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it's five years since some questioned the wisdom of disney paying around $4 billion for lucasfilm and the right to keep making star wars films. the first new movie made $2 billion at the global box office. now the deal is looking like one of the better hollywood bargains. telling a wonderful story, creating characters that people care about — we pay attention to all those things inside these movies and hopefully, then shareholders and business and everything that goes along with it are happy. but we always start with that. the strategy has ensured continuing adulation from fans and helped disney consolidate its position as hollywood's top studio. lizo mzimba, bbc news. newsnight is coming up on bbc two. here's emily maitlis. tonight, £235 million has been allocated to rehouse grenfell tower residents. six months on from the fire, why are so many still without homes? join me now on bbc two. here on bbc one it's time for the news where you are.
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bye bye. hello, and welcome to sportsday, i'm hugh woosencroft. our main stories this evening. antonio conte‘s chelsea get back to winning ways in the premier league. but burnley are hot on the heels in full. an end to tyson fury‘s nightmare. the former heavyweight champion is free to return to boxing after a compromise with uk anti—doping. and, cooks, cricket and culture. alastair cook deals with the many question marks around england's ashes tour down under. hello, good evening. there's a full round of premier league games this midweek, with some significant results already tonight. chelsea bounced back in style following that
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defeat only west ham at the weekend with a comfortable 3—1win away at huddersfield. it was watched by patrick gearey. a wet tuesday night, still a party night in huddersfield. an energy that fuels the football. according to the manager, they are workers, not dreamers. but a moment's dozing against chelsea, and you are soon spectators. helpless as noya ba kayoko but you are soon spectators. helpless as noya bakayoko but the champions in front. antonio conte says the title has now slipped away, but there seems to be no black of note, motivation, —— no lack of motivation. the locals will have noticed the cold. five minutes into the second half, they were frozen out of this for good. pedro, 3—0. the damaging, sobering defeat to west ham left far behind. the only surprise was that they did not score more. huddersfield and climb the divisions by quitting early, though. laurent depoitre‘s header was
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ultimately meaningless but the spirit that brought it may have been of crucial importance. patrick gearey, bbc news. burnley left it late to earn themselves a spot in the premier league's top four. ashley barnes scored an 88th minute winner ina ashley barnes scored an 88th minute winner in a hard—fought victory over stoke city at a wet turf moor. it increases pressure on stoke boss mark hughes. the reality is, we've got another tough game on saturday. the players have a right to enjoy this, but the next game comes quickly on a saturday, that's my focus. i'm pleased with last night. tonight we had to work hard for it, grind it out. a real moment of quality to win it. but thursday we will look to recover and look onto the next one. crystal palace left is even later, they came from behind to beat watford 2—1 at selhurst park. ba ka ry sa ko beat watford 2—1 at selhurst park. bakary sako and james mcarthur scoring in the last few minutes to snatch the point that moved roy hodgson's team off the bottom of the table and out of the bottom three. we've done well in the last minutes
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of game, really. we equalised late against west ham. we scored a late winner against stoke and we scored a late win a game here today. i have to commend the players' attitude and their determination to keep going even when things don't look as if they are going our way. pete browne are through to round three of the fa cup, facing a trip to aston villa after the 5—0 victory against non—league woking —— peterborough offering. two fixtures went into extra time. nine—month port vale we re extra time. nine—month port vale were eventually beaten by yeovil. whilst exeter city made it through to round three, they will be hosting west brom. hearts secured their second victory in a row to stretch their unbeaten run to five games, they move up to fifth place in the scottish premiership. dundee dropped to second bottom, a point behind ross county, after they squandered a 2-0 ross county, after they squandered a 2—0 lead against dalmarnock. the former heavyweight world champion tyson fury and his cousin hughie are
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free to box again after they accepted a backdated two years doping ban. fury‘s team had threatened legal action which uk anti—doping complaint put them at risk of insolvency. fury said he will pursue the world titles with everything he has. the backdated sanction has drawn raised eyebrows. the chief executive uk anti—doping told us why it wasn't a longer four—year ban. told us why it wasn't a longer four-year ban. when you backdate a sangchan, you have to consider whether an athlete has, for any of that period of time, been provisionally suspended. that is taken into consideration. now, tyson fury was provisionally suspended for 18 months of that. but he has not fought for two years. so, those are the elements that we consider when we determine at what point the
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sanction has been served. england's cricketers are going through their final preparations ahead of the third ashes test that starts in the early hours of thursday morning in perth. defeat at the worker would mean australia regained the urn. the tour has been marred by field disciplinary issues, with senior players urged to take more responsibility. one of those is of course alastair cook. and the swiss reports. welcome to the waca, where the england players have been busy training today ahead of what is a massive challenge for them to get back into this ashes series. they haven't won it has back here at the worker since way back in 1978. but for all the issues surrounding the side, it will be a landmark test for one of the players. alastair cook set to win his 150th test cap for england. he has struggled for form so far in this series, but he says
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his desire is as strong as ever. you live on the edge in professional cricket, and the results normally justify the means. you'll get places guaranteed if you are scoring runs, if not, there are other talented people who want your place. that hasn't changed for 12 years and it will never change, people want your place, and it's up to me to try and score some runs to try and get those people off my back. it will be a remarkable individual achievement for alastair cook. for now, remarkable individual achievement foralastair cook. for now, his focus is very much on helping his tea m focus is very much on helping his team turned this ashes series around. they have had problems on the pitch, problems of the pitch as well of course. questions about the behaviour of england's players. only at the weekend, england lions player ben target was suspended after pouring a drink overjimmy anderson's head in a bar in perth on friday —— player ben duckett. cook believes the team have been unfairly portrayed but admits they need to
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change their approach. those two incidents have proven there is very little margin for error when you've had a beer. to say we've got a drinking culture in this team is very unfair, you know. but we've just got to smarten up and we've got to do it quickly because there's too much at stake, you know, there's obviously a personal career, but you a lwa ys obviously a personal career, but you always wa nt obviously a personal career, but you always want to leave the side and the cap in a good place after every tour and after every game. people pay a lot of money to come and watch as he and australia. at home, the support we get is fantastic. we've got to try and build up that trust. serious questions about the culture of this england setup. for now, their immediate focus is trying to win here in perth. mark wood, the durham fast bowler, is not being added to the squad. the feeling is he has not had enough bowling practice after recovering from injury. england are likely to be unchanged from the side that lost in adelaide, but they making with the batting order. jonny bairstow may be
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promoted higher up the batting order. some issues for them to consider before this vital test match gets underway here on thursday. after more than ten years in charge at northampton states, tim mallinder has been sacked from his role as director of rugby. —— northampton saints. at his height, he led them to a double just three yea rs he led them to a double just three years ago. a former england prop won the title with mallinder back in 2014. is obviously been tough and sad to watch from the outside. jimmy'sa sad to watch from the outside. jimmy's a very good man, but professional sport is ruthless. we reached the pinnacle in the domestic game in 2014, but unfortunately there hasn't been a lot of real progression or change or evolution since then. i think the stagnation and sort of the lack of change has probably led to this point now. with the recent results, it's probably the recent results, it's probably the effect, but the cause is really the effect, but the cause is really the lack of development over the last couple of years as a collective. sticking with rugby
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union, there are fresh injury woes for wales as taulupe faletau could be out for 16 weeks, missing part of the six nations. he injured his knee ligament during the european champions cup duty for bar. wales begin the competition against scotla nd begin the competition against scotland in cardiff and they are already without the fellow british and irish lions play at sam warburton and jonathan davies. that's almost it from sportsday. just a reminder of the big wins in the premier league for burnley, crystal palace and chelsea. and tyson fury, he is free to resume his career. you can find all of those stories on the bbc sport website and up. coming stories on the bbc sport website and oming up stories on the bbc sport website and up. coming up injusta stories on the bbc sport website and up. coming up injust a moment, it's the papers. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
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bringing us tomorrow. with me arejoe watts, political editor of the independent. and caroline wheeler, deputy political editor of the sunday times. tomorrow's front pages... the mirror leads with the miraculous story of a three week old baby girl —— born with her heart outside her body. the first baby in the uk to survive this rare illness. ‘tories go green' — the i looks at the conservative governments new climate change policies in what they call a push to win back younger voters and broaden the parties appeal. the metro reports on allegations that a 20—year—old woman was raped by a conservative party aide in his office in westminster. the times reports of a scandal involving the president of the european commission jean claude—junker and alleged evidence tampering. the guardian
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leads on its exclusive story detailing how some big companies are paying intelligence firms to monitor groups that challenge their business. the telegraph leads with a warning to households and motorists to expect a sharp rise in gas and petrol prices. the express says the prime minister is enjoying a boost in the polls after her brexit negotiation breakthrough. . in the polls after her brexit negotiation breakthrough.. and... the daily mail says that social media giants facebook and twitter helped fuel abuse towards conservative party candidates in the last general election. what is the story about in the guardian? the guardian appears to have been leaked, along with a another news organisation, a cache of documents,
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suggesting that it is notjust the police force involved in the illicit espionage, but private companies are doing this too. notjust spying on each other but buying on people who perhaps are making choices to take those companies to court or campaign against them or protest against them. or perhaps even, you know, encourage consumer activity against them as well. there are a string of really big name companies that are involved in this. companies like british airways, the royal bank of scotland. within the detail of these documents, come all of the ways in which these companies are spying on those individuals. caroline, at one point the police have claimed that commercialfirms point the police have claimed that commercial firms have had point the police have claimed that commercialfirms have had more spies in bed in political groups than there were undercover police officers! basically they have infiltrated campaign groups that have been opposed to some of the actions that these big corporate firms have been undertaking in, and
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posed as activists themselves. in one instance, the infiltrate is pretended to be activists sympathetic to the cause of the campaigners, helping to organise and attending demonstrations, including on one occasion dressing up as a pirate with a cutlass and an eye patch as part of a protest! these are extraordinary length that these organisations are going to to sort of infiltrate and find out what it is that people who are opposed to the goods are kind of worried about. it shows you the level of concern that there is around the kind of protest that we have seen surrounding these big, multinational corporations. we know it made people really angry, the story quite recently about police forces infiltrating undercover green groups. there was one case in particular where a police officer out of relationships with other activists, was leading a real double life. the question is, you know, it does stay in the story that the activity is much more widespread than people would have expected. the question is, how long have these
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undercover operations been going on's have they been playing with people's lives in the same weight as white interesting stuff. tories go green to win back voters. i remember hugging the house the end the north pole, david cameron. and then it all gotjunk. well, pole, david cameron. and then it all got junk. well, apparently pole, david cameron. and then it all gotjunk. well, apparently is coming back on the michael gove,
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