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this is bbc news i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at seven. the bbc understands there were five people on board the helicopter belonging to leicester city's owner — which crashed last night. this is the scene at the king power stadium — where fans have been laying floral tributes all day. a man is charged in pittsburgh, after the murder of 11 people at a synagogue, the deadliest attack on america's jewish community. chancellor philip hammond, who will present his budget tomorrow — says an end to austerity depends on what kind of brexit deal the country gets. a damaged power line near london paddington causes rail delays on services to the west country and heathrow airport also coming up, a traditional maori welcome for the duke and dutchess of cambridge meghan and harry arrive in new zealand for the last stop on their 16—day tour. and lewis hamilton only has to get seventh place in today's
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mexican grand prix to win the championship, we'll bring you the latest in sportsday at 7—30. the bbc has been told the owner of leicester city football club was on board the helicopter that crashed and burst into flames moments after taking off from the team's stadium last night. vichai srivaddhanaprabha is thought to have been on board with four others. he bought leicester city eight years ago, pouring millions of pounds into the club — which helped it win the premier league title in 2016. sima kotecha's report contains flashing images. imac and hours up to the final
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whistle this. a huge fireball, people stunned and shocked the welder. the bbc understands the chair and owner of the city football cloud was on board. he could be cloud to new heights he came into the club. obviously invested heavily into the club. obviously took the club to new heights with winning the premier league title. but outside of that, he's also invested a lot of money locally, charity—wise. set up the foxes foundation, which has raised about £2 million.
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the mood here has been sombre. the number of bouquets being left here has been steadily growing throughout the day and fans have been shaking their heads in disbelief. tonight, leicester is grieving. among those paying tribute, members of the thailand international academy. i can't believe. suddenly, we are so sad. we watched the game. after the game, we go back to hotel. and then we know the news, we cannot sleep. it's a big thing for leicester city, this. and he was the best, best bloke that you could have. he never went by you without acknowledging you. eyewitnesses have told us the helicopter lost control midair. leicestershire police say they're working with other emergency services to find out exactly what happened and why. leicester city had played west ham last night. this is the moment when vichai srivaddhanaprabha's helicopter was taking off after the game. the club has flourished
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under his ownership. two years ago, it won the premier league — against all odds. now fans are mourning, as they try to digest what happened here, in the most horrendous circumstances. let's go live to the king power stadium and our correpsondent, ian stringer. we are both reporting from the scene today and what really struck me was that the band said that this was not a business for him, he was part of the family. and since he arrived here at the stadium in 2010, he has made so many strides to assist the fans, not ingratiate them himself, but to become a fan and enjoyed his
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time here and you got the cloud promoted to the premier league and here in front of the stadium, it was the most incredible achievement ever in 2016 when as you mentioned, they lifted the trophy, something that people don't even dream of and he delivered those dreams. what struck me is that the amount of different football clu bs me is that the amount of different football clubs that got representation here, the scars and to say thank you to him, and what he asked him for the football community. his home is around the other side of the world, the city is not necessarily home, for him when he was born as a child, but he made it his home with his family here at leicester city football club. and the infrastructure here as well, and the infrastructure here as well, and the something of the local community this is a man who donated £2 million
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to the local hospitaljust behind the camera position here to support the camera position here to support the local community. so an incredible man but a man that changed the football league landscape year and leicester forever. i have a fan here who, it fan for many years, tell me why you have taken the opportunity to come down here tonight and put all of these. to pay respects, it is shocking. what has he done for the football club? we won the premiership, he has brought us together. yeah, everything that he has done for the club hasjust made us has done for the club hasjust made us alive again. the club itself. we know that the chairman was on the helicopter last night, there's been
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no confirmation to those have been injured. the gist seems to be a feeling of respect and dignity amongst many of the fans, and also other football fans as well. togetherness. but it's to make this brings the best out of people it still shows what people thought of him asa still shows what people thought of him as a person. yeah. and he is from a foreign country, being gay pawn football fan, they sometimes get a bad reputation, but how impressed are you that he tried to become a part of the leicester city fabric. a part of the community and togetherness. all about, the impossible was made possible. and at the end of the day, it is to shocking that something like this has happened. thank you. lots of
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bands, as you can see that turned up balloons released, a rupture is round of applause and that happened and people are unsure how to react because there's been confirmation of any injuries sustained by anyone in the helicopter that the crash happened over my shoulder and people have been arriving, investigation teams arriving all the time, that's been no confirmation as to what the situation is in the injuries sustained. we're still waiting for official statements, what they're feeling here is sombre and people do not quite know how to react to the stage but there has been 1500 odd fa ns stage but there has been 1500 odd fans turning up showing the respects, weaving scarves, many people together, and leicester city paying their respects to the
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chairman. football has come together in the city of leicester and made a very dignified. and we'll find out how this story, and many others, are covered in tomorrow's front pages. at 10:30 and 11:30 this evening in the papers. 0ur guestsjoining me tonight are the writer and broadcaster, mihir bose, and the former pensions minister, baroness ros altmann. the 46—year—old—man suspected over the mass shooting at a synagogue in the united states, has been charged with 11 counts of murder. robert bowers surrendered to police after the attack, the deadliest to target america's jewish community. it's emerged he has a history of posting anti—semitic material on social media. nick bryant has the latest from pittsburgh. this is the kind of vigil that's become a recurring ritual of life in the united states.
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a multi—faith act of ecumenicalism, a multi—generational act of community. but this country is facing a crisis of hate—filled violence, and america right now seems incapable of truly coming together. this latest mass shooting was a hate crime. jewish worshippers, killed in a hail of gunfire and an onslaught of anti—semitic slurs. 7—1, shots fired! give me additional resources. additional resources, third floor! the police have released recordings of their shoot out with the gunman. come on, we've got a guy barricaded, actively shooting at swat operators. all right, be advised, we have suspect giving us hands in view. we're negotiating surrender at this time. i still want to praise the officers for what they did. i mean, they ran into danger, they ran into gunfire to help others. some of that's training, some of that's experience. but it's their inner core that wants them to help others, that wants to save lives.
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and they did that yesterday. 46—year—old robert bowers entered the synagogue with an ar—15 assault rifle and at least three handguns. he spoke of genocide and his desire to killjewish people. his oldest victim was 97 years old. robert bowers' social media posts were full of anti—semitic rants, and just hours before the shootings he had been critical of a jewish refugee organisation. "i can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered", he wrote. "screw the optics, i'm going in." this area of pittsburgh is one of the most close—knitjewish communities in america. one of those places which speaks of the immigrant story. one of those places, according to rabbi chuck diamond, that's long felt vulnerable. i used to be the rabbi there. one of my biggest fears was always, in the back of my head, something like this happening. so, there's a lot of hate, and when you mix hate with guns, it's not a good result.
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with congressional elections looming, donald trump has been switching awkwardly from campaign mode to condemnation. political rallies, the forum for his remarks. this evil, anti—semitic attack is an assault on all of us. it's an assault on humanity. mass shootings have become a permanent feature of life here. this weekend, it's pittsburgh's that's in mourning. sometime soon, it will be another american community, in another american city. the chancellor philip hammond has said tomorrow's budget — would have to be followed by an emergency budget — in the event of a ‘no deal‘ brexit. he's warned future plans for government spending — that he'll outline to parliament tomorrow — are contingent on britain and the eu reaching a deal. here's our political correspondent, ben wright. it will look like a normal budget, but these are not normal times.
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if there is no brexit reached with the eu, the chancellor will have to write a new budget. if there was an unexpected turn of events, the right thing to do would be to revisit where we are, decide how best to respond. that depends on what markets are doing, it depends on the circumstances of the moment. but the important point is i have got fiscal reserves that would enable me to intervene. it's not the only consideration for the chancellor. at the tory party conference last month, his boss made a bold pledge. a decade after the financial crash, people need to know that the austerity it led to is over and that their hard work has paid off. the question is how that pledge will be delivered and paid for in the coming years. the nhs has been promised billions more. many public services are reeling from eight years of cuts. and the chancellor is under pressure from his own mps to help fix the roll—out of universal credit.
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today, a hint from mr hammond that he is listening. in last year's budget i put a billion and a half pounds into trying to smooth some of the issues around transition from legacy system to universal credit. and where we see issues that need addressing, we will dress them. higher than expected tax receipts will allow the chancellor to spend a bit extra on things like road repairs and business rate relief. but, with no majority in the commons and a very fractious tory party, the ever cautious chancellor is unlikely to risk any radical budget moves. he knows, too, that a botched brexit could capsize all his plans. the shadow chancellor said he was deeply worried. a whole callous complacency about what philip hammond is doing at the moment, on universal credit and a brexit at the moment, the implications for our community if there is a no deal, i think could be catastrophic. and he should be standing up now and saying there
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will always be a deal, and he will work with us if necessary to secure the deal. brexit frames this budget and big tax and spending decisions will be delayed until it's done. ben wright, bbc news. sir philip green has again denied allegations he racially and sexually abused former employees. the businessman told the mail on sunday newspaper there had only been — in his words — "some banter", which had never been offensive. he had been granted an injunction banning the publication of the allegations, but the labour peer, lord hain named him in parliament. sir philip says the last week has been the worst of his life. the number of hit and run crashes has risen by almost half in the past four years, the bbc has learned. an investigation by ‘5—live investigates' found there were more than 28 thousand cases last year in england and wales. road safety campaigners are calling for longer prison sentences. john maguire reports. his family described him as a gentle giant, but alfie 0'keefe hedges was just 16
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years old when he was knocked off his moped by a hit—and—run driver in north london two years ago. they just left my son. they basically got out of the car and ran, and didn't even go out and hold his hand, sit with him, theyjust ran. theyjust ran and left him there to die. nine days after the collision, alfie died in hospital. the driver pleaded guilty to careless driving and was sentenced to 12 months in prison. dangerous driving is what he should have been charged with and he should have got a lot longer sentence, but he didn't. i think it would've made a bit of difference to me, obviously, not my heartache, because that's never going to go away. but i would have felt something was... justice was done, something was done for my son, for him having his life taken like that. 27 of the 44 police forces
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in england and wales responded to a freedom of information request from the bbc. the figures show the number of times a driver or rider failed to stop after a collision rose from just over 19,200 five years ago to around 28,000 last year. that's an increase of 46%. but the total number of crashes has stayed broadly similar during the same time. the road safety charity brake says there needs to be a change in sentencing policy. last year, the ministry ofjustice announced life sentences will be introduced for those who cause death by dangerous driving and said the government is committed to making sure the courts have sufficient powers to deal with driving offences. three teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murder
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after a 17—year—old boy was stabbed in halifax. officers found two males with stab wounds and a third with a head injury in the 0venden area of the town last night. all three were taken to hospital for treatment, but one of them died a short time later. the headlines on bbc news. leicester city fans have been laying flowers at king power stadium, close to where a helicopter belonging to the club's owner crashed last night. the bbc understands there were five people on board a man is charged in pittsburgh after the murder of 11 people at a synagogue — the deadliest attack on america's jewish community. chancellor philip hammond, who will present his budget tomorrow says an end to austerity depends on what kind of brexit deal the country gets. train services as far as the west country and heathrow airport have been affected by damage
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to overhead power cables. it's the second time this month that trains running in and out of london paddington have been disrupted this way. some passengers had to be rescued. thomas magill reports. confusion, disruption and consolations for customers using the station today. 50 minute ride home is not probably going to take us three hours or four hours, is not probably going to take us three hours orfour hours, and is not probably going to take us three hours or four hours, and we still have to go to water —— waterloo. damage to the lines outside of the stations discovered earlier, but not before ten trains got stranded. these pictures show up passengers being evacuated. and all of this is a familiar picture for some. this two weeks ago, passengers faced delays after overhead lines we re faced delays after overhead lines were damaged during testing of an
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electric train. while this is causing great disruption for customers wanting to use the express , customers wanting to use the express, heading to the west further upfield, from inside and told me that they are concerned about linking up with connecting trains it even flights today. nothing is leaving paddington station and the advice is to use alternative services. realm manages the track and cables, they say they have engineers on site working on the problem. three rail operators run services from paddington, and for them, questions about what happened. will be asking them to be really sure that this is not something that can happen again. long delays ahead for these passengers and no guarantee that things will be back to normalfor guarantee that things will be back to normal for tomorrow's guarantee that things will be back to normalfor tomorrow's rush hour. every hour in the uk, someone is diagnosed with parkinson's disease. it's a degenerative disorder of the nervous system, causing tremors, slow movement and stiff muscles. new research has found almost
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half those taking a drug to treat the condition — have gone on to develop compulsive behaviour — an addiction to such things as gambling, shopping and even sex. chris jackson reports. it was like careering downhill at breakneck speed on a toboggan with no brakes and no steering. trying to kid myself i was in charge of the situation and i knew i wasn't. after peter from teesside started treatment for parkinson's disease, he became obsessed with online betting. it felt like an out—of—body experience. it wasn't me, really. it was another me. peter switched medicines and life is back on track. others have struggled. i lost £29,000. i even sold my child's playstation to get money to gamble. nothing was going to stop me. i lost my lovely house, kids and wife of 18 years. all gone down the drain for my fix. like all those with parkinson's
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disease, david's brain had become progressively damaged by a lack of dopamine — a key chemical for coordinating movement in the body. he had been prescribed a drug called ropinirole, part of a family of dopamine replacement medicines, which can have potentially serious side effects. what sort of things have you seen? gambling and hypersexual behaviour, compulsive shopping, obsessive hobbyism, baking. we have had patients doing something called punding, which is where you repetitively and purposely do tasks throughout the day and the night. at this research centre they are fighting to find a cure for the disease. but, in the meantime, people with parkinson's will need drugs to alleviate the symptoms and it is claimed doctors need more time with their patients. we still hear from people affected by parkinson's that no one has told them about these consequences, and that is shocking. we hearfrom people who have gone bankrupt through their gambling, who have become homeless.
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unfortunately, clinicians in outpatient departments have limited time now, so maybe, sometimes, the conversation is about different things and the side effects of drugs falls off the radar. parkinsons uk says dopamine replacement therapies usually work well. the majority of patients will not develop an impulsive behaviour disorder. but doctors face a difficult balancing act if the drugs they have prescribed are to do more harm than the illness itself. chris jackson, bbc news. millions of brazilians are voting in the second round of the country's presidential election today. this is the scene right now outside the headquarters of the far—right candidate jaeer bolsonaro. he's up against fernando haddad of the left—wing workers' party. while opinion polls have been narrowing in the past week, mr bolsonaro is still
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the favourite to win. the election has been over—shadowed by corruption scandals and a knife attack on mr bolsonaro, who's been criticised for making racist, misogynist and homophobic remarks. the duke and duchess of sussex have been welcomed to new zealand with a traditional maori greeting — on the last stop on their 16—day tour. they performed a ‘hongi', where they touched noses and foreheads with maori elders. 0ur royal correspondent, jonny dymond sent this report. it seems like a pretty odd kind of greeting. but it was a maori welcome to new zealand for harry and meghan. harry braced for the challenge. he maintained eye
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contact all the way. he passed the test, and the welcome was complete. a moment of solemnity at new zealand's memorial to the fallen. a reminder ofjoint sacrifice and shared history. and then time to meet the well—wishers gathered all around. thousands of people have waited on this chilly sunday afternoon to catch a glimpse of or, if they're lucky, have a chat with the royal couple. a more intimate chat for meghan in the evening with new zealand's prime minister. and a rallying cry for the rights of women. feminism is about fairness.
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suffrage is not simply about the right to vote but also about what that represents. the basic and fundamental human rights of being able to participate in the choices for your future and that of your community. new zealand may have come last on this royal tour but here again the couple were making their mark. 2 police officers in australia have pulled off a dramatic beach rescue — with a difference — when a kangaroo got itself into difficulty — at sea. the animal was drowning, when sergeants christopher russo and kirby tonkin ran into the sea off the coast of melbourne to pull it out. they dragged the unconsious kangaroo to the shore, where they performed chest compressions and managed to save its life. now it's time for a look
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at the weather with susan powell. after a court weekend, i'm afraid it isa after a court weekend, i'm afraid it is a cold start to the new working week the coldest morning of the season. things are going to get a little harder, pretty stormy by the end. with clear skies and when falling, the perfect setup for widespread frost to develop. and some rural spots to the west, the get down to maybe —31 “11. close the east coast, back to the breeze of the north sea. maybe some showers and the course of the night as well. and i will remain the case through monday to that, pretty cold on the eastern shores, and the west we have
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in front that is trying to get in. temperatures from eight to 10 celsius,. hello this is bbc news with lu kwesa burak. the headlines. the bbc understands that five people were on board the helicopter that crashed in leicester last night. bbc sources say there were two crew members and three passengers on board the aircraft. police in the american city of pittsburgh have released the names of the 11 people who were murdered at a synagogue yesterday. officials say the gunman, robert bowers, shouted anti—semitic abuse and spoke of genocide during what they called a 20—minute rampage. the chancellor, philip hammond — who'll deliver his budget tomorrow — has suggested he would have to draw up a new economic strategy if there was a no—deal brexit.
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