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this is the briefing. i'm sally bundock. our top story: saving lives, saving endagered species. climate scientists warn we need immediate and far—reaching action to prevent a dangerous rise in global temperatures. brazil's right—wing congressman, jair bolsonaro, takes a commanding lead in the presidential election, but he'll face a run—off with his leftist rival. after their dramatic cave rescue, members of a boys football team from thailand are special guests at the youth olympics in argentina. and in business briefing, the cars of tomorrow or just wild dreams? we take a look at the most exciting concept cars at the paris auto show. a warm welcome to the programme,
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the report from the intergovernmental panel on climate changesays unprecedented changes will be needed in all parts of society if global warming is to be limited to 1.5 celsius above pre—industrial levels. achieving this would help save millions of people from flooding and preserve endangered species like coral reefs. victoria gill has more. pictures of a warming world. scientists are more confident than ever that the impacts of climate change are playing out now in the severity and frequency of droughts, storms and other extreme weather events. and, having gathered in the south korean city of injury on for the past week, climate change researchers and government delegates outlined the consequences of a global temperature rise of more than 1.5 degrees. and a plan for precisely how that can be prevented. countries need to up their ambition and get moving now with climate change action if we're going to keep 1.5 degrees within reach. with no
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action, the world is on course to breach this crucial target by as early as 2030, compromising the very livability of our planet. melting polarised means impale... keeping it toi.5 polarised means impale... keeping it to1.5 means 10 polarised means impale... keeping it to 1.5 means 10 million fewer people would be exposed to the risks of flooding. but this plan is ambitious and it will be expensive. renewable energy sources will need to provide about 85% of global electricity by 2050. currently at the account for about 25%. even with a green energy revolution, this comprehensive assessment of the perils of climate change concludes that everyone of us will need to make changes in how we live our lives, changes that have to start now. victoria gill, news. the far—right candidate, jair bolsonaro, has won the most votes in the first round of brazil's presidential election. but he'll have to face the left—wing workers party candidate, fernando haddad, in a second round in three weeks' time. mr bolsonaro won 46% of votes, a much stronger showing than had been predicted.
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joining me now from sao paolo is the bbc‘s camilla costa. good to see you. tell us a bit more aboutjair good to see you. tell us a bit more about jair bolsonaro. good to see you. tell us a bit more about jair bolsonaro. well, former army captainjair about jair bolsonaro. well, former army captain jair bolsonaro, about jair bolsonaro. well, former army captainjair bolsonaro, 56 yea rs army captainjair bolsonaro, 56 years old, he's been in politics for quite a long time. he's been a congressman for 27 years. he started in politics and defending the rights of the military men and policemen, but over the years his discourse has shifted a lot more towards conservative issues, and, sort of, more far—right issues. he's quite controversial as well, he's been called homophobic, he's been accused
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of racism, of sexism. during this campaign he has joked of racism, of sexism. during this campaign he hasjoked about killing the supporters of the workers‘ party, and also he is quite well—known for some of his opinions ina way well—known for some of his opinions in a way against the ministry of culture, for example. he‘s been involved in quite a bit of controversy and his campaign has been quite motivated by this sort of phrase, really. he has been stabbed during a campaign rally, actually, which is something analysts say in a way bolstered his support among brazilians. talk us through how the motive this race is and how politically charged it is, because brazil has been through so much in recent yea rs. brazil has been through so much in recent years. it's been called an unprecedented election actually in brazil, at least since the re—democratisation of the country at the end of the 1980s. some polls
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actually say the most present, the most pervasive the motions among brazilians ahead of the vote are angry, sadness and grief, which is quite unusualfor angry, sadness and grief, which is quite unusual for an electoral period in brazil. it is quite polarised, very divisive. some a nalysts a re polarised, very divisive. some analysts are saying the results of the first round are signifying a major shift if you will in the kind of partisan allegiance and partisan support in the country. there‘s a lot that seems to be changing right now. thank you so much. camilla costa in sao paulo for us. let‘s brief you on some of the other stories making the news. china‘s anti—corruption watchdog says the head of the international police agency, interpol, has been detained in the country for what it calls suspected violations of the law. meng hongwei was formerly a senior security official in china. interpol now says it has received his resignation. police in turkey are continuing their investigations
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into the unexplained disappearance of the saudi arabian journalist, jamal khashoggi, from the kingdom‘s consulate in istanbul. saudi arabia has denied that mr khashoggi was murdered in the consulate. turkey‘s president described the disappearance as very, very upsetting. state media in north korea says the country‘s leader, kim jong—un, has described his talks with the visiting american secretary of state as productive and wonderful. mike pompeo went to pyongyang to finalise the details of another summit between president trump and mr kim. scientists are warning that the quality of sperm in the us and europe is falling rapidly because men are eating too much fast food and not getting enough exercise. 0ne us study found a fall of almost 2% per year in the number of healthy sperm produced by clients of fertility clinics. an investigation has started after 20 people were killed
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in a crash involving a stretch limousine in upstate new york. police say that passengers travelling in the vehicle wouldn‘t have been required to wear seatbelts. the accident happened on saturday afternoon. lebo diseko has the story it‘s a day that should have been filled with celebration. instead, emergency services are at the scene of america‘s worst transportation accident in almost a decade. it‘s thought the 18 people in the limousine were on their way to a party when their car came off the road and hit two pedestrians. all of them died. 20 fatalities is just horrific. i‘ve been on the board for 12 years, and this is one of the biggest losses of life... loss of lives that we‘ve seen in a long, long time. colgan air up at buffalo killed a0 people... 50 people, but this is the most deadly transportation accident in this country since february of 2009. this is the junction where the crash happened.
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it‘s thought the limo failed to stop, veering out of control and ploughing into this cafe. i heard this loud bang. i came out and i saw a lot of people up here at the apple barrel out in the parking lot, and then i heard screaming. i walked up and i could see this large van, very unusual—looking vehicle for out here in schoharie, in the bushes, and really wrecked, hit a tree. it‘s still not clear why the driver apparently lost control, or the exact cause of the accident. investigators are expected to be on the ground for at least five days. the victims won‘t be officially named until all of their families are informed. lebo diseko, bbc news. japan‘s prime minister, shinzo abe, has suggested that britain would be welcomed with open arms into
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the trans—pacific partnership trade agreement after it leaves the eu. andrew tuck, editor of monocle, a global news and business magazinejoins me now. interesting story, on the front page of the ft today because they say they‘ve been speaking to shinzo abe at his official residence in tokyo, we‘ve looked at it on bbc online, give us your take on this line. we‘ve looked at it on bbc online, give us your take on this linem will be seized on by everybody who is pro—brexit. here‘s a man who is an important leader with one of the biggest economies even now in the world and he‘s saying we can be part of this tra ns—pacific world and he‘s saying we can be part of this trans—pacific partnership, the tpp. this is a big trading group with australia, new zealand, malaysia and it‘s an important group to be part of but there‘s other things going on. for example, shinzo
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abe is speaking on behalf of the big japanese companies that trade here in the uk, the likes of nissan. he wa nts to in the uk, the likes of nissan. he wants to make sure the mood music is supportive around a positive outcome to the negotiations going on. absolutely. we‘ve got on bbc online, japan would welcome the uk to the tpp. it's a japan would welcome the uk to the tpp. it‘s a very important trade relationship, tra ns—pacific partnership, but won the us decided to not be a part of, but then canada joined after the us left —— but one. the question is to what extent the uk will benefit and the article talks about the fact this is the kind of encouraging line brexiteers wa nt to kind of encouraging line brexiteers want to hear at this point. the time is ticking by, isn‘t it? this 0ctober deadline is only a couple of weeks away where we have an important summit with the eu. fascinating, in the last few days we‘ve seen the change of mood music, suggestions coming from the
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negotiators, especially brussels, that perhaps a deal is possible and ina that perhaps a deal is possible and in a shorter time than we imagined. but even so, these promises, these hints that we might get bigger deals outside the ui important, but we have to remember that for many people, leaving the european union isn‘t just about cash, people, leaving the european union isn‘tjust about cash, or trade, it‘s about a cultural shift and those are the questions shinzo abe can‘t address. those are the questions shinzo abe can't address. andrew is coming back ina can't address. andrew is coming back in a moment. in the article it says we can‘t be part of the tpp if we‘re in the customs union, that‘s a very important point. andrew wilkie bak! we will carry on the conversation later in the news briefing —— andrew will be back. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: a recipe for a better life. how celebrity chef levi roots is helping men to improve their health and learn new skills in the kitchen. this was a celebration by people who were relishing their freedom. they believe everything‘s
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going to be different from now on. they think their country will be respected in the world once more, as it used to be before slobodan milosevic took power. the dalai lama, the exiled spiritual leader of tibet, has won this year‘s nobel peace prize. as the parade was reaching its climax, two grenades exploded, and a group of soldiersjumped from a military truck taking part in the parade and ran towards the president, firing from kalashnikov automatic rifles. after 437 years, the skeletal ribs of henry viii's tragic warship emerged. but, even as divers work to buoy her up, the mary rose went through another heart—stopping drama. i want to be the people‘s governor. i want to represent everybody. i believe in the people of california. you‘re watching the briefing.
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0ur headlines: climate scientists say "we must do better". researchers redouble efforts and push for a new strategy to tackle global warming. brazil‘s right—wing congressman jair bolsonaro takes a commanding lead in the presidential election, but he‘ll face a run—off with leftist rival fernando haddad. carlo cottarelli, the ex—imf economist nicknamed ‘mr scissors‘ for his pro—austerity views, was on the brink of becoming italy‘s prime minister. he was president sergio mattarella‘s choice for interim pm back in may but cottarelli ended up suspending his own efforts when five star and the league formed a coalition. ros atkins sat down for this exclusive interview with him.
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i think that italy has come from a difficult period from an economic point of view. italy had essentially no growth for 20 years. but in terms of processing power, the italian income ronnow is what it was 20 yea rs income ronnow is what it was 20 years ago. this has created a lot of unhappiness towards the establishment. this leads to policies that are unsustainable and led to an even worse outcome. you at one stage, were going to be a prime minister for the one stage, were going to be a prime ministerfor the longer one stage, were going to be a prime minister for the longer period of time, but this government prevented
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that. are you concerned about the language that this government uses a doubt the european union, about the euro, about immigration? you seem quite relaxed about that.|j euro, about immigration? you seem quite relaxed about that. i don't particularly like this government but i think this is the government that was voted by italians. so when i was asked to form a government, and temporary government to lead the country to move elections are. —— elections. as to the language that is being used, i would prefer it softer language was being used. —— if. i don‘t think we have been very goodin if. i don‘t think we have been very good in the last decade or more in defending our interest in europe. sometimes simply because the lack of organisation. we come in always too late when decisions have already been taken. at the moment, those who are in power in italy, there is the new government and we‘ll see what
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they do. as for myself, i have been doing a lot things in my 30 years of work, over 30 years of work. the 12 thai boys who were rescued from a flooded cave injuly have been playing a friendly game of football at the youth olympics in argentina. the team and their coach, who spent more than 2 weeks stuck underground, were guests at the opening ceremony. eliza philippidis reports. these are the wild boars taking on argentina‘s rivers under 13s playing at river plate‘s monumental stadium in buenos aires. the squad, kitted out in violet jerseys, looked strong in the hour—long match, but even after careful planning, the game ended a 3—3 draw. they were celebrated and honoured at the opening ceremony by the ioc
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president, thomas bach. jabalies salvajes, wild boars. rescuer: how many of you? 0njune the 23rd, they became trapped in an underwater cave, and survived on water dripping from rocks before they were discovered by divers. a dramatic rescue effort ended on july the 10th when they were brought out safely after an ordeal that made headlines around the world. the boys said they were excited to be involved in the youth 0lympics, and were given a plaque as a reminder of the friendly game against the home team. eliza philippidis, bbc news. australia‘s cricketers do not enjoy the first day onto a. caroline wozniacki wins again in china.
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australia are not enjoying themselves onto in dubai, pakistan dominated the opening day of the first test and they will go into day two on 255—3. muhamed hafiz making a century in his first test in two yea rs. century in his first test in two years. this is the first to for the australians since that all tampering scandal and the australian bowlers, they struggled. not the day for them. the aussie bowlers struggled as pakistan‘s openers put on 205 for the first wicket. who will be the top ranked player when the season ends? novak djokovic is the favourite to overtake rafael nadal at the top of the rankings. the penultimate masters event of the season takes place in shanghai. djokovic has a bye into the second round where he will face france‘s jeremy chardy.
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i want to give myself the content of being number one at the end of the yea rs. being number one at the end of the years. i would definitely play this tournament and any other after this as it is a grand slam for me, in a way. wa ke wake up everybody! it is over! it was the supposed to be one of the games of the season, but on sunday the top two in the premier league served up a turgid, flop of a game. nil—nil 0—0 it finished at anfield. riyad mahrez missed a penalty with 5 minutes of normal time remaining. he was sickened by it. look at his face, he couldn‘t believe it. his boss didn‘t mind. we had 40, 50 years, not winning here, most of the times, lose lose, of course we have respect, but we deserve respect for what we have done from last season and this one. we tried to avoid the game, for the spectators is good,
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up and down, run, run, run, that they have the best team in the world. in italy, lazio and sampdoria are up to third and fourth respectively in the serie a, after wins on sunday. napoli stay second with a 2—0 win over sassuolo. carlo ancelotti‘s team got off to a flying start with this strike from adam 0unas. but it took until deep into the second for them to score again. lorenzo insigne and hit a dipping shot into the top corner for this sixth goal of the season. world number two caroline wozniacki won her third event of the season, with a straight—set victory over anastasija sevastova in the china open final. the australian open champion won in straight sets in beijing to claim her first title since eastbourne injune. it is the 30th title of her career. and here‘s whats been catching our eye on social media.
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while the bayern munich squad haven‘t been having the best of times recently with back—to—back defeats in the league, the german giants are in the middle of a crisis on the pitch. but what were they doing yesterday? yesterday the bundesliga champions lost 3—0 at home to borussia monchengladbach, following on from a 2—0 loss at hertha berlin, but nevermind that — they‘ve been enjoying a day out at oktoberfest. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that‘s bbc.com/sport. for now that‘s your monday sports briefing from me chris mitchell. a group of british men who‘ve never cooked before are being given the chance to learn new skills and gain knowledge about healthy diets. they‘re doing it with the help of celebrity chef, levi roots — as tim muffet reports.
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i really have to look after her. frank and marion have been married for 63 years. i am her carer. she is not well. marion use to do most of the cooking, but she has alzheimer‘s disease, the most common form of dementia, so that is becoming harder. i have always been interested in cooking and never had the ability. unfortunately one date marion might not be able to cook any more. “ one marion might not be able to cook any more. -- one days. so frank has begun to cooking classes, aimed at men like frank, who would like to cook but never learned. my wife passed away three days ago —— three yea rs passed away three days ago —— three years ago and i totally relied on her at four cooking. we are all males and are in the same boat. we have a whole generation of men at
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this particular age who have never learn to cook. that was a generation that didn‘t do it. so they come to these classes, they get some skills, they get some company, and they have a bit of fun as well. today's guest instructor, levi roots. now a successful chef and entrepreneurial, he believes cooking can be a powerful force. food is he believes cooking can be a powerfulforce. food is a he believes cooking can be a powerful force. food is a great medium to break down the barrier and make it connection with someone. my mother ‘s saying was once a man, twice agile. now i am a man and they area twice agile. now i am a man and they are a child a second time around, it isa time are a child a second time around, it is a time where they have two be helped. there are classes like this all cost the uk, but aids uk would like to offer more, a way of tackling loneliness and boosting healthy eating. really tastes good. nice flavour, lovely. will you cook it began? absolutely. -- again. that
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is delicious. if there wasn't theirs i would be absolutely useless at home. i can now do my share of cooking at home, take the weight off my wife! shoulders and is the greatest thing that has happened to me in years. what is it like now that frank has been going to these classes ? that frank has been going to these classes? it is very good actually, because it is a good experience for him. do you have a favourite dish he can now put? chicken, i think, chicken. i hope my dad is watching, i will sign him up for the course. we have heard from many of you this morning, many are discussing the new doctor who, it aired last night with a first e—mail doctor, jodie whittaker, and i will share your opinions later because we have got it in our media review, to assess what you think about the new series. most are positive but there has been
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some negatives. we will share them ina some negatives. we will share them in a moment. good morning. it was a weekend of contrasting weather conditions, on saturday in scotland and northern ireland we had blue sky and sunshine, by sunday it was replaced like cloudy, wet and windy weather at times, so much so that we had a couple of inches of rainfall across scotland. i want to show you sunday‘s rainfall because this rain is going to be across scotland and one—day and possibly into tuesday as well. it will be fairly relentless if we stretch out over the atlantic, you can see this pulse of moist, wet weather that is good to continue to feed in across the far north—west. this morning we continue with this north—south divide. south—westerly wind will blow the cloud across the coasts, the best of the sunshine further east. were to have a look at this rain in more detail arsenal of the afternoon. some of it quite heavy across the western isles into western scotland and before the
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couple days are too weak at possibilities of localised flooding. not as windy as sunday but nevertheless still a notable south—west winter. more cloud for northern ireland, the cloud should in and break in places, particularly eastern areas across england and wales and as a consequence, temperatures may be up a degree or so temperatures may be up a degree or so from what we saw at the weekend. highest value is possible at 18 degrees. as we moved out of monday into tuesday, is most people form and is, as you can see we are still got this plume of moist air stretching across the far north—west, bringing yet more heavy rain at times further south and west we will continue to see that south—westerly flow, a little less cloud around on tuesday and it will be warmer again, highs of 20 degrees, 68 fahrenheit and above the average for this time of year. tuesday night into wednesday, we could see the wind like and just a touch and produced patchy mist and fog, but hopefully there will be enough of a breeze to lift that readily and the wind will change
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direction slowly but surely, that is go to try that with a front in scotla nd go to try that with a front in scotland a little further north and allow for more sunshine to come to a and &time, allow for more sunshine to come to a and & time, more warmth with a dry source coming from the new continent. we could on wednesday see tempertaures peaking at 19 or 20 degrees in scotland, 23 or 2a, the mid— 70s fahrenheit, not that this time of year. still dry and pleasa ntly warm time of year. still dry and pleasantly warm on thursday but there is a chance of wet weather come on friday. take care. this is the business briefing, i‘m sally bundock. us secretary of state mike pompeo is heading to china to try and defuse the strained relationship between the world‘s two largest economies. but will he be able to halt the escalating tariff war? the cars of tomorrow, or just wild dreams? we take a look at the most exciting concept cars at the paris auto show. and on the markets, it is a mixed day across asia. japan is closed today, but shanghai has reopened following a week—long holiday, and bore the brunt of the selling, as china‘s central bank takes steps to help lenders and boost the economy.
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