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slept very well indeed, and i woke i slept very well indeed, and i woke up i slept very well indeed, and i woke up this morning the happiest man in the world. without any shadow of doubt. it was wonderful. it was amazing, such a privilege, my great grand dad, my grand dad and my dad, it was amazing. how does it feel for you to know that your great grand dad is a world record—holder?” can't believe it, my mates can't believe it. but he is still not putting his feet up. i want to do something extraordinary again next year, providing my health, and the doctor will give me a certificate to say i am fit. i did think about moonwalking, and if that comes off, that would be the ultimate as far as iam that would be the ultimate as far as i am concerned. so, wing walking next, but for today, i am concerned. so, wing walking next, but fortoday, he i am concerned. so, wing walking next, but for today, he is content to have done his bit to bring
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britain a new world record. time for a look at the weather, with jay wynne. there is plenty of rain around, it has been captured quite nicely by some of our weather watchers. it has been coming down quite hard for some. this was in stature, not so long ago. notice in the london area, very little rainfall. —— in staffordshire. those bright colours are indicating some pretty heavy downpours. there is a met office weather warnings in place in the south—east of scotland. northern scotland, around the shores of the moray firth, it should be drying up. not so on the eastern side of scotland. northern england also seeing afair
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scotland. northern england also seeing a fair bit of cloud, with outbreaks of rain. across england and wales, despite the cloud and outbreaks of rain, it is quite warm for most places. but the minute he is also fairly high. there's plenty more rain to come overnight tonight. notice the winds coming in from the south, and that's going to give us a very mild night. quite warm start to the day on tuesday. but it will also be quite breezy. this front will be moving its way southwards and eastwards during tuesday. at the same time, that band of rain is moving with it. in the extreme
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south—east, it will be quite warm. moving into wynnstay, we do have some more wet weather from the south—west of england, up towards yorkshire and all the way east of that. heading into thursday, that wet weather moves away towards the east. the air bill becoming from around iceland towards the end of the week, so it'll be feeling fresher. that's all from the bbc news at one. so, it's goodbye from me, and on bbc one, we nowjoin time for some sport on bbc news with me hugh ferris. hello. even though they face the possibility of failing to qualify for the champions league for the first time in more than 20 years
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arsene wenger is urging arsenal fans to attend tomorrow's game against sunderland rather than take part in a planned fans boycott aimed at removing him as manager. he's still yet to announce whether he'll sign a new contract and with two games remaining the gunners are three points adrift of the top four places... and have to win both to stand a realistic chance of reaching the champions league. liverpool could also deny them with a victory in theirfinal game but wenger believes form is on arsenal's side. we won six of the last seven games and we have created the momentum again after having a period where we we re again after having a period where we were away from home and not strong. now we have won the last three away games, it is positive. so sunderland go into the game already relegated. middlesbrough and hull have now joined them. and david moyes has suggested some of the players at the club haven't pulled their weight this season and may well be looking to leave. i think the players have to stand up, they need to show id capable of
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playing at this level for most of the season you'd have to say it's not showing that way. but they've got a chance, a chance against two really good teams, a chance to show they see themselves as premier league players, said to be at that level. i think many of them believe they have futures elsewhere. i think you need to perform on the pitch to do that. premier league champions chelsea will get the chance to celebrate their achievement with their home fans tonight when they play watford. they'll have to wait a little longer to catch a glimpse of the premier league trophy though — they won't get that until after they've played sunderland at stamford bridge on sunday. chelsea secured the sixth title in their history by beating west brom on friday night. mauricio pochettino sez he felt privileged to witness the final game at white hart lane as tottenham gave their home the perfect send—off with a win over manchester united yesterday. they haven't wasted any time digging up the old pitch either. these are aerial shots taken this morning. contractors have already started work on the new site which will seat around 61 thousand people. tottenham will play their home matches at wembley next season ahead of the new stadium being ready
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for the 2018/19 season. there appears to be a strong chance that yaya toure will be offered a new deal by manchester city. the 34—year—old's contract runs out at the end of the season. it seemed certain toure would be leaving when pep guardiola left him out of his squad for the champions league group phase and he didn't make any premier league appearances until november. however, toure has fought his way back into guardiola's plans... and saturday's win against leicester was his 29th appearance of the season. world number one andy murray will be hoping for a return to form as he defends his italian open title in rome this week. he turns 30 today... but says he is "not massively into birthdays". murray comes into the tournament on the back of a third—round loss to world number 59 borna coric of croatia in madrid last week. he beat novak djokovic in the 2016 italian open final and will face local favourite fabio fognini in the second round this year. it's tough to necessarily analyse losses in a couple of days when
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you're also looking to the next tournament but that's also sometimes a positive thing that you have another event to look forward to it immediately, you get a chance to play better, only 11—5 days after a tough match. geraint thomas has called the crash that's likely to have ended his chances of becoming the first british winner of the giro d'italia ‘ridiculous'... the team sky rider and also orica—scott‘s adam yates were both caught up in a collision with a stationary police motorbike on the roadside during stage nine. the pair — who were second and third going into sunday's stage — now trail new overall leader nairo quintana by five minutes. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. and i'll have more in the next hour. thank you, you are watching bbc news with me, simon mccoy. lets return now to the cyber attack which has hit the nhs and other organisations over the weekend . the national crime agency says there's been no sign of a second
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cyber attack as people returned to work this morning . eleven hospital trusts in england remain affected. speaking in the last hour, the health secretaryjeremy hunt said there had not been a second wave of cyber attacks. i have this morning been briefed by gc hq and the national cyber security centre and according to our latest intelligence, we have not seen a second latest intelligence, we have not seen a second wave latest intelligence, we have not seen a second wave of attacks and the level of criminal activity is at the level of criminal activity is at the lower end of the range that we had anticipated and so i think that is inc original. what is clear is that institutions around the world that institutions around the world that have an effect did not upgrade their systems and didn't do enough to protect their systems. don't you bear responsibility for what happened in the nhs? we bear responsibility for everything that happens in the nhs but what the nhs has been doing is massively upgrading its response, as i said the number of xp platforms has reduced by around two thirds in the
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last 18 months. we are i think the first health care system in the world to set up nhs digital, a cyber security centre and it's because of all that work that's been happening that within 24—hour is of this incident, more than 95% of services we re incident, more than 95% of services were up and running normally as far as patients were concerned. but wouldn't have been possible if we hadn't been making all the really important preparations we were making over the last few years. but you'd been warned about this risk to information technology, to computer systems in the nhs, had been refusing the last year, what was actually done about those warnings? a great eel, and let's be clear, in 2015 i was concerned we needed to do more and so i commissioned that review and after it was published instructions were sent out to all nhs trusts as to what they needed to do and in fact from this april it's been part of the standard nhs
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contract. —— a great deal. been part of the standard nhs contract. -- a great deal. jeremy hunt. we've heard lots about the voice of the next generation not being heard in this election campaign. the number of 18—24 year olds signing up to vote when they leave school has fallen by a third in the last three years. that's according to the electoral reform society. with one week to go before the deadline to register to vote, bbc‘s nesta mcgregor has been to meet some of the six million young people eligible to cast a ballot. i'm very excited to vote. it will be us that are going to be the next politicians, the next mps. this is the first time these six people have met. aged between 18 and 2a, they have agreed to a chat during their lunchtime. the only thing on the menu is a meaty discussion about politics. there is a massive distrust between young people and most institutions and then government being the institution of institutions. two of them are first—time voters, one won't be voting and the rest are undecided. one thought that kept coming up — politics and politicians seem a million miles away from their everyday lives.
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it's so jargonistic and it's so complex. i think, in the run—up to this, especially for young people, you should be able to have a google search and just know exactly what you're voting for. or have an app, that's where young people are at. as opposed to having to look through all the government papers. i'm just making this up, you'd probably be better to know where exactly you find these things! young people don't feel like they're in control, they don't feel their vote is going to matter, regardless. i think any politician, they don't speak to me in any way or form... isn't it yourjob to engage your friends and engage people who won't vote? i'm from a small seaside town. we're not london—based, we don't walk past house of parliament, it sort of doesn't... young people think we are too far out of it to be affected. english, maths and science gcses that a lot of people may not even use again after. whereas if you actually start teaching them about politics and something that will be there throughout their entire lives, works for education, it works for young people,
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it works for politicians as well. that's what you actually want to learn in school. i did algebra, i never used it again, so... analysis of the last general election showed that the number of 18 to 2li—year—olds that voted was just over a0%. compare that to the number of over—65s where that figure was just under 80%. their names have been wiped. the immigration database is blank. bbc comedy the thick of it satirises the inner workings of government. its creator is trying to get a clear message across — in order for young people to get their voice heard, it's important to be part of the process. politicians will just respond to those who vote. that's all they will respond to. so if that number gets fewer and fewer, you will end up with a state where politicians are responding to fewer and fewer people, getting elected and then governing the country as a whole on the basis of a tiny minority. the offices of the charity bite the ballot.
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they aim to get more young people registered to vote. it's almost bizarre that you go from being a 16 or 17—year—old and having to ask for permission to go to the toilet and then a year later you are given this big decision or challenge, pick who is going to run the country. with one week to go before the deadline to register to vote, there are almost 6 million young votes potentially up for grabs. bbc newsbeat‘s nesta mcgregor reporting there — and newsbeat will host a special debate on 6june with tina daheley in manchester. details on their website. the moors murderer, ian brady, is said to be seriously ill and is receiving palliative care. the 79 year old is being held at ashworth hospital, a secure psychiatric unit on merseyside. he's been ill for some time . brady was jailed for three murders in 1966 and has been at ashworth since 1985.
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to iraq now and the bbc has been given rare access to coalition troops on the ground — that have become increasingly visible as part of the fight to retake mosul. feras kilani, with cameraman khalid alayash — were the first television team allowed to film at patrol base foundry — and send this report. after eight months, this is not a new sight. the battle to take back mosul from the self—proclaimed islamic state has been raging for close to 1000 days, when they first swept through northern iraq like a plague. what still remains will be some of the most difficult and dangerous fighting for the iraqi forces. they are not alone, however.
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the us led coalition has been a steady presence, conducting thousands of air strikes and providing intelligence. but they have been increasing their work on the ground with iraqi forces. here at this base us forces have been working directly with the iraqi police to push is out of iraq's second largest city. we are in mosul actually. we are in the airport in the south end of mosul. we are about five or six kilometres from the front line of the federal police. do you have any closer positions to the front line? yes, we have our units that are a little bit closer. but they are still well behind the forward line of troops. there are people bleeding almost every day up there. there is back and forth fighting. keeping watch at all times, the small group of american troops. a quiet day is not a reason to drop
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her guard. it's a pendant on the popular support for isis within that and ifany popular support for isis within that and if any we encourage any civilians in the area to rise up against isis. constantly keeping in mind the reduction of civilian casualties, to explain that, the faster they push and the more force they use to defeat isis, the more likelihood there is that there will be civilian casualties however the slower they go they will reduce civilian casualties but they lead civilians under the subjugation of the barbaric organisation that is isis. the fighting inside mosul is rapidly reaching the beginning of the end. but what remains is a tight urban area riddled with thousands of civilians even though thousands have already fled. what will remain of mosul after the battle is completed?
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who will protect the city and its war weary population? for iraqi forces, especially the federal police, there is no end in sight. the headlines, the national crime agency says there's been no further sign ofa agency says there's been no further sign of a cyber attack. a number of trusts remain affected so far. labour plans to expand workers' rights including... of the body keeps power. the conservative power. labour plans to spend more money on the nhs if it wins the election. good afternoon. let's look at the business news. microsoft says a global cyber attack, which has hit more
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than a—hundred—and—fifty countries since friday, should be seen by governments as a wake up call the latest virus exploits a flaw in microsoft windows identified by, and stolen from, us intelligence.... microsoft has blamed governments for storing data on vulnerable software which made it an easy target for hackers. workers face a squeeze on their earnings as employers anticipate awarding median pay rises ofjust1 per cent in the year ahead, according to the latest labour market outlook survey by the chartered institute of personnel and development and the adecco group... more on this in a moment. shares in 888 holdings have fallen by 8 per cent as the uk gambling commission is investigating "certain measures" taken by 8885 uk subsidiary to ensure ‘social responsibility to its customers'. the online gambling company's uk business, which accounts for about 45 per cent of group revenues, is involved in poker, casino, sports and bingo gambling. workers pay is being called the unspoken issue of this election.
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despite being in work voters say they are not feeling any better off. and the latest research suggests they could be feeling even worse over the next year. the latest labour market outlook survey by the chartered institute of personnel and development and the adecco group says workers can expect a median pay rises ofjust1 per cent in the year ahead. but there seems to be no sign of unemployments rising — in fact rather the opposite. joining me now from westminster is the resolution foundation's rob holdsworth. i apologise, it's lindsayjudge, a nalyst i apologise, it's lindsayjudge, analyst from the resolution foundation. we have a tight labour market, wages staying the same are actually falling in real terms, that's a contradiction, isn't it? it is and this is a big week for living
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standards, we are going to know a little bit down the week, new earnings data and data on prices and it's that prices data that i think is critical because what we expect to see over the course of the week is confirmation i think of what many households no, the prices are outpacing earnings over time and they see their real wages squeezed. he may be underperforming but you're right to say employment is correctly a performing but of course since the referendum last year we've seen employment levels plateau and the outlook for employment in a post—brexit written i think remains uncertain. traditionally, look back historically this is a very odd point at which to call an election. real wages are actually falling. absolutely, governments that have called elections, real wages have fallen have generally not done terribly well, it's a pretty bold move on behalf of theresa may to call an election when wages appear
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to be somewhat in decline. i think another really important point is that we are looking forward to a new pay squeeze but of course this is a squeeze that comes on the back of a period of very tepid recovery since 2008 for a pay. the obr in particular is predict over the course of this decade we will see the wea kest course of this decade we will see the weakest growth in pay for almost two centuries. what is the cure? is ita two centuries. what is the cure? is it a divestment and increased product because there is a feeling that some need —— companies can't afford to pay more? is that correct? look historically, even before the recession but slightly post recession, you are right to point to productivity as a problem within the uk, we know we need to increase productivity if we want to increase pay levels. how do you do that? is it investment? what sort of investment? investment, a question about whether jobs could investment? investment, a question about whetherjobs could be automated but critically we have to look at the human capital base in the uk and i think it was welcome to
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date to give the government suggest they might have a better system for time off for training and investment for people to make their own human capital but we need to look to employers to think how they improve skills and productivity of their workers. thank you. a couple of other stories... toshiba has missed a deadline to file its annual results, but warned it was likely to report a loss of £6.5bn. the tokyo stock exchange had given the japanese giant until 15 may to report, but toshiba said its auditors were still examining the figures. the japanese conglomerate is the world's second—largest chip manufacturer, with its products used in data centres and consumer goods worldwide, including iphones and ipads. it is widely expected to sell its computer chip business, in a move which could help shore up the losses. but us—based western digital, which jointly runs toshiba's main chip operations in japan, has filed a request with the international court of arbitration to stop the sale going ahead. london—listed platinum producer lonmin has reported a first—half operating loss of 140.4 million pounds due to a drop in production and higher costs.
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this has also led to a 6 per cent fall in the company's liquidity. as a result, the south africa—focused miner is to move its head office from johannesburg to its operations in marikana by the end of the year, and it has also cut its spending plan for the year to a range of 1.4 billion to 1.5 billion rand from 1.8 billion rand. budget airline airasia has signed a joint venture agreement to set up a new low—cost carrier in china. it says it wants to tap in to demand in the country, which is set to overtake the us to become the world's biggest aviation market within the next decade. flying domestically within china has boomed in the past 30 to 40 years, civil aviation administration of china figures suggest that in 1982 there were fewer than four million air passenger journeys within the country. by 2016, that number had reached 487 million. japanese carmaker toyota is backing a group of engineers who are developing a flying car —— to the tune of £274, 000. the cartivator group operates outside toyota city in centraljapan. so far crowdfunding has paid for development of the so—called skydrive car, which uses drone technology and has three wheels and four rotors... flying cars are something of a flavour—of—the—month at present, with firms from the us, germany, netherlands, china and japan looking to turn science fiction into reality. back to you simon. let's take you to
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paris, the elysee palace, we awaited the new french president, emmanuel macron, scheduled to appear on the steps and it's a busy day for him, his first major role to date will be announcing the name of his prime minister. a crucial appointment for the president who needs to do well in the parliamentary elections next month to push through his parliamentary economic reforms. he will later be travelling to germany to meet the chancellor angela. this particular appointment as prime minister is seen as vitally important, we can see they are
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getting ready for the announcement. he has kept his choice of prime minister a closely guarded secret. but we are just hearing... that he has in fact named as edward philippe, the mayor of la habra. not a member of the president was my party but of the centre—right republican party, coming up on the news agency wires. it is edward philippe philip that is him. he believed the government into parliamentary elections in four weeks as prime minister. the 46 you wrote of the northern port of la havre. he's been the mayor of the area for seven years, a member of the parliament since 2012, according to our correspondent in paris he hasn't made much of an impact on the national scene but what is important
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asi national scene but what is important as i said, he's a member of the centre—right opposition republican party so that his appointment the president is trying to pull in voters ahead of the parliamentary elections in less than four weeks. eduard philippe like emmanuel macron is an economic liberal and like the new president claims to be about the little labels. before joining the centre—right team is in the socialist party, he has in the past worker and american law firm and sites bruce springsteen is his favourite musician. what that means for the new prime minister is not for the new prime minister is not for me to speculate! but anyway, that name coming out in the last few months, we will return to paris, emmanuel macron will be making that announcement formally later. now, time for the weather. good afternoon. some welcome rain
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from the atlantic, the rain setting m, from the atlantic, the rain setting in, it's been quite wet for some, this picture from worcestershire and this picture from worcestershire and this from staffordshire, the rain coming down quite hard. here is the radar picture. the heaviest rain and brightest colours in the north—west, in the south—east some sunshine, and not particularly heavy rain. in southern scotland, in that office weather warning in place, spray and service water on the roads, you might see in this writing a little bit, sunshine coming through, turning relatively warm but still pretty chilly on the eastern coast with a breeze from the north sea. northern ireland should do quite well, largely dry and quite warm, a maximum of 19 degrees, england and wales quite a lot of cloud, some heavy rain for western coasts. quite mild, 17—18d, kim that it on the high side, quite one and humid. through this evening, things
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brightening in northern ireland, the south—east are staying largely dry, in between some cloud, some breeze, rain as well. the wind coming from the south, very mild night, no law than 14 or 15 degrees but quite great, with low cloud. tomorrow, the big picture, whether france crossing the uk from the north—west towards the uk from the north—west towards the south—east, still quite a breezy day with a lot of cloud and rain sliding southwards and eastwards. showers following behind, clearing from northern ireland, sunshine developing later. the main weather front drifting to the south—east, we could see some pretty warm weather, getting into the lower middle 20s, more like 18 and 19 of the most part. thursday, you can follow this pattern towards iceland, various areas of low pressure and the uk, quite unsettled towards the end of the week, turning fresher with a
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coming from the north. some heavy showers around, some rumbles of thunder, hill mixed in with those on thursday and friday and we should see thursday and friday and we should see at least some sunshine in between potentially heavy downpours. you can get more weather news online. this is bbc news. i'm simon mccoy. the headlines at two: 11 hospital trusts in england still have problems following friday's cyber attack, but fears of a second wave appear not to have materialised. we have not seen a second wave of attacks and the level of criminal activity is at the lower end of the range that we had anticipated. microsoft say the attack should be treated by governments around the world as a "wake—up call" — russia says it was not behind the attack. theresa may promises a big expansion of workers' rights if the conservatives win the election. meanwhilejeremy corbyn pledges the nhs will receive an extra £37 billion by 2022 if labour wins injune. the new french president has
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