tv Breakfast BBC News August 19, 2017 6:00am-7:01am BST
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hello, this is breakfast, with tina daheley and ben thompson. police say the man who carried out the barcelona van attack could still be at large. one key suspect has been shot dead, but a new search has begun for the man it's now believed was behind the wheel. 1a people died and more than 130 were injured across the two separate attacks on the spanish coast. candlelit vigils have been held late into the night in tribute to the victims. good morning, it's saturday 19th august. professor stephen hawking warns of an nhs crisis in england as he clashes with the health secretary jeremy hunt. remembering a tv legend. the king of saturday night television, sir bruce forsyth,
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dies at the age of 89. neither tcu, to see you... nice! we look back at a career that spanned it decades of show business. alastair cook's fourth test double century puts england in control of the day night test against west indies. and matt has the weather. good morning. after the hefty showers and thunderstorms of yesterday, fewer showers today. a little bit more sunshine. details on that and the full weekend forecast coming up. good morning. our main story: police in spain believe the driver of the van which ploughed into pedestrians in barcelona, killing 13 people, could still be at large. a man—hunt is now under way for moroccan—born younes abouyaaqoub. a teenager shot dead by police after a second attack in cambrils had previously been identified as a key suspect. investigators now think that he was responsible for hiring the van.
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last night, crowds gathered to pay their respects to the victims, as simonjones reports. on the boulevard where on thursday bodies lay, last night a vigil. flowers a nd bodies lay, last night a vigil. flowers and candles to mark the lives lost and those injured from 3a different countries. the disbelief and grief etched on people's faces. i was scared and nervous to come here. i didn't know what it would be like and if everybody would it mourning and upset over what happened. it's good everybody has come together and just kind of remember what happened. these pictures show people running for their lives as a van ploughed into their lives as a van ploughed into the crowds on las ramblas, in barcelona. hours later a car was driven into pedestrians in cambrils.
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five suspects were shot dead, four bya five suspects were shot dead, four by a single officer. among them the man believed to have rented the van used in the barcelona attack. police say they are still looking for the man they now believe was driving, younes abouyaaqoub. the task of identifying the dead and injured is continuing. fears are growing for julian cadman, who is seven, and has dual british and australian citizenship. he is now missing, much of the concern of his great art. of course i am really worried. i can't hear anything with them, i want to hear anything with them, i want to hear what's happening. 15 people are ina hear what's happening. 15 people are in a critical condition in hospital. the mourning and the police operation continues. tributes have been paid to sir bruce forsyth, who died yesterday at the age of 89. his career in light—entertainment spanned more than seven decades. starting out at the age 01:14, he went on to become the man
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who defined saturday—night tv, hosting shows including the generation game, play your cards right and strictly come dancing. born in north london, he started tap dancing at an early age, a passion that stayed with him throughout his life. # i'm putting on my top hat # messin‘ up my white te # dancing and... laughter he was 30—years—old when he was asked to present sunday night at the london palladium. 10 million viewers regularly tuned into the show. he quickly became one of the most popular family entertainers. and every host needs a catchphrase. sir bruce had many. nice to see you, to see you... nice!
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good game! he reigned supreme at the helm of the bbc‘s generation game for six years, from 1971, then again at the beginning of the 19905 and had fun doing it. there is another phyllis here. there is another phyllis herelj don't like being called phyllis. my name's phil with a y. there's another bundle of trouble! an all round entertainer, he went on to present strictly come dancing, where he mixed his love of singing and dancing. arlene phillips was a judge on strictly and she remembers his dedication. bruce never stopped working. not just in terms of training, but in rehearsal, going over things. just in terms of training, but in rehearsal, going overthings. so just in terms of training, but in rehearsal, going over things. so we worked hard at being mr showbiz. but also, for bruce to retain his
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balance, we used to spin 80 times a day. he was warming up, he would co nsta ntly day. he was warming up, he would constantly work is body and sometimes even on strictly, just before he had to go on, you would see him almost revving himself up like a see him almost revving himself up likea car, see him almost revving himself up like a car, getting ready to go out there and entertain. hundreds of tributes have been paid to sir bruce, with many celebrities taking to social media to remember he star. the prime minister theresa may described him as a national treasure, who would be missed. strictly host claudia winkelman, who took over from sir bruce, spoke about how both on and off the screen he was the man you saw. and stephen fry tweaking a popular brucey catchphrase. it's all over the front of the newspapers too. we will have a look at those a moment. after 8am, we will speak to a close friend of sir
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bruce. professor stephen hawking has accused the health secretary of "cherry—picking" evidence to support his policies. he has praised the nhs, but raises concerns about increasing privatisation. here's our health correspondent, jane dreaper. he is one of the world's best—known scientists. professor stephen hawking was diagnosed with motoneuron disease at the age of 21. he turned 75 at the start of this year. a milestone celebrated at a scientific conference last month. professor hawkins says he would be alive without the large amount of high—quality nhs treatment he has received. but he is concerned about the future of the health service in england, defending it as the most efficient and cost—effective system. ina efficient and cost—effective system. in a speech which describes his medical history and how we sometimes have to challenge doctors, vestel paul king says: —— the professor
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says: he quoted the use of private agency staff as an example. he also accuses jeremy hunt of cherry picking research papers to support his case for changing weekend services. he says that while he wants more weekend services, he believes there has been no due diligence done in the case of the so—called seven—day nhs. the government says it makes no apology for being the first to tackle what it describes as an a cce pta ble tackle what it describes as an acceptable variation in care across the week. and ministers believe patients in england should be able to access the best treatments based on the quality of care rather than who is providing it. donald trump's former chief strategist steve bannon has promised to go to war against opponents after being fired from his job. he is the fourth member of this
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decline's in a circle to live in the last month. he was a key adviser to the president and shape the america first message. david willetts has more. —— willis. steve bannon was one of the most powerful men in the white house. if you think they are going to give your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. every day it is going to be a fight. he is not a racist, i can tell you that. he isa not a racist, i can tell you that. he is a good person. he actually gets a very unfair press in that regard. but we'll see what happens with mr bannon. by the time donald trump made that less than ringing endorsement of his special adviser early this week, the die was cast. steve bannon's clashes with more moderate forces in the west wing, coupled with the violence in cha rlottesville coupled with the violence in charlottesville that he harboured white nationalist sympathies, helped
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seal his fate. steve bannon has now rejoined the white wing website breitbart news that he ran before leaving tojoin breitbart news that he ran before leaving to join the trump campaign one year ago. he says he intends to keep fighting on the president's half, but in an interview with the conservative make a scene the weekly standard he was also quoted as saying: all which leaves the president and increasingly lonely and isolated figure. while steve bannon's departure is a victory for those who wa nted departure is a victory for those who wanted to see an end to the more extreme elements in the west wing, whether it will lead to a better functioning white house remains to be seen. more than five 500 people are thought to have died in devastating floods in india, nepal and bangladesh. the death toll is expected to rise. aid agencies have described the flooding as one of the worst humanitarian crises in years, with growing concerns about food shortages and disease caused
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by polluted flood waters. our correspondent sanjoy majumder is in northern bangladesh. a very good morning. what is the latest? ca n a very good morning. what is the latest? can you tell us? —— what can you tell us? item in the northern districts of bangladesh, the worst affected areas in this country. the reason that the case is because two major rivers flow from india into bangladesh through here will stop over the last few days the levels of water in those rivers have been described as dangerously high. in some cases they say it is higher than the levels of this river wey backin than the levels of this river wey back in 1988, which is when bangladesh suffered catastrophic floods. large parts of this area have been badly affected. railways have been badly affected. railways have been badly affected. railways have been snapped. in some areas... inaudible... a number of villages are underwater. there are houses
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submerged. we were told earlier that 3000 schools were submerged as well. thank you very much. sorry the pictures were breaking up a little bit. understandable, given everything that's going on. we just want to bring you this story. if you're afraid of snakes or a little bit squeamish you might want to look away. imagine the shock one mum had in australia when she went into her living room and found this among her child's toys. it's an eastern brown snake and measured around two metres long and was found hiding among a lego set. the breed is the second most venomous snake in the world. it is responsible for about two thirds of all snakebite deaths in australia. you can see it there. you will be pleased to know this particular one was safely caught and removed. this is what i don't understand, people who do this. hats off to
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them. but i would be convinced it was going to jump them. but i would be convinced it was going tojump back up and bite where it was being held by the tail. for the second most ben —— venomous snake in the world it looks pretty calm. as does the handler. i think we need to move on! that was more than enough. here's matt with a look at this morning's weather. how is it looking? good morning. it's actually looking at ok. better than recent days. slowly getting there, as far as the heat is concerned. out there today still a blustery winds across the country. a cool start. few showers around today, so greater drier spells and for some of us a completely dry saturday ahead. the driving force is the low pressure to the north of us, which means the wind is coming from a cool direction. not especially nice conditions on the scottish mountains. frequent showers to come
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in scotland. even with that, "and in the north and east. showers coming and going this morning in northern ireland, bigger gaps between them than yesterday. some pushing eastwards. fewer showers around by and large. the showers in scotland could be a little bit heavy. some thunder, hail mixed in as well. across eastern areas we saw temperatures at about 13— 1a yesterday. the high is that about everything— 18 this afternoon. a few showers into the afternoon in northern ireland. the breeze easy down in england and wales for the second half of the day. the showers becoming fewer in number, especially in the south—west, wales, southern england. most places dry by this stage and temperatures at about 20— 21 celsius. the breeze falls even lighter tonight. showers continue in the north of scotland. most places will be dry. take a warm sleeping
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bag tonight if you are in rural parts of northern uk. temperatures could be down to about 4— five degrees. a cool start to friday, but not a bad start. a couple of missed 01’ not a bad start. a couple of missed orfog not a bad start. a couple of missed or fog patches around this ridge of high pressure. —— mist. these are the remnants of hurricane gert. for most of us it's a lovely start on sunday. sunny spells. most of us staying dry through the day. across ireland, into wales and the south—west, skies turn grey and we have outbreaks of rain. drizzle extensive in the afternoon. a slow process. with lighter winds, the strong august sunshine overhead, it should feel pleasant. the patchy rain and drizzle pushes northwards through saturday night. we're going to talk more about bruce. featuring on many of the front pages today. a great picture
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on the front of the telegraph. many of them featuring some of his familiar catchphrases. farewell to the last of the great entertainers says the front of the daily telegraph. the daily mail is running a special tribute edition, famous catchphrase here again. a full tribute inside the paper. the sun has them all around the side. those are some of the memories that many of us will remember him for, but holly hamilton has been out to find out what you might remember sir bruce forced up u p yellow up yellow saturday tea, generation game. nice to see you, to see you nice. bruce rice, forsyth was such an iconic presenter, what are your memories of him? generation game, as
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a trial we used to watch that every saturday. it was a real family show and it brought the whole family together and he was a family entertainer so together and he was a family entertainerso he's together and he was a family entertainer so he's such a loss to us entertainer so he's such a loss to us all. nice to see you, to see you... to see you nice. every saturday night, saturday night kelly, generation game, seeing what people were winning, it was good, try to answer the questions, never got them right. didn't he do well? generation game. cuddly toy. good game, good game! interesting, isn't it? he appealed to so many generations. everyone says the generation game because he did it twice, in the 19705 and the 19905. send us your memories of sir bruce, you heard some there, the generation game, play or cards right, the price is right. you can e—mail us at bbcbrea kfast@bbc. co. uk. you can also share your thoughts with other viewers on our facebook
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page or via our twitter. we'll be back with a summary of the news at 6:30am. now it's time for the film review with jane hill and jason solomon. they're taking a look at the latest cinema releases, which this week include final portrait, an inconvenient sequel and the hitman's bodyguard. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week5's cinema releases is ja5on solomons. hello, jason, good to see you. hello. what have you been watching this week? this week on the film review we go to paris for the final portrait of swiss arti5t alberto giacometti and his very patient subject played by armie hammer. giacometti himself played by geoffrey rush and the film directed by stanley tucci.
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and then the weather is on the agenda as it always is at the weekend, but this time it's extreme weather as we follow al gore and a series of flip chart presentations around the sadly nece55ary an inconvenient sequel, a follow—up to his oscar—winning an inconvenient truth. and in the hitman's bodyguard, the bodyguard played by ryan reynolds meets a hit man played by samuel ljackson and it's love at first sight. well, not really. let's start with final portrait. i'm a massive stanley tucci fan as an actor. i know he's directed a few films before. i must confess i don't think i've seen any of them looking at the list. how does this work—out? there was a one called big night where he played a restaurant owner with his brother played by tony shalhoub. stanley tucci doesn't pop up in this film, although tony shalhoub, who played his brother, does, again playing a brother interestingly, of alberto giacometti, playing diego giacometti. this is a story that i didn't know and a story that stanley tucci, strolling along in paris 25 years ago in one of the bouquinistes along
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the seine, and picked up this memoir of this american writer called james lord, who'd sat for giacometti in his final days in paris. this is what the story is based on. james lord himself, it's his memoir, and played by actor armie hammer, who is the very patient subject of giacometti, who, if you know his work, and there is an exhibition currently at the tate, i do urge you to see that, it does feature a lot of the work. he got very famous for the whittled—down sculptures, trying to get to the essence of humanity in an absurd world. stanley tucci being the impish character actor that he is doesn't really concentrate on the dark heart of the work, more the struggle of the artist and the pain that it is to sit for that artist because he can't make up his mind when his work is finished, if ever. so here is armie hammer playing james lord trying to work out how long he should book his vacation for. the end of the week. yeah. 0h, isee. i could change it again. i would like to know, you know, how many days do you need? oh, i don't know, i think it would be great to work for another week. a week?
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a week, yes, i think a week would be good. a week is fine. i canjust move my flight next wednesday. would that... wednesday. yes, when state is fine. let's say wednesday. 0k, good. but then... what? there's no question of the portrait ever being finished so... no, of course. that's the great geoffrey rush, of course. it is. sometimes i love geoffrey rush, and sometimes he can be what we call a ham. he can dominate a film, totally on balances it, and i do worry about him. here we see him, he is quite reined in there, but there is a lot of smoking and dishevelled mud and staring at your pictures, almost like the travis bickle of the art world, challenging his portraits,
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like you talking to me. but we also get a lot of the kind of scrape of the art, the stuff, the very great atelier where giacometti work is beautifully captured by danny cohen, who is the same cameraman that they had in the king's speech, which captured rush in a different form there. this bit is very well done. but the film takes a lot of life from the sort of cafe paris kind of stuff, distorted stuff that stanley tucci reli5he5 in. the cafe scenes where they kind of drink wine and eggs, hard—boiled eggs, and they kind of meat prostitutes and kind of swirl around. it's that part, that romantic image of the artist that you want from a film about an artist in paris. so we get that struggle but you also get the flamboyance and the indulgence and romanticism with which stanley tucci treat5 it. it is very much a stanley tucci film, although you would have thought stanley tucci would have said i want to play that part, he's very much there. it's a character actor's directing because he's very indulgent towards the acting and let's
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all the kind of funny bit5 stay in there. it's a serious subject but it's very elegantly and lightly done and it's very enjoyable. it is enjoyable, as it? the way you described the cafe scenes, i love all of that, vi5ually it's fantastic, isn't it? but it can be a cliche. ye5, absolutely. it sort of almost goes there and yet it deals with a new subject, very fresh, and armie hammer is very good, he is stoically funny, putting up with all of this. he's the sort of our eyes, almost the audience shrugging, god, i've got to put up with this annoying prostitute coming in and taking giacometti's attention away from me and got to put up with geoffrey ru5h‘5 never being able to be on time, orfini5h this portrait. it's very much l‘arti5te au travail. that's exactly what it is and i think stanley tucci has done it very beautifully. the artist at work. all right, well, and inconvenient sequel couldn't be more different. i got nervous because you used the word flip chart in your introduction there. people watching might think that is not necessarily what i go to the cinema for. i think i've been a bit old—fashioned, i think it's powerpoint presentation.
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yes, it probably is. that's what it is these days. in the first one it was. an inconvenient truth was a huge success. it won and oscar. it did, but it also changed our perception of al gore who was this sort of dull politician at the time but then became this sort of evangelist for climate change. what it did, it was shown in schools everywhere, it sort of proof that climate change was happening. it seemed unnecessary to do so now. but unfortunately, obviously, al gore seems to feel the need to do so. his life has changed again. he narrowly missed out on being president, al gore, and now he's become this travelling salesman for climate change. going around teaching people how to do fairly dull presentations on a powerpoint around the world, but also we get a film in which extreme weather features. it is very cinematic extreme weather, isn't it, unfortunately. but there is also the fact that some people still don't believe this stuff is happening so he still needs to go and convince people. now, i need no convincing fracking is probably not good for the earth and wind turbines and solar panels are. but it's very difficult to get the world to turn around. so it's a look at this thing.
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unfortunately, jane, and i say this with heavy heart, it's really boring. 0h, 0k. oh, no. just watching the clips we are playing here i wasjust thinking this looks like a busman's holiday for a journalist. it looks like possibly a very interesting documentary. and i'm thinking, are people going to pay whatever they paid now to go and see it at the cinema? i mean, if they did, it's supposed to be a cure for non—believers in climate change. i think it's more a cure for insomnia. spectacular as glaciers are, they are moving at a faster pace than this film goes at. the cause itself needed a much betterfilm, and much more inspiring film than it gets in this, which actually looks like propaganda for the people who believe in climate change. it's an easy stick to beat people who want to deny it, and say look how boring that film is. it is a real shame, i think, because it's a vitally important subject treated with a deathly dull kind of scenario. hit man's bodyguard. was that boring? i wouldn't call it boring, hit man's bodyguard. many things. boring it isn't. although it is very interesting, because it's supposed to be this
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light—hearted summer caper in which the light—hearted ryan reynolds, who we've seen recently in deadpool, as a kind of foul—mouthed superhero and samuel ljackson, famous for his expletives, snakes on a plane, comes to mind and also the works of tarantino, which comes to mind very much here. and it's almost like they couldn't getjohn travolta so they got ryan reynolds to team up as two hit men in the car. so what you get us, you definitely get a first here in hitman's bodyguard in that there is a sort of gunfight and car battle on the streets of coventry, which has probably never happened in cinema history. that could be a first. so, congratulations to the hitman's bodyguard for that. they go on the run. ryan reynolds is supposed to be escorting samuel ljackson to the hague where he is going to give witness at the child of a belarussian warlord played by gary oldman doing russian accent very, very russian. but they argue, they banter, they get lost, and of course, because they feel the film is rather flagging they must get a laugh by having our two stowaways hide with some nuns on the run.
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0k. traditional folk music plays bellissima, sorelle! go with god. ok, now, you just told me that was the best bit. well, it's one of the things we can show. there is no swearing or violence. what it is is it's very flippant and bantery, and that's all fine, and then there is nonstop violence. and some of it you want to treat
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in a cartoonish way but in tom and jerry they get squashed, they fall apart, it's funny. but in this the violence felt very real, it hurts, and yet no one is getting hurt in it. i feel inconsequential violence becomes very dull. it is almost soul destroying while you watch so much of it in this film. i felt bad about this film. it's not the language, i didn't mind that, some of it is colourful and swearing can be fun. it isn't in this. even when they have a fight in the hardware store and a canal in amsterdam it never reaches... the fighting isn't funny and it ceases to be so. so when you say, is it boring? yes, ifound it dull in that respect. it wasn't inventive fighting like you get injohn woo martial arts movies. that was missing here. i thought it was rather plodding and it was reduced to just ryan reynolds looking askance at samuel ljackson and saying, oh god, are you going to swear again in a minute? he does. 0k. what's your best out, jason? my best out, if you haven't been on holiday this year, can't afford to, or you have stayed in the uk and it has been a bit wet, how about a summer holiday
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with the odyssey, which is a bio pic with the french diver and all—around french personjacques cousteau, who discovered the undersea world and the fishes and brought them vividly to life. you forget now, we have whole channels dedicated to fishy stuff, but you forget no one before he brought them to life had seen seals and turtles and the dolphins. yes, he was remarkable in what he did. he won the oscar for documentary for science. so this is about him. he is married to simone, who is played by audrey tautou. and his son pierre niney. it's a very french film. look at those beanie hats. you don't get better than that. you will recognise them, perhaps, from the life aquatic, the steve zissou character played by bill murray. and, of course, this one is also about ecology and other sort of clips of the antarctic that we saw in the al gore movie. it strikes me the antarctic would be a much safer place without all these film crews swarming all over it, but that's another matter. it's the odyssey and it's the most beautiful film of the summer. all right, fantastic, well, that in itself is wonderful. the dvd, goodness, a blast from the you have brought us. i know, i don't want to make anyone
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feel old or young because it's a film about being young. 50 years old, it is, this year, and it's out on dvd, the graduate, starring dustin hoffman and it looks like a cougar there. it is a cougar because anne bancroft is the original cougar in this film, the older woman, mrs robinson preying on the younger victim, ben braddock, played by dustin hoffman in mike nichols's epic film. it's one of the coolest films of the 605, still looks very cool and fresh today, revived for this master, and it's still got that wonderful music, "hello darkness, my old friend," by simon and garfunkel. to quote paul simon, "it's still pretty crazy after all these years," the graduate. that's a great one to sit on the sofa over the summer and watch that. thank you very much. my highlight this week may be your russian accent but we can discuss that more later. thank you very much. hello. this is breakfast, with tina daheley and ben thompson. coming up before 7am,
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matt will have the weather. but first, a summary of this morning's main news. more tributes have been paid to sir bruce forsyth, who died yesterday at the age of 89. the entertainer‘s career spanned more than 70 years and he fronted many popular tv shows, including sunday night at the london palladium and the generation game. sir bruce's strictly co—star tess daly said she would never forget his drive, generosity or sense of humour. donald trump has removed steve bannon from his post as chief strategist. he becomes the fourth member of the president's inner circle to leave in the last month. the right—wing nationalist was a key adviser to mr trump and helped shape the america first message during his presidential election campaign. mr bannon has returned to a senior role at the ultra—conservative website, breitbart news. two people have been killed and at least six wounded in stabbings in the south—west
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finnish city of turku. police shot the suspect, before arresting him. overnight, authorities raided a flat and made a number of further arrests, but say it's too early to determine whether the incident was terrorism. police in spain that be now believe the driver of a van that ploughed into pedestrians in barcelona, killing 13 people, could still be at large. he is 22 and lived in a town north of the city. early reports suggested the main suspect was one of the men shot dead by police, following a second attack in cambrils. those are the main stories this morning. but happening in the sport? let's talk cricket. alastair cook, what a performance from him yesterday. ten hours he was batting yesterday. ten hours he was batting yesterday against the west indies
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for england. a massive double century for him. really did well for england and put them in control. absolutely fantastic performance. the batsmen have done their bit at edgbaston and now it's the bowlers turn to shine against west indies, on day three of the day—night test alastair cook was the star for england. his mammoth innings of 243, with some help from west indies fielders, pushed england towards 514 for eight declared in theirfirst innings. as the natural light faded, james anderson removed opener kraig brathwaite. west indies will resume this afternoon trailing by a70 runs, with nine wickets remaining in the t20 blast, the remaining quarter—final places have been decided. derbyshire, leicestershire, surrey, birmingham and somerset have all qualified for the knockout stage. somerset qualified at the expense of sussex, who's win over essex wasn't enough for them to go through. liverpool have rejected a third offer from barcelona for phillipe coutinho.
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it's understood the latest offer for the brazilian midfielder is in the region of £114 million. the club has already rejected two bids from barcelona. they insist coutinho won't be sold, despite his transfer request. tottenham have signed defender davinson sanchez from ajax in a reported club record £112 million deal, subject to a medical and a work permit. the colombia centre—back has agreed a six—year deal and will be the premier league club's first summer signing. meanwhile, at stamford bridge, one man who's not proving too popular at them moment is diego costa. he and manager antoino conte haven't been on the best of terms since the striker was told he didn't have a future at the club. the blues boss has managed to see the funny side, though. he was asked about costa saying he'd been treated like a criminal. look at this. are you a criminal? it's great, it's great. i'm not
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interested to continue this issue. for me, it is the past. no fixture for chelsea today, as they play tottenham tomorrow. in the lunch time kick—off today, manchester united travel to swansea. burnley host west brom, liverpool are at home to crystal palace, while stoke city host arsenal in the late kick—off. in the solheim cup, team usa made a clean sweep of the four—balls, to take a five and a half to two and a half lead over europe. not once during the entire afternoon was there blue on the board, withjulie inkster‘s side holding on to any lead they gained, thanks to some fine putting performances. it was a disappointing afternoon for europe, who had led after the morning foursomes. leeds rhinos beat st helens 16—14 in rugby league's super league. both sides scored two tries.
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adam cuthbertson with leeds' second. the rhinos held off a late charge from st helens to hang on to win by a margin of two points and strengthen their grip on second place. hull were soundly beaten 116—18 by huddersfield and they're now three points behind leeds. wigan thrashed fourth—placed salford, who are level on points with wakefield, who are fifth. just before i go, anotherfootball manager showing their funny side. burnley manager sean dyche has been talking about the transfer window. he says he'd prefer to see it close, before the premier league starts. last week, burnley sold their striker andre gray to watford three days before their opening game. and now he knows exactly the type of player he wants to bring in. one that gets the ball, wax it in the net a lot. i would say they are really help will in a game of
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football. slightly more rabid qualities as well? no, the one that really wax at whacks in the net even more than the bloke ijust said before. that's really helpful, i found. —— really whacks it. i've heard strategies from managers before, but that's best one. that's how we talk in burnley. sometimes you just have to simplify things in life. yeah, if you can get that, job done. he's got 12 days left of the tra nsfer he's got 12 days left of the transfer window. the one who can whack the ball in the back of the net. we are going to pick up on the news we've been talking about all day. the news that sir bruce forsyth has died at the age of 89. from the generation game to strictly, sir bruce forsyth was a staple of saturday night tv for generations of people. his was a career that began in post—war britain
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and spanned more than 70 years. lower. lower than an ace? this is to win the game. it's a bit of a child's! what do you think? nice to see you, to see you... nice! good game! did she do well? you know it's been 13 years since i last did the generation game and i was so flattered when the bbc asked me to come back to do it. at all the bleeding and begging and grovelling. .. i hope bleeding and begging and grovelling... i hope i didn't belittle myself. hold on, listen to these people! they can't all be wrong! good evening! ladies and gentlemen... welcome to sunday night
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at the london palladium. it's definitely time for... these are the cards that the americans... please... this is satire. sir bruce doing what he loved best. so how was he able to stay so relevant as an entertainer, through decades of immense social and cultural change? we'rejoined by tv historian elinor groom. seven decades, what an incredible career. sir bruce forsyth really saw probably more changes in broadcasting than anyone else and of course he is associated so much with the musicals and hollywood stars
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that he loved, like fred astaire, and yet he always managed to bring that to whatever he was doing on television. he got his start before the second world war. he would recall going down to the radial olympia exhibition in london and going on what was probably one of the first talent shows when you could be televised on bbc. in those early days of television, there was a lot of crossover. stars from the stage becoming stars from the screen. at the house that enduring legacy and to be able to change with the times and always be relevant, bring the humour up—to—date, hejust did that. in the 1970s there was a point, after he was done with sunday night at the london palladium, and when he brought on the generation game, that's the point where he really started to define really what variety on television meant and he really had such a steering role in defining what comedy, light
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entertainment was the most people at home. a lot of people probably don't know that he didn't come from the showbiz background, did he? no, he came from a solid working—class background, from edmonton. in fact, apparently his father was one of the very early adopters of the television. he bought one when it was very expensive. so there might have been something in him thatjust knew he was destined for a new medium. whenever we talk about the golden age of television, there's always a dispute. was it the 605 or 705 or 805? he did them all and one of the only people who has done them all. and i think he is associated with everyone's childhood. with everyone's childhood. with everyone's prime—time sat downstairs in their pyjamas. the last thing they would do is watch the generation game, strictly come dancing. that's what it is for a lot
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of people and all the way through he has managed to stay true to the song and dance shows that he loved. and multitalented, because he presented, he sang, he danced and was a comic. he did all of that. and he was a responsive as well. and sometimes a little bit naughty. he had bite to him, a lot of personality. he was really distinctive at a point when arguably television was still waiting to find its character. we talk about strictly being something ofa talk about strictly being something of a revival for his career, because in the early 20005 he wasn't on—screen as much. the way saturday night television had changed to the point where there weren't those big variety shows. it really did give him his career, didn't it? yes and he always had so much respect for it. people talk about how bruce would take the mickey out of participants in the shows that he hosted, but at the same time there
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was a lot of sincerity about it and i think that showed in strictly, because he loved the dancing so much and he relished the opportunity to really showcase it. will we ever see his like again? because television and the way we make it has just changed beyond all recognition. will we ever see another bruce? in terms of it and in terms of the exact shows he represented, possibly not. —— in terms of variety. if the nature of television, it adapts. but any time you see a character on screen and you think that person define the show, i think you are watching the legacy of bruce forsyth. thank you. talk to you again later. please keep your favourite brucey memories coming in and let us know what he meant to. that's find out what's happening with the weather. how is looking? not that this morning. a lovely
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start for some. this was taken by weather watchers in the highlands. many places in the sunshine at times today. still some showers around today. still some showers around today. still some showers around today. still a keen breeze, especially in scotland. the showers are few and further between. big gaps between them. dry in southern parts of the country. the breeze will ease later. temperatures at best across eastern areas. warmer thanit best across eastern areas. warmer than it was yesterday in eastern scotland. 21— 22 in south—east england. we finished the day with still a couple of showers around. this continues in northern scotland. most will be dry tonight and with clear skies and light winds it will bea clear skies and light winds it will be a much cooler might than the past couple. towns and cities, 11— 13. getting down figures in the countryside. bear that in mind if you plan to spend the night under ca nvas you plan to spend the night under canvas tonight. a lovely sunny start on sunday. a couple of mist and fog
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patches. those places staying dry through the day, but cloud increases from the south—west and we have patchy rain and drizzle pushing in the south—west england. heavy bursts around cardigan bay later. this is the exception. most of you will have a dry sunday and with lighter winds temperatures will feel a little bit higher as well. temperatures at best tomorrow about 20— 22 degrees. that's how you weather is looking. a full update and a sneaky peek as to what's happening in europe as we ta ke what's happening in europe as we take a look the forecast after 7am. we look forward to it, thank you. we are going to be tested later by a child genius coming onto the show, there's a new tv show putting ten or 12 —year—olds to the test on channel 45o we 12 —year—olds to the test on channel 4 so we might have some questions for you later. what is your maths like? it's all right, but as far as
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child genius is concerned, i'm about 50% right! for now, thank you! no pressure! lots of questions still to come on that, we may be being put to the test. not looking forward to that. we'll be back with the headlines at 7am, but first it's time for click. this week spencer kelly and the team are in india to discover how the country is innovating for the future and using technology to solve problems of the past. get ready, your indian experience starts now. as soon as you step off the plane, india hits you like a big, hot wall of noise. it is everything you've
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ever imagined it to be. it is life turned up to 11. the first thing you'll notice will be the traffic. it's always the traffic. is the tip just to kind of step out? oh, this looks like a gap. the sound is deafening! everyone's honking. for 70 years this country has been independent of british rule and the cities that have sprung up around the old colonial grandeur seem chaotic, but they do kinda work. kinda. and india has found a niche in the wider world. half of its 1.2 billion people are aged 35 or under. maybe that's why it's known for its it know—how, its outsourcing. and the bosses of some of the biggest tech companies in the world are indian.
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but it hasn't had as much luck in taking over the world of consumer technology. after all, how many indian tech brands can you name? the truth is that although there is a middle class of consumers here willing to buy brands, it's not actually that big or that rich. we're here to find out how india is preparing for its future and, let me tell you, it is reaching for the stars. in 2013, india became the fourth spacefaring nation to launch a probe into orbit around mars and, unlike those who came before them, they did it on their first attempt. the indian space research organisation, isro, has been gaining a reputation for doing tons of successful space stuff on a shoestring budget. their mars mission came in atjust $74 million,
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that's less than it cost to make the film gravity. and, in february this year, they made history again by launching a record 104 satellites on a single rocket. it could just be that india has created the perfect combination of big brains with big space experience, but a mentality for doing things on the cheap. just the sort of place you might go if you wanted to, say, land a robot on the moon for the space equivalent of small change. how confident are you that this will work? laughs welcome to the earthbound hq of team indus, one of a handful of start—ups competing for the google lunar xprize, that's $20 million for the first commercial company to land a rover on the moon. december, 2017, blast off. the team indus space craft goes into two days of earth orbit
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and then, boom, 4.5 days to the moon. 12 days of spiralling down to the surface and then if all goes well, out comes the rover, travels half a kilometre, sends back hd video and wins the prize. what could possibly go wrong? rahul narayan is the co—founder of team indus and has been here since the very start of the project, way back in 2010. at that point you had no idea how you would acheive it? yes, i googled it and figured out what wikipedia had to say about landing on the moon. you did an internet search on how to land on the moon? absolutely. laughs did it have any useful information? yes. it said there had been 85 attempts and i think every second attempt failed to the moon.
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six years later, there are around 100 people working very hard here, and it certainly looks like they know their space stuff. star wars in particular. even the toilets are appropriately labelled. and they've built themselves all the things that a serious space company should have, like a mission control room, a model lander that makes smoke, and a simulated lunar surface complete with a rover to go in it. just like national space agencies, testing every component and simulating every stage of the mission is a huge part of what they're doing here. we're making sure we do everything right. we're just not making it fancy. we are going to make it frugal, specific to the mission, but there's absolutely no corners that we're cutting. and, to look at it from a more philosophical way, we have one shot to win this. we don't have a flight spare, so if one blows up we can go and fly the other, we have to get this right.
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team indus is one of five start—ups from around the world who have secured launch contracts for their rovers. while they can't say for sure, they think they'll launch before any other team, and so perhaps be the first team to land and win! that's except for the fact that to save costs they have had to sell some of their spare launch weight to a competitor rover. japan's team hakuto will be onboard too. you're both going to get to the moon at the same time. yes. how is that going to work? it's whoever touches down first and whoever has the fastest rover? it's going to be crazy! in a manner of speaking, yes. so what do you expect to happen? so it's a race, it's going to be a very interesting race, and once we touch down and both the rovers are deployed, let's see which one makes 500m first. i would so put a laser gun on yours. i would so... imitates laser all of that assumes of course that the rovers make it to the moon in the first place.
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space exploration is a risky business and when it goes wrong, it tends to go really wrong. six years, hundreds of thousands of hours of effort and millions spent, and there's certainly a lot riding on getting things right. you mitigate the big pieces and then you start mitigating the smaller risks and at the end of the day, absolutely, one small wrong piece of code that somehow made it through could kill the entire mission. there is a word here in india that i think describes team indus's low—cost, make do approach. jugaad. i've come to the centre of mumbai, to dharavi — asia's second largest slum. here, in its tiny alleyways, "jugaad" is all around, as a desperately poor population reuses as much as is physically possible. built by workers who flocked to the city over hundreds of years,
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some of the houses here date back to the 18405. up ahead, there is a pile of shredded denim which they use for fuel. they burn it to fuel the kilns, just like they burn a lot of stuff forfuel here. and there is smoke everywhere here. you can really tell the air quality is very poor. you just have to take a few lungfuls and it starts to burn the back of your throat, it makes your eyes sting. the smoke is a necessary evil for the people of dharavi. like most of the developing world, pollution has been the price india is paying for a booming economy. the smog that gives mumbai its spectacular sunsets has also made it the fifth most polluted mega city in the world. and when the sun disappears before it hits the horizon, you can well believe it. in november, 2016, the indian
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government declared the air pollution in delhi a national emergency, with harmful pollutants more than 16 times the safe limit. and it's notjust caused by all that traffic. so, where does it come from? i was surprised to find out a lot of it comes from diesel generators. see, the electricity in india isn't very reliable, but there are plenty of businesses that need guaranteed power, so they have their own individual generators that fire up whenever the electricity goes down and that means there are loads of exhaust pipes like this all over the city, which regularly belch out all kinds of unpleasant stuff. hello. here in bangalore, we've come across a small project to capture the soot and turn it into art.
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so what we have built is a retrofit device that attaches to the exhaust pipe of the chimneys. this device can be attached to practically any exhaust pipe, irrespective of what is the age or type of engine you are running, and it captures practically whatever particle matter comes out of it. once you capture particle matter that is substantially carbon, which is like the basis of everything that exists in the world, at present we recycle it into inks, which we believe is something used by practically everyone on the planet. the headquarters of graviky labs is a mix of art studio and mad laboratory — the perfect combination, if you ask me! their so—called "air ink" does have a few restrictions. it will only ever come in black, and at the moment it's not good enough quality to be used in printers. graviky is giving it to artists,
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who are finding their own uses for it. painting and screenprinting, for example, for use on clothes and bags. and while the ink may only have limited uses at present, nikhil insists it is still better to put the carbon to good use rather than just collect it and dump it. there are many technologies that have captured pollution in one way or the other, they are all so supposed to do that, but if you don't recycle it you are actually leaving it for the future generations. i'm afraid that's all we have time for in the shortcut of click, the full—length version is for you on iplayer to watch right now and there's loads of extra photos from our trip to india on twitter @bbcclick. thanks for watching and we'll see you soon. hello, this is breakfast, with tina daheley and ben thompson.
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police say the man who carried out the barcelona van attack could still be at large. one key suspect has been shot dead, but a new search has begun for the man it's now believed was behind the wheel. 14 people died and more than 130 were injured across the two separate attacks on the spanish coast. candlelit vigils have been held late into the night in tribute to the victims. good morning, it's saturday 19th august. also ahead: professor stephen hawking warns of an nhs crisis in england as he clashes with the health secretary jeremy hunt. remembering a tv legend.
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