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katie watson, bbc news, sao paulo. dame barbara windsor has been speaking publicly about dementia for the first time since she was diagnosed with the condition. the former star of eastenders and the carry on movies called on people to run next year's london marathon in aid of a campaign to raise funds for more research into dementia. this year, i'm asking you to make a stand against dementia. use your place to run for the dementia revolution, for alzheimer's society and alzheimer's research uk. support ground—breaking research to find a cure for a condition that affects so many people, like me. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz schafernaker. i got some good news today. it is going to get a storming towards the end of the week but before that, we are aiming foran end of the week but before that, we are aiming for an indian summer, some of us would call it. a lot of
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fine weather on the way. temperatures will get to values that on average we see injuly and august but just for on average we see injuly and august butjust for a on average we see injuly and august but just for a day. on average we see injuly and august butjust for a day. we will get two oi’ butjust for a day. we will get two or three good days. at the moment, there's a lot of cloud in the atla ntic there's a lot of cloud in the atlantic streaming our way. you know too well if you live in western scotla nd too well if you live in western scotland and northern ireland it has been raining and windy, very unpleasant afternoon. it will remain wet through the day. further south, fine weather with temperatures in the teens. this weather front has stalled across this part of the world. not moving particularly south oi’ world. not moving particularly south or north, just keep on coming out of western scotland and northern ireland like a conveyor belt dumping rain, could be localflooding. to the south, mild south—westerly winds are establishing themselves. tuesday, almost picking up more of a south, south westerly, the air is coming out on warmer climes. tomic is already up to 20 in london, high teens across yorkshire and belfast
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worried we'll dryad —— temperatures already. still raining in western scotland. you can see the battle of the cold. trace back this air currents. france, the mad and africa. this is where our air is coming from, this will be the peak of this spell of warm weather. i suspect temperatures could reach 2a degrees across the south. you can see oranges as far north as yorkshire. widely into the 20s as far north as the lowlands of scotland. we might even break the 20 degrees mark in belfast. crucially, there will be a lot of sunshine, that's the best thing, who cares about the temperatures? if we get 15 thatis about the temperatures? if we get 15 that is good enough but we will get 24. the weather is expected to go downhill by the time we get to friday. friday we are keeping an eye on this day. the temperatures will start to drop. the winds will start to pick up and we are in for a potentially stormy spell of weather.
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this could be our next named storm of the season but it is too early to say how bad it's going to be. north—western parts of the uk in particular at risk of some pretty ferocious winds and some heavy rain. indian summer now and then it ends with that storming out. thank you. a reminder of our main story this lunchtime... a planet in peril: scientists issue their starkest warning yet about the dangers of climate change. that's all from the bbc news at one so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. that afternoon, this is the latest sports news. gareth bale is a doubt for the wales friendly against spain in cardiff on thursday, sitting out training this morning with a
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possible re—of a groin problem. better news is that he is one of the nominees for this year's ballon d'0r, the world's most prestigious football award. he has scored five goals for real madrid this season after helping them the champions league in may allsop team—mate cristiano ronaldo is also on the list, and he won it for a fifth time last year. the bookies favourite it another real madrid player, luka modric, who helped croatia to the world cup final and won the golden ball for best player. he was named the fee per player of the year last month. there will be a women's prize for the first time with a short list of 15 women. manchester city midfielderjill scott has withdrawn from the england squad for the match tomorrow against australia with an ankle problem. she missed the win over brazil on saturday. she has returned to city for treatment. the squad trained today the game at
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craven cottage. australia are ranked sixth in the world with england third so they will offer another stern test for phil neville‘s team as they continue their preparations for the world cup next year. mo farah is now likely to focus on next yea r‘s world farah is now likely to focus on next year's world championships in qatar after winning his first marathon. victory in chicago came in only his third attempt at a distance, pricking the european record in the process and taking over a minute of his own personal best —— breaking the record. i haven't seen her for a little while, in training camp for the last two months so i want to go back to london and spent some time with my kids. and then think about the next step. hopefully the world championships and other stuff, i'm not sure. in tennis, british number one kyle edmund has reached a career of 14th in the world tennis rankings. he made it to the
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semifinal of the china open last week and has moved up two places but he has risen from 50th at the start of the year. he has been british number one since march when he passed andy murray who is now number 262 in the world. the new zealand flanker sam cane will miss the autumn tests flanker sam cane will miss the autu m n tests after flanker sam cane will miss the autumn tests after fracturing a bone in his neck. he was injured in the all blacks victory over south africa on saturday. he will be out for five matches including those against england and ireland next month but is expected to make a full recovery. the team doctor said it would take about three months for the bone to get strong again. the former australian open at matthew hayden said he dodged a bullet after being injured whilst surfing. he posted a picture of himself after fracturing a bone in his neck and tore ligaments in the accident in queensland. he is now 46. we thank
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everybody who helped him and said he was on the road to recovery. —— he thanked. we wish him all the best. that is all the sport, more on those stories on the bbc sport website. i will have more in the next hour. many thanks. back to our top story here on bbc news and a new united nations climate report being published at a meeting in south korea says there will have to be "unprecedented changes" to how people use energy in order to restrict rising temperatures. the intergovernmental panel on climate change is calling for the rise in the earth's temperature since the industrial age to be limited to 1.5 degrees celsius. my colleague carole walker has been discussing this report with professorjoanna haigh, who is co—director of the grantham institute for climate change and environment at imperial college london. and professor chris fogwill, who's the director of the keele institute for sustainable futures at keele university. professor fogwill started
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by explaining the challenge of reaching this 1.5 degree target. we are looking at obviously projections. this year we have achieved i degrees above preindustrial warming which is quite remarkable given previous estimates. and turning to the vetjoanna haigh who is here with me, the language is specifically designed to send out a serious message about the potential consequences of this —— professor joanna haigh. consequences of this —— professor joanna haigh. we have known for a long time that global norm is due to human made carbon dioxide that the impacts of what will happen and what will happen in the future in all sorts of aspects of our lives and we need to do something about it and how to do it is now set out very clearly in this report. let me bring in some of the questions we have had from viewers who have been calling
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and texting us this morning. karl says, why are we not utilising wave power in the uk? with some of the highest tidal ranges in the world, rivers like the mersey and river severn could provide extra —— excellent tidal barrage is. this is a really good point. to answer the question specifically, we are one of the world leaders in some of this technology. what we need is investment to drive this kind of technology forward. if we really wa nt to technology forward. if we really want to achieve these kinds of ambitious aims, we have got to start now. next year or the year after will be too late so we need policy to shift to really invest in that kind of technology. it is a very good point. and there is real potential is there? certainly. it has to be seen as a starting point, that kind of investment in technology. there are so many multifaceted elements to reducing
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c02. the report really does go into some detail and suggests there are real ways in which we can achieve this and it provides several different models to go forward to achieve these ambitious goals. all of them will take substantive societal change. this is the underlying message of the report, that we have to change from the bottom up. professorjoanna haigh, another point raised by someone who got in touch. caroline asks what you think should be done about the animal agriculture industry, saying it has the largest carbon footprint of any man—made activity and why isn't it being tackled? it is true that agriculture from land use activities contribute about a quarter of the current c02 emissions so quarter of the current c02 emissions so if we can do something about it it will help. and a very worthy ——
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is everybody ate les snead, it would help reduce c02 emissions because animal agriculture has a big impact. —— ate less meat. animal agriculture has a big impact. -- ate less meat. a big change at looking at our food, choosing plant —based products and more locally plant —based products. —based products and more locally plant -based products. exactly, we wa nt plant -based products. exactly, we want to use plant —based products for food and also for energy provision as well. using more trees, planting more plants to suck the c02 out of the atmosphere is an important angle. going back to professor chris fogwill, another question asking, am i correct in thinking that china is still building coal—fired power stations and, if so, anything the west douzable have a limited effect? —— of the west does. it is an interesting question and we had to put it in context, china has the biggest population of any country on earth and it has energy needs and
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developing energy needs. they are answering this question perhaps more proactively than any other nation on earth. we have got to say that yes, it isa earth. we have got to say that yes, it is a growing nation. it does have a substantive reliance on coal—fired technology but they are proactively chasing alternatives. that clearly goes back to this idea that there needs to be much greater priority given to this issue by governments and populations around the world. john, another viewer, has got in touch asking a simple question. we would be happy to make as many changes as possible to our lifestyle. what we want to know is what should we be doing? we have talked about switching to a greater reliance on a vegetarian diet but what else should we all be doing? that is one thing but another is using less energy. switch the lights off, turn down the heating, put on another jumper, switch your energy provided to a green supplier, less
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c02 based. we can do all sorts of things in using less energy which will make a big difference. let me go back to you on the wider point about china. clearly, many experts behind this report feel the big problem here is that it is simply not being given sufficiently high priority by the big international powers. when you have president trump sceptical about the entire agenda, walking out of that international conference, clearly that makes it much more difficult to get international action on this. indeed, it is very difficult. but there are opportunities to take a lead here. ithink there are opportunities to take a lead here. i think as a developed country with a very interesting energy mix, the uk could really take a lead here if it chose to. we had the sustainable energy growth plans that came out last october. we have
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ambitions in this area to become a world leader in terms of reducing oui’ world leader in terms of reducing our impact in terms of energy but we have to think about it as a wider peace. how can we live in an environment that is low—carbon, how can we really bring that into being pa rt can we really bring that into being part of the economy both nationally but also globally? somebody has to ta ke but also globally? somebody has to take a lead and it is a real call to arms in this piece. and professor joanna haigh here in the studio, we have heard a lot about how, for example, climate change will mean that places like the maldives are at greater risk of flooding, higher water levels are likely to displace large numbers of people but it is going to have an impact in the uk. do you think the british government is putting the sufficiently high priority on tackling climate change? the uk lead the world in setting up the climate change which is
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delivering a five—year targets, legally binding targets, and so far we're doing 0k legally binding targets, and so far we're doing ok but the emphasis seems to be shifting away, moving away from the planned trajectory and the government has put more effort and energy into innovation and investment in how to meet it. joanna haigh and chris fogwill discussing climate change earlier. in a moment we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news. scientists have issued their strongest warning yet on climate change, saying society will have to undergo rapid and far—reaching change to meet targets. authorities in china say they're holding the worldwide head of interpol on suspicion of corruption, and allegations of bribery. the acting commissioner of the met police tells an inquest into the westminster terror attacks that he was told to stay in his car as khalid masood murdered pc keith palmer because he had no protective equipment. the business headlines...
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taxing times for big tech firms as social media giant facebook sees its uk tax bill soar as profits rise. meanwhile, online payments firm paypal is paying more tax after an hmrc enquiry. a group of mps have criticised the apprenticeship scheme, saying the training is not good enough and that disadvantaged people are not being given the support they need. and struggling fashion chain french connection has confirmed speculation that it may be up for sale it issued a statement earlier saying it is "currently reviewing all strategic options, which include the potential sale of the company". facebook‘s uk subsidary paid £15.7 million in tax this year, triple the amount it paid in 2017. elsewhere, paypal‘s uk subsidiary has agreed to pay an extra £3 million in tax following a review by british tax authorities. last week, chancellor philip hammond raised the prospect of a new tax
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for large technology companies which have frequently been criticised for paying modest amounts of tax in the uk. heather self is a tax partner from accounting, tax and advisory practice blick rothenberg and she joins me from the newsroom. thank you forjoining us. what do you make of this higher tax bill for facebook? is it significant? they say they have changed their operating models are advertising from uk customers is booked in the uk profit and they pay tax on it. the ah they are paying looks quite reasonable compared to their reported profit of 62 million but the big question is are they reporting the right amount of profit? it is difficult with these big tech companies to decide where the value is being created. why is it so difficult to decide that? why
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is it we hear stories about these firms possibly not paying enough tax, a tax bill that does not reflect what they are earning?“ you think about eight factory making widgets, it is easy to work out how much value it is creating. now imagine as well as creating that their paying a big sum for a royalty for the use of a brand name, that'll have another value allocated. if you look at facebook, all of the value is in intangible assets so while you can see how much the total profits are around the world, it is difficult to say how much should be allocated to each country. philip hammond announced he would be looking at a digital services tax. explain what that is and how it would work, or even if it would work. it is a difficult question. a number of countries would like to do more to tax digital companies. the best way would be on a multinational basis but that would mean having to get agreement around the world, particularly from the us. most of the big digital companies are in the us and clearly turkeys don't like
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voting for christmas. the us is probably not going to agree to its companies paying more tax somewhere else. what is now happening is that a number of countries are looking at some kind of interim measure where they charge a digital services tax based on turnover. the eu had a proposal number of countries are not in favour. it is very unlikely philip hammond could do anything before brexit and if he does, it will be 2020 at the earliest and u nfortu nately i will be 2020 at the earliest and unfortunately i think it will be buried, but they did and probably still would not raise as much money as people think. and briefly, we talked about it the intro, but paypal is paying more tax. it structure is very different to facebook ‘s. structure is very different to facebook 's. and its numbers are smaller, it tax bill is about 4.7 million this year on profit of 7.8 million this year on profit of 7.8 million so when the profit figure it might be tax bill looks quite high but they say they have paid 3 million after concluding an enquirer with hmrc. i would guess that would be something to do with its transfer
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pricing which is how you allocate the profits between different companies in the same group, and the uk has quite tough rules on that. it introduced a new tax called diverted profits tax a couple of years ago so thatis profits tax a couple of years ago so that is bearing some fruit but again, the numbers are not huge. you have managed to explain, but dated issues very well! thank you very much. in other business news... shares in struggling fashion chain french connection have risen after it said it may be up for sale. following speculation at the weekend, it said it was "reviewing all strategic options" including the potential sale of the firm. sports direct and house of fraser owner mike ashley has a 27% stake in the chain, which is 40% owned by founder stephen marks. the owner of the daily mirror has reported a rise in third—quarter revenues, helped by its acquisition of the daily express and star. reach, which used to be called trinity mirror, said revenues were up 2i%, although like—for—like revenues fell by 7%. the trend away from physical papers towards digital continues, reflecting in its advertising revenues. and young people still cannot
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afford to buy a home, even if they have a decent deposit. research by the institute of fiscal studies has found that about 40% of young adults cannot afford to buy one of the cheapest homes in their area, even with a 10% deposit, thanks to house prices in england rising by 173% over the two decades and salaries only rising i9%. european markets fell on monday as investor confidence took a knock from last week's spike in treasury yields and from a chinese market slump brought on by concern that an escalating trade war with the united states could curb china's growth. in terms of specific stocks, could you can see that share price down. the oil price is also down having flirted with the mark of $86 a
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barrel but it is down to around $82. that's all the business news. thank you. the winner of the royal institute of british architects' most prestigious award, the riba stirling prize, will be announced next week. the nominations to become britain's best new building include a student housing development, a cemetery, and a nursery school. we'll look at each building in the shortlist over the next few days and today it's the turn of bushey cemetery in hertfordshire by waugh thistleton architects, which is formed of natural rammed earth walls and described as an extraordinary spiritual building with the beliefs and customs of the jewish faith at its heart. one of the fascinating and liberating things about building for the jewish community is that there isn't a typology, there is no religious typology in thejewish faith so there's no spires, there's no domes, no stained—glass windows.
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these buildings really are basic shelters. they are places for the community to gather. so, the form of the buildings, you know, they're quite orthogonal, they're quite linear, and the idea really behind that is to make them very understandable, to make them so that, you know, when you're in a distressed state, when you're at a funeral, that actually you have a kind of intuitive understanding of how to pass through those buildings. the prayer hall floor is at a slight slope so there's a constant orientation to really guide that flow of people through and then up into the cemetery. the relationship between the landscape and the building is absolutely fundamental. when the prayer hall doors fly open, after you've said the prayers and you're moving out into the landscape, that framed view is incredibly important, and it gives you a kind of sense of tranquillity, the sense of being connected with nature
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at the time you really need to be. the prayer halls themselves are made from rammed earth. so this is and ancient technology, so we use soil from the site compacted in form work. they're rammed down and made into these great blocks here so you can see the kind of, you know, the earth that's outside you and around you, that the body is buried in, is the same earth that the buildings are made from. for the jewish community attending at this building, i think it's a place of serenity. everything is pleasing to the eye and i hope and feel that it will bring comfort to the people who attend here. you can find out more about all of the nominated buildings
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on the bbc arts website and watch this year's riba stirling prize live here on the bbc news channel on wednesday evening between 8:30 and 9pm. as we get older, our diet becomes more important. cooking fresh food helps keep us healthy and active. but not everyone is a jamie 0liver or a delia smith. tim muffett has been to meet one group of men who are proving that you're never too old to learn new tricks. i really have to look after her. frank and marion have been married for 63 years. i'm her carer and she's not a well lady. marion used to do most of the cooking but she has alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, so that's becoming harder. i've always been interested in cooking although never had
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the ability and unfortunately, one day, marion might not be able to cook any more. so frank has been going to cooking classes run by age uk barnet, aimed at men who, like frank, would like to cook but who have never learned. my wife passed away three years ago and i'd relied entirely on her capabilities as a wife and a cook. we're all males here and almost in the same sort of board. nancy runs the class voluntarily. you've got a whole generation of men out there this particular age between 70s and 80s, even up to 90, who've never learned to cook. that's 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. i saw you for the first time on dragon's den. now a successful chef and entrepreneur, levi believes cooking can be a powerfulforce.
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food is a great medium to break down barriers, to make that connection with someone, and one of my biggest mother's saying was once a man, twice a child. and now that, you know, i'm a man and they are a child the second time around, because this is the time we have to help them. there are classes like this across the uk but age uk would like to offer more, a way of tackling loneliness and boosting healthy eating. very tasty. nice flavour. are you going to cook it again? oh yes, absolutely. i'll do it at home. that's delicious. if it wasn't for this i would be absolutely useless at home. i can now do my share of cooking at home and take the weight off my wife's shoulders and it really is, it's the greatest thing that has happened to me in years. what is it like now frank has been going to these cooking classes? well, it's very good actually, because it's
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a good experience for him. do you have a favourite dish he can now cook? chicken, anything with chicken! much more coming up at the top of the hour including more on that un climate change report and has been described as a global wake—up call for the planet. now it's time for a look at the weather with tomasz shafernaker. the weather is actually improving over the coming days, we are in for an indian summerso over the coming days, we are in for an indian summer so temperatures will be shooting up quite widely across the uk, into the 20s and possibly mid 20s by midweek in the south. today, more like the mid teens across much of the country but not too pleasant in the north—west soap scotland has the heaviest rain and a strong breeze blowing off the
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atlantic. this south—westerly wind will establish itself in the coming days and milder air so 10 degrees is the overnight low for most and some no lower than 13. tomorrow the weather is looking beautiful across england and wales, a lot of sunshine, temperatures in the high teens, up to 20 degrees. western scotla nd teens, up to 20 degrees. western scotland will be wet but belfast is warming up. and by wednesday, temperatures could be hitting 24 celsius. how about that! hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm rebecca jones. today at 2. a planet in peril: scientists issue their starkest warning yet, about the dangers of climate change and the battle to limit global warming. countries need to up their ambition and get moving now with climate change action. four sisters are feared dead after a limousine crash in america
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