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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are nigel nelson, political editor for the sunday mirror and the sunday people, and the political commentator, jo phillips. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in — let's take a look. the sunday telegraph lead on the bitter brexit row in the conservative party — reporting that 25 letters of no confidence in the prime minister have been submitted, with tory mp zac goldsmith adding his to the pile. meanwhile the sunday express claims leading brexit campaigners and former cabinet ministers, david davis and borisjohnson, have had talks to decide which of them should stand to replace the prime minister — if there is a vote of no confidence theresa may has allowed britain to be "blackmailed and bullied" by brussels — that's according to the former brexit secretary dominic raab in an interview with the sunday times tomorrow. the independent has a picture of protests by environmental campaigners
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as they brought parts of london to a standstill today, staging sit—ins and blocking five bridges over the thames. a mother of three who took her own life after being chased by the nhs for prescripton fees. the mail on sunday has spoken to a teacher who claims vulnerable children at her school are being "tricked" into believing they are the wrong sex. so unsurprisingly brexit and the divide in the conservative party leads many of tomorrow's papers. unsurprisingly, brexit, the divide in the conservative party leading many of tomorrow's papers. we have lots of angles, but we will start with the sunday times. stand up to brussels police, this is a message from dominic raab, who has given its exclusive interview. it lays out where we are after a week of craziness. as you refer to edit a
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moment ago, this is dominic raab at the beginning of the week, the brexit secretary, and after the cabinet meeting, he apparently said he backed the prime minister, then decided not to. what he is saying needs to show greater political will —— theresa may needs to show greater political will. it shows where we are political will. it shows where we a re clearly, however political will. it shows where we are clearly, however things may change by the next news bulletin. but where we are in terms of a leadership challenge, in terms of the votes of no confidence, which will possibly come up on tuesday. and who is plotting with who. this is another... it shows how bitter and how entrenched it is within the conservative party. this no deal or this deal, because now the people
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who are saying, this deal is not good enough, do they really want a no—deal brexit? that is the only option, we are four months away. that is right. the feeling you get at westminster is that everyone has gone collectively mad and you wonder what is happening. it is a bit like beginning and asylum, you wonder what the country is making about. there is the feeling that they are obsessed by it and the thing that has got me about mps over the whole brexit su is that they seem to forget the national interest. everything they are doing at the moment is trying to win on their own interests. that is what i find worrying. it is the way that they are behaving. we get to a situation where, for instance, you have labour ina where, for instance, you have labour in a strange position where a a few months ago, they said we needed a customs union, theresa may was trying to propose that, now she is saying, we need a customs union,
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thatis saying, we need a customs union, that is the only solution to the irish. labour are now saying they will vote against it. and you think, what are we going to do? nigel is right, there seems to be a collective sense of, two, we are abandoning the country. anyway, in a way, after the cabinet meeting, why i love the prime minister to stand on the steps of downing street, saying it has been an intense time, but we have an agreement, only to design —— resigned in excess. dominic raab said he called on the prime minister to walk away from the talks and he described the predatory behaviour of dark forces in brussels. we get some insight from him about the process of negotiations and he feels the prime minister lacked political will. there is telling phrase, saying that had he been running negotiations. but he wasn't, he wasjust there for the ceremonial. he didn't do the job david davis did. and also the chief
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adviser on brexit, he really ran the whole thing. dominic raab says that he dove if he had been running them, he dove if he had been running them, he wouldn't have allowed britain to be frightened of his own shadow. that seems like a pitch for the leadership to me. obviously, dominic raab is thinking, if we are now going to have a leadership challenge, it will be brexiteers versus remainers, he will try and ta ke versus remainers, he will try and take the brexiteer slot. they have seven tories are preparing leadership campaigns and identifying support. boris johnson, amber rudd, who has just replaced support. boris johnson, amber rudd, who hasjust replaced esther mcvey, jeremy hunt, david davis, any mordant and dominic raab. i think this interview, as nigel hasjust said, is very much throwing the sort of any crumbs out. he says he is not submitting a letter of no confidence
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in theresa may, but has made it clear that he doesn't think she is standing up to brussels strong enough. this leadership issue is picked up in the sunday express. tory rebels make their move, big pictures of david davis and boris johnson. the line they are taking is the two of them are trained to work out who should be the brexit candidate. this, if we get dominic raab in there, it could be neither of them. i couldn't think of two people less likely to actually turn up... people less likely to actually turn . i people less likely to actually turn up... i think dominic raab has a better chance than the two have.” think you and i have a better chance! they know he is popular in the party, although, polling is showing he is not as popular as you might think with the tory party. you still need the support of mps if you are to go forward for the party membership vote. boris johnson proper blue wouldn't get it. what we talking about here is alwaysjumping
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the gun. first of all, the 48 letters are not in... the 1922 committee have to generate any type of event. yes, they then have two trigger a vote of confidence or stop if they haven't got the 48 letters, 158 tory mps need to against theresa may, and if she doesn't do this, this would happen. so it is very likely 158 mp5 will vote against, and undera tory likely 158 mp5 will vote against, and under a tory rules, she can't be challenged for a year ‘s point of view, i would be saying, bring it on. it would give her a bit of strength, because as nigel said, it will shut them up for a year. we headed before withjohn major, when headed before withjohn major, when he went into the rose garden at number ten, having referred to them
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in words that i wouldn't use on television, but i think, you look at these two, and you see two blokes who would be at lunch all the time. and they said, i submitted it, didn't you? the sunday telegraph as well, jo, going on this plot to oust mrs may, tipping point as mp rebellion grows. the thought for a lot of people at home is that the last thing we need is the chaos of any leadership contest. what happens to brexit them, all those weeks of sitting and chatting and campaigning? this abdication of response ability, while everybody is pursuing their own egos and ends. we still have a country that needs running. we have big problems, whether it is in health, education, transport, finance, the economy, jobs... there is! million other things that will hinge on brexit, but need to be managed on a day—to—day basis. this, frankly, is
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a reasonable story for a front—page full stop it is an interview with zac goldsmith, failed london mayor candidate, basically saying he has submitted his letter of no confidence. he would have voted remain then choose a mrs may's plan. i sort of feel, who cares what zac goldsmith thinks, except the fact that he is friends with boris johnson. so it is all the manoeuvring. and i terribly attractive photograph of michael gove! he went jogging this morning, yes! there are a few lines with pulling out here in terms of opening our discussion to some of the other issues. we have been hearing from andrea led some, saying there is time for more to be done. five brexiteers are saying we can tweak this, but the eu has said, there is nothing more to be negotiated. the year says no. this is something that
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theresa may and number ten are costly saying. number ten have told me, we have reached peak deal. there are no no more negotiations. you can start a withdrawal agreement, you can start talking about the future relationship, which they can start amending. but if the five brexiteers think they can send theresa may back to brussels to negotiate something more, before parliament has voted, i think they are living in cloud cuckoo land. it is interesting that labour are saying the same thing. they have said, give us one year and we will redo it all and it will all be fine. they can't, for the reasons just stated. we are 19 weeks away from the day that we are due to leave. if we are to... i suppose, it is conceivable that we could get into a general election, if the votes go against theresa may in the commons, and there is a commons vote of no confidence, not a vote of her
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no confidence as a tory leader, because that is different. if you ta ke because that is different. if you take out the length of time for insta nce take out the length of time for instance on a leadership contest, you are looking at 60s. at least, thatis you are looking at 60s. at least, that is the minimum. if you are looking at a general election, how many weeks with that take?! the independent, tory mps warn hardline brexiteers they may abandon brexit. this is another way of looking at it. this is moderate conservatives and the way may that behaved if this goes forward to avoid a new deal. this is fascinating. the story we have in name sunday mirror as well tonight. it is a fear that theresa may will launch, to say to the brexiteers, if you vote me down on my deal, the danger is, we won't leave the eu. the way it works is if mps vote down her deal, there is no
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way they could go for the horrors of a no—deal brexit, it is then from appointment to decide the next steps. the only next step that anyone can see is steps. the only next step that anyone can see is to withdrawal or postpone article 15, so we don't leave the eu. and therein lies a chance for a second referendum.” think not in fact. this is interesting, because this keeps coming round, theresa may says, no way. i am not in favour of it, i think it's delayed things. i do think it's delayed things. i do think if we get to that stage as you are suggesting in this interesting story in the independent suggests, that there is an extension from brussels, you then get into the time, and! brussels, you then get into the time, and i think the polls, or in the next lot we will see more detail, but it does suggest to be a little bit of movement between people who voted to leave, but who now would vote remain, now, they are realising that what they were voting for was not necessarily the entire
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truth. i think if there was a delay, there might be more momentum, if you like, fora there might be more momentum, if you like, for a second referendum. tease us like, for a second referendum. tease us here nigel, because in the next hour, we will hope to look at the sunday mirror. you have been looking at some of the polling. as far as the second referendum goes, we asked the second referendum goes, we asked the question about would you... how would you vote in a referendum tomorrow? it is too close to call, remainjusta tomorrow? it is too close to call, remain just a couple tomorrow? it is too close to call, remainjust a couple of points ahead, but that is not enough. if you have a second poll based on that, what happens if remainers do win, but on a smaller margin than leave voters did last time? they will stop believing in any kind of democracy and that is where extremism can start coming in. 53% of people don't want a second referendum, 50% don't want a general election and almost 50% back theresa may and want her to stay in place until she has finished brexit. and
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get on with it! it is the magical online in the middle... so close... the message is, get on with it. that isa the message is, get on with it. that is a nice little tease with a mirror which we will look at in the next hour, so that is it funny papers for this hour, nigel and jo will be back with me at 11:30pm another look. next, it is time for click. here on click, we are constantly coming across jawdropping medical marvels. from robo—nurses, to a! which can outdiagnose experts. we have seen the future of medicine evolving before our eyes. it is fair to say medicine
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has come a long way. this is the old operating theatre museum in london. of course there is an old operating theatre museum, why wouldn't there be? back in the late 1800s for example, this was the cutting edge — literally. and in the 130 years since, surgery has changed beyond recognition. but, as with all technology, we mustn't become overreliant on it. we mustn't think that it will do everything and we mustn't think that it will work every time. last week, we were given a sombre reminder of this when an inquest found that a cardiac patient, stephen petit, had died as a result of undergoing pioneering heart surgery using a da vinci robot. had the surgery had been of the traditional kind,
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he almost certainly would have survived. i if a surgeon is going to use a robot, and use is the right technical term, he has to be very well practised with it. i think that was an example where the team were not sufficiently trained or prepared to do that operation. and therefore, it was a very, very, very long operation that ultimately went badly. we reached out to intuitive surgical, the company behind the robot used in stephen petit‘s operation. they provided a statement expressing their condolences to his family and reiterating that patient safety is their priority. but they said they don't provide and can't enforce a mandatory medical training regime before a surgeon uses their robotic system. this training and validation remains with hospitals. they say that more than 5 million
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da vinci robot procedures have been performed by more than 40,000 trained surgeons worldwide. so, where now for robotic surgery? well, paul carter has been to see one robo—manufacturers centre of operations, as well as getting an inside look at real—life surgery. at london's royal marsden hospital, we have been allowed to see the surgical robots in action. following the death of stephen petit, it was interesting to find out more about how surgeons are trained in vr and how they overcome the sense of touch they would have if they were using their hands. before anyone goes anywhere near a patient they are expected to do a good deal of training on that system in virtual reality beforehand. yes, you lose the tactile feedback but you have got very clear imaging and you can very clearly and precisely define your dissection. in this procedure, robotic technology will be used to remove
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a cancerous tumour in the patient‘s stomach, with fluorescent dye used to light up the area. during the procedure, surgeon miles smith, assisted by assif chowdry, controls three robotic arms which he manipulates to remove the tumour. the aim is to greatly reduce surgical trauma as the robot method is far less invasive than more laparoscopic traditional surgeries. the da vinci robot makes it possible for surgeons to operate deep inside the body through microscopic incisions. can you keep your voice down a little bit because this is quite a critical part of the operation and what is actually happening behind me is that they are putting in ports into the patient‘s stomach where the robot will dock onto in order to perform the actual operation a little bit later on. the robotic console actually uses keyhole surgery, whereby instruments into the patient‘s body through small holes instead of large cuts. that means less blood loss, less trauma and also quicker recoveries.
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the robot has four arms, three of which carry tiny surgical instruments and one of which sports a camera. ports need to be put in place before the robot can be wheeled in to dock its arms. what is remarkable about this system is it is generally remote. you can see the arms moving behind me and they almost look like they are moving independently, they are actually being controlled by miles, who is sat at a console several feet away from the patient. the remote consoles provide the surgeon with 3d visualisations and magnified images allowing complex dissection or reconstruction. the surgeon controls the arms through finger loops that mimic the hands natural movement. so the tumour has just been cut off, for lack of a better phrase. it is just extraordinary, put in a little tool and bagged it up. yes, that's it. let's take it out of the ports.
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intuitive surgery, who make the system used at the royal marsden, have almost complete market dominance. but now, new robotic surgery players are starting to emerge. we've come to california to visit alaris health, who are developing robotics for a different type of surgical procedure. alaris' monkier platform concentrates on endoscopy, a procedure which allows treatments to be given to organs through natural openings, such as the mouth, meaning no incisions are required. it can manourvre through a patient‘s airways, even into the far and narrow parts of the lungs, and combined with ct scans, it can provide a gps map of the patient‘s internal organs, allowing surgeons to navigate precisely on areas of concern. i am using what is essentially a modified games controller to operate this scope here. and i am no surgeon, i have been using this for a couple of bits and i am able to make quite precise movements. it's pretty extraordinary.
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it's clear that robotics finding different surgical niches is one area of growth, but what else does the future hold for surgical robotics? there's no reason why in the future we shouldn't be able to train robots to differentiate between structures that we want to preserve and structures that we want to remove. perhaps a bit like driverless cars, but in this case a surgeonless robot. possibly under the control of the surgeon. next we're going to talk golf — a stubbornly traditional sport, but one which is ready to embrace the newest technology, as lara lewington has been finding out. this is wentworth club, which in just a few years is going to be celebrating its centenary. but over that 100 years, a lot has changed. in recent times, much of that has
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come down to technology. so we are going to go and see how both amateurs and professionals have been making good use of that. lasers, radars, sensors, and motion capture have transformed data collection. and analysing these statistics means training and play can be more precise than ever before. and who better to show us in one of the greatest golfers on the planet? francesco molinari, fresh from wins this year in both the ryder cup and the open championship. one of the difficulties of golf is that there are so many elements, and even so many parts of the body moving through the swing, that any little difference, any little difference makes a change. those tiny differences are captured by the kind of tech usually reserved for big budget hollywood films.
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27 reflective markers over his body helped to create a digital double francesco's swing to be analysed in detail. 0ptical motion capture analysis uses high—speed cameras to capture every movement in the body and club. this provides francesco's team with data that would have been impossible to measure a few years ago. this is trackman. the radar basically picks up all the data surrounding the golf course, surrounding the golf club. it picks out points of that will stop and that gives us the data that we can see. so we have ball speed, we've got launch angles, we know how high the ball launched out of the golf club. 15 years ago he would have been in the field watching the ball, whereas now we can physically see. slightly intimidating being this close, but i guess he does know how to hit the ball the right way. the technology tracks the distance, power, and trajectory of the ball,
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using a combination of hd cameras and a doppler radar. it also registers microwave transissions that move away from a golf club and ball. it is a crucial measuring tool. otherwise, if you think about it, old school, you would hit all five balls and go look at them and measure them and write them all out. that's the only way that you are going to learn — to have immediate feedback — and this is sensational for that. but is this in some ways ruining the game? before it was a lot of guessing going on, and really going on the feel of the players, and ourfeel. there is now just a lot more feedback. these people with lasers zapping our ball after every shot so we know exactly how far we hit every shot, how far off—line, how farfrom the flag.
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so far, it has been impossible to track everything, but with the technology you've seen today, we're getting closer and to getting exactly an idea of what is going on. definitely technology has been a massive help in tracking every ball and getting immediate feedback, so i would would not be as good a player, for sure, without that technology. and that may well be true. but ultimately the player has to be skilled enough to act on the data that is being recorded, and, of course, this is not there to turn just anyone into a star player. and that is it for the shortcut of click for this week, the full—length is available to watch right now on iplayer. don't forget, we are all across social media. youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter. all you need to say is bbc click and we'll be there. thanks for watching and see you soon. hello.
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for most parts of the uk, it's been a glorious day with plenty of afternoon sunshine and some gorgeous autumn colours. we started off with a lot of cloud. most of it melted away although it stayed with us in northern ireland and eastern areas of scotland. where the sunshine came out, what a glorious day it was with blue skies overhead. this was the scene in the highlands. to end the day, nearby, what a glorious sunset this was. 0ur weather around the planet is all interlinked. temperatures today in north iceland near the arctic circle reached 16 celsius. that's 13 degrees warmer than normal. the significance of this is that it helps build high pressure westwards which sends cold air spilling into northern europe and that cold air is on the way to our shores. towards the middle of the week,
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temperatures will be around 5 degrees in a number of areas. really cold weather just around the corner. all linked with the warm air going into the arctic. tonight, we keep the clear skies, temperatures taking a bit of a plunge. it would be a really cold night but the breeze is going to stay up which will make it feel cold but temperatures in many areas will just stay the right side of freezing. the exception, perhaps some of the deeper valleys in the highlands of scotland could get down below freezing to give a touch of frost. high pressure still with us on sunday. we start to get those easterly winds, continuing to drag in the dry air so again, another fine and sunny day and although we could start off with a bit of cloud across eastern scotland, there will be more sunshine here than was the case today. notice northern ireland, another big improvement, with sunny skies overhead. sunshine across the board. one of those days not feeling bad in the sunshine, some warmth to the sun but in the breeze it will feel a bit cool. especially across eastern coasts. temperatures 10—12, close to normal for the time of year. quite a change in the forecast
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as we head into monday, turning much cloudier and around north sea coasts, cloud big enough to bring some patches of light rain and drizzle. notice the temperatures going down. that trend continues into tuesday when the really cold air starts to arrive. it is coldest across england and wales where temperatures for some, around four or five celsius. it will feel like winter has really arrived with a bitterly cold easterly wind. temperatures going down towards the middle part of the week. winter is on the way. that is your latest weather. this is bbc news. i'm rachel scofield. the headlines at 11: 5 ministers in theresa may's cabinetjoin forces to try and persuade her to make changes to the draft brexit agreement. president trump is visiting california, where wildfires have killed at least 71 people and left thousands homeless. it seems that many more people are
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missing than anyone even thought was possible. i want to be with the firefighters and the fema and first responders. according to reports in us media, the cia believes the saudi crown prince ordered the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi. the broadcaster, writer and former newsreader, richard baker, has died at the age of 93. and at 11:30 we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers
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