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hello, this is breakfast, withjon kay and babita sharma. back online after hours of disruption. visa apologises and says its card payment service is returning to normal. customers across europe were unable to pay for purchases. the company says a hardware failure was to blame. good morning, it's saturday the 2nd ofjune. also this morning: off again, on again. donald trump says a summit with the north korean leader kim jong—un will take place later this month. emergency timetables, but will they finally bring weeks of chaos to an end? rail companies say they'll work together to try and get back on track. less than 2a hours after forcing out the spanish leader, mariano rajoy, the new prime
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minister, pedro sanchez, will be sworn in today. in sport: anderson and broad prove the doubters wrong and england take control of the second test against pakistan. and matt has the weather. good morning. one ortwo good morning. one or two more thunderstorms popping up today, especially to the northern and eastern half, but for quite a few, a dry day with warmth and sunshine. details on that and your weekend forecast coming up. see you them, matt, thanks. good morning. first, our main story. visa has apologised after businesses across the uk and europe were unable to process card payments yesterday. the company says the problems were down to a hardwear failure and has reassured customers that the service is now running close to normal again. john mcmanus reports. visa says its high—tech payment system
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visa says its high—tech payment syste m ca n visa says its high—tech payment system can handle 65,000 transactions per second, but on friday that boast fell flat as cardholders in the uk and across europe found their plastic simply wouldn't work. the problem began in the afternoon, appearing to largely affect electronic payments rather than cash machine withdrawals. many shoppers took to social media to complain, with the company forced to apologise. these people in droitwich said it wasn't just apologise. these people in droitwich said it wasn'tjust customers who we re said it wasn'tjust customers who were caught out. you can tell the staff are on tender hooks, the manager's jumping and down. staff are on tender hooks, the manager'sjumping and down. he's being a bit firm with his staff because its territory they're not used to being in i think. there were customers in front of us, the cashpoint wasn't working, apparently it was all over the world, i was panicking. just gone on to barclays bank to get some money up. payment processing through visa systems accou nts processing through visa systems accounts for one of every £3 of all uk spending, that adds up to a lot of unhappy customers. on friday
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night the company said their cards we re night the company said their cards were largely working at normal levels and that the: asa as a nation, we're using cards more than ever. that's why friday's at events left so many of us frustrated. but experts say it would be wise to have some backup payment optionsjust in case, be wise to have some backup payment options just in case, that's cash to you and me. the consumer group which has warned people to be wary of any phone calls oi’ people to be wary of any phone calls or e—mails about the visa problems. they may just be or e—mails about the visa problems. they mayjust be fraudsters trying to use the event to gain your personal details. john mcmanus, bbc news. donald trump's meeting with the north korean leader kimjong—un is back is once again due to go ahead onjune 12th, just a week after it was initially called off. the president made the announcement after a senior north korean envoy visited the white house to deliver a letter from his country's leader. we can get more now
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from hywel griffith, who is in seoulfor us. it is back on again, it might stay on this time, this has been a long time coming? absolutely, it is on for now at least, i think with only ten days to go it probably will happen. certainly donald trump making a huge play in the white house talking about this summit being a huge historic moment. but at the same time trying to maybe temper expectations, saying it might not be everything as a done deal on the day, there might be more meetings to come and key in that is probably the gap that still exists between what the us once, complete, irreversible denuclearisation, and what north korea has been talking about, more ofa korea has been talking about, more of a stage by stage process. in terms of the response on the korean
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peninsular, south korea say they are excited about the summit going ahead, it will be historic, butjust as important to them they have been assured by the us that their troops would be going away so their long—term security for now at least seems to be assured. for now, hywel griffith, thanks very much indeed. the european union's trade commissioner has warned that the us is playing a dangerous game by imposing tariffs on european steel and aluminium. in response, the eu has issued a io—page list of tariffs on us goods ranging from harley—davidson motorcycles to bourbon. canada and mexico are also planning new taxes on us products. the us defence secretary, james mattis, has accused china of trying to intimidate and coerce its neighbours by deploying missiles in the south china sea. speaking to south—east asian defence ministers in singapore, general mattis said that whilst the trump administration wanted a constructive working relationship with china, the us would compete vigorously if necessary. police scotland have named the two officers who were stabbed at a house in greenock yesterday. pc kenny mackenzie has a serious neck injury
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whilst his colleague pc laura sayer was stabbed in the arm. a 43—year—old man arrested after the incident is also being treated in hospital. a man is due in court this morning charged with the murders of two well—known criminals in the north—west of england. paul massey, who was known by the nickname mr big, was shot dead outside his home in salford in 2015. john kinsella was killed while walking his dog near st helens last month. 37—year—old mark fellows will appear before south sefton magistrates court charged with two counts of murder. the rail industry has pledged to get train services in the north of england back on track as quickly as possible following days of disruption. northern has announced it will be running an emergency timetable until the end ofjuly, with 165 services scrapped. peter marshall has been speaking to passengers in the lake district. replacement buses have been doing
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brisk service at the start of the... oxon home station near ken doll because trains are few and fire between. the majority of servers between. the majority of servers between oxen home and windermere we re between oxen home and windermere were cancelled yesterday. for passengers like nick, trying to get home to liverpool after a family break in windermere, it's frustrating. i think it's absolutely scandalous, people here with prams, dogs, we're not getting all the help, nobody here, nowhere. and this could go on for weeks on this line in particular? i believe so, yes. it's scandalous, something needs to be done about it. businesses in the la ke be done about it. businesses in the lake district rely on visitors coming back time and time again. tourism leaders fear poor rail services could do long—term damage to the lake district reputation around the world. to be let down at that very first point of contact with the county, to come out at that
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station and not be able to have that smooth onward journey is just unacceptable. and now there's confirmation from northern that for an initial two—week period from monday all late—night services are to be removed and replaced with a bus service as it struggles to deal with changes. northern has apologised for the disruption and says it's doing all it can to improve the situation quickly. five people have died in a major food poisoning outbreak in the united states. almost 200 cases of e.coli linked to romaine lettuce have been reported across 35 states. it is the largest us outbreak of it's kind in more than a decade. the new prime minister of spain, pedro sanchez, will officially be sworn into office today, less than 2a hours after forcing out his predecessor, mariano rajoy. the head of the socialist party won the backing of several other parties to win his motion of no confidence after mr rajoy‘s conservative party became implicated in a corruption scandal. football fans have just 12 more
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days until the start of the world cup in russia, some might say excitement has reached fever pitch, while others think it is out of this world. these russian cosmonauts are testing out the official match ball on—boa rd the international space station. adding a more acrobatic edge to the beautiful game. anton shkaplerov and oleg artemyev showcased some of the possibilities for zero gravity football. that looks fun, doesn't it? unfortunately they are a long way from home and won't make it back in time for the opening match against saudi arabia onjune 14th. pretty good skills, though, isn't it? do you think we will get the ball back? let's take a look at the stories that are making the headlines this morning: the front page of the guardian,
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chaos with visa. let us know this morning in the usual ways on social media, twitter or facebook, if you have been affected by the outage yesterday afternoon, if you were trying to get petrol, you tried to buy something at you couldn't, let's hear from you. you said you saw queues of people as well?|j hear from you. you said you saw queues of people as well? i was in manchester and people were waiting to get to the tills and then went to the cashpoint to get cash, lots of people struggling because we're not used to it. i saw lots of delays at manchester piccadilly, just to add to the problem, the trains! the front page of the daily telegraph this morning, also talking about visa, saying it is crippling payments and the system crash affected thousands. lots of the papers have a picture of the presenter the presenter christine lampard, talking presenter the presenter christine lampa rd, talking about presenter the presenter christine lampard, talking about a stalker case that terrified her. and sweet ban at tills to tackle child
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ability, their lead story, talking about many looking to ban the sale of sweets and chocolates at checkouts to make us healthier. the front page of the sun, an exclusive, saying a cyclist was saved by sherlock. benedict cumberbatch jumped out of a taxi when he saw a cyclist being beaten up by a gang and the sherlock actor ran to help and the sherlock actor ran to help and follow the attack, stopped the muggers, and where did it happen? just near baker street, sherlock holmes‘ famous address. just near baker street, sherlock holmes' famous address. let's have a look at the front page of the financial times. interesting to see italy and spain side—by—side. of course, they have had political turmoil in both their countries and their saying there‘s the sense of a bit of market relief. they have been up in arms, lots of investors looking at what‘s happening in both those countries after conversations about whether italy would leave the
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euro, where its uncertainty was decided, whether or not giuseppe co nte would decided, whether or not giuseppe conte would be inaugurated, and the new leader of spain, pedro sanchez. a brilliant picture in the times, it is looking photoshop, apparently a genuine picture of kangaroos on a golf course in new south wales in australia holding the flag —— it looks photoshopped. they are apparently mazzarri mahrez by the fluttering flag in the wind and they stand it and wait for the cameras to turn up! —— apparently mesmerised. i did a shift on april fools‘ day so make sure that isn‘t photoshopped! it was very muggy up north, matt, how is it looking for the rest of the country today? good morning, surly muggy again uk wide. this storm cloud in manchester today
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and we will see more of those in the eastern highway and northern half of the country —— fairly muddy. good sunshine east and west. -- fairly muggy —— in the eastern and northern half. we have a few heavy showers around cheshire running to merseyside. through the day we will see showers p°ppin9 through the day we will see showers p°pping up through the day we will see showers popping up more widely in northern and eastern parts, and we see bluer skies developing to the south. into the afternoon, inland areas of scotla nd the afternoon, inland areas of scotland most prone to seeing slow—moving thunderstorms, not much wind unless you get stuck under the showers for any length of time, we could see some hail and minor flooding, the same in northern ireland and the northern england, unlike yesterday with the bulk of the thundery showers on the west of the thundery showers on the west of the pennines, more likely to be to the pennines, more likely to be to the east in the east midlands and east anglia. into the southern counties, eastern... another humid
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day but not as muggy in the south as it has been with temperatures are widely into the twenties. this evening, a few storms continuing for a time, most will fade tonight but parts of northern england, southern scotla nd parts of northern england, southern scotland and northern ireland will hold onto showers into tomorrow morning and mist and low cloud developing to the eastern coasts and temperatures in double figures, but it won‘t be as humid in the south as we start sunday. lots of sunshine in the southern half, an isolated shower towards cornwall and a few more showers popping up in northern england, scotland and northern ireland and some heavier ones maybe with some thunder. generally speaking tomorrow, fewer showers, more places will be dry and cooler in the north and warmer in the south with temperatures in the mid— twenties. into next week, high pressure trying to establish itself in the north but as it does we will start to get cooler conditions down through the north sea and with it a lot of low cloud. next week we get off toa
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lot of low cloud. next week we get off to a bit ofa lot of low cloud. next week we get off to a bit of a gloomy, misty, murky start in many central and eastern areas. on monday, the low cloud could hang on in eastern parts, breaking up in the west with a good deal of sunshine with showers few and far between. for much of next week we will see similar conditions dominating, but low pressure could inch up from the south once again so while temperatures will be in the low 20s in many areas, not too hot, not too cold, just the chance of some showers and thunderstorms returning to the south. i‘ll keep you updated through the morning. we‘ll take that, went weak? losing your eyesight brings with it a range of challenges. for mona manahan, it meant the simple pleasure of putting on her make—up became near—impossible, so her husband des stepped in to help. this simple gesture of love eventually found its way onto social media and went on to pull on heartstrings around the world. we‘ve been to meet des and mona. we have been married now 56 years.
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we have been married now 56 years. we are just enjoying life. we are still married. as with any long—standing marriage, mona and des are long—standing marriage, mona and des a re successful long—standing marriage, mona and des are successful partnership and as her eye deteriorated, accrue to found a special way to help. her left eye is bad, really bad, when she tries to do something with the right eye, the left eye doesn‘t see anything. it's very relaxing. best thing to do is to keep you awake. so i would be doing little corrections like that. this birthday party came up like that. this birthday party came up and mona decided i‘m going to get my face done up for the party. in less tha n my face done up for the party. in less than a make—up artist. he was telling me this story that mona‘s eyesight was bad and she was losing her site is that she wasn‘t able to hold things properly. she had a lot of shaking in her hands. des took
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the brushes from my hand and wanted to have a try. if you do see the way he holds the brushes, a natural. the story came to the attention of mario whose clients include kim kardashian. he invited them to his show in london. mario was touched by the story and said to his manager i wa nt the story and said to his manager i want those two at my masterclass in london. he just-he just seemed to wa nt london. he just-he just seemed to want to know us. we seemed to want to have us there. it is an effort to meet even realise how big it is. make up and mario and the kardashians, they are absolutely nothing in our lives until now. she hasn‘t changed a bit, really. i got a little bit make—up in my hair. i was trying to impress them with my attem pts was trying to impress them with my atte m pts to was trying to impress them with my attempts to sing like nat king cole. they try to tell us we are too
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young. mona and i both agree on one thing and that is that less is more. and there is no way i want my lovely mona slopped up with stuff. he thinks i'm lovely as i am.|j mona slopped up with stuff. he thinks i'm lovely as i am. i do. voila. we are done. lovely story. thank you to them for sharing that with us. gorgeous! we‘ll bring you the headlines at 6:30. time now for the film review with jason solomons and jane hill. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week‘s
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cinema releases is jason solomons. so jason, what do we have this week? we have got books, sex and football this week in the cinema releases. diane keaton and jane fonda rekindle a passion for reading in book club. is it dinnerfor two or room for more in sexy french thriller l‘amant double? and who is the greatest english football manager of all time? some famous names put the case in football documentary bobby. what can possibly go wrong with this one? it is four old friends who have been going to a book club for 30 or a0 years, they have had marriages, some have, their husbands have died, some are divorced, they have had
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children, they have grown up. they get given a new book and it is el what‘s her name. 50 shades of grey — who wrote that book? anyway, someone wrote it. we know the book. whoever wrote it! this puts themselves in all in a tizzy, the soft erotica makes them feel perhaps they are wasting their time and they should be reigniting their sex life, so they decide to do so, including receiving gentleman callers for the first time in many years. here is diane keaton answering the door to a new boyfriend. 0k, you're going to be great. great. this is going to be amazing. let's get to the window! just act natural. well, hey you. oh, good, you're home. he's wearing jeans.
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i love a man injeans. let me see. he's got a cute tush. um... oh, you brought me flowers? there you go. thank you so much. he brought flowers. i love a man who brings flowers. if you don't like them, you have to blame your neighbour — i picked them from their garden. oh, you‘re kidding me. no. the last time she went on a date, she got pregnant. i don't think that's going to happen this time! there you go. um, is it... i say this as a massive fan of grace and frankie, which jane fonda starred in, that is the talking about getting older and the trials and tribulations, does this do it as well? that is andy garcia at the door. i didn‘t recognise him. he hasn‘t changed that much. he was sort of diane keaton‘s nephew in godfather iii, so that is weird.
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casting issues are the least of this film‘s worries, to be honest. yes, it should be aimed at older women. my mum has been a member of a book club and i thought they went round to discuss literature or the latest barbara taylor bradford. they guzzle gallons of wine and melt into terrible innuendo about viagra, and that is what these people do. i think this is very patronising, this film. part of the fact it wastes four great actresses with terrible scripts, bad lighting, bad editing. you are waiting for the laughs to come and they are not there. it gets embarrassing seeing jane fonda, who was sexually forward thinking in the ‘70s, with films like klute, and diane keaton who set the bar with annie hall. this puts it backwards. i am all for older women talking about their sex lives and having sex, that is fine, but here, it just felt that none of these people were real at all, or got themselves into real situations, that might
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be construed as comic. and it is a waste of talent, which is a shame. shame. i would like your mum to review the film. take us through something you enjoyed more. yes, this is a sexy french thriller, which is how i like them. it is called l‘amant double. we are so au fait with these, we don‘t need to translate them. it is about a young woman called chloe who works in an art gallery, who goes to see a psychiatrist to get rid of an existential pain she has. her psychiatrist falls in love with her, so he can‘t treat her, so he sends her to another one who looks a bit like him. could it be his evil twin brother? he gives out a different treatment to chloe. i hope people are keeping up. it‘s not easy to keep up, you think what has just happened.
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some of it is saucy, i take... i like my french people naked. that is sort of how they should be in the cinema. i think maybe during brexit negotiations, we should imagine our french audience naked. things might go smoother. don‘t bring brexit into it! that is too much. it is by francois ozon, who is a fine french director. it is about gender fluidity, sexual identity, duality, old and young. it is a smart film dressed up as one of these — almost one of those flashy american thrillers, like, do you remember nine and a half weeks? showing our age, talking about that! it harks back to that. stylish, beautiful, the man and woman are very sexy leads, it‘s very well done. ok, and now we move to football. yes. it is all happening this week. ruud gullit called it "sexy football". a new documentary about
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bobby robson, the england manager during maradona‘s hand of god incident in ‘86, and for that shoot—out in italia ‘90, where we went out to germany. but it is not bobby robson‘s fault. what people forget is he managed at barcelona, in holland and porto, in portugal, where he won titles and metjose mourinho, who became his assistant and was in shot constantly. whatever happened to him? it is terrific. it is about the relationships that he had as a manager, perhaps the most famous with was his relationship with a footballer called gazza, paul gascoigne. sound guy. crazy as hell. i call him daft as
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a brush, and he was. daft as a brush, yeah, he can be that. so i had to wait until he was absolutely ready, until we felt we could really rely on him. he says "if you play well, i'm going to pick you for the world cup". commentator: gascoigne! thank you very much. set up three and scored one. and i always remember him — "that was fantastic". going to spend two hours tomorrow with him, to try and restore a bit of confidence, you know, he's lacking in confidence, isn't he, the boy. do you have to be an absolute football lover to enjoy this, or does it tell you lots of things about the man you didn‘t know before? it is my era of football fandom but it is more about this man, bobby robson, who was vilified in the press many times, who kept going through it. it is about the career of someone lasting and becoming something greater than football,
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because his lasting legacy, as the film shows, his cancer unit he set up in newcastle, which is saving lives, he did bring huge smiles to the nation. the maradona incident is one of the most famous you will see, italia ‘90 is etched on people. the fact he was a european football manager with a great odyssey, he is the last english manager to have won a trophy in 1997, so he belongs to a different era. i thought this was a warm, sort of outstandingly informational documentary as well. it taught me stuff i had forgotten, and there is great goals and fiendish behaviours of footballers. it is about being more than a manager. fascinating and a great documentary. thank you. best out this week, an animated film i thought was terrific. yes, this is the breadwinner.
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it was an oscar nominee, it didn‘t win, but this is very different. i love the style of animation, an irish animation house but picks up the style of an illustrated arabic tale. it is dominated by the taliban where an 11—year—old girl has to disguise herself as a boy in order to keep herfamily alive. women are not even allowed to go to the market so it is about the freedoms she deliciously first experiences and the sadness she has to change gender to do so. it is innocent and beautiful and it is about telling stories as well and keeping those stories alive. it is very different to your smooth kind of committee—honed pixarfilms. it has heart and soul and a brave girl at the heart of it. a terrific story and beautifully told, and a cracking dvd for anyone who wants to stay in. more genderfluidity, a fantastic woman.
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it is about a transgendered nightclub singer in chile who loses her lover and has to face society on her own without her lover. brilliantly played by daniela vega. she does stare at you. she is proud, enigmatic and fantastic. wonderful. thank you. good to see you. thank you very much indeed. a mixed bag. enjoy your cinema—going, whatever you are getting up to. see you this time next week. thanks for being with us. goodbye. hello, this is breakfast with jon kay and babita sharma. here‘s a summary of today‘s main stories from bbc news. visa‘s payment system is back at full capacity after a hardware failure that prevented businesses
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processing card payments across the country and europe yesterday. the company has apologised to customers, saying it recognise it fell well short of its goals. visa said the disruption wasn‘t done due to any unauthorised access or cyber attack. donald trump has announced this summit with the north korean leader kim jong—un is back on and will take place as planned later this month in singapore. nine days ago the president abruptly cancelled the meeting, blaming what he called the open hostility displayed by pyongyang. yesterday diplomatic relations improved after a letter from the north korean leader was delivered to the white house. i think it‘s going to be ultimately a successful process, we‘ll see. remember what i said, we will see what we will see but i think it‘s going to be a process that we deserve to have. i mean, we really deserve. they wanted, we think it‘s important, and i think we would be
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making a big mistake if we didn‘t have it. i think we‘re going to be having a relationship and it will start on june 12. the european union‘s trade commissioner has warned the us is playing a dangerous game by imposing ta riffs playing a dangerous game by imposing tariffs on european steel and aluminium. in response the eu has issued a ten page lists of tariffs on us goods, ranging from harley—davidsons to bourbon. canada and mexico are also planning new taxes on us products. the american defence secretary james mattis has accused china of intimidating and coercing neighbours by deploying missiles in the south china sea. speaking to southeast asia and defence ministers in singapore, general mattis said while the trump administration wanted a constructive working relationship with china, the us would compete vigorously if necessary. a man is due in court this morning charged with the murders of two well—known criminals in the north—west of england. paul massey, who was known by the nickname mist
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big, was shot damp outside this home in salford in 2015. john kinsella was killed while walking his dog near st helens last month —— mr big. 37—year—old mark fellows will appear before south sefton margie straits court charged with two counts of murder. —— magistrate‘s court. the rmt union have called for chris grayling to resign after days of cancellations and delays on trains in the south and north—west of england. the government is blaming network railfor england. the government is blaming network rail for leaving it too late to finalise new timetables. yesterday network rail said it is introducing an emergency timetable that will come into play on saturday, scrapping 165 daily train services until the end ofjuly —— northern rail. five people have died ina northern rail. five people have died in a majorfood poisoning outbreak in the us. more than 200 cases of e. coli linked to remain letters have been reported in 35 states. is the largest outbreak in more than a decade. the new prime minister of spain,
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pedro sanchez, will officially be sworn in today less than 2a hours after forcing out his predecessor, mariano rajoy. the head of the socialist party won the backing of several other parties to win his motion of no confidence after mr rajoy‘s people‘s party became linked toa rajoy‘s people‘s party became linked to a corruption scandal. john‘s here with the sport. you have cricket for us? nice when someone criticises you you can response with an impressive performance. never would i criticise you! stuart broad, who played brilliantly yesterday, was singled out it is fairto yesterday, was singled out it is fair to say by michael vaughan, former captain, who suggested that it would be a thought to drop him for the second test, orjames anderson, to shake things up because england didn‘t play well in the first test against pakistan, losing by nine wickets, but a better performance yesterday and stuart broad said after he was angered by
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the criticism he received. maybe he needed that. that's what michael vaughan would say. stuart broad responding in the best way possible, with three wickets as pakistan were bowled out for 17h, james anderson with three wickets and chris woakes with three aswell. as england prepare to resume on 106—2, broad says he feels he hasn‘t been bowling that badly. i‘ve always enjoyed listening to punditry. i think it‘s really interesting when you hear different people‘s opinions. i‘ve always been very open to criticism when it‘s come my way when i feel it‘s their. this week it was... there wasn‘t a huge amount of logic in it, which did disappoint me slightly, only two tests a g o did disappoint me slightly, only two tests ago i did pick up eight wickets in christchurch. it was disappointing to read those comments but it‘s sort of the world we live there you go, the words of stuart
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broad, well put! garteh southgate, the england manager, will no doubt be looking forward to focussing on the football rather than talking about tattoos when his team play the first of two friendlies later before departing for the world cup. nigeria the opponents at wembley. david ornstein is with the team. england‘s path to the world cup has been smooth, but with the tournament 110w been smooth, but with the tournament now fast approaching, the scrutiny has intensified. this week, raheem sterling moved to defend himself after revealing a tattoo of an assault rifle on his right leg. amid criticism from anti—gun campaigners, sterling said the artwork had a deeper meaning, that his father was shot dead when the player was just two years old and he made a promise never to touch a gun in his life. he understands how some people have perceived the tattoo, but in my view a tattoo is like any work of art, it‘s a very individual medium. he‘s
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not somebody that supports or wants to promote guns. this is a youthful england squad. be household names of the past are gone, household names of the past are o household names of the past are gone, so to perhaps the shackles of previous tournament failures. the nation will be behind us no matter what. the group of lads we‘ve got now, you know, it‘s a high—profile group. many talents in the group. i think we‘ve got a good chance of going far this year. the focus is clear, to succeed where so many have fallen short. expectations may be low, but spirits are high as england attempt to closing on football‘s greatest prize. david ornstein, bbc news, hertfordshire. well worth seeing nigeria‘s new kit. there‘s been a mad rush to get hold of it. here is it, all neon green and chevrons. since nike released it online, there were over three million orders. that‘s arsenal‘s alex
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iwobi modelling it. it sold out straight away, so lots people queuing for hours on oxford street in the hope of getting one in store. peter okwoche was there. hello, sir, how long have you been here? 6am. since six a.m.? it is 8am, here? 6am. since six a.m.? it is sam, the shop doesn‘t opened in 10am. queueing up forfour hours to buy a jersey? yeah. 10am. queueing up forfour hours to buy ajersey? yeah. i got 10am. queueing up forfour hours to buy a jersey? yeah. i got a lot of phone calls from nigeria yesterday saying how extensive it is, how expensive is it? £64. about 40,000 naira. is that too expensive? in nigeria, yeah, but not in london. you have your jersey nigeria, yeah, but not in london. you have yourjersey now, is it what you imagine it would be? it is gold to you guys right now, isn‘t it? can i touch it? give it to me! amazing! a great shirt. 3 million
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orders since they put it online, such has been the demand, that‘s why so many were queueing yesterday in the hope of getting one in—store. the —— more than the whole world of manchester united in one season. imagine paying with a visa, chaos! congratulations to everyone yesterday you got that shirt. leeds rhinos thrashed leigh centurions in the quarter—finals of rugby league‘s challenge cup. leigh actually took the lead in the game but when the championship side had a man sent off, leeds ran riot scoring nine tries in total. 18—year—old jack walker with the pick of them, 52—22 the final score. rugby union heads across the atlantic once again tonight, with wales facing south africa in washington, but the head of the premiership rugby is not happy about it. and, as a result, warren gatland will be missing his english—based players for the game in the united states. premiership rugby boss mark mccafferty says the game places an unnecessary burden on the clubs and players involved. the five—time paralympic champion ellie simmonds has
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criticised british swimming after she returned to elite action in sheffield last night. simmonds put in a european championship qualification standard performance at the british para—swimming international meet. she‘d taken time away after the rio games saying she hated the sport, and says that the governing body hasn‘t been there to support her. i think it‘s because i had something to prove to british swimming, because they‘ve not been there for me at all this past couple of years. i‘m doing it so low, well, not so low, but with a great team around me but i just wanted low, but with a great team around me but ijust wanted to prove them wrong and that i‘m still there. british swimming as yet haven‘t responded. we know that england launched a cool video online to announce the england squad. well, a belgian bedding company might just have ruined their nation‘s big announcement, and here‘s how. broadcaster vrt showed footage of mattresses being loaded up before their departure for russia with labels indicating the player for which they were designated. manager roberto martinez has already
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named a 28—man provisional squad, but his final squad of 23 wasn‘t due to be announced until monday. on that evidence it is clear the 23 because the names are all over the mattresses! absolutely given it away! the players will be casting their eye over the pictures to see if their mattress is there. does that happen with everyone, they get their own mattresses? they want to make sure the players are as comfortable as possible and a good nights sleep is vital. you have heard of them flying out mattresses. what would you take, any favourite mug? i need a new mattress. i need a new pelloux! a teddy bear! thanks, john. —— pelloux. a story we have been speaking about
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now for a number of days, north korea. there is no such thing as a quiet week in the world of us—north korean relations and the last seven days have been no exception. last weekend we were reacting to the news that president trump had pulled out of his summit with kim jong—un after a senior north korean official mocked vice—president mike pence. but yesterday, the president announced the summit was back on after a letter from the north korean leader was hand delivered to him at the white house. political analyst eric ham joins us from washington. welcome to the programme. it is on, it‘s not on, it is on, it is off... do you think, with less than however many days to go, it will go ahead? we‘ve got 11 days until this summit is meant to take place and what we know is the president really wants this summit to happen. if this summit takes place, the president
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believes he can use it as an argument that no other president before him has sat down with the north koreans. so he is moving everything he can to actually make this happen. in fact, if you listen to him today after he met with kim yong chol, the president talked about how he didn‘t want to talk about how he didn‘t want to talk about pressure and he didn‘t want to talk about sanctions. that gives you an indication of where this president is. also more importantly, john bolton, his national security adviser, was not even in the room for the meeting, so what we take from that is the president is actually moving this agenda himself, not his advisers and not the people around him, and i think that speaks volumes to how badly the president wa nts volumes to how badly the president wants this photo op in singapore in 11 days with kim jong wants this photo op in singapore in 11 days with kimjong il. wants this photo op in singapore in 11 days with kim jong il. wise say that it was scrapped last week, that he didn‘t want it to go ahead —— why
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say. is this just theatrics from the president do you think?“ say. is this just theatrics from the president do you think? if you have never seen the president‘s show, the apprentice, this is exactly what it is, the president sees this as theatrical, the president sees the operations as a movie, a made for tv show. the president is trying to build this up into something. go back to what he said today, the president said this was a get to know you summit, and there would be more. it‘s important to note that kimjong il more. it‘s important to note that kim jong il and the more. it‘s important to note that kimjong il and the north korean regime for decades has wanted a meeting with the united states, they wa nt meeting with the united states, they want it to be seen —— want to be seen as a player on the big stage and now kim jong seen as a player on the big stage and now kimjong il as bad and he didn‘t have to give up anything to get a face to face with the president of the united states.
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fascinating to see this unravelling but at the heart of this is whether or not north korea will scrap the nuclear weapons. you said this is a kind of get to know you meeting, so is anything solid going to come out of this and do you think north korea will denuclearise? again, think about it, north korea finally has nuclear weapons and they‘re getting a seat at the table with the united states, and they didn‘t have to give it up, so i think they recognise the importance of nuclear weapons. and, again, if you go back to how they responded tojohn again, if you go back to how they responded to john bolton again, if you go back to how they responded tojohn bolton whenjohn bolton compare these negotiations to the libya model and the response from north korea... north korea sees security issues not only externally, in terms of the united states, but also interned in the. so i think it‘s going to be a long time before we get to the place where north korea is even thinking about giving up korea is even thinking about giving up nuclear weapons. i think the
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president has always found a way to try and sell his events as a win and i think we‘re going to see that again this coming summit. thanks for your time. thank you for the optimism as well because i‘m covering this poor bbc news so i‘m hoping to‘ let‘s hope in this happens —— this for bbc. hoping to‘ let‘s hope in this happens -- this for bbc. bag packed? unpacked and bags packing so let‘s see what happens. have you got your mattress? i will try and do that with some blankets. wonder what the weather is doing in singapore! on—again, off again, just like a british summer! goodbye. here in the uk we have a humid weather with us, a mild start of the day, sunshine developing widely but again, another day of bunbury showers. they have been further north over the past few days and it will be the same today and rain to begin with courtesy of this cloud pushing it off any continent. that‘s
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towards lincolnshire, south yorkshire and east anglia. also the north—east midlands. heavy showers around cheshire and manchester, drifting northwards. sunshine developing across southern counties, and some sunshine elsewhere, lovely to start in scotland but there‘s afternoon showers and thunderstorms will be across inland areas of scotland. as you can see, like winds so once you get stuck under one you could be there for quite a length of time. hale and gusty winds attached to those. they must northern ireland, northern england more likely to be over the pennines. more east and west. the odd heavy shower through the midlands through the east anglia. dry, most of you will avoid the showers. funniest towards southern counties. temperatures high teens, low to mid 20s, were slightly cooler in scotland compared with yesterday. showers and storms will
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fade for most but some will continue across northern england, southern scotland, maybe northern ireland, st and murky through northern and eastern areas but clear in the south and not as humid as recently. a cracking date—krumm across southern areas, sunshine in the ——a cracking day to come. sunshine in the east. a few more showers and thunderstorms breaking out but not as many as recent days, the vast majority spending all is not the bulk of the day dry and warm. that is how we see the weekend, showers gradually fading. that will be the case on monday. the high pressure in charge. dragging and slightly cooler air, nothing too chilly but with that, low cloud off the north—east are a great start on monday in central and eastern areas, many dry, only one or two showers but lots of sunshine breaking through the cloud in the west. a pleasant day rather than a particularly hot one. back to you. time now for all the latest technology news in this week‘s click.
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a bit of rain, a bit of sun and a lot of books. that‘s the world—renowned hay festival. once a year, the small town of books, hay—on—wye on the england—wales border, hosts thousands of visitors, ready to fill their boots with fact, fiction, opinion and debate. screams hay is a great place to hear from authors, and scientists and big thinkers. and, when you‘ve done all that, you can come and see us too. for the third year in a row, we‘ve been invited to show off some cool tech before a live audience.
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of course, we turn someone into communist revolutionary vladimir lenin using vr. why wouldn‘t we? do you actually feel like you‘re there then? yeah. i can turn around and i can see everything, like, i‘ve got a whole room. and we played mind games with neurologist doctor hannah critchlow, and albert einstein. even though you know that it‘s the wrong way round, i cannot help seeing that this is going the wrong way. anotherface is popping out, but actually it‘s the back end of the mask. i was put on the spot with a challenge that gave me shivers and flashbacks to my mastermind appearance. oh, god! oh, my god! what does the g stand for in gdpr? oh, god! gregory! no, it‘s general. the island of tuvalu, which lies in the pacific ocean, midway between hawaii and australia, is located at which top level domain popular with television channels? what?
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.tv? and then there was click‘s very own patented shouty wave game which we call hay fever. as one half of the audience tries to push the other half off a see—saw. all shout it‘s controlled using image and speech recognition, to make sense of all the waggling and yelling, you know. right, we‘re going to move on now and look at a piece of technology which aims to help blind people to navigate... well, anywhere, better. many blind people have fantastic spatial awareness, but at events like these, and everywhere else, there are always things that will catch you out. gary o‘donoghue‘s been testing a new pair of glasses in washington, dc. hey, erin, how are you doing? hi, gary, thanks for calling aira. i‘m in washington, dc on the national mall,
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and right by the reflecting pool. this is one of washington‘s most popular tourist spots. but even though i‘ve lived here for more than three years, i‘ve never been able to experience this walk alone. but that just changed. of course you have the reflecting pool on your right hand side, and i can see way off in the distance the washington monument. what‘s helping me do this is a service called aira. the name a nod to artificial intelligence and, i‘m told, something to do with egyptian mythology. egyptians aside, though, it combines a dedicated smart phone connected to new custom—made classes with a camera between the lenses, —— connected to new custom—made glasses with a camera between the lenses, with an impressive 120—degree field of view, both horizontally and vertically. tap a button on the phone twice and you‘re connected to a trained sighted agent who gets your video feed. while there are other apps that connect sighted help to blind people, it‘s the combination of the tech and the quality of the agent that makes this feel different.
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the tasks it can help with can be a simple or as complicated as you want, from booking a car to helping you keep up with your social media presence. as a journalist, i want to be able to access all platforms, and now i can even independently post instagram. that looks spot on, so it looks very centred. isee l, o, vand e. it took me a long time to... i won‘t say keep my mouth shut, but it took me a while to understand, and through the training process, understand what information is important and what information is not important. so there is a bit of a learning curve, at least there was for me, to understand what was opinionated versus what wasn‘t. the service is currently available in america and has just launched in canada and australia, with plans to expand in the uk. all the agents work from home and the calls are priced per minute of their time.
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and they‘re working on a smart assistant that will automate basic tasks, like reading text or identifying barcodes so you don‘t waste minutes there. and in some places like airports, it‘s free. the airports will sponsor the service to pick up the cost while you‘re there, and aira draws a geofence around the location so you‘re not billed for the time. every disabled person has their airport horror story. if you‘re visually impaired and if you ask for help, they tend to want to stick you in a wheelchair. so if this bit of tech can help me avoid that kind of episode, i‘m up for it. it says "scan your document‘s barcode." and go to the leftjust slightly and pause and select. this is actually the back of the receipt advertising for american express, and now it‘s upside down if you‘ll rotate it. ok, perfect. it takes a little while but it‘s doable, isn‘t it? that‘s amazing.
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there‘s a bench here on the right—hand side. you have a narrow path here and then you‘re going to have a bag on the left and a man on the right. so a very narrow path here. i know everyone talks about independence. it‘s not independence, it‘s choice. the issue is choice. normally when i go to an airport, you see, the most you can really ask of someone who‘s helping you, guiding you through, the most you can really ask of them is to show you where the loo is and possibly buy a bottle of water. after that, you‘re done. i want to shop! aira has adopted a subscription model, and while the hardware is free, there‘s a sliding scale for monthly minutes. it‘s not cheap. currently, 100 minutes set you back 89 us dollars. the unlimited plan, $329 per month. given most blind people are unemployed and those who work often earn less than average wages, isn‘t that a bit out of reach for most people? as we started to hear more about the financial concerns, we started to go to the businesses and say, "these are your customers,
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can you start to pay for the aira service?" so what we then did is added the guest programme. so again, today, you can sign up as a guest for free and use it in places that you go. so am i persuaded? there‘s no doubt that being able to do even small things at the time of your choosing feels great, but it‘s still expensive and, of course, there‘s the huge looming question of privacy. do i want to show a stranger my bank statement? in the meantime, i‘m told there‘s a little ice cream stall not far from where i am. yeah, absolutely. let‘s go exploring. so... i think it‘s about time i got my long—suffering producer a treat. hello, welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that a tesla in autopilot mode crashed into a police car in california. the driver sustained minor injuries after deciding to take a break from the wheel. uk drone users could soon face
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a fine if they don‘t undertake an online safety test before taking to the skies. and virgin galactic has completed its second supersonic test flight in two months, yet again sparking talk that an out—of—this—world trip could be edging closer. if you‘re a street performer, london may be the place to be. buskers in the city can accept payment via contactless as well as small change, thanks to a partnership between busk in london and the now paypal—owned swedish tech firm izettle. wondering whether it‘s worth installing solar panels in your home? google‘s project sunroof now aims to help homeowners in some parts of the uk find out what savings they could make. it combines machine learning with google earth and maps data, local weather information, and property features, like the angle of your roof. and finally, ever wondered how tight a compression bandage should be? well, engineers at mit have created a colour—changing one to help.
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high—tech light—tra nsmitting fibres are woven into a conventional bandage, causing it to change colour according to the pressure level. probably not so great if you‘re colour blind, though! well, back at hay, it‘s deep concentration here in the scribblers hut. it‘s a digital animation and video mapping workshop run by mash cinema. creepy laughter we are creating monsters, and then we‘re going to animate them. we‘re using a free app called tagtool on these ipads. you draw the monsterfirst, and then you animate it. the idea is it‘s teaching these children more about the art of animation.
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the software is fairly intuitive. the animating function records the motion of your hand. because it‘s done on an ipad, you can literally create a 2—d digital creature or animated graffiti whenever inspiration hits. there‘s also a function that lets you collaborate on artwork with other tagtool users. i thought all the monsters here were equally scary, although here are some of our favourites. but it was after dark that they really came to life. the team went into gorilla mode, projecting the creatures all over the festival site. creepy music plays that‘s it for the short of click at the hay festival 2018. if you like to see more from us
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at hay then check out the full—length version, which is up on iplayer right now. next week it‘s world cup time, so we‘ll be looking at the technology behind football, which apparently is a sport. in the meantime, we live on facebook and twitter @bbcclick. thanks for watching and we‘ll see you soon. hello, this is breakfast, withjon kay and babita sharma. back online after hours of disruption. visa apologises and says its card payment service is back to normal. customers across europe were unable to pay for purchases. the company says a hardware failure was to blame. good morning, it‘s
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