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this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at five. the bbc understands traces of the nerve agent — used to poison sergei and yulia scripal — were found on and around the restaurant table where they ate. it comes as england's chief medical officer says up to 500 diners and pub—goers have been told to wash clothes and possessions. the people who are in either zizzi's restau ra nt the people who are in either zizzi's restaurant or the mill pub from 1:30pm last sunday until evening closing on monday should clean the clothes they wore. a spring in his step — chancellor, philip hammond, says there's cause for economic optimism. there is light at the end of the tunnel because what we are about to see is debt starting to fall but we are still in the tunnel at the moment. the move effectively allows president xi to remain in powerfor life. rain delays continue after
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pro—kurdish demonstrators forced the closure of manchester piccadilly station. celtic moves to nine points clear in the spl. with only ten men they manage a win against old firm rivals rangers at ibrox. joachim phoenix stars as a private investigator who uncovers a conspiracy while trying to save the kidnapped daughter of a us senator in the vigilante thriller you were never really here. find out what mark kermode thought about that in the film review. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. up to 500 people in salisbury
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who went to the same pub and restaurant as a poisoned former russian spy and his daughter are being advised to wash their clothes and clean any possessions they handled whilst there. england's chief medical officer, dame sally davies, stressed the risk from the nerve agent was extremely low. the bbc has learned that trace amounts of the substance were found on and around a table where the pair ate at zizzi restaurant. the table, along with other items, at zizzi's have been removed and destroyed. scientists have advised police it could take weeks for the premises to reopen. meanwhile, sergei and yulia skripal continues remain critically ill in hospital. i want to reassure the general public the risks to us all from this incident in salisbury has not changed, and remains low based on the evidence we have, as i said on wednesday. rigorous scientific analysis has been ongoing and continues. but we have now learned there has
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been some trace contamination by the nerve agent in both the mill pub and zizzi restaurant in salisbury. i am confident that this has not harmed the health of anyone who was in the mill pub or zizzi restaurant. however, some people are concerned that prolonged long—term exposure to these substances may, over weeks and particularly months, give rise to health problems. i am therefore advising, as a belt and braces approach, the people who were in either zizzi restaurant or the mill pub from 1:30pm last sunday, until evening closing on monday, should clean the clothes they wore and the possessions they handled while there. the relevant closing times on monday were 9pm for zizzi and 11pm for the mill pub on monday. this means wash clothing you haven't already, ideally in the washing machine. any items which cannot be washed
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and would normally be dry cleaned should be double bagged in plastic until further information is available. wipe personal items such as phones, handbags and other electronic items with baby wipes and dispose of them in plastic bags in the bin. wash hard items such as jewellery and spectacles, which cannot go in the washing machine, with warm water and detergent. more information is now on the website of public health england, and will be made available at key sites in salisbury. i want to reiterate that this is precautionary advice aimed at only those people who were at the venues between these times, which i believe to be less than 500 people. meanwhile, let me repeat that the risk to us, the general public, remains low. and i am confident that none of these customers or staff will have suffered harm. thank you. kathryn stan—cheshan is in salisbury.
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we heard from the chief medical officer and we can see behind you to clean—up process continues, what sort of response has the public had to that advice, has been acceptance, relief, anger? well, i am in the middle of an unlikely scene, i'm standing ina middle of an unlikely scene, i'm standing in a parkjust outside salisbury city centre, people are going about their normal sunday afternoon business but behind me as you can see and off to the side are military personnel in full hazmat cover—up gear, full suits, gloves, boots, gas masks who have been working in this area just behind bourne hill police station earlier today this activity started at a public car park behind me and we know at least three vehicles have been wrapped up and are in the
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process of being taken away, one of them a police car, tee—macro of the normal cars which have been put on the back of military style trailers and they are going to be taken away for examination. so, it is quite incongruous, some people have said they are worried, it has scared them, particularly that line about them, particularly that line about the public health side of this today, anyone who was in the mill or zizzi's last sunday or monday should wash their clothes and possessions but many people say they don't feel afraid, they accept that the risk to public health is minimal, they feel they would have been aware of it by now if more people had been affected by this nerve agent and they are trying to get on with their lives. this is the sixth location, there are five other locations across salisbury that are under pretty intense scrutiny tonight and this
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investigation is extremely wide ranging, we know there has been activity today around the back of the park where they were found on a bench last weekend and is activity continues at other sites as well including zizzi's restaurant where you say we understand a table was found to have traces of nerve agent, the table they sat and eight at, and we believe it has been destroyed. there are still potentially weeks worth of investigation to go through, that was the line from the chief constable of wiltshire police a bit earlier today. we know a special service is taking place at the moment in salisbury cathedral, the moment in salisbury cathedral, the bishop of salisbury is going to say it has been a difficult week describing what has happened as a violation of his community. he says we are praying for the victims,
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including the officer was caught up in this and he will again ask that people support each other and also they hope some kind of normality returns as quickly as possible. as we spoke we got reaction from a local resident, steve cooper who was at the mill pub on sunday afternoon. this has been his response to the advice given out earlier today. this has been his response to the advice given out earlier todaylj only became aware of it a few hours ago andl only became aware of it a few hours ago and i was wearing this watch and these shoes and with the same phone and chatting to my friends in the pub who cannot remember what they we re pub who cannot remember what they were wearing and we have not taken a precaution yet so little outraged to be honest that we only find out now and have not spoken to the police in the last few days. a little concerned we don't know what the long—term effect is on any of us.
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steve cooper, a local resident of salisbury, a flavour of reaction to that advice from the chief medical officer. an enquiry concluded alexander living ginkgo was probably killed by the kremlin and his widow has been talking to andrew marr. it was a very difficult moment when i received this news because i believed it has never happened again after public enquiry provided evidence of tests of my husband. but u nfortu nately evidence of tests of my husband. but unfortunately it did happen and now i'm reading every day news from salisbury and trying to understand what actually happened and who might be behind a crime. of course russia
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has a bad reputation now and everything, doping in sport or involvement in election immediately russia is in the front of our mind but in this case i would like to be very serious and take it on evidence and time to provide is it true and was it russia or any other country behind this crime. for us it was almost ten years to provide this evidence and it was all proof and i wa nt evidence and it was all proof and i want the same case to be made in the same way, it would be not politically motivated and only after proper investigation could be so who was behind this. the chancellor, philip hammond, has rejected calls to announce the end of austerity. speaking two days before he delivers his spring statement, mr hammond said the government would still need to continue paying down the debt, but that there was "light at the end
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of the tunnel". labour has accused the government of holding back growth. our political correspondent, jonathan blake reports. morning, chancellor! is that a spring in the chancellor's step? philip hammond looked reasonably cheerful this morning as he arrived to deliver his message that the economy could be turning a corner. after a gloomy few years of relatively low growth, a hint things could be looking brighter. there is light at the end of the tunnel because what we are about to see is debt starting to fall, after it has been growing for 17 continuous years. that is a very important moment for us. but we are still in the tunnel at the moment. we have to get debt down. we've got all sorts of other things we want to do, we've taken a balanced approach. that debt the chancellor talked about is too high for his liking, but forecasts show the amount the uk owes could have peaked and might fall in the coming years. no cause for celebration according to labour who say other factors
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tell a different story. we shouldn't be celebrating that. austerity, this isn't me saying it, the head of the obr has said it, austerity is holding growth back and wages are below what they were in 2007, 2008, below the banking crisis. this week a report warned many councils in england were at breaking point after cuts in central government funding — we will not see the chancellor's red box this week. the budget has been moved to the autumn. his spring statement to parliament on tuesday will be just an update on the economy. and a reminder that whilst his political opponents say people have suffered under austerity for too long, there will be no spending spree any time soon. jon lansman, the founder of the left wing campaign group, momentum, has pulled out of the race to become the next general secretary of the labour party.
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in a statement, mr lansman said that he'd "decided to step back" having achieved his aim of opening up the contest. china's people's congress has voted to approve a constitutional amendment abolishing two—term limits for the country's president. the move will allow xi jinping to stay in office beyond the end of his second term in 2023 and possibly rule indefinitely. among the nearly 3000 delegates, just two voted against the change and three abstained. celia hatton, the world service asia—pacific editor. xijin ping is a popularfigure, a man whom many think has really restored china or is in the process of doing so, to what chinese people believe is china's vital place in the world. he has a lot of grand projects eliciting national pride — establishing new global trading routes, about two eradicate poverty
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in the next three years, even the fact that china is hosting another winter olympics is seen as an important step for them to take. there is that. however, the fact that he is abolishing term limits, or they have been abolished, has had an interesting reaction, because we've seen internet censorship go into overdrive, so comments that were made were quickly wiped away. we've also seen the chinese state media really try to downplay this news. i have chinese friends living in the centre of china. i asked what they thought about this, and these are educated people, and they didn't know anything about it, and this was three days ago. i had friends checking the internet to double—check what i was saying was true, and they were shocked to learn this from me. it goes to show that, really, this has been really kind shuffled under the carpet in china. why? because the government knows
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it is a sensitive issue. it has been through a lot of turmoil in the last 50 years, and they are trying to push the idea that stability is what the country needs right now. it really is something that could bring up a lot of emotions if many people really knew what was happening. in terms of timing, how does this tie in with ambitions that we are not aware of? what's your assessment of this? xijin ping has huge projects that he wants to push. the goverment, the party, has been saying, this will allow our strong leader to really go ahead and keep going and achieve success with these big projects. term limits come with problems for any goverment, and they can create a lame duck out of a leader in his final term. he has done away with a lot of opponents. he feels he is in the power position right now and could push this through.
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interesting that we haven't heard anything in terms of criticism from other international leaders. could this backfire for xijin ping? i think so. he's in a tricky position. the chinese economy is on a bit of a knife edge. china is carrying a lot of corporate and local debt and is encountering problems. there is all so a demographic problem with a rapidly ageing society, and the goverment is expected to deliver social services were many ageing people and is not in a position to do so. china has significant problems and xijin ping has tied himself to china's future for the next way over five years and for an indefinite period. he could be taking a huge risk with this move. manchester piccadilly train station has been closed after protestors made their way onto the tracks. the pro—kurdish group have been seen
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waving anti—turkish banners and forced network rail to stop trains from going in and out of the station. the headlines on bbc news: the bbc understands traces of the nerve agent — used to poison sergei and yulia scripal — were found on and around the restaurant table where they ate. the chancellor, philip hammond, says there's cause for economic optimism, ahead of his spring statement on tuesday. china's congress approves the removal of term limits for its leader — which effectively allows president xi to remain in powerfor life. the water regulator is to investigate why thousands of homes in england and wales suffered shortages or a total loss of supply after the recent cold weather. ofwat says its review will determine whether companies had proper contingency plans in place. emergency water handouts
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on the streets. tens of thousands of customers, particularly in south—east england and parts of wales, forced to endure days of inconvenience as the taps run dry. they are simply meant to get the water fixed. i think this is absolutely appalling. it is shocking that there is such poor communication — well, zero communication. as pipes burst in the thaw which followed the cold spell, the water company said they were facing an unprecedented situation. the government ordered a review into what went wrong. ofwat said today it understood how distressing it had been for people to be left without a vital public service. the review will examine: southern water, for example, is giving households who were cut off for more than a day l75 — condemned as "derisory"
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by some of those affected. ofwat wants to hear from businesses, households and local authorities. it wants proof that lessons will be learnt. otherwise, it says, it may be forced to act. new evidence has emerged about an attempt by the construction firm carillion, to get an emergency government bailout of 10 million pounds — days before it collapsed. mps say carillion paid out 6.4 million pounds to professional advisers on the same day it sought financial aid. the firm was wound—up with debts of almosti billion pounds. the liberal democrat leader sir vince cable says britain is now mired in a "civil war" as a result of the vote to leave the european union. speaking at the party's spring conference, mr cable says brexit has created a "toxic brew" which is "fuelling the populist right". we fight ourcampaigns at a time when normal
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politics has disappeared. we have a brexit—obsessed government, a single—issue government in a single—issue parliament and brexit is sucking the life out of westminster and whitehall, and we all know that urgent attention is needed for the nhs and social care, the housing crisis, homelessness, schools and policing, national defence and much else, and the political appetite to grapple with these issues is simply not there. the greedy brexit machine is devouring all the political energy needed to get the country moving forward. now, people were told that brexit would be simple and cheap and good—natured. but, like real—world divorce, it's proving complicated, expensive and very bad—natured.
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there is a temptation to blame everything on theresa may. i don't, actually. i have almost rather admired her dogged determination but that determination means she thinks that when you're in a hole, you keep on digging, you might eventually get to australia and when you get there there will be a shiny new trade deal and a cold beer waiting for you. a charity co—founded by bono has apologised following allegations of bullying, harassment and abuse of staff in south africa. the one organisation has admitted "an institutional failure" and promised to reform its systems. the police watchdog has launched an investigation following the death
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of a man in custody. the 35—year—old, who was thought to be experiencing a mental health crisis, was detained in lewisham in south—east london on friday before being taken to hospital where he later died. a police investigation has been launched after anti—muslim letters were sent to a number of people in several cities. the letters were delivered to addresses in bradford, leicester, london, cardiff and sheffield. they contained suggestions of a series of violent acts to be taken against muslims and mosques. counter—terrorism police say they're investigating a possible hate crime. president trump has told crowds at an election rally in the state of pennsylvania, that he believes north korea wants to make peace. he said, of a proposed meeting with the north korean leader kimjong—un, that it could lead to the ‘greatest dealfor the world'. # and i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free #.
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president trump went to pittsburgh to campaign ahead of an election for a single seat in congress, but the packed—out rally looked and sounded much more like the start of a presidential campaign. he even unveiled the slogan for his 2020 run for the white house. but our new slogan when we start running in — can you believe it — two years from now, is going to be keep america great, exclamation point! keep america great! but another country was very clearly on donald trump's mind. he has now accepted the invitation to meet the north korean leader kimjong—un, and while in recent days it has appeared that the white house has been dampening down some of the expectations for that encounter, the president seemed to talk up the potential of some kind of peace deal. hey, who knows?
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if it happens, if it doesn't happen. i may leave fast or we may sit down and make the greatest deal for the world and for all of these countries, including, frankly, north korea — and that's what i hope happens. this was a speech intended for his core base. trump raised the possibility of the death penalty for drug dealers and talked tough on trade, describing tariffs as his baby, and he again threatened to tax cars imported from the eu. open up the barriers and get rid of your tariffs and if you don't do that, we're going to tax mercedes—benz, we're going to tax bmw. the president's words will again raise concern and potentially even anger overseas, but these are the people he wants to hear them. donald trump is the master of the art of the deal, so we can look at it from a variety of perspectives — this is getting the conversation going. for years, the united states has been dumped on. buy a hat, get a free button.
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these supporters may have a new slogan but with his protectionist policies, this was a president determined to show that he is not changing. chris buckler, bbc news, washington. people living near a volcano injapan have been urged to wear hard—hats as its eruptions get more violent. mount shinmodake is ejecting rocks and smoke several kilometres into the air. it's the volcano's fourth eruption this century. andrew plant reports. night—time in south—western japan, high above these houses the red glow of one of the countries most active volcanoes. this is mount shimmered rk, awake after seven years in 2011 locals were evacuated, it is now being watched very closely. smoke is rising more than 3000 metres into
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the air. high winds blowing ash across the towns nearby comedies of schoolchildren now wearing protective ha rd hats schoolchildren now wearing protective hard hats with authorities warning of the risk of flying rocks up to four kilometres around the volcano. deep in the south of japan it is part of a long volcanic range in a country with more than 100 active volcanoes. in 1967 it was made famous on the big screen in the james bond film you only live twice as the location of the secret rocket base for the mysterious villains of the spectre organisation. the volcano has been spitting smoke and lava since the beginning of march and with ground tremors and more than ten eruptions every day, experts are watching to see how violent this volcano will become. in a further sign of the rise in artificial intelligence technology, researchers in texas are now trying to develop robots
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with a mind of their own. they want to build systems that can operate in the home, the workplace, and even on the sports field. our science correspondent, pallab ghosh reports. science—fiction films have predicted in the future we would have intelligent robots. in the day the earth stood still, we had the sinister gort. in forbidden planet, there was robby. good night, doctor smith. and robots in lost in space. how close are we to having something like them now? meet the soccer playing robots of the university of texas. they are not being operated by remote control. instead they're making fast moving decisions as a team on their own.
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that's because they've been programmed with artificial intelligence. they're able to learn from their mistakes and improve their game each time they play. they are honing their skills for the robot world cup, this one from two years ago in leipzig. football is far harder for computers than chess or other boardgames. rather than turn—taking, everybody‘s moving at the same time. if you take too long to think about what you're going to do when you're going to pass the ball the opponents can come and take the ball away from you. it's also continuous, there's not discreet places people can be, but always moving through air, space, continuous space, so there's really many challenges in contrast to some of the boardgames. this might look like a very simple robot but what it's trying to achieve is incredibly difficult. it's attempting to work with people in an unpredictable office environment.
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researchers are now building robots more like the ones you see in science—fiction films, ones you can talk to, interact with, even give commands to. this one is an office assistant. you can avoid any objects or people that get in its way. it's one of a new generation of intelligent robots. what should i do? this is not voice recognition. move a rattling container. the robot is actually learning the meaning of the words in the same way a baby does. the aim is to have robots you can have a conversation with. the problem is robots have to be able to deal with the dynamics and the noise and unpredictability that people bring into the environment, so we have to think about perception and control and learning and adaptation programmes that we have to build that can deal with that sort of dynamic. archive: now, everybody stay calm, he's only a mechanical man, robot obligingly doing the shopping
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for the busy wife of his inventor somewhere in leeds. these kinds of robots are still in the realms of science fiction, but with rapid strides in artificial intelligence, it won't be long before they become part of our everyday lives. pallab ghosh, bbc news, austin, texas. now the weather. hello. after a weekend of some rain and sunshine, this forecast will look ahead to the week ahead. firstly, an image from today. in scotland it was a milder day. temperatures into double figures. england and wales, low— pressure figures. england and wales, low—pressure has been close by. wet weather around for some. a band of rain spreading north. here is the picture as we go through this evening and into tonight. rain in
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south—west england and wales moving north. by the end of the night it will move into eastern northern ireland and southern scotland. elsewhere in scotland, a lot of cloud around. low cloud, misty and murky. temperatures not dropping down too far. maybe some parts of northern ireland close to freezing by morning. low—pressure of england and wales with outbreaks of rain and showers. some drier interludes. rain moves away from the eastern side of northern ireland. for many, fairly light winds. it is quite windy through the channel. temperatures lower compared with what we have had over the weekend, especially today. more of us will see highs of single figures. some quieter weather on the way on tuesday. low—pressure again towards the south—west of us. bands
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of wet weather feeding east across the uk from wednesday. on tuesday, a lot of cloud to begin the day. outbreaks of rain in east anglia and south—east england. increasing sunshine into the afternoon, particularly in the western side of the uk. again it is after that that the uk. again it is after that that the low—pressure takes over. temperatures close to normal for the time of the year. let's look at things for the rest of the week. you can see a brake on tuesday. it is after that that the impact of low pressure starts to be felt with some outbreaks of rain spreading north east. temperatures fairly close to normalfor east. temperatures fairly close to normal for the east. temperatures fairly close to normalfor the time of east. temperatures fairly close to normal for the time of the year. not too cold. this is bbc news. our latest headlines: sources tell the bbc the trace of the nerve agent used to poison sergei and yulia scripal was found on and around the table where they ate in salisbury last sunday afternoon.
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it comes as england's chief medical officer says up to 500 diners and pub—goers have been told to wash clothes and possessions. the chancellor says there's cause for economic optimism — ahead of his spring statement on tuesday. china approves the removal of term limits for its leader — it effectively allows president xi to remain in power indefinitely. rail delays continue after pro—kurdish demonstrators force the closure of manchester piccadilly station. we are going to find out how the sporting news is looking. hi, jessica. good afternoon. we start with football. the old firm derby certainly lived up to its billing at ibrox today. a breathless game of football saw celtic twice come from behind to beat their bitter rivals rangers 3—2, and extend their lead at the top
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of the scottish premiership. celtic boss brendan rodgers praised the mentality of his players as they bolstered their title hopes by going 9 points clear of rangers. chris mclaughlin reviews the action. afamiliar a familiar noise and the usual colour, but for the first time in yea rs colour, but for the first time in years a colour, but for the first time in yea rs a resurgent colour, but for the first time in years a resurgent rangers fancied their chances. with three minutes gone they showed why. josh windass, 1-0. gone they showed why. josh windass, 1—0. cue mayhem. when the equaliser came it was special. tom rogic with a reminder of celtic‘s quality. rangers came again through daniel candeias. moussa dembele equalised before half—time. was this a red card? the before half—time. was this a red card ? the officials before half—time. was this a red card? the officials thought so. zimonjic sendoff. —— simunovic. a delightfulfinish
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zimonjic sendoff. —— simunovic. a delightful finish deserving of a double fist pump for celtic. there was drama the come. with minutes left a great save lead to a terrible mess. it wasn't to be for the home side. celtic move closer to seven in a row. there are two matches in the premier league today, arsenal beat watford 3—0 at the emirates. the gunners back to winning ways in the league, having been on a three—match losing streak going into this match. patrick gearey has more. the mdc to the emirates told of the hollowing out of arsenal's season. in recent weeks everything about this club has been questioned. not everything is asked so nicely. mesut ozil to scott vernon mustafi, minimalist and effective. complications in other end. in attack arsenal's midweek victory over ac milan attack arsenal's midweek victory overac milan in attack arsenal's midweek victory over ac milan in the europa league perhaps reminded them of what they
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are capable of. they did not even have aubameyang available for that. his third arsenal goal. less than two minutes after the flip it may have been cancelled out by a trip. ainsley maitland—niles gave away the penalty. troy deeney took it. he accused arsenal of lacking fight this season. petr cech responded with his fist. arsenal's feel—good sunday got rosier still. henrikh mkhitaryan left free to make it three. for him and peter check this will not feel like an empty victory. it was important to win today after milan, of course. it was a difficult game. like you get in the premier league. we had to battle and we did. we had some may be jaded legs at some stage. overall you could see the desire and the spirit in the team. we conceded an early goal, but i
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don't think it was because we were relaxing. we tried to be very concentrated and focused on the match. ok, it was this way, but we tried to do as better as possible from the beginning. the day's other game is at the vitality stadium where bournemouth are taking on tottenham. junior stanislas had already hit the bar for the cherries before he put this in. the afternoon got worse for spurs, when harry kane hurt an ankle while putting the ball in the net. the goal was disallowed for offside, and kane went off injured. so others would have to do the scoring for tottenham — and they have. serge aurier‘s cross was finished by dele alli to make it 1—1. and then not long after the hour mark, alli set up heung min son to put tottenham ahead. just under ten minutes remaining in the match cottenham still winning 2-1. —— tottenham. elsewhere in football, there have been emotional scenes in florence where fiorentina played their first match since the death of their captain davide astori.
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he passed away after a sudden illness at the age of 31 last weekend. when vitor hugo scored the only goal of the game against benevento, he held up a t—shirt with the italian international‘s face on it, as part of several tributes. players also wore shirts bearing astori's name and number in the warm—up. wales have moved up to second place in the six nations table, after a 38—14 victory over italy in cardiff. wales enjoyed their biggest six nations win when these two sides met last year, and more of the same looked likely when hadleigh parkes and then george north crossed the line in the first six minutes. italy knew defeat would hand them yet another wooden spoon, and they struck back with a matteo minozzi score but wales added three more tries after the break to italy's one, with north's second score securing the bonus point. a good win for a much changed wales side. i think it is a huge .—iifii1:l
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ferward and it isrggits sgcities — really. the ferward and it isrggits sgcities — ie ferward and it isrggits sgcities — really. the championship is gone but you are in second place. are you amazed how open it is to be runners—up? amazed how open it is to be runners-up? yes, it is very exciting. it makes when next we and very exciting. it will be another big game. warren wanted to wins and we are big game. warren wanted to wins and we a re halfway big game. warren wanted to wins and we are halfway there. hopefully we can get another win. that would be very nice. in the women's six nations, wales failed to get their challenge back on track after a surprise 22—15 home defeat home to bottom side italy. the welsh went in 12—8 down at the break, but managed to claw their way back to within two points of italy. but they were undone by michela sillari's late bous point wining try. it was the italians first victory in nine six nations matches. scotland beat ireland for the first time in women's six nations history. chloe rollie ran practically the entire length of the pitch to score the second
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of the scots two tries, as they earned a 15—12 victory. now to the winter paralympics in pyeongchang, where paralympics gb have won a couple of medals overnight. millie knight and brett wild claimed their second silver medals of the games, in the women's super—g for visually—impaired skiers. menna fitzpatrick and jen kehoe finished with the bronze medal. kate grey reports. todayit today it was all about the super edgyin today it was all about the super edgy in the alpine skiing. great britain had two medals to add to the silver they won today —— yesterday. millie knight and her guide brett wild had a confident ski down the technical super g course. they crossed the line and set a very strong time. their team—mates then followed, menna fitzpatrick and jen kehoe. they have had a tricky 2a
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hours after crashing out in the downhill yesterday. they had to come back focused and ready to take on this race. this is what they are world cup champions in. they admit they have had anxious moment in the lead to the rice. —— race. they have had anxious moment in the lead to the rice. -- race. today's rom is about building that confidence. by halfway down she started skiing really well. we are super pleased. we have still got three more races. it is a massive dream come true. i'm just so glad we have done it together. it was a successful day for britain yesterday on the ice as the curling team beat world champions norway. they came into today against the swiss full of confidence but it wasn't meant to be and they lost 7—4. they had to bounce back quickly against finland later. it was a much better performance by the brits. they won
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that comfortably and will hopefully be back to winning ways tomorrow. it's been a day of mixed fortunes for cycling's yates family. simon missed out on winning the prestigious paris nice race by just four seconds. marc soler claimed the title after picking up four bonus seconds for finishing third on the final stage. despite sprinting towards the finish, yates, who'd started the day in the leader's yellow jersey, couldn't close the gap the spaniard had built up. but racing in italy, his twin brother adam won the fifth stage of the tirreno adriatico. geraint thomas was sixth to move up to fourth in the standings, 29 seconds off the lead ahead of tomorrow's final time trial. but a puncture put an end to his team sky leader chris froome's hopes. he lost more than eight minutes. golf now, and tiger woods will tee off in the next few minutes for his final round in florida with a chance of racking up his first win for four and a half years. the former world number one isjust one shot off the lead at the valspar championship. woods has suffered from serious back problems in recent years
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and is currently 388th in the world. but the 1a time major winner is starting to show signs that he's on the way back. iam i am excited. ifeel good. iam excited. ifeel good. ifeel like i am playing a little bit better, a little bit cleaner. the last two days i made a bogey at the last two days i made a bogey at the last hole at the sandwich yesterday. other than that it has been a pretty clea n other than that it has been a pretty clean last couple of days. it has been really good. i have been really consistent. i have moved up the board. i know it is packed up there but at least i have got a shot. totte n ha m but at least i have got a shot. tottenham hotspur at the cherry on top of their victory over bournemouth. it is 3—1 with a couple of minutes remaining. heung—min son again. tottenham looking on course for a victory. that is all the sport for a victory. that is all the sport for now. you can find all of those
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stories on the bbc‘s website. now on bbc news, mark kermodejoins ben brown in the film review. hello there, welcome to the film review here on bbc news. and taking us through this week's cinema releases is, who else, but mark kermode. so mark, what have you got for us this week? very mixed bag — we have gringo, which is a kind of caper movie starring david oyelowo. we have you were never really here, which is the new film by lynne ramsay, whose work i love. and mom and dad, a sort of satirical horror film starring nic cage. ok, so let's kick off with gringo. this is about a businessman who becomes a kind of wanted criminal? yeah, so the story is, david oyelowo is a sort of fairly hapless character working for a drug company. and he ends up faking his own kidnapping in mexico, because he discovers essentially
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that he's going to lose his job, it looks like he's going to lose his wife, he hasn't got anything else to lose, so he fakes his own kidnapping. it starts off with him going on the trip to mexico, with joel edgerton and charlize theron, both of whom are chewing the scenery as his evil superiors. here's a clip. there it is again. what is that smell? barbecue — ialways bring it for angel. angel, buenos dias. there you go. gracias. hello me to introduce my co—president. new app. amazing. know what else is amazing, is actually learning a foreign language. taco bell, huh? that's sensational. i mean, as i said,
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chewing the scenery. here's the thing with this film. in terms of the plot, it is all over the place, it's one where the writers have clearly decided to throw a bunch of ideas at the wall and see what sticks, and only some of them do. it gets by, however, largely on the fact that you like the cast. so, david oyelowo is a very likeable antihero figure. they are very dislikeable villains in a real — she's basically playing cruella deville, and they're enjoying themselves. there are entire character threads... sharlto copley turns up halfway through suddenly, and the film takes an entire different direction. there are entire sections of it that don't hang together, and at the end you go, none of it added up. but whilst watching it, i enjoyed it much more than i thought was going to because the individual set pieces. there is one set piece in which a drug lord demands to know from the people who he's holding hostage whether or not they agree that sergeant pepper is the best beatles album. and it's one of those weirdly surreal moments that works. others don't. the film could have lost 20 or 30 minutes. it could have lost one entire thread.
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it's shambolic, no question, and it's a mess, no question. but it's an entertaining mess, largely because i like the central characters. david oyelowo is absolutely brilliant, and he kind of holds the whole thing together. is sergeant pepper the best beatles album? no. no, 0k. glad we got a verdict there. now, next, you were never really here. this is a kind of vigilante thriller? well, it looks like that but it isn't. it's a lynne ramsay film. lynne ramsay made rat catcher, we need to talk about kevin. she is someone who makes films entirely on her own terms. this is based on a novella byjonathan ames. and the story is that joaquin phoenix is an enforcer, somebody who is a hired gun, who specialises in retrieving lost kids, lost teenagers. he is sent at the beginning of the film to get back a senator's missing daughter. that's the mechanics of the plot. however, lynne ramsay isn't really that interested in plot mechanics. what she's interested in is the fact that he's a very damaged character. she described him as somebody who's got what is like a head full of broken glass. and what the film does is it gives you this nominal thriller narrative, but actually it's a very poetic portrait of somebody who's life
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is falling apart, who's haunted by the ghosts of the past, who's haunted by past abusive traumas. plus it upends your expectation, because you know at the beginning that he's a kind of... he's a hired enforcer, his weapon of choice is a hammer, and yet he loves his mother, he looks after his mother. when they're at home, psycho comes on the television, so you think, "oh, he's norman bates. " but he's not norman bates. later on, shawshank redemption comes on the television, which is very significant if you're a shawshank fan, which i am. the score is byjohnny greenwood, whose work is brilliant. the whole film has this really overwhelming sensory experience. it's got a brilliant sound design. see it in a cinema that's playing it loud. and i've now seen it a couple of times, and the first time i found it elliptical, almost hard to follow the plot, but you don't care because what you're following is the characters. second time around i thought, this is proper cinema making. lynne ramsay is an absolute genius, nobody makes films like her. she makes few films, and when she does they are always worth it.
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as far as i'm concerned, she has a perfect strike rate, and this is already one of my favourite films of the year and we're only in march. wow.
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