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to be magnanimous in victory and gracious in defeat following violence after emmerson mnangagwa was declared the winner of the presidential election. the opposition mdc alliance says it plans to challenge the result in court. us secretary of state mike pompeo has called for pressure to be maintained on north korea as concerns mount about the progress of denuclearisation. speaking at a meeting of southeast asian countries, mr pompeo called on us allies and partners to maintain sanctions against pyongyang. the hollywood film producer harvey weinstein is trying to have criminal charges against him of rape, dismissed. his legal team is arguing that prosecutors should have shared email evidence with the grand jury that indicted him. mr weinstein denies all the charges. it's little more than 50 years since donald campbell lost his life, trying to break his own water speed record in the lake district.
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his jet powered vessel was travelling at more than 300mph, when it crashed on coniston water. well bluebird k7, has since been salvaged and painstakingly restored, and is about to take to the water again. lorna gordon has more. the isle of bute in the firth of clyde has never had a visitor like this. bluebird. the jet—engined hydroplane that held seven world records, restored to its former glory in a journey that has taken 17 years. it's all original material, it has been re—repaired and assessed for strength. modern day rivets, all this kind of thing. just a painstaking and thorough rebuild. donald campbell died trying to break his own record as the fastest man on water, hurtling past at more than 300mph on coniston water in the lake district. his daughter, gina, carrying the teddy bear he had with him, has come to bute to see bluebird take to the water again. i'm tingling.
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i'm not sure how i'm going to feel to see the boat up close. i think the crux will come when i see someone else climb into the pilot seat. i have never seen anyone else in there other than my dad. this time around, bluebird will be travelling across this scottish loch at much lower speeds, the volunteers involved planning to toast success in an understated style. are you going to celebrate? nice cup of tea. do what the british do best. the project has been built on cups of tea. this, a long waited for chance to celebrate donald campbell's achievements, by seeing his record—breaking craft in action. again. lorna gordon, bbc news, on the isle of bute. now in this week's edition of our world, tim whewell has been to norway to try to discover why child protection in norway appears to be in crisis. this programme contains descriptions
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of child abuse which viewers may find upsetting. norway. two years ago i came near to meet parents whose children had been taken away. meet parents whose children had been ta ken away. —— meet parents whose children had been taken away. —— came here. they said the state was far too quick to put children into care without good reason. now i'm back and there is still more anger in families torn apart. at 1.i still more anger in families torn apart. at h was thinking if i was mad, ifi apart. at h was thinking if i was mad, if i had in my madness harmed my family without really knowing it. —— at one point i was. my family without really knowing it. -- at one point i was. and now one of norway's top child protection experts dan ‘s disgrace, forced to reveal a secret he had even all his working life. —— stands disgraced.
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if he had told a george he had been downloading child pornography for all those years of course he would never have been appointed an expert. —— judge. never have been appointed an expert. -- judge. what does that mean for the troubled system he worked in. this expert reviews all the cases in the country, he was one of these people. he was one of these people in this commission? 0h, people. he was one of these people in this commission? oh, my dear. i didn't know. cecilie runs every day in the woods above her home in oslo. runs to calm herself, to forget. but she can't forget the day years ago that changed her life forever. when they
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came, i left my —— i let my daughter opened the door. it was two child protection experts. theirjob, to advise the authorities whether or not she could keep her child. advise the authorities whether or not she could keep her childlj advise the authorities whether or not she could keep her child. i was very scared and i didn't want them in my house in the first place. i hadn't asked for them to come to my house and observe us together. norway's child protection service was worried about the little girl's development, but cecilie had rejected offers of help. they thought she wasn't taking proper ca re of thought she wasn't taking proper care of her daughter. so she took him up here? yeah, she took him up here. during their visit, the experts, a male psychiatrist and a female psychologist, scrutinise everything that happened. my daughter, she said, acting she said she was hungry, she wanted something to it. —— she was hungry, she wanted something to it. -- i she was hungry, she wanted something to it. —— i think. but i had decided
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i would cook a meal later after the experts had left my house and so i just offered her, would you like some chocolate, a chocolate cereal bar. and then the expert, he took that, he wrote in the report that probably i am only giving her chocolate cereal bars all the time for every meal. that is the only thing, i don't have to cook anything. so basically they misinterpreted everything? yeah, it was a distortion. then i noticed that the female psychologist, she was looking really intently at my ceiling. she was going like this. and then she noticed, there is a cobweb there. then she wrote it down in the report like it was something really, you know? you can still see something there. like, to take it as
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proof that my house was messy. or that it was not cleaned properly, that it was not cleaned properly, that it was not clean enough, up to their standards. when you saw the report, what did you think? when you saw what they had written? well, i didn't get the report until after the emergency care order. and then i realised that the report was very negative, that the recommendation was that my daughter had to be taken immediately. cecilie's daughter was put into emergency foster carer and the decision was approved at oslo district court, where the experts appeared as witnesses. fast forward several years to april this year, and one of those two experts, the psychiatrist, reappeared in the same courthouse. this time, though, he wasn't in the
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witness stand. he was in the dock. i am not going to name him, for a reason i will come to later. but he isa man reason i will come to later. but he is a man who played a key role not just in cecilie was mac case, but in those of many other families sue. —— cecilie's case. it was a trial of one expert, but it raises wider questions about the whole norwegian child protection system, a system that has been widely criticised for being too ready to take children away from their parents. hello, nice to meet you. the courtroom is over there? this man is a veteran campaigner for the rights of families. so this is the courtroom and you came here to observe the trial? yes, i was sitting, actually, right here in this chair. for the whole trial. i should warn you. the
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details that follow are quite unpleasant. he already admitted doing this downloading of pornographic pictures of young boys. and the children in these images, how old were they? the majority, i think, were 10— 14. but there were also very small babies. there was young boys having oral sex on each other and on grown—up men. there was raped. —— rape. there was disabled children, every, every fantasy you can think of in a bad way was explained there. so he is looking at these pictures of children being abused and he is never, ever putting himself in the actual position of the children he is watching? no, he
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did not put it like that. he didn't see that as ian paedophile at all, looking at pictures of young children being misused by adults. looking at pictures of young children being misused by adultsm all, there were nearly 200,000 images of children. more than 4000 hours of video. in passing sentence, thejudge notes hours of video. in passing sentence, the judge notes that the accused confessed his own guilt. but she adds this. the court finds that the accused, to a certain extent, trivialises his own actions. the court furthermore sees it as serious that a professional who is supposed to be the protector of children and young people has placed his own satisfaction and desires first in this matter. the influence of that disgraced expert has been felt here, too, ina disgraced expert has been felt here, too, in a small town in the south of norway. hisjudgement has played a role in keeping this family divided this rule years. the largest family
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in the town, with eight children? eight children, that is a rarity here. because that would be the question people would ask us, which children are yours and which are your husband's children are yours and which are your husbands and which are your joint children? and we were like... as well as being mother to eight children in as as a local politician and layjudge. children in as as a local politician and lay judge. she children in as as a local politician and layjudge. she thought of her home as loving, if lively, but five yea rs home as loving, if lively, but five years ago four of her children were suddenly taken away by child protection services, known as barnevernet. i got a phone call from someone barnevernet. i got a phone call from someone telling me that i have to come home. the barnevernet has taken the children. and my husband has been arrested. your husband had been arrested? yes. it was so absurd. obviously it was a mistake. and then
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when i came there they said i was arrested. when the door to the cell was closed, that's when i realised what it meant. and it was so strange to find myself in the cell. and i just remember being so scared. because this was madness. what is this, what is happening in our country? there had been allegations of violence in the home. the father was soon of violence in the home. the father was soon released without charge, but in is was accused of smacking her children, which is outlawed in norway. —— inez was accused. her children, which is outlawed in norway. -- inez was accused. one had said that i hit her and everybody said that i hit her and everybody
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said that i hit her and everybody said that my youngest son had been smacked, because he bites. i would hear our child crying out in pain andi hear our child crying out in pain and i would come running to help, and i would come running to help, andi and i would come running to help, and i would come running to help, and i would call out his name. and then they gave him a smack in order for him to let go of his sibling. but inez‘s explanations were rejected and her four youngest children were put into foster care. well, at ll children were put into foster care. well, at h was thinking if i was mad. —— at one point i was thinking. ifi mad. —— at one point i was thinking. if i had, in my madness, been doing things that i wasn't supposed to do. had i harmed my family without really knowing it? that was my thoughts. just the thought of being
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very scared and frightened. in her battle to get the children back, to try to prove she's a good enough mother to them, inez is being helped bya mother to them, inez is being helped by a lawyer victoria holmen. victoria believes there was a serious flaw in the case of inez. the problem was that every question was a leading question. and when you analyse the reports, what the children actually said, if it was counting up how many times did they say that's my mother was using violence against me? zero. they never actually said, my mother was violent to me? no, zero. inez was acquitted in a criminal trial of using violence against the children.
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two of her children were then returned. at the youngest are still in foster care, more than two years later. that is despite a report from two of norway's most respected psychologists which praised inez‘s parenting skills and recommended that the family be reunited. so why was the conclusion disregarded? because so why was the conclusion disregarded ? because it so why was the conclusion disregarded? because it was rubbished by two are the child specialists from a supervisory body, norway's child can get expert commission. one of them was the now convicted and disgraced psychiatrist, who had played a key role in putting cecilie's child into
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care. this document is where it went wrong. it is the conclusion from the expert commission and the problem for the commission is the report from the psychologists is too biased towards the parents of. that's what they say. and this is actually from they say. and this is actually from the psychiatrist who has now been convicted, he said that the psychologist report in this case we re psychologist report in this case were too biased towards the parents. yeah. the co-author of that allegedly biased report was reidar hjermann, he is responsible. patient he knows all about the disgraced expert. one of the most prominent child psychiatrists working in the child psychiatrists working in the
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child welfare system was convicted of downloading a very large amount of downloading a very large amount of child pornography, what question marks does that raise over the consistent? —— system? marks does that raise over the consistent? -- system? iwould marks does that raise over the consistent? -- system? i would not say it has something to do with this system at all. you find rotten eggs in every basket and still people who have done bad things they also do things that are quite good and normal. this child expert commission reviews all of the cases in the country, he was one of those people. yeah, he was one of these people in this commission. 0 my dear, i didn't know. there was an occasion in the case we were looking at ourselves where he criticised you personally and criticised your professional judgement very harshly. was that the
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same person? yes. he actually criticised your professional opinion. yes he did. and i disagreed with this very much and i was quite angry when i received this and it makes me think, of course. if this is the same person, then... that is the same person. because what happened after this was that these children's case would of course be treated in the light of this comment on my report. interesting. very interesting. there has been no discussion of the
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wider implications of this case in the norwegian media, no shop or outrage in the newspapers, no apologies or excuses or explanations offered by the authorities that employed the disgraced expert, and as far as employed the disgraced expert, and as farasi employed the disgraced expert, and as far as i can discover there are no plans for a full review of the child protection decisions that he was involved in the. —— involved in. the expert commission says it has looked through his reports and found no reason for concern. other child protection agencies i contacted won't comment on his conviction. but that won't satisfy families whose children were taken away to his involvement in the cases of. well, i would say that that expert, he is the one, he is responsible for
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taking my daughter away. and then it turns out that he himself has committed crimes against children andi committed crimes against children and i guess the thing what has happened is wrong. it does have very grave consequences on my life. happened is wrong. it does have very grave consequences on my lifem fa ct, grave consequences on my lifem fact, the report that the convicted expert co—authored followed several yea rs of concern expert co—authored followed several years of concern by many health and social work professionals that cecilie had neglected her daughter and she rejected the charge, rejected too, the report's conclusion that the child potential development would be limited if she stayed with her mother. it is not valid. what he is saying is not valid. what he is saying is not valid. because? because of what he did. that he was hiding from the court, he was breaking the law, you know? if he had told thejudge, yes and on my spare time for 20 years i
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have been downloading child pornography, you know? i mean, of course he would never have been appointed as an expert. the child so atrocious that was convicted and sent to nearly two years in jail. cashbacks child psychiatrist. so why has he not been named was back because he himself is the father of young children, they are entitled to privacy in the authorities have already said they can stay with their father when he is already said they can stay with theirfather when he is released. that decision has surprised many pa rents that decision has surprised many parents and campaigners, though others say there is no reason for outrage. so this is what links us, goes across to sweden. this man is this norway's most famous sexologist. he was an independent expert witness in the case of the disgraced psychiatrist and he says
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all 30 decisions should be based on evidence, not moral panic. we have lots of amounts of data showing that only a little part of those who are downloading pictures of children are offending children, so we have no empirical data that can really show the clear link between it. between downloading pictures and actually physically abusing, yourself abusing children? of this is about the credibility of the system, isn't it? it is not really about one man, it is about the issue of the system that employed him. yeah, but what you mean about the system that employed him? they shouldn't have employed him? they shouldn't have employed him? they shouldn't have employed him but they didn't know. they didn't know anything when they appointed him. i mean, we cannot turn the clock back was. what would happen is that there would be
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massive compensation claims. yes i think there would be. and if the system collapsed we wouldn't be able to handle it. so it is better to sometimes say that a sleeping dog sleep. but families who have lost children are not prepared to do that. it is a sin army of grief that his parents when things like this happen. child protection have finally holds inez they think she is a good mother. she hasjoined the cane hand —— the campaign of the system, one that has many professionals and parent ‘s. system, one that has many professionals and parent gm system, one that has many professionals and parent 's. it is so easy to sweep things under the carpet when it is uncomfortable and i think, carpet when it is uncomfortable and ithink, in carpet when it is uncomfortable and i think, in regards to systems, when things are uncomfortable, things have to come up, it has to surface, it has to be fixed. because if we allow it to happen again happen and again and it is so easy to dismiss
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the fact that it didn't happen to me, it is a case of the —— it is ok. but what about the date when it happens to you, unless you are willing to help change something when it affects others. there has to bea when it affects others. there has to be a willingness to that and there has to be a willingness to fix things so that it ensures people to trust the system. the government and the child protection service refused our request for a comment on this case of. —— on this case. they haven't been challenged hard over it in norway perhaps this is a society that tends overall, to trust the state. but parents increasingly don't. the ministry of children says
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legal safeguards for families are now being strengthened, but norway two silent scandal can only shake their confidence in the system still further. —— norway's. their confidence in the system still further. -- norway's. ican their confidence in the system still further. -- norway's. i can remember my daughter as a very happy child, she was obviously very smiling, happy, she was living. i could never have imagined that this could have happened to someone like me. i had a very good relationship with my daughter. i did. and i will never really get her back. hello there. the heatwave of 28 is
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set to continue. for some of us we had as high as 30 terry celsius, this was taken in topsham in devon, showing patchy cloud around there. through the weekend will keep that dry and warm theme, hot to the south—east and where ever you are there will be sunshine to be enjoyed. saturday sees high pressure dominating, moving infrom enjoyed. saturday sees high pressure dominating, moving in from the west, a couple of pretty weak weather fronts introducing some slightly cooler and fresher conditions to some north—western parts of the uk. further caused the south and east is where we have that warm, muggy human feeling a, sticky start to saturday in the south—east. a bit more clout
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and more of a breeze across parts of scotland, one or two showers in the far north—west and if we look at the tap richer contrast, it is downpours london region in the south coast that we have got the highest. likely to see up to 29,30 degrees, that we have got the highest. likely to see up to 29, 30 degrees, further north about 21 in a castle, i9 to see up to 29, 30 degrees, further north about 21 in a castle, 19 in edinburgh. as we move through saturday evening call those places dry, we will see a few showers for the western isles and parts of scotla nd the western isles and parts of scotland too. for the south, those clear skies but muggy and sticky in the south but not quite as humid as recent nights, which is 11— i6 degrees. the second half, sunday high pressure much in charge. not a lot of isobars on the map, not of wind. breezy at times for the final close of scotland where we see one or two passing showers. showers for northern ireland and northern england, unbroken sunshine further south—east across england. with light wind it will fill warm again for england and wales, be to high
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20s, further north and west, high teens to the low 20s. monday seized showers pushing into northern ireland and scotland, getting into parts of northern england but they will pass through quickly. further south, another hot day. 31 celsius possible by the time we get to monday and again it is going to feel quite humid. it does look like we will keep that heat for the first pa rt will keep that heat for the first part of the new working week and thenit part of the new working week and then it will turn cooler across the boardroom the second half of the coming weeks. bye for now. this is bbc news. i'm nkem ifejika. our top stories: lawyers for harvey weinstein try to have the rape charges against him thrown out of court. american secretary of state mike pompeo tells south—east asian allies that diplomatic and economic pressure must be maintained on north korea. it is worth remembering this is not just an american security issue. it is clear our partners and allies within asean know how important the denuclearisation of korea is for their own security. the united states calls
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on zimbabwe's newly re—elected president to be magnanimous in victory, after more violence erupts. and emergency services in spain and portugal are on standby this weekend with warnings that temperatures could reach 48 degrees celsius.
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