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hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines. jeremy corbyn apologises on social media over anti—semitism in the party — after his deputy warned 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 publishes plans to change organ donation in england to an "opt—out" system from 2020. 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. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
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bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster and entertainmentjournalist, caroline frost and the parliamentary journalist, tony grew. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the ft leads with a warning from the chancellor, philip hammond, to business leaders about a french—led attempt by the eu, to restrict the uk s access to european markets after brexit. ministers are warning that a no—deal brexit will result in the eu breaching its own laws —— that's according to the daily telegraph. the metro leads with a warning from liam fox, the international trade secretary, that the uk is now likely to crash out of the eu without a deal 7 which he blames on the eu s chief negotiator, michel barnier. meanwhile, the express says that a no—deal brexit could end up being worse for the eu than for the uk, costing brussels as much as 500 billion pounds. self—harming by teenage girls has doubled in 20 years, that s according to the times, which says that the figures have led to concerns about the pressures of school and social media on young people.
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the independent carries a picture of the world war two vintage aircraft, bluebird —— which crashed in the swiss alps, killing all twenty passengers and crew on board. it also reports that leading universities are urging the government to bring back maintenance grants for poor students, in order to improve diversity in higher education. the i voices alarm over the number of unaffordable houses being built on green—belt land. and the guardian has found that virgin has been awarded almost 2 billion pounds worth of nhs contracts in the past five years. so, a varied set of front pages 7 lets see what our reviewers make of it all. let us start with the financial
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times. tony, perhaps you could get us times. tony, perhaps you could get us off won this one. quite a lot of complicated things in the headline. the chancellor had a meeting with senior city figures to talk about brexit and the impact it might have on the financial services. effectively what he was talking about was what is at the nub brexit, we leave leaving the european union and it is how closely do we stay allied with european standards in manufacturing, health care and financial regulation and he said the eu would initially hold britain close, but that over time brussels would pass legislation that might hobble the city and test our tolerance. if you're out of the tent, you do not have a say on what financial regulations the eu might introduce and he was effectively warning businesses that france in particular might be interested in
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trying to snatch the services to paris. the flip side is that advocates a brexit have said that one of the advantages of leaving is that it gives us greater flexibility to trade with emerging markets, particularly in the far east and there is some scope for the uk, there is some scope for the uk, there may be advantages if we had different regulations. the chancellor is famous for being a bit keen on the process and worried about the city as the man who is in charge of the money should be. we have seen over the last 18 months that he has been the most, let us say, cordial on message, he has never gone rogue like some other cabinet members, but you do hear more and more often these leaked private dinner conversations, certainly with business executive types. phillip hammond is obviously lowering expectations and i have said this before, these
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conversations that i feel we should have been privy to before the referendum, to hear that he is fearing a french drive, i would think, why were we not told this years ago? that might be the theme of the telegraph. no—deal brexit will break eu's own laws. just explain that. they are saying, they being ministers, the government is charged with, unnamed sources, although a few names have dripped into the story, if we end up crashing out of the eu next year that this will not be our fault, this will belong to the eu because they will be breaking their own laws, that they should be trying to create a culture of enabling us and cooperation with their nearest trading partners. that seems to me like child calling that a parent,
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saying i know i had a cell, i threw my toys out of the sand pit, but you we re my toys out of the sand pit, but you were expected to behave better and ina more were expected to behave better and in a more mature way. this is like ina in a more mature way. this is like in a strange divorcee trying to walk away from the marriage saying, if you think we are not going to be able to cope without you, you're wrong, but it is also your fault and you need to manage this operation. it is not a very strong position. liam fox was talking about and no—deal brexit of being a 60—110 probability and he is the international trade secretary. probability and he is the international trade secretarym probability and he is the international trade secretary. it is unclear what he does all day given that no one will start a trade negotiation with us until our negotiation with us until our negotiation is set with the eu. this is one of the most embarrassing stories ever. it is simultaneously setting up, the hard brexiteers saying if this falls apart, it is not ourfault, while saying if this falls apart, it is not our fault, while simultaneously saying, we are not afraid of the no deal that we will blame on you when
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it comes along. i find it confusing and the language is embarrassing. they being the eu need to accept that we have done nothing wrong. what? we have left under the terms of the lisbon treaty which says they have an obligation to help us and what they are trying to rely on is the general principles that are set out in the treaty as if that is a ha rd out in the treaty as if that is a hard law they will use. we're still told that britain is still ready to walk away without a deal, but we will make clear whose fault it was and it sounds like child. downing street also insist that theresa may remains confident of getting a good deal. never mind all of the above, we are still on track to getting a really good deal, apparently. confidence is what sees you through negotiations, it is not about hard fa cts , negotiations, it is not about hard facts, it is about being positive, but also threatening them that you're not afraid of no deal which you're not afraid of no deal which you will then blame on them. you're not afraid of no deal which you will then blame on themli you're not afraid of no deal which you will then blame on them. i used
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to work in the office of a divorce lawyer and this looks like every single separation agreement i have ever seen. the lawyers will make all the money in the end. let us go on. staying with the telegraph, tony, this is the whole anti—semitism row, jeremy corbyn today producing this message on social media, but this is a rather surprising development, then's granddaughter getting into this. emily benn, she has stood as a candidate for parliament, she has a different political views and her grandfather, she is a more moderate member of the labour party. she was the niece of hilary benn. she has faced abuse from people telling her that her grandfather would be disgusted at her, that he would be turning in his grave if he saw the
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way she was behaving. that rubs up against the hard—core people who say the whole thing is a conspiracy to underminejeremy the whole thing is a conspiracy to undermine jeremy corbyn. she the whole thing is a conspiracy to underminejeremy corbyn. she has actually been smart and cool in the way she has dealt with this, pointing out to people that are grandfather was cremated and he does not have a grave to spin end and that tony benn himself would brook no criticism of his children or grandchildren if they differ from him politically and there are many stories on social media talking about people who criticised hilary bennin about people who criticised hilary benn in front of tony benn and felt his raft for ever questioning his son or his grandchildren. there are son or his grandchildren. there are so many aspects to the story and a lot of them are unpleasant one of the things are that it is this social media matters that people disagree with you now, no matter what side of the divide you are wrong, it seems as terrible amount of abuse is thrown. social media was
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flagged as this wonderful democratic platform giving everyone a voice, but people have taken it and run with it and are now increasingly, because they want to get themselves heard and noticed and liked and shared, it is becoming more extreme and what you're getting is the moderate debate, all of the new odds, she is in the party, she feels differently, but that gets lost. it isa differently, but that gets lost. it is a headline, a sound bite and people want to have their voices heard. it is also free of consequences, anyone can join twitter and start screaming abuse. different subject altogether, the eye, this is the headline. full details inside the paper. there are some headlines there to back this up. you are saying this? this is a report from the campaign to protect rural england to have all sorts of things on their agenda, things about pathways, roadways and bypasses, they come out banging the drum to
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say do not throw out babies with bath water and i think instinctively we all feel that we know this is happening and everywhere we go, i live within the green belt and you walked down a road, houses or small strips of houses are one house is now a block of flats, all we ever hear, other evenings, is about the housing crisis and clearly there is a way of having to address all of this and i think the point they are making is that this is happening at the expense of a lot of beautiful green pastures that should remain in our domain. there is land are being used for those purposes. one of the things we are not short of is lovely green pastures, we have dozens of areas of natural beauty and the green belt is an immediate post—war construct, i have no time for the campaign, they are a pressure group. this is theirjob. the fact is that we need half a million new houses
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and they need to be built somewhere. iam not and they need to be built somewhere. i am not saying that those areas of outstanding natural beauty should in any way be touched, but when we talk about the green belt, we are talking about the green belt, we are talking about brownfield sites a lot of the time and areas that are not particularly pretty. they are saying they should be using those areas and exploiting those areas more profitably for new housing. the important part of this argument is that it important part of this argument is thatitis important part of this argument is that it is about it is all very well to build wherever, but it always tends to be expensive houses and this idea that the houses we need need to be affordable. that is the pa rt need to be affordable. that is the part of it that needs to be addressed but that needs a much broader strategy from the government. how to get people on the housing ladder and the general price of houses. the idea that we should not build on the green belt, i don't buy that. i am not surprised at a pressure group that theirjob is to
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project rural england, it is not being preserved in the way that they like. let us end with something nice. there is a rumour ran that you might have been some are quite sunny but look at the front page of the times, what an extraordinary picture, explained the caption. we are in cardigan bay which is an area of outstanding natural beauty. it is in wales near aberystwyth and we do not know who these female rowers are that they are rolling and they have gone very close to a little bit of nature. it is a close—up of a dolphin at play as the hot spell continues. they say a picture tells 1000 words, i think we are all enjoying the heat, some more than others, so it is that the summer is continuing. it is a beautiful picture, some people are enjoying continental temperatures at uk presses and i find continental temperatures at uk presses and ifind it continental temperatures at uk presses and i find it a continental temperatures at uk presses and ifind it a little bit
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too hard, it will be 30 degrees in london tomorrow. it is a beautiful picture, but fires in europe on page site, it is a serious health crisis. that's it for the papers this hour. my guests caroline frost and tony grew will be back with me at half past eleven for another look at the papers. next on bbc news it's click. planet earth is changing — daily. we humans are affecting its surface, its climate, its inhabitants. watching from ground level makes it difficult
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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 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
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2 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 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. 0r via call centres that farmers can ring in to.
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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. 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
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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 with a very holistic picture of how an area can cope with bad weather. it's quite a departure from traditional outlooks,
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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. 7,500 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 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.
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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, 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
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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. 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,
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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. think of a fork. a fork. tell me, what are you thinking? in tests, the students found that
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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,
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and we'll see you soon. hello. by the end of this weekend, there is a change on the way for many, but in the short—term, there is more of the same. the best of the sunshine today across england and wales, where, for many, there was barely a cloud in the sky. by contrast, much more cloud again for scotland and northern ireland, particularly for the west of scotland, where at times we have seen some patchy rain and that is because we have a frontal system towards the north—west of the uk and that will continue to slowly sink its way south and eastwards tonight and into tomorrow. high pressure maintaining its dominance across much of england and wales, it is staying dry, very warm, if not hot here. 0vernight that band of cloud and rain across northern ireland and scotland will continue,
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we will see some mist and some low cloud developing across wales and south west england, clearer skies elsewhere and then a muggy night with lows generally between 13 and 16 degrees. the mist and low cloud across england and wales tomorrow. it will disperse, plenty of sunshine once again, the further east that you go. still some cloud for northern ireland and scotland, some patchy rain for a time, a few breaks in the cloud, the further east you are, later in the afternoon, some of that cloud, moving into parts of northern england where we could see a few spots of rain in the afternoon. the strongest winds for the western isles of scotland, fairly light winds elsewhere and still again another very hot day in east anglia and south—east england, where temperatures are likely to exceed 30 degrees, somewhat cooler and fresher the further north that you are. so going through tomorrow evening and most people will have a dry evening, late spells of sunshine, but still this band of cloud stretching from the south of scotland into parts of the north of england, may be given the odd spot of rain and here is ourfront as we go into tuesday. it is a weakening feature, by the time we get to tuesday, more of a band of cloud, but it is also a dividing line between the warmth and the heat further south which we will hang
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onto for another day, we will see something fresher further north and eventually that will sink its way south eastwards. for tuesday, we have got our zone of cloud again stretching across southern scotland and parts of north—west england, northern parts of wales, still providing the odd spot of rain through the day but slowly fizzling out. into the north of that, fresher spells of sunshine, maybe one or two showers, plenty of sunshine, further south and east, where again temperatures will exceed 32 degrees, some mist and low cloud across south west england, but at times, it will keep things a little bit cooler, but cooler is the trend through the middle of the week and beyond that. heat will start to ease, fresher for all and some of us will see some showers. this is bbc news. i'm nicholas 0wen. the headlines at 11pm: jeremy corbyn apologises on social media over anti—semitism in the party after his deputy warned labour could disappear into a vortex of eternal shame if it wasn't resolved. detectives investigating the death of midwife samantha eastwood have
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charged a man with her murder. 32—year—old michael stirling will appear in court tomorrow morning president maduro of venezuela blames right—wing opponents and colombia for what he says was an assassination attempt using drones carrying explosives. the government unveils new plans for organ donation. adults in england will automatically become donors unless they opt out, currently just under 40% of people are signed up.
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