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hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and mega munchetty. north korea suspends all missile tests and announces it's to shut down a nuclear test site. president trump has welcomed the move. he calls it good news for the world. good morning. it's saturday the 21st of april. also this morning: police have arrested a man wanted in connection with a burglary in south east london during which one intruder was fatally stabbed. the prime minister promises to do whatever it takes to help the windrush generation including paying compensation. # the one it's all over # the one it's all over # when i'm wiser and i'm older... tributes pour in for avicii one of the world's biggest dance music stars who's died at the age of 28. good morning.
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in sport, the end of era as arsene wenger prepares to leave arsenal at the end of the season after nearly 22 years in charge, the serach for a new manager to replace him begins and the incredible journey of this toy pirate ship launched by two brothers off the coast of scotland. and phil has the weather. good morning. it is looking like another warmed over many parts of the british isles, but signs of a change on the way. thunderstorms to think about, and a cold front as well. i'll have all the details for you injust a well. i'll have all the details for you in just a few minutes. will see you in just a few minutes. will see you in just a few minutes. will see you in 15, phil. good morning. first our main story. the north korea leader kimjong un has said his country will no longer carry out tests of its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. he also said that a nuclear testing site in the north of the country is to be shut down. president trump has tweeted that the announcement is good news for the world and that he is looking forward to meeting the north korean leaderfor talks.
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our correspondent bill hayton has this report. in his six years as north korean leader, kimjong's nuclear missile programmes have made giant leaps. his regime now possesses both a functioning nuclear weapon and the ability to hit parts of the united states. many in the region feared some kind of confrontation was coming, so this announcement appears to be good news. president trump certainly sees it that way. "big progress," he declared, "look forward to our summit." however, one former obama administration official says the announcement avoids the big issue. it is not a major change. it says north korea will freeze their testing. but there is really no commitment to denuclearisation or any plans of the trump administration. there has been intense diplomacy to get to this point. kim jong—un visited beijing. mr trump's cia boss went to north korea. and the winter olympics allowed north korean
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officials to visit the south. the next step will be a meeting next week between kim and his south korean counterpart, moonjae—in. a new direct telephone line between the two leaderships was formally opened on friday. however, the fact that pyongyang is telling its people about the announcement suggest it is serious about decreasing the tension on the korean peninsular. bill hayton, bbc news. police have arrested a man wanted in connection with a burglary in south east london —during which one intruder was fatally stabbed. let's get more detail now from our reporter, simon clemison who is in our london newsroom. good morning, simon. good morning. you will remember this story because it was only a couple of weeks ago when it first broke, it hit all the news bulletins because it involved, if you remember, a man in his late 70s who was said to have disturbed
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two intruders in his home in lewisham, and on that night, henry vincent, who was 37, was stabbed and died of his wounds. the owner, richard osborne brooks, was arrested on suspicion of murder, but was released later without charge. since then police have been trying to trace a 28—year—old man wanted in connection with the incident, and overnight they have said that billy jeeves has now been arrested, held on two counts of burglary, theft and possession of a controlled substance, having been arrested in north kent by the met‘s homicide and major crime command, with the support of other officers. mrjeeves is being held in custody at a kent police station, and i'm told that the inquiry is ongoing, but they are not looking in that anybody else in connection with the investigation. simon, thank you very much. theresa may has promised compensation to members of the windrush generation who have been treated unfairly by the home office. the government apologised after some children of caribbean migrants who settled in the uk before the 19705 had been
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threatened with deportation. it's expected to cover any financial losses incurred and more details are expected to be published within the next week. on tuesday i met with caribbean leaders, where i gave an absolute commitment that the uk government will do whatever it takes, including, where appropriate, payment of compensation, to resolve the anxieties and problems that some of the windrush generation have suffered. these people are british, they are part of us, they helped to build britain, and we are all the stronger for their contributions. the parents of the terminally ill toddler, alfie evans have lost the latest stage of their legal battle over his life support. tom evans and kate james failed to persuade the supreme court that their son was being unlawfully detained at alder hey children's hospital in liverpool. the court also refused permission for the parents to appeal the decision. the couple say they will now make an urgent application to the european court of human rights. us and european aviation authorities have ordered emergency inspections ofjet engines similar to the one involved in a fatal
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accident earlier this week. a woman died after she was nearly sucked from the cabin of a southwest airlines flight on tuesday. investigators say there was a fault with the engine's fan blades. regulators say almost 700 boeing 737 engines will need to be inspected over the next 20 days. men still receive on average £28 more a week in the state pension than women who have temporarily left the workforce in order to care for children, or elderly parents, which has led to inconsistentcies in national insurance payments according to a new study. the consumer group which? claims that this is narrowed the gap before retiring, but they have failed to bridge the gap the existing
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retirees. tributes have been paid to the swedish dj, avicii who has died aged 28. he was one of the world's biggest dance music stars and is best known for his hit ‘wake me up' which sold more than a million copies in the uk alone. andrew plant reports. # so wake me up when it's all over. ..# the dance music dj avicii, whose club anthems made him famous worldwide. tim bergling began making music in his bedroom in sweden, before his talent caught hold, taking him on a ten—year career that saw him filling hundreds of venues with thousands of fans. there are very few genuine megastars from my world, and avicii was one of the handful of them, with a really distinctive melodic sound, a classicjourney up from the underground through to the extreme mainstream, avicii worked with some of the biggest names in the business, from nile rogers to coldplay, and tributes have poured in. rita ora, who he worked with, tweeted: . his music has been streamed more
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than 10 billion times online, and he hit number one spots around the world. his latest collection was nominated for a billboard music award just a few days before his death. at those are the main stories this morning. let's turn to our main story, that north korea will shut down a nuclear testing centre and is ending the testing centre and is ending the testing of intercontinental the listing missiles. let's get reaction to this from our seoul correspondent, laura bicker. this looks like a significant announcement. talk us through the practicalities. so, kim jong-un has
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announced through the state media agency that he is willing to stop nuclear testing intercontinental ballistic missile testing, that he is going to close down one of his atomic test sites. that on the face of it looks significant. the problem is what he didn't say. he didn't say he is prepared to give up his weapons, d nuclear, hand any of them over, and when it comes to that atomic site itself, there are reports that it is badly damaged backin reports that it is badly damaged back in september in that last nuclear test that they did, so it may well be that that site couldn't have been used anyway. so there are those caveats. however, i have been speaking to one expert here who has been speaking to north korea for along time, and it is time to really listen to what north korea wants. he believes that this is kim jong—un trying to reach out to the wider world, trying to normalise his country and be part of asia, part of this region. and that is one way to read his remarks, because this
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really lays the groundwork for a summit with the south korean leader next friday, and also a potential meeting between kim jong—un and the us president. it does seem as if kim jong—un wants this meeting to happen, and if he does, this is a good way of saying to donald trump, this is what i am prepared to do. this is not his end point, and it may well be in the summit he is prepared to go further, but again, when it comes to north korea, it is like reading tea leaves, because we are not sitting next to him, we have to rely on what we are told through state—run media agencies. laura, thank you very much. let's talk now to john laura, thank you very much. let's talk now tojohn hemmings, director of the asian studies at the henry jackson society. what do you make of the changes to the nuclear programme? the analysis that was given was very good, cautious but optimistic. you do have
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someone cautious but optimistic. you do have someone who has frozen tests and is taking down a weapons testing site, but remember, in 2012, the obama administration came to the same point before it all fell down when north korea decided to test basically a ballistic missile, but it said it was a satellite launch. because the technology was the same, the obama administration, the whole agreement collapsed at the time, so i wonder if they have learned from that, and if they know this time not to do that again. if i remember correctly, they were in new york with american diplomats, and they kind of said as they were going out of the door after signing the agreement, by the way, we will be launching a satellite in three months, and the americans were gobsmacked. so i am very much hoping that this leg of the negotiations we will see an avoidance of that. president trump has tweeted that this is good news for the world, so
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he appears on the surface to be taking this positively. yes. he is also signalling to his domestic constituents, signalling to the north korean than the chinese that he will take that as evidence of negotiations continue. we are also priced how quickly we have come to this point. it is very difficult because it has been very... almost volatile, but very fluid and fast, has a bit of a resemblance to the events before 1989, where one bit of good news follows another, but i hate to say it, but we shouldn't read too much into it yet. cautious optimism. and also in terms of what this means for north korea and south korea's relationship. what do you make of that? i think it is great news for them, and of course it comes right into the lead up of their talks. and their efforts to signa their talks. and their efforts to sign a peace agreement and to end
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the armistice. i think that is a hugely symbolic, i have always been personally critical of it, because the north koreans tended to want to do itjust with the americans and sideline the south koreans, but the fa ct sideline the south koreans, but the fact that they are going directly to seoul and they are seeing them as an equal agent, one worthy of respect in negotiation, so i am highly optimistic, i'm very positive about moonj —— moon jae—in, optimistic, i'm very positive about moonj —— moonjae—in, he has managed to handle the chinese fairly well, and donald trump, and he has done this very well without dropping into the kind of problems that his mental did when he fell out with someone mental did when he fell out with someone trying to push through the sunshine policy. positive. john hemmings, thank you forjoining us from the asia study centre at the
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henryjackson from the asia study centre at the henry jackson society. we have had a couple of days of very nice weather for we have had a couple of days of very nice weatherfor a we have had a couple of days of very nice weather for a lot of the uk. here's philip with a look at this morning's weather. there is an old saying that goes round the houses in the networld that a summer comprises of two fine days under thunderstorm, and you have given us the two fine days, and we have started in similar vein widely as i have shown you this morning. courtesy of our legion of weather watchers, here we are in wales. the potential for weather watchers, here we are in wales. the potentialfor a thunderstorm is therefore sure, because what we are going to do is gradually lose that, and the showers will gradually, sure. they don't look anything on this sort of scale, and here is a significant scale, pretty much for all parts of the british isles by the end of the weekend. for some of you it comes a
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lot quicker than others. still some warmth at the head of the weather front, that is what is helping with the potential for thunderstorms, and even further north, the temperatures well into the teens. come the evening, they may really get their act together across northern parts of england, one or two further towards the east, and all the while that weather front creeping into western scotland and northern ireland on what is not going to be a particularly cold night yet again. so there is no great rush to change the overall pattern. if you miss the showers, you will get a warm day with hazy sunshine, but sunday is a different kettle of fish for many of us. different kettle of fish for many of us. it takes awhile to get down into the south—eastern quarter, fading the south—eastern quarter, fading the while. following on behind, a cold front, so that drops those temperatures quite radically. but the london marathon, and here is the rub, will be conducted in the heat. no doubt about it, the sunshine may be tempered, but i say to you, watch
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out, because that in its own right could be quite tricky, because you drop your guard and you have suddenly been burned because you are out there for so many hours. not a great problem with that as we come along to monday, because another weather front comes into the western side of the british isles on a noticeable westerly breeze, so we have lost all notion of the heat, and another one comes in on monday, temperatures not too shabby for the time of year, but a completely different kettle of fish to where many of you have been in recent days. so next week, and for some of you it starts as early as sunday, it will be cooler and quite breezy, and there will be showers, mostly but not exclusively across western parts, some longer spells of rain perhaps as well. so not a write—off at the weekend, but saturday if you needed a dry day is your better chance, sunday much more seasonal, he says spelling it gently. what was that phrase, summer
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comprises... ? two fine days under thunderstorm. some contribute it to michael fish. it has done the rounds for a number of years, and certainly i have been at the bbc weather centre, and as charlie has said, we have had a couple of warm, really warm days, and wouldn't you just know it, it is the sort of thing that you know it. this has been very much a taste of summer in april. we have enjoyed it. a new phrase every day. it is 17 minutes past eight. let's look ahead. voters in england will head to the polls on the 3rd of may for the first test of electoral opinion since last year's dramatic general election result. with seats on 150 councils up for grabs, breakfast'sjohn maguire has been to plymouth to look at the burning issues being debated by voters in the city. that's one thing you can't change, is the weather.
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only mad dogs and plymouthians would be out on a day like this. but members of this community running and walking group, aptly named storm, is made of tough stuff. but not me. so we have taken shelter in a cafe to get down to chatting about the local elections. we put them into power, but they do not even ask sometimes what we can spend on. we pay council rates and taxes and everything else, but it would be nice to say what would you like to spend this £20 million on? i have lived here all my life. plymouth is a beautiful city. sometimes we do not appreciate it. all that seems to be happening is new student accommodation. i know student accommodation is important, it is a lifeline in plymouth, but there are other things as well i would put as a priority. history and social changes in the dna of this seafaring city. there is also a rich political heritage. nancy astor, the first woman to take her seat in the commons, was a plymouth mp. as was the former labour leader, michael foot. and with right honourable mentions for david owen, who went on to form the sdp,
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and alan clarke, whose famous poems went on to transcend the world of westminster. well, plymouth has, economically and socially, in many respects, has a lot more in common with cities further north than with other industrial cities, and its pattern of politics reflects that. adrian leigh, a former head of politics, has analysed elections for more than a0 years here. the electoral landscape has changed significantly, or appears to have done, but still, the contest this time will be between labour and conservatives, particularly as ukip has declined significantly. but we ought to mention the fact the liberal democrats are fielding a full slate of candidates in the city for the first time for a number of years. but if a ward is deemed to be a safe seat, then margaret tells me ca nvassers are scarce. we never get anybody coming down our
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way. general elections, local elections, you never see anybody. in terms of the wider issues, defence is a vital industry here, but transport links are often criticised. the city's ambition is to grow from 260,000 people to 360,000. but as the population ages, the challenge here will be to take care of the elderly while providing enough opportunity for a workforce to pay the bills. john maguire, bbc news, plymouth. and you can find out more about the local elections in england on the bbc news website. it is 20 minutes past eight. time now to look at the papers. the writer and broadcaster, simon fanshawe, is here to tell us what's caught his eye. we'll speak to him injust a moment. are you ok? so far. it is too early to tell! some of the front pages for you first. the front page of the daily telegraph, they are suggesting
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in the story on the left, police identifying poisoning suspects. this is linked to events in salisbury, and suggestions that they are building a case against persons of interest. now the telegraph say they are to be in russia. in the times, police failing to investigate child slave gangs, saying thousands are lurid with promises of footballer modelling. this is something simon is going to pick up as well. glorious sunset over the london skyline, 26 degrees some of the temperatures, but remember phil said to us earlier, two days of sunshine, one of thunderstorm. and the daily mail, finds the hump in rubbish, and in the guardian, they are looking at the guardian, they are looking at the career of arsene wenger as he waves goodbye to arsenal. we mentioned that front page of the times, shall we start with that? charlie, can you give me a hand
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here. boys looted by dreams of football stardom forced into sex slavery. yes, this kid turned up for totte n ha m slavery. yes, this kid turned up for tottenham hotspur and said he was there for the trial, and it turns out there is no trial and no one could work out where he had come from. they snapped into action but then he slipped out of their grip and was lost forever. recently? quite recently. the reason they are bringing it up is that there is an investigation because they are trying to work out what is going on, and there is an implication, the fa says it is a matter for the and there is an implication, the fa says it is a matterfor the police, and what the paper is really saying is, the fa could tackle it. but it is, the fa could tackle it. but it is the global brand of football. if somebody says, here is a dream, you can take it and become a star or whatever. but what i did look up just around the story, there are more people in slavery now in the world than there ever have been before. the international labour organisation says there are 151 million kids in forced labour. 15
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million kids in forced labour. 15 million people in forced marriages. add 89 million people in five years up add 89 million people in five years up to 2017 were put into slavery. it is out there, it is big and it is the whole time. and focus here on how police forces are struggling with this hidden crime. have you noticed there is an increase of posters saying you noticing modern slavery closer than you think. and when you say hidden crime, that is the problem, because it is difficult to know. you can't say to people who are working in not very good jobs, by the way. let's pick up on another story. this is the case of stephen lawrence. there has been a lot written this week. it is the 25th anniversary tomorrow. there was the 3—part documentary, which was extraordinary. i started watching thinking, will it tell me anything, and it was shocking. it is so shocking still to remember that only
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25 years ago, literally, the response initially to that case was, here are some black gloves we found on the street, and one of the people who has had the most difficulty apart from his family and parents of courses to wayne brooks, the guy who was his friend when it happened. he ran, and then stephen got stabbed and he went back, and he has had this terrible life since where he has gone through everything, he has been discredited in the police tried to undermine his statement, but he is saying now there was a detective called clive driscoll, and he was the one who apparently really stuck to the investigation and managed to get the two convictions of the people currently in jail for stephen lawrence's murder, and what duwayne brooks is saying was that they took him off the case and made you retire. it is so important when you have an anniversary like this to look at us the question about whether people think that there have
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been changes. the same story is unfolding now as there were? one gets the impression it is not a uniform change. what is still happening is black kids are still far more likely to be stopped, arrested and so on. and i know, black friends of mine, we go into a shop, andi black friends of mine, we go into a shop, and i could be filling up a skip of stuff on the pavement while the shop assistants watch them go round the shop, it is a strawberry. and a story about the twins whose lives is gone in different directions. this has prompted a lot of... it is directions. this has prompted a lot of...itisa directions. this has prompted a lot of... it is a study at the university of exeter, and when scientists find twins, one of whom is gay and one is straight, no prizes, that is sarah on the left who is straight, and rosie is on the right, who is gay. scientists love twins, because they have exactly the same dna, so the question is at what point and why in terms of their sexual orientation did they
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bifurcated. if you look at the pictures, scientists a this is controversial, but the thing about the pictures. this one in particular down the bottom. it is demonstrating non—gendered conforming behaviour, as it is called. in other words, the point about rosie was that from the age of six or seven, she was a real tomboy and she wasn't interested in going out with boys, she was only interested in playing with them dressed as a tomboy, whereas her sister dressed in a typically very female way. i haven't read the detail. do they themselves have a nswers ? detail. do they themselves have answers? it is one thing for us to look at the pictures and draw conclusions. that is why it is controversial. are trying to look at is gender—nonconforming behaviour, is gender—nonconforming behaviour, is it happening early before puberty, for instance, and if so, what is causing it? one of the things they are suggesting is that it is exposure to different hormone levels in the room, —— in the womb,
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so levels in the room, —— in the womb, so the twins are differently fed in the womb, but they are not very clear about the gay men, it says in here, they have a much less clear picture. it is fascinating, because fears people wary about saying, why are people gay? because it was like you had a disability of some sort. whereas now i think it is a national conversation. it is the same question is why people are different. as you say, you look at twins and you think, why is one a different character from the other. exactly, but what i'm saying is there a confidence about asking the question now that i think 20 years ago there wouldn't have been. this is the headline of all headlines. we have 20 seconds. mary berry drugs bust! shall we just leave it? have 20 seconds. mary berry drugs bust! shall wejust leave it? it turns out she is not a coke head. she was going to america was worried about taking the flour and sugar, so
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she measured up the ingredients, divided it ordered a little plastic bags, put it in her suitcase and she got stopped in customs because they thought it was drugs. that is the story she tells herself. but the headline is just bliss. story she tells herself. but the headline isjust bliss. we will see you in an hour. coming up on the programme... from a hospital bed to running a 26 miles route in less than a year. we'll speak to the off—duty police officer injured in last june's london bridge attack who'll join thousands of other runners in tomorrow's london marathon. of course we wish all of them well as well. stay with us, headlines coming up. and the weather for tomorrow, more on that coming up later in the programme. hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. the leader of north korea, kimjong un, has announced that his country will no longer carry out tests of its nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. mr kim has also said a nuclear testing site in the north of the country is to be shut down.
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president trump has tweeted that the announcement is "good news" for the world. our washington correspondent, chris buckler assesses the latest development. there is no doubt that the last few months have seen huge diplomatic leaps. remember, it was only the latter half of last year when donald trump calling kim jong—un little rocket man and threatening fire and fury for north korea. and north korea said they could hit north america. but this statement does not have a commitment to denuclearisation. certainly a lot will be welcome. there are longer term commitments, for example, getting rid of the testing site in the north of the country. but there will be some inside the white house, inside the donald trump administration, urging caution. they will say promises and pledges have been made by north korea before and they have been broken and that trust is something to be earned, not just fully given. there are countries like japan
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who really feel the pressure has to be kept up on pyongyang. nevertheless, you get the feeling a stage is being set for an historic summit between donald trump and kim jong—un. police have arrested a man wanted in connection with a burglary in south—east london during which one intruder was fatally stabbed. billyjeeves, who's 28, was detained in kent. he's being questioned about a raid at the home of 78—year—old richard osborn—brooks in hither green where a burglar, henry vincent, was stabbed and later died from his wounds. theresa may has promised compensation to members of the windrush generation who have been treated unfairly by the home office. the government apologised after some children of caribbean migrants who settled in the uk before the 19705 had been threatened with deportation. it's expected to cover any financial losses incurred and more details are expected to be published within the next week. the parents of the terminally ill toddler alfie evans have lost the latest stage of their legal
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battle over his life support. tom evans and kate james failed to persuade the supreme court that their son was being unlawfully detained at alder hey children's hospital in liverpool. the court also refused permission for the parents to appeal the decision. the couple say they will now make an urgent application to the european court of human rights. us and european aviation authorities have ordered emergency inspections ofjet engines similar to the one involved in a fatal accident earlier this week. a woman died after she was nearly sucked from the cabin of a southwest airlines flight on tuesday. investigators say there was a fault with the engine's fan blades. regulators say almost 700 boeing 737 engines will need to be inspected over the next 20 days. men receive, on average, £28 more a week from the state pension than women — this according to a new study. women who have temporarily left the workforce in order to care for children or elderly parents have led to gaps in their national insurance payments.
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the consumer group which says reforms introduced two years ago are starting to narrow the gap but more needs to be done. tributes have been paid to the swedish dj, avicii who has died aged 28. he was one of the world's biggest dance music stars and is best known for his hit wake me up which sold more than a million copies in the uk alone. a rare aston martin car owned by the james bond actor daniel craig has sold at auction in new york for more than £330,000. it isa it is a lot for a car. there it is. there it is. the model, which has the production number 007 is one ofjust 100 vehicles produced in 2014 as part of a limited edition series to mark the firm's centenary. for me there are two bond cars. one is the original silver one, the old
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style aston martin which had a bullet proof thing at the back. and then there is the underwater looters, the white one. that was reused in sky fall. it made a cameo appearance. it takesjudi dench to scotland. in 1996 when arsene wenger took over? and two was prime minister back then? and damon hill was formula 1 champion. and then there was boyzone. #itis and then there was boyzone. # it is only words... for some football managers they rise above the spot. you do not have to know much about football to know about arsene wenger. give us a
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snapshot. he revolutionised football when he took over. nobody knew who he was. he had moved overfrom japan. the arsenal team back then probably enjoyed a drink or two and he completely changed that. there was an emphasis on diet, changing training regimes and what you put in you get out. he was the first managerfrom afar to you get out. he was the first manager from afar to win the premier league. he was seen as revolutionary and now the criticism is he is not and now the criticism is he is not and he has not moved with the times. look at pep guardiola and jurgen klopp and the new styles in the premier league and it is almost as if he has not quite manage to keep up. it was a mutual agreement, but had he not gone, perhaps come the summer he may have been pushed out. at least he can go now and enjoy his final matches. let's have a look at
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his career in numbers. let's have a look at his career in numbers. between may 2003 and october 2005 arsenal did not lose, including the 2004 invincible ‘s season. it looks like they will finish sixth this season, their lowest position since he arrived. season, their lowest position since he arrived. so who next? former captain patrick viera is one of the names in the frame. he's currenly manager of new york city fc. other names in the frame are germany coach jochim loew and former chelsea manager carlo ancelloti. the favourite with the bookmakers at the moment is celtic‘s brendan rogers. it's important to me that we continue the football values that arsene has installed in the club, so i want to see somebody who can continue that
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for ourfans and ourfans want to see that, someone who will continue to play progressive, exciting football that gets people interested and excited in the games that we play. a competition arsenal have dominated in recent seasons, the fa cup, the semi finals of which are this weekend. manchester united face tottenham at wembley later, live on bbc1. for both sides their only chance of finishing the season with some silverware. we have a game to play, they have an unbelievable squad. of coursejose mourinho is a great manager and he knows what he has to do and of course i think it's manchester united against tottenham and tottenham against manchester united and i think it's an exciting semifinal. fulham remain on course to pit themselves against the likes of tottenham and manchester united next season. they're back in the automatic promotion places after beating milwall. and scoring goals like this
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they could worry the best in the top tier, their second goal from kevin macdonald an absolute cracker. fulham two points ahead of cardiff in third but cardiff have two games in hand. it is going to be a tight finish in the championship. it is going to be a tight finish in the championship. johanna konta has levelled great britain's fed cup tie with japan at one rubber apiece. the british number one beat kurumi nara 6—4, 6—2. these are the play—offs to get to world group two, the next level of the competition. the team haven't played at that level for 25 years. in the first rubber, just a couple of hours ago, heather watson lost to naomi osaka. the japanese player, who is ranked 55 places higher, took the first set 6—2 and the second 6—3. the reverse singles and doubles will take place early tomorrow morning. all the action will be live on the bbc sport website. gloucester are through to the final of the european challenge cup. they beat newcastle 33 points to 12,
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scoring four tries to newcastle's two with tom marshall's first half score the best of the bunch. gloucester will play cardiff blues or the french side pau in the final in bilbao. in super league, leaders st helens beat huddersfield whilst wigan beat castleford to keep up the pressure in second. wigan centre oliver gildart scored two of their five tries, while sam tomkins kicked four goals in the 28—12 victory. wigan are just two points behind st helens. the world snooker championship gets under way in sheffield later. the scene is set. you can keep in touch with events from the crucible on bbc tv, radio and online. five time former champion ronnie o' sullivan is in great form, and has already won five ranking events this year. but he insists he won't be over confident.
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i don't rely on confidence and i rely on your belief and your belief in the game and if it is good on the day, so be it. if not, i will go home and watch it on the tv and watch the other guys sweat it out. you can watch it all is well. more than 8,000 young people who have used their bank accounts to launder money for criminals some of them are still at school. that's the findings of a new report by the fraud prevention service. it also found they are being groomed on social media with offers of making easy money. paul lewis from radio 4's money box programme has been looking at this and hejoins us now. we welcome onto the specifics. the scale of fraud more generally is a growing problem. it is fair to say we are almost drowning in a sea of fraud. the police are overworked. the city of london police coordinate it nationally and they say there
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we re it nationally and they say there were 40,000 fraud reports that they get every month. that is half a million a year. the report you mentioned which came out this week is about money mules, people who use their own bank accounts and criminals pay money in and people pay it out in cash or transfer it to another account and they get paid a commission. 32,000 accounts were marked with a flag, warning banks that they were being used as money mules and 8500 of them are under 21. so it really is a very serious problem indeed. how are they recruited? there are adverts in student publications for them, or publications students see i should say. but if you look at the younger ages that we have been looking at, they are recruited through social media. we spoke to an extraordinary
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17—year—old who is a sixth former. we are calling her holly, not her real name, and a young man, a stranger, contacted her through instagram. she thought he was chatting her up. but then things started getting serious. her words are voiced by an actor.|j started getting serious. her words are voiced by an actor. i was approached on instagram and this boy basically went into my direct messages and started to chat me up. there was no conversation about the fraud, year, it wasjust getting to know me and my situation. did you know me and my situation. did you know him? no, i never knew him, he wasjust a know him? no, i never knew him, he was just a stranger. know him? no, i never knew him, he wasjust a stranger. i don't even know where he got my instagram from. after you spoke on instagram, what happened next? he decided to give you his snapchat name and i added him on and we continued talking and thatis him on and we continued talking and that is when he said to me, have you ever held £2000 at once in your hand? i said no and he was like, i can make that happen if you give me
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your square, your bank card, i can make it happen to you. that is fascinating. you can understand the law, but at the same time why aren't the alarm bells ringing given what might happen? this is a very serious offence. yes, it is potentially and holly was tempted into entering this world and she had £1500 paid into her bank account and she was told to ta ke her bank account and she was told to take it out in cash and give it to this chap on the other side of the road and the bank got suspicious and would not let her have the money and closed her account. she was then without banking services and potentially people can be sent to prison for this if it is serious. that interview was by my colleague, incidentally from money bank. you can hear more on that story on money box, at midday on bbc radio 4. it has been warm, is it going to
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stay? that is a lovely picture. good morning, you did not like my cloudy one, which is about the forecast for the weekend. so i have cheered up since then. but it does not alter the forecast. we have had a succession of glorious pictures coming off the back of some glorious weather, thanks to that area of high pressure. keep an eye on that weather front because it will become a player as early as this afternoon for the western isles of scotland. elsewhere it is a dry and fine day. already we are looking into the western channel and we have got some hefty showers showing up already. they will drift up across mid and central southern england, wales and the west midlands as the day goes on. still a very warm day. maybe not as hot as it has been, but
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temperatures above the seasonal norm. some areas will miss the showers altogether. that does not look like that in eastern england as we get on into the small hours of sunday. it will be a pretty close night. we have still got the influence of this system on the western side of britain to start sunday and then goes through northern ireland, western scotland, northern ireland, western scotland, northern england and into wales. ahead of that it is very warm still and maybe some thunderstorms ahead of that before the remnants get down into this southern quarter. it could be one of the warmest marathons on record on sunday. there could be a shower. but if you work on the basis of humid and hot and heat stress, you will not go far along. that goes
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for the spectators as well. that was monday and now a system coming in from the atlantic. some of the rain in places across northern ireland will be moderate and then staggering across the channel to be a bother late on in the day in western scotland. ahead of it maybe the odd rogue shower. still a lot of dry but nowhere near the temperatures of 28 that we have seen in the past couple of days and that sets the tenor of the week to come. it will be seasonal. it will be cooler than we have had, but not cold. it will be breezy and there will be some showers mainly in the west. i have turned off my central heating and i do not think it will be going back on even though next week starts with the word cooler. it's more than 10 months since the london bridge terror attack which left eight people dead
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and 48 injured. one of the wounded was charlie, an off—duty police officer. since then, he's had five operations, but tomorrow he will be among the 39 thousand runners taking part in the london marathon. caroline davies has been to meet him. firstly i thought it was just a pub fire. um, it was just one of them just instant reactions to go over there, try and help your colleagues out. police officer charlie guenigault was off duty watching football in london bridge on the night of the third ofjune. he was one of many members of the emergency services that ran towards the attackers. initially, i was confronted by all three and two of them started to attack me. i then tried to, you know, do my best to defend myself and unfortunately, one of them got me in the back first and then twice in the head, and another one in the back and then at that stage, i've just sort of just fallen to the floor.
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for about three or four seconds, i thought "this is it." for whatever reason, the attackers didn't stay to kill charlie, but they did leave him with serious injuries. initially, i had some a splenectomy, so my spleen was taken out and just obviously, you know, bandaged up inside. i had an infection, about another eight weeks at kings over the summer. since he has been out of hospital, charlie has been building up to run his second london marathon. it was just a challenge on all parts of my body, i mean, mainly it was from where the surgery was and where i had chest drains in and things like that. but i always feel that i've run a bit further. before i've had to sort of stop or i didn't feel as much pain this time and now it has got to a point where sometimes, you know, it might be like for a brief moment you think "oh, this is like it was last time." this time, he is running it for the team who helped save his life, king's college hospital. it's really important for me to do — to give something back to them. what i am aiming to raise isn't gonna, you now, build a new ward, it's not gonna do that, but it is money at the end of the day that goes towards them, to help them out in helping others. it might seem a huge challenge to go from a hospital bed to a marathon
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in less than one year but then, charlie's has already shown he'll run in where others wouldn't. carolyn davis, bbc news. it isa it is a really inspiring story and london marathon is always the day when you can hear about some remarkable achievements. it is going to be very warm and they are in for a tough day and we wish everybody the very when two brothers from aberdeenshire pushed their toy pirate boat into the north sea last year, onlookers might have expected it to sink without a trace in the choppy grey waters. but instead the small plastic vessel named adventure travelled hundreds of miles from peterhead and was found in denmark, then sweden and then norway. the norwegian navy then offered to drop the boat in the atlantic and a private company added a tracker to monitor its movements and it's shown that the boat is now
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off the coast of guyana. we can now speak to harry and ollie's father, macneill ferguson, who's on the phone. thank you so much forjoining us this morning. it is called adventure and it certainly has had an adventure. has it lived up to your expectation? it has more than exceeded our expectations. when we initially put her out to see we kind of hoped we would get hurt across to the other side and to get to three different countries. it was more than we could have hoped for. the atla ntic than we could have hoped for. the atlantic adventure has just become the stuff of dreams, it has been brilliant. it is charlie in the studio. these pictures are great. seeing it right next to one of those huge ships. can you explain the
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basics? how do you know where it has travelled? how do the people who find it know where it came from? initially the concept was a message ina initially the concept was a message in a bottle, but we did not want to throw a bottle into the sea, so we used our old toy boat. we left a note saying, please contact us and sent us a couple of pictures of where she arrives. but after doing as well as she did going to three nordic countries, she was taken down to the coast of africa to cross the atla ntic to the coast of africa to cross the atlantic and we put on board a small tracker and the tracker pains as every 12 hours to tell us exactly where she is so we can watch her and we have watched for the last five months the atlantic. we can see her live from the website. it feels a bit odd. the green colour is the sea
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and the blue colour is the land and it is now off the coast of venezuela. tell us about the boat itself. it must be pretty hardy to survive the oceans. they are pretty sturdy little boats as it is, but they do not sailed very well, i have to be honest. so we had to put some work in to make her seaworthy. she is basically just work in to make her seaworthy. she is basicallyjust a big court in the ocean. there is a large weight on the bottom, a counterweight, so she self rights. she actually sales in water very well. yes, that is how she is doing as well as she is because she is just a big she is doing as well as she is because she isjust a big lump of cork bobbing about in the water. ollie and harry, your two boys, must be inventing stories, do they have a crew on board? they must be loving
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this. originally attached to it was their monkey and its name was bob. but we're not sure if bob survived to be honest. afterfive months at the and she has been in 20 metre waves which is ourjust phenomenally sized waves. so we are not sure if bob will survive. bob the monkey might be lost at sea? he could well be. we will pause for bob the monkey just for a moment. ok, where next for this boat, this adventure? we are hoping to get her back and if she is still in good condition, then the next adventure will have to be the next adventure will have to be the pacific and getting her across to japan the pacific and getting her across tojapan and the pacific and getting her across to japan and then to the us pacific coast, that would be another amazing
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pa rt coast, that would be another amazing part of this journey. it is a fantastic adventure and obviously the boys are enjoying it and so are we. good luck with adventure. thank you so much. and you can follow the story of ollie, harry and the boat adventure by searching for ‘the days arejust packed' online. and it is tracking its journey and it will show where it is going. and it is tracking its journey and it will show where it is going. if the recent spell of good weather has had you reaching for a long cool drink, you may not be surprised to hear that there's been a huge increase in the production of craft gins, whiskies and rums by small scale producers. there are now more than 300 distilleries, double the number there were just five years ago. we sent sarah corker to meet some of the new companies who are enjoying success with spirits. there is a real thirst for british
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craft spirits and entrepreneurs are tapping into this small but lucrative market for handmade and locally produced drinks. boutique distillers are competing with the big brands and they use a creative mix of ingredients that are made in small batches by hand and the story behind the product is a selling point as well. welcome to the distillery. this is lincolnshire's first gin distillery in a garage. start—up first gin distillery in a garage. sta rt—up costs are first gin distillery in a garage. start—up costs are minimal. the biggest outlay is the copper still. in this is what we distilled last night. last year a lobotomy quit his job, got a licence to produce spears and set up his business with his partner amy. i learned from my father how to produce spirits because he made whiskey. i have spent the last 17 years as an engineer and one day i decided i had had enough, let's start producing alcohol. do you get funny looks from
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people wondering what is going on in the garage? yes, i do. now they produced 200 bottles a week. the garage? yes, i do. now they produced 200 bottles a weekm the garage? yes, i do. now they produced 200 bottles a week. it was when we realised there were no other distilleries in lincolnshire that i stopped telling him off and thought there might be something in this and thatis there might be something in this and that is when it turned serious. in five years the number of distilleries has more than doubled and there are 315 across the uk and with well over 100 british gin brands on the market, domestic gin sales hit £1.2 billion last year. one check we do is to test the strength of the alcohol. jamie baxter set up 17 of the uk's new distilleries and now he is helping to make gin in hole. it is 85.596. distilleries and now he is helping to make gin in hole. it is 85.5%. it to make gin in hole. it is 85.596. it is pretty strong. roughly twice as strong as the finished gin. small—scale distilling was not allowed before 1986. it is still a
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very young industry. and in the adjoining by the owner explained what is driving this craft trend. people want something that is local or they know it has been lovingly made by hand and not by one of the big producers. and so, whatever your table, this explosion of new brands shows no sign of slowing down. stay with us, headlines coming up. we will take a glimpse of what the weather will be like. it is a lovely morning. iam weather will be like. it is a lovely morning. i am trying to picture the scene tomorrow because there will be thousands of people. running. treading the path of the london marathon. it is going to be hot as well, so they need to be careful in terms of taking on lots of fluid. a full look at the weekend weather for you and philip avery will give those people a good glimpse of what
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they are expecting tomorrow. the headlines are coming up. hello this is breakfast, with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. north korea suspends all missile tests and announces it's to shut down a nuclear test site. president trump has welcomed the move — he calls it good news for the world. good morning. it's saturday the 21st april. also this morning: police have arrested a man wanted in connection with a burglary in south east london during which one intruder was fatally stabbed. the prime minister promises to do whatever it takes to help the windrush generation, including paying compensation. #so we # so we can me up when it's all over. . . tributes pour in for avicii one of the world's
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biggest dance music stars who's died at the age of 28. in sport, the end of era as arsene wenger prepares to leave
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