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this is bbc news. the headlines at 10: the new brexit secretary, dominic raab, says a brexit deal will be done if the european union matches the same energy, ambition and pragmatism shown by the uk, but he also warns the eu not ramp up the pressure. if it's reciprocated, we get a deal donein if it's reciprocated, we get a deal done in october. if, if, if. sure. it isa done in october. if, if, if. sure. it is a negotiation. a woman who lost nine members of her family in the missouri duck boat disaster, claims the captain told passengers they wouldn't need lifejackets. israel says it's rescued hundreds of white helmets civil defence workers and their families from a war zone in southern syria. also this hour: could the sale of realfur be banned in the uk? a committee of mps calls for a total ban after shops are found selling real fur labelled as fake.
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virgin media customers lose access to ten tv channels after a row betweeh the company and uktv over fees. the defending open champion, jordan spieth, is one of three players tied for the lead heading into the final round of the championship at carnoustie. hello. a very good morning to you. welcome to bbc news. the new brexit secretary, dominic raab, has said he's confident a deal can be reached on post—brexit relations by the autumn, so the uk can avoid leaving without a deal. however, speaking to andrew marr on bbc one, mr raab said britain was stepping up preparations for the possible failure of those negotiations — insisting britain would be ready whatever happened. let's get more from our political correspondent jonathan blake. there is a lot of attention before
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we came into the studio on a newspaper interview published this morning. he seems to be saying that we might take the money away, take the money of the table if we can't get the deal. is he holding to that position talking to andrew marr? yes, and that has been the government's position for some time, under the proposal to quote the line they offer news, nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, and that would include, if you asked the government and the negotiators, that £39 billion, thereabouts, the figure that you would be paid upon the uk leaving. —— the eu would be paid. when asked about the no deal scenario if no deal is reached after brexit, and we have heard stories and reports that what would happen in that scenario, all kinds of alarming things, lorries queueing at the borderfor hours, planes not
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being able to take off, shelves running empty and supermarkets, it scare stories according to dominic raab. he told a bit about what the government is doing. we have heard in the last week that notices will be published online in the autumn about how businesses can prepare for about how businesses can prepare for ano about how businesses can prepare for a no deal scenario. he said it is not what the government wants. he says he is straining every sinew to reach a deal with michel barnier on brexit. but there are negotiations being done and this is what dominic raab had to say. we want to strike with the eu to make sure we settle this issue. it has already been agreed as part of the withdrawal agreement. but there is no deal until we agree the whole deal. the prospect of us not
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moving swiftly to secure the legal position, that people will be removed from this country, i think is far—fetched, fanciful and would not happen. so trying to reassure people from other eu countries in the eu about their fate should no deal be reached. the government is keeping this on the table in the hope that it will provide some leverage in those negotiations. no deal scenario would not necessarily bea deal scenario would not necessarily be a good thing at all for the eu and the remaining 27 countries. the shadow business secretary putting forward labour's position this morning, taking a different line. it is her view that if labour were in power, they would take the no deal option of the table. no deal should not be an option and that is why we wanted a meaningful vote in parliament at why we called on the government in the event it was voting down such a deal in parliament that they would be required to look at renegotiating the deal. no deal would be catastrophic for industry. as the weeks and months go by towards october, that deadline is looming in everyone's diaries when a deal needs to be done. the broad outline of an agreement between the eu and uk reached in october, talk of a no deal is not going to go away. thank you. police are continuing
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their investigation of a park in salisbury, where they believe a couple was poisoned by novichok. katy austin is in salisbury for us. good morning. this uptick in investigation yesterday, will that continue today? is the police activity still visible? it hasn't yet started today but the core dons have become very familiar sight in salisbury. we saw forensic search teams yesterday appearing to expand their activity to the toilets behind me. what is crucial now is that detectives are able to speak to charlie rowley, who was poisoned by the novichok nerve agent three weeks ago now, after he was released from hospital, we think, in the last 48 hours. they are asking him as many questions as possible to get as much information as they can. the source of the novichok has been found, but forensic searches go on. a park bench was the
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focus on saturday. nearly two weeks after dawn stu rgess died, charlie rowley was discharged from hospital. his brother hasn't been able to contact him since. i phoned the hospital and they confirmed he had been released and there was an official statement. i haven't spoken to him yet but i hope to in the next few days. it was at charlie rowley‘s home here in amesbury that the small bottle containing the nerve agent was found. charlie has now spoken with detectives, who are looking into what he has told them, and while there's no evidence he or dawn sturgess were specifically targeted, charlie has been given personal safety advice. it's unclear where he is at the moment, or whether he will be able to return to normal life soon. people in salisbury also wonder when normality can return to their city. ifeel, as a local, that we haven't necessarily been kept in the picture of what's going on. because we are very local, we live five minutes away from all of this. and for salisbury, it has been hugely disruptive. it's really affecting
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the city, which is tragic. i don't actually find it that worrying. it is reassuring that they are actually doing something. they've got to be covered to be able to look for what they are looking for and if they think there's something there, they need to be completely covered, so ijust think the sooner they find what they are looking for, the better. but the investigation into the latest tragic contamination incident is far from over with counter—terror detectives not yet saying who they think is responsible. well, charlie's brother matthew, and a friend of his who we spoke to yesterday, didn't know where charlie attlee is at the moment. there may bea attlee is at the moment. there may be a suggestion that he is being kept at a police guard at a secret location. the police haven't confirmed whether that is true because they don't discuss matters of protective security. we do know that there is no suggestion that they were deliberately targeted, however charlie will be given safety
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advice to make sure there is no danger to him going forward. of course the detectives will be asking charlie and his brother, perhaps, lots of questions, as they try to figure out who brought robert rock to salisbury and how they did it. what has been the public reaction? —— who brought norbert novichok to salisbury and how they did it? what has been the public reaction? salisbury and how they did it? what has been the public reaction7m there a lot of concern? there has been some concern. there has been a mixed reaction, to be honest. people we re mixed reaction, to be honest. people were concerned before this tragic contamination incident happened, but they were just getting back to normal with visits from the royal family, and they were reassured by the authorities that they didn't think there was any more novichok around, but it is a concern that more was found and parts like this
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are continuing to be searched. there isa are continuing to be searched. there is a general sense, to put it crudely, that people would just wish it would stop. that detectives would find the source and reassure them finally that no more novichok can be found. but we were told a couple of weeks ago that these cordons that are not just weeks ago that these cordons that are notjust here, but around the hospital dawn sturgess used to stay at, and iran charlie rowley‘s house, they could be around for months. it could be some time before residents find everything completely returned to normal. indeed. katy austin in salisbury, thank you. a woman who lost nine members of her family in a tourist boat accident on a lake in the united states has been describing the disaster. tia coleman said passengers were told they would not need lifejackets but if she had managed to reach one she might have saved her three children. 14 other passengers were killed in the disaster. i couldn't see anybody. i couldn't hear anything. i could hear screams. ijust — it felt like i was out there on my own. and i was yelling and i was screaming and finally i said, "lord,
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just let me die, let me die." i said, "i can't, i can't keep drowning, ijust can't keep drowning." and as i fell in, ijust let go. and i started floating. jordan says it's taken in 800 syrian white helmet rescuers and their families from war—torn southern syria. the volunteer rescuers have been evacuated by bus overnight through the israeli—occupied golan heights. the civil defence workers and theirfamilies had been trapped by a syrian government offensive in the southwest of the country. the israeli defence forces have tweeted, describing the evacuation as an exceptional humanitarian gesture made at the request of the us and european countries. jordan says it's agreed to give them safe passage to be resettled in britain, canada and germany, due to a risk to their lives. it comes a day after hundreds of rebels and their families arrived in hama province in northwest syria
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after being evacuated from quneitra, which borders the golan heights, after a deal was struck with the syrian government. the white helmets have rescued thousands of syrian civilians trapped under the rubble after air strikes, shelling or blasts in rebel—held territory. since the volunteer network was founded in 2013, at least 200 volunteers have died and another 500 have been injured. earlier i spoke with paul ronzheimer from germany's bild newspaper who was tipped off by sources, and watched the covoy cross from the israeli side of the border. there were diplomatic effort in the past week to get them out, which we re very past week to get them out, which were very tough, very hard negotiations with all sides, with israel. this was an historic night. up israel. this was an historic night. up to 800 people crossed into israel. they were always against refugees coming into the country and
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they only agreed to it because the white helmets left to jordan they only agreed to it because the white helmets left tojordan and from jordan now they will leave to germany, the uk and canada. is this further evidence, in yourjudgment, that really the syrian war is coming to an end and president assad really is now back in control of large parts of the country and able to assert his authority in a way that for his critics and his enemies means they have got to get out? absolutely. i could witness that. i could see that actually from this point at the border. before this operation started, i saw a lot of bombing, gunfire, and the terrible war inside syria. i don't think it's over yet because there are still cities like idlib where lots of opposition groups are and the syrian regime and the russians still quite
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heavily, and a lot of bombings against civilians in this area. i don't see any end for this for. —— her near end for this war. we have had a recent tweet from jeremy hunt: he goes on to point out that white helmets have been targeted. given the need of immediate protection, britain has taken steps to afford as much protection for as many volu nteers much protection for as many volunteers and their families as possible. he paid tribute to the brave and selfless work that the white helmets have done for people on both sides of the conflict. no reference in that statement to the
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fa ct reference in that statement to the fact that some of them, we don't know is how many yet, are likely to be resettled in the uk. we understand that some will go to germany and to the united states because they are thought to be at threat, their lives directly under threat, their lives directly under threat from the syrian regime. the police watchdog is investigating allegations of serious corruption and malpractice at the metropolitan police's own anti—corruption unit. the met‘s directorate of professional standards is there to tackle misconduct and corruption but it's now the subject of an investigation by the independent office for police conduct. among the claims are that potentially conflicted senior officers interfered with or stopped investigations, or failed to look at alleged wrongdoing altogether. scotland yard says it is fully co—operating with the iopc‘s investigation. the french finance minister, bruno le maire, has said a trade war is now a reality and is threatening global growth. he was speaking at a g20 summit in argentina for finance ministers
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and bankers from the world's leading economies, he denounced president trump's policy of imposing trade tariffs. we ask the united states to see sense. we call for them to respect multilateral rules and to respect their allies. world trade cannot base itself on the law of the jungle. the unilateral increase of ta riffs jungle. the unilateral increase of tariffs is the law of the jungle. the law of the jungle, the law of the fittest, this cannot be the future of global trade relations. bruno le maire, the french finance minister, speaking earlier. the headlines: the new brexit secretary, dominic raab, it said the deal will be done if britain matches the energy and pragmatism of the eu. a woman who lost nine members of her family
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in the missouri duck boat disaster claims they were told they wouldn't need lifejackets. israel says it's rescued hundreds of white helmets civil defence workers and their families from a war zone in southern syria. now a full round—up on the sport. the golfers are out for the final round of the open chaffinches at carnoustie. nobody has charged up the leaderboard yet this morning. jordan spieth is one of three players tied at the top of the leaderboard. he went off at 2:45pm. rory mcilroy and tommy fleetwood rian the chasing pack, four drift of the leaders, and so is a resurgent tiger woods. he may have won his last major a decade ago...
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commentator: he's back! ..but tiger woods is back in the hunt. he looked back to his brilliant best yesterday and he's picked up the scent of the claretjug. i've shown that i've been there, close enough, for the chance to win this year. given what happened the last few years, you know, i didn't know if that would ever happen again, but here i am, you know, with a chance come on sunday and a major championship, and it's going to be fun. not such fun for rory mcilroy. at 5—under, he's not ruled himself out, but there was a bit too much of this going on for him. obviously disappointed after the way i finished, but, you know, i'm still in the tournament, i'm only a few shots behind. the wind is supposed to pick up a little bit, so, you know, it'll make things interesting. there are now three players tied for the lead. defending champion jordan spieth drove the first green to open with an eagle and soared to the top. xander schauffele, at the same age as spieth at 24, showed similar strength to work his way up, while kevin kisner has led from the start and he's still going. all of them on 9—under, all of them american. it's the first time in the history of the open that three americans have shared the lead
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going into the final round, but there are 16 players within five shots of them. who lifts the claretjug is anyone's guess. katherine downes, bbc news at carnoustie. team sky's geraint thomas has retained the leader's yellowjersey ahead of teammate chris froome, after stage 14 of the tour de france. froome, the four time winner, was subject to more attacks from the crowds having a clear liquid thrown at him. while thomas was booed as he crossed the line, he and froome maintained their positions in first and second place overall, although they were nearly 20 minutes behind stage winner omar frylee. thomas leads froome byi minute 39 seconds in the general classification, with just seven stages remaining. there's a tricky afternoon ahead for lewis hamilton if he is to win the german grand prix. hamilton will start from 14th place on the grid, after trying to push his mercedes back to the pits after breaking down in the first
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qualifying session at hockenheim. the british driver is eight points behind championship leader germany's sebastian vettel who'll start from pole in his home race. england made a shaky start to the hockey world cup in london. they had to fight back from 1—0 down to rescue a draw against india. lily owsley with england's equaliser. england face the united states in their next match on wednesday. to the anniversary games at the london stadium, and the first day of action started with medals from 10 years ago. the british women's 4x400 metre team from the beijing olympics in 2008 were given their bronze medals, after the russian and belarussian teams were both retrospectively disqaualified for doping at those games. a special moment for christine ohuruogu, kelly sotherton, marilyn okoro and nicola sanders — albeit a decade later. to the action then, and britain's zharnel hughes had to settle for silver in the 100 metres. he beat the commonwealth games gold medallist akani simbine and former world champion yohan blake, but couldn't quite edge out american ronnie baker — who won in 9.90 seconds.
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that's all the sport for now. more in the next hour. thank you very much. mps are calling for a consultation on whether to ban the sale of realfur in the uk. the environment, food and rural affairs committee has been investigating why many high street retailers illegally sold fur described as fake, which had in fact come from animals. sarah corker reports. in the 1990s, evocative anti—fur campaigns raised awareness of the issue. decades on, some shoppers have been unwittingly buying real fur labelled as fake. it emerged that several major retailers had sold products described as artificial but tests showed were made from fox, rabbit and chinchilla. now an inquiry by the environment, food and rural affairs committee accuses retailers of being complacent about the problem. disgusting. absolutely disgusting. i would be devastated if i went and bought, you know, an item that i thought was faux fur and actually it turned
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out that some poor animal or animals had been slaughtered. i'd be devastated. the reason why people buy fake fur is so that they're not wearing real fur, so it's pretty shocking that they can get away with that, really. i'd be disgusted to find out that something was an animal product that i hadn't knowingly bought into. so i don't think it's acceptable in any way, shape or form. furfarming was banned in the uk in 2000 but it is legal to sell some types of real fur imported from other countries if it is accurately labelled. and eu regulations do ban the trade of fur from domestic cats, dogs or commercial seal hunts. during this inquiry, evidence was taken from retailers here in camden to learn how realfur was mis—sold as fake, and what changes have been put in place to make sure it doesn't happen again. and the report calls for clearer labelling and stronger enforcement of the rules by trading standards. mps also want the government to begin a consultation on whether the sale of all types of real fur should be outlawed.
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sarah corker, bbc news. turning five is a milestone for any youngster but prince george has had some photographs taken. they were taken at the christening of his younger brother louis. he has always wowed the cameras, here at his birth, and then later at this christmas portrait. then he started to explore a bit more and aged three, with the younger sister vying for parental attention, george still managed to make his presence felt. this picture of the young prince shows him on his first day at school. and a happy birthday to prince george. virgin media customers have
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lost access to ten tv channels showing popular shows including taskmaster, red dwarf and one born every minute. it's all down to a row between the company and uktv over fees. uktv says virgin wanted to cut the amount it paid for the channels; but virgin says uktv is unable to provide programming on demand, because of restrictions imposed by its joint owner, the bbc. the channels disappearing include dave and gold. earlier i spoke to david bouchier from virgin media and steve north from uktv. i started by asking steve why they have decided to take their channels away from virgin customers. the reality is that virgin media has offered us a significant cut in fees to broadcast our channels and that is not fair to the viewers, it really isn't. our viewers pay substantial amounts of money to virgin media on a monthly basis to watch those channels and they expect a certain level of quality content for that. we have been investing more money year—on—year in that
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quality content and ensuring that we can continue to do that is fundamentalfor us. can continue to do that is fundamental for us. steve can continue to do that is fundamentalfor us. steve has can continue to do that is fundamental for us. steve has got to pay for these programmes and he said he depends on the money you pay him to generate the programmes and you wa nt to to generate the programmes and you want to cut the money. why? is there double it is very important to draw a distinction between uktv‘s free channels and the paid channels. what u ktv channels and the paid channels. what uktv did, and it is brinkmanship, up until last week they had offered us a deal on freeview channels, dave, and all the investment we are talking about. we are committed to bringing our customers the best entertainment on tv and we can do that because those channels are funded through advertising. we bring 4 million eyeballs to allow steve and his colleagues to make that great television. what they are doing by pulling their channels away from us is taking away their own investment. you accept you are asking them to take less money? not for the freeview channels. for the paid channels? we are still open to
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discussion about that. where we disagree is they have taken the view at the 11th hour. a week ago we were still talking about carrying their free channels including dave, their most popular channel. the biggest blackout that they are causing is their own decision to pull dave. blackout that they are causing is their own decision to pull davem this a problem for both of you in the sense that these channels are available free anyway? viewers may have lost them from virgin overnight but they can go and watch them on freeview and freesat. therefore actually for the viewers, it is a bit ofan actually for the viewers, it is a bit of an inconvenience. that is exactly our point. if i watched dave on satellite, i don't pay. if i watch online, i don't pay. if i watched through freeview, i don't pgy- watched through freeview, i don't pay. why should our customers be discriminated against? why should they be hijacked and pay for services that they can watch for free elsewhere? previously virgin have paid for freeview channels and we are asking them to now. we have
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continued our channels on the virgin platform on the same deal.|j continued our channels on the virgin platform on the same deal. i have got to correct that. it isn't the case. we offer our channels as a portfolio and we have offered to continue with the same deal that we currently have. david mentioned earlier that we have never paid for free channels in the past and we won't ask them to in the future. we are asking them to pay for a portfolio of channels at the same level. just as i buy a package of channels, you're not paying for individual channels? you get a set and you pay for extras? they are saying all or nothing and that is the first time we have gone into a negotiation with any channel provider where they have been so adamant. what they are doing is very obvious. they are using the leverage of their free to air channels to extra ct of their free to air channels to extract more money for paid channels. there is nothing wrong with that to talk about the paid channels, but the only people suffering are their viewers and our customers. if they want to behave
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like that, they cannot then say they have the interest of view is customers at heart. they don't. we also do marriage guidance counselling on bbc news! at least 10 people have died in vietnam in floods caused by typhoon rains which struck central and northern parts of the country. the waters have also damaged thousands of homes and destroyed crops. aaron safir reports. a violent force of nature that vietnam knows only too well. these waters were unleashed by typhoon, the third tropical storm son tinh hit the country this year. it made landfall on wednesday evening, damaging infrastructure and crops through thanh hoa and nghe an provinces. yen bai, like many other areas of the country, continues to suffer floods and landslides in the storm's wake. nationwide around 4000 houses have been damaged and thousands of hectares of crops have been destroyed. these waters have come quickly but it will take much longer to repair the damage.
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vietnam's rainy season is betweenjune and november, and storms and floods frequently claim hundreds of lives. so far, around a dozen people are confirmed dead and a similar number are missing. but with several communities still isolated and a warning of more rains to come, that number could rise. aaron safir, bbc news. japan is in the grip of an intense heatwave that has killed more than 30 people and caused thousands to be taken ill. temperatures reached 40.7 degrees during a record—breaking week where thermometers haven't dipped below 38 degrees. the soaring temperatures are complicating recovery efforts following floods and landslides, which killed more than 200 people earlier this month. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willets. good morning. nothing like as intense for us as that with all the consequences but still quite a
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challenging week. i think it is, actually. devastating across vietnam as well. that storm has been sitting across southeast asia for about a week now and it diminished down to just low pressure, but it has reinvigorated again. warm waters there and the heat across japan and korea, all so very hot, sweltering across the korean peninsula with temperatures into the high 30s as well. extreme weather in the uk as well. extreme weather in the uk as well. we are into our fifth or sixth week of hot and dry weather. nowhere near as sweltering as we saw across asia, but still temperatures by day and night well above average. quite uncomfortable for some of us, certainly for me. we have the sunshine with us this morning in eastern and southern areas but there isa eastern and southern areas but there is a bit more clout in the north and west. there is a week whether frontier. not sunshine for all. the heat is building even with fair weather cloud around. —— there is a week whether front here. we can
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expect the hottest of the weather in southern and eastern areas. overnight, the humidity rises. 19 in central london tonight. for most of us are central london tonight. for most of us are murky and muddy field. the mist and us are murky and muddy field. the mistand murk us are murky and muddy field. the mist and murk clears away and then back to business as usual. more rain from this whether front in northern ireland and scotland. we could see 29 or 30 ireland and scotland. we could see 29 or30 in ireland and scotland. we could see 29 or 30 in southern and eastern areas and that he is with us particularly in the south—east all week. —— that heat is with us. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... the new brexit secretary, dominic raab, says a brexit deal will be done if the european union matches the same ‘energy, ambition and pragmatism' shown by the uk.

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