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this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 5pm. theresa may promises a £20 billion a year real—terms increase to the nhs in england by 2023. labour says it's not enough. we're making the nhs our priority, we're putting a significant amount of extra money into it. we need to make sure that money is spent wisely. we're saying you can go further and if the government made the taxation changes we are prepared to make, you could be giving even more to the nhs. so labour would be spending more on the nhs than the tories. hundreds of migrants who've been the focus of a european dispute over immigration arrive in spain more than a week after being rescued. the conservative mp, sir christopher chope, who blocked legislation to outlaw upskirting now says he does support moves to criminalise it. title holders germany have kicked off their defence of the world cup, but it's not started well. in he comes in!
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mexico at half time after that goal from hirving lozano. and later on, brazil, the favourites to win the competition this time round, take on switzerland in their first game of the tournament. there's fears that the glasgow school of art, which was ravaged by a fire on friday night, may have to be knocked down. on meet the author this week my guest, the american writer paula mclain, whose novel, love and ruin, tells the story of a tumultuous marriage of two writers who needed each other then found they couldn't survive together. martha gellhorn and ernest hemingway. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. theresa may says the nhs in england
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will get an extra £20 billion a year in real—terms funding by 2023. in a bbc interview today the prime minister said some of the money would come from savings made when britain stops paying into the eu budget. and that a section would have to be funded by higher taxation. labour say the government was relying on a "hypothetical" windfall. the institute for fiscal studies said there would be no brexit windfall because the uk faces a steep exit bill. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes reports. as the pressure on the nhs has grown, so too have calls for more money for the health service. finally, after weeks of tough talks in whitehall, the prime minister has revealed the nhs budget will grow — paid for partly by the so—called "brexit dividend", but also possibly higher taxes. at the moment, as a member of the european union, every year we send significant amounts of money — we spend significant amounts of money —
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on our subscription, if you like, to the eu. when we leave, we won't be doing that. so the question is timing, isn't it? it's right that we use that money to spend on our priorities. and the nhs is our number one priority. absolutely. the new plan for nhs england 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 around £115 billion this year. under the plan, there will be £20 billion more by 2023. but the independent institute for fiscal studies says the public finances will not benefit from any brexit dividend, and labour argues the increase falls short of what is needed. they told us they're going to pay for it from a brexit dividend. we don't really know what that means, because we don't know what the deal is going to be and what the overall effect on the economy is going to be. and, actually, whether brexit is going to end up costing us a great deal of money, or whether we construct the sort of deal that would do us some good. can strike the sort of deal.
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and across the nhs there's a feeling this settlement is onlyjust enough to keep pace with rising demand. it does fall short of the independent assessment that we've had done, which suggests we need 4% a year. this is only going to be 3.4%. so, it is a good step forward, but we're still going to have to make hard choices at the end of the day. scotland, wales and northern ireland will also get extra funds, but the devolved administrations will decide how they're spent. this announcement leaves some big questions unanswered, not least the funding of social care, which has such a profound impact on the health service. without those details, there are no guarantees even this extra money will significantly ease the long—term pressures on the nhs. dominic hughes, bbc news. let's talk to emlyn samuel, cancer research uk's head of policy development. thank you for coming in. how much difference will this £20 billion
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really make in terms of services? difference will this £20 billion really make in terms of services7m isa really make in terms of services7m is a substantial increase. and i think that can only be welcomed. i think that can only be welcomed. i think we would have liked the government to take a step further. what is clear is that there is analysis out there that shows this level of investment will go to meet current and growing demand which is really important because we know in 10-15 really important because we know in 10—15 years' time, we will have an additional 150,000 patients diagnosed with cancer every year. so this resources acidly fundamental to meet that demand. but we are unclear on is whether it would take a step further and really help the nhs develop world—class cancer services. we estimate to meet the best countries in the world, when you should at least double our rate of progress in cancer survival at the moment. and we are unclear at this level of investment will allow us to
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do that. how much would you need to get to that stage? i don't think i have a particularfigure in mind. but i think that needs to be worked out. but what we do need to see is that additional investment which will allow transformation in the nhs. and when it's a transformation, imean we nhs. and when it's a transformation, i mean we really need to refocus the nhs on improving the diagnosis, the early diagnosis of cancer. which makes the most difference to patients. a cancer patient if they are diagnosed early at dash area, stage one or stage two, they have a much better prospect of long—term survival. what is missing in the system then that we are not doing that this extra funding or more funded on of 20 billion could enable us funded on of 20 billion could enable us to do? we absolutely need to be pa rt us to do? we absolutely need to be part of these plants —— we need to have a workforce shortages as part of that. they just announce a
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have a workforce shortages as part of that. theyjust announce a plan last week to address a plan long—term shortages in diagnostic services, as an example. 0ne long—term shortages in diagnostic services, as an example. one in ten posts and diagnostic services are on sale that the moment. that needs to be met within with the great and love of urgency. —— are unfilled at the moment. we know that staff will be needed in the future. at an early stage. you say by 2035, there will be an additional 150,000 cancer patients diagnosed each year. how important is event to have money to spend, extra money to spend, on prevention and educating us and how do live a kind of life that is going to try to mitigate against the risk of cancer? it is absolutely important. we know that four in ten cancer cases are preventable through changes in lifestyle. but we also know that early diagnosis makes a huge impact on survival prospects for cancer patients. and that is where we lag behind internationally. the real opportunity for government
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is to provide the funding that allows us to reorient the nhs around preventing more disease and diagnosing it at an early stage in which patients will have a best prospect. in addition to that and the additional benefit is that they will become more efficient because we know that diagnosing at an early stage costs the nhs last. we know that diagnosing at an early stage costs the nhs lasti thanks very much for coming in. a rescue ship which picked up hundreds of migrants off the coast of libya and sparked a diplomatic row has arrived in spain. the aquarius was initially turned away by italy and malta. it has now docked in the spanish port of valencia. 0ur europe correspondent damian grammaticas reports. sunrise, and the private rescue ship the aquarius and its convoy were finally nearing a welcoming port. spain and valencia, coming into sight. a european country, prepared to take them in. the 630 people who were on the aquarius have been at sea since they were picked up off the coast of libya over a week ago.
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behind them, a journey of more than 1000 miles, halfway across the mediterranean after italy and malta refused them entry. the aquarius had reignited a european—wide debate about migration. by welcoming the ship, spain hopes to change the terms of the argument. by taking in this ship, spain's new socialist government wants to demonstrate what a new type of migration policy for europe can look like. 0ne it says where it's both possible to control your borders and respect human rights. that's why it's going to give every person on these ships a hearing for their asylum applications. we thank the spanish government for welcoming people in need, at times when many others are rejecting them or turning them away. this is what we need in these times, an expression of solidarity, an expression of support an expression humanity. more than 1,000 red cross
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volunteers were waiting on the quayside, along with doctors and immigration officials. spain will give them permits to stay for 45 days, free medical treatment and the opportunity to make their asylum claims. italy, meanwhile, says it is closing its ports to private rescue boats. but doctors without borders, who operate the aquarius say saving lives will come first. europe's arguments about migration are taking centre stage once more, and the divisions are deeper than ever. damian grammaticas, bbc news, valencia. the conservative mp at the centre of the upskirting controversy now says he does support moves to criminalise it. in an interview with the bournemouth echo, sir christopher chope said he backs measures to make upskirting illegal, butjust not using the parliamentary procedure of a private members bill. let's listen back to the moment he blocked it, now, you can hear the deputy speaker and liberal democrat mp vera hobhouse discussing the bill, and then just make out
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mr chope shouting "object". 0ther mps then cry "shame". voyeurim 0ffences bill, second reading. object. objection taken, second reading. second reading, what date? 6th july. 6thjuly. i'm joined by our political correspondentjessica parker. perhaps understandably the prime minister was strong on this today in atv minister was strong on this today in a tv interview. she has been speaking on the show about this issue asked about what she would do in response because she said she was disappointed the bill was blocked on friday. and we know that he objects to the procedure of private members bill. he says they lack a private bash —— there are not many of these bills being brought forward. the question is how would this be
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brought for which he says he himself supports and teresa and may says she supports. she has been speaking on the andrew marr show. i think that upskirting is invasive, it's degrading, it's offensive. and what i'm going to do in response to what happened is to ensure that we... that bill was blocked. we're going to take the bill that was blocked, the legislation that was blocked and put it through in government time. in government time, but in what form? that is a suggested she will personally take forward and see it taken as a government measure whether that is an amendment to an existing bill or on the legislation, we will have to wait and see. that is her saying she was give her full backing. if we are looking at this in the round, it looks very likely that this measure to criminalise the practise of taking a photograph underneath someone's close without their consent will be criminalised with a jail sentence of up to two yea rs with a jail sentence of up to two years because it has theresa may's backing and the backing of the
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labour party. and it was brought up bya labour party. and it was brought up by a liberal democrat mp.“ labour party. and it was brought up by a liberal democrat mp. if he does not like the private member bill, how many in the province of? he has brought forth many over the years. some disagree with the procedure. they see it as a valid way to raise particular issues. some people have said that he has used it in the past. but my understanding is that the once he has rochford had never mated the law and that form. jessica, thank you very much. sajid javid has revealed he was a victim of a moped mugging before he became home secretary. he told a newspaper his phone was snatched outside london's euston station. mrjavid, who is now in charge of britain's policing, said the theft left him "angry and upset". he says he's looking at how to give officers more powers to chase moped thieves. 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. sajid javid granted
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billy caldwell the right to use cannabis oil, after he was admitted to hospital with extreme seizures. billy's mother says he has responded well overnight to treatment, and she is now asking for a meeting with mrjavid to try to help other children. simonjones reports. a family's fight that they hope will benefit notjust billy caldwell, but others like him. on monday, they flew back into britain with cannabis oil they'd bought in canada to treat his epilepsy, but it contained an ingredient banned here. the drug, which has kept his seizures under control for almost a year, was confiscated. days later, he was back in hospital. the home secretary has now intervened, allowing billy to use the oil, but his mother has this message for sajid javid. i'm not going anywhere until this is put in place and this medicine is made accessible to all these other children who desperately need it. i'm asking sajid to please... i want to request a meeting with him in london as as soon as possible, in london as soon as possible,
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preferably tomorrow. i want to sit down with him in a dignified and democratic way. sajid javid, though, has not announced a change in the law. but those who have been helping to care for billy caldwell believe mrjavid needs to go further. from here it is a ripple effect. this means to me that there is hope, for notjust billy, which is why this campaign is so important, because it's for all the families who need it. the family of six—year—old alfie dingley have appealed to the prime minister for the same access to cannabis treatment for his epilepsy, saying it would be cruel to delay it any further. some experts point out that the use of marijuana for medical conditions isn't always straightforward, and more trials are needed. billy has been granted a special 20—day licence for cannabis oil. what happens after that, and to others, is unclear. simon jones, bbc news. a father and son from leeds have
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died in what's believed to be a tragic accident, when they were searching for scrap metal yesterday morning. police divers recovered their bodies from a canal near huddersfield. 60 minutes past 5pm. you are watching bbc news. our headlines. —— 16 minutes. the prime minister promises a £20 billion a year real—terms increase to the nhs in england by 2023. labour says it's not enough, and would more than match what the government is spending. the hundreds of migrants rescued off the libyan coast have now arrived in spain. their plight has sparked a row between european union member states over who should accept them. the conservative mp, sir christopher chope, who blocked legislation to outlaw upskirting now says he does support moves to criminalise it. let's get more now on our main story. the government is being urged to clarify plans to invest an additional £20 billion in the nhs
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in england each year by 2023. the prime minister suggested the rise would, in part, be funded by a so—called "brexit dividend". the plan would see the health service's budget rising by an average of 3.4% a year, which is still less than the 3.7% average increase the nhs has had since 19118. during the thatcher and major years, the annual average real growth rate was 3.3%. that rose to 6% under tony blair and gordon brown. for the conservative and lib dem coalition government, it dropped to 1.1 %. and the figure since david cameron and theresa may have been in charge has gone up to 2.3%. earlier our political correspondent, jonathan blake told me where the extra £20 billion in funding for the nhs is likely to come from. that money she says will be able to
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be spent elsewhere asked it —— after we leave the european union. straightaway the government is piling in today saying that the brexit dividend does not exist because the government has already accounted for a lot of the money. that it spends on membership of the eu paying into the budget every year and also if you look at the broader picture, the amount of money the government will have available to it in the short term at least as a result of brexit is smaller, not bigger because of falling tax revenues, economic growth and other factors. there are little detail from the prime minster. she has said that the brexit dividend arguments about that side would be enough. we would have to contribute more as a country. what she means by that is that taxes will have to go up. we don't know where people will feel the pinch, or which taxes and by how
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much. she hasn't ruled out borrowing more. borrowing to fund day—to—day spending on public services is something the government ruled out, or the conservative party ruled out in their last general election. so thatis in their last general election. so that is pointedly difficult for the do as well. we will get decisions from the chancellor and the prime minister. much the line. and labour, how would they do a quiz at what they what they said they would match with the government is saying, and what they would and go further. we heard from the shadow health secretary that they would stick to the plan of reversing cause the corporation tax and they would find it increase in nhs spending with that. but they are also criticising the government's idea of the so—called brexit dividend saying that it was a hypothetical situation and that the government is misleading people by using that. how much is this announcement now down
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to being a sweetener ahead of a difficult week regarding bills in the comments to do with brexit? this has been a negotiation in months between the chancellor philip hammond at the treasury and nhs leaders. they were arguing for up to 496 leaders. they were arguing for up to 4% to address the shortages and nhs and to improve it. treasury will wa nts to and to improve it. treasury will wants to keep it we understand much lower than that and further down around 2%. it is summer in the middle. and the premise or was clearly keen to make announcement. she made an announcement earlier in the year that there would be a long—term plan for the nhs. —— the prime minister. whether by accident or design, this weekend i had a very important and potentially difficult week for the prime minister and the government in the house of commons, the eu withdrawal bill is going back to the house of lords and we'll come back to the house of commons this week and there are key amendments there that supporters of brexit are
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keen to see got rid of but mps, conservative mps who are in close ties to the eu, are keen to see included in the bill. which will allow parliament to have a say, more ofa allow parliament to have a say, more of a say, in the event of the government not reaching a deal with brussels. is this a way to keep brexiteers on the side, throwing them had meat? we will see. jonathan blake. experts now fear it may not be possible to save the world—famous glasgow school of art, following the huge fire which devastated the site on friday. fire crews spent a second night at the scene, tackling the final pockets of the blaze. it's the second fire there in four years. catriona renton has been at the scene and has been speaking to the emergency services there. you was see there is still very much a lot of activity happening here. still firefighting and —— still firefighting as they say. i'm currently the chief officer. tell us what is happening out. is that still burning in there? good morning. i
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would like to echo the words of the first minister. this is heartbreaking. there is such devastating and such an iconic building that we still very much are ina building that we still very much are in a firefighting face at this moment at a time. we have asked he was the main fire but there are still pockets. what crews are doing in atypical term are turning over and are damping downjust to make sure there is no possibility of the fire flaring up and affecting other —— any properties in the vicinity. we have heard suggestions that it might not be restorable this time. what you feel about that? are you and you are to see that? we're still in the early stages of tackling this. we have established the fire investigation team and the facts and circumstances they will work on that as we go through this week. but i really wanted at the state emphasise this is been a difficult fire. the firefighters have been as always outstanding. supported by the colleagues within control, but also
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i think colleagues within control, but also ithinkl colleagues within control, but also i think i need to shut up to our partners, scottish and doing the service, the salvation army and the fa ct service, the salvation army and the fact that people and businesses of glasgow have offered support to us. and heartfelt from them and every should buy our fire for the. the contents should buy our fire for the. the co nte nts of should buy our fire for the. the contents of the building is there likely to have anything be demolished. is there anything that is particularly unsafe at the moment? this is a heartbreaking incident. if we could take any solace from it, there has been no injuries. and we want to avoid at this stage is for anyone to get injured. we are being very cautious and working with our partners in glasgow city council building control and are structural advising us as we control and are structural advising us as we continue with the firefighting face of this operation sentinelle thank you very much indeed. as you can see, the investigation is ongoing. it will be several weeks before the building is safe enough for a forensic investigator to get in and find out
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exactly what happened here on friday night. greece and macedonia have signed a deal that, if ratified, will resolve a decades—old dispute concerning macedonia's name. the disagreement stems from greece already having a northern province called macedonia. under the deal, the balkan state will be renamed the republic of north macedonia. our balkans correspondent guy de launey reports. it could've been a high—end wedding, a picturesque lake, a romantic waterborne crossing by the macedonians and a great host anticipating their guests arrival. and of course one side would be changing its name. there were no last—minute nerves for the two prime ministers. there was probablyjoy and relief that the dispute stretching back three decades has finally neared its conclusion. the eu's commissionerfor finally neared its conclusion. the eu's commissioner for enlargement is among the guests. the name change will finally allow scorpio to start
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big —— membership will finally allow scorpio to start big -- membership negotiations. will finally allow scorpio to start big —— membership negotiations. now that athens is planted and its objections. translation: this is a historic step in order to only have winners from now on. to heal the wounds in the past. the paved way for fellowship, collaboration and mutual growth. translation: not only for our countries, but for the whole of europe. translation: you cannot achieve anything without courage. courage is the greatest valour followed by honour. signing the final agreement for the named is our strategic importance for the two countries and can move mountains. as the two prime ministers celebrated, the two prime ministers celebrated, the happiest man in the room may have been the un mediator who spent a quarter of the century working on the name dispute. i think working
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out these problems over a long period of time has resulted in an agreement that really is fair, honourable and workable. and so the happy couple sailed off not into the sunset, but to lunch. there is no time for our honeymoon. they still face a referendum in macedonia, the parliamentary move that promised revote in greece, choppy waters possibly ahead. scientists are scouring the depths of scotland's loch ness using some new technology to discover what lurks below. they're using environmental dna sampling a tool to find tiny fragments of scales, skin and even fur left behind by animals. to gain a better understanding of native species in the lake. but it has some wondering if they'll also be able to prove once and for all whether "nessi", the loch ness monster, does, or ever did, exist. rylee carlson explains. for hundreds of years, tales of loch
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ness have captivated imaginations and not just because ness have captivated imaginations and notjust because of its beauty. instead, people flock here hoping to find proof of a monster lurking beneath the water. now scientists are hoping modern environmental dna technology can help unravel the mystery. we will be taking some water samples using this device here. he is with the university of otago in new zealand. while analysing those water samples, he will be hunting for unknown g&a. from half a litre of water, we can get a very good catalogue of life in the lock. and we thought this would bea the lock. and we thought this would be a great place to showcase that technology because of course there may be something unknown to science working in those waters. but he is not the first to try. in this 1986
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search, scientists tried using ultrasound but came up empty handed. and just two years ago, a robotic submarine search turned up on old film prop of the beast but nothing else. even those dedicated to nessi know the odds are slim. i'm sure that some species will be found which probably have not been described. they might be bacteria, in fact more likely than anything else to be bacteria. if you find something and i do emphasise the death, then you would actually get a good handle on what source —— was sort of animal you are looking at. —— i emphasise the if. what it is fish, flesh or file. even the previous searches have struck out, tourist of not stop the man. eventually it adds to the mystery. they're finding new plants and new animals and different places of the world all the time. so they still could find something here that we don't know about. so will this eat
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dna test finally reveal the answer toa dna test finally reveal the answer to a centuries—old question? or with the elusive creature alludes signs yet again? ignore the naysayers, i say. philip avery has the weather. but did you read to date with how the weather is going right now. quite a lot of crowd. at its best bright enough. but when the crowd thickens up we have bits and pieces of rain that is like to be the case again across some western areas as we conclude the day much with that through the night time —— night—time hours pushing away often to the north. so you mayjust hang on across the southeast corner. not a cold night by any means at all. a dry one for the most part as we start the new date on monday. don't think of that lasting though. especially across these western areas where we will bring in a new areas where we will bring in a new area of clout in from the atlantic and have enough about it, there will bea
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and have enough about it, there will be a bit of it. not much more anywhere across the week. it will however say unselect across scotland and northern ireland. this is bbc news, our latest headlines. the prime minister announces an extra £20 billion a year in real terms for the nhs, labour says it's not enough. we are making the nhs our priority. we are making the nhs our priority. we are making the nhs our priority. we are putting a significant amount of extra money into it and we need to make sure that money is spent wisely. we are saying it can go further and if the government made the taxation changes we are prepared to make we can be giving more to the nhs and labour will be spending more on the nhs than the tories. the hundreds of migrants rescued off the libyan coast have now arrived in spain.
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their plight had sparked a row between european union member states over who should've accepted them. the conservative mp, sir christopher chope, who blocked legislation to outlaw upskirting now says he does support moves to criminalise it. there are fears that the glasgow school of art, which was ravaged by a fire on friday night, may have to be knocked down. with katherine downes (os) we are going to start at the world cup where there is shock brewing for the defending champions. not going to script for germany? no, there is something in the water in
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moscow, the three matches we have got here does something strange, the opening match made russia look like world beaters yesterday, argentina looked very ordinary in that draw against iceland. as you say, the champions are being absolutely run ragged by mexico. there's about 15 minutes left to play and they are about to lose for the first time in eight world cups, their opening match. the opening goal was a real beauty. mexico are being played on the counter and have been brilliant and exhilarating to watch. he plays for them and one—day league title with. east 22, he is going to bea title with. east 22, he is going to be a standout player to watch at this world cup. germany have not been watching him closely enough. he has been mesmerizing. he has scored a goal. toni kroos had a free kick tipped onto the bar as well, you had another shot that has flashed wide.
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let's ta ke another shot that has flashed wide. let's take you live to the stadium now if we can to show you what is happening with 15 minutes left to play. that's what's toni kroos, the real madrid midfielder, just going wide of the post. mexico have had other chances as well. it's been a great game to watch, but not if you're a germany found. because, this is a massive shock. mexico have reached the last 16 in the last six world cups, they know their way about a major tournament. but, perhaps not as big a win as this. we will be keeping across this of course, that match is live now over on bbc one. we already had one match a bit earlier. it was done in serbia against costa rica. and serbia came out on top of that one. alexander it has been a good year for on top of that one. alexander it has been a good yearfor him— it's? the manchester city player, he scored the winner. these two teams that
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never played each other before today. only a world cup could bring such nations together in this way. and what a stage from which to play. in the same group as brazil and switzerland, surely taking your chances have never been more important. an early site for costa rica. this was a match that featured many a rica. this was a match that featured manyafamiliar rica. this was a match that featured many a familiar face. feeling the full force of a world cup encounter. but it was enough to shake serbia from their slumber. sta rgate but it was enough to shake serbia from their slumber. stargate and are understood to be tracking. you can see why. costa rica lost track of him ona see why. costa rica lost track of him on a number of occasions, just getting away without one. but eventually one of those familiar faces did find a way through. from 25 yards, captain alexander for money at manchester city doing what he does best. three direct free kicks scored at this world cup equalling the total income for years ago. not even navas but stopped that. the other
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two teams in the group are brazil and switzerland — they meet at 7 o'clock this evening in rostov. this time tomorrow we'll be around 90 minutes away from the start of england's world cup campaign against tunisia. they've made the journey, around 1000 miles south east to volgograd today, but there's such a positive feel to the camp in repino where they've been since tuesday. the england manager gareth southgate and captain harry kane have been facing the media in the last half hour. kane has been reminiscing about the last four years, and his memories of england's performances four years ago in brazil? i was watching it the other day, i paid the last kind of six, seven games of the premier league season and then yeah, horatio pacitti no coming that summer and got me fits, got me be in better shape, more powerful. and went from there
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really, a lot of hard work and determination. there were players ahead of me at the time. especially strikers, for me it's always about working hard on the training pitch and getting the opportunity to take it and obviously the last few years have been amazing, each year improving even better. and nowjust excited to be here and on the biggest stage and can't wait to get out there and kind of show though the world what i've got. all of our guys have played in big matches for our club. it's a young squad and they don't have a lot of cats. when you go through the majority of the squad being the top six, this year alone they have played in matches to decide the titles and to have the champions league games. the finals. so, they are or youngest and he have in cup finals already on the european stage and it's a huge
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experience for them. and over the next few years that's only going to grow for the squad which is why it's so grow for the squad which is why it's so exciting. england in position ahead of their world cup opener againstan as ahead of their world cup opener against an as yet tomorrow evening. a quick update. germany still losing against mexico 1—0 just over ten minutes to play. they're going for it now. they brought on mario gomez but mexico looking dangerous of all the time. that's all for moscow here at the world cup. it's another dramatic day but there's lots of other sports news. he had not played a match since the miami opened in march after choosing to miss the whole quick word season but a straight sets win in germany keeps them at 98th tour title. and in the last few minutes johanna konta has lost the nottingham open to top seed ashleigh barty. the australian number one won in three sets
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injust over two hours. it's the second year in a row that konta has been defeated in the final. fernando alonso has won le mans 2a hours at the first attempt. it means he's secured the second part of his bid to become the second person after graham hill to win motor racing's triple crown. he's previously won the monaco grand prix and now only needs to add the indianapolis 500 to complete the hat—trick of titles. american coryn rivera has won cycling's women's tour... her first title at world tour level. italy's lotta lepisto won the final stage which finished in colwyn bay today, with rivera taking the overall win — dani rowe was the highest place british rider, finishing third overall. england number eight billy vunipola is returning to london today from south africa, after re—fracturing his right arm during yesterday's test defeat. he only returned to action in april
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after four months out with the original break. it's one more thing for head coach eddiejones to worry about. after the match in bloemfontein, he had an ill—tempered exchange with a bbc reporter. chrisjones — no relation — asked eddie jones if selection was an issue as you know we've got 25 players sitting at home that aren't available for selection. these are the best players we have got and i'm happy to work with these players, the staff is doing a greatjob. happy to work with these players, the staff is doing a great job. also got a very large player pool, i'm not sure if they will take the unavailability as an excuse. i'm not using it as an excuse. i said the 25 players and i'm working with the players and i'm working with the players that we've got and i'm happy to work with these players. for you personally at the first time this england team you've been under this kind of pressure i'm confident you can turn it around. yes, i'm100% confident can turn it around. yes, i'm 10096 confident as you can turn it around. yes, i'm10096 confident as you are. after a series of david. your nature is very
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aggressive mate. that's not the plan i want to ask the questions that fa ns i want to ask the questions that fans might want to hear at home. i'll can you pick these boys up? we have to play well. and get on with it. there's no solution here. meanwhile scotland have lost to the united states for the first time. blair kinghorn had put the scots ahead but afterfalling behind, the scots scored a try in added time, but kinghorn missed the conversion that would've won it for them. 30—29 it finished. and the final round of the us open golf is under way at shinnecock hills in new york. world number one dustin johnson saw his lead cut yesterday, he now shares the top spot with three other players. england's justin rose is one shot back — with his friend and ryder cup partner henrik stenson breathing down his neck. phil mickleson is way down on 15 over after he was given penalty shots for chasing his ball and hitting it before it had stopped on the green. let's just take you back to that game under way in the world cup — germany v mexico — in group f — they are into the last 10 minutes...
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these live shots for you, mexico still clinging on to that 1—0 lead. this is alive over on bbc one for you of course. germany the reigning champions and as always that have not lost their first match of the world cup in eight world cups. mexico have reached the last 16 but this will be quite a result for them. we will keep you updated on that broke the evening but that is all the work for now. thank you very much. the prime minister announces an extra £20 billion a year in real terms for the nhs, labour says it's not enough. notjust on health, but even more on
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everything else over the last eight yea rs or everything else over the last eight years or so. it means that spending in the next few years, will be going faster than it has over the last eight years. and almost at the average that it's grown over the 70 yea rs of average that it's grown over the 70 years of the nhs. that's an important bit of context though. this is not growing faster than the nhs has known on average rate lifetime but it is much faster than it has had over the last eight years or so. and the funding of it in part a quote, brexit dividend, unquote, what's your take on that? it's not. over this period, even simpler arithmetic tells you that can't be the case. because the divorce payment of the european union and the other commitment the government made to keep up your client programmes allows you literally nothing. and more substantively, the government accepted that the public finances will actually be 15 billion or more worse off as a result of
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brexit because we've already seen the slowing of the economy in the falls in tax receipts relative to what we would otherwise i've got. this will be funded through taxes and or additional borrowing. at some point in the future, we will stop giving money to the european union because we will stop being a member of it and that's what she highlighted. because of the divorce payment. that sum is around six to 8 billion a year. so, that's only a small fraction of the total that she's talking about. but much more importantly, it's important to stretch the government has accepted this even more importantly, because the economy will be smaller to public finances will be worse off than there will be missed —— less money coming in to pay. and we know that's happening. so let's look at the higher taxation. how much more do we think? if its 20 billion of
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extra spending in the long run it'll have to be 20 billion of extra taxes because you can borrow in the short run obviously, you can't keep ramping up borrowing forever. that's a reasonably significant amounts. £20 billion. that would be three or 4p on income tax rates, two or 3p on national insurance rates. if they we re national insurance rates. if they were to go through that route or in a long period of not increasing allowa nces. a long period of not increasing allowances. it's not historically unprecedented by any sense. one of the key things here is that we have raised spending on health and pensions and other things over the last 60, 70 years. over the long run we have done that by cutting spending on other things. particularly defence and housing, it's very hard to see how you can do that going forward. it truly does look but we will have to accept in the longer run if we want to help service that delivers what we need and what we want, then taxes will go up and what we want, then taxes will go up over the medium—term. and what we want, then taxes will go
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up over the medium-term. the other thing to draw to it is that once one government department sees the coffers opening to a degree, others will think what about me? that partly underlies the negotiations that have been going on the treasury of the department of health and the treasury is quite worried about this. they are worried first because this. they are worried first because this in itself is a lot of money when they have got commitments to reduce borrowing and when they are very uncertain actually about where the economy is going to be. the treasury is worried about this but they are also worried because if they're going to get this kind of money or education of the home office and everybody else is going to, asking because they have had to bea to, asking because they have had to be a much tougher time than the nhs over the last eight years and they will perfectly reasonably say if the nhs gets this, what about us? does that signal the end of austerity in your mind? if everything else, if
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our government departments to get this kind of increase than yes actually. but not really given the a nswer actually. but not really given the answer before to that kind of question because never we had these sorts of announcements they really haven't signalled any end to austerity but if this were repeated across the rest of government than yes it would but my guess is it won't be fabricated across the rest of government. the chancellor is still committed to keeping borrowing down is not going down to zero and given the scale of that's that we have a particularly given the scale and lack of economic growth i suspect other government departments won't get this level of generosity. pauljohnson at the institute of physical buddies. now its time for meet the author. a tumultuous marriage. two writers driven by passion is that bring them together, then pull them apart, as europe slips towards war. paula mclain's novel love & ruin tells the extraordinary story of martha gellhorn and ernest hemingway, each born with a gift for words, thrown together in the chaos of the spanish civil war,
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and hopelessly in love, but driven to buy individual passions that couldn't survive the marriage. a novelist and a journalist who wanted each other, but needed even more to be themselves. welcome. we are talking here about a tempestuous marriage, i think, to put it mildly. let's talk about the two characters. let's leave hemingway to one side, for a moment. if we can! martha gellhorn, who became a journalist absolutely cut from original materialfor the rest of her life, just describe what she was like in the 30s. in the 1930s, so she met hemingway in 1936, and he was about to go off to the spanish civil war. see, it's impossible
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to leave him to the side, he won't be left to the side, and that was really her first war and she was 28—years—old. for the rest of her life, she found her true calling as a storyteller and her voice as a journalist and then she went on to be one of the most significant war correspondents of the 20th century, and had a nearly 60 year career as a journalist. a large part of the book takes place in spain, and at one point, we're listening to gellhorn's own voice, she says that she's been in madrid for three weeks, and it feels as if she's been there for years, because of the intensity. she lived in the hotel florida, along with most of the other foreigners in madrid at the time, and it was a mile's walking distance from the nearest front. madrid in that time, spring 1937, had been besieged by franco's army for months and her hotel was being shelled nearly every single day. this is how she came of age.
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we are talking of course about the spanish civil war, but with the shadow of the world war already hovering over europe, and the whole atmosphere of your book, telling the story of this stormy romance has that sense of a wartime story. yes, the shadows were falling all over europe. i think what made gellhorn incredibly angry at the time, was the larger world and critically the states, nobody seemed to understand how spain's plight affected all of us. but anybody who was image read at the time knew that this was maybe the last chance to stop fascism where it stood, and franco was forming these terrible alliances with hitler and mussolini and of course we know that terrible story. and yet, of course, this is not a story about politics primarily or states at war, it is a story about two people and their minds and their passions. hemingway is such an extraordinary character. it's very difficult to imagine how anybody could live with the man! it does matter too though, that she fell in love with him in this. can you imagine the intensity of this situation, to be at war and it was such a noble war,
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and she was maybe coming alive for the first time to her life's purpose, and of course falling in love rather disastrously with a married man. she was coming awake to herself and also incredibly i think impressed by him, under those circumstances, the way that he taught her what a war was. she could not help herself. as the story progresses, i think we all recognise the way that you tell the tale, that it is doomed from the beginning. i think probably because they were too much alike, and everything that he admired about her from the very beginning, her conviction, her social conscience, her passion, i think probably because they were too much alike, and everything that he admired about her from the very beginning, her conviction, her social conscience, her passion, her intensity, her independence, all of those things, once they later married in 1940, he was threatened by those things, because of course he wanted her to be his wife. and he wanted her in the end to be subservient, and it was his talent
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which was to prevail, although he might have tried to persuade himself from time to time that that was not true, that was the truth. he had to prevail, didn't the? i think he did. if i was going to psychologise him, which i think is now my second job, psychologising ernest hemingway, i think a lot of that had to do with his own parents‘ marriage. his mother, in his mind, had way too much authority in his parents‘ marriage. his father committed suicide when he was 29 years old. he blamed his motherfor that. he never forgave her... and of course he went the same way. he went the same way. but in his mind, if a woman had too much control, notjust in the marriage or in the home, but in his own heart, he felt too vulnerable. it is a psychologist‘s dream, or a psychiatrist‘s dream i suppose, seeing these two trying to live under the same roof, knowing that it probably couldn't last and they might as well enjoy it?
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their love letters though from that time are so, so intense and they really do prove that they loved each other deeply, but understood each other. i think that the thing that drew them together, this intensity helped them in the beginning cement a bond that later would unravel, for the same reasons that they both had these enormous personalities and kind of a hunger for the intensities of life. what a story to tell. they say only trouble is interesting and there was plenty of trouble for them. but their love relationship to me is so, oh, it tells the story for the modern age, too. we all want to have it all, to be able to have a career, but also love and family, and they really wanted the same things. how did you go about trying to tell the story? why did you choose the point of view
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that you had chosen, and how did you get the voice? well, her point of view was the one i was interested in from the very beginning. i never thought i'd write another book about hemingway, and yet i had this dream a couple of years ago where i was fishing. literally? literally a dream. i was fishing with hemingway in the gulf stream and he was up on the flying bridge and looking ratherfabulous, but then i noticed there was another woman on board, and as i watched in the dream, a marlin crested out of the gulf and this woman put a piece of bait in the fish's mouth. and when she turned and faced me it was martha gellhorn, and when i woke up the next morning i was kind of struck and wondering if i had been given some sort of a sign and i googled her. i googled her over a coffee the next day, and of course i had done all this research on hemingway. i knew who she was, but i did not know who she was. i didn't know the arc of her life and her accomplishments, and so it was really her.
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i became obsessed with her. i understood that even though i had written about hemingway 1920s, that this was a very different character. the world was a much darker place and i just wanted to fall into the whole storm of it. she became a great writer and journalist in the course of her long life. she was also a woman of great passions as you have explained. what is it about her that makes her a special subject as a central character in a novel? i think she was a true original. i don't know if there was anyone like her who ever lived. the fact that she was probably born with this intensity, that couldn't really be quenched by life, took on all kinds of great adventures, travelled to over 60 countries in her life, published 16 books. her point of view is i think so interesting and so fresh, and she still has things to teach us, the fact that as her own woman, she had all of these extraordinary adventures,
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for instance, when she took on that first war. she met hemingway, he was going over to madrid, she wanted to go and bear witness to this war. she had no credentials, she had no formaljob, and so what she did was write an article for vogue magazine. they paid her $300, and then got over to france, and then crossed the border from france to spain on foot, alone in the middle of the night with $50 rolled up and tucked in her boot and a map and no spanish. and this fake letter that she had bagged from an editor friend in new york saying martha gellhorn is a special correspondent for a magazine. she was nothing of the kind. she lied her way over. she just went over on pure nerve. in other words, it is notjust a story about talent, it is a story about courage. about courage and something else. something more like i don't know, chutzpah, grit. we know it when we see it. yes, we know it when we see it.
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paula mclain, author of love and ruin, thank you very much. thank you. it was a fresh cloudy weekend, things were set to warm up the fold of the country in the coming days even turning a little too hard for some of us in the north however, we will retain the cool weather and also occasional rain. let's have a look at the satellite picture because there's still a lot of clout across the uk, it's been streaming in off the atlantic during the course of the day looks as though the court —— guys are going to clear temporarily during the night across some western areas of the uk. here it is. early hours of monday morning, we start to see this guy clearing across scotland, northern england, wales the southwest, remaining cloudy through the night across the southeast of england and also east anglia. quite mild, 15 in the south, closer to ten in the north and tomorrow starts off sunny again and then later in the day you will see clouds increasing from the west once more into the crowd could
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be thick enough to give a bit of drizzle here and there. but the temperatures will be significantly higher across england and wales. mid-205 higher across england and wales. mid—20s in the south east into the 20s across yorkshire but remaining fresh across northern britain and the reason why we're going to see a big contrast between the north and is out is because the air never reaches and you can see it takes a detour and moves across england and wales and out into the continents. and on the northern edge of this warm air, additionally it will turn what essentially on tuesday across parts of northern ireland and western scotland south to the south of this weather frontier, this is where the warm air is across england and wales. temperatures at least 25 celsius on tuesday. and we still have fresh air, that means that scotla nd have fresh air, that means that scotland and northern ireland remain in the fresh air on wednesday but there will be some sunshine around in the western isles, for glasgow and belfast some in the forecast to and belfast some in the forecast to and then it looks as though it may
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call ashcroft just a fraction across northern parts of england as well so the heat slips further towards the southin the heat slips further towards the south in the midlands and the southeast. perhaps the high teens in the north of england on wednesday but possibly 27 in london and norwich. towards the end of the week high pressure establishes itself across the uk the we are talking about mostly dry weather. this is bbc news. i'm martin croxall. the headlines at 6pm. theresa may promises a £20 billion a year real—terms increase to the nhs in england by 2023. labour says it's not enough. we're making the nhs our priority, we're putting a significant amount of extra money into it. we need to make sure that money is spent wisely. we're saying you can go further and if the government made the taxation changes we are prepared to make, you could be giving even more to the nhs. so labour would be spending more on the nhs than the tories. the conservative mp, sir christopher chope, who blocked legislation to outlaw upskirting now says he does support
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