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this is bbc news. the headlines at eight. president trump cancels the much anticipated summit with kimjong—un, blaming north korean anger and open hostility. hopefully, positive things will be taking place with respect to the future of north korea. but if they don't, we are more ready than we have ever been before. two men get life in prison for murdering four children by petrol bombing their home in greater manchester raise taxes, or the nhs will face a decade of misery. that's the message to the government, in a major report on the health service. an army sergeant is convicted of trying to murder his wife by tampering with her parachute. it's very important i think, that we don't have a new cold war. foreign secretary borisjohnson falls foul of a russian prank phone call, the uk government points the finger at the kremlin.
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good evening and welcome to bbc news. president trump has cancelled the meeting he was due to hold with north korea's leader kim jong—un next month, because of what he called president kim's recent hostility. the announcement came only a few hours after north korea invited a group of foreign journalists to witness what it said was the destruction of tunnels at its nuclear test site. president trump described the abandonment of the talks as a truly sad moment in history. our north america editor jon sopel reports. this is cnn breaking news... for once, the breaking news strap was really worth all the whoops and the flashes. the historic would—it—wouldn‘t—it happen singapore summit had hit the buffers as many doubters had predicted.
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donald trump's extraordinairy message to kim jong—un, the expression of it. in it, he wrote: sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayedfor trade in your most recent statement, i feel it's inappropriate at this time to have this long planned meeting meeting. his letter also spoke about the power of the us nuclear arsenal, and that the meeting was kim's idea, not his. at the white house a short time ago, a sombre president trump had this to say. based on the recent statement of north korea, i've decided to terminate the planned summit in singapore on june 12th. while many things can happen and a great opportunity lies ahead potentially, i believe that this is a tremendous setback for north korea and indeed a setback for the world. hopefully, positive things will be taking place with respect to the future of north korea.
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but if they don't, we are more ready than we have ever been before. the legwork for it was being done by the president's secretary of state, mike pompeo. there were gaffs around the world when it emerged that he travelled to pyongyang in total secrecy to meet the north korean leader. today, mr pompeo was giving evidence to the senate foreign relations committee and sought to explain what had changed the president's mind. over the past many days, we have endeavored to do, what chairman kim and i agreed to do was to put teams together to begin work to prepare for the summit. and we have received no response to our inquiries from them. the release of the president's letter coincided unerringly with the north korean‘s playing host of western journalists, invited to witness the destruction of a nuclear test site. but there was fury in washington
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when pyongyang put out a statement last night, describing the vice president, mike pence as ignorant and stupid. and there seemed to be a threat, we could also make the us taste and appalling tragedy it is neither experience nor even imagined up to now. at the heart of this is the demand for the denuclearization of the korean peninsula, a phrase that sounds simple but is open to vastly different interpretations. this might have been the historic summit in seeing these two leaders sit down at a table together. but as time went on, it became increasingly clear that's all it would be. great expectations had been replaced by a cold dose of reality. earlier, our seoul correspondent laura bicker said the cancellation of the summit will be a blow for south korean president moonjae—in. well, he's just back
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from washington. he thought he could get the singapore summit back on track. meeting with his cabinet, he's come up with a statement, urging kim jong—un and president trump to talk directly to each other to try and resolve their differences. but it does seem like things are way off track. way off what he'd hoped for. now remember, he saw the potential in kim jong—un‘s new year's speech. the idea that kim jong—un was willing to engage with south korea. he deftly and diplomatically tried to urge north korea out from its borders into the pyeongchang winter olympics. they marched together under one united flag. that continued this flurry of diplomacy between the two sides. but recently, it soured. the harsh rhetoric has not just been aimed at the united states, it's been aimed at south korea. but south korea has responded quietly, it'sjust kind of kept under the radar. it will continue to work with the north,
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it's working towards the singapore summit. but there was huge optimism here. from the north's point of view, they will say, look, we have made all the concessions. we have tried. we've just blown up their nuclear test site. in their view, that is still to be assessed. they handed back the three us detainees. they signed the declaration alongside president moon. they also restored relations with china. but they have hung onto those nuclear weapons. and whenjohn mentions those issues in regards to the issue of denuclearization, they have no intention of handing over all their weapons and then perhaps getting economic aid somewhere along the line. we'll have more on this shortly from our correspondent in washington, and i'll be speaking to mark fitzpatrick — director of the americas programme at the global independent think tank, the international institute for strategic studies. used to be a familiar face here
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used to be a familiarface here in london. he knows very much about the inside track of the diplomatic attem pts inside track of the diplomatic atte m pts to inside track of the diplomatic attempts to reduce nuclear weapons throughout the world. we will and we'll find out how this story, and many others, are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 this evening in the papers, our guestsjoining me tonight are polly mackenzie from the think—tank demos and christopher hope from the telegraph. two men have been sentenced to life in prison for murdering four children with petrol bombs, which were thrown into the family home in greater manchester in the middle of the night. zac bolland and david worrall set fire to the house in walkden in december. the court heard that bolland was involved in a feud with the siblings' elder brother. judith moritz has been at manchester crown court their grandmother said today that their grandmother said today that their deaths have left the whole family numb. that they know they
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will never be able to tell them off again for running in a supermarket oi’ again for running in a supermarket or hear them giggle as theyjump too high on the trampoline. there were gasps and sobs from the public gallery here inside court number three from the family as the jury returned their guilty verdict. this is the view from a fire engine racing towards the pearson house, as it turns the corner the scale of the blaze is obvious. smoke blowing, flames shooting out of every window. neighbours standing in the street, powerless to help. brandon and lacie pearson were ringside with their mother, also inside their sisters teenager demi and toddler lia, all of them were murdered. in daylight the burnt shell of the house shows how fierce the fire had been. it took hold so quickly the family had no chance to get out of their bedrooms and down the stairs. to think and do anything like this with four babies in the house
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and a woman and two other children is beyond me, it is evil. these men threw petrol bombs into the house, zac bolland on the left and his friend david worrall. zac bolland's girlfriend courtney brierley encouraged and helped them. their murderous journey was caught on cctv, first they went to a petrol station to buy fuel to start the fire, then they went to the pearson home and lifted a garden fence panel. moments later you can see the flashes as the petrol bombs were thrown into the house. inside little lia was sleeping next to her mother, michelle pearson picked her up and put her in the bath to try to save her but the fire was too much. lia later died, michelle survived to be told four of her children had not. the fire was the result of a long—running feud between zac bolland and one
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of her sons. the family say michelle was let down having repeatedly warned she was in danger. are you angry? yes. who with? police, social services, the council. they could have done more and they just failed her. the police watchdog is investigating. we have referred this to the ipcc and a full review is taking place into the background that led to the fatal fire. people are let down. that's the conclusion of a report by two think tanks, which says the health service will require the equivalent of thousand pounds a year from every british household for more
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than a decade. our political editor, laura kuenssberg has more details. ca re costs. more and more, hospitals in the red. waiting lists at record levels. act now to avoid a real emergency. if we want a good health and social care system. over the next 15 years, we are going to have to pay for it. we cannot go on as we have done over the past ten years, which is basically meant, a few billion here and there, and the system not really managing to cope. next year's spending is our reset at £154 billion. to keep up, the verdict is the nhs will need another 3.3% every year. a huge £95 billion over 15 years. but for the service to improve,
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the price tag is at least 4% extra each year. £124 billion over that time. that's a hypothetical extra £2000 in tax for every household. any government knows what happens in wards, in surgeries and hospitals around the country is one of the things we all care about most. if evidence piles up that the nhs needs more cash, truly it's simple. they have to act. but writing big checks with taxpayer money is anything but. the prime minister is already needed a promise to find more money for the nhs and to guarantee it for a decent length of time. but the ministers are a long way from agreeing. how much, for how long, and how to pay. it took many months for theresa may to come this far. we need to get away from those top ups overbudget that we have seen and we need a long—term sustainable plan. finally, agreeing that the health
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secretary for the nhs in england needs not only extra money, but year, after year, after year. but where can the chancellor find it? extra cash? more cuts? more borrowing? things are tense. how much money should be nhs get? very nice to see you. nothing to see here of course. the nhs has to do a reform, as well as get resourcing. i think there is a very ferocious argument going on in whitehall. the prime minister seems to have made her mind up at the nhs has now become a political issue and that something has to be done. the chancellor may well be in the same position, but he doesn't really want to open the chequebook. the health secretary knows the situation and is demanding more cash. the prime minister went on to a deal in time for the nhs 70th anniversary in july. but there is no guarantee that it will be ready, or feel anything like a gift.
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an army sergeant has been found guilty of trying to murder his wife by tampering with her parachute. victoria cilliers survived a 4,000 feet fall at an airfield three years ago. the court heard that emile cilliers' motives were both financial and sexual, and today police called him cold and calculating. duncan kennedy reports. emile and victoria cilliers, husband and wife, a couple where he wanted her to die. an experienced skydiver who'd made 2,500 jumps, this was victoria cilliers during one of herflights. a flight exactly like this one over the same airfield in wiltshire where she had her accident. both her main and reserve chutes failed to open. she fell 4,000 feet... and only lived because she hit this ploughed field. detectives went to the airbase near salisbury and discovered that
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emile cilliers was the last to handle the parachute the day before victoria's accident. it was in this toilet that emile cilliers brought victoria cilliers' parachute to tamper with. he moved strings on the main chute and cut pieces off the reserve chute, all to sabotage it. what he hoped for was that, when she leapt out of the aircraft, she would jump to her death. the police organised this demonstration in the toilet to see if there was space to sabotage the parachute. there was. what was happening at the locker when you got there? but after his arrest, cilliers refused to speak about the chute. i'm not going to answer that question. incredibly, a week before the parachute incident, cilliers had also tampered with this gas pipe at his home, in a separate attempt to kill victoria by explosion. his children were upstairs at the time.
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i couldn't believe it! long before victoria, emile cilliers had fathered two children with this woman, nicky shepherd, who doesn't want her face shown. this is her with emile, someone she says was highly manipulative. in her first tv interview, she describes him as dangerous. i would describe him as, if i can use the word, psychopathic. i'm happy that i dodged a bullet. so, to start with, it's the charm, and this is why people like him, and then deceiving, manipulative, and everything else you don't find out until you've been hurt by it. emile cilliers had wanted victoria cilliers dead for an insurance pay—out, and because he had a mistress. duncan kennedy, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news: approaching i7
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approaching 17 minutes past eight. president trump cancels the much anticipated summit with north korean leader kim jong—un — blaming pyongyang's ‘anger and open hostility‘. two men are sentenced to life in prison for murdering four children by petrol bombing their home in and, raise taxes, or the nhs will face a ‘decade of misery.‘ that‘s the message to the government, in a major report on the health service. sport now, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here‘s lizzie greenwood hughes. thanks very much. good evening. england cricketers had a disappointing opening day against pakistan. 0h disappointing opening day against pakistan. oh but it‘s a rather dismal test form of a winter at alastair cook was the only player to make a decent score. otherwise it was a familiar scene as pakistan‘s bowlers brilliantly tore through their rejigged batting order as they lost their last five wickets. all
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out for 184. in reply pakistan will resume tomorrow 50 for one. 78 system resume tomorrow 50 for one. 78 syste m o n resume tomorrow 50 for one. 78 system on course to become the first british man british man to win the giro d‘italia but his lead was cut in half in half british man after today‘s 18th stage... a group including chris froome and yates‘ main rival — tom dumoulin left him behind on the final climb of the day, managing to pull—out a gap of almost half a minute. yates crossed the line nearly half a minute behind dumoulin so his lead is now down to 28 seconds, with three stages to go. froome is still fourth overall. it‘s just over 48 hours until the champions league final between between liverpool and real madrid — but hundreds of liverpool fans may not make it to ukraine after their flights were cancelled due to landing time issues in kyiv. the mayor of liverpool has said he‘s working to get the problem resolved. some lucky fans though, have already landed in kyiv and the players arrived a few hours ago. liverpool have won the european cup 6 times — the defending champions real madrid — a record 12 times. also in kyiv, lucy bronze became the first briton to win a women‘s champions league medal. the england and former
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man city defender was part of the lyon team who beat wolfsberg 4—1 in extra time at the dynamo stadium. the game was full of controversy, with a genuine lyon goal disallowed, a wolfsberg player sent—off and all 5 goals scored in the last half an hour. rory mcilroy is two shots off the lead at wentworth‘s pga championship. the northern irishman who won the tournament 4 years ago, carded a five—under—par 67 in his first round. he is two shots off the leader denmark‘s lucas bjerregaard. british tennis player cameron norrie has reached his first atp tour semi final. claiming the biggest win of his career. ranked 102 in the world... he beat america‘sjohn isner who‘s in the top ten... to make the last four of the lyon 0pen. he‘ll play frenchman gilles simon next. norrie played his first professional match on clay in february this year. elsewhere fellow briton gabriella taylor has lost in french open qualifying. that‘s it, more in sportsday at half past ten.
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you very much. we will see you then. let‘s get more on our top story. the united states, north korea summit is off. us president trump cancelled the meeting, citing the "open hostility" in a recent north korean statement. president trump gave a press conference earlier this evening at the white house. i have decided to terminate the planned summit in singapore onjune 12. while many things can happen and a great opportunity lies ahead potentially, i believe that this is a tremendous setback for north korea andindeed a tremendous setback for north korea and indeed a setback for the world. let‘s speak now to our washington correspondent, gary 0‘donoghue. how much of a shock and surprise was this to observers? i think it is a shock. i think the method of this
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announcement was also a bit of a shock. that it had a greater impact. it's true to say over the last few weeks the president has said repeatedly that this thing might not happen, but the momentum seems to be going in that direction. i think people were taken aback slightly. taken aback by the direct nature and the nature of this letter that he wrote to kim jong—un today. on the one hand accusing him of being difficult of being angry and other kinds of things. threatening him with nuclear weapons things might change in the future. give me a call or ring me if you change your mind. there are caveats and ways back from this brink. and that is certainly what they will be hoping for here. it will depend on the reaction from
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pyongyang. nothing so far. one of those tirades you get from north korea followed by the testing. it was still allow mike pompeo, the secretary of state, to continue his diplomacy. some kind of show of strength or a firing of a missile or anything like that that would make it very difficult for talking to continue. what about the balance of power in the administration? much had been made ofjohn bolton, a real sceptic as far as any kind of negotiated solution with north korea. publicly apparently slapped down by the president. and i think he may be vindicated to a certain extent. it's interesting that the issue withjohn bolton is that he was the first one to raise this idea of the libyan solution. the way lidia and colonel gadhafi had his
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nuclear weapons ta ken away. lidia and colonel gadhafi had his nuclear weapons taken away. that did not end well for the kernel. the north koreans took that as a sign that this was a preliminary step towards regime change or a policy of regime change. they reacted very badly to that end initially the president slapped down john badly to that end initially the president slapped downjohn bolton on that and we were not thinking about that at all. the vice president revived in the last few days. he got in the acronym with the pseudonym of a complete dummy from north korea for saying that. they have said worse, of course. it's probably that but also probably the lack of information and it ministration says he has been getting from pyongyang in recent days. assurances on the kinds of progress but could have been made from the summit and agreements that could have been reached. while for north korea a sort of photo op in
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singapore with the president of the united states would be something of a coup, and would be a total disaster if that's all that came out of it from his point of view. the humiliation and i suspect that's pa rt of humiliation and i suspect that's part of the calculation here. thank you very much. so what could be the next steps for north korea? mark fitzpatrick is executive director at the international institute for strategic studies — he‘s in washington for us. ina in a sense you have been through all of this for real in your time as in the 0bama administration. when you tried reaching out he was not there then. does this feel like that for you? there is a parallelten then. does this feel like that for you? there is a parallel ten years ago when north korea blew up the cooling tower to the plutonium production reactor, and we really looked like we were on our way to taking away north korea‘s nuclear weapons potential. that was a couple of months after that and we ran into
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a huge issue with verification. they did not want to put on paper how they would verify it that the declaration was complete and correct. just yesterday they destroyed part of their nuclear programme, they collapsed the tunnels that it was a significant step, but they did not allow in any verification and did not like to have international inspectors. now it has on —— all gone awry again. the north koreans with their language about the vice president mike pence is what sets from off but also when they took this a step they should get something for it. the united states did not get anything. they were slapping north korea by saying the summit is awful. if you are north korea right now you‘re feeling insulted and betrayed, actually. i think it‘s probably going to get worse before it gets better. on this question, insulted. the regime there is notoriously
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thin—skinned and people might say what moon jn is thin—skinned and people might say what moonjn is saying. let‘s look beyond the rhetoric. at least try to talk to each other directly even if it is just talk to each other directly even if it isjust a talk to each other directly even if it is just a phone call or something. do you get any sense and you would know far better than anyone here, do you get the sense that there are tensions unresolved within the leadership? his approach is not necessarily one that would be endorsed by the military leadership? i wondered about that a lot when he made his first approach to president trump and talked about denuclearization and said things that north koreans had not been saying for a while. even overruled something underlings had said just hours earlier. i wondered if there was some dissent internally but as things evolved and he realised what he was talking about was the goal of the denuclearization. they could be a long—term goal and i think the
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trumpet ministration did not understand clearly that when north korea talks about that they are not just talking about themselves. they are primarily talking about the united states getting rid of their nuclear threat that the koreans feel they are under. maybe a summit of they are under. maybe a summit of the suit was not such a good idea after all. without any preparation it was a bad idea. i was a pleasure to speak to you. i hope you will pop in and see us when you‘re in london. that was hisjob an investigation has been launched into how a hoax phone caller was able to speak to borisjohnson. a pranksterfrom russia got through to the foreign secretary, claiming to be the armenian prime minister. they spoke for 18 minutes, the caller spoke of a future meeting with vladimir putin and joked about russia‘s role in the salisbury nerve agent attack. as you know, i have a meeting
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with president putin in sochi. i need to be prepared. i hope he will not poison me with nerve shock. well it's very important, i think, prime minister, that we don't have a new cold war. and exempt from that long phone call. the foreign office says mrjohnson realised quickly it was a hoax, and ended the call — officials have described the incident as "childish". 0ur political correspondent iain watson joins us now. em,i em, i mean it is embarrassing. insofar as it goes. i mean, em, i mean it is embarrassing. insofaras it goes. i mean, he em, i mean it is embarrassing. insofar as it goes. i mean, he did not say anything off message so in that sense he has got away with that, but there must be embarrassment of how anybody could you actually get through to the foreign secretary and get through the filters one would assume exists
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in any phone he is likely to pick up. apparently so, who knows? he is a victim of the pranksters and rascals and those who are well—known for this type of thing with celebrities like eltonjohn and so on. getting through to the foreign secretary is a different matter. looks like it went through a foreign office first. many here on the recording it goes through a telephone to the foreign office. he said he recognised pretty quickly this was a prank call. i think he was 17 minutes in. he did not really go off message but he did say various things here with his characteristic robustness. he let the russians understood was determination and firmness. it‘s putting the squeeze on the oligarchs. it was when the conversation moved on tojeremy corbyn and the conversation moves on
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toa corbyn and the conversation moves on to a recommended antidote to russian poisoning which boris johnson recommended him to carry at all times. the line at the thing does cover the assignment. at this point it was clearly a prank. before that he certainly shared his views on how to handle the russians. he told the prime minister or so—called prime minister he must‘ve had an awful lot on his plate. i think that‘s probably true. this was several weeks ago and they got into the public domain and the foreign office is blaming the kremlin for that and saying it is childish. i would does not make it harder for the saying it is childish. i would does not make it harderfor the real prime minister to get through. but look at the weather. many northern parts of the country had a lovely and sunny and dry today. tonight it
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will stay dry across many northern areas. much of england and wales to see that cloud and reigns spreading its way north. heavy burst makes to the band of cloud. may be affecting wales, the midlands and east england. drier across the far south and the far north of england. quite and the far north of england. quite a muddy field in the south and that‘s how we begin the day on friday. rather muddy and murky. outbreaks for rain and wales. pushing is a northern england as well. some sunshine in the southeast as well. in the humidity we could see heavy showers or thunderstorms being sparked off. as we head towards the bank holiday weekend we have muggy with a risk of thunderstorms. this is bbc news, our latest headlines. president trump cancels the much anticipated summit with north korean leader
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kim jong—un, blaming pyongyang‘s anger and open hostility. two men are sentenced to life in prison for murdering four children by petrol bombing their home in greater manchester. raise taxes, or the nhs will face a decade of misery. that‘s the message to the government, in a major report on the health service. an army sergeant is convicted of trying to murder his wife by tampering with her parachute. now, your inbox has probably been clogged up in recent days with emails from companies about your personal data, and their privacy policies. it‘s all connected to a new data protection law that comes into force across europe tomorrow. it aims to give people much more power over their own data and how companies use it. for more on this i‘m joined via webcam by michael veale, who is a technology policy expert at the university college london. thank you very much for being with
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us. let me ask you first of all to summarise what the laws designed to change. the laws designed to enable anyone who has given data about them or had data about them observed by a company to have rights to have access to it, to a erase it, to determine what can and cannot be done. the obligation on companies that they can keep it secure, you are to do anything and to keep records and having penalties and other regulatory rights and consequences if that is not met. companies, lots of different organisations i‘m all kinds of people, people talking about
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actually, you keep data therefore you have to have a strategy for this. yes, our generations are covered in the same way. that is not so dissimilarfrom covered in the same way. that is not so dissimilar from malawi covered in the same way. that is not so dissimilarfrom malawi have already. so if you have been following the original data protection act 1988, —— 19 98. hotels and other organisations saying, please reestablish the relationship of who we have to stop contacting, is that the upside of this band? that lots of companies and organisations who have forgotten yea rs and organisations who have forgotten years ago that you had clicked on their websites, or had mistakenly clicked the bit where they said contact us, they will stop? there are some upside, but a lot of the results are companies not obeying
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the existing law. so that‘s a big difference. 0r the existing law. so that‘s a big difference. or what it does do in just the companies have access to your data and can keep your data but things that are not marketing. people should contact those companies to ask them what they‘re doing with that data. and it can be used with the understanding just how many companies have data about you. just be clear, this law now gives you the right they cannot ignore to contact them and say, what information do you hold on me? sent it to me and what are you doing with it? yes, before we had a right, we had to mail them physically and have a post lawyer, and i canjust send them an e—mailand a post lawyer, and i canjust send them an e—mail and also the same the deletion. 0ne them an e—mail and also the same the deletion. one big thing that will be really different is that they cannot make you pay with data. they cannot say you can only use our service if you give us data we don‘t really need to provide that service. we will make it conditional on that. it has to be separated. and big and
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small are struggling with that idea, and he is to come in the courts will have their say as well. that it's fascinating stuff, i am interested to see how it will be interpreted and used in the months ahead. technology policy, thank you for being with us, michael. two teenagers have been found guilty of plotting to murder pupils and teachers at a north yorkshire school, in a re—creation of the columbine massacre in the united states, in which 13 people died. the boys, now both aged 15, became fascinated by violence, gathered material to make explosives and plotted to use guns to attack a school in northallerton. megan paterson has this report. colorado 1999. 12 pupils and a teacher killed in the columbine massacre by young gunmen eric harris and dylan klebold. 18 years later in north yorkshire those men were hero—worshipped by two teenagers who in their own words wanted to obliterate a school in rural northallerton. you always think that it doesn‘t
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happen where you are. that it happened in london, manchester, and not in provincial towns like northallerton. it's a massive sense of surprise. just the area, you know everyone. you don't really expect something like to be happening. entries from the older boy‘s diary read to the court a chilling indication of what was planned. sorry if this is found i have committed one of the worst atrocities in british history or i killed myself. i just want to kill every single one of you. everyone is filthy and deserves to be shot, including me. i‘ll play the role of god and decide who i let live and die. we need to aid natural selection and help forward our species. the boys, boy a and slightly younger boy b, struck up a friendship but between april and september last year that teenage companionship turned into a fascination with murder and violence that turned into making lists of people they wanted to kill. searches of social media records of internet history an insight into what they were planning.
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in may last year boy b told boy a: i cant be bothered any more. boy a replied: why not take some others out, as well? which prompted boy b to ask: what do you mean? boy a said: if you‘re going to kill yourself shoot up the school. both boys downloaded copies of the anarchist cookbook, a manual on how to make explosives. boy a‘s instagram profile included disturbing images, videos of live suicides, and apparent praise for the columbine killers. these individuals tend to be or feel relatively disenfranchised, or relatively peripheral to the society that they‘re in. for example the school especially and the school becomes the focus of their attentions, and it can escalate very very quickly because it‘s very empowering for a young person to feel that they have control that can take away life really. part of the prosecution evidence focussed on a rucksack found inside this disused building.
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left here by boy a, inside materials which could have been used to make explosive devices. the rucksack included nails, accelerant, batteries, but it was only found after boy b confessed his plans to a friend then sent this message. the message was shared with schoolteachers and north yorkshire police did question the boys, but it was a month before they were arrested by counterterrorism officers. the prosecution was critical of that response. i'm asking you, did you make mistakes? there are learning points, and we‘re going to take those learning points and move forward from those. i think the mistake, in terms of how they are perceived, there are learning points, we are going to learn from those, we will identify how we develop from those and move forward. and that‘s what we need to do with our teams. we will work with the people of north yorkshire and our safeguarding partners. will there be disciplinary action? i‘ve explained, in terms of those questions, they‘d need to be put to our experts. following the verdict there was praise for the young
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people who came forward and shared their worries with parents, teachers, and the police. actions which ultimately protected pupils and teachers in this north yorkshire town. a couple have been found guilty of murdering their french au pair and setting fire to her body in their garden. 21 year old sophie lionnet was imprisoned, beaten and tortured by sabrina kouidair and 0uissem medouni last september. the old bailey heard that the couple were convinced sophie had plotted to abuse people in their home, and filmed her, as they forced her to confess to their allegations. they‘ll be sentenced injune. a report into a fatal crash involving a self—driving uber car has found it couldn‘t identify the victim as a pedestrian until it was too late to stop. a woman was killed in arizona in march when she was hit by the vehicle as she crossed the road. investigators say the system spotted her 6 seconds before the crash, but didn‘t immediately classify her as a pedestrian. uber has suspended its self—driving
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test programme in the state, but will continue testing elsewhere. the spy agency mi6 has launched a new recruitment campaign to attract people who would never think of themselves as secret agents. mi6 says it needs more women and diversity among its ranks. gordon corera reports. we are intelligence officers. but we don‘t do what you think. the opening is straight out of a james bond film. it‘s picking up on the silent cues that matter, understanding others, helping them... but the aim of this tv ad is to subvert the stereotypes around m16 and persuade those who haven‘t thought of applying to be a spy to think again. secretly, we‘re just like you. the real—life spies here at mi6 have always had a complicated relationship with their fictional portrayal. the image ofjames bond, the ruthless super spy with a licence to kill, going round saving the world,
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may have done wonders for their reputation on the one hand, but on the other it doesn‘t really reflect the work that goes on here at mi6. and the concern is it may have put some people off applying to join. the targets of the new ad are women and ethnic minorities, who have been underrepresented here. ensuring diversity, officials say, is a way of drawing on the widest possible pool of talent. i think for women, when they grow up, all the sort of popular images that there are of spies are either male, or they‘re women who are, to put it bluntly, often using their sort of sexuality as part of theirjob. officials also say since the attack in salisbury, when a russian who spied for mi6 was targeted, there has been a surge of interest from highly motivated individuals. intelligence officers say their priority is making sure those who do apply now come
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from the widest background possible. the best seats in the house. hollywood actor morgan freeman apologised after eight women made allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour against the star. the us network cnn reported that the incidents happened on film sets and in other professional settings. in a statement, mr freeman said he never intended to make anyone feel uneasy, and he apologised to anyone who felt uncomfortable or disrespected by his actions. relationship, and eu citizens. the negotiators said they among other issues, during the negotiations that took place earlier this week. mcdonald‘s shareholders have rejected a proposal asking the firm to report on its use of plastic straws. it‘s the latest part of a campaign to press the restaurant chain to ban the items.
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the idea, which was backed by activist group sum of us, won less than eight per cent of the vote at the company‘s annual meeting. the stars of the fifth instalment of the jurassic park franchise were in london today to promote the latest film in the blockbuster series. it was a homecoming of sorts for the actors because a lot of the movie was filmed at pinewood studios and, more unusually, slough. emma north reports. hey, blue. you know me. you know you can't stay here. it‘s where prehistory has become cinematic history. it‘s a quarter of a century since the dinosaurs first met a solid jump injurassic park. today, they unveil the fifth episode of the franchise. and despite the drizzle, it was a welcome return to this
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neck of the woods, we think, for some of the stars. i was only here for a few days, actually, where were we? were out there and, wherever we were, not around here, but near the studio. they stayed right near the studio. jurassic world falling kingdom was shot mostly at pinewood.

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