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tv   Outside Source  BBC News  January 8, 2018 9:00pm-10:00pm GMT

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en hello. welcome to outside source. the golden globes, women made a stand in several ways. they wore black in solidarity with victims of sexual violence and with a speech of the night did a new political contender emerge? a new day is on the horizon! here carrie gracie has been explaining why she has quit as oui’ been explaining why she has quit as our china editor. i cannot collude in what i see as unlawful pay discrimination. a woman being sued by radiohead, the band claims a track rips off one of theirs. we will play you both. later we will look at theresa may's cabinet reshuffle. it was inevitable the golden globes
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we re it was inevitable the golden globes were dominated by hollywood's sex abuse scandal. the first major awards since the harvey weinstein story broke in october. almost all of those who attended wore black to show support for the victims. this is what some of them said. there's no way i am ever going to be in a room and be treated in the way that people have been treated ever again and in the stand up and not say i don't agree with that. the whole reason why this was able to take place like anything that's abuse of power is it's silence and people feeling they can't. i don't feel like that any more. time's up, some things we don't need to discuss any more, equal pay for equal work, well, doh! harassment in the workplace, come on, time's up on all that stuff. four months ago you couldn't have dreamed of a night like this and the conversations that are being had. i think it's exciting times for all of us. no question who
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made the most talked about speech. oprah winfrey became the first black woman to receive a golden globes lifetime achievement award and didn't hold back. so i want all the girls watching here now to know that a new day is on the horizon! after that speech we are seeing hashtags like oprah winfrey for president, oprah winfrey 2020. i have been speaking to the bbc‘s peter bowes and his analysis of what happened at the ceremony. this is the issue that has dominated hollywood over the last three months and clearly this is the highest profile time of the year, the major shop front from hollywood, normally to sell television shows and movies, now it's to, if you like, sell a political issue, that hollywood feels strongly about and the anding stresses that wore black were determined to do so, almost 100% did, to get their point across and we heard what oprah winfrey had to say. i think equally behind the
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scenes people are saying this is just the beginning, just the beginning of a process for hollywood, we might see more of these demonstrations, something similarto these demonstrations, something similar to this at the oscars in a few weeks' time. this is the beginning of potentially quite a long process of change. change of attitude in the workplace for hollywood. presumably it's also about the way structure, power is structured in hollywood. and the big studios who dominate are still dominated by men, isn't that fair? that is a fair thing to say. there are some women in prominent senior positions in the studios but yes, you are right, hollywood is largely run in those top roles by men and change has to come from the top. but it's also going to come in terms of equal pay for the same work, in terms of attitudes towards clearly this big issue of sexual harassment. i don't think anyone believes it's going to end immediately, attitudes
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have to change in terms of workplace, women have to feel as if they can complain, they can report men who are behaving badly, that isn't going to change overnight again because they have to feel co mforta ble, again because they have to feel comfortable, perhaps policies have to be changed internally in companies. i think people recognise that a lot of work still needs to be done. another major story today concerns carrie gracie who has resigned as the bbc‘s china editor because she says the bbc won't pay her as much as men who are doing equivalent roles here at the bbc. at the golden globes on the red carpet the golden globes on the red carpet the bbc‘s james cook spoke to the actress emma watson and the bbc came up actress emma watson and the bbc came up as did carrie. bbc's obviously committed to 50—50 by 2020, that's a great commitment. we need to see them fulfil it. and more needs to be made and more public commitments like that from other organisations like that from other organisations like the bbc. one of our foreign
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correspondents carrie dwrasy has resigned tonight complaining about pay inequality and failure to reach that solution. this is what we are saying, i think more needs to be done. by making these commitments public we need to be holding these organisations accountable. and i think that what has happened tonight, that resignation is a really good example that, you know, you have got to follow through. you have to back up what you are saying and it's important and we will hold you accountable. carrie gracie has resooned as the bbc‘s china editor. —— resigned. she will continue to work here in the bbc newsroom. carrie was one of four international editors here at the bbc news, you will have seen all of them on outside source. now lastjuly the bbc was obliged to release this list of all its employees who earn over £150,000. carrie and katya's names
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we re £150,000. carrie and katya's names were not on that list. john and jeremy's were. this was carrie gracie speaking earlier. six months ago we discovered the pay discrepancies at the bbc. they affected me very directly. i have spent the intervening time trying to put them right through an equal pay complaint, through a formal grievance. i have repeatedly told management that i would not find it possible to go back to china in the new year without the grievance resolved. it is still unresolved. i cannot collude in what i see as unlawful pay discrimination. the bbc has released a statement today. a separate report we are told for on
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air staff will be published in the not too distant future. this is carrie gracie's response to that.|j am carrie gracie's response to that.” am still disappointed by the bbc‘s response. the bbc talks about a gender pay gap but what i am talking about is not a gender pay gap where sometimes men and women are in different roles which explain the differences in pay. what i am talking about is pay discrimination which is when men are paid more for doing the same job or which is when men are paid more for doing the samejob or a job of which is when men are paid more for doing the same job or a job of equal value. now that is illegal. there are two issues here, the issue of equal and fair pay and the broader issue of the gender pay gap. jennifer mill lynnes is an employment partner with a legal firm and is advising a number of senior women at the bbc on equal pay issues including carrie gracie. here is her
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reaction today. equal pay falls within the —— 54: it's 5755 w ” w ' 7 if it's’éf‘! issue ' ” ' ’ g is different 01’ we 3 25.4.9... ,..,.i.i..,... .... md a effm” f" the”? "" ""‘ moment because 7: if" 7 moment because this 477 7477 7 moment because this is 477 7477 7 moment because this is the $77 7477 7 moment because this is the first i? 7477 7 the moment because this is the first year that the requirements to report on gender pay stats have come in so employers are doing this on a regular basis at the moment and will do up until about easter time. the bbc has reported itsjepder do up until about easter time. the bbc has reported its jepder pay statistics and it's one of the defences it has used against carrie's letter today —— gender, that its gender pay stats look healthy as compared to the national average, the national average is around 18% of discrepancy with male and female pay. the bbc‘s is around 996. and female pay. the bbc‘s is around 9%. the issues are very different. a gender pay statistic or gender pay reporting that we are seeing is across the organisation, it takes groups of men, groups them “7“; out with 7‘3 out with a “2“; out with a statistic “7“; out with a statistic but then comes out with a statistic but it doesn't deal with individual issues of discrimination like the
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one that carrie is complaining of. if you have been near twitter today you will know colleagues and commentators have been reacting to this story. here is the bbc newsnight presenter saying. this is part of a longer thread of tweets on twitter. one other from evan. he says. that's part of a thread of nine tweets if you want to find them online. that's one view. next the analysis of the bbc‘s media editor. there is tremendous anger among many female staff at all levels of this corporation. seniorfigures at female staff at all levels of this corporation. senior figures at the bbc say they take this issue very seriously but many employees have found the process of fighting for
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equal pay completely unbearable. the sal yens of this story arises from implications beyond this place, it's happening in a climate in which many women across several industries say they've suffered injustice and inequality for far too long. now i doubt you missed over the weekend donald trump calling himself a stable genius. well he is starting his week visiting a couple of, well established republican states. he will be in tennessee and georgia and will be in tennessee and georgia and will be in tennessee and georgia and will be among friends. you will find thousands of blue collar workers in these states who helped him to presidency. he will highlight a plan to help farmers and rural communities. that's in a speech in nashville which he will give later. there were a number of stories to talk about, this one of them. here. i think he is looking forward to getting out of town for a little bit, when he is in front of crowds he seems to draw energy from that. he is going to end up in georgia,
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watch ago football game with two southern states as well and i hear he is going to be surrounding himself with corporate ceos, might try to see if they can do more for workers. some corporations have already announced bonuses and they've given credit to republican tax bill so i think he may try to keep the ball rolling on that because it makes for good press and ta kes because it makes for good press and takes attention away from the fire and fury book and the tweets he sent out over the weekend and other distractions. there is the book. inside the trump white house, written by michael wolff who has been giving interviews about his experience collecting information for the book. here is some of the latest he said. the people in the white house are like everybody else in the country. what's going to happen here, we don't know from day to day. this is for them as for eve ryo ne to day. this is for them as for everyone an extraordinary experience. i think that they
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certainly question what's going to happen here, like everybody else. there are many moments in which the 25th amendment has come up, in which gives the cabinet the ability to remove the president and they don't say, they don't say the cabinet is going to remove the president, but they do say things like this is a little 25th amendmenty here. inevitably he is seeing his book as a game—changer. here is anthony on whether that's is overstating things. if you listen to the lines he is hearing this and they're saying that, these are not direct atrib bugs. the 25th amendment is such a long shot as getting a majority of the president's trump's hand—picked cabinet to vet to remove him and approval from congress, that's is even more unlikely than an impeachment proceedings. sol that's is even more unlikely than an impeachment proceedings. so i think you are looking several steps down the line. maybe there could be a
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little gallows humour in the white house or if donald trump does something they don't like they could joke about it. it's amazing michael wolf had that access to sit there like a fly on the wall talking about those conversations but it's difficult tojudge if those conversations but it's difficult to judge if they were legitimately serious orjust office workplace jokes. president trump is attending a college football game. the national championship no less. it's taking place in atlanta. wouldn't normally mention that but the president hasn't attended lots of these large—scale events. why could this be different? it's alabama against georgia, two states donald trump carried. he has particular connection to alabama, they turned out in big numbers for him when he started campaigning. georgia was an interesting state. it was a little bit more of a narrow margin with him and hillary clinton in the election than say obama against romney in 2012. but he is going to have some corporate ceos as
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his guests, this could be networking away — a way to communicate with them ina away — a way to communicate with them in a less normal setting and twist their arms on economic issues a little bit. one last thing, earlier i mentioned oprah winfrey's speech at the golden globes. here is a piece online. does the speech provide clues about a presidential run. she hit a lot of the marks you would expect a polished candidate to use when they're positioning themselves for a presidential run. she talked about her personal upbringing asa she talked about her personal upbringing as a less affluent child in wisconsin, she cite anecdotes about famous people, she had catchy phrases, a new day is on the horizon fon ash brighter morning, you could imagine those on a hat or bumper sticker. she has name recognition, money, 2020 is a long way off, as we both know, stranger things have happened. in this dweet from the
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washington times, saying donald trump is talking in nashville later. he hasjust trump is talking in nashville later. he has just started. trump is talking in nashville later. he hasjust started. here is him talking right now. mark morris, state senate majority leader, i have done myjob now, all right! ok. i have done myjob. did i do a good job, didi have done myjob. did i do a good job, did i leave out anybody? i hope not. it's always trouble when you do that, you leave out one prn, it's like for the rest of your life they never speak to you. it's always very dangerous, thank you very much. i am also thrilled to see one of my good friends and early supporters and thatis friends and early supporters and that is tom and ijust said... i also want to thank the american farm bureau. i said i was going to mention you and i am, because you have been there from the beginning and that tractor that you... have been there from the beginning and that tractor that you. .. that's president trump talking to farmers in nashville. he looks so at ease, doesn't he? this is one of the environments in which he seems most co mforta ble environments in which he seems most comfortable and will be a welcome
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breakfrom comfortable and will be a welcome break from the furore in washington around the book. we will keep listening to that in case he says something worth playing to you. in a few minutes we will be going back to the us because 2017 for america was the us because 2017 for america was the costliest year on record for weather and climate disasters. we will look in more detail at that. a couple who meat on a muslim dating site have been convicted of planning an is inspired terror attack on the uk in the run—up to christmas 2016. we got reaction from local people about the couple. i have spoken to a couple of colleagues of his at local
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factories who say he came across as quiet, normal, hard working, he even gave people lifts home. the local police commander here in derby says this was clearly a very serious plot and he makes the point that here on this street where a few minutes' walk from the main shopping centre in derby, and that's precisely the kind of place that terrorists tend to target. we are live here in the bbc newsroom. lead store —— story cops from the golden globes where stars wore black to show solidarity with victims of hollywood's sex scandal. iran has banned the teaching of english in primary schools calling the subject a cultural invasion. the
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education ministry says schools will focus on persianian skills and islamic culture. bbc indonesia has images of a volcano erupting on a tiny island. officials thought the volcano was dormant. evidently not. it's been erupting since friday and 600 residents have had to be evacuated. thousands of you have been looking at this fire at trump tower in new york. it was located on the roof of the building. three people including a firefighter suffered minor injuries. as we have been discussing, president is not in new york, he is in georgia and tennessee. 2017 was the costliest year ever for weather and climate disasters in the us. the authorities are estimating that cost is in the region of $306 billion. just for context, the previous record year was 2005 when the costs were $215 billion. let's remind ourselves of why 2017 was so
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challenging. these pictures for insta nce challenging. these pictures for instance are of hurricane harvey that hit texas in august. it cost alone $180 billion. more than any other natural disaster in american history. this is hurricane maria which hit puerto rico particularly hard. recently, still we were covering the wildfires in california in december, close to a quarter of a million people had to leave homes and these wildfires were the most destructive on record in this part of the us. so, huge costs, let's speak about this. who picks up the bill? partly there will be insurance company bills. last week we had a german insurance company that came out with a number, the number was global and notjust out with a number, the number was global and not just for the out with a number, the number was global and notjust for the us but the us given the hurricanes you mentioned and wild fires and other
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disasters that we have had, does constitute a large bulk of that amountand constitute a large bulk of that amount and they said it costs the insurance triabout $135 billion but they said overall, including the uninsured losses, the number is around $330 billion. you can see thatis around $330 billion. you can see that is a wide gap, the reason for that is a wide gap, the reason for thatis that is a wide gap, the reason for that is there is still a lot of small businesses, individuals who don't necessarily take insurance here in the us. so while you will have authorities footing that bill, some part will be insurance companies, a lot will be borne by individuals as well as small businesses. but it's also going ahead, it's going to be difficult even for people who want to rush in and get insurance, in some parts of the country certainly it's going to be harder to do that. as we covered these stories there seems to be a consensus amongst scientists, politicians, that climate change is driving more extreme weather and perhaps we should expect another record year sooner rather than
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later. that's right. this is something also with the independent assurance companies anticipating as well as that report we have had today that we have not seen the worst yet and it could just get worse from here on. that's why the future is so important that, will people be able to get insurance, there are parts of florida, for example, where it's difficult for people to get insurance and i think going ahead the problems really amplify. stay with us, we want to ask about two stories. this is the other. two of apple's big shareholders say the company needs to do more to help teenagers and younger children to put down devices, the concern is about addiction and the impact on mental health. the guess is how much leverage do shareholders have? they are quite big shareholders. one is actually teachers pension fund,s had something you might have expected from an investor like that because we have had examples in america of investors who are, for example,
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pension funds taking up social causes or asking for changes in the way a particular company operates because for a social cause. but the other big investor, which is a huge investor, billions of dlas in its fund, that is surprising for a statement like that to come from them, as far as investors what they're saying in the letter to apple is this will make good business sense if you start paying attention to health issues, eventually in the long run it will make business sense because they say there's growing societal unease that at least some people might be getting too much of a good thing. if you look at what have they asked apple to do, they've asked them to spread awareness among parents about possible addiction and what they can do to reduce iphone usage by their children and to also study the impact on mental health of being addicted to your phone. in that sense i think for the company to respond to that, which it so far hasn't, they're in an easy spot but
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remember this also comes off the back of last week and the week before we were talking about iphones — apple being on the back foot and they had to say they were slowing down iphones because of battery issues. of course it's not good news investors have said this. but in that sense they're not really in a sticky spot. what's also interesting is on the issue of children using social media or technology normally the onus is on parents or teachers or children themselves to take responsibility. as tech companies get pulled into that discussion it's going to be interesting to see them respond. that's right. this is not - it's a talking point in the us, you will remember a former facebook executive also talked about saying facebook was designed in a way that it was meant to be addictive. this is suddenly become a talking point. i think is suddenly become a talking point. ithink in is suddenly become a talking point. i think in many ways that's what the investors in their letter are saying, that people are beginning to talk about this, there is unease about it, if you start addressing it
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you will be ahead of the curve and eventually it will make good business sense. thank you very much. telling us about pressure on apple and that issue and also talking to us and that issue and also talking to us about 2017 being the costliest year on record in terms of natural disasters in the us. let's talk about the french president. he is in china. he has been in beijing. he is calling for a more balanced approach from the chinese to trade with the rest of the world. we will have to see if they're ready to listen top that. he says france is going to be taking the lead on getting access to china. he was elected in france as the champion of globalisation, at the champion of globalisation, at the same time, he said i am all for free trade but not for naivety. he will try to balance the tone and send a message that france is open for business, wants to sell more to china, is happy about chinese companies coming to france but also wa nts to
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companies coming to france but also wants to retain some sort of control over investment and in compensation also wants china to lose their own rules on foreign investment. thank you very much. in the second half of outside source we will be live in westminster because this was a much anticipated day. theresa may's been reshuffling her cabinet. we will hear who is up and who is down and, frankly, who stayed put, because a lot of the big guns within the government have not shifted their portfolio. we will run you through everything that's happened in westminster. any questions on that send them my way. i will put them to leila. we will speak to you in a few minutes' time. hello. plenty to talk about in world
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weather at the moment. let's start off in north america. the talking point here is the big freeze affecting eastern canada and the north—east of the usa. there is signs of something less cold over the next few days. it's a weather front bringing snow out of the great la kes front bringing snow out of the great lakes and down to the south, we could see freezing rain. we will need to keep an eye on that. the snow across canada affecting quebec, some snow flurries through new york. freezing rain possibly across nashville, tennessee and georgia and that could be an issue. indications of things getting milder over the next few days. temperatures above freezing, the first time that's happened so far this year. across to australia. it's a real different story. heatwave conditions across the south—east. but as you can see from the satellite some sharp showers here marking an end to that extreme heatwave: we need to
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keep a close eye to the north—west, potential for a storm here. keep a close eye to the north—west, potentialfor a storm here. the sharp showers through sydney is helping to bring a lowering of temperatures. 36. that could potentially bring localised flooding as well. staying with a risk of heavy rain, plenty of it from an ex — cyclo ne heavy rain, plenty of it from an ex—cyclone which is now leaving from madgascar. by madgascar. by contrast, we are going now to cold and snow, particularly in europe and particularly in spain where it's been bitterly cold with heavy snow and early on monday morning temperatures fell down to lows of minus eight which is very unusualfor lows of minus eight which is very unusual for them even for this time of year. another weather front bringing more stormy weather conditions into portugal and spain and that, as it bumps into higher ground, will eventually bring more snow but it's going to be rain and some of that heavy indeed. a brief
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lull in proceedings across the pryeneese. still stormy and sharp showers to come through france and snow to the alps and still a potential for heavy rain as that system clears through across central italy where we have seen localised flooding across rome with heavy rain in recent days. good news for those heading over to the alps, some very heavy snowfall to higher ground. there has been rain at lower levels, but this was a couple of days ago, plenty of fresh snow at the moment. back to the uk, things are quieter. a grey day on tuesday. patchy fog around first thing in the morning. milder wind will bring some rain by the end of the day. take care. hello — i'm ros atkins, this is outside source, stories here in the bbc newsroom: women and men wore black in solidarity with the victims of sexual violence and harassment,
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and with the speech of the night did a new political contender emerge? the new day is on the horizon! here at the bbc, carrie gracie's been explaining why she's quit as our china editor. i cannot collude in what i see as unlawful pay discrimination. and theresa may has been reshuffling her cabinet — the education secretary justine greening has left the government, but other seniorfigures are staying in their posts — we'll be live in westminster for the latest. thatin that in a moment. around 200,000 salvadorans living in the us are being given 18 months to leave. the government has ended the immigration scheme that had allowed them to stay.
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it's called the temporary protected status programme, or tps. it came in 1990, designed to help people affected by natural disasters and conflicts. thousands of people from el salvador became eligible after two earthquakes in 2001. salvadorans are getting a lot of attention — the biggest group affected, but thousands of haitians and nicaraguans have also been told they must leave. hondurans have a temporary extension so their future is still unclear. here's the latest from luis fajardo, bbc mundo, miami. there are some moments of anguish hin ere the salvadoran community in the us. as you were mentioning they have been given 18 months to leave, and in many cases they have children who are us citizens. something like one quarter of them are homeowners, so they have their entire lives built in the us, and now they are being told that they have to move to a country where perhaps their children have never
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been, and they are not being given a lot of choices right now. but isn't the argument of the government that this was only ever supposed to be a temporary status? that's right, that's what president trump's supporters have been saying, that this was from the very beginning a temporary situation for humanitarian reasons. however, the counter—argument that critics of president trump have been espousing these few days is that salvadorans in this community have their lives built here, they have been successful as immigrants in the us, and there is not such a strong argument to send them to a country that is one of the most violent countries in the world, in el salvador, a country that has enormous economic problems of its own, and it is going to inevitably also create some instability in el salvador, and that, the critics argue, would not be in the interests of the us. and in terms of how this is going to be enforced, what is the government's plan? the government has been saying
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that they are giving an 18—month period so people can put their affairs in order. they say that they can look for other avenues, other legal avenues, to stay in the country. however, this is going to be very difficult, and this is precisely what critics are underlining, that the situation is going to create very complicated family situations where families might have to decide between breaking up, and their children, their us citizen children, staying in the country, and others going back to el salvador, or otherwise trying to start new lives in a country that is going to appear in many ways foreign to them. thanks, and remember if you speak spanish you can follow that on the website. let's get the latest on the cabinet
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reshuffle. downing street has been busy today with a cabinet reshuffle underway. so what moves has prime minster theresa may made? well, education secretary justine greening has resigned after refusing to move to work and pensions. she's replaced by this man, damian hinds. we also know matt hancock is the new culture secretary.
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