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you know, living with family i bit, you know, living with family i had everything done for me to now moved into my own apartment and have to do everything myself, i can't lie on mum and dad is used to, so i think there has been an element of me growing up. —— can't rely on. and i think i've matured on the pitch as well. scotland have already felt the benefit of that. some were of this against switzerland could help her her world cup dream. and she's not the only one aiming to achieve her footballing dreams. the eight—times olympic gold medallist usain bolt continues to train with his new football team — australian a league club central coast mariners — as he prepares for his first trial match on friday. bolt holds the world record in the 100 and 200 meters but is attempting to make the switch to professional football. and the world's fastest runner is having to get used to slowing down in football as well as sprinting. he is still working out which position he will play. for me, it's a stop and go. because
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i'm not used to picking up speed and going back down, up and down, back and forth, and that is the most challenging part. as i said earlier, it's all about practising, going through the random putting myself and trying to get used to the system. i have time so i'm going to ta ke system. i have time so i'm going to take my time, learning the ways and just continue pushing. so usain bolt — coming to a football pitch near you very soon — as is the efl cup. follow it on slive or the bbc red button from 7 o'clock. that's all from sportsday. chris mitchell is here with more for you throughout the evening. thanks forjoining us. goodbye. the bbc has been given rare access to a refugee camp on the greek island of lesbos. workers for the charity msf say it is the worst camp on earth. it has a capacity for around two thousand refugees yet houses four times that number.
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on the day the bbc was given access, two people were stabbed. our reporter catrin nye has this exclusive report. the paradise greek holiday island of less plus. —— lesbos. also home to the refugee camp described as the worst on the planet. we've been given 45 minutes only to go around the camp. this is the section for the camp. this is the section for the newest arrivals. there are 7500 people in here. it has capacity for between 2000 and 3000. food is scarce, conditions are appalling and violence is almost constant. fewer refugees are arriving on this
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island than previous years but they're not leaving. as part of the eu turkey deal they are being held on lesbos rather than moving to the mainland. while we were filming at the camp, two people were stabbed in a queue forfood. police blocked us from getting udc. always the same pattern. is it start of the fight, in the food line, people get stabbed and it's always something between different communities. msf say conditions are leading to deep trauma. they have children as young as ten attempting suicide. we're reporting this to the public system, to the, we have children as young as
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ten years old who try to suicide, there are no psychologists on this island. and despite the fact that we push to move these children to as soon as push to move these children to as soon as possible, it's not happening. —— move them to athens. there was a huge fight in may, largely between kurdish and arab men. iron bars were used to beat people. do you think there are dangerous people? despite conditions, but keep coming. almost everyone on this one from afghanistan. hello, hello. they celebrated
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landing somewhere at least more safe. but there are unaware of the new trauma that lies ahead. fire has destroyed a primark store in a historic building in belfast. flames and thick black smoke engulfed the entire five—storey bank buildings — which has been at the heart of belfast for almost 250 years. primark shoppers and staff were evacuated from the building — which had recently undergone a multimillion—pound refurbishment. assistant chief fire officer michael graham from the northern ireland fire & rescue service gave an idea of the scale of the operation. we received a call at approximately iiam we received a call at approximately ”am this morning. ourfirst appliance was here within five minutes and the second one about two minutes and the second one about two
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minutes after that. currently we have iii fire appliances attending. we have over 100 firefighters have 1a fire appliances attending. we have over 100 firefighters and we have been here now for six hours. we think we will be here for another 3-4 think we will be here for another 3—4 hours fighting the fire itself and potentially keeping an eye on it for the rest of the night. we need to keep an eye on the structural integrity of the building, as well, we have concerns that the building might collapse. so we need to insure oui’ might collapse. so we need to insure our five artists are firefighting in a safe and effective way and that they are not impacted by the colla pse they are not impacted by the collapse of the building to stop —— oui’ collapse of the building to stop —— our firefighters. we believe collapse of the building to stop —— ourfirefighters. we believe it will colla pse ourfirefighters. we believe it will collapse were the fire has been burning at its greatest intensity but we hope that battle help the overall structural integrity but we can't guarantee the structural integrity at this time. that we believe floristry class were the has been burning. sunshine at a premium in many places today, cloud and rain arriving, you can see this weather watchers picture. this is an weather front
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which will bring outbreaks of rain overnight across scotland and northern ireland but ahead we did see some glimpses of sunshine, though they were pretty fleeting in places. as we go through the night, we will continue to see the weather front moving its way across scotland and maybe the risk of a few scattered sharp showers across the extreme south—east corner. here, temperatures will hold up into double digits but behind the weather front, something just a bit cooler and fresher. as we look at tomorrow morning, different will be using a weight through aberdeenshire but behind already at trail of scattered showers moving into the western isles and scotland. not a bad start, for the borders and northern england, that a patchy, light rain, band of showery rain through england, wales and south—west england. away from that kent coast and maybe east anglia, there should bea and maybe east anglia, there should be a decent slice of sunshine to start with but our weather front, wea ker start with but our weather front, weaker affair by then, will sink it's way southwards. increasing rain and the midlands, behind a bright and the midlands, behind a bright and breezy with scattered showers
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continuing to into the far north and west. for the fuel of things, it will be a little bit fresher behind that front, 14—17, highest values perhaps central southern areas of 20 01’ perhaps central southern areas of 20 or 22. despite weather fronts trying to be shown from the atlantic, it looks likely that the high pressure from the south—west will build across the uk, so things will stay relatively quiet later on this week. a good deal of dry weather around but automatically far away, now, nibbling at the corners, and you can see that with the temperature profile we will start to pick up some greens, it could feel, widely single figures to start the day on thursday, maybe low single figures in some places. a chilly start to thursday but spells of sunshine, cloud increasing as we go through the day, quite today but rather cloudy one and temperatures after that chilly start a maximum of 14-20. that chilly start a maximum of 14—20. despite the rain threatening to the west, it looks likely that
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the high pressure will keep it at bay and things will stay fairly dry and quiet for the remainder of the week. you're watching beyond one hundred days. theresa may is touting her ability to make trade deals after brexit — starting in africa. there's serious profit to be found in these emerging economies, but only as equal partners — the colonial links now count for very little. mrs may has outlined britain's first post brexit trade deal in southern africa — rejecting criticism the uk has ignored the continent for too long. we are already the weakest investor in south africa and i want to see that growing in the future. after appeals from his own staff, donald trump reverses course, paying a late tribute to senatorjohn mccain and lowering the flag at the white house. also on the programme. donald trump thinks google is burying favourable news for the white house.
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