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tv   The Briefing  BBC News  January 22, 2018 5:45am-6:01am GMT

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enquiry of 20 million mugshots of people. the front page of the guardian carries a pit of the women's march in london where it says to them raved freezing conditions yesterday to take part in the worldwide event. so let's begin. with me is nina trentmann, a news editor for the wall street journal. welcome. starting with the arab news. troops surge into afrin. talking about the deal that turkey may have done with russia. according to the arab news, a deal was struck between russia and turkey and if turkey stays within that 30 kilometre border zone, it will be fine for them to launch a ground assault and also based on the assumption that they will turn this territory over to the government of bashar al—assad afterwards. it is a bit interesting because it is conflicting with previous news at court into which he was condemning
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the attack and it also raised the question of why turkey is getting involved. there is quite a lot of involvement from turkey because of the kurdish group which is according to turkey, linked to the pkk which is not really well—received in turkey. the group itself, the ypg, is denying that. we will see the un security council talking about this later today. we have seen france, the us and other powers edging turkey to restrain its actions and ta ke turkey to restrain its actions and take care that they wouldn't be any civilians involved —— urging. 0f course syria, as we have seen over the past couple of years, a very messy situation. so complex. he mentioned america because they have actually armed to the ypg because they were fighting is. it is complex. geopolitical in its consequences but more importantly, for the people of syria, with all of these different armed groups coming together and forming different
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alliances, you don't see a way out of it in the immediate future, very, very difficult. yes and also difficult because you don't really see one of strong international power taking the lead. you have the us that previously was involved. you have other powers and of course, turkey and russia. it is very messy. u nfortu nately, turkey and russia. it is very messy. unfortunately, as you said, it is all taking place on the back of the syrian people, those that have remained in the country. moving on about a story about robots who might handle calls to nhs iii. about a story about robots who might handle calls to nhs 111. it is not an immediate emergency, if people call 999. by 2020, 16 million calls could be dealt with by algorithms and robots rather than humans answering the phone. it comes on the back of the nhs, of course, facing further constraints with regards to
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budget and being under a lot of pressure because there are a lot of people using the service and we have seen over the past couple of weeks the nhs has been of course under the strain during this flu that arrived here in the uk. it is notjust happening at the nhs but other areas using algorithms and robots. it is something which i see in my work covering companies that within their operations, many people are looking to optimise to make sure they are using their people in a better way, so they are doing less arduous tasks. also to save money and cut down on costs because of efficiency of many of these automatic services is higher than that of people. that this is life—and—death situations, isn't it? they could call up and get the wrong advice. of course, there is human error and people can make
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m ista kes is human error and people can make mistakes but how trusting can we be to put our health in a computer algorithm's hands? to see if we can seek medical attention or not. this is important to point out this is not for the emergency hotline. is important to point out this is not for the emergency hotlinei called up the nhs iii for questions about my children i wasn't sure about. it may not be immediately life or death that it may turn into one. the nhs will make sure the system is backed up accordingly so people were clustered. the worst is if there is a people with trust issues where people don't trust it. —— trust it. not sure whether the algorithm would have the same information as a human will have. also to make sure this is hack proof and secure given there has also been security issues. let's look at the japan times. the unified team at
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uniting south korea. they could be a united hockey team and come together for a march. not everybody in south korea is happy about this. for a march. not everybody in south korea is happy about thism for a march. not everybody in south korea is happy about this. it seems there has been disagreement because people have said, we have had this sports diplomacy before on previous occasions and it hasn't really led to too much. if we look at the past couple of weeks or months, of course, the tone between the two countries has been aggressive, especially from north korea. it struck me as odd that north korea would agree to send their athletes do that union team. well, of course, the north korean government is something that remains as opaque to me as to others. it will be interesting to see if anything moves on afterwards, after these 0lympic games. that's what everyone is
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hoping. i wonder what the hockey players are thinking. they train for yea rs players are thinking. they train for years and years and all of a sudden they had to come together with com plete they had to come together with complete strangers. you would think they might be a bit upset about it as well. i think both teams are so, so equal in terms of their skills. a has—been, they wouldn't have done it if they were too far apart. of course there are big political incentives behind it. the times. trust in social media hit record low amid fears over fake news. trust in social media hit record low amid fears overfake news. we trust in social media hit record low amid fears over fake news. we are asking people whether they trust social media. trust in social media has fallen to 24%, down from 26 the year before and even down from previous years. this comes on the back of this reported fake news on
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facebook and other platforms and also the question as to whether there was interference by russia and other governments in the us presidential election and the brexit referendum here in the uk. i think the interesting thing is to look for regulators and what they are doing with regards to limiting the power of social media websites, both in the uk and elsewhere. facebook is trying to get ahead of all of this by changing its algorithms. we have seen regulators in germany opposing now are fine if there is fake content which is not removed within a couple of hours. it has been unprecedented. here in the uk, we have seen ministers talk about trying to regulate them even more and similar in the us. i that is something that is, notjust facebook, but other platforms will be focusing on in the next couple of months. interesting in the story, people ‘s mental health as well. we don't have enough time to talk about it all but interesting they are
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looking at what impact it is having on people ‘s mental health. look at the independent. it is a story about civil liberties over the story of 20 million mugshots. the story has been going on for years, in fact. it is coming after a high court ruling close to six years ago which ruled that the current practice of storing these mugshots was not lawful but hasn't really been dealt with since spent by the home office. they could be an enquiry into this by a committee. they will be a hearing on tuesday and based on how that goes, there could be an enquiry. interesting that amongst these mugshots, there are a lot of people in there that haven't been convicted of any crime. the guardian,
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thousands of people take part in the women's marches around the world. a year, almost to the day, since donald trump's inauguration. people have used the last year to get more organised and streamline their messaging. 0f organised and streamline their messaging. of course, there has also been not just one messaging. of course, there has also been notjust one year of trumpet lots of incidents of reported violence and harassment against women with weinstein harvey in the us. —— trump. 0ther women with weinstein harvey in the us. —— trump. other people who have been exposed. thank you for taking us been exposed. thank you for taking us through the world media. thank you for watching the briefing. goodbye for now. hello there. a very different feel to the weather over the next few days. the transition began during sunday, some northern and eastern areas stuck below freezing
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through the afternoon, with some snow. down to the south—west, it was much milder. skip ahead to tuesday, and all of us will be into that mild air, which is moving in our direction on this south—westerly wind, having more of an influence across the british isles as we go through the next couple of days. this monday morning starts off on a much milder note for most. still possibly some icy stretches across parts of north—east england and eastern scotland, but many places starting the day with significantly higher temperatures. one area of rain perilously close to parts of south—west england, along the south coast as well. but that rain will be clearing off very quickly, and then essentially across england and wales, through the day, we're looking at large areas of cloud and some sunny spells. just one or two showers across parts of north—west england, and still the potentialfor some icy stretches across parts of north—east england, just through the first part of the morning. showers packing in across scotland but look at the temperatures, five, six degrees in edinburgh and glasgow. we didn't get anywhere near that even through the middle of the afternoon on sunday. northern ireland, starting off mainly dry — pretty cloudy but some sunny breaks, and we'll see some sunny breaks developing across wales,
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and into the west midlands as well. rain in the south will disappear into the near continent very quickly through the morning. we'll keep some showers going across northern scotland. it will be windy here. but generally speaking, not a bad day. the cloud breaking up to give some sunshine, and those temperatures much higher than they were on sunday — in many places at 6—11 degrees. during monday night, things look pretty quiet. the south—westerly winds continuing to bring the milder air in our direction. some outbreaks of rain pushing into western areas. 3—9 degrees, those are your starting temperatures for tuesday morning. and really, on tuesday, it is all about us being in the thick of this mild air, pumping all the way up from the south—west. tuesday the mildest day of the week for many of us, but that doesn't mean it'll be wall—to—wall sunshine, not by any means. some outbreaks of rain, perhaps the south—west. best chance of any brightness to the east of high ground. it'll be windy, but very mild. 10 degrees in glasgow, 13 the high in london. now, a bit of a change on wednesday. we're going to bring a cold front southwards and eastwards.
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a band of heavy rain, strong winds as well, and that will start to reintroduce some slightly cold air. i say slightly colder — yes, the end of the week will feel a little bit chillier, but nothing like as cold as it has been. hello. very good morning. this is breakfast, with dan walker and louise minchin. the head of the army says britain's military needs more money to match potential enemies on the battlefield. general sir nick carter's warning comes after russia practised simulated attacks across northern europe. very good morning. it's monday the 22nd of january. also this morning: more turmoil for ukip. the leader, henry bolton, refuses to step down, but the party's deputy resigns saying he's got to go. good morning. we have first sight of
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