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hello. this is bbc news with reeta chakra barti. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines. long delay on flights, ferries and cross—channel trains as the recent extreme weather continues to cause problems. eurotunnel says it's now operating a full service on the folkestone—calais route but has stopped selling tickets until next week. five people inculding two children die and tens of thousands flee their homes in northern california, as wildfires sweep across the state. britain's geraint thomas is set to win the tour de france as he maintains his lead on the penultimate day of the race. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the the deputy sport editor of the sun, martin lipton, and the journalist and broadcaster penny smith.
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many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the sunday telegraph says that theresa may has been warned by her own constituency chairman that she must not concede any further ground to the eu in any brexit deal. the sunday mirror has a full page splash on the possibility that there may be more of the deadly novichok nerve agent hidden around salisbury. the sunday times leads on whistleblower claims that the qatar world cup bid team broke fifa s rules by running a campaign to sabotage rivals competing to host the tournament. the observer is one of a number of papers to show a picture of geraint thomas securing his tour de france victory, the first welshman to do so. the sunday express covers news that a water company is urging snoops to inform on neighbours who use hosepipes in breach of a ban. let's start on the front page of the
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sunday telegraph. grassroots revolt, open revolt, it says, over theresa may's brexit. and apparently you will be amazed to hear this, there are some people within the conservative party who aren't happy about the latest white paper etc from chequers, from the government! astonishing! i'm absolutely shocked to hear this! you might have noticed that there might have been a resignation or two... 0h, that there might have been a resignation or two... oh, there have! blimey! if there was any belief in downing street that the recess would let this go away and that people might have a bit of a truce, it's not going to happen. clearly there are issues. including the chairman of theresa may's... that is the telegraph's story. own party... it says here, seven chair people of various tory associations
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have told the telegraph they have opposed the plans in the current form all would withdraw their support if there were any further concessions, including the chairman of maidenhead conservative party, which is where theresa may is the mp for. we know this is going to be difficult for the government, clearly. not going to get any easier, is it and in fact it seems to be an ongoing tale of woe. for the next eight months. and what is the next eight months. and what is the endgame? you would think perhaps it is no deal. possibly. which a p pa re ntly it is no deal. possibly. which apparently is better than a bad deal “oi’ apparently is better than a bad deal —oris apparently is better than a bad deal — or is it? apparently is better than a bad deal -orisit?| apparently is better than a bad deal - or is it? i suppose, penny smith, there is a weary sense of deja vu but the story is not going to go away? it isn't. this is the... this is the last hurrah really because they are just about to have recess so they are just about to have recess so this is the last brexit before the exit if you like. you think it will go away for the next few weeks?
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well, i doubt it but there will be other ways of dealing with it. but perhaps it's the last time that we will see a headline as political as this, we willjust now have the warnings and the... we are going to i’ui'i warnings and the... we are going to run out of this or that or this could possibly happen... the point is, everytime i come on and talk about this, we don't know! nobody has done it before. it is very complicated! of course it is but any divorce is complicated, there is no such thing as an easy divorce from anybody, really. unless you've been living apart for ten years, you had already split everything up, you had already split everything up, you had a prenup jewel and there already split everything up, you had a prenupjewel and there were no children involved and no animals, thenit children involved and no animals, then it is probably quite easy. but otherwise we are going through a relationship breakup after many, many years. let's have a look at the front page of the independent, which is related but it is interesting. it is related but it is interesting. it is about those young people who could have a say on brexit if there
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we re could have a say on brexit if there were to be another vote? maybe if they had voted in the first place... no, these are new people coming on stream. but the percentile of young people who voted in the brexit referendum was far lower than, according to what we were told, where voting i2 according to what we were told, where voting 12 months later in the general election. and there is no guarantee that whilst we assume, as the independent over pushing for another referendum are, that these younger people who have now become 18 and they have gone on to the electoral roll, whereas those who voted brexit have died, some of them, that they would vote to remain. there is no guarantee of that. there is no guarantee they would vote. although younger voters by and large did vote... they did vote very much to remain. and it says, it comes after the independent launched its campaign to have a vote on the brexit deal. you do wonder, if we banned the word could, would
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there be any headlines at all? spoilsport chelangat move on to the observer, which is a slightly brexit related story but it is actually related story but it is actually related to the heatwave and the food supply. yes, it says farmers are to meet with government officials for an emergency drought summit amid fears that the heatwave could have a serious impact on the food supply. it has been hot, no denying! i spent the week down on the west sussex coast camping, it was fantastic but i was on holiday, i wasn't trying to choose food! the national farmers' union says, tinderbox conditions... and i have seen them, the fields, they're beyond the yellow, it is incredible. and part of the problem is about food for animals, really, isn't it? there was a list in one of the papers yesterday about... or was it today? but it was about a list of the foods that we are going to have problems with, most of them crops
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but also cauliflower and broccoli and the only winners assures azman cherries and raspberries, it seems to me. which are good things, we like them! they're excellent things! but your point about it being slightly and 92 brexit is that they're saying we can't rely on our food supplies. i think the uk produces 60% of its own food. so where is it going to come from? and if we don't have that 60% we really are going to be in trouble. there was the talk this week of potential stockpiling by the government. now, we're used to scare stories when it comes to the weather. do you think this is a scare story? this is actually coming from the president of the national farmers' union — is ita of the national farmers' union — is it a scare story? whenever these things happen, people use the opportunity to plead their case whether that be far more resources 01’ whether that be far more resources or whatever it might be. more rain!
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in 19th 76 we actually had a minister the drought and within two days it started raining! but it was a very different situation because they also had had a very dry winter whereas we have not had that. in fa ct whereas we have not had that. in fact that was relentless as well, we we re fact that was relentless as well, we were still wearing jumpers at the end of april. what we really need is... we are never happy, let's be honest! but clearly there are issues about production of food. it is an essential for all of us. if this was to be an ongoing situation, where as i was reading this morning but this could be the first of many of these long, hot summers, then we are going to have to make a considerable decision about how we provide the basics that we need. and the way we grow them as well, because there are obviously other ways perhaps of growing these types of food or maybe
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we change what we grow. after all, you look at what happens in, for example, california, they grow lots of almonds which need a lot of water and they're struggling. let's go onto the front page of the sunday mirror. it's talking about the poisoning in salisbury and in nearby amesbury, martin? now, we don't officially know what happened, not officially. and there was this issue with the other couple as well in amesbury, who were overcome by the novichok in a persian bottle. i spent the last five weeks in moscow in the summerand spent the last five weeks in moscow in the summer and i was living in a false version of moscow, a reality free moscow. idealised, romanticised
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russia. the reality is, this is a country that doesn't care about the consequences of its actions. and we saw that... consequences of its actions. and we saw that. .. or a government maybe. well, the government is the country in many ways. the russian people i'm sure have no knowledge of what's going on but the government does, putin's government does. and we saw his disdain for people's lives just a few weeks ago. and if there's anymore of this substance of around, then that will be scary. this is a could, would, maybe, it says police believe... it is believed they stashed two lots of the agent... that will be a worry for the people i'm sure in that part of the world andi i'm sure in that part of the world and i think it will be a worry for eve ryo ne and i think it will be a worry for everyone but we mustn't go too far.
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this is not an attack on the whole of the british population, this was one has to schumer a pretty well targeted attack in the first place. and the shock was that there was then a second load of victims. yes, that was terrifying, wasn't it and i think the people of salisbury, who felt any way that they hadn't been ke pt totally felt any way that they hadn't been kept totally informed... in the first one anyway they felt they had not been totally informed, they were walking around well people in special outfits were going around and they were scared. and this is not going to help, really. particularly if you've got kids, for example, who are trampling through the undergrowth, that sort of thing just it is scary. but as you say, we're ratcheting it up but at the same time, i would be scared! let's move long to something more jolly, the front page of the sunday telegraph, my favourite headline, from prince of wales to king of
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france. this is obviously geraint thomas, who is going to win the tour de france tomorrowjust we had never w011 de france tomorrowjust we had never won it as a country until recently and then suddenly we have had bradley wiggins, chris froome winning four... why is that, what is the reason? because we suddenly decided we were good at cycling. the reason? because we suddenly decided we were good at cyclingm that it? i think it goes back to chris boa rdman, that it? i think it goes back to chris boardman, he was the first one who won gold 20 years ago and then we had this run of cyclists, we've become extremely adept at it. i'm not quite sure all of this marginal gains stuff was actually real, a lot of it gains stuff was actually real, a lot ofiti gains stuff was actually real, a lot of it i think was psychological. the brits have got this extra special paint, we can't beat them! playing into those fears. people have done that in sport for years. it's absolute nonsense but people believe it, these are supermen and we can't beat them. but thomas was really going as a worker for chris froome,
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a very good one but he was very much second—in—command of team sky and he has ended up winning the race unless he ends up falling off his bike tomorrow which won't happened because there is a convention that you don't attack the leader. so he has effectively won. he has but i like that he took time to record a video for the 14—year—old daughter ofa video for the 14—year—old daughter of a previous coach that he had. you just think, what a lovely chap. incredible success story of this school, whitchurch, sam warburton kurram gareth bale and geraint thomas, all at the same school. and it isa thomas, all at the same school. and it is a school where they thrive on competition and believe in it as opposed to saying, prizes for everybody, it's all about the taking part. thank you both very much. we will have a bit more in an hour's time. you will both be back at half past 11. but next on bbc music is
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time for click. the eight planets in our solar system, all unique and instantly recognisable. and don't they look amazing from our viewing podium here in outerspace? now what we really wanted to show you here is just how good visual effects have become. not only does the graphics computer generate all of these lovely images but, as the cameras move about, the objects and the background appear to stay in their correct positions. now this is not easy. now this technology originally came from the movies and now it has come to tv.
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so, here we are in the bbc‘s virtual studio and the first thing that you will notice is obviously that the graphics computer replaces anything that is green with the background. but, in order to draw all of the objects in the right place in 3—d space, the computer needs to know exactly where the cameras are so it can draw everything from the right angle, and that is why all the cameras have this set of reflective tracking balls on top of them. it also means that i can take my own set of tracking balls and turn this into a virtual hand—held camera that i can fly through the sea. so, there is mercury and venus, earth and mars, coming round past jupiter, just duck under saturn, and there is uranus and neptune. and here is the thing, just as we are getting used to having this much fun in a tv studio, at the top end of the movie industry, they are getting ready
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for something even more incredible. he is mark cieslak in los angeles. the next big leap in cinema technology could be upon us. called intel studios, this is the first time a crew has been allowed to even catch a glimpse behind the scenes at this state—of—the—art equipment. this space is designed to film in 360 degrees, a technique known as volumetric capture. diego priluski has worked on the visual effects for movies like gravity and warhorse. now he is heading up this operation. wow, so this is your volumetric space? it is indeed. it is pretty big. it is the largest currently in the world. it's currently focused on large—scale volumetric capture, and it is a unique space that we have built, dedicated for the methodologies of filmmaking volumetric. can we take a look
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inside your dome, please? wow—wee (laughs). that is a lot of green. that's a lot of green. it is a lot of space and a lot of cameras. how many cameras have you got here? well, currently have we have more than 100 cameras. it really changes from production to production. our goal really is to, how do you have enough sensors to capture the entire information from any angle? so as you can see around, it is really a variation of angles and positions that really enables you to capture every bit of information from any direction. in this space, a scene can be performed once but is recorded on all of those cameras surrounding the actors, so every single angle is covered. the individual shots are pumped via fibre—optic cable to dedicated server, which then processed the images into a point cloud. a point cloud is a 3—d 360 degree representation of the entire studio. the action can then be watched from any angle the viewer desires.
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once decisions have been made about where to position the camera, the action is cleaned up, using vfx and the scene is complete. this particular scene was attempted several times but this clip was made from shots all captured on the 15th attempt. you can relight that scene, you can integrate, of course, virtual sets around that, but the key thing is that you can keep that live performance, and you can keep that truly capture of the actors, that true presence that they have, into the interaction between them, and once you have digitiser all the information, once you basically generated this volumetric, immersive data, you can really be walk inside the space, either on a virtual space and virtually come out and reshoot the entire scene again. the filming process, with its 100 plus cameras all filming at once, generates a massive amount of data, all of which is processed and stitched together on—site. in total, there are 10 petabytes of storage in here. that is the equivalent of 133
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years of hi—def video. so far, paramount pictures have penned a deal to use this space for upcoming projects. because the studio's dome separates the filming from the crew controlling the kit, directing the action is similar to directing in a modern news studio. ok, so do you want to get on stage, get ready. yeah, yeah. so no suits, no motion captured things, it is you and your waredrobe that will be the performance. so this is my opportunity to try out this volumetric studio. i'm used to working with one or a couple of cameras, it is going to be a bit difficult working with over 100 of them. and they will be able to capture from every single conceivable angle me attempting to get this ball into that hoop. let's try that again. this time, the team add backgrounds and create a seamless moving shot
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made from the 100 individual camera captures. (laughs) ohh, and the crowd goes wild! creating the shot is not quick though, this one took about 150 hours to make. as we look at filmmaking, we want to create that transition. how do you immerse into this world and into these experiences, but with the real actors, with the real performances? le tour de france is coming to an end this week. the monumental 3,351 kilometre race is now 115 years old. fans love its epic proportions
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and its gruelling pace, but this year they may also be able to enjoy lots and lots of lovely data, because analytics and machine learning are coming to one of the oldest sporting competitions in the world, and kat hawkins went to find out how. this year's tour de france is taking place against the same beautiful french mountains as always. but there's a big difference this year. technology and data play more of a role than ever before. cycling is becoming increasingly data—driven and for good reason. masses of data can be collected and, in a sport of fine margins and superhuman indurance, those insights are the key to energy efficiency, strategy and gains. we look at many things, we look at obviously heart rate, we look at power data
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and their maximum powers and their altitude and elevation gains. so we look at that and we see how the riders are building and we leverage that data to try and build them to be better and stronger in stage races. how is the data collected and transmitted ? that is where these little devices come in. it may not look like much but this small clip—on device is on the back of every bike taking part in the tour de france this year and it has actually been revolutionary. the sensors on the bikes send real—time locations data to a nearby vehicle, which them beams it up to a following helicopter. it's then sent to the data truck for real—time analytics. and this is where the magic happens, from bike to motorbike the helicopter to here, this is where all the data for the tour de france is being stored. the data truck is where data is analysed, enriched, and visualised for broadcasters and teams. there is even enough data for machine learning algorithms to get to work. the depths of data analytics produced from simply a gps device is staggering.
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conceptual data such as 3—d maps, weather, gradients and rider contextual data such as 3—d maps, weather, gradients and rider information is also added to bring the data to life. during the race, riders wear earpieces and following closely behind them is the data car, where the team analyst is disecting the data and feeding them live information. what happens in here? it is quite an important place, isn't it? if you imagine you have a comms office when you're trying to fly a rocket to the moon, just feel like we're that place in nasa where all the details come in and they come in from all directions, and then we send out one message to the riders. hundreds of datasets are analysed, from competitor tactics to live course conditions. so we analyse all of the climbs, the gradients of the climbs, the road surfaces, the width of the roads, any road furniture, anything, you know, coming around a blind corner there is a pedestrian crossing, and all of these kinds of things we try to find. on the tour de france with restrictions and sponsorship
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deals, we don't get any heartrate and power data, but we do get location, which is absolutely crucial because we can make decisions much, much quicker. ok, so we're in the race. this is happening, this is live. what are we saying to our riders? so, we're saying, "come on, serge, you've got 250 more metres hard. radio: round the next corner here, the hairpin, you can't see it but it flattens off in 250 metres. you'll get some respite, we've got drinks in 400 metres, so you'll get to cool down. take your drinks and we've only got 10 k to the finish. good lad. keep fighting. i can see automatically that the psychological impact of that is huge, but how do the cyclists themselves feel about data in their sport? having everything about you measured and tracked can have its downsides. of course, a lot of teams are trying to keep it secret because when you're racing to win the tour de france you don't really want to give your competitors that advantage. people say it's turning into f1, it's just robots talking to robots.
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what do you say to those people? it's more than that. a robot doesn't have to put the effort in. from data centre to road race, there's 20 kilometres to go. 20 kilometre windspeed. the final is coming up. that's it for the shortcut of click for this week. don't forget the full—length version is up on iplayer for you to watch right now, if you fancy. and you can follow us on twitter and facebook throughout the week for loads of tech news and behind—the—scenes photos, too. thanks for watching and we'll see you soon. good evening. after the heat of
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recent weeks, the weather is much close to where it should be at this time of year. we have had the sun today but it has been much fresher and for some there have been some very nasty downpours indeed. parts of northern ireland had a month's worth of rain in the space of two hours which lead to flooding. it is all due to a shift in the jet stream position, which has now worked its way southwards across the uk bringing that fresher air. but we are going to see another area of low pressure developed a night under this curve of the jet stream. the other big story will be the wind. tonight some heavy rain pushing up across the west of scotland. severe gales by the end of the night. will force was goes towards the south as rain comes into wales and the south—west of england. it should not bea south—west of england. it should not be a cold start to sunday morning but it will be wet for england and wales. you can see two areas of low pressure, both of them linked with
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unseasonably strong winds. up to 40mph across southern england and wales to go with some heavy rain in the morning. there could be more than 50 millimetres of rain across the likes of the brecon beacons. try right over east anglia and the south—east to begin with. wet start to northern england, not quite as windy as we will see further south. a lot of dry weather across scotland to begin with away from the hebrides and the north—west highlands. could get some gusts of 50—6 d there. turning cloudy and dumper to the southern and east of scotland. turning more showery in the afternoon in england. the best of the sunday weather thankfully after today's storms will be in northern ireland. temperatures, though, if anything a few degrees down on where we should be at this time of the year. into tomorrow evening, we see skies clearfor a time, only a year. into tomorrow evening, we see skies clear for a time, only a few showers around, particularly across southern counties of england and
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wales. another weather system will come in for monday. this one will just bring occasional rain, lots of cloud and still blustery conditions. most likely to see rain in northern and western areas. temperatures starting to creep up a little bit in the south—westerly breeze. after a fresh start to the weak, the showers will ease and things will warm up. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00: long delays on flights, ferries and cross—channel trains as the recent extreme weather continues to cause problems. eurotunnel says it's now operating a full service on the folkestone—calais route,
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but has stopped selling tickets until next week. five people, including two children, die and tens of thousands flee their homes in northern california as wildfires sweep across the state. ididn't i didn't realise how much my home means to me, and my community. the main candidates in zimbabwe's presidential election have addressed huge crowds in harare, on the last day of campaigning before the country's historic vote. also coming up, british victory at the tour de france.
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