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today at five. thousands of ba customers cancel their credit cards after a huge data breach at the airline. the boss of british airways apologises for the failure of the firm's security systems, and promises compensation. all the more than 20 years we have been operating and never had a breach of this type. we are committed to the integrity of the data of our customers. we'll talk to a worried customer and a data security expert. justice secretary david gauke says he's considering allowing no—fault divorces in england and wales civilians flee the last rebel held province in syria, ahead of a possible assault that could be the endgame in the country's seven year civil war. in san fancisco, a huge new project to remove plastic pollution from the pacific ocean there are people everywhere. stick
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to the plan. let's do this. let's do this. and we hear the true story of one of the biggest heists in us history in american animals, we'll find out what mark kermode thought of that and the rest of this week's releases in the film review it's 5 o'clock, our main story this evening. british airways has apologised to customers for what they call a sophisticated breach of the firm's security systems, and have promised compensation. hackers have managed to get access to the details of 380,000 payment cards that customers used to book flights in the two week period between the 21st august and the 5th september.
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ba say that personal and financial details of customers making or changing bookings has been compromised, that's names, email addresses and credit card information, including the three digit code on the back of cards. 0ur reporter theo leggett is in our business unit now. two weeks seems like quite a long time for them not to notice this? it is, but british airway is says it did emerge people as soon as it became apparent that they had been a breach. now, what makes this particular security breach very releva nt, particular security breach very relevant, very important, is not so much the number of people affected, the hundred and 80,000 is a lot, but we've seen bigger breaches in the past. what matters here is that its credit card details that have gone
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astray and not just credit card details that have gone astray and notjust numbers, it includes expiry dates and three digit it security codes. you wouldn't expect hackers to have control of those numbers because they are stored by users like british airways. so how did they get hold of those details? the other question is, was the information that was taken encrypted, or was it not? british airways won't tell us because it says there is an ongoing police investigation. the chief executive says it was doing all it could to limit damage. this was a very sophisticated, criminal attack on ba.com. 0ver more than 20 years that ba.com has been operating, we've never had a breach of this type. we are absolutely committed to the integrity of the data of our customers. the important thing is that as soon as we found out that these records may have been compromised, we began the communications process through all channels available and of course directly to the customers to alert them about this potential problem. of course, customers want to have
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confidence in the businesses and brands they shop with, what has this done to the share price? it's fallen, and that may be because of two things, one is the potential for a fine from the information commission because british airways has lost confidential data. the new data protection regulation that has recently come in promises much heavier fines for companies negligent with personal information. that said, british airways reacted quickly once they became aware of the breach, they did a lot to be alert to the office, so maybe the fines would be as big as they could have been. the other issue is customer trust, british airways last customer trust, british airways last customer trust, british airways last customer trust last year with a massive it failure that caused cancelled flights and stranded passengers. now it has another it problem, a security breach, people
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who entered confidential details in good faith expect companies to look after them. it seems that british airways failed to do that, winning back trust me be a big issue. thank you very much. thank you very much. roger wilson is one british airways customer who has been affected by the security breach after booking flights to geneva. he joins me now from weybridge in surrey. roger, tell us what happened to you. like thousands of others i received communication from british airways and watched on your channel the ceo of british airways making these mealy—mouthed apologies, which, quite unconvincing. i gave british airways, i trusted them with my crown jewels, my passport, airways, i trusted them with my crownjewels, my passport, name, address, e—mail, confidential data, ca rd state, address, e—mail, confidential data, card state, my date of birth, i've lost total confidence that they have
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the ability to store it. how much information have they given new about what you should do now to protect yourself? they have abrogated their responsibility to me, the customer, they have asked me to give up half a day at least to get my card is checked and changed, even my date of birth was asked to be changed by one of the card companies. this is quite u nsatisfa ctory of the card companies. this is quite unsatisfactory from a trusted brand, one of the world's great brands, to not worry about my inconvenience, that i had today. you've noticed from speaking to other people the knock on effect this is having? i had my hair cut today and spoke to my hairdresser who runs a salon. he had to get an british airways on his business card, he went down to see his local bank who said you must change your card, passwords, by the
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way, we'll give you a new card. that will take time. he said, i'm unable to pay my staff. they are self employed people. that was the card will i pay them. this is the cause and effect of british airways's fault. they are saying to me in there and e—mail, our website is up and running again. frankly, i'm not interested. they lost my trust, and my business, probably forever. they are safe in the air, the great pilots and the business is regulated in the area for safety. they are u nsafe, in the area for safety. they are unsafe, in my view, on the ground. their it is unsafe, they are not taking full responsibility. i would expect a company like british airways to compensate all of the people who booked flights during that time with some sort of discounted tickets to maintain our loyalty. if they aren't interested
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in our business, so be it. roger wilson, thank you very much. emily 0rton is with me, she's a director at cyber thank you very much for coming in. knowing what you know about the information that's been gathered from these payment cards how do you think it happened? it's very difficult to know, there are so many ways but having a cyber attack. a possibility is that a third party was compromised, so if you think about booking with bae, there are lots of third—party software as you interact with on that site. you don't realise that as a consumer but they are all points of vulnerability. it could be that one of these suppliers to the website was compromised, and used as a stepping stone to gain access. sub british airways may not have been the initial target? a different dude could have been used to? so where
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does the responsibility lie? yammer about is a good question. there is this huge supply chain. they are only as strong as their weakest link, that is the issue they have. there are organisations getting this right, using new technology and artificial intelligence to spot this early. it's interesting that this went on for two weeks, it's a long. they should be thinking about early indicators. how likely is it that an insider of some kind was involved? hits a possibility, let'sjust insider of some kind was involved? hits a possibility, let's just say that there are lots of cyber attacks are perpetrated by an insider. either maliciously, or non—maliciously and accidentally. it will be exploited. it is a possibility. what should customers do if they think they've been affected, or know they have been? is
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there anything they should be wary of in the coming weeks? they should be wary of any spoof e—mails, any calls that are pretending to be british airways, or people trying to help them. in the long term they need to be holding companies accountable, at the very highest standards of cyber security. thank you very much for coming in. the government is considering allowing no—fault divorces in england and wales. under current law a spouse who wants to file for divorce must prove to a court that their marriage has irretrievably broken down by providing evidence of adultery, desertion or unreasonable behaviour. thejustice secretary david gauke says he's increasingly convinced of the need to remove animosity and the administrative barriers from the process. joining us now is the founder of an organisation who helps couples going through a divorce. what is your thought on this potential change? it's just an exciting day. we worked tirelessly to recognise that when
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people get divorced it's already ha rd people get divorced it's already hard enough. you don't need a clunky thought process had into the process. i am thought process had into the process. i am sure thought process had into the process. i am sure lots of people are excited that the government has chosen to do this necessary reform. if there is no faults does it still have to be mutual consent? what they are going to look at, they will be a consultation where different opinions on how this should lock will be considered. the proposal that has been put forward so far is that has been put forward so far is that there will be a cooling off period so that people could decide the marriage had broken down, and if there was debate, this could be six months or nine months, if one of them still felt about the marriage had not broken down irretrievably they could then look at filing for
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divorce without having to blame the other person. now, unless you been separated for a good number of years it's accepted that someone can cause the breakdown of a marriage, and that causes so much distress. it's already a very difficult time and it's so old—fashioned. it doesn't speak to the way most people these days want to get divorced. certainly, people who come to us at our charity are looking to do things ina much our charity are looking to do things in a much more dignified and humane way, and changing the law is absolutely necessary for them to be able to do that. the law forces people to write a nasty things about digital there. that's a really awful way to start a divorce. it's really a deeply unhelpful way, particularly if they have children. we know that some divorces, even when they are not contested can take a long time, what needs to happen in terms of
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resources given to the divorce courts? definitely, they are absolutely creaking at the seams at the moment. there are very long delays to get basic divorces through. and if there financial orders as well, that adds even more time to the process. the government are already working on technological improvements to be part of that programme to promote technology as a way of easing the burden on the courts. and allowing day be submitted electronically which would save everybody time. at the moment it isa save everybody time. at the moment it is a very old—fashioned way. so we are trying to strip out some of that by automating processes and allowing electronic submissions. government is already working on that. it's very much in an ethos that. it's very much in an ethos that it shouldn't take... if it can be done by a computerfor a
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that it shouldn't take... if it can be done by a computer for a fraction of the class at a fraction of the time that should be how it is done. we need to reduce the time divorce ta kes we need to reduce the time divorce takes as well as the cost. thank you very much for your time today. thank you. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has rejected an attack on him by former prime minister tony blair. mr blair said labour has become a ‘different party‘ and he's not sure it can ever be ‘taken back‘ by moderates. it comes as the leader of the liberal democrats, sir vince cable, claims that infighting in the two main parties means millions of voters in the centre ground feel ignored. sir vince has also announced he'll be stepping down as lib dem leader after brexit is resolved. 0ur political correspondent chris mason reports. cheering rewind two decades and tony blair was the centre of attention, commanding the political stage, perched atop a humongous parliamentary majority. rewind not many years and sirvince cable, possessed of a ministerial red folder, purged around the cabinet table.
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not any longer. now, both men stand at the margins, grappling for relevance, trying to be heard. there's lots of people associated with me who feel that the labour party is lost, that the game is over. you know, i'm kind of hoping they're not right for is white and the former prime minister suggests another party could emerge. i don't think the british people will tolerate a situation where for example the choice of the next election is borisjohnson versus jeremy corbyn. i don't know what will happen and i don't know how it will happen, but ijust don't believe people will find that in the country as a whole and acceptable choice. something will fill that vacuum? something will fill that vacuum. swap a radio studio for the national liberal club in london and there is sir vince cable with a strikingly similar message in which he is willing to put a sell by date not on just his leadership but potentially his own party. despite our best efforts the liberal democrats might not be
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the only centre force in british politics. i think it's the worst kept secret in westminster that political disquiet in the two major parties is provoking some people to consider the formation of a new party in the centre ground or indeed several, and i think this requires us to demand better than the usual tribalism, whether it's our own or others”. the thing is for all this talk, many mps have had a longer relationship with their political parties and with their husband or wife. walking away is not easy. plus history suggests new parties find it mighty difficult to make a breakthrough in parliament. jeremy corbyn has been visiting a noisy museum in leicester today, and politely suggests that tony blair should, well, wind his neck in. i think tony should recognise that party membership is now much bigger than it's ever been.
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it's the biggest it's ever been in my lifetime, well over half a million members. some supporters of mr corbyn are rather more blunt. what tony blair and what vince cable will be talking about is representing a romp, representing a minority interest in this country. it's not the middle ground at all. we are the moderates, we are the centre ground. politics, as you mightjust have noticed, has changed rather a lot since this happened, and change is showing no signs of going out of fashion. chris mason, bbc news, at westminster. the former foreign secretary, boris johnson, has announced that he and his wife marina wheeler are divorcing. the couple said they had separated several months ago. they've been married since 1993 and have four children together. the headlines on bbc news... thousands of british airways customers cancel their credit cards after a data breach at the airline.
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no faults divorces are being considered by the government and what would be the biggest change to the law in this area for almost 50 yea rs. the law in this area for almost 50 years. civilians flee the last rebel held province in syria ahead of the possible assault that could be the end game in the seven year civil war. alistair cooke is out for 71 in his final test before retiring as england suffer a mini collapse on day one at the oval. england are 163 for four. the double 0lympic champion christina boger reveals she's paralysed after a spinal injury ina she's paralysed after a spinal injury in a crash in training in june. and scotland start a new era under andrew robertson as they take on belgian in a friendly international tonight. on belgian in a friendly internationaltonight. more on belgian in a friendly international tonight. more sport just after 5:30pm. last week more than 60 people were killed in libya during fierce fighting. a un—brokered ceasefire was announced on tuesday and now residents are counting the human and material cost. the bbc are the only international news team in tripoli.
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clive myrie visited the suburb aljdida where a rocket killed two children as they played in their garden. there are many in tripoli counting the cost of recent fighting, scores have been killed. this is the home of one family that have suffered badly. this is a week since a rocket landed on this compound. it killed two boys, a 15—year—old and a 1li—year—old. the extended family are gathering to remember them. the militias and the armed groups that are in the centre here, have been attacked by forces outside the capital. they say they have been siphoning off fans here in tripoli,
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and have been ruining the economy. they said they had to intervene. the battles over the last few days have been a result of that. i'll show you what happened to this compound. the rocket landed a couple of yards from here. the shrapnel blew right up, you can see what it did to this wall. this concrete pillar has been badly damaged. two young people, killed. there is a lot of grief and angen killed. there is a lot of grief and anger, that seven years after the overthrow of colonel gaddafi the fighting is still going on. the militias and armed groups occupy different sectors of the country. no one has control and they are squabbling over to her. the result is more devastated lives. after seven years of brutal and bloody civil war in syria, it now looks likely that president assad is preparing for what could be the endgame — a military assault on the country's last rebel stronghold of idlib.
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nearly three million people are crammed into the province. some are jihadist fighters but many are refugees with nowhere left to go. the un says as many as 800,000 people could be displaced?and there are fears of a humanitarian crisis. today russia, turkey and iran are holding crucial talks which may decide idlib's fate. such is the fear of what may happen in the coming days or weeks that already hundreds of people have started moving out of areas likely to be first in the firing line. this, the last rebel held province in syria, is a congested area with a population of almost 3 million people. half of those who fled here were from previous battles elsewhere in the country. many of them are now living in camps like this. they are very vulnerable. and earlier this week, russia resumed air strikes on the province,
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reportedly killing civilians. this amid a major build—up of troops nearby, suggesting a full assault on idlib could be imminent. there is this eerie feeling that we are now at the final stages of a relentless countdown to war. i would say there's still time to call it off, to halt this insanity, and to end this last possible battle in syria in talks, and not in a bloodbath that could engulf millions of civilians. in response, rebel forces here are preparing to defend the province. these fighters are aligned with turkey. but amongst the thousands of rebels now in idlib, including many foreigners, the dominant force is an al-qaeda linked group with up to 10,000 men. russia says they must be destroyed.
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the many civilians who are staying put, at least for the time being, are also preparing to defend themselves. these families have created their own bomb shelters and are stocking up with food supplies, while this man is also making gas masks for his family. he says people are scared. "everyone knows russia and the syrian president," he says, "will hit us with chemical weapons." at the united nations security council last night, concern was raised that syrian forces were preparing to use chemical weapons in idlib, prompting a warning the us would retaliate. so, we want to take this opportunity to remind assad and his russian and iranian partners, you don't want to bet against the united states responding again. but the russian ambassador denied that the syrian military had any chemical weapons.
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today in tehran, the presidents of russia, iran and turkey are holding a key meeting about idlib. turkey, like many countries, hoping to persuade the russian and iranian leaders not to launch an all—out assault at the syrian military on the province. the main task at this stage is to banish militants from the province, their presence presents a direct threat to the citizens and residents of the whole region. for millions of people living here the prospect of a devastating town appears to be looming launcher to grab a larger. if there is an all—out assault here,
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it could lead to the most devastating attack of syria's long civil war. richard galpin, bbc news. we will be talking to a war photographer about his time in syria and a new documentary. the home of the novichok poisoning victim, sergei skripal, is being decontaminated. the work, at his house in salisbury is being carried out by specialist military teams. meanwhile, the head of the intelligence agency, gchq, has said the uk and its allies will use all tools available to fight back against the threat from russia. every year millions of tonnes of plastic waste flow into the oceans. now, for the first time, there's going to be an attempt to get into the middle of the pacific — to try to clean it up. in the biggest operation of its kind, a huge plastic—collection system will be towed out from california tomorrow. 0ur science editor david shukman explains. in san francisco, final construction
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ofa in san francisco, final construction of a massive project with an incredibly bold ambition. to try to clear the ocean of plastic waste. this animation shows how the structure is meant to collect millions of pieces of plastic to make it easier to get rid of. sites like this have shocks people around the world. but images of the damage to wildlife have inspired this effort to clean up. if we don't do it now the plastic will break down into smaller pieces. the smaller it is, though more harmful, and harder it is to extra ct. harmful, and harder it is to extract. there is a sense of urgency. there is plastic waste in every ocean around the world, this is a first attempt to clean it up. it will take place in a rotating parent, what's called the great garbage patch which is bigger than
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britain and france combined. so how will it work? eight giant cube will float on the surface, shaped like a horse shoe. it will drift with pa rents horse shoe. it will drift with parents and wind. it will move faster than all the bits of plastic in the water so it should gather them to gather into a small area. and award a kind of barrier will hang three metres down to trap plastic below the surface. the design should mean that fish pass under it. once the plastic has been drawn into a dense mass, it will be collected by ships and is taken away to be recycled. no one can be sure where if the huge system will work. some experts worry it could harm marine life. the major problem is the creatures that float in the ocean and can't move out of the way. they will be trapped and unable to move. plankton
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is the bottom of the food chain, so you don't want to be taking it out of our oceans. that is clearly from the teeth of a fish. there is no other explanation. 0ne fish. there is no other explanation. one of the scientists said because the plastic is being eaten by fish it is entering the food chain, and must be removed. we find plastic from the 1970s and 1980s, then we also find languages on these bits of plastic, so we'll find chinese, japanese, english, and we can find out where things may have come from. the plan is to start with one collection device and eventually deploy 60 of them. all the time, more plastic is pouring down rivers into the oceans. 0n more plastic is pouring down rivers into the oceans. on its own in the clean—up operation will never be enough. we will follow that progress
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with interest. time for a look at the weather. here's sarah keith lucas with the forecast. i don't know whether i dare say there's an autumnal tinge to that photograph! things are starting to change. it's a typical mix, with the weekends just around the corner it's going to be a weekend of mixed fortunes. for some of us feeling quite autumnal, some sunshine on saturday or sunday. many of us have seen sunshine today but cloud is building. this was the scene in wakefield earlier on this afternoon. into the evening we still keep a field she wears, particularly across the north—east of england, into scotla nd the north—east of england, into scotland as well. a soggy start to tomorrow across parts of northern ireland, wales and the western fringes of england, clearer skies further east and a chilly start to saturday. across england and wales this weather front will fit through
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the central sprays, bringing rain to the central sprays, bringing rain to the midlands and wales. either side of that, brighter and drier. temperatures up to 19 degrees. still a few she was in the north on sunday. as the breeze pushes them away it will be a return to sunny skies feeling a little bit warmer. top temperatures, 22 degrees. this is bbc news. the headlines. ba says sorry after a mass hack of data from its customers — nearly 400,000 payment cards have been compromised. no—fault divorces are being considered by the government in what would be the biggest change to the law in this area for almost fity years.
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the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has rejected an attack on him by former prime minister tony blair. mr blair said labour has become a ‘different party‘ and he‘s not sure it can ever be ‘taken back‘ by moderates. civilians flee the last rebel held province in syria, ahead of a possible assault that could be the endgame in the country‘s seven year civil war. tie this board is. we‘re starting with cricket and england have lost another wicked. there are 171—5. alistair cooke, who is playing in his final test had looked so assured reaching his half—century but he was
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denied 100 when he was bowled for 71. england‘s leading scorer was given a rousing sendoff. that wicket sparked another collapse. the captain was trapped on the third ball. ben stokes hasjust captain was trapped on the third ball. ben stokes has just gone captain was trapped on the third ball. ben stokes hasjust gone lbw for 11 runs. infant have already won the series. 0nto football and scotla nd the series. 0nto football and scotland will begin their campaign at home to albania. they are housed in belgium who finished third in the world cup and boast a star—studded line—up including a chelsea player. probably in the top five at the minute. i played against him and i know threats he can do, even if he‘s having a quiet game and turn a game. and that is what we‘re up against. that much is a friendly but england don‘t have a luxury of a friendly before they start their nation‘s leave campaign. encounter spain at wembley tomorrow. it is their first game since the world cup injuly.
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but gareth southgate says it is time to move on. the summer was brilliant and it is great we have a full house and it is great we have a full house and it is great we have a full house and it is great that everybody will feel the appreciation and that we can step out in front of our fans again. but for us now the summer is finished it is about the next step and the next challenges and sports doesn‘t stand still for anybody, you know. you‘ve got to move forward, got to continually evolve, increase that competition. and i know the players have the same mentality. they are all open age where what is next is what is the most important thing. mo farah will go for a fifth when one sunday and put his name in the record books. he‘s dedicated solely to road racing and believes the race in newcastle will act as ideal preparation for next month‘s chicago marathon i feel good. training has been going pretty well. i‘ve been in arizona training hard
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with my coach, gary. it has been going well enough and for me sunday‘s race is going to be tough as well as testing myself and it will answer some questions and hopefully another three weeks or three and a half weeks later, the chicago marathon, so quite excited about sunday‘s race. another of the super saturday he rose will be hanging up his spikes for good this weekend. craig rutherford who won the long jump title is also competing at the city games. of course it is sad but i'm ready to retire and move on to new things. my bodyis retire and move on to new things. my body is most certainly ready for me to retire. getting out of bed nowadays is quite difficult so i need to let it recover properly. and move onto something new. i am old enough now. done this long enough and it is time to get leader—mac let the youngsters take over and pushed onto new level. the germany sprint champion has been
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paralysed following a serious accident in june. she paralysed following a serious accident injune. she suffered spinal injuries after colliding with another cyclist during training in brandenburg. she won 0lympic another cyclist during training in brandenburg. she won olympic gold in the team sprint at london 2012 at individual sprint gold at rio de janeiro four years later. that is it from me for now. we‘ll have a full round—up at a at half past six. six years ago one of the most famous war correspondents of her generation, marie colvin, was killed in a rocket strike in homs in syria. by her side was the war photographer, and friend, paul conroy, who was badly injured in the attack. homs was being besieged by the syrian army, and the pair had remained in the city, in appalling conditions, to tell the story of the men, women and children who were trapped. tomorrow, a documentary is released about marie colvin and paul conroy‘s time in syria; it‘s called under the wire and is based on paul‘s book. in a moment i will be talking to paul but first let‘s see a clip from the documentary. we both were of the view that it was
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the very small people on the ground who suffered the most. the women and children. we became soulmates in that sense because we have such a singular, unique vision of what we needed to do to get those stories out. the war correspondent me has never been, is that 8052 tank or 8072 tanks? it is about people. it is about what people are going through. we covered the arab spring. it was in full flight. the arab spring. it was in full flight. we had seen libya. all of the neighbourhoods hit today we re all of the neighbourhoods hit today were civilian. all of the casualties are civilian. syria‘s next. we know it. we know it. and paul conroy is with me now. very arresting to hear marie speak
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about what you went through in syria. what anxieties did you have about even seen this film be made? i wrote the book and i was looking at it that this was the next stage of the assignment we were was to keep telling the world. i did worry that imight telling the world. i did worry that i might come out of it looking like bruce willis in a string vest and i did not want that. i wanted to be about memory of what she was doing for the people. i we found a perfect combination with chris martin, the director. they brought the book to life. i did not see it until the final edit and it was a beautiful, you know, a beautifulfeel for the thing that they have got it so accurate and true to the book. they were wrong to think you were addicted to danger. youth felt compelled to be there because it was a warlike no compelled to be there because it was a war like no other? that whole addicted to danger thing. to tell the stories we thought trade war best, which is about the women and children, always get the worst
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deal. although smart bombs and bullets line somewhere and it is generally on these poor people in basements. to get that story, to tell that story we have to go through very bad places. but there are better ways to get a thrill than being shot at. there really are. you both new and didn‘t you? that you were under siege as journalists and photographers? we we re journalists and photographers? we were told by intelligence in lebanon that any journalists found in the region were to be executed and the bodies thrown on the battlefield. and once we were in syria, you know, we we re and once we were in syria, you know, we were told, you are in more danger if you‘ve got a calmer than a rifle. because the countdown of the press, local and international, was total. just before she was killed she filed a last report. she talked about the
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moment she watched a baby boy die. that was unfolding in homs. let‘s listen to a bit of that dispatch now. it is absolutely sickening, peter. just today, shelling started at 6:30am in the morning. i counted 1a shells hitting just the civilian area within 30 seconds. there is a small clinic, you can truly call it a clinic. it is an apartment that has been turned into a clinic. plasma bags hanging from coat hangers. there was just a constant strea m hangers. there was just a constant stream of civilians. i watched a little baby died today. absolutely horrific. a two—year—old, they stripped and found the shrapnel had gone into the left chest and the doctor just gone into the left chest and the doctorjust said, i can‘t do anything. his little tummyjust kept heaving until he died. that is happening over and over and over. no one here can understand how the international community can let this happen. and paul, so many people die
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in these complex but there were some deaths like that little boy‘s death which seemed to sum up the horrors more than almost any other. we we re really more than almost any other. we were really aware of that. we had reached the point of reporting would be did not think we were going to get a story out on friday because everyone around us was dying. and when we saw this baby it was our la st when we saw this baby it was our last chance, really. to tell the world. without a free can use what was happening to these people, and it did. that was one of the most poignant pieces of reporting i've ever heard or seen or been part of and marie took their baby and used it to show the world, look, this is the reality of what is happening here and now. the next day we were attacked and marie was killed, precisely because we did then reports. unit that you had a bounty on your heads and there is a lawsuit now flowing from that.
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connected to marie's death. yes. every's family... when i came out i said it was a deliberate attack. i could tell by the fire patterns. and so for the last five years, scott gilmour and so for the last five years, scott gilmourand a so for the last five years, scott gilmour and a centre forjustice accountability have doggedly chased the paper trail. we have got all of the paper trail. we have got all of the documents, defectors interviews who've come across. it is going to be american courts and it names the ten individuals who actually put together the attack on indymedia centre. they intercepted the journalists and the order to kill them. that is about to be decided in them. that is about to be decided in the next weeks. 0ne the next weeks. one final question to bring us right up one final question to bring us right up to date. the summit going on to talk about how to avoid a potential bloodbath, what are your hopes and expectations? i wish i had higher hopes. my expectations are one of two things. either we expectations are one of two things. eitherwe are expectations are one of two things. either we are going to see the huge exodus through turkey or we're going
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to see what has happened time and time again in syria. aleppo, other places. they will be attacked and will be another massive humanitarian crisis in the world does seem not to be able to do much but to sit by and watch. i don't think we can really put the hopes of the syrian people in the hands of a putin aside and iranians. —— assad. thank you very much for coming in. thank you very much for coming in. thank you. there‘s been an assassination attempt on the leading contender he was stabbed in the middle of a crowd of supporters — he‘s had surgery and is expected to recover. the controversial far right politician has outraged many in brazil with his speeches, which prosecutors have said promote hate and rape. however he‘s been performing strongly in recent opinion polls. katy watson‘s report does contains some images of the attack you may find dissturbing. out on the campaign trail
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and working the crowds, with just a few weeks to go before the elections, far right presidential candidate jair bolsanaro was in his element, but the celebrations came to a sudden end. mr bolsonaro suddenly gripped his chest in pain, after being stabbed. chaos ensued, and the politician was rushed through the crowd to hospital. initially, his son flavio reported on twitter that the wound was only superficial, but that soon changed. "unfortunately", he said later, "it was more serious "than we‘d expected. "he lost a lot of blood and arrived at the hospital almost dead, "but his condition is now stable. "please pray for him." mr bolsonaro is a politician who‘s polarised opinion in brazil. he‘s become known for his racist, sexist and homophobic comments, but his tough talk of tackling violent crime and of beating corruption has helped propel him to the top of the race. the latest polls show that if,
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as expected, former president lula da silva is banned from running because of his corruption conviction, mr bolsonaro would win the most votes in the first round. politicians of all stripes, even his biggest critics, were united in condemning the attack. translation: whoever did this has to pay, whoever did this cannot stay unpunished. this cannot happen. a democratic country, which respects itself, that wants to be democratic, cannot allow the stabbing of any presidential candidate. police have since released a photo of the suspect who was arrested. he‘s been named as adelio bispo de 0liveira. next month‘s elections are the most uncertain this country has seen in decades. with this stabbing, tensions are now running even higher. katy watson, bbc news, in sao paulo. now on bbc news a look ahead to sportsday at 6:30pm tonight. we‘ll be at the oval for alistair
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cooke‘s final test match. we will hear from gareth southgate and harry caine. and look ahead to tonight‘s friendly between scotland and belgium in glasgow. the new women‘s super league gets under way. the pick of the round. it is also the beginning of the new women‘s rugby union premierfifteens. beginning of the new women‘s rugby union premier fifteens. that beginning of the new women‘s rugby union premierfifteens. that is all sports day at 6:30. now it is time for the film review. well, to the film review. to take us through this week‘s cinema releases

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