tv Breakfast BBC News November 10, 2018 6:00am-7:01am GMT
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good morning. welcome to breakfast, with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today: a weekend to remember. world leaders gather in europe for events to mark 100 years since the end of world war 1. on the eve of the armistice, we'll be live in france and belgium, and find out what it meant to those who lived through it. heavenly father, please help us. at least nine people are known to have died as two major wildfires burn out of control in california. the haka returns to twickenham. it's been four years since england last met new zealand, but twice as long since they last beat the world champions. good morning. the overnight rain has cleared out of the way and today a bright enough day, a mixture of sunshine and showers in the forecast. i'll tell you where the heaviest of those showers are expected to be a little bit later on. it's saturday the 10th of november, our top story:
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around 70 world leaders are gathering in paris for a weekend of special events to mark 100 years since the end of world war one. president trump arrived there late last night and will hold talks with president macron this morning. here, theresa may willjoin the queen for a national service of remembrance at the royal albert hall this evening. 0ur correspondent robert hall has spent the week travelling across the western front, from where he sent this report. last post pla. echoing over a tiny village of the city of a crow two, the clear notes of a bugle found on the clear notes of a bugle found on the battlefield by wilfred owen, perhaps britain's most famous world wari perhaps britain's most famous world war i poet. was killed in the final stage of a conflict that drew to a close a few days later. this ceremony heralded a week of commemorations across france and belgium. theresa may, who yesterdayjoined her belgian counterpart to lay the wreaths at the graves of the first
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and the last british soldiers to die on the western front, flies home to attend the national festival of remembrance with the queen and other members of the royal family. remembrance with the queen and other members of the royalfamily. the us president, president trump, arrived in paris last night. he'll hold talks with president macron before joining other world leaders for armistice commemorations in the french capital on sunday. away from the centrepiece events, in towns and villages, at memorial is and is cemeteries, visitors of all ages will pay tributes to lost relatives. as we move away from those with living memory of the war, we need to make sure young people understand what their families did in the war. we know young men went home and never spoke to their families about what they enjoyed and is seen, we think it's the commission's role to tell that story so future generations know what happened —— end jawdat —— endured. and excavated 19 million people, military and civilian, were killed
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during four years of war —— an estimated. wilfred owen used his verses to express anger at the slaughter. he was trying to scream at the world, i think, he was trying to scream at the world, ithink, to he was trying to scream at the world, i think, to say for goodness' sake, let's stop this. he wasn't a pacifist, but it's madness, isn't it? robert hall, bbc news, northern france. and we'll be speaking to the author sir michael morpurgo about his tribute to the armistice day centenary just after 9am. at least nine people have been killed and more than 150,000 have been forced to leave their homes, as two wildfires continue to burn out of control in california. five of those killed were found in their cars in butte county, where the town of paradise has been devastated by the flames. further south, the city of thousand oaks, where a mass shooting claimed the lives of 12 people on wednesday, is also at risk. correspondent james cook sent this report.. heavenly father, please help us.
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please help us to be safe. it was a desperate dash for survival. pursued bya desperate dash for survival. pursued by a wildfire devouring the equivalent of 80 football pitches a minute. paradise sits on a ridge, and a few roads down quickly became choked with traffic. some motorists abandoned their cars and ran for their lives, with children and pets in their arms. the hardest thing about this all is the people that may not have had the benefit that i had to get out when i got out. i started crying. the extent of the disaster here is not yet clear, but what we know already is grim. bodies have been found in the charred remains of vehicles. well, we're just driving remains of vehicles. well, we'rejust driving into paradise now, and it's really a frightening scene. there are
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telegraph poles on fire, electricity has been cut. we've been driving past some houses which have been burned, and we're hearing disturbing reports from inside paradise itself about many deaths and injuries there. this is what we found. paradise is not just this is what we found. paradise is notjust lost, but annihilated. in southern california, two big blazes raged towards the pacific ocean. tens of thousands of people in their path had to flee. this fire burned on the edge of thousand oaks, a city already reeling from a mass shooting in a bar. the communities of calabasas and malibu have also been evacuated. the fire which consumed paradise was driven by hot desert winds rushing down to the sea. the air here is
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acrid. you can actually taste the chemicals as they smoulder. and it is eerie and frankly pretty awful to walk here in the ashes of people's lives. james cook, bbc news, paradise in california. the conservative mp jo johnson is being both praised and criticised by members of his own party after quitting as transport minister over the government's brexit plans. mrjohnson, whose brother boris also resigned from his cabinet post this year, is calling for another referendum. our political correspondent, chris mason, has more. i've been doing my sons, and by my count, this is the seventh time that the prime minister has seen a resignation letter plonked down on her desk from a minister saying i'm leaving your government over brexit. jojohnson's leaving your government over brexit. jo johnson's language around leaving your government over brexit. jojohnson's language around his resignation was devastating. it was a devastating critique of her brexit
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plan. and he alsojoined a very small group of conservative mps in advocating another referendum. the deal that is being finalised at the moment in brussels and across whitehall is so radically different to what was being proposed in the referendum campaign that i think it's really important the public is givena it's really important the public is given a chance to confirm that this is indeed the extraordinary basis on which they want to leave the european union. it's not going to deliver trade deals. it's not going to lead to us becoming a singaporean turbocharged economy on the edge of europe, far from it. turbocharged economy on the edge of europe, farfrom it. we're going turbocharged economy on the edge of europe, far from it. we're going to be signing up to all the rules and regulations over which we will no longer have a say. beyond his criticisms, though, there's another big reason why this resignation matters and it matters because of the brutal arithmetic of a hung parliament. the prime minister is propped up in government by northern ireland's democratic unionist party. we know they have reservations about her brexit blueprint as well, so the big
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question this morning is are there any other conservative mps who might be tempted to walk out too? because eve ryo ne be tempted to walk out too? because everyone that does is another mp voting to reject any deal she manages to secure when it comes before parliament. we are reaching the real crunch point now of brexit. that was our political correspondent chris mason. and we'll be speaking to jo johnson's dad, stanley, just after 8am. thousands of plug—in hybrid cars bought with government grants are burning as much fuel as regular cars, according to new research shown to the bbc. data shows that many drivers never charge their vehicles and rely instead on their petrol or diesel engines. subsidies for new plug—ins were scrapped last month, but drivers still pay less car tax and benefit from free parking. joe miller has more. tech workerjosh can't remember the last time he filled up a tank of petrol. thanks to a subsidised charging point, his plug—in hybrid has another electric power to do the
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school run or pick up groceries. butjosh might be the exception. the vast majority of plug—ins are sold to commercial fleets whose drivers are not as diligent. when their regular charge, plug—in hybrids should be able to do around 130 miles per gallon of fuel. but data compiled for the bbc shows many such cars bought by large companies with the help of government grants we re with the help of government grants were only doing about a0 miles per gallon. in other words, they were about as efficient as your regular petrol motor. for seven years, buyers of plug—in hybrids were entitled to a subsidy of up to £a500, but this incentive has sometimes backfired. there are actually some examples where it employs aren't actually charging these vehicles up and the charge cable is still in the boot, in a cellophane wrapper, not actually doing anything while the company and employee are going in and out of
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petrol stations all the time, paying for all this additional fuel when the vehicles could be quite easily charged up. it's ridiculous. the miles consultancy says more charging points would help prevent such misuse, but the trade body that represents fleets says higher taxes on diesel cars are to blame. we've u nfortu nately got on diesel cars are to blame. we've unfortunately got a situation where a poorly designed tax regime is driving poor behaviour is. we've got some situations where company drivers are producing a vehicle based on tax liability rather than the right vehicle for the rightjob. the government says it still believes plug—in hybrids ring significant environmental benefits, but the uk's plan to reduce emissions will depend more on drivers likejosh. joe emissions will depend more on drivers like josh. joe miller, emissions will depend more on drivers likejosh. joe miller, bbc news. dozens of outfits worn on—stage by the late singer aretha franklin will be sold at auction in new york today. the musician, known as the queen of soul, died in august at the age of 76 after being diagnosed with cancer. she won 18 grammys and sold more than 75 million records during a career which spanned seven decades.
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strictly come dancing star dannyjohn—jules and his partner amy dowden have insisted there are no problems between them, despite reports of a bust—up in rehearsals. amy admitted on bbc two's it takes two that things got a little intense during training and danny, seen here dancing the jive, dismissed claims he'd left his partner in tears. all i can tell you is that the only reason i'm here this far is because of amy, and i'd never bite the hand that feeds me. i'm more than happy--- that feeds me. i'm more than happy... it's probably the best dancing we've done in the last couple of days since i've been on the show, and i'm just happy to go along. she's the boss, she wears the pa nts. we will have a full newspaper review coming up later and all the sport and the weather, looking ahead to the weekend. let's return to one of our top stories this morning, the wildfires in california which have left at least nine people dead. we've seen some astonishing footage coming in this morning, as the fires continue to burn out of control. let's speak to scott mclean
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from the california department of forestry and fire protection. we can speak to a local newspapers editor. thank you for talking to us. —— newspaper editor. to say it's been a difficult week is an understatement, what's happening in terms of the fire? unfortunately... thanks for having me on. fortunately those howling winds that have driven this fire have started to cede a bit. the firefighters are making up some ground. they‘ re bit. the firefighters are making up some ground. they're still reporting 0% containment but here in thousand oaks, things are a bit more quiet. much of the city is evacuated and 7596 much of the city is evacuated and 75% of the city of 130,000 almost an entire city in itself, has been evacuated so it's quiet. people are feeling a bit better but the fire is still raging in different areas, the san fernando valley as well as malibu. still ever present but we
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seem malibu. still ever present but we seem to be getting a bit a reprieve right now, which the city badly, badly needed. we understand the wind conditions weren't helping at all. the fire was being driven west by strong winds, 35 mph winds. how our fire officials or the fire services managing in terms of trying to contain it? —— how are the. managing in terms of trying to contain it? -- how are the. they're ina contain it? -- how are the. they're in a difficult decision because of the fire is taking up resources in the fire is taking up resources in the normal part of the state —— northern. local people are supporting but they've been told no more help from other parts of the state. we are talking about getting help from out of the state. they've had an approach to do as much as they can. it was overwhelming, firefighters couldn't spend a lot of time on each house, they did a bit trying to say what they could and then they had to move on. they're getting a bit of a better grip on the fire, but when the winds are
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a0-50 the fire, but when the winds are a0—50 mph and there's so much fuel in the ground, in a green city like thousand oaks, the odds are stacked against them so we're going to see a lot of structures damaged. we don't know exactly how many yet but i'm worried the numbers will be large when they do announce it. we've seen the dramatic pictures of people who've been trying to escape out of the fires. we are showing some pictures of a person driving through the fires. it looks like it is very dark and when they get through the fires, it is daylight. it shows the intensity of what people are dealing with. yet one wonders, people were given the warnings, why have they not been evacuated from their homes sooner or not been evacuated from their homes sooner or taken heed of these warnings? can you explain, you've been evacuated from where you live. absolutely. this is an area where the wildfires are given, they're a pa rt the wildfires are given, they're a part of life here. every summer we normally get one or two wildfires and we have amazing wildfires. in a
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way i think that made some people co mforta ble way i think that made some people comfortable and they may be thought this was another one of those fires that would burn through, burn some brush and then move along. maybe they've got into a comfort zone and they've got into a comfort zone and they didn't take the warnings seriously enough. i feel like they're listening now. hopefully we'll see fewer and fewer of those stories. yes, the fires are a way of life here, we're used to them and that's why maybe folks rely on the firefighters to do theirjobs so they don't heed the warnings like they don't heed the warnings like they should. of course the shooting this week on wednesday has shocked a good one, it has been a difficult week so can you explain how that community feels after that? the row 130,000 people in thousand oaks but it feels smaller, this is a a community that prides itself on family and schools and young people —— there is. the shooting that happened wednesday evening, it is rattling the city, it
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ta kes a evening, it is rattling the city, it takes a lot of pride in being one of the safest places anywhere in the country in fact, and this is a place where there are very few violent crimes to think everyone is waking up crimes to think everyone is waking up to the reality that this as we have seen in other cities, can happen anywhere but i think there area happen anywhere but i think there are a lot of efforts on behalf of residents to come out and support each other, there was a communitywide vigils last evening and a full house, the hatch in fact open up to theatres to get people in there is there was a time of support coming out of these families and for the victims and it will take a while to heal because thousand oaks never wa nted to heal because thousand oaks never wanted to be added to that list of us cities that have experienced this and as someone who has lived here for ten years now, all covered it, i know for a fact people thought that would not happen here and now it has and it will take time to come to grips with that. thank you very much, kylejoffey, talking to us from thousand oaks. you're watching breakfast from bbc news. here's chris with a look
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at this morning's weather. good morning. good morning to you. this weekend we are looking at a mixture of sunshine and blustery showers in the winds will always come in from the south—west although it is unsettled it will also be fairly mild. looking at the satellite, this stripe of cloud pushing eastward is the weather fronts that brought heavy rain overnight, it's left puddles on the road with tricky travelling conditions out and about at this next clip of showers towards wales in south—west england is what we are watching because although there are showers around here, they will get heavier with thunderstorms moving in over the next few hours so the weather will be pretty unsettled. zooming in, england and wales in the day we will see this clump of heavy showers and thunderstorms or notice how widespread the showers are. it is one of those days were most areas will see a downpour in the west. they will push into central,
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southern england and the north—east but they may lodge the worst in the north—east and it could even stay dry but northern ireland isn't seen too many showers, some in scotland tend to be restricted towards western areas where they could be frequent but later in the day there isa frequent but later in the day there is a chance of rain and heavy showers working through the irish sea to affect southern scotland, particular countries and galloway. wherever you are, it will be mild, temperatures 11— 1a. the showers continue overnight, particularly around with increased anthills and in the south we could see some of the showers merging together to give some heavy outbreaks of rain through the night and it will be unsettled. temperatures not too low, turning chilly in the north with winds light enough to give a ground frost in the cold est enough to give a ground frost in the coldest spots but into remembrance day, low pressure is with us, we still have the south—west of the winds feeding in and another day of sunshine and showers and again most frequent on sunday will be across
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western southern areas, some of them will have fund are mixed in, but the driest across eastern areas, particularly north—east england isn't doing too badly. temperatures wise, similar temperatures to those of today, highest between ten and 1a. the unsettled theme of weather continues into next week. there will be some sunshine around but also a few passing showers and it shouldn't last too long at any one place because the winds will stay at risk. temperatures in london could get up to around 15 or 16 towards the middle part of the week ahead. it is an unsettled one, not a complete write—off, a day of sunshine but showers and they will be frequent, particularly across western and eastern parts. that is the latest weather. chris, thank you, it is november so we cannot complain too much. they are mild, there could even be a few of you holding up putting the heating on but most bridges are a little above average.
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in my house, we do not! thank you, chris. time now for this week's travel show. coming up on this week's programme: diving into the northernmost reaches of the british isles. scapa flow has to be up there among the top few wreck diving destinations in the world. and it's the fashion revolution that's taking india by storm. the goal is to have something sartorial and feminine. hello and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from england's lake district, which is beautiful all year round, even in november. it's here that you'll find england's highest mountain and a series of monuments that were erected at the end
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of the first world war to honour those who died in that terrible conflict. all over europe and the wider world this weekend, people will be marking the 100th anniversary of the end of the great war, when the guns finally fell silent. one element of the conflict that's often overlooked is the war at sea, but if you travel to the far north of scotland, you can now have a deep dive into one of the most famous chapters of that story. my name's emily turton. i am the skipper of one of the dive boats up in scapa flow. my boat's called huskyan. and what we're really interested in is the first world war german naval fleet that was scuttled in scapa flow onjune 21,1919. scapa flow itself is a big bit of water surrounded by an island
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of orkney, and it was strategically best for our british naval fleet for both world war i and world war ii, and then also big enough to put the german navy when it was interned after the armistice at the end of november, 1918. just before the treaty of versailles was signed, which officially ended world war i, the german fleet was scuttled. it was the last remaining act of war open to the commanding officer there, admiral von reuter, and essentially, what he did is made ok, let's have a look at what she looks like underwater. now, this is the deepest part of the german fleet here. using digital imagery to help break down the ships to my divers before they get in the water really helps them have more of a mental image of what they're trying
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to see before they see it. so this scan image was done by a team at dundee university, headed up by professor chris rowland. i'm professor chris rowland from the university of dundee and i run the 3—d visualisation research lab, particularly interested in historic shipwrecks. i'm involved with a small team who are looking at bringing images of the shipwrecks of the german fleet to the general public, so that people who can't dive or don't get the opportunity to dive on them will actually see what's there, and this huge legacy from world war i isjust under the waves here. myself and professor carey, we dive as a team. i'll carry about 60,000 lumens of light, so that's a lot of light, and carey will carry his camera with extra lighting, and between the two of us, we basically record high resolution video around the wrecks and the features of the wrecks. when we bring that back to the surface, we can then use
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software to produce a 3—d image from those images. the german fleet are in quite silty conditions. so when you first get in the water and you're going down this line, you're diving on something that can be 1a5 metres long, but the mystery of it, you discover in ten metre chunks, 15 metre chunks. that's something that some people find a little bit spooky but i find really exciting. so this ship, sms markgraf, is one of four konig class battleships built for the first world war german navy. this ship's1a5 metres long, it's 30 metres wide, and if you picked her up and put her on the bathroom scales, her displacement is around about 26,000 tons. they are the vanguard
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of germany's navy during that war and to have three of them here is really quite — well, it's unique. the wreck that we were diving today is the site of the bayern turrets. so the bayern battleship, when it was salvaged, the four turrets were left on the seabed, and they're pretty remarkable to see. this was the last military action of world war i and any time we see the wreck or any of the wrecks, we're reminded exactly what that means in history. next up we are in delhi, where a fashion revolution is afoot. it's a trend that is being driven by social media around the world, and drawing more people into indian
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culture, as cat moh went to find out. walk around the streets and it's clear — one thing india doesn't lack is colour. hit the right areas, and it's textiles and tailors around every corner. and buying at least one traditional outfit is the ultimate souvenir. the clothing retail market in india is huge, with not always the best reputation when it comes to labour practices. however, more people are taking things into their own hands with a trend that is revolutionising the indian fashion market and drawing visitors to delhi — and that is fusion wear. it is basically a mash—up of traditional asian and western clothing, and some bloggers like sukhneet are very good at it. is it this way?
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oh, this is cute. yeah, it's the bolero jacket. do you find people are coming here to get textiles and then taking them to the tailors to get their own outfits, because sometimes buying ready—made pieces can be quite expensive, and you don't need to do that. having a local tailor is the coolest thing we have here, because you can get anything customised. if you see something on instagram and you come to me and show me "i want to get this made," and i take you to the tailor, he will make an exact copy of it. the family business has been tailoring for 50 years with both westerners and indians walking through its doors. by 2020, the indian fusion wear market is expected to be worth $3.a billion, doubling what it was last year, and indian couture designers have taken it from the streets to the runway. fashion house shantanu & nikhil run tours for visitors interested in a behind—the—scenes experience of its atelier. i think i'm in the right place. third one should be slightly more dramatic...
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hi! hello! i am cat. nice to see you, cat! welcome to india! and welcome to shantanu & nikhil. it is fascinating just walking up the stairs just now, seeing everyone hard at work. yeah, it is crazy right now, it is so chaotic outside of the building, and inside, there is creative chaos, which is what we love. i love it, i love it. thank you. and you offer these tours as well for people to come behind the scenes, to see what goes on. are you not worried that some of your secrets are going to be spilt out to the rest of the world? we are happy for people to come and see the process, because the process comes from great intent of purity and clarity. and why not? if people feel they can connect to this and they might something, maybe something new will come out of it. will you help me create something then? absolutely. i hope you have a lot of patience. i am...the teacher. the goal is to have something sartorial and feminine. this is the moment of truth.
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ta—da! 0k. am i holding this correctly? yeah, yeah. keep playing it, like you are stirring a cup of coffee. this is the real thing, isn't it? this is the real thing. probably should have had a practice sheet first. well, this is your practice sheet. go for it. it is like starting the accelerator of a car. slow down! slow down. that is... that is a disaster. i'm going to leave the rest of this to the professionals as clearly i cannot be trusted to sew in a straight line. in their workshop, 90% of the sewers are men, carrying on trade skills passed down the generations. with the final touches added, it is the moment of truth.
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what you think? oh, my good lord. it fits really well! this is fantastic on you! you made this, by the way, do you know that? well... you initialled draped it. i don't think. can you? well, you can't, what i can. but they probably can't either. it's probably just somewhere underneath. it's fine. cat moh reporting there from delhi. unfortunately, that is all we have time for on this week's programme. coming up next week: ade's in lebanon as the country marks 75 years of independence. and finds out how the people of beirut are shaking off the scars of civil war, to restore the city's reputation as a centre of entertainment and nightlife. that is good!
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so dojoin us then if you can, and if the meantime don't forget you can sign up for our social media feeds, see where we are in the world, and share some of your own travel stories. but now from me, christa larwood, and the rest of the travel show team here in the lake district, it is goodbye. hello, this is breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. around 70 world leaders are gathering in paris for a weekend of special events to mark 100 years since the end of world war one. president trump arrived there late last night and will hold talks with president macron this morning. here, theresa may willjoin the queen for a festival of remembrance at the royal albert hall this evening. there will be live coverage of the events to mark the centenary across the bbc this weekend. it begins later as huw edwards hosts the festival of remembrance from the royal albert hall tonight at 8:30pm on bbc one. and tomorrow, david dimbleby, dan snow and tina daheley present live coverage of the service of remembrance from
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the cenotaph from 10am. at least nine people have been killed and more than 150,000 have been evacuated as two wildfires continue to burn out of control in california. five of those killed were found in their cars in butte county, where the town of paradise has been devastated by the flames. further south, the city of thousand oaks, where a mass shooting claimed the lives of 12 people on wednesday, has also been affected. conservative mp jo johnson is being both praised and criticised by members of his own party after quitting as transport minister over the government's brexit plans. mrjohnson, whose brother boris also resigned from his cabinet post this year, said theresa may's proposals are a terrible mistake, and called for another referendum. downing street's ruled out another vote. thousands of plug—in hybrid cars bought with government grants are burning as much fuel as regular cars, according to new research shown to the bbc. data shows that many drivers never
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charge their vehicles and rely instead on their petrol or diesel engines. subsidies for new plug—ins were scrapped last month, but drivers still pay less car tax and benefit from free parking. there are actually some examples where it employs aren't actually charging these vehicles up and the charge cable is still in the boot, in a cellophane wrapper, not actually doing anything while the company and employee are going in and out of petrol stations all the time, paying for all this additional fuel when the vehicles could be quite easily charged up. it's ridiculous. dozens of outfits worn on—stage by the late singer aretha franklin will be sold at auction in new york today. the musician, known as the queen of soul, died in august at the age of 76 after being diagnosed with cancer. she won 18 grammys and sold more than 75 million records during a career which spanned seven decades. the royal mail has released a set of stamps to celebrate the 70th birthday of the prince of wales.
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two of the six images show prince charles with his sons, william and harry, one in their military uniform and another in their polo kit. another shows charles with his wife, the duchess of cornwall. the prince's birthday is on wednesday. those are the papers stories. it is 6:3aam. mike's here with the sport. i want to work out the most scary face, not you two, but behind you. the hacker hacker, we haven't seen it at twickenham for four years. the stuff of movies, eddiejones and saying sometimes you watch them and you keep the popcorn because they are so you keep the popcorn because they are so good but he wants england to direct the movie! we have been waiting for four years for the sound track to this movie. the last time haka last fought it out with the sound of swing low, sweet chariot at twickenham when the all blacks won, and after england's narrow win over
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south africa last weekend, co—captain owen farrell is well aware what's to come. what we've got to make sure is that we don't dip our toe into the weekend and feel our way in. we got to make sure we're throwing ourselves into it and are pretty co nsta nt ourselves into it and are pretty constant throughout the game with that. so, as i said, we've prepared well this week. we're looking forward to it and we can't wait for the game to come now. it's a 3pm kick—off at twickenham and there's commentary on radio 5live, plus highlights on bbc two at 7:30pm. now, you have to go back to 2008 to find the last time wales beat australia, and they've lost 13 in a row since then. however, they're on a six—match winning run after brushing aside scotland last saturday, and head coach warren gatland is keen to put right their torrid record against the wallabies. to be honest, pretty gutted and after a few games that we've been in positions to win them and throw bows
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winning positions away and having lost on a number of occasions... we should have beaten australia on quite a few occasions over recent yea rs quite a few occasions over recent years and we haven't managed to do it. you want to put that ledger right. wales against australia is live on bbc two at 5pm, but before that, you can watch scotland take on fiji at murrayfield. that's on bbc one at 2pm. the scots will be glad to be back on home turf. they've won eight games in their last nine there, and losing their opening autumn international against wales last weekend will give them extra impetus today. and the six nations champions ireland are on a nine—game winning run at home going into their match against argentina. there's commentary on that one on bbc radio ulster. england's women crushed the usa by 57—5 in the first of their autumn internationals. an early red card effectively ended the usa's challenge, with the roses running in eight tries, including one for katy daley—mclean on her 100th cap no sign of slowing down after 100th
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caps! it's going to be an emotional afternoon at the king power stadium for leicester city's first match since the helicopter crash that claimed the lives of their chairman and four others. thousands of fans are expected to march from the city centre to the stadium before kick—off against burnley, and the club have announced they plan to honour vichai srivaddhanaprabha with a statue at the ground. we have is to honour our chairman and to continue his dream and work for the future. but in this moment, of course, all the different support from everybody is very, very important, and we appreciate a lot, of course. sheffield united missed a penalty and their chance to go top of the championship as the sheffield derby ended goaless. while in the fa cup, heartbreak in the end for non—league harringay borough, as wimbledon of league one settled their first round tie in the last minute. mitchell pinnock with the goal. later on, the likes of the met police, stockport and billericay town will try to knock out league opposition.
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dan walker presents football vocus alive from the met police ground this lunchtime, maybe truncheon meet in the sandwich! truncheon meet instead of luncheon meat?|j in the sandwich! truncheon meet instead of luncheon meat? i get that one, it is a good play on words. instead of luncheon meat? i get that one, it is a good play on wordsm wasn't funny. i wasn't expecting you to laugh! may be a tut! aberdeen have moved up the scottish premiership table, thanks to a thunderous strike from gary mackay—steven that gave them a 1—0 victory over hibernian and they're now five points behind the leaders hearts, who play kilmarnock this afternoon. how about this? england winger raheem sterling has become one of the highest—paid footballers in the world. the figures are mind—boggling. his new contract with manchester city is likely to earn him up to £300,000 a week, or £a2,000 a day, about £1,800 an hour, £29 a minute, or about 50p a second! how about that! the mind boggles.
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staggering sums. not for us to comment, but wow! it will no doubt provoke a debate. lewis hamilton should be right in the mix in qualifying for the brazilian grand prix. he was fractions off the pace in both opening practice sessions. his afternoon in sao paulo went better than nico hulkenburg's, the renault driver wrecked his car. newly crowned champion hamilton was just behind his team—mate valtteri bottas in second practice. tony bellew will fight for the last time tonight as he bids to become the first britain to hold four world boxing belts in one weight division. he's up against unbeaten ukrainian oleksandr usyk at the manchester arena and, as underdog, he says he's ready to shock the world. i'm honoured. i'm honoured so many people around the world are supporting me, so many willing my
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country, my city. ifeel like it's all come at once, it's kind of overwhelming but i can't believe it's happening. so thank you. saturday night, i'll give my soul in that ring. i'll give my soul. and in the process of giving my soul, i will take his. after england's men beat sri lanka in their opening test match, england's women begin their quest to add the world t20 title to their 50 overs crown later. england captain heather knight knows it's going to be tough. their first match is against sri lanka. obviously after winning the 50 over world cup last year, we probably can't expect to be underdogs all the time, like we were going into that competition. we've had to deal with that extra expectation. the success i guess that's expected of the team now. england against sri lanka starts at 8pm, and there's commentary on every ball of every game on 5live sports extra. the sport of caving may involve being underground, but it's coming to the surface next week as one of the highlights at the uk mountain festival in kendal.
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we have rich networks of caves from scotland, to wales, the mendips in somerset, to north yorkshire, which is where ijoined a group for my first expedition. as the wind howled across the top of the yorkshire dales, time to seek shelter in the whole in the earth. so here we go... that leads to the underworld. and adventurer‘s paradise in the city of doctors with its rivers, waterfalls, cab urns and rocky cathedrals. it's great, it's like the old star trek, isn't it? boldly go where no man's been before. the cliche is claustrophobia. does this look claustrophobic? at times, yet it was a bit ofa claustrophobic? at times, yet it was a bit of a squeeze, but the team around you can help pull you through. you 0k? it feels like it's
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closing! i've not been caving before and i'm surprised at what i can squeeze my way through. ijoined a new two caving group which guides beginners into the sport. you should only ever try to cave with qualified instructors who have the equipment for when it sta rts have the equipment for when it starts to get extreme. i've come to a point where the only way to get down the very steep it is by using rope. i love the adventure of it really, the discovery of finding new places and it's like no other sport really, just going underground. just brace yourself against the walls and go. well, daylight at last. we've been underground for about an hour and a half. we've squeezed through tiny crevices, we'd abseiled down big,
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dark canyons, waded through water and this is what it's all for. wow, so and this is what it's all for. wow, so spectacular. this is the alan pot, it goes 150 foot down there. this is real adventure, no mobiles down here. you'rejust thinking in the moment. it's good for you physically, it's good for you emotionally and it's something you can do in the uk relatively easily and you really can explore. it's wonders like this that will be promoted to a wider audience next week at the uk's mountain festival in ken doll. you don't have to be an antarctica, you could be here in the yorkshire dales, in the lakes, whatever, just walking and it feels like an adventure. having enjoyed the views, it was time to go back up to climb up a wobbly ladder through the waterfall. refreshing, yes, but i'd never been so refreshing, yes, but i'd never been so glad of the safety rope. maybe the effort of this is why when it came to the most famous caving challenges in the uk, the cheese press, a grass where it isjust
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challenges in the uk, the cheese press, a grass where it is just 30 centimetres wide at some places... move that hat out of the weight. centimetres wide at some places... move that hat out of the weightm just got a bit too much. you need to go through there. that's me stuck on the far side. eventually i made it back out before going the alternative we are, through the underground rivers and back to the real world and. which was just a few metres above still there. an believable experience and they wa nt an believable experience and they want more people to give it a go. a non—profit organisation wants to get people out there to explore incredible networks hash and unbelievable experience. you didn't feel claustrophobic? -- and unbelievable experience. it is very safe when chris is here with a look at this morning's weather. it isa it is a glorious photograph behind you and it will not be too bad? it will be one of those days of sunshine and showers but mind you the sum will see a number of heavy
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showers today that it will not rain all day so there are some glimmers of hope out there —— some will. on the big picture. the satellite shows a band of rain moving away from from the uk. the rain will get much heavier and mind you, the radar picture shows we already have plenty of shower activity around western and southern coastal areas but the showers are set to get much heavier over the next few hours, and italy focusing on wales in south—west england. downpours will be widespread so most areas will see one or two showers this morning across this area and then they will move into the midlands, central southern england and the south—east later this afternoon, turning heavier with time. also we are in the north—west of england this afternoon whereas the north—east, northern ireland and scotland as well, not too many showers about to be honest the many areas will have a dry, bright day with sunshine.
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showers to the western isles and highlands and later on, heavy showers working into southern scotla nd showers working into southern scotland so watch out for these, they could be heavy, jiggly around countries and galloway. temperatures 11- 1a countries and galloway. temperatures 11— 1a so warmer than it should be. overnight, brisk and gusty south—west of the winds and they will drive showers, particularly across southern england and into the south—west of england. temperatures, mild in the south but chilly in the north with temperatures four degrees or so north with temperatures four degrees orso in edinburgh. north with temperatures four degrees or so in edinburgh. for remembrance sunday, the same area of low pressure edging closer to the uk but again with a brisk south—west of the winds we will see further showers and again, it is western and southern part that will see the heaviest and most frequent of the day ‘s showers nowhere is completely immune from thing an old downpour and if you do get one, they will not last because the winds are strong and stable blow the clouds across
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and stable blow the clouds across and the sunshine will then come out. tomorrow, 10— 1a, on the mild side to this time of year. the unsettled weather pattern is set to continue into next week with the south—west of the winds continuing to bring the risk of passing showers but sunshine between. temperatures 15 or 16 in london but did you know what? at this time of year we should be seeing highs of 11 so for some, in the week ahead it could be five degrees warmer than it should be at this time of year. back to you. time now for the latest technology news in this week's click. the news.
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we used to trust it. if it was on screen or in print, we believed it. but a few years ago, the lies online started to look really realistic. phoney news websites with convincing—looking stories, shared by your friends on social media. the fake news era was born. one of the most chilling examples of how convincing fake news could become is deep fakes. that's the term given to artificial intelligence techniques that swap people's faces in videos — seemingly seamlessly putting them into situations that never happened. we first covered the phenomenon non earlier in the year
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—— we first covered the phenomenon earlier in the year when user—friendly deep fakes app made the technique easy and freely available online. we all share the same home. it seems the ai genie is out of the bottle. for a lot of kids, the doors that have been opened to me aren't open to them. we are yet to see deep fakes make an impact in real news, but you can imagine the implications if we can't tell what's real. the new tools developed by darpa's media forensics project claim to be able to automatically spot ai forgeries. one big giveaway? they really blink. —— they rarely blink. another potential giveaway is to look for signs of life — literally. subtle changes in skin tone invisible to the human eye that can reveal a human pulse. currently, deep fakes algorithms can't consistently replicate these subtleties. but, as the technique develops, how long will that last? so the future of this tech definitely has some murky
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possibilities but we are starting to see some genuinely useful applications of it, too. here's lara. yes, there is definitely a dark side to fakery, but there are also some exciting possibilities. we have put a new algorithm to the test here at the bbc with newsreader matthew amroliwala. today he is presenting, well, his own news, in more languages than he can actually speak. i am second—generation british. my parents originally came to the uk in 1959. ijoined him to watch the magic unfold. what did you think watching that? it's incredible, actually, and unsettling. because i know i can't do that and you see they've made me look as though i can.
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for this to work, the lighting and the camera angle need to be just right. i can't speak any foreign languages. this isn't video editing. the footage is broken down into data, with neural networks tracking his lip movements as well as those of voice actors who are speaking the same words — in this case in hindi, mandarin, and spanish. speaks mandarin. now comes the trick, because once the system has mapped out and understands how the mouths of both matthew and the voice actors move, the software can switch these over, manipulating matthew's lips to mouth the translated words. this is the brainchild of london based start—up synthesia, a company dreaming of making affordable hollywood—type special effects available to the masses. although we tested it here in a news setting,
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it currently takes a whole day to create a digital model of a person. of course, the aim is for this dubbing to be possible on any video, regardless of how it's been filmed. although in a world where that becomes simpler, even the company itself can recognise the implications. so regards to trust and videos and photos, and what's going to happen in this sort of space, i think photoshop was released in 1990. and since then, it has become very easy to edit images, you can remove objects, you can edit the background, you can do all these things that is done to most of the images that you view on the internet or in magazines today, right? the same thing is going to happen to video, i am convinced. i think humans will adapt as they'd adapted to the fact that, just like we don't take photos at face value, we can't take videos at face value, necessarily. so while the possibilities are exciting, we mayjust grow a little bit more suspicious of everything we watch. i'm using some technology
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that we first saw a few months ago — a speech synthesis system by lyrebird ai. just by listening to a few audio samples of someone talking, it can reproduce their voice digitally. like this. i am donald trump and i think that my digital voice is quite impressive. the lyrebird ai has been trained on many, many voices. and it's taught itself what makes each voice different. now, that means that you don't have to record every phoneme, every single sound that your voice can make, because amazingly, it's found a more efficient way of sounding like you. the kind of algorithms we are using, it's something called deep learning or neural networks. and something that makes these kind of algorithms special is that you don't need to give them specific things to look for.
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and so, this dna of the voice, we know that you are able to synthesise new voices based on this and they will sound like the original voices, but we don't really know what is inside of them. and so, it's a bit of a black box. but now, i'm using a prototype of version two, which has been trained using spanish voices. and this is the result. is this notjust the same as taking what i'm saying, turning it into text, and then putting it through an online translation tool and then getting the resulting text and putting it through lyrebird? so not exactly because, for instance, there are some words in spanish, the strong ‘r', that are not common
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in some other different languages. and so we could make you pronounce that sound, in your voice, even if you were not able to pronounce it before. why have you added this translation? so imagine if we could do movie dubbing automatically. if you have a course on mexican cooking, you could have it spoken in english or in italian or many other different languages on the same time as they are being released. lyrebird has already used its tech for good, banking the voices of those with motor neurone disease so they can still use their voice after they lose their ability to speak. what motivates you? i want to make my best effort into preventing that this kind of technology is misused or is used for other or some people or it's used to steal the identities of people or create political instability.
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do you think it may be possible to deploy deep learning in your network's artificial intelligence to spot the fakes? definitely. and this is something we are working internally as one of the potential preventative measures of this technology. however, i think that the problem with this is that, long—term, is that the generated and the real will be basically impossible to distinguish one from each other. and so, that's why i believe that the solution, the ultimate solution to this kind of issue, is educating the public and letting them be suspicious of the media. it's100 years since the end of the first world war, which makes this remembrance sunday an even more poignant and special day. one of the many commemorations
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taking place around commonwealth nations is being tested here, at the royal chelsea hospital, a retirement home for british army veterans. it's called nothing to be written. it's an immersive vr experience based around sending and receiving of the so—called field postcards that soldiers wrote during the great war. it has sort of parallels to text messages that people can send now. that thing where there isn't a lot of message that you can put into it, you can't tell the stories, but it's just a connection to say "i'm ok, i'm thinking of you." and i thought that was really beautiful. a century after the supposed ‘war to end all wars', this is a highly emotive insight into what it was like both at home and in the trenches. there are no visuals here of the brutality of war. these guys have already seen it too much of that.
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absolutely incredible. and it feels cold. the sun has come out, right? this is absolutely amazing. what i liked about wearing these during this session is that i was looking up at the sky and the colours of the sky. i thought that was brilliant. can i take my headset off? yeah. right. mmm. that was so realistic. you were there in the trenches. hmm. what they did is what they wanted to do, and that is to protect the country. many of them lost their lives. and i hope it has gone to people now these days what it was all about. very emotional.
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because i was with them. learner good morning. welcome to breakfast, with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today: a weekend to remember. world leaders gather in europe for events to mark 100 years since the end of world war 1. on the eve of the armistice, we'll be live in paris and belgium as commemorations continue. heavenly father, please help us.
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