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a huge crowd watching them in the somerset sunshine. # upside down. # boy, you turn me... it's not just people famous from the world of music who have been performing at this year's festival. yes, that's american film and tv star kiefer sutherland playing country music with his band. he said performing at glastonbury was particularly special. it is almost like being invited into a part of history. closing this year, ed sheeran. his headline set an emotional climax to a festival that won't be back until 2019. # they say... crowd sings along. lizo mzimba, bbc news, glastonbury. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz schafernaker. they got away with the weather
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because it's going downhill, it is quite often muddy there but this year it was dry most of the time, the clouds rolling and of the atlantic, this picture earlier on from cornwall, very cloudy skies. nice picture from scarborough. still some beautiful weather around but the clouds rolling in, thejet strea m the clouds rolling in, thejet stream is pushing in weather systems, this week, not looking too great. gardens will get a watering but so will we. this is the first weather front heading our way, moving in the direction of northern ireland, you will be the first to get the rain, right now you can see it's clear across most of the uk, let's start with the south west, glastonbury ending nicely dry today, sunshine across the south—east, right now beautiful weather across
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many parts of the country, low 20s in london, the teams are most of us. a few showers across northern england and scotland. just peppering. northern ireland is quickly going downhill, clouds rolling in, we are going to focus on this because it will be raining quite hard through the course of this evening and overnight across this evening and overnight across this northern part of the country, from about rush hour on words, soggy in belfast and then it moves into carlisle and the lowlands, quite a bit of rain across lancashire generally, the lake district, clipping northern parts of wales as well. in the south it's looking dry so well. in the south it's looking dry so if you read your washing out in the south it should be fine. tomorrow we are in between weather systems, compromised by two areas of low pressure which is never good. the rain moves across the north, to the south we might get thunderstorms, the basic message tomorrow is a lot of cloud, a lot of
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hit and miss rain, tomorrow is a lot of cloud, a lot of hitand miss rain, cannot tomorrow is a lot of cloud, a lot of hit and miss rain, cannot tell you exactly what time it will happen but if you're out for a length of time ta ke if you're out for a length of time take an umbrella. those compromising areas low pressure are still with us on wednesday and they are stuck, they have decided to sit on top of they have decided to sit on top of the uk, they are on wednesday, central area is quite heavy, that band of rain will stick around through the course of wednesday and into thursday, by the end of the week it will be lingering. dark clouds, unsettled, spells of rain and it will be cool, would feel summery at all. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me — and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. if hello, live from the bbc sports centre, here is the latest.
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sebastian vettel has been urged to calm down after his punishment for dangerous driving at the azerbaijan grand prix. that was the suggestion of the race winner daniel ricciardo out the collision between fettle and his main title rival lewis hamilton, which dominated the post race discussion. both drivers blamed each other but only sebastian vettel was penalised, hamilton describing him asa penalised, hamilton describing him as a disgrace but sebastian vettel finished ahead of him to extend his lead in the standings to 14 points. if he wanted to prove that he is a man, i think we should do it out of the car, face—to—face. driving dangerously which in any way can put another driver at risk, if we were going faster it could've been a lot worse. imagine all the young kids watching to see that behaviour from the four—time world champion. i think that says it all. wimbledon hopefuls have started qualifying at roehampton today. among them marcus willis, who made such an impact at last year's championships. he's facing the world number 146 andrej martin of slovakia in the first round.
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he hasjust he has just taken the first set, 7-5. the brits haven't made a good start to the wimbledon warm—up event at eastbourne. kyle edmund has been beaten by the american donald young. the british number two lost the first set 6—4 but won the second 6—3. but the world number 55 soon broke edmund and went on to take the deciding set by six games to three. wildcard naomi broady lost in the first round against kristyna pliskova. the czech took the first 6—2, and whilst broady took the second on a tie—break, pliskova won the decider 6—1. what a big week it's going to be for the british and irish lions. they face the hurricanes tomorrow before the must—win second test on saturday with the all blacks.
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lions coach warren gatland criticised their opponent's tactics after the first test defeat — but all blacks coach steve hansen hit back, live on new zealand radio. it was predictable comments from gatland. two weeks ago, we cheated in the scrums, now he is saying that. it is disappointing because he is implying that we are intentionally going out to injure somebody and that is not the case. we have never been like that and as a new zealander, i would expect him to know that they are not intentionally trying to hurt anybody. it's about playing hard and fair. gatland says he plans on speaking to the referee ahead of the game. the players, well, they seem to be just getting on with it. physicality is one of the main components of rugby and i think everyone knew they use it in abundance. i don't think they take
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it too far. sometimes, you know, in a moment, people may stick out an arm and hit someone high, it is not intentional and once it is not intentional, people make mistakes, but obviously it is up to the officials what happens on the pitch. crystal palace will officially name former ajax and inter coach frank de boer as their new boss this afternoon. he was the first choice of chairman steve parish and succeeds sam allardyce, who left after keeping palace in the premier league. at the women's cricket world cup, defending champions and favourites australia are taking on the west indies in taunton. the west indies we re indies in taunton. the west indies were all out for 204 after 47 overs, haley matthews top scoring with 46. perry took four wickets for the aussies. that is all the sports no, i will be back the next hour. thank you very much, much was bored
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throughout the afternoon. —— much was bored. a deal has been signed between the conservatives and the democratic unionist party, which will support theresa may's minority government in parliament. a short while ago, the prime minister met senior dup figures inside downing street to finalise the details. let's take a look at some of the key points. the deal will take the form of a so—called "confidence and supply" arrangement — under which the dup‘s ten mps will vote with the conservatives on important votes. there will be no change to the pensions triple lock and winter fuel allowance, which had been part of the conservatives' election manifesto — the dup wanted it to remain. an extra £1 billion will be spent on northern ireland as part of the arrangement. ouraim in these our aim in these negotiations has been to deliver for our aim in these negotiations has been to deliverfor all of our aim in these negotiations has been to deliver for all of the people of northern ireland. and the support measures which we are announcing will be to the benefit of all our people. they will boost the
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economy and invest in new infrastructure, as well as investing in the future of our health and education sectors and a range of other measures. we welcome this financial support of £1 billion in the next two years, as well as providing new flexibilities on almost £,500 previously committed to northern ireland. as a consequence, spending power of almost £1.5 billion will be available to address the unique circumstances of northern ireland and the effect these have had on the economy and its people. in furtherance of our overall agreement, the government and the democratic unionist party have established a coordination committee. this agreement will remain in place for the length of the parliament and after each parliamentary session, both parties will review the names, principles
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and implementation of the agreement. i want to personally thank the prime minister and her negotiating team for the spirit in which these discussions have been conducted. i particularly wa nt discussions have been conducted. i particularly want to acknowledge and pay tribute to the two men standing beside me, the right honourable nigel dodds and the right honourable sirjeffrey donaldson mp for their efforts. i want to thank other party collea g u es efforts. i want to thank other party colleagues and, indeed, our parliamentary party, who will be to the fore in working with these new arrangements. today, we have reached an outcome that is good for the united kingdom, good for northern ireland and allows our nation to move forward to tackle the challenges ahead. this afternoon, i will be returning to northern ireland to continue our discussions as we attempt to re—establish the northern ireland executive, because now, more than ever, our political
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leaders, both locally and nationally, need to work together to find solutions for all of the people we serve. thank you very much. that was the dup leadership in downing street. one of the concerns over the deal was how it would impact on the powys sharing agreement in northern ireland —— power—sharing. before —— the former northern ireland secretary theresa villiers said she did not think the confidence and supply arrangement would create a difficulties. i think this agreement is welcome, it will give an important degree of stability in relation to the uk government. i believe there is nothing in it which would, you know, make it difficult for the stormont institutions to be re—established. i'm sure that brit james brokenshire, the secretary of state, and his team, will continue to work really hard with the
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northern ireland parties to get the devolved institutions up and running again and now we have seen significant additional resources announced the northern ireland, there is even more important is being placed on a devolved set of ministers to implement those additional resources and, also, we need to ensure that northern ireland's voices heard strongly in the brexit negotiations and that is going to be easier and more effective if it has a devolved government, so for all sorts of reasons, it is vitally important that the talks under way in stormont actually deliver a return of power—sharing devolved government. the uk's economic growth will remain "anaemic" until the end of the decade, according to the british chambers of commerce. the group of business leaders says it doesn't expect growth to be more than 1.5% by 2020 and that inflation may end up despite some predictions, britain's economy grew robustly immediately after the referendum last year, but it has slowed down a lot this year, and now it is the weakest in europe.
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the british chambers of commerce, representing thousands of small and medium—sized companies, says their gdp will remain anaemic for another few years. it says growth this year will be 1.5% but dip to 1.3% next year before rising slightly back to 1.5% in 2019. it expects inflation to peak at 3.4% this year, and hold back company investment. but it thinks growth in exports and the construction sector will be higher this year than previously thought. the biggest changes to our forecast revolve around the economy, we think growth will remain flat over the next three years and around inflation, which is going to spike higher before we see some relief. exports will do well this year, but less well in years to come. so we do face a situation where our growth is pretty anaemic, not as good as it could be, and certainly is not as good
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as other countries around the world. the bcc has urged the government to spend more on infrastructure, especially broadband and mobile phone connectivity, and described the british road network as heavily congested. surgeons have told the bbc that nhs england is using mesh to repair hernias which leaves many patients in chronic pain. one woman told the bbc‘s victoria derbyshire programme that she was left "screaming on all fours" from the agonising pain. nhs england say mesh implants had been successfully used to treat hernias for several decades. our reporter anna collinson has been investigating. nhs england says a mesh repair is its recommended method when treating a hernia, and it's the most widely—used technique. the nhs carried out more than 60,000 groin hernia repairs in england between 2015 and 2016. what happens if something goes wrong? helen ablett had a groin hernia repair in 1998.
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a few years ago, helen started feeling pain and has spent most of this year off work sick. it feels like something is either moving or loose inside me and is pulling, when i stand and when i walk. whether it's moved or it's attached itself, i can feel, it feels like a foreign body inside me. we've heard from lots of people who've had hernia mesh operations and now live with chronic pain. they came from across the uk, varied in age and gender, but some similarities were striking. they say they were never warned about the risks of chronic pain. they claim they've been in painforyears and some have problems walking. they say they've had many scans and tests, which have all come back clear. they also claim gps mainly only offer pain relief, and some suggested psychiatric help. and doctors have apparently repeatedly told them
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mesh is not the cause. martin kinsey had a groin hernia mesh repair in 1999 after a bike accident. for a long time, he was fine, but then he started getting abdominal pains. it's as if i've been stabbed with something hot. i don't want to eat. i don't want to venture out too far. my worst day is getting up and feeling twice my age and not being able to put my own underwear and socks on. although at least one in ten groin hernia mesh repair patients will experience chronic pain, nhs england have told this programme the technique has been undertaken extensively and successfully for several decades and no significant level of concern has been raised. for years, martin has been suffering. he was unaware there were people across the country who have similar stories to him, and that one even lived nearby. hello. hiya.
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hi, i'm helen. martin, you 0k? nice to meet you. and you. take a seat. i've had an operation really i didn't need, and, you know, six years' worth of investigation. yes, meeting you has been a complete revelation. it's helped confirm everything that i knew inside but was beginning to doubt. i will fight tooth—and—nail to get what i'm entitled to. they've done this to me. i can't remove it, they've got to take it out. syrian refugees in lebanon continue to face difficult living conditions, and access to medical care is a big issue. the un covers 75% of the cost for most medical issues, but for the majority of refugees, the remaining balance can be hard to afford.
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what the un does not cover is cancer treatment for children. their only hope is support from a small charity. but even that is limited by how much money has been donated every month. the bbc‘s lina sinjab spoke with one family who can't afford their son's treatment — and the charity can't afford to keep treating him. it is playtime for ammash ammash, but his playground is a hospital ward. at four years old, he has been receiving chemotherapy for most of his life for leukaemia. the doctor tries to cheer him up, while doing a regular checkup. but it is still too painful. ammash and his family come from minbij, in war—torn aleppo. his father works as a handyman and hardly makes enough to feed his family.
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he tells me that the un doesn't cover cancer treatment and he has been seeking ngos' help for the last two weeks. making only $500 a month, he says that having to pay $330 each week for his son's chemo just isn't possible. ammash‘s treatment so far has been provided by a small charity, karma, for free. relying on donations from individuals, they are often faced with tough financial decisions, like having to stop treating a child. dr layal issa is one of the volunteers who established karma. actually, we are their only hope for having the chance to live, to survive their battle with this cancer. you have lost children
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you have treated? yes, the last one was a little girl, farah, she was two years old. she had neuroblastoma, we covered her treatment, but she relapsed and, at some point, we ran out of funds for her so we had to stop her treatment, so she had to get back to syria to get treatment there but unfortunately, she passed away. going back to syria would be the last resort for ammash, and the odds are not good. there are almost no cancer medications left in the country. ammash, although born in syria, has no memory of his own country and has never seen the war that has torn it apart. if money can be found, if he survives cancer, he will still face the uncertain future of every syrian — waiting for the day they can return home. let's bring you back to the main
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news, the democratic unionist party signing that deal to support theresa may's minority government. that is to the shadow northern ireland secretary owen smith, who joins us from westminster. what are your thoughts on this agreement, damian green has said the government's commitment to giving an extra £1 billion in funding to northern ireland is a good thing the northern ireland. well, it is a good thing the northern ireland and i welcome the northern ireland and i welcome the fact that extra money has been thank the public services in northern ireland. we've argued that the election just a few weeks ago that all parts of the uk needs extra money the public services, they are strapped for cash right across the whole of the uk. so one of the questions that will come out of this, of course, is what this means that other parts of britain, in particular scotland and wales, given the way money is traditionally
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allocated equitably across the uk, does this mean there will be extra money for them as well? again, the government has said this is money that will be spent by the northern ireland executive, it won't be spent, obviously, by the dup per se. no, and that gets us to the crux of the matter, really, which is does this help or hinder the prospect of getting the power—sharing executive that has been suspended for six months up and running? we have got talks going on even as we speak in belfast, trying to do that. some of the parties prior to this deal were worried that the dup being in bed with the tories at westminster would compromise the ability of the british government to be impartial and might make it more difficult to bring about the power—sharing executive. i think the real test therefore will be in the next few days as to whether we can get that power—sharing back up and running. if we can, then of course it will be for the executive in northern ireland, the power—sharing
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executive, to spend that money. arlene foster, the dup leader, said actually this deal is good for the prospects of doing a deal at stormont. she thinks this agreement "will bring the prospects of doing a deal closer because it will have a positive impact in relation to northern ireland". do you accept that? i hope that is right because labour is very proud of having played a part in delivering the peace process and power—sharing executive in northern ireland and we wa nt to executive in northern ireland and we want to see that up and running and will do everything we can to help in that regard but there is still an open question as to whether the other parties will feel that the trust that is vital in order to get that curious sharing of power between the nationalists and the unionist parties in northern ireland, whether this makes that harder or easier to bring it about. i hope it makes it easier and we get it up and running. if they don't, people will legitimately ask the question whether their interests in northern ireland and indeed the peace process itself is being sacrificed to prop of a tory
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government that is floundering in westminster. use a prop up, but arlene foster said the dup are doing this in the interest of the stability of the uk government. well, we need a stable uk government but we also want a stable government in northern ireland, a devolved government and we don't want one too, the expense of the other, so the real test will be whether this does help or hinder. i hope it helps andi does help or hinder. i hope it helps and i hope it means we can get stormont back on its feet and get the executive running business as they ought to in northern ireland, but we will only know that in the next few days. owen smith, many thanks indeed. we can also talk about for a reaction to the snp‘s ian blackford. thank you for being with us. clyde comrie have described this, they have said that this means wales should be getting more money as well —— plaid. giving should be getting more money as a result of
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this deal? absolutely, there is no question and it is all about the foolishness of the prime minister in calling this election and now effectively it is cash for votes in northern ireland. if you do the calculation on what is being invested in northern ireland, and i welcome investment in northern ireland, that is not the issue, but it has to be done under the barnett formula rules, there ought to be consequential is and it means if scotla nd consequential is and it means if scotland were to get their fair share, we would be talking about spending in scotland of up to an additional £2.9 billion, which is equivalent to the cuts we are seeing in scotland over a 10—year period from this government, so it is an outrage. david mundell, the secretary of state for scotland, has said he would insist there were barnett consequential, so there is a real question for david mundell and the scottish tory mps, whose side are they on? is david mundell the cabinet's man in scotland or scotland's man in the cabinet? we need a strong voice from scotland and wales in other parts of the
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united kingdom that there has to be fairness and there certainly isn't with this deal put on the table today. but as arlene foster has been saying, the country needs a stable government and this is why they have done this deal. well, of course, everybody wants to see stability, but if you are affecting stability on the back of a cash investment like this are not on the basis of fairness, then you are riding roughshod over the rules that exist, the barnett formula is therefore a very clear reason, to make sure there is a fair system of allocation of funding throughout the united kingdom and the government cannot ignore the rules which have been in place since 1978 and in place for a very good reason. i think people in scotla nd very good reason. i think people in scotland and elsewhere are going to be outraged at the way this government has done this rather grubby and shabby deal. but there is nothing you can do about it, is there, in terms of whatever resources you think scotland should get in return? we will certainly be street activate speaking of strongly the scotland as people in the country would expect and i will say
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to the people in scotland, who's side are you on? are you going to allow scotland to be short—changed question mark you going to stand up for the interests of people in scotla nd for the interests of people in scotland to make sure we get an equivalent dealfor scotland to make sure we get an equivalent deal for scotland on the back of this deal? in blackford, thank you for your time. 0k, we are going to pause and take a look at the weather prospects with tomasz schafernaker. well, there's quite a bit of rain heading our way. we're not all going to get a deluge, but i think most of us will need the brollies this week and, in fact, after today, the best day of the week, we'll see rain dotted around the rest of the country for the rest of this week. so, the first spell of rain is already heading in our direction. this is the weather front that's moving in the direction of northern ireland right now. this is the first place that's going to see the rain, and there's more weather systems here and they're being pushed by the jet stream and, actually, this week is going to be a lot, lot cooler, below par for this time of the year, so temperatures really will be struggling, particularly across northern areas of the uk. today, as i said, it's the best day of the week. there is actually a lot
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of sunshine out there. the best of the sunshine is across the south—east and east anglia. in fact, clear blue skies here but the clouds are already starting to increase across these western areas in advance of this spell of rain you can see across ireland here. it is just about nudging into northern ireland at apm. northern england and scotland, rather than that weather front moving through, today we just have a few showers developing, so hit and miss spots of rain. that's pretty much it. still a decent day in the north. through the course of tonight, that's when the rain could turn quite heavy. i suppose the good news is that the worst of the weather is going to sweep through tonight, so a really soggy night in northern ireland, soggy across the southern half of scotland. the north—west of england in particular, around lancashire, could see some heavy rain and also that heavy rain is clipping north—western parts of wales but to the south of that, it is going to be dry. and then things change as we head into tuesday. in fact, we are going to be affected by two weather fronts, two lows, one sitting on top of us and then this other one just about wafting in from the south.
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so tomorrow, the weather is very hit and miss, it's sort of all over the place. we've got thunderstorms in one or two areas across the south—east. could be some downpours again in northern ireland and just generally a lot of cloud and the temperatures are very much dependent on how much sunshine we're going to get. if it stays cloudy all day, it will hardly get up to 20 degrees. you can see these lows are just sort of lingering across the uk through the middle part of the week so, again, a fair bit of rain to come and this weather front, i think particularly across central areas, will give a good soaking on wednesday. it will have a tendency to drift a little bit further north but look at that — northern scotland gets away with it. this is bbc news.
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the headlines at 2.00. a deal‘s been agreed which will see the dup support theresa may's conservative government. the party's ten mps will back the tories in key commons votes. this agreement to deliver a stable government in the united kingdom's national interest at this vital time. the government says it will offer support to councils — after cladding on 60 high—rise buildings across england fails fire safety tests. theresa may will set out this afternoon what she's prepared to offer eu nationals living in the uk after brexit. a minute's silence is observed — in memory of those affected in the finsbury park mosque terror attack.

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