tv Afternoon Live BBC News April 25, 2018 2:00pm-5:00pm BST
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hello, you're watching afternoon live. i'm simon mccoy. today at 2: angry exchanges in the commons over the windrush scandal. the labour leader says the buck stops with home secretary amber rudd. the current home secretary inherited a failing policy and made it worse. is it not time she took responsibility and resigned? a danish inventor is sentenced to life in prison for the murder ofjournalist kim wall on his submarine. two days after life support was withdrawn from the seriously ill toddler alfie evans, his parents prepare to go back to court over his treatment. two men from rome are arrested after a 53—year—old man was left critically ill following an attack before liverpool's champions league semi—final against roma last night. coming up on afternoon live: all the sport, with hugh. we will be reflecting on a big story in tennis. an independent review commissioned by the tennis integrity unit has discovered there is a very significant problem with betting
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related pictures to their code. beneath the elite level of tennis. we will have more on that and the next steps for keeping tennis queen in the next hour. thanks. and the weather. the taste of summer has reverted back to spring, the shower clouds gathering and there are plenty of them the rest of the afternoon. thanks, louise. also coming up: the remarkable images of a foiled robbery from mexico. after a man walked into a store carrying a gun, it fell to one man — in a cowboy hat — to stop him. hello, everyone. this is afternoon live. the row over the windrush scandal erupted in the house of commons once again today, withjeremy corbyn calling on the home secretary,
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amber rudd, to resign, claiming she had inherited a "failing policy" and made it "worse". the ‘hostile environment‘ strategy — aimed at those illegally in the country — led to some members of the "windrush generation" wrongly facing deportation. the finger—pointing over who was to blame was at the heart of a feisty prime minister's questions. our political correspondent, eleanor garnier, reports. who should we let in? how many should be welcomed? just how strict should our rules around immigration be? the debate‘s now firmly reopened, after the windrush scandal revealed, despite being here legally, many have struggled to prove their right to remain — after immigration rules were tightened. it has led to questions about the government's whole approach to migrants. are you at odds with the prime minister? now the foreign secretary has apparently called for an amnesty for illegal migrants with an impeccable record, who have been here for more than ten years. it has all left the prime minister defending her immigration targets.
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the windrush generation are not illegal. they are not illegal. they are here legally. that is why we are providing the support to enable them to get the documents for their status. what we are talking about, what the right honourable gentleman, the leader of the opposition, is talking about is whether or not we should deal with illegal immigration. and up and down this country, the british public will tell him we should deal with illegal immigration. but the labour leader says enough is enough. the current home secretary inherited a failing policy and made it worse. isn't it time she took responsibility and resigned? it's a difficult dilemma for the government. the prime minister believes voters want strong immigration controls and she has always supported an aggressive approach to try and drive down the numbers
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of people coming here. but after so many stories of harsh treatment, it seems getting the balance right between individual human lives and tough policy isn't easy. as brexit nears, the uk's immigration policies are worrying negotiators in brussels. but the brexit secretary says there's no need to worry. our treatment of the european citizens in the uk, it was a moral imperative and that is how we have treated it. that is what we intend to do. as we have seen with the windrush generation, what the government intends to do and what actually happens doesn't always match up. it's a tough debate for politicians, just and down the country. eleanor garnier, bbc news. our assistant political editor, norman smith, is at westminster for us. a lot of finger—pointing. yes, it is
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the hoping government circles was that monday's statement by the home secretary weather was pretty much an exemption granted to those windrush families and their children who wa nted families and their children who wanted to remain has not put this issue to bed. amber rudd will appear before the home affairs select committee in the next couple of hours and i can tell you the committee have now written back to miss rudd with a list of, wait for it, 23 questions they want answered. such as, how many people, if any, have been deported ? such as, how many people, if any, have been deported? what sort of compensation is going to be offered? who is going to get the compensation? what other changes to the hostile environment immigration policy? so a lot of questions still out there. but the politics of it seemed to be becoming even more complicated for the prime minister, not just because of complicated for the prime minister, notjust because of her role as home secretary, but because of the
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details that have emerged about that extraordinary exchange between boris johnson and theresa may in cabinet we re johnson and theresa may in cabinet were bridged publicly confronted mrs may over her approach to immigration, calling for a may over her approach to immigration, calling fora more generous approach to windrush families, suggesting that more commonwealth families should be granted exemptions, but also suggesting there should be an amnesty for illegal immigrants. bear in mind mrs may has made immigration, driving it down to the tens of thousands, part of her political raison d'etre. she is one of the few cabinet ministers to stick rigidly to that objective. and yet here you have borisjohnson in cabinet, in front of colleagues, saying, i think instead, we should have an amnesty, which would probably apply to hundreds of thousands more people able to claim citizenship. meanwhile, there's pressure on amber rudd, jeremy corbyn calling on her to resign, she is appearing about the select
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committee later and her days not going to get easier. no, she will face very detailed specific questions. on monday, we got the big picture, we had the assurances about how there would be no fees and no tests for windrush families and their children. a lot of detail we did not get. who is going to be eligible for compensation. she also mooted the idea she was prepared to review those commonwealth families who have come here after 1973, the cut—off date for the windrush families, but before 1988. that is a much bigger group of people. not entirely clear what that means. does it mean all those will equally be 110w it mean all those will equally be now eligible to stay? so there is a lot of detail that still has to be ironed out. and very often, these complex stories of nailing down that detail could be the hardest part. for now, norman, thank you very
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much. and just to let you know that tomorrow, we'll have a special day of brexit coverage here on the news channel, from gibraltar. with just 11 months until brexit, join me tomorrow and i will be looking at what is at stake for gibraltar and how this rock on the southern tip of spain could affect negotiations. a danish inventor has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of the swedish journalist kim wall. she was invited to interview peter madsen aboard his homemade submarine. but 11 days later, her dismembered remains were found at sea. maddy savage reports from copenhagen. kim wall. a promising freelance journalist from sweden, who loved to travel. last august, she was about to move to china with her danish boyfriend. but first, she had one last story to finish. in the same neighbourhood here in copenhagen where the young couple had been living, she boarded a submarine built by peter madsen, a danish inventor she'd been wanting to interview.
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but a day later, the submarine sank and he was rescued, without kim. peter madsen changed his story about what happened three times. he initially said he'd dropped kim off safely. then said she died when a door hatch fell on her head. in court, he admitted cutting up her body, but argued she'd died from toxic fumes on the submarine first. but during the trial, the prosecutor painted a picture of a man with narcissistic and psychopathic tendencies, who relished watching violent videos and set out to kill the journalist. he just didn't care about anything else. so he was not so caring about, you know, other people, if they couldn't help him out. he was loving with people who could help him out, but if he didn't see any purpose for you, you might as well just disappear. the case has grabbed headlines around the world. some have drawn parallels to horror movies and nordic noir crime thrillers. something many here in scandinavia have found upsetting. i think it's a safe area for the normal population.
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this is a very unusual case. you've been in touch with kim wall's family during the investigation. how are they doing? of course, they have had a terrible time, missing their daughter. and then all through the investigation and now during the trial, when they get to see all the evidence. and i can't imagine what they go through and i feel truly sorry for them. kim wall's friends and relatives have set up a foundation in her memory to help support other female journalists. they hope she won'tjust be remembered for the way she died, but as a brave reporter who can continue to inspire others. maddie savage, bbc news, copenhagen. two days after life support was withdrawn from the seriously ill toddler alfie evans, a senior family courtjudge is preparing to hear the case over his treatment. alfie, who's almost two, has a degenerative brain condition. his parents want to take him to italy for care.
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they're considering challenging a high court ruling preventing him from being taken there for treatment. doctors at alder hay hospital, in liverpool, say it's in the child's best interests to withdraw life support. jon donnison reports. alfie eva ns‘ parents say their little boy has been off life—support now for more than 36 hours. they say the toddler has defied doctors by managing to breathe unaided. like alfie, his father says he is still fighting. we want to go to italy. everyone's ready, alfie's ready, so now we see what the three judges and the court of appeal can do for us. and even if we don't achieve to get to italy, then the judge is still offering us a chance to get home. overnight, alfie's supporters continued their vigil. his parents, advised by the christian legal centre, are deciding whether to take their case to the court of appeal this afternoon,
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but every court so far has sided with the doctors' advice. nothing more can be done. legally, the question is fairly straightforward. the decision is going to be one about how best to serve alfie's best interests, and that will draw very heavily on the medical opinion. so if the medical opinion is that withdrawing treatment is in alfie's best interests, then that is what the judges will lean towards. the case has ignited strong passions. on monday, alfie's supporters tried to storm alder hey. today, the alfie's army facebook campaign group called for people to bring ventilation equipment to the hospital. what seems to have happened with the use of social media and social media being involved is that these complex, very grey areas of medical ethics have been distilled into a simple you're right, you're wrong, black—and—white choice, and itjust isn't as simple as that. and i think as a consequence of that, we have seen what is going on outside alder hey
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because there are people who firmly believe that the doctors in there are making the wrong decision. the court of appeal may have to decide if that is true. but for alfie and his family, the legal options are running out. we don't know for sure whether this next step is being taken that is right, there is a lot of uncertainty around this case and last—minute legal applications. we know the court of appeal was due to be sitting from 2pm to hear an application if one was made. at one of the lawyers is running late. nothing will happen before 2:15 p:m.. then we have to see whether the family want to make an application or not. last night, the indication was alfie's father, tom, wa nted indication was alfie's father, tom, wanted to appeal against this ruling that alfie could not be taken to a hospital in italy. but it may be that overnight, alfie's father, tom,
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has changed his mind and he wants to concentrate on an effort to get his son home for a few days. the latest we heard from tom evans this morning, speaking, he said, iagree to getting us home because i could not take any more of this court case is being denied. so there may have been a change of heart from the father. his lawyers, from the christian centre, they are here in court ready to argue the case if the father wants to go ahead with it. but they are taking instructions from him so we willjust have to wait and see if there is any argument in the court this afternoon. as we have heard all along, as these legal steps, the options run out, at the heart of the case is alfie's best interests. that is right. this court and all the courts will not be ruling in the interests of the hospital or in the interests of the hospital or in the interests of the parents, it is the child himself whose interests they
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will be ruling game. and it is worth making the point that alfie has a court—appointed guardian who will argue the case for him, irrespective of what the hospital think is best for him or what his parents think is best for him. but the attitude of the high court, the appeal court has been the same all along. since this was first in the court in february. that is that essentially, alfie is brain—dead. he cannot hear or see or taste. his family say that he responds to hogs and that he likes eating chocolate. the response of the court and the medical experts they are relying on is that that is just an epileptic reaction to those imports. and to continue with alfie being on life support, in their view, is futile. so that is why the court ordered the ventilation should
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be withdrawn 36 hours ago. so alfie is surviving now just be withdrawn 36 hours ago. so alfie is surviving nowjust with a little oxygen 110w is surviving nowjust with a little oxygen now and again and a little water. but the ventilation has been removed. his family say, the fact he is still alive 36 hours later proves that all the doctors were wrong. the gorgeous today, somebody said that is not the case, doctors never said he would die immediately, but he will die. certainly, all the medical evidence from the hospital, even from the representatives of tom, alfie's father, they all agree that alfie's father, they all agree that alfie will die at some stage. that his condition is terminal. it is just a question of how and when and in what circumstances. thank you very much, from the high court. labour is promising to settle ‘the vast majority‘ of the outstanding cases of alleged anti—semitism by the end ofjuly. dozens of labour mps marched in support of a jewish colleague, as she prepared to give evidence at the disciplinary hearing of a suspended party member accused of anti—semitism. the disciplinary hearing will decide whether marc wadsworth should be kicked out of the party.
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the director of a yachting management company has been acquitted of the manslaughter of four sailors who died when the cheeki rafiki yacht sank in the mid—atla ntic. a jury found douglas innes, from southampton, not guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence following a retrial at winchester crown court, after a previous jury failed to reach verdicts on the charges. thejury had heard how the cheeki rafiki capsized after losing her keel on the return delivery from antigua in may 2014. you‘re watching afternoon live. these are our headlines: jeremy corbyn calls for the home secretary to resign, as the prime minister defends the government‘s immigration policy a danish inventor is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of swedish journalist kim wall on his submarine. as we‘ve been hearing, two days after life support
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was withdrawn from the seriously ill toddler alfie evans, his parents are deciding whether to go back to court over his treatment. in sport, a long—awaited report into corruption in professional tennis says there is evidence that it has taken root at lower says there is evidence that it has ta ken root at lower levels says there is evidence that it has taken root at lower levels of the professional game. the liverpool managerjurgen klopp has hailed his world —class managerjurgen klopp has hailed his world—class forward mohamed salah after the egyptian helped them to a big win in the champions league semifinals. having announced he was stepping down as arsenal‘s manager after 22 yea rs, down as arsenal‘s manager after 22 years, their boss arsene wenger has said the decision to leave at the end of this season was not made by him. and two—time champion mark williams is through to the second round of the world snooker championship after a 10—5 victory overjimmy robertson. i will be back with more just after half past. the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has called for a change in culture within government and institutions. it says there must be "open and frank" discussions about child sexual abuse in order to tackle the problem.
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the interim report said "all too often" organisations put the reputation of their leaders and staff before the welfare of children. our home affairs correspondent, danny shaw, is here. what were the main points of the report? i think the main thrust of this report is that the has to be a different way of discussing child sexual abuse and of a society, we have to be more open and frank in the way that we do discuss this particular issue. it spoke to a large number of april and it analysed the way in which this issue was discussed. it said there were three dominant categories. one was a that deflected responsibility from the perpetrator or institutions involved. another was a category thatis involved. another was a category that is denied that harm was caused by abuse. and finally, refusal to accept abuse had taken place at all. it said, we need to get to a position to get advice to young
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people and children about how to stay safe and we can have open and frank conversations. i think that is the overall message from this, as well as issues for political leaders and leaders of institutions, who need to accept responsibility rather than prioritising their own reputations. what about disciplinary recommendations? there are 18 recommendations? there are 18 recommendations in this report. i picked out just recommendations in this report. i picked outjust a couple i think are really important. the first concerns the police service. it is saying that police officers who want to go for promotion and have aims of getting to the top of this, high rank, they need to have experience, operational experience of dealing with child sexual abuse. responding to reports or preventing reports. that needs to be clearly evidenced. the other issues around compensation, criminal injury compensation, criminal injury compensation schemes, it is very difficult if not impossible for somebody who has convictions to get compensation for the abuse they have
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suffered. but in some cases, those convictions, that criminal record is linked to the abuse they have suffered. for example, somebody that has been groomed to commit an offence. it is saying this scheme should be amended so there is no automatic rejection of compensation claims from people in that position. finally, it says there should be a registration scheme for those caring for young people in care homes. at the moment, there is no such scheme, and it calls for that scheme to be set up independently. thank you very much. a 53—year—old man is in a critical condition after he was attacked outside anfield last night before liverpool‘s champions league semi—final against roma. two men from rome have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. the victim, who‘s thought to be a liverpool fan from ireland, has a head injury and is being treated in hospital. a warning that david ornstein‘s report contains images some viewers might find upsetting. and ugly side of the so—called beautiful game. the build—up to one
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of the biggest matches of the season marred by violence. the won fans have a history of question with supporters of english clubs including liverpool and last night, that troubling trend continued. i was here working with the bbc team last night just behind that fence that you can see when a large group of roma fans came from behind where the camera is now in a calm way, balaclavas and hoods. i have worked at many football matches but this was extremely intimidating. they rushed at and attack liverpool supporters. i managed to capture some of it on my phone. there was one man lying flat on his back outside the albert pub. amongst those who attended to him was a female
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steward who risked her own safety whilst the skirmishes were still going on with the roma fans using belts as weapons. i saw a man with a hammer in his hand, he was not part of the roma group, bottles were thrown and the liverpool fans then rushed the roma fans away from the stadium but at this point, i still saw no police. and then eventually, they arrived. they pushed the incident away from the stadium. this is just the first leg of this type, liverpool were the winners on the pitch to put themselves in a commanding position to which the champions league final. the second leg is in rome next wednesday so perhaps we have not heard the last of the story yet. the authorities, the european football governing body over there could be worse, there will be less liverpool fans and more of them. there were young kids last night. there were throwing flares about. uefa, the european
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football governing body, have called the scenes vile and they will now be looking to avoid a repeat of them in the italian capital a week from today. the bbc‘s director of news and current affairs, fran unsworth, has told a high courtjudge that journalists had a public interest responsibility to cover a police search of sir cliff richard‘s home. sir cliff, who was never arrested or charged, is suing the corporation claiming an invasion of privacy. our correspondent, helena lee, is at the high court. sir cliff richard arriving on day ten of his privacy case against the bbc. the singer has been hearing evidence from the director of news at the corporation, fran unsworth. she was the one who gave the go—ahead to name the singer in their news coverage. it was, she said, in the public interest. south yorkshire police have confirmed that they are searching a property in berkshire and bicycle if richard. in court,
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fran unsworth said she didn‘t think these pictures filmed from a helicopter of the singer‘s home being searched by police were intrusive. the singer was not on the property, she said. but sir cliff‘s barrister justin property, she said. but sir cliff‘s barristerjustin rush book qc questioned her. now four years later, does it strike you that other people would take a different view? she replied, yes, it does, because with the benefit of four years of looking back and listening to sir cliff in this court, it is clear that other people take a different view about the intrusive nature of those helicopter shots. fran u nsworth those helicopter shots. fran unsworth also told court that she had given direction to colleagues in the newsroom not to show live pottage from the helicopter. she was asked, why, then, well i‘ve pictures shown at 3:a6pm that afternoon? i can only conclude it was a mistake, she said. she is continuing her evidence this afternoon. time for a look at the weather. she is in dubrovnik, by the look of
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it! a week ago, we had our summer, gorgeous weather across the uk. well, it is now in croatia, they have had record—breaking temperatures. 29 degrees close to zagreb. the warmest april day ever. very nice indeed. it is going to stay. unlike us, a quick blip and back to normal. for them, it will stay warm until the weekend and not just close to croatia. some of that warmth will spread north to the baltic states. so here, temperatures could be ten, 12 degrees above the average for the time of year. so very nice indeed. we still looking green and horrible! yes, unfortunately. business as usual, i think, yes, unfortunately. business as usual, ithink, is yes, unfortunately. business as usual, i think, is the phrase. yes, unfortunately. business as usual, ithink, is the phrase. lots of april showers in the next days. but some is coming? may, june and july is on the way! it
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is going to be cool and showery, i am saying no is going to be cool and showery, i am saying no more is going to be cool and showery, i am saying no more than that. but summer am saying no more than that. but summer is on its way. this was the story this morning, beautiful, wasn‘t it? the shower clouds had been building and we have seen lightning and rumbles of thunder in the last hour. some of those showers pretty intense. tied into this area of low pressure driving me showers with this north—westerly wind across west facing coasts. some of them pushing further inland, so widespread showers for the rest of the day. some of them quite intense and blustery winds. they will ease away across england and wales overnight. and in fact, things will start to improve. as we close out the day, not very warm. 12—15d. eventually, the showers ease away, clearer skies for england and wales, eastern scotland, but shows continued overnight into north west scotla nd continued overnight into north west scotland and northern ireland. here,
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temperatures around 6 degrees. clearer skies in eastern scotland, chilly start. across eastern scotland, much of england and wales, we start the day quite promising with lots of sunshine. the difference is, fewer showers generally tomorrow. most of them complain to the north west is scotland, north west england, northern ireland. elsewhere, if we keep the sunshine, we get warmth with it. highest values of 11—16, thatis with it. highest values of 11—16, that is 61 fahrenheit. we see a change in the focus of the weather as we go through thursday into friday. this area of low pressure pushes fairly persistent heavy rain across south—west england and wales. eventually, it moves steadily northwards. pushing into the midlands and northern england by the afternoon. if you get caught under the rain, it is going to be a miserable day, feeling cold, 11 degrees at the best. sunny spells with a scattering of showers in scotla nd with a scattering of showers in
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scotland and northern ireland into the afternoon. but we start the weekend perhaps with a legacy of that rain. so the extreme south west could be wet. it will not last but it will continue to feel disappointing. those mid—to high 20s we had a week ago have gone, thejet strea m we had a week ago have gone, thejet stream is sitting to the south of the uk and the cooler source. that is allowing northerly winds to take over. into the weekend, that basically means we carry on with business as usual. sunny spells, scattered april showers, and a cool wind unexposed posts so it feels a little disappointing. —— and so on exposed coasts. this is bbc news. the headlines — there‘ve been heated exchanges in the commons over the windrush scandal. the labour leader says the buck stops with home secretary, and calls for amber rudd to resign. the current home secretary inherited a failing policy, and made it worse. isn‘t it time she took responsibility and resigned? a danish inventor has been sentenced
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to life in prison for the murder of swedish journalist kim wall on his vessel. a court in copenhagen dismissed peter madsen‘s claim that she‘d died in an accident aboard his submarine last august. two days after life support was withdrawn from the seriously ill toddler alfie evans, his parents prepare to go back to court over his treatment. alder hey children‘s hospital want to end his care, but they want to take him to italy for further treatment. two italian men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a liverpool fan was attacks last night. it happened before liverpool‘s champions league semifinal against roma last night. a 53—year—old man remains in a critical condition. sport now on afternoon live with hugh. a great night inside anfield for liverpool, and once again, mohamed salah was their inspiration. this season it has been all about
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mohamed salah, and player of the year there days ago, as voted by his fellow professionals. and things got even better for fellow professionals. and things got even betterfor him last night, and his manager atjurgen klopp. the former defender mark lawrenson says they are playing so well that it doesn‘t seem real. you missed out on the match last night, a fantastic result, beating roma 5—2 in the champions league, and salah scored a couple of goals, made a couple as well. he is now up to 43 goals in his 47 liverpool matches so far this season, which is pleasejurgen kl°pp, season, which is pleasejurgen klopp, who now thinks he can rival christian of another and lionel messi in the world‘s best category at the moment. he is an outstanding good shape, world class 100%. to be the best in the world, you need to do that over a longer period. he is
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a fantastic player i am really happy to have. and yes, he plays a season which is obviously because everybody is so excited about, it is not normal. and we hope and try to help him that he can continue like that. that is the job to do. jurgen klopp will hope that salah can continue that form next wednesday in the second leg. should be a compelling affair. and tonight, real madrid and bayern munich will go head—to—head, so bayern munich will go head—to—head, so that is one to watch as well. and there has been an important report in into corruption in tennis released this afternoon that has produced some distuburbing conclusions. tell us more. it seems to be a challenge for all sports at the moment is that fans are to believe what they are seeing. most are to believe what they are seeing. m ost fa ns are to believe what they are seeing. most fans will think about banned su bsta nces most fans will think about banned substances being the biggest challenge in sport, but match fixing may be just as common. an independent review into tennis today has discovered that betting related incidents are particularly acute and
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pervasive, to quote them. that comes beneath the top tier of the sport. it isa beneath the top tier of the sport. it is a very concentrated issue, whichjoel wilson will explain. it is a very concentrated issue, which joel wilson will explain. this is the reporting brief. it has taken two years to be compiled, 2.7 million pages of data analysed, and gives no specific details of players or matches which have been fixed. the review said that was not part of its remit. but it says that corruption has ta ken its remit. but it says that corruption has taken root in professional tennis, particularly at the lower levels of the game. too many meaningless matches, thousands of tennis professionals trying and failing to make a living out of the game with prize money, and lord the players may be tempted into corruption. for the last six years, betting has been possible on tens of thousands of tennis matches every year, because international tennis did a deal to sell the data. the report says if current levels of betting opportunities are maintained, it would be disastrous for the game.
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also, occasions where players tank, they have been too commonplace. there should be more staff. it doesn‘t feel there has been a cover—up, but it does say there have been opportunities where potential corruption and unusual betting patterns could and should have been investigated more thoroughly. back to football for a moment. arsene wenger says the timing of his departure from arsenal was not his decision. he believes the club after almost 22 years in north london at the end of the season. he says he has not given much hope to future —— much thought to his future, but he will not be retiring or playing a pa rt will not be retiring or playing a part in appointing his successor. former barcelona boss lewis and ricky is the current favourite. george north willjoin ospreys next season. it was announced in november
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that he will be returning to wales after five seasons with northampton saints. the ospreys have now confirmed that the 26—year—old will move to the region on a national jewel contract. the draw for the last 16 in rugby league‘s challenge cup has been made with all of super league‘s top inaction. holders hull fc who have won the tournament for the last two years have been drawn away to featherstone. last year‘s beaten finalists wedding travel to hull kingston rovers. two—time champion mark williams is through the second round of the world snooker championship in sheffield. three former winners have gone out the first round, but williams will be joining the first round, but williams will bejoining them. won by ten the first round, but williams will be joining them. won by ten friends to five. in the last few minutes, judd trump has started his first—round match. he was runner—up tojohn higgins first—round match. he was runner—up to john higgins back first—round match. he was runner—up tojohn higgins back in 2011. you can watch live coverage on bbc two.
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it is also available on the bbc sport website and at. that is all the sport for now. back with more in the sport for now. back with more in the next hour. there are new warnings from the nhs chief executive about obesity. simon stevens says it ‘poses an increasing threat to the nhs and is causing untold personal suffering‘. it comes as opposition leaders joined celebrity chef, jamie oliver, in writing to the prime minister, calling for a total ban on junk food marketing. our health correspondent, dominic hughes, is in st helens, where the council is launching an initiative to get the rugby club working with primary schools to encourage healthy eating and exercise. exactly so. st helens is one of those parts of the country that has a very high proportion of people who are overweight or obese. so it is a real issue here, but they are trying to do something about it. we know that diet is essential to getting a grip on people‘s wait, so they are changing and making more attractive the menus and a lot of the schools
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to help children. i went along to a primary school at lunchtime to talk toa primary school at lunchtime to talk to a few of the pupils, and also one very special guest. lunchtime has just started at this school, and here, they have made in st helens a real effort to try and improve the diet of the young people, particularly in schools. school meals of underrun quite a significant change. bradley, you are just polishing off your lunch. what have you had? i have had cheese pie with some vegetables including cauliflower and broccoli. and for my desert, some fruit. are you enjoying eating the vegetables. yes. why? they help your body get healthier, so they help your body get healthier, so if you have got an illness, it will help fight itself. very good. and you have enjoyed the changes to the menu. tell me why. because we have got more healthier options than before. what difference does that
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make to you ? before. what difference does that make to you? it makes everybody happy because they are more healthier than we were, and we can carry on with school and concentrate better. thank you very much. and james, you‘re the captain of the local st helens rugby league football club. you are here as a sort of role model and ambassador today? yes, a bit of an ambassador role. rugby league and myself are very keen to encourage the children to make healthier lifestyle choices, and the school menus and providing more choice and more fruit and vegetables will encourage the children to eat healthier and improve their health as a whole. why is that important for you personally? from a sporting background, it was important for me asa background, it was important for me as a child to eat the right stuff to get the right nutrients and vitamins and my body. but also, if you are not involved in sport, it is a key ingredient to living a happy life style ingredient to living a happy lifestyle and less illness. thank
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you so much, james, and of course, the club a central part of the culture of the town and making real effo rts culture of the town and making real efforts to try and tackle the obesity and weight problem in st helens head—on. learn how to local sports centre, forever will be all afternoon, looking at her complicated relationship with food and how people can tackle issues around their weight. across the bbc, there isa their weight. across the bbc, there is a whole range of programming around the obesity. we also have a handy online tool that can help you work out where you sit on the fat scale. back to you, simon. this week, the bbc will be hosting a series of programmes on the health issue. tonight sees hugh fearnley—whittingstall present britain‘s fat fight, at 9pm, on bbc one. homeowners who rafinha houses are
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failing to make enough money to sell —— cover the costs. —— raffle of their houses. when you look at it, it does look... there is some of the £2 million house, they are offering tickets for £10, this is a no lose. we are at the front of changing the lottery industry, and still is, it is really interesting because it is bringing together property and lottery. we believe there is something is exciting. on the lottery side of things, we need a tangible dream, typically money, why ca nt tangible dream, typically money, why cant it be a dream home?
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particularly in light of the difficulty of getting on the housing ladder at the moment. and property, an industry which is designed to efficiently bring buyers and sellers together, it is not always doing that. so we think this is an interesting idea. we are excited to see where it goes. some people have already been doing it. but when you put your house on a raffle, you do not worry about estate agents. does the buyer worry about stamp duty? how does it work? what are you avoiding? what are you getting away with? the key thing here is, why are people suddenly looking to do this? i think it is because the housing market is going a bit sideways at the moment. people are not getting the moment. people are not getting the asking prices they are expecting. so looking at other ways to be able to sell their properties. this is not a simple option, it is not as simple as putting up a website, you have to do your homework. because although in essence, there is a real simplicity to sing, angered to rattle my home,
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it is very simple, you are running up it is very simple, you are running up potentially against gambling regulations. so you need to ensure you set it up in the correct way. could you get to the point regular sell the tickets at £10 each, but you still have to give it away at that price? that depends on how you set it up. they do not want to set it up in such a way that they have to give it away for whatever they have raised. unless we managed to get the amount we within a defined time period, you can say that we will just distribute the time period, you can say that we willjust distribute the money by himself and not distribute the house. what are the legal issues? because of you set up a website and say, £10 ticket, here‘s the house of your dreams, say, £10 ticket, here‘s the house of yourdreams, and say, £10 ticket, here‘s the house of your dreams, and then you win it, your dreams, and then you win it, you find that there is a subsidence nightmare, what is the comeback? before you get to that point, there is the whole tangle about, has this been done any compliant way? so you still have to go through all the property issues? property issues,
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and also before you get to that, lottery issues. whenever you‘re doing something that requires people to pay to enter which has a chance element and gives away a prize, bolstered those things will you into a lottery issue, and admits to be licensed. so he needs to be sure that your battle is compliant, and should be licensed as gaming. —— raffle. and when you are paying something that cannot actually pay out. we have the perfect example with your millions last night, somebody has just won £120 million. the publicity around that, has there been an amazing house was millions that has been effectively a lot of it off for £20 tickets? we are seeing a kind of tipping point, and we are the first, the canary in the mineshaft. we hear about these things, there was something called when a country house, you may have heard about. and that was the kind
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of tipping point, that got a lot of press, and eventually managed to raffle their house in the end. and that sparked a reaction after that, and so we went to hearing about house raffles once a year to hearing about 13 a week. so not a one-off, using this as something that could become... ? definitely something there, something that could change there, something that could change the property well. so theoretically, something really great there. but that does not mean that it is easy. but i do believe there is something here, that is particularly interesting in these times when getting on the property ladder and selling a house is a difficult things to do. fascinating, thank you for talking to us. a website which has been blamed for launching more than four million cyber attacks around the world, including attempts to crash banks in the uk, has been taken down in
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a major international investigation. the website webstresser.org had been selling cyber attacks forjust over £10 and had caused hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage. our home affairs correspondent dominic casciani reports. an international cyber crime operation. an investigation in the real world. this search in bradford yesterday for computers linked to attacks on british banks. two more arrested in scotland and others across europe as agencies identify the managers and customers of one of the world‘s biggest cybercrime tools. this is the allegedly criminal website at the heart of the operation. webstresser.org was a cyber gun for hire, selling attacks for anyone who would pay. a sliding scale of presses depending on how much damage you wanted to cause. offered an easy way for users to carry out an attack.
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there is a huge financial impact, with businesses spending thousands of pounds repairing the damage. it has taken a year for the national crime agency and its european partners to identify the gang members behind the website, one of many threats they are watching each day. we have identified, over four million attacks over a period of time, being used by the website to attack various businesses, cause massive damage in some instances, certainly within the uk. it was used to attack the banking sector. webstresser.org‘s biggest known attack was against seven british banks last september, secret until now. the victims spent hundreds of thousands of pounds repelling the criminals. these attacks are hugely disruptive to banks because of the amount of resource firms have to invest to protect against them. they are solely done with the aim of disrupting activity and trying to find a way into bank systems. banks put in a huge amount of work to ensure that perimeter is safe. if you go to the website today, it is gone. it has been replaced by a warning from law enforcement agencies. there are many more gangs out
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there offering similar services, offering to target your bank, your local school, businesses. taking down this one site is one battle in a growing cybercrime war. in a moment, the business news. first, a look at the headlines on afternoon live. the labour leader says the buck stops with home secretary, and calls for amber rudd to resign. a danish inventor has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of swedish journalist kim wall on his vessel. two days after life support was withdrawn from the seriously ill toddler alfie evans, his parents prepare to go back to court over his treatment. us cable tv giant comcast has made a formal £22 billion bid for sky. the move threatens rupert murdoch‘s attempts to take full control of the pay—tv group. his 21st century fox had already
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agreed to buy the 61% of sky it does not already own, an offer worth about £19 billion. but after the new comcast move, sky said it was withdrawing its recommendation for the fox bid. two rival aircraft—makers, the french firm dassault and airbus, have announced that they‘re joining forces to design and build a new generation ofjet fighters. announcing what they called a landmark agreement at the berlin airshow, they said it would secure european sovereignty and technological leadership in military aviation for decades to come. dassault is also working with the british firm bae systems on an unmanned fighter. after more than five days of being locked out of their online bank, tsb customers can now access their accounts. but the bank has limited the number of people who can get into their accounts at any one time, because it expects a surge in customers trying to use it. so, profits for twitter? yes, for the second time, twitter has reported profits! it made $61m in the first three
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months of this year. but another important figure is active user numbers — up to 336 million. that‘s 6 million more than at the last update. what are they doing right? let‘s askjoe miller, on the floor of the new york stock eschange. how is the share price? is it to do with donald trump?|j don‘t know, but i suspect he has a lot to do with it. but it is broader than just donald trump, because he was around a year ago, but a year ago, we were all wondering whether twitter would make a profit at all. advert sales were slowing, it could not seem to add users, and now we have got to make consecutive quarters in which twitter has posted a profit. it is posted as much profit in the last three months is at last this time last year. and the reason for that as it has added
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users, advert sales are picking up, and crucially, it is managing to get people to stay on the site for longer. it has never been a problem for me, but apparently other people we re for me, but apparently other people were not spending quite as long procrastinating on twitter as i am, and now they are doing so more, particularly because of the video, which is good news for twitter and its shareholders. what is the share price doing this morning?m its shareholders. what is the share price doing this morning? it is up a little bit, because of these great results, particularly the use of numbers. it is not quite as sharply as we thought it would be, just about 0.5%, and the reason for that is the challenge is to remain at twitter. first is, why there are quite new mac users, that is almost a branding ever when compared to facebook. —— a rounding error. and the threat of the cambridge
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analytica scandal will control how twitter can use its user data and monetise its user data. in a poll this morning, the ceo of twitter dumping the spheres saying that all facebook users share their information privately, twitter users for the most part shared publicly, and would therefore be less surprised to know that there are information is out in the open, which leaves twitter less vulnerable in his opinion to regulation of another social networks like facebook. but we will see what happens if and when laws do come twitter‘s way, what that does to its business model. thank you. now we look at the markets. the ftse is down 1%, sky as we were discussing the bid from comcast. quite something to have so many huge companies trying to buy you. it says a lot about how you do business. it is confusing, but when you can take
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from it is that sky is being seen as an attractive takeover target. william hill and gbc holdings, who owns ladbrokes, because yesterday they were down significantly. william hill was down 12%, gpc down 6%. so a slight recovery from a dreadful day. —— gvc. that is because of the fixed odds betting terminals, we are expecting to hear some point towards the end of the month to limit the chancellor will put on. within the next week? it is the 25th now. the limit is currently £100, we have thought it will be brought down to £30, but it could be as low as £2 we heard yesterday. thank you very much. proceedings are under way at the high court in the healthy evans case. we are just hearing there is an update on alfie‘s condition. in
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the last few minutes, what is the court been hearing? an update on alfie‘s condition from the lawyer representing alfie‘s mother. and that update is that alfie is struggling and needs intervention. that is all we have heard so far. it is interesting that it appears the pa rents a re is interesting that it appears the parents are now being represented by different lawyers. we are not quite sure why that is. until now, they have been represented by the same tea m have been represented by the same team of lawyers. it may be that for some reason, the parents now have different views over the treatment of alfie. i‘m sure that will become clearer in the course of this hearing this afternoon. we are also hearing this afternoon. we are also hearing that there is going to be an appeal against the judgment made yesterday, that alfie could not be taken to italy. so that was a decision made by a high courtjudge yesterday. this is now an appeal
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against that in front of three appeal courtjudges. and we have got some idea of the argument that will be made. one of the arguments will be made. one of the arguments will be made. one of the arguments will be made that the rights to free movement in europe overrides any decision made by an english court. saudi lawyers for the parents, separately or together, may say that he should to an italian hospital for further treatment. that is his right asa further treatment. that is his right as a european citizen to do that, whatever an english court decides. the argument will also be made that the medical opinion was wrong, the family argue that doctors have said all along has soon as ventilation was removed, alfie would die very soon was removed, alfie would die very soon afterwards. they say that has been proved wrong, he is still alive some a0 hours afterwards. so the whole idea of what sort of treatment alfie is getting out as medical treatment has to be looked at again.
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the court has said all along that alfie will die at some stage when his ventilation is removed, it may not happen immediately, but it will eventually. but anyway, the court case is going on. we will return to you later, andy, thank you very much. time for a look at the weather. here‘s louise lear. business as usual across the uk now. april showers have returned. we‘re starting the day with some beautiful weather watcher pictures looking like this, but unfortunately, as the morning goes on, showers fairly widespread now. all tied into an area of low pressure sitting to the north—east, circulating around that glow, a north—westerly westerly flow. some of the showers have been pushed quite far inland through the course of the afternoon. they will continue to do so as well. we close
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out the day with april showers for many of us. overnight tonight, the showers will ease across england and wales and dry back to the north and west. and temperatures will fall to around four to seven celsius. eastern scotland, much of england and wales starting off drive tomorrow and sunday, that will still like that for much of the day. few we re like that for much of the day. few were showers around on thursday across scotland, northern ireland and perhaps north—west england. highest values by the middle of the afternoon 11 to 16 celsius, not the mid to high 20s that we had just a week ago. moving into friday, we need to look to this area of low pressure to the south—west. a bit more unsettled weather, some wetter weather pushing into the south—west. a spell of heavy rain across cornwall, devon and into wales, and up cornwall, devon and into wales, and up into the midlands and perhaps the north of england by the afternoon. a disappointing friday for many as well. further north, some sunny
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spells and scattered showers. nine to 12 celsius will not feel great for the end of the week. the rain may hang around across the south—east for the first thing on saturday morning, but we will get there, it will clear away, winds fall like, but still not particularly warm. one of the reasons is we have got this undulating jet at the moment, quite a significant dip, and we are on the northside the jet. so the cooler side, the northerly winds will be a key feature to the weekend. some sign —— sunshine and showers keep going, but some cool breeze especially on exposed coasts. hello, you‘re watching afternoon live — i‘m simon mccoy. today at 3: angry exchanges in the commons over the windrush scandal — the labour leader says the buck stops with home secretary amber rudd. the current home secretary inherited
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a failing policy and made it worse. isn‘t it time sheet to responsibility and resigned? —— isn‘t it time she took responsibility? a danish inventor is sentenced to life in prison for the murder ofjournalist kim wall on his submarine. two days after life support was withdrawn from the seriously ill toddler alfie evans — his parents go back to court over his treatment. two men from rome are arrested after a 53—year—old man was left critically ill following an attack before liverpool‘s champions league semifinal against roma last night. coming up on afternoon live all the sport — with hugh woozencroft. not great news for arsenal fans. no, it isn‘t. but it will not come as much of a surprise to them. arsenal manager arsene wenger and announced his departure after over two decades last week, and today he said that timing was not his decision. we will have more in the next hour. thanks, hugh, and we‘ll bejoining you for a full update just after half—past. louise lear has all the weather.
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after last week‘s taste of summer, it has reverted back to spring. the clouds are gathering for the rest of the afternoon. thanks louise. also coming up — after the warm words yesterday, the french president continues his state visit to america. he‘ll address congress within the next hour. hello, everyone, this is afternoon live. i‘m simon mccoy. the row over the windrush scandal erupted in the house of commons once again today — withjeremy corbyn calling on the home secretary amber rudd to resign, claiming she had inherited a "failing policy" and made it "worse". the "hostile environment" strategy — aimed at those illegally in the country — led to some members of the "windrush generation" wrongly facing deportation. the finger—pointing over who was to blame was at the heart of a feisty prime minister‘s questions. our political correspondent eleanor garnier reports. the debate‘s now firmly reopened,
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after the windrush scandal revealed, despite being here legally, many have struggled to prove their right to remain — after immigration rules were tightened. it has led to questions about the government‘s whole approach to migrants. now the foreign secretary has apparently called for an amnesty for illegal migrants with an impeccable record, who have been here for more than ten years. it has all left the prime minister defending her immigration policies. the windrush generation are not illegal. they are not illegal. they are here legally. that is why we are providing the support to enable them to get the documents for their status. what we are talking about, what the right honourable gentleman, the leader of the opposition,
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is talking about is whether or not we should deal with illegal immigration. and up and down this country, the british public will tell him we should deal with illegal immigration. but the labour leader says enough is enough. the current home secretary inherited a failing policy and made it worse. isn't it time she took responsibility and resigned? it‘s a difficult dilemma for the government. the prime minister believes voters want strong immigration controls and she has always supported an aggressive approach to try and drive down the numbers of people coming here. but after so many stories of harsh treatment, it seems getting the balance right between individual human lives and tough policy isn‘t easy. as brexit nears, the uk‘s immigration policies are worrying negotiators in brussels. but the brexit secretary says there‘s no need to worry. our treatment of the european citizens in the uk, it was a moral imperative and that is how we have treated it.
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that is what we intend to do. as we have seen with the windrush generation, what the government intends to do and what actually happens doesn‘t always match up. it‘s a tough debate for politicians, just as it is for people up and down the country. eleanor garnier, bbc news. apologies for the sound problems. we will deal with those. the director can have a lie down. our chief political correspondent vicki young is at westminster for us. there is finger pointing over a scandal that will not go away. we still do not know the scale of it. amber rudd the home secretary is due to give evidence to the home affairs select committee in the next couple of hours or so and already she has been asked to reply to 23 different questions from the committee. yvette
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cooper is the chair of the committee. she has written to amber rudd a few days ago and asked various questions. the main one being, how sure write you off the scale of this issue? we still do not know if anyone was wrongly deported. the committee wants to know how many people were detained and for how long. they have got questions about compensation and families from the wider commonwealth. there is an awful lot therefore amber rudd to answer. she has written back to the committee in advance of this hearing. probably the most telling thing that she says is this is a significant administrative task that will take some time to complete and independently ashore. i think that is the issue here. the hotline has been opened for people who feel they have been caught up in all this, but there is still the issue of the home office, how much it will help them and how much they will have to provide the details, and whether this new task force and the home office really has got to grips with
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the scale of it and whether they can a nswer the scale of it and whether they can answer any of these questions about how many people have been affected by it, let alone starting to think about the next stages and how much compensation people will get and what. is there a sense that the attacks on theresa may herself are gaining traction? i think this week‘s prime minister‘s questions felt a lot like the last one with enormous amount of pressure on theresa may to talk about the so—called hostile approach to illegal immigrants. she is sticking to her point of view. she says it is right that those who are here illegally are under pressure to leave, to be dealt with, to come up with the right paperwork. the problem of course is that the wrong people have been caught up in all of this, and then emerging from the cabinet meeting yesterday, the idea that boris johnson cabinet meeting yesterday, the idea that borisjohnson raised the possibility of an amnesty, this is
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not just to possibility of an amnesty, this is notjust to do with windrush, this is to do with illegal immigrants, all of them who have been here for ten yea rs all of them who have been here for ten years or so, who don‘t have a criminal record, it is something borisjohnson did criminal record, it is something boris johnson did talk criminal record, it is something borisjohnson did talk about when he was mayor of london. theresa may over her career has shown absolutely no inclination towards a more liberal policy of immigration. as she said today, she fills up and down the country there are people who feel it has been dealt with properly and it is not fair that people who are not entitled to it can people who are not entitled to it ca n a ccess people who are not entitled to it can access the nhs and other services. i think what is interesting as we are about to get a whole new immigration system after brexit, and i think this issue of what that looks like, whether it is more liberal, whether we still have this target of tens of thousands of people coming in, all of that is yet to be decided, which is why possibly this issue in cabinet has been reopened. thank you. vicki young in the house of commons. and just to let you know that tomorrow we‘ll have a special day of brexit coverage here on the news channel, from gibraltar. with just 11 months until brexit,
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join me, gavin lee, tomorrow and i will be looking at what is it at sta ke for will be looking at what is it at stake for gibraltar in the brexit talks and how the spot on the southern tip of spain could affect negotiations. gavin lee in gibraltar — with coverage on that issue throughout the day tomorrow here on the bbc news channel. a danish inventor has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of the swedish journalist kim wall. she was invited to interview peter madsen aboard his homemade submarine. but 11 days later, her dismembered remains were found at sea. maddy savage reports from copenhagen. kim wall. a promising freelance journalist from sweden, who loved to travel. last august she was about to move to china with her danish boyfriend. but first, she had one last story to finish. in the same neighbourhood here in copenhagen where the young couple had been living, she boarded a submarine built by peter madsen, a danish inventor she‘d been wanting to interview. but a day later the submarine sank and he was rescued, without kim.
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peter madsen changed his story about what happened three times. he initially said he had dropped him off safely. he initially said he had dropped kim off safely. then said she died when a door hatch fell on her head. in court, he admitted cutting up her body, but argued she‘d died from toxic fumes on the submarine first. but during the trial the prosecutor painted a picture of a man with narcissistic and psychopathic tendencies, who relished watching violent videos and set out to kill the journalist. he just didn‘t care about anything else. so he was not so caring about, you know, other people, if they couldn‘t help him out. he was loving with people who could help him out, but if he didn‘t see any purpose for you, you might as well just disappear. the case has grabbed headlines around the world. some have drawn parallels to horror movies and nordic noir crime thrillers. something many here in scandinavia have found upsetting. i think it's a safe area for the normal population. this is a very unusual case.
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you‘ve been in touch with kim wall‘s family during the investigation. how are they doing? of course they have had a terrible time, missing their daughter and then all through the investigation and now during the trial when they get to see all the evidence. i can't imagine what they go through and i feel truly sorry for them. kim wall‘s friends and relatives have set up a foundation in her memory to help support other female journalists. they hope she won‘tjust be remembered for the way she died but as a brave reporter who can continue to inspire others. two days after life support was withdrawn from the seriously ill toddler alfie evans, a senior family courtjudge is hearing a further legal appeal over his treatment. alfie, who‘s almost two, has a degenerative brain condition. doctors at alder hay hospital in liverpool say it‘s in the child‘s best interests to withdraw life support.
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andy moore is at the high court. a couple of important elements to bring you, simon. the case started late. it was then adjourned very soon late. it was then adjourned very soon after it started. we know that is for the barrister for alfie‘s mother, kate james, to speak to the mother, kate james, to speak to the mother to find out about his condition. the court has been told alfie is struggling, and according to his mother needs immediate intervention if he is to survive. the court was told he needed intervention to ensure he survives at least for the purposes of today, and she asked me if i would pass that on to the court, and ask the court to invite the hospital to take the appropriate steps. there has been no ruling on that. neither of the parents are here today, but tom eva ns, the parents are here today, but tom evans, the father, we understand is listening via a telephone link. up
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until now, the parents have been represented by the same barrister. that is no longer the case. we are not sure why at the moment. it may be that the parents have different views about how alfie should now be treated. his ventilation was removed about a0 hours ago. he is now getting hydration and getting oxygen when he needs it. the purpose of this hearing is for the barristers of the parents to argue that he should be allowed to go to italy, certainly that was the view of the father. he should be allowed to go to italy in an air anne boleyn is to be treated at the bambino gesu hospital in the vatican —— he should be allowed to go in an air ambulance. that appeal is being heard today. we have heard the ambulance is on stand—by. we have also heard that the seniorjudge has reminded the lawyers that the italian courts have nojurisdiction here. i think one of the arguments
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that may be made by the barristers is that alfie evans, like any european citizen, has a freedom to move around europe, and therefore he has the freedom to go to a hospital in italy. but there seems to be an indication in the early comments of lord justice mcfarlane that he is not holding any agreement with that particular argument. thank you for now. that is andy moore covering the case at the high court. the director of a yachting management company has been acquitted of the manslaughter of four sailors who died when the cheeki rafiki yacht sank in the mid—atla ntic. a jury found douglas innes from southampton not guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence, following a retrial at winchester crown court after a previous jury failed to reach verdicts on the charges. thejury had heard how the cheeki rafiki capsized after losing her keel on the return delivery from antigua in may 201a. the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has called for a change in culture within government and institutions. it says there must be "open
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and frank" discussions about child sexual abuse in order to tackle the problem. the interim report said "all too often" organisations put the reputation of their leaders and staff before the welfare of children. earlier our home affairs correspondent danny shaw highlighted the main points of the report. that has to be a different way of discussing child sexual abuse and over society as a whole, we have to be more open and frank in the way that we do discuss this particular issue. it spoke to a large number of people and it analysed the way in which this issue was discussed, and it said there were three dominant categories. one was conversations which deflected responsibility from the perpetrator or the institutions involved. another was a category that denied that harm was caused by abuse. and finally, a refusal that abuse. and finally, a refusal that abuse had taken place at all. it said we need to get to a position
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where we can give advice to young people and children about how to say safe and we can have open and frank conversations. —— how to stay safe. there are also issues for political leaders and leaders of institutions who need to accept responsibility rather than prioritising their own reputations. what about any disciplinary recommendations? their 18 recommendations in this report. i have picked out a few which i think are have picked out a few which i think a re really have picked out a few which i think are really important. the first one concerns the police service. it is saying police officers who want to go to the motion and have aims of getting to the top office, high rank, they need to have experience, operational experience of dealing with child sexual abuse, either responding to reports or preventing reports, and that needs to be clearly evidenced. the other issues around compensation, the criminal injuries compensation scheme. it is very difficult, if not impossible,
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for someone who has convictions to get compensation for the abuse they have suffered. but in some cases, that criminal record is linked to the abuse they have suffered. for example, who has been groomed to commitan example, who has been groomed to commit an offence. it is saying this scheme should be amended so there is no automatic rejection of compensation claims for people in that position. you‘re watching afternoon live, these are our headlines: labour leader, jeremy corbyn, calls for the home secretary to resign, as the prime minister defends the government‘s immigration policy two days after life support was withdrawn from the seriously ill toddler alfie evans, his parents are back in court over his treatment. a danish inventor is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of swedish journalist kim wall on his submarine. in a moment... new warnings from the boss of the nhs are about obesity. in football,
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having announced he was stepping down as arsenal‘s manager after nearly 22 years, their boss arsene wenger has said the decision to leave at the end of the season was not made by him. welsh winner george north willjoin ospreys when he leaves northampton at the end of this season. he returns to wales five years after leaving scarlets for the aviva premiership club. and two times champion mark williams is through to the second round of the world snooker championship after a 10-5 the world snooker championship after a 10—5 victory overjimmy robertson. i will be back on all of those stories just after half past. a 53—year—old man is in a critical condition after he was attacked outside anfield last night before liverpool‘s champions league semifinal against roma. two men from rome have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. the victim, who‘s thought to be a liverpool fan from ireland, has a head injury and is being treated in hospital. a warning that david ornstein‘s report contains images some viewers might find upsetting.
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an ugly side of the so—called beautiful game. the build—up to one of the biggest matches of the season, marred by violence. roma fa ns season, marred by violence. roma fans have a history of clashing with supporters of english clubs, including liverpool, and last night, that troubling trend continued. i was part of the bbc team filming here from just behind that fence, when a large group of roma fans came from behind where the camera is now, ina very from behind where the camera is now, in a very calm and quiet way. they we re in a very calm and quiet way. they were dressed in black hoods and balaclavas. i have worked at many football matches but this was an extremely intimidating scene. they continued towards the junction and when they got there, they‘ll rushed onto the main road, attacking liverpool supporters, and that is where i managed to capture some of it on my phone. immediately i saw a man flat on his back outside the
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albert pub. among those attending to him wasa albert pub. among those attending to him was a female steward who risked her own safety to help him while the skirmishes were still going on, bottles a nd skirmishes were still going on, bottles and projectiles being thrown. roma fans using belts as weapons and one man carrying a hammer who i thought was not part of the roma group. i did not see any police officers at that point. as the liverpool fans rushed towards the liverpool fans rushed towards the roma fans to beat them back, police arrived on horseback and everything continued in that direction. inside the ground, liverpool ran out 5—2 winners to put themselves on course for a place in themselves on course for a place in the champions league final, but the second leg is still to come in rome next week. i use cared about that? we were nervous because we hear stories about the supporters so we will have to be vigilant when we go. over there it could be worse, there
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will be left liverpool fans and more of them. there were families with young kids last night. european football‘s governing body uefa described the scenes as vile. it is now up to them and the authorities to prevent a repeat of such events in the italian capital. the bbc‘s director of news and current affairs fran unsworth has told a high courtjudge that journalists had a public interest responsibility to cover a police search of sir cliff richard‘s home. sir cliff, who was never arrested or charged, is suing the corporation claiming an invasion of privacy. our correspondent helena lee is at the high court. day ten of cliff richard‘s privacy case against the bbc. the singer has left court for the afternoon. he has been here throughout. we don‘t know why he has left court. we have been hearing evidence from the director
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of news who was a deputy director of news at the time, fran unsworth. she gave the go—ahead for sir cliff richard‘s name to be broadcast. she was involved in the decision—making in terms of what went out on air and what time it went out on air. she told the court it was in the public interest for the bbc to broadcast the story about sir cliff richard being investigated. the issue of the helicopter came up as well early on today. remember, the bbc used a helicopter to get footage of police searching sir cliff richard‘s apartment. that, sir cliff richard said was a serious invasion of his privacy. but fran unsworth said in court today she did not think it was an intrusion. she was asked by justin rush book qc. he said to her: four years on, does it strike you that other people would take a different view? fran unsworth
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replied: yes, it does, because with the benefit of four years looking back and listening to set cliff richard in court, it is clear that other people take a different view about the intrusive nature of the helicopter shots. she also said that she had directed colleagues within the bbc newsroom not to broadcast live footage from the helicopter. she was then asked by the barrister, why was it then that live pictures we re why was it then that live pictures were broadcast at 3:a6pm that afternoon. fran unsworth replied: i can only conclude it was a mistake. fran unsworth has now finished giving evidence and we are hearing in court from another witness, david crompton, a former chief constable, of south yorkshire police. the case here continues. thank you. there are new warnings from the nhs chief executive about obesity. simon stevens says it "poses an increasing threat to the nhs and is causing untold
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personal suffering". it comes as opposition leaders joined celebrity chef, jamie oliver, in writing to the prime minister, calling for a total ban on junk food marketing. our health correspondent dominic hughes is in st helens, where the council is launching an initiative to get the rugby club working with primary schools to encourage healthy eating and exercise. that is right. in st helens they have a particular issue around people who are overweight or obese, because there is a very high proportion of people here and why really struggling with their weight. we have come to the local leisure centre where you can pat these people playing badminton behind us, to work on their fitness and weight. here, they have a whole range of initiatives designed to try and tackle this issue. i am joined by doctor charlotte hardman from the university of liverpool and jenna harkness from the council who was
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involved in sports development. charlotte, you have done a lot of work on obesity and our relationship with food, what do you think is driving this growing weight problem that we have? i think it is illegal dictated. there is not one factor driving obesity which is perhaps why it has been difficult to manage and treat obesity. there will not be a miracle drug. it is important to think about our relationship with food. eating is notjust about satisfying a biological relationship with food. eating the social, cultural and psychological. if we can start to understand this, it can reveal some of the clues towards tackling obesity. when we were hunter gatherers in our tackling obesity. when we were hunter gathere rs in our evolutionary past, we had to deal with long periods of famine. one idea is that we involve these mechanisms to enable us to over consume food when we have an opportunity. one idea is this mechanism has carried on
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through with us, and it could explain why we find it easy to overeat. we can tolerate a large amount of food. it is much easier to overeat than it is to under eat but this mechanism is counter—productive in modern times. you talked about the social side of it. there is a difference in more affluent areas and more deprived areas? absolutely. there are many reasons for that. we have to look at the dynamics of these communities and the cultural and social practices. one defining factor is the availability of food and what you do tend to finding low income areas is there is a greater density of fast food restaurants, just general easy accessibility towards higher energy and unhealthy foods which is a big issue. thank you. gemma, you work in sports development, one of the things you do if they couched to five k programme, how difficult is it to motivate people to actually get off
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the couch and start doing some exercise? i think the problem is these days with work and family commitments, you are competing with people‘s leisure time, so it is trying to find something that people can do at a time that suits, that can do at a time that suits, that can be done as a family activity and they do not need a pre—existing skill level, they can come and have fun and we will support them all the way through. and cost, trying to provide something no cost is a big barrierfor most people. provide something no cost is a big barrier for most people. is there a connection between exercise and diet or is it about trying to do a bit of both? it is about a bit of both. we tried to get people active and then show them how being active and eating healthily can have all the benefits. an area like st helens, we are hearing there is a link between
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health and deprivation, it is it a big challenge here? yes, we are a lwa ys big challenge here? yes, we are always looking at where we put on activities, is it accessible for people who don‘t have transport, is it at people who don‘t have transport, is itata people who don‘t have transport, is it at a cost they can afford? we are competing all the time with different things and we want to show that by being active with the families, there are a lot of activities they can take part in. very good, thanks. charlotte, back to you, we are talking about the psychology behind our relationship with food, is that relationship with food, is that relationship bit messed up, do you think? it can become that way. food is very rewarding. it is very enjoyable to sit down and eat and food tastes nice. food can be used for other ways, particularly if food is being used as a way to cope with emotions or difficult issues. that can become problematic. negative associations can start early in life which is why the relationship with the primary caregiver is important and can be really important in terms of forming associations that really
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can stay with us and can be difficult to break later on. it is as you said at the beginning are complicated. thank you. from st helens, we will be broadcasting here all afternoon, looking at our relationship with food and obesity and what can be done about it. there is also an online tool on the bbc website so you can see where you sit on the facts bail in the country. meanwhile, back to you in the studio. thank you. this week the bbc will be hosting a series of programmes on the health issue. tonight sees hugh fearnley—whittingstall, present britain‘s fat fight at 9pm on bbc one. prince charles, the duke of cambridge and prince harry have taken part in services to pay tribute to australia and new zealand‘s war dead. prince harry and his fiancee meghan markle began the day with a dawn service to mark anzac day — which commemorates
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the thousands of military personnel from both countries who lost their lives in world war one. nicholas witchell reports. first light at the australia and new zealand war memorials in london on anzac day. a commemoration attended this year by prince harry and meghan markle. in particular, remembrance of the thousands of troops from australia and new zealand who lost their lives in the gallipoli campaign in the first world war, 103 years ago. # abide with me... the losses at gallipoli were severe for two countries on the far side of the world which had sent their young men to fight for britain. they forged australia and new zealand‘s national identity. hence the importance of this annual commemoration. in london, prince harry laid a wreath in tribute. in france at the australian national memorial near amiens, the prince of wales led the tributes to australian forces who fought
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with the british in april 1918 to free a french town from the germans. the prince recalled that all the australian troops were volunteers. one in five of them would never return home. today as we mark a century since they gave their lives, let us resolve to continue to fulfil their trust so that every passing year will only add to the measure of their honour. back in london, prince william left his now two—day—old and still unnamed son, tojoin harry and meghan markle at westminster abbey for a service of thanksgiving for soldiers from distant countries who came to britain‘s aid a century ago and who lost their lives in the service of their king. nicholas witchell, bbc news. in washington, dc, on his first
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state visit, the first state visit by any foreign leader to president trump‘s presidency, this is the same in congress as they await the arrival of the french president, emmanuel macron. he is going to be addressing both houses of congress and will be speaking in english. we will take you to that chamber once he arrives. time for the weather with louise lear. a quiet start, and those showers will continue to be happy. possibly widespread from some of us. eventually, they will ease overnight across england and wales, dying back towards west facing coast of scotla nd towards west facing coast of scotland and northern ireland. here,
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overnight lows will move into low single figures, three to five celsius. values like six and seven further south. thursday morning. quietly, showers should mostly be up into the far north and west. and so some sunny into the far north and west. and so some sunny spells coming through, temperatures will respond, highs of 11 to 16 celsius. this is where they should be this time of year. attention for some more denies rain around on friday. —— potentialfor some more organised rain. a cool breeze on saturday, and a return to sunny spells and showers. this is bbc news. our latest headlines — there‘ve been heated exchanges in the commons over the windrush scandal. the labour leader says the buck stops with home secretary, and calls for amber rudd to quit to her post. the current home secretary inherited a failing policy, and made it worse. isn‘t it time she took
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responsibility and resigned? the parents of the seriously ill toddler alfie evans have returned to court to try to get permission to take him abroad. the appeal court has been told that alfie‘s father had talked about taking out private prosecutions against three doctors for conspiracy to murder but lawyers for mr evans said they wanted to make it clear there was "no hostility" towards the nhs for their treatment. a danish inventor has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of swedish journalist kim wall on his submarine. a court in copenhagen dismissed peter madsen‘s claim that she‘d died in an accident. seven more people have been arrested following violence at anfield during last night‘s champions league semi final between liverpool and roma. two men from rome are already being questioned about an attack that left one fan in a critical condition in hospital. sport now on afternoon live. the announcement of arson vendor‘s
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departure, there went to feel angry about what he has had to say in the last hour or so. —— arsen wenger. so much affection was shown after he announced he would resign as arsenal boss last weekend, but today, arsene wenger announced that his decision to leave this summer instead of next was not his decision. the 68—year—old said he will not be retiring after thisjob, 68—year—old said he will not be retiring after this job, but he is not certain what is next steps will be. i don't know, will! not certain what is next steps will be. i don't know, will i take a little rest? i will continue to work, that is for sure. but my pride has always been to give my best to
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where i am employed until the last day of my contract. and at the moment, ijust focused day of my contract. and at the moment, i just focused on day of my contract. and at the moment, ijust focused on that. plenty for arsene wenger to worry about at the moment, a toffee roper league semifinal tomorrow night against atletico madrid. —— tough europa league semifinal. and a tsunami in terms of corruption in tennis. it has been saying that? an independent review in tennis has discovered that betting related incidents and cases of match fiction are rife. the tennis integrity unit commissioned that report, and it says very significant corruption happens at the lower and middle levels of the sport, especially on the main‘s side of the game. our sports correspondentjoe wilson was in london earlier today at the announcement of that report. this is the report in brief. it has taken two years to be compiled, 2.7 million pages of data analysed, and gives no specific details
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of players or matches which have been fixed. the review said that was not part of its remit. but it says that corruption has taken root in professional tennis, particularly at the lower levels of the game. it says there are too many meaningless matches, thousands of tennis professionals trying and failing to make a living out of the game with prize money, and those are the players may be tempted into corruption. for the last six years, betting has been possible on tens of thousands of tennis matches every year, because international tennis did a deal to sell the data. the report says if current levels of betting opportunities are maintained, it would be disastrous. also, occasions where players tank, they have been too commonplace. there should be more staff. it doesn‘t feel there has been a cover—up, but it does say there have been opportunities where potential corruption and unusual betting patterns could and should have been investigated more thoroughly. george north willjoin ospreys next
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season. it was announced in november he would be returning to wales after five seasons at northampton saints. ospreys have today confirmed he will move to the region on a dual national contract. that is all the sport for now. we now go to washington, where speaker of the house paul ryan is on his feet because we are about to get an address to both houses of congress from the french president emmanuel macron. it is the 50th anniversary of the then french president charles de gaulle‘sjoint of the then french president charles de gaulle‘s joint address. emanuel macron is about to address. let‘s join proceedings. the gent from from new york, the gentleman from florida
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ms murphy, and from connecticut. the following senators are appointed as members of the committee to... a bit of husbandry as leaders of the two houses bring in the newest recruits. they are invited to sit for a historic moment as emmanuel macron addresses congress. it follows his meetings with president trump at the white house. the speech comes after two days in which a number of issues we re two days in which a number of issues were raised, policy issues from the iran nuclear deal to the syrian civil war. the issues of climate change, counterterrorism and russian aggression all discussed over bilateral talks at the white house yesterday. and then a state banquet last night at the white house, which
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was organised by melania trump. so the procedure clears the house of congress as it prepares for the arrival of the french president. much has been made of the relationship between donald trump and emmanuel macron, developed at quite a pace after the french president invited donald trump to paris on bastille day, and this, the first state visit by a foreign leader to the united states since president trump became president of the united states. i think we will probably pull away from notjust the united states. i think we will probably pull away from not just for a moment, because there does seem to be some procedural action. as i say, no doubt that emmanuel macron. they appear. we will pull away and keep our eye on that. we will rejoin us
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sinners president macron appears to me that address. a website which has been blamed for launching more than four million cyber attacks around the world, including attempts to crash banks in the uk, has been taken down in a major international investigation. the website webstresser.org had been selling cyber attacks forjust over ten pounds and had caused hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage. our home affairs correspondent dominic casciani reports. an international cyber crime operation. an investigation in the real world. this search in bradford yesterday for computers linked to attacks on british banks. two more arrested in scotland and others across europe as agencies identify the managers and customers of one of the world‘s biggest cybercrime tools. this is the allegedly criminal website at the heart of the operation. webstresser.org was a cyber gun for hire, selling attacks to anyone who would pay. a sliding scale of prices depending on how much damage you wanted to cause. webstresser.org offered an easy way for users
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to carry out a d—dos attack. this makes them seize up and crashed. there is a huge financial impact, with businesses spending thousands of pounds repairing the damage. it has taken a year for the national crime agency and its european partners to identify the gang members behind the website, one of many threats they are watching each day. we have identified, over four million attacks over a period of time, being used by the website to attack various businesses, cause massive damage in some instances, certainly within the uk. it was used to attack the banking sector. webstresser.org‘s biggest known attack was against seven british banks last september, secret until now. the victims spent hundreds of thousands of pounds repelling the criminals. these attacks are hugely disruptive to banks because of the amount of resource firms have to invest to protect against them. they are solely done with the aim of disrupting activity and trying to find a way into bank systems.
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banks put in a huge amount of work to ensure that perimeter is safe. if you go to the website today, it is gone. it has been replaced by a warning from law enforcement agencies. there are many more gangs out there offering similar services, offering to target your bank, your local school, businesses. taking down this one site is one battle in a growing cybercrime war. we are awaiting emmanuel macron‘s arrival in the us senate. —— us congress. some other news now. the british system for fire testing building materials is adequate and underestimates the ferocity of real
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fla mes underestimates the ferocity of real flames according to a study commissioned after the grenfell tower disaster. current procedures fail to reflect how cladding and installation burns outside of a test situation. home affairs correspondent tom symons reports. a standard fire test to prove that materials used in buildings are safe. the government did this test after g re nfell tower, safe. the government did this test after grenfell tower, but today‘s report says the test itself is failing. why? because it doesn‘t ta ke failing. why? because it doesn‘t take account of what happens in the real world. what happens on buildings like this. the association of british insurers commissioned their own tests of the test. their experts switched 20% of the wood used to start the fire wood plastic, which often feels real places. the result, a test fire which was 100
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celsius hotter than the standard test with wood. another example, in this test, the panels installed from the bottom to top with no gaps in between. we fire barely gets started. but on real buildings, the facades do have gaps, either by design or poor workmanship. look what happened when that was tested, oxygen driving we fire upwards. we are shocked by the findings. they demonstrate just how out of date the current testing regime is, and how important it is to take account of how this building materials are used in practice, notjust how they perform in a lab condition. after the tragedy here, the government asked a senior engineer to review building regulations and testing. she will report soon. the insurance industry wants one of her findings to bea industry wants one of her findings to be a rethink of the five test. —— fire test. in a moment, the business news. first, a look at the headlines on afternoon live. labour leader, jeremy corbyn, calls for the home secretary to resign, as the prime minister defends
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the government‘s immigration policy two days after life support was withdrawn from the seriously ill toddler alfie evans, his parents are back in court over his treatment. a danish inventor is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of swedish journalist kim wall on his submarine us cable tv giant comcast has made a formal £22bn bid for sky. the move threatens rupert murdoch‘s attempts to take full control of the pay—tv group. his 21st century fox had already agreed to buy the 61% of sky it does not already own, an offer worth about £19 billion. but after the new comcast move, sky said it was withdrawing its recommendation for the fox bid. two rival aircraft—makers, the french firm dassault and airbus, have announced that they‘re joining forces to design and build a new generation ofjet fighters. announcing what they called a landmark agreement
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at the berlin air show, they said it would secure european sovereignty and technological leadership in military aviation for decades to come. dassault is also working with the british firm bae systems on an unmanned fighter. it‘s the biggest coffee chain in the uk, and today it‘s been announced that costa coffee is to be split from parent company whitbread and listed as a separate firm. the move comes after pressure from activist investors who control about 10% of its shares. whitbread will remain the owner and operator of premier inn hotels. after more than five days of being locked out of their online bank, some tsb customers can now access their accounts. the bank has limited the number of people who can get into their accounts at any one time, because it expects a surge in customers trying to use it. you have got a story about illegal money lenders — loan sharks. some 300,000 people are in debt to illegal money lenders in the uk. illegal money lenders are people
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