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graham satchell probably knew already. relegated from the prmier league last season, they dropped out of the championship this weekend. go to sunderland, they said, ask the fa ns go to sunderland, they said, ask the fans if they are happy. there's a report out about whether football makes fans happy or not. laughter you can understand sunderland fans being miserable. two home wins in the last 1a months, it's not great. i won't lie, it's not great. i'm so disappointed. 0h dear, oh dear. in these supporters association shop, we met this 91—year—old who has just won championship fan of the season. watching sunderland make you happy? not really, no. knowing the position we are in, people are hurt. you
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know, it fuzzy weekend. just hurts, it hurts. —— you know, it spoils your weekend. i should confess i'm not entirely impartial, i have been a sunderland fan for the whole of my life will. this is my uncle colin, one of the happiest people i have ever known. as the football this season made you happy? no. the football has been horrible this season, very disappointing and i'm really upset with it. he's not the only one. so does football make us happy or sad? professor peter dalton who supports newcastle has been studying football and happiness using an app, he asked fa ns to and happiness using an app, he asked fans to rate how they were feeling out of one to 100 before and after a game. you are twice as unhappy when
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your team loses as you are happy when your team wins. 0n your team loses as you are happy when your team wins. on average, it makes a sad and on the face of it, it's pretty rational to do, to be a football fan, it does not make sense. you would be better off doing something else. back at the stadium of light, sunderland have moss 2—1 and are relegated for the second yearin and are relegated for the second year ina and are relegated for the second year in a row. i'm angry, i have supported this team since 1939, hardly missed two games and i come and watch that idiot. i am worse than angry. you know he'll be back next season, because in the end this is not just about next season, because in the end this is notjust about being angry, happy 01’ is notjust about being angry, happy or sad. come rain or shine, the true fa ns or sad. come rain or shine, the true fans will be here every season because if you love your team, you will come regardless. if you final words of wisdom from uncle colin. you are always helpful your team will win. yourfriends you are always helpful your team will win. your friends and family
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that go. that's what you enjoy, you enjoy the day. even if an average football makes a sad, there is a lwa ys football makes a sad, there is always identity, family, hope. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. after days of recriminations, the government has sought to end the controversy surrounding the treatment of windrush migrants — by announcing that citizenship is to be granted to those who want it. in a commons statement, the home secretary, amber rudd, said fees for those applying for citizenship would now be waived and people would be exempted from taking the citizenship test. anyone from the windrush generation who now wants to become a british citizen will be able to do so and this builds on the steps that i have already taken. on 16th april, i established a taskforce in my department to make immediate arrangements to help those
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who needed it. this included setting up a helpline to get in touch with the home office and, let me be quite clear, this helpline and the information shared will not be used to remove people from the country. its purpose is to help and support. we can speak to the labour mp, david lammy, who's been avocal critic of the government on this matter. thank you forjoining us. citizenship fees, language tests waved, a powerful speedy compensation for the home secretary. what do you make of what she said this afternoon? —— a vow for speedy compensation from the home secretary. the children of windrush should never have had to go cap in hand to ask for a right for british citizenship, a right which was
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a lwa ys citizenship, a right which was always bears in the first place. my pa rents always bears in the first place. my parents came here part of the british empire, of course we were british. this is a moment where i welcome of course what the home secretary has said belatedly, there is detail we must get into, we do not have the detail on the compensation and there are some caribbean islands that will know, places like antigua, st lucia, grenade, think it's, but got their independence after 1973. many people from those islands were wondering whether they too will be able to get this british citizenship as they we re this british citizenship as they were pa rt of this british citizenship as they were part of the empire beyond 1973. clearly from your point of view there are some details that have been overlooked, do you feel the home office is ready to listen to the concerns of people like yourself, if the debate is now wide open? the home secretary has signalled a change, that's true. but
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this is because we were determined to create a hostile environment, and i saw that she changed that word today in the house and talked about a compliant environment. it still sounds a bit 0rwellian, compliant is a sort of control or oppress state, ijust think we a sort of control or oppress state, i just think we have to treat people humanely, particularly people from the former empire, so there are also people tonight from places like nigeria, uganda, kenya, india, bangladesh, who also came up here as pa rt bangladesh, who also came up here as part of that generation and they too do not want this horrible status of temporary leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain, huge fees in an environment hostile to them and their children. do you accept the point the home secretary made that in a way successive governments, and this plays into your point about the general environment on immigration,
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successive governments have introduced measures to combat illegal immigration since the 1980s which have had an unintended impact and have ended in the suffering of many people who had absolute right to be here but somehow the environment we created as a society was wrong? we have two police our borders of course, and we have to deal with those who are here illegally. but my god, i am so sad that people like me and a little bit older and have had to prove that we are british. 0r indeed that we are english. in 2018, what it means to be british or what it means to be english in fact is multicultural by definition of our history. that's what has been so embarrassing and upsetting about this moment, but actually for those caught up in it it's been a total nightmare that has
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broken lives. we have been way too harsh, we have been mean and mini malls, the home office has been way too obsessed with process and reducing numbers and not with humanity. i hope this leads to a bigger compensation in our national life about what it means to be british. thank you very much indeed. apologies for keeping that short but some breaking news to bring you. reports, i can only save reports from toronto that a white van has dropped numerous pedestrians, possibly eight to ten people we are hearing. toronto police reporting to a collision, numerous pedestrians struck by a white van. not much more information but we will keep you updated on that incident in toronto. now let's get the weather. something closer to
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april reality after last week's war. some rain at some stage for all of us. some rain at some stage for all of us. a weather system moving into this afternoon. northern and western scotla nd this afternoon. northern and western scotland overnight keeping showers, patchy rain sinking further south. pretty misty and murky around the hills of south—west england and wales. low single figures they do have clearer skies, particularly in scotland. into tomorrow, we keep a zone of cloud and outbreaks of rain to parts of england and wales on tuesday. northern england staying dry, further north, more bright spells. there will be showers developing, some heavy, not out of the question there could be a rumble of thunder. breezy as well. temperatures in the mid to low teens, and that's where we will stay as the week goes on. you are watching beyond 100 days.
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the bromance tested — emanuel macron comes to washington after working hard on his relationship with donald trump. trouble is, there is more these two men disagree on than they actually agree. it's not an easy marriage. which means the french president will need all his diplomatic skills to keep trump on board on key international issues. first of which is the iran nuclear deal. western allies are trying to lobby the white house not to pull out of the accord — we've reaction from tehran. also later tonight on the programme: ahead of the historic meeting between north and south korean leaders later this week, seoul switches off loudspeakers that broadcast propaganda across the border.
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