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last 12 hours. heavy, notably in the last 12 hours. heavy, thundery rain across parts of south—east england, east anglia and the midlands, but that has now cleared away eastwards. for a large swathe of the country, good swathes of sunshine. but not for everyone. you can see the isobars are quite close together here, indicating the strength of the wind. it is pushing a front across and bringing more clouds and outbreaks of rain across northern ireland, the western isles of scotland. some showers for dumfries and galloway, one or two showers across wales and the odd one for south west england. away from the north—west of the country, a good deal of sunshine continuing through the afternoon. quite windy, particularly for western coasts where the gusts will reach 30 or a0 mph, locally 50 the far north—west of scotland. that is where we have the lowest temperatures, 15 or 19 for those coasts, further south and east, up to 25 in south—east england. the rain across northern ireland and western scotland continues to track its way
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northwards overnight, leaving northern ireland, england and wales mainly dry and eastern parts of scotland. temperatures between 11 and ia celsius. not such a contrast as we saw last night between north and south. tomorrow, for much of the country, mainly dry. again, good spells of sunshine. the cloud will be increasing through the day for northern ireland and parts of scotland, rain here through the afternoon, a bit of rain first thing through the morning. the best of the sunshine the further south and east you are. temperatures getting close to 26 or 27 celsius, always cooler north and west. this high pressure will be developing, and extending further northwards to bring dry conditions. complicated on thursday by this frontal system. that will introduce more cloud, more moisture. it will increase humidity as well. it will increase humidity as well. it will increase humidity as well. it will become quite misty and burki for western coasts. there will be more cloud through western scotland and northern ireland. the best of the sunshine, again, further south and east. notice how the
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temperatures are starting to rise, orange and red colours becoming deeper. by thursday, 2829 celsius for south—east england. the warmth starting to extend further northwards. the theme will continue through the weekend, even across scotla nd through the weekend, even across scotland and northern ireland, where it will become drier and we will see higher temperatures. across england and wales, there was temperatures climbing even higher. quite widely getting into the middle height 20 celsius, and some parts of south—east england could exceed 30 celsius again. a reminder of our main story this lunchtime sexual exploitation and abuse are widespread across the aid sector — according to a strongly—worded report by mps. organisation is all too often have appeared more concerned to protect their own reputation in the sector, rather than protecting victims and survivors. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me,
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and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon. it'sjust gone 1:30pm, and here's your latest sports news. adil rashid has been named in the england team to face india tomorrow. rashid was controversially picked for the squad, with many making the point that he no longer plays the longer form of cricket and shouldn't be allowed to play. but he's in, and moeen ali and jamie porter miss out from the 13. the first test at edgebaston starts on wednesday, where thousands of tickets remain unsold for the first two days of that opening match. it's the first of five tests over the next six weeks, and there's been some criticism of the packed schedule arranged to accommodate india. there are around 6,000 tickets available for each of the first two days. andy murray is back on the comeback trail,
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winning just his second match ina year. the former world number one is playing at the washington open, where he came from a set down to beat the world number 80, mckensie mcdonald. he withdrew from wimbledon on the eve of the tournament as he regained his fitness after hip surgery. he admitted that he still has lots to improve, but he was pleased with the mental side of his game as he came through in 2.5 hours to set up a second—round meeting with the new british number one, kyle edmund. geraint thomas says he'll consider all his options before deciding whether to commit his future to team sky. thomas's contract with sky is up for renewal, but he is expected to sign a deal that could be worth £3.5 million a year. the winner of the yellowjersey, though, insists his relationship with chris froome won't affect that decision though, and this summer's tour has only increased his respect for the four—time champion. you know, it could have got tense
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and a bit awkward, because obviously froome was going for his fifth tour de france win, his fourth straight consecutive tour win. to have a team—mate suddenly just take consecutive tour win. to have a team—mate suddenlyjust take the jersey and the limelight almost on the plaudits, it must have been tough. but he was a true sort of gentlemen and sportsmen about it, and we were open and honest with each other from the start. the way the team is run and everything really works well for me. i'm open to hearing other offers, obviously. but, yeah, willsie what happens in the coming weeks. but i don't want to just the coming weeks. but i don't want tojust go to the coming weeks. but i don't want to just go to any old team so we'll see what happens. the main reason that i won the tour is because of the strength of the team. if you've got the legs, it improves a lot when you got a strong team around you. but, yeah, it's interesting times. britain's most decorated paralympian, dame sarah storey, says there should be a women's tour de france. at the moment, the only official competition is the one—day la course event. but dame sarah cycled every stage
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of this year's tour with a group of women ahead of the men, and says there is an appetite for a female equivalent. they were saying, "allez les filles!" they wanted to see the women on the side of the road just zooming past. so i think there is a case for it to be there, and it won't happen overnight, you know, the women haven't trained for a three—week tour, they'll need notice for that to happen. but maybe, when the french have the olympics in 202a, why not put on an women's tour de france at the same time, and give the women's peloton enuogh notice to train for it? the most capped woman in rugby union has retired. england's rochelle ‘rocky‘ clark is bringing her playing career to a close after 137 games for her country. the 37—year—old had a 15—year international career, and she won world cup in 201a. she became england's most capped player, man or women, when she surpassed jason leonard's record of 11a in 2016. the loosehead prop will continue playing for wasps. it's a massive achievement, something i never,
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you know, thought i'd get. to get my first cap was just out of this world. to achieve a few more than that... i hit the cap record and surpassed jason, it's been a dream come true. and, you know, i've lived such a fairy tale life, i think, for the last 15 years. there has been highs and lows, but i've loved every minute of it. 0k, ok, that's it. i'll have more for you in the next hour. chris, thank you. with just eight months to go until the uk leaves the european union, we've been taking a closer look at the impact of brexit on different groups of people. today, we're examining what impact brexit could have on your summer holiday. our scotland correspondent, james shaw, has been speaking to some of the nine million passengers that pass through glasgow airport's terminal each year about whether brexit will affect their love of european travel. what difference does that make? what we're talking about today, is
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put it in its simplest terms, is that this probably is the last summer holiday many people will have, many british citizens will have, many british citizens will have, while the uk is part of the european union. what difference does that make? do people care? will it make a difference to how easy it is to get a summer holiday in europe in 2019? well, we've been talking to some people here at glasgow airport find out what they think about brexit and the changes it could mean for holidays. i'm afraid it's going to affect how we travel to the uk. actually, that's why we decided to come and visit scotland this year. we've been dreaming about it for years, and we decided to come and try it this year because we're afraid that next summer it will be a little bit more difficult. maybe not very difficult, but somehow difficult. i think it's hard to cut through all the noise that you hear from people. there's two sides of the story, and people want you to believe their truth. who's true and who's not true? so, you can research it all day long, but i think there's a great unknown at the moment. we'll see what happens.
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the relationship with the netherlands, we're close by, so... it'll get sorted. it'll be fine, i think. ok, well, let's talk to somebody with a bit of expertise on the subject. this is professorjohn lennon of glasgow caledonian university. you are an expert on travel and tourism, professor. so, what's your take on what brexit means for all these people in this airport? well, holiday is a central purchase for everyone, even in a troubled environment. what we are seeing here is the cosy of taking their overseas holiday, but they're already finding it a little bit more expensive than it was in previous years. and that's directly a result of the brexit vote. the downturn in our currency, its ability to buy less in euros. now, the other impact that we're going to see moving forward is to do with uncertainty. uncertainty ofair access, for example. and striking a deal on aviation is a concern many airlines share — lufthansa, rya nair, and indeed which are concerned that there will be delays and possible flight disruptions.
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we did have a statement from the uk airlines in which they essentially said they believed that there was some certainty that there would be some kind of deal on air access, even if other negotiations are failing. does that give any reassurance? you would hope so. it's fairly central. there's a lot of stuff to sort out with brexit — many treaties with many countries, this is but one. i think i'm hopeful, but i would also tell holiday— makers to check their insurance, particularly the insurance cover when it applies to flight disruption. because the kind of cover we enjoyed in the past under the eu will change. and one of the other things we've got to watch out for is roaming charges as we move forward. because the single digital market is something we're going to leave when we leave the european union, and we're not going to benefit from that blanket cap on roaming charges. so, in terms of practical advice to think about people going on holiday in summer of 2019, briefly, what would you say? check your insurance,
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check the small print, make sure that you're covered for any disruption, and watch out for those roaming charges on your phone. profjohn lennon, thank you very much indeed. so, hopefully there's some useful advice, even though of course there is so much uncertainty about what brexit will really mean, even though it is only a few months away. our correspondentjames our correspondent james short reporting. —— james short. indonesian authorities say all the hikers who were trapped on a mountain in lombok following a powerful earthquake have now come down. ?more than 500 hikers had been stuck on mount rinjani after the 6.a magnitude quake on sunday triggered landslides and cut off escape routes. rebecca henschke reports from lombok. the body of an indonesian hiker, muhammad ainul, carried down the mountain to his waiting, grieving family. he was killed by falling rocks in landslides triggered
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by sunday's powerful quake. remarkably, the only casualty on the mountain that had hundreds of foreign and local hikers on it at the time of the quake. helicopters arriving to airliftjust the last three hikers out. amongst the group, a local government official. she says she'd hoped helicopters would have arrived sooner. translation: i watched one foreign tourist having to climb out on foot, crying like this. i felt like i couldn't do anything to help. i had hoped the helicopters would arrive and at least take the women down. rescue workers say heavy clouds prevented them from landing earlier, and now all are out safely and the park is closed. living in the shadow of a volcano, people here are no strangers
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to natural disasters, but the powerful quake on sunday and the hundreds of after—shocks since do have people on edge here. gita has brought her traumatised four—year—old daughter to this makeshift clinic for treatment. translation: she has been vomiting and is hurt ever since the quake. that's why i brought her here. i am also traumatised and sick. but i need to be strong for her. the community here has quickly pulled together to repair damaged buildings and to support each other. and they hope that life will soon return to normal in this picturesque mountain town. rebecca henschke, bbc news, lombok. bbc news has been told that that women are illegally taking abortion pills they ve bought online
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women are illegally taking abortion to take them at clinics. in england, women must take the pill at either a hospital or clinic before travelling home to wait for the abortion to take place. but often it can start to happen before they get there. senior doctors and politicians are urging the health secretary to change the law to allow women to take the pill at home. our reporterjean mackenzie has the story. it's a very physical taking over of your body. waves and waves of cramping and pain. sweating. these women are describing something we don't often hear about — what it feels like to have an abortion. hello, nice to meet you. i've come to meet claudia, who had an abortion last year. she took a taxi home from the hospital after taking the pill. but within minutes of getting in, the symptoms had started. so, i started to feel really unwell,
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and just extremely nauseous. and was kind of getting that feeling in my chest like i might be about to throw up. and then i started getting cramping at the same time. i just didn't want to be sick in the taxi, and ijust really, really wanted to get home. in between getting out of the taxi and the symptoms really starting in that very physical and uncontrollable sense, that was like a minute. do you think about what could have happened if you'd just been five minutes later? i mean, i know what would have happened if it had been five minutes later. if it had been five minutes later, all of those symptoms would have been happening on the floor of the taxi. i would have been sick in the taxi, i would have started bleeding in the taxi, and i would have started losing control of my bowels in the taxi. i lived 15 minutes away from a hospital. not every woman lives 15 minutes away from a hospital. it was so traumatic and so unexpected. 20 minutes into the journey
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on the tube towards home, i started to feel the effects of the pill kicking in. i started to feel nauseous, i started to sweat, started to get cold, went extremely pale, apparently. and then the pain and nausea was so extreme that i had to get off the tube. i lay down on a bench in the tube, and basicallyjust decided that i wasn't going to move any further. how did you feel knowing that you were starting to pass your pregnancy and you were in this hugely public place? i felt scared. and exposed. and it just felt really unfair. you know, maybe i was very unlucky to be in that small percentage of people that it happens within 30 minutes.
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but if it happens, then it does. what difference would it have made to you to be able to take the pills at home? i would have been able to have everything that one needs — no movement, a comfortable bed, a hot water bottle, painkillers. you know, i didn't have any of that. i had to be gawped at by men in suits. so, this is the letter i wrote to the health minister. it goes: "one year ago, i took the abortion pill..." senior doctors and politicians are nowjoining women like claudia in urging the health secretary to change the law. "allowing home use of the pill for abortions would save the nhs money, and save thousands of women like me from pain and distress. you personally have the power..." there are women on buses, there are women in taxis and cars and on tubes going through what i went through right now. and the health minister could change that overnight.
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yet, day— by—day, more women are being put through that experience. so, that makes me angry. very angry. jean mackenzie with that report. and you can see herfull investigation on the victoria derbyshire programme website — that's at bbc.co.uk/victoria. in a moment, we'll have all the business news. but first, the headlines on bbc news: charities are guilty of "complacency verging on complicity" over sexual abuse by staff, says a damning report by mps on international aid. it's emerged that salman abedi, who killed 22 people in the manchester arena attack, was rescued from libya by a royal navy ship three years earlier. a warning from us intelligence — north korea may be building new intercontinental ballistic missiles, despite the trump—kim summit. hello, i'm alice baxter.
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in the business news: an independent review commissioned by the fca into royal bank of scotland 5 treatment of small and medium—sized enterprise customers transferred to its global restructuring group has found that no evidence that the bank deliberately transferred customers to grg in order to profit from their restructuing or insolvency. tech retailer dixons carphone says a huge data breach last year involved ten million customers. that's a massive revision of its earlier estimate ofjust 1.2 million. the firm has been investigating the hack, which involved personal information including names, addresses and email addresses, since it was discovered injune. british gas lost 3a0,000 customer accounts in the uk in the first half of this year, according to the firm's chief executive. speaking to the bbc,
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centrica boss iain conn said the rate of customer losses had halved since last year, and he hoped numbers would stabilise. more now on the news that british gas owner centrica has lost still more customers. in total, it lost 3a0,000 customer accounts in the uk in the first half of this year. the lost accounts represent about 270,000 customers. this comes as centria, the parent company of british gas, said operating profits at its consumer business had fallen by 20% to £a30 million. not surprisingly, shares in centrica fell 5% in early trade. so the question is, why has british gas been losing all these customers?
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our business editor, simonjack, put this question to the chief executive of centrica, iain conn, earlier on today. well, first of all, let me put it in perspective — we did see a reduction of 3a0,000 accounts in the uk, and 226,000 globally. so, slightly less globally. that is against a much higher number last year. so, the rate of losses of customers has halved this year. and what we're seeing is, in advance of a price cap coming in, we are aiming to move as many customers as we can off the standard variable tariff onto other tariffs, and within that 300,000 number you mentioned, about 900,000 customers have actually moved onto other tariffs within the british gas system. so, actually we're being quite successful in offering new things for customers that they want.
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you say you've been quite successful — you're still losing. you've lost 3a0,000 customers, and this is at a moment when you're trying to sell them new services — they like connected home, running your gas and heating usage throughout, trying to make it a much more appealing product. and yet, it's not working, is it? actually, it's not stable yet. but globally, we lost 226,000 consumer accounts. that's in 25 million accounts. so, less than 1%. our goal is to stabilise the total customer account number, and then to grow it. what we're seeing is falls in our energy supply customer numbers. our home services numbers and our british gas engineer accounts have actually gone up in the first half of this year — the first time since 2011. and we're seeing continued growth in hive. so, overall, i believe we're now seeing the beginnings of our ability stabilise customer numbers.
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so, when i speak you in six months' time, you won't have lost any more customers? i'm not going to give you a prediction about when we'll actually stabilise customer numbers and customer accounts and consumer... but it is definitely slowing. the boss of centrica, iain conn, talking to our business editor, simonjack. a "perfect storm of events". that's how the car industry body — the society of motor manufacturers and traders, or the smmt — has descibed the current state of the sector after it revealed that the number of cars made in the uk fell last month after domestic demand plunged. production fell 5.5% in june, driven by a a7.2% drop in production for the uk market. the smmt blamed preparation for new emissions tests and new car models for what it said was a "one—month anomaly". it also says that, longer—term,
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uk car production is as expected. joinining us now is emma butcher from the society of motor manufacturers and traders. really good to talk to you, as ever. you described this as a one—month anomaly. and yet the chief executive of the smmt has also pointed to the fa ct of the smmt has also pointed to the fact that, when one digs broadly in these numbers, it does point to this worrying trend that uk car manufacturing is hugely reliant on oui’ manufacturing is hugely reliant on our ability to export, doesn't it? that's what helped make these numbers better than they might otherwise have been. absolutely, and june isa otherwise have been. absolutely, and june is a perfect example, really, of why you should neverjudge one in isolation, so we always look at the longer—term picture. and in actual fa ct, longer—term picture. and in actual fact, for the year—to—date in the first six months, outputs are pretty stable, really. it down about 3%
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year—to—date compared with last year. but you're absolutely right, we are in export led industry. eight out of every ten cars that we produce here are shipped overseas, so there's great international demand for our products, and we saw that broke in june demand for our products, and we saw that broke injune and we are seeing that broke injune and we are seeing that demand continues to white so, because of that reliant to export in the car industry, your organisation has been talking about the implications of a possible no deal when it comes to brexit negotiations. what would that do to the car industry kwizera absolutely, we are export led, and in fact europe is our biggest trading partner, it takes more than half of all our exports every year. so, what we really need is a deal that's going to guarantee as free trade and frictionless trade with the eu. if that doesn't happen, then, yes, there will certainly be challenges that the industry will have to deal with, so what we are having to deal with, so what we are having to deal with now, we have a white paperfrom
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government, that will note the foreword to be negotiated at eu level, and our plea to negotiators on both sides of the channel is to really consider the importance of the automotive industry both in the uk, but also right across europe, because we are so interdependent. so, yes, as you say, no deal is not an option for us. sadly, emma bunton, that's all that we have time for. thank you forjoining me. that's all the business for the sour, more through the afternoon. now it's time for a look at the weather. we can cross the newsroom to alina. hello there. we have seen some sharp contrasts in the weather across the country this week, and noticeable contrast just in country this week, and noticeable contrastjust in the last 12 hours, heavy, thundery rein in parts of east anglia, selfies ding the midlands. you can see here the clouds associated with those thunderstorms. that has cleared away eastward and we are left with some good amounts of sunshine. not for everyone, though. we have an area of
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low pressure to the north—west of the uk. if you notice, the isobars are quite close together, indicating the strength of the wind. we've also got more cloud on some outbreaks of rainfor got more cloud on some outbreaks of rain for these fronts, particularly northern ireland and running up the western side of scotland. a few showers in dumfries and galloway, the odd spot of rain in the north—west, a couple of showers in wales in south—west england. for most, it's dry with good spells of sunshine, but still noticeably breezy and some strong gust for western and northern goes. we could see gusts... in the sunshine, 25-26dc see gusts... in the sunshine, 25—26dc for south—east england, further north and west and temperatures in the mid to high teens. overnight, rain across northern ireland pulling away northwards, some continuing in the western side of scotland. further east, it's dry. it will be a dry night in most of england and wales. a contrast between north and south compared to last night. 11—1a the overnight low. almost tomorrow it's
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mainly dry with good spells of sunshine, early sunshine for northern ireland will fade, outbreaks of rain developing through the afternoon. rain from scotland pulling away, but of use brushes through the afternoon. contrast from the north—west, 17—18dc compared to 26 or 27 further south and east. keep an eye on the area of high pressure, it is developing further through the end of the week and extending northwards across the country. complicated by this frontal system country. complicated by this frontal syste m o n country. complicated by this frontal system on thursday to introducing more moisture, increasing the humidity. fairly murky for western and northern coast is on thursday. more cloud here, outbreaks of rain for northern ireland, wales, north—east england and parts of scotland. that will fizzle out as the day wears on. the south and east, we have the best of the sunshine. temperatures starting to climb, red and orange colours developing further and pushing further northwards through england and wales. it's notjust the south—east seeing the highest temperatures on thursday, it could
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get up to that in northern england and wales as well. extending northwards into scotland and northern ireland, things turning dryer towards the end of the week after a bit of patchy light rain on friday. for much of england and wales for friday and saturday there will be a good deal of sunshine, with temperatures on the rise again. hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm simon mccoy. today at 2. aid agencies are acused of being ‘almost complicit‘ in sexual abuse across the sector — a damning mps report describes a culture of denial. organisations all too often have appeared more concerned to protect their own reputation in the sector rather than protecting victims and survivors. salman abedi — the man who bombed the manchester arena — was rescued from libya's civil war by the royal navy three years earlier. labour's being urged to suspend a member of its ruling body — after he was recorded describing some members of thejewish community as trump "fa natics". coming up, the sport. yes, would you have picked him? adil
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rashid makes the starting 11 for the first test against india. and alina has all the weather.

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