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‘ message on the european union and brexit across to voters to ensure it cuts through to voters to ensure it cuts through to voters. the party argues for another referendum but said it is not a rerun of the initial referendum, it would be a referendum on the facts. once we know what kind of deal theresa may and her government negotiates with brussels, there should be another vote and people should choose whether they wa nt people should choose whether they want to accept the deal the government has got or stay inside the referendum. trying to get that message and idea to cut through to vote rs message and idea to cut through to voters did not happen for the party in the election and that is a key challenge sir vince cable will face. at 74 years old, a few months ago, he was writing a book, settling i think into semiretirement. clearly he has switched that up, having thought he had finished his political career, he is back into it and leading his party because nobody else was up for the job at the time and he now has a challenge on his
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hands. ina in a short while... in to hear from the deputy leader of the lib demsjo swinson. chief and it all the leadership contest, but bounced back after losing her seat in 2015. we can takea after losing her seat in 2015. we can take a look at the weather prospects. sunday is probably looking like being the better day of the weekend, fewer showers, more sunshine. one than yesterday. has been a chilly start. and this afternoon, most of the showers across eastern parts, little bit of across eastern parts, little bit of a breeze, but later when is —— lighter winds. 17, 18 celsius. and
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in this evening and overnight, showers continuing across eastern parts of the country, all in the clear spells. light winds. parts of the country, all in the clearspells. light winds. recipe for a chilly night. just about double figures for the towns and cities, significantly cooler for the countryside. fog on monday morning, good spells of sunshine for northern and western areas, showers developing, odd heavy one, temperatures high teens at best. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: police investigating the london tube bombing have arrested a second man. he's 21 and was detained before midnight in west london last night. the home secretary, amber rudd, has accused borisjohnson of being a "backseat driver" following his newspaper piece setting out his views on brexit. i don't want him managing the brexit process.
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what we've got is theresa may managing that process. she's driving the car. and as far as i'm concerned, and the rest of the cabinet are concerned, we help her do that. the un secretary general says myanmar‘s leader, aung san suu kyi, has a "last chance" to end the military offensive that's forced 400,000 rohingya muslims to flee to neighbouring bangladesh. and gennady golovkin's world middleweight title fight with saul alvarez ends in a controversial draw. and we can go to the liberal democrat party conference at bournemouth, the deputy leaderjo swinson is going to be speaking. we can see the platform. just everybody having a little bit of a comfort break. jo swinson is a lib dem mp
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who lost her seat in 2015. having served as a junior minister in the cabinet, but she was re—elected earlier this year in the general election, and she became the deputy leader, having declined the opportunity for running for the leadership against vince cable. expecting jo swinson on the platform, we can go back now... we are getting an introduction tojo swinson. here she comes. here she is. going to the podium. here's what she has to say. by want to take you back to a rainy saturday morning 28 yea rs back to a rainy saturday morning 28 years ago. i was doing a very nine—year—olds did. watching tv. close and children's programme
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called going live. some of you may remember that. depending on your age, you may think it was nothing compared to swap shop. that particular addition of the short sticks in my mind, because in a long the cartoons, and celebrities getting gunged, an amazing competition. the prize was to win a piece of the berlin wall. recently torn down, one of the most pivotal moments of 21st century history. it was obviously an entirely different league of competition, to win cds and dvds. i didn't win. but my father visited berlin, and brought me back a little bit of that history. i think it is fair to say,
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asa history. i think it is fair to say, as a child, apart from one christmas, watching the animated christmas, watching the animated christmas when the wind blows, i had not given much thought to nuclear war. but the cloud hung threateningly over the world, perilously close to disaster on an unimaginable scale. thanks to the diplomacy, courage and political leadership leading to the end of the cold war, we have enjoyed three decades with much reduced levels of nuclear threat until now. the provocative and aggressive actions of north korea this is a regime that is prepared to enslave, torture, starve its own people. the united nations in quiet it was harrowing. one former prisoner told of being
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made to burn bodies of fellow inmates who had starved, using remains as fertiliser. another, spoke of a mother forced by guards to drown a newborn baby. the dictatorship showing such unimaginable cruelty to its own people cannot be relied upon to act rationally and step back from nuclear confrontation. some of you are old enough to have survived huddling with family until the danger passed. what do you kill your children as you run for cover? what we re children as you run for cover? what were you told? imagine being in japan in recent weeks, as the news broke that north korean missiles we re broke that north korean missiles were on their way. the country where people can still remember the obliteration of hiroshima. the
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country that has endured decades of fall out from those deadly mushroom clouds. what did they tell their children? what sort of world or with creating for our children? calm heads. brave leaders. these only did more than ever about global politics seems broken. a few years ago it would have seemed inconceivable that in sucha would have seemed inconceivable that in such a crisis chain would have been a voice of reason and russia more measured than america. the politics of bullying is back. climate change has been denied, he and division has been spread like poison into society. just look at turkey, until recently a democratic neighbour, signed up to the convention of human rights, in the process of becoming a member of the european union. but now, erdogan
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cracking down on anybody who challenges him. turkey is the biggestjailer ofjournalists. more than 150 in prison. and the director of amnesty international also facing charges. at venezuela, protesters against the power grabbing executives have been attacked, imprisoned, and tortured. and it remains us that neither side of the political spectrum has got a monopoly on undermining democracy and abusing human rights. it beggars belief thatjeremy corbyn would rather be seeing the tenuous link to socialism than condemn these atrocities. at burma, watching the appalling cleansing, and this religion and
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ethnic oppression serves as a recruiting sergeant forjihadi groups around the world. and at chechnya, 2010, isaw groups around the world. and at chechnya, 2010, i saw for myself the impact of russia's disregard for human rights, free reign to suppress the population. even told me about house burnings. and how the state would make people disappear. i will never forget the distraught mother who pressed a photo of her missing son in my palm. missing. president executed by the state. what kind of world a re executed by the state. what kind of world are we creating for our children? in recent weeks we have seen children? in recent weeks we have seen the terrible power of nature. harvey and irma have left flattened communities. 20 years ago, harvey
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would have been a once in every 2,000 years event. irma followed. and south asia, 41 million people battling floods and displacement. destroying lights. scientists predict that global warming will have reached over 2 degrees by 2050. far beyond the 1.5 safe limit set in the deal. that is going to ruin production, leading to disease, malnutrition and rising food prices. it is hard to communicate the absolute urgency of the situation. we must actjust now, to prepare and adapt for what is inevitable, and radically cut carbon emissions to have any hope of limiting the temperature rise to levels where humanity as we know it can survive.
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just two years ago, leaders dabbled in paris and committed to an ambitious plan to tackle global warming. but now with ease the withdrawal of the world's largest economy from the agreement. brexit threatens to read in action on climate change in the united kingdom and across europe. what kind of world a re and across europe. what kind of world are we creating for our children? every time we witnessed these crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, genocide, we solemnly say never again. and we struggle, to comprehend how such horrible things can unfold. notjust how brutal dictators can order the atrocities, but perhaps how ordinary people in the population can comply. violent threats are undoubtedly part
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of the reason. but planning such evil acts also requires another ingredient. hate. the politics of the bully rely on hate and division and we should be very worried about the spread of hate, both online and off—line. we need to talk about racism, and religious bigotry. for people with brown skin, being abused in the street is a depressing reality. the levels of anti—semitic abuse are at record high. tirade of bile, directed at migrants leaving war torn countries, dehumanising these desperate people with heartbreaking stories. some of is
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fed by the elite media owners, hate filled newspapers. this online community is spreading misinformation have flourished. russia has got a sinister army of social media bots, spreading division and they seem to even have started killing people to be internet trolls. the footage of cha rlottesville internet trolls. the footage of charlottesville was incomprehensible. white supremacist, marching through the streets, carrying swastikas. and the american president has some sort of moral comparison between nazis who kill a woman, and people taking to the streets. do not be filled if you think this isjust streets. do not be filled if you think this is just america. look at jo cox. all of these extremists feed off each other. they seek to prevent
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cultural identities, turn one against the other. isis is no more representative of islam, than the kkk of christianity. they use each other as recruitment tools. and we cannot end one of them without tackling all of them. i know that you shared my despair, 24june last year, as we had voted to leave the european union. i was completely gutted. dismayed to be leaving european union institutions, but distraught about what it said about oui’ distraught about what it said about our country, values, vision. buti am an optimist. and i was altogether
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cheerier on the 8th of november. polls looked good. eagerly anticipating a momentous evening, i got some prosecco, settled down to watch the american presidential results. with an excitement similar to the election geeks. as the evening wore on, no amount of alcohol could have helped. president trump isa alcohol could have helped. president trump is a product of the antiliberal forces that we face. and he is also the poster child. faced with rising nuclear tensions, we have a president who picks up the telephone 02 top, but to tweet inflammatory rhetoric in capital letters. he has made clear his own support for torture and wants to ban all muslims from entering the united
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states, he is in no position to advance the cause of human rights. he puts climate change deniers into powerful positions, defunds environmental programmes and has even told scientist to remove mention of the warming climate from government websites. the conflict of interest, he has been treating the presidency with a marketing campaign for the donald trump brand, and no sign of the tax return. the donald trump regime unleashes daily despair, enough to keep liberal america in a state of constant shock. trump is a bully. misogynist, racist. he boats about sexually assaulting women. he mocked a reporterfor
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disability. he has been rolling back trans right. and for somebody who professes to tell it like it is, he won't call a nazi a nazi. yet the conservative government thinks it is correct to offer donald trump the honour of a state visit to the uk. they are wrong. printers also a sign of weakness, in a brexit world. how easily will our values be cast aside, in desperation to saying trade deals that avoid economic catastrophe? what kind of world will we create for our children? barack obama... 0h, barack! he had a rug
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made for the oval office, with his favourite martin luther king quotation. it said the mark of the universe is long, but it is bending towards justice. i am afraid universe is long, but it is bending towardsjustice. i am afraid i am less optimistic. 0r less patient. as far as less optimistic. 0r less patient. as farasl less optimistic. 0r less patient. as faras i can less optimistic. 0r less patient. as far as i can see, nothing inevitable about the triumph of liberal values. we need to understand what is going on so that we can work out what to do. the most fascinating research i have seen on the brexit vote was by a birkbeck professional. he analysed a birkbeck professional. he analysed a simple question. do you think it is more important that children are considerate, or well behaved ? considerate or well behaved ? considerate, or well behaved ? considerate or well behaved? i read it. my first thought as a mother,
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i'd settle for either! but amazingly, how people answer this question better predicts whether they voted for brexit than income. we wa nt they voted for brexit than income. we want to try this. conference, let's try it. do not worry, dtewards, we won't count. hands up if it is more important for children to be considerate? and hands up for well behaved? to be considerate? and hands up for well behaved ? i to be considerate? and hands up for well behaved? i think it is safe to say that this hall voted remain! it holds true for the donald trump,
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hillary clinton voting patterns. it shows that people go towards respect for authority, or liberal. shows that people go towards respect forauthority, or liberal. in order, controlled? 0r openly forauthority, or liberal. in order, controlled ? 0r openly embrace change? this is the culture clash in the uk, europe, united states and beyond. politics the was broken. to me, many in this room. and to so many beyond this conference hall. we are absolutely correct to fight for an exit from brexit. brexit is going to make it harder to follow values, protect human rights, tackle climate change and solve global problems. an exit from brexit business as array, but it is not sufficient. this
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culture clash continues, and the populists have been stalking this tension, talking in simple sound bites, scapegoating different groups. all someone else's fault. as liberals, we know this is nonsense, these farage, posse slogans are not a solution to anything! but we do need to offer an alternative solution. the world's problems are not going to be solved by a speech ata not going to be solved by a speech at a liberal democrat conference. and we should have the humility to admit that we have not got all the a nswe i’s admit that we have not got all the a nswers yet. admit that we have not got all the answers yet. it is blindingly obvious that the other parties have not, either. we need to be much more
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radical, in what we propose and how we crafted. the basic deal, work hard, get on... that he was broken for so many people. how are you supposed to support your family on the minimum wage? how do profitable companies get away with being tiny amounts of tax? why are so many people start in overcrowded housing, with no hope for change? we need you, the 21st century liberal solution as, to offer solutions and more. we need to get out of the chamber, and bridge the divide in communities. we need to bring people together, to create the answers. leaving no room for the populists to sew seeds of division. we can do this. in the netherlands and france, the populists were defeated. and we
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cheered trudea's liberal victory in canada. creating the bold vision we need is bigger than any single political party, it is bigger than party politics itself. we need to collaborate across society, with bankers and activists, the young and old, faith groups, trade unions, entrepreneurs. all of you who want to change the world. what sort of world should we be creating for children? considerate. fairer. loving. liberal. this is our challenge. and we must rise to it. jo swinson, the deputy leader of the
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liberal democrats, challenging the party to take on the opportunities from brexit. she said the populists have been talking in simple sound bites, always somebody else's fault. as liberals we know this is nonsense. these shouting slogans are not a solution to anything. jo swinson has said she is going to be supporting vince cable, there she is kissing him. congratulating her on the speech. that was one of the keynote speeches at the conference. we will have coverage throughout the week. the weather, it is looking a little bit better. winds light. more sunshine. brighterfor northern
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brighter for northern ireland, western scotland, the vast improvement. temperatures around 17, 18. it would sizzle it could be cloudy at times for the football, sunshine breaking through and i could not rule out showers. this evening and overnight, showers never die out easterly, but it is grown to become chilly. the touch of mist and fog in places, in towns and cities, single focal spot at brewdog areas, lower. particularly the more pressure close to the east of the united kingdom, this weak area of high pressure means that things should be calmer. western areas, dry
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and bright. eastern, more of a breeze. we will see this feature across the northern isles, going across the northern isles, going across parts of scotland, getting thicker cloud and rain. further west, better sunshine. the scene for more than i went and western parts of england and wales. odd heavy one. breezy on the east coast. lightwer winds, west. 15, 18, we should see far fewer showers, winds, west. 15, 18, we should see farfewer showers, some winds, west. 15, 18, we should see far fewer showers, some variable cloud, wet and windy pushing far west. breezy, wet weather. that is going to be sweeping through, and gradually it is good to be becoming warmer. good afternoon.
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detectives investigating the bomb attack on a london train on friday have made a second arrest. the 21—year—old man was detained at hounslow in west london late last night. detectives are continuing to question a teenager who was arrested in dover in kent. 30 people were injured when the device detonated at parsons green station. jane frances kelly reports. as investigations enter their third day, following the terror attack at parsons green, police say they have arrested a second man who was 21. he was detained eight last
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