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this is bbc news. the headlines at 103m: the government confirms it's considering a judicial review of the decision to release serial sex attackerjohn worboys on parole. the us government launches an investigation after a false warning of an incoming missile attack causes widespread panic in hawaii. ukip suspends the girlfriend of its party leader, henry bolton — after she reportedly made racist remarks about prince harry's fiance, meghan markle. mark wahlberg says he will donate £1 million to a fund for victims of sexual abuse, after controversy over his fee for reshooting the film: all the money in the world. also this hour, we'll get an update on how england's cricketers are faring in melbourne. england had the chance of revenge
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over australia. they're going well. also coming up in inside out, some pharmacists had boots worry that work pressures mean patients could be put at risk. good morning and welcome to bbc news. thejustice secretary, david gauke, is considering a possiblejudicial review of the decision to release the serial sex attacker, john worboys. in 2009, the former black cab driver was jailed indefinitely, with a minimum term of eight years. the decision of the parole board to approve his release caused outrage among his victims, charities and mps. the parole board insists correct
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procedures were followed. speaking on the andrew marr show in the past hour, the conservative party chairman, brandon lewis, said he understood how angry worboys‘ victims were. the secretary of state is looking and getting at fois on whether it can getjudicial and getting at fois on whether it can get judicial review, and getting at fois on whether it can getjudicial review, because if we can and the advice is clear that we can and the advice is clear that we can and the advice is clear that we can go forward with judicial review in a positive way, we will look to do that. every victim, family and friends of victims and eve ryo ne family and friends of victims and everyone who has read about this case will want to know we are doing everything we can to make sure the victims are probably —— properly respected. these people have been through these tragic, awful situations. to you personally understand the outrage? absolutely andi understand the outrage? absolutely and i know someone who has been a victim of this. evenjust reading about it, anyone out there will appreciate how awful this must be
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victims, to see what is happening, to think about someone like that out on the streets. the secretary of state justice will be doing everything he can to make this man stays behind bars. joining me is criminal appeals barrister matt stanbury. thank you for being with us. what do you make of this decision to consider a judicial review of the pa role consider a judicial review of the parole boards consider a judicial review of the parole boa rd's decision? consider a judicial review of the parole board's decision? good morning. it's a highly unusual decision, if not unprecedented. i'm not aware of any previous case where the secretary of state has tried to bring a judicial review claim against a parole board decision. prisoners frequently bring challenges of their own, but the pa role challenges of their own, but the parole boards independence of the secretary of state and it's highly unusual, may well be unprecedented, for this to be under consideration. will this change the parole boards
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mind or decision? will there be a change of heart? it is less about a change of heart? it is less about a change of heart? it is less about a change of heart. a judicial review claim, succeeds, there would have to bea claim, succeeds, there would have to be a fresh hearing before a fresh panel. who could easily take a different view of the case. but whether there are grounds for judicial review or not, it's impossible to say, because, as we have heard, the parole boards decisions had published, so we don't know what the reasons were. we do know what the reasons were. we do know that the bar for judicial review claims is set very high. you can't just take a review claims is set very high. you can'tjust take a case to court because you don't like the outcome, it has to be unlawful for some reason or it has to be unlawful for some reason oi’ another. it has to be unlawful for some reason or another. we will wait and see. this is very unusual, isn't it? normally a parole boards decisions are challenged by those involved, but by the government, that would be a real change, wouldn't it? it
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wouldn't be a change in the judicial system as such. there's nothing technically wrong with it. it might be considered bad form, perhaps. one could take the example but both departments are recognised by the government legal department, they have the same set of solicitors. there are all sorts of a school problems it could throw up. one issue that comes to my mind is that the secretary of state often doesn't participate in these hearings. it's not like a court hearing what you have two parties, one on either side. the secretary of state usually allows the parole board to get on with itsjob, allows the parole board to get on with its job, working allows the parole board to get on with itsjob, working independent decisions. we don't know in this case whether he chose to be represented at the hearing, but if he wasn't as now seeks to turn around and complain that it didn't go in the way he says it should have gone, that's problematic in itself. there is clearly a lot of public discontent about this original pa role discontent about this original parole board decisions, but also political pressure on thejustice
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secretary to bring about a review of the parole board decision. it has become a political case, in a sense. it has, and clearly the parole board is under a huge amount of pressure asa is under a huge amount of pressure as a result of this decision. again, arguably very unfairly, because we simply don't know its reasons. the pa role simply don't know its reasons. the parole board has repeatedly been criticised for not keeping victims updated, when in fact that is the role of the probation service. but clearly it has become a hugely political case, hugely controversial. i can't recall a pa role controversial. i can't recall a parole board decision that has rumbled on as the main news story for more than a week now. ever having happened before. but that reflects the massive public concern surrounding this case. thank you very much. let's speak to our political correspondent, leila nathoo, we have been hearing from brandon
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lewis this morning, this is clearly quite a political issue now. according to the sunday times, pressure from several cabinet ministers on thejustice secretary to bring about a review of the pa role to bring about a review of the parole board decision. yes, don't forget that david cork is very new to thisjob, he forget that david cork is very new to this job, he only took over this week in the reshuffle. he comes into thejob, there is a huge case making thejob, there is a huge case making the headlines of the week. i think what he has tried to do with this request for consideration of a judicial review is to seek reassu ra nces judicial review is to seek reassurances that the correct procedure is followed. following this outcry and the claims from victims that they were not included in the process. a chance, really, thejudicial review is in the process. a chance, really, the judicial review is the only real mechanism he have to try to get to the bottom of the parole boards decision. as we have been seeing, they are conducted not in public. there is a separate review at the moment into the way the parole board
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is make the decisions, whether it should be more transparent. david gauke ignoring the possibility of whether a judicial review might be successful, and we understand it is only if there is a reasonable chance, if the lawyers report there isa chance, if the lawyers report there is a reasonable chance the review might be successful, that he will proceed along that road. quite a long way to go. 0. -- thank proceed along that road. quite a long way to go. 0. —— thank you. the governor of the state of hawaii has blamed human errorfor a mobile phone alert sent to residents warning of an imminent missile attack. the false alarm caused widespread panic and included the words: "this is not a drill". a corrected text message wasn't sent out until 38 minutes later. bill hayton reports. for around half an hour on sunday, the people of hawaii looked anxiously to the skies. on a university campus, students ran for emergency shelters. an official text warned residents to prepare for the worst. people cowered in bathrooms or took what cover they could. we all huddled together. we thought, if this
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is going to be the end, we are in a beautiful place, doing something we love. but, god, it was pretty scary, i tell you. you start hearing stories about what was going on at waikiki beach, they were evacuating hotels, children being pushed into drainpipes. was a north korean nuclear missile about to hit honolulu? actually, no. the whole thing was the result of a stunningly simple mistake. at 8:05am, the test was started. at 8:07am, that's when the trigger is pulled on the test. the wrong button was pushed on this test. it went into an actual event versus a test. there is fury on hawaii that the click of a single button could be responsible for so much panic. that anger is directed towards the state government. i know first—hand that what happened today was totally unacceptable.
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and many in our community were deeply affected by this. and i am sorry for that pain and confusion that anyone might have experienced. last month, in response to north korea's missile and nuclear tests, hawaii reinstated its warning sirens for the first time since the end of the cold war. at least everyone now knows the system works, but that is small comfort for the millions who thought their world was about to end on saturday. ryan ozawa, a journalist from honolulu, described the moment the alert went off. the standard state—wide emergency alert system went off on everyone's cellphones. even going over to the tv and radio waves, that there was an incoming ballistic missile. it is not a drill, take shelter, get off the roads. about as harrowing as you
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can possibly imagine. we have been watching the headlines with arguments and debate over how big the button is on someone's desk. in hawaii, they had been in the news a few months ago as they were starting to put in place emergency contingency plans for this possible scenario. we were certain...we certainly had that in the back of our minds when the alert came in. it's interesting to hear what the governor and head of our emergency management department said, that it was a shift change, which happens three times a day, but it only took one person and one button to send out that alert. obviously they're going to have to work on their procedures, to prevent something like that happening again. i thought it was going to be a quiet day. birds were chirping, blue skies. i froze for several seconds just trying to imagine it actually happening. basically rallying my family.
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i gathered my wife and two of my three kids. my youngest son was still sleeping and i decided that i would let him sleep, something which i am now rethinking. we went to the living room, i brought my mum in and we tried to stay away from windows, turned on the tv. nothing but college basketball and infomercials. looking for some kind of information. the local media didn't get up to speed very quickly, so it turned out it was just watching twitter and seeing our representatives in washington, dc declaring that it was a false alarm, long before the state used the same system to tell us to same thing. ukip has suspended the girlfriend of its party leader, henry bolton, after she reportedly made racist remarks about prince harry's fiancee, meghan markle. the mail on sunday has published text messages allegedly sent byjo marney that include derogatory comments about ethnic minorities. dan johnson reports.
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he has only been ukip leader since last september, and it emerged just a few days ago that henry bolton had left his wife. forjo marney, a former glamour model, who is 30 years younger. this morning, the mail on sunday has printed text messages sent by jo marney. in them, she said that meghan markle had a tiny brain, that she would taint the royal family and that black people were ugly. when a reply was sent suggesting that these comments may be racist, she said, so what? and that she didn't want other races invading her culture. in a statement, jo marney said... ukip confirmed jo marney has been suspended.
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the party leader said last night that he didn't want to comment. the hollywood actor, mark wahlberg, has given the money he earned — for re—shooting scenes in a film — to a fund that supports people who've experienced sexual harassment. the scenes had to be filmed again, after kevin spacey was dropped from the project following sexual assault allegations. it emerged that mr wahlberg was paid more than £1 million for the re—shoot, while his female co—star, michelle williams, received just £60 a day in expenses. our correspondent, peter bowes, is in los angeles. all the money in the world tells the story of paul getty, the kidnapping of paul getty. kevin spacey, in the original filming of the movie, played his grandfather, j paul getty. when the news of the allegations of sexual harassment came out against kevin spacey, he was dropped pretty quickly from this film, even though they had actually completed it.
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christopher plummer was brought in to play his part. but that also meant michelle williams and mark wahlberg had to be brought back as well, to re—film the scenes that they had previously done with kevin spacey, now with christopher plummer. mark wahlberg, it seems, was paid $1.5 million to do that. michelle williams was paid nothing, apart from a very tiny amount to cover her expenses. much has been made of that over the last week or so. people saying this highlights the pay disparity between actresses and actors in hollywood. mark wahlberg has now released a statement, saying over the last few days... the reshoot the four all the money in the world has become an important topic of conversation. he says i 100% support the fight forfair pay and i am donating my $1.5 million to the time's up legal defence fund
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in michelle williams‘ name. the headlines on bbc news: the justice secretary thejustice secretary is considering a judicial review of the parole board's decision to release serial sex attackerjohn worboys. a false warning of incoming missile causes widespread panic in hawaii. authorities there say and employees and the terror alert in error. and ukip suspends the girlfriend of its party leader, henry bolton, after she allegedly made racist remarks about prince harry's yonsei, meghan markle. sport now and a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. england after a bit of revenge down under. jason roy has made a century, as they look to chase down a target
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of 305 to win the first of five one day internationals in melbourne this morning. joe root has also made a half century. england put the aussies into bat. aaron finch made 107 and there were half centuries from mitchell marsh and marcus stoinis which helped them to 30k for eight off their 50 overs. england are 172 for 2 in the 28th over. just four of the test team, who were humiliated in the ashes defeat, are involved. manchester city are going for their first victory at anfield for nearly 15 years later. manchester city are going for their first victory at anfield for nearly 15 years later. the premier league leaders will go 18 points clear if they win, while liverpool need a point to hang on to fourth place. sunday's other game sees arsenal at bournemouth. in football, anything can happen. of
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course we could lose the title, because you never know what will happen. of course we could maintain our level. the consistency and the way we played. we have the chance. but we never know. we could go down for lack of confidence or we don't play very well. we will see. what they do, they do on an incredibly high level. david silva and kevin de bruyne. .. high level. david silva and kevin de bruyne... that's quality. obviously they enjoy what they're doing. they have the confidence that you have when you were 16 points or so. quite
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a nice football team. sunday's other game sees arsenal at bournemouth. the south coast club are just a point and place above the releagtion zone while arsenal need the points to help them narrow the gap between them and fifth placed totte n ha m. roger federer says his age helps take the pressure off as he heads into the australian open tipped to win. the swiss five—time champion won his first major title for five years with a stunning run in melbourne last year. and with rivals novak djokovic and rafael nadal on their way back from injury, and britain's andy murray absent, federer remains the man to beat. with age i feel like i've played down my chances just because i don't think 36—year—old should be a favourite in turn and. that should not the case. that's why i see things more relaxed. i'm at a later stage in my career. maybe somebody like a rafah, with the year he has had, ora like a rafah, with the year he has had, or a novak, like a rafah, with the year he has had, ora novak, with like a rafah, with the year he has had, or a novak, with the six titles he has had, even if it is unknown
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how he is feeling, they could very well be the favourites. at the end of the day, it's alljust talk beforehand. europe have beaten asia to retain the eurasia cup. they had been down by a point going into today's singles but won 8 out of 12 matches in kuala lumpur. england's tommy fleetwood was one of the first to get on the scoreboard for the europeans. it finished 14—10 to europe. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. i'll have more for you in the next hour. talks aimed at securing the future of the troubled engineering company, carillion, resume later. the firm builds roads, schools and hospitals, and is involved in the high speed rail project, hs2, but has debts and a large hole in its pension fund.
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the government says it's working on contingency plans, should the company collapse. our business correspondent, joe lynam, reports. carillion is probably the biggest british company you have never heard of. it is an engineering, construction and outsourcing giant which maintains dozens of schools, prisons and mod facilities. it is also building parts of hs2 and the royal liverpool hospital, thanks to pfi contracts. but it also owes its banks almost £1 billion, and that's why the government is chairing crucial talks about what might happen if carillion was placed into administration. what are the options if — and it's a big if — carillion cannot find a solution with its banks? the government could bail out the company and effectively nationalise it, with all the moral hazard attached to that. it could take back all the contracts with carillion and reassign them to healthier companies. or it could be placed into administration. consultants would then wind up unprofitable parts. potentially it could be devastating,
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because many of them are owed millions by carillion. if they don't get those monies, they are of course at risk as a business. the other thing, there will be thousands ofjobs potentially lost as a result. today is a vital day for carillion's 25,000 employees in britain and thousands more dependent on it. the government says it has robust contingency plans in place if the business collapses, but even if it survives, the issue of pfi contracts may be reopened after this episode. after almost a week of anti—austerity protests, tunisia is marking the anniversary of the revolution that sparked the arab spring in 2011. commemorating the overthrow of the old regime of president ben ali has coincided with social unrest over tax rises and price hikes, some of which turned violent. from the capital tunis, mark lowen reports. there is a bittersweet mood
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as tunisians mark the seventh anniversary of their revolution. pride that they ushered in a parliamentary democracy of some sort, but frustration, too, that the dreams of 2011 for a better life failed as they did. seven years from the revolution till now, we think, alongside with the tunisian people themselves, that politicians do nothing. they have seen waves of social unrest, terror attacks and injuries. this week's protests sparked by an austerity filled budget to satisfy tunisia's lenders. around 800 people were arrested as violence flared. we are protesting against the new budget for the country. they are raising the prices way too much and we can't afford anything anymore. we are living on the line of poverty. it's too much.
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the government has announced a $70 billion package of reforms to help the families, hoping it will stave off more demonstrations. translation: firstly, providing a minimum amount for tunisian families. secondly, guaranteeing health care for all tunisians, with no exception, and providing or helping to provide appropriate housing to tunisian families. there is talk of raising the minimum wage and universal health care. the plans will reportedly be discussed in parliament within one week. seven years on, tunisia is held up as a success of the arab spring, but that's compared to the failed state of libya and return to military rule in egypt. for many here, the overwhelming hope of 2011 feels increasingly like a distant memory. an earthquake measuring 7.3 has hit
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the south—west of the roof. people living in the area near the epicentre have been warned about possible tsunami waves. —— south—west of the roof. the iranians ship had been adrift of the shanghai coast for eight days, following a collision with another vessel. chinese central television said the ship suddenly ignited and thank. iranian officials say that all is 32 crew members have died. police in south africa have used rubber bullets to disperse gangs of protesters who were ransacking shops in johannesburg belonging to the swedish clothing company, h&m. the attacks were coordinated by a militant political group in retaliation for what it said were racist adverts run by the company. russell trott reports. inside a shopping mall injohannesburg, a south african store paying the price
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of a marketing decision in london. h&m has apologised, but that didn't placate these activists from the far left economic freedom fighters. video footage showed them knocking over mannequins and wrecking displays. police said items were stolen and they fired rubber bullets to try and stop the demonstrators. there were several protests on saturday from cape town to pretoria. in most places, they were peaceful. the economic freedom fighters are angry about h&m's choice of a black child to model a sweatshirt with the slogan, coolest monkey in the jungle. h&m withdrew the adverts earlier this week, but that didn't satisfy the group. one of its selected members of parliament called for the chain to be closed in south africa. there is no sign of that happening, but the company's troubles seem far from over.
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i plan to calm day to day before more wintry weather arrives through the course of the week. while the conditions, a bit of sunshine breaking through before some heavy rain arrives across the later in the afternoon. this trend is moving in but for much of the country a lot of decent, dry weather with relatively light winds. temperatures four to 9 degrees and more sunshine across northern england and wales. this evening, this rain moving in from the north—west strong gusty winds, around 60 mph or even higher across the north west and scotland. on monday morning, heavy rain, lying surface water on the roads. colder air moving in behind that band of strong squally winds, and heavy rain which slowly clears towards the east. sunshine from the west but also showers, heavy with thumbnail
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and thunder. across scotland and northern ireland, sleet and snow. goodbye for now. this is bbc news, our latest headlines. thejustice secretary david gauke is considering a judicial review into the decision to release serial sex attackerjohn worboys. the former black cab driver was jailed indefinitely in 2009 for sexually assaulting 12 women. the us government is investigating why a false warning of an incoming missile attack was sent to a million people in hawaii. the state governor has apologised for the error, which caused widespread panic in the us state. ukip has suspended the girlfriend of its party leader henry bolton — after she reportedly made racist remarks about prince harry's fiance, meghan markle. jo marney apologised for the comments and said her messages had been taken out of context. now on bbc news, inside out with
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boots: pharmacists under pressure. a trusted household name... ...a family firm that began by selling herbal remedies in nottingham, is now part of a global business providing a crucial nhs service in an industry under pressure. and some boots pharmacists are worried. i feel it's really, really imperative and critical that the public are aware of what's going on. some days, you would easily describe the team as being at breaking point. patient safety is the most important thing to me and to our pharmacists. when mistakes are made, patients can die. we're talking about people's lives here, and in my case, my mum, without question, accepted what she was given, and yet that system failed. now, for the first time, a former manager has decided to go public.
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pharmacists are working extremely hard to protect patients, but they're really stretched trying to keep patients safe. are pharmacists at the uk's biggest pharmacy chain under too much pressure? dianne moore has spent the last five years fighting for justice for her father. in may 2012, douglas lamond died after he was given medication meant for someone else. the 86—year—old raf veteran had a heart condition and was registered as blind. he had trust that they would give him the right tablets. he would never have dreamt that the wrong tablets would have been sent out.
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