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this is bbc news, i'm sean ley. the headlines at three: the united nations says military leaders in myanmar should be investigated for genocide against the country's rohingya muslims. food prices are expected to rise in the coming months as farmers feel the effects of this year's extreme weather. a mother and her daughter have been stabbed to death in the street in solihull in the west midlands. also this hour: the building boom fuelling the uk's obsession with online shopping. with almost one in five sales now made on the internet rather than on the high street, warehouse space has doubled injust a decade. and in half an hour, tom brook goes behind the scenes for talking movies and explores how hollywood is dealing with issues of race and diversity. good afternoon.
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un human rights investigators say military leaders in myanmar should be investigated for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, and called for them to be referred to the international criminal court. in an unprecedented move, the investigators named six top generals, including the commander in chief of the armed forces, and his deputy. un investigators interviewed hundreds of victims and found evidence of rape, torture and murder against the rohingya predominately in myanmar‘s rakhine state. more than 700,000 of them have fled to bangladesh. from geneva, our correspondent, imogen foulkes. a systematic campaign of murder, torture, rape and against myanmar‘s rohingya muslims, extermination. patterns of violence which have been going on in myanmarfor decades and for which the un investigators say the country's top military leaders bear clear responsibility.
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this report contains details of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. now, it's highly unusualfor un investigators to publicly name those they believe responsible. this time, they say the evidence is overwhelming. six generals are named in the report. a longer list of names has been stored at the un for further investigation. the team interviewed over 800 victims and witnesses and heard accounts of gang rape, of children killed in front of their parents, and of entire villages burned to the ground. they showed me their scars. they showed me where it happened to them. i could just see from their bodies and others, these people were deeply, deeply wounded. you know, it's not only about justice for victims. it's also deterring future activity. if you allow this to go without any kind of sanction, then every army in the world
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will think they can do this. the investigators were also highly critical of myanmar‘s political leader, aung san suu kyi, who they say failed to use her position as head of government or her moral authority to prevent the violence. the next step, the report says, is to refer myanmar to the international criminal court. imogen foulkes, bbc news, geneva. 0ur south east asia correspondent, jonathan head said the generals criticised in the report were unlikely to face justice in an international court. well, as imogen said, the recommendation of the fact—finding team is that the security council should take myanmar to the international criminal court. myanmar‘s not a signatory to the rome statutes, so it doesn't have automatic jurisdiction. the security council would have to recommend that. but among the five permanent members of the security council, china is likely to block that.
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so, those wanting an investigation are going to have to pursue alternative methods of bringing these generals to justice, and that's likely to take the form of some kind of independent mechanism and possibly a tribunal. it's been done in the case of syria, they may well do it in the case of myanmar. there's no doubt the incredibly damning language of this report will give much more diplomatic momentum behind the determination to have some kind of accountability. and remember, most european countries, most north american countries and, indeed, most muslim countries are behind this diplomatic push to bring these generals tojustice. what it does do comprehensibly, this report, i think, is it absolutely shatters the reputation of aung san suu kyi, already badly tarnished. even to this day, she continues to defend her generals and to deny the human rights abuses. and she's put herself firmly on the side of those who are going to end up, likely, in some kind of international dock. new research suggests that the price of meat,
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vegetables and dairy products will rise by at least 5% in the coming months because of this year's extreme weather. the centre for economics and business research said the winter freeze, followed by the recent heatwave, had put huge strain on farming costs and yields. duncan kenendy has this report. 2018 has been a year of weather extremes, from the beast in the east to the wilting temperatures of high summer. for many farmers, the buffeting of the seasons has brought pressures that will soon have an impact on consumers. we've really had to buy in a lot of supplementary feed to feed the cows. we have fed this winter's silage which we would normally feed during the winter, we've had to feed to the cows during the summer and so we're running out of feed and having to buy in a significant amount of supplementary feed to feed the cows today and we're looking at a huge feeding bill for this winter. that will put our feed price up by about 4p per litre. now an economics research group says farmers‘ costs and the struggle to produce enough food is pushing up wholesale vegetable prices
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and some dairy prices. between march and july, the farm gate price — the price of produce direct from the farmer — rocketed. carrots went up 80%. there was a 41% rise in the cost of onions. the wheat needed for bread went up 20%. and the price of butter climbed 24%. the researchers say all this has a knock—on effect and with some other products here and in europe also set to get more expensive, the monthly shopping bill will go up. we expect it will cost uk consumers £16 million per week and that equates to £7.15 per month per household. a spokesman for the department for food and rural affairs told us it's not only the weather that affects food prices. it says it has taken steps to help affected farmers and that high
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temperatures have helped some food and wine producers. farmers say consumers can help them best by paying the price they need to stay in business. duncan kennedy, bbc news. a mother and her daughter have been stabbed to death in the street in solihull, in the west midlands. the women, who were 49 and 22, were found between midnight and one o'clock this morning. officers say they're making "urgent attempts" to locate a male suspect, who is known to the victims. 0ur correspondent dan johnson is in solihull. crime scene investigators are still busy at work here, examining all the evidence, because they have a double murder to investigate. a mother and her daughter both stabbed to death here at about half past midnight, while neighbours have described hearing screams around that time. they heard a man shouting in a foreign language and then
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they said they saw him driving away in a van and police say their main suspect is someone known to both victims here, although they have not clarified what relationship that is or who he is. detectives have appealed to him to hand himself in. neighbours say they did not know a great deal about this family and they have not been named, but there is urgency to this search for the man they believe is responsible for this double killing. danjohnson dan johnson in solihull. investigations are continuing in florida after last night's fatal shooting at a video game tournament in jacksonville. 24—year—old david katz, from maryland, shot two people dead at the jacksonville landing shopping and entertainment complex, injuring at least 11 others. he then killed himself. unconfirmed reports say katz had become angry after losing a round of the madden nfl american football game. the people's vote campaign, which wants a new referendum on brexit, is attempting to change labour party policy. that's according to a leaked memo. it wants mps and activists to submit a motion at the labour conference next month, committing the party
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to backing a new referendum on the final brexit deal. 0ur correspondent, jonathan blake, says that whilst the government has ruled out a second referendum, labour's policy is slightly more nuanced. they say they will respect the result of the 2016 brexit vote, but all options should be on the table if a deal is rejected by parliament, so people's vote are nudging at what they see something as a door ajar here. this memo has gone out to all their members suggesting those who are labour party members should submit a motion to the labour party conference next month which would call for people being allowed to express their views in a public vote on brexit. but the conference as a whole would have to decide that was a topic that should be debated. then it would need the support of at least some ofjeremy corbyn‘s supporters on the left of the labour party and they will see this potentially as a way of undermining his leadership, which is why people's vote have been clear that this should not be used as a way of attacking jeremy corbyn.
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also, labour potentially risk alienating some of its supporters who voted in favour of brexit in the first place. it is far from certain that labour will change their policy, but it is probably the people's vote‘s campaign getting what they want to happen, another referendum on brexit, turning into a reality. joining me now to give his thoughts on this is brendan chilton, general secretary of labour leave, a campaign group unofficially linked to the labour party. thank you for being with us this afternoon. the labour party conference is an opportunity to contribute to policy making. is there anything wrong with trying to get policy adopted on a second vote? there is nothing wrong with trying to change policy. the labour party conference is the sovereign body by debating policies within the labour
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party. however, it would be a tremendous sorrow to try and change party policy on this issue given the enormous support our brexit ma nifesto enormous support our brexit manifesto achieved in the last general election. your manifesto was a manifesto for government and people might not have been supporting you because of your position on brexit. the labour party has made it very clear we accept the outcome of the referendum. jeremy corbyn was the first major uk political party leader to accept the boat. we have had the top leave constituencies represented by labour mps and our manifesto last year committed to ending freedom of movement, to leaving the european union, and to accept the outcome. given that we won back millions of ukip supporters and held onto many marginal seats, i think it would be a political error to try and change that now. the difficulty with this
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is the cleavages because a cross— party. is the cleavages because a cross—party. you had a leading leave constituents who are mps who also represents some of the remain constituencies, not least in london. this is why it is so difficult to resolve it in party political terms. is that not the advantage of having a second referendum? the result may be the same, but you can get around the problems it is causing notjust for your party, but for the conservatives as well. the referendum was very simple. the british people were asked if they wa nted british people were asked if they wanted to leave the european union and the majority of those who participated said yes. it was not an advisory referendum, it was an instruction from the government to deliver what the people asked, which was to leave. since the referendum we have had many labourfigures, senior labourfigures,
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we have had many labourfigures, senior labour figures, giving speeches and making comments on what would happen if we denied the will of the people or if we tried to change the result. barry gardner, our shadow international trade secretary, highlighted that social u nrest secretary, highlighted that social unrest would because if we ignored the will of the people. anything other than a full brexit would leave the uk in the position of a vassal state and labour needs to get on with this, support the government where we can, hold them to account, and focus on what our policies would look like outside the european union, instead of trying to rerun the last referendum. that is a clear statement of europe position and the frustration of what many leave supporters feel in this ongoing debate. but on the other side they are saying on the basis of the point that you made, that people have decided on this decision, we would not have other elections and that would be it. people can always change their minds and does this not
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help them to do that?” change their minds and does this not help them to do that? i referendum is where the parliament decides to hand over the decision—making powers directly to the people and the people make a decision. the general election is where we elect their government to make decisions for a period of time. nobody is saying we should not stop holding elections. in fact, we should have won as soon as possible and get rid of this government! but what we need to do is focus on what has happened in the referendum. the people made the decision and parliament voted for our trouble 50 to be put in motion to leave the european union. some of the people supporting this campaign have been some of the most human opponents ofjeremy corbyn. if we need a second referendum to determine whether or not we have made the right decision, do the people of broxtowe need a second by—election to decide whether they have got the right member of
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parliament. do we need a by—election in streatham to decide if we made the right decision to elect chuka umunna. most people want to get on and deliver brexit. thank you very much for being with us this afternoon. 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 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's growing. dhl has invested more than £150 million expanding this
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site to keep up with demand. the pace of change is incredible. a few years ago, we wouldn't have seen any e—commerce or online shipping parcels come through this organisation. now we are seeing 60% of the uk volume is all e—commerce. what does that tell you? it tells us that's the way forward, that's where the future is. location is key. this region is making the most of its good connections. next door, a vast new 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've commissioned research which shows that over the last decade, 235 million square feet of warehouse space has been leased or bought. that's double compared with the previous decade. more than half of it has been built from scratch, like this. the proportion going to retail has
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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 with the cargo activity which is all about that next day delivery. so we've seen phenomenal growth, maybe 19, 20 planes per hour, literally bringing the cargo in or taking it out of the country ready for the next day. 0ur changing shopping habits are creating thousands of new, very differentjobs and infrastructure, a journey which still has a long way to run. emma simpson, bbc news, east midlands airport. the headlines on bbc news:
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the united nations says military leaders in myanmar should be investigated for genocide against the country's rohingya muslims. food prices are expected to rise in the coming months as farmers feel the effects of this year's extreme weather. a mother and her daughter have been stabbed to death in the street in solihull. now the spot with you. good afternoon. tottenham play at manchester united in the premier league later, with plenty of optimism within spurs that they can get a rare away win at old trafford. given the difficult week for united boosjose mourinho, following their defeat to brighton last weekend, it's led to question marks over a perceived defensive style, but mourinho is clear on what he wants from his side. a winning style. don't make defensive mistakes, be dominant, create chances,
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score goals, and get the three points. you want to win all the time, you want to play well all the time. you don't want to make mistakes. that's what you always want. we need to improve winning against some clubs away, like manchester united. in the last four years that we play them, we lose for different reasons, playing well, in some games not so well, but it's a massive challenge for us to go to manchester united and show that we are capable to win. surrey stars are through to the final of the t20 women's super league after beating western storm by nine runs at the country ground. surrey batted first and managed 162—5, with natalie sciver top—scoring with 72. but the western storm ran out
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of balls in their innings and fell ten runs short of the winning target of 163. surrey will play loughbough lightening in the final at apm. scottish premiership leaders hearts say their manager craig levein is recovering well having been taken to hospital this morning. levein was in the dugout for saturday's win over kilmarnock and although the club say no further comment will be made at this time, they did wish levein a speedy recovery in a statement. his assistant austin macphee will take over first—team duties until his return. scotland have named uncapped hearts defenderjohn souttar in their squad for next month's matches against belgium and albania. the 21—year—old is one of six defenders selected, with jack hendry and graeme shinnie also included by alex mcleish. scotland host belgium in a friendly next friday before taking on albania in their opening match of the nations league on the 10th of september, also at hampden. there's been a blow for wasps today,
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with the news fly—half jimmy gopperth could be out for up to nine months. gopperth has had knee ligament reconstruction after suffering the injury in a pre—season friendly. with danny cipriani having left the club in the summer, and star signing lima sopoaga yet to arrive from new zealand, wasps are currently light in the playmaking positions, ahead of the new campaign. andy murray makes his grand slam return at the us open later. having missed wimbledon to help build his fitness, having returned from nearly a year out with a hip injury. he faces australia's james duckworth in the first round and having dropped to 382 in the world, murray feels great to be back at the scene of his first grand slam success. i have great memories from new york overall, from juniors through the first slam final to then obviously winning my first grand slam here, so, yeah. i have lots of great memories. i'm happy i'm able to be back,
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competing again here. it was tough, missing it last year. i was pretty upset at the time so i am really pleased to be back and i will try to enjoy it as much as i can. you can find all the details of the tennis on the bbc website. including live text of the t20 quarter—final between nottinghamshire and somerset. notts chasing 210 to win, they're currently 113—2. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. back with more in the next hour. this friday marks 21 years since the death of princess diana and this week we're hearing from the winners of the diana award, an award established in the princess's memory to celebrate young people who have gone above and beyond to change the world for the better. benjamin bennett is one of the diana award winners — he's won the award for his fight against discrimination and prejudice against the traveller community.
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he is in our studio in sheffield. then, congratulations. tell us what you did to win this award. thank you, and to win the award i was nominated by someone, someone nominated by someone, someone nominated me for the work i was doing for the equality for my community. it was an amazing experience, it was a brilliant surprise. i went on my mother and father's wedding anniversary, so it was a brilliant day. it made it very special. what discrimination have you faced? how old are you?” special. what discrimination have you faced? how old are you? i am 14. what discrimination have you faced growing up? the discrimination i have faced is for as long as i can remember. the first time i started at school i can remember when it
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started. i have been to 14 different schools and i faced started. i have been to 14 different schools and ifaced discrimination in every one of them will stop most of the time it was by members of staff. the most recent event that happened in the school was last year. it led to me and my sister being attacked by 16 boys and one of them tried to gouge out my eye and actually broke my right hand and they attacked my sister as well. that must have been terrified to face that and to try and deal with it. how do you respond to the kind of day—to—day stuff? violence is one thing, but from what you are saying, the experience of almost routine, low—level, constant name—calling and suspicion? the most of the things i do to get through that is to tell people. don'tjudge me because you have an idea of what my community is
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about. i will help that person or persons who are discriminating against me for who i am or who have suspicions against me because of my community, i will help them and i will say, i am community, i will help them and i will say, iam not like community, i will help them and i will say, i am not like that and the stereotype you have of my community is not true. do not paint everyone with the same brush. there is good and bad in every community. do not judge one group of community and paint them all with the same brush as being the lens. is that the ha rd est as being the lens. is that the hardest thing, to know that people look at you and they see you and they know you and they have already madejudgments they know you and they have already made judgments about you because of your background ? made judgments about you because of your background? it is hard because it makes you feel like not being accepted in society. but the best thing i can do for myself and the best thing i have done and it is what my parents have encouraged me to do from a young age, and that is
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to do from a young age, and that is to help people understand the community is not like that as a whole. judge people as individuals. 0ne whole. judge people as individuals. one of the best things i learnt when i was growing up was treat people the way you want to be treated and that has helped me with my work and all the suffering i faced that has helped me with my work and all the suffering ifaced in that has helped me with my work and all the suffering i faced in school. you have spoken at the equality and human rights commission and you have been unseen senior people in suits and in some grand venues. what sort of ambition do you have for the future? how would you like to take this work forward? speaking at the equalities and human rights commission was amazing. it was a wonderful chance for me to be able to tell those people who can make the changes what needs to change and what needs to stay the same so i can help them improve and where they are going right. my ambition for the future is to be prime minister. i would love to be prime minister. it
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is one of my ambitions. why would you like to do that? i would love to be prime minister because i can help people who are facing the same things i have gone through or even worse. no one from any background has to face what i have gone through, or even worse in some cases. any political party that gets you as their leader and prime minister candidate will be very lucky indeed. good luck to you and congratulations by winning the award and for having the guts to stand up to people who have not got your dignity and your bravery and you facing them down to explain why you are in the role. it has been a pleasure to speak to you. thank you. ben bennett who won the diana award for his remarkable activities in defending the traveller community and infacing defending the traveller community and in facing down some of the intimidation and bullying he has felt to stop 14 schools in his young
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life time. a special tribute has been observed on the second day of the notting hill carnival to remember those killed in the grenfell tower fire last summer. a 72—second silence was observed at 3 o'clock to respect the 72 people who died at the block, which is close to the parade. more than a million people are expected to have attended the festival. the metropolitan police say 133 people were arrested at the event yesterday, and 20 weapons were seized. 0ur correspondent, noel phillips is in notting hill, for us today. good afternoon. a very different scene compared to 25 minutes or so ago. the 72 victims of the grenfell firepower will once again at the forefront of people's minds. we can show you some pictures from earlier sharing this entire street coming to a standstill. the steel bands and the sound systems were all turned
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off and hundreds of thousands of people stood silently to remember those who lost their lives injune last year. i spoke to one survivor earlier who told me it was important we must never forget those who died. this tragedy is still visible remembrance for many people here. a lot of those who died were from the local community and the carnival will continue to remember those who lost their lives. also today a huge public order challenge, 7000 officers policing today's event. we can speak to superintendent elizabeth chapel. a huge challenge for you. yesterday over 100 arrests made. how has it been so far today? notting hill each year is a fantastic event. sometimes it is ha rd fantastic event. sometimes it is hard to remember what a difficult time the community has been through. it is fantastic that everybody has come here today to enjoy themselves.
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yesterday we had about 130 arrests, but we are very happy with the policing plan. this year what has been brilliant is the role of the organisers. they have wanted to take carnival back to its roots and they have put a lot of community stewards out, working with our officers, and the combination of that has been brilliant. that will be unsettling for a lot of people, has it been helpful? it has been unhelpful -- helpful, yes. we know the community is worried about violence on the streets of london and we wanted to, in the policing plan, do everything we could to reassure people it is safe and wonderful to go to carnival. as well as different officers, mounted branch and dogs and plainclothes officers, we are using screening arch is to detect knives and other weapons people

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