tv Breakfast BBC News June 17, 2018 7:00am-8:01am BST
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thailand, it's goodbye. hello, this is breakfast with chris mason and sally nugent. theresa may announces a five year plan to pump billions more into the nhs. she says the extra spending will be partly paid for by a brexit dividend but there could be tax rises. we are making the nhs our priority. we are putting a significant amount of extra money into it, we need to make sure that money is spent wisely. good morning, it's sunday 17thjune. also this morning: pressure grows for a change in the law after the government allows a boy with severe epilepsy to be treated with an illegal form of cannabis oil. and we are live in valencia in spain where some of those 630 refugees and
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migrants rescued by the ship the aquarius, have arrived after a week—long journey. a safe harbour on the other side of the mediterranean. and in sport, it's not often you see this. lionel messi misses a penalty, as iceland draw with argentina in their first ever world cup match. and nick has the weather. good morning. we have a mainly cloudy day ahead, while some of us will remain dry, there will be some patchy rain, particularly across western parts of the uk. not going to be as wet as it was for some of us to be as wet as it was for some of us yesterday. join me for the full forecast, a little later on. thank you, talk to you later. good morning. first, our main story. theresa may has announced new funding for the nhs in england. it will mean an extra £20 billion a year by the end of a five year plan. the prime minister said some of the funds would come from money the uk will no longer have to pay into the eu budget after brexit. but she hinted the rest may have to come from higher taxation. our health editor hugh pym has more details. with pressure mounting on the nhs,
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demands for a funding boost were intensifying. theresa may made it clear she wanted to come up for a long—term plan for the nhs in england, which remove the need for annual last—minute budget top ups. in recent weeks, there have been sometimes acrimonious talks between the health secretary jeremy hunt, calling for increases from the chancellor philip hammond. the new plan covers the next five years. it will involve average annual increases of 3.4% in real terms. the budget for day—to—day running costs is about £115 billion this year, under the plan there will be £20 billion more by 2023. theresa may says some of the funding will be found from money saved after brexit and some probably from higher taxes. what i am announcing will mean that in 2023—24 there will be about £600 million a week in cash, more in cash, going into the nhs. of course we have got to fund that money. that will be through the brexit dividend. the fact that we are no longer
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spending vast amounts of money every year to the eu once we leave the eu, and we as a country will be contributing a bit more. the head of nhs england — simon stephens, said the settlement provided the funding needed to shape a long—term plan for key improvements in services. but the health foundation think tank argued it was not enough to address the fundamental challenges facing the nhs. hugh pym, bbc news. we're joined now by our political correspondent jonathan blake. jonathan, what has the political reaction been to this announcement? we are hearing about the brexit dividend, which makes it sound straightforward. but it surely cannot be as simple as that. straightforward. but it surely cannot be as simple as thatm straightforward. but it surely cannot be as simple as that. it is never as simple as you think and theresa may is presenting this as taking the money that britain spends on membership of the eu and putting
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that instead into the nhs after brexit. there are a few other factors that people will point out, not least that the government's own spending watchdog has calculated that tax revenue will fall as a result of brexit. 0verall that tax revenue will fall as a result of brexit. overall it will have less money to spend. 0ther factors including the strength of the pound being much weaker, meaning that it the pound being much weaker, meaning thatitis the pound being much weaker, meaning that it is and services brought in cost more. and the take—up has been lifted. detail aside, it cost more. and the take—up has been lifted. detailaside, it is cost more. and the take—up has been lifted. detail aside, it is the message that matters for the government and theresa may will be pleased to make this announcement and at least put off those calls, those constant calls for more money for the nhs to address staffing shortages and inducing pressure on resources a cross shortages and inducing pressure on resources across england. it will never be enough for some, later saying that it will take early and is just to pay off the debt as a result of tory cuts to the health
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service and if there is a sting in the tail, the prime minister saying that we as a country means that taxes at some point, will go up. that is jonathan taxes at some point, will go up. that isjonathan blake, our political correspondent. and you can see more of that interview with the prime minister on the andrew marr show a 9 o'clock on bbc one. it is five past seven now in the news: “— it is five past seven now in the news: —— also in the news. campaigners are calling for medicinal cannabis to be made legally available in the uk, after the home secretary intervened to help a 12 year old suffering from epilepsy. billy caldwell has been given back the cannabis oil, that was confiscated from his mother at customs on monday, after doctors made clear it was a "medical emergency". the oil, which contains a substance called thc, is illegal in the uk. billy's mother, charlotte said they had "achieved the impossible." and we'll be talking to billy's mum charlotte at around twenty to eight. firefighters have spent a second night at the scene of a huge blaze at the glasgow school of art. it's the second fire
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there in four years. nearby buildings, including a nightclub and a music venue, have also been damaged. 0ur correspondent catriona renton is there for us now. good morning to you. ring us up to date. you can see the plight —— fire appliance behind you, still a lot of work going on there. -- bring. once again, this city waking up at disbelief at what happened on friday night, the second fire at the famous mackintosh building in four years. you can see there is still plenty of activity happening here. the scaffolding is from the restoration work from the fire four years ago and you can see the fire this time has been far worse than that one in the extent of the damage is clearly very difficult to deal with. firefighters, 50 of them, where he overnight. they say that the fire has been contained, but there still could be pockets of fires. that is why they are still working hard to
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get on down the buildings. there is 150 -- it is get on down the buildings. there is 150 —— it is on 100 get on down the buildings. there is 150 -- it is on 100 50 get on down the buildings. there is 150 —— it is on 100 50 years since mackintosh‘s birth this year, so this makes this especially sad and experts seem to be saying that there is little hope that this building will be restored. the question eve ryo ne will be restored. the question everyone is asking now is how did it start? it could be several weeks untilforensic start? it could be several weeks until forensic investigators are able to access some parts of the building. it could ease some time before we get some answers. —— e sometime. —— be sometime. hundreds of migrants who've been at the centre of a row between european countries over where they should go are beginning to arrive in spain. both italy and malta has refused to take them after they were picked up off the coast of libya. 0ur europe correspondent, damian grammaticas is in valencia for us. morning to you damien. bring us up to date. there are boats arriving every hour at the moment. we have had the first boat pull in,
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this is one of the italian coastguard vessels, which pulled in here at an hour ago just as the dawn light, the sunrise was going up. now in the past hour, we have seen the first of those refugees, migrants being disembarked from their, coming off into the quayside where there are medical teams waiting. red cross teams, translators, spain and the city of valencia have mobilised 2500 people to welcome and take in these three boats are. this is the first, the other two are still offshore waiting to come in and this will ta ke waiting to come in and this will take several hours. think you damien. —— thank you. we will keep an eye on the story there throughout the morning. russian police are questioning the driver of a taxi which ran into a crowd of people in central moscow. it's believed some of the eight people injured were mexican football fans visiting the city for the world cup.
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it's not clear whether the collision was a deliberate act or an accident. sajid javid has revealed he was the victim of a moped mugging shortly before he was appointed home secretary. in an interview with the sun on sunday newspaper, mrjavid said he was about to make a call when thieves rode on to the pavement and grabbed his phone. he said the incident left him "angry and upset" and he was hoping to give police more power to pursue moped thieves. it is nine minutes past seven, you are watching brexit. —— breakfast. it's the political problem every party says needs solving urgently, but no one has yet been able to find a solution to funding the nhs for an aging population. today, the prime minister will say she has a plan which will see £20—billion more for the health service in england by 2023. niall dickson, chief executive of nhs confederation, joins us from our london newsroom 110w. your reaction to this announcement
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from theresa may? i think our members will want to see some of the detail, but it is a welcome boost after really we have had nearly a decade of almost no extra funding for the health service in real terms. so this is significant and it isa terms. so this is significant and it is a significant sum of money. it is short of what the independent analysis that we got on, which suggested it needs 4% per year. this looks like 3.4%. it is short. but overall we should welcome it and we should welcome the stability that it will bring if we are right in thinking that we know what we are going to get between now and over the next five years. but i think the problem will be, how do we spend that money and there will have to be some hard choices. the numbers are bafflingly large. i wonder, some hard choices. the numbers are bafflingly large. iwonder, in practical terms, what difference does this money make or could it make? if we had gone on as we are, i
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think the wheels would have essentially continued to start falling off the health service and staff would have been under even more pressure. that should relieve some of that. i hope it will enable us some of that. i hope it will enable us to really put some money into transformation, by which i mean not continuing simply to just prop up the hospital system, but to actually start putting money into the community and into services which will prevent, particularly elderly people, ending up at the hospital door. we have not succeeded yet in doing that on a real industrial scale and i think that is probably the biggest challenge we face, along with workforce, you can have all of the money in the world but if you don't have the people to do the jobs then that is going to be a very significant challenge as well over the next few years. does it matter to you where the money comes from? there is a whole discussion about the so—called brexit dividend, economists saying that it doesn't exist. the prime minister is referring to and hinting at tax rises, from the perspective of the
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nhs money is money but at the same time the health service has to make the public case that if there are higher tech —— higher taxes is money worth spending. we have to make that case were the you regard it as a brexit event or if it is coming through higher taxation. there will be people who say quite rightly, is the nhs going to spend this money effectively? are we going to get value for the extra public spending that we are putting into the service was back to which i would respond and say i think the service is very much for changing the way in which healthcare is much for changing the way in which healthca re is organised. much for changing the way in which healthcare is organised. that is not the fault of doctors or nurses or managers on the frontline, it is the reality of the kind of challenges which we face over the next ten yea rs, which we face over the next ten years, which is certainly different from those say at the beginning of this millennium, when really the issue was, could be get faster treatment? that we got more people pushed through hospital? now the challenge is a rapidly ageing
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population. that will see more than 4 million people over the next ten yea rs over 65 4 million people over the next ten years over 65 and a huge increase in over 85 and we need to find a better way of treating and supporting them and hoping that this money will enable us to start doing that. it isn't as much as i say, the independent analysis suggested we do need, but we will have to work with what we have got. if you could flush out for us, about this huge cash injection into the nhs. how this sits in the broader context in terms of the kind of funding rises that the nhs has seen over recent decades, notjust the nhs has seen over recent decades, not just the the nhs has seen over recent decades, notjust the relative pullback in terms of additional money that has gone the last few yea rs. money that has gone the last few years. if you were to look at a graph, it looks like the himalayas, going up and down all the time and that creates instability within the system. this is good because it is predicting something, a pretty flat
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line and that is a good thing. if you look historically, by 2009 if you look historically, by 2009 if you went from 2009 all the way back to 1948, you went from 2009 all the way back to 19118, you would see that on average across that period, it was 3.7%. we are now looking at 3.4% over this next period. it is a little under what the health service had over that period. that earlier period was distorted from the years between 2002— 2009 where there was a massive boost. before then, it probably is about what the health service used to get on an average basis. going forward, this isn't a bonanza by any means and the challenges ahead are very considerable. but it is a lot better than what we have been used to have the last few years. they differ talking to us, we appreciate it. —— thank you for talking to us. paul alexander was less than two years old when his mum put him in a stranger's arms and sent him
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from germany to britain. it was a decision which probably saved his life. paul was one of the youngest of thousands ofjewish children rescued from the nazis as part of kindertransport. now aged 80, he is re—tracing thejourney on his bike to commemorate the rescue. he joins us from berlin. is son and grandson are also doing the journeys. —— his. is son and grandson are also doing thejourneys. —— his. good morning to all of you. why did you decide to make this journey? this journey, 80 yea rs make this journey? this journey, 80 years after my firstjourney, it is a celebration of my life. i survived... i were sent from nazi germany to england. i had a wonderful life in england and israel. i have nine grandchildren. it isa
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israel. i have nine grandchildren. it is a celebration of life, a victory lap. what was the situation for your parents, your mother, having to give you to someone to keep you safe? we were living a normal and regular life in germany in1936, 1937. normal and regular life in germany in 1936, 1937. then came krystalnacht. my mother heard about taking me to england, and onjuly 14, taking me to england, and onjuly 1a, she said, ok, iwill send my son away to live his life. she sent me away. luckily, see herself managed to get a visa to come to england
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four days before work broke out and arrived on the fourth of september, 1949. and my father was released thanks to my mother, and he left germany and came to england and went to an internment camp. when my mother came to england, we were all reunited as a family. although, i was ina reunited as a family. although, i was in a children's refugee home for 2-3 was in a children's refugee home for 2—3 years, so we didn't actually lived together as a family until about three years after i arrived in england. but the main thing was we we re england. but the main thing was we were all safe and began a new life in england. we are grateful to the english for opening their homes to
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jewish and non—jewish children. this isa jewish and non—jewish children. this is a thanks to all those people who helped. it sounds like you had incredible parents. now you are doing the same thing with your son and your grandson. all of you travelling together, what will that be like? it will be an emotional and amazing experience and journey. i am sure they would all say in a few words how they feel about it, but for me, it is emotional and meaningful, 79 years after i did it the first tiem. are you prepared? it will be long and tough, but i am prepared. i trained with my grandfather and my uncle, and i love
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to train with my grandfather, and it'll be emotional, as he did it 79 yea rs it'll be emotional, as he did it 79 years ago. i am really excited. good luck to all of you. thank you very much. great to talk to you. wow. a lot of peddling. what a trio as they go across europe. the weather. this is one of the weather watcher pictures from this morning. north yorkshire. glimmers of sunshine to begin the day. a lot of cloud today. from that, some patchy rain and showers. possible anywhere. the bulk of the rain will be in western parts of the rain will be in western parts of the rain will be in western parts of the uk. a bit on the south. but
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nowhere all day long, and not as wet as yesterday. lots of cloud. this cloud is bringing the rain from the south—west, leaving the east to see the best weather. cloud coming in. patchy rain in the cloud will clear away. some effects in the south—west of england, wales, northern ireland, north—west england, and that is into the evening. to the east of that, some sunshine from time to time. some rain. 0ne some sunshine from time to time. some rain. one or two show it. essentially dry. temperatures in warm spots, nearly 20. —— showers. rather cool. the wind will freshen up rather cool. the wind will freshen
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up further into the morning. especially in northern scotland. quite gusty. this area of cloud will continue east this evening taking light rain with it. clearing away. clearing skies for the second half of the night. nowhere cold. single figures. some spots in northern scotland. 15—16. there will be some sunny spells to start the day tomorrow. a fine start in much of the uk. northern ireland, north—west england. cloud is thickening. 0utbreaks england. cloud is thickening. outbreaks of rain moving and once again. a windy picture. gusty in northern scotland. south—east england, staying dry, sunny spells. a north—west and south—east split in the weather. temperatures, 12 degrees in stornoway. north—west and south—east, a split that continues into the week. some rain at times in
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scotla nd into the week. some rain at times in scotland and northern ireland and northern wales. the east of england, warm and sunny spells. late in the week, high pressure settle things down. it will turn more dry to be where it has been warm, it will turn more cool. —— more dry. a mixed bag. a nice cover all. you're watching breakfast from bbc news. time now for a look at the newspapers. anne—marie imafidon founded the company, stemettes, which supports young women and girls to pursue a career in stem industries. anne marie is here to tell us what's caught her eye in the papers. a quick sentence about stem. science, technology, engineering, maths. especially for women and
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girls? it should have everyone in it. i only say that because your first tory in the observer is an interesting story about women. —— story. metro stations in paris. they have gone to a public vote to rename some of them. there is a campaign group called dare to be a feminist advocating having some named after women. of 303 stations, only four named after women. lots are named after men. it would be a nice change to have slightly different names, women have done many interesting things. but they are not named. in
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paris, there is a mathematician, a woman, whose name was left off the eiffel tower. she worked on the eiffel tower. she worked on the eiffel tower? yes, they have names of mathematicians and scientists of the day, and all of the women were left off. interesting. the inside of the mail on sunday. this has been in the mail on sunday. this has been in the news bulletins over the weekend that the extraordinary pictures from glasgow. what a twist. this is the second fire at the school. 2014 was the last time it happened, a project gone wrong. £35 million later, refurbishment was almost finished, months away from finishing, and now another fire. thankfully, no months away from finishing, and now anotherfire. thankfully, no one has died, no one was hurt. frustrating
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lay, this time, the venue next door, where we were hosting, going to host an event, that street is the cultural centre, so much goes on, it is really sad, but it got to this point again and had that impact. is really sad, but it got to this point again and had that impactm is very sad. you pick out a story in the sun this morning about beyonce. of course. no picture. itjust says not much to show, it is talking about beyonce and jay—z, the tribute to the grenfell tower victims. about beyonce and jay—z, the tribute to the grenfell tower victimslj about beyonce and jay—z, the tribute to the grenfell tower victims. i was there on friday. that was there on call at the end, singing a song for everyone. “— call at the end, singing a song for everyone. —— encore. they had a badge for grenfell. it is fantastic it got to that level, that they are
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also supporting it. it is more of a we should be doing more for the victims, even us. we need to get our skates on. it is interesting to see artists used the platform to help. a classic sun headline. perky or porky? grinners and losers. the secret of a fake smile. i want to know this secret. it is something to do with the angles, and they did this psychology experiment, millions of smiles in a database, is it real, isafake? of smiles in a database, is it real, is a fake? where will this be used? -- is it is a fake? where will this be used? —— is it fake? it could be used at
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airports and police stations to identify criminals. there is a lot about micro— expressions. identify criminals. there is a lot about micro- expressions. is it instinctively in us that when you see someone smile and it is not genuine, without looking at the face, it is not reaching the eyes, etc, you know when they don't mean it? i don't know ifi have etc, you know when they don't mean it? i don't know if i have that. you meet politicians all the time! the duchess of cambridge has a natural and perky grin, apparently. great stuff. thank you. the andrew marr programme is on bbc one this morning at nine o'clock. andrew, what have you got coming up? the prime minister is on. fake smiles wall—to—wall over the sofa. the programme will be dominated by the interview i did at chequers
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yesterday with the prime minister, talking about the nhs and new money, and brexit, and also, upskirting. i will talk to emily thornberry, the shadow checked per hour —— shadow treasurer for labour. a controversial hour. genuine smiles all—round. thank you. coming up... this is an extraordinary story. singing their way to history. wejoin the choir of we join the choir of hereford cathedral for final rehearsals before they travel to the vatican and become the first anglican cathedral choir to sing at a papal mass since the reformation. hello, this is breakfast with chris mason and sally nugent. good morning. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. theresa may has announced new
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funding for the nhs. it will mean an extra £20 billion per year. the prime minister said some of the funds will come from the money the uk will no longer have to pay into the eu budget after brexit, but she suggested that the rest might have to come from higher taxes. some people might remember seeing a figure on the side of a bus a while back of 350 million a week. what i can tell you is that what i am announcing will mean that in 2023, 2024, there will be about 600 million per week in cash, going into the nhs. campaigners are calling for medicinal cannabis to be legalised. billy caldwell has been given back the cannabis oil that was confiscated from his mother at
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customs on monday after doctors made it clear it was a medical emergency. the oil which contains a substance called thc is illegal in the uk and his mother said they had achieved the impossible. and in the next few minutes will be talking to billy's mum, she will be live on brexit. ships carrying more than 600 migrants, which has been refused entry by both italy and malta, are beginning to arrive in spain. the spanish government says it has accepted an offer from france to take in some of the migrants rescued off libya. a huge banner saying ‘welcome' in several languages will greet the vessel at the port of valencia. we will be back there with our correspondent, later this morning. firefighters have spent a second night at the scene of a huge blaze at the glasgow school of art. it's the second fire to engulf the famous mackintosh building in four years. officials say the flames have now largely been extinguished, but small pockets remain. a nightclub and a music venue nearby have also been damaged.
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russian police are questioning the driver of a taxi which ran into a crowd of people in central moscow. it's believed some of the eight people injured were mexican football fans visiting the city for the world cup. it's not clear whether the collision was a deliberate act or an accident. time to talk all things sport. it isa it is a good time to be a sports journalist. wall to wall football. it is brilliant, i am wall to wall football. it is brilliant, lam hawke wall to wall football. it is brilliant, i am hawke already. a lot of great games and goals, england just around the corner tomorrow. it feels like we are talking about england, they have been out there area england, they have been out there are a long—time. gareth southgate has told the players who will be in the squad for the upcoming game. players speaking their claims but i think he has decided to settle nerves ahead of the game tomorrow. i like the way he
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is managing them. dare we say it. there is a good mood around the camp. it seems like the players are happy, the coaching staff are happy. that is feeding back to us, isn't it? i am have. it is on tuesday morning we are talking about a 0—0 draw. let's not go there. sports correspondent david 0rnstein who's with the squad in repino. great to speak to you, talking about the mood. it certainly seems that there has been a good mood, atmosphere around the camp. is that fairto atmosphere around the camp. is that fair to say atmosphere around the camp. is that fairto say and atmosphere around the camp. is that fair to say and what happens as far as england are concerned, they are at their base but they face a long trip against dominic for that game against tunisia. the atmosphere amongst the squad has been fantastic. and open environment,
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much more relaxed we have seen a alert previous tournaments, if you think of the euro is two years ago. there was a real divide between the media and the squad. than four years ago in brazil, england were staying ona ago in brazil, england were staying on a military base, the media could barely get near to them. backers back to germany in 2006, but here, at the stadium where they train, it has all been veryjovial, high spirits. in the media centre there has been arcade competitions between the players and media. this is a real departure from previous camp. yesterday they held a training session behind closed doors, getting to work on their chosen formation for monday prospect opening match against tunisia and we think we know the team. it is still not confirmed but the players have had it confirmed to them whether they are starting or on the bench or whether
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they are not involved at all. they will train in the next half an hour, we will be able to watch 15 minutes of it and then they've shut the doors of. they fly this afternoon, from the hotel, they go to st petersburg airport and take the 1000 climate a journey over to bolton grabbed, where temperatures are about 30 degrees. gareth southgate will address the media tonight and then tomorrow, the wait is over. we cannot wait. and what about the action yesterday? france, and denmark, croatia. at the big story, iceland drawing with argentina and that little messy penalty save. iceland lit up the euro is two years ago, knocking out england. —— euro two. yesterday they continued that form, they didn't win but caused a surprise by holding them argentina. argentina took the
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lead through sergio aguero. iceland then equalised and argentina got a penalty which look to be the winner. win or messy stepped up and it was saved by a part—time film director, which is their goalkeeper. legal messy has now missed full at the seven attempts for club and country. —— lionel messi. they next face croatia, that will be a tough test for argentina if they want to progress from this group stage. denmark were also in action, winners yesterday. ba by denmark were also in action, winners yesterday. baby carew. carew got a penalty to open the scoring in front of so many of their supporters that we have seen. —— carew. “— of so many of their supporters that we have seen. —— carew. —— peru. then denmark going up the other end, and the man who conceded a penalty that was missed, on the counter—attack, slotting denmark into the lead. that lead proved
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decisive. friends were also in action. —— france. a video assistant referee goal, it was awarded a penalty. antoine griezmann opening the scoring, the first time the va are decided a goal in the world cup. paul pogba getting the winning goal with the benefit of goalline technology. 2—1 to france and croatia beating nigeria 2—0. it wasn't a classic. and an goal was the opener and luka modric. the second from the penalty spot to put croatia in a strong position in that group and as i said, they then face argentina in their next match and that should be an absolute else. our focus here is firmly on england's. their final preparations now ahead of that match against tunisia tomorrow. the nation is expecting,
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perhaps expectations have been low, but certainly they will ramp up. england haven't won their opening match in a world cup since 2010, but this young and vibrant and confident squad will hope to confound that and possibly cause something of a surprise out here in russia. thank you for that fascinating stuff. the icelandic goalkeeper, a part—time film director. he can make is a movie now! —— is own. —— is own. —— his own. england are on their longest losing streak for four years, after surrendering yet another lead to go down 23—12 against south africa. the defeat also means england surrender the series, having lost the first test last weekend. there are also reports that after the final whistle, there was a confrontation between england players mike brown & joe marler, and south africa fans. meanwhile, ireland are certainly a side accustomed to winning.
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they levelled up their series with australia thanks to a thrilling 26—21win in melbourne. if they are victorious in the final test, it will be a first series triumph in the southern hemisphere for 39 years. wales put in another professional performance to earn a series win against argentina — the 30—12 victory included this stunning solo try from josh adams, which closes off their summer tour in style. a few hours ago, scotland lost to the united states for the first time. the usa went ahead, kinghorn was celebrating at the end, he missed a conversion in added time that would have won it to them. —— for them. that was a crucial bit of play. justin rose is one shot behind a four—way tie for the lead, going into the final round of the us open at shinnecock hills in new york state, but it's phil mickelson that everyone's talking about. he deliberately hit his ball while it was moving, knowing he'd be given a two—shot penalty, but deciding that was better than trying to play the ball from further he did not withdraw.
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several players said he should be disqualified. some would say he is playing to the rules. others say that is not fair play. maybe the rules need to be a five shot penalty. he knew was going to happen. he thought i will race around and give it a little knock. it nearly went in as well! and added twist to the game of golf. cheers john. sajid javid says he has used an exceptional power as home secretary to issue a licence for a severely epileptic boy to be given medicinal cannabis, after it was confiscated from his mother earlier this week. 12—year—old billy caldwell‘s cannabis oil was seized at heathrow airport. it contains a psychoactive substance that is illegal in the uk but had kept his epilepsy at bay. billy's mother, charlotte joins us now from the hospital in london where billy is being treated. good morning to you charlotte. how
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is billy doing this morning? yes, well we are pleased to report that billy had a really good night. he slept extremely well very much more settled. he has actually had some porridge there are and some fruit. he was saved yesterday. sorry to interrupt you, how will you know if the break in the cannabis treatment would have had any effect on him? how long do you have to wait to see whether that has been a problem for him? i would imagine, probably within the next few days. we know billy received his dose of medicinal cannabis, which has been prescribed
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as an antiepileptic drug at 2pm yesterday. then he had another dose a third time before he went to sleep. he will have another one this morning, i would say it will be a number of days to build the level back up again. and then it will be down to the two have a look and give billy a checkup and see what exactly, where he is at and where he is going. you have currently got enough medicine to last for 20 days, what happens then? what happens after that? well, you know, billy obviously was described just nearly six months medication from a world ranking specialist in canada. that medicine needs to be handed back to billy. | medicine needs to be handed back to billy. i would medicine needs to be handed back to billy. iwould be medicine needs to be handed back to
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billy. i would be saying to sajid this morning, i want to report directly to him. two doses yesterday and this morning already, we are seeing an ink ribbon —— and improvement. the doctors here are very happy, they are not in any way saying that really shouldn't have this medicine. they are in fact encouraging billy to continue having this medicine administered. i will be saying to sajid, obviously asking him to please return the other six bottles that billy needs and let's just stop this nonsense once and for all. i would also say to sajid, i applaud him. he has handed us a lifeline which is absolutely amazing andi lifeline which is absolutely amazing and i am truly thankful for that. but i would be asking him now, we are in london, as everyone is aware,
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the mean our this experience that myself and my little boy has intuit over the last week, i don't want and will not stand by and let any other family in our country into this experience. it is absolutely horrific, it is crawl. —— rules. —— cruel. this experience for this week, as we are talking to you guys, there are mummies and daddies all over united kingdom that suffer from this brutal condition. there are situations going on exactly the same as we are in. iam going on exactly the same as we are in. i am asking sajid now, i am staying in london, i can assure him iam not staying in london, i can assure him i am not going anywhere until this
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is put in place and this medicine is made accessible to all of these are the children that desperately need immediate. iam the children that desperately need immediate. i am asking sajid to please, i want to request a meeting with him in london as soon as possible, preferably tomorrow. i wa nt to possible, preferably tomorrow. i want to sit down with him in a dignified and democratic way, myself, the doctor, and the team, we wa nt to myself, the doctor, and the team, we want to put this on the table and let's get this across the line for the many other children that desperately needed to. -- need it. we have to leave it there, we are out of time. that is a very clear message you are sending to sajid, to discuss the situation with your own child and other children in a similar situation. the weather for the weekend. in morning. a bit of rain. a bit of sunshine. not very much. breaks in
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the cloud. also, some rain in parts of southern and western england and northern ireland as well. not much. that is the story for today. rain in the south—east of england will clear away. patchy rain across mostly western areas. plenty of cloud coming in as you can see on the satellite. moving from the south—west. it leaves the north—east with the best of the sunny spells. cloud will increase. even in the east of the uk, a splash of rain in the south—east. perhaps if you showers. the east, more dry. thick cloud. 0ccasional mostly light rain. limited breaks in the cloud to the east of the high ground and in the east of the high ground and in the
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east of the uk. temperatures, flirting with 20 degrees. as you can see, a few degrees short of that for most. a brisk south—westerly breeze. we keep cloud initially this evening. some light rain. pushing further is for a time. that clears away. clearing skies, though not for long. just a few in the far north of scotland, showers. single figures. a fine note for many tomorrow morning. a windy day. the wind in northern scotland, 50 miles per hour. northern ireland, northern england, scotland, thickening up with cloud. 0utbreaks scotland, thickening up with cloud. outbreaks of rain. western scotland, heavy bursts. drizzle in the south—west. central and eastern
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areas, sunny spells. warm sunny spells and the south—east. temperatures reach the mid—20s. the north—west and south—east split in weather, 12 degrees in stornoway, 35 in london. that pattern continues for the rest of the week. —— 25. rain at times. warm sunshine in the south—east. high pressure builds during the week so everything will settle down for a time. wonderful. we will be back in 15 minutes with the headlines at eight o'clock. zombies, dinosaurs, and fluffy cloud candy floss trees. this is all in a day's work at e3. videogames have come a long way in the last 40 years.
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gaming gear now feels a lot more real. gaming rigs have got big and expensive. controllers are notjust a bunch of buttons any more. these days you can feel like you are in control of a real vehicle. and the graphics — ah, the graphics! sometimes you cannot beat the real thing. because even in virtual reality, which can be really, really good, you still can't feel the realism. you can't feel the forces on your body. you can't feel the car... here we go! ..being crushed under your tracks. laughter.
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at least that is the argument made by tank america here in florida. and i think they are right. if you don't have your own tank, don't worry, because videogames are getting more and more like the real thing. we will hand over to kate russell and mark cieslak at the world's biggest videogame expo, e3, in los angeles. for the next three days, 60,000—odd people will be jampacked into the giant la convention centre, all to get their grubby mitts on the very latest videogames. it is only the second time that the general public has been allowed into the space, and it is rammed beyond belief, and very, very noisy.
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but don't worry, we're here to brave the throng so that you don't have to. first up, surprising absolutely nobody, battlefield returns with another slice of multiplayer mayhem, battlefield 5. this time, the action has been transported to the second world war. one new edition is a last man standing battle royale mode, but more on that late in the programme. also making waves, first person demon—slaying in doom eternal. and post—apocalyptic rpg fallout 76 got fans excited, as did a third person shooter, division 2. you will note that all of these games have something in common — and that is they are all sequels as part of the franchise. a sequel basically guarantees your user base from the start off. developing brand new title costs a lot of money — upwards of, like, millions and millions of pounds, so creating something where you have already got an established genre,
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you have your weapons and your characters, everything feels familiar and people want more of the familiar. but in amongst all the games with numbers after their titles, there is still plenty of original stuff on show here at e3. uk developer media molecule has a ton of experience creating original and unusual games. they are the brains behind the littlebigplanet series of titles. this is their latest offering, it is called dreams, and it defies categorisation. it is again but it also creative toolbox, if you like — it allows players to create their own game, too. a big part of this game is the creation of your own games, and they supply you with an enormous amount of tools with
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which to do that. for example, they have made this level and i'm going to remix it, so i can go into an editor and i can change or create whatever elements i want to. and if you're musically minded, you could even create your own tunes to go with the game that you have created. this is how calvin harris does it. from making platform games to space shooters, to whatever this is, creating and sharing the fruits of your labour is what this is all about. player unknown's battlegrounds kicked off the current craze over battle royale—type games, but at e3 this year, it's all about fortnite. now the world's most game, fans packed into a stadium to see 50 celebrities and 50 gamers compete great $3 million charity prize pool, with popular twitch streamer ninja claiming victory. more big news at e3 was nintendo announcing fortnite on the switch. from a standing start back in march, pubg and is fortnite have been breaking records all over the place. it seems like almost everyone
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is playing these games. so what is it about battle royale? i think battle royale is so popular because it has all the best elements of online gaming but also reduces some of the problems. so first up, you don't have to spend hours and hours a week playing. we don't all have evenings free to spend playing. it also means you are not going to run into people who are griefing or trolling. i think we have some unpleasant aspects of online gaming, people who just want to get in your way, and in battle royale games that is not always in their best interests because it you get in the way there is a good chance you're going to kill them. with such an appetite for the genre, there are now plenty of battle royale games in the making. and with fortnite reportedly earning around $300 million of dollars on in—game cosmetic purchases in april, it is a tasty slice of pie
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they are after. just charging for emotes, skins, crazy hats your characters, it's pretty unusual, nobody else is doing it. the rest of the industry, believe me, is looking at fortnite and seeing if they can start to borrow some of that stuff. you know battle royale is huge as a concept in something as big as call of duty is willing to drop its single player campaign to focus on it. yes, you heard that right — call of duty black ops is dropping the single player story mode for a last man standing. but not everybody enjoys playing online with real people. you have a legion of fans of call of duty who love the solo mode. what do you say to them? we are trying to tell a narrative in different ways with this game. if you look at the zombie experience we have at launch, it's the biggest zombies experience we have ever done and we are introducing a whole new cast with whole new storylines. blackout is a new mode,
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it brings a lot of the legacy of the black ops series, in a way which i think is going to let fans create their own stories, and i think it's going to really appeal to casual and very competitive and hardcore gamers alike. when you look at these games its easy to think there is no such thing as an original idea anymore. but maverick‘s proving grounds, due out next year, is hoping to stand out from the crowd. where we see existing battle royales, they are the first step into massively multiplayer competitive gameplay, at maverick is taking a step up in terms of depth. you actually affect the environment more. there is a lot more strategy that occurs in a game of mavericks because you can see information caused by other players. there is much more depth
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in the player to player interaction. with1000 players in a match and the ability to track your prey by the footprints and other marks they leave on the landscape, it is an intriguing spin on the seemingly unstoppable might of the battle royale game. so, that's it — e3 overfor another year and battle royale games obviously one of the biggest themes on show, basically. so huge. 0ne doesn't wonder if the bubble isn't going to burst at some point. but black ops, i enjoyed playing that — i think there will be a lot of problems with a single player fans when it comes out, despite their insistence they will be content in there for story mode fans. i think fortnite will remain dominant, it's difficult to beat. interestingly, diversity in the characters you can play is a very, very big thing. lots and lots of games allowing you to play as female characters, and that has caused some fuss online.
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but the games companies seem to be ignoring that kind of fuss. and a good job, too, because the figures are showing that more and more women are coming to gaming, so — you know, perhaps more representative of the stories that we live in our real lives, and the characters we come across in our real lives, is actually attracting a wider audience, and that can only be a good thing. yeah, so female player characters in battlefield 5, a female player character in assassin's creed 0dyssey — i mean that's two really, really big franchises. and gears 5 coming out with a strong female lead. we were lucky, though, because we got the opportunity to play a lot of games and even got the opportunity to play against one another. didn't we? i knew you go into bring this up. he is basicallyjust saying this he gets the chance to say again... i'm the king of games! right, play me on a pc game. different story.
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watch this, just watch this. now, this is a hugely anticipated title for the switch, super smash brothers. i'm a bit of a button—masher, which is driving mark wild. it is interfering with my precision combat! it is kind of a cross between a beat ‘em up and a platform, because you have to sound platforms. as well, yeah. it is not quite as simple as pulling off some martial arts moves. you can choose signature moves that you don't normally find in beat ‘em up games. and the winner is... samus! thank you very much. in yourface. i was let down by the hedgehog, seriously. sonic, could do better. and that is it for the shortcut of click this week. the full version is on iplayer. it is a lot of fun if you haven't already guessed. next week we will stay in the us with a special look at the brand—new sustainable technology. in the meantime, you can follow us on facebook and twitter @bbcclick. thanks for watching — and if you don't mind, you should get out of my way. hello this is breakfast, with chris mason and sally nugent.
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theresa may announces a five—year plan to pump billions more into the nhs. she says the extra spending will be partly paid for by a brexit dividend, but there could be tax rises. we are making the nhs our priority. we are putting a significant amount of extra money into it, we need to make sure that money is spent wisely. good morning, it's sunday 17thjune. also this morning. pressure grows for a change in the law after the government allows a boy with severe epilepsy to be treated with an illegal form of cannabis oil. we are live in valencia, spain, where more than 600 refugees
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