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this is bbc news, i'm annita mcveigh. the headlines at 5pm. the uk, britain, france and germany issue a joint statement condemning the killing ofjournalist, jamal khashoggi inside the saudi consulate in istanbul — saying nothing could justify his death. the brexit secretary dominic raab says the uk could agree to extend the brexit transition period by about three months— but only if the eu drops its demand for a northern ireland ‘backstop'. think about it, as important as it is, these are the only outstanding issues that ought to be stumbling blocks. the good news is, on a range of other issues we are close to getting there. the coastguard says that everyone has been accounted for, after an isle of wight car ferry hit at least two yachts while trying to dock at cowes in heavy fog. ryanair says it will ban unruly passengers from travel in future, after video shows a man racially abusing a black woman on a flight to stansted airport. the oscar—winning director
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peterjackson brings new life to footage of world war i soldiers, they shall not grow old. find out what mark kermode thought of that and the rest of this week's releases in the film review. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the uk, france and germany have issued a joint statement condemning the death of the journalist jamal khashoggi inside the saudi consulate in istanbul ‘in the strongest possible terms‘. turkish officials say they have evidence he was murdered, but saudi arabia is claiming he died in a fist fight. the statement from uk, france and germany says: they're
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they‘ re currently they're currently conducted their own investigation. turkish president said he will report the findings on tuesday. we are seeking justice, and this incident will be entirely revealed. entirely. why did 15 people come to istanbul? why were 18 people come to istanbul? why were 18 people arrested? this must be revealed in detail. the brexit secretary dominic raab has said that any agreement to allow an extended brexit transition should be instead of — not as well as — a "backstop" to avoid the return to border checks in ireland. the 21—month transition is currently expected to end on 31 december 2020. mr raab says an extension would only be for around three months. our political correspondent tom barton reports. a day after hundreds of thousands of anti—brexit campaigners took to the streets to call for another referendum, today, the focus is back on theresa may.
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suggestions that a leadership challenge could be imminent, backbenchers warning that her administration cannot function. but as brexit negotiations intensified, a warning from the man in charge of speaking to the eu that the conservative party needs to pull together. we are at the end stage of the negotiation. i think there is understandable jitters on all sides of this debate. we need to hold our nerve. the end is in sight in terms of the good deal, the prize we want, a good deal with the eu. and i think colleagues should wait and see what that looks like. it won't be a question of a fait accompli. dominic raab suggested that a proposed extension to the transition period could last for around three months, but that the eu would need to drop demands for a backstop over the irish border. and he said a deal would need to be struck by the end of november, if there's to be time for it to be agreed by parliament. but his european counterparts say the ball is in britain's court. this agreement is almost ready
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but we still have to fix the question of the irish border and we have to have definitive answer or at least no temporary measures which disappear and we do not know what to do after that. this is the question that we have. whatever deal theresa may agrees with the eu will need to be signed off by parliament. with many of her backbenchers opposed to the proposals that are currently on the table, she could be forced to ask labourfor support. the opposition suggesting, today, that would be unlikely to be forthcoming. we have always said any support we give would be conditional which is why we set out a number of tests at the beginning of the exercise, and we will obviouslyjudge the deal against those conditions when it comes back. but we have equally never accepted and are not going to accept this argument it is either my deal or no deal because on that logic you would be putting to me that the labour party should back anything the prime
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minister brings back. as the deadline for a deal approaches, the rhetoric on all sides is getting tougher. tom barton, bbc news. a ferry has hit at least two yachts while trying to dock at cowes harbour on the isle of wight. the red funnel operated vessel, with 56 people on board, ran aground at the entrance to the harbour in heavy fog. the coastguard said that no one has been injured and the ferry has been refloated. the ferry company has since apologised to the yacht owners. andy moore reports. mid—morning, after the fog had lifted, the red falcon was towed from the spot where it went aground back into harbour. all 56 people on board were said to be safe and well. but further out in the middle of this image, you canjust about see the mast of a yacht that sank in the collision. the ferry hit several vessels and shouts for help were heard. it was incredibly thick fog. you could see maximum five metres in front of you.
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i heard shouting and a sort of clanging, like a metallic clanging sound and then nothing. later, the coastguard said the sound of shouting was somebody raising the alarm. but at the time, there were fears several people might have been thrown into the water. a major search was launched involving three lifeboats. a coastguard helicopter had to turn back because of the poor visibility. as the ferry finally came into port, red funnel said it wanted to apologise for any disruption. last month, another of the company's vessels was involved in a similar incident in fog in cowes harbour. but on that occasion, there was only what was called "light contact" with the yacht. andy moore, bbc news. our correspondentjohn mcmanus is in cowes. what is the latest there? well, the services of back up and
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running now, but this morning the harbour was closed for several hours while an emergency operation was under way. it was around 8am this morning the coast guard and maritime agency received reports of incidents in the harbour waters behind me and cries for help and also that the fairy had run aground. there a0 passengers on board that vessel all stemming from southampton in thick fog. review so happened is that manages to not see them off shore here. one of the yachts was sunk and here. one of the yachts was sunk and he said he was none too pleased to the sequence of events and in that time had parties have confirmed nobody was injured in this. there will be an investigation and the ferry has been towed away. vesta gets a bit looking to see if this was a mechanical fault that caused this or human error. this ferry itself was involved in another incident in september where it
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collided with a yacht. tb will have been injured then and there were two questions about what happened this morning that the authorities will wa nt morning that the authorities will want answered. at least two yachts we re want answered. at least two yachts were damaged or do we know if any more were damaged? only two damaged and one of those actually sank. there'll have to be recovered at some and mse quite shocking for the passengers on board. and we never did initial cries for help were reported to the coast guard rocks across the board for somebody on another yacht nearby and could see that a collision was imminent and trying to warn the crew to change course but that did not happen. nobody injured and debris in the water. if tories were quite pleased that nobody has come over from this incident. russia has warned of the dangers of president trump's decision
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to pull out of a landmark nuclear weapons treaty — calling it unacceptable and dangerous. the treaty signed 30 years ago eliminated short to intermediate range nuclear missiles. mr trump has accused moscow of developing a weapons system that violates the agreement. here's our moscow correspondent sarah rainsford. it is more than three decades since this landmark moment, the soviet and us leaders signing a treaty that's been key to curbing the nuclear arms race, ever since. the intermediate—range nuclear forces treaty, or inf, led to the destruction of a whole class of weapons, capable of a nuclear strike in europe with barely any warning. but the us has long suspected today's russia, undeeradimir putin, of violating the treaty. now, donald trump says he's had enough. the us president declared that america will withdraw from the deal. we're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out
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and do weapons and we're not allowed to. we're the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we've honoured the agreement, but russia has not, unfortunately, honoured the agreement. so, we're going to terminate the agreement, we're going to pull out. russia's foreign ministry has condemned that as unacceptable and dangerous. moscow denies it's violated the arms treaty, calling washington's conduct crude and clumsy. if this goes on, the deputy foreign minister warned russia will have no choice but to respond. the us national security adviser, john bolton, is due back in moscow this week. and russia's looking to that visit for an explanation of president trump's move. some, though, are already warning of a new arms race. let's speak to sebastian brixey—williams who is programme director at the british american security information council. basic is a london—based think tank which promotes dialogue on nuclear nonproliferation, arms control and disarmament. the giver coming along. president
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0bama considerably out of this treaty, but he was persuaded not to do so by european leaders. has the context for president trump's decision and have things changed greatly in the interim between president 0bama leaving office and present from coming into office? not enormously. as 0bama and his administration suspected that there was development since 2008 and it was development since 2008 and it was last sure that it was announced they had deployed such weapons. the military advantage to be gained is great. the large—scale weapons in the gut to a nuclear war and large. this seems like a lot more like the wanted to get out of treaties. in so
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this is probably much more likely to be an ideological game than a political game and let's not forget that trump announced this on the campaign trailand not that trump announced this on the campaign trail and not an official statement from the white house. and is this, where we consider the totality of this, is this a crisis in arms control that we are looking at? d would go that far?|j in arms control that we are looking at? d would go that far? i would go that far in citizen of the biggest crisis as we have had since the 19805. crisis as we have had since the 1980s. we agreed, and when i say we, imean 1980s. we agreed, and when i say we, i mean the united states and they agreed to the treaty between reagan and gorbachev. missiles was short range between 550 500 km the streets decision—making time i came to a crisis. if you thought the missiles we re crisis. if you thought the missiles were coming in and there was a bug on your radar screen and it would give you seconds to decide whether to fire back. there was a recognition that was not a good
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thing. if that treaty is no longer in force rebecca square one and back to that situation again. what you think russia's up is going to be? regarding other then criticised donald trump so his decision has but the us and the position of being criticised by russia for it. russia is going to paint the us as the bad quy is going to paint the us as the bad guy here. while russia seems to have beenin guy here. while russia seems to have been in breach of this treaty for some time it's quite clear that the us taking action here and will be quite easy for russia to paint the us as the instigator of a failure of this treaty on international level. you mentioned john bolton, what do you think of the rest of the trump administration makes of this? that they get their say move on his part? i'm sure there are people within the ministration that have more questions about this event support. certainly in europe is been a
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widespread feeling about this sort of thing. the uk is, infavour of this move and it's been primarily due to the uk but i can't need to maintain transatlantic relations and links in the future of nato is looking under threat. from the basic think tank. the headlines on bbc news. the uk, france and germany issue a joint statement condemning the killing ofjournalist, jamal khashoggi inside the saudi consulate in istanbul — and call for urgent clarification over what happened. the brexit secretary dominic raab says the uk could agree to extend the brexit transition period by about three months, but only if the eu drops its demand for a northern ireland ‘backstop' the coastguard says everyone is accounted for after a ferry collided with several yachts and ran aground off the isle of wight ryanair has been criticised
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forfailing to remove a passenger from a flight after racial abuse of a woman in her 70s. the incident, on a flight from barcelona to stansted on friday, was recorded by a fellow passenger and shared on social media. many people said ryanair should have removed the man from the flight and have threatened to boycott the airline. ryanair said it "will not tolerate unruly behaviour like this". earlier i spoke to david lawrence who filmed the footage on the flight from barcelona on friday — some of the audio is poor quality. i was with a friend on a business trip from barcelona flying with ryanair, and it was friday the 19th of october. it was around three o'clock in the afternoon. i arrived on the flight, i arrived at my seat, the lady and her daughter
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were behind me. she needed special assistance because she was in a wheelchair. she took a seat, two rows behind me and her daughter was further behind. i made myself comfortable, and then passengers were still coming on the flight. i heard a man's voice behind me shout at the woman, "move right now or else i'll move you." i turned around, i turned around, and the man was standing over the elderly woman shouting and telling her to get out of the way because he wanted to sit down. her daughter came up to the scene, telling the man not to speak to her mother like that she was an elderly woman. then the abuse started to come out of the man's mouth. i grabbed my phone, and i started to film it, because it seems as though the cabin crew weren't around and no one was getting involved.
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this went on for a few minutes and the gentleman sitting behind the lady stood up and tried to calm the situation down. the man then came out with a lot of racial slurs and abuse. a cabin assistant turned up and tried to calm the situation. i looked around, and no one was saying anything. the passengers were all giggling, and all sorts of things. their reaction will shock me to this day. how long did it take the cabin crew to arrive and intervene? it took them too long. it went on, as you can see from the footage, it went on for two or three minutes. it was very loud. it was, you could see the whole plane knew something was going on. and this man had a very loud voice.
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so everyone could hear what he was saying quite clearly. it was clear to you that what began as a very rude response from him, quickly turned into racially abusive language? it was very ugly, very ugly. he was saying things that are unrepeatable. he referred to the woman's looks as being too ugly to sit next to. he said don't speak to me in a foreign language. these types of things, it was so disgusting. as i said, he said a lot worse. david lawrence speaking to me earlier. a spokesman for the department for transport said disruptive behaviour on the aircraft is completely unacceptable and we are sorry to hear about this passenger's
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experience in the statement goes on, eve ryo ne experience in the statement goes on, everyone should be able to enjoy a safe and calm journey without their fight being exploited. we are working with airlines and airports to look at what more can be done with disruptive passengers as part of aviation strategy and ryanair has said its pass on information about this incident to the police. an investigation is under way after a woman died in a suspected gas explosion at a flat in north—west london. a baby was among three people who were rescued from the first floor of the building in harrow during the early hours of this morning. part of the building collapsed after the blast. about a0 people were asked to leave their homes nearby as a precaution. a man has died after the car he was driving hit a lorry on the north circular in london — after failing to stop for police the collision happened in the early hours of sunday morning in walthamstow. emergency services attended the scene and driver of the car, believed to be aged in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene. nobody else was injured and the independent 0ffice for police conduct has launched an independent investigation
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children with life—limiting conditions have been let down by the nhs and local councils across england, according to a new report. a cross party group of mps says as many as one in three clinical commissioning groups do not provide specialist out—of—hours care. the department of health says it remains dedicated to improving patient choice for everyone through their end of life care commitment. hundreds of central american migrants have used rafts and boats to cross the river marking the border between guatemala and mexico, in an attempt to continue theirjourney to the united states. thousands of people were left stranded on the frontier bridge after mexican police stopped them entering the country on friday. aleem maqbool reports. wa nted
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wanted to get the us. but this ought to get through mexico which is not letting the man and president trump has described this convoy as an assault on the us. an onslaught of criminals. "we plead to donald trump," this woman told us, "may god soften his heart so we can enter the us, children are sleeping on the floor and we don't know how long we'll be here, it's not fair." it has been a heartbreaking time for some. we met this man who got split up from his 13—year—old son five days ago and has not seen him since. translation: i am upset and don't know what to do. should i continue and hope he arrives or should i turn back? i need him so much. they have all been risking the dangers, desperate for a better life in the states.
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small numbers of people have been allowed across the border — but for the most part, the mexican gate has remained shut. with living conditions here on the bridge getting more difficult, we are seeing many trying other means of trying to get to mexico. after a week of threats from washington, central american governments have come to an agreement, to transport people back to their home country for free if they sign up. reluctantly, nearly 600 have already put their names forward. translation: we are sad because we thought we would make it to the us. when you come from poverty, you try to be optimistic but it's been difficult. we are returning to suffering. for some americans, the sight of migrants giving up is a welcome one. for others, it's an embarrassment that their country, built on the idea of taking in those seeking prosperity, now delights in turn them away. but some migrants just won't take no for an answer.
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we saw some of the hundreds who have decided to cross into mexico by boat, determined and desperate enough to continue theirjourney to the usa by any means. aleem maqbool, bbc news, on the guatemala—mexico border. the duchess of sussex is cutting back on the number of engagements she'll attend during the remainder of the royal tour of australasia. meghan, who is pregnant with the couple's first child, was present yesterday as prince harry launched the invictus games for wounded veteran athletes, but the duke will now conduct some royal engagements alone. 0ur correspondent hywel griffith is in sydney. the focus today was meant to be on the first full day of competition at the invictus games, however, inevitably, like a lot of this royal tour, the attention switched back to the royal pregnancy with the announcement that the duchess was cutting back on her engagements. not much more was said. we understand, however, she is still in good health.
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certainly she was out and about again later on in the day. she didn't go to the cycling. she was out on sydney harbour to watch the sailing competition. she will be travelling with the duke to frazer island tomorrow however we are told she will not be taking part in engagements again. the invictus games have got off to a pretty good start. people here in sydney turning up to see it. there does seem to be support behind the games and once again people turning out to see the royal couple. we have seen so far hundreds, in some places thousands, of people come out to see them. certainly there is a fascination with the young royals here. not necessarily support for the future of the monarchy here in australia. polls repeatedly suggest that a majority of the australian people want this country to become a republic. so even though harry and meghan are very, very popular here they do not necessarily want to see that family continue as the australian head of state. shortly viewers on bbc one willjoin us for a round up of the news with ben brown.
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but first it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello there. on whether can be pretty fickle but if we look what has happened this week it was the temperatures yesterday reached 20 celsius in northern scotland, eight celsius in northern scotland, eight celsius above normal for the time of year. fast celsius above normal for the time of yea r. fast forward celsius above normal for the time of year. fast forward to next weekend and colder northern wins a lot and the scottish hills. cold weather towards the end of this week. cooler weather arrived across scotland and northern ireland today and behind his history of cloud which is a cold front currently bringing the thickest cloud across wales, the midlands and parts of northern england and the few spots of rain. that will tend to push south and in clearing during the second half of the night. the skies follow and light winds and meant to be a cold night for sure. temperatures in the towns and cities quite widely getting down to between two and four celsius and under the countryside that could be part of the frostjust
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about anywhere on monday. for monday there will be a lot of dry weather and should be glorious if somewhat cold start today with almost clear blue skies for a majority of the country. northern scotland and obvious exception and going to be wet and particularly for there and also shetland. cooler air arrived across england and wales interpreters down. highs between 12 and 1a degrees and for much of the week ahead high—pressure will be close to the uk and weather fronts pressing around the top side of the high with rain at times to the north of scotland. for tuesday the wet weather then and heavy at times. brisk winds and torches coming up a little bit though 1a to 16 fairly widely. wednesday eric y weather day probably widely. wednesday eric y weather day pro ba bly less widely. wednesday eric y weather day probably less in the way of scotland and there will be bright or sunny spells breaking out in temperatures
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in around 12 to 16 degrees and only small changes in the forecast for thursday at the more rain and with west wins in the best any sunshine across central and eastern parts of the uk. temperatures coming down a little bit and hides of 12 to 1a degrees. blood colder through friday and into next weekend where we will see the cold snap and yet some snow on the northern scottish hills. temperatures everywhere seeing single figures. that's her weather. britain's strongest condemnation yet of the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. in a joint statement with france and germany, it says nothing can justify the journalist's killing and calls for urgent clarification of what happened. the government says if the brexit transition period is extended, it would only be by about three months. 30 years after ronald reagan signed a nuclear arms deal with russia, president trump says he's pulling out of it. an investigation is under way after a ferry collides with two
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yachts on the isle of wight. and can lewis hamilton clinch his fifth formula one title tonight in the us grand prix? good evening. britain, france and germany have condemned ‘in the strongest possible terms' the killing of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. in a statement, they say there's an ‘urgent need for clarification' from saudi arabia. yesterday the saudi government admitted for the first time he did die in its consulate in istanbul — but said it was in a fight. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james robbins reports. new pictures have now emerged of jamal khashoggi walking towards the saudi consulate
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istanbul, and towards his death. more and more countries are now demanding the truth, the whole truth. the saudi explanation that he died in a fist fight has been all but rejected by many governments. and where is his body? europe's three major powers have now come together to condemn the killing in the strongest possible terms. their joint theirjoint statement their joint statement says: they continue: the world is waiting for turkey and
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its president. he is in a position to reveal much more. turkey's police and security services are leading the investigation have already lea ked the investigation have already leaked stories of torture and murder by saudi officials. the president has pointed to revelations on tuesday. translation: we are seeking justice, and this incident will be entirely reveal, entirely. i did 15 people come to istanbul? why were 18 people come to istanbul? why were 18 people arrested? this must be revealed in detail. will the slowly unfolding story increase suspicions about the role of this man, saudi arabia's prince mohammed bin salman. many people think he must of ordered the targeting of his most vocal critic, jamal khashoggi, and will saudi arabia really be punished by other major powers, as a big spender and energy supplier? most
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governments are waiting for fuller a nswe rs governments are waiting for fuller answers before answering. —— before deciding. james, a lot of developments on this tonight — where do they leave us? i think thisjoint i think this joint statement from britain, france and germany is important because together they say the evidence that jamal khashoggi died ina the evidence that jamal khashoggi died in a fist fight in the consulate needed to be back by fax to be considered credible, in other words, the current account is not considered credible, which opens up a path which must lead to a radical change in relations between those countries and saudi arabia eventually. we don't know how. significantly, saudi arabia's foreign minister has been on american television trying to defend saudi's crown prince, mohammed bin salman, trying to pin the blame on officials who have already been arrested. significantly, he claims that saudi arabia doesn't know where jamal khashoggi's remains are, where his body is, which is an extraordinary admission for foreign
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minister to make. finally, the fact that turkey‘s president erdogan who holds the key, will brief his parliament on judy, we holds the key, will brief his parliament onjudy, we should learn more then. thank you very much. the government has suggested that any extension to the brexit transition period should be about three months. the brexit secretary dominic raab also called on conservatives to pull together as a team and hold their nerves. here's our political correspondent, chris mason. chanting: what do we want? people's vote! when do we want it? now! a day on from this — hundreds of thousands of marchers demanded another referendum on brexit — today, it's back to the political slog of trying to reach a deal with the european union. and a slog accompanied by a noisy soundtrack of grumbles from the conservative backbenchers. so, the brexit secretary pleads... it's understandable that there are jitters on all sides of this debate. we need to hold our nerve. the end is in sight
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in terms of a good deal. the prize that we want — a good deal with eu. and those jitters go something like this when you stare across the channel. this withdrawal agreement is almost ready, but we still have to fix the question of the irish border. and we have to have a definitive answer, or at least no temporary measures which disappear and we don't know what to do after that. the current plan if there's a withdrawal agreement with brussels is for a transition period after brexit lasting until the end of 2020. but, the government accepts that might now have to be longer, as it thrashes around for a plan it and the eu can live with to keep the border with ireland open. ministers are suggesting a so—called backstop, where all of the uk stays in a customs arrangement with the eu until the government decides not to. but that, mr raab said, could come after an extension to the transition period of three months or so.
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it's an obvious possible route. but as long as its short, perhaps a few months, and, secondly, that we know how we get out of it. and obviously it has the solve the backstop issue so that that falls away then as a possibility. if a deal is done with the eu, it'll need to be approved by parliament. and given some on her own side don't like what's being cooked up by the government, the prime minister might need some labour mps to vote for it. but... we're not going to accept that this argument that it's either my deal or no deal, because on that logic, you would be putting to me that the labour party should back anything that the prime minister brings back. and the slog continues. and it gets noisier by the week. chris mason, bbc news. then, frankly, reporting on brexit sometimes can feel rather like standing in front of a glazier and
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excitedly talking about how fast it's moving. in the long term, that might be the case, but it doesn't a lwa ys might be the case, but it doesn't always feel like that, and today was one of those days. the prime minister will be in front of the commons tomorrow facing questions after last week's summit, and technical negotiations including civil servants continue in brussels. some conservative backbenchers get frustrated at the slow pace of progress, and frankly, get frustrated with the prime minister. thanks very much, chris mason, our political correspondent. russia's president putin says he wants the united states to explain why it's pulling out of a landmark nuclear weapons treaty. the agreement, signed 30 years ago, eliminated short to intermediate—range nuclear missiles. president trump has accused moscow of developing a weapons system that violates the agreement. here's our north america correspondent, chris buckler. and, a warning there is flash photography in his report. this was a moment and an image that
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let the world know that the cold war was coming to an end. three decades ago, the then american president and soviet leader agreed the intermediate—range nuclear forces treaty that led to hundreds of missiles in both countries being destroyed, but that was a different era. while the nuclear threat isn't what it once was, for years, america has been concerned about russia's testing and deployment of a cruise missile that it says reaches the treaty. and with concerns that other countries including china aren't tied by the cord, donald trump says he's had enough. were not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out and do weapons and we're not allowed to. we're the ones that have stayed in the agreement, and we've honour the agreement, but russia has not unfortunately one of the agreement, so we're going to
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terminate the agreement and pull—out. terminate the agreement and pull-out. the president has spent the week campaigning ahead of next month's crucial congressional elections. he has visited troops, post with missiles, and now he's talking tough about russia. some will say he's thinking about domestic concerns as well as international ones, and there some members of his own republican party worried about mr trump on doing the work of one of his presidential predecessors. i think it is a big mistake to flippa ntly predecessors. i think it is a big mistake to flippantly get out of this historic agreement that reagan and gorbachev sign. it was a big pa rt and gorbachev sign. it was a big part of reagan's legacy and we should not get ride of it. the us national security adviserjohn bolton is visiting moscow where he will meet with russian leaders. they already know what he plans to say. 0ver already know what he plans to say. over the last year, president putin has accused america of bad faith and attempting to destroy the treaty. translation: they are constantly searching for some violation from our side and
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searching for some violation from ourside and are searching for some violation from our side and are consistently doing it themselves. mikhail gorbachev, who signed the treaty with ronald reagan, today warned that withdrawing from the agreement was a dangerous step backwards and threatens what was once seen as a historic leap forward. an investigation's been launched after a ferry hit two yachts while trying to dock at cowes harbour on the isle of wight. the red funnel—operated vessel, with 56 people on board, ran aground at the entrance to the harbour in heavy fog. the coastguard say no one was injured. duncan kennedy is on the isle of wight. the yacht that was sunk by the ferry is just over my shoulder, and although there was nobody on board, we have spoken to someone who regularly sails on her, and he says he simply can't understand how this accident could have happened. there we re accident could have happened. there were in fact a0 people on the ferry itself, and although nobody has been
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hurt in all of this, it is being treated as a very serious incident. this was the red falcon, grounded and stranded in cowes harbour. it had just collided with a number of yachts that were moored offshore. a0 passengers were on board the ferry when it struck the boats in thick fog. this yacht was sunk by the a,000—tonne vessel, but the owner wasn't on board. it's not known how many other boats were hit. ed anderson was waiting in his car on the ferry at the time of the collision. we felt the boat going to reverse, and there was just a crunch. i presumed that was us. the staff then came round and told all of us that we should go back upstairs and relax for a little while because we were going to be here for a while. the ferry was launched in 199a. a number of rescue boats searched the waters around it for possible missing people. we found nothing untowards. we've actually now, through cowes harbour, contacted the owners of the yacht that's on the bottom, and they are all safe and well.
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so, we're happy that there are no human casualties to the incident this morning. the ferry‘s operator, red funnel, has apologised to passengers for the incident. at the moment, we are obviously conducting a full investigation, and it's probably too early to speculate. but what we are doing is commencing a full investigation, and we're working with the external authorities to determine exactly what went wrong. this is not the first time the boat has been involved in a collision. last september, the same vessel hit a motorboat in the solent, injuring two people. tonight, the ferry has been back to southampton, ready for a full inspection. duncan kennedy, bbc news, cowes on the isle of wight. with all the sport now, here's 0lly foster at the bbc sport centre. i'll have the latest from today's football in a moment, but injust over an hour, lewis hamilton races at the the us grand prix in texas. he has run away with the championship this year, and with three races to spare, he can win his fifth formula one title if he finishes far enough
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ahead of his nearest rival, sebastian vettel. here's our sports correspondent, joe wilson. if someone is going to stop lewis hamilton, they will have to do it the hard way. hamilton did all he could in qualification, ensuring he'll start from pole position on a circuit where he has dominated races in the past. hamilton is back on pole again. that all sounds good, gets better. sebastian vettel‘s ferrari was fast, but he has been demoted to fifth on the grid because he broke some rules in practice. remember, if hamilton wins, vettel will have to come second to deny him the title today. hamilton seems relaxed. well, he has been here before. i have been racing forever, and the races just go by. before. i have been racing forever, and the racesjust go by. it before. i have been racing forever, and the races just go by. it feels like the longest year, but it is going by quickly at the same time. i was just like enjoy the moment, going by quickly at the same time. i wasjust like enjoy the moment, go out there and have fun. that is what got me into the sport in the first
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time. most seasoned observers foresee another hamilton victory tonight. such has been his dominance not just tonight. such has been his dominance notjust in texas but through this season. he is continuing to break records. he is clearly the most successful british grand prix driver in history, with four world championships in the fifth most in his hands this afternoon. formula 1 often his hands this afternoon. formula 1 ofte n gets his hands this afternoon. formula 1 often gets interesting and unexpected things do in fact happen, but tonight, lewis hamilton starts from a place where he can control the race, and thus the championship. joe wilson, bbc news. there is just the one match in the premier league today, they are approaching full—time at goodison park, where everton are facing crystal palace. palace have had a penalty saved, jordan pickford keeping out lu ka milovoyevich. in the last couple of seconds, everton have scored. dominic calvert—lewin with what looks to be the winner. rangers are up to fifth in the scottish premiership after their first away win in the league. it was 1—1 at hamilton inside the final ten minutes, but two rangers penalties then this from alfredo morelos saw them win a—1.
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they are five points behind the leaders, hearts. kare adenegan is the bbc‘s young sports personality of the year. the 17—year—old para—athlete became european champion, and also broke the 100—metre world record. she came out on top from a shortlist of ten. she received her award at the radio 1 teen awards at wembley arena today. previous winners include wayne rooney, andy murray and tom daley. and finally, kyle edmund has won his first title. the british number one beat gael monfils in the final of the european open in antwerp. full details of that, and much more, of course, on the bbc sport website. many thanks indeed. that's it for now. we're back with the late news at ten. now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. goodbye. hello there, and welcome to the film review here on bbc news. talking us through this
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week's cinema releases as ever is mark kermode. what have you got for us this week? very interesting week. we have fahrenheit 11/9, a new documentary by michael moore. we have dogman, a cannes prizewinner from matteo garrone. and, they shall not grow old, and extraordinary great war documentary by peter jackson. so, fahrenheit 11/9, michael moore of course a great polemicist. is thisjust trump in his line of fire in this film? not entirely. so the title is an inverted fahrenheit 911, which itself was a play on fahrenheit a51. the 11/9 refers to trump's election. the film begins in the old fashion of how did we get here? what it then basically does is investigate the way that both democrats and republicans have kind of abandoned a disenfranchised portion of america, and what michael moore argues is that when that kind of thing happens, that's
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when you get the rise of trump. it's at its best when it is investigating specific examples such as he goes back to the flint, michigan water crisis in which the pursuit of money essentially meant the people ended up drinking poisoned water and politicians did not act well. in fact, there was what amounts to a cover—up. here is a clip. this is april cook hawkins. she was asked to participate in the cover—up. i was the case manager here in flint, michigan. all of the results in regards to the blood levels, i put in those numbers and made sure all them are correct. and while doing so, she discovered that the government officials had cooked the books. my supervisor asked if i would go in and help them out with the numbers, and not show certain things. if someone came in and they test high the health department did not want that number to be shown.
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she began secretly making printouts of the falsified records and was afraid to show them to anyone. until she got them to me. is this an actual document? that you kept as a piece of evidence? yes. the normal is 3.5, and anything above 3.5 is considered a high level. six, six, five, six, five, five, six, seven, ten, six, eight, six, six, 14. not a single number that says 3.5 lower? no. how does this compare to michael moore's other films? it doesn't have anything like the impact of the film to which the title refers, which i think went on to become the biggest—selling documentary of all time, and it's questionable as to how much effect it will actually have. the interesting thing is, what i like about it is, it has less grandstanding and less stunts than his previous documentaries have, which i think is sometimes borderline flippant. there's also some uncharacteristic soul—searching from michael moore. he talks about his own relationship with some of these figures.
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we actually get to see him on roseanne some years ago with donald trump in which he admits, i went really easy on him, i went soft because they asked me to. i think it is sincere, passionate. i think the most important thing is it suggests there is a younger generation of people coming through who will refuse to be mistreated, who michael moore suggests are the future of the country and the beginning of a brighter future, but i do not think it'll have anything like the impact of the film to which the title refers. ok, now, we've also got they shall not grow old which is a film by peterjackson and we will come to that in a minute, but let's do dogman as well. tell us about that. this is from matteo garrone. the maker of gomorrah. very gritty. a reality which is a very strange film about reality tv and tail of tails. this takes him back a little bit back to gomorrah. it is about a dog groomer who has a job on a desolate seafront. he wants to be liked by his neighbours, he wants to be liked by his daughter.
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he has this weirdly ingratiating smile but he also has the manner of a dog that has been beaten by its master and wants to please him but is also caring. he is bullied by this steroid thug who everyone knows is terrible, everyone knows they must do something about him but nobody will and in the end, marcello is the person who has to deal with him. what i really liked about this, firstly, it has a brilliant sense of location, it has real tragedy in it and real pathos. at the centre of it, is the actor who won the best actor award at cannes, i think deservedly so. i think it is a really terrific performance that holds the whole film together and is really the emotional core of it. a very deserving best actor winner. they shall not grow old this is peterjackson, famous movie director. you were interviewing him about this the other day and this is a fascinating project. yeah, so, the imperial war museum had asked him to do something new with archive footage for the centenary of the armistice. he looked at the footage and thought actually the best thing to do would be to try and bring it up to date, take old black and white, silent footage and process it to make it look
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as contemporary as possible. what they did was, correct the speed, because you know old, silent films run at various speeds, often look a little bitjerky, then cleaning up the image, then doing a colourisation process which is done with incredible attention to detail, and finally actually getting actors to lip sync... they got lip readers to sort of figure out what people on screen were saying and then actors to fill in the blanks and then we hear, no narration but the voices of veterans that were recorded actually by a bbc archive and the whole thing comes together in an extraordinarily vivid portrait of these events, which reflects not just the horror of the war, but also, i think there is an important part of the documentary, the strange sense, at least at the beginning, of adventure. here's a clip. you lived like tramps. you did not polish any buttons. you wore any uniform, bits that you liked. all they were concerned with was that you were fit to fight. if nothing was happening coming
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to chat about where he came from, where he came from. everything was friendly. it was a terrific lot of kindness, in a way, to each person. when there was not a war active, it was really rather fun to be on the front line. it was not very dangerous, so like a camping holiday with the boys, with a slight spice of danger to make it interesting. does the fact that it is sort of no longer stuttering black and white, does it make you empathise with these guys on the front line? i think it does exactly that. we are used to seeing... some of these images we have seen before, but we're used to seeing them as black—and—white footage, historical document, partly the speed thing is very important, but also because it looks like old, grainy, black—and—white footage but if you look the camera that the battle of the somme was shot on, it is a big wooden box. yet suddenly, with this incredible processing, it looks contemporary, and brings it all closer and the first time i saw it, there is a section when it goes from black—and—white to colour you could hear an audible gasp in the auditorium.
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it is so much more than a gimmick. it is something that actually puts the humanity back into that footage. it is this extraordinary use of technology to restore the human element to footage which we thought we had seen but then somehow comes alive. there's trench footage that... it looks like it was shot yesterday. you see the faces, you see the pictures of how young they are, you see the smiles and the frantic feel, they feel like real individual people, not just figures from archive footage. jackson said very clearly, this is not a documentary about the war, it's a story of those men. it is emotionally overwhelming. i think it is a real passion project and a real labour of love, and i did the interview with peterjackson when he played it and they were going to show it to schoolchildren, i think it'll have a huge effect. i think anyone who sees it will be really affected by it. it is like a compressed history of cinema, like 100 years of technology put together.
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what did he say about why he wanted to do this so much? he has been interested in the first world war for a very long time and it was the opportunity because the imperial war museum's involvement. he said the centenary is only going to come around once and he had this... what he did was, because peterjackson has worked so much with technology, he wondered what it could do. how could we make this with footage come alive? he said they did a test wheel and when they did that, they looked at it and went, that is astonishing. and it really... believe me, it is really breathtaking. you've never seen anything like it. it's an amazing artistic and technical achievement. yes, i thought so. so moving. stunning. so powerfully moving. 0k, thank you, mark. best out at the moment? i love first man. have you seen this yet? going to see it this weekend. here is the thing, it's not a movie about space, it's not a movie about the moon, it's a movie about the loneliness and grief that happens to have a spaceship in the middle of it and i thought it was... again, i thought it was wonderful. i know some people have said why is it so downbeat? because it is an internal story thatjust happens to be
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about the moon landing. the other thing about it is, it really captures that sense that these space rockets were held together with rivets and screws, and old flick switches, you are in a tin can on a massive amount of fuel. the bravery involved in it is quite extreme. incredible courage, yes. i loved it, i really love it. ok, i'm looking forward to that. and best dvd? just briefly, the happy prince. i mention this because it is an interesting film. rupert everett directs and stars in a film about the last years and indeed days of oscar wilde. although i don't think it's dramatically perfect, every now and again you see a film and you think, this is made with passion and care, and something you can feel in every frame. for all the things that are not... that don't quite work in the film, i think it has a real sincerity and a real honesty about it. i mean, it is a slightly flawed work, but i admire its intentions and you can tell it is a heartfelt project. i'd always rather watch something
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that looked like someone really yearned to make it than something that was polished but felt a little bit careless. mark, fantastic. thank you so much. a quick reminder before we go that you will find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. you can find all previous programmes, of course the bbc iplayer. that is it for this week. thanks so much for watching. goodbye. hello there. through today, cooler air has been arriving across scotland and northern ireland. it was 20 degrees yesterday across the north of scotland. temperatures this afternoon will typically be about 12 degrees. we are seeing a few showers pushing in as well. this streak of cloud is a cold front bringing some rain. that rain, light and patchy, will push southwards as we go
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through the first part of the night—time, followed by clearing skies. it will be a cold night. temperatures in the towns and cities getting down to between two and four celsius, and out into the countryside there could be some pockets of frost just about anywhere to start the day on monday. so, yes, it's going to be a cold start to the day, but clear blue skies for many of us. plenty of sunshine around through the day. an obvious exception they will be the north of scotland, where we will see outbreaks of rain. heavy rain at that, pushing across 0rkney and shetland, where it is also going to be quite windy. the cooler air arrives across england and wales, temperatures not as high as they have been today. looking at highs typically of around 12 to 1a celsius. that's your weather. this is bbc news. i'm annita mcveigh. the headlines at 6pm. the uk, france and germany issue a joint statement condemning the killing ofjournalist, jamal khashoggi inside the saudi consulate in istanbul — and call for urgent clarification of what happened. the brexit secretary dominic raab says the uk could agree to extend
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the brexit transition period by about three months, but only if the eu drops its demand for a northern ireland ‘backstop'. think about it, as important as it is, these are the only outstanding issues that ought to be stumbling blocks. the good news is, on a range of other issues we are close to getting there. russia criticises president trump's decision to pull out of a landmark nuclear weapons treaty — calling it unacceptable and dangerous.
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