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the headlines on bbc news at 5:00pm: the bbc obtains cctv pictures appearing to show the manchester bomber salman abedi shopping in the hours before the attack. staff say it's the same man. looking at that cctv, it's the same guy that's been in the shop several times in the past. he looks exactly like the guy that they're saying has done the bombings. greater manchester police are searching a landfill site near bury in connection with the attack. visitors have been evacuated from hamerton zoo park in cambridgeshire after what emergency services describe a very serious incident. british airways chief executive says he's sorry about the disruption caused by a global computer meltdown but says he won't resign. also this hour: we will make a fool and exhaustive investigation and find out exactly what has happened. we will make sure this will not happen again. emmanuel
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macron says that he has had a frank discussion with vladimir putin. also this hour: tributes to the legendary blue peter presenterjohn noakes, who's died aged 83. best known for his partnership with this dog and his daredevil stunts, his family say he will be greatly missed. in the championship play—off final, huddersfield town and reading are drawing 0—0 in the battle for the place in the premier league. our main story — the bbc has obtained new cctv footage which appears to show the manchester bomber, salman abedi, shopping at a convenience store, just 36 hours before the attack. the video shows the man buying food and cleaning products in a shop close to the granby road flat
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which abedi visited in the hours before the explosion. greater manchester police say‘s it's aware of the footage and enquires are underway to establish if it's connected to their investigation. they say anyone with other footage, images or information should contact the police. and we can show you these pictures from within the last hour — which shows officers investigating last week's attack — searching a landfill site in bury. a total of 14 people are currently in custody. our home affairs correspondent june kelly has this report on the investigation. a young man in a hooded top, jogging pants and trainers, on his own on a sunday morning shop. in this footage obtained by the bbc, he looks relaxed as he is captured on cctv, browsing the shelves of the manchester convenience store. his till receipt shows he's spent £8.74 and he brought almonds, tuna, scouring pads and air freshener.
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staff in the shop believe this was salman abedi. this was the day before the bombing. while he was shopping, he was also in the final stages of planning the attack and preparing for his own death. looking at that cctv, it is the same guy who has been in the shop several times in the past. he looks exactly like the guy they say has done the bombings. his eyes stand out so much from the guy we recognise from the past. his trainers match those that salman abedi was wearing in images released by the police. here, you can see his facial features. in the police pictures he seems to be wearing some of the same clothes. by this stage, he has his bomb on his back and is on the verge of committing mass murder. who was he connected with?
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this is a pivotal question for detectives in this massive counterterrorism investigation. overnight the focus switched to the english south coast, more than 250 miles from manchester. 0fficers moved in on an address in shoreham—by—sea in sussex and arrested a man of 23. hejoins 13 others already in custody. a normal neighbour. walked past him and, hello, how are you doing? that's all i really know of him. it has emerged that five years ago concerns began to be raised with the authorities about salman abedi's extremist views. since the bombing there has been criticism of the security service mi5. it has launched two enquiries into how it examined and assessed him. he wasn't considered an immediate threat. the home secretary has refused to be drawn on possible missed opportunities. this is still a live operation, arrests are still being made. it is right mi5 will be able to look back and find out what has
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happened in the past, but at the moment i will focus on making sure we get the operation concluded and successfully so. but after the atrocity at the manchester arena, should an intelligence agency be investigating itself? at this stage, it is appropriate that it is internal. the information is so sensitive and there needs to be speed and, most importantly, they need to identify if there are threats to the uk. in the goodness of time, the intelligence and security committee of parliament would be an appropriate body to review what they come up with. there have been raids at new locations in the north of england. this was whalley range in manchester. i think they are libyans, but i don't know much about them. they collect our parcels, we collect their parcels. they are a nice family. so it is shocking to see this activity and certainly the police here. a search, as well, 30 miles
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from here in the city of chester. while the police question those suspected of an abedi link, they're trying to build up a picture of the bomber himself and his movements in the run—up to the attack. we know how he spent some of his final sunday morning, but after this, what did he do and who was he in contact with? 0ur correspondent frankie mccamley is at st ann's square in manchester. the police investigation continues, in burghley this afternoon. yes, we are hearing that more information as the day continues. 0ne are hearing that more information as the day continues. one week on from this attack in manchester. the police are searching a waste management site in a location near bury, north of manchester. looking
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at the pictures, you can see a big red tent and a number of forensics that seem like they are starving the area along with a police vehicle. —— area along with a police vehicle. —— are skara brae the ever. this investigation is very much ongoing and there was an arrest to 50 miles away in the bellies of this morning and is shows how big this investigation is becoming. 16 people in total have been arrested so far. to have been released and a0 remain in custody. —— two have been released. we are learning about the man arrested in shock and by sea. he was 23 and libyan, training to be a pilot. greater manchester police are insistent on saying that they are not slowing down. this is ongoing but still cheered you can see how
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big this operation is and how many people are affected. —— you can see behind me. a word about m15 because they are now reviewing their own role in this event. yes, m15 are saying they will carry out a review of how they handled this information. they were alerted to the name salman abedi three times and this will raise many questions. what happened to this information, was passed on correctly? who was aware of this? whether any mistakes made and goodness of been prevented? it raises many questions. salman abedi was on one list that m15 keep and there are a number of them, one contains 3000 people and says that this person is an imminent risk to
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the public. 0ne says that this person could have been at risk to the public. that is the list that salman abedi was on. amber rudd stresses that this is not a time to jump stresses that this is not a time to jump to conclusions and say that the secret service has missed something. this is a time to wait for answers and find out what these investigations and his ongoing investigations and his ongoing investigation finds in upcoming days, weeks and months. thank you. one week on from the atrocity at the manchester arena, panorama hears from concert attenders and parents and investigate the community context and the extremist islamist links behind the attack — that's at 8:30pm on bbc one. emergency services and have been called to what they have described as a serious incident at hamerton zoo park in cambridgeshire. visitors have been evacuated and an air ambulance was sent to the 25—acre wildlife park near huntingdon.
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the zoo is home to 500 animals, including a collection of malaysian and white tigers. 0ur correspondent ben ando who is at hamerton zoo for us. what's known at this stage? at the moment, very little is known officially. however, you can see behind me there is a significant police presence. they have been here since being called at 11am this month. the ambulance was also dispatched here. not immediately clear whether dated away a patient 01’ clear whether dated away a patient or casualty. —— whether they took away a patient. i'vejust or casualty. —— whether they took away a patient. i've just seen a black cover in as van arriving. this is a very serious investigation —— a black coroner's van. we are
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awaiting an updated statement from police. they said today is that they have attended a serious incident, that no animals are free and no members of the public heard. resume awe members of the public heard. resume a we would this —— presumably this would have been a busy day for the zoo. would have been a busy day for the zoo. this is a bank holiday monday and this is a popular attraction from the local area and further afield. a lot of people would have thought that a day at is a product like this would have been a nice end to the weekend. —— that a day at a park like this. these was evacuated straight after this incident. we don't yet know what happened but we understand it involves a tiger, the zoo understand it involves a tiger, the zoo has several tigers, bengal, white tigers. the zoo has been
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expanding the numbers of tigers it has. they started with two but recently they created a new land of the tigris, a very popular attraction. thank you very much. the chief executive of british airways has said a power surge in a data centre at heathrow airport was behind the it failure which has caused disruption for thousands of passengers over the bank holiday weekend. in his first interview since the problems, alex cruz said the computer failure had nothing to do with either redundancies at the airline or cost—cutting and he wouldn't be resigning. our business correspondent joe lynam reports. it is day three of the ba crisis. the queues no longer stretch outside the door and flights are taking off, but that doesn't mean the disruption is over, nor all the questions gone. it's just ridiculous. i know they are trying to accommodate us, but we had to call and book our own re—bookings. even though i already had a confirmed seat, i had to re—book my own seat, so it's pretty stressful. they could have done so much better.
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i work in it and they are blaming this on it problems. it's basic enterprise practice to have a disaster recovery solution. they should have had their communication system and their booking system in different places so they could at least send us an e—mail. just open a google mail account and send an e—mail. how hard is that? ba says it services from gatwick are back to normal, as are all long—haul flights from heathrow, but they concede that some disruption to short—haul flights, usually to continental europe, will continue today. the airline has faced mounting pressure to answer questions as to why this all happened. today, it gave its first interview. we are profusely, profusely apologetic about what has happened. we are very conscious of the hardship that many of our customers have had to go through. on saturday morning we did have a power surge in one of our data centres which affected the network and hardware
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which stopped messaging millions and millions of messages that come between all the different systems and applications within the ba network and affected all the operational systems — baggage, operations, passenger processing, etc. that is what provided the actual disruptions. mr cruz said he would not be resigning and would find out why the back—up systems had failed. the gmb union has blamed the outsourcing last year of it contracts to the indian company tata for the chaos on saturday — an accusation which mr cruz has vehemently denied. but ba will certainly have further questions to answer when the detail emerges of exactly what happened and whether corners were cut. the golfer tiger woods has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. this image was released. he was
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arrested in the early hours of this morning. he was released a view our worst litter. he has been recovering from back surgery. —— a view i was later. another round of televised election debates will take place tonight, with theresa may and jeremy corbyn facing jeremy paxman and an audience in separate a5—minute slots as part of a programme called the battle for number 10, which will be broadcast at 8:30pm on sky and channel a. 0ur political correspondent ben wright is in 0sterley in west london with more. the key thing is that they are not on together. yes, that is correct. despite repeated calls forjeremy corbyn further to be a head—to—head debate between themselves and theresa may, this is the compromise that the readers have come to with the broadcasters. sky and channel a are broadcasting the debate. also, a
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bbc question time. this will also be separate. jeremy corbyn will appear on the stage first and answer questions from the audience. jeremy paxman will grow him individually. then it is theresa may's turned to face questions from the audience. she will face questions from jeremy paxman. this will go from 8:30pm to 10p. this is when the will restart after the pause that followed the terror attack. it'll be interesting to see what the tone is, whether it will be more muted and restrained, 01’ will be more muted and restrained, or whether they will be back to their heart attacks against each other. —— their heart attacks. their heart attacks against each other. -- their heart attacks. usage isa other. -- their heart attacks. usage is a bit with an audience and with jeremy paxman, they will face some
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tough questions. you would anticipate with an audience. theresa may is not particularly used to these kinds of meat of the public queue and eggs. david cameron was good at it, fielded questions from the audience. similar terms at the last general election, he was practised at it. you don't see theresa may doing this format very much. it'll be fascinating to see how she handles questions from the audience. party strategists in both camps, this will be the part of the evening that will provide the most amount of anxiety. not thatjeremy paxman will be easier on them but the unpredictability of the audience is potentially difficult for the
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leaders of the parties. thank you very much. this is bbc news at five — the headlines: the bbc attends cctv pictures appearing to show salman abedi shopping in the hours before the attack. staff say it is the same man. visitors have been evacuated from hamerton zoo park in cambridgeshire after what emergency services describe as a very serious incident. british airways chief executive says he is sorry about the disruption caused by a global computer meltdown and says he will resign. —— says he will not resign. the former blue peter presenterjohn noakes, who hosted the show in 19605 and ‘70s, has died at the age of 83. he was the bbc children's show‘s longest—serving presenter, appearing for more than 12 years. he was best known for his daredevil stunts — and, of course, for his partnership with trusty canine friend, shep. david sillito looks back at his life. i'm upside down at 30,000 feet. i'm upside down! 0h!
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i'm sure it does me good! how's that, then? blue peter has had many presenters, butjohn noakes was special — the cheery, funny daredevil from halifax. at this level, the plinth on which nelson stands overhangs the column. i found myself literally hanging from the ladder with nothing at all beneath me. in an age with a rather relaxed attitude to health and safety, the words, "and then it was my turn..." led to some startling moments. take the moment he crashed out of a bobsleigh on the cresta run. i carried on down the track on my backside, still doing around 80 miles an hour. he had grown up near halifax, joined the raf, then trained as an actor before landing the job of presenting blue peter. the yorkshire accent and the willingness to do anything for a laugh at a time when children's television
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was rather more formal. quick, have a sniff! he also had his own programme, go with noakes, where he sampled all the pleasures of life out and about in britain. he tired of television and set off on a yacht with his wife, settling in majorca after a shipwreck. his memories of blue peter were not entirely fond. he felt he had been badly paid, under—insured and overworked. i've been doing two years of go with noakes while i was still doing blue peter. i was doing a 1a—month year. you might wonder what i'm doing up here. i'm beginning to wonder myself! occasionally, he returned to tv screens, once to answer a question, "whatever happened tojohn noakes and shep?" i have some very sad news. he died on saturday. 0h.
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i haven't got over it. no, shep, don't bite him! in truth, thejohn noakes we all knew was, in many ways, an act he was happy to say goodbye to, but that good—humoured down—to—earth daring did give us some memorable tv moments. you can feel the speed! earlier one, i spoke to mark curry, who worked on the programme during the 805. i asked him for his memories. it's always sad when a legend goe5 memories. it's always sad when a legend goes and john noakes was a legend, not just of legend goes and john noakes was a legend, notjust of children's television but also television in general. it was an exciting time for television for everybody, notjust children. the time slot television for everybody, notjust children. the time 5lotju5t before the news of blue peter meant that
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john was watched by a cross section of people. kids, adults. for most people, they watched the programme to see whatjohn would do and what his adventures were. what would you do live in the studio? he would make something happen, it wasjust scintillating viewing. did you grow up scintillating viewing. did you grow up watching him? i related to john asa up watching him? i related to john a5 a kid because i am also from yorkshire. i recognise the accent and he was just funny. i've yorkshire. i recognise the accent and he wasjust funny. i've remember himjumping around and he wasjust funny. i've remember him jumping around after a kangaroo ina him jumping around after a kangaroo in a studio. the kangaroo set of un5old john imitated him. john slipped through the mess of the elephant and turned it into a job. 20 client —— when he climbed nelson's column, it was terrifying.
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this was the days before health and 5afety. john was totally brave. i did a part i'm with him in the 19805. i asked did a part i'm with him in the 19805. iasked if did a part i'm with him in the 19805. i asked if he was scared and he said, never. i relished doing everything. —— i did a pantomime with him. when you join the programme some years after he left, we are very conscious of his legacy? ye5, you'd often get a story to do whichjohn had ye5, you'd often get a story to do which john had done ye5, you'd often get a story to do whichjohn had done before. it was like, 0k, whichjohn had done before. it was like, ok, i have to turn it into something. i was never as brave as him and! something. i was never as brave as him and i didn't do some things i was asked to do. i did some things he had done and people used to say, whenjohn did he had done and people used to say, when john did this... he had done and people used to say, whenjohn did this... i'd say, will you stop talking aboutjohn? nobody can you stop talking aboutjohn? nobody ca n follow you stop talking aboutjohn? nobody can follow in his footsteps. it was up can follow in his footsteps. it was up to us to be ourselves and not be john birt does that had grown up
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with him could hear his voice and the way he would it. you can't think of him without shep, can you?“ the way he would it. you can't think of him without shep, can you? if you think about the programme he did by himself, it was john john think about the programme he did by himself, it wasjothohn noakes sitting in a car with the dog and it was likely have some celebrity. he was likely have some celebrity. he was genuinely sad when michael should write and it was just the kind of thing you would watch on television today. it was riveting. -- it television today. it was riveting. —— it was like they had some delicacy. we willjust show you another image with reference to the investigation into manchester bombing. police have released a new image that is prompting them to seek further information from the public. they say they are releasing this
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image, on the screen, of salman abedi carrying a distinctive blue suitcase. they are also releasing an image of a replica of a case. they are image of a replica of a case. they a re interested image of a replica of a case. they are interested in his movements between the 18th—22nd of may. he visited. roll every of manchester and was seen in the city centre with this suitcase. they are saying to the members of the public, did you see him with this suitcase and where was it? you may have seen him in the willems morrow wrote every of manchester. this is clearly of significance in the police's eyes so if you have information they are asking you to contact them. president macron of france and president putin of russia have promised to take steps to improve relations between their two countries. at a press conference following talks in versailles,
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the leaders also said they would intensify efforts to solve the conflicts in syria and ukraine. in paris as our correspondence. how would you assess the meeting between these men? i would say it was frank and friendly. it was realistic, i don't think either has any illusions about them creating a blossoming friendship between the countries or at them personally but they both strike me as men that are pragmatic and realistic and what to put behind them a period of very poor relations between france and russia and create a new start. while they talked about theseissues a new start. while they talked about these issues of ukraine and syria, these issues of ukraine and syria, theseissues these issues of ukraine and syria, these issues that have divided them
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strongly, they talked on the same language about trying to create common action to find solutions and so on, that was the extent of that. it was a language they were using, certainly no concrete propositions, as far as certainly no concrete propositions, as farasi certainly no concrete propositions, as far as i could see. that didn't matter, as far as they were concerned, it was a first meeting to get to know each other and create a new mood between the two countries that might bear fruit new mood between the two countries that might bearfruit in more concrete form. the bristled tenements are interesting. it's no secret that president putin certainly didn't want emmanuel macron to become president of france. in the drugs that they had —— in the box that they had, a p pa re ntly —— in the box that they had, apparently it wasn't addressed at all. i can't see a emmanuel macron wanting to make an issue out of it. it was very much brought up in the
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press co nfe re nce it was very much brought up in the press conference and i think macron knew it would be brought up. they we re knew it would be brought up. they were on the offensive from the french journalists in which they had to justify meeting marine le french journalists in which they had tojustify meeting marine le pen and he had to wriggle out the propaganda against macron. it did look rather awkward and meanwhile macron looked uncomfortable but you could see she secretly took pleasure because it written in a morally high position. a russian journalist asked why certain it russian journalists a russian journalist asked why certain it russianjournalists had been kept from his headquarters and he said that they were instruments ofa he said that they were instruments of a propaganda machine and that isn't journalism. of a propaganda machine and that isn'tjournalism. a of a propaganda machine and that isn't journalism. a frank way of a propaganda machine and that isn'tjournalism. a frank way of addressing the russian president, and he was standing beside. he said
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thatis and he was standing beside. he said that is what he wants, they went to work ina that is what he wants, they went to work in a pragmatic fashion on every is on which they can agree. disappointingly cloudy this afternoon for bank holiday monday. outbreaks of rain continued to move northwards across northern ireland and scotland and northern england. heavy, maybe thundery showers clearing away from the midlands and northern england as we head into this evening and the first part of the night. a little bit dryer and a south but mist and murk across northern areas. a fairl mild night across the south and fresher in the north and the west. a dry start for many on tuesday, some sunshine. weather front pushing in the atlantic will bring rain initially to northern ireland and then to scotland and as it clears through it will allow sunshine and showers to move in but the rain band fizzling out as it reaches england and wales. so here, a little bit of cloud, one of two showers. fairly warm in the south—east. fresher in the north and west but bright to compensate. high pressure builds
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in for wednesday and thursday so it is looking dry with warm spells of sunshine for most. good evening, this is the bbc news. the headlines at 5:30pm... police have released a picture of the manchester bomber salman abedi with a suitcase. they say there is reason to believe the contents are dangerous but advise caution. the bbc has also obtained cctv pictures appearing to show the manchester bomber salman abedi shopping in the hours before the attack. staff say it's the same man. looking at that cctv, it's the same guy that's been in the shop several times in the past. he looks exactly like the guy that they're saying has done the bombings. vistors have been evacuated from hamerton park zoo in cambridgeshire amid reports of a "very serious incident". police and an air ambulance have been seen at the scene.
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the chief executive of british airways says sorry for disruption after an it failure. alex cruz said the computer issues had nothing to do with either redundancies at the airline or cost cutting. golf superstar tiger woods has been arrested in florida on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to records from the palm beach county sheriff's office. we have an update at hamerton park zoo. a doctor and paramedic team was called to what has been described as a very serious incident. this is the latest statement out in the last few moments. an ambulance, too rapid response vehicles and announcements we re response vehicles and announcements were in attendance alongside the police. we can confirm that the
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visitors to the zoo were safely evacuated and we can also confirmed that no animals escaped the enclosure and no children were injured. no further information is offered at this time. but that is the latest that we have on that situation. that is at the zoo park in cambridgeshire. 0ur correspondent ben and all is there as you would have seen already in this half an hour and we will speak to him later. time for the latest sports news. here is james pearce. thank you. it's billed as the richest match in football. the championship play—off final between huddersfield and reading has gone to extra time at wembley, with a place in next season's premier league at stake. it's been tense. by far the best chance of the match so far has fallen to huddersfield's izzy brown, but he somehow managed to poke his shot wide from just a couple of yards out when it seemed easier to score. chances have been limited. it's been cagey, with chris gunter‘s late headerfor reading
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fairly typical of what had gone before it... garath mccleary has gone courses for reading in the second half but it still remains goalless. looking like heading to penalties. —— gone closest. northern ireland have called up southend's adam thompson and accrington's shay mccartan for their coming internationals against new zealand and azerbaijan. mccartan — seen here scoring in the fa cup — scored ten times in his last 18 games of the season in league two. he could make his international debut with fellow strikers conor washington and jamie ward unavailable. here's the squad in full... west brom's gareth mcauley has been included despite concerns over a knee injury that meant he missed the baggies' final two games of the season. burton defender tom flanagan is another potential debutant. they play new zealand on friday in a friendly, then take on azerbaijan in a world cup group c qualifier on 10thjune. england's cricketers have been soundly beaten in the third and final one—day international
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against south africa at lord's. england were skittled forjust 153 with south africa racing to victory by seven wickets with more than 21 overs to spare. england had already won the series. jim lumsden reports. the tourists won the toss and chose to bowl. penguin's slow start proceeded to stutter and stall as skipper eoin morgan join the retreat. alex hales conked out and left england on 15—a. this was the third and fourth wickets. firstjos buttler and rashid. england any hole on 20—6. the earnings were made west embarrassing byjonny bairstow and a stylish debut from toby rowland jones. but they were 153 all out after just 15 overs. jones. but they were 153 all out afterjust 15 overs. south africa began their reply. 0n
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afterjust 15 overs. south africa began their reply. on his return, robinjones was presented by the first wicket. it was merely the name the inevitable. england slipped to a seventh wicket defeat. key players had been arrested but nevertheless, hardly ideal preparation for the champions trophy which begins on thursday. britain's aliash bedene has won his first round match of the french open, beating american ryan harrison by three sets to one. bedene eased into a two set lead — winning the second by 6 games to love injust 18 minutes — the american winning only seven points. harrison pulled a set back but the british number three, who's ranked 10 places below harrison in the world rankings at 52, had no problems with the fourth to progress to the second round. i was playing well. he gave me two games and made some silly errors. the people saw that and it is never
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easy to start off in the third set after some mistakes. that was a tactic and it worked. defending men's champion novak djokovic had an easy time of it in his opening match. he dropped just nine games in easing past spain's marcel granollers, who's ranked 77th in the world. and rafael nadal launched his bid for a record 10th french open title with a convincing straight sets victory over benoit paire. it's three years since his last tournament win here but the fourth seed is many people's favourite, having already won three clay—court titles this season. meanwhile, women's champion garbine muguruza got her defence off to a winning start. she eased past the 2010 winner francesca schiavone in straight sets. and czech second seed karolina pliskova is safely through — she beat china's zheng saisai in straight sets. pliskova will bid to reach the third round at roland garros for the first time when she faces russia's ekaterina alexandrova in the next round.
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there are five matches today in rugby league's super league, the catalans dragons take on hull fc at seven o'clock but the league leaders, castleford tigers, are currently in action. they've dominated leigh centurions who are one off the bottom of the table. winger greg eden has been virtually unstoppable — he scored three tries in four minutes in the first half, his fourth hat—trick in four games... and he's gone on to score again in the second half. castleford currently 38—0 up with 20 minutes to go. three results already in... salford won at struggling warrington to tighten their grip on second place. leeds lost 28—20 at widnes but hang on to 3rd place on points difference from wakefield, who won at wigan to move up to ath. it's also been reported that tiger
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woods has been arrested in florida ona drinks woods has been arrested in florida on a drinks driving charge. he has been released. he has recently been recovering from back surgery and blogged about his health on the 2ath of may. more on that and the rest of the sport on the bbc website. i will have more bitter on this evening. goodbye. thank you, james. with events in manchester focusing minds on national security, the liberal democrats have this morning accused the conservatives of potentially weakening our ability to tackle terrorism because of their approach to the brexit negotiations. the former deputy prime minister, nick clegg, says britain could be excluded from accessing a vital eu wide criminal data base if theresa may insists on leaving the jurisdiction of the european court ofjustice. here's our political correspondent eleanor garnier. terrorists have attacked across europe. countries like france, belgium and sweden, as well as the uk, have all been targeted in recent years. as britain prepares for brexit, the lib dems are warning
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we could end up cut off from important security information. they claim the conservatives have some explaining to do. i think it's important before the election they're actually forced to answer specific questions. how do you keep people safe? how do you continue to have access to these databases if, at the same time, you don't want to abide by the rules by which those databases operate? the schengen information system is a database of real—time alerts. it contains information on thousands of people, including suspected criminals wanted under the european arrest warrant. and it's used by countries across the eu, plus a handful of others with special access. the eu's leaders and the prime minister have said continued cooperation on security is a priority in the brexit talks. today, the conservatives insisted it's in the eu's interest to get a good deal agreed.
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when we leave the european union, we will need to have a new form of agreement to make sure that we have access to those information databases and that the information databases which will be part of the eu have access to the information that we can feed into them as well. in the wake of the attack in manchester, security and counterterrorism are likely to stay high on the campaign agenda. the challenge for whoever wins — keeping the public safe at home and abroad. staying with the campaign... tonight, ukip's paul nuttall will be the latest party leader to face questions from andrew neil. speaking about the party's views on counter—terrorism, mr nuttall said he "wouldn't rule out internment" for terrorism suspects, adding he "wouldn't take anything off the table". do you agree with another of your meps, roger helmer? he says that it is, "time to think the unthinkable and just lock up suspected terrorists." well, when you read this morning that there are a suspected 23,000 jihadis who could be living amongst us — obviously, m15 are stretched
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to capacity at this present moment in time... i think we must look at ways of ensuring that our people are safe, whether that is a return to... so... hold on, let me finish. whether that is a return to control orders, whether that is tagging these people, or, who knows, in the future, maybe a return to internment. a return to internment? well, look, we are in a situation now where we are being told that there are 23,000 possible suspects on our streets who want to do us harm. now, when you consider it costs roughly £1 million each year to have 24/7 surveillance on these people, we are talking a vast amount of money. maybe, andrew, we are just living in a different society. i am not saying that now is the time to return to this, but i would not rule it out in the future. right, so you would not rule out internment, perhaps for thousands of british citizens. you are aware that when internment was introduced in northern ireland in 1971, it was the biggest recruiting sergeant for the ira ever, you do know that?
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but look, what i'm saying is, in the future, not now... maybe we can tag these people now, maybe we can return to control orders, but, you know, i would not take anything off of the table in the future because unless we get a grip on this, what happened in manchester the other night — which is part of my constituency — could become commonplace and that is the last thing we want to see. and you can see paul nuttall‘s interview with andrew neil at seven o'clock this evening on bbc one. the headlines... police have released a picture of the manchester bomber salman abedi with a suitcase. they say there is reason to believe the contents are dangerous but advise caution. the bbc has also obtained cctv pictures appearing to show the manchester bomber salman abedi shopping in the hours before the attack. staff say it's the same man.
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vistors have been evacuated from hamerton park zoo in cambridgeshire amid reports of a "very serious incident". a statement says no animals escaped the enclosure. an update on the market numbers for you — here's how london's and frankfurt ended the day. and in the the united states this is how the dow and the nasdaq are getting on. now it's time for the film review. 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.
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why? 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.
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hand me your sword. 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.
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do you think this gag is so fabulous it's going to take five movies? 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.
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there is a real feeling that i suspect even people who are real 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?
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long enough ago that when it was on i didn't have a television. it's a sort of post—modern reboot in the manner of 21 jump street. zac efron is a disgraced 0lympian, 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.
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it is a two—hour movie 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
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of bittersweet comedy. what i like about this is that 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
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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, 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.
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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, 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.
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and that awkwardness is very deliberate. the theatricality is on purpose. it's a multilayered film. it's not immediately accessible, 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. 0k, 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. hello, it has been a disappointingly
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crowded day up and down the country. there was a little bit of sunshine around, the best of it was across east anglia and the south—east. it did boost the temperatures. some sunshine across the north of scotla nd sunshine across the north of scotland as well. we can see the wind of brightness in the south—east has been replaced by cloud and rain through the afternoon, some heavy bursts across the south—west of england. feeding northwards into the midlands. you can see our breaks of rain across northern ireland and scotland. quite a messy picture through the afternoon. the showers and thunderstorms will rattle on into the evening across the midlands. the rain is slowly pulling away from northern ireland. it will be some cloud behind and one or two showers. quite a bit and dreary end to the day from much of scotland. that rain getting into the north as well. 0utbreaks that rain getting into the north as well. 0utbrea ks of that rain getting into the north as well. outbreaks of rain across the northern and eastern areas of england, heavy showers contending for a while in the midlands. drier in the south—west. and also into wales. the first part is across the
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south—east in it, warm and muggy with the odd outburst of rain but clouds during the day. into the evening and overnight, conditions starting to dry up across the south, the rain is very slowly clearing from the north, leaves cloud behind and further showers, at times locog, mrand murk. and further showers, at times locog, mr and murk. generally speaking i think it will be a fairly mild night, certainly across the south. that weather system will clear, we look to the west to the speech which will bring a spell of rain to the north and west of the uk. isobars are tightly packed so it could be a breezy day, particularly for scotla nd breezy day, particularly for scotland and northern ireland. we start on a vinyl for england and wales, 12 spells of sunshine, that weather front moves across northern ireland, into scotland, fizzling out as it reaches england and wales. behind we will see some sunny spells, one or two showers. behind that a one and muggy field, 21 or 22 degrees. that feature clears during
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tuesday evening, a bit of a windy end to do the across the northern half of the duty and then high pressure builds on from the start. that is for wednesday. for wednesday and thursday, it looks like it will mainly be dry, warm spells of sunshine before maureen returns from the west on friday. 1968 firearms act maureen returns. —— more rain returns. this is bbc news. the headlines at six: police release a picture of the manchester bomber carrying a blue suitcase, asking whether anyone saw him with it between the 18th and 22nd of may. the bbc has obtained cctv pictures appearing to show salman abedi shopping in the hours before the attack. hamerton zoo in cambridgeshire has been evacuated as police deal with what they say
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is a "very serious incident". british airways chief executive says he's sorry about the disruption caused by a global computer meltdown — but says he won't resign. will make a fool, exhaustive investigation and find out exactly what happened and make sure this will never happen again. tributes to
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