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good morning, welcome to breakfast with chris mason and victoria fritz. our headlines today: backing another brexit vote — the labour leadership say they'll support another referendum, if that's what the party's members want. falling victim to scams — the number of reports of fraud against older people doubles in three years. the biggest takeover in europe's media industry — us cable giant comcast wins the auction to buy sky. —— us cable giant comcast wins the auction to buy sky. it's another knockout for anthonyjoshua. he's still the world heavyweight champion after stopping his latest challenger. good morning. we have a spell of wet and windy weather moving its way gci’oss and windy weather moving its way across southern england and wales first thing this morning. but it's clear is at pace and leaves the day with sunny spells and scattered showers for all. or details on that and the week ahead coming up shortly. —— more details on that and the week ahead coming up shortly. it's sunday the 23rd of september. our top story:
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the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, and his deputy, tom watson, have said they will back another brexit referendum, if their members call for one. it comes as a poll suggests overwhelming support within the party rank and file for another vote, and for remaining in the european union. our political correspondent iain watson has more. labour's flowed into this up of the conference is rebuilding britain. the party wants to be seen as an alternative government. its leadership will be unveiling policies to appeal to those who feel left behind by economic change. all who perhaps voted to brexit. at some in the party want another vote in the eu, a new referendum on any final deal. shadow chancellor has not ruled it out. it's on the table, we are keeping all of the options open. but the people's fruit campaign which wants a new referendum is wishing labour to go further to make a positive commitment. a poll of more than 1000
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labour members suggest: the main issues today would simply be debated here on the conference floor, behind the scenes there is a big push by some of the party's rank and file to make sure that later in the conference the reason a full debate on brexit, including the option of having a new referendum. away from the glare of publicity delegates will come wrapped the final wording of any brexit motion today. this will not be debated in public until tuesday. significantly the party popper deputy leader tom watson has said if members decide they want the new referendum he will go ahead and argue for it. if somebody says they are going to have a go at it, you would call an election?” are going to have a go at it, you would call an election? i am ready for it. and in the sunday mirror to record and has been blocked and to back a referendum, he says he too will respect his members wishes but is clear preference is for a general election. if it doesn't happen, calls from some ofjeremy corbyn‘s
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remembers for a vote are likely to grow louder. the group two, bbc news, liverpool. —— iain watson. in just over an hour, we'll be speaking to the shadow cabinet minister andrew gwynne. an investigation by bbc radio 5 live has found that the number of elderly people reporting that they've been the victim of scamming has nearly doubled in the last three years. in some cases, people had lost hundreds of thousands of pounds. fraudsters scammed almost 119,000 older people across the uk in the past year, equivalent to nearly six reports every hour. caroline davies reports. it isa it is a crime that can happen in your own home. as simple as a convincing phone call or a few clicks on a computer. and for one group in particular reported cases of fraud are becoming more common. the cost of personal fraud across all ages is estimated to be around £10 billion a year. figures requested in an investigation by a
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radio 5 live show that nearly 119,000 people aged over 60 reported they had been scammed and more than 1000 of those that is over 90. —— victims. some experts worry the number of over 60 is affected is far higher and that old people are particularly at risk as they are more likely to live alone and be drawn into conversation with a fraudster. the impact can be devastating, even victims without savings potentially delight on the state to pay for their care. those who do fall victim to fraud ones are often targeted again sometimes being placed on a scammers of people were to be sucked in. the financial ombudsman have said scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated and told banks they should take the evolution of fraud into account rather than assume it is the customers who have been grossly negligent. caroline davies, bbc news. a murder investigation has been launched after a 19—year—old man died after being shot in east london last night. two other people were also seriously injured in the incident in walthamstow, at around 11 o'clock.
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nobody has been arrested. there have been more than 100 murders in the capital so far this year. directors of the british broadcaster sky have urged shareholders to accept a takeover offer of more than £30 million from the us media giant, comcast. after a long—running battle against rupert murdoch's 21st century fox, comcast last night won a blind auction for sky. our business editor, simonjack, reports. about two minutes to you. it has been an epic battle between two heavyweights of the media world and in the final round, with cable giant and universal students conduct last live in a knockout blow, offering £10 million, —— £30 million, ten more than fox sports is prepared to pay, and that prize is sky's
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customers across europe. the final bid has come in the £17 28 which is 17% increase on the previous offer for sky soap they certainly have an for sky soap they certainly have an for compost, sky is a strategic asset and it will help and diversify outside of the us without seeing pressures of cord cutting that his consumers are less and less pain to the expense of cable packages. so why are all these megadeals happening now? look no further than the new kid on the block, netflix and amazon, both winning new subscribers around the world and both pouring billions into making their own original content. in the short—term sky customers will notice little difference, both bidders have agreed to fund lossmaking sky news for at least ten years. but in prices will be hard given the redhot competition for eyeballs. com cast may have won but they had to pay £30 billion. the real winners this week and other sky shareholders to include the family of one rupert murdoch who may not have succeeded in buying all of sky as he once
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wa nted in buying all of sky as he once wanted but he will not be going home empty—handed. simon jack, bbc wanted but he will not be going home empty—handed. simonjack, bbc news. a woman accusing president trump's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual assault has agreed to testify against him next week. lawyers for christine blasey ford say she has accepted a request to appear before the senate judiciary committee to be questioned about the alleged attack at a party in 1982. judge kavanaugh has repeatedly denied the allegations. arriving home accompanied by security, brett kava naugh arriving home accompanied by security, brett kavanaugh seen here in the red baseball cap is still at the centre of a storm. the conservative judge's donald trump twist to fill the vacancy on the supreme court. last week it seemed almost a certainty, into allegations of sexual assault emerged in the media. christine blasey ford said he tried to rape her when they were teenagers in the 19805 and it is an allegationjudge teenagers in the 19805 and it is an
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allegation judge kavanaugh denies. there have been days of negotiation over whether doctor ford would give evidence before the senate jury 5he many and now it seems there mayju5t bea many and now it seems there mayju5t be a breakthrough —— senate judiciary committee. in a statement, her lawyer5 judiciary committee. in a statement, her lawyers said: 5ome some republicans, including donald trump, 5aid some republicans, including donald trump, said this is a deliberate attempt to delay and ultimately obstructjudge kavanaugh‘s confirmation. the president and i are confident that senate republicans will manage this confirmation properly with the utmo5t confirmation properly with the utmost respect for all concerned and i believe thatjudge brett kavanaugh will soon be just as i believe thatjudge brett kavanaugh will soon beju5t a5 brett kavanaugh. doctor ford may have accepted the request to appear before the senate committee but her lawyer5 before the senate committee but her lawyers are still negotiating the term5. when she gives evidence, who
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i5 term5. when she gives evidence, who is in the room, and who she is questioned by our old 5till i55ues to be agreed. lebo di5eko, bbc news. house of fraser stores in edinburgh, hull and swindon are to close. sport5 direct‘s mike a5hley, who recently bought the struggling department store, has been in talks with landlords over rent5 in recent weeks. 20 house of fraser5 stores have been saved from closure. senior members of the royal family have allowed cameras to follow them for a new documentary about the queen a5 a global figure. queen of the world, which will be shown on itv, was filmed over a year. in one episode, the duchess of sussex, meghan markle, reveals a secret detail of her wedding dress for the first time. some were in here, the recipes of— did you see it? a piece of blue fabric stitched in5ide. it is my something blue. it is separate from addre55 something blue. it is separate from address i wore on ourfirst
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something blue. it is separate from address i wore on our first date. did not all the wedding dresses? we talked about this earlier. i think the rough or five different types. berries one, white. slinky, lacie, traditional, zany. iwill write the5e down. it is almost 6:11. good morning. let's look at the newspapers. according to the sunday telegraph's front page, a city financier who donated £1.5 million to the leave campaign has said he will fund a new pro—brexit party to deliver "what the electorate thought it would be getting". jeremy hosking 5aid leave voters were "being heated up slowly like laboratory frogs" under the pm'5 chequers plan. here is a quote! and a vision, quite the vision. the sunday express also leads on brexit, reporting that a defiant theresa may has insisted the uk mu5t hold its nerve in negotiations with the eu on the brexit deal.
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the observer leads with its interview with labour deputy leader tom watson, who said the party should be ready to back another brexit vote if members want one. labour hasn't rejected calls for a further vote, but leaderjeremy corbyn has indicated he would prefer an election to resolve the issue. we will have more on that story through the programme. and finally, the sunday mirror lead5 on its interview with labour leader jeremy corbyn. in it, he says he plans to vote with tory brexit rebels against the chequers plan, to try to force a general election later this year. the paper also says mr corbyn will reluctantly back a further referendum if his party conference calls for it. right. let's get our first check on the weather. good morning, louise pratt and what a lovely image! good
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morning. it was beautiful yesterday infar morning. it was beautiful yesterday in far north—east of scotland, 15 degrees! today we have some rain around, mostly affecting 5outhern areas and it will rattle through quickly and then it is a case of sunny spell5 quickly and then it is a case of sunny spells and scattered showers foremost. it some detail on. if you are up early, and you will notice the brain has not really got going yet. it is starting to show its hand across the south—west and into south wales —— rain. it will move its weight eastwards through the course of the morning. a cool start into the far north—east, below freezing in one or two places with a scattering of showers through the morning and they will continue accompanied by a brisk north—westerly breeze. some rain will be heavy as it moves its way across southern parts of britain. looking at it in more detail at 11am, the heaviest of brambles and across the south—east, not great news if you are playing sport this
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morning, —— the heaviest of the rain will move across. it is rattling through at a pace set by early afternoon we will start to see an improvement. then it is sunny spells and scattered showers for all into the afternoon, some showers becoming widespread through the afternoon and driven quickly through the brisk north—westerly breeze. we prepared for a bit of everything in the afternoon. an improving picture across the west but not particularly warm out there. 11— 15 at the very best. overnight, with the rain easing and clear skies, temperatures falling away so actually start. some patchy mist and fog forming. things will certainly quietened down as we move into next week. high pressure builds from the west and that will allow a good deal of dry, settled weather in the story. toppling across the high pressure though is the westerly wind which may drive in some showers to the far north—west but generally after the chilly start
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it is dry with sunshine out there, temperatures still a little bit disappointing, 12— 16, slightly below average. but they will start to improve as we move through the week. in tuesday, much of england and wales will be dry, settled and sunny. the stronger wind into the north—west and here, a few more showers to come, 12— 1a. we may see 16 or 17 if it starts to breakthrough in the south—east. in the sunshine with a little shelter, it will feel better. i have disappeared! by! that was remarkable, a little bit of magic! she is gone! and she knew she had gone, to know the power and to know that you have the power, that is something. well done, louise! not many musicians can boast about playing alongside artists as varied as paul mccartney, jerry lee lewis, several tottenham hotspur football teams squad and a gaggle of the greatest snooker players of the 19805.
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chas hodges, of the duo chas and dave, who died yesterday at the age of 7a, was one who could. david sillito looks back at his life and career. # with your incessant talking. # you are becoming a pest. when their measure 19705, the age of punk and disco, chas and dave rather stood out. chas hodges' music was a unique m5 —— mix of rock ‘n‘ roll with old school cockney siga langues. —— singalongs. # you won't stop talking. he had grown up in north london. his mum made ends meet playing the piano in local pubs. and in the ‘605 and 705 he played in bands such as might bury and the
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outlaws. centres get back what bothered him was the way he spoke. outlaws. centres get back what bothered him was the way he spokelj saidi bothered him was the way he spokelj said i have an idea of writing songs about things i know about and singing them in my own accent. # when the kids are swinging on the gate... when the kids are swinging on the gate. . . what when the kids are swinging on the gate... what followed was a series of hit singles and tv appearances and then a fall from fashion. # everything i ever done... 20 years on their career picked up again. this was no novelty act. chas hodges was a talented musician and songwriter. i'll be around. cheering. remembering chas hodges. now on breakfast, it's time for the film review with martine croxall and mark kermode. hello, and welcome to
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the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. it's almost becoming a habit! it is. what have you got for us this week? it is a very strange week. we have the little stranger, the new film by lenny abrahamson. we have a simple favor, which i know you are going to see it this weekend, so you're looking forward to the review. can't wait. and the house with a clock in its walls, which is a sort of family fantasy with a horror inflection. ok then. so first, the little stranger, is this about a haunted house, or haunted residents? the question about whether it is actually haunted is sort of central to it, so it's based on a novel by sarah waters, stars domhnall gleeson. he is this dr faraday who goes to a house where he is called
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to attend to someone working there, who appears to be ill, but he thinks they are just freaked out. something has scared them. and it turns out that he went to this house when he was a child, where his mother worked there and he was completely overwhelmed by the house and he kind of fell in love with it. but now he goes back, and the house is crumbling, and the people inside the house appear to be coming apart. and everyone is sort of slightly brittle, slightly on edge and there is something creepy going on in the background. here's a clip. how did you find the patient, doctor? mrs ayres. mother, this is dr faraday. he thinks we're brutes. a little under the weather. i imagine she'll be quite well by tomorrow. you'll observe a change in betty yet. this house works on people. girls come here like specks of grit. ten years later, they leave as pearls. i expect dr faraday's thinking betty won't stick it out for ten years. most girls would rather work
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in factories these days, and who can blame them? as it happens, i was thinking of my mother. she was a maid here before i was born. well, i do hope she enjoyed her time. right, roderick. so there is something wrong. there is talk about the house being haunted by, you know, by the little stranger. fantastic performance by ruth wilson there, who is somebody who seems to be trapped in the house. it's like the fall of the house of usher, everything is falling apart around her. the question is, is it a haunting or is it people imagining things, or is it them projecting their own fears and anxieties on to the house itself? if you have ever read the haunting of hill house, the shirley jackson novel, one of the greatest ghost stories ever written, there's a lot of that in this. i think one of the problems is it has been marketed
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slightly as a horror film, as a chiller. it is not. it is absolutely not a horror film. it's a psychological drama, which happens to have a ghostly edge, and you can read pretty much the whole film in one of two different ways. i liked it. i liked the fact that it lets the pot simmer rather than boil. it's paced very moderately, it takes its time, it tells its story in an orderly fashion, but you get this growing sense of disorder. there's a couple of really terrific performances in it, i think particularly ruth wilson, who is absolutely great. my only worry is, i think some audiences might grow slightly impatient if they go, thinking it's going to be a ghost story, it's going to be a chiller, which is why when you say is it a ghost story, yes, but no. it's — you can read it in a number of different ways, but i thought it was rather well done, and rather impressive in a very low—key, very understated fashion. it's very spare, isn't it, the way it's — the script is quite stripped back.
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it builds up tension. you get a sense something is wrong but you're not quite sure what, and as i said, the key to this is the haunting of hill house, which is the urtext from all modern ghost stories and it's written large on this. i'm really slightly anxious now about the second film, which is a simple favor. i've been co—opted by my 14—year—old daughter to go and see this film, so, tell me it's a good choice. so, it's directed by paul feig. andrea kendrick is this staid supermum, who she is somebody is at school being all perfect and over volunteering. her son makes friends with another child whose mother is blake lively‘s martini—swilling pr executive. they form an unlikely friendship. anna kendrick‘s character starts to see a possible new world opening up to her — and then herfriend disappears. somebody described this as gone girl'sjust wanna have fun. and it is definitely — it wasn't my line, it is a good line, but not mine — it's the most crazy
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mishmash of genres. on the one hand, it's a ditsy romcom, then it's a twisted erotic a thriller, then it's an old—fashioned whodunnit. the book was described as being like in the mould of gone girl, and yet somebody else described the film as a post noir comedy. there are times watching it i literally thought, this is the most chaotic film i have ever seen. however, i liked it. and the reason i liked it was because you have two great performances, anna kendrick and blake lively, who somehow, even when the film is careering around like a boat tossed on a roaring ocean, they somehow keep their eye on the horizon, and as long as you stick with them, you go with it. one minute, it's funny, the next minute, it's weird, then it's twisted, then you are meant to take it seriously, then it is not. it really did seem sometimes like channel surfing, but all the way through it, you have these two central performances, they sink their teeth into the material gleefully. it has a nice bite to it. i came out thinking,
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"that was all over the shop, but i liked it." i think i am going to need a lie down after it, but i will go and see it anyway. you'll enjoy it. as you come out, ask yourself, what that was all about? genre? what genre? the house with a clock in its walls. if the cast is anything to go by, it should be a treat. very good cast. jack black, cate blanchett, based on a very, very popular book from the 19705. an orphaned kid is sent to stay with his uncle, played by jack black, who is a warlock. he's somebody who conjures up spells cate blanchett is the next—door neighbour, mrs zimmerman, with whom he has a sparring, but ultimately loving relationship. here is a clip. that's a lot of clocks. what constitutes a lot is really a matter of personal taste. for me, it's a perfect amount of clocks. oh, sorry, there's a deranged cuckoo in there. your ratchet wheel's shot and the click spring's not far behind. hello. you're lewis, i presume.
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how was your trip? this old hag is my next door neighbour, mrs florence zimmerman. i'm relieved to see you didn't inherent your uncle's freakishly oversized head. ha! says the woman who literally looks like a 0 tip. oh, look, the giant head is angry. my god, did that withered purple skeleton just speak? she thinks she's smarter than me because she has more college degrees. no, i think i'm smarter than you because i'm smarter than you. now, the relationship between those two is actually the most fun of the film. the rest of it, it's directed by eli roth, who is known as a hard—core horror director, and did things like hostel. this is a very strange choice for him. i have to say, i don't think it works. it's — although the source material predates harry potter and those novels, the film itself looks very much like — not even post harry potter, post percy jackson and the lightning thief. it has a lot of special effects,
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but for a film about magic, it isn't very magical. the script doesn't hang together in any way, sense orform, so as the narrative is unfolding, what is the thing with the clock, the back story? so at no point does it do that thing that one of the movies really needs to do, which is to click, oh, i'm in a different area, i'm in a new realm, you know, magical possibilities. so it's a mess. one of the strange things is i like, you know, films for younger viewers that have got a bit of scares in them. i remember thinking that the harry potter movies were basically hammer movies for younger viewers, and i mean hammer in a good sense because i am a big fan of the hammer films. this felt all over the place. it is interesting because it has a lot of resources, it has this source material and a very good cast, and special effects, all available to the director, and yet it is a mess of a film that i think will disappoint more than it will enchant. some people will get some fun out of it because there are some nice moments,
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particularly in the relationship between the two central adults, but beyond that, i don't see it having a huge shelf life. best out is wajib, a palestinian drama. yeah, i really liked this. this was the palestinian entry for the foreign language film oscar, although it wasn't nominated. it is a story of father and a son, who are estranged, travelling round nazareth in the run—up to christmas, but they are handing out wedding invitations, which they have to do by hand, that is the wajib, the duty of the title. and as they travel around, you discover their relationship, how they've fallen out. one has has stayed, one has gone away, one is young, one is old, there is resentment, and yet it's really funny, it's very subtle. it is kind of bitter in some places, it blends the personal and the political. it is very, very low—key, and i thought it was kind of wonderful. it did the thing i want a film to do, which is to intrigue me about the characters, and i thought it was really good. it's called wajib. it's a very small release, but if you get a chance, do check it out, it's really good. and best dvd this week is the breadwinner,
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which is an animation. and a hand—drawn one at that? it is an animation directed by norah twomey. it is made by the people who made song of the sea, so it's not one of those 3—d digital animations. this has cut—outs and hand—drawns and different forms of animation. it is the story of a young girl living in taliban era kabul, whose father and brother are arrested, and leaving only women in the house. women are not allowed to go out of the house on their own, so she has to disguise herself as a boy to go out into the town, and suddenly she discovers this whole new world when she changes gender, and it's really brilliant. it deals with some dark subject matter, but in a way that is accessible. they have made it so it can be watched by viewers of all ages. there is tough stuff in it, though. i loved it, it is one of my favourite films of the year. i thought it was absolutely brilliant. mark, as ever, thank you very much, particularly for the reassurance over the choice of our film this weekend. do ask yourself, what was that all about? i expect to be bamboozled. a quick reminder before you go — you will find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online.
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and you can find all of our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week. thanks for watching. bye. hello, this is breakfast with chris mason and victoria fritz. good morning. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn and his deputy tom watson have said they will back another brexit referendum, if their members call for one. it comes as the party delegates meet in liverpool for the start of the annual conference. a poll suggests overwhelming support within the labour rank and file for another vote, and for remaining in the european union. owners of holiday homes in england would face new taxes if labour wins the next election — that's one of the proposals being announced at the conference. the party says around 174,000 homes would be affected, raising £560 million.
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leaderjeremy corbyn will also announce plans to force large companies to reserve a third of seats on boards for representatives of their workforce. an investigation by bbc radio 5 live has found that the number of elderly people reporting that they have been scammed has nearly doubled in the past three years. in some cases, victims have lost hundreds of thousands of pounds. fraudsters scammed almost 119,000 older people across the uk in the past year — that's equivalent to nearly six reports every hour. a murder investigation has been launched after a 19—year—old man died after being shot in east london last night. two other people were also seriously injured in the incident in walthamstow, at around 11 o'clock. nobody has been arrested. there have been more than 100 murders in the capital so far this year. directors of the british broadcaster sky have urged shareholders
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to accept a takeover offer of more than £30 billion from the us media giant, comcast. after a long—running battle against rupert murdoch's 21st century fox, comcast last night won a blind auction for sky. it's not thought that prices will go up for sky subscribers. a woman accusing the us supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual assault has agreed to testify against him next week. lawyers for christine blasey ford say she has accepted a request to appear before the senate judiciary committee to be questioned about the alleged attack at a party in 1982. judge kavanaugh has repeatedly denied the allegations and continues to have the support of president trump and his deputy, mike pence. president and i are confident that senate republicans will manage this confirmation properly with the utmost respect for all concerned and
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i believe thatjudge brett kavanaugh will soon be just as i believe thatjudge brett kavanaugh will soon bejust as brett kavanaugh. and take his seat on the supreme court of the united states of america —— justice. house of fraser stores in edinburgh, hull and swindon are to close. sports direct‘s mike ashley, who recently bought the struggling chain, has been in talks with landlords over rents in recent weeks. at least 20 house of fraser stores have been saved from closure. let's get a full round—up of all things sport and cathy is here. all things sport and cathy is here. all things boxing. we have been reflecting a few minutes ago that f3 joshua, does he live with his mum?|j don't know, he is close but i do not think he does. —— anthony. don't know, he is close but i do not think he does. -- anthony. it is quite a lucrative business, you think that he could afford a washing machine. £20 million or so, so you
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think he would be ok. what would you do with all of that money? he has sold 300,000 tickets to all of his fight, at wembley alone, so think about all of the pay—per—view on top of it, all of the money he has generated that actually $20 million was probably a small slice of the pie, really. good value, i suppose. but he is the one putting his body and his face and his fitness on the line and it was very crawling, at times alexander povetkin was on top and it was joshua's class times alexander povetkin was on top and it wasjoshua's class that times alexander povetkin was on top and it was joshua's class that shone through so he is still the heavyweight champion of the world and david ornstein was at winsley last night. the home of english football for a night at the centre of the boxing world. normally it takes two teams to fill the stadium. here it was done by one man. anthonyjoshua is fast becoming the biggest draw his sport has the
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scene but with that, their reason added pressure. these fans don't merely want to watch him compete. they expect him to win and do so in style. joshua's task was to follow a spectacular entrance with fireworks of his own. in wet conditions, but hopes were initially doused. alexander povetkin lending some brutal blows, raising the possibility of an almighty upset. the response though was that of a true champion. not for the first time in his career, joshua overcome adversity to devastate the russian and maintain his unblemished record, though supporters were more than satisfied. i will always end up victorious because i think i've got a bit deeper depths and i had to dig deep. i wasn't looking for a knockout but instinct told me he was hurt and knockout but instinct told me he was hurtandi knockout but instinct told me he was hurt and i knew i had to follow up and it was time to get him out. the focus now turns to his next opponent, the same venue has already
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been booked for april but will it be? david ornstein, bbc news, wembley. it would be beyond a fire —— they have booked wembley for the april 13 so who will it be? there was a warm welcome back to old trafford for sir alex ferguson after he had emergency surgery for a brain haemorrhage in may. manchester united could only mark the occasion with a draw against wolves. liverpool, though, have now gone clear at the top of the table. it's been their best start to a premier league season. here's joe lynskey. please give the warmest old trafford welcome to sir alex ferguson. cheering and applause. this is the sound when 70,000 people bring a loved one back home. sir alex ferguson's influence is in old trafford's foundations. these stands are united when he takes up his seat. he says the pre— match nerves are still the same but when his old
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side went in front, this felt like the old days, the problem is today's man united less lethal doorway and wolves are a side building their own brand, half the team and the manager are portugal's new stars, they make life ha rd to are portugal's new stars, they make life hard to their compatriots. are portugal's new stars, they make life hard to their compatriotslj life hard to their compatriots.” think the result is fair, i think they deserved the point. and i think we deserve the punishment of getting only one point. being the away team at anfield feels like punishment right now. especially if liverpool get a head start. that own goal had southampton up against it and this year the side in bread have found an extra edge, seven wins to start the season extra edge, seven wins to start the seasonis extra edge, seven wins to start the season is their best since 1990. to be honest i was not interested in history before the game because we we re history before the game because we were maybe going to be a few trying already to go the seven time or whatever but now i like it! i like it! that's cool. the team is up in
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front at the site behind them have proven pedigree. commentator: supravee from sergio aguero remarks is 300 appearance with another goal. by is 300 appearance with another goal. by the end manchester city were being given goals by cardiff, numbers four and five went to the newest star, mahrez, the face of le i ceste r‘s newest star, mahrez, the face of leicester's title off the mark in pale blue. spurs are hoping to the storm to pass. their optimism has been dampened by three defeat in september but of right and they went down to subtle hand, but outstretched arm was enough for a penalty and when harry kane stepped up, the summer feels less distant. just like in russia he said his field on the way and though totte n ha m field on the way and though tottenham still have links to fix, and lister have stopped the downpour. joe lynskey bbc news. yes, a wind therefore celtic finally. celtic and rangers both play today in the scottish premiership. hearts dropped points for the first time — they were held to a goalless draw at home to livingstone. and kick—off was held up for 10 minutes by a false fire alarm in the match between hamilton and st mirren,
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but that was as exciting as it got for the visitors, who were beaten 3—0. tiger woods has given himself every chance of winning his first tournament for five years. he had an outstanding start to the third round at the tour championship in atlanta with birdies at six of his first seven holes. he shot a 65 and goes into the final day on 12—under par, three shots clear of justin rose and rory mcilroy. i know what i will be doing this evening, it will be a showdown! in rugby union's premiership, bath beat northampton for their first win at home this season, bristol beat harlequins, and wasps won at sale for the first time in eight years — nathan hughes bundling over to earn them a bonus point. ireland fly—half johnny sexton celebrated his 150th leinster appearance with three conversions and the bonus—point try as they swept aside edinburgh in the pro14. in rugby league's super 85, st helens beat warrington for the third time this season, running in six tries to win 34—14, and they'll have a chance to do it again when the sides meet in the semifinals a week on thursday.
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nekoda smythe—davis has won great britain's first silver medal at the world judo championships for nine years. it's the best result of her career. she was was inspired to compete after being a volunteer at london 2012. six years later, she has world silver. not bad at all! for the first time in the 214—year history of the ayr gold cup, there was a dead heat. the racecourse judge could not split the 5—1 favourite son of rest, ridden by chris hayes, and the 28—1 outsider baron bolt, not even by a nose! —— the mount of apprentice rider cameron noble, not even by a nose! a photo finish. not a nostril between them. no splitting it at all. the dead heat for the first time. you may have seen yesterday on breakfast, we heard from billy monger, the young racing driver who lost both his legs in a crash at donnington last year.
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this is an extraordinary story. well, he returned to the same track yesterday and he was absolutely ecstatic when he claimed pole position for the first of the weekend's formula 3 races. amazing. he finished fourth, and there are two more races to come today. what a story it would be on his return to the circuit where he lost his legs to win a competition. there must be so much psychology going around the track. his mental strength would be incredible to get backin strength would be incredible to get back in the car and then go back to the track and he said he got a 150 quid bonus for pole position and he was going to buy some brews with it and fill one of his prosthetic legs and fill one of his prosthetic legs and make all of the drivers drink out of it. and he still has a dream to make it to formula 1. i've been doing some research about anthony joshua's domestic situation and as of march and was living with his mum but baby he has managed to get enough togetherfor a
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but baby he has managed to get enough together for a deposit by now. you should think so! it's 6:41. four years ago, lizzie lowe took her own life. the 14—year—old believed she wouldn't be accepted as a christian who was gay. since then, her church in manchester has been on a mission to welcome everyone, regardless of their race, disability or sexuality. it's now become part of the first inclusive deanery in the church of england. but it's not been without controversy, as abbiejones reports. we gave elizabeth's middle name of i°y we gave elizabeth's middle name of joy and she was ourjoy. liz was always there. she is always on your mind. lizzie lowe was a committed christian who also believed she was 93v- christian who also believed she was gay. she was worried about telling her parents and feared her church would not accept her sexuality. absolutely not would it have made a difference at all and that is the
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sad part, the really sad part. but in september 2014, lizzie took her own life. lizzie lowe's death devastated the community, in didsbury, herfamily devastated the community, in didsbury, her family friends in school and her church and it com pletely school and her church and it completely changed the way the church response to the issue of sexuality. over the last four years of st james and sexuality. over the last four years of stjames and its sister sexuality. over the last four years of st james and its sister church commendable have formally adopted the church of inclusive church, it means everyone is the church of inclusive church, it means everyone is welcome, regardless of race, wealth, gender or sexuality. it is nice to bring ourgirls up in or sexuality. it is nice to bring our girls up in the same whether we did, going to church on a sunday. coming out was difficult for me and it is nice to know i am accept that. before lizzie's death of the admits the church didn't talk about sexuality. i wish we could turn the clock back and have done something ahead of it, the decision that lizzie took, that would have given
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her the slightest chance to have found a safe place to talk. we had to change. we had to make sure something like this would never happen again. to cement the change the church staged its own pride event. it is also joined with 11 neighbouring churches to become the first inclusive deanery in the church of england. but it is proved controversial, 25 parishioners have left. those opposed to the church's new election were reluctant to appear on camera but others have admitted the changes have taken time to accept. i did struggle initially, yes, because they do seem to be passengers in the bible that seem to blanket call it wrong —— passages. i can do it now. i think the people i talk to a lovely people. you can interpret the biblical passengers difficult and i think logically i am there at inclusion and yet, i mean, i'm upa there at inclusion and yet, i mean, i'm up a generation who grew up in homosexuality was only just legalised. it is a huge cultural
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shift. lizzie's parents believe embracing inclusion will save other teenagers. if this can happen to us it could easily happen to anyone else, your daughter, your son, your grandchild. it is about accepting people for who they are. you know? what do we want them to be. abby jones, bbc news, manchester. viewers in the north west can see a special report on that story on inside out, at 7:30 on bbc one tomorrow evening. and it'll be available on the iplayer too. here's louise with a look at the weather. i will try not to disappear this time. i have kicked the machine. this is actually eastern scotland yesterday. a beautiful day. yesterday it was the warmest place across the country, 50 degrees. with the clear skies allowing the sunshine it has allowed for a
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beautiful aurora —— 15 degrees was i am sojealous. beautiful aurora —— 15 degrees was i am so jealous. i beautiful aurora —— 15 degrees was i am sojealous. i want beautiful aurora —— 15 degrees was i am so jealous. i want to see this in real life. it is pretty chilly with it. it comes at a price, minus two degrees across parts of eastern scotland. scotland probably think the best of the weather today. heavy rain and strong winds starting to push into the south—west. behind it, high pressure building, quite an things down for tomorrow. we need to get rid of this wet weather. it is putting into south—west england and south wales as we speak. it will rattle steadily eastwards at quite a pace. it will bring some heavy rain with it, but should start to clear as we get through the middle of the day. and improving picture through south—west and parts of wales by around lunchtime. not great news for the midlands, down into east anglia and the south—east corner of the morning. if you have other plans this morning you will get wet. a5 the rain starts to clear away it will be quite windy for a time, gusty winds for a time. it is an improving picture, as you can see. a scattering of showers moving further north and west. not a bad day if you
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managed to gauge the —— dodge the showers. you will keep the sunshine. a brisk wind and eccles thorssell sop i suspect you will need extra layers. some of the showers will push through quite quickly. widespread into the afternoon. 11— 15 degrees. a5 widespread into the afternoon. 11— 15 degrees. as we go through the evening and overnight, as that rain eases away, pretty much all of us will seek clear skies. a chilly start to monday morning. north—westerly winds still continue. high pressure will build for many. with lighter winds generally across central and southern areas you could see patchy mist and fog forming. more of a breeze into the far west of scotland. that could dry in a few scattered showers as well. a little more cloud as well. generally speaking, monday is dry and settled. not particularly warm with it. 12— 16 at the very best. a similar kind of story as we move into tuesday.
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the potential for patchy mist and fog across england and wales. later in the day for northern ireland and scotla nd in the day for northern ireland and scotland the winds will start to strengthen and we will have more persistent rain into the far north and west. highest values of 12 and 60 degrees, 61 fahrenheit. quite to the week. there we go. i have kicked the week. there we go. i have kicked the machine —— 16 degrees. brilliant. thank you very much. now on breakfast, it's time for click. india — a technology superpower in waiting. half of the 1.2 billion people here are aged 35 or under. in the years that we've been coming
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here, we've seen it change from an it outsourcing work house to a place of innovation and start—ups. and although click has a huge audience in india, and although we've brought indian stories to the world, we haven't yet been able to bring the world to india. so it's high time we put that right. we've taken the click live show on the road, to the beautiful setting of bikaner house, new delhi. new delhi! thank you for having us! are you well? cheering and applause and it's here that we wowed audiences with the coolest tech we have seen on our travels. we've painted colours in the air, tickled their ears, took them to the future, and to the distant past. this is hampi, once the capital of the vijayanagara dynasty, and by the 16th century, it was the second—largest mediaeval—era city in the world. since 1565, it's lain in ruins,
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but over recent years this unesco world heritage site has been 3d—5canned by several different organisations. not only does this mean that what's still there can be digitally preserved, but it's also meant that historians have been able to reconstruct a virtual model of how it would've looked in his heyday. so, we're now going to take a walk—through of the temple site. to do that, we also need a projector, which is going to shine down onto the model, and a camera up there which is going to watch for the routes that i want to describe. and this is how i'm going to show it where i want to go. once you've described your route it takes you on a virtual tour, and while you enjoy the scenery on the screen, you can see exactly where you are on the model too. if you digitally preserving this you are keeping it for future generations, to be able to really see what used to be existing.
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the laser pointer and footprints are just the first experiment into how others might experience this kind of virtual tour. it's crying out for a virtual reality set up, obviously. and this technique will also be useful to explore sites other than those from times gone by. this kind of whole technique i think would go very well where you're looking at visualisations of new architectures, new buildings, where you also have people who are exploring things. so seeing a physical form and a virtual form together, it will really help people to be able to visualise things and also maybe change, digitally you can change anything, so that is the excitement. visara technologies is one of many start—ups that are being spun out of the 23 indian institutes of technology, universities which span the country, providing a tech education for tens of thousands of young indians, and provide incubators to allow their research to be turned into small businesses after graduation. one of the visions of iit
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was to create world—class engineers and world class projects, and perform world—class research, and it has certainly had some global success stories. these include sundar pichai, the ceo of google, and more recently, binny ba nsal. he's the co—founder of flipkart, a massive online shopping site launched in 2007, six years before amazon arrived in the country. it's considered one of india's most successful start—ups. and when walmart recently bought most of the company, the deal made binny a billionaire. and whilst in delhi, i couldn't resist grabbing a few minutes with the man himself to get a snapshot of the indian tech industry. we have a lot bigger market, lot bigger economy, we have a lot more people on the internet.
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ten years back we had 15—20 million people on the internet, now we have more than 350—400 million people connected. that has created a huge market for indian entrepreneurs now, to really dream big and execute, which wasn't the case before. what do you think india is really good at? i think one thing india is really good at is producing global leaders. if you look at companies like pepsi, google, microsoft, a lot of the ceos today are indian. and that kind of gives me hope that one day not so much in the future we'll have the next google or microsoft coming out of india, because indian entrepreneurs and their leaders i think can scale businesses globally much better than maybe their chinese counterparts. what do you think india is not good at? we tend to take shortcuts to problems because so many other things are broken, so that is something that also needs a mindset change.
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artificial intelligence, good or bad for india? great because it can solve healthcare at scale, it can solve education at scale, it can solve so many of these societal issues at scale. i canjust imagine that happening. bad because it is going to take away a large number of jobs, so that becomes... but i think that is a problem we'll define and can be solved with the right intentions and the right solutions. so i'm more optimistic than pessimistic about al. thank you for your time. thank you. back at the live show, when we weren't creating the world's greatest selfie, or playing the world's best game — designed by click, patent pending incidentally — we spoke to the pioneers of india's burgeoning space industry, and asked the question on the minds of over one billion people — can a self—driving car
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survive india's traffic? over the past few years, we've been developing the technology, as you can see the vehicle can see without radars, then we've developed software to deal with the unsecured and chaotic traffic and environment conditions in india. it is a very hard problem and so far we have done some tests, but it would take us a lot more time to go into the indian cities and deal with the chaotic traffic and peak traffic hours in india. see? not quite as crazy as you first thought. one of the big themes that came out of click live in india was the power of artificial intelligence and its impact on people's work, especially on theirjobs. one company hoping to ride the ai boom is imerit. and its founder, radha basu, explained how i won'tjust replace humans, it needs a humid workforce to train the algorithms in the first place by clearly annotating training images like these.
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could you explain to everyone here what imerit does? in order for al algorithms to work, they have to be trained. it's like computer programming. if you just put a computer there and say work it doesn't work. so you have to programme it. that's called training ai. what we do is train ai and enrich the data so that our clients can get the best results out of their a! algorithms. so you have a huge human workforce training ai. we've some examples of the kinds of things that your workers do that we'll put up on the screen. these are some examples of that your humans are doing to create this training data, yeah. that's correct. we're called humans in the loop. humans in the loop of ai. so it could be as simple as taking different cars in a parking lot, doing bounding boxes around them, knowing which cars have damage, so being able to look
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at automatically picking that up and sending that back like an insurance investigator would do. this is where we've probably done the most work. we've done more than 15 million images for self—driving autonomous cars. we work with a variety of car manufacturers. and, if you look at this, it's called bounding boxes and polygons. but it's at a pixel level. so it's dense pixel segmentation. so think, for example, there are a few toes onto the crosswalk. how do you know whether that belongs to a cat, to a small child? there's a wad of paper on the street, do you know if it's a rock or a wad of paper? so when we do this pixel segmentation, it's very complex and you can have up to 50—70 different things you're marking. just to be clear then, you're training the ai, this is a person, this is a car,
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and then it goes away and learns from that? so when the car looks at the street scene, we have trained the ai algorithms so that the computer can learn from it. for the first time, we have technologies in a! that can be used for crucial societal applications, particularly like healthcare. there are... in the amount of data, healthcare is about a third of the data. and the ability that we have, as you can see there, this is our work, where you can actually go in and look at cancer cells, and we actually annotate them in these images and use this to train the ai algorithms. and if you think about this in a broad societal sense, this can be taken to a large number of people who do not have access to this kind of care, and you can do pre—screening for cancer cells. what's really important is the type of person that you employ.
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so that, i think, is the core, i would say, the core contribution of imerit. imerit has about 1,500 people, we're hiring 200—300 people per quarter. so ai is creating jobs. wow. 50% of the workforce, for a technology services company, 50% of the workforce are women. yes! applause and 80% of the workforce are coming from low—income backgrounds. they could be young muslim women. we have one centre that's called the centre of excellence for computer vision, that's for image processing. and that centre is all young muslim women in a very poor community. and that's it for now from india. thank you so much for watching and don't forget, we live
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on facebook and on twitter @bbcclick, where you can see loads of extra backstage photos and fun. but for now, and from this wonderful audience, it's goodbye and we'll see you soon! good morning. welcome to breakfast with chris mason and victoria fritz. our headlines today: backing another brexit vote — the labour leadership say they'll support another referendum, if that's what party members want. falling victim to scams — the number of reports of fraud
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