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good morning — welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. our headlines today. arrested and charged — the florida man accused of sending at least 1a letter bombs to critics of donald trump. the president calls it a despicable terrorising act. £1.5 billion will be allocated in the budget to help reveive struggling high streets — critics say it's not enough to help small businesses. will it be high fives for lewis hamilton in mexico. as he looks to clinch his 5th world title, his hopes were stalling again in practice yesterday. but even a seventh place finish, would win him the championship. after seven days of sport involving 500 wounded servicemen and women from 18 nations, prince harry's invictus games come to a close. and we will talk about all the
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showers coming later on. it's saturday october 27th. our top story — a man has been charged in the us state of florida in connection with a series of letter bombs to prominent critics of president trump. cesar sayoc is accused of transporting and mailing explosives and threatening former presidents. cesar sayoc is accused of transporting and mailing explosives and threatening former presidents. mr trump condemned what he described as "terrorising acts" and called cesar sayoc is accused of transporting and mailing here's our north america correspondent peter bowes. armed with forensic evidence against cesar sayoc, the police moved in. their target, this white van emblazoned with stickers praising president trump and denouncing the democrats. a registered republican whose political allegiances were on display for all to see. he was active on social media, supporting the president and in person, at a trump rally. donald j trump, ex—president of the united states. cesar sayoc is now facing charges that could result in a prison terms
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of up to 48 years. let this be a lesson to anyone, regardless of their political beliefs, that we will bring the full force of law against anyone who attempts to use threats, intimidation and outright violence to further an agenda. the authorities say there could still be devices in circulation that have not been detected. the latest packages were discovered in new york city, 1 cent to the former of national intelligence, james clapper, a forthright critic of the president. though we are still analysing the devices in our laboratory, these are not hoax devices. at a campaign rally in north carolina, president trump said political violence must never be allowed in america. in recent daysm we have had a broader conversation about the tone and civility of our national dialogue. everyone will benefit if we can end the politics of personal destruction. we must unify as a nation in peace, love and in harmony.
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but he also renewed his attacks on the media, suggesting unfair coverage was driving people apart and undermining healthy debate. with less than two weeks to go until america's midterm elections, the events of the past week highlight once again the polarised and divisive political atmosphere in the country. peter bowes, bbc news. the chancellor is expected to set out a £1.5 billion package to support britain's struggling high street in the budget next week. philip hammond is due to announce plans in monday's statement to help small retailers with business rates. it is expected there will be money to improve high street transport access. joe miller reports. the shuttered casualties were bruising yearfor the shuttered casualties were bruising year for britain's retailers and a familiar sight on high streets across the country. on this north london road, one printshop is still going strong, designing posters from local schools and theatres. but its founder, who
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started in his parents living room 23 years ago, says an increase in the taxes he pays on the property is forcing him to downsize. our rates have risen from £7,000 to £12,000 which is a real effect on us. we are making less money and employing less people because we can't afford to keep open because the government have taken money from others. 200 shops in the local area have closed since the tax known as business rates was rejigged last year and they have not been replaced. critics of the government say it's notjust the little man who is losing out. they say the troubles at house of fraser and debenhams are made worse because they pay higher business rates than online competitors like amazon. while these measures are welcome, particularly for small businesses, on their own, they are just not enough shop closures and job losses of businesses of all sizes being affected up and down the country. we have a business rate
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system that is unsustainable and what we need to seek is less tinkering and more wholesale reform of the system. other business groups have been more positive about the announcement but all agree that more support is needed to bring the high—street back to life. joe miller, bbc news. the billionaire, sir philip green, who's facing claims of sexual and racial harassment, has accused the labour peer peter hain of breaching the house of lords code of conduct by revealing his identity. lord hain has defended his decision to use parliamentary privilege to name the tycoon, defying a court of appeal injunction. sir philip denies all the allegations against him. we will be that report a later on. fracking is due to resume in lancashire later today after it was suspended because of a small earthquake. yesterday, the energy firm, cuadrilla halted operations at the uk's only active shale gas excavation site for 18 hours after a tremor of 0.8 magnitude was recorded. fracking was stopped in 2011 and didn't resume for seven years after being linked with earthquakes.
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campaigners say plans for a million new homes in central england would change the face of the countryside forever. they'll be built around a new expressway linking oxford, milton keynes, northampton and cambridge in a scheme that has the backing of the transport secretary, chris grayling. our environment analyst, roger harrabin reports. in oxford and cambridge, pedestrians and cyclists reigned supreme. the absence of cars helps both places attract some of the top brains in the world but the government ‘s infrastructure advisers say that to stay competitive, these cities need many more new homes and better connections with each other. the government is now planning a great arc of high—tech development encompassing milton keynes and northampton as well as the two great university cities. a major road will
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be built from east to west. environmentalists say that will just generate more traffic but the government is in favour. it is government is in favour. it is government policy to have this scheme. we see the development of that corridorfor scheme. we see the development of that corridor for economic and housing reasons as essential. we think that you can't have proper development in that area without improved transport and that's why the expressway and the new railway line are an essential part of what we are trying to do. the new plan would mean 3—4 times more housebuilding than at the moment. green groups say the project would eat fields and woods the size of birmingham entrance form central england. a decision on this scheme is expected in next week's budget. roger harrabin, bbc news. the duke and duchess of sussex will attend the closing ceremony of the fourth invictus games in sydney later. the sporting event which was set up to inspire recovering soldiers and help them deal with the traumas of combat has seen more than 500 competitors from 18 nations take part. let's speak to our correspondent phil mercer who is in sydney for us.
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it's lovely to see you. it's come to an end but it has been a great advertisement, hasn't it? in terms of the royal family but also when it comes to the games. it's been a cracking week of competition. this was the home of the sydney olympics backin was the home of the sydney olympics back in 2000 so a great venue, a great set of venues for the invictus games. inviting 500 athletes from 18 nations including france, united kingdom, afghanistan, arrived in the united and others and it has been a fantastic week of inspiring competition. this is a competition co—founded by prince harry in 2014 to give wounded ex— service men and women and veterans the opportunity to compete and also to come together to compete and also to come together to celebrate their spirits. so this
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really has been about the competition, the medals are important of course but it's the spirit of the competition that i think the people of sydney have particularly enjoyed. thanks very much, it certainly has been an interesting games. we will talking about the event with some of the organisers later. tonight when the clocks go back, the majority of us can look forward to an extra hour in bed. but not in morocco. the country has decided to scrap wintertime at the last minute. the decision was made just days before the clocks would have gone back by an hour. the authorities say the move would save an hour of natural light. you get your extra power. once the evening starts drawing in, it's dark
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already at five o'clock. interesting they should make the decisions so close. we'll talk about that a little later on. more couples could be allowed to marry outdoors or at home as part of a shake—up of the law in england and wales. the government will announce a review of wedding venues, including lifting restrictions on open—air locations and bringing the law in line with scotland. ministers say the changes could cut the cost of weddings and boost the hospitality sector. those are the main stories. the number of newborn babies in england taken into care at birth has more than doubled in the last decade according to research while the government says any decision to remove a child at birth is in their best interests, the study‘s author says both mothers and their children are being failed. fiona lamdin has been to a woman who has had five of her children removed. the children are the first thing i think about when i wake up, the last thing i think about before i go to bed. abbey, not her real name, has
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had all five children removed from her. the story, like many in her position, is a complicated one. but it wasn't always this way. three yea rs it wasn't always this way. three years ago, she it wasn't always this way. three years ago, she was a it wasn't always this way. three years ago, she was a busy mum. the school run, back, back, scouts, back, horseriding, back, piano, back. i loved having to run around after them. but in a short space of time, abbey suffered with post—natal depression, and marriage breakdown and business collapsed. struggling with poor mental health, she started to drink. went from living a fairly luxurious life in a nice 4— bedroom house to sleeping in a car park stairwell with nothing. i literally had the clothes i had my back. while living on the streets, she became pregnant and just as social services had removed her olderfor
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pregnant and just as social services had removed her older for children, they also put on a newborn baby into care. it was the worst pain ever, not seeing my children. not to have dashed to have someone take your child and do you not to be able to see them. —— to have someone. child and do you not to be able to see them. -- to have someone. new research shows that in the last ten yea rs, research shows that in the last ten years, there is double the number of newborns coming before family courts. and he wanted to keep her baby but she wasn't given any help when she was pregnant. certainly getting it wrong if we leave women who want help right until the last minute and then we remove a baby. there is no clear planning, mum doesn't know what's happening, the family aren't involved. that situation has to be unacceptable. but pause is one organisation wanting to help by stopping thousands of more children being taken into thousands of more children being ta ken into care thousands of more children being taken into care riccio. women sign up taken into care riccio. women sign
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up to 18 months of contraception while being then toured. what sort of message d want to write to them? after yea rs of of message d want to write to them? after years of silence, today they are helping abbey we chatted a family once again. ijust want are helping abbey we chatted a family once again. i just want to are helping abbey we chatted a family once again. ijust want to be pa rt family once again. ijust want to be part of a family once again. tell them i love them and i miss them. the day i met her, she was very intoxicated, she couldn't string a sentence together but we knew we needed to keep going to try and engage her because she was so high priority to having another baby removed if she got pregnant again and we knew that was likely. abbey has come so far in the last nine months while there no promise you will ever get her children back, she is doing everything she can in the hope that one day, she will. i've missed out on so much. already. i don't want to miss any more. fiona lamdin, bbc news. we will update you with papers this morning. there is
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only one story they are all focusing on. taking a look at philip green of course, the injunction in the daily telegraph, nda has been arranged all procured by daily —— philip green. they have crossed out the sir on philip green. it is ahead of the budget of course on monday. philip hammond set to announce a £1.5 billion boost the dying town centres. then there is claiming a victory of this after campaigning on this. story is very much leading in connection with the knighthood. specifically this story this morning, about whether business connections in this case, and you will see baroness rainy, who is a
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small business adviser and on the bbc as well, she is involved in one of the companies in which sir green is linked. there are business connections and various people asking questions about how they are involved in a business sense. there are various angles. lord high in who named sir philip green yesterday in parliament using parliamentary privilege —— sir hair. he is now attacked because it has a link to the legal law firm that oppose the initial injunction. he is a paid adviser. the sun is looking at simon cowell, his relationship saying he is trying to force him, forced philip green out of his entertainment company, but the former chief is refusing. the guardian takes a look at how much
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philip green, sir philip green paid to the people who signed the nda. lots of angles to take a look at in the papers this morning. we will look at is a little later on. here's darren with a look at this morning's weather. good morning. good morning. it is cold this weekend. it's going to feel cold as well it is the wind is coming in from the north and it is going to blow in a mixture of sunshine and showers. some of the showers could be heavy. most of them will be of rain. last weekend temperatures were around 20 degrees. this weekend we will be struggling around eight or nine because the wind is coming all the way from the arctic. we have some icy patches around this morning across the northern half of scotland and into northern ireland lingos overnight showers. what's in it —— what a few
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showers. what's in it —— what a few showers at the moment actually. a lot of showers this morning for wales, the far south—west again. those will tend to move offshore. the showers will tend to go in northern and eastern scotland and will get dragged down into the midlands for a while. some sunshine outside of those showers, but it is a gusty winds that will blow today coming from the north, dragging in those showers. strong winds around the coastal areas in particular. these are that averages we are looking at today. typically six to eight degrees. you might be a little less cold in the south of england, but when you are out in the wind, it is coming in from the arctic, it will feel significantly colder, addicted in eastern scotland and the north—east of england. showers continuing into the evening. the showers will be down the eastern side of both england and scotland further west, it will be dry. the skies, it will be cold especially as
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the clocks change. go back an hour, which i am excited about. i get an extra hour in bed before coming in tomorrow. we dropped the temperature towards the end of the night, close towards the end of the night, close to freezing in scotland, northern ireland and into wales. strong winds down the east, showers tomorrow across kent and author into essex. a few showers further north across the eastern side of scotland, but not as many probably, and further west, will be a dry day. the wind direction is changing to more of a north—east. it will feel cold especially across east anglia and the south—east. first averages getting up to nine or 10 degrees. looking at next week, it looks quite u nsettled looking at next week, it looks quite unsettled next week. we are going to keep some rain going at times particularly early on in the eastern side of the uk. as the week goes on,
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that averages should start to recover. that is it. at tu. at least it is turning less cold. i will take that, even though we have the rain. it feels like the cold has come all ofa it feels like the cold has come all of a sudden. time now for a look at this week's latest cinema releases in the film review. hello there and welcome to the film review here on bbc news. and taking us through this week's cinema releases, we've got jason solomons. jason, what have you got for us this week? yes, ben. the great pretender freddie mercury brings glam rock to opera, to create bohemian rhapsody — a costumed gala through the highs and lows of queen. we follow the anguished face of one teenage girl as she experiences a dreadful massacre on utoya
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onjuly 22 in norway. and we have an rebirth of a cartoonist played byjoaquin phoenix and a sobering yet funny true—life memoir called don't worry, he won't get far on foot. right, let's start with bohemian rhapsody. i'm sure lots of people are going to go just for the music. but how is it, in your view, as a movie? absolutely. i mean, it is a run through queen's greatest hits in a sort of karaoke dress—up fashion. a very unknown actor called rami malek plays freddie mercury and he's very good, i have to say, as impersonating freddie mercury. and even deepening the role so he gets under his skin, like a little costumed action man in all his little outfits as he progresses, up to even the moustache. the film itself isn't a biopic of freddie mercury, that many people were hoping for it. it is a biopic of the band and how they got to their hits, and how they used to in studio with their big hair — brian may and roger taylor and john deacon, ‘deaks' as they call him —
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and how they used to argue, and all their little tiffs got turned into the famous riffs that we know. stamp to this beat. come on. now i want you to clap on the third beat. what's going on? you would know if you were on time. i want to give the audience a song that they can perform. so what can they do? stamping. imagine, thousands of people doing this in unison. huh? what's the lyric? # we will, we will rock you! of course, thousands
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of people did do that, hundreds of thousands. they're doing it now. maybe millions. but none the less, her critics have sort of said it's a bit of a sanitized version of queen. what do you make of that? it is. i mean, it was produced by brian may and roger taylor in a way, so they definitely had a say in they wanted to make sure that everyone knew that brian may wrote we will rock you and john deacon came up with the riffs for another one bites the dust. so it is about the kind of collect this. and it takes a fairly linear romp through how they met at university and then how freddie joined the band and how he charged his name from farrokh bulsara to freddie mercury. and then from killer queen on top of the pops to we will rock you all the way to live aid. that's when it climaxes, in 1985, that the michelle —— show of all shows went down. most people agree queen stole the show of all shows, and freddie mercury was fantastic that day. the film climaxes — no spoilers here — in a sort of step—by—step shot—for—shot recreation of that
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gig, which is quite extraordinary. it has its high points and it has its low points when they argue, it doesn't quite go into the real wrestling match that freddie mercury clearly had with his sexuality. i mean, when freddie mercury died of aids in 1991, the world was shocked. it was like, "freddie mercury's gay? !" you watch this and you think, well, how did he get away with it? that's the real story, and that's not quite what's gone into. the band seems to have topped at freddie's excesses and his debauchery and go home for their cup of tea with their wives. and it's got a slightly moralizing tone. that said, it's there so that you can take your kids and your family, introduce them to the hits of queen, go and buy their best—selling hits album called volumes 1 and 2, and kind of stomp your way through them from i want to break free to great pretender to don't stop me now. i mean, everything freddie saying everything he meant. and he was doing in real life too. all right. let's talk about the next film — utoya: july 22. and this was the absolutely horrific massacre on utoya island back in 2011. i think anybody who remembers that, in a way, you wonder why you'd want to see it.
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that's right. i think you're absolutely right there, ben. and they are notjust one film, there are two films out about this. paul greengrass did a film called july 22, which is currently out, it is on netflix. greengrass is normally good at these documentary style recreations, like he did united 93, just on the plane that hit the towers of 9/11. he did sort of a multi—stranded take on utoya, focusing on anders breivik, the right—wing gunman who perpetrated massacre and all the way to his trial. this film, which is made by a norwegian called erik poppe, is just on the island, just on the face of one girl, kaja, who is a sort of quite where was elected member of the young labour party, she wants to help everybody. and we are with her as this massacre unfolds. now, in this version, we don't see breivik at all, we just hear the boom of his gunfire and see the people running from him. it's a real kind of distillation of what it must‘ve been like to be on that island, not knowing
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what was going on, the computer. it's almost done in one single breathless take. i have to say, i was sitting near the front of the cinema, right at the front, and after about five minutes, i had to move to be back of the theatre to get some distance and perspective. it was too overwhelming. i was to thought about motion sickness, i was too shaken by it. i had to say that even with that distance, it was still very harrowing experience. but it did make me understand what it must‘ve been like to be caught in that situation. i don't understand the mind of the man who perpetrated it at all. and that sort of leaves me wanting a bit more from it. but it is, as a piece of film making, a rather breathtaking experiment if you like. but whether this is the right topic to be experimenting with left a slightly bitter taste in my mouth. yes, it sounds like a hard watch. our third film is don't worry, he won't get far on foot. not the snappiest of titles, but tell us what that's about. actually, the title comes from a joke. because it's aboutjoaquin phoenix was is cartoonist, sort of in the gary larson style, sort of new yorker, that sort of cartoonist. and he plays an alcoholic called john callahan who is so drunk one night, he gets into
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the car with jack black — a man played byjack black — and they have a car accident and he's left paraplegic. the film is about him recovering from his injuries and also recovering from his alcoholism and discovering his gift as a cartoonist, and giving him a black kind of look of humour at the world. he comes under the spell of a very charismatic sponsor, they called him in rehab, played byjonah hill called donnie. phone ringing. hello. hey, is this donnie? yeah, who's this? hey, donnie, this isjohn callahan. the neon cripple from outer space. oh, the man with the tangerine hair? well, i always thought of my hair as electric orange. but that's yeah, that me. look, i got your number off the board.
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i'm calling because i need a sponsor. i do have a lot of piglets at the moment. what are piglets? i need a sponsor. my sponsees are piglets. laughter. that's funny. it's directed by gus van sant. the role of the originally intended for robin williams, but walking phoenix does very well with that, as does jonah hill. they're both very good together. the film is a mix of sentimentalism and funny and dark humour. and very serious about rehab and alcohol is in as well. it's a strange mix, but sometimes it really works. and it's quite funny when you read the acerbic cartoons byjohn callahan. so a fitting monument to him, if you're aware of his work. ok, best out this week? i'm going to have to say that the best out, everyone is going to see, it's top of the box office, it's still a star is born. we've got a freddie mercury sort of biopic about the music industry. this one is really about the music industry. the music scenes, i think, are particularly well done. bradley cooper directing and lady gaga performing. i think a terrifically, finding her voice in a star is born. maybe the sexual politics are a bit odd, about a man who can't really survive because the woman's doing better than him.
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but, you know, maybe he should get over it. that's what people are talking about, and it's what i like about this movie. it's getting people polarised, it's getting people talking and it's getting people into the cinemas because it's really a good old—fashioned hollywood melodrama. yeah, i loved it. i have to say. a little bit long perhaps. and the first half felt sort of better than the second half. they're all a bit long, ben, to be honest with you. well, what about best dvd? dvds, you can always spin through them if they're too long, but what's the best dvd? don't do this one or you might miss a start because it's ocean's eight. just out what has got it all—star cast — cate blanchett, rihanna... you never thought you'd see those two together! helena bonham carter, sandra bullock and anne hathaway. it's about the women who join together to perform a heist at the very fashionable met gala, the heist of a very valuable necklace. and the double—cross. i thought this was a really enjoyable, good old —fashioned sort of caper fun from hollywood, but with a female twist because of the female cast. i think they were all very good. it's very slick and it's often very funny as well. and it really shouldn't be seen as anything more than that. somebody said, "it wasn't very, it was a very dangerous, "there wasn't much jeopardy." it's a lot of costumes, lot of good outfits
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and a lot of laughs. yeah. all right, jason. thank you so much for being with us this week. and that is it for this week, though. thank you so much for watching and goodbye from us. hello, this is breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. president trump has called for america to unify following the arrest of a man suspected of sending parcel bombs to leading liberals critical of his presidency. during a campaign speech, mr trump accused the media of driving people apart. 56—year—old cesar sayoc, who was arrested in florida faces five charges including mailing explosives and threatening ex—presidents. the chancellor is expected to set out a £1.5 billion package to support britain's struggling high street in the budget next week.
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philip hammond is due to announce plans in monday's statement to help small retailers with business rates. business groups welcomed the plans but labour said the rates relief did not go far enough. the billionaire, sir philip green — who's facing claims of sexual and racial harassment — has accused the labour peer, peter hain, of breaching the house of lords code of conduct by revealing his identity. lord hain has defended his decision to use parliamentary privilege to name the tycoon, defying a court of appeal injunction. sir philip denies all the allegations against him. lord hain used special privileges enjoyed by members of parliament to speak freely without fear of being sued to identify sir philip despite the court of appeal revealing his identity. the claimants had signed nondisclosure agreements. in a statement issued exclusively to the bbc, sir philip green said, lord
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hain has denied he knew that they we re hain has denied he knew that they were representing the newspaper. his actions had divided opinion. some, like sir vince cable, leader of the liberal democrats, have supported his decision to name sir philip as being in the public interest while dominic grieve has criticised its decision to take the lord into his own hands. if mps do this, it undermines the rule of law because the courts are there to decide whether injunctions should be granted or lifted and determine the difficult issues that can often arise between private rights, contractual rights, and the public interest. that is what we put courts better to do. sir philip doesn't deny that nondisclosure agreements we re deny that nondisclosure agreements were signed but he insists they
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received independent legal advice and he strenuously denies any allegations of racial or sexual harassment. he said he would be lodging formal complaints against lord hain with the relevant authorities in the house of lords. fracking is due to resume in lancashire later today after it was suspended because of a small earthquake. yesterday, the energy firm, cuadrilla, halted operations at the uk's only active shale gas excavation site for 18 hours — this after a tremor of 0.8 magnitude was recorded. fracking was stopped in 2011 and didn't resume for seven years after being linked with earthquakes. campaigners say plans for a million new homes in central england would damage the countryside forever. they'll be built around a new expressway linking oxford, milton keynes, northampton and cambridge in a scheme that has the backing of the transport secretary, chris grayling. a decision on the project is expected in next week's budget. tonight when the clocks go back, the majority of us can look forward to an extra hour in bed. but not in morocco.
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the country has decided to scrap wintertime at the last minute. the decision was made just days before the clocks would have gone back by an hour. the authorities say the move would save an hour of natural light. more couples could be allowed to marry outdoors or at home as part of a shake—up of the law in england and wales. the government will announce a review of wedding venues including lifting restrictions on open air locations and bringing the law in line with scotland. ministers say the changes could cut the cost of weddings and boost the hospitality sector. do get in touch with some the usual way. perhaps you found some clever ways to keep the costs down. the average cost of a wedding is £30,000. that's right. it is horrendous. i looked at the picture.
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i thought it was like a c and i would look if we were dogs. you are the one with a pink crown, obviously. their hair on roscoe. this is a celebration of this sort. lewis hamilton, building up to one of the biggest weekends of his life and how busy the power? you to a birthday party for roscoe, his dog. i love the fact that roscoe was a model, $700 a day, goes around the world in plushjeffes. roscoe has the hairand world in plushjeffes. roscoe has the hair and glasses. 140,000 instagram followers. they are part of the lewis hamilton roadshow. it's another huge weekend in the career of lewis hamilton. do you think roscoe's day rate will
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go up? absolutely. qualifying for the mexican grand prix is this evening, hamilton's within touching distance of his fifth formula 1 world title, an achievement that would take him second in the all—time rankings. patrick gearey reports. smooth acceleration with some well taken corners. do that with a bit more horsepower behind him and lewis hamilton will be world champion. of course, a formula 1 car is more complicated beast, especially on a scorching track in mexico city. hamilton wasn't happy with his pace in second practice. only managing to go seventh fastest but if he finishes seventh in the race, that will be enough to win the title. that's because he leads sebastien battle by 70 points in the driver standings. even if hamilton finishes
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outside the top seven, sebastien battle will need to win in mexico to have any chance of catching him. still, hamilton wants to win the and the championship, and at session with victory that was their even as a blue peter boy racer. we won the race! well done. the phrase has been repeated on team radios in 71 grand prix is. hamilton has overtaken legends like the sunday drivers, passing graham hill andjim clarke's two titles each and accelerating beyond the great jackie stewart as the most successful britain in formula 1. breaking the lap record time and again. tomorrow he could be alongside one manuel fangio, l my an iconic figure in the sport. while michael schumacher is still out in front on seven titles, he won his last aged 35. hamilton is still only 33 and slowing down is not in his nature. some wonderful archive the
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moment there. almost at michael schumacher‘s number. it will be interesting to know at what period of time michael schumacher did it. iwill find what period of time michael schumacher did it. i will find out. in football, liverpool could go top of the premier league table if they beat struggling cardiff city at anfield today. it's a game that will see two of the premier league's most expressive managers meet for the first time. i dislike the way that he is, really. he cares, he is passionate, he pulls some places. he's got everything, really. it must be lovely to be in charge of a team like that but he is great at it. he saw what weaknesses there were in the last two years and he showed that up this year. i'm early looking forward to meeting him. i've heard a lot about him and
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he's obviously... he is very talented. it will be a big pleasure to meet him. not sure during the 90 minutes but after, i'm sure, so it would be so cool it that's the truth, but it's not. that is my new ring tone. his life. everything jurgen klopp says. i don't know what it is. he's so charismatic. he has a reputation to be very charismatic and entertaining and great deal with asa and entertaining and great deal with as a reporter. the current premier league leaders, manchester city, don't play until monday night when they travel to tottenham. city are firm favourites to reclaim their title, but manager pep guardiola says the trophy could go to any one of five teams. there is just two points difference infour, there is just two points difference in four, five, six teams. you see a lineup, the first 11 or 12, 15 players from tottenham hotspur.
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through the last four, five, six yea rs. through the last four, five, six years. now top had hoped to be playing in the new stadium for well over a month by now but instead, they won't be moving in until next year. it's been announced the 60 seat ground will be having safety issues. the 62,000—seater ground has been delayed by safety issues and more work is needed before spurs can play there. their chairman, daniel levy, says they'll continue to play home games at wembley until the new year at least. after thrashing toulon last week in rugby union's champions cup, edinburgh suffered a disappointing loss away at zebre last night. the scottish side, who were without several players because of international call—ups, blew a 13—point half—time lead to lose 34—16 in parma. scarlets, ulster and ospreys all won, though. england's rugby league team take on new zealand in hull this afternoon in the first of a 3—match series. and they are in for a stern test. new zealand beat world champions australia just two weeks ago. and because of injuries, there are a number of new faces in the england squad, including hull's jake connor. the world cup is the next biggest
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thing and i'm sure they want to build that and bring some other players through. some of the other one made from —— won't make it but in my mind, i'm taking each game as it comes. it's important to keep that consistency and back the game up that consistency and back the game up because if you got one slipup, you can be out of the team so we will take one game each game. kiki bertens was a late replacement for tennis's wta tour finals, but the belgian is through to the last four in singapore. american sloane stephens will take on karolina pliskova in the second semifinal. that's after she beat world number 2 angelique kerber in impressive fashion in straight sets. now, he did it at the olympics with two golds in rio, and now, max whitlock is on course for more success. he qualified top for the final of the pommel at the world gymnastics championships in doha. he's aiming to win that title for the third time. dom cunningham and james hall are in the all—around final. meanwhile, the 4—time
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olympic gold medallist, simone biles, had to go to hospital, suffering from kidney stones less than 24 hours before qualifying for the women's all—around event. she tweeted, "this kidney stone can wait. doing it for my team." as the players get bigger and the challenges get even more bone crunching in full contact rugby, it's perhaps no wonder that more are turning to the tag version of the sport. before the 88—strong british team took off for australia for the tag world cup, i went to train with them. that's how you get the ball off them? you pull things off their shorts. little velcro strips on the shorts. little velcro strips on the shorts. before they took off, i went to train with them. if you want to play more rugby but
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don't want to get flattened, well, there is an alternative. the version of the game that has boomed over the last decade. the worst that can happen in this game is that you get your tags taken off. a bit like by your tags taken off. a bit like rugby league, you get six phases, six tackles before you see possession. that is a tackle. taking you down in a normal game of rugby. you can get the luxuries of rugby. everything that rugby big —— brings to foster great workout and playing the game that you love without having to come out with a black eye. it's mixed, so it's men's and women's, which makes it a nice, all engaging sport. when i left school,
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i went to play pro men's rugby club and people were 6—foot five and then there is me, five foot nothing. it's quite daunting. there is a bit of a contact but it's fairly minimal. it suits people like me who are a bit on the lighter side. this form of tax rugby was invented by an australian rugby league team in 1992 wa nted australian rugby league team in 1992 wanted to keep players the off—season and and there is a lot focus on the shorts. mike, tuck your shirt in please. safety, apparently. cheating! but don't be lulled into thinking the lack of tackles makes it easier to play. it's virtually non—stop for 20 minutes per half. it's a whirlwind. it is so fast. it's a whirlwind. it is so fast. it's furious. the ball doesn't go to ground, there is no line, slowing things down. it's consistently go,
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90, things down. it's consistently go, go, go. you don't know what's happening half the time but you get such a thrill playing it to make those tags and catch those balls. lot of different skill sets you can bring into it. the keating and the shoulder height is really good. having arrived in the uk just nine yea rs having arrived in the uk just nine years ago, more than 20,000 players are now involved in league matches every week and the pick of the players are heading to the world cup in australia this weekend to pave the men's, women's and mixed great britain teams. i come from a netball background so quote, unquote they wa nted background so quote, unquote they wanted girls who can throw and catch soi wanted girls who can throw and catch so i was thrown into a tournament one day and it went from now. it's gone from social grading 2012 up to gigabits in 2018. maybe the gb players were saving themselves. maybe they were bamboozled by my wiggling hips so eventually, ijibed my way through to score points with my way through to score points with my shorts untouched. shortly after that, i've never been so glad to
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hear a final whistle. i've never done anything as exhausting. running and sweating, the mental tactics and positioning skill. standing in good stead. training to the world cup. well done. it was very quick. good luck. world cup. all the best. well played. i could hardly speak at the end. good weather to do it at the moment because it is nice and cool out there. darren is here with a look at this morning's weather. quite a change in our weatherfor this weekend. it is going to be cold, it will feel cold as well because the wind is coming from the north. that brings a mixture today of sunshine and showers. most of the showers just of sunshine and showers. most of the showersjust rain, but
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of sunshine and showers. most of the showers just rain, but some could be rather heavy. the air is coming from the arctic and the significant drop in temperature, especially when you compare it to last weekend when it was 20 degrees. nothing like that this weekend. without icy patches this weekend. without icy patches this morning across the north. still quite a few showers around here at the moment. the showers will become few and we will get some sunshine. we are seeing the showers reducing in west wales and the south—west later on. the showers keep coming into northern and eastern scotland and getting pushed down the eastern site. —— side. we have a northerly wind and it will feel cold. the gusty winds will be around coastal areas, and these are the temperatures. eight degrees at best, a tight higher than that of south wales and the south—west of england. when you add on the effect of the wind, this is what it will feel
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like. significantly colder hoping for eastern scotland. we see showers coming in off the north sea. it will be mainly east that see the showers. a subtle change in the wind direction. the clock changes tonight. we go back an hour. and it hourin tonight. we go back an hour. and it hour in bed, and if he have to get up hour in bed, and if he have to get up early like me, it is good news indeed. at it will be cold early in the morning. a frost in the north and showers keep going further east towards the south—east. there will bea towards the south—east. there will be a windy day to east anglia, it will feel cold in that wind. frequent showers coming into kent and essex. scattered showers at the eastern side of the uk, but not as many on sunday. most places, further west, it will probably be a dry day. those temperatures are not improving on sunday, it will feel cold once again. perhaps not too bad. a frosty
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start to the new week are gradually things will improve at least in terms of the temperatures. it will turn and unsettling to next week. showers and longer spells of rain particular for the eastern side of the uk because we will have a north—easterly wind for a while. we should gradually see temperatures rising just a little. thank you very much. see you later. time now for the latest technology news in this week's click. this robot has certainly pulled in a big audience. as you have probably guessed, those were purely preprogrammed moves, and like many robots that we have seen, this is a self—balancing robot, which means it does pretty well at staying upright. but one day, this robot may be taught to work autonomously. toyota is looking at ways to train machines using human operators whose movements are synchronised to theirs. the operator also wears a virtual reality headset
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to show them the robot's perspective. it's really strange because i know there is someone on the other side of these eyes. it feels like this robot is looking at me. one of the most impressive things about thr—3 is it dexterity, and the control that it gives its operator when touching and interacting with objects. what's really interesting is not only can the operator control the robot's arms, hands and the fingers through the data gloves, but he can actually feel what the robot feels. so as the robot grasps the object, he can feel the resistance of that object in his fingers. and actually, the entire robot mirrors anything that it senses back to the operator. so. . . it can feel the fact that it's being pushed. that means that the operator can sense what's
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happening to the robot, even if it bumps into something that they can't see, they'll still know it is there. translation: these technologies can be made to work in many industries. at first, we want to develop the robots to assist with everyday household chores. and then in the future, for teleworking, to remotely support work, which is more physically demanding. toyota isn't suggesting that all robots will be humanoid in the future. at the moment, this is just an experiment into how humans might show robots what to do. but how about a robot that can show a human what to do? this is fusion, my new robot backpack. fist bump? i now have four arms, two of which are controlled by someone else,
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who's wearing a virtual reality headset. this surrogate can be mounted on your body, then he can actually assess your motion and guide your motion. so it's kind of like skill transfer. the operator of the robotic arms, who could be on the other side of the world, really can teach you things. they can pick things up and they can even grab my arms and move them around. we wanted to create this kind of collaboration idea between two people, that they are sharing the same body. so, if we share the same body, we share the same point of view, then this probably will enhance the quality of communication. it takes a bit of getting used to, but once you do, well, it's time for the hard work to begin. can you scratch my nose for me? laughs. hmm, as strange as an experience as it is to have someone else's movements on my back, i'm betting it'll be even stranger
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from the other side. so, as i move my head around, sensors track that motion and the robot head moves in response. different buttons enable different finger functions, so i can move each finger individually, or i can move them all simultaneously with a single button, which allows me to grip an object. i'm grabbing the ball! ohhh! red dead redemption 2 allows players to experience a vast, virtual version to the old west, robbing trains, riding horses, and even playing poker. i'm waiting for someone interesting to turn up. rockstar are a huge deal. they are a development studio behind the gta series.
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even if you have never touched a controller, you know what grand theft auto is. you know that this is the biggest entertainment product. not just in games. but grand theft auto made $6 billion as an entertainment product. that leaves every thing else — films, television — in the dust. the game is so big, it has had to be created with nine different studios in four different countries. rockstar north here in edinburgh is the largest of the studios working on this game. not many get a glimpse inside the building. security and secrecy is tight. well, ain't this a rare treat? located in the former home of the scotsman newspaper, they're so secretive around here, we were only allowed to film the bulging awards cabinet. everything else was out of bounds. we did get to meet one of their head honchos, though — rob nelson. rockstar is famous for creating games with open worlds. what's new in this open world?
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for us, the biggest game that we've ever made. notjust going bigger and broader, but striving for a depth, being to go into more environments. and when you go into those environments, being to pick up interact with things and being able to interact with people and animals and interact with the world in a way that we have not been able to do before. if we were trying to create world that you believe in, a character that you believe in, you have to have that connection. so we're always try to push, i think, with every game, to go deeper with that, you know, with that sort of idea. for things to mean something, things need to cost something. in the old game, if your horse died, you whistled for it and a new one came. it was very convenient. but it meant that the horses were somewhat disposable. that's a nice horse. so we decided that the horses will not be disposable. hold still, girl.
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if you go too far from your horse, it's not going to come magically. you will have to go back to it. but if you spend more time with this horse, you will bond with it, and then it will come to you from a greater distance. or it will stay with you under duress. it might be less afraid to go in the swamp where there are alligators. there are things like that which we balance. so, are you pushing the boundaries of what is capable with interactive entertainment at the moment? you know, i think everything that we've done is to serve that goal, and to try and really blur the lines between on mission and off mission, and what is narrative, and what's ambient open—world experience. finding a balance between realism and believability and fun and playability is something that we're always trying to achieve. you hope that you've hit it as well as you can, but you don't know until people play it. they couldn't walk when i came in. now they're walking. mitsuko negashiyo suffered from polio as a child, which left her in a
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wheelchair...until now. today, she's wearing a hal suit. hal — hybrid assisted limbs. when you want to move your arms or your legs, your brain sends electrical signals to the muscles to tell them to move. this suit detects those signals and that's what makes it move. so, if you can't move your arms or your legs, the suit still detects the signals, and so it can walk for you. for example, if i stop my arm from moving, but flex the muscles, it still detects the will to move the legs. lower limb disabilities are often caused by a damaged and disconnected nervous system between what the brain wants to do and resulting muscle movements. however, even in severe cases, there are still weak electrical signals that do make it through. and just to prove that
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it is detecting intention, rather than copying any detected movement, if it's not my brain making my limbs move, the suit doesn't replicate. hal is being used for rehabilitation in serious spinal cord injuries and other neuromuscular diseases, where previously, patients had no prospect of being to move their legs again. the legs' purpose is not to strengthen muscles, but to rebuild the new neural loop between brain and legs. this is the short version of the
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programme. you can get more on our website. thank you very much for watching and... see you later. good morning welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. arrested and charged — the florida man accused of sending at least 14 letter bombs to critics of donald trump — the president calls it a despicable terrorising act. £1.5 billion is promised to help revive struggling high streets — critics say it's not enough
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