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to family members -- they will talk to family members —— they will see it before won't they? but i think they are the people who will help us get the help, and it is asking those questions, "are you 0k?", asking about your feelings, and also if you have any thoughts, suicidal thoughts, or otherwise, and i think from a family member or a loved one who sort of asks those questions it kind of brings it home and the lot. aw, thank you so much. mind is one charity who can help and there are many others out there. and you can see how that pans out. you can watch that holby city episode tomorrow night at 8 o'clock on bbc one and if you or someone you know is affected by mental health issues, you can get advice from the bbc action line website — the address is on screen now. we will make sure that is on our social media. time now for country
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file summit derbys. —— summer diaries. this is bbc news. the headlines at 9. food prices are expected to rise in the coming months, as farmers feel the effects of this year's extreme weather. the campaign calling for a new brexit referendum is attempting to change labour party policy on the issue, according to a leaked memo. an official un report accuses myanmar of carrying out genocide against its rohynga population, and blames the country's leader — aung san suu kyi — of failing to prevent the violence. police in florida are working to establish why a gunman opened fire at a video games tournament, killing two people. officials injacksonville say the 24—year—old suspect then turned the gun on himself. and coming up in half an hour on the bbc news channel — weather world. this time, we're in scotland. and we'll discover what scientists are doing to help protect one of scotland's most famous products — whisky. food prices are being tipped to rise
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as farmers and producers feel the effects of this year's extreme weather conditons. new research by the centre for economics and business research suggests the price of meat, vegetables and dairy products will rise by at least 5% in the coming months. the cold snap earlier this year followed by the summer heatwave, have contributed to the wholsale price of some vegetables rising by up to 80% over the last six months and put huge strain on farming costs and yields, as our reporter, katy austin, explains. this year, extreme cold has been followed by exceptional heat — a nightmare scenario for many farmers. farming has endured the worst summer drought in living memory,
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so that's impacted on wheat yields. so milling wheat is in short supply in northern europe, and vegetables in particular have been impacted quite severely, and so they will be in short supply in the coming months. now, an economics research group say farmers' costs and a struggle to produce enough is pushing up wholesale vegetable prices, and some dairy prices. for example, between march and july, the farm gate price of carrots went up 80%, there was a 20% rise in the cost of wheat for bread, and the price of onions went up 41%. the researchers say that has a knock—on effect, and with some other products here and in europe also set to get more expensive, a monthly £7 increase on shopping bills could be around the corner. a spokesperson from the department for environment, food and rural affairs told us it is not only the weather that affects food prices. it says it has taken steps
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to help affected farmers, and the high temperatures have helped things like fruit and wine. a leaked memo shows that campaigners seeking a referendum on any final brexit deal are attempting to persuade labour to change its position on whether to seek another vote. labour's current posision is to respect the result of the 2016 referendum, but the cross—party group, people's vote, wants labour activists to submit motions so it can be debated at the party's conference next month. our political correspondent, jonathan blake, has been following the developments and joins me now. jonathan, what is being done to try to make this change happen? people's vote, the group calling for a referendum on the final deal that the government will reach with the eu, if it does quesne knows the government has ruled out that prospect of there being a second
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public vote. what the memo shows as they are targeting directly labour members to try to get them to submit a significant motion at the party conference next month which, if voted through crowd would change the labour party policy on brexit. they have not ruled out 100%. it is not the labour party policy to hold another referendum. keir starmer said, if, in the event of parliament voting against the final deal reached by the government in brussels there should be all options on the table, that leaves a bit of wriggle room for a second referendum to potentially happen. what is the likelihood of it becoming official labour policy? many hurdles have to be overcome. it would have to gain overwhelming support from labour members at conference and more importantly some of those on the left of the berkeley supportive of
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jeremy corbyn. as far as some of those people are concerned it will be seen as an attempt to undermine his leadership because he hasn't ruled out a second referendum. they say explicitly in a notice to campaign members that should not be seen as campaign members that should not be seen as any campaign members that should not be seen as any attempt to criticise or destabilise the leadership ofjeremy corbyn because, after all, many labour mps associated with the people's vote campaign are often those criticising jeremy corbyn. what would the timeframe be? we aren't getting very close to everything changing. it is. if voted through, it would effectively become labour party policy parent then. there is not much time left between now and the end of negotiations. —— there and then. between now and november is whether deal should be done to be voted on in parliament and cleared by the other eu 27 members before brexit day in march
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next year. theresa may is on a trade mission to africa. what is the expectation of that? it is the first trip to africa by theresa may. she is the first british leader to go there since david cameron in 2011. it is described as an ambitious visit was she will visit kenya, the first visit of a british prime minister in 30 years or more. it is being pitched as a trade mission but asa being pitched as a trade mission but as a renewal of britain's relationship with the emerging economies in africa, which make up a large portion of the world's population but, as theresa may will say in her speech opening the visit in cape town, and much smaller proportion of the world gross domestic product. there is a large delegation going with power. representatives from companies like jcb and the scotch whisky federation
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and government advisers hoping to renew britain's relationship with these african countries where china and other world powers have been investing in the meantime and also to focus on security and to discourage people from making the dangerous journeys across the mediterranean as refugees and migrants towards europe. thank you. two people have been shot dead by a gunman at a video game tournament in florida. 11 others were injured in the shooting, which happened at a gaming event injacksonville, in the north of the state. police say the killer shot himself dead at the scene. andrew plant reports. this was a videogame tournament being streamed live online, young people gathered in a room inside a shopping centre, playing an american football game, when suddenly shots are fired. just thought it was a balloon pop, the way it sounded. but then came the realisation, you know, that someone back there is shooting. so just we basically got down and crawled out, for our lives. screaming, just shooting, i heard gunshots, people just running, pushing each other, just getting out of the landing. police used social media to warn
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people to stay away, and to hide if they were trapped inside. they later said they had found the suspected gunman already dead. the single suspect in this case is a white male. this is pending confirmation, but we believe the suspect to be 24—year—old david katz, from baltimore, maryland, and the fbi is assisting us with that leg of the investigation in baltimore. florida has seen several mass shootings in recent years, including the pulse nightclub in 2016, where 49 people died. it is not clear what prompted this latest shooting. there is speculation that david katz had just lost a game in the tournament. police say investigations into the motive are ongoing. shopping online has become the norm for millions of us. almost one in five sales are now made on the internet rather than on the high street. it means there's been a building boom in retail distribution centres
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that get our products to us. warehouse space has doubled injust a decade. here's our business correspondent emma simpson. it's big business delivering parcels. these days, most of them contain our internet shopping. it's 9pm at dhl‘s vast depot at east midlands airport and things are getting busy. each night we process 190,000 shipments through this facility. and it is growing. dhl has invested or than £150 million expanding this site to keep up with demand. it has changed incredibly. a few years ago we wouldn't have seen any e—commerce or online shipping products coming to this organisation, now we are seeing 60% of the uk volume is all e—commerce. what does that tell you? it tells us that is the way forward, that is where the future is. location is key. this region is making the most of its good connections, next door,
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a vast distribution park is taking shape, the east midlands gateway. high street shops may be shutting, but this part of retail is growing at breakneck speed. we have commissioned research, which shows that over the last decade 235 million square feet of warehouse space has been leased or bought. that is double compared with the previous decade and more than half of it has been built from scratch. like this. and a proportion going to retail has doubled too, with 2018 set to be a record year. 0ver there is the airport. the boss told me there are now almost as many planes with cargo as passengers. passenger flights tend to be during the daytime hours, then what happens overnight, we really come to life
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with the cargo activity, which is all about that next day delivery. and so we see phenomenal growth, maybe 19, 20 planes per hour that is literally bringing cargo in or taking it out in the country, ready for that next day. 0ur changing shopping habits are creating thousands of new, very different job and infrastructure. a journey which still has a long way to run. emma simpson, bbc news, east midlands airport. police in the west midlands have launched a murder investigation after a mother and daughter were stabbed to death. police were called to an address to solihull in the early hours of this morning and found two victims — aged 22 and 49 — with serious stab wounds. both were pronounced dead at the scene. west midlands police say they have identifed a suspect who is known to the victims and are making "urgent attempts" to arrest him. sellafield is one of
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the most contaminated industrial sites in europe. crumbling buildings are home to decades—worth of accumulated radioactive waste ? a toxic legacy from the early years of the nuclear age. now its operators are in a race against time to make the most dangerous areas safe. we've been given exclusive access to one of the most hazardous parts of the site, where ingenious technology is used in the clean—up. in the early days of the nuclear age, britain was enthralled to the awesome power of the atom. the first large scale atomic power station in the world will be supplying britain's grid next summer. its scientists scrambled first to build bombs, then what seemed to be a limitless source of energy, and sellafield was at the heart of it all. but those heady, early days have left a toxic legacy of crumbling, contaminated structures. now the bbc has been allowed to film inside the most hazardous of all. here it is — the first generation magnox storage
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pond here at sellafield. this is where, in the past, used nuclear fuel was brought to cool down before it could be taken away for reprocessing. it has not been used for 30 years but is still full of toxic, radioactive material. cleaning that up is now proving to be a major challenge. it has to be cleaned up. the structure is obviously showing its age. if part of it were to collapse, the consequences could be very serious. but removing its dangerous contents isn't easy, because it wasn't designed with decommissioning in mind. the word decommissioning did not exist until about 20 years ago. so there was no thought. the idea was it would just be empty. nobody realised at that time that the radiation would change the nature of the material — that some of it would corrode. it was expected it would be relatively straightforward just to empty. thejob of sifting through the radioactive man murk is given to specially designed underwater robots.
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their human operators remaining at a safe distance. it arms cutting edge technology, able to operate in the harshest of environments. this machine developed by local firm forth engineering — one of hundreds base near the plant which is benefiting from sellafield's predicament. many products they develop for the nuclear industry can also be sold profitably elsewhere. sellafield has been a good test—bed and definitely a good pedigree to have our robots go there first. if it could work in sellafield it can work in the oil in gas areas. it will be many years before this dilapidated facility can finally be demolished. decommissioning other parts of sellafield will take even longer. for engineering firms in the region that means their ingenuity will be an update on our headlines on bbc
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news. the headlines on bbc news... food prices are expected to rise in the coming months — as farmers feel the effects of this year's extreme weather. an official un report accuses myanmar of carrying out genocide against its rohingya population — and blames the country's leader — aung san suu kyi — of failing to prevent the violence the campaign calling for a new brexit referendum is attempting to change labour party policy on the issue — according to a leaked memo. time for a full sport round—up with chris. all eyes onjose mourinho and the rumours are he's not getting on with this money. last week's de vita brighton. he is actually one of the
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favourites to be the first manager sacked this season. he said very little at the press conference but said what he did expect of his players in this match. don't make defensive mistakes, be dominant, create chances, score goals, and get the three points. we want to win all the three points. we want to win all the time, we want to play well all the time, we want to play well all the time. we don't want to make mistakes. that's what you always want. chelsea maintained their winning start to the premier league season, but they had a bit of luck to come out 2—1 winners at newcastle, the blues snatching all three points late in the game when deandre yedlin scored an unfortunate own goal. you have to wait to see the look on his face. he knew his mistake had blown it for his boss, rafa. . fulham have theirfirst win since winning promotion back to the premier league. this stunning ball was the pick of the bunch as they
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beat burnley 11—2 at craven cottage. the cross is going in for watford these days. holebas finding the top corner, sealing their win over crystal palace. theyjoined chelsea and liverpool at the top of the table. in the scottish premiership rangers are still unbeaten under steven gerrard but motherwell were the ones celebrating at fir park, rangers leading in the final moments of the game but then peter hartley scored this one end 92nd minute. in the other game celtic beat hamilton 1-0. and the other game celtic beat hamilton 1—0. and in british basketball the men won the world wheelchair championships, beating the united states in the final. the gb team claimed a 79—62 win over the rio paralympic champions for what is their first global gold medal. it adds to the silver medal won by the women's team — in what has been a very successful tournament for britain... just played against some of my idols
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growing up. guys i literally used to look up to and what, so to be competing against them and come out victorious and world champions, the best tea m victorious and world champions, the best team in the world, it's ridiculous. lewis hamilton's formula one championship lead has been cut to 17 points after sebastian vettel won a chaotic belgian grand prix. nico hulkenberg admitted he was too late on to the brakes at the first corner in spa where he smashed into the back of fernando alonso who's car then careered over the cockpit of charles leclerc. all three were unharmed, the latter saying the new halo safety device which was introduced at the start of the season helped. sebastian vettel overtook hamilton moments after the crash and held on to win by 11 seconds. lewis pushed very hard. towards the end he was very fast, very hard, had to turn everything down a little and control the pace but, yeah, great weekend. there was more gold
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for great britain on the final day of the european athletics championships in berlin yesterday. aled davies won the men's shot put with a distance of 15 metres 49 centimetres — a new comptition record. so it's double gold for davies as he won the f614 discus last week. there was also gold for 18—year—old thomas young in the men's t38100 metres. that completed the sprint double for young as he won the t38 200 metres saturday. great britain also won the 4x100 universal rely to claim their 20th gold of the championships. the british kaya ker lizzie broughton claimed the first major title of her career with gold on the final day of the canoe sprint world championships in portugal. she won silver over 1000m on friday, top of your screen there, but went one better today with gold in the 5000m. broughton is a marathon distance specialist and only began competing in the sprints last year.
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i was pretty nervous before, because they are all pretty quick, 200 metres, 500 metres, so. iwould get washed out at the start of the decade of dead, but i knew ijust had to pick them away one of the time, got to the front, then i was quite comfortable, then thinking of the lapse, one more, one more, then i was finished. maybe give me a couple of days, but, incredible, makes all the hard work worth it when that happens. that's all the sport for now. we will be back in the in the next hour. we will see you then. thank you. the un has released a damning report into the rohingya refugee crisis, accusing the head of the army in myanmar and five other generals of carrying out a genocide against the country's rohingya muslim population. the report — published by un human rights investigators — called for the generals to be tried in the international criminal court. it also blamed myanmar‘s leader aung san suu kyi forfailing to prevent the violence. marzuki darusman, who led the team of investigators,
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outlined their findings. myanmar has been trapped in cycles of violence and associated human rights violations and abuses for much of its existence. the repressive control of the myanmar minority and the manner in which it and other security forces conduct their operations across the country lying at the heart of the problem. these operations are based on policies, tactics and conduct that consistently fail to respect international law and deliberately target civilians. they are in flag ra nt target civilians. they are in flagrant disregard of the life, property and well—being of civilians. they are marked by extreme levels of brutality and disproportionality. they are in the
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pursuit of deeply discriminatory and exclusionary visions, primarily affecting ethnic and religious minorities. this results in the consistent patterns of serious human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law in the states outlined in a report. —— in our report. the military‘s co nte m pt in our report. the military‘s contempt for human life, dignity and freedom, for human life in general, should be a cause of concern for the entire population of myanmar, and to the international community as a whole. for the rohingya, this is compounded by state policies and practices implemented over a decade which have steadily marginalised and excluded them any process of othering. the ranger are in a situation of continued systemic and
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institutionalised oppression, from birth to death —— the rohingya are any situation. they have a complete lack legal status. we found it deeply disturbing to see how the myanmar population is being misinformed by its authorities, and how it is being exposed the divisive rhetoric. the human rights violations in myanmar are fuelled by the efforts of the myanmar authorities to silence critical voices and their amplification of hateful rhetoric, that emboldens perpetrators. the myanmar authorities have fostered a climate in which hate speech thrives, human rights violations are legitimised and incitement to discrimination and violence facilitated. that is the leader of the team of un investigators looking into what has
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happened in myanmar with that strong criticism of what has happened to the rohingya population in myanmar. now, the recent heatwave has seen many of us choosing to holiday at home this summer and seaside towns have been reaping the benefits. the welsh coast has drawn plenty of tourists because of regeneration that was funded by the eu. but with the prospect of that money being withdrawn because of brexit, what could the future hold? tomos morgan has been to find out. i mean, when i first came here, it had a bit of reputation but i saw how great it was. some may have thought that rhyl has had its heyday, but this seaside town has been revitalised in recent years by european funding. and this cash injection, alongside the recent spell of good weather, has helped boost businesses like the local kite surfing school. certainly when people come here you literally could be anywhere in the world. so, in general, there's so much improvement going all the way down the promenade and when people come here they love it. they don't just stay for a day, they stay for three or four, which is brilliant. per mile, wales has more blue flag beaches than anywhere else across britain.
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and almost half of these are across the five coastline counties of the north. it's been a bumper summer, too, for the caravan and campsites that look out across the irish sea. these are the lucky ones that got a place at frith beach touring park this bank holiday weekend. they had to turn people away due to popular demand. this is our third time here. you can't beat it. you're right on the beach. the dog loves it. it's a beautiful camp. the beach is safe. it's huge. it runs for miles. so there's no trouble of overcrowding. it's just wonderful. 0n the opposite side of the region is an island full of pristine beaches and rugged coastlines. this is benllech beach on the east coast of anglesey, which this summer became the top trending destination on airbnb across the whole of the uk. but there are concerns that benllech and other areas across north wales
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will struggle in future without further investment into tourism. it's a fact that anglesey relies more per capita on tourism than any other county in britain. without that support, without the investment, we certainly won't continue to grow as well as we have done in recent years. the majority visiting are domestic tourists. wales as a whole struggles to attract those from abroad compared to other areas of the uk. foreign visitor spending here has decreased by 17% over the last 12 months. so what more can be done to attract those from overseas? i think the problem we have is international tourism tends to concentrate on london and then perhaps on scotland. what we need to do is emphasise that message, that to see the diversity of wales is to see a distinctive historical and cultural part of the united kingdom. after all, it's the only properly bilingual country in the united kingdom. with picturesque shores, plenty of lettings, and an abundance of adventure tourism, north wales has been made for summer tourists.
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and many will be heading back here with their bucket and spades this time next season. tomos morgan, bbc news, anglesey. a species of bird extinct from europe for over four hundred years is being shown the way back to the continent. the northern bald ibis follow a human foster parent, who has nurtured them in captivity, thousands of miles back to austria aboard a light aircraft. it's hoped that once enough of the birds return to the wild, they will be able to flourish in europe again. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. a very good morning to you. it has been a fine start to the day across many parts of the country, not quite as wet as yesterday for the most part. but we have got a few
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showers are particularly across western areas this morning. north—west england a focus for those and we will continue to see them throughout the day in the west. fewer in number in the afternoon. the breeze down a little and many of you will spend most if not all of the day dry with sunny spells, feeling warmer than yesterday, 20—22 in east anglia and the south east, a good six or 7 degrees higher than yesterday across some parts of eastern scotland and north east england. through the night, the cloud will disappear and the showers will fade as well. later tonight we will fade as well. later tonight we will see things turn wetter in towards the western isles as the breeze picks up, most will have a dry night. a little on the cool side through eastern parts of scotland and through the north—east of england, but as we go into the rest of the week, a bit of rain around on tuesday night and into wednesday, but in wednesday itself i think most places will eventually become dry with warmer weather towards the end of the week. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines... food prices are expected to rise in the coming months, as farmers feel the effects of this
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year's extreme weather. an official un report accuses myanmar of carrying out genocide against its rohynga population — and blames the country's leader, aung san suu kyi, of failing to prevent the violence. the myanmar authorities have fostered a climate in which hate speech thrives, numerous violations
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