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the reality is that only 8% of people outside of hospital who have a cardiac arrest will survive to be discharged alive from hospital. anything we can do to increase that number by getting their hearts going sooner will increase the chance of those people having a productive life. it's taken four years to develop the system. its use across the world is now growing. already, about 500 first responders are registered across the east midlands to receive alerts. to receive goodsam alerts. emas hope that number will grow and increase survival rates for heart attack patients. let's have a look at the weather. it is set to get hotter and more humid but before we get there is an decent weather out and about this afternoon with the best sunshine gci’oss afternoon with the best sunshine across england and where is. some thicker cloud for cumbria and northern ireland but it will start thinning and breaking at times. the ha rd iest thinning and breaking at times. the hardiest weather in scotland, weston area is continuing to see fairly
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heavy showers blowing in on a blustery west, south—westerly wind. in the sunshine feeling pleasant, temperatures up to 24. under this strip of cloud temperatures getting into the mid to high teens. tonight we have a weak weather front moving in bringing a zone of rain across scotland, northern ireland, ending up scotland, northern ireland, ending up across scotland, northern ireland, ending up across scotland, northern england and the south—west by the end of the night, temperatures 15 through the night, temperatures 15 through the night, the weakening front will tomorrow push southward slowly, just some cloud and a few showers by the end of the afternoon across southern and eastern england. behind that the sky brighten up with sunshine, brighter day weather—wise for scotland, sunshine, 16 in glasgow and 17 or18 scotland, sunshine, 16 in glasgow and 17 or 18 in edinburgh. that's your latest weather. hello — this is bbc news. the headlines atjust 1:32pm. theresa may comes under pressure to lift the 1% cap, on pay increases for public sector workers — the environment secretary michael gove says the government
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should listen to pay review bodies‘ recommendations. council tenants whose services have been disrupted by the grenfell tower fire have had their rent suspended. three blocks have been without hot water since a boiler, beneath the tower, was destroyed in the blaze. iraqi forces say they've taken control of the main base of the so—called islamic state in mosul. militants were driven from a hospital compound, where several senior is leaders were thought to have been hiding. julian worricker will be here at 2pm. now it's time for the travel show. coming up on this week's travel show: is this the original costume? we're on the bruce lee trail in hong kong. he wore this in game of death. get ready to get behind this taxi... i get a lesson in how to take iconic instagram images from an expert. oh, that's good.
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with new laptop bans on internationalflights, we look at the gadgets you can still take on board. leejun—fan, better known as bruce lee, may have been born in san francisco, but in the early 1970s, he put both kung fu and hong kong on the map. # everybody was kung fu fighting #. after starring in a succession of cult martial arts movies, he became the most famous asian film star in the world.
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and today, almost 45 years since his untimely death, at the age of 32, he is still credited as being the man who brought chinese actors and martial arts into the mainstream. here in hong kong, they're rightly proud of their most famous son. now the film that really shot bruce lee to international stardom was enter the dragon in 1973, shot mainly on location here in hong kong. if you're a fan of the film, you might recognise this place, king yin lei. but if you're a real die—hard bruce lee fan, you'll need to go to hong kong's heritage museum for a unique insight into his legendary life. wow, look at these nunchucks. oh, my goodness. yeah nunchucks is one of a very significant symbol of bruce.
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you can see he practice this kind of weapons when he taught his students. then you can see in his first tv programme, the green hornet. is this the original costume? yeah, yeah. this is also the iconic costume, you can see he wore this in the game of death. then nowadays you can still see many people who wear this costume as a symbol of bruce. fellow martial arts film actor, victor kan, studied under the iconic wing chun master, ip man. and he remembers the very first time he met bruce lee at a training session back in the mid—1950s. he can pick up the movement, things, very quick. because that time was also a social thing, oh, wing chun, we doing all that, all the teenagers in the school. but i can say that he done the cha—cha—cha better
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than wing chun at that time. the dance? yeah. what do you think bruce would think about this exhibition, some 40 years after his death? not big enough. should be bigger. oh, yes. you don't know how impressive he is still in the whole wide world. inspired to learn some killer kung fu moves myself, i head to the wan chai district of hong kong, where i've got a date with a man who's passionate about studying and preserving chinese martial arts. music. first, the warm up.
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this is the horse stance. am i low enough? yes, you are. right, i don't know if i can get up now. this is the bow stance. let's reach again. this feels more like a workout than a warm up. not sure if i'll be able to walk tomorrow. time to step things up a bit. i punch you here, you block with this one. 0k. yeah, good. now you punch. whoa. see? that's it. 0k. i get it now. i think i'm going to have a bruise on my arm. now prepare to enter the dragon. once upon a time there were hundreds of small martial arts studios
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like this all over hong kong. but that's not the case any more. a lot of kung fu schools were actually run in a space like this, which unfortunately over the past 20, 30 years have become very unaffordable to the average teacher who simply cannot find enough students to justify the rent. so i think the first and foremost problem people face in hong kong, when you talk about continuing the practice of kung fu, is lack of space. this is the blue house. you can't see very much unfortunately because of all the building work. if you're a real martial arts fan, though, there are still some places to see here in hong kong that bruce lee would have recognised and maybe even trained at. 0ver there, there's a plaque which says the name of a kung fu master whose entire family lived here.
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he organises a kung fu festival here in hong kong to keep interest in martial arts alive and reclaiming some of the heritage he feels has been lost. this place used to buzz with kung fu until i would say probably 1970s, 1980s. this was one of the really big hubs of kung fu in hong kong. that's amazing. i can't imagine seeing people doing kung fu on the streets. exactly, but that's what really breathed life into the hong kong community and that's why kung fu was so vibrant. if you know where to look, you can still find authentic classes, like this one, given by master li tin loi, taking place in some of the remaining studios here. but it's notjust a question of space and high rents that's threatening the survival of martial arts in hong kong. the new generation, they want everything speed. they don't have time.
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they want to learn kung fu any style you make possible in two weeks. it is not possible. impossible thing. but they have no time. recognising that hong kong's kung fu heritage is under threat, a local university has called on some of the surviving martial arts masters of bruce lee's generation to take part in a unique project, using modern motion—capture technology to document and preserve the traditional move that's could one day be lost. say 50 years or 100 years from now, there's suddenly a burst of new interest in martial arts, these documents, which we are creating now, are going to be templates for future generations to work with. that's what we're really looking to the long—term future. there's no doubt that films like crouching tiger hidden dragon
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and the ip man trilogy have helped to rekindle an interest in martial arts. whoa, it's like a concrete block, that is. it's hoped that the motion—capture programme, here at the university, will ensure that kung fu and the legend of bruce lee survives for generations to come, both here in hong kong and around the world. if you're thinking of heading to hong kong any time soon, here's some travel show tips to help you on your way. although this year marks the 20th anniversary of the handover between britain and china, travellers from many countries still don't need to apply for a visa to visit hong kong. as ever, check before you book to make sure you're from one of those visa waiver countries, but remember that you will definitely need a visa if you plan to travel on to mainland china from hong kong.
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chinese new year is always a good time to visit, though you might need to book well in advance, as hotels are busy. remember, that summers here can be hot and humid. bear that in mind too. there's no shortage of cheap and effective ways to get around hong kong island and neighbouring chau lei, but if you're looking for something a little more traditional, why notjump aboard one of these iconic trams, also known as ding—dings. the trams operate on six routes every day between kennedy town and all of the main tourist attractions on hong kong island. there you go, ding—ding. if you want to get away from the hustle and bustle, don't forget hong kong is surrounded by dozens of smaller, less developed islands, so it's often just a short ferry ride away to some peace and quiet or an empty beach. stay with us, because still to come here on the travel show: as new security measures stop
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you boarding some flights with laptops and tablets, lucy's here with clever tech to take on board. what are the best apps to keep me entertained on a long—haulflight. zoom in a bit, not too much. i get some tips on how to become an instagram sensation here in hong kong. you could do a street shot with an amazing purple sky that would just blow up. so don't go away. the travel show, your essential guide wherever you're heading. laptops, tablets and e—readers are all now banned on many flights to the us and uk primarily from airports in the middle east. both governments have brought in new rules affecting
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different countries, so check first if you're flying from any of these places. but there are still some gadgets you can use to wile away the hours. this week, our run down of the gadgets you can still use on board. and here's the good news, on some flights you should be allowed to take hand—held games consoles. so i've been using our state—of—the—art isolation booth to see how they fare. so this is the new big player on the market, it's the nintendo switch. so the switch isn't like regular consoles where it combines portable on—the—go gaming with traditional console—style gaming. 0n the one hand, you connect it to your tv. but when you're ready to take it on the move, you can simply slide the controllers in the side. the graphics look really good. what i like as well is that you can connect up to eight conceals. connect up to eight consoles. let's say you're travelling
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with a load of friends, you can connect your consoles together for true multiplayer—style gaming. but i must warn you, games are pricey. bear that in mind if you're going to pick one of these up. i would still be careful, though. so if you're on a uk—bound british airways flight from the middle east, you can take these devices on board. whitejet2 says you can't. it's worth checking with your airline before you fly. if you're flying to the us, these devices are definitely off the table and all you've got for entertainment will be your trusty mobile. so while you're in the air, don't think of this as a smartphone, this is your entertainment centre. so it will pay to choose your apps carefully before you travel. something james here is an expert in. james, what are the best apps to keep me entertained on a long—haul flight? here's pocketcasts. this gives you like feature content, so these are tailored by pocketcast to give you the best new podcasts around. there's trending stuff. if something is really popular, that would appear there at the top. everyone‘s heard of netflix. they now do offline functionality. so you can download a whole tv series to your phone and you can
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watch it on the flight. for my last choice, i've gone with lonely planet city guides. it gives you information for wherever you're landing. you get a city guide that you can access offline. you don't need to connect to roaming data. you can get places to see, eat and even hotel locations. it's all there ready and waiting for you. no need to connect to the internet again. what about battery life? depends on what you're going to be using. if you're using netflix, that's going to take a lot of battery. watching a full series on your phone is not going to work out. for podcasts, your phone will be sat idle in your pocket and just playing audio. it won't take that much battery. you may want to take a charging cable because some flights allow you to charge in the seat. if you're flying for a grown—up reason, maybe you're away on business, games and apps aren't going to cut it. this is the moleskine smart writing set. yes, it looks like a bog standard pen and note bad
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but it's smarter than that, because it can transfer your writing, doodles and scribbles into digital form. it can even turn them into text by a dedicated application. once you start writing, the app is able to register the strokes on the pen. it knows that you're hand writing and immediately shows you what you're writing on the app. you have to press the pen quite hard in order for it to register. it seems pretty quick, pretty automatic. i also can't draw! it's fun, really easy to use. i've got to admit, it's cool seeing your scribbles transferred into digital form. but the question is — what's wrong with a regular note pad and pen and taking a picture afterwards? since it was first launched in 2010, instagram has become one of the world's hottest places to upload and share travel photos and here in hong kong, former londoner, edward barnieh, is one of the most liked and shared online photographers, capturing the hustle and bustle of the city through his camera lens. i went to meet him
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to pick up some tips. this isn't the usual place that most tourists take photos in hong kong. no. why are we here? these are the back streets of hong kong. it's very gritty. it's real life. great thing about hong kong is that there's no back of house. basically, whatever anyone‘s doing, they're doing it right in your face, alongside people getting on buses and coming home from school. but it's so dreary and it's raining. how are you going to get pictures? dreary is good. you're going to get people walking with umbrellas. soaking wet with no umbrellas. reflections of the lights as the lights come on at night. reflection in puddles. rain is perfect for photography. i've just got a smartphone, is this ok for pictures?
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yes, they're great. i started with a smartphone that had much worse quality camera than that. i was able to capture, with good light, a number of things. yes the focal length is fixed. it makes you choose your composition wisely, but it's a great tool to learn on before you move onto a camera. zoom in a little bit. not too much. yeah. there you go, real life. as edward has over 175,000 instagram followers, i'm in safe hands, as we head off on our side street safari. with so much going on around us, i'm having problems deciding what to focus on. itjust seems messy to me. with the people? see, i like it without the people. right. sometimes the people can offer up a bit of scale as well. sojust having one person there sometimes gives that kind of perspective to someone of what they're looking at and the size of it. we've got street signs, some colour.
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captured it all there. 0h, thanks. you got most of that because your smartphone has a widerfocal length. you are able to get more in. whereas i was packed in quite tight. this looks like two different locations. yeah, it's to do with my lens, and the shutter speed i use made it darker, and the depth of field gave it more of a dramatic vibe. generally i've got a much closer shot. maybe it looks like it could be somewhere else all together. i'm happy with some of the sparks i got flying up there. are you? yeah. looks exciting. i would never think to take a picture of this. there you go. stick it on instagram and see what your friends think. i have no idea where i am. i often think that's
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the beauty of this, though. i can tell you we are very close to one of the major shopping districts in hong kong, with many tourists, maybe 200 metres from us right now. really? but you wouldn't know it. maybe if you look at that building there, that tall building. that is langham place, and it's one of the major malls in hong kong. because, as i said before, hong kong is so densely packed together, that's the beauty of it. it means when you're looking for photos, you don't have to travel far to get what you want. i like it, but it was more a quick shoot and run, because i was scared the old lady was going to come out and get me. a lot of these shots you shoot once. if you get it, you get it. if you don't, you don't. you are very lucky to capture that with an iphone. she is quite far off. you've done really well there. what works well on instagram? if i want to get maximum likes, what should i take pictures of? architecture, street shots. not so much lately, but an amazing typhoon sunset as well. in fact, if you could combine the two. a street shot with an amazing purple
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sky, that would just blow up. that would be huge. as night falls, we're joined by fellow instagramers jess and vivian who also have big followers here in hong kong and around the world. now the pressure really is on, as i face even more competition from the professionals. we're in moan kok, and we're here to see some of the neon lights on portland street, one of hong kong's most famous streets. at night, especially after it's rained, you can see the streets glow. as you can see here. it's pretty cool, right? wow. with a smartphone, you just have to use what's around you. sometimes at night you can get that really atmospheric and get more gritty side. you know what, sometimes you just have to be bold.
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that's a good tip. just stand there and wait. patience is everything. i quite like that one. yeah that's nice. you've got the neon, action shot. and he's smiling. i don't know. just the smartphone is not very good at night—time. i'm feeling they're not — they won't be as good as yours. we'll see. they were in the day, right! so before i go, i want to get the iconic hong kong taxi. yes, everybody loves a taxi shot. how do i do that with a smartphone? it's going to be tough to get that kind of long exposure that you're looking for, but i honestly think that we can do something slightly different but you're really going to like it.
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we're going to try to get behind the taxi and capture the city with the taxi in the foreground. 0k. how does that sound? all right. let's give that a try. let's do it. get ready to get behind this taxi. all right. now get out there and shoot behind the taxi. oh, that's good. good, good. let me see it. that's excellent. i prefer that one. so crop that one? yeah, absolutely. nice. well done. you're a hong kong photographer now. now you're pushing it. if you want to see more of those pictures, check out our social media feeds. all the details should be on your screen 110w. that's all we've got to time for this week. next week — we head to the south american surfers‘ paradise of punta de lobos in chile
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in search of the perfect wave. i got whacked in the face with about ten waves in a row, so i've swallowed most of that water. join us for that if you can. until next time, from me and the rest of the travel show team here in hong kong, it's goodbye. hello there. we have some decent weather around this afternoon, some long spells of sunshine but some changes in the weather at the weekend. a longer speu weather at the weekend. a longer spell of rain coming in for tuesday
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and turning hot and humid across southern portions of the uk as we will see in at. the latest satellite picture, you can see cloud across the north—west of the country bringing showers into western scotland, the best sunshine across england and wales, cloudy in northern ireland and in cumbria, breaking at times to give limited sunny spells. in the sunshine it feels pleasantly warm, temperatures up feels pleasantly warm, temperatures up to 24 this afternoon. in the north—west it will be cloudy across scotland, temperatures generally pegged back into the teens. 0vernight tonight, the band of cloud and rain spreads across scotland and northern ireland sinking south through the night, some wet weather getting into northern england, wales and the south by the end of the night. not huge amounts of rain left on it, it will be a mild night for most. 0n on it, it will be a mild night for most. on monday that front continues journeying south and east woods taking the damp weather with it, by the early afternoon just a bit of cloud and some showers affecting south—eastern parts of england.
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behind that the sky is bright nicely. gone is the cloud we got today in scotland, much sunnier tomorrow. temperatures in the sunshine up to 16 in glasgow, 17 or 18 in edinburgh. that weatherfront slides away next week but then this area of low pressure will bring some wet weather across the central slice of the uk through monday evening and on into tuesday. the rain will hit northern ireland before spreading eastwards affecting southern scotland, particularly northern england, and maybe at times north wales and the north midlands. either side of our band of rain some reasonable weather. some sunny spells across southern england where it will become warm, up to 24 degrees. in the north in scotland, despite the sunshine, some fairly cool air, temperatures around 16 degrees. 0n cool air, temperatures around 16 degrees. on wednesday, again a largely dry day with some sunshine, a few heavy showers possible but we will see some temperature contrasts in the uk. 26 in london but relatively cool in the north of
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scotland. then it will turn hot and humid on thursday, temperatures in the mid—to high 20s, perhaps even 30 if we get a lot of sunshine, enough to spark some thundery showers across england and wales. by thursday we will see the temperatures rise across northern england, northern ireland, southern and central scotland as well before the fresher air works in towards the end of the week. that's your latest weather. this is bbc news. the headlines at 2pm: the environment secretary, michael gove, suggests the government could support a lifting of the 1% pay cap for public sector workers. council tenants, whose services have been disrupted by the grenfell tower fire, have had their rent suspended. britain is withdrawing from an agreement which allows foreign countries to fish in its waters. also in the next hour: could battery powered planes be the future of flying? we'll take an exclusive look at an experimental electric plane. and in half an hour: as the commons get back to business following the queen's speech,
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we take a look at the week in parliament.
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