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this is bbc news. the headlines. touche airways says it believes are power issue caused the computer failure that left thousands of passengers stranded. there is no evidence of a cyber attack. the british authorities have lowered the threat level from critical to severe, following police success in arresting seven people over the manchester awning. the german led —— chancellor says six members were still unsure whether donald trump will pick to the paris accord. over 100 people have been killed into rancour in flooding. and maybe ship is carrying medical teams and emergency supplies. coming up in a few minutes is the film review. before that in his series of election take aways, nick
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robinson has been meeting groups of voters to share a meal and chew over mystics. nick meets seven people to represent the so—called jams, those who are just about managing. i hope you like fish and chips because this is what you are getting. well, it is fish and chips for the latest of my takeaway. i'd specify there had to be mushy peas. if you had to describe how you were, how you were doing in your family, does it feel like it is pretty easy at the moment? you're shaking your head.
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struggling. every single month, you're constantly thinking can i afford £20 on my oyster card, £10 on my oyster card if you want to go out for the evening. can i afford this? you are always plate—spinning. that's what i call it. sometimes i wonder how come it is so ha rd sometimes i wonder how come it is so hard and people with jobs like us shouldn't be struggling as much as we are. we are working families. we chose you because you were alljust about managing. not coincident. is there anything you have heard that you think will help you, that will make a difference to you? you think will help you, that will make a difference to you ?|j you think will help you, that will make a difference to you? i couldn't see myself eating fish and chips with chorizo me. i'd could see myself sitting in front ofjeremy
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corbyn. i don't think he has got leadership credentials. i cup my finger on it. i've felt let down when the whole exit the happened. he disappeared. he is a receiver. theresa may only seems to give out messages and she is not this meant anything, then back. what about promises the tories have made? she has put me off further and further. i've experienced the conservatives andl i've experienced the conservatives and i vex the event labour. i know that when labour is in power, i am better off. i don't want to vote for a person rather than the party. i wa nt to a person rather than the party. i want to look at the manifesto i think, is that right for me and my
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family and my community? if you are choosing on the man or woman.“ family and my community? if you are choosing on the man or woman. if it was just the man of the woman, purely, it would be the woman. when she first came in, i thought girl power. but, for me, now, it is a trust issue. can i trust her? she has done a lot of back tracking. all of you, thank you very much indeed. that is it from the election take aways. now you've got to decide. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so mark, what do we have this week? as i'm sure you must have noticed, there is a new pirates of the caribbean movie coming into cinemas. why?
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laughter. baywatch goes from small screen to big screen. and aki kaurismaki's the other side of hope. let's kick off with the pirates of the caribbean, they are billing it as jack searching for the trident of poseidon. every single one of these films — this is the fifth — has a search, a quest. this time it's for the trident of poseidon. the last time we were with pirates of the caribbean, it was one that everyone felt was like an afterthought. the reason we are back is because these movies make a huge amount of money. we have some of the old cast, some new faces. but generally the same old story. yes, there is a curse, a quest, some goings—on. here is a clip. i need to speak with you. hand me your sword.
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i don't have a sword. what kind of soldier has no weapon? i'm currently wanted for treason. so not the very good kind, then. i'm looking for a pirate. captainjack sparrow? well, today is your lucky day. because ijust happen to be captain jack sparrow. no, it can't be. i've spent years searching for this? the great jack sparrow is not some drunk in a cell. do you even have a ship? a crew? pants? a great pirate does not require such intricacies. do you know how long i've been waiting for this moment? the audiences love it, so give them more and more? have you seen the other pirates movies? i think i saw the first one, a long time ago. thought it was all right, but i didn't need more. do you think this gag is so fabulous it's going to take five movies?
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firstly, i was never a fan of the first one, the second and third i found increasingly annoying, and the fourth just felt like a postscript. you havejohnny depp doing that same performance that has been getting more and more broad during the various movies. when he first started doing it, everyone said he was like keith richards from the rolling stones. it has become more and more like a pantomime. his accent seems to have gone to the other side of the world. he sounded positively australian in some moments. you also get the classic thing of, we need to relaunch the franchise, let's have intertwining plots, and all the way through you're thinking, just give me a narrative that actually makes some sense. the weird thing about the pirates movies is they feel quite so mechanical and soulless. understandably, they come from a ride originally, they are an attempt to take that and put it on the screen. there is a real feeling that i suspect even people who are real
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fans of the pirates of the caribbean series will feel they have seen this before and done better. i've never been a fan of them, but i think even fans will start to think, for heaven's sake, do we have to do this all over again? actually, it is one of those movies in which you can almost see the accountants totting up the sums. putting this thing together. it's like an abacus. there is no new wit or invention. a lot of the script sounds like offcuts from carry on movies. you can take lines from this and carry on columbus and they are the same scriptwriting pattern. it's not the worst of the movies, it's not the best of the pirates of the caribbean movies — boringly in the middle, with emphasis on the boring. we get that! something else we have seen before is baywatch, a long—running sort of kitsch classic tv series, what, 25 years ago? long enough ago that when it was on i didn't have a television. it's a sort of post—modern reboot
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in the manner of 21 jump street. zac efron is a disgraced olympian, a celebrity to bring attention to them. his character doesn't believe in teamwork. you know that over the course of the movie, they will find some sort of affectionate bond, and this will be driven by a long and rather creaky crime plot, because it's a feature film, therefore it has to have a crime plot. it's not particularly good, but not particularly bad either. i counted five times during this movie that i laughed, five times more than i thought i would. it's nothing like as consistently funny as 21 jump street, but zac efron and dwayne "the rock" johnson are quite funny. there is a slightly sharp thing about the fact there is a lot of camera ogling, but it's zac efron who is being ogled. it is a two—hour movie
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that is at least one hour and five minutes too long. if it was a 55——minute tv special, they might have got away with it. i have seen worse. i did at least laugh a few times, which is more than i can say about pirates of the caribbean. when you describe it as post—modern, i'm sure the makers of the film will be flattered. i'm sure that that was how it was pitched in the first place. it's a post—modern redo. now, the other side of hope. this is a sort of comedy about europe's refugee crisis. it's aki kaurismaki, an interesting writer—director. if you are familiar with him, you will know his kind of deadpan comedy. it's essentially a story about a young man from syria who arrives in finland, processed by the authorities, bullied on the street by thugs, but embraced by the displaced community who try to show him the ropes. here is a clip. you get a sense of that kind of bittersweet comedy. what i like about this is that
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on the one hand it is very sensitive and humane, and it feels real. it feels like a story about a character you can believe in. it also has that aki kaurismaki off—kilter sense of the world. it's laugh out loud funny in some places, when you don't expect it to be. the central character then meets up with a finnish businessmen who decides he will buy a failing restaurant, which he attempts to make work by doing various things. at one point he decides to make it a sushi restaurant, and he doesn't have sushi so they make salted herring instead. there are these absurd moments, but it's a story about dispossessed people and the way in which strange friendships can be forged. it has beautiful use of music. at one point you get buskers in the street and the blues band in a bar who seem to offer a kind of greek chorus commentary. there's a lovely moment in a migrant reception centre where somebody starts playing a tune which takes a runaway to lost, distant lands. it's beautifully put together,
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visually crisp and clear in that kind of hyper real style. it's very, very difficult to get that balance between tragedy and comedy, between smiles and tears. but it genuinely manages to do both those things. the funny moments are funny, and the tragic moments are profoundly moving. it's very humane and touching. i think anybody could get on with it. it's a really, really good film. what is best out at the moment? i will say this for the last week, it won't be in cinemas for too much longer. it's the levelling. i want people to see it on the big screen if they can. it's a story about a young woman who goes back to a family farm where she has unresolved family issues. fantastic performances, beautifully shot, wonderful soundscape, wonderful sound design. you need to see it on the big screen because so much of what's going on is going on in the sound, the sound of the wind,
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the rain, the farm itself. and you do lose that off the big screen. i think the director is a major talent, she was described as a rising star of tomorrow ten years ago by screen international. it's taken her that long to make this feature film. it's a great piece of work, the levelling. and best dvd? jackie. when i reviewed this the first time round, it took me two viewings to get to grips with it. one of the things i love about it is the score, which is brilliant. a lot of attention on the central performance. which when i first saw it, i thought it felt strangely stilted, maybe a bit over—theatrical. second time round, i realised it's a film about a woman in a position whereby she has to perform certain roles. and that awkwardness is very deliberate. the theatricality is on purpose. it's a multilayered film. it's not immediately accessible,
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but it really does, the more you watch it the more you find in it. which is another reason why if you saw it in the cinema and weren't crazy about it, it's worth watching again at home. it stands up on the small screen. ok, mark. thank you so much. you can find all of our previous programmes on the iplayer. and also more online. that's all from us, thank you for watching, goodbye. hype rashad brought us pretty impressive temperatures this week.
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-- high impressive temperatures this week. —— high pressures. temperatures reaching close to 30 celsius. a thundery break has taken place into the weekend. impressive thunderstorms around. flash flooding, too. that will continue its journey northwards as we head into sunday. a rigid high—pressure settling things down before we get further and we rain later on sunday and into monday. sunday is itself, central areas will see sunshine. cloudy across scotland and northern ireland. cooler than it has been of late. a bit of like, patchy rain in the northern isles. a little sunshine across southern scotland and northern england. pretty pleasa nt and northern england. pretty pleasant through the midlands but further south, heavy rain and under storms. temperatures barely warm,
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around the low to mid 20s across the south—east. looking pretty wild during the course of sunday night as this front of the rain goes northwards into parts of southern scotland. we could see torrential downpours and flash flooding. marquee in the south. cooler and fresher in scotland. —— muddy. we could see a return to thunderstorms across the south—eastern —— later in the day as temperatures reach the mid—20s. cooler and fresher further north and west. from tuesday onwards, things turn quieter. white winds, touch fresher, one of two showers around. this area of low pressure will bring a fresh appeal to conditions on tuesday. a fresh westerly wind and a fresh weather
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front will introduce a band of rain which will move through quite quick lee, 20 to 22 degrees in the south—east but cooler and fresher in the north. by the middle part of the week, signs of high pressure building ina week, signs of high pressure building in a game so we will see the winds turn lighter, a good deal of sunshine around and temperatures will rise as well, the dictator england and wales where once again across the south and south—east, it could be between 23 and 26 degrees. cooler in the north. on thursday, this area of low pressure goes across western parts of the uk, for easier, more clouding northern ireland. fine day with sunshine. we are in between weather systems, it could be further west or eastwards. as we head into the next weekend,
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high—pressure establishes itself again over the near continent with the pressure moving in across the north—west corner of the uk to bring spells of rain and wind. turning more settled towards next weekend with rain at times, mainly across the north and west of the uk with more sunshine across the south and the east. cooler, particularly where you have the wind and the rain. police release new images of the manchester bomber and ask the public for help in tracing his movements. the cctv pictures of salman abedi were taken on the night he murdered 22 people at the manchester arena. as police make more arrests and speak of significant progress, the terrorism threat level is reduced from critical to severe. the public should be clear about what this means. a threat level of severe means an attack is highly likely. the country should remain vigilant. the mother of one teenage victim of the bombing has described how she tried to comfort her dying daughter.
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i was rubbing her hands, rubbing her tummy and i was rubbing herface. all the images are so vivid now. we'll have the latest from manchester. also tonight, bank holiday chaos, as british airways cancels all flights from heathrow and gatwick, because of a global computer failure. there's giroud pulling it back! and no double for chelsea — it's a stunning victory for their london rivals arsenal, in the fa cup final at wembley. good evening. police, investigating the terror attack in manchester, have tonight released cctv images of salman abeidi, the man who carried out the bombing,
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on the night of the attack. they are appealing for information on his movements in the days before. detectives said they were building up a detailed picture of abedi, his associates, finances, and the wider conspiracy behind the attack. earlier, two more people were arrested. from manchester, our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds, reports. in a crowd, he would barely have been noticed. this is the manchester bomber, on the night he murdered 22 children, women, and men. a rucksack on his back, he'd flown in from libya five days before. police have released this picture, its background removed because they want information about what he did in that time. day and night they've crisscrossed manchester, raiding buildings, arresting people. this was moss side this morning. the area was cordoned off for a while with a bomb disposal team on stand—by.
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there is no letting up. there were three more arrests overnight. we now have 11 men in custody. there is now 17 searches either concluded or continuing on various addresses, largely in the north—west of the country. in another raid this morning, armed officers blew open this door in cheetham hill, a suburb in north manchester. about three o'clock, i heard a blast. waking neighbours and making yet more arrests. local people have helped us establish the identities of the 20 and 22—year—old men arrested here last night and we've already been able to establish a link between one of them and a member of salman abedi's family. that's the pattern of the police investigation. start with the bomber, find out who his friends and acquaintances are, and arrest them. police are increasingly confident. tonight they revealed that, after the bombing at 10:33pm on monday night, forensic officers went straight in to examine the aftermath.
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within two hours, they'd identified the bomber, possibly from id found on his body. they've tracked his movements from the family home to the flat he's said to have rented before disappearing to libya, returning on the 18th of may, to move into a city centre apartment where the bomb was likely put together. they've pieced together his network. friends and relatives are in custody. they're gathering financial evidence of who backed him but, crucially, they now know how the bomb was put together. that will help them judge the ongoing threat of another attack. people continue, as requested, to report their concerns. tonight again, the police were checking suspicious items, this time near manchester's main station. the bomb disposal team again on stand—by. and tom symonds is at the greater manchester police headquarters now. how significant is tonight's release of this image of the bomber?” how significant is tonight's release of this image of the bomber? i think it's pretty significant because it
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shows what he looked like on that night, possibly the night when he walked out of this city centre apartment to the manchester arena and carried out that bombing. he may have walked down this street wearing those clothes. and police clearly wa nt to those clothes. and police clearly want to know a little bit more about that night and those five days that precreeded it when he lived here and built the bomb. they hope showing the pictures will bring forward information. they said tonight they have a thousand police officers and staff working on this investigation. they've come from all over the country. they're working round the clock, 14—hour shifts. but that is the reality of a terrorism investigation when there is potentially an imminent threat of another terrorist act. tom, thank you very much. the prime minister has announced that the threat level facing the uk is being reduced from critical to severe, following the significant progress in the investigation. it means that an attack is no longer regarded as imminent but remains highly likely.
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in manchester, more flowers were laid in memory of the 22 victims of the attack. and the parents of 18—year—old georgina callendar, who died in the bombing, paid a moving tribute to their daughter. judith moritz reports. visible and armed, the police out on the streets, there both to protect and reassure the crowds. the threat level has been lowered, an attack considered highly likely rather than imminent. but soldiers will continue to support the police until monday at midnight. the independentjoint terrorism analysis centre has this morning taken the decision to reduce the threat level from critical to severe. the public should be clear about what this means — a threat level of severe means an attack is highly likely. the country should remain vigilant. it means that 1300 events, happening across the country this weekend, will remain under heightened security. at wembley, the fa cup,
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between arsenal and chelsea, passed off peacefully. at the let's rock festival in shrewsbury, the police mingled with the audience. and every one of the 50,000 spectators at radio 1's big weekend in hull are being searched at least once. the effect of the arena attack has been felt by millions of people and thousands have now been to pay their respects to those who died. 18—year—old georgina callander was killed in the blast. her mum was frantically trying to find her after the concert. today, she spoke about the moment that she discovered her daughter. there she was on the stretcher. they were working, doing resuscitation and taking her down the stairs. i was just screaming
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and shouting at her. i was rubbing her hands. i was rubbing her tummy. i was rubbing herface. all the images are so vivid now. i can see everything. this evening, the teenager's parents laid their flowers alongside the others at the memorial which has become a focal point for manchester's grief. and then balloons flying free. there was applause, respect and love for a family needing comfort at this, the hardest of times. tonight, people are still arriving here to bring flowers, to pause and to reflect. tomorrow the mood in this city may feel a little different. 30,000 runners are due to
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pound the streets for the great manchester run. but the victims of the arena attack won't be forgotten, asa the arena attack won't be forgotten, as a minute's silence is held for them at the start line. judith, thank you very much. thousands of british airways passengers around the world have been stranded or had their flights cancelled, after a massive computerfailure. all flights from heathrow and gatwick were grounded for the day, bringing bank holiday misery for travellers. the airline says it's working to resolve the problem but has yet to confirm when the it will be fixed. here's our business correspondent, joe lynam. this is what happens after a catastrophic it failure: thousands of ba passengers starting their long bank holiday weekend. queues of people snaking out of the door at terminal 5 in heathrow. people have been standing in the queues for up to 70, 90, 120 minutes in some cases. the queue stretches from the check—in desks out to the back of the terminal and down in front of the terminal,
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