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this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00: north korea says its intercontinental ballistic missile test brings all parts of the united states within its range. white house war — donald trump names generaljohn kelly as his next chief of staff after days of public in—fighting. more worries for students as the largest deficit on record of any retirement fund in the uk is run up by the main pension scheme for british universities. also in the next hour, a key vote in a venezuela, a country on the brink of civil war. after months of protests, the country's assembly is elected tomorrow, with broad powers to rewrite the country's constitution. and also this hour, we bring you the story of one woman's lucky escape from a boa constrictor which clamped itself to her face. good evening, and welcome to bbc news.
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north korea says its latest intercontinental ballistic missile test brings all parts of the united states within its range. the regime says the missile reached a height of 2,300 miles, before landing 47 minutes later more than 600 miles away in the sea off japan. that was farther and higher than its previous test earlier this month. experts have said that the missile may have a range of over 6,000 miles, which is far enough to target cities on the us mainland. from seoul in south korea, here's our correspondent karen allen. cloa ked in darkness, 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.
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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 splashing down in 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 test as "reckless and dangerous." the reaction from north korea's neighbour in the south was equally harsh. translation: south korea strongly condemns the reckless act, dashing the international community's hopes of eased inter—korean military tensions and, in particular, seoul's offer
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of bilateral military talks. thesejoint 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's 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 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.
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it makes him the shortest serving white house chief of staff in history. mr trump has replaced him withjohn kelly, a former general, who was head of homeland security. in the tumultuous seven months of his presidency, donald trump has lost several key members of his administration. as early as his first month in office he fired sally yates, the acting attorney—general, over her opposition to his travel ban. then his national security advisor michael flynn resigned after only 23 days on the job over discussions he had held with the russians. at the beginning of may the president fired the fbi director james comey, and at the end of the month white house communications director mike dubke resigned. the hiring of anthony scaramucci to replace him then led to the resignation of press secretary sean spicer earlier this month. 0ur correspondent in washington laura bicker explained how these changes had come about. well, the republican party has been praising reince priebus,
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it sometimes resembles all feels like he apprentice tv show which the president once hosted. reince priebus was perhaps doomed from the start. he was part of the republican establishment, a politician's man, and he never seemed to win the confidence of the president. so far his replacement by donald trump has once again looked out at what he describes as the washington swamp. and that is generaljohn kelly. he is a marine general, a—star general, who could impose some kind of perhaps military discipline on a rather unruly west wing. this appointment once again sets in further adrift from the republican party. the advantage to that is that when things go wrong, as they did in congress with healthcare this week, he can win the party, not the presidency. as you havejust he can win the party, not the presidency. as you have just seen,
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kim jong—un presidency. as you have just seen, kimjong—un in presidency. as you have just seen, kim jong—un in north presidency. as you have just seen, kimjong—un in north korea has put a bigger problem on his desk and the international community is now looking to him to take the lead. his current strategy does not look like it is working and we do not know what planned beers. so a lot is riding on how quickly he can get his own house in order. there are reports of a fire at a music festival in spain. up to 22,000 people are believed to have been evacuated from the tomorrowland dance festival in barcelona after a fire engulfs parts of the main stage. details are still coming in. we will bring you an update if we get any more information. and breaking news from australia, where we are hearing that a terror plot to bring down an aeroplane has been disrupted. australian authorities have stopped the terror plot, according to malcolm turnbull, the prime minister. four people have been arrested following raids in sydney. he says, i can report that last night there has been a major
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joint counterterrorism operation to disrupt a terrorism plot to bring down an aeroplane. as a consequence, additional security has been added to australian airports, both domestic and international. four arrests and a terror plot disrupted in australia. the main pension scheme for british universities has a deficit of more than £17 billion — the largest on record for any retirement fund in the uk. the financial hole in the scheme widened in the past year as investments failed to pay off. there are warnings that contributions to the scheme, or student tuition fees, may have to rise to close the gap. here's our business correspondent, joe lynam. they are the future captains of industry, but the cost of studying has mushroomed in recent years. now there's concern that tuition fees might have to rise again. that's because the main pensions scheme for lecturers, known as uss, has posted a record black hole and ways have to be found to reduce it. universities only have a limited number of sources of income. the main source of income is obviously from student fees
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and it seems inconceivable to me that student fees will not have to be diverted into plugging the pension deficit. under international accounting rules, the uss pension scheme deficit almost doubled from £8.5 billion last year to £17.5 billion this year. now that gives the scheme, which has almost 400,000 members, lecturers and academics, the dubious distinction of being a record pension deficit for this country. but the chief executive of the scheme says it's way too early to think about hiking student fees. we are not responsible for setting tuition fees, clearly, but we have agreed a framework with the universities to manage the shortfall that exists within the pension plan without putting an unreasonable burden on their business models. and we have agreed a framework for looking at how pensions, contributions and the investment risk will continue to provide quality pensions for the members of the scheme. distinguished academicjoan harvey
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paid into the uss scheme for a0 years. she's already been paid from that pension but is worried that a less generous scheme might deter people considering academia. people that go into academicjobs often do it because they want to teach, or they want to do research or they want to do both, and they want to do that with some freedom, and they want to explore and investigate and understand. and the pension has, historically, always been something nice that goes with thejob. because academics aren't as well paid as all these sort of fat cats in the city. pension statements are just a snapshot of the health or otherwise of their schemes. they go down and, in this case, up, but for everyone on campuses throughout the uk, clever solutions will have to be found for clever people.
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joe lynam, bbc news. pakistan's ousted prime minister nawaz sharif has named his brother as his successor. mr sharif was forced to resign as prime minister yesterday over corruption allegations. his brother, shahbaz, is currently the chief minister of punjab province. but he won't be able to take over straight away, as our south asia correspondent justin rowlatt reports from islamabad. rain lashed down as the ruling party gathered to choose a new leader. many in pakistan hoped yesterday's supreme court ruling that prime minister nawaz sharif was unfit to hold office, would begin a cleansing of corruption within the political class. the disgraced former prime minister today denied any wrongdoing, before introducing the new leader. his brother, shahbaz. an interim prime minister will hold the fort until shahbas sharif gets a seat in parliament. you would have thought keeping the party leadership and therefore the prime ministership of pakistan
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within the same family, would be controversial. but the only rally anywhere near the pakistani capital today, was of supporters of the ruling party. whatever reservations pakistanis may have about power staying within the sharif family, the fact is, under mr sharif, the country has prospered. the family of rashan charles, who died in hackney in east london after police apprehended him last weekend, have appealed for calm after a night of violence there. bottles and fireworks were thrown at police following a demonstration. the independent police complaints commission is investigating the death of mr charles, who was 20 years old. richard lister reports. chanting: what do we want? justice.
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when do we want it? now! the tension had been building all week, but yesterday afternoon, a peaceful protest about the death of a black man in police custody beginning to turn into something else. the police were out in force trying to maintain calm, but it didn't last. by 10:00pm, a fleet of police vans was facing a burning barricade and an angry crowd. fireworks and bottles were thrown. hundreds of officers trying to keep people back. move away, the dogs are coming out. police in full riot gear repeatedly tried to clear the street. mounted officers were brought in too. it took at least another hour for some kind of order to be established, debris still smouldering on the streets. this confrontation was sparked by the way rashan charles died. 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.
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he was 20. it has stirred up deep grievances here. rashan was the third black man to die during a police operation in a month. we understand your frustration and your anger, don't fee that the family doesn't feel that anger and frustration too. all the family knows is taking to the streets doesn't give you justice. the council today has been trying to clean up and move on, but it says there is more work to do to address this community's anger. one of the things we did after monday night was ensure that the independent police complaints commission came down and held a meeting with young people and started to listen to their concerns, listen to what they had seen on video, listen to what people were talking about and i think that process have to continue. the independent police complaints commission says it will seek to answer the questions from rashan charles' family about his death and will follow the evidence wherever it leads. richard lister, bbc news. tomorrow in venezuela a key vote
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takes place to elect an assembly with broad powers to rewrite the country's constitution. critics of president nicholas maduro say it's nothing more than a power grab. the oil—rich nation is mired in economic crisis and violent demonstrations which began in april have left more than 100 people dead. 0ur south america correspondent, katy watson, has just sent this report from caracas. it's been four months of anger on the streets of venezuela and there's no sign of an end. protests began after president maduro moved to limit the opposition‘s power in congress, he reversed the decision but by then the anger was clear. when former president hugo chavez came to power 18 years ago, many venezuelans came to power 18 years ago, many venezuela ns wanted change. came to power 18 years ago, many venezuelans wanted change. he won support among the poor because he promised to provide for them. it was the era of high oil prices but that's now over. char there's's
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successoi’, that's now over. char there's's successor, nicolas maduro, is accused of pushing venezuela to the economic brink and eroding democracy. the government says the vote tomorrow is the only way to stabilise the economy and bring much—needed peace, but the opposition says it is a dictatorial move and is boycotting the vote. the country's paralysed. there are daily queues and food shortages. normal life is a struggle. the 0pposition‘s campaign of blocking streets, calling strikes and protests make life even more complicated for venezuelans but they're not giving up. with less than 2a our go the government is determined to push ahead with the vote, meanwhile members of the opposition are working out what to do next. katy watson, bbc news, caracas. the headlines on bbc news: north korea says its latest missile test proves the whole of the us mainland is within range of its weapons. president trump names retired military generaljohn kelly
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as his new chief of staff after reince priebus stood down from the post. more than 20,000 people are believed to have been evacuated from a music festival in barcelona after a fire engulfed part of the main stage. no injuries have been reported. sport now. rain affected play at the oval today as england faced south africa in the third test. but there's still been enough time for toby roland—jones to take five wickets on his test debut. the middlesex seamer took the wicket of temba bavuma as the tourists were dismissed for just 175. as expected the weather took a turn for the worse after lunch, and in that time alistair cook became the only home wicket to fall. england will start tomorrow morning on 74—1, a lead of 252 runs. if we can get up towards the 400 run
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lead then in reasonable time we will probably be happy with that. i'd hope that we could bowl them out in a session, in a day and a session. we've got some big hitters to come in towards the back end that can speed up the run rate, so that would be the way we'll be looking to go about it i'd imagine. the netherlands are the first team to qualify for the semi—finals at the women's euros. the hosts beat sweden 2—0, this goal from arsenal's vivianne miedema in the second half sets up a semi—final against either france or england. and the other semi—final between germany and denmark was postponed because of heavy rain in rotterdamn. the dug—out‘s were flooded. and the pitch, well, it wasn't in any condition to play on as one of the ground staff found out! england take on france in their quarter—final tomorrow who have beaten the lionesses in their last three major tournaments. england haven't won against them since mark sampson took over in 2013, but that's a record they're confident they can change. mentally
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m e nta lly we mentally we believe we can beat them and we've been close in the past. you know, an 87th minute equaliser in 2011 and then beaten on penalties, we actually put them out of qualification for the world cup in 2006 but got two draws, and away draw that put us through. 0bviously in march we were close. we are in a different place now, physically better prepared and hopefully that will get us over the line. ben proud has won a bronze at the swimming world championships in budapest. proud came third in the 50m freestyle final with caeleb dressel from the usa winning gold. it's proud's second medal of the championships, after winning gold in the 50m butterfly. britain's james guy won bronze in the 100m butterfly, he was tied in third with joseph scooling.
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caeleb dressel from the usa also won that final. sebastian vettel will be confident of increasing his formula 1 drivers' championship lead over lewis hamilton after claiming pole for tomorrow's hungarian grand prix. the german broke the track record as he secured only his second pole of the season. ferrari team—mate kimi raikkonen will line up alongside him. hamilton struggled with the balance of his mercedes and will start from fourth. britain's paul di resta will race for the first time in three and a half years after replacing regular williams driver felipe massa who was suffering from dizziness. challenge cup holders hull fc are into another wembley final after scoring seven tries against leeds rhinos in doncaster. after what had been an even first half, hull ran away with it in the second 40. jamie shaul scored the pick of the tries, an 80—metre sprint. mark snead also kicked 15 points. hull will meet the winner of tomorrow's semi—final between wigan and salford.
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you know, it's obviously what we've spoke about all season, making sure we defend that trophy as hard as we possibly can and we did that today. quite a week for you, you got married a few days ago and now in the challenge cup final?” married a few days ago and now in the challenge cup final? i told my mrs, i don't know what's better, last saturday or this, fantastic achievement with some fantastic players. that's all the sport for now. let's have a quick look at some of the front pages of the sunday papers. the observer leads with president trump's decision to sack his chief of staff causing nervousness among republicans. the sunday telegraph headlines an ally of borisjohnson attacking the chancellor philip hammond's approach to brexit. the sunday times has a report on the lives of teenage british girls who run away to join so—called islamic state. the mail on sunday says that princess diana's brother has called on channel 4 not to broadcast her video diaries, which are due to air next week. the sunday express also
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focuses on princess diana, claiming the princess asked the queen for help about her marriage. and that story also makes the daily star's front page. and we'll have a full review of the papers at 11:30pm. the german chancellor, angela merkel, has offered her deepest sympathy to the relatives of a man who was killed in a knife attack at a supermarket in hamburg. six other people were injured and mrs merkel has promised that the incident yesterday will be fully investigated. the attacker is a palestinian who'd come to germany from the united arab emirates. officials have confirmed he was on a database of known islamists. 0ur berlin correspondent damian mcguinness reports. this mobile phone video shot by an eyewitness shows a group of local residents trying to stop the attack are hurting anyone else. they were ina are hurting anyone else. they were in a nearby cafe when he ran past attacking people on the street with
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attacking people on the street with a large knife. the men grabbed chairs to bring him under control as he tried to stab them. chancellor angela merkel has thanked them for their courage. translation: angela merkel has thanked them for their courage. translationzl angela merkel has thanked them for their courage. translation: a woman ran and shouted there's someone with a knife. people got up, there was movement and panic on the other side of the street, some 20 or 30 people fleeing before the attacker. some people stood up and arm themselves with chairs to try to stop him, surround him and chase him and at the crossing he briefly stopped. he waved the night in the air and shouted allahu akbar, then he was cornered by other people. german officials say the attacker came to germany in 2015 as an asylum seeker. his application for asylum was rejected. but he wasn't deported because he lacked the necessary id documents. he was known to be an islamist but he wasn't considered dangerous. translation: at the
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moment we can say that the perpetrator‘s motive was on the one hand connected to religious motives, islamist motives, on the other hand there is also mental instability. we're currently assuming it's a mix of both, it's currently not clear what his primary motive was. the attack happened on friday afternoon. the man went into this supermarket, grabbed a large kitchen knife from a sheu grabbed a large kitchen knife from a shelf and stabbed a nearby 50—year—old man to death. he then attacked other people in the shop before running outside. and it was thanks to these local men now being called the heroes of hamburg that more people weren't injured or killed. damian mcguinness, bbc news, berlin. met police have issued a warning that criminals are increasingly using the bank accounts of young children and students to launder stolen or illegally—acquired money. they say parents need to be aware of what's going on. according to fraud prevention service cifas, the number of frauds involving people under 21 has almost doubled in the last year. george clooney is threatening to sue
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a french magazine for publishing photos of his twins. the star said photographers from voici magazine scaled the fence of his home on lake como, in northern italy, climbed a tree and illegally took pictures of the babies. now to a rather unusual emergency call in the us state of ohio. it was from a panicked woman, who said she had a boa constrictor clamped to her face. rachel cary has the story.. in her own front yard in sheffield like, ohio, a woman is strangled by the very snake she'd rescued just one day earlier. —— sheffield lake.
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when firefighters arrived minutes later, they found the woman laying in her driveway with the 1.6 metre boa constrictor wrapped around her body. they used a pocket knife to cut the snake's head off. the victim was treated for nonlife threatening injuries. i'm just really pleased with the paramedics' response and to think that quick, to take a pocketknife out and do what they did, obviously they had to destroy the snake but they had no other choice. boa constrictors are native to tropical, central and south america and while their nonvenomous they squeeze their prey and swallow them whole. the victim kept no fewer than 11 snakes in her home. rachel cary, bbc news. no good deed goes unpunished they say! time for the weather the weather forecast with darren.
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i don't like that story! it's not my fault it's raining, honestly! a change of fortunes right now in the uk and all show you some weather watchers and explain. this is eastbourne earlier in east sussex, damp and dismal underneath the rain whereas further north towards lincolnshire for example we had some sunshine for a while but won the radar sequence and this is the rain that we've seen over the past few hours, it has moved away from the south—east corner of england and moved into lincolnshire and across east yorkshire. here's the forecast sequence over east yorkshire. here's the forecast sequence over the next three hours and the heavy rain soon clears from the south—east england and away to wales, wetter weather moving to eastern england and northern england perhaps, still around by sam. further west we have some clearer skies and some showers and they will push east through the day following the rain as it clears away. not many showers first thing, 9am if you're up showers first thing, 9am if you're up and about in scotland, a few
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showers in northern ireland, that rain from overnight in parts of northern england, especially lincolnshire and east anglia, will have cleared by this stage and most of england and wales will start sunny. showers into the south—west approaches and through the irish sea and into the bristol channel. still windy in the south—east of england at this stage but the rain should have cleared. the blustery winds will probably keep going for a good pa rt will probably keep going for a good part of the day and there's the chance of a passing shower at the ovalfor chance of a passing shower at the oval for the bat altogether a chance of a passing shower at the ovalfor the bat altogether a better day than today. lots of showers developing from late morning onwards. initially in the west but you can see how they develop widely later on in the day and those showers will be accompanied by gusty winds, likely to heavy downpours, maybe some hail and thunder. towards the south—east corner, kent, sussex, maybe essex and london, those showers should be few and far between and warm with more sunshine. still showers to the beginning of next week, low pressure that has been ever present in the north—west
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over the past four or five days is still there on monday. slow—moving and heavy showers in northern ireland and scotland. a breeze in wales. temperature is 22 or 23. 17 or 18 with the showers. we lose one area of low pressure by tuesday and the showers become fewer, but as we head into the middle part of the week there is another area of low pressure running in and that will bring wind and rain in the uk. there may be a glimmer of hope towards the latter pa rt may be a glimmer of hope towards the latter part of next week, probably into next weekend orjust after. the 10—day forecast provided of course online. hello. this is bbc news with martine croxall. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first, the headlines at 11:30. north korea says its intercontinental ballistic missile test brings all parts of the united states within its range. white house war — donald trump names generaljohn kelly as his next chief of staff after days of public in—fighting. more worries for students
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as the largest deficit on record of any retirement fund in the uk is run up by the main pension scheme for british universities. more than 20,000 people are believed to have been evacuated from a music festival in barcelona, after a fire engulfed part of the main stage. no injuries have been reported. after months of protests, venezuela's assembly is elected tomorrow with broad powers to rewrite the country's constitution. and coming up, conn iggulden talks tojim naughtie about switching to fantasy from writing historical fiction in meet the author. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are nigel nelson, political editor of the sunday mirror, and political commentatorjo phillips. welcome. hello.
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