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hello, this is breakfast, with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. president trump has compared a london hospital as a war zone in a speech defending gun laws. they say it is as bad as a military war zone hospital, knives, they say it is as bad as a military warzone hospital, knives, knives, knives. good morning, it's saturday, 5 may. also this morning: jamie acourt, a former suspect in the murder of stephen lawrence and one of the uk's most wanted fugitives is arrested in spain. fresh volcanic eruptions in hawaii before the islands are rocked by a major earthquake. in sport, a chance for arsenal to win a trophy after all with a record crowd, expected at wembley this afternoon, as arsenal and chelsea meet in the women's fa cup final.
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and sarah has the weather. we have some fine in dry weather for many of us through the bank holiday weekend, it won't be wall—to—wall sunshine but 20 of sunny spells things will be warming up quite nicely. good morning. first, our main story: donald trump has said that americans‘ right to own guns are "under siege" in a speech to the powerful national rifle association. he also said the uk's gun laws had led to a rise in knife crime and that a hospital in london was like "a war zone" because of the number of stabbing victims. gary 0'donoghue reports. reporter: there he is. there's donald] trump. travelling to the nra's convention is becoming an annual pilgrimage for president trump, but recent mass shootings have put the organisation on the back foot. though today, the president remained staunch in his defence of them and their right onstitutionally to own a gun. your second amendment rights are under siege.
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but they will never, ever be under siege as long as i'm your president. cheering but after the shooting of 17 students and teachers at the school in parkland, florida on valentine's day, the mood has changed, with young people around the country keeping gun control at the forefront of the debate. my daughter has no voice. she was murdered last week. shortly after that shooting, the president seemed prepared to stand up to the organisation, though little action followed. there was no such tough talk for the nra today. the president also suggesting that just having tight gun laws, like those in london, didn't stop people being killed in other ways. i recently read a story that in london, which has unbelievably tough gun laws, a once very prestigious hospital right in the middle is like a war zone for horrible stabbing wounds. yes, that's right. they don't have guns, they have knives. this was an uncompromising
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speech by the president. and in a year where there are congressional elections, there's unlikely to be any more compromise from republicans. one of the original suspects in the murder of stephen lawrence has been arrrested in spain. jamie acourt, who has always denied his involvement in the death of the teenager, was one of the uk's most wanted fugitives. he's expected to be questioned about his alleged role in the large scale supply of drugs. andy moore reports. pictured shortly after his arrest, not looking too happy, jamie acourt was on the list of britain's most wanted suspects living in spain. he was captured by armed officers from the spanish national police as he was leaving a gym near the sagrada familia cathedral in barcelona. his arrest comes soon after the 25th anniversary of the murder of the teenager stephen lawrence.
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he was attacked by five men at a bus stop in south—east london in a racially motivated killing. this was acourt in 1998, spitting at protestors as he left the stephen lawrence inquiry. he always denied any involvement in the stabbing, he was never charged. his arrest in spain was in connection with the alleged large—scale supply of drugs. he had last been seen in eltham in london two years ago. ian cruxton from the national crime agency said: acourt is due to appear before a court in madrid next week for an extradition hearing. several strong earthquakes have shaken parts of hawaii after the eruption of one of the world's most active volcanoes, mount kilauea. it's on hawaii's main island where 1700 residents have been evacuated and a state
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of emergency has been declared. bill hayton reports. a roadblock, hawaii style. this neighbourhood is 2a miles from the crater of mt kilauea, but the ground cracked open on thursday and molten lava poured out. i smelt it and i ran to the corner, and that's when i ran into a military officer, who told me that it's smoking, and sure as heck enough i take the turn and one of my favourite streets at least was on fire. dozens of small earthquakes left cracks in the roads. some residents described a feeling as if a giant snake was moving under the houses. you can feel the heat coming from the ground... yeah, there's heat coming out of there. there's lava under there. and that wasn't the only danger. the air was filled with potentially toxic fumes. as a result, the state governor ordered an evacuation. there was little time
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to gather possessions. some escaped with what they could. residents are now waiting to see when they'll be allowed home. kilauea is spewing smoke from one of its side vents, but at the moment, scientists don't believe there's a major risk of an explosive eruption. lava's been flowing from the volcano crater and cracks on its slopes ever since it became active in 1983. but with earthquakes getting stronger, no—one's relaxing just yet. more than 10,000 calls have been made to a helpline after it was revealed 450,000 women hadn't been invited to screenings. the hotline was set up on wednesday after an it error meant women aged between 68 and 71 were not invited to a routine breast screening. an independent review is being launched. counting has now finished after thursday's local elections in england. late results saw labour take the london borough of tower hamlets from no overall control,
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giving the party their best performance in the capital for more than a0 years. elsewhere ukip lost almost all of the seats they were defending, while the liberal democrats gained more than 70 councillors. analysis suggests labour and the conservatives are now neck—and—neck in the national vote share. more than 2,500 patients with brain conditions are being recalled to special clinics in northern ireland today, over fears they were misdiagnosed by a senior neurologist. patients seen by consultant dr michael watt were contacted by the belfast trust after doctors raised concerns about the care he was giving. north korea is changing its time zone to match the south after last week's peace summit. the communist regime said the country would move its clocks forward by 30 minutes from today. president trump announced yesterday that he has set a date for his meeting with the noth‘s leader kim jong—un. the meeting is expected to take place in late may orjune.
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nasa's latest mission to mars blasts off today with the aim of mapping the red planet's interior for the first time. the rocket carries a robotic probe which will be dropped onto the surface to test for tremors known as ‘marsquakes‘. 0ur science correspondent victoria gill reports. permission to the red planet, and a journey back in time. probing the surface of mars‘s, nasa's insert mission will aim to take the pulse of this planet, to work out how it formed over 4.5 billion years ago. 0nce formed over 4.5 billion years ago. once it has unfolded its vital solar panels, the robotic lander will carefully put down its own scientific instruments which will map the deep structure of the planet. these will take attempt on mars and analyse the structure of its core. 0ne instrument, a size moment, will pick up quakes under the surface. recent mission to be
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looking for water and habitability, this one is looking at how the planet itself is made up, how it is built. earth and mars formed at the same time, rudely by similar processes . same time, rudely by similar processes. so this mission could also shed light on why the two planets are so different will stop beyond the trip to mars, scientists say this is admission into our solar system's path to weary beneath mars‘s surface could also help us understand how earth, the moon and even planets around other stars evolved. we will have the sport coming up a little later, looking ahead also to the weather, we are told it is going to be beautiful bank holiday weekend. all the details coming up. up to one in five children in the uk have been exposed to domestic abuse at home, according to figures from the nspcc. making sure that those children receive adequate support is the focus of a project called 0peration encompass — which allows uk police forces to alert teachers when violence has occurred.
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head teachers now want the project to be compulsory. 0ur education correspondent elaine dunkley has more. he would storm of shouting and i would hear the door slam and i would flinch, and i would go check on the children and they would be hiding in their rooms. the years this mother and her children suffered domestic abuse. the many —— like many she gets it a secret. before the school knew a couple of times i was in an interschool upset and i would have to tell the teacher, it was rushed morning, it has been difficult at home and that is all ever said. but that changed thanks to a phone call made to the school by police that alerts teacher to a child affected by domestic abuse that before. how important was a conversation to the teacher? it felt like changing from me, when i made the decision to be open and honest and pour my heart out, i said to the children, if we had a difficult weekend or were feeling a bit sad, i would often say, you can always talk to your
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teachers, it is a safe place to talk, they don't have to tell mum or dad. that was really reassuring to me. the operation was set up in plymouth by this head teacher and her husband, a former police studies full -- her husband, a former police studies full —— sergeant. she was frustrated that often teachers were not notified of instances of domestic abuse until months later stop i know before that child even steps from the pavement through the school gate. there is no point trying to set them on the carpet in the classroom and say, we are going to learn about adverts today, when they are anxious about what is going on at home, worried about going home. the first thing the school needs to do is make sure the child is in the right physical and emotional state to access their learning during the school day. it is estimated that one in five children have been exposed to domestic abuse in the uk, and 130,000 children live in households where there is violence and high
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risk of domestic abuse. the 33 police forces that are part of the operation make on average over 1500 calls per day. something as simple asa calls per day. something as simple as a phone call has changed the lives of many children. but the operation has also shown there is scope to do much more. next it would be to look at how we can expand it to cover other types of environment, it could be early learning settings like nurseries or childcare environments, to make sure that we are not excluding those groups of children from the protection that this scheme offers. head teachers are calling for the operation to be compulsory for all students and police forces in england and wales. a conversation which means children do not have to suffer in silence. it is 12 minutes past six. we are going to cast our ira and the uk and have a look at the weather. the
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first going to cast our ira and the uk and have a look at the weather. the first shot going to cast our ira and the uk and have a look at the weather. the first shot this going to cast our ira and the uk and have a look at the weather. the first shot this morning going to cast our ira and the uk and have a look at the weather. the first shot this morning is going to cast our ira and the uk and have a look at the weather. the first shot this morning is over london, and it is one of those days, it isa london, and it is one of those days, it is a big day to sports in perfect conditions you would hope that wembley this evening. some afternoon sunshine, evening sunshine in may, that is what you want to the fa cup. it brings it all to life, this ras is greener in —— the grass is greener in the sunshine. you can wear a t—shirt, the kids can get into free, not a bad way to spend the afternoon. we also have a shot outside our studios here in salford. it is one of those mornings we walk in at 5am and you just want to stop and sniff the air, take it all in, peace and quiet... that was me in sa lfo rd , peace and quiet... that was me in salford, you may not have seen me there. sarah, is it one of those
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mornings, sundays is not much fun to get up early but today is one of those days where you are lucky to be at! you are savouring the early sunrise will stop but it has actually felt quite chilly out there that certainly a day of promise. we have some sunshine in the forecast, and that will stick around through the bank holiday weekend. it is often to say that bankable of a weekend —— holiday weekend will have warm sunshine, it will not be wall—to—wall sunshine, but things are certainly feeling warmer than they have been. that is down to the fa ct they have been. that is down to the fact that we have this big area of high pressure sitting at the south—east, dominating our weather, we have fronts trying to move into the north—west, they will graze past north—west scotland in particular, a little bit more clout here and some drizzly rain at times. we have quite a bit of clout around across this i reached seacoast, the west coast —— irish seacoast. we will see some more local out, but plenty of sunshine for many central parts, and
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the cloudiness should break up later in the day. most places today between 18— 20. we keep the cloud, breeze and drizzle to the far north—western scotland through this evening and overnight, but the rest of the country we have largely clear skies around, and there will be some mist and fog forming inland, and through this irish sea coast. temp riches fairly chilly where you have this clear skies, still in double figures underneath the cloud. through the day on saturday, fairly similar, most places dry, fine and sunny. some rain at times as this front sunny. some rain at times as this fro nt m oves sunny. some rain at times as this front moves into the north—west of scotla nd front moves into the north—west of scotland but away from this area we are not expecting any rainfall. still some mist and low cloud the southern parts of england and wales, but in those temperatures we can see 23- 24 but in those temperatures we can see 23— 2a celsius by sunday afternoon. that warming trend continues through interbank 11 monday as well. we will
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be drawing in this warm airfrom europe, spreading in from the south—east. bank holiday monday itself will be particularly warm across southern half the country. lots of sunshine five dock of england and wales, a bit of clout further north at times but less of that low cloud, mist and fog around this irish sea coast. in the north and eastern scotland, a little bit cooler as we start to draw in an onshore breeze, but further south the temperatures are in the mid— 20s, we could see 26, possible you 27 celsius for bank holiday monday at making it the warmest early may bank holiday on record. get out and enjoy the weather. mike and i will have a look through the papers now. the front pages for you, on the front page of the daily mail, you can see a lot of pick up following
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of course the local elections, the daily mail, brexit voters, their ta ke daily mail, brexit voters, their take on this rally behind theresa may to crush the hopes of an early election breakthrough. the story is also on the front page of the times newspaper. mps call for an inquest, corbyn fail selection test is the way they have gone through that. the picture there, it sir paul and lady mccartney at buckingham palace yesterday, he received the insignia of the companion of honour. 0nly yesterday, he received the insignia of the companion of honour. only 65 people at any one time have the honour. the back page is all about steven gerrard, tempted away from liverpool where he had a job with the academy, coaching the use, to ta ke the academy, coaching the use, to take over as manager of rangers, his first big manager realjob, it is a risk on both sides, rangers of course a huge tradition but a massive job to try to catch celtic at the top of the scottish premiership, he has in gary mcallister as his assistant who has
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a managerial experience with leeds and coventry of course as well. but he is saying he turned down eight otherjobs to take the job at rangers and he is saying here my special feeling, a great rangers and he is saying here my specialfeeling, a great affection for the club, he says it is an honour to take over a team of that stature and science. what a job he has a head. worrying the england, a route and alastair cook out for ducks yesterday. —— joe root. looking ahead to the royal wedding of course, meghan markle's dad will be walking down the aisle. there is his photo. he is getting measured for his suit. the front page of the guardian, we will talk about this a more this morning, the number of people calling in following the breast—cancer screening issue and we will chat a bit more about that later this morning. now it is time for the film review.
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hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so mark, what do we have this week? we have tully, a new film starring charlize theron, lean on pete, and the new anime mary and the witch's flower. tully i'm looking forward to because it is made by the people who made juno, which isjust glorious. i loved that movie so much. written by diablo cody, directed by jason reitman. of course, they also worked together with charlize theron on young adult. so the story is charlize theron is marla, a middle—aged woman who is struggling with kids and a newborn baby. she is exhausted.
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absolutely. and her smugly successful brother says to her, "look, why don't you let me pay for a night nanny so that you can get some sleep?" at first she said "i don't want anything to do with it." finally, she is so exhausted that she succumbs and says "fine." enter tully, who is a strange mix of on the one hand part scary mary poppins and the other hand, a sprightly reminder of her younger self and immediately, they bond. here's a clip. you seem like a great mum. great mums organise class parties and casino night. they bake cupcakes that look like minions. all the things i'm just too tired to do. honestly, even getting dressed just feels exhausting. i open my closet and ijust think "didn't ijust do that?" yes, but that's the downside of living on the planet with a short solar day. although jupiter is even shorter. you're like a book of fun facts
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for unpopular fourth—graders. so there's this light humour between them and they have a fundamental bond and what happens is the story goes off perhaps in ways that you would not expect. the first thing to say is it is a really convincing portrayal of the exhaustion of her character. she's pulled in so many different directions that has to do so many different things. one point, she goes into school and has a row with the headmistress who says "i don't want you to leave this way." she says "i leave this way every day, you just never see it" so i like that and i thought that was done really well and i thought charlize theron really gave you a sense of character who is completely at their wits‘ end. then what happens is through, her relationship with tully, she starts to reconnect with the part of her life that she thought she had forgotten about. bear in mind, diablo cody has worked on other things likejennifer‘s body, which is a fantastic story, and she is not afraid to follow the central character off into flights of fancy that perhaps some audiences would not expect. i thought this was brave
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and adventurous in the risks it took with the screenplay. the thing that worked best for it was that even when the narrative goes off in slightly strange ways, i know some people found the third act out perhaps coming out of the blue, i did not and i thought it was consistent with the rest of the film. it has its feet so firmly on the ground that you do believe in the character, you absolutely believe this is somebody who is just called upon every minute of the day to do stuff that they are running out of energy for. and you get a really good sense of that exhaustion and depression and anxiety, not so much falling asleep as just collapsing in a heap on the sofa and having dreams of drowning. dreams of mermaids, which also tell you something about where this is going with its flights of fancy. i thought it was an interesting feel with a really terrific central performance and a screenplay which is willing to take risks that perhaps don't entirely work, but good for taking. sounds interesting. i'm expecting particularly
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excellent dialogue. she writes so... she writes very good dialogue. that is one thing you expect from diablo cody. you see her film and you think there will be a number of quotable zingers, but the nice thing is that there is more to it than that. really intriguing. as is lean on pete. yeah, terrible title. i had to look up to see what it was about! based on a novel and directed by the creator of 45 years. a teenager who is lonely and moves to portland, oregon with his single father, who's not a great father but he clearly loves him. he ends up finding work looking after a quarter horse. the horse is called lean on pete. the horse is towards the end of his racing life, looked after by steve buscemi, who is kind of gruff owner who, when the horse is done with, he has told no sentiments about sending them off to mexico, which is a euphemism for what is really happening to them. no, not over your neck.
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i really like this film. i thought firstly charlie plummer is brilliant. he has one of those faces that telegraphs his emotions — not to do with dialogue but the way he looks. he has something of the young james dean about him because there a lilt to his voice, very expressive face. i love the fact that andrew haigh, british film maker, has gone to america and shot in some deserts around but has not been overwhelmed by the scenery. there are moments in it when we are out in the desert but still at the centre of it is charlie. he is in every single frame pretty much in the movie. the other thing is i like the fact that none of the characters in this film are two—dimensional. some of it may seem harsh and difficult and violent, but everyone has got redeeming qualities. and they often play against type. chloe sevigny turns up as a jockey who has fallen off the horse one time too many. i can see the narrative is going to set her up as a surrogate, but it absolutely does not.
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i think there is a really, really terrific movie. it is quite dark in places. there are moments of tears in it. i mean, you liked 45 years. i loved it, which is why i am going to see this. and to know how good he is of doubling that kind of intimate relation thing. that is all here. i thought it was really great. i wish it was called something other than lean on pete. i wish it was called something like discovery, but lean on pete is it. don't be put off by the title of the film. that is the takeaway. your third film, a beautiful animation film? mary and the witch's flower, from studio ghibli. yes, this is a lovely animated film. it is the story of a young girl who discovers these magical flowers in the woods and she discovers a broomstick in the middle of a tree and suddenly, it whisked her off to this other land, this magical college. you can see echoes of harry potter in this. she thinks she has arrived there completely wrongly. when she comes back to earth, however, the magical work follows her back to her home.
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here's a clip. mary smith, the imposter witch. how dare you taint the noble establishment? did you really think you could fool us? well, now, it seems that your friend has drifted here along with the mist. it was easy finding him, thanks to all your help. if you want to save him, you must bring me the witch's flower. and since it only blooms once every seven years, you'd better be quick. but if you decide not to come, there's a rule, remember? that all trespassers will be transformed. i'll see you soon, imposter witch.
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i really like this. i love the way it looks. i love the complicity of the storytelling. the fact that you are seeing some quite complicated issues of guilt and remorse and duty and that kind of thing, but doing so in a way which is really magically engaging. there are moments in it when you think "i am looking at this wondrous spectacle." you see these fantastic fiery displays. but it is really to do with little details — you believe in the characters and you believe in these situations, even when they are utterly fantastical. there are two versions of it, the original language version and the dubbed version. you are hearing a clip from the dubbed version there. i thought it was really well done and i liked it very much and it is one of those things — i am a big fan of animation and i think it is great to have all these forms of animation coexisting side by
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side at the moment. this is a really fine piece and i think anybody coexisting side by side at the moment. this is a really fine piece and i think anybody could enjoy this. really good piece of work. mary and the witch's flower. there she is. she has the flower seeds! best out this week. i am officially in trouble because i am sorry, i still haven't seen beast. it is not a horrorfilm. it is a psychological thriller. i know. yes. really terrific. i compared this, johnny flynn, his central performance which i thought was really brilliant, talking about rachel weisz, in my cousin rachel, she said she had decided herself whether the character was good to her not but she kept it as a secret. and a really fine piece of work and a really good british picture. all the exteriors are shot onjersey and all the interiors are shot in surrey. well, the outside ofjersey. that is what counts and i promise i am going to see it. it has been on my list for many weeks. dvd for anyone who wants to stay in? jumanji, welcome to thejungle.
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this is out now because no new releases on monday. dwayne the rockjohnson is currently charging around in cinemas doing really well. i really like this. i was not a fan of the original. i never quite got it. i thought this was really, really good fun. it's got a well—written script, entertaining, popcorn entertainment but it is good popcorn entertainment, smart characterizations good jokes, good story. and both times i laughed pretty consistently. it is so much better than we had any right to expect. excellent. thank you very much. a really good week. go see beast! i have got a busy bank holiday ahead. very busy. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week, though. we have all got a lot to do this weekend. enjoy the bank holiday. thank you for being with us. bye— bye. thanks for watching. goodbye. hello, this is breakfast
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with charlie stayt . here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. donald trump has said the uk's strict gun laws has led to a rise in knife crime, adding that a hospital in london was like "a war zone" because of the number of stabbing victims. it comes as the president tried to defend americans' right to own guns, which he said were "under siege" in a speech to the powerful national rifle association. i recently read a story that in london, which has unbelievably tough gun laws, once very prestigious hospital, right in the middle, is like a war zone! for horrible stabbing wounds. yes, that's right. they don't have guns, they have knives! one of the original suspects in the murder of stephen lawrence has been arrrested in spain. jamie acourt, who has always
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denied his involvement in the death of the teenager was one of the uk's most wanted fugitives. he's expected to be questioned about his alleged role in the large scale supply of drugs and is due to appear at court for an extradition hearing early next week. several strong earthquakes have shaken parts of hawaii after the eruption of one of the world's most active volcanoes, mount kilauea. it's on hawaii's main island where dramatic footage shows fountains of lava bursting up from under roads. 1700 residents have been evacuated and a state of emergency has been declared. a roadblock, hawaii style. this neighbourhood is 24 miles from the crater of mt kilauea, but the ground cracked open on thursday and molten lava poured out. i smelt it and i ran to the corner, and that's when i ran into a military officer, who told me that it's smoking, and sure as heck enough i take the turn and one of my favourite streets at least was on fire. dozens of small earthquakes left cracks in the roads. some residents described a feeling as if a giant
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snake was moving under the houses. you can feel the heat coming from the ground... yeah, there's heat coming out of there. there's lava under there. and that wasn't the only danger. the air was filled with potentially toxic fumes. as a result, the state governor ordered an evacuation. there was little time to gather possessions. some escaped with what they could. residents are now waiting to see when they'll be allowed home. kilauea is spewing smoke from one of its side vents, but at the moment, scientists don't believe there's a major risk of an explosive eruption. lava's been flowing from the volcano crater and cracks on its slopes ever since it became active in 1983. but with earthquakes getting stronger, no—one's relaxing just yet. more than 2,500 patients are being recalled to special clinics in northern ireland today over fears
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they were misdiagnosed by a senior neurologist. patients seen by consultant dr michael watt were contacted by the belfast trust after doctors raised concerns about the care he was giving. north korea is changing its time zone to match the south after last week's peace summit. the communist regime said the country would move its clocks forward by 30 minutes from today. president trump announced yesterday that he has set a date for his meeting with the noth‘s leader kim jong—un. for his meeting with the north's leader kim jong—un. the meeting is expected to take place in late may orjune. nasa's latest mission to mars blasts off today with the aim of mapping the red planet's interior for the first time. the rocket carries a robotic probe which will be dropped onto the surface to test for tremors known as ‘marsquakes‘. scientists hope the seven—month voyage will reveal more about how mars is arranged from surface to core. those are the main stories. the
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women's fa cup final is on this evening live on the bbc at wembley, and all that sunshine, london derby, absolutely fantastic. arsenal have won the women's fa cup, 14 times — more than any other team, but chelsea will start as slight favourites for the final. a record crowd of over 40,000 are expected at wembley for this repeat of the 2016 final, which arsenal won thanks to a goal from danielle carter. chelsea are in their fourth final, whilst arsenal are bidding for that record 15th title. they have got very good players, i am expecting them on the back of their run of play, i am expecting big things from —— eat things from them. if we get our game right,
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hopefully we can do the job again. playing in the big arena, the big occasions, it takes some time to get used to, but once you have done it a few times, it is not a big deal any more, it is quite 0k, and that is the whole thing, getting control of your emotions to do what you do on the training pitch, do the same no matter where you are, at howe are watching. that's what it's all about. brighton have secured their premier league status for next season by beating manchester united 1—0. it's their first season in the league and the seagulls needed the new goal—line technology to confirm that pascal gross had scored by the finest of margins — 2.8 centimetres, that's just over an inch. it's only their second win over manchester united in their history, and leaves them on an uncatchable 40 points. it will certainly be great for us to go into these last two games away to
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man city and liverpool, knowing we have retained our status, and it is great for this football club, they have come a long way and had some tough periods and so on, and chairman that has invested very heavily in this club and i are really delighted to them. so brighton are safe, but it's a huge weekend for those other sides battling relegation from the premier league. stoke city host roy hodgson‘s crystal palace, in today's early kick—off. second from bottom stoke only have two matches left as they continue their desperate bid for survival and their manager paul lambert has described todays game as must—win. a really tough game, i think roy has done a really good job, and it is a tough match as we know, they are playing pretty well themselves, yeah, they are safe anyway so whether that is a good thing in a bad thing, remains to be seen. but they matter what we have to be ready and, them. steven gerrard says he's honoured to become the new manager at rangers.
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he's agreed a four—year deal to take over at ibrox and insists he isn't concerned about his lack of experience. it's the former liverpool and england captain's first managerialjob. he retired from playing 18 months ago and won everything except the premier league at anfield. he had been part of the club's under 18's coaching set—up. iam i am confident that we can do well. in terms of targets and that type of stuff, i just want to win football matches, that is what i love to do, thatis matches, that is what i love to do, that is my buzz, that is what i want to do here and that is the demand here, and! to do here and that is the demand here, and i am ready to do that. gerrard is unlikely to be managing his team, against ross county in the premiership next season. they came from behind to draw 1—1 with second—bottom pa rtick but it still leaves them 2 points behind their rivals with just two games remaining. chris froome's bid to hold all 3 of cycling's grand tour titles at the same time got
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off to a bumpy start at the giro d'italia. the team sky leader crashed doing a reccie of the opening time trial injerusalem. he was able to race but after the six—mile stage, he was down in 21st, 37 seconds behind the winner, the defending champion tom dumoulin. there are 2 more stages in israel before the race heads to sicily. a crash is always going to hurt, it is not ideal to racejust after having crashed, but that is by grazing and it is all part of the sport. —— bike racing. grazing and it is all part of the sport. -- bike racing. any problems long—term? sport. -- bike racing. any problems long-term? no, it is all superficial. the first summit finish in the history, of the tour de yorkshire has been won by a sprinter. magnus cort nielsen held off 0lympic road race champion greg van avermaet up the cow and calf rocks on ilkley moor. the dane's victory on the second stage put him in the overall lead with two stages left to race. megan guarnier made it a birthday to remember with victory in the women's race. the american powered away on the climb into ilkley on her 33rd birthday. britian‘s dani rowe finished third for the stage britain's dani rowe finished
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third for the stage to take second overall. john higgins remains in control of his world snooker championship semifinal against kyren wilson. the four—time champion leads by 13 frames to 11 with just one session left to play. the first to 17 will reach the final. in the other semi, barry hawkins leads mark williams by 9 frames to 7. england's paul casey lies just two shots off the lead at the wells fargo championship in the united states. casey made four birdies to shoot up the leaderboard in north carolina. he's on 5 under par whilst tyrell hatton and rory mcilroy slipped from contention. harvey livett scored a hat—trick as warrington beat super league champions leeds 33—22. the wolves scored four tries towards the end for their ninth win in a row. there were also wins for wigan and huddersfield. former world heavyweight champion david haye says his victory over tony bellew tonight will be "clinical". the two rekindle an often ill—tempered rivalry at the 02 tonight with haye favourite to make amends for his surprise defeat last year.
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bellew says he'll take pride in leaving haye's career with nowhere to go. both making bold predictions there. do you play squash? i used to. did you give it up close yourjoints we re you give it up close yourjoints were aching? it is very hard and knees. if you are playing someone much better than yourself you don't get much of a... you are not in the game at all. how about an alternative that allows you to have long rallies, you are not putting stress on the joints are you get more a workout. it is called racquetball. it looks like squash, but in this game, the rallies can go on and on evenif game, the rallies can go on and on even if you play one of the world ‘s top 100 players. because look, the ball is much bouncier and the
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rackets a re ball is much bouncier and the rackets are bigger. it is a bit of a level of. it bounces so much more than in squash. itjust keeps the rallies going even longer and gives people a really good rabbit workout. sometimes the problem with squash can be the disparity in levels, whereas if you have a good player and not so good player they do not really get a game. whereas... racquetball was invented in the 19505 by american tennis player who wa nted 19505 by american tennis player who wanted a game that was easy to play. it attract older people for whom squashis it attract older people for whom squash is now out of reach. squash was getting too difficult on the body. the ball bounces higher so you don't have to once quite so low and get downright on the ground quite as often, it is kinder on yourjoints. i was one of the last ones to turn the club here, everyone had gone to play racquetball but i was sticking
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it out with squash, but the joints started going a bit, and i'd just found it a radically really good. what i was finding with squash is that with two or three rallies the ball was dead and you start again and don't get a good workout. with racquetball that average rally would be 9— ten balls before the ball dies. with normal squash on the server you can bounce the ball while delivering it, and then you are in play. the bouncy ball also helps draw in the younger players who love the challenge of trying to read its path will stop i think because it ounces more it bounces off the walls ina more ounces more it bounces off the walls in a more uncritical director at —— direction. you have to calculate how you go in compared to where the ball well bounce and all that stuff so you might have to run more to reach it. racquetball which is also now pulled squash 57, because that is the diameter of the ball, has now gone global. and while world championships are still dominated by the usa and canada the uk is catching up with more and more
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players either switching to it or using it as a way into squash. so we have said it is a leveller, and beginners are not only get thrashed as much by the world's top players, but you can kill me off with a smash. it only takes one. well played. when adam wanted to finish me off he could still, because he is one of the world ‘stop me off he could still, because he is one of the world '5 top 100 players, but at least they worked up a sweat. big long rallies, really good workout. because the ball bounces that much more, it you get more of a chance. the rallies than end up going on too long. usually nine or ten, it is much more about reading ahead of the game and outfoxing your opponent like in chess, rather thanjust killing the ball dead like you can in squash. they have six leagues down their at bowden in manchester.
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it is 6:43 a.m.. you're watching breakfast from bbc news. the main stories this morning: donald trump has said that americans' right to own guns are "under siege" in a speech to the powerful national rifle association. his comments come two months after a mass shooting in florida. a former suspect in the murder of the teenager stephen lawrence has been arrested by armed police in barcelona on suspicion of drugs offences. here's sarah with a look at this morning's weather. bank holiday weekend, sarah. absolutely, good morning, bank holiday weekend and some promising weather around. it was a beautiful start of the day, this is the sunrise in dorset, clear skies, and for many of us it sums up the story of the day, dry, some sunshine around, and the temperatures will be on the rise, certainly over the next few days. it isn't dry and bright
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everywhere, we do have a fly in the ointment with cloud building in the west, is whether front approaching. also missed, low cloud and fog around irish sea coast for a time but the bulk of the country it is high pressure that is dominating. after a fresh start saturday morning, 20 of sunshine across many central and eastern parts, eastern scotla nd central and eastern parts, eastern scotland also, northern ireland seem sunny spells through into this afternoon but is always a cloud north—west of scotland, a little bit of drizzly rain later in the day and low cloud and missed is around some of these irish sea coast, but the northwest of england in the western wales. temperature doing very well. into the night, the early hours of sunday morning, a cloud and the drizzly rain is on the far north—west, most parts clear and dry. turning fresh first thing sunday. the mist and fog patches too. but inland and around coastal parts of wales and the west of
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england. through the day with a low cloud, mist and work in the west but for many, a day of glorious sunshine and light winds the most part, away from the farm north—west of scotland where it will be windy and wet at times. in the sunny spells, temperatures up to 24 degrees, the south—east of england, elsewhere around 17 — 20. the warming trend is down to the fact we are drawing in this warm airfrom down to the fact we are drawing in this warm air from continental europe. i pressure is in charge. and holiday monday, the southern half of the country sees the warm air with lots of sunshine. further north, we will bring in some breeze off the north sea so slightly cooler for bank holiday monday for eastern scotla nd bank holiday monday for eastern scotland and the north—east england we should start to lose all of the low cloud, mist and fog around the irish sea so i try to do further south and it is probably going to be the warmest day of the bank holiday weekend. the temperatures in the low to mid— 205 but we could see as high as 26, possibly 27 celsius! that is
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set to be a record. likely to be the warmest early may bank holiday ever recorded, charlie. that has made a lot of people happy, sarah. now on breakfast, it's time for click. we are becoming how much ductal old —— aware how much ductal via giving away without knowing about it. perhaps someone can say a lot about the personalities but when we are out about bizarre behaviour in the real world say about us? well, in the uk, we are all getting used to
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the uk, we are all getting used to the fact that we are being filmed by cctv a lot of the time but although a human can tell a lot about a person just by looking at video footage, it is a really hard job for a computer to do. that said, this system is having a pretty good guess at who it is looking at right now. it is no worse than a human would guess given the same footage. the system is an artificial intelligence that research at southampton university have trained to estimate the gender, age and a description of eve ryo ne the gender, age and a description of everyone that falls under the gaze of their test cameras. we have millions of images, different types of people captured from different environments, from all around the world, and we hand—label these. they are labelled by human beings as male or female, or 16—30, and the magic part is that we can feed these
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into a machine, into a computer, to learn what it means to look male, what it means to look female, just from the visual cues alone. the team are pitching this at retailers, as an improved way of measuring footfall — instead ofjust counting the number of customers who come into a store, this can tell shopowners whether the right kind of people, the shop's target audience, are being drawn in. rather than know that 100 people came in and we sold 50 things, we can tell them that 50 people from their target demographic came in and they sold 50 things, so now they know how they are converting certain types of people, who they are converting. retailers would get a breakdown through each day of the most popular spots in store and the most popular routes taken through the store by each type of customer. and with this high street view here, you can see which shop windows are more grabby and how long people dwell on different areas. in this example we can see carphone warehouse actually has a higher proportion of females walking past it than gap on the other side of the road, which might indicate that maybe gap should move their placement along the high street as this side
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of the street sees more of its target demographic. this kind of profiling of humans by computer systems has many uses, from this kind of anonymised retail analysis, to other areas that might say more about us as people. one of the more controversial uses for ai is in policing. marc cieslak travelled to durham to find out more. peterlee police station in county durham. the early hours of the morning. the man pictured here in the station's cctv, let's call him steve, has been arrested for possession of heroin. your arrest is on suspicion... here in durham the police are trying ai software which could help make decisions about suspects being held in custody. leave your shoes they and we will just do a quick search. —— leave your shoes there
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and we willjust do a quick search. after steve has been processed, the custody sergeant will enter his details into a system called the harm assessment risk tool, or hart. it is an a! tool designed to help custody sergeants make decisions about what to do with a suspect. what it does algorithmically, it uses all of our data to tell us who is high risk of reoffending, medium risk of reoffending, and low risk of reoffending. it is not absolutely perfect, but it gives us a really clear indication of who might commit crime in the future. the ai is trying to identify repeat offenders who, rather than being sent to court, will be entered into a rehabilitation scheme called checkpoint. this is the first time an ai system like this has been used in the uk. i put my name in here... the system is now searching for the prisoner, we will click on the list, the system will decide if i am at low risk of reoffending, and the sergeant would be presented with. .. "low—risk — the subject is not likely to reoffend in the next month." what happens next? it can go either
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way, really. so if the sergeant has decided this person will be remanded in custody, they will be refused bail and go to court the next morning. it is a different story for steve. he has a long list of previous convictions including drug possession, assault and driving offences. the ai assesses the data that durham constabulary holds him and makes this recommendation. he can only enter checkpoint if it rates him as a moderate risk. everyone who works with the hart project i spoke to is keen to stress that the information it provides is advisory only and the human custody sergeant makes all the final decisions. but the use of this technology in general is, for some people, cause for concern. this kind of artificial intelligence system in policing relies on big data. and that means people's privacy is at risk, and it risks us moving more towards a surveillance state.
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but it also risks discrimination, because patterns that exist in data already risk being perpetuated and repeated. and there is very little accountability over it. cambridge university's criminology lab is the birthplace of the technology being used by the police in durham. it has been in development for five years. the decisions that hart makes are based on historical data. it uses this information to predict the future outcomes. 0ur artificial intelligence, is looking to the past and the patterns we have observed, to predict the future. we know that the past is not perfect — humans are making decisions, but humans are also making predictions in the criminaljustice system. back in peterlee's police station,
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steve has been assessed and accepted into the checkpoint programme. he ended up spending around eight hours in police custody. i will grab my stuff, come round the front and give you a lift. what is the future of this kind of technology? in terms of how i see it developing, i think over the next five years there will be a proliferation of these kind of tools, i think going forward society will come to accept them more, but human beings, government, society, needs to stamp its foot little bit about it. and the reason i say that is because we need to have more regulation. a few years back, wearables became the buzzword. but this year, there has been a lot of talk about hearables. now, that could mean a personal training session or real—time translation directly into a pair of earbuds. but this week, i'm putting to the test a few devices that aim to give you a hearing test and, as a result, optimise what you are listening to.
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there are various causes of different type of hearing impairment, so we could have a hearing loss through ageing, it could be through noise—induced hearing element as well. but can some headphones balance this out, and do we actually need them to? i popped into one of our peaceful radio studios to find out. so first of all, i have these audera headphones. now, i need to do a hearing test to create my profile. what we're doing here is finding the quietest part of my audible range throughout all the different frequencies. it takes about ten minutes to go through this whole process for a full range of sound on both ears. ok, so the results of my test. i can tell that each ear seems to hear differently from each other but beyond that, obviously, it doesn't mean a huge amount. but what i can do now is i can put the headphones to the test. shouts: 0k, sorry if i'm shouting! this is at 0% now! let's apply 50%!
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well, it sounds a lot cleaner! the sound is a lot sharper! you can hear each element of the sound really clearly! the clarity at 100% is pretty good. so what do the experts make of the concept? with the auderas, it uses a basic form of pure tone audiometry. this is something that we perform every day in the clinic and it involves presenting different pitches and different tones and then measuring how loud we have to make it in order for someone to be able to hear it. auderas are stating that they take that into account with the settings on the headphones, and then incorporate that, giving extra sound in the area to compensate for any hearing loss. the mimi music app works in a similar way and has been around a few years. after creating your earprint, it aims to optimise the music you listen to through any wired headphones. here i have the nurophone headphones which look pretty interesting for a start as they're sort
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of in—ear and over—ear. but they work differently. instead of asking you whether you can hear something, they do the test for you, and they do it in just 60 seconds. they claim to do so by sending sound waves into your ear which will trigger a reaction, sending electrical impulses to your brain and sound waves back out your ear. it's through measuring them that the app will create what it calls your hearing signature. in my not—very—scientific experiment here, i am noticing a much bigger difference between the generic and the personalised in these headphones. the music sounds totally different. it's different parts of the music that sound louder. and that's mixed in with just a real clear, crisp sound. but our expert had some questions over this upgrade of sound quality. they do give you the opportunity with the headphones to be able to compare the generic settings with those taking into account your personal profile.
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there was a hugely marked difference between those two things when i actually tested them out on my hearing, which actually prompted me to go downstairs and use our diagnostic 0to—acoustic emission test and see if i had normally functioning ears, which i did — so in terms of the reliability of that, in terms of the accuracy of how they actually come to those conclusions, i'm not entirely sure. but would i want either of these over another pair of headphones at the same price point? maybe the fact is that i don't need them. if my hearing was a little more damaged, there would be greater rewards to reap. and that is it for the shortcut of click this week. on facebook and twitter. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. hello this is breakfast, with rachel burden and charlie stayt.
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