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this is bbc news. the headlines at 11am. police in new zealand investigating the murder of british backpacker grace millane say they have found a body. this brings the search for grace to an end. it is an unbearable time for the millane family and our hearts go out to them. the prime minister warns the uk will be in ‘uncharted waters‘ if the commons rejects her brexit deal as downing street insists there will be no delay to the vote. the brexit secretary tells the bbc the deal delivers on what brexiteers campaigned for. the vote is going ahead and that's because it is a good deal, it's the only deal, and it's important we don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good. more than 1,700 arrests in france after another weekend of violent protests police use tear gas and rubber bullets on the streets of paris, and the french prime minister calls for unity. also in the next hour, there's discord at the united nations climate change conference
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as scientists and delegates express concern over a key report. the us, russia, and others criticise an ipcc study into the impact of a 1.5—degree rise in global temperatures. we'll bring you the latest premier league results, as chelsea inflict manchester city's first defeat of the season in a 2—0 win. and in half an hour, the dateline london panelists give their perspective on this week's biggest stories, including tuesday's brexit vote and violent protests on the streets of paris. that's at 11:30. police in new zealand searching for the missing british backpacker grace millane,
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have found a body. the 22 year—old from essex was last seen in auckland over a week ago. a 26 —year—old man is due to appear in court on monday charged with her murder. chi chi izundu has the latest. this is the area police had cordoned off earlier in the day, describing it as a location of interest. detective inspector scott beard announcing the news no one wanted to hear. we located the body which we believe to be grace. the formal identification process will now take place. however, based on evidence we have gathered in the past few days we expect that this is grace. obviously this brings the search for grace to an end. this is an unbearable time for the millane family and our hearts go out to them. police released pictures of a red rental car and asked the public for any sightings of it last monday. officers confirmed a postmortem examination will be conducted on the body found.
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22—year—old grace was on a year—long worldwide trip and had been in contact with her family nearly every day since she had got to new zealand, until december 1, the day before her 22nd birthday. grace had been staying at a backpacker‘s hostel in auckland. her last confirmed sighting was on saturday night a week ago, entering a hotel in the city with a male companion. police say he had been with her during the evening. a 26—year—old man has been charged with her murder and is due to appear in court on monday. chi chi izundu, bbc news. earlier i spoke to sarah robson, a reporter at radio new zealand in auckland. she told me that the disappearance of grace millane has been followed closely by the public in new zealand. there is a lot of shock and anger in new zealand about the disappearance of grace millane. the police say that while we have, grace's body has been found, they still have a lot of work to do,
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and piecing together what actually happened to grace from the moment she was last seen outside that hotel in central auckland, a busy, busy street in central auckland, to the time where her body was found, probably about six hours ago, earlier this afternoon. now, as your reporterjust said, the focus now is on the movements of a red rental car. they are looking for any sightings of this car in the area near where her body was found over about a three and a half hour period on monday morning. now, this area where grace's body was found, it's about a0 minutes‘ drive out of central auckland. it's very foresty, bushy, it's a very narrow country road, and her body was only found about ten metres off the road. of course, new zealand is a place where so many backpackers from all over the world go, and this trip, it's known as a pretty safe
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place, generally, to go. and you talked about the shock and anger of people than, and that must be very real. yeah, it really is. i mean, social media is filled with messages. women in particular sort of expressing anger that this is another example of, while we don't know the full details of an act of violence against a woman, a woman who is 22 and embarking on a big overseas adventure at the end of her time at university. and we've seen people organising candlelit visuals in both auckland and wellington to show their support to grace millane's family. i actually was down a couple of hours ago outside the backpackers‘ where grace had been staying, speaking to a few travellers. young women who, like grace, were here on their big adventure, and they say, well, a couple of the weren't too worried.
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others have expressed some concern about travelling by themselves, being in the city alone, making sure they've got a friend with them, making sure they're making connections in their hostels, and ensuring that, you know, they've got a couple of phones if one stops working, and taking, i guess, all those sorts of precautions that you wouldn't necessarily think you might have to take in a place like new zealand. a couple of girls from italy had told me that they'd always been told that new zealand and australia were both two of the safest places in the world to travel. so some of those perceptions, with the coverage that has obviously gone global in terms of this story, whether that has any flow and effect for the tourism industry, whether it might make parents in particular a little bit wary of their younger, sort of, you know, early 20s, heading off on their big 0e, coming to new zealand, you might want to take a few extra precautions, albeit a little bit warier. theresa may has warned conservative
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mps that they risk handing jeremy corbyn the keys to number 10, if they don't back her brexit deal on tuesday. downing street has insisted that the crunch brexit vote will go ahead as planned, rejecting suggestions that theresa may could delay it, in order to avoid a heavy defeat. in an interview with the mail on sunday the prime minister warns of entering ‘uncharted waters‘ if the deal is rejected. meanwhile will quince, an aide at the ministry of defence, has resigned from his position, saying he cannot back the deal. steven barclay has said that if we seek to negotiate with the eu would wouldn‘t be a one—way street. seek to negotiate with the eu would wouldn't be a one-way street. with other countries asking for more. jess parkerjoins us now with the latest developments. so, first question, is this crucial vote on tuesday going ahead? a lot of speculation that it will be delayed. yes, a lot of speculation and a lot
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of pressure on theresa may from some senior people in the government for her to delay the vote. why? the numbers are stacked against her at the moment. but downing street are very insistent the vote will go ahead on tuesday. the former brexit secretary was sending that message today. the vote is going ahead, that's because it is a good deal, the only deal. it's important that we don't let the person be the enemy of the good. the brexiteers in the party, we campaigned on a referendum to ta ke we campaigned on a referendum to take back control of immigration policy, to have a say on things like not sending sums of money to the eu. this is a deal that does that but does it in a way that balances the need to protectjobs does it in a way that balances the need to protect jobs and does it in a way that balances the need to protectjobs and keep does it in a way that balances the need to protect jobs and keep the supply of goods flowing. that was the brexit secretary this morning. 0ne that was the brexit secretary this morning. one theory is that she needs to lose the vote on tuesday to go back to brussels and renegotiate a deal. there are serious swerving all over
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the place at the moment. that is something that brexiteers have been saying this morning, people like esther mcveigh and boris johnson, she‘s likely to lose the vote on tuesday, but they wouldn‘t rule out trying to send her back to brussels. downing street don‘t want to entertain that is a possibility, they want to say they are focusing on tuesday they think they have a chance of winning. 0ne minister said he thought the government did have a good chance of winning on tuesday, we are quite hard pressed to find anyone in westminster of that view, but borisjohnson, anyone in westminster of that view, but boris johnson, the anyone in westminster of that view, but borisjohnson, the former foreign secretary who quit over the brexit strategy has been talking this morning and said it was possible theresa may could go back to brussels to negotiate. he was also ask, given these smoke leafy bridal atmosphere surrounding the brexit situation, did he feel any personal responsibility? do not underestimate the deep sense of responsibility i feel for brexit, and everything that has happened.
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don't underestimate how much i cared about this. this is fundamental to oui’ about this. this is fundamental to our country and it breaks my heart to think that after all that we fought for, all that we campaigned for, or that everybody believes in, we should consign ourselves to a future in which the eu, effectively, rules as, in many, many respects but we have no say around the table in brussels. that's an absurdity. we cannot go down that route. unfortunately, the current backstop arrangements would commit us to those arrangements. we have to change it. it's a relatively simple job to do, we can have a withdrawal agreement that does not contain the backstop. we can't do much, much better than this. boris johnson speaking to andrew mahdi few minutes ago. he was asking about his own prime ministerial ambitions, even saying to him, there are rumours that he has chosen members of his cabinet. he dismissed that and said it was
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nonsense. it is interesting, i‘ve been watching various political programming this morning, all former cabinet ministers, all us today, are you going to rule out running for leadership, and none of them will. it does suggest there is this atmosphere amongst tory mps, that potential leadership contests could be in the offing. the official line from borisjohnson as they want theresa may to go back to brussels on negotiate, but one tory mp earlier this week said, what you think of the leadership race, and he said it‘s like the grand national, pretty chaotic with lots of runners and riders and a lot of people could fall at the fences. we‘ve got to wait for tuesday‘s vote if it happens, and at the moment we are being told it will. thank you, jess. and, of course, we‘ll be keeping you up to date every step of the way here on the bbc news channel we‘ll be bringing you full coverage of every development as mps head in to the final days of debate before that all important vote on the prime ministers brexit deal on tuesday evening.
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we‘ll be live in westminster from 11 o‘clock tomorrow morning, here on the bbc news channel and bbc two. it‘s reported in the french media that president macron will make a major announcement next week. it follows calls for national unity after a fourth weekend of violent protests against the government. police used tear gas and rubber bullets yesterday and more than 1700 people were arrested, while more than a hundred were taken to hospital. lucy williamson reports. they called it a protest. at times it looked more like a game of urban war. groups of protesters fanned through the capital‘s streets. from the arc de triomphe to republique, boulevards once built to open the veins of the city filled with tear gas, burning vehicles, and riot police. the police were well prepared for this confrontation,
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with armoured vehicles, new tactics, and bag searches — seizing gas masks and helmets and anything that could be used against police. the tear gas, far stronger than usual, took many protesters by surprise. and rapid reaction squads marked out by orange armbands were stationed among the protesters to spot trouble and make early arrests. despite the violence of previous protests, this movement still has the backing of many voters in france. its members proud of their lack of leadership and the diversity of their support. but this movement is already splintering into two kinds of protest — one that looks towards a new political programme and a violent wing, opposed to any negotiation. it is hard to exclude and even harder to control. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. president trump has taken to twitter to give his reaction
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to the protests, saying ‘very sad day and night in paris. a teenager has been stabbed to death in south—east london. police say the 18—year—old died at the scene after suffering stab injuries during an incident at a residential address in greenwich. a 17—year—old boy has been arrested in connection with the incident. the headlines on bbc news. a body is found by police investigating the murder of british backpacker grace millane in new zealand. theresa may warns of ‘grave uncertainty‘ if mps vote down her brexit deal on tuesday. france‘s prime minister calls for unity as 1,700 people are arrested in a fourth weekend of violent protests.
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sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here‘s 0lly foster. anti—discrimination charity kick it out says yet another great day of football has been damaged by prejudice. manchester city‘s raheem sterling was the target of alleged racist abuse at stamford bridge. the metropolitan police and chelsea are investigating an incident in the first half. a group of men in the home end hurled abuse at sterling as he went to collect the ball for a corner. no arrests have been made. chelsea say they will take the strongest possible action where necessary. sterling has responded this morning via his instagram account, he says "you can see from my reaction that ijust had to laugh because i didn‘t expect any better". but he then accused some media coverage of "fuelling racism and aggressive behaviour".
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he gave two examples of similar stories in the last year about two of his teamates, tosin adarabiyo and phil foden, who have both bought houses for their mothers. sterling wrote "look at how the newspapers get their message across, one for a young black player then for a young white player. this young black kid is looked at in a bad light, for all the newspapers that don‘t understand why people are racist in this day and age. "have a second thought about fair publicity". sterling‘s manchester city lost at chelsea yesterday, their first defeat of the season and they are now a point behind liverpool, who are the only unbeaten side in the premier league now — they won 4—0 at bournemouth — mo salah scoring a hat—trick. today‘s game won‘t trouble the leaders — it‘s newcastle against wolves at st james‘s park. kilmarnock‘s stay at the top of the scottish premiership was all too brief. of the scottish premiership
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celtic are now leaders after beating them 5—1. rangers will go top if they get a big win at bottom club dundee later. there were also wins for stjohnstone, hibs and hearts yesterday and for livingston, who beat st mirren 3—1, ryan hardie helping them on their way with his first goal of the season. livingstone are back in the top six. defending champion ronnie 0‘sullivan faces mark allen in the final of the uk snooker championship in york this afternoon. 0‘sullivan breezed past tom ford 6 frames to 1. allen beat stuart bingham in the other semifinal. 0‘sullivan is on course for a record seventh title. just as long as you play well, competing. you know, in one tournament hopefully your name will be written on it. that‘s how i look at it.
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you can play brilliantly and lose sometimes but that‘s just snooker. i have just got to try and be consistent, competitive, enjoying it, and when a win comes, you‘re over the moon. and that final is on bbc two, it starts at one o‘clock. kell brook said he was feeling rusty after his first fight since march. his points victory over the australian michael zerafa means he is now the mandatory challenger for the wba light middleweight title but he may not take up that option. brook won a unanimous points decison in his hometown of sheffield but he says his preferred next fight would be against amir khan, rather than the wba championjarrett hurd. brook said "i want the khan fight — it‘s now or never". that‘s all the sport for now. i‘ll have more in the next hour. scientists and delegates at a un climate conference in poland
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have expressed alarm, after it failed to incorporate a key scientific text, which outlines how to limit the effects of climate change. the ipcc report — on the impact of a one point five degree celsius temperature rise — was released in october. but now the us, russia, saudi arabia and kuwait have all objected to the conference ‘welcoming‘ it. caroline rigby has more. all: wake up, wake up, wake up! as delegates met inside the conference centre, thousands marched outside, demanding politicians wake up to the threat of climate change, voicing concerns that time is running out. we need to do something now. we need action right now. not tomorrow, not only 11 years, but now. and yet another spanner in the works. one which threatens to derail progress on tackling global warming.
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in october, the un‘s intergovernmental panel on climate change detailed the importance of keeping global temperature rise to under 1.5 celsius. in a major report, it warns, we have just 12 years to halve carbon emissions or risk significant and dangerous changes to our world. and despite being commissioned by this very un climate body at its conference in 2015, efforts to recognise the report‘s significance have run into difficulty. saudi arabia, the united states, russia and kuwait have refused to welcome the text, merely wanting to take note of it, instead. and without finding an acceptable compromise, un rules meant it had to be dropped. this is far from semantics. it has the potential for major consequences. and is further evidence of the growing divide between countries who want rapid
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political action and those who do not. it‘s an important report. it should be a part of the package that is moving forward. and again, it‘s up to the world leaders and the negotiators to take this issue seriously and to show that they‘re committed to tackling climate change. the refusal to welcome the text has caused outrage among delegates. but against the backdrop of this coal—mining region, or may not be lost. many at the summit are now pinning their hopes on ministers who arrive on monday to work towards the reinstatement of the report. caroline rigby, bbc news. president trump is looking for his third chief of staff, after announcing that john kelly is leaving the post at the end of this month. it‘s not clear why the former marine general is stepping down, but us media reports talk of growing disagreements with mr trump. general kelly has been in the role since the end ofjuly last year and becomes the 28th member of senior staff to have
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resigned or been fired during the trump administration. john kelly will be leaving. i don‘t know if i can say retiring. he‘s a great guy, john kelly will be leaving at the end of the year. we will announce who is taking place, over the next let‘s return to brexit, and with the vote on the prime minister‘s proposed brexit withdrawal dealjust two days away, has she done enough to convince the electorate? nina warhurst has been touring the north west of england, visiting locations that start with letters of the word "brexit". she‘s been talking to voters about how they think the process is going, and whether the prime minister‘s deal should be supported. herfinal report comes from the village of tarleton. this is windy tarleton, west
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lancashire, where 55% voted leave. there are jobs to be had in these rural communities. few people claim benefits. standards of education are higher than average. i‘m clive, i‘m a farmer, and i voted remain. i'm george, i'm also a farmer, and i voted to leave. when it came to the vote, families were divided then, and wondering now what is next. i don‘t think a lot of people saw the implications of how hard it was going to be to get out of all this lot. you voted remain, but would you back the current deal? yeah. i don‘t think there‘s anybody out there that is going to be able to get a better deal out of what we‘re doing at the moment, and i think we should leave theresa may alone and let her get on with it. and do her damnedest for us. is there a part of you, george, that thinks,
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"i wish i voted remain"? a little. just because i think that now we're not going to get the correct deal. it‘s not going to be the brexit you envisaged? no. no, i don't think it will be. i think we might have to eat a little bit of humble pie and see what comes of that. with red cabbage on the side. 0h, i'd love some red cabbage on the side. this area‘s mp is close to the prime minister. she thinks theresa may‘s built the right deal for tarleton. not all of ta rleton is terribly fussed. my name's chris. i'm a tree surgeon, and i voted to remain. nothing really will change, because to trade with the eu, will have to agree to their rules. so you think there‘ll be no difference for you? not really, no. you don‘t look that worried, then, chris. i think a lot of people are past caring, aren't they? but they say to get angrt is to care, and some
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who weren‘t interested i‘m kelly. i‘m a barber. i didn‘t vote because i was on holiday. when i say brexit, what‘s your reaction? 0h, don‘t talk to me about that! all the customers talk to us about brexit all the time, and they‘re all fed up of listening to it. it‘s always on the telly, and nothing ever seems to get done. what should they do? get on with it. make a decision and stick to it. life feels good in tarleton now, and whether they become winners or losers, they‘re getting their brexit wish. closing down a train line is a lengthy process, and can be very controversial. as a result it often costs less — in terms of time, paperwork and taxpayers‘ money — to keep a line running with just one train a day. these services are known
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as ‘parliamentary trains‘, or ‘ghost trains‘. but one such route is about to disappear from timetables, because of work to build the new high speed 2 line. tom edwards reports. the 11:35 london paddington to high wycombe. normally empty, but here rail enthusiasts from across the country turned out to say goodbye. and for this special occasion, it was allowed to leave from platform 1. everything else is still there. some came from as far away as north wales. these trains are called parliamentary services, and they‘re rare. ijust find them very, very novel. they shouldn‘t be here, but they are, because of kind of all the government regulation being so hard to close track. this is the very last train. this is the romance of always that attracted me. i've been all over the country doing parliamentaries. i come down, travel on this, take it off. where are you from?
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from north wales. 0h, 0k. you‘ve come all this week? just for this parliamentary service? yeah. this chilton service has run once a day in the week on what was historically the new north mainline. it opened in 1905. but the opening of the london underground central line right next to it took its passengers. usually this service attracts very few commuters. there‘s 200 or so rail enthusiasts on board this parliamentary service. they‘re sometimes also known as ghost trains, and there‘s just a handful left on the network. the idea is it‘s cheaper to run the trains, say, once a week, than to close the line entirely. work for the high—speed rail link hs2 means most of the track will now be demolished. to close a railway, or to close the station, is quite convoluted process. a lot of admin, a lot of red tape. so in almost all the cases, it‘s cheaper for the railway company to run a limited service like one
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train a day or in some cases like one train a week, or in some cases no trains at all, just a permanent replacement bus service, than it is to go through the act of parliament to close the line. ghost trains aren‘t dead, though, in this part of the capital. some of the new north mainline will remain, and from monday, once a day, a new parliamentary service will start running. tom edwards, bbc news. 55 pairs of designer trainers, seized from a jailed gangster are to be sold at auction. the collection, valued at around £18,000, includes luxury brands like louis vuitton, jimmy choo and gucci. their owner, who is serving a six—year sentence for shooting at a rival gang member, was allowed to keep any pairs worth less than £100. a uk made instrument has captured the sound of the wind on mars. despite not being designed
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to pick up sound the seismometer, carried on nasa‘s insight lander, detected vibrations from the martian air as it rushed over the probe‘s solar panels. nasa‘s insight spacecraft is the latest robotic resident on the red planet, sent there to study mars‘s geology. dateline london is coming up. now it‘s time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. thank you very much, ben. the weather sounded quite loud outside my window last night. winds are now easing and the show was fate as well. a sunny sunday for many. a few showers in northern ireland, some wintry showers in the far north and west of scotland. away from that, a
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northerly breeze and plenty of sunshine. it makes it much colder. temperatures in single figures, 11 01’ temperatures in single figures, 11 or 12 at best in their sales, into tonight, the showers continue in northern ireland, either side of that, most of us stay dry through the night with widespread frost, patchy frost towards the south and west. either way a chilly start to monday morning, wet for some, in the isle of man, most start the day sunny with sunshine turning hazy from the west. most are dry, a chilly day, quite a chilly week in store. no time for dateline.

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