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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 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 biggest dance music stars who's died at the age of 28. 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,
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and the incredible journey of this toy pirate ship launched by two brothers off the coast of scotland. phil has the weather. good morning. it is looking like another warm day for many parts of the british isles, but signs of a change on the way. we have thunderstorms to think about and a cold front as well. i will have all the details for you in just a few minutes. 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. 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
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both a nuclear weapon and the ability to hit parts of the united states. many in the region feared 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 issues. it's 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 officials to visit the south. the next step will be a meeting next week between kim and his south korean counterpart,
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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 progress suggests that it is serious about decreasing the tension on the korean peninsula. bill hayton, bbc news. let's hear now from our seoul correspondent, laura bicker on the importance of this development. so kim jong—un has said so kimjong—un has said that he is willing to stop nuclear testing and close down one of his testing sites. but the problem is what he didn't say. he didn't say he is prepared to give up his weapons, and any of them over. and when it comes to that atomic site itself, there are ports that it was badly damaged back in
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september in the last nuclear test that they made. so it may well be that they made. 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 listening to north korea from long time, and he says it is time to really listen to what north korea once. 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, be part of this region. and that is one way to read his remarks, because this really lays the groundwork for the summit with the south korean leader next friday, moon jae—in, summit with the south korean leader next friday, moonjae—in, and also a potential meeting between kim jong—un on the us president. it does seem as if kimjong—un once jong—un on the us president. it does seem as if kim jong—un once this meaty 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 a starting point, 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
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reading tea leaves, because we have to rely on what we are told from the state—run media agencies. laura bicker reporting from seoul for us. 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. it is worth re—capping it that you what happened just a few weeks ago. good morning. yes, this story making all the headlines just over a fortnight ago, because as you may remember, it involved a man in his late 70s, richard osborne brooks, who was said to have disturbed intruders at his home in lewisham. henry vincent, 37, was stabbed and died of his wounds. police have been trying to trace a 28—year—old man wanted in connection with the incident, and the met has said overnight it has now arrested billyjeeves. officers say that he
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was being held on suspicion of two cou nts was being held on suspicion of 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. mrjeeves is being held at a kent police station. i'm told the inquiry is ongoing, but police are not looking to anybody else in connection with the investigation. simon, thank you. 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. on tuesday and that 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 which some of
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the windrush generation have suffered. these people are british, they are part of us, they helped to build britain, and we are all the strongerfor 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 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
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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. 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. 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
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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 rodgers to coldplay, and tributes have poured in. rita ora, who he worked with, tweeted: . his music has been streamed more 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. the time now is ten minutes past
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nine. at those are the main stories this morning. phil will be with us for the weather in five minutes, but ist: it has been a dramatic week in westminster. first we heard uk troops had joined the us and france in launching air strikes against targets in syria. that led tojeremy corbyn questioning the legality of the mission, the government was then forced to defend its immigration policies and then the labour leader had to listen to testimony from his own mps about anti—semitic abuse they received. britain, the us and france have bombed multiple government subjects in syria —— multiple targets in syria. i think we need something like a syria. i think we need something likea war syria. i think we need something like a war powers act so that government get held to account by parliament for what they do in our name. the prime minister. it is in
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out name. the prime minister. it is in our national interest to prevent the further use of chemical weapons in syria and to uphold and defend the global consensus that these weapons should not be used. the statement serves as a reminder that the prime minister is accountable to this parliament are not in the us president. this is a day of national shame, and it has come about because ofa shame, and it has come about because of a hostile environment policy that was begun under her prime minister. let us call it as it is. if you laid out with dogs, you get fleas. the decision to destroy the landing cards was taken in 2009 under a labour government. and assault upon jews is an assault on people, and there is no room for that here. impassioned words in parliament this week. the guardian columnist, polly toynbee and kate andrews from the institute of economic affairs join us now from westminster. polly, if i could first ask you.
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this time last week, the news was unfolding about the missile attack on syria, which of course we now know british forces were involved in. how do you think that has played out as the week has progressed? and so much else has happened this week, that oddly it seems something important hasn't had that importance. putin is not the sort of man who takes something like that on the chin and and says, fine. we wait to see still whether there may be some kind of comeback in terms of cyber attacks or anything else. maybe she would get away with it, in which case it might be forgotten is not important incident, but it was important in terms of not consulting parliament, and that is where parliament, and that is where parliament as a whole would have voted against had they had the chance. kate, it is an interesting
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point the polly makes, there is no greater decision a prime minister ever makes that that of sending military personnel into some kind of action. and yet the moment feels like it has rather passed. do you think there was an opportunity missed? i agree with polly, i really do think that the decision should have gone to parliament, but i don't think that the moment has passed. i think that the moment has passed. i think that the moment has passed. i think that it is in flux. we are waiting to see if this symbolic bombing is going to have an effect on the assad regime, if it will preventive using chemical weapons on his people again. i'm not convinced that the us did engage in bombings la st that the us did engage in bombings last year when there was evidence of chemical weapons being used, and it happened again in 2018, so i think there has to be a lot of conversation. the way it was carried out this week may be the way that many people tuned out. the motion brought forward in parliament also seem to be symbolic, with many labour mps voting against the motion that their own party brought forward , that their own party brought forward, and many outside the
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westminster bubble will have to do that, just thinking, this is the show, it is not meaningful foreign policy. and if some people thought, as some people dead, that theresa may possibly handle herself well in relation to the syria incident, then we have all the incidents relating to windrush, those individual stories of people who didn't get access to hospitals and the treatment from so many years ago still carrying on. what you think the fallout from that has been for theresa may? this windrush information has proved itself to be an absolute scandal. my biggest concern is that there isn't going to be much fallout. this is still the extension of a conservative government that brought in the go home vans. the attitudes towards immigration for nearly a decade have been appalling. it is not to say that they should be controls, or that they should be controls, or that there is not a legitimate debate to be had, but we have lost the humanity in the debate. i would like to think that the windrush scandal here would be considered to be bigger news. i think many people
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are genuinely upset about how these migrants and now british citizens have been treated, but i'm worried just as it has been with other scandals in the past, that it may roll off people's backs. and polly, we spoke to michael gove, one of the questions we asked in this week, was those stories about what was going on in cabinet about that hostile environment policy, the culture that was growing within the conservative party. he denied it absolutely and said that was something he recognise from their discussions. but it has opened up something of a question mark about the atmosphere around those decisions. i think the whole idea of a hostile environment is going to reveal a lot more to come. it won't just be going to reveal a lot more to come. it won'tjust be the windrush generation, because what happened was when theresa may and david cameron and now amber rudd set this impossible net immigration target, they more less instructive civil serva nts to they more less instructive civil servants to go after people as fast
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as they could, so an lot of other people were targeted, and they targeted the easy cases, and that is people who have gotjobs, got children in school, they know where they are and where to find them, and they are and where to find them, and they may have been here for years, decades, and those are the easy targets, not really the beer when they talk about immigration, they mean new migrants arriving from countries with no connection with ours who don't have any legal right and an economic right of arrival, they don't mean these people. and i think we are going to get a lot more scandals and people who have been targeted very, very unfairly. between yue yuan bisla have many yea rs of between yue yuan bisla have many years of watching parliament, some of you with impassioned test only this week, and the issue of anti—semitism within the labour party. this problem doesn't seem to be going away forjeremy corbyn, highlighted by individuals' speeches in the commons this week. and the issue should be going away. it is a very serious one, and the yougov
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survey from just a few weeks back found that in large majority of the membership of the moment think that theissues membership of the moment think that the issues of anti—semitism within the issues of anti—semitism within the party are being over exaggerated to directly go after the politics of it all and to go after the labour leader specifically. this is a concern that this issue was not being taken seriously by the labour leadership, by its own membership. i'm not sure it's something that will be reflected in the council elections in november, but i have that is, because this goes far past politics. this is about genuine decency and the way that we treat people, especially from minority groups, and it has to be addressed. polly, can you pick up on that as well? it was utterly shocking. the stories that one labour mp after anoeta jewish mps about the attacks on them were grotesque. it would have been very easy writer beginning of this scandal, forjeremy corbyn, john mcdonnell, for those people around corbyn to close this down. there are ways of handling disaster stories around this, and they
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haven't done it. why haven't they immediately put forward all of the cases waiting to be heard of labour members accused of anti—semitism and dealt with them immediately, expeued dealt with them immediately, expelled anybody found guilty? you can do the right thing very loudly, and at least minimise the damage, but they don't seem to have any damage control mechanism, and it has been a disaster. and i think really because in the end jeremy corbyn himself, not an anti—semite, but he himself, not an anti—semite, but he himself is confused about the difference between being pro palestinian or against the current is really government —— the current israeli government, and he doesn't seem to have found that boundary. thank you both very much indeed. we can see what it is like over london right now. you got a glimpse of it there at westminster. it has been very warm the last couple of days, but there is an old phrase, isn't there, phil? i have enjoyed
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that phrase this money, i have enjoyed learning at. you have been listening to too many old sailors, to find data on the thunderstorm equals a british summer. we have certainly had the two fine days, and right on cue dot dot dot. this is right on the western shores of wales, beautiful. having said that, it isn't like it everywhere, even as we speak, because i was talking earlier on about quite a raft of cloud going up through the eastern half of england. so there is a variation on the theme of warm and dry etc, associated with the high pressure. that has been our friend for many fred couples days now. i towards the west, first signs ofa now. i towards the west, first signs of a crumble. they're the suggestion that cloud down towards the south—west, and this is why i was
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dot dot dotting, these showers will drift along towards wales and the midlands as we move through the day. midlands as we move through the day. not ever when he gets them, but it is different to what we have seen is late, still late, is different to what we have seen is late, still 26 in the london area, widely on the warm side, there is the weather front, closing all the while towards the north—western quarter. those thunderstorms, if thatis quarter. those thunderstorms, if that is what they become, become quite widespread food northern and eastern parts of england as we get into the small hours, and that weather front very much closer to west of scotland, through northern ireland and into western wales, the irish sea coast, still a closed sort of night. and here we go for sunday, dry enough across the south—east to start the day, and then in comes the weather front, and this start the day, and then in comes the weatherfront, and this is going start the day, and then in comes the weather front, and this is going to ta ke weather front, and this is going to take away your sunshine for a wee while. it is a front with rain associated with it, it is still warm ahead of it, but the cold front is doing what it says on the tin, introducing cold air from the north and west, but not in time, as i have been badgering view with all through the morning,
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for the marathon runners. whether you are running watching, you will be in hazy sunshine for quite some time, and you will get dehydrated if you don't take precautions. enough said, iam you don't take precautions. enough said, i am not your mum. you don't take precautions. enough said, iam not your mum. then you don't take precautions. enough said, i am not your mum. then this is much more seasonal, this looks like a is much more seasonal, this looks likea pro, is much more seasonal, this looks like a pro, and here comes the weather front. more cloud and rain getting across the north channel to the west of scotland to the north—west of england, in through wales, clouding up in the south—west, but those temperatures are much closer, if notjust a fraction above what we would expect for the time of year, and next week looks a lot more like april than this past week has done for many, cooler and breezy, and there will be many in the forecast as well. thank you very much, phil we will see you later on. you're watching breakfast from bbc news, it's time now for a look at the newspapers. the writer and broadcaster, simon fanshawe, is here to tell us what's caught his eye. good morning. are you well?|j
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good morning. are you well? i think so. good. have a look at the front pages before we figure out what you have picked out inside. the daily telegraph, the big picture is daniel craig and rachel weisz, his wife, who have announced they are expecting a baby. and in the times, child slave gangs go free, police also looking at the attacks in salisbury. this times investigation saying that police are failing to investigate and thousands are being viewers with promises of football and modelling, leo to britain on the promise of trials at football clubs. on the front page of the mail, if you use an illegal to get rid of your rubbish, they put it somewhere that they shouldn't, it is the
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householders who could be find, and the guardian focusing in on arsene wenger‘s departure. . simon, you have taken a look at this 21—year—old woman who has been attacked with acid. that is before and after, the picture of horror in her 2ist and after, the picture of horror in her 21st birthday, and the bloke on the bottom rightjohn tomlin, he threw acid over her, and that is on the that is her brother on the left, it is right in his right hand side. there doesn't appear to be any motivation for this,. this guy was arrested after handing himself into police. he has been diagnosed as emotionally unstable with a personality disorder which was worsened by a heavy use of cannabis,
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and he claimed he was carrying a bottle of acid sea of drug dealers, to rob drug dealers, he says. this is bizarre, that people are getting access to this kind of stuff, it is easy to buy things like sulphuric acid, and you can see the level of damage that it does to people. it is just unimaginable. but the worst thing is, it is getting more and more common. a record number of attacks in london last summer. 406 defour compared with 395 the last year. and we were talking a moment ago about windrush, and how this has played out, and as a lwa ys and how this has played out, and as always with these big stories, it is the individual cases that draw your attention to what has gone wrong. the reason i picked this one is that i hadn't picked up on this policy operated in this direction, in other words quite a lot of the stories have been about people here in britain who are being threatened with deportation, so called back to places that have never been in. and this woman here, gretel, she went to
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jamaica, but she can't get back in because they say she hasn't got a visa. she has a jamaican because they say she hasn't got a visa. she has ajamaican passport with unlimited right to remain here. she worked here, went back for her sister's wedding or some such, and she had her passport stolen, so she had a new passport, but they say it didn't have the right permissions on, so she is separated. she went over to see family members, but can't get back. so what is happening, her daughter is getting her benefit because she is 80 something and sending it to her there because it is the only means of support she has got, so now the social security people are saying they want the 19 ground back. and those apologies, they don't mean much. why don't they just those apologies, they don't mean much. why don't theyjust do something? just do it, get on and solve the problem. you have taken a
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look at jonathan agnew‘s solve the problem. you have taken a look atjonathan agnew‘s comments. he has been speaking on a pod cast, and how many times have you been told when you are ill, go to the doctor, don't look up your symptoms on the internet, because it will make you more scared and probably won't be as accurate. he was talking to summary called rachel bland, and the contrast is that when his wife, emma, got cancer, they made a pact between each other not to look at the internet, not to look stuff, just go to the doctor and follow the advice of their oncologist. rachel bland's husband, steve, said he wished his wife and here followed the same example, because they went online and got completely confused because you don't have the expertise to put the information you discover into any kind of context. symptoms are not random. what oncologists do is they link them all up, they make a pattern and look for patterns. so it is just good advice as ever. a pattern and look for patterns. so it isjust good advice as ever. but it isjust good advice as ever. but it isjust good advice as ever. but it is kind of irresistible. this
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happened to be about cancer, but it isa happened to be about cancer, but it is a natural thing to try to seek information. absolute, itook is a natural thing to try to seek information. absolute, i took some pills the other day and went to look at the side—effects. i am almost crippled undead! tha nkfully crippled undead! thankfully you are not! well worth saying that mr agnew‘s wife is due to return to work, back next month. it is good. so finishing up on this story, you had besic splaine. what is this story? the story is that people tend to think if they are just overweight, they are at risk of heart, but what this is saying is you may not be overweight, your body mass index may be reasonable, but if you have a spare tire, what they are saying is if your waist is larger than your hips, that is assigned according to the study that you are more likely to have heart disease.|j thought we knew this? have you not heard this before? no. am i imagining it? but you are as thin as
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a stick, you don't need to worry.|j do work hard to keep fit and keep healthy, and part of that was when i turned 40 did think, you need to think about this, because the weight sta rts think about this, because the weight starts shifting. so it's not that i am being snobbish about this at all. it is just that i had genuinely thought i had heard that this waste —— waist increase... thought i had heard that this waste -- waist increase... some people are not overweight that they have a spare tire. these researchers spent 15 years monitoring 1600 american residents aged over 45, so i suppose they have specifically looked at a group of people to try and determine. frankie, it scared me. i am going fora determine. frankie, it scared me. i am going for a run now. are you going to go and measure your waist relative to your hips?|j going to go and measure your waist relative to your hips? i can't bear that bit of news! i can imagine
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people around the country taking a little luck now. it is difficult to read the papers and suck your tummy in the same time! i tell you who can give you tips, matt tebbutt at saturday kitchen. surely you have to keep an eye on the old tummy? sam magri good morning, guys! i could have put money on that, but that was going to come my way! it is called a sea mless going to come my way! it is called a seamless link, matt. just a the measurements. what, me?! i would say a 32 inch legs, my wife would probably say 30, 34 waist. and what would your wife say about that? exactly the same as me! all that affectionately she called me lumpy the other day, which i wasn't sure about. i think that is a sign. what is going to make you lumpy in
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the kitchen today? again, another seamlessly! chris packham is our guest today. what is your idea of food hell? anything cloying in the mouth. so like rice pudding, my mum used to make wallpaper paste rice pudding. and what about heaven? my partner has recently introduced me to celeriac, and it is delicious, so iam big to celeriac, and it is delicious, so i am big on that. i don't eat meat andi i am big on that. i don't eat meat and i have cut down on fish, so seafood is something that i still eat. we also have two great chefs as well. sammy is here. what have you got for us? i am going to make at asparagus with feta cheese and meat to demonstrate the four elements of good cooking. and a welcome return to the show, gennaro is here.|j
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good cooking. and a welcome return to the show, gennaro is here. i am going to cook fresh pasta with thrawn, basil, garlic and chilli, and then! thrawn, basil, garlic and chilli, and then i will make a nice salad with broad beans because it is the season now. and ollie, lots of drinks for us? lots of italian dishes, so lots of italian wine! and you guys at home in charge of what chris beech at the end of the show, so chris beech at the end of the show, so go to the website, we will see you at ten. thank you, matt, look forward to it. headlines coming up injusta forward to it. headlines coming up injust a few forward to it. headlines coming up in just a few minutes. 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. president trump has tweeted that the announcement is "good news" for the world. our washington correspondent, chris buckler assesses the latest development.
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there is no doubt that the last few months have seen huge diplomatic leaps. remember, it was only the latter half of last year with 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 who really feel the pressure has to be kept up on pyongyang.
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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 battle over his life support. tom evans and kate james failed to persuade the supreme court that their son was being unlawfully
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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. 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
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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. saudi arabia has held its first public film screening almost 40 years after it was banned as un—islamic. tickets for the american superhero movie, "black pa nther", sold out in minutes. lifting the ban is part of a modernisation drive by crown prince mohammed bin salman. there are plans for several hundred new cinemas by 2030. we all like stories of adventure and here is one for you. 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
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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 off the coast of guyana. harry and ollie's father, macneill ferguson told us of his surprise at how far it had travelled. it's more than exceeded our expectations. when we initially put her out to sea at peterhead we hoped we would be lucky enough to get across the other side of the sea, but to get to three different countries was more than we could have hoped for. so the atlantic adventure has just become the stuff of dreams. it has been brilliant. the newsline to emerge from that was
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that bob the monkey was on the rigging and we think he has gone.- didn't make it. we had a moment for bob. if anyone finds him, please let us know. you can let ollie and harry know. you can let ollie and harry know. and you can follow the story of ollie, harry and the boat adventure by searching for ‘the days arejust packed' online. tell us about a manager's rise and then demise. 22 years he has been manager of arsenal but this will be his last season in charge. he has got some impressive ties in his time and when he came in in 1996john major was prime minister. damon hill was the formula 1 champion and boyzone were top of the charts, so he has seen it all. i still think
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their hair matches. charlie's has a more natural flow to it. their hair matches. charlie's has a more naturalflow to it. shall we get some reaction to his departure? this was some of the news yesterday. breaking news, arsene wenger is leaving arsenal football club. it has been confirmed he will leave the club at the end of the season after over 20 years in charge. a couple of cup wins have glossed over the cracks, but i think it's the right time. i'm very sad that he's going. i wonder who we are going to get next. first of all i am shocked, i didn't see it coming. he had a year left on his contract and i thought that he would do it, but unfortunately he is not. iam sad. arsene often said his aim was to leave the club in a better position than when he found it.
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well, we are in a better place today than we could ever have imagined 22 years ago. # there's only one arsene wenger, one arsene wenger, there's only one arsene wenger. he presided over three league titles and seven fa cups and then who can forget the invincible is a' season. we can speak now with bob wilson, a former arsenal player and coach who worked with wenger for a long time. the man away from the dugout, you know him very well and your family personally. he has helped you a great deal. yes, first of all i would say he was a shy, caring academic. when you first saw him it was everybody who was there, experienced pros at the time with
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quite caring for a drink at night and this guy came in a little bit like a schoolteacher, but they all bought into it. he had the ability to extra ct bought into it. he had the ability to extract the very best from the talent he had. he people like thierry henry, robert piraeus, ian wright and dennis bergkamp even, he got them to express themselves in a way that they probably never ever would have attained what was within them. it was his ability to do that ina very them. it was his ability to do that in a very different and special way. i would say a visionary way. i am talking about rehyd ration i would say a visionary way. i am talking about rehydration training methods. all the things you need to get to the top to win trophies. he has been nicknamed the professor. he cuts a studious looked at times, calm and considered. is that how he is away from the dugout?” calm and considered. is that how he is away from the dugout? i would say there is an inherent shyness about him, but he is so caring of other
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people. he helped us, and we had a majorfamily issue people. he helped us, and we had a major family issue and he was extraordinary at that time and a lwa ys extraordinary at that time and always wanted to know where we were at. he had an ability to almost become one of the medical people that we were dealing with at the time. i neverforget being on tour with him and he made me sit beside him on the front of the code after a training session and he would talk about where anna was that with the treatment and he would talk about human spirit and her medical science if we could just keep it going, we would catch up. he is an extraordinary man in that way. i believe almost anything he turned his hand too, with him he is so knowledgeable and so full of knowledge, that i feel he could have been a politician, he could have done almost anything and succeeded. but in the football world he came in
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ata time but in the football world he came in at a time when managers would be shouting and screaming at half—time and he never did that, that was never his style. and all those players who are now responding, who knew him so well and those who won all the major trophies, it makes me laugh people are saying he has won nothing there for ages. there are plenty of clubs who would love three fa cups in the last few years. but i hope the invincible ‘s and that season will be the legacy that will maintain his greatness and legendary status forever, certainly with arsenalfans status forever, certainly with arsenal fans and with football fans throughout the world. you talk about the fa cup success, and they have not won the league in 14 years. why do you think of late they have not been able to match chelsea and manchester city? do you think it should be a former arsenal player who comes in to replace him? let's a nswer who comes in to replace him? let's answer the first part of that. with
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the amazing exception of leicester city does not years ago, you now win the premier league, and sadly it is no longer a level playing field like it was in my day, it is now about money, money and money. if you can afford to spend £250 million buying the best players around, you should be winning the title or coming close to it. arsenal have a different setup to having ramallah abramowitz m, setup to having ramallah abramowitz in, or other clubs. obviously you are looking at how you can keep up and have players and be able to go out there and by the very best players. that is what has really changed in that respect. it is charlie here. so interesting hearing your musings on management styles. you were talking about arsene wenger‘s rather studious and
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composed approach. with all your yea rs of composed approach. with all your years of experience, which works best? the shanty one or the quiet, calm and inspiring one? on a long—term basis, we are talking about 22 years, on a long—term basis you would go for the calm method. the real in—your—face, the sort of things i used to hear at half—time was when i used to go by the dressing room of the opposition at highbury and dressing room of the opposition at highburyandi dressing room of the opposition at highbury and i could hear the manager screaming and shouting and i used to laugh. it can work short—term, but it will never work long—term. in the end they will go, we have heard all this before. so long—term that will never, ever work. i mean, i have never personally ever seen arsene lose his rag. i have never seen him shout or yell at players. and even with all the intensive sort of increasing
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disrespect in the last few years coming he has taken that on the chin in the most amazing gentlemanly manner. i am very fortunate often to be invited into the director ‘s‘ box at arsenal and he comes in 30 minutes before any game and he goes around the box saying hello to people, shaking hands, saying, how are you doing? i don't know any other manager who does that 20 minutes before the kick—off in a game. he is so different. he is the greatest manager in the history of arsenal football club and i just hope, and! arsenal football club and i just hope, and i think this is beginning to show, that everybody, even those who had lost faith in him, will give him exactly what he deserves because his greatness will be there today and tomorrow and beyond. his greatness will be there today and tomorrow and beyondm his greatness will be there today and tomorrow and beyond. it will be and tomorrow and beyond. it will be a special sendoff for arsene wenger. whether he will continue in football we will wait and see. a fascinating
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insight to hear about you and your family and how different management styles were in football. it has been really interesting. thank you very much, bob. it is like friends or parents who are bad—tempered. you have got the sha nty are bad—tempered. you have got the shanty one and it almost becomes like white noise. that will only work for so long. it is when all of a sudden they do it, then you listen. and now we are talking about the fa cup. and now we are talking about the fa cup. 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 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
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next season, they're back in the automatic promotion places after beating milwall. and scoring goals like this 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. busy morning of tennis where gb‘s fed cup team have levelled their tie at one all with japan. first to play was heather watson against naomi osaka, who is ranked 55 places higher, she lost in straight sets. these are the play—offs to get to world group two, the next level of the competition. but british number onejohanna konta fought back for her side. she beat kurumi nara 6—4, 6—2 to make it one—all. the reverse singles and doubles will take place early tomorrow morning from four o'clock. all the action will be live on the bbc sport website. i think throughout the whole match she did an incrediblejob of rising
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to the occasion and she definitely used the energy of the crowd and the crowd have been great for them. so i think she did a really good job of using that and she made it very hard for me out there. i knew straightaway going into the match that it wasn't going to be an easy match and that i was going to have to earn my way to get an opportunity to come through as the winner today. gloucester are through to the final of the european challenge cup. they beat newcastle 33 points to 12, 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. 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. the matches gets under way at about
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ten o'clock. they could have bright sunshine outside, but it will remain the same within. some venues never change. yes, you are right, unless you open the windows. but it is the atmosphere, that is the whole thing. thank you very much. ten minutes to ten. look at this. talking about dark and moody, look at this. this is london. and this is the view outside our studio. a bit hazy. it is going to be a lovely day. i don't know if it is going to last. philip is here, bringing doom. don't shoot me, iam is here, bringing doom. don't shoot me, i am still a bit shocked by charlie getting all dark and moody.
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i have got sunshine aplenty and i am making the most of it because it may not stay that way. already it is not like that every web. we have seen some cloud working its way up the eastern side of england. even before we get to this, and you will whether you like it or not, we have got high pressure and variations underneath that. it is dry. moving away from the channel islands up towards the west country there is a mass of cloud which has probably got some showers in it and has probably got the potential for the showers to get quite sharp and perhaps turn into thunderstorms on what will be another warm day. it will be warm and dry all the way up the eastern side of scotland and this afternoon in the western isles
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it clouds over. there are thunderstorms there perhaps. the potential is there in northern and eastern england and overnight and into the small hours. all the while that weather front creeps in. sunday is not going to be as rosy as it might be, given that this weather front will topple its way across pretty much all part of the british isles. ahead of it it is unseasonably warm and the chance of one or two quite sharp showers. but it does introduce cooler, fresher and more seasonal conditions. but the bulk of the marathon for those running in it and spectating, it you will have to contend with really warm weather. all the advice about hydrating and sun block and pollen is all absolutely pertinent. monday is all absolutely pertinent. monday isa is all absolutely pertinent. monday is a different kettle of fish. after
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a dry and bright start, things cloud overin a dry and bright start, things cloud over in northern ireland and then you get some rain and then it goes into the north—west of england and wales. many will stay dry and it will still be pleasantly warm rather than extremely hot as it has been in the last couple of days. next week it will be cooler. thank you very much, lovely to see you. you are not the harbinger of doom. you have invented a new word confucianism. i think it exists. it has been verified by the powers above. and you are the embodiment of it, charlie. if the recent spell of good weather has had you reaching
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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 craft spirits, artesan gins, vodkas, whiskies and liqueurs 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.
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welcome to the distillery. this is lincolnshire's first gin distillery in a garage in louth. start—up costs are minimal. the biggest outlay is the copper still. in this is what we distilled last night. last year alan bottomley quit hisjob, got a licence to produce spirits 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 people wondering what is going on in the garage? yes, i do. twelve months on they now produce 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 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.
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jamie baxter set up 17 of the uk's new distilleries and now he is helping to make gin in hull. it is 85.5% avb. it is pretty strong. 85% alcohol? roughly twice as strong as the finished gin. small—scale distilling was not allowed before 2006. it was only at that time customs and excise started to license small—scale distilleries. it is still a very young industry. and in the adjoining bar 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 tipple, this explosion of new brands shows no sign of slowing down. sarah corker, bbc news. it's more than ten months since the london bridge terror
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attack which left eight people dead and 48 injured. one of the wounded was charlie guenigault, 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. 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. for about three or four seconds, i thought, "this is it." for whatever reason, the attackers didn't stay to kill charlie,
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but they did leave him with serious injuries. initially, i had 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,
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to help them out in helping others. it might seem a huge challenge to go from a hospital bed to a marathon in less than one year but then, charlie's has already shown he'll run in where others wouldn't. carolyn davis, bbc news. from one charlie to another, i say very good luck to him. and good luck to everyone else. that is it from us today, goodbye. this is bbc news. i'm rachel schofield. the headlines at ten: north korea suspends all missile tests and announces its to shut down a nuclear test site south korea called the move "meaningful progress", with president trump hailing the announcement as big news. here, theresa may promises compensation to windrush immigrants who were unfairly threatened with deportation police arrest a man wanted
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in connection with a burglary in south east london —during which one intruder was fatally stabbed. #so # so wake me up when it's all over. . . tributes are paid to avicii, one of the world's biggest dance music stars, who has died at the age of 28. also in the next hour,
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