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this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 2:00pm. one year on from the the terror attack on london bridge and borough market, a special service is being held at southwark cathedral to remember those killed and injured. lam iamat i am at southwark cathedral where 700 people will attend the service of commemorations this afternoon before the planting of an olive tree asa before the planting of an olive tree as a symbol of healing. the home secretary, sajid javid, says he'll look again at the cap on foreign students and the number of doctors that can come to uk. i know a number of my colleagues certainly want me to take a look at this. that is exactly what i'm doing and i hope to think about this more carefully and see what can be done. g7 finance ministers warn the united states it only has days left to avoid a trade war after president trump's decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. a church campaign to tackle modern
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day slavery at car washes, where workers are trapped by threats and debts. and at 2:30, extra time interviews the south african olympic gold winning swimmer chad le clos. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. one year ago today, eight people died and 48 others were injured in the london bridge terrorist attack. three men drove a van into pedestrians on the bridge and then started stabbing people in nearby borough market. today, a service of remembrance is being held at southwark cathedral. jane hill is there welcome back to southwark cathedral
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where in fact those dreadful events of one year ago have already been referenced in the usual sunday morning service here, very well attended, at the cathedral. in the next hour, that full—service 0fcom oration will get under way. 700 people have been invited to attend including the families of some of the eight people who lost their lives that night —— the full—service commemoration. they were from all over the world, australia, canada, france and spain as well as from here in london. there will be survivors and special tributes will be paid to members of the emergency services as well. i'll be talking to a number of people in the next few minutes, local residents who will be attending the service via this afternoon but first, let's reflect
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on the events of that saturday night one year ago, and how london has responded. borough market, ten o'clock. how a saturday night should be. the more you think about it, the more you let it impact your life, the more they've won. sojust carry on. let's get rid of the barriers, let's carry on with our day—to—day lives. i feel pretty safe now, because the government, the police, is taking care of it. this city knows how to live past difficulties. it has done that many, many times through way more difficult experiences. so really, i think people look on. police were prepared for a new style of attack, where individuals or groups go on the rampage, sometimes turning cars and vans into weapons. but this was not the first of its kind in 2017 and it wasn't the last. after people were knocked down on london bridge, the attackers ran towards the market,
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stabbing those they passed before being shot dead by armed officers. with the manchester arena bomb, there were five attacks in the uk last year. but there are those who are keen that each one is not forgotten. today's service at southwark cathedral will also honour the work of the emergency services. we have a long history of serving the people, the residents of this parish. but this has seen a new level of strength. and that is very encouraging, because it could have destroyed. that is what the intention was. but actually, it has built something that is rather beautiful. solidarity and defiance are words often used. but here it is about actions, too. it is saturday night, and they are enjoying it. simon clemison, bbc news. as was referenced, as i've mentioned, the work of the emergency services, so vital, such a swift
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response. they were at the scene on london bridge within eight minutes. there will be tributes paid to the police and medical staff who played such a vital role in the hours and days after that attack one year ago. to that end, let's speak to a doctor who is the london medical director for nhs england. thank you for joining us. eder is so many of your staff —— it is so many of your staff who performed magnificently that night. thank you. our thoughts and prayers of course today with the eight people who lost their lives and their families. 48 eight people who lost their lives and theirfamilies. 48 people taken to hospital that night, 36 admitted, 22 had to be admitted to critical care. nhs staff i think be late —— behaved with real heroism, beyond the call of duty that night. stories of people finishing their shifts and going straight back to hospital,
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people in the vicinity who run into danger. members of the public and people with clinical training, off duty staff, often staying with people who'd been injured, monitoring them on behalf of the avila and services and so on. i'm a lwa ys avila and services and so on. i'm always mindful of the avila services —— ambulance services who run towards danger, that is a real example. indeed, i'm struck by the long—term effects of this. some of the first responders, by definition, they don't know what they are going into, they don't know if it's terrorism, they don't know how badly injured people are. they will have seen things that most of us hope never to witness. what sort of support is there for people like that in the weeks and months afterwards 7 that in the weeks and months afterwards? right, so come obviously in any situation like this we will
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debrief almost immediately after an event like this and offer support to oui’ event like this and offer support to our staff in the weeks afterwards. 0ften our staff in the weeks afterwards. often we find however that the impact is not initially in the first 6-12 impact is not initially in the first 6—12 weeks, it can be in the months, and in particular on the anniversary of these events. in the nhs in london we have a special service of trained clinical psychologists, the service is delivered by one of our top hospitals and mental health services in london, and any member of the public affected by terrorist attacks last year can contact them, they can fill in a questionnaire that will help them to identify whether they are experiencing trauma oi’ whether they are experiencing trauma or psychological effects of being involved in this event and they'll be put through to eat specially trained psychologist who has particular expertise in these types of issues to ensure we are responding to their needs and they get through to the right service. if people want to call the service or
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look them up, they can look up south london and maudsley nhs trust and there will be a contact number. last year was such a difficult year in different parts of the country, we saw the westminster bridge attack, the attack on the manchester arena and not long after everything we are, narrating today, the horrors of the grenfell fire. there were nhs workers at every level who were impacted. what goes through your mind as someone who has two league teams, about what that does to the health service, in terms of preparing this and impact on individuals? —— who has has to lead teams. we always reviewing how we support staff and oui’ reviewing how we support staff and our system in london is one of the best in the world. one of the first
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cities in the world to set up a majorformer cities in the world to set up a major former system cities in the world to set up a majorformer system and cities in the world to set up a major former system and there are hundreds of people who survive each year as a result of the system we have. when there's an event like this your first thoughts are with those who have been affected and injured and of course with the staff as well. it's important during these episodes that staff respond at the time but also that people can c0 nse rve time but also that people can conserve their energy is because they are going to be needed in the days and weeks later. pretty much every nhs member of staff working, community nurses and so on, will be involved in some way. 0ver community nurses and so on, will be involved in some way. over 100 people admitted involved in some way. 0ver100 people admitted to hospital last year as a result of bose four events you mention, which is a lot of work for a large number of nhs staff —— asa for a large number of nhs staff —— as a result of those four events. we appreciate you talking to us. thank you forjoining us. the london
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regional director for nhs england. special tribute here at the service at southwark cathedral to members of the emergency services. the chief nurse will be giving one of the readings and the service as well. i've been here for a few days in this part of london, london bridge, borough market, such a bustling part of the capital and i've heard from business owners, market traders, that there is —— about their memories of the night. i spoke to a young man who runs a stall at borough market, right by the cathedral where we are, and he told me about his memories of the night, how the market traders have come together over the last year and what he feels the lasting implications of all of this have been. his name is patrick williams and he runs a stall called soul food in borough market.
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700 people coming to the service, i think that says everything itself. i think the main thing of importance is to show the solidarity, i think togetherness. these people that lost their lives, they're in our hearts. and we are thinking about them. they're gone but everyday we come to work you can't forget what happened. as long as we're here, it's always going to be with us because it happened on our patch. although we didn't lose anybody directly from the market, it is still part of the family. all the businesses and the swell of love that actually came from what happened with the other businesses trying to help, pouring money, it's great. it was really great to see people work together in london. fantastic. patrick williams, who runs a stall at borough market. let's talk to someone else who will be doing a reading at the ceremony here this afternoon, adele morris hasjoined me. she's a local councillor in the
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area and very much a local resident as well. you live in this borough. that's right. explain what you'll be reading from because it's unique and it's a fascinating element of the way that people here are trying to remember the events of one year ago. absolutely, the primary focus of today's service, thoughts and prayers for the families who have lost loved ones. there's quite a large residential community here. i know that traders have been interviewed. but on the night of the attack there were something like 500 residents who found themselves locked in or out of their homes, which went on for several days. quite impactful on the local residents and of course those residents and of course those residents will live here and they have to experience it, some of them
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witnessed terrible things. some of them are still suffering from trauma, even if they didn't witness it, just knowing it happen. i'm reading from the memory project which has been put together by an author who lives locally and she's asked people to give their thoughts about what happened on the night and to tell their own personal stories about how they reacted and how they feel about what happened on the night. it's not going to be a published book as such but merely an exercise in allowing people to talk —— really is an exercise in allowing people to talk. interesting that you talk about local residents, people forget that this is also a residential area. we think about it asa hub residential area. we think about it as a hub for tourism and food with the market but also it is an area where people live. as someone who lives in the borough, how have
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people dealt with it, as much as one can generalise about that? as individuals there has been all sorts of help that they can access from authorities, as it were, professional help. they've talked to each other but we've come together asa each other but we've come together as a community and we've made a better bond with each other. neighbours have got better relationships than they had before with each other, the market, residents and cathedral have come together a bit more and they all understand where they fit in here now. maybe slightly differently from how it was before. i've spoken to a lot of people in the area who say that londoners are resilient and we bounce back, the nature of living in any big environment, and we heard the same after the manchester bombing. do you think that's true, the city isn't frightened by people who want to disrupt our way of life?
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a normal saturday night. you have to learn to live with it. you mustn't forget what happened, it's important to remember and reflect but i think we have to acknowledge that this is london, a big city and people are saying that you can't worry about everything, you can't be for ever looking over your shoulder. so things will always be slightly different for the residents here, but they will be moving on, slowly. thank you forjoining us. that service begins at 3pm. we'll have coverage, of course, and the national minute's silence, there will be a national moment of silence at 4:30pm this afternoon and we'll be following that here on bbc news. the home secretary, sajid javid, has promised to review key aspects of the government's immigration policy, which has been criticised as being too hostile.
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mrjavid said he would "think more carefully" about the cap on skilled workers wanting to come to the uk from outside the eu. and he acknowledged that the current approach had caused problems for employers, including the nhs. here's our political correspondent, mark lobel. reducing net migration, a key conservative target, may not be as safe as it once was. the home secretary, sajid javid, has said he supports the conservative manifesto commitment, to bring net migration down to the tens of thousands, but he has refused to back the figure explicitly. in his first major tv interview since becoming home secretary, he said he was prepared to look at raising the cap for skilled workers. when the policy was put in place, there was a cap that was established at 20,700 of these highly skilled immigrants, and for years and years,
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that cap wasn't hit. it is something that i am taking a fresh look at. it follows pressure from businesses and the nhs, which is struggling to recruit doctors. he also accepted there was a perception problem, with students being included in net migration numbers. but labour rejects the government's target—led approach. the mistake the conservatives have always made on this is that they said they would set an arbitrary target for immigration, and they would then let the economy bear the consequences. we have always said the sensible thing to do is to say, what does the economy need? let's make sure that we have the skills to match those needs. tackling violent crime is another urgent challenge for the new home secretary. last month he told the police federation he would put prioritise police funding in the spending review. 0ur police have an incredibly difficultjob to do. they are seeing rising demand, not just the terrorist threat but the rising demand from cyber crime, reporting of historic
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sexual crimes, child sexual exploitation, domestic violence. i want to make it a priority of mine in the next spending review. with spending tight, securing extra funding will not be easy. doctors say thousands of women with early stage breast cancer could be spared chemotherapy. it follows trials of a genetic test that analyses how dangerous a woman's tumour is. the findings, presented at the world's biggest meeting of cancer doctors and scientists, in chicago, are expected to change practice in clinics immediately. a new therapy for men with terminal prostate cancer has yielded spectacular results, according to doctors at the institute of cancer research and the royal marsden hospital in london. the treatment involves boosting the immune system, so it can attack the tumour. in a trial, a third of patients with an advanced form of the disease were still alive after a year, while a tenth did not
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see the cancer grow. the therapy won't work for most patients though. cancer research uk says the next step is to try to predict who will respond. doctorjustine alford, senior science information officer at cancer research uk, joined us from salisbury. she explained how the immune boosting treatment works. this was what is called a phase two ‘s clinical trial, so more testing is needed before we see how well these drugs work in these men. these men had run out of treatment options, their cancer was the advanced, they'd already been through several rounds of chemotherapy and hormone therapy. effectively this is giving some men with this really advanced disease new hope. the drugs they were using in this clinical trial is called an immunothera py. in this clinical trial is called an immunotherapy. immunotherapy is any
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treatment that works by engaging the immune system. in this particular case they were using a drug which works by cutting the brakes on the immune system. these brakes exists to stop the immune system from going into overdrive, from harming the body when responding to something. cancer cells can use this to their advantage and produce molecules that stopped the immune system from attacking the cancer. this drug serves to stop this from happening, to cut the brakes so that the immune system to cut the brakes so that the immune syste m ca n to cut the brakes so that the immune system can stop the cancer cells again. the world could be only days a way from a full blown trade war. that's the warning from the world's leading finance ministers meeting in canada. it follows president trump's decision to levy big tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium. several countries including canada and mexico have already retaliated with their own tariffs. our business correspondent joe lynam reports. the drumbeats of a looming trade war are getting louder. as finance ministers
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from seven of the world's key economies arrived in canada, greeted by some canadian indigenous people, there was only one major issue — tariffs. and it was six against one. the americans have decided to, in our mind, take an action that is not at all constructive. it's actually destructive to our ability to get things done around tariffs on steel and aluminium. in order to revive steel—making plants like this one in pennsylvania, the us has imposed a 25% tax or tariff on all imported steel and 10% on aluminium. that will make steel far more expensive to sell in america for british, mexican or canadian manufacturers. but the us was playing down the significance of the tariffs. the concern is not these tariffs per se, but i think the concern is obviously many of them have put on more threatening reciprocal tariffs and then perhaps
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what the us's reaction, so i think that trade is a very important issue, and i think as you know the president and i and others in the administration are very focused on this. in the next few days, these iconic but noisy harley—davidsons could be the focus for eu retaliation against us—owned brands. that in turn could lead to the americans imposing tariffs on european cars, which could include jaguar and land rover. and the threat of a global trade war could intensify even further this week if trade talks between the us and china break down and tit—for—tat barriers are applied to products between the world's two largest economies. next week these finance ministers' bosses, the presidents and prime ministers, will try to paper over the cracks, but short of a change of heart from president trump, that meeting will doubtless highlight us isolation on this issue. joe lynam, bbc news. many churchgoers will have received an unusual sermon this morning ,
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the church of england and the catholic church are launching a campaign to help police tackle modern slavery at car washes. worshippers will be taught how to spot signs that workers might be exploited, and how report suspicions on a new mobile phone app. jeremy ball reports. a clean car at a cheap price, but is that costing someone's freedom? thousands of hand car washes have been set up in the last few years, and while many are legitimate, some workers are being exploited, abused and trapped by threats or debts. i've been threatened twice that he would kill me, because i've not done something quite right. i had to stay outside, i was only allowed to go indoors to eat. i had to work 11 hours per day, nonstop. i had no breaks. the employer did not buy any protective gloves, and the shampoo is quite strong. while washing the cars, it keeps corroding the skin. we want clergy to be talking about this.
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so, today, the church of england and roman catholic church are asking their congregations to help root it out. does there appear to be a boss who is controlling or intimidating... they're suggesting sermons about slavery in car washes and lessons in sunday schools, too. it is ourjob as christians to be concerned about the most vulnerable in our society. there's still a million people or so who go to church in this country every sunday, and that means we've got eyes, ears in every community, every town, village, city anywhere in this land. but the really clever bit is the way they're going to use smartphone technology. if you get your car cleaned, you can use this new app called safe car wash. it will pinpoint your location and help you spot and report any warning signs. that information will be sent to experts here at the university of nottingham, who will use it to build up a national picture of the scale of slavery in car washes. certainly if people look malnourished or frightened or dishevelled in any way, shape or form, without proper equipment, if it's at a price that's
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too good to be true, perhaps there is something which might set the alarm bells ringing. the information is also going to be sent to police teams who investigate modern slavery. workers here weren't mistreated, but victims have been rescued in other raids and their controllers put behind bars. jeremy ball, bbc news. a 17—year—old boy has been stabbed to death in ipswich, in what was police believe was a targeted attack. witnesses said the teenager was leaving a shop in the nacton area of the town yesterday afternoon when he was attacked by two men. he died later in hospital. a 41—year—old man has been arrested. two men have been taken to hospital following a shooting in south london. the men, in their twenties, were left with gunshot injuries after the attack in peckham. the government has confirmed that it intends to launch a free website for schools in england to advertise teacher vacancies later this year. the department for education says it hopes the measure will help schools to save money, as andy moore reports. it is estimated english schools
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spend about £75 million every year recruiting staff. later this year the government hopes to roll out a service that will be free to schools. it will advertise part—time jobs and job shares, as well as full—time vacancies. another issue for schools is the cost of supply teachers. every time there is a hole in the teaching rota, they have to find someone to fill in, and with the number of holes increasing all the time, the bill for supply teachers is also going up. from september, supply agencies will have to clearly disclose their fees. there will also be a list of agencies which don't charge fees when staff are taken on permanently. the association of school and college leaders said any move
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to reduce employment costs was welcom, but its general secretary, geoff barton, said the bigger problem was an ongoing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention. andy moore, bbc news. it is one year since the london bridge and borough market attack was carried out and a service of commemoration is being held at southwark cathedral and jane hill is there for us. in the last few moments the bells of southwark cathedral are being run at the start of the commemorative ceremony, which begins at 3pm. we know that the bells are ringing to welcome people to the church. 700 guests invited and some of the
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families of those who lost their lives that night will be among the congregation. we can see people starting to arrive at southwark cathedral, which sits overshadowing borough market where so many people we re borough market where so many people were injured on that warm saturday night when a van drove across london bridge and then the three terrorists got out of the van and started stabbing people and moved into borough market, which is such a lively part of the capital. eight people died, 48 injured, they will all be remembered here over the next couple of hours, as will the work of the emergency services. after the ceremony, there will be a blessing ofan ceremony, there will be a blessing of an olive tree, chosen as a symbol of an olive tree, chosen as a symbol of healing. at 4:30pm this afternoon there will be a national one—minute silence to remember those who lost their lives. we will be here at
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southwark cathedral through the afternoon and we will guide you through the national minute of silence as well. for now from the cathedral, back to the studio. thank you. let's have a look at the weather now. that afternoon, some warm sunshine for many parts of the country. still an area of cloud across the far north of england, the south of scotland, so different weather here, some light rain or drizzle. 0ver scotland, so different weather here, some light rain or drizzle. over the highlands, storms developing and they will be slow—moving, heavy and bunbury. a lot of dry weather, warm in the sunshine, temperatures into the mid—20s. we may get one or two late showers in wales, perhaps into the south—east of england, but very isolated and most storms will be across the highlands of scotland and even they will fade away overnight. a lot of cloud in the north sea is
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being dragged in land at temperatures, 11—14. tomorrow, quite cloudy for most of the day across south—east scotland, north—east scotland, to the east midlands and east anglia. sunshine in the south—east and the best sunshine will be to the west where we may see some thundery showers driven by the heat of the day, especially across scotla nd heat of the day, especially across scotland and northern ireland. much cooler and the cloud on the east side of the uk. 0n cooler and the cloud on the east side of the uk. on tuesday and wednesday a lot of dry weather, some sunshine too. very few showers, it looks generally dry on tuesday and wednesday. more sunshine across the east of the uk on tuesday, lifting temperatures into the low 20s. i'll see you later. this is bbc news, our latest headlines.

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