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into a "vortex of eternal shame" if it wasn't resolved. president maduro of venezuela blames right—wing opponents and colombia for what he says was an assassination attempt using drones carrying explosives. the government publishes plans to change organ donation in england to an "opt—out" system from 2020. at present, donors have to sign up to the nhs register. children's entertainer barry chuckle, one—half of the chuckle brothers, has died at the age of 73. his comedy partner and brother paul said he'd lost his very best friend. now on bbc news, it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday, i'm hugh ferris. the headlines this evening: can england's georgia hall make history at royal lytham? she leads the british open playing the last.
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it's like football never left us. manchester city are still winning as the new season starts with victory over chelsea in the community shield. but for ireland, defeat, as their fairy tale run to the final of the women's hockey world cup doesn't provide a happy ending. and laura kenny has another european gold. it's number two in glasgow despite another sleepless night for the new mum. iamso iam so am i am so am legally nervous. and to come outwith... is unbelievable, i am so come outwith... is unbelievable, i am so happy. hello and welcome to sportsday, i'm hugh ferris. they're going into the final hole of the women's british open at lytham,
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and england's georgia hall leads the way as she chases her first major title. hall's moved up to 18—under par in the last few minutes. and a double bogey on the 17th for thailand's pornanong phatlum hall now has a three—shot lead. that's one shot clear of thailand's pornanong phatlum, who had been looking uncatchable at the top. but a series of birdies on the back nine have put hall, who's just 22 and from bournemouth, into the lead. she'd become just the third briton to win this event. much more in sports day at 7:30pm. but for now, football. manchester city picked—up where they left off, winning the first silverware of the new football season. the premier league champions beat chelsea 2—0 in the community shield at wembley. patrick gearey reports. under blue skies and through shaded eyes, football is back,
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if it ever went away! european qualifiers began weeks ago, for a start, and both of these teams already had pre—season tours. manchester city's featured 18—year—old phil foden, a young englishman who they see as the future, and he set up a star of the recent past. aguero! aguero‘s 200th goal for the club. if he represents city's continuity, at chelsea, it is all change. meet maurizio sarri, their new manager, a former banker with a gambler‘s instinct for attack. easier in theory than practice against a side like this. aguero again. time for a break, temperatures at wembley meant water and instructions were taken. it took until the final minutes for anything to filter through for chelsea. tammy abraham sorted by claudio bravo, 2—0 it finished. pep guardiola's champions seem in no mood to settle. this shield is a statement. patrick gearey, bbc news. steven gerrard had a lot to deal with in his first scottish premiership game in charge of rangers. a red card, a late equaliser,
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but a point as well as they drew i—i with aberdeen at pittodrie. tim hague reports. steven gerrard has seen most things in football, but today a new experience, a first league game in charge as a manager. yet his team talk at aberdeen went out the windown in the first few minutes. one player provoked, but petulant, too. that kick saw him sent off. it left rangers in real trouble but they did not panic. in fact, they were the better side. a push awarded with a penalty, and the captain made the most of the opportunity. how long could they hang on? one of their new summer signings with the handiwork there, and while rangers were showing a steely side to all aspects of their game, it began to get nervy towards the end. aberdeen perhaps let should have equalised here, but then did in injury time. 19—year—old bruce anderson getting the equaliser on his debut. 1—1 the final score then,
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and nobody said this management lark would be easy. tim hague, bbc news. one other game to tell you about in the scottish premiership, and neil lennon's hibernian got off to a winning start. they beat motherwell 3—0 at easter road. leeds united, under one of the most experienced managers in world football, marcelo bielsa, have got their championship campaign off to a great start. they were already i—o up against stoke city when pablo hernandez made it two. england goalkeeper jack butland won't want to see that one again. and while stoke, the title favourites, got one back thanks to benik afobe‘s penalty, leeds regained their two—goal lead. captain liam cooper's header sealing the victory. ireland's run to the women's hockey world cup final may well have been against the odds, but the form book was followed against the netherlands in that final. the defending champoins and world
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number one team won 6—0 in london. jo currie is there for us. yes, ireland's cars may be broken this evening but in the end, they we re this evening but in the end, they were simply outclassed for the world champions, who in front of sell—out crowd here in london claimed in april title. setting a relentless pace, warming up with a goal near half—time, the pick of the bunch. two more goals to follow him in the second half, while the irish failed to register a single shot on target. 670 is the largest ever win in a world cup final, but once the dust is settled, the irish camp reflect on an incredible journey at this world cup. here to help us reflect is the former english great sally walton. just not to be for ireland today. the dutch living up to their
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working today in steam—rolling ireland today. nothing ireland did wrong, theyjust ireland today. nothing ireland did wrong, they just came ireland today. nothing ireland did wrong, theyjust came up against a team in top form and 11 tournament former allies and writing wise all through the tournament. put into perspective how good this dutch team is. is it one of the greatest bloodstains? they had the potential. they really are coming to fruition. and there had kept, you can see they have a real desire to want to do it for not only themselves but for their coats. for ireland, once they wipe the tears away on the page, there was some happiness there. they must‘ve been so proud to get this far. they probably are still painting themselves to make sure it does was real. they had to be proud, they have a surprise package in the tournament. take nothing away from them, they have done their homework against every opposition they have played. they did a greatjob here and it is great to have a home support. english man's turning
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irish, great britain fancier, everyone ali. put on a show to get behind ireland today. so many of their friends behind ireland today. so many of theirfriends are behind ireland today. so many of their friends are up behind ireland today. so many of theirfriends are up —— players behind ireland today. so many of their friends are up —— players are part—time. how does it manage getting to a world cup final when you have a job to go to at the same time? a lot of these girls get up at 6am to do gym sessions before they go to their daytime job and play camps oi'i go to their daytime job and play camps on weekends. it is tough but it suits the irish underdog mentality to work for everything they have got. credit to them. when they have got. credit to them. when the irish part—time players returned to their dayjobs over the weekend they can at least use up to a hero must level, know they have changed the face of women's oche in ireland. —— women's oche. great britain's laura kenny won her second gold of the european championships in glasgow despite admitting she's still not back to her best since having her first baby last year. the four—time olympic champion won the elminination race, her 12th european title, asjoe wilson reports. laura kenny in glasgow is carefully measuring her progress. motherhood meant a break. she says sports now comes second, but she still finishes first.
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19 riders began the elimination race. the slowest were removed until two sprinted for gold. laura kenny not in a bad position. it is a thrilling format and laura kenny loves it and so did the spectators. laura kenney draws clear, and the gold medal awaits kenny as she wins the european title! kenny came to speak to me and it seemed her ears were ringing from the cheers. i wanted to ask, are you surprising yourself by what you have managed here so far? a little bit, yeah, i rode in the worlds and i was pretty average and coming back here, i did not know how it was going to go. that's my first individual event. i felt pretty shaky to begin with, i have to admit, but once i settled into it, i really enjoyed it and that is how i used to feel. and she stands on the podium as if she had never been away. joe wilson, bbc news, glasgow. on the road, marta bastianelli
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won gold for italy. it was her first major road title since winning the world championship in 2007. then, as today, she beat marianne vos of the netherlands into second place. britain's dani rowe was tenth. britain's georgia davies has won the european title in the 50 metre back stroke. it's the first time davies has won gold in this event having won silvers and bronze in the two previous european championships. davies had already broken the european record with her time in the heats. breaking news from the world of golf, and georgia hall hasjust won the women's british open at royal live in. she did by three shots, fairly convincingly. an incredible jewel in that final round with her opponent from thailand. but in the end, georgia hall, from thailand. but in the end, georgia hall, britain to win the british women's
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openedin britain to win the british women's opened in gaul. she has done so and much more of course throughout the evening. warrington will play catalans dragons in the final of rugby league's challenge cup. the wolves have won the trophy eight times, but for the french team, even reaching the final is a rarity, as alex gulrajani reports. the prizes are getting closer on the road to wembley. a challenge cup first, both semifinals back—to—back in bolton. the sky is clear, the sun was shining, a home from home for catalans dragons. this corner of northwest england became the south of france as dragons flourished against league leaders st helens. with nine wins in their last 11 league games, they are in form. but st helens are the runaway leaders at the top of super league. this was a huge surprise. they are over again! garcia, this is unbelievable! but before flights, hotels and suits could be booked, saints launched their comeback. they have two back—to—back
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in five minutes. there is the belief the wembley trip might be back on. dragons made sure it would not be. booking their day in london. pretty incredible for the club. this year, in the million pound game and this year in wembley, a fantastic turnaround. the boys worked extremely hard. we have three weeks to get ready for that game. what a chance. we cannot be a prouder group. so who would be lying in wait at wembley, warrington or leeds, two teams steeped in two teams steeped in challenge cup history? leeds made their claim early, catching everyone by surprise. their joy was short—lived. warrington bounced with a bang. and a challenge in the air. he has taken and passed it away. dives over in the corner. one of four first—half tries
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for warrington as they pushed ahead. leads knews what they had to do after the break and began to make amends. the mood would change as the match was well and truly back into warrington‘s favour. four more tries for warrington, concluded in spectacular fashion here. and now there'll be quite a celebration. a huge celebration. happy to get back to winning more than losing. after the disappointment of last year in both competitions, we have worked really hard in the off—season. you can only win two major trophies, so we have a crack at one of them. and that stands for both dragons and warrington, a fiery encounter ahead. alex gulrajani, bbc news. that's all from sportsday. now on bbc news, it's click.
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planet earth is changing — daily. we humans are affecting its surface, its climate, its inhabitants. watching from ground level makes it difficult to make sense of it all, but these days, we do have the data and we can crunch the numbers. and when it comes to understanding the really big issues, those that have effects on a truly global scale, visualising that data can turn millions of figures into something that everyone can understand. maps like these created by carnegie mellon university's ea rthtime website combine nasa satellite imagery with a wide range of datasets to produce visualisations of environmental and geopolitical events from light pollution, to refugee movement, to the effects of coral bleaching on areas such as the great barrier reef. one particular area where modelling
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such as this can display the starkest impacts is flooding. you can see how important that extreme weather research that we looked at in miami is. raise the global temperature byjust two degrees and the sea engulfs the entire area. and this here is bangladesh, where rising water levels are putting many, many people at risk. in 2017, a third of the country was left underwater after monsoon rains, devastating crops and communities. but while technology can't prevent rainfall on this scale, it can make predictions to help those in remote communities to try and stay one step ahead of the weather. paul carter has been looking at how one insurance company has been using its knowledge of risk to help the farmers fight back against the rains. like farmers the world over, in bangladesh, they have
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to battle the elements. but in their case, severe flooding could be a regular occurrence. given the impact floods can have, weather information and advice on what farmers should do with their crops is disseminated to communities through phone voice messages. or via call centres that farmers can ring in to. and for those who don't have phones or live in remote off—line areas, there are also weatherboards at district points where farmers can come to receive information. when floods destroyed this farmer's crops, it cost him about three months' wages. these initiatives were set up by the bangladeshi government and an international charity that helps communities find sustainable solutions through technology. and now, an app being piloted is taking things even further.
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the sesame app uses machine learning to combine historical knowledge of crop patterns with weather forecasts so that farmers can make advanced decisions on when to plough the land, plant and apply fertilisers. this farmer is being advised to spray a fungicide to protect the crops. although these measures can be a big help, poor communities are often unaware of how vulnerable they actually are to extreme weather, or what they can do to lower the risks. another platform being used by the charity is setting out to assess just this — measuring the strengths and weaknesses of communities like those in this district. using the frmt, or flood resilient management toolkit, representatives from the charity visit different communities to look at factors such as what crops are grown, weather patters, what large buildings exist, and the flood prevention measures that were already in place. in all, the technology looks at 88 different indicators to come up
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with a very holistic picture of how an area can cope with bad weather. it's quite a departure from traditional outlooks, which mostly considered factors such as dams and reservoirs. the thinking behind this technology, though, comes from another country altogether, where flooding could also be an issue. 7500 kilometres away here in switzerland, a partnership between ibm and zurich insurance company has looked deeply into what makes a good flood resilient. in the last few decades, flash flooding has cost switzerland hundreds of millions of pounds. resilience for us is not just a new buzzword like sustainability or something else. the big challenge of resilience is that you don't see it until the event has happened. so what we want to have is a set of strong indicators that tell you something about what might resilience look like if something happens and then how can
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we strengthen those indicators, so it's all about not being derailed and not falling into a poverty trap despite that there are risks out there. the algorithm measures all the indicators and generates a numerical value on how resilient a population is. so this helps us use what we call engineering judgement, or expertjudgement, to start sorting and organising the data so you can come up with these numerical scores and i think that's a pretty unique approach that we have. technology has been pivotal, but also kept simple so it can be used off—line. you need to work with simple devices so you don't have the most expensive hardware either. how easy is it to sell resilience as a concept? i think we need to move away from this, you know, what is my saving if i do this? to much more a point of trying to answer the question, what's the cost of doing nothing? back in bangladesh, for farmers in this area,
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the cost of floods has been very high. just how vulnerable the area is is being revealed by the researchers. waterlogging hampers people's livelihoods and leads to mass migration. by working together and making proper plans, it's hoped that the technology could help reduce the risks to their livelihoods when floods hit. and now, we're popping back to mit in boston. this place is full of really creative people, but behind this door are three guys who are trying to make us all more creative by hacking our dreams. robot: you are falling asleep. so, what's happening here is we're taking these three bio—signals, your heart and your skin and your muscles, and we're looking for this state of sleep in between fully awake and fully asleep. what we're doing is, we're watching, watching, watching, and right as you descend into the next stage of sleep, we introduce a little audio from the robot.
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and that bit of audio knocks you, so you're not fully asleep. and then we see if whatever word we use will in fact enter the dream. by introducing the subject of your problem into your dream and then listening back to a recording of your so—called hypnogogic mumblings, you mayjust find that you hit on a creative solution. specifically because in that moment, you're hyper—associative. your cognition is really elastic, it's really flexible. you don't have that same capacity to review and be critical of your thoughts, so you generate really weird, aberrant, divergent thoughts, things that come to you as dreams, but which you can later use as creative insights. robot: you are falling asleep. if, that is, you can bear listening to the weird conversations that you end up having, like this recording of one experiment. robot: you are falling asleep.
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think of a fork. a fork. tell me, what are you thinking? in tests, the students found that people who'd used this method could think of more creative uses for objects and they wrote longer stories with more drawings. and, you know, something tells me that the sleep glove may have been used to come up with the concept for its own promo video. either that, or this is how adam likes to sleep most nights. that's it for the shortcut of click for this week. the full—length version is waiting for you right now up on iplayer. and don't forget, you can follow us on facebook and twitter at bbc click. thank you very much watching, and we'll see you soon. hello.
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it's been another fine, dry day. plenty of sunshine around for much of the uk. barely a cloud in the sky through central england and down towards wales, too. it's a different story, though, the further north and west you go. we've got more cloud to northwest scotland. at times, this is producing patchy rain. so a very different feel to the day here. and that's because we're closer to this area of low pressure. it's having a greater influence. it's feeding in more cloud and also some weather fronts. so, patchy rain on and off. and you can see the extent of the cloud quite nicely on the satellite image. so sunny spells for northern ireland. a bit more cloud through northern england and up into northwest scotland. the best of the brightness
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here out towards the east, and certainly a large part of england and wales barely seeing any clouds whatsoever. and as we head on into this evening, it's a similar story. we will start to see that rain increase and become more persistent and a little bit heavier as we head through the night in scotland, and low cloud and some mist and murk working its way to southwest england and up into wales too. but even under clear skies, it's not going to be a cold night, with a minimum temperature of 13 celsius. so a warm start to monday morning, and for many, it will be a glorious start. plenty of sunshine around once again. the mist and murk through the southwest and into wales will lift quite quickly. there will be cloud through parts of western scotland and down into northern britain too. and there may be some patchy rain at times. i think northern scotland has a greater chance of seeing something a little bit brighter as we head through the afternoon on monday, but that heat once again focused in the southeast corner, with highs of 31, possibly 32 celsius. now as we head into tuesday, this weather front is going to try to make progress and try to edge a little bit further south and eastwards, but it is going to stall. it will introduce more cloud into northern england and also one
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or two outbreaks of patchy rain, too. but that will gradually fizzle out, and i think by the afternoon, it will be a case of sunny spells. certainly for a large part of england and wales, it's going to be another fine, dry day. plenty of warm sunshine once again and hot down towards the south and east, with temperatures reaching potentially 30 celsius. fresher further north and it will turn fresher for all of us as we head to the middle part of next week and more unsettled. this is bbc news. i'm nicholas owen. the headlines at 7pm: jeremy corbyn apologises on social media over anti—semitism in the party, after his deputy warned that labour could disappear into a "vortex of eternal shame" if it wasn't resolved. president maduro of venezuela blames right—wing opponents and colombia for what he says was an assassination attempt using drones carrying explosives. the government here unveils new plans for organ donation.
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adults in england will automatically become donors unless they opt out. currently, just under 40% of people are signed up. i didn't have no hesitation. we walked hayley to theatre, said goodbye and ijust kissed her and ijust said, "go save some lives, hayley." tell you what, move it towards me a little bit. to you. to me.
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