online content according to a report by mps. and we follow up the 2005
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documentary about children living in mumbai. that's india's millennials in half an hour here on bbc news. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. downing street says it doesn't recognise an account published in a german newspaper of a supposedly fractious dinner between the prime minister and the european commission president, jean—claude juncker, last week. the newspaper reported there were sharp disagreements about how quickly a deal could be
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reached over the rights of british and eu citizens and how much the uk owed the eu. number ten described it as a constructive meeting. our political correspondent leila nathoo reports. no love lost between the prime minister and the european commission's presidentjean claude—juncker last week. a chance to get together in private before the 27 eu states agreed their brexit negotiating position. but behind the door, how did the meeting go? this influential german newspaper has published an account of the dinner from anonymous sources at the european commission. the report paints a picture of a difficult encounter, with the two at odds over britain's eu divorce bill and how the future relationship will play out. jean—claude juncker apparently left, saying he was ten times more sceptical than he was when he arrived. in a statement, downing street said... on the election campaign trail, brexit is the backdrop. and the liberal democrats wants to play a role.
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the revelations overnight show theresa may being guilty of astonishing arrogance and complacency, that she feels that somehow the lack of any kind of deal, no free trade deal, no cooperation of police and security, that is somehow acceptable to families up and down this country. never mind how we voted lastjune, that is for every individual, but as a country, we deserve a good deal. labour says theresa may has underestimated the complexity of the talks and her bridge is putting the economy —— her approach is putting the economy at risk. you start at the basis that you want to reach an agreement, and that you have shared interests and values. have a very important trading relationship with europe. if you start on that basis and show respect you are more likely to get a good deal. if you start with a megaphone and calling people silly names, it is not a great start to anything. meanwhile, the snp accused the
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tories of chaotic leadership over brexit. the remaining 27 eu states are uniting to make sure brexit works for them. but theresa may says she still confident she can get the best dealfor britain. earlier i spoke to the economist's berlin bureau chiefjeremy cliffe. he warned of caution over the comments from brussels. this is a one —— one—sided view, and there is a set —— certain amount of chest puffing, and you see that with theresa may as well. that said, i think it does have substance and it does matter because it speaks to a perception that is very widespread in a lot of european capitals, in brussels, berlin and elsewhere that theresa may is just not realistic about what she can achieve from the brexit talks. in particular what she
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can achieve within the time frame she has, whether she can cherry pick parts of european union membership, the rights of eu citizens in britain... there is a real sense she doesn't realise how hard it will be over the next two years. in terms of the dinner we are talking probably about something between the two accou nts about something between the two accounts being right, i wait?m about something between the two accounts being right, i wait? it is ha rd to accounts being right, i wait? it is hard to say because downing street simply said it was constructive, there were some nice words, whereas this was a blow by blow account of the disagreements between the two site. if these are correct or if there is truth to them, it does give britain reason to worry. for example, it was said in this report that theresa may suggested to jean—claude juncker that a template for the brexit talks could be her own renegotiation of britain's participation in european justice and home affairs cooperation when she was home secretary a few years ago, and when she did that, she
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opted britain out of cooperation and essentially back in. that was allowed by the lisbon treaty and there was plenty of concern when she brought this up at the dinner that she thinks brexit will work in the same way, that britain can opt out of europe as a whole and selectively p°pped of europe as a whole and selectively popped back into the things she wa nts to popped back into the things she wants to be part of and their view is this is not on the table. our europe correspondent kevin connollyjoins us from brussels. what does this supposedly fractious dinner say to you about the way forward 7 dinner say to you about the way forward? it would have been useful to be at the dinner to know how fractious it was first—hand because it is worth saying again that this is all very one sided, it comes from the european commission. they do have a dog in this fight of course. they are not uninterested observers of the british position, but it does i think say there will be a norman
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—— enormous differences in perception about how doable deal will be when they sit down and that might be happening as early asjune so might be happening as early asjune so there is a real sense in europe, particularly in brussels, particularly in brussels, particularly in brussels, particularly in the commission, that britain has unrealistic expectations of how easy the brexit talks will be but it also has unrealistic expectations of the sort of result it might get at the end. i think what they are doing with this really quite hostile briefing is trying to set out how they feel things stand at the moment, and the sort of ceiling on expectations that they think britain should have for the sort of deal that is doable in the very tight time frame coming up. and important presumably from their point of view that the 27th appear at this stage to be united? the 27th at this stage to be united? the 27th
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at this stage certainly appear to be united, we saw that at the weekend when they quickly agreed their negotiating guidelines. but that unity has been achieved by talking about their goals in general terms. they all unanimous agree that britain should make some kind of payment for leaving the eu for a trade deal can be discussed but they have not yet discussed how much that payment should be and it's possible of course that different countries with different interests, poland and lithuania with their large populations in england and germany in holland with important trade relations with the uk, they may have different expectations over how much the uk should pay before you start talking about trade. so they are united now but i would say they are united now but i would say they are united at the point where it is relatively easy to be united. kevin, thank you. three women have been arrested on suspicion of terror offences after raids in east london. the arrests are being linked to the counter—terrorism operation in which a woman was shot
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and injured in north west london last thursday. a total of ten people have now been arrested in connection with what's known as the harlesden road police operation. our correspondent james waterhouse has been following developments. the met police are describing this as an ongoing intelligence led operation, so these arrests involve three women, two 18—year—olds and i 19—year—old, currently being questioned on suspicion of the commission, oppression and instigation of terrorist acts. officers have confirmed that these arrests are links to a similar raid we saw on thursday last week in which a 21—year—old woman was shot and injured by police. she has since been discharged and arrested on suspicion of the same offences. have police been more specific on the latter picture in terms of foiling any meaningful plot as they would say? no, it's an ongoing
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investigation. there are ten arrests in total. there is an unusual feature in that seven of the ten suspects are women, no one has yet been charged but this is quite a wide network the police are working with. there are arrests in london as well as kent so we don't know to what end of oil has been stopped but you get a sense of the size of the operation taking place. two police officers have been injured in clashes between between police and masked youths during a may day march in paris. the march carried extra significance ahead of the presidential election run—off on sunday. the two remaining candidates for the presidency have been holding rallies in paris today. the centrist, emmanuel macron, has a strong lead in the polls over marine le pen of the national front. hugh schofield sent this report. less than a week to make up a gap in the polls and marine le pen is looking to consolidate supporters in her key workers, working men
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and women who find themselves victims of globalisation, the eu and the world of finance. translation: i will protect businesses by making them less vulnerable to globalisation and i will protectjobs and stop them from moving abroad. across town, another rally. this one pulled together marine le pen's opponents in the left—wing trade unions. the unions here are calling on people to turn out and vote for marine le pen's rival, emmanuel macron, to keep marine le pen out. but the question is, how many working—class voters are interested in that message? because for many people who vote left traditionally in france, emmanuel macron isjust as bad if not worse than marine le pen. i am here to say to all of my compatriots, vote macron, even if you do not like him very much. a former banker,
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pro—globalisation, emmanuel macron knows he is not the natural choice for working—class voters. but he acknowledged their concerns about the eu. the dysfunctions of the european union are no more sustainable. so i do consider that my mandate the day after will be the same time to reform the european union and our european party. in this race, left—wing voters feel they have no runner. if they vote macron, for many, it will be with a heavy heart. our correspondent james reynolds is in paris and joins us now. a lot of people have been demonstrating today, what's been going on? there have been big union marchers including this one we are at the tail end the city. it's going
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towards... there have been clashes between police and mass protesters. from what we have seen those masked protesters were not part of the march itself, they might have joined up march itself, they might have joined up the last minute, possibly from side streets, but they have been clashing with police and demonstrating, continuing to march forwards, going slowly. a lot of them have been chanting anti—marine le pen slogans. in the meantime it's been a busy day of campaigning, hasn't it? yes, they are making their last pictures. the campaigning ends on friday night with electioneering band over the weekend. so this is a last chance for the candidates to try to win over undecided voters as we just step away making sure no one runs us over here. it's one of the last chances to reach out to those who
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may be undecided. the people marching out workers from leftist organisations. they don't feel they have a runner, a rider in this second round. certainly from what i've seen have no love for marine le pen. emmanuel macron will have to try to persuade these people marching here that he is the least worst option. and on the polls, any hint ofa worst option. and on the polls, any hint of a change? not that we have seen. the polls still suggest emmanuel macron has a sizeable advantage but of course he still campaigning because he doesn't want to ta ke campaigning because he doesn't want to take that for granted. in particular he wants to make sure those who may the reluctant voters for him make the effort to get out and vote for him. he worries that if they simply stay at home, his campaign may lose its sizeable lead. james, thank you for that. that is emmanuel macron onstage, he hasjust
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started a major campaign speech in the french capital, and as james was saying, marine le pen has already addressed large crowds also in the french capital earlier today. dorset police say they are searching for at least two suspects after a businessman was shot dead by suspected burglars in the early hours of yesterday. 61—year—old guy hedger was fatally wounded at his home in the village of st ives in dorset. in the last hour it's emerged the men entered the property wearing balaclavas. one was armed with a shotgun which has yet to be recovered and jewellery, including designer watches, was stolen. our correspondent duncan kennedy reports. there has been constant police activity at the scene today. dozens of officers have arrived as part of what is now a very large investigation. police said guy hedger, who was 61, was shot in the early hours of yesterday morning. he later died of his injuries. the victim, say police, of a break—in by intruders. we are treating this as an aggravated burglary, so the offenders we believe went in to steal and have subsequently
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shot an innocent man. the police say they think there were at least two intruders. this is an area with large detached houses behind gates and tall bushes. the murder of guy hedger has been deeply upsetting for his neighbours. i think it is absolutely dreadful. absolutely awful. sickening. i'm just very shocked, really, we moved here two or three years ago and it is a very quiet area. we feel very safe here. so just really shocking. it is a bit of horror, isn't it, really. when you only live 170 metres from a place then it is quite concerning. i'm sure you will agree. it is believed guy hedger shared his house with his partner who is said to be deeply affected by the incident. mr hedger was a director of the avonbourne academy trust. in a statement they said, everyone at the avonbourne trust is shocked and deeply saddened
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by the passing of guy hedger. guy had a deep passion for education and was dedicated to expanding the experience and knowledge of children in bournemouth. everyone at the trust will miss his guiding hand, friendship, and the wonderful service he provided us. detectives say they do not think guy hedger knew his intruders. they say anyone who heard or saw anything should contact them as soon as possible. the colleague and friend of mr hedger said there was shock throughout the company at the news of his death. it is a very close—knit business so the sense of shock and upset will be felt very deeply. we will give as much support to our people as we can and we will offer our sympathy and condolences to his broader family offer our sympathy and condolences
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to his broaderfamily and offer our sympathy and condolences to his broader family and friends at this distressing time as well. the headlines on bbc news: downing street says it doesn't recognise an account published in a german newspaper of a fractious dinner last week between the prime minister and the european commission president, jean—claude juncker. three teenage women are arrested on suspicion of terror offences in raids linked to a police operation in north london on thursday in which a woman was shot and injured. police fire tear gas in paris on the sidelines of a may day parade as protestors demonstrate against far—right presidential candidate, marine le pen, who's made a scathing attack on her rival. now time for sport and a full round—up from the bbc sports centre. we'll start at the crucible, with the final of world snooker championship where defending champion mark selby is back in this match
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againstjohn higgins. the world number one had been trailing 10—4 at one point, but fought back, winning five frames in a row — including the opening two of this session — to put himself just a single frame behind. but higgins, himself a winner here four times, responded, with a break of 78. and in the final frame before the mid—session interval, the longest so far in the match, selby fought back again — the gap now one frame, 11—10 the score now before they resume after the break. the final is the best of 35 frames. there's coverage on bbc two, the red button and the bbc sport website. england cricket captainjoe root was cut off in his prime in yorkshire's one—day cup group match with lancashire at headingley. root returned to form with an unbeaten 75, in his county's win yesterday and was going well on 21 before former south africa all rounder
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ryan mclaren had him caught. gary ballance, who's currently out of favour in the england set up, looked in good form hitting 85 as yorkshire set lancashire a target of 297 to win. lancashire have lost three wickets in their innings so far, including that of england opener haseeb hameed for eight. they're 83 for 3. root‘s england team mate joss buttler has been in action in the indian premier league. he hit a quick—fire 33 for the mumbai indians as they beat the royal challengers bangalore with a ball to spare. mumbai are now top of the table. with the premier league title battle seemingly a two horse race between leaders chelsea and second place tottenham, attention turns to the race for champions league qualification. tonight, liverpool can move three points clear in third place — ahead of both of the manchester sides — with a win at watford. both united and city dropped points yesterday. united were held to a 1—1 draw at home to swansea. city had to rely on a late equaliser from gabrieljesus to rescue a point at struggling middlesbrough. jurgen klopp says the battle for the other two champions league spots will be fascinating. it would be nice to fight with
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chelsea for the title but that is not for us so we have to fight for what we can fight for and that's the champions league place, and it's really, really interesting, to be honest. is there more pressure? no, it's a pressure you create by your performances. wba and ibf world heavyweight champion anthonyjoshua says he needs to improve ahead of his next fight. joshua beat wladimir klitschko in a thrilling bout on saturday night. former world champion tyson fury is currently without a boxing licence, but has indicated he would fightjoshua. there could also be a re—match with klitschko, or a unification fight with wbc champion deontay wilder. i want to start planning how i'm going to improve. i know my next fight people are going to be watching. i think ok cool, i have done my learning now, i cannot say in my next fight he is still learning, a relative novice. so i
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have got to get better, find out where my weaknesses are and improve on them. a first great britain lions rugby league tour in more than a decade could take place in 2019. england, scotland, wales and ireland have played as individual nations since 2007 when the the lions played a series against new zealand. nigel wood, chair of the rugby league international federation, has told the bbc there could be a tour of the southern hemisphere scheduled between this year's world cup in australia and the 2021 tournament in england. britain's rachel atherton has claimed a 14th consecutive downhill mountain bike world cup victory by winning the season opening event in lourdes. the world champion last missed the top of the podium back in 2015 at the french venue and was the clear favourite following her unbeaten season last year. she beat australia's tracey hannah by two and a half seconds, with fellow britons tahnee seagrave third and manon carpenter fifth. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more in the next hour. thank you very much indeed. a group of mps says the failure of some of the biggest internet
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companies to remove illegal online content is a disgrace. the home affairs select committee says firms including facebook, twitter and google are "shamefully far" from taking sufficient action to deal with terrorist propaganda and images of child abuse. the sites have defended their approach to online safety but admit more could be done. i'm joined by fiyaz mughal the founder of tell mama, a group that supports victims of anti—muslim hate and monitors anti—muslim incidents. he gave evidence to the home affairs select committee. good afternoon, and what did you tell the committee when you sat before them? we made a number of things clear, for example agencies like google, twitter and youtube we re like google, twitter and youtube were not removing far right material even when they were notified there was far right extremist and islamist material. they were not removing it from their twitter platforms, and if
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they did that it took years to get they did that it took years to get the material off. we also made it clear to the home affairs select committee that if you looked at platforms like twitter which are used by young people and a vast number of individuals in our country, the fact is even if an account was closed, twitter could not stop someone going along and opening up another account and continuing with their harassment. there were no safeguards built into the system. we also made clear, and the system. we also made clear, and the home affairs select committee accepted this, that the fact there was a social cost to our nation in terms of policing, society groups, individuals to psychological health. they have said there should be fines on social media companies if they repeatedly fail to act on illegal material. that is a welcome step forward and a carrot and stick to
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social media companies, they need to get their house in order. let me deal with what social media companies have said because i mentioned they acknowledged more could be done but naturally they are defending their position to a degree. there was a comparison made in one comment today between how much they can physically do. for example the post office cannot open every envelope of mail that goes between one person and another, how feasibly can social media companies monitor absolutely everything online? we are not asking social media companies to monitor everything online. we are clear that illegal material which they are notified of and which they do not act on is unacceptable. this is a ruse from social media companies, this is smoke and mirrors saying we cannot do everything, we can do a little bit more, that is a bit of a ruse. the reality is when there is
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illegal material, they are part of the eu directive to remove it within 24 the eu directive to remove it within 2a hours, they are not even meeting that requirement. we are saying when they are notified they need to remove instead of saying we are not sure, you need to go to the internet service provider, you need to look at us law, that is not acceptable. so for you it is more about how they act when they know about it rather than how they should act before they know about it? it is a combination of both. they used algorithms in a whole range of manners and the home affairs select committee made that clear, to generate profit and income. they can use some of that to try to remove the volume of whether it is anti—semitic, anti—muslim or homophobic hate, they can use that technology. the second element is when they are notified of this material, they need to act quickly. in one case it has taken four years.
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thank you for coming on. joining me from salford is the labour mp, naz shah, who sits on the home affairs select committee. iimagine you i imagine you are broadly in agreement with the comments you have heard? absolutely, i concur with what has been said. do you acknowledge the committee has not done enough to acknowledge what some of these companies have been trying to do of late, the work they have done with police and successive governments? the home affairs select committee has acknowledged they have developed community standards, the issueis developed community standards, the issue is about policing the community standards, interpretation of community standards, and if we have co nte nt of community standards, and if we have content that has stayed on for four years, even when select committee mps raised concerns, those images and vile messages remained on
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their site. that is not acceptable and something can be done. a prime example of that is they are very goodin example of that is they are very good in terms of dealing with copyright and their response is that it is clear black and white because you know who owns it. well actually you know who owns it. well actually you know who owns it. well actually you know where an ip address is, you know you can close down an account. facebook have made these observations that they are working with kings college london and the institute for strategic dialogue to make efforts to curb hate speech more effective. they are also talking about developing quick and easy ways for people to report content. you would be encouraged by that? i am, i would content. you would be encouraged by that? i am, iwould be content. you would be encouraged by that? i am, i would be even more encouraged by if we had recommendations from this report that were implemented, notjust by media platforms but also by the government after the election when we return on the 12th ofjune to say well we can now go out to
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consultation and ask whether we need to change the law and tighter knit in regards to hate crime online. the committee talked about meaningful fines if it law was not properly adhered to, how would that work in practice? it works in germany and other countries and we could look into that model. at the end of the day for me it is simple, the evidence that we took suggested profits were before people. these companies put profits before the ethical and moral obligations of policing and monitoring their spaces. it is a world wide web but we have obligations. we are putting £20 billion of google's profit marginfor £20 billion of google's profit margin for one year £20 billion of google's profit marginfor one yearand £20 billion of google's profit margin for one year and these companies refused to share how much effort and energy and cost going to removing content, how much they are receiving, and we would welcome quarterly reports. so we know the scale of the problem, the enormity
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of it so we can deal with it. thank you for coming on. a new photograph of princess charlotte has been released by the duke and duchess of cambridge to mark her second birthday tomorrow. the picture of the toddler was taken earlier this month by her mother at their home on the sandringham estate in norfolk. the royal couple said they're delighted to share the photo to mark their daughter's special day. across the newsroom, let's check on the weather prospects. it has been quite a day northern ireland, the warmest day of the year so far in northern ireland. scotland, tied that in western scotland, tied that in western scotland, nearing 21 celsius in the sunshine. for parts of england and we'll is, heavy showers around. thundery ones around the bristol channel in south wales at the moment. it will continue to run border in southern england and we in the next years before

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