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expires at ”5am in the met office expires at sam in the south—west. this cold easily wind is coming in, and we keep us into monday. high—pressure staying in charge. the winds will not come from such a cold direction on monday. we will likely start with sub—0 temperatures across the board, however. it could be as low as minus eight degrees in areas of scotland, particularly where you have that cloud. parts of devon and cornwall, the channel islands, and kent in sussex will be cold as well. very cold to the north, but most places dry. a sharp frost first thing. during the day, most will stay dry and bright. more cloud will filter in. if you snow flurries could come down to the channel isles. but things are looking largely dry. temperatures still a bit low for this time of year. 4—7. not as cold as the weekend. the temperatures
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will start to warm up. things will turn milder. some rain will come in. into tuesday, at the high pressure stays with us, keeping it dry. it will be a weak front becomes drawn tuesday. there could be some outbreaks of rain to the south—east. but largely dry and bright. temperatures close to average, 6—9. we will have lost the chilli, biting, easterly wind. —— chilly. a change in air mass comes in the middle of the week. on wednesday, this will bring to rain to parts of scotland, perhaps northern ireland, and it will be patchy at this stage. south and east, a largely dry day. although there will be cloud, in the south and the ease, some brighter spells, and we are back into double figures. —— south and the east.
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hello. this is bbc news with martine croxall. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment — first the headlines. the foreign secretary accuses russia of stockpiling the nerve agent thought to have been used on a former spy and his daughter in salisbury. russian president vladimir putin thanks voters for what he called their "confidence and hope" after appearing to secure another six—year term as leader. travel disruption and school closures in the south—west of england and wales — as the so—called ‘mini beast from the east‘ brings snow and ice to much of the uk. mps demand answers from facebook, after accusations that data from millions of users is being mishandled without consent. hello and welcome to our look ahead
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to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the new statesman‘s special correspondent, stephen bush and rosamund urwin, financial services correspondent at the sunday times. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the ft leads with more on the pressure being placed on facebook to explain allegations that data from millions of its users helped president trump win the us election. the guardian also has that story. it says an investigation has been launched into possible data breaches committed by the firm cambridge analytica, which was used by donald trump's election campaign. both cambridge analytica and facebook deny any wrongdoing. the metro has more on the foreign secretary's rejection of claims made by russia that the chemical used to poison sergei and yulia skripal was made in the uk.
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the i reports on president putin's landslide election win tonight along with his reaction to the dispute over the origin of the nerve agent used in salisbury. the telegraph has details on plans by the government to introduce stricter regulations and taxation on tech giants operating in britain. the times says the gambling watchdog is to relax its drastic recommendation to limit stakes on fixed—odds betting machines. the mirror reports on the arrest of tv presenter ant mcpartlin after he was allegedly involved in a car accident in south—west london. and the sun is leading on that story too. it says the star was arrested on suspicion of drink driving. soafairold so a fair old spread of different stories on the front pages but, of course, russia is neverfar away and thatis course, russia is neverfar away and that is where we will begin with the times. a landslide victory to put on
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thanks to britain and the suggestion is that the confrontation with britain over various matters has boosted and bolstered the victory that vladimir putin is enjoying. that is what people have said, that some analysis of saying that it turned out to be a boost. ultimately, the main factor in this election was that vladimir putin was able to choose his opponent, and effectively was able to run the rules of the election. his main opponent was this hard because of a fraud conviction that he says was false. i don't really think that britain's reaction one way or another has been that important, not the least because it had britain not reacted at all than he would have looked even stronger going into the election. i don't really see what else we might have done. the fact that turnout dropped from 65 to 60% is being commented upon. there is a
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lovely line in this from a spokesperson for the campaign. i would like to thank the uk for helping with this high turnout which we ourselves could not have dreamt of. of course, that could quite easily have they meet this happened. one of the things that they did if they offered little incentive to come out and vote. coffee, chocolate, whatever. of course it is the only way people can oppose hooton's re— election, i not voting at all. that is what you do when you have no choice on the ballot paper. if it is down to 60%, i think that was two hours before polls closed, so was two hours before polls closed, so there is a chance the roads, but if it is that then that is a slight dent in his otherwise unstoppable six more years. looking at the sun. piles of poison. the foreign
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secretary saying that russia has been stockpiling the nerve agent for quite sometime. i think this was boris this morning. he is saying exactly that that they are stock stock boiling — — exactly that that they are stock stock boiling —— stockpiling it. the suggestion was that it might come from within the uk. but boris johnson says that the trail does lead inevitably to the kremlin. and the daily telegraph goes one further without saying that russian dissident bodies could be exhumed to test for novichok. they want to look for traces of it. there have been various people critical of what you put‘s regime who have lived here in the uk and died in mysterious circumstances. the telegraph is suggesting that some of these people
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will be dug up and have their bodies tested for the presence of this nerve agent. because it is undetectable in its preprepared form. so you have two harmless agents that are only deadly when combined, it could be some people who have been attacked with it and we have not noticed until now. the telegraph suggests that we will dig it up. if that happens, that puts the government in a bind because at the government in a bind because at the moment they have expelled 2s diplomats and there has been some tit—for—tat expulsion. at that point, if things start to escalate it is not clear what the british government can do that will not leave them looking weak and unable to respond to the russian government. moving on to look at facebook and, more widely technology firms to dig the guardian, firstly. pressure on facebook and data firm over a mass breach of personal data files. this is that cambridge analytica. and a reporter who has
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been looking at them for quite some time with some deep investigation, what is the suggestion here? the suggestion is that data was improperly obtained by cambridge analytica under the cover of being for research purposes. it was actually used to make advertisers and influence the american presidential election. alexander nix testified to the commons select committee in the past and he is now being accused of being economical with the truth. he and mark zuckerberg will be callback to account for how facebook keeps control of the user's data and prevents it from being used in ways we may not like. both organisations and facebook say that we have done nothing wrong at all. but it is quite sensitive, the use of people's data. we are supposed to give our consent for how it is used.|j
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data. we are supposed to give our consent for how it is used. i always wonder if this is one of those things that really splits people. some people do seem to be rather blase about how their data is used, actually. and then there is another group of us who really feel that this is a pressing issue of our time that needs addressing. i think we will see a lot more scrutiny of the tech firms in this regard. and i think we will, you know, the whole thing of their original sort of slightly idealistic fix the world... this is where it turns. it actually says ok, we have some real problems with the way this operates —— companies operate. we have things like this where it comes out and we have a light shone on them and they do not look great. that leads us nicely to the telegraph and the wild west era of technology firms. a cabinet minister responsible for overseeing them says that things will get more difficult. how? this is notjust will get more difficult. how? this is not just about will get more difficult. how? this is notjust about regulation. it is
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also talking about tax cost, of course, also talking about tax cost, of course , many also talking about tax cost, of course, many of these companies not only have gotten away with a regulation like existence for a while, i have also not paid much in the way of corporation tax. and so he is talking about looking at the way they operate, the major technology firms, and looking at forcing them to accept increasing regulation. some companies are ahead of us. germany has strict rules, rules about finding tech companies if they do not handle abusive or hate speech adequately. i wonder why we have been behind other countries. we have been talking about the problems of lack of regulation and certainly lack of tax being paid for yea rs. certainly lack of tax being paid for years. it is probably because our legal structure is permissive. if it
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is not strict forbidden you can do. orso, fora long is not strict forbidden you can do. or so, for a long time, pervading ideology of the government party has been that basically freedom is great and, yeah, these arejust been that basically freedom is great and, yeah, these are just wonderful entrepreneurs. thing the tech firms have been able to do and matt hancock almost says this is become an entirely new type of company who does not need to follow any of the old rules. are facebook pretends it is not a publisher. actually, as he says, that era of pretending that these are not normal companies that should follow normal rules is, i think, thankfully, coming to an end. yes. they have really —— reached a certain level of maturity. looking at city am added every —— different story. campaigners plead for a tax break as 18 pubs close every week. this is a campaign that always fights for tax breaks at pubs. here
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they say that pubs are being hit by a triple whammy of high beer duty, business rates and vat. this is where it is squeezing a lot of businesses, notjust where it is squeezing a lot of businesses, not just pubs. where it is squeezing a lot of businesses, notjust pubs. but they point out that 460 pubs closed in the second half of 2017. does obviously sound like a high number, thatis obviously sound like a high number, that is almost 18 a week. most are in london however at the same time, they have to find ways to operate and some pubs are frightening in this environment. how much of it is down to our changing habits? people drinking at home more? pubs have a long standing problem of people drinking less alcoholic drinks in general and drinking more of them at home. however, business rates are a big looming problem for the high street and a big looming problem for the government as well. the effect of them so far seems to have been much more severe than many people expected. icd my own part of london,
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businesses that succeed in terms of bums on seats but do not succeed in terms of making enough money because of the raise in business rate. i think the lobby group has a point here and we are in danger of having an homogenous high—street. here and we are in danger of having an homogenous high-street. business rates disproportionately hit certain places and london would be one of them. that is it for the papers tonight. you can see all the front pages of the papers online. therefore you seven days a week@bbc.co.uk, don't fret, if you miss it you can watch it later on i play a. thank you to both of you for sharing your sunday night with a. film review is next. —— you can see it later on iplayer.
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