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tv   The Briefing  BBC News  December 10, 2018 5:45am-6:00am GMT

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the back page of the mirror. its main story is about manchester city player raheem sterling, who is blaming the media for stocking up racial hatred after he was the victim of alleged racism at stamford bridge on saturday. onto the business pages of the times, and a call to scrap interest on student loans in britain to help ease crippling graduate debts. and then finally, the new york times looks at the new finnish library that's notjust for bookworms. the library includes electronic equipment and event spaces, so culture vultures and technology lovers should feel equally at home in helsinki. with me is fiona cincotta, senior market analyst at city index. let's get stuck in. the times has got theresa may to face leadership battle over the exit deal. many papers have on the front page. this
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was going to church yesterday morning on the front of the telegraph, give us your take on the challenge that she is facing. right, so challenge that she is facing. right, so she is heading into this vote tomorrow. it is extremely unpopular as far as we can ascertain for the ministers that will be voting for it, and so far there are 2a letters that had been registered against her in an attempted coup that was a few weeks ago, the times are suggesting that it weeks ago, the times are suggesting thatitis weeks ago, the times are suggesting that it is going to be quite easy for another 2a to be submitted perhaps in the next 48 hours for another 24 to be submitted perhaps in the next 48 hours as we move towards this vote. this feels very familiar, if you like we were here only a few weeks ago when she was in the thick of negotiating with the brexit negotiators in brussels, and right then all those who were opposing her within the conservative party saying we have nearly got all the latest signs, we have nearly hit that number to challenge her, and yet it never came. it has been
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really quite amazing how she has got nine lives, without a doubt, she has a lot of managed to keep progressing with this, keep pushing forward but it does appear to be coming to a crunch point right now. many are saying they still believe that this vote tomorrow could be delayed, although the line coming from downing street is we will not delay, we will push on. it could sort of go ride to the wire in terms of a last—minute decision on that. ride to the wire in terms of a last-minute decision on that. yeah, it would not be until the 11th hour that we would expect to hear anything, anything is if she is going to be facing huge defeat and there is reason to consider delaying and postponing and trying to get more concessions and the eu. obviously, there you have said that they are not willing to do anything and that is the end of the negotiations that perhaps they see that this is really going to go down, then perhaps at the 11th hour, we may see some changes. what is your thinking about how this week will go? i know it is very to predict but what are you preparing
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for as you begin a new trading week? this is extremely difficult to predict or to have a really clear idea about what is going to happen and that is the problem that we are seeing with the financial markets and the value of the pound, it is just the level of uncertainty is something we have not seen for a very long time. on tuesday, if they do go ahead and vote in parliament, at city index, you will going to be working right to late into the night, you have got to be at your desk is? absolutely, because the currency markets as well, there are 24 hour markets here, and the impact we expect to see fairly instantly. it also, the level of uncertainty, if this is voted down in parliament, then the level of uncertainty is going to continue for quite some time. so we will be across this, as i have already mentioned. that's now move on to some other stories in the press. the front page of the natural times, deloitte fires 20 uk partners
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in bullying and sexism purge, the boss having this as a four year campaign. 0—tolerance approach is praise. this is a big deal, isn't it, paul deloitte to put itself up there, saying we are doing all we can to stamp out any sexism, any bullying? and fantastic that they are so open. bullying? and fantastic that they are so open. we know that it is our there, we know that it exists, and so there, we know that it exists, and so to put their hands up, they are setting out clear guidelines in training and what behaviour is a cce pta ble training and what behaviour is acceptable and what behaviour is not acceptable, not leaving anything to assumption. it is also notjust with staff, they are also making this clear with clients as well, where there is sort of unacceptable behaviour, other firms there is sort of unacceptable behaviour, otherfirms havejust been keen to move female staff to other areas rather than address this behaviour head—on. other areas rather than address this behaviour head-on. it says here that deloitte introduced initiatives to combat harassment and discrimination yea rs before combat harassment and discrimination years before the metoo movement, actually they have been ahead of the
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game and this. yeah, and really progressive and really setting the example for the other big firms in accountancy, not just accountancy, across the board, to follow their lead. we will keep an eye on that, the chief executive of deloitte saying there is absolutely nowhere to hide this one. we do not often look at the back page of the mirror that today we are because this is the story about raheem sterling, who has accused sections of the media stoking racism. what is he saying? right, so this is really interesting. basically, what we are saying is that the media, the way that they cover story is based on the skin colour of the player, can be completely different. for example, if a black footballer spend money and bought a house, they are being frivolous and flushing their cash, what if it is perhaps a white footballer, well done for him investing the money sensibly. that is specifically what he talked about, the media covered the story
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of the young footballers buying a property for their mum and it was just treated completely differently by the media depending on the colour of their skin. and it is really important to point out because it is not something that is often discussed, and one interesting thing to point out he was that the number of black journalist sent to point out he was that the number of blackjournalist sent by national newspapers to cover the world cup this year in russia, and there was only one out of 63, and then if you sort of look at the number of black players in the england team, you can see that there is a huge difference between who is covering and who is playing. so good and raheem sterling cossie initially put his opinion on instagram, and his instagram feeds, and it has been picked up by the media globally. yeah. to start this very important conversation, which is great. acta the times, student loa ns is great. acta the times, student loans interest must be scrapped, thatis loans interest must be scrapped, that is according to the architect of the scheme, who is saying they need to e ‘s graduate debt. you are raising eyebrows, have you got graduate debt? -- need to ease. this
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is the issue of students starting university in the uk, the visa are capped at £9,000 per academic year but it does all back up, that as these, forget living costs and everything else. exactly, the point that they are going on here is your boss about the interest that you are paying on these fees, and they are saying you can come out with around £50,000 worth of debts when you are leaving university and you are facing the world and a decision in front of you, to be saddled with that level of debt and of that, £6,000 is supposed to be in interest charges, that is the huge amount of money. so if they were to scrap interest and in some cases for is that debts, that could actually be extremely helpful because it is not just this issue that these people are facing, these young people are facing but also many other issues,
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like difficult to find employment, they cannot afford to get on the latter, there are just so many challenges facing people of this age right now. —— freeze. challenges facing people of this age right now. -- freeze. definitely, and the other interesting thing is that they say the level of interest is being linked to the retail price index, which given the problems we have had with brexit, inflation has gone extremely high and so suddenly that we do have more problems of brexit going forward, the inflation is going to continue very high and so is going to continue very high and so these students are really going to get hammered. all right, as will see that get any traction, that call to try and freeze interest on student loans. and finally, any in helsinki is set to deliver a brett of civic services. it sounds fantastic and in helsinki, i have been place that, there are some incredible buildings, they are so pioneering when it comes to their cityscape. completely, and this is a lovely story because so often we hear about library shutting down and not serving the community, so take this on different aspect and to see
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how it is done properly, what it can achieve, is really good to see, and as he said, obviously books are an essential pc that you have also got technology, 3—d printing, it is almost becoming like a hard, town square for the community, so really great to see for everybody. and everybody, it sounds like, you have got 3—d printing, technology repair, and you have got new books, that really so is everybody. yeah, you are covering up broad range there, so are covering up broad range there, so really great to see such an innovative way of looking at libraries. thanks to time. it has been great to have you on the briefing. in great to have your company as well. that is it today. whatever you up to, enjoy and i will see you whatever you up to, enjoy and i will see you soon. whatever you up to, enjoy and i will see you soon. bye—bye. —— whatever you are up to. hello. monday is looking pretty quiet for most of us on the weather front and, in fact, if you're wondering about the week ahead, it's not looking bad at all.
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it is going to turn progressively colder through the week but nothing dramatic happening on the weather front. so let's see what's happening then on monday. for many of us, it's actually going to start off fairly bright, if not sunny. a touch of frost is on the way. certainly for scotland and northern parts of england. so here's the forecast then. through the early hours of monday morning, chilly north—westerly winds blowing in. not much cloud out there. just a couple of showers maybe here and there. here's that frost again across scotland and northern england. down into yorkshire as well, —i, —2 degrees, but to the south of that, it's closer to plus five for cardiff and for london. so it starts off bright, if not sunny. sunny particularly in the east but very quickly, this cloud you can see out west will be brought in by an increasing south—westerly breeze, so it will end up pretty cloudy, if not grey across many of these western areas. the mildest spot will be plymouth, 12 degrees. pretty balmy here compared to newcastle, only around 5 degrees celsius. then on tuesday, slightly less cold air.
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even quite mild air heads our way. you can see the south—westerly wind and the sort of tunnel of warmth all the way up into the north. with that, also a couple of weather fronts. one here, which is actually not going to bring us much rain, even though you can see rain here. this is another weather front here, which is basically just a fair bit of cloud. so tuesday, across much of scotland, england and wales, probably staying fairly cloudy, with some sunshine poking through. here's the other weather front. it's not making much progress so it'll stay to the west of us, i think, so belfast should be dry on tuesday. and 12 degrees here. 12 for plymouth as well. then, on wednesday, we start to see a little bit of a change. the winds die down and, in fact, we start to develop an ever so slightly more easterly wind, that also means that the temperatures will start to dip. so i think for most of us it's down to single figures. sixes and sevens, that sort of thing. maybe just about scraping a 10 there in plymouth. the bigger picture shows where the colder air is coming from on thursday.
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in fact, all the way from russia, across the baltic, southern scandinavia, the north sea. you can see that colder air ends up right across the uk. not desperately cold, but you will feel those temperatures dipping away as we go through the week. in fact, let's take a look at london. you can see on monday it's 10 degrees, by wednesday, it's eight, then on thursday and friday, around five or six degrees. and at times pretty cloudy too so it will feel cold. bye— bye. good morning. welcome to breakfast, with dan walker and steph mcgovern. our headlines today: the suspect in the case of murdered british backpacker grace millane appears in court. new zealand's prime minister gives a tearful apology to the family. your daughter should have been safe here, and she wasn't, and i'm sorry for that. theresa may comes under intense pressure to delay tomorrow's crucial vote on brexit, as she makes a final push to win over wavering mps. wales is one of the biggest
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recipients of eu funding, but voted narrowly to leave. i'm in the busy port of holyhead to find out how what happens in westminster could have an impact here.
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