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hello. this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines at 9.30. damian green, deputy to the prime minister has denied a claim police found pornography on a computer in his commons office in 2008. it's among several further allegations about the conduct of mps — including former defence secretary michael fallon. president trump has begun his tour of asia touching down in tokyo today. he told a crowd of us and japanese troops that no nation should underestimate american resolve. a shortage of psychiatrists is "frankly alarming" according to the royal college of psychiatrists. the college says the current situation can leave patients waiting months for treatment. saudi arabia's crown prince launches a major anti—corruption purge — detaining several senior ministers coming up in a few minutes our sunday morning edition of the papers — this morning's reviewers are political commentator james millar and prashant rao from the new york times. before the papers, sport and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. good morning.
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celtic‘s unbeaten run in domestic matches now stands at a british record of 63. it had been held by celtic themselves for 100 years — and to break it, they beat stjohnstone, who just happened to be the last team to beat them back in may 2016. 4—0 the score. it means everything. it is an incredible feat by the players and a wonderful example of professionalism, of playing and creating high standards every day. and we've faced everything, they've faced everything as football players. elsewhere in the scottish premiership — aberdeen could only draw with hamilton which extends celtic lead at the top — hibs beat dundee 2—1, rangers won 3—0 at home to partick and ross county held on to beat motherwell 3—2. west ham manager slaven bilic says he is under "big pressure" after his side were thrashed 4—1 at home by liverpool in the premier league. bilic says he's nowjust waiting to see what the club will do.
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thousands of fans left early for the second home game in a row. west ham are nowjust one point above the bottom three. i can't talk about the application, about the attitude and all of that, and about the determination and about the effort. especially not today. the players tried, the players gave but it's not working at the moment. lack of concentration, definitely, for a few. but... it is not the effort and it is not the application. about your performance, very good performance, well—deserved. unbelievably important to put the goals, our goal—scoring, in the right direction. i'm not sure, maybe plus for now. it's a good week, 3—0, 4-1, that plus for now. it's a good week, 3—0, 4—1, that a good week and three very difficult games. elsewhere in the premier league, bournemouth left it late but managed a 1—0 win at newcastle, thanks to steve cook's
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injury—time header. eddie howe‘s side move out of the relegation zone. there was also an away victory for burnley at southampton. sam vokes scored the only goal of the match nine minutes from time to move them level on points with chelsea and arsenal. there were also wins for brighton and huddersfield, while leicester drew at stoke. there are four matches in the premier league today. tottenham, who beat real madrid in the week, host bottom side crystal palace in the early kick—off before several huge games. manchester city will extend their lead at the top of the table if they beat arsenal at 2:15. at 4.30 jose mourinho returns to stamford bridge to take on chelsea with manchester united, while second bottom everton host watford. the fa cup first round proper delivered the shocks we were hoping for, with three non—league teams taking down bigger opposition and plenty more upsets along the way. drew savage takes us through the day's action. it's partly about the anticipation. you can hope you will be going home saying, "i was there." but it is far from guaranteed. this was national league side boreham wood, here to
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spring a surprise, coming from behind to defeat 1953 fa cup winners blackpool. and now they fancy going for a bit of a run. i look at lincoln and sutton last year. why not? why not. i know we have onlyjust beat blackpool, but why not? there's going to be some team that's going to go on a march, and i wouldn't mind being manager of that team. non—league maidstone enjoyed their trip to league 2 cheltenham town, a day out to remember in every sense of the world. three goals before half—time including this beauty. 11—2 it finished to the team from kent. hereford's edgar street ground has been the scene of some famous fa cup shocks. like their opponents, afc telford, they are a phoenix club, both formed after their predecessors folded. john mills took the chance to make himself hereford's hero front of a sell—out crowd of 4700. slough town had a great day at the office at gainsborough trinity. a hat—trick helped them win 6—0 away against a team who are one level above them in the league structure.
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oxford city, of national league south, are 56 places below colchester. they have never beaten a league side — until this weekend. matt paterson is their hero as they made the leap into the second round for the second time in their history. ireland have lost to papua new guinea in their latest match at the rugby league world cup this morning. ireland took the lead in this match with a michael mcilorum try. but despite there being just two points between the sides for the vast majority of the match papua new guinea crossed over in the final few minutes to complete a 111—6 victory. ireland stay second in the group. wales play fiji later this morning. wales are currently training by 40—6 at half—time. —— trailing.
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couple of good tries coming up for you — starting with the barbarians against new zealand at twickenham yesterday. with the game already lost the barbarians decided to do something a bit different place kicking the ball across field. the ball was juggled amongst the players before sam carter broke free to score to end game on a high for the twickenham crowd. the game finished 31—22 to new zealand. meanwhile, ulster narrowly beat the southern kings in an amazing 12—try match in port elizabeth in the pro 1a. the score was 36—all with just three minutes remaining, but robbie diack powered over for the visitors to steal the win. elsewhere, edinburgh beat 0spreys and there were wins for cardiff and connacht. in golf, england's georgia halljust missed out on winning the abu dhabi open for the second year in a row. despite a joint—best round of 66, she finished runner up to the indian teenager, aditi ashok, missing out by a single shot. hall said her putting let her down. justin rose has given himself a great chance to win his second tournament in two weeks. he shot 64 to move to within two shots of the lead at the turkish 0pen, with one round to play.
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he's 12 under par, after winning the wgc championship in shanghai last weekend. to cricket now, and both england's men and women are in live action this morning. joe root‘s side are continuing their ashes preparations with their first warm up match against a western australia 11. it's just a two—day match. yesterday england posted a score of 349 and in reply today, western australia are 265—for—6. james anderson with a couple of the wickets for england. england's women are gearing up for the stand alone ashes test match against australia, starting on thursday. in their second innings, england have declared 305—7, a lead of 265 runs, setting australia the target of 306 to win there are currently 69—2. felipe massa says this season will definitely be his last in formual 0ne. the brazilian intended to retire at the end of last year, but returned to williams
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after va ltteri bottas moved to mercedes following the retirement of world champion nico rosberg. massa won 11 races over his 15—year career and says this time his decision is final. to all of my fans, really, support mea to all of my fans, really, support me a lot so thank you very much and i hope to see you in abu dhabi and i really hope that you can support me next year or maybe in the future in other races in other categories. thank you very much, big kiss and see you then. that was him signing off at the end of the season. and deontay wilder has challenged anthonyjoshua to meet him in the ring next year for a unification bout. wilder retained his wbc heavyweight title with a first round knockout of bermane stiverne in the early hours of the morning. immediately after, he challenged joshua to a unification bout next year. that's all the sport for now. now on bbc news, here's the papers.
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hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are prashant rao, who's deputy europe business editor of the new york times and political commentator, james millar. the sunday express says a crackdown on the subsidised drinking culture in parliament is to be launched, in the wake of the westminster sex scandal. the sunday telegraph says theresa may's aides ‘sat on‘ allegations against senior conservatives. the observer reports claims about sir michael fallon — who suddenly resigned from cabinet last week. the paper alleges that a female journalist told number ten that he had tried to kiss her in 2003 after a lunch. the mail on sunday leads
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on allegations involving the tory whip, chris pincher. the paper claims the tamworth mp made an unwanted sexual pass at the former 0lympic rower and conservative activist alex story in 2001. in a statement mr pincher said, "if mr story has ever felt offended by anything i said then i can only apologise to him." the sunday times details allegations dating back to 2008, that police found pornography on the computer of one of theresa may's closest allies, damian green. mr green categorically denies the claims which he says are unscrupulous and untrue. let's begin, james millar, let's start if we can with the latest allegations about sir michael fallon, who resigned as defence secretary in the observer this morning. when you see the latest allegations, there are so many allegations, there are so many allegations to choose from, wordy start? this one is, yet, michael
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fallon has resigned after it was alleged he put his hand onjulia hartley brewer's knee. another person has said that he did something very similar with her. in both cases, the actual incident wasn't that big a deal but it's a pattern of behaviour and the whole problem is that people like, people, shall we say, do stuff like this to women. and it builds up and builds up women. and it builds up and builds up and that is the problem. it's not necessarily the specific allegations, though in some cases they are serious allegations and they are serious allegations and they are serious allegations and they are the problem. it's this overwhelming sort of weight of allegations and the culture and the attitude towards women. prashant, is there perhaps a sense of relief in downing street this morning, that the claims are not worse's when that
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comes closest to the prime ministers the one that about damian green, before secretary of state, which appears in the sunday times. before secretary of state, which appears in the sunday timesm before secretary of state, which appears in the sunday times. it is so appears in the sunday times. it is so early days. i think caution... these allegations are still coming out. we don't know yet. they could be worse, we don't know yet what is to come out and it is important to say, of course, that one of the problems with this whole thing is that there has not been a reporting syste m that there has not been a reporting system in place that allows for theseissues system in place that allows for these issues to come to light. and so these issues to come to light. and soa these issues to come to light. and so a huge flood of them are coming i'iow so a huge flood of them are coming now because, you know, finally people feel empowered and confident that they will be taken seriously. but one of the consequences of that is that we don't know how much is left in the system, how much is not been reported and is yet to be reported. sol been reported and is yet to be reported. so i certainly wouldn't feel relieved in any part of government so i can't imagine anyone has any level transparency of what has any level transparency of what has been going on for 15, 20 years,
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the duration of some of these mps' careers. regarding damian green, the allegation that police raided his office relating to the home office, which he denied anything to do with, they found pornography on a computer, not necessarily his personally but a computer in use on his office. these are all... as you said, this but special fit a pattern comment about the weight of the cumulative allegations. whether damian green has issued this statement in response, but it's kind of... is obviously much more serious, but it harks back to the expenses scandal where everest hard because the system has failed and it is incumbent on the entire class of westminster to look and try to find a way to fix this. —— everyone is pa rt a way to fix this. —— everyone is part because the system has failed.
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and that includes journalists. this is an idea, the media are saying, look at these terrible politicians, it's not just politicians. look at these terrible politicians, it's notjust politicians. it is all industries, we're discovering in the wa ke industries, we're discovering in the wake of the harvey weinstein thing. but particularly, you mentioned the sunday times front page, most from pages are written by men, certainly all the sunday political editors are written by men, we are men sitting around a table to give up this. on the front page, there's a picture of the front page, there's a picture of the women who accuse damian green looking over her shoulder. i've never seen a male looking over her shoulder. i've never seen a male byline picture where he is looking over his shoulder. there is a culture thing here which goes very deep. i have written a book cold the gender agenda about how we teach children, how we approach them from a very young age and teach them about male and female culture. it goes that
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steep, it just and female culture. it goes that steep, itjust shows... how you fix it, it's a big ask, think it's fair to say. and we see in the united states, for example, increasingly a lot of this is happening in the united states that women, people who have been harassed and assaulted her final started to speak out. and a colleague of mine made a really important point, which was that it's important point, which was that it's important when also journalists have to face these accusations and people in the media, because these are the storytellers of her political age. the people who define the narrative arc politicians, in the case of the us president election, bill clinton, we had men telling the story of a woman and so this matters. —— hillary clinton. so it matters how we comport ourselves in these situations. and there will be people watching us now he will say, look, if this stuff was out there, if it was the common gossip of westminster, some of it, not all that, have journalists at westminster failed in their duty to
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be storytellers kuzmenko is the culture such that, we used to talk about the lobby system, stories were given an attributable and anonymously to journalists as a sort anonymously to journalists as a sort a trade—off between what you could report and couldn't encase all your resources would dry up. i was asking a hollywood journalists that well, have we as a profession been complicit? i, this week, had been amazed after prime minster‘s questions, they had the prime minister smoke when an political journalists, and 95% of the people at the tables were members of —— the prime minister's spokesman. i have no doubt that if their world war women in the house of commons, this would not happen. not on this scale. there would be by people doing bad things, but it would be a different
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culture. i was struck, things, but it would be a different culture. iwas struck, perhaps things, but it would be a different culture. i was struck, perhaps most of all today, i can't think of a previous occasion where one mp from a little party has written an article about the behaviour, alleged behaviour of another mp, and has done so because he says the whip's office, which he complained to, hadn't acted on it in his view. i don't want to get into the specific allegations, but it is striking. don't want to get into the specific allegations, but it is strikingm is also striking because it is a man speaking, the men have a duty, we have a different position, added you to speak up about these things. but, yes, absolutely, it feeds into the sunday telegraph spot which is the centre of mine, which is that the whips have known about the stuff and have done nothing. i am not sure about that. the whips have known about, shall we say, bad behaviour and then there is obvious that the illegal stuff, i think the whips know the difference.” illegal stuff, i think the whips know the difference. i think if they
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had an allegation that somebody had raped somebody, you're pretty confident they would act on it, because that is a political —— a criminal matter? i don't think we can say with any certainty but traditionally, the view is that they would use things to get people to vote the way they want to... the little black book they are alleged to have! and you mentioned is the american, there has been the odd congressional scandal, the use of pages, young man he worked carrying m essa 9 es pages, young man he worked carrying messages around, there has been suggestion that congressmen have acted inappropriately with them. is there the same thing in that institution as well, the sense that people don't have someone they can go to? is this a common problem for legislatures, political systems, to wrestle with‘s legislatures, political systems, to wrestle with's it is, if you think about it, the way that the house of commons is structured, i thought this was interesting that touched on
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in bbc podcasts recently, this week in westminster, this is a tribal structure. there's a sense of us and them. there'sa structure. there's a sense of us and them. there's a bigger game we're playing here we should, you know, leave this aside for the bigger goal which is getting into government, passing legislation that will change the country for the common good. and these things, it's fine, we will sort it out, it'll be ok. you don't wash dirty linen in public in case it damages the party. exactly, loyalty to the party good behaviour. what is acceptable in civil society... moving on to the express, it talks about cracking down on it in their case, subsidised drinking culture. but there's a more general point about, we have this meeting tomorrow, little party leaders, in much of what you're saying, prasad, but that, we don't want to lose sight of the bigger picture, is there a danger that the natural political tribal rivalries will make it difficult for them to agree a common set of criteria that can be used and actually applied and hand
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this over to an independent body? absolutely, achieving that is gone to be tricky, because as you say, tribal loyalties. there is no real reason for them to work together other than for the common good, but as you say, gaining advantage, electoral advantage, they may not be inclined to do so. the set up a parliament is so weird and i don't mean that their sale in a pejorative sense, it is just odd, mean that their sale in a pejorative sense, it isjust odd, because mean that their sale in a pejorative sense, it is just odd, because staff don't work for parliament, they work for mps. and lots of people work for parties. so here is the external body they're going to be in charge of, will they be in charge of all parties, all parliamentary staff? and this is talking about cheap booze, again, most workplaces don't have a couple of pubs in the basement. but mps, as it stands, giving sitting hours, have to be there in the evening. they don't
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have to go there and drink but grown—ups can go there in drag, they don't have to be put in some sudden crash until it is time to vote! —— grown—ups can go in there and drink. but becomes manager with any legislature is power. that is a huge pa rt legislature is power. that is a huge part of it. let's move on and away from the westminster sleaze into something that some might say is a surprisingly important story, rather buried away, and this is on page how. buried away, and this is on page hopp, sorry, six and seven of the daily mirror this morning. we have gordon brown's book coming out in a couple of days and there is except here where the former prime minister talks about the decision—making in the lead up to the iraq war. officer, the seminal decision of the time he was in government. i would say certainly. and so gordon brown
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makes the case that there was a particular reports that the us government declined, did not hand over to the brits in the run—up to the war would would have influence with their not at least he would have decided to favour invading iraq. so this is interesting, because gordon brown is, think we're a stage now where we're going to start reassessing his legacy, it's about a decade since he famously could have called the election, could have called the election, could have called the election, could have delivered him another five—year term in office and didn't. and so now we can step back and think about, who was gordon brown the prime minister? at the time, it felt like there was all this difference between him and tony blair, the blairite umbrella. but you look up parliaments today and the true party tearing itself apart, jeremy corbyn. —— the tory party turn itself apart. gros it almost makes you started. they weren't that difference but we magnified it. there was at her in small
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differences. but the same thing. and iraq was one—stop gordon brown was the second most powerful person in government and by a further close margin. that was certainly the narrative. the whole idea that one report would have changed mind about invading, ifind report would have changed mind about invading, i find a bit questionable. it's fascinating he does not dump on tony blair. he could have... he says we we re tony blair. he could have... he says we were tricked and he says tony blair was trip. he is not saying, tony blair knew about this and lied to the government and led us all into work, he says, we ruled trick. he says, can't be certain but i believe this report contained this information that would have suggested that actually, the american intelligence was not absolutely rock—solid, it was mostly inference based on assumptions that we re inference based on assumptions that were made in the intelligence community and they built one influence on an assumption and before you know, you built up impressive body of evidence but
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isn't. but it is also striking that he takes blair's side on this and says, there was no secret conspiracy between blair and bush, blair was out of the loop. is is between blair and bush, blair was out of the loop. isis an interesting type in the book to, it will be interesting to see held did received. he will get an easy ride in the mirror but he left office as probably the worst prime minister post—war, and now cameron 0rr maher mixing it up down at the bottom of the league table! —— cameron and make. —— theresa may. the league table! —— cameron and make. -- theresa may. the sunday times, you're talking about gender stereotyping of children, young age, whatever happens to drilling nursery rhymes into them from a young age? it is interesting, i certainly find that i can't remember nursery rhymes, it's about 20 or 30 years since you had them and you suddenly remember them again. the chief
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inspector of schools, of 0fsted, she doesn't say this but the story says that youngsters would rather play pepper pic ipad games and find out what happened to doctor foster. a couple of things, one, it's not either or. ipad games are not necessarily bad. second, doctor foster fell into a puddle, it's pretty grim! it's probably better for some children stop more sophisticated emotional connection. prashant, do you have a favourite nursery rhyme? and i do think, not one comes to mind. but certainly, it's not black—and—white issue, yet alone exactly like we did in the 70s, 80s, 90s. medical science have moved on, we do things differently in the hospital, when it in the school as well? it seems a bit strange to move on in this the starter. were of the things we would perhaps have had in common is sesame
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street, the songs on sesame street. i can't remember now. have you got a favourite nursery ran? maybe if they build it into you at school... temm says michigan's learners. and they are all gruesome, nursery rhymes. jack and jill, jack trax his head open, doesn't he? their horrible! prashant and james, thank you for joining us for the paper review. just a reminder, we take a look at tomorrows front pages every evening at 10:40pm here on bbc news. hello, there. lovely autumn afternoon on the way for many of you, we have some sunshine out there. a bit of a cool breeze. we have seen some show was so far today and it will continue for some into the afternoon. the ones in the midlands fading, some still into the
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south—west of england, wales, northern ireland and northern scotland, but becoming fewer in number, not quite as heavy as this morning, as well. and many of that should become dry through the afternoon. at the same time, down the north sea coast, we will see one or two showers pushing towards coastal yorkshire, lincolnshire and eventually norfolk. these are your afternoon temperatures. down on what we have seen of late but some sunshine to compensate. as soon as the sun sets, of course, it will turn chilly very quickly indeed. bearthat in mind if you are attending guy fawkes displays tonight. scotland turning frosty quite quickly. 0rkney and shetland could see one or two showers around and there will be showers for coastal parts of yorkshire, lincolnshire and developing a bit more widely through parts of norfolk and not so thick into the evening. ——and north suffolk. some breeze towards the south—west and wales, but even here, fewer showers than were seen through the day. tonight, we will see a frost develop quite widely, temperatures in most towns and cities into monday morning will be just above freezing. in rural parts, we could see them drop as low as —4 to —6. so it will be a bit of monday groaning as the ice scrapers
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come out for some. but temperatures quickly rise in the morning as clous spills in, the breeze strengthens ahead of a weather front working its way into the hebrides during the morning. that will slowly push its way eastwards through the day, most will start the day dry, bright, frosty. sunniest for longest across central and eastern parts of england, should be a fine day by and large here. but turning cloudier and windier in the west. a few splashes of rain, where to sit in ——wettest in the north—west highlands and islands of scotland. 0verall, still a fairly cold day, whether you've got sunshine or cloud. into evening, turning wet across much of scotland and northern ireland. snow over the higher ground as well in scotland, and that heavy rain will spread its way eastwards into tuesday. a different day altogether on tuesday for england and wales, starts off wet, rain spread its way eastwards, but many become brighter with sunshine and heavy showers later on in the west.
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even cooler as well and that will lead into another cold light, frosty start to wednesday across many areas. the overnight rain in east anglia and the south—east quickly clearing. wednesday, a window of fine weather for most, before more, wet weather arrives in the west later. this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines at ten. the prime minister's deputy, the first secretary of state damien green, strenuously denies claims pornographic material was found on a computer in his commons office in 2008. it's among several further
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allegations about the conduct about the conduct of mps. home secretary amber rudd needs changes needed. widespread change needs to take place, we recognise that, we are making changes and it has to stop. warnings over a shortage of psychiatrists in england as the number of unfilled posts doubles in the past four years. touchdown in tokyo — donald trump says no nation should underestimate american resolve — as he begins his asian tour. saudi arabia's crown prince launches a major anti—corruption purge — anti—corruption purge — he's detained several
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