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good afternoon. violence broke out overnight in east london following a protest over the death of a man after he was restrained by police a week ago. the independent police complaints commission is investigating the death of 20—year—old rashan charles. last night, bottles and fireworks were thrown at officers in the dalston area of hackney, and a 17—year—old was arrested. richard lister reports. the tension had bundled in all afternoon. a peaceful protest about the death of a young man in custody in east london's started to turn into something else. the police were out in force, trying to maintain calm, but it didn't last. by by10pm, a by 10pm, a fleet of police vans is facing a burning barricades and a crowd. bottles were thrown. hundreds of officers try to keep people back. move away! police in riot gear and repeatedly
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tried to clear the street. mounted officers were brought into. it took at least another hour force and kind of order to be established, debris still smouldering in the street. the confrontation was sparked by the death of rashan charles, he was chased into a shop by police a week ago. officers say he tried to swallow something, there was a struggle and he became ill. just over an hour later, rashan charles was declared dead. he was 20. he was the third young man today after being stopped by police in london injust over one month. it stirred up long—standing grievances. they are angry and confused because they are not being represented in life itself, they have to sell drugs, carry knives because they are living in fear. they have no spirituality. they have to sell drugs? why? they are forced into situations where they don't understand how to live, make money, work for what they want. they don't want to work for the system. this morning, the council has been cleaning up and trying to move on. it spent the week trying to ease
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concerns in this community. the charles family has warned that hostile actions by by demonstrators are unhelpful. demonstrators are gathering in hackney again today. i'm quite worried people will come from outside of hackney who haven't listened to the family's requests and don't unnecessarily have the motivation to have a peaceful protests. i think as long as it remains peaceful, people should be able to gather. the independent police complaints commission says it should be able to answer the questions from his family about his death and will follow the evidence wherever it leads. the north korean leader kimjong—un claims any target on the us mainland is now within striking range. it follows his military‘s latest intercontinental missile test, the second within a month. as with previous launches, the event was celebrated by north korean state media. from seoul, here's our correspondent karen allen. cloa ked in darkness,
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state run tv captured the final moments before the missile launch. a potent symbol of north korea's defiance in the face of international sanctions. its leader kim jong—un there to witness it all. then the dramatic lift—off. and the moment that pyongyang thumbed its nose at the world. the second launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile in less than a month. it travelled higher and further than the missile fired before, eventually smashing down into the ocean off the coast of japan. then came the official confirmation from pyongyang. the newsreader announcing that this test was proof that the whole of the us is now within reach. pictures show a triumphant north korean leader. in washington, president trump described the tests as reckless and dangerous. the reaction from north korea's
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neighbour in the south was equally harsh. translation: dashing the international community's hopes of eased inter—korean military tensions and in particular, seoul's offer of bilateral military talks. these joint us south korea military drills a response to the launch, designed to send a clear message that seoul and washington stand shoulder—to—shoulder in the face of an increasingly belligerent north korea. the us already has battleships in the pacific ocean. now, it has promised to scale up its strategic assets in response to this latest threat. more aircraft carriers and stealth bombers could soon be on the way. a jubilant kim jong—un wants us recognition as a nuclear power. instead, in the wake of another missile test, he's likely to face stiffer sanctions with china
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and russia under pressure not to stand in the way. president trump's chief of staff, reince priebus, has resigned after days of public infighting at the white house and repeated failures by the administration to fulfil key election pledges. mr trump has replaced him withjohn kelly, a former general, who he praised for his work as head of homeland security. general kelly has been a star, done an incrediblejob general kelly has been a star, done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody. a great, great american. reince priebus, a good man to stop thank you very much. it's emerged that uk universities have a pension fund with a deficit that has grown to more than 17 billion pounds — the largest in the uk. the universities super—annuation scheme caters for existing and retired academics. pensions experts warn universities may have to reduce benefits for members,
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or increase tuition fees for students, to fill the black hole. universities only have a limited number of sources of income. their main source of income is obviously student fees. it seems inconceivable to me that student fees will not be diverted into plugging the pensions deficit. that mean either that they will have to go up or that there will be a smaller amount of money dedicated to teaching and research. our business correspondent joe lynam is here, joe. this shortfall sounds serious? yes, this pension scheme is in a pickle and the number has doubled over the last year. it is, as you say, the biggest financial pensions black hole in the country at the moment. and the government can't bear that out, this is not something the tax payers can set in and help. -- bail the tax payers can set in and help. —— bail it out. there are options, you can go back to the lecturers and academics who are part of the
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scheme, and say, you need to pay more and get less out. they took a hit last year, they may say no, that is not ok, we might want to change industries or even contribute as it is not affordable. the next option is not affordable. the next option is to go to donors, wealthy individuals who normally like to have their names on libraries and buildings at university, they may not like the idea of paying into a pension scheme. lastly, raising costs for strings, which is politically toxic, just ask the liberal democrats after 2015. —— prison costs for students. there are going to be paying it a high maximum forjewish and he's already, that'll be tricky. as for the pension scheme, they say it is way too high to talk about raising tuition fees, they say the investments are solid. banks for that. let's catch up on this port. england are batting again in the
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third test at the oval. jones out there became the first english bowler to take five wickets on his debut for eight years. south africa took 49 runs. first ago today was morne morkel beforejones entered the history books. the tourists are all out for 175. keaton jennings lucky to be there, going through the slips. england lead by 190 runs at lunch. —— 198 runs. britain's paul di resta, is returning to formula one racing, for the first time since november 2013. felipe massa has had to pull out of the hungarian, grand prix after suffering from dizzy spells since friday. it means the williams team reserve driver di resta will step in to take part in qualifying and tomorrow's race. compatriot lewis hamilton subbing
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diet equal michael schumacher‘s record of 68 pole positions. our scores for respondent has been in the end when camp this week, where there are hoping to qualify for the euros. there is a real sense that it for the euros. there is a real sense thatitis for the euros. there is a real sense that it is a confident england squad? that is right. we get a sense of that here. england will need to be confident, because history is against them when it comes to france. they haven't beaten france since 1974 and a lost to them in the last three major tournaments. but there is a feeling that france could be there for the taking. they struggled in the group, they only just made it through, they were close to a nomination and are going to be missing their captain, their influential captain, wendy ran out, who is widely regarded as one of the best defenders in the world. england on the other hand have cruised through their group in many ways, w011 through their group in many ways, won three out of three, one of the best defenders in the world. england
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on the other hand have cruised through their group in many ways, 1303, wherever mika teams with 100% record in the group, they scored ten goals. —— one of only two teams. but i think we can expect a spiky team here, there has been an ab and flow of mind games between the camps, mark sampson said the french game is wet behind the ears when it comes to trim in football and said that his tea m trim in football and said that his team area trim in football and said that his team are a side of street fighters, and that they bite back when pope. it'll be interesting to see how this pans out. but england, as you say, very confident. training this morning in their base in utrecht and had a board on the side of the pitch that just said wynne had a board on the side of the pitch thatjust said wynne on it. that is all they are concentrating on here. -- it all they are concentrating on here. —— it said wynne. they will face either sweden netherlands, the on—site, in the semifinals in the last four if they win. that sweden netherlands game is being played tonight. tomorrow night at 7:45pm, you can't really take kick—off, france against england. —— your time for the kick—off. you can see more on all of today's
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stories on the bbc news channel. the next news on bbc one is at a quarter to seven this evening , bye for now. thanks for staying with the bbc news channel. let's get more on our top story, the violence in east london over the death of rashan charles after he was restrained by police. earlier, respondent who visited the scene gave us earlier, respondent who visited the scene gave us an earlier, respondent who visited the scene gave us an update earlier, respondent who visited the scene gave us an update on earlier, respondent who visited the scene gave us an update on the aftermath. it's very,, though there were
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serious disturbances, but not widespread, here last night in dalston in hackney. all sparked by the death of nabi after he was restrained by police in that shop there. you can see the tributes that have piled up in the week since he lost his life and destruction here was the focus of last night's demonstration that eventually turned violent. their weapons and mattresses pushed the road here to form a burning barricade, they were set on fire, officers had to come in to deal with this. it is a tense time for everybody here but fortu nately, time for everybody here but fortunately, it doesn't look like anyone suffered injuries, there weren't any arrests and the damage has been minimal and it has been cleared up quite quickly. here with lee is the mayor of hackney. thanks for coming tojust stop lee is the mayor of hackney. thanks for coming to just stop are you worried? i think we saw some disturbing images on television and social media, but as you say, it is calm now. we are pleading with the community for it to remain calm. if
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you listen to what double's family are saying, they don't want to see people causing unrest related to his death. —— rashan charles's family. our thoughts should be with them and their wishes, those in the media that have been trying to talk to young people and listen to their questions and anger about what happened, and channelling that into the independent police commission investigation and that work that has been going on during the course of the week. is itjust this death or is there a bigger issue here about the way police deal with people?|j think the way police deal with people?” think there is was a challenge with relationships with the police, but here in hackney, we have worked very ha rd here in hackney, we have worked very hard on that relationship and that is one of the reason we have brought oui’ is one of the reason we have brought our stop and search group to talk to the ip cc during the week, and they have been building their relationship, try to make the investigation is it evidence led on stop and search, tried to make sure young people in the media understand their rights on this. what is really so, it is disrupted that good relationship that has been put up
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with the council, community leaders, youth leaders and young people themselves. there's another protest this afternoon outside the police station, do you feel more violence? i really hope we won't. i think it comes back to what the family have been saying about not wanted to see violence and the rest, i would echo those concerns, and the community have been saying that as well. i would urge anyone coming from outside hackney to reflect on what has been happening in hackney, listening to those people who have been saying they want the processing individuals to be, that responsibly. thank you, we appreciate your time, thatis thank you, we appreciate your time, that is the mayor of hackney and that is the mayor of hackney and that message have come out strongly from the family of rashan charles that they want any protests to be peaceful and that is certainly something the police want to see two. a man who killed one person and injured six others any supermarket knife attack in hamburg was a known in celeste but not age hardest, the police are telling us. —— a known islamist but not age hardest. he was
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alone and was overpowered by passers—by. north wales police are searching for a missing five—year—old girl. detectives believe molly allens may be with her father who detectives believe molly allens may be with herfather who miss detectives believe molly allens may be with her father who miss a court hearing yesterday. they are appealing for him to get in touch. —— molly waheed arian. the headlines on bbc news: angry clashes in east london during a protest over the death of a man who was restrained by police last week. president trump names retired military generaljohn kelly as his new chief of staff after reince priebus from the post after days of in —fighting. north korea boasts that its latest missile test proves the whole of the us mainland is within range of its weapons. president trump describes the action as reckless and dangerous. let's get more now on the news that president trump's replaced his chief of staff after reince priebus stood
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down from the post. john kelly was heading up the homeland security department. earlier i spoke to the london based american commentator and trump supporter charlie wolf. i asked him why president trump has appointed the former general as his chief of staff. the president seems to like military men. he likes people with a sense of urgency and what he's not seeing out of the political classes that same sense of urgency. of the political classes that same sense of urgency. these are the same quys sense of urgency. these are the same guysin sense of urgency. these are the same guys in the background, the civil service here or the same in the states, they get things done when they get things done and itjust rolls along. trump is a businessman, he wants the hotel, is aware, the project or the agenda up and running on time, in budget. and it'sjust not happening. reince priebus, to be fair, ithink not happening. reince priebus, to be fair, i think he did a good job. he likes priebus. let's not forget, when hejoined the rnc, reince priebus turn that around, prodded a lot of data processing and what have you, helped trump get accepted by
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the establishment by the job is just too big. what is important, people don't necessarily understand this, the white house is run on a hierarchy, it has to run as a hierarchy, it has to run as a hierarchy, like a military. certain people have certain jobs. hierarchy, like a military. certain people have certainjobs. having someone people have certainjobs. having someone like the general, a marine general in there, it will get actor running as a tighter ship. let me pick up on what priebus said in his interview committee said the president wanted to go any different urchin, i support him on that, he has the right to change directions and hita has the right to change directions and hit a reset button. of course he does, but after six months in office? and after losing seven members of key staff? whatever the reasons, there's been some infighter, this does appear to be a white house as a control and a presidency that is failing? whether it is out of control and not as the important thing. what is important is what you do to fix it. do you say, things aren't going the way we plan, gosh, optics don't look good, and is going to continue the way it is? ordo you and is going to continue the way it
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is? or do you say, i'm going to take the actions needed?” is? or do you say, i'm going to take the actions needed? i get there, but this is after just the actions needed? i get there, but this is afterjust six months. it is worrying for america, the president is having to press the we set button after six months and he is only actually delivered one policy that he promised in the campaign. he actually deliver more but there are things that you won't necessarily see, for instance, the cutting down of regulation, the economy is doing better now. but the people who love the guy, what is important is the fa ct the guy, what is important is the fact that the staff that came in, remember, he doesn't have a political backgrounds of these weren't his staff. they were recommended, they are good people but they don't have his vision and they don't understand. scaramucci, whatever you want to say about him, he isa whatever you want to say about him, he is a fellow new yorker, he is a fellow businessman, he understands the sense of urgency and how the president thinks. if the president of tweets coming seven going, gosh, it has never been done like that, scaramucci goes, i am going to serve
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him. all these military men and robust people yet surrounded himself with, this trump family, so to speak, how are they going to go down with the republican establishment? try doesn't matter. it's important as far as the president is concerned try, he earns a job as the commander in chief and chief executive. it would behave the republic party to help him instead of fighting him. it's not just help him instead of fighting him. it's notjust a democrat republican thing, to cross party lines, this is a guy the establishment and the media and these civil service and the deep status is severed on. because he is here to drain the swamp because he is here to drain the swamp as because he is here to drain the swamp as he says. they will fight him every step of the way. but i would say that from paris to play their game a little, it is a bit of a coronary and because debate the machine —— a conundrum because to break the machine you have to play the machine at its own game. but thatis the machine at its own game. but that is what he was given and now, he's got his feet under the table, he's got his feet under the table, he's comfortable in the chair and he's comfortable in the chair and he's bringing in his own people. pope francis has led
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tributes to charlie gard, the 11—month—old boy who died yesterday, following a lengthy legal battle over what medical treatment he received. charlie's parents, connie yates and chris gard, wanted their sun and chris gard, wanted their ——son to be taken to the united states to be treated for a rare genetic condition, which causes progressive rain damage and muscle weakness. they eventually dropped their legal challenge against great ormond street — the hospital looking after charlie — when a specialist offering to treat charlie in the us, said it was too late for the treatment to work. pope francis, who followed charlie's story closely, tweeted: here, the prime minister theresa may said: and the us vice president mike pence also tweeted: president trump had offered support to charlie and his family during the legal dispute.
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nearly a quarter of shops are breaking the law, by selling knives to underage people, some as young as 13—years—old. that's according to new figures from the local government association which says some retailers, including two supermarket chains, have been caught out. adina campbell has more. with knife crime at its highest level in six years in england and wales, retailers are under increasing pressure to do more to tackle the problem. local trading standards teams tried to buy knives earlier this year. almost one in four shops they visited were found to be selling knives to people underage. seven out of 29 retailers, including two major supermarkets, in areas like devon, somerset and bristol, sold a blade to a person under 18. they included a machete, a lock knife and kitchen knives. last year, similar test purchases were carried out by london trading standards, with eight knives a month being sold to children as young as 13.
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safety campaigners are now calling for tougher rules. these rules should be applied. if they continue to do this, they should be punished and put out of business. it's illegal to sell knives to anyone under the age of 18, but in scotland 16 to 18—year—olds can buy a kitchen knife or cutlery. shops caught breaking the law face six months in prison or a fine of up to £5,000. the local government association says more needs to be done to stop lives being put at risk, and shops need to put up higher safety checks. earlier this morning, i spoke to councillor peter flemming from the local government association, that's the organisation that wrote the report. i began by asking him whether there needs to be a review of the law.
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look, in a year when we have seen a 20% increase in knife crime, up to nearly 35,000 incidents, and in a week when the government has said knives will no longer be able to be just posted to your house, were saying the next part of this puzzle of how we can try and do something about this is to make sure that retailers are obeying the law that is already in place. and one in retailers selling to end test purchases to people as young as 13 yea rs, purchases to people as young as 13 years, machetes, there is no excuse for that. —— one in four retailers. who is responsible? the owner, the chain, the person that all the knives? try the retailer is responsible, as with all things that we through council training standards, the individual may be prosecuted but we are often the shop
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itself. and this isjust prosecuted but we are often the shop itself. and this is just small independents. two maccabees test purchases were in big chain stores. —— two of these test purchases. they should have procedures in place to make sure they are challenging anybody who looks under 18 when selling any sort of life. and what about the individual buys the knives? you think there needs to be a tough message, perhaps a tougher penalty for carrying what could be a deadly weapon? the government has done a larger model work around this, the guidelines are be carrying and use of knives in attacks has been changed. what we are trying to do is stop the supply of knives so that actually, the streets are safer. 35,000 incidents to do with knives, some of those will come from shops who have sold to underage teens. it's clear, when we are
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seeing one in four test purchases sold to under 18—year—olds, machetes unlock knives, no responsible shop owner retailer would ever do something like that. —— machetes and unlock knives. when waheed arian was a young boy growing up in afghanistan, he witnessed the suffering of war. many years later, he's now an emergency medic living in chester and is using virtual reality to help today's victims of violence in his homeland. his "tele—medicine" system allows doctors in war zones to get help from specialists in the west. here's our world affairs editor, john simpson. we hear plenty of depressing stories about afghanistan, but this is not one of them. quite the opposite, in fact. afghanistan has one of the lowest standards of medical care in the world. doctors often aren't highly trained and their equipment is pretty basic. but they can contact dr waheed arian, an afghan who qualified as a doctor in britain, and he can give them detailed medical
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advice using social media. from his home in chester, he takes messages day and night. he calls it telemedicine. they don't have the cutting edge technologies, the expertise, the advannced, evidence—based medicine. they need any expertise, any advice that is more world—class here. that is very useful for them. i will take the arrow and replace it along... now, waheed arian and his team are developing new ways of showing doctors there what to do. it went very well. we discussed a medical case, we solved the problem, it was a live medical case in a hospital, using augmented reality, we discussed it and managed their problem. as a boy in the 1980s,
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he had to escape from the russians who had invaded his country. he and his family were lucky to survive. when the civil war flared up in afghanistan, his parents sent him on his own to britain. he was 15 and didn't speak much english, yet within four years, he was studying medicine at cambridge. he became passionate about helping people in the country of his birth. i have seen so much suffering in my childhood, and that suffering was still very vivid in my memory. i wanted to see if i could help in any way, alleviate that suffering for many people that were in a similar position to mine as a child. he doesn't get much time with his family in chester. he has taken leave of absence to develop his ideas, but in order to pay the bills, he has to work every weekend as an a & e doctor. he is awaya lot, and it can be hard
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and lonely at times when you're on your own and you're seeing all the other families out. but on the other side, i know he's doing amazing things for humanity, he's going to be saving thousands of lives, so i look at the positives. we have come a long way in just two years, we are helping places that have no other support. this is so important. lives are at stake and we can help save those lives. waheed arian has survived a lot. helping others in afghanistan to survive is, he says, his therapy. viewers in the north—west of england can watch the full documentary waheed's wars — saving lives across the world on monday evening at 7pm on bbc one. it will then be available on the iplayer shortly afterwards. more than 50 mps have backed calls for urgent improvements to britain's broadband network.
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the british infrastructure group wants automatic compensation for families who do not get the internet speeds they pay for. ofcom says it's already taking firm and wide—ranging action to protect customers. the bbc‘s longest—running medical drama, casualty, is making history tonight — the entire episode has been filmed on a single camera, in just one take. it's a first in british television and marks the show‘s 30th anniversary, as sharuna sagar reports. there's a baby in the house. this whole episode of casualty was filmed all in one go, so that's one continuous shot with one handheld camera for a full 48 minutes. filming a storyline with real—time action throws up all manner of challenges. so why did they do it? well, it's the closest the show can get to reflect the nhs front—line in its unedited, rawest form.
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you take it easy. you look like you've been through the wars yourself. has anyone said anything about the baby? it took two weeks of rehearsals for the cast and crew, and then eight full—length takes were filmed, and it's the last one of those which will make it to air tonight. casualty is on bbc one at 9:05pm tonight. was let's catch up with the weather for the weekend.
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