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have some did you? absolutely. you have some great euros and if the male side of it isa great euros and if the male side of it is a kind of scoundrel and a little bit disreputable, then that's a good thing because you got to remember that soap operas at a very female lead jon rahm. —— genre. it is quite rare for a male character to be held up on the same pedestal as the women and he was a rare kind of example of that, i think, leslie grantham. a record-breaking130,000 muslims grantham. a record-breaking 130,000 muslims have gathered grantham. a record-breaking130,000 muslims have gathered to celebrate eid, the end of ramadan. it is now your‘s the largest eid gathering. these celebrations in small heath
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park in birmingham are increasingly popular. they mark the end of ramadan, the holy fasting month when most muslims refrain from eating and drinking during daylight. we are coming together to practise the prosthetic tradition of all muslims around the world to pray outdoors, and importantly for birmingham, it is about the community coming together from all over birmingham and even nationally, people are coming to this event. when these celebrations were first held in 2011, there were around 12,000 visitors. today, organisers say that figure has now swelled to about 140,000 stock it is not an official figure but organisers insist it is used even of its kind in the western world, and they are keen to stress it is open to everybody. when we have this climate of islamophobia, in order to counteract that we need to be open and we are open and we need to come together to such events and many other events which go on in the city to show that we are here. this makes it even more special, to
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share it with other people. we've got people from different backgrounds, different cultures, and it isjust a way backgrounds, different cultures, and it is just a way where we are able to say to the world, we are all equal. 200 people have volunteered to help with the clear up, and planning for next year's event has already begun. now, here is the man to brighten your weekend, hopefully. thomas, how was the weather looking? the weather will be fine, the pollen levels a little bit higher. this weekend i cannot guarantee dry weather all the way through. saturday, in fact, will bring some showers and maybe even some thunderstorms. at the good news is that come sunday, the weather is actually going to improve a little bit. so a little bit hit and miss this weekend, but we have had worse. lots of cloud on a satellite image, swirling in our direction. this
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little lump of cloud, this world will bring the showers through tonight and into tomorrow. here is the forecast just after midnight. you can see rain pushing into northern ireland, western scotland, the north—west of england and other western fringes of the uk. see the east and the south it will stay dry and the temperatures will vary from nine degrees to 14 degrees. here is the low which will temporarily upset oui’ the low which will temporarily upset our weather this weekend. as i say, there could be some downpours across there could be some downpours across the north, particularly northern england, northern ireland and scotland. one of two thunderstorms during the afternoon as well but thatis during the afternoon as well but that is not going to last all day. it will come and go and there will be sunshine as well. one alternate showers will probably get into wales. further south it is going to be much drier and brighter. temperatures will vary from around 15 degrees. fairly modest, there in edinburgh. down to 18 degrees in the south. relatively cool for this time of year. on sunday, as one would assist the moves away we have yet another one moving through. this one will be something different. it will
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not necessarily bring showers. this one will bring a lot of cloud across the uk. so out of the two days, i think overall sunday is probably your best bet for dry weather. it may not be a completely sunny day and it may not be hot, but it is going to be at least dry. so temperatures will be around 17 degrees across scotland, maybe scraping 20 degrees in london. but at times it will be overcast on sunday. then as we head into next week, it looks as though this weather system, this is actually monday and tuesday and wednesday, looks as though the weather systems be tracking further north. high pressure starting to build them. that means temperatures will start to climb. manchester, by the time ago to tuesday, it will be up to 25 degrees. london will be seeing temperatures in the high 20s towards the middle part of the week. there isa the middle part of the week. there is a summery for next week. it will be warming up and i think there is a good dose of summer on the way. this weekend will be a bit hit and miss. that is the letters from me. bye. hello.
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this is bbc news with julian worricker. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines. the prime minister says she disappointed a tory mp has blocked a bill which could have made "upskirting," the act of secretly taking photos under a skirt, a sexual offence. —— she is disappointed. sir christopher chope called a halt to the bill even though the move had government support. china and the us take a step closer to a trade war as donald trump announces the us will be putting a 25% trade tariff on more than $50 billion worth of chinese imports. the tariffs on more than 800 goods will be imposed from july 6. a damning report says the government's flagship benefits two teenage moped riders are jailed for life after they stabbed and killed a charity youth worker during a violent robbery spree. a damning report says the government's flagship benefits scheme may end up costing more than the system it replaced. the national audit office said delays in transferring people over to universal credit caused hardship. hello, and welcome to our look ahead
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to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are lynn davidson, whitehall correspondent at the sun, and martin bentham, who's the home editor of the london evening standard. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. starting with the times, who lead on the case of a 12—year—old boy, who's been admitted to hospital after his cannabis oil medication was confiscated by the home office. "purge of the middle classes" leads the telegraph, as companies in britain ask their staff whether they went to public school as part of a government drive to improve diversity. the daily mail says grieving families face losing thousands of pound after their relatives were sold "rip off" wills. the guardian leads with cuts of £16
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million facing the charity oxfam. a plan to to cut bed blocking in the nhs leads the daily express. the paper says it costs the health service £3 billion a year. the ft says that china will hit back after president trump imposed tariffs on chinese goods. the death of leslie graham leads the mirror, including remarks from co—star anita dobson, who says she didn't get to say goodbye. and the world cup leads the i. they say that the england players are being kept awake by the short nights at their base in the russian town of repino. a wide variety of stories there to look over with our two guests. martin, why don't you kick us off? take us to the ft, and what china and the united states may be heading towards 7 looks like there might be starting
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to get engaged in a full—scale trade war with this massive imposition of ta riffs by war with this massive imposition of tariffs by donald trump, which follows his similar efforts with imposing tariffs on european goods only 80 days ago as well. so he is imposing these tariffs and the chinese are hitting back. he is threatening to impose yet more tariffs. the gist of it is that he believes two things. one is that there is a massive trade is that the us has with china and so on, and that it us has with china and so on, and thatitis us has with china and so on, and that it is on fair competition, undercutting and so on, and in particular, the depth of intellectual property. —— unfair condition. in that area i think it has legitimate grounds for concern, if the allegations are correct, which is that us companies, when they work in china and do business with china, they have to work with a chinese partner and have to surrender some of their intellectual property to the chinese, who actually, as a side issue, are well
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known and suspected in this country, in fact, of being engaged in espionage and so on to steal intellectual property secrets from businesses and so on. so in that area i think he is certainly, there is something in what he is trying to do, trying to stop that from happening. clearly most economists would say that the actual tit—for—tat trade war in terms of ta riffs tit—for—tat trade war in terms of tariffs will only be counter—productive and destructive. then again, it is planning to his base in the united states and maybe, as unconventional as he is, what he does might achieve some affect and work, perhaps. but who knows? so where is this all heading? well, he is being, in contrast to some of, you know, it was only something like september last year when we were hearing donald trump describing kim jong—un as the rocket man, you know, the fire and fury comments, everybody was frankly terrified, they didn't know what that was going to mean. now his language, never
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mind it being tempered, he is on this charm offensive. so actually, even though he has put these tariffs in place and china has retaliated, his language towards residence she, describing him as a great friend, he is being very complemented to him at the same time. —— president xi. the language china understands is the language china understands is the language of isner send money and figures. let's see how it pans out. yes, "i have a wonderful relationship with president xi, we will work it out". that is the message he offers. clearly, if china retaliates, the americans are already saying they will do more? his thesis is that america is bigger and more powerful and will win the battles. but as you were just saying, i think underlying that is the idea that if he throws his weight around, actually, people will sit up and take notice and then they can strike some sort of deal, as he hopes and in fact claims to have done with north korea. he claims to have solved that problem. well, it
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is difficult, but we tend to see, we saw it when george osborne was chancellor, rolling out the red carpet to china, despite what they we re carpet to china, despite what they were doing with steel flooding our owi'i were doing with steel flooding our own markets. so let's see of donald trump's approach has a different effect. staying with trump and kim, inside the times, there is this talk about what donald trump has now said, and he said this was sarcasm, i think he's said it halfway through this, but he is talking about showing people the love? well, it's true. i think for english—speaking natives it is perhaps hard to understand president trump's sarcasm and normal speech, so goodness knows what it is like if you are a foreign nation, trying to translate that. "show me the love". some of the language, you know, he isjust a box office president. but press co nfe re nce office president. but press conference this week was just out there. he was almost talking about
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his meeting and his summit with kim jong—un like it was, some of the actually likened it to a date. he was talking about how they had great chemistry. and you don't get that with everyone. it was almost like, you know, this first aid special. you like and that to how he spoke aboutjustin trudeau you like and that to how he spoke about justin trudeau after the g7 meeting last week when he called him weak and meat. the language isjust something we have not seen from any world leader, ever, in modern times. and the sarcasm here, martin, is in reference to the fact that he is supposed to have said that he wished that his people would give him the same unalloyed deference as north koreans offer their country's dictator. world... he claims that is a bit ofa dictator. world... he claims that is a bit of a joke and so on, but you can absolutely believe he wishes that were the case. it goes back to his or inauguration, he wished he had the greatest possible crowd. in fa ct, had the greatest possible crowd. in fact, he claimed that the time that
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he did have it and so on. so this is all part of this fantastic impromptu press c0 nfe re nce all part of this fantastic impromptu press conference that he gave to date when he walked out of the white house, having decided that the tv ci’ews we re house, having decided that the tv crews were out there, so he came out and chatted to them. he claims the north korean crisis had been solved, a p pa re ntly north korean crisis had been solved, apparently because of his deal, talked about having this direct phone line with kim that he can just get on the phone and chat to him. and he claimed, paradoxically, there was a survey and he claimed, paradoxically, there was a survey out today showing that he had, i think, the second—highest opinion poll rating of any us president, george w bush. that was only directly after 911 when of course george bush's popularity, george bushjunior‘s, course george bush's popularity, george bush junior‘s, was course george bush's popularity, george bushjunior‘s, was very high. he just glossed over the human rights issue, glossed over the fact that there are 100 and 30,000 political prisoners in north korea. asked how mr kim could love his people when he kills them, mr trump said "i can't speak to that, i can only speak to the fact that we signed an incredible agreement".
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priorities. quite an incredible man. let's talk about the telegraph. they are putting in quotes, purge of the middle—class, fears at top firms. lots of people are being asked where they went school, basically? this is a document putting put up suggesting that that they can ask serious questions to determine their social background, part of ensuring they have got the first workforces. the telegraph is quite exercised about this, saying that it would discriminate against private school pupils, former private school pupils and so on. clearly, people should be selected on merit alone. on the other hand, are not entirely against this on the —— because on the other hand, adversity needs be remembered,
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as far as gender diversity and so on. what you do not want to have happened is just that you tick all the boxes so that you end up with a very privileged group of people getting all the same jobs. they talk a lot about improving diversity in the judiciary, a lot about improving diversity in thejudiciary, this is a measure that improves social diversity. it is important i think. of course, if it is misused, that will be a bad thing, but if it is just to inform recruitment and so on.|j thing, but if it is just to inform recruitment and so on. i cannot quite read the expression on your face is that i don't think it should matter. i know of a magazine that do not do any cds or anything, they are not do any cds or anything, they are not interested if you went to university, if you did not, or what school you went to. no, university, if you did not, or what schoolyou went to. no, i agree university, if you did not, or what school you went to. no, i agree with you that it should not matter but it has mattered too often they asked
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are you now 01’ has mattered too often they asked are you now oi’ have has mattered too often they asked are you now or have you has mattered too often they asked are you now 01’ have you ever has mattered too often they asked are you now or have you ever been omitted the daily telegraph? you're anticipating that they will not be happy. i think we can say that. i think you are happy. you are reading the guardian, oxfam cuts and big cuts. i suppose we could have predicted this story at some stage, given that the extent of... which was led primarily by the times newspaper really, but the extent of the sex scandals in charities, and i think that the problem is that a lot, particularly for oxfam, ithink something like around half of the money it brings in his public funds and the department of international development did say at the time when the scandal first broke that they would be reviewing any money that was going to projects. so that was hit than they have also been hit by
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the public, who perhaps did one of those monthly signups and maybe perhaps have stopped their direct debits or are a little reluctant to sign up to new ones. and so if you have a selection of five other charities, you might perhaps make another option. i think what they are doing now is that they are going to have to do is sell freeholds and other shops, good job losses are inevitable, they said, and reducing the projects in some countries that they operate in. this is an internal document but it is clearly not internal any more. nyom. ithink document but it is clearly not internal any more. nyom. i think the interesting question here and the important one for the charity there will be if the money has gone elsewhere, that is one thing, what may well have happened is that i think public confidence in the charity sector may have been damaged, not least because of course
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some of the other charities were involved in the same problems. another chapter that you may not wa nt to another chapter that you may not want to read in the daily express tomorrow, one or two of the other papers as well. this is in reference to this private members bill that is being pushed to the commons today and he objected to it and is getting and he objected to it and is getting a lot of flak as a result, isn't he? iam not a lot of flak as a result, isn't he? i am not sure if i would like to be walking down his street in christchurch in dorset this week because i think most people up and down the country would not have heard of him, top story on the bbc news website i think, or because he put his hand up and objected to this private members bill, which you can do because he is part of parliamentary procedure and you can object. he will say this procedural, we can go into that a bit more but essentially, the may said quite clearly, or ministers said quite clearly, or ministers said quite clearly is pretty much universal backing after young girl he was the victim of up skating at a concert festival outside, she did a
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single—handed campaign, she won backing, we all thought this was going to pass today until sir christopher chope's intervention and people are not happy, tory mps... had to say a lot of his own side. yes, they have a long history of —— he has a long history of objecting to these bills and... it appears to bea to these bills and... it appears to be a procedural one and he does not like the way that the legislation goes through sometimes as a private members bill, without it would seem being properly scrutinised and thought through. of course, there's a certain something that argument that legislation does to be thought through. clearly, as one commentator described the optics of this looked absolutely terrible, because it looks like he is defending or objecting to an attempt to protect women from absolutely hideous
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behaviour from some very devious and unpleasant people. —— upskirting. he has been denounced in absolutely every quarter. dinosaurs, someone from a different century. all that and more. the times, this is the front—page story, martin, with reference to this little boy whose life, the headline says, this is with reference specifically the cannabis oil. yeah, it is a terribly sad story and who knows exactly what is happening right this second because this young boy, who has this cannabis oil medication which he has been receiving when he was overseas and so on, has come into the country, had confiscated because it is not licensed as a medicine here because of its cannabis content and so on because of its cannabis content and so on will stop —— had it confiscated. apparently, he has had a fit this evening, the day, and is
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fiow a fit this evening, the day, and is now in hospital in a severe condition and it seems a very unfortunate bureaucratic obstacle. —— and so on. it is not going to set a great precedent, the home office says that in essence if a doctor, is a specialist recommends that he needs this to medical treatment, then there is a way for him to receive it. have to i have a home office updated t20 which might add to the discussion. we are deeply sympathetic to the extremely difficult situation that billy and his family are in. he is in the care of medical professionals who are best placed to assess the care and medical treatment that he requires. the home office are contacting his medical team. if the team treating billy advise a particular course of urgent action, the home office will consider what options are available to help facilitate that a price. yes, i think the new home secretary sajid javid will be very sort of... it is quite a sympathetic statement here. i think the difficulty is
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though, i suppose with doctors here andi though, i suppose with doctors here and i am obviously not a medical professional, but i would say that cannabis oil is obviously, the use of the medical purposes is legal in certain states in america and canada and in certain european countries but it is not here. the opposition is perhaps, it is tricky for them because they perhaps not used to or not able to... itjust seems here that he will potentially get to this is the right bureaucratic process is gone through, i.e. it is recommended and the home office considers it. unfortunately, it just seems to and the home office considers it. unfortunately, itjust seems to be happening too slowly because it is not going to set some great precedent. and who knows if the medication has been interrupted, that has had an impact on him because he has not been able to take it. we just had time for a little discussion about the world cup, which takes us to the times because we are not certain about who is going to win the tournament. apparently, you have to consult
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various animal. well, we all remember paul, the octopus. he predicted spain, he had a record run, something like 12 out of 14 predictions before he passed away. there is an animal called achilles, this is the cat. it is a cat that his death as well. it was found in st petersburg, it was living in a st petersburg museum, the hermitage museum. one match, there was a fair chanceis museum. one match, there was a fair chance is going to get that right. the russian cat from the russian... to be fair... he recognised his own flag. before we get too bored, time is up. there are other animals mentioned in that, but there is time for that another day. there is a peak. there is a pig. -- pig-
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that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you. seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, lynn and martin. let's get a check on the weekend weather now. it is looking a little hit and miss. weather now. it is looking a little hitand miss. i weather now. it is looking a little hit and miss. i think some of us are infor hit and miss. i think some of us are in for some hit and miss. i think some of us are inforsome rain hit and miss. i think some of us are in for some rain but the good news is it is certainly not going to be raining all to the course of the weekend. but if you do catch the rain, there could be some downpours, even some thunderstorms around. let's ta ke even some thunderstorms around. let's take a look at the forecast in the short term. rather a lot of cloud streaming in off the atlantic right now and we are watching this little curl of cloud, low pressure, which will be moving across the uk
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during the night and also to saturday itself. that is going to bring showers into belfast, glasgow by the end of the night, and some of the western parts of the uk, around the western parts of the uk, around the lake district and parts of wales. eastern and southern parts of the uk will stay dry. so the low pressure will be over us during the course of the day and as i said, some of us could get some downpours. they are most likely to fall across northern england and into scotland, some across northern ireland too and with that possibly some thunder as well. also a bit of a breezy day. to the south of that, a chance of more sunshine and in fact on the south coast and in the south—east, as well as east anglia, should bejust about dry through most of days. not particularly warm on saturday. this is saturday. temperatures should be around about 16 to 19, that sort of value. this is sunday's weather forecast. while one where the system moves out of the picture, another
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weather system moves in. this one is going to bring us a lot of cloud, you can see the high cloud streaming in on you can see the high cloud streaming inona you can see the high cloud streaming in on a fair breeze as well. are some of us, sunday is actually going to end up pretty cloudy with some drizzle around some of the east posts. —— for some of us. we are talking about dry weather to england, some showers to north—east scotland. monday, tuesday and into wednesday, it looks like the low pressures will be moving a little bit further north. that also means that warmer air will start to stream up that warmer air will start to stream up on the south. look at those temperatures. manchester there by the time we get to monday, up to 23. you by tuesday, up to 25. about in for some warmer weather, a little bit later on in the next week, but in the short term this weekend, the weather is looking a little mixed with sunshine and showers. wherever you are, have a great weekend. this is bbc news, i'm ben bland. our top stories:
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