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this is bbc news. i'm rachel schofield. the headlines at 11: tributes pour in for dame tessa jowell, who played a major role in securing the 2012 london olympics. she's died aged 70. in the end, what gives life meaning is not only howard has lived, but how it draws to a close. —— how it is. police in indonesia say six members of a single family, including children, were responsible for the bombings of three churches that have killed at least 13 people. injerusalem, israelis celebrate the opening of the new us embassy while palestinians protest. and a standing ovation for kate adie as she wins this year's bafta fellowship. tributes have been paid to tessa jowell —
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the veteran labour cabinet minister and peer — has died after spending herfinal months campaigning for better treatments for brain cancer. she was 70 and she was diagnosed with a brain tumour a year ago. today, she was remembered for a long career in public service, including setting up sure start children's centres and helping to bring the olympics to london. nick robinson — who interviewed her during her illness — reports. i spent a huge amount of time with people with cancer... tessa jowell knew she had just weeks to live when she launched one last campaign to improve cancer care for all. i am not afraid. i feel very clear about my sense of purpose and what i want to do. and how do i know how long it's going to last? baroness jowell.
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hear, hear. a public servant to the very last, dame tessa spoke to a packed, a tearful house of lords, about how those with tumours like hers could be treated so much better. i hope that this debate will give hope to other cancer patients like me. a friend and ally of tony blair's, tessa, as she was referred to by most people in politics, was popular even with those who didn't much like her boss. her impact on politics was enormous. everything she touched, she turned to gold in some way, whether it was advancing equal pay for women, starting sure start, which is an immense programme for children in our country, or of course bringing the olympics to britain. she did everything with the same passion, determination, verve, ability and charm.
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the games of the 30th olympiad in 2012 are awarded to the city of london. when london won the contest to host the olympic games, it was a personal victory for the woman who championed the bid from the very start. i am tessa jowell, olympic minister. she oversaw the often troubled preparations for the games, laying the foundations for a moment that brought the country together. without her, i absolutely don't think we would have had a chance of winning the games, nor delivering the games to the level they were, because she demanded everything. even when very sick, tessa jowell never sought sympathy. she did demand change, change to allow cancer patients to switch from one trial to the next rather than waiting months, months they, she didn't have. there will be people listening
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to you who will think, "why don't you curl up on the sofa, be with your family and friends, look after yourself"? absolutely impossible. i have so much love in my family, my children, my close friends. "brave and inspiring" are words often used of those whose lives are cut short by cancer. they're not nearly enough to describe tessa jowell. in the end, what gives a life meaning is not only how it is lived, but how it draws to a close. applause tessa jowell, who's died at the age of 70.
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and i've been looking back at dame tessa jowell‘s life with the former labour cabinet minister, lord boateng. she was a warm, bright, loving, lovely soul, always with his passion for social justice that shape lovely soul, always with his passion for socialjustice that shape and inform the whole being. it was not just the politics, she lived and breathed justice of every sort, write to the very end. i knew her yes, in cabinet, a new hair even before that as an activist in local government, when we were together in the 80s, and she was always at the forefront of the struggle for what is right in politics, what is true in politics, and she spoke up regardless of the cost to herself and leaves a massive gap in our national life. give us an insight
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around the cabinet table in the way that she would have been in those discussions. she was tough. it is a great mistake to think of tessa jowell as being soft, warm and cuddly, yes, she was warm and cuddly but she was a tough political operator and she knew how to get a point over, to get it over well, and passionately, but she knew also how to influence people, how to move people by the force of her intellect and arguments, yes, but also by the sincerity, that the honesty, that the integrity of her views and she never ever, she never ever betrayed her principles. those principles we re her principles. those principles were the guiding star and they saw her through her life right to the very end. and when we think of the legacy she leaves, we were talking with sarah jones legacy she leaves, we were talking with sarahjones about legacy she leaves, we were talking with sarah jones about the legacy she leaves, we were talking with sarahjones about the work legacy she leaves, we were talking with sarah jones about the work she had done latterly for those suffering from brain cancer but also
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going back, we had the olympic games and really a huge body of work, she leaves a big mark. throughout all of her work and life there is the struggle against inequality and to give people a fair chance, that is what shaped the thinking about public health. she recognised that health outcomes are determined all too often i where you were born, your gender, your race, your class. she wanted to do something about that. she understood that for a child to develop its full potential, you have to have early intervention. she was a groundbreaking share of social services and she sought to deliver that in government, and she knew too that life could be made that much fuller and that much more joyful by the arts and by making culture and cultural institutions open and available to all equally.
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and those are the things that i will remember herfor, and those are the things that i will remember her for, those are the things that the nation and the wider world will remember her for, her passion forjustice, herfierce integrity, her wisdom that, passion forjustice, herfierce integrity, herwisdom that, herwit, and joyfulness, her warm and loving soul. it was interesting hearing sarahjones soul. it was interesting hearing sarah jones said that soul. it was interesting hearing sarahjones said that as they soul. it was interesting hearing sarah jones said that as they were preparing to this debate and the work she was doing on cancer, she said that it was not about me. i wonder whether today she would be amazed that people are paying to her in these extraordinary ways because for her, it was not about the person, it was about what she wanted to get done. she would want her life and the way that she lived at to be and the way that she lived at to be a stimulus to us not to allow that to have been in vain, and that means restoring sure start and opportunities for children and young people, that means continuing to
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battle against inequality, as she a lwa ys battle against inequality, as she always would have done, that means to recognising —— too recognising that your health chances should not be determined by whether you are rich or powerful or born in this place or the other, your health chances should be determined by our collective commitment to science, the caring, and to the welfare of all. that is what tessa jowell was about. attribute there to tessa jowell. —— a tribute. police in indonesia believe a couple and their four children — aged between nine and 18 — were involved in coordinated suicide bombings at three churches in the city churches in the city of surabaya this morning. at least 13 people were killed and dozens injured — as jonathan head reports. blazing motorbikes marks the site
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of one of the three attacks. all suicide bombers, say the indonesian police, and all from the same family, including a mother and two daughters aged nine and 12. a known islamic state media outlet has claimed that the attack was the work of its loyalists. the police claimed the family had recently returned from fighting is in syria. the presidentjoko widodo visited the site, and called for indonesians to fight the scourge of extremism. translation: this morning, we have ordered the police track down the networks of the perpetrators at source. we will not tolerate this kind of cowardice. i'm calling on everyone to fight terrorism, which is against the values of all religions, and our national values as a nation. indonesia is the world's most populous muslim nation. tracking and containing a dangerous radicalfringe has been a challenge for its security forces for the past two decades. they have had many successes. but this attack by a single family is a reminder that with hundreds of indonesians returning from the war in syria, the threat is still very real. jonathan head, bbc news.
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two british tourists freed by their kidnappers in the democratic republic of congo have said they are "very relieved". in a short statement issued by the foreign office, bethan davies and robertjesty said they were "grateful" for the support they had received. a park ranger, rachel masika baraka, died after being shot by the gunmen — she is the eighth ranger to be killed this year. the us embassy in israel will open tomorrow in its new location injerusalem, after a move seen as a break with the international consensus for the status of the city to be left to peace talks. israelis today celebrated the change, which takes place on the 70th anniversary of its founding. the move has exacerbated tensions with palestinians, who've called for protests at the new embassy. our middle east editor jeremy bowen is injersualem. tuesdayis
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tuesday is what palestinians call the day of catastrophe, as they call the day of catastrophe, as they call the foundation of israel in 19118. the day before that, the americans are moving their embassy. for benjamin netanyahu, israeli prime minister, this is a great move. the palestinians, it is pretty disastrous but i do not think it is something they are going to just sit there and accept, even though the americans, the us ambassador here, has said that theyjust need to get on with the new reality. there will be more protests in the coming days, the thing about this conflict between the israelis and palestinians, and history has shown repeatedly, that if it is left to fester without a positive political horizon, without the sense that things are going to get so, and even though benjamin netanyahu may think
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that this will make things better from his point of view, i don't think that it will in terms of the conflict involving two peoples, what history has shown is that if you leave it, it gets worse, tension rises, violence starts. in those protests in gaza, more than 200 people have been shot dead by the israelis in recent weeks, more than 2000 wounded. it is a lot of people involved, a lot of potential danger and until the political reality he changes, the fact is this kind of violence, this kind attention continue. —— here. theresa may has spoken to the iranian president, hassan rouhani, ahead of a meeting of european and iranian foreign ministers later in the week. in the telephone conversation, the prime minister reiterated the commitment of the uk to ensuring the nuclear deal is upheld. she also raised the cases of the dual nationals being held
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in iran, including nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe. dozens of rough sleepers from eu countries are to receive thousands of pounds in compensation after being illegally detained and deported. figures obtained by the bbc reveal that in the 12 months to may last year, almost 700 people were targeted, despite some of them being able to prove that they were working. jon ironmonger has more. tomas lusas is from lithuania. for nine years, he has been living, working and paying taxes in england, but a low point in 2016 found him on the streets in west london. basically i was sleeping here... he was woken one morning by immigration officers, and quickly bundled into a van to be deported. it is really hard to stand up after that, you know, because all of those handcuffs, all of this immigration thing, all of those officers who don't even want to help you, chat with you. tomas was detained for 19 days under a home office policy that the high court ruled in december was illegal and discriminatory.
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what was life like in the detention centre for you? jail. you don't know the end of the sentence. i didn't know i was going to spend 19 days. he was later awarded £10,000 in damages, but others like him are now entitled to a pay—out. law firms tell us that the home office is in the process of settling at least 45 such claims. the true number is likely to be higher. figures obtained by the bbc reveal that, in the year to may 2017, nearly 700 homeless eea nationals were illegally detained and removed from the country. the home office introduced the policy of rough sleeping as an abuse of treaty rights two years ago, simultaneously cutting net migration and helping to curb a rise in homelessness. but rough sleepers were being targeted even if they were in work, even if they had a permanent right of residence in the uk. eu law is very clear, and actually it is very robust.
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but what the policy was was a very flimsy attempt to misuse the law simply to meet immigration targets. the home office told us it had ceased all action on immigration status of eea citizens because of rough sleeping, and that claims for rough sleeping will be considered on a case—by—case basis. tomas, meanwhile, has a new place to stay, and a second chance to make his home in the uk. it is 11:16. hungry look at the headlines. —— time for a look at the headlines. former labour cabinet minister dame tessa jowell has died at the age of 70. she was diagnosed with brain cancer last may. police in indonesia say a couple and theirfour children carried out suicide bombings at three churches which killed at least 13 people and left dozens more wounded. injerusalem, israelis celebrate the opening of the new us embassy, while palestinians protest. sport now and for a full round up,
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from the bbc sport centre, here's ben. news of a premier league relegation a bit, but we start with manchester city. we are ready knew they were champions going into day, but pep guardiola's men are being hailed as the greatest team in premier league history, being the first side to reach 100 points. beat southampton in injury time to finish 19 points ahead of their nearest rivals. and there it is in full, black and white. 100 points for manchester city. liverpool fourth in the sense of chelsea. tottenham finish third. they are also making next season's champions league. 100 points. we won 50 points at home, 50 points away. so it is massive. 100 points in a premier league, you cannot imagine. it isa premier league, you cannot imagine.
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it is a lot of points. it is a record that will be broken, but it will be difficult to break. for the teams to do that, they will have to do many, many things. so manchester city winning at manchester to make southampton today. chelsea are well and truly —— chelsea well and truly slipped up. elsewhere, wenzel bournemouth, crystal palace, manchester united, and west ham, while arsene wenger‘s reign at arsenal ended in victory. the other result to mention is that of swa nsea the other result to mention is that of swansea city. they have been relegated from the premier league after their game with stoke. they only managed three goals in their time this season. you know, when we
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arrived, the team was just with 13 points. we played 18 games. i was looking now, and with 20 points, we have got points, more than other teams in these 20 games. so this side of the season was not so good, and we try to recover. we recovered the team. we created expectation, but we— i am sure that my players went to the limits. we did the maxim that we can. and swans fans might wa nt to that we can. and swans fans might want to look away. confirmation of their relegation after a seven—year spell. they join stoke their relegation after a seven—year spell. theyjoin stoke and west brom in the championship next season. lewis hamilton has made it back—to—back wins in formula 1 to extend his lead in standings. the defending champion was clear of chaos in the opening lap of the spanish grand prix in barcelona.
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that wiped out three cars, that crash. lewis hamilton was untroubled upfront to move to 17 points on top of the drivers' championship. dominic thiem has been beaten. and the voice of football has called time on his commentating career, today. don watson hung up his microphone and probably sheep skin coat after the game crystal palace before heading to the british academy television awards. he really is retiring after 50 years of the bbc, receiving a special award for his ascent in contribution to sports broadcasting. is covered more than 2000 games, including ten world cups. he will be met. more on the website, including the latest in the play this championship. tiger woods caused a bit of a stirjudging of the leaderboard. —— players
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championship. thank you a much, then. by this time next week, prince harry and meghan markle will be married after a wedding that will include an address from a senior african american bishop. meghan markle herself is mixed race — her mother doria is african american — and her heritage has been the source of much comment even before the engagement. colleen harris has been exploring how some in britain's black community view her arrival in the royal family. two cultures uniting the royal family in modern britain. this was a moment that captivated the world and some corners of the internet. mock videos appeared online, celebrating the news and meghan‘s heritage. i've come to coventry, my home city, and the birthplace of two—tone music, which promoted a black and white unite stance during the ‘80s. one of its leading faces was pauline black from the selecter. i'm certainly not a royalist.
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i think the monarchy is outmoded, outdated, and has a colonial past. and here is a young black woman about to marry into the royal family. how she will change it, i don't know, but i think she will probably be given a fairly difficult ride, and she might find she's bitten off more than she can chew, but i hope not. why does meghan‘s ethnicity resonate with some black britons? heslyns was the first african caribbean hair salon in coventry, and here meghan is a fascination here for the clients. it's nice to see the royal family's acceptance of black heritage into the family. i don't think her being there specifically is going to change how they run procedures and things that they do on a day—to—day basis. do i think that changes the face of them and makes people from outside of england look us differently? i do, yes.
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what do you think it says for relations in black britain? or in britain at all? i actually like the monarchy, i think they're very good for the country, and i think with meghan coming into the royal family, it's a reflection of society. i'm excited to see her dress and how her hair will be. i'm sorry she didn't call on me to do her hair, but you know! thousands ofjamaicans give a warm welcome to her majesty, the queen... the relationship between britain and the commonwealth is a complex one. jamaica, which gained independence in 1962, is one of several islands that's flirted with the idea of removing the queen as head of state, severing its colonial ties for good. does meghan markle's presence in the monarchy today represent a significant change? the royal family is a symbolic institution. it's the idea of what it means to be british, what it means to have a british identity. having a woman who is visibly of african heritage, who talks about that heritage in a senior, visible position in
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the royal family, certainly changes the symbolism around it. i think for someone like me growing up, had there been someone like her in the royal family at that level, it would have changed my relationship with britishness and made it that much easier for me to understand that i can be black and british and that the two things are not fundamentally in conflict. questions around identity in britain have resurfaced following the controversy around the windrush generation. but meghan‘s identity could be seen as a bridge. her culture that she has from her mother is in her. her father's culture is in her and she is going to bring that, she is going to bring that to harry and the royal family. to me, i think they're willing to accept it. otherwise the queen would never have allowed this marriage to go ahead. for some, harry and meghan‘s marriage is not simply challenging royal tradition, it's a love story reflecting a more modern british society. colleen harris, bbc news. stars of british television have been celebrating their biggest night of the year at the bafta tv awards in london.
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there were prizes for gangster epic peaky blinders and hard—hitting drama three girls. lizo mzimba was watching. a week ahead of the royal wedding, tonight was an evening celebrating tv royalty. the winner of best actress even had the right surname, molly windsor winning for three girls which also won best miniseries and tells the true story of the rochdale sex scandal. three girls was born out of the courage of the real three goals and they told us the story over and over. —— girls. and then they told it to us again. i just want to say thank you for everyone for recognising how selfless that is and how brave that is.
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more royal recognition with vanessa kirby winning best supporting actress for her betrayal of princess margaret in the crown. when this business is finished we can go oui’ separate ways. best drama series went to the crime story set in the midlands in the 1920s. peaky blinders! the mother is holding her newborn young. it is dead. a mother whale greeting her dead calf on blue planet 2, the most watched programme. the fact that that one particular moment which you have just seen rang a bell in the minds and consciousness of people in this country, is something which pleases all of us more than i can say. thank you very much indeed. best continuing drama, better known as best soap went to... casualty!
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it is only the second time it has won the award. while there was a standing ovation for bbcjournalist kate adie, the winner of the highest honour, the bafta fellowship. now it's time for the weather. things have been brightening up nicely throughout sunday. during the afternoon, many saw decent spells of sunshine. a few showers lingering to the far north of scotland, particularly shetland, but they should ease away through the rest of the night. he was the scene in helensburgh. blue skies there. calm conditions on the water, as well. heading through the week, high pressure is to remain in charge. a lot of dry weather. warm sunshine, particularly in the next few days, before a cooler interlude through the middle part of the week. here is the middle part of the week. here is the satellite. it showers two zones
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of cloud. one moving from the west, the other setting out to these. in between, clear skies for many, and it will get chilly. done into single figures. in the early hours of monday, it could get close to bringing. but that cloud moves in from the west of northern ireland, and we could see some cloud filtering into coastal parts of east anglia as well. judy fresh start on monday, it should turn fine. the eastern and south—eastern england areas should see more cloud and breeze. so mist for eastern parts of scotland. that cloud continues or northern ireland and western scotla nd northern ireland and western scotland as well. in between those areas of cloud, 19 or 20 degrees in the sunshine. always a little brick wall around the coast. high—pressure tries to move in as we move through into tuesday. but then in other weather front—end to the north—west. so this front on tuesday will bring
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cloud and a fuse box of rental northern ireland by the rest of scotland, and pushing further eastwards. adunis on tuesday should start to thin and breakup. tuesday will probably be the warmest day of the week, particularly across eastern parts, from aberdeen shared down towards sussex, for instance. 18 degrees. things will be fresher from the north—west as the weather front from the north—west as the weather fro nt m oves from the north—west as the weather front moves in. through tuesday night and into wednesday, the front head south eastwards, opening the doors for this area of blue, which is colder air coming through. a northerly breeze. a different feel to the weather after the war and tuesday. wednesday is looking cooler, certainly. a bit more cloud across southern part of england and wales. brighter skies further north. the bridge is not doing grey on thursday, 1250 degrees, but that is probably the coolest day of the week before things warm up again later in the week. —— 12— 15 degrees. —— not
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