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reforms are unconstitutional. thejudge said obamacare had been invalidated by a change in tax law last year which eliminated a penalty for not having health insurance. president trump said the ruling was great news for america. donald trump's former lawyer says the us president knew it was wrong to order payments before the election to keep two women silent about their alleged affairs with him. mr trump has denied asking michael cohen, who's been sentenced to three years in jail, to break the law. britain's prime minister has insisted talks with the rest of the european union will continue over further clarification of arrangements for the northern ireland border. theresa may said she had held robust talks with the european commission president, jean—claude juncker, after he had complained the debate was ‘nebulous and imprecise‘. now, would you change the way you eat if you knew the impact your food was having on the environment? scientists are calling for mandatory
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labels that spell out food's carbon footprint. and that includes everything from meat to chocolate. they say it would help consumers to make more informed choices. danny savage has been to bury market to see what they make of the idea there. food, glorious food. and at this time of year, we're stocking up big—time. but do we think about the environmental impact of its production and getting it here? i think when you mention carbon footprint, i'm pretty vague on that, and i think a lot of people are, to be honest. how often do you eat chicken? once a week. one to two times a week. we showed john and helen new calendar. —— new calculator. tofu, would you be prepared to eat more vegetarian food like tofu instead of meat? i think we'd probably need persuading on that. at the cheesemonger next door, local delicacies were in demand. details about their carbon footprint, though, weren't. do you look at all this cheese and think, "what's the carbon footprint of what i sell?"
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absolutely not. and do you think you customers think that? absolutely not. at the fruit and veg stall, there's stuff from all over the world. the idea of in—season local produce only doesn't fly. at this time of the year i reckon the fruit is all imported. it's only the vegetables that are local and seasonal. but sue and dan do think about the environmental impact and want to see labels. if it was on there showing up it was red for carbon or green then ithink, yeah, it would make a difference, people would start looking. and dan and sue are typical of many people we've talked to here today. they'd like more information about the carbon footprint of their food. labels would create the information about greenhouse gas emissions, about bio—diversity loss, and put that on products. that means consumers can change what they're purchasing. a coffee a day over the course of a year uses as much c02 as heating an average home for 2h days. farmed fish a couple of times a week emits the same as driving a petrol
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car 373 miles. and if you eat beef once or twice a week, it's the annual equivalent of a return flight from london to malaga. although this butcher isn't too worried. when the weather gets cold, you know, the colder days draw in, i think the sunday roast is always going to be very popular. will we change our habits? maybe, but not without more easily—available information. danny savage, bbc news, bury. now on bbc news, as poland celebrates 100 years as an independent nation, the country is divided. in this week's edition of our world, yalda hakim has been to poland to see how powerful feelings about identity, sovereignty, and immigration are fuelling a struggle over the country's future direction. the programme includes some offensive language. how far does a country's past shape its future? as pollen celebrates a century of independence the country
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is grappling with an identity crisis —— poland. is grappling with an identity crisis -- poland. what is happening now in poland is a fight for our soul. it isa warfor our poland is a fight for our soul. it is a warfor our soul, our poland is a fight for our soul. it is a war for our soul, our identity. free from the grip of communism, poland embraced the eu. now you're's immigration crisis is revealing deep cultural divisions. —— europe's all raising the question, what is it to bea raising the question, what is it to be a pole today. they do not like you just because you are black. iommi yalda hakim, and i'm going to discover how the populist appeal of the right is being driven by the left —— i am the other hacking. this is the story of poland's identity crisis. who is paying the price and where it might lead. i am on my way
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toa where it might lead. i am on my way to a city in western poland. this country has benefited from nearly 200 billion euros from the eu. more than any other member state. poland's economy is booming, alistair being much of the rest of europe. with time is so good i want to understand why this country finds itself in the grip of an identity crisis. and this is a good place to start. hello. nice to meet you. either has run her salon for 26 yea rs. either has run her salon for 26 years. —— eva. the shop is usually a refuge from politics. but not today. if i was to ask what worries you most about
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poland today, what would you say? eva is on the right, supporting the law and justice party that swept to power here in 2015, at the height of europe's migrant crisis. 0nce power here in 2015, at the height of europe's migrant crisis. once in power the prime minister refused to ta ke power the prime minister refused to take any of those asylum seekers, despite an eu agreement to do so. around the family dinner table i start to understand why. inafew in a few days time poland is marking 100 years since it gained independence. and eva is planning to attend the country's largest march
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in warsaw. why is it so important for you to have a sense of history and tradition? last yea r‘s last year's independence march was marred by a racist slogans and violence. nonetheless, eva still wa nt to violence. nonetheless, eva still want to go. though the march divides people. i understand that one of your friends people. i understand that one of yourfriends on facebook people. i understand that one of your friends on facebook described your friends on facebook described you as a fascist. how did that make you as a fascist. how did that make you feel?
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i have come to warsaw to understand how independent state has become a focus for polish nationalism. i am keen to meet the organisers of the march. it's not proving easy, but after phone calls and messages i've finally —— i finally managed to track them down. i am on the way to meet one of the leaders of the national movement, which is a far right nationalist movement here in poland. these are the guys who spend all year trying to organise this rally. not sure about this building, though, it is scary. hello. i am yalda. nice to see you. this is our historical pictures. this is the leader and the founder of the national movement. the national
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movement is an alliance of far right and populist groups formed in 2012 to fight elections. and includes a group linked to 1930s anti—semitic and fascists. these are our members of nationalist organisations from the interwar period, there are soldiers, they were fighting with communists. the national movement venerates poland's history of resisting occupation, first in 1939 the germans, then the soviets, which led to decades of communist rule. what is it me meant to be polish, what is the polish identity? for me the most important factor is culture. so when you feel national identity and patriotism you feel you belong to the nation. polish culture is built around christianity and our national culture is christian. this is fact. be polish left of the country into the eu in 2004 —— the
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polish. enthusiasticallyjoining the west. listening now i can hear how identity is overturning that few of poland's future. you think that polish identity and what it needs to be polish is under threat?” polish identity and what it needs to be polish is under threat? i don't think that polish identity is under threat is but maybe traditional polish culture is under the pressure of so—called liberal values and western cultures. it is these liberal values he sees as shaping the eu's approach to immigration. we have learnt that small immigration can be useful and safe, but mass immigration is always connected with problems and changing the society. and we don't need it and we don't like it. this is what is important, these are maps... while a meeting him, news comes that the mayor of
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warsaw is trying to stop the independence march going ahead, and other sign of how divided poland has become. why do you think the authorities are trying to cancel this march? i think it is a political game. the major opposition is from a liberal opposition party. she hates us. she is strongly against polish national conservatives. and so she tried to make troubles for ours and troubles for our right—wing government. make troubles for ours and troubles for our right-wing government. the 11th day of the 11th month 100 years since the first world war ended. across the globe it's a day of somme remembrance. for poland, it's a day of celebration, because the end of the war marked the beginning of their independence. the march began ten yea rs their independence. the march began ten years ago with just a handful of nationalists. today it attracts
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hundreds of thousands of ordinary polls and supporters of the far right all emotionally charged. standing here on the edges of the march i feel quite tense listening to some of the slogans about god, on, and fatherland, and sing some of these banners with the slogans. —— 0da. it is starting to get a little bit hairy. that is why i feel like they need to keep my hat on. lining up they need to keep my hat on. lining up in parallel columns, polish soldiers stand side by side with supporters of far right groups, including neofascists from italy. and then i bump into dominick, an mp from the governing law and justice party. there was a moment during the last few days where we thought this rally was not going to happen. what happened to change that? unity. 0ur
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government and all the organisers we re government and all the organisers were open. don't worry about it. what is that? just a kind of reaction for what is happening here. unity brought the country's president and prime minister to the march. it is also different to last yea r‘s march. it is also different to last year's ugly scenes. and then i see khristov again. this is a march for people who are not censored, with an honest message from the society, not from the media, not from the elite. you have it here on the banners, god, honour, and fatherland. the nationalists have pulled off a major pr coup. the government and far right leaders attending the same march. they march also with supporters of far right groups are standing shoulder to shoulder with families. families like eva's. what
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are you chanting to us? we march through the streets of warsaw, we cross the river. but before it ends, i want to challenge eva on what she's experienced. there are clearly quite dark and have quite sinister views on what poland should be. from your point of view, is this a battle for the soul of poland ? eva was referring to a crowd of
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counter demonstrators gathered under a large barrier reading constitution. constantly under attack from the marches and protected by riot police. this is graphic illustration that at its centenary, poland is a bitterly divided nation. poland's right wing continues to stir the of immigration, but that's surprisingly given poland is perhaps the most homogenous country in the, with very few foreign nationals. poles themselves have taken advantage of being in the eu. it's estimated 2 million have gone abroad
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for work, and poland now needs immigrants to fill those jobs. i wa nt to immigrants to fill those jobs. i want to know how the political environment affects those people who, over the years, environment affects those people who, overthe years, have environment affects those people who, over the years, have come to poland to make their lives. i'm on my way to meet arinzay, he moved here from nigeria 16 years ago to play football and i'm going to dry and fine doubt how he feels about the current climate here in poland. hi, arinzay, yellda from the bbc. nice to see you. arinzay played professionally for seven years, married a polish woman and became a citizen. he now plays forfun and became a citizen. he now plays for fun with a west african community football team. do you think this country and the people of this country have accepted you? not really, people don't like you for who you even though you haven't donejust for who you even though you haven't done just because you're black. they hate speech, the crime, the racism, these are things that happen
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everyday. i've been here for 16 yea rs everyday. i've been here for 16 years and it's still the same for me. give me an example of what happens? people call you names. 0ne name they call us here as black people, they call us here as black people, they call you... it's a dangerous word. it's worse than calling you a not—or. it's not just it's worse than calling you a not—or. it's notjust arinzay who is targeted. when i went to pick my son up targeted. when i went to pick my son up from school and i opened the door from his class and one of the friends are said to me and said alex, which is like monkey came for you. i was just looking at the teacher to react to that but she didn't do anything. 0fficial didn't do anything. official figures show didn't do anything. 0fficialfigures show in didn't do anything. official figures show in 2015, there we re over official figures show in 2015, there were over 260 hate crimes reported to the police. by 2017, that figure
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had lept to nearly 900. but the polish ombudsman estimates only 5% of crimes are actually reported. hello, use of. hi, nice to see you... 0ne you... one man who's brave enough to speak is embalm usage had it, head of the muslim league in poland. he was targeted after trying to build bridges between communities. terrorist attacks across europe may have fuelled this rise. youssef believes there may also be other reasons. the government says poland will not
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accept refugees from the middle east and north africa. as i leave, i'm struck by how similar some of the hostile rhetoric is between the government and the far right, especially towards migrants and refugees. i put this to dominic, the mpfor refugees. i put this to dominic, the mp for the governing law and justice party i met on the march. do you think you have emboldened these groups, the law and justice party, and now it's difficult for you to rain them in. you've created a monster almost. i wouldn't use these words. first of all, it proves poland is a democratic country. everyone can have these beliefs, eve ryo ne everyone can have these beliefs, everyone can have their views. it's nearly 30 years since the collapse of communism. economic arguments have gone, to be replaced by a new
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politics of identity. 0ne politician is trying to counter the emotional right—wing argument with a more progressive vision. meet robert. for many years the country's only openly 93v many years the country's only openly gay politician. he's founded a new political movement and is touring the country drumming up support. clearly he's a bit of a rock star here. a lot of the local media are here. a lot of the local media are here and, you know, just a few minutes ago, this field was virtually empty and now a few hundred people have gathered to meet him. today he's on a bike ride in the city of gods of the a couple ski and i'mjoining him. this is a nation very much divided. because politicians, because of politics. it's the old rule of machiavelli, and politicians try to use it. there's nationalists, homophobes, xenophobes. there's something special going on, there's a tolerance towards their activities.
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the current government is giving them easy examples and solutions, solutions like the scapegoats. the scapegoats are immigrants. like the far right, robert... but he draws a very different message from it. those are the founders of our independence, those guys. i think this is not the poland they would like to see after 100 years. what they would dream about is that poland would be much more united and thinking about the future than the past. after the ride, he's mobbed by all of his supporters. did you enjoy that? very much. all these people, how could you not enjoy that? later that night, biedro enjoy that? laterthat night, biedro holds enjoy that? later that night, biedro holds one of his town hall meetings, gathering support from across the country. what's fascinating is he's using
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values and a motion to try to break the political mould, not policy. —— emotion. applause despite the enthusiasm in the hall, he still has a long way to go. applause will his rather vague vision be enough to break through the deep rooted sense of nationhood being mobilised by the right? is this a divided nation do you believe? no, it's not. you can see, you can see, there is living proof that a nation cannot be divided, it can be over some things. they want to talk about future, not about the past. this is exceptional. look at the atmosphere, it's so positive.
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it's different from everyday politics. some commentators see him as a future presidential candidate and lichen him to another european leader who seemed to come from nowhere. what do you say to those who say you're the new macron. i'm biedro , not macron, i'm biedro! but what do the audience think of the new biedro ? he's certainly a very ambitious politician. he seems possible to create change in a country that, for many, many years has only had two options basically. as the 21st—century began, poland looked west to embrace the eu. today, powerful feelings about history, sovereignty and immigration are disrupting that path to the future. poland's identity crisis is leading
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toa poland's identity crisis is leading to a new kind of emotionally driven politics. listen to how the governing law and justice party is using what it means to be polish as a political tool. what is happening now in poland is a fight for our soul, it's a war for our soul, for our identity and i'm not talking about 2018, i'm talking about the future, i'm talking about our children and grandchildren. it's about our identity obviously as christians. it's unclear who will ultimately win in this struggle for poland's future, but among poland's tiny immigrant population, the worries are still there. what the politicians are doing, it's not even affecting us. they do the politics, the news will say whatever they want to say, but we still face what we are facing everyday. —— every day. hello there.
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the weekend is upon us and bringing some disruptive weather. we have a named storm, storm deirdre named by met eireann, and ambers warnings from the met office for ice, snow and we will see freezing rain, which is rainfall falling on to cold surfaces and instantly freezing. so widespread ice could be a problem across parts of northern england and southern scotland. central and northern scotland will see some heavy snowfall. not only the snow, the ice and freezing rain but we also have some heavy rainfall and some strong, gusty winds. all courtesy of low pressure moving in from the atlantic, you can see the tightening isobars in association with storm deirdre. it will be a cold start on saturday, subzero temperatures for many, a little bit milder in the far west. we have the cloud and rain working
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in through the morning and as that rain bumps into that cold air, that is where we will see it turning into freezing rain and snow too, especially through the east midlands, north wales, northern england and scotland too. to the west of that it will mostly be falling asoutbreaks of rain. 13 degrees in plymouth, pretty mild here. temperatures in norwichjust two celsius, very cold in the east. we will see that snow amounting to around 2—5 centimetres across parts of northern england, even at low levels. 10—20 centimetres across parts of scotland, mostly rain showers for northern ireland, but you still have that strong south—easterly wind and the freezing rain will mean very slippery surfaces. an instant ice—rink effect where you have that rain falling on freezing cold surfaces. it will cause some travel disruption on saturday and into sunday. storm deirdre bringing that mix of freezing rain, snow, ice and also strong winds.
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bbc local radio stations will keep you up to date with any disruption. now, on sunday, we will have rain and snow across north—east of scotland, that will clear away, there will be some lying snow across scotland and northern england too, but it is looking like a clearer, dry day to most of us. heavy showers packing in from the west later in the day, not quite as cold or as windy compared to saturday, temperatures just nudging into double figures. but it stays pretty unsettled into the working week. this is bbc world news. i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: a us federaljudge rules president 0bama's healthca re reforms are unconstitutional. preparing for protest in paris — the yellow vests are expected to demonstrate despite the concessions announced by president macron. britain's prime minister vows to keep her brexit plans on track despite the rest of the eu saying they can't renegotiate the deal. one of britain's biggest football clubs condemns its own fans
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