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parts of finch sn’f euer and western parts of england and wales. and that feature geyser a depth of the south. the blue that you see is the storms which could be triggered by the heat, 23 or 24. though the north and west, it is that little bit cooler and that is because the rain hangs around across the western side of scotland and becomes more showery, too late in the day, and the cooler regime behind that weather front, we are looking at around seven, eight, 9 degrees. that is how we start the new week, with bright weather at least for a time and then the rain from the west. this is bbc news. our latest headlines: social media companies are threatened with new laws by the health secretary if they don't do more to protect children online. he's accused them of "turning a blind eye" to the problems arising from social media use. ministers may increase the powers available to police
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and the security services to try and stop terror attacks at an early stage of planning. verne troyer, who is best known for playing mini—me in the austin powers films, has died at the age of 49. let's return now to the london marathon. our correspondent kate grey is there for us now. the king? -- how is it looking? lots of people waiting to see who will be the winner of the women's elite race. marry catania was leading in the early stages, but vivian caught up the early stages, but vivian caught up with and is now comfortably in front as we take a look at the final stages this race. she is out on her
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own. she still has the pacemakers with her. they will drop off, i am sure. she is being welcomed in by a brilliant support from the london crowd. she has paced this race and brilliantly. all eyes were on merely catania who was hoping to beat paula radcliffe's record which stood for many years. vivian cherry eight to cover in the latter part of the race. she continues to push on very co mforta ble. race. she continues to push on very comfortable. the cheers will now see she is well out in front and she will welcome the finish line. it's very hot out there. almost reaching 23 degrees. she is used to these temperatures. a brilliant finish for
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the kenyan athlete. she does not specialise in a road races. she is more of a cross country and track runner, but clearly she has found herform on the road and runner, but clearly she has found her form on the road and the runner, but clearly she has found herform on the road and the london marathon title will come to be hers. she is on the final stretch and we will see the finish line take a brilliant performance from the kenyan athlete. 26.2 miles. she has pacedit kenyan athlete. 26.2 miles. she has paced it brilliantly. lots of crowds here watching and supporting these athletes. over two hours and 20 minutes they have been out on the course. she crosses the line, arms in the air. absolutely over the moon to have won the marathon title. brilliant performance they vivian cheruiyot. clearly exhausted after
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what has been quite a long race and an impressive performance by the kenyan athlete. as i said, she is not specialise much on the road, has been more of a cross—country track athlete, but at 34 years old she has turned her attention to the road and clearly it has paid off. can't quite see who is coming in second position. last time we checked it was her team—mate. mary keitany, mary keita ny, who mary keitany, who was expected to win the race, dropped off quite some time ago. a brilliant result for the kenyan athletes. thriving in this heat. it will be a kenyan one dashed
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to at this london marathon. brilliant scenes for those working and watering, perhaps not so brilliant for those running as it is so brilliant for those running as it is so hot out there. brigid kosgei has crossed the line. huge cheers for the kenyan athlete. brilliant result they are. lots of cameras and photography taking place to catch these winning moments. they will receive cooling down treatments, water and the team—mates are congratulating each other. in the end, they were running on their own. it is difficult running a marathon without having your competitors around you. clearly pacing it just right. so are third medallist coming in
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now. again, receiving brilliant applause. these elite runners from kenya, i suppose the very hot conditions are not really a problem. for the 40,000 runners were doing the marathon today, for many of them, it will
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really be taking its toll, especially if they're trying to get a really good time? that's right. these temperatures are unusual for the british public. the african nations are used to this and they trained in conditions. a brilliant third medal position. mary keitany really is struggling towards the end. i think mary as an example of someone end. i think mary as an example of someone who perhaps went out a bit too hard, hoping to get the world record under her belt. unfortunately coming in in fourth position. disappointment for mary keitany. the masses are still out there and there is huge racing to be done. to update you on the men's race, mo farah is
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still within reaching distance of the leading pack, but he is up against some of the best marathon runners in the world. only his second full marathon. he will want to piece it, as they have been advised. earlier on, he was concerned about not getting access to his water bottle. but now he is finding his rhythm and is a little off the leading brilliant scenes. the support at this london marathon has been second to none. to confirm the finishing positions, it was kenya's vivian cheruiyot who took the lead. her team—mate took the silver. then it was kenenisa bekele who got the silver. mary keitany taking the fourth position. i think most athletes would agree they love competing here in london, the always get lots of support and assuming the
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paceit get lots of support and assuming the pace it right, they will cross the line and still have a smile on their faces. fantastic scenes. wonderful sunshine even though the temperatures are really very hot indeed today. as usual, fantastic crowds. earlier, we saw david weir winning the men's elite wheelchair race at the london marathon for an unbelievable eighth time, after a really thrilling sprint finish. look how close that was in the final stages of the wheelchair race. david weir once again triumphant. the eighth time he has won it. a little after that, he spoke to us about the experience. it is nice to be back on the streets of london and have a bit of time out last year to recharge the batteries, mentally more than physically. and i'm just really
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enjoying being back pushing again. training and racing. great to be back. to be honest, i didn't know how the performance would go. you have now retired from the track and all your energy goes into the road. teasing at is why you are feeling rejuvenated to raise even more? leading up to all the marathons i have done, it is always in the back of the mind, next week i have to go back on the track and lots of speed work, do this and get this qualifying time. now you can purely put all your into one distance, the marathon distance. that was david weir after winning the wheelchair race yet again at the london marathon. congratulations to him. much more on the marathon throughout the day on bbc news. now it's time for the film review
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with jane hill and mark kermode. hello, welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, mark kermode is back with us. what have you been watching, mark? hello. a strange week. we have every day, a teen romance with a difference. we have let the sunshine in, juliette binoche, in the new film by claire denis. and the awkwardly named the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society, which does exactly what it says on the tin. chuckles. what are you starting with? let's start with every day, which is adapted from a ya novel. it's basically a teen love story in which one of the characters, known as a, moves from body to body. every day they wake up, they are a different person.
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so our central character, rhiannon, finds herself essentially falling in love with somebody who, every time she sees them, is a different person. it sounds like an unworkable conceit and yet somehow, and against all expectations, it works rather well. here's a clip. why are you doing this? the day we met, i felt something i've never felt before. i don't want to let that go. about that day, how is it ok what you did? i let you kiss me because i thought you were justin. i — i told you something incredibly personal because i thought you were justin. you never would have understood. i was in his mind, rhiannon. iknow him. are you serious? i know him better than you do. he's my boyfriend. you know you shouldn't be with him. who should i be with, then, you? i mean, off the top of my
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head, that's an option. this isn't funny, a. this is so weird. i mean, today you're... not everyone's body aligns with their mind. but i'm not asking you to give vic a chance, rhiannon, i'm asking you to give me a chance. that line, that not everybody‘s body aligns with their mind, sort of sums up the central thesis of the film itself. i went in to see it having not seen any of the trailers and not knowing anything about it at all. at the very beginning, i had five minutes of thinking, "hang on, what's going on? where are we?" what i thought worked well about it was, that actually, it explained itself very clearly. i started to believe in the characters, although the conceit itself is, you know, unusual and supernatural. i thought the film had a really good heart. i mean, it was a film about the polymorphous perversity of love and the way in which you fall in love with a person and the essence of who that person is. it reminded me of a number of different things. at one point, they start talking about demonic possession and it reminded me of thejohn wyndham novel, chocky, which i read when i was young and i really, really liked it. there was a film recently, a swedish film called girls lost, which was a sort of body swap movie. and then there was a japanese anime
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that we reviewed here on the show a year or so ago called your name which was about a boy and a girl separated by distance and time who swap bodies and start experiencing life from each other‘s perspective. and all of those things came to mind in the middle of this, which is also working as a completely functional teen romance. it was jolly, it was fun, it had a kind of sense of adventure. and i was really impressed by how well it pulled off this quite complicated conceit. because it's sounding complicated, i'll be quite honest with you. but is it aimed at adolescents? it's absolutely a ya film. and partly when i was watching at the beginning, i thought, "ok, i'm not going to engage with this because obviously i'm a 58—year—old man. whatever it is, i'm not the target audience." but the thing about it is it's made well. it's made in a way that tells its story in a way
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that is perfectly understandable and entertaining. and also, as i said, i think it has its heart is in the right place. the central sort of message of the film is really interesting. it manages to pull off that weird supernatural conceit in a way that makes you think, "ok, i buy this." and the real trick of this kind of movie is to make you think, "ok, that is a really complicated and vaguely absurd idea, but it's ok, i don't mind, i'll go with it." i'm buying it, yeah. i did go with it and it works surprisingly well. i went in knowing nothing about it at all. i was confused for about five minutes and then i was completely there. and i really enjoyed it and i was really surprised, really pleasantly surprised. well, and that's always a good thing. it is. now, the return of a great film—maker and the wonderful juliette binoche. juliette binoche in let the sunshine in, which is a mistra nslation of the original french title. so claire denis, who has an extraordinary career as a film—maker. this is a bit of an oddity. juliette binoche plays somebody who is an artist, who is discontent, who is single, who is pinballing between a series of unfulfilling relationships. the structure of the film, although it is broadly linear,

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