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hello. this is bbc news with rachel schofield. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines. police scotland say they're examining complaints of sexual misconduct against the former first minister alex salmond. the claims are strenously denied by mr salmond. he says he's "no saint," but that he's done nothing wrong. egyptian authorities say a british couple on holiday there died police scotland say they are examining complaints of sexual misconduct against the first minister, but the claims are strenuously denied by him. a hurricane is causing flash flooding and landslides in hawaii. the islands are being pummelled
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by winds of 105 miles per hour and heavy rain. president trump says progress with denuclearisation in north korea is "too slow" and cancels a planned trip there for his top diplomat. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the political commentator giles kenningham and nicola bartlett, political correspondent at the daily mirror. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the times reports on far right figures showing their support for labour leaderjeremy corybn after a video emerged of him giving a speech on what he called "uk zionists," with a labour mp said to be ready to quit. there's a picture of
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a notting hill carnival queen in the daily telegraph ahead of this weekend's event, which will see metal—detecting knife arches used for the first time. the daily mail says the plastic bag tax is set to be extended to all shops, with the levy increasing from sp to 10p. the daily mirror leads with claims from the daughter of a couple who died while on holiday in egypt. she calls their deaths "suspicious." the former first minister alex salmond is on the front of the guardian as he vows to take the scottish government to court over its handling of sex assault allegations against him, which he denies. and the sun has a story about liam gallagher who reportedly grabbed his girlfriend by the throat during an argument at a nightclub. a variety of stories making the front page of saturday's papers. let's see what our reviewers make of it all. giles, we will start with the
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guardian, and the story we mentioned there, alex salmond facing these suggestions there was some kind of sexual harassment. he has really been fighting back today? an immense story. each politics. alex salmond isa story. each politics. alex salmond is a colossus in scotland and has been rocked to the core by this story today that he has been accused of two allegations of sexual harassment. these allegations date back to when he was first minister in 2013. he strenuously denies those allegations. he has hit back and mounted a legal action against the scottish government, because he says he was told these allegations would remain confidential. the political backdrop, what makes this interesting, is that this pits him against nicola sturgeon, who has been, and is, his closest political ally. so really, really difficult, and,i ally. so really, really difficult, and, i mean, the optics of it are very tough. and it was interesting
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today seeing nicola sturgeon gives some interviews on this. she did look shaken, she looked upset to be having to oversee all of this. yes, as you say, they have obviously been incredibly close. she was almost seen as his protege, coming up through the snp. it is kind of... it is always a difficult situation when there are allegations of this kind, but it is almost a kind of grown—up issues are to actually have to take on, politically, you know? the snp we re on, politically, you know? the snp were not really rocked by these kinds of allegations in the same way that other political parties were when lots of them came to light last year. it is kind of, you know, we obviously don't know what happens, but it's kind of suggests that this can happen anywhere. —— it kind of. politics has been particularly badly
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hit with that, but we haven't seen it in scotland so much. one of his complaints is that he has not been allowed to see, or he has not been told what the allegations are against him. identity can nicola sturgeon and the scottish government have any other option but to investigate this. due process must happen. they cannot be any special treatment for a former first minister. you can see that it must strike people is odd, you don't know quite what you are being accused of. this whole legal process is about how he feels they have mishandled it in some way. do we know quite what he is going to challenge, in court? i don't think we are entirely sure that it i don't think we are entirely sure thatitis i don't think we are entirely sure that it is an interesting route for him to take, to go to court over it. and against his own party, where he was the figurehead of that party for so was the figurehead of that party for so long. exactly. and in terms of keeping anything secret, that puts a difficult spin on it, when he is taking that action, because he has complained they were going to publicise it, taking them to court,
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my understanding is that the daily record was actually going to publish the allegations and he has now come out fighting, you know? he is a kind of strong character, and as you said, he denies these allegations, he says he has been no saint, though, it is interesting how he has chosen to handle this. and on the wider political front, for nicola sturgeon to have this on her plate, while there is talk of her racing the whole issue of a second independence referendum soon, it is a distraction that is troubling for her. —— raising. a distraction that is troubling for her. -- raising. she is in a compass politician, and very good media performer. but this is probably the most testing time of her premiership. while we were on the guardian, takea premiership. while we were on the guardian, take a stand to the bottom. while we might have been fooled into thinking the real pope francis has arrived in dublin, giving people the opportunity to
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selfies, this is just giving people the opportunity to selfies, this isjust a giving people the opportunity to selfies, this is just a wax giving people the opportunity to selfies, this isjust a wax replica. but he is coming? yes, he is. obviously a very big event in ireland. but not perhaps as big an event as it once might have been. the last time there was a papal visit was 1979, and 2.7 million people flocked to see him. it will bea people flocked to see him. it will be a big occasion, but he is coming at an incredibly difficult time for the church, globally, but especially in ireland. at a time when things are really changing, because once the catholic church was the dominant force. we have seen challenges to its authority with the vote on gay marriage in the vote on abortion. it will be interesting to see what the atmosphere is like when he arrives. i think it will be a mixed reception, really. yes, they think
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that maybe half a million people will turn up to one of his masses. still a huge amount of people, but not the force they once were, coming under a lot more scrutiny. it is only the second visit ever to island bya only the second visit ever to island by a pope, so it is a big event. —— ireland. at a dark shadow being cast over it. and there are allegations still standing in ireland about sexual abuse. some people criticising him, saying there has been further acknowledgement by the vatican about what has passed, some admission there was criminality and things which were reprehensible, but still a lot of criticism he hasn't gone far enough. yes, a very tough time to them. well, let's look at the mirror. nicola, this is your paperso the mirror. nicola, this is your paper so you can talk us through this. holiday season, but this is one holiday that ended in horror, essentially? yes, this is an absolutely awful story about a couple, john and susan cooper, who
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we nt couple, john and susan cooper, who went on holiday, a dream holiday to each of their family, and they both sadly passed away. at the moment we do not know what caused their death. we have an interview in tomorrow's mirror with dead daughter who has givena very mirror with dead daughter who has given a very kind of emotional interview, actually. she has talked about what happened and she described seeing them pass away before her eyes, and doctors battling to save them. she says there is something suspicious that has happened, and she doesn't believe they died of natural causes. and, you know, there are various kind of accusations that she has levelled against the hotel, but we don't really know, at this stage, what has happened. and yet thomas cook, the tour operator in this case, have taken very decisive action. yes, a very dramatic step, almost unprecedented, i think. they
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have pulled all their british holidaymakers out of this resort, a hugely popular resort with more than 3000 uk holidaymakers going there every year. crucially, one of the interesting elements of the story is that this is not an isolated incident. the mirror has an account from other holidaymakers talking about falling victim to food poisoning, being hit by it year in sections, thyroid problems. —— hit by year infections. —— ear. sections, thyroid problems. —— hit by year infections. -- ear. it is also mentioned in the daily mail, on their front also mentioned in the daily mail, on theirfront page, but also mentioned in the daily mail, on their front page, but actually, their front page, but actually, their key story is about something thatis their key story is about something that is going to affect all of us, which is plastic tags on we go shopping, and if you want to buy one, because you forget your special one, because you forget your special one, you will have to pay more. yes, the plastic bag clamped down continues. a levy is going from 5p to 10p. previously it has just been in large retail supermarkets where you have been hit with this charge but now they are going to roll it out across every single shop. now,
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this measure came into force in 2015, and according to the daily mail, plastic daggy usage fell by an astonishing 86%. —— plastic bag usage. so, really successful. the political backdrop to this is the tories trying to get on the front foot when it comes to the green agenda. it may feel like they have a real issue when it comes to wooing the youth vote in trying to reach out to them, and it feels that this is an area where they can connect with them. do you think the public appetite for this is there? will people complain if it goes up, or actually, is this push by the conservatives to claim some of the green ground that cameron set out to get is going to work in their favour? well, you know, this story shows how successful it has been so far. you know, the use of plastic bags from supermarkets has fallen from 75 billion to just 1 billion since the tax was introduced. it is
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an interesting step for the conservative party to introduce a tax on anything like this. designed, obviously, to change our behaviour. it is clearly working for a lot of people. i always seem to manage to forget mine. sol people. i always seem to manage to forget mine. so i am a good example. maybe when it switches to 10p it will help focus my mind. exactly. let's ta ke will help focus my mind. exactly. let's take a look at the times. you are both political animals. giles, you can start us off, the times leading with the far right coming outfit called them. this is not a headline he is necessarily going to wa nt to headline he is necessarily going to want to see. tell us what is behind this story? a fresh anti-semitism row, it is a political headache for him that will not go away. in these latest developments, a video has emerged of him, from a2013 it and, where he said that british zionists have lived in this country a very long time, all their lives, they
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probably don't understand in which irony. —— english. incredibly controversial commons, sparking outrage in the labour party. a common from mike gates, the former labour chair of the foreign affairs select committee, saying he is not prepared to support a racist anti—semite, period. it is overfor him. that suggests he is leaving the party. you have had other labour mps coming out today and questioning his leadership in such open revolt. in a normal political cyclejeremy corbyn would be toast. it is quite remarkable, it is remarkable that he hasn't got a grip on it. all the apologies continue to be qualified. and the people who have come out in favour of him are people he wouldn't necessarily want to count among his friends, one imagines?” necessarily want to count among his friends, one imagines? i think necessarily want to count among his friends, one imagines? ithink this is really hard to kind of overplay how bad this is. you've got the former head of the bnp, nick griffin, praisingjeremy former head of the bnp, nick griffin, praising jeremy corbyn. and you've got the clue klux klan chiefs
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also coming out in support of him. -- klu. this is also coming out in support of him. —— klu. this is a man, one of the greats tenets of his identity, he says, is that he has campaigned against racism his whole political life. nick griffin is arguably the man who has posed a real threat to british politics with his divisive racist attitude. as you said, it has beena racist attitude. as you said, it has been a really difficult time for the labour party when it comes to this issue. why have they not managed to get a handle on this, do you think? this has gone round and round of new developments all the time, this story. i think partly it is a case of, i know mr corbyn never thought he would be labour party leader. he never was ambitious in that way. and so never was ambitious in that way. and so he has always spoken very freely. and he is somebody who has campaigned for the cause of the palestinians whose whole political life. —— his whole political life.
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you could say that has led him to say some things which are offensive. whether you think he is actually anti—semitic or not, i think more and more people are seeing here is, like might gates —— mike gates, and other labour mps. like might gates —— mike gates, and other labour mp5. i think the fact that he always qualifies his apologies is a really big deal and i still don't think he personally understands the problems that this has caused. and the strength of feeling. but let us go to the financial times. make sure you are nice and calm. i bank with tsb and fell victim to this it meltdown which happened in may. and it was a nightmare. i could not transfer muqqy nightmare. i could not transfer muggy between accounts, i couldn't pay people or suppliers. at 1.1 had to go into the bank to get muggy out. they changed my address so i
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went, boyd. the list goes on. now heads rolling. this is bizarre. ultimately the lies with the ceo. in this story, it has basically allowed criminals to take advantage of customers and defraud them. you wonder what it will take for them to get a wonder what it will take for them to geta grip wonder what it will take for them to get a grip on it. but icy they have made losses which is not surprising. one of the reasons why people probably still stay with is that it is such a hassle to move banks. that is such a hassle to move banks. that is why not me. it is like energy companies. we are all told to change but we can't bother with the admin. i actually had to go into a bank to get muggy, you said. that is frustrating, of course, but that is modern life. we are used to being a little ball online, and that is what is making banks and these and ulster
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bank so outdated. —— visa. is making banks and these and ulster bank so outdated. -- visa. it makes you realise how vulnerable we are once the systems go down. we don't have the ability, i mean, it has made me think of gatwick the other day when the it system went down and somebody was writing flight on a board. but you do need to put things in place in case things do go wrong. we are almost a cashless society, andi we are almost a cashless society, and i pink sweden is. the financial conduct authority recently said to banks they have three months to talk about how they plan to tackle it glitches and cyber attacks. i think this is a story that we will see more about, tsb or no tsb. in that senseit more about, tsb or no tsb. in that sense it is a wider issue. but we finish with the telegraph, it too stories that we want to talk about.
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a lovely picture here arejulie cam fox, carnival queen, at this week and's notting hill carnival. but a serious tale behind this picture. she looks fantastic. and the colours and you know the floats, and everyone will look amazing on sunday and monday. but there is a more serious issue at stake, which is the mayor has introduced these security arches for the first time. and these are the people to pass through and there will detect whether people are carrying a weapon. that is designed to make it safer for everyone. but it is against the backdrop of growing violence within the capital and the difficulties that have been experienced by the matt ryan to combat that. there are discussions about what is causing it. sadiq khan would say that comes to police have
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made difficult to tackle that. but there is also other underlying issues that make it a really, given situation. i think you were saying ina way situation. i think you were saying in a way being up to detect a knife is not the issue, but working from back as to why a lot of men might be tempted to carry a knife. this is clearly a reactive measure. this week, you had one of the conservative candidates, shaun bailey, who was to be run against sadiq khan, suggesting plans for an extra thousand police on the street. that to me seems like an eminently sensible issues. the public need reassurance. they need visibility. sadiq khan has had done my bit. people do want to hear about them doing their bit, they want leadership., said that are unforgivable. your comment earlier which was that another thing that was said about the carnival, which could be a very bustling and busy time, that was ticketing. historically, it has been floated
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make itan historically, it has been floated make it an all ticket event. some would say that it goes against the ethos of spontaneity against it, but men wearing situation in which we need more accountability. but so far they have fought against it and it is not happen. yes, and keeping the community feel. let us finish with the bottom of the daily telegraph and women to be given the right to ta ke and women to be given the right to take abortion pills at home. this is particularly concerning donations to pregnancy before ten weeks, early stage. typically, those abortions are, well, most women would have to ta ke are, well, most women would have to take two different tablets and they had to take both of them in a clinic, one day, and then two days later the second. the problem arises because they take the tablet at the clinic and the process of aborting the baby begins. on public transport
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will try to get home, women are experiencing incredibly painful cramps and really heavy bleeding while we are trying to get home. and this really makes the process easier, because if they can take that second tablet at home, they can doa that second tablet at home, they can do a comfortable and safely, and without the indignity of, you know, bleeding heavily on public transport. very briefly, giles, this is an people will be unhappy about this, but it does bring england into line with other parts of... yes, in wales and scotland, this it happens. it will be a measure that will polarise people. you have those that wa nt to polarise people. you have those that want to protect unborn children, who will use legal measures to block the move. that is sadly all we have time for. we have rattled through them and hopefully given you a good flavour of the papers to night. —— tonight. don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online
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on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, giles kenningham and nicola bartlett. goodbye. hallowed. look to sports stay with will perry. —— hello. geoff emery new up after narrowly for a 259 second press conference and look how happy the manchester united manager was. “— happy the manchester united manager was. —— jose mourinho. happy the manchester united manager was. -- jose mourinho. i don't analyse with you on the players. tottenham's world cup winning goalkeeper is charged with drink driving three days before the trip
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to old trafford. and fernando alonso was red bull to apologise when they denied his claim that they offered them to drive next season. hello. tasering says he has no problems with ed woodward despite reports to the contrary. —— has a marina. in his dress conference before the game against totman lasted little more than four minutes, and he was not in a good move. —— tottenham. than four minutes, and he was not in a good move. -- tottenham. you are pessimistic and i am not. i don't analyse with you on my players. had i feel? analyse with you on my players. had ifeel? i analyse with you on my players. had i feel? i feel we played analyse with you on my players. had ifeel? ifeel we played well against leicester and we won. i felt
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we play bad against brighton and we lost. across manchester, fencing camping that is 10th anniversary with the club. —— fencing company. he's just as you get short of 250 games, and it could come tomorrow against wolves. a lot of changes happening here. so it is a long time. many games. unfortunately it could be more. but no doubt he has the chance. he's very fit. of course because now too. —— of course a big personality. west brom were beaten back to a stopping time goal. —— stoppage time. miss chances until daniel ai poked home. stoppage time. miss chances until danielai poked home. —— stoppage time. miss chances until daniel ai poked home. —— ayala.
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let's have a quick look at some of the other stories involving football stories today. tottenham and hugo lloris has apologised after being charged with drink—driving. the spurs champion has been bailed after random breath testing in london. loris karius' two—year loan deal to besiktas looks a step closer after the turkish club posted a picture of the turkish club posted a picture of the turkish club posted a picture of the turkish goalkeeper on their twitter account. they have since deleted it weak. and being rich woman had taken bronze in the under 20 world cup after beating hosts france in an under 20 shootout. this is after their game finish with 1—1 injapan. is after their game finish with 1—1 in japan. they later is after their game finish with 1—1 injapan. they later beat sweden in the final. fernando alonso says he wa nts the final. fernando alonso says he wants an apology from red bull after they denied his claim to drive in
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they denied his claim to drive in the next season. he will retire at the next season. he will retire at the end of the season and he failed to secure a deal away from the mclaren team. the red bull boss insists they have not offered a contract since 2007. fernando alonso said they had apologised by e—mail for previous comments, saying he was suitable to work with, and he hopes the apologised again this weekend. kimi raikkonen caesar benefited most from the rest, clocking the quickest time in practice for the belgian drumbeat. lewis hamilton with sebastian vettel down in there. —— belgian grand prix. they are com pletely belgian grand prix. they are completely out of contest. they have been chasing me for five or six occasions in the past five or six yea rs. occasions in the past five or six years. and now they say that, that they are loyal to their programme and their commitments and our
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drivers. it has been weird and unfairto me. drivers. it has been weird and unfair to me. that is all from me. more sport throughout the weekend. see later. hello. certainly noticeably cooler across the south and east of the country today. what's showers and the forecast. some really heavy with helen thunder. it is then cool into this weekend as well and of course many of us who will be about holiday weekend. we will seas on china times, too. this air of low pressure is responsible for the showers which swept south—east was across the country, certainly through this afternoon into the evening. most of that away from the south—east, now. they will continue across the south—east. if you continue to travel through the cheshire cat and the midlands, but for most it will bea the midlands, but for most it will be a chilly night we kept as a
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single figures were all, and doubt to 203 degrees in the and east. starting tomorrow chilly, but it should be bright, was posits a chat around. still a breeze and a few showers. again, if you across the north and west. showers could develop further inland, but there will not be heavy or frequent competitor day. a cool day, but if you are to be treated in the sunshine, it should feel a little more pleasant. heading into saturday night, there will be another chilly one again. at present in the west is this area of low pressure moves in, stopping temperatures from falling as low as we will see this coming night. again, another chilly night but not as cold. that changes into sunday. this era of low pressure will push into western areas early on sunday and continue its journey is woods. a little bit of brightness and chilly weather across the north and chilly weather across the north and east. very windy in the system as well. last across the board, but
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with gusts of 40— 45 mph across the south of the worst. of course will impact temperatures with actual air mass, the wind, the cloud, the rain, and temperatures not getting much above 15— 80 degrees. disappointing for late august. that system clears through sunday night and into bank holiday monday. —— 15— 18. about a quieter day to come with an showers across western areas, but more sunshine around, especially in the east, and with the late wind, it should tell pleasant. the temperatures should range from 17 to 21 or 22 degrees in the south—east. a bit of when picking up into tuesday, always a warmer direction, with good spells sunshine around. temperatures in the south could reach the low 20 celsius. this is bbc news.
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