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pretty much anywhere across the united kingdom for wednesday, but i think the greater chance of seeing the rain will be across southern and western parts, with the odd heavy burst mixed in too. the sunshine will develop on into the afternoon and it will be quite a windy day too. temperature—wise, maybe not as high as what we are starting the week off on, but still, 11—14 is pretty good for the time of year. so for much of this upcoming week it should stay pretty mild, particularly early on, but will turn increasingly unsettled from the west as we go through the week. hello. this is bbc news with shaun ley. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment with lynn faulds wood, and henry mance — but first the headlines. the businessman, arron banks, has insisted that all the money he provided to the leave campaign in the run—up to the referendum came from his uk companies. he's facing a police investigation into claims that he was not the true source of the funding. an investigation is under way after an inflatable slide collapsed at a funfair and fireworks display in woking, in surrey last night. seven of the eight children who were hurt have been discharged from hospital. former prime ministers have been paying tribute
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to sirjeremy heywood, the former head of the civil service who has died from cancer at the age of 56. tony blair called him "a formidable whitehall operator". 10,000 flames have been lit at the tower of london, launching a week of commemorations marking 100 years since the end of the first world war. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster, lynn faulds wood, and henry mance, political correspondent at the financial times. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. stack front.
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senior eu officials are warning that theresa may's chances of striking a brexit deal are only 50—50. that's according to the guardian. the daily mail carries a picture of the tower of london, lit up with 10,000 torches to mark 100 years since the end of the first world war. the telegraph reports that foreigners who've never lived in the uk will be permitted to join the armed forces, amid a worsening recruitment crisis. the ft leads with an interview with italy's deputy prime minister, luigi di maio, in which he claims rome's controversial spending plans will become a recipe for growth across europe. a veteran who went on a hunger strike in protest over a lack of mental health care for ex—soldiers has won his battle, after an intervention from the former head of the british army. that's in the daily express. and the metro reports on the fatal stabbing of a 22—year—old man in penge, in south—east london. it's the fourth such attack in just five days. so, a varied set of front pages — let's see what our reviewers make of it all. there is no big overerring storiches
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iam there is no big overerring storiches i am relieved it is not brexit, brexit, brexit. iam i am relieved it is not brexit, brexit, brexit. i am also really surprised the is daily mail is the only paper carrying theic picture, only paper carrying theic picture, on the new, the shots of these light, 10,000 lights outidentity tower of london, to mark the very last day of the war when the guns fell silent. it is the most beautiful picture so i am surprised thatis beautiful picture so i am surprised that is not the news everywhere else. do you remember when they, the outbreak of war, four years ago. with the poppies. that was an amazing sight. 888,000 to mark eve ryo ne amazing sight. 888,000 to mark everyone who died in the war, huge numbers and this is just beautiful. henry, it is a wonderfully striking image, not least the contrast of that remarkable old building, the tower of london and tradition image
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of the beefeater, it is a woman in this case. equal opportunities. echoes that the remarks, the earl grey remark, the lights are going out we may not see them lit again. it poignant but optimistic, for people coming together, across europe, over this coming weekend, to commemorate and celebrate for at least 20 years after that there was peace. yes, we have to reflective week to think about and building up to remembrance sunday 5 and i think this is, yes, a beautiful thing and i think the public will love this. all the pictures are sold, but you can go and have a look. yes, the early dark evenings are perfect to appreciate this kind of artistry, so, yeah, a striking front—page. appreciate this kind of artistry, so, yeah, a striking front-page. now the bad news lin. wearing your nationwide watchdog hat. yes, ten yea rs of nationwide watchdog hat. yes, ten
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years of watchdog and the number of stories i did about rip offs, this is apparently people are counterfeiting poppies so it is not these ones that are sold by the british legion, get official poppies because think are ones with sparkly bits on that are being produced to cash in on it. now i have done loads of stories. so none of the money goes to the royal british legion. none of the money for the make poppies and there are a lot around, and do you remember live aid, you are too young! feed the world, in 1984, then, there were counterfeiting the feed the world t—shirts and this was millions of people dying in a famine, you would think how low can these people stoop? so now they are trying to stoop? so now they are trying to stoop low with fake poppies now. stoop? so now they are trying to stoop low with fake poppies nowm is really a conknow? well, it is if they are purporting to be selling them for the forces and that is the suggestion. there is not very much copying... i am sure there is a fine
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line between using it as a no mow teach for peace and fringing the intellectual property of the royal british liam. it may not be the poppies we wear on the lapels but brooches. and that has kind of multiplied, the official poppies, the royal british legion, they have gone out, you can get beautiful little ceramics and ways of commemorating. this is the star saying the rip off poppies are flooding britain, so it could well be, you know, there is rip off everything in britain now. don't buy... except the papers on the news channel. don't buy your medicines online folks. let us move on. henry, daily telegraph. this is, counter intuitive story, people have never lived in britain will be allowed to fight in the military, you could argue not for the first time, the
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gurka, the british indian army, the colonial soldiers who fought. the republic of ireland still have special, so there are some caveats already, but this is... if you come from a commonwealth country, take the gurkas out of it, a commonwealth country, there is a residency requirement of five years at the moment. before you can serve in the armed forces. but now they are struggling to recruit, and they have a big contract with capita, they haven't been able to hit their targets so this looks like an idea to get a bit of new talent in the front door, i am not sure how many people in canada are desperate to sign up for the british military, why don't they sign up for the canadian military. you could argue in kenya it could be a better option. pay and conditions might be an issue in some country, maybe those who are leaving because of brexit may be persuaded to come back and serve in the army. the numbers that are not signing up. that is the
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serious underlying story. we normally have 10,000 people a year, in the last three years we have done about7,000, so in the last three years we have done about 7,000, so we are well done, we have two thirds of numbers and this year is a disaster. there is some strong words in here, by mp, calling capita crapita and saying their recruitment campaign is terrible and they should be sacked, it is a disaster, words they are using, so, this will uncomfortable reading for capita. it is entirely fair to put the blame on the people doing the recruiting, i wonder if after a decade of war, and after two big campaigns, it is perhaps less attractive than it was for all those yea rs attractive than it was for all those years you could enjoy the benefit, the travel, learning a trade the rest of it and have pretty limited chance of dying in action. there are a few thing, one is the jobs market
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is pretty strong so people have other options out there, the army, military would do better in a differentjobs military would do better in a different jobs market but military would do better in a differentjobs market but capita obviously has problem, it has been stripped of ministry of defence contract, there are questions about its finances so there are problems and then there is the attractiveness of the job. we have talked about mental health problems affecting veteran, obviously, very unglamorous wars in iraq and afghanistan, where people maybe didn't feel like they we re people maybe didn't feel like they were fighting for the right cause. sol were fighting for the right cause. so i think that there were a variety of factors. if people want to sign up, they want you in the navy and army immediately and the army from next year, so they are not hanging about. they are not. henry, dominic raab makes the front page of the telegraph. i hope he would, given it has taken such an interest many brexit. he is the brexit secretary,
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is there real news? well, i think the news today is that, the news in tomorrow's paper is there isn't, it looks like there isn't a draft deal, but the government is really keen to get things moving this week, if 0lly robs the chief brexit negotiator can go to brussels and get an inprinciple deal this week, that means maybe the there can be an agreement with the eu this month and it can be voted on before christmas, it can be voted on before christmas, it isa it can be voted on before christmas, it is a squeeze but dominic raab is illustrating that the government still can't agree with itself because he is trying to get an opt out to the irish backstop, which other ministers are signed up to, so... other ministers are signed up to, so... the headline is saying an irish backstop to be limited to three months. it says the irish government were stunned when they hear about it so it doesn't sound great. with my watchdog hat on, at the moment we will trusting
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companies to come clean in fact tris, it is going to be no wall on no checks at the border, and i think, you know, what, iseem to remember the trust in these trading scheme, sometimes falls a bit short. it sound to me like there is a nice little cheat‘s charrer. it sound to me like there is a nice little cheat's charrer. there is the possibility of an opportunity this weekend, because i think, i am right in saying that theresa may is going to be on the somme with macron, so perhaps a deal could be done, which would feel sort of rather, totem mick. yes, perhaps. let us move on the henry's paper the. ft. yes this is the deputy prime minister of italy, you think about europe and the us as all hating trump, here we have a senior figure saying how great he thinks trump's economic policies are. he said i believe europe will go down this direction, he is saying that us is growing at
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496 he is saying that us is growing at 4%a he is saying that us is growing at 4% a year. italy has basically not grown for 20 year, they are in a terrible state, they have this budget which was, they say is expanding the economy by pumping a bit more money in. which the eu commission is rexxxxing to sign. bit more money in. which the eu commission is rexxxxing to signm leaves a hole in the finances, and there is a battle now between italy and the european commission, but i thought the language of this, if you wa nt thought the language of this, if you want to know what populists are trying to do in europe they are trying to do in europe they are trying to do in europe they are trying to emulate the trump model. what policies is he keen to adopt? they have a new budget next month, on something, which they haven't actually told us exactly what they are going to do. ijust love the headline. italy's recipe for growth will work for the rest of europe. i am not sure the rest of europe thinks italy is a great example even if they want to go trump's route. you encourage people to retire at 62 i think or allow people to retire at 6250 i think or allow people to retire at 6 2 so young people can take their
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jobs. i am 6 2 so young people can take their jobs. lam not 6 2 so young people can take their jobs. i am not sure the jobs market works that smoothly, so you mayjust end up creating more pensioners and not reducing the number of unemployed. it is fascinating how europe has changed in terms of the politics of it now, you have all these parties like that in italy. the growth, the break up of the big parties in germany. you a lot of right—wing chunks coming in, winning in elections and having a real power base across europe. austria, particularly, and i think italy are going to be surprised by the lack of interest in their fantastic idea for leading europe on how to run their budgets. lin, henry, thank you both very much. go off and have a rummage through the other papers coming through, we will be back with more after 11.30, you can check them out any time on the website. next on bbc news, it's click. ai.
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that's what the future is about, if you believe the hype. computer programmes that learn from past experience, that improve and that sometimes, learn to solve problems in ways that even we hadn't thought of. well, here at microsoft's future decoded event, ai is at the top of the agenda. these days, there are very real examples of how a! are starting to be able to do things that
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were once only the reserve of humans. it is learning to drive, to play games. it has learned to paint. it has learned to understand what we say. each ten year or so we seem to have a breakthrough moment where we take a piece of human ability and defeat it with machine. ‘96 it was chess, go, last year — and we all worry. what that is demonstrating is that our ais are extraordinarily good and superhuman in tasks that we can specify and understand. they can improve and self improve. the challenge is this whole idea of general intelligence or transfer across tasks and that proves much more challenging, much more difficult. we think it will take many decades to unfathom that, and the old adage was, you cannot teach a machine to do something without programming, but if you have a learning capacity in the system that allows it to go beyond the performance that was originally given to the system. and it is certainly true that al is already replacing
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us in particularjobs. we will talk more about that later. but we thought we would start with an interesting phenomenon which is happening in certain parts of the developing world, where a! is actually creating jobs. see, in orderfor artificial intelligence to learn, it needs to have access to loads and loads of data. for example, self driving cars need access to images where all the objects in them are correctly tagged. that work is being done by humans. david lee sent this report, not from california, but from where the artificial intelligence journey really starts. this is the kibera slum in nairobi, kenya. more than a million people live here.
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i am 10,000 miles and what feels like an entire universe away from the lush campuses of silicon valley. how are you? hello! the people i am here to meet are every bit as vital to the next wave of cutting edge tech as anyone you could meet in california. you have your brother living here? yes, my brother, my daughter and my mum. are they all supported by you? yes. they are supported by me. this is brenda, she's a 26—year—old single mother, who has lived in kibera her entire life. how does it feel to be creating the technology that is going to change the future? it feels so good. at least you get to do something unique from others. at least with my work that i am doing, i believe i work for something that is going to help me. not even me in the future, but it will help someone in the future. every workday, brenda travels
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for around two hours to a building on the other side of nairobi. she is among a team of around 2,000 people who work in this building for samasource, an organisation that recruits people from the very poorest parts of the world. in some cases, that means those who are earning less than $2 a day. here, they earn around $9 a day and there are importantjob is to give artificial intelligence its intelligence. when artificial intelligence works, it sometimes feels like magic. but really, what it is is data, lots and lots of data. if you want a self driving car to know what a person is, you have to feed it loads of pictures of people. if you want it to know what tree is, it takes millions and millions of pictures of trees. that is what is called "training data", and it is here where that data is created. so, depending on the instructions, we are going to basically tag,
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or annotate, items of interest. right. from the street to the vehicles, the buildings, even to the sky. right. how is that? that's good. is that good? not quite right? not quite right. laughter. the item needs to be squarely inside that box. if we zoom in... turns out no pixel can be out of place, or unaccounted for. the sky and the street signs, the pedestrians and the lanes, everything needs tagging. when i first started this business ten years ago,
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very smart people in the tech world and in the world of big philanthropy said it was a wonderful idea, but it would never work. lila touts her company's record on quality and security, reasons why tech firms come to them. but of course, there is a very obvious reason why these tasks are outsourced to places where wages are rock bottom and people are desperate for work. some of your clients are the biggest, richest companies in the world. can they not afford to pay more than $9 a day for this work? we make a guarantee to every single worker at samasource that they are paid a living wage. if we were to pay people substantially more than that in some of the markets we are in, we would throw everything off and it would have a potentially negative impact on the cost of housing, the cost of food, et cetera and the communities in which our workers live and thrive. so, for us, we are on average, increasing our workers household income by over 500%. it is too small for my big head. you know the way you remember you are good at something and it turns out you weren't? this is me discovering that with batting. luckily, indian cricket legend
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anil kumble was on hand to show how it ought to be done. the most important factor for any bastman is bat speed and how much twist at the time of impact and the quality of the shot itself, how close to this sweet spot here. bat speed, twist and how close you are to hitting the sweet spot are now measurable thanks to new artificial intelligence technology, power bat. it is being developed by kumble's company, spektakom. at the heart of a system is a clever sticker on the back of the bat. this is a cluster of sensors, you have a bluetooth aerial,
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but also gyro sensor which measures the twist of the bat, the angle and the velocity as well. there is also a sensor for vibration so you can detect where the ball is hitting in approximation to that all—importa nt sweet spot. the sticker sends those measurements for the speed, the twist, the quality of the shot, and they are then combined to calculate the power. it is essentially the energy you get into the shot. the system aims to take fans watching the game up close to what's happening on the pitch. the first use is to enhance fan engagement. everybody talks about timing of the shot. this was powerfully hit. this was sweetly timed. what does that all mean in real—time numbers, in real—time data? the amateur version of power bat communicates directly to a mobile
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phone via bluetooth, but because you can't carry a mobile in professional games, with the pro set—up, all data runs to a device hidden behind the stumps. this is how the professional system works. the data comes from a tag on the back of a bat and then comes to stumpy, the stump box buried underground. you can see this antenna, this bit will be poking out from the top of the pitch. the data is sent down the cable to the cloud where an algorithm does its work. and this is where microsoft's expertise in artificial intelligence takes the field. we found that we can apply technology to a very traditional sport, cricket, and actually enhance the user engagement and the player and the coach insight into what's actually happening at the cricket bat. tech now can help both the coaches and the players achieve a new level of performance. the pro power bat might end up
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being used by umpires, especially if the broadcasters now using it in the indian professional league call out bad on—field umpiring decisions. the mobile app is more about cricket fans and amateur players getting closer to emulating their heroes. for the fan out there who wants to look up to his hero, what is the benchmark for him to achieve? can you emulate him? can you be as close to power that he can deliver, can you do that? that is something you can do. at the end of the day, in a polite arrangement, anil let me bowl him out. yes, it was fake but i got him first ball. it felt great. watch this for a second. see, all you needed was just one ball. that is it for the shortcut
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of click this week. the full version is up on iplayer. watch it right now and don't forget we are all over social media. we live on facebook and on twitter @bbcclick and instagram at @bbcclick and we have a you tube channel too. youtube.com/....guess what — bbc click. anyway, thanks for watching and we will see you soon. hello there. once we lost the winds across northern scotland, today was a fine one for much of scotland and northern ireland, with plenty of sunshine, but further south there was more cloud around for england and wales, and even some rain, all tied in with this next feature which is moving northwards as we speak, and pushing on in towards the irish sea. so we could have some damp weather across the west country, in towards wales, and then this rain
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will spill in towards the irish sea overnight, into northern ireland, and across into western scotland. there could be some heavy bursts mixed into that as well, by around dawn. but elsewhere it should be a largely dry night with variable cloud, some clear spells, quite chilly out—of—town with maybe a little bit of mist and fog developing as winds will fall light. this is the pressure chart to start the new working week. this weather front draped across the north and west of scotland and northern ireland will produce quite a lot of cloud, some mist and murk and also outbreaks of rain, which should eventually clear away northwards, and then for mutch of the country it should be dry into the afternoon with sunny spells. best of the sunshine across the midlands into the south—east, where we could see 16 or 17 degrees, but that could set off an afternoon and evening shower here, which could develop a bit more widely into the midlands and then into northern england as we head on in towards bonfire night evening. so if you are heading out for any celebrations it looks like for most it will be dry, apart from the showers through central, northern areas.
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so as we head on into tuesday, and we look to the west, this next area of low pressure is likely to encroach in towards our shores for tuesday ,and certainly on into wednesday to bring increasingly wet and windy weather. so for tuesday, it will start to turn windier across western areas, with outbreaks of rain, quite a lot of cloud, some of the rain could be quite heavy. the further east you are the better chance of staying dry, the better chance of seeing the sunshine too. and again, it is going to be very mild with that southerly airflow. temperatures in the mid to maybe upper teens celsius. now on into wednesday, that weather system pushes its way further eastwards, so it looks like it could be wet pretty much anywhere across the united kingdom for wednesday, but i think the greater chance of seeing the rain will be across southern and western parts, with the odd heavy burst mixed in too. the sunshine will develop on into the afternoon and it will be quite a windy day too. temperature—wise, maybe not as high as what we are starting the week off on, but still, 11—14 is pretty good for the time of year. so for much of this up coming week it should stay pretty mild, particularly early on, but will turn increasingly unsettled from the west as we go through the week. this is bbc news.
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i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 11pm: the businessman, aaron banks, insists all the money he gave to a pro—brexit campaign in the run—up to the referedum came from his uk businesses, not from russia. an investigation‘s begun into how eight children fell from an inflatable slide at a fireworks display in woking last night. none suffered serious injuries. tributes are paid to the recently retired cabinet secretary, sirjeremy heywood, who has died from cancer at the age of 56. 10,000 flames are lit at the tower of london, launching a week of commemorations marking 100 years since the end of the first world war. and at 11:30pm, we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers lynn faulds wood and henry mance.
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