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here, it'sjust hysterical. goat yoga was first started in america by a farmer who claimed the goats were making her feel better from an autoimmune illness, and the consensus here was that the goats were beneficial and will be invited back every week. brilliant. because goats love people. so it's great fun. you could be doing pilates or press ups, whatever. we end up in the sleeping dog pose, when the goats are naturally attracted to us, to come and sleep on us as well, maybe. gorgeous! i've never known a yoga class to be so interactive! normally you zone out and go into your own world, but this has been very interactive! we're back to the list of unusual things he gets up to! the headlines coming next. hello this is breakfast, with
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charlie stayt and rachel burden. hurricane harvey hits land as the texas coast takes a battering. it's the biggest storm the us has faced in more than a decade. winds of up to 130 miles an hour have forced thousands of residents to flee. there are downed trees, downed power lines, all the worst things of a bad storm coming together to make this historic. president trump has officially declared the hurricane a disaster. we'll have the latest from the us. good morning, it's saturday 26th august.
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a man found with a knife outside buckingham palace is arrested under the terrorism act. two police officers are injured making the arrest. in sport, they have weighed in for the multi—million dollar super—fight, we'll have the latest from vegas as boxing great floyd mayweather prepares to face the mixed martial arts superstar conor mcgregor. and there's a heavyweight head to head in belfast tonight, the champions england face new zealand in the women's rugby world cup final. and matt has the weather. good morning. i've got news of a weekend, the bank holiday which contains more dry and sunny weather thanit contains more dry and sunny weather than it does wet. see you in 15 minutes. good morning. first, our main story. the most powerful storm to strike mainland america in more than a decade has made landfall in texas. hurricane harvey has winds of up to 130 miles per hour and has
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battered the town of rockport. some residents are reported to be trapped inside collapsed buildings. the emergency services say it's too dangerous to respond to some calls. david willis reports. harvey hit texas hard overnight, bringing with it high winds and heavy rain. a category four hurricane, capable of causing catastrophic damage. deemed the most powerful storm to hit the us mainland in over a decade. this is going to be a very major disaster. this is harvey from above, a malevolent storm system ten miles wide, capable of dumping up to a0 inches of rain. corpus christi, a city in the eye of the storm, has seen a rush to evacuate. fears of a power outage forcing the sickest babies at a children's hospital to be moved out of the hurricane‘s path. the national weather service warned of winds that could leave homes
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uninhabitable for weeks or even months. among those heeding the local mayor's advice to "get out of dodge", this woman and her three children. i try to be strong because i don't want my children to see. they get scared and i don't want to have them scared. i have to be a strong mother for that. briefed earlier by his advisers, president trump is facing the first national disaster of his term in office. the lessons of hurricane katrina i2 years ago still serve as an indelible reminder of the political past of underestimating a weather system such as this. the president urged texans to heed calls to evacuate, but, with several days of storm force winds and rain ahead, it's likely many of those who leave may not have much to come back to. david willis, bbc news, washington. our north america correspondent james cook is in the seaside town of corpus christi for us
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and sent this update. hurricane harvey smashed the shore just a short time ago, not very far from here. about 30 miles east—north—east of where we are standing in corpus christi. rockport is where it came ashore. the winds were said to be 130mph, according to the national hurricane center, that makes it a category four hurricane. an extremely dangerous storm, and the most powerful storm to hit the mainland united states in more than a decade. there are already reports of damage. i've seen part of a building that was being constructed coming down. there are palm trees down as well, and other damage. the real effect will only come to light as we get into the morning. the governor of texas had warned that this was going to be an extremely serious storm, and a potential major disaster. that is, at the moment, certainly possible. we'll keep you up—to—date with the
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situation in texas. a man has been arrested under the terrorism act after two police officers were injured near buckingham palace. the officers were hurt while taking the 26—year—old into custody when he was found with the large knife in a vehicle near the palace. simonjones reports. concerned crowds look on as police investigate a possible terror incident outside buckingham palace. the met says just after 8:30pm yesterday a man stopped his car near a police vehicle. officers then spotted a large bladed weapon in the car and went to arrest him. two police officers suffered minor injuries to their arms and were taken to hospital for treatment. the met has praised their brave and swift action that meant the suspect was detained very quickly. no members of the royal family were in buckingham palace at the time. cordons were quickly put up around the palace. the suspect, a 26—year—old man, was also taken to hospital and arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and assault. during the night, he was further arrested under the terrorism act.
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no members of the public were hurt. the met‘s counter—terrorism command is now investigating. security remains tight in london for the bank holiday weekend. a ring of steel is being promised around the notting hill carnival to protect people from a barcelona style attack. a spokeswoman from buckingham palace said they would not comment on security issues. millions of travellers taking to the road and rail network this weekend face disruption because of major engineering works. the south east of england will be most affected with station closures at charing cross, euston and liverpool street — as well as limited service from others. in the north west of england engineering works will affect manchester, preston, blackpool and bolton. the disruption is because of work involving around 17,000 engineering staff. drivers are being warned to avoid
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the m1 drivers are being warned to avoid the mi because of an incident involving a minibus and two lorries which has closed the motorway between junctions 15 and 11! southbound. we'll keep you up—to—date on the situation. north korea has fired three short—range ballistic missiles, according to the american military. two of the missiles failed in flight, the third blew up almost immediately after it was launched. the latest firings come during a joint us—south korea military exercise, which has been strongly criticised by pyongyang. the final countdown has begun in what is expected to be the most watched pay—per—view boxing match ever. at the pre—fight weigh—in for the much—hyped contest, mixed martial arts star conor mcgregor vowed to knock out the unbeaten floyd mayweather. from las vegas, here's our sports news correspondent, richard conway. the hype has been unrelenting and while the final face—off for this mega—fight was another spectacle, it's clear conor mcgregor and floyd mayweatherjr have
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captured the imagination, and the wallets, of many boxing fans. now, with the formalities over, mcgregor is focused on the task ahead. let's go, let's see who can take it. he's over there twiddling his thumbs, twitching away. i see a man afraid, that's it. the buildup has been controversial and there are questions over a contest staged primarily for financial reasons. the man who describes himself as tbe, the best ever, is expecting his payday to be swift. it won't go the distance, mark my words. irish fans have flocked to las vegas in recent days and the celebrations will likely continue for several more nights if mcgregor can pull off a shock win. the world is going to explode if he does. it will be mad if he wins. if he does it, what's the party going to be like? insane. we'll sleep somewhere
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outside at the front! but mayweather‘s father, who taught him how to box, says mcgregor‘s lack of experience will see him fail. he'll throw a lot of punches, miss a lot, and if he gets tired then, whack! when conor mcgregor returns to this arena, it will be to face floyd mayweather. 0ne one of the greatest boxers of his generation. the times for talking is over. richard conway, bbc news, las vegas. we've been asking some of the people who know more about boxing. earlier, we spoke to david haye, the former heavyweight boxing champion who is in sin city for tonight's fight. it's amazing. the hotel is absolutely buzzing. it's early in the morning. it's one i am at the
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moment, and people are already excited. they've already started drinking, it's insane! i'm sure it is. david, we know that are loads of travelling fans there in support of mcgregor but will they make a difference? do you think he done is the kind of chance against floyd mayweather? realistically know but this is sport. the good thing about sport is anything can happen at any given time. you had usain bolt pulling a hamstring. who'd have thought the jamaicans would come in last in the 100 meter relay. i snapped my achilles tendon in my last fight against tony bellew. i was a huge favourite going into that fight. things happen in sport, that's what makes this fight so intriguing. if both fighters stay healthy i believe there's only one winner, floyd mayweather. arguably the greatest ever boxer, fighting someone the greatest ever boxer, fighting someone having their very first boxing match. it's ridiculous to
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believe conor mcgregor has a chance. but, when there's so much pride on the line, when all the irish, it feels like all of ireland is over here. there are so many more irish fa ns here. there are so many more irish fans here than there are four floyd mayweather, and we're in his hometown. i can't wait to be ringside to see the anticipation. i'm hoping for an entertaining fight but it can only go one way in my opinion, that's the boxer winning in a boxing match. how can mcgregor do it? he's going to have to do something that 49 professional boxers couldn't do to floyd mayweather. you'll have to buy
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past 20 years of experience to do it all in three months training. it's like the table tennis champion beating roger federer in the tennis match after practising tennis for three months. it's not really going to happen. unless roger federer pulled a hamstring and breaks his ankle. there needs to be some type of injury in this fight for me to believe conor mcgregor has a legitimate chance. we were watching the way in pictures earlier on. mcgregor was going for the extremely aggressive approach literally screaming in his face. do you think any of that kind of attitude will be in the ring, and could that make any difference? the one thing about boxing is the more you tried to knock someone out, the less chance you have of knocking them out. you need to relax. you need to really let it flow and conor mcgregor
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doesn't know how to do that. he doesn't know how to do that. he doesn't have the experience, he doesn't have the experience, he doesn't understand fighting with the type of rules floyd mayweather has been fighting with his whole career. fighting with different gloves, the referee. he's used to people kicking him, choking him out. this is a com pletely him, choking him out. this is a completely different mindset and they different pace. it's so different to what he's used to, it's going to be like a fish out of water. in boxing particularly, all it takes is one punch. he needs to really and truly get a hole in one with his first—ever shot on the golf course. it can be done statistically, there is a chance he could do it. but it really needs to be... he needs to literally win the lottery with his very first ticket. there's no doubt that ufc and the profile it's getting is a winner almost whatever happens. does it do almost whatever happens. does it do a discredit to boxing? not really.
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it gets people excited. boxers are a —— boxing is about entertainment, and this fight has done it more than any other fight i and this fight has done it more than any otherfight i can and this fight has done it more than any other fight i can think of in history. this has really captivated the world's imagination. people who are not boxing fans or mma fans. people who may never have heard of mma know about it because conor mcgregor has really put it on the map. with his brash talking, his sharp suits and sharp tongue. he's shown the world what mixed martial a rts shown the world what mixed martial arts are. but unfortunately he's going to have to have a boxing match. it's like conor mcgregor going intojudo, challenging the 0lympic going intojudo, challenging the olympic gold medallist, challenging them atjudo, having never done it before. 0rjujitsu, or karate, or kick boxing, thai boxing. these
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people are seasoned, condition at that one discipline. he's going to have to somehow bypassed 35 years of experience in three months. i believe it's too much of a tall order. david haye speaking to us from las vegas. the fighters at 4am tomorrow morning. you can follow it all on five live. the best commentary around. here's matt with a look at this morning's weather. it's not looking too bad. let's quickly start with hurricane harvey. i want to show you this stunning but terrifying imagery. notice the
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well—defined i. 130 miles an hour winds as that came onshore. the storm surge just the east of. it has since weakened a but it's still a fully fledged hurricane. bringing damaging, destructive winds. the other feature is rainfall. damaging, destructive winds. the otherfeature is rainfall. notice the bright colours. the storm stays in texas. normally they move off eastwards. these are set to stay. we could see a metre of rain. it's like 14 could see a metre of rain. it's like 1a months of rainfall condensed into three orfour 1a months of rainfall condensed into three or four days. catastrophic flooding is forecast across the region. we'll keep you updated as we go throughout the week. in the uk, much quieter. the only rain we've
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got to concern ourselves with is a future was. for a weekend and some of you a bank holiday weekend that, a dry weather to come. more than yesterday across some parts of central, southern england and wales. if you showers across scotland. eastern scotland could have the odd rumble of thunder. we will see skies brightening from the west. most places staying dry. temperatures this afternoon in that sunshine is going to feel pleasantly warm up to 25 degrees. sunscreen needed if you're heading off to headingley for england against the west indies in the second test. today is fine for the second test. today is fine for the next few days. lovely evening in store for the world cup final between england and new zealand in belfast. tonight we've got clear skies across the country. temperatures across rural parts of
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northern england and scotland could get down to single figures. into sunday if you isolated showers in the west to begin with. more cloud through the day with occasional rain, drizzle. the rest of the uk should stay dry all day long. not com pletely should stay dry all day long. not completely blue skies everywhere but when the sunshine breaks through the cloud it's going to feel warm once again with temperatures in the high teens and low to mid 20s further south you go. that takes us into monday. we start to see weather france working in from the north. while much of england and wales sta rts while much of england and wales starts with sunshine, through the day scotland and northern ireland was the outbreaks of rain with gusty winds. wettest conditions on the hills in western scotland. bank holiday monday and some of the warmest weather of august so far in
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the south. that is quite warm! time for a look at the newspapers. the former chief prosecutor for the north—west cpf is joining us to tell us what's caught his eye. good morning. we are going to start off with this story about problems involving the exams system at the poshest school in the country. i'm sure we've had conversations this week around the gcse exams and the a—level exams the week before and how challenging it is. there is a deputy head at eton who it is alleged leaked some of the questions to fellow colleagues and asa questions to fellow colleagues and as a result young people at eton
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we re as a result young people at eton were given a substantial advantage. what's happened is not only has he lost hisjob, but what's happened is not only has he lost his job, but the young people are going to be assessed on the basis of their previous performance in early mock exams rather than having to get the advantage of knowing some of the questions. the secrecy knowing some of the questions. the secrecy around the exams is a reason. if the tan offence of any kind? it can be. you've got to show you've benefited in some way. the teacher wouldn't have benefited but the school might have benefited. there could be a potential prosecution somewhere down the line if you could show there was fraud. in this case it's something he shouldn't have done. maybe he didn't intend to but young people have suffered as a result. as a prosecutor you probably know more about guns and weapons than you might wish to. tell us a bit about the story you've picked up in the mirror. there was a prosecution in
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liverpool of a man in relation to firearms offences and he was given a substantial sentence when the police located them at his residence. 0nce they carried out some ballistic research they found this particular gun had been used in 19 previous incidents. this specific garden. —— this specific garden. there's good news. the good is that we've got such good intelligence around firearms and we are able to manage the supply generally so it's difficult to get hold of one. the bad news is when they have one they tend to repeat use it. i've dealt with several cases in the past, where the same firearm was used. they use it, they bury it and then another person has access to the gun when they need it. in this case it's over a seven—year period. it was
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used 19 times over a long period of time. absolutely. they are very difficult to get hold of, thankfully. but when they have one they make the greatest used of it. the challenge is to identify where they are. this one has been taken out of circulation. sadly they find another one. this is a picture in the times which is a pretty famous picture of afghanistan in the early 19705. it appears it's only recently been revealed to president trump. when he was standing for election he made it clear he wasn't going to send any troops into afghanistan. america wouldn't be fighting wars of that nature. last week he announced they would be sending more troops into afghanistan. apparently one of the major factors was into afghanistan. apparently one of the majorfactors was his national security adviser showed him this picture. this is afghanistan in 1972. this is women wearing short skirts, going to university, having a cigarette. the message was, this
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is the country that we had. this is the country we can have again if we allow our troops for the liberals and those in favour of human rights to win and succeed, that women will have the rights they are currently being denied in large parts of afghanistan. i was born in england but my father took me to pakistan over london 1970. we went through afghanistan. in those days war hadn't happened. yes, it was like this. people freely mixing and moving, having every right to education, and there's a bit of me that says will never be able to get back to that kind of situation. that should be our ambition to give women the rights they are being clearly denied. we often tap into your expected use from your prosecuting yea rs. we expected use from your prosecuting years. we are doing a story about self driving cars and one of the questions is, if it has a crush, who
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is responsible? —— crash. questions is, if it has a crush, who is responsible? -- crash. first of all, are you driving it? you'll have to have a license that enables you to have a license that enables you to programme software which i think isa to programme software which i think is a challenge. if you're in control, the law says if you're in control, the law says if you're in control of the car then you're responsible. what about sitting in the car? if you're in the drivers seat, even if you're not actually driving, you are in control of the car. in my view you would be responsible. you'd have substantial mitigation. you could say someone has put a virus in that or whatever it is. ultimately you are the driver, therefore you are responsible. these are challenging conversations will be having about whether or not people responsible given that al is doing so much. it's fascinating. self driving cars are
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said to be the future. so many u na nswered said to be the future. so many unanswered questions surrounding them. if the vehicle was involved in an accident, who would be responsible — the driver or the computer? insurers are trying to find out by deliberately crashing driverless vehicles. 0na military on a military base in switzerland, important on a military base in switzerland, im porta nt tests on a military base in switzerland, important tests are going on. one of the world's biggest insurance companies is deliberately crashing cars. for the first time, they are simulating what driverless vehicles might do when things go wrong. like if the computer was hacked, so the bra kes if the computer was hacked, so the brakes don't work. this car is obviously a complete write—off. you can smell that the airbags have gone. all of the senses are full of data telling them what the car did, what happened to the driver, and that information will be used to determine how much insurance will
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pay in future. not too many rock falls in britain but it is a problem in switzerland. there's not a lot a computer can do about this. so what are insurers hoping to learn? we wa nt to are insurers hoping to learn? we want to demonstrate that we cannot have the same accident investigation methods as we had before for autonomous cars. we need to know whether the driver or the car was in charge of driving the car. and that isa charge of driving the car. and that is a key question. if a computer is driving, who will be responsible for the crash? i don't think people need to worry about whether it there for all the computers fault. the government has decided an insurance policy will be required. so people will be compensated, and then insurance companies and motor manufacturers insurance companies and motor manufacture rs can insurance companies and motor manufacturers can argue among themselves in the background. they save the real drama until last. this next test is about giving the
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computer a moral dilemma. when an accident is inevitable, does it hit the person on the quad bike or someone the person on the quad bike or someone in a car? the bike is causing the accident but the rider is more vulnerable, so who should the computer hit? this test, they simulate a car choosing the rider. it's just a dummy but it's still ha rd to it's just a dummy but it's still hard to watch. computer driven cars are inevitable, and these tests will determine how our insurance will work. they already predict premiums will come down because computers make better drivers than humans. richard west got, bbc news, switzerland. let's see what's coming up later in
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the programme. what do taylor swift and right said fred have in common? rhythm apparently. we ask how their song inspired her latest track. hello this is breakfast, with charlie stayt and rachel burden. coming up before 10, matt will have all your weekend weather. and the sport coming up as well. but first, at 9:30am, a summary of this morning's main news. the most powerful storm to strike mainland america in more than a decade has made landfall in texas. hurricane harvey has winds of up to 130 miles per hour and has battered the town of rockport. some residents are reported to be trapped inside collapsed buildings. tens of thousands of people have lost power. the emergency services said it was too dangerous to respond to some calls. earlier we spoke to the cbs news reporter weijiajiang,
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who is in corpus christi, where residents were advised to evacuate as hurricane harvey approached. right now state officials don't have any numbers for how many evacuated the areas. but seven coastal counties had mandatory evacuations. that happened already on thursday evening and then into friday. but many people in the other areas chose to stay in harvey's pass and didn't wa nt to to stay in harvey's pass and didn't want to abandon their homes or belongings or worry about transporting their children and pets to another location, so they decided to another location, so they decided to stay here. and this is what they are faced with. frankly, i don't think anybody expected this storm to get this bad. it only became a category four hurricane late on friday and up until then even a three was a surprise to many. so for
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it to be a four and making landfall ata it to be a four and making landfall at a four is going to come as a shock for many people waking up and seeing the damage. i can tell you, they are probably not getting much sleep because the building even where we are is shaking a little bit when we are inside, so i imagine people inside their homes are pretty frightened to experienced such a devastating storm. it really is a one, two, three punch. you have the wins and the storm surge of up to 12 feet, plus harvey is expected to just sort of hanging out in the area and dumpa just sort of hanging out in the area and dump a tremendous amount of rain, up to three feet, in the area. all those frightening conditions lead to concerns about downed trees and downed power lines, all the worst things of the storm coming together, to make this historic for people. so this isjust together, to make this historic for people. so this is just the beginning. we're not even going to understand the devastation for days
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to come, once we seal that flooding babin is not only here but other major cities, like houston, for example, which is already bracing for a lot of water. a man found with a large blade in a car outside buckingham palace is being questioned by counter—terror police. two officers were injured after tackling the 26—year—old last night and have been praised for their quick reactions. it is understood that no members of the royal family were in the palace at the time. a spokesperson says it is "business as usual" today at the royal household. millions of travellers taking to the road and rail network this weekend face disruption because of major engineering works. the south east of england will be affected the most, with station closures at charing cross, euston and liverpool street. in the north west of england, engineering works will affect manchester, preston, blackpool and bolton. the disruption is because of work involving around 17,000 engineering staff. north korea has fired three short—range ballistic missiles, according to the american military. two of the missiles failed in flight, the third blew up almost immediately after it was launched.
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the latest firings come during a joint us—south korea military exercise, which has been strongly criticised by pyongyang. nearly £500,000 will be given to community projects in england to help develop new technology to tackle littering. it's hoped the money will go towards creating new apps and "smart bins" which will alert rubbish collectors when they're full. i accidentally dropped some raisins on the floor this morning, you might interested to know. i hadn't realised how sticky they are, when you accidentally squashed it. that's why i've sat over here now. can you hear it? yes. that is brilliant! thank you for that. take us through the big event happening tonight. an enormous event and it has been built up and up over the last few days, weeks and months, between those two men, the face—off. they
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wade in. a serious side to this. a lot of people don't think it should have been sanctioned because of the dolphin experience between floyd mayweather. .. he has dolphin experience between floyd mayweather... he has fought a87 professional rounds in boxing. conor mcgregor, a wfc mixed martial arts champion, he has done a lot of that but no professional boxing. some people say this is a freak show, it's been hyped up, it's a moneymaking exercise and we have fallen for it completely. the very fa ct we fallen for it completely. the very fact we are even talking about it this morning, it's not a genuine sporting event. but it has been sanctioned on the growth of ufc, mixed martial arts, they feel it is a sport in its own right. conor mcgregor is the figurehead of that sport. floyd mayweather, even though he has been out of the ring for a couple of years, the greatest boxer ofa couple of years, the greatest boxer of a generation. people want to see these matches and they feel it publicises boxing and ufc. it depends how this fight goes. it could damage both sports, it could
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raise 1's profile more than the other. i will talk about the seriousness of the golf in experience. a lot of people think it could be dangerous for conor mcgregor. ufc can be a brutal sport in its own right and he knows the dangers of that. floyd mayweather is an absolute craftsman in boxing, an artist. so people are worried. there is a sobering note in among the hype, it is dangerous. combat sports can be dangerous, but it's what we all want to find out. this time tomorrow we will know who has won. the big question is, in his first pro boxing match, can the mixed martial arts superstar, connor mcgregor beat the greatest boxer of his generation, floyd mayweather? they are both going to earn a fortune in finding out, mayweather will make at least $200 million. mcgregor about half that. the weigh—in, for the junior heavyweight contest, that's an 11 stone limit, was raucous. that was overnight in vegas. thousands of irish fans have travelled to las vegas to get behind their man.
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mayweather, at a0, is 11 years older, but is unbeaten and has come out of retirement aiming for his 50th win. mcgregor has promised that the fight won't go the distance. that's the worse shape i've ever seen him, he looks blown out, out of shape. i'm going to breeze through him, trust me on that. there was a lot of talk about you having trouble making the weight, you did not... 153. how tough was it? 153, i'm a professional, i make weight. it's sacrifice, it's dedication, it's focus, but i make it and that's it. look at me, i'm in peak physical condition. i put in the work, as everyone can tell — i'm ready. it won't go the distance, mark my words. ijust want to thank the fans, i'm not really worried about the scale or the last time. this will be conor mcgregor's last fight also. we will see. england won the women's cricket world cup last month. this
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evening the red roses play in the final of the rugby world cup. standing in the way, the mighty new zealand, the number one ranked team in the world. they are four time champions, beating them in three finals ina champions, beating them in three finals in a row between 2002—2010, but england are the current champions, which makes tonight's match in belfast and fitting climax to the tournament. yeah, pretty excited by the goal we've been waiting for for so long. the ambition for three years on was to get to this final again, and it's been up our goal all season with this squad of players and it's finally here. the second test between england and the west indies has started out as a much tighter affair. england won by an innings in the first test that bowled out for 258 at headingley yesterday. the windies' shannon gabriel took four wickets, including alastair cook on 11. kemar roach also took four. joe root dropped early on but went on to make another
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half—century. he was caught for 59. ben stokes rescued things. he was dropped a couple of times, including 98. he held the innings together with a century before he fell as well. they took one west indies wicket before the close. the west indies will resume on 19—1. jimmy said there was a lot on offerfor him. him and broady beat the bat a few times. we got a few chances tonight. that was really without them playing any attacking shots. if anything, they were looking to get through the night. but when tomorrow comes round, a few more shots will get played, hopefully we get a few more chances. it's one of the biggest days in the rugby league calendar, the challenge cup final at wembley. hull face wigan this afternoon. for one of the most prized pieces of silverware in the sport. hull are looking to retain the trophy after that thrilling victory against warrington last year, their first wembley win. the warriors have their name on the cup more than any club — victory for them would be their 20th. i think all the talk externally, greatness and dynasties and all that, we haven't built it
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up like that. we're coming here to win a cup final, that's what we want to do, all the rest of it will take care of itself. all the plaudits and the names will follow. we're going to win, that is the be all and end all. very, very assured, not overconfident. we have a lot of respect for hull. but we've had a great training week this week. the players are acquitting themselves very, very well. if we do what we've practiced, and we've stuck to the game plan, make sure we've got a clear head, we have a chance of getting a trophy, but it's going to be a massive one for us. plenty of football over the weekend. manchester united and huddersfield will be looking to make it three wins out of three three in the premier league. united are at home to leicester, newly promoted huddersfield to southampton. the lunchtime kick off is on the south coast. bournemouth are yet to pick
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up coast. bournemouth are yet to pick upa point coast. bournemouth are yet to pick up a point this season and have a tough match against manchester city. bournemouth, the team can play footaball how they want to play. the manager is so good. they had a fantastic season last season. 0k, they start with two defeats, but sometimes that can happen, just in the beginning. i know it will be complicated. all the fixtures and match previews on the bbc sport website. celtic at home to saintjohnstone. the summer transfer window shuts next thursday, and we've seen some massive signings, neymar leaving barcelona for paris st germain for £200 pounds tops them all, but how about this on the 0ffical real madrid twitter feed early this morning that caught everyone by surprise? have a look at this. what?! yes, welcome, messi. they were
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hacked. i was going to say! i was hoping for that reaction. just to be clear, it was completely fake. someone hacked into the official twitter feed. they did it before, to psg. presumably 30 people were taken in before it was revealed. it went viral, 27,000 retweets but he is notjoining real madrid, lionel messi. ithink retweets but he is notjoining real madrid, lionel messi. i think they have had enough bad news losing neymar. it just goes have had enough bad news losing neymar. itjust goes to show, none of us are safe! , change that password. it is 9:a2am. earlier this summer sajid javid said british muslims must do more than simply condemn terror after a spate of attacks. today, hundreds of community
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leaders, teachers and business people will meet for an ‘anti—terror‘ camp in staffordshire, the aim to tackle extremism. we're now joined by zahid iqbal, president of peace education programme and mariam khalid, a primary school teacher. presumably will be people gathered at this event are very much aligned to the peaceful message of islam. what is the idea? how do you reach the young men and women, and we're talking a tiny minority of them, who are hearing a different message?m isa are hearing a different message?m is a tiny minority that they cause such havoc, as they did at manchester arena up the road a few months ago. it's a really important problem we need to address. as you say, we have 500 young people, community leaders and imams coming to this. we want them to learn about extremism on what the counter narratives are, so they can go back
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to their communities, to their mosques, schools and universities and so on, and where ever they may encounter extremist discussions, they can counter it through reasoned discussion and debate and so on. you mentioned imams. isn't part of the issue,in mentioned imams. isn't part of the issue, in many different muslim communities in the uk, imams are older men. we know the muslim population in the uk is young. in fa ct population in the uk is young. in fact it is very female as well. we need those young female voices to be heard and to be strong, don't we? that is a brilliant point. in terms of this particular training event thatis of this particular training event that is being organised, over half i would say our female participants. so it is very much something that as muslim women we are at the forefront of notjust gaining muslim women we are at the forefront of not just gaining knowledge about the theological debate, in terms of when you do have people who are
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using... as you mentioned earlier, using... as you mentioned earlier, using phrases and taking them out of context and being able to counter that. and for the future generations as well. we see mothers especially... mothers, it is more than that, it's mothers, girlfriends... i once heard, and i'm sure this is a very basic theory but the best way to protect a teenage boy from extremism is to give him a job and girlfriend. there are many motivations, actually, that drive these people to become extremists. i think what's really important about this event is its community event and it's a grassroots organisation, very much bottom—up rather than top—down imposed by the government. we selected the hashtag #jihadagainstthejihadis. we don't want our baghdadi being the
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role model for muslims. we want positive role models who can promote islam as it should be seen, as a religion of peace, tolerance, love for humanity and service for humanity. mariam, you are a teacher. help us break this down from a talking shop, albeit an important one with a lot of people invited, to something that works in a community. you are in a classroom, and you hear things that strike you, in whatever way, as being something you're not sure about. what gives you the confidence to know when to say something to somebody else, when you canjust wait something to somebody else, when you can just wait and watch? how do you get those decisions right? we hear time and time again that people say afterwards, they heard something, they heard some attitudes or something but nothing was done? it's a difficult situation and we have to be honest about it. it's not a black and white situation and there are a lot of times where you are thinking, is this situation one where i should ta ke is this situation one where i should take it forward or not? i think
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through having more knowledge, in myself personally, speaking for myself, going to events such as this, and for me becoming more confident in the theological debate and the backing that is behind the extremist mindset, if i can understand that more myself and i know how to counter it, i'm putting myself in a better position. theological arguments, they might not have much to do with something new here. it could be something slightly divorced from the debate we re slightly divorced from the debate were talking about, it will be something else altogether, couldn't it? there could be, lots of factors contribute to this, social, economic. schools are in the community, so it's notjust the pupils, you have to look at what kind of families, what kind of areas the schools are in. it is having that open conversation, i think, not pointing fingers essentially, but creating that space as teachers, work colleagues working together with community members, with
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parents, with community leaders... and social media, the often distorted information online. thank you both for your time this morning. we'll take a look at the weather now. looking pretty good for the bank holiday weekend? not words you would think you would say so far in this month of august. but yes, the weekend and the bank holiday for some is shaping up quite well. there will be some splashes of rain and showers to come but the emphasis will be on a lot of dry weather. 0nce emphasis will be on a lot of dry weather. once the sun is out it should feel pleasantly warm. this is the latest satellite imagery. more ploughed compared to yesterday in the bristol channel through to east anglia. the odd shower and spot of rain. heavier showers in aberdeenshire and moray firth at the moment. a small risk of some thunder. perhaps the odd shower elsewhere. into the afternoon across northern and eastern england, but
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very few in number. most of you stay dry during the day. even if you start with cloud, some sunny moments. 0nce start with cloud, some sunny moments. once the sun is out, winds are lighterfrom moments. once the sun is out, winds are lighter from the south—west and will feel pleasantly warm. 201125 for some. if you're going to leeds festival, sunny and dry, and by monday at the bidding festival it is going to get a good deal hotter, with more in the way of sunshine. —— reading festival. any showers we do have will fade away. tonight around england's channel and the western coast, there may be the odd isolated shower. the vast majority will stay dry. temperatures in rural parts down in single figures but mostly double figures, mid—teens to start sunday. if you missed on fog patches. some isolated showers in the west, cloud in the highlands and some patches of drizzle. most of it will have a dry sunday, even a little more sunshine here and there compared with today. accordingly,
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temperatures up a degree or so. notting hill carnival, if that is in your sites, bright sunshine to go with the bright costumes. hot by monday. similar sort of weather in leeds but it will cloud over on monday after a bright start due to these weather fronts. we're not going to be sailing through the weekend quite so plain sailing, but there will be some rain and gusty wind pushing into scotland and northern ireland. heaviest of rain on the hills of western scotland. that will stop the temperatures rising too much, 17—18, not bad for this time of year. further south, starting with sunshine. cloud in the west but we stick with the blue skies overhead in east anglia and the south—east. here, some of the warmest conditions of august so far. 28 celsius, 82 fahrenheit. enjoy your saturday. lovely, thank you. 9:50am now. around this time every saturday mike bushell shares his latest sporting challenge, this week's has to be one of the strangest yet.
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you would be forgiven for thinking goats and yoga have nothing in common, but as mike has been finding out the two work rather well together... this is all about broadening your horizons. there are so many new ways to practise yoga these days, for example on a paddle board in devon. but the class here have also been introduced to an even stranger form down on the farm. we all know how good yoga is for you, spiritually and also for the body. what in devon, they now like to do things differently. hence we're in a barn of straw. they want to bring out the animal in us. i don't know if they're...kidding?! connecting with the earth... teacher, donna, has over 70 animal names for her class's yoga positions, but this summer she has been combining animal bonding with yoga moves by introducing pygmy goats to her classes. we're combining all of the amazing benefits of a standard yoga practice
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along with the benefits of animal therapy. there's research to prove that animal therapy, when you are with animals and stroking animal, it helps to reduce the cortisol in the body, so the stress response within the body, and it also helps to increase the oxytocin and dopamine chemicals, happy hormones. this does focus the mind on other things, so you're still trying to do the yoga poses but you're concentrating on bonding with our furry friends here. they seem to love it! there is no evidence and it's not being suggested that the goats enhance the physical benefits of yoga in any way when they're treading on your back, they're certainly not trained masseurs, but they do bring laughter to a session. they like to nibble on my hair. i think it's the blonde hair, maybe it looks like straw! i'm not sure it helps a great deal, but it's good for the concentration because you have to work really hard not to fall over while they're doing it.
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strangely very relaxing. when the hooves go into you it's therapeutic, like a massage ball. it's funny and funny makes you happy. i've done laughing yoga before but you have to sort of force yourself to laugh. here, it'sjust hysterical. goat yoga was first started in america by a farmer who claimed the goats were making her feel better from an autoimmune illness, and the consensus here was that the goats were beneficial and will be invited back every week. brilliant. because goats love people. slight whackey, it's great fun. you could be doing pilates or press ups, whatever. we end up in the sleeping dog pose, when the goats are naturally attracted to us, to come and sleep on us as well, maybe. gorgeous! i've never known a yoga class to be so interactive! normally you zone out and go into your own world, but this has been very interactive!
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i have seen that a few times now. 0bviously i have seen that a few times now. obviously it looks lovely and cute but for some people it would be a nightmare? and also sitting in a slightly vulnerable position, right underneath the goat's... slightly vulnerable position, right underneath the goat's. .. if it works, it works! it is 9:53am. pop superstar taylor swift was under two—years—old when right said fred's hit i'm too sexy was dominating the airwaves in the summer of 1991. that makes us feel old! and yet, if you listen closely to swift's new single, look what you made me do, you may recognise a familiar beat. have a listen. # i'm too sexy for my shirt # too sexy for my shirt # so sexy it hurts...# # 0oh, look what you made me do, look what you made me do # look what you just made me do # look what you just made me # 0oh, look what you made me do # look what you made me do # look what you just made me do...#
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# i'm too sexy for my car # too sexy for my car # too sexy by far...# # look what you made me do # look what you just made me do # look what you just made me...# # i'm too sexy for this song #. did you hear it? yes, taylor swift's new single, which currently sits at number one on the download charts, incorporates the riff from i'm too sexy. we can speak to richard fairbrass from ‘right said fred'. how are you this morning? fine, how are you? where did you hear this question at the phrase is interpolation of your particular track. explain that for us. if it was a sample, they'd be lifting a
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piece of the original track and then pasting it into something that they we re pasting it into something that they were doing. that's not what they've done here, this is an interpolation, just taking a musical section and reinterpreting it to their own particular song. as you can hear, they've taken the meter as much as anything. richard, tell us, did taylor swift get in touch and ask in advance, what was the process? they told us what they wanted to do and we we re very told us what they wanted to do and we were very cool with it. our position has always been that the song, and it sounds a bit precious to say this, the song is always more important than anything that gets in the way of the song. the song is not guilty of anything, so you just let the song do it. our decision was let them get on with it and let them do what they want to do. they've been great. i got a huge bunch of flowers from taylor swift in my house. i can see them right now, a massive bunch
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of flowers from taylor swift and jack, who produced the album. they've been great, and all the people who represent her have been very community give, friendly and relaxed. the whole thing has been so easy. — relaxed. the whole thing has been so —— very relaxed. the whole thing has been so easy. —— very communicative. relaxed. the whole thing has been so easy. -- very communicative. her trying to move her music in a different direction, do you like it? what was interesting, when i first heard the track, i went to the lyric video because lyrics are really important to me. i wanted to see what she was saying. what i liked about the lyrics is they were quite dark, quite angry, quite cynical. in my head i imagine her standing over somebody with a knife, singing that. i liked it, because it's dark. somebody with a knife, singing that. i liked it, because it's darklj tell you what richard, i can say now because i don't think taylor swift is listening watching, i prefer your version! i like its tongue in cheek.
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i hope you're going to make some cash out of it! funnily enough, hand on heart, i haven't even thought about the money. yesterday but the phone down andi money. yesterday but the phone down and i thought, yes, of course, it's and i thought, yes, of course, it's a writing credit. but one main thing, we did a festival in thornbury this year and our ambition is to get out to north america and other territories and do lots of live work. this will only help. good luck richard, thank you for speaking to us. just before i let you go, in terms of the interest in your song, have there been more downloads of it? they're probably there been more downloads of it? they‘ re probably has. there been more downloads of it? they're probably has. i'm still a pigeon post type bloke. its pen and pencilfor me. i do twitter, that's as much as i do, my brother does all the technical stuff. if there has been a spike in downloads, i would know it. she can't really do that gravelly delivery you hard. i'm not
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sure what you call it, that style of singing, she can't do that. sure what you call it, that style of singing, she can't do thatm sure what you call it, that style of singing, she can't do that. if she smoked 80 cigarettes sedation might be able to! laughter but right now she can't. richard, thank you very much. clearly enjoying himself, that's it from all of us. i will be back on bbc one at six o'clock tomorrow with roger. until then, from everyone here, goodbye. this is bbc news. i'm geeta guru—murthy. the headlines at 10am. hurricane harvey batters the coast of texas with winds of 130 miles per hour, the most powerful storm to hit the us mainland for 12 years. hurricane harvey smashed into the sure not far from here. hurricane harvey smashed into the sure not farfrom here. the winds are intense, it's difficult to stand up are intense, it's difficult to stand up at times and it's already causing
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damage. record flooding is predicted across texas. counter—terrorism police investigate after two officers were injured while arresting a man with a knife outside buckingham palace. thousands of rail passengers face disruption as major stations are affected by bank holiday engineering work.
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