tv The Papers BBC News January 4, 2019 11:30pm-12:01am GMT
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jet moment babyjet stream. the jet strea m moment babyjet stream. the jet stream which drives weather systems in our direction is currently travelling a long way north of the british isles. essentially trapping an area of high pressure right across the top of the uk. that is keeping things are settled. it is trapping a loss of cloud underneath it and these big areas of cloud will continue to circulate throughout saturday. will be some breaks in the clouds, chiefly across the west country for a time through the morning, then north—east scotland and england likely to see the lion share of any sunshine. elsewhere it expect a pretty cloudy saturday afternoon and those temperatures well down in single digits. a change in the north—west on saturday night, this band of cloud and patchy rain will sink across northern ireland and scotland, tending to fizzle, but feeding figallo cloud in across england and wales. not as cold as the last couple of nights. into sunday, we'll have the remnants of that weak frontal system, a band sunday, we'll have the remnants of that weakfrontal system, a band of cloud, the spot of drizzle across
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england and wales, feeding up into northern ireland. scotland seeing the best of the sunshine on sunday. something milder developing across the south—west. this is where things begin to change, as we move into the start of the new working week the jet stream, which will have been travelling a long way north, it sta rts travelling a long way north, it starts to head back in our direction. it will spin up quite a potent area of low pressure. we are expecting this to drift across the north of the british isles, bringing some outbreaks of rain during monday. you can see this band of heavy rain moving across northern ireland, scotland, and northern england, and bringing some strong and gusty winds. mild at this stage. double digits for some of us. plymouth, cardiff, glasgow as well. the strength of the wind could cause issues, but it could be across the northern half of scotland. up to 75 mph wind gusts in the most exposed spots. it stays blustery on tuesday. this area of low pressure drips out into the north sea and leaves us
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with a brisk and fairly chilly wind. tuesdayit with a brisk and fairly chilly wind. tuesday it will be a chilly feeling day. those winds will be very strong, particularly down the east coast. we could even see coastal flooding for some eastern coastal counties. we will have to keep an eye on that one. elsewhere, sunshine and showers, particularly in eastern parts. temperatures a 7— io and showers, particularly in eastern parts. temperatures a 7— 10 degrees, with the wind it may feel colder than that. still quite breezy on wednesday. that wind likely to be easing. high pressure building back in. we will see dry weather. spells of sunshine. they fair amount of cloud. and temperatures down a little bit. towards the end of next week and the following weekend, we are back where we started. the jet strea m are back where we started. the jet stream heading back northwards. keeping us under the influence of high pressure. however, it looks like it will break back across the atla ntic like it will break back across the atlantic again as we get towards next weekend. while southern areas are likely to stay relatively dry,
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particularly in the north, we are expecting rain. it will be fairly breezy. the potentialfor expecting rain. it will be fairly breezy. the potential for overnight frosts. there are some changes on the way. hello, this is bbc news. we will be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first the headlines: police say a man was fatally stabbed onboard a train in surrey, in front of his teenage son, in an attack described as a vicious fight. the uk national arrested in russia on suspicion of spying. the foreign secretary warns moscow against using him as a diplomatic pawn. new ways of smuggling drugs into prisons, including soaking clothes in illegal substances. donald trump meets congress leaders, but there is still deadlock over the government shutdown. he says he is prepared for it to last months. new guidance says there is little evidence to suggest screentime
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is harmful to children, and parents are the bestjudge of how long they should spend on smartphones and other devices. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kevin schofield, editor of politicshome, and dawn foster, columnist at the guardian. will many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the daily telegraph leads on the apparently random murder of a man on a train in surrey, who was stabbed to death in front of his teenage son. the express says a manhunt is underway to find the man
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responsible for killing the 51—year—old. the guardian reports on a potential showdown between ministers and local government officials over controversial plans to expand fracking to other parts of the uk. the i says greater manchester has become the first local authority to effectively ban the drilling for shale gas. universities have spent millions of pounds on extra policing to protect students from criminals, according to the times, which says institutions fear campuses have become easy targets for thieves and drug dealers. the daily mail reports on the manhunt forjack shepherd, who was found guilty of manslaughter after a speedboat accident. it says the government is trying to block a loophole that allows him to claim legal aid to appeal against a six—yearjail sentence. and the sun has a picture of frances and patrick connolly, from northern ireland, who won £115 million on the euromillions. the couple has promised
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to share half the winnings with their friends and family. those are the front pages. let's turn to chat, and we will start not in the guardian, or in the garden, with the telegraph. this is our lead story tonight, i really horrific story, and many people describing it as quite a rare incident. yes, i think you mentioned earlier there have been roughly only about three fatal stabbing on trains. it is something a lot of people worry about, you often see kind of disagreements amongst people late at night on trains, and it is because it is such a confined space, there is no escape and between stations you are in a fast moving carriage,
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everybody always worries about something like this escalating very quickly, as it did. as it says here, it isa quickly, as it did. as it says here, it is a completely random attack on a short argument followed by a fatal stabbing that the victim's sun sadly witnessed. by the time that fellow passengers had been able to raise the alarm, the perpetrator had already escaped on foot, and the police were forced to just try and catch up with him and were not able to catch him before night fell, relying entirely at this point on helicopters, but also members of the public handing in details and hoping that they are not kind of hurt in the process. it drives home the point that people are walking around with knives on them. yes, it seems like a horrific attack, this poor man was stabbed several times, and your heart goes out to his son, who witnessed it, and what a traumatic experience that must have been. and
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yes, there are some great quotes in the telegraph piece about local people who have... in clandon who appears to have encountered this man. one person posted on social media, icame man. one person posted on social media, i came across a suspicious man ina media, i came across a suspicious man in a black tracksuit, he walked back up, i asked him what he was doing and he said he had an accident, so this person spoke to the guy. someone else, a woman, said they have had a lot of trouble before, making his escape again. so worrying times, absolutely, if you live in and around that area, and it does make you think twice, because you do see these arguments flare up, and they can have fatal consequences. and they can have fatal consequences. and it all happens very quickly, doesn't it? let's turn to the times, and it is a story
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about our universities. dawn, do you wa nt to about our universities. dawn, do you want to leave that? —— the times. very good story from the times, they have managed to find out that northampton university have set aside £750,000 over the next three yea rs aside £750,000 over the next three years that will go directly to the local police force and will pay for dedicated campus police officers. and they have done so more digging and found that over the past three yea rs, and found that over the past three years, universities have paid £2 million to 17 police forces in exchange for similar support. and, you know, obviously the universities in question say that a lot of those stu d e nts in question say that a lot of those students are vulnerable to certain types of crime, they want to try and limit this. what we are in a period where, you know, hundreds of police forces across the country have said that they have had their funding cut
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drastically from central government, and it seems as if we are creating a sort of two tier system at this point, where more and more people find that their local community are not getting proper vigilance from police officers. you know, police numbers are falling, and if universities... if you are encouraged to put more money directly into police forces, what is to stop more affluent neighbourhoods doing that and poorer neighbourhoods seeing even less coverage?” doing that and poorer neighbourhoods seeing even less coverage? i mean, it is incredible. i suppose there are it is incredible. i suppose there a re two it is incredible. i suppose there are two elements to it, the fact that universities feel they need extra protection for their students, so extra protection for their students, so that is one element. because these campuses are just opened, aren't they? absolutely, anyone can come and go, and students have a lot of kit in their rooms, they have tablets, and a lot of valuable gear, basically. so that is one element of the story. but it is the fact that police are taking money from essentially private organisations to
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give them a premium service, almost, a better service than they have given other members of the public, andl given other members of the public, and i think it throws up all sorts of ethical questions as to whether thatis of ethical questions as to whether that is appropriate, you know, whether police should be essentially renting themselves out to the highest bidder, on top of the basic service that they are supposed to be providing to the general public.|j suppose you ask, then, why are they not paying, if they do want the extra redaction, why not pay a private security firm? yes, absolutely. 0n private security firm? yes, absolutely. on my campus we had a number of burglaries because stu d e nts number of burglaries because students leave their laptops next to open windows, and we had a security firm patrolling at all points to try and stop this and then we saw a lower number of burglaries because the private security guards were out more often. so you could do that, and that would make just as much sense. let's turn to the ft weekend,
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and theresa may is launching reforms which some people would say she is trying to give herself a very positive headline here, to cause a distraction from something else. positive headline here, to cause a distraction from something elselj distraction from something else.” think that is unquestionably what is happening. in 2018 she just staggered over the line and is still prime minister despite the best efforts of many of her mps to try and get rid of her. she has been buffeted by brussels telling her this deal is all you are going to get, you are not going to get any more, she had to delay the meaningful vote on brexit, obviously, on a brexit deal. so she has decided 2019, a new year, and at least for a day, don't talk about brexit. talk about something else, try and prove the government is actually doing stuff rather than just firefighting over brexit, so she is going to, on monday, unveil nhs ten year plans. we have known
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previously that £20 billion of new money will be given to the nhs to improve services. the details of what is going to be in this plan are very scant. at the moment there is a suggestion it will include moves to boost integration of health, social ca re boost integration of health, social care and community services, something that has been talked about quite a lot but has never actually come to fruition, but the ft are pointing out that treasury, as you might expect, are still not in the loop on what we will get to this money, is going to be good value or throwing good money after bad as far as the nhs is concerned? exactly as kevin has said, the treasury has said it is very unclear what will come from those extra funding she wa nts to come from those extra funding she wants to inject, and as has been pointed out, the phrase boost effo rts pointed out, the phrase boost efforts to integrate health and social care and community services are extremely vague, they are very woolly. it is all well and good to
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try and boost the integration of all of these things, if as everyone in social care, the nhs and the wider community has said, none of these schemes have been funded properly at all. you can link them altogether, but if they are not being funded properly, you're still going to have a really poor service. and at that point, as the treasury say, you will still have crisis, and crisis cost a huge amount more than properly funding it to begin with. two and where will the £20 billion come from? will it be paid for by cuts elsewhere, extra taxes, whereas money coming from? the guardian, and fracking. there are two papers leading with fracking, but we will look at the guardian's front page. so greater manchester, all of their local authorities have joined together and said that they will require a big investment by firms
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that want to frack, asking local communities to look into planning. the plan means essentially that fracking will not go ahead without local communities agreeing to it. what we have seen with fracking at the moment is that most of the areas in britain where it has happened, the community has been railroaded into it, it has been met with huge opposition. in lancashire and black pool opposition. in lancashire and black pool, the local community were very, very unhappy with it. and as soon as it began we saw earthquakes, over and overagain, it began we saw earthquakes, over and over again, three different times, at least. the entirety of the fracking had to stop. so it was a big win for local communities, so greater manchester believe that many of the fracking firms will get a push through but it does mean that the central government, who want fracking to be rolled out, will have two either overrule these big unitary authorities will look instead at how they can find fuel
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elsewhere, or get firms to actually speak to communities and try and assuage their worries. itjust hasn't had very good pr, though, has it, as the technology. when you think of fracking you just think of bad things, you think of earthquakes, you think of the story about water being polluted, and they have never been able to make the case. the positive case, as they would see it, is it makes us less reliant on importing gas and brings down household bills, but that is just completely lost in all the negative publicity, so you can understand why, if you are a local resident and you hear about an application for fracking in your area, application for fracking in your area , you application for fracking in your area, you only see the possible negative consequences. you can understand why they are putting pressure on local politicians to do something about it, and they are now responding. and it will be interesting to see how central
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government response, it is obviously the conservative government are very pro— fracking. a lot of tory mps are against it, because in the area there is a lot of anger. so it could set upa there is a lot of anger. so it could set up a big local versus central government fight, where central government fight, where central government try and impose their will on local communities. we'll see how that will we'll see how that will go. we'll see how that will go. we we'll see how that will go. we do we'll see how that will go. we do to we'll see how that will go. we do to the daily mail. there are calls for a very high profile individuals to close this loophole and stories like this really pushed at home. yeah. well, i mean, this has been thrown into focus again because ofjack shepherd, a fugitive, he was convicted of manslaughter of a woman he was on a date with on a speedboat crash, he has faced, he is on the run. he is appealing his sentence of seven years in jail. run. he is appealing his sentence of seven years injail. he has received
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legal aid for it. for obvious reasons this has caused a political row. people wonder how come he is entitled to legal aid. under that pressure, the justice secretary has told his officials to launch an investigation to see if there is this loophole has been exploited and if it can be closed. we will see how that goes. my experience, however, knee—jerk responses by politicians at bad headlines very rarely make good law. it is unclear what the specific loophole is. it could be something to do with the fact that there is a lot of legal aid that is still clustered around the high court and appeals are often run them. we still see so many people in them. we still see so many people in the uk at the moment, especially outside of london, who are really struggling to access legal aid and they are struggling to access any form of rudimentary legal advice. and so this will particularly be a
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bitter pill to swallow for them. a lot of people are struggling to get access lot of people are struggling to get a ccess o n lot of people are struggling to get access on housing, particularly when they are being evicted, or even things like, women have struggled to get advice on what would happen if they left their partner in an abusive relationship and things like that. so we have a 2—tiered system when it comes to legal aid and this will not sit well with a lot of people. if anyone wants to look at those figures, the bbc commissioned some work and it was published in december. like you say, the figures are shocking in terms of who is now missing out. an analysis showing that up to 1 million people living in some areas had no legal provision whatsoever for housing and 15 million in areas with just one provider. it does show that imbalance. you can understand why if you are someone who has been rejected for legal aid and you are looking at the story and wonder how on earth can this fellow be getting at when he has not even handed himself into the police. it is remarkable. very quickly, we have
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about a minute, let us finish off with the telegraph, black monday coming up soon. people getting in a lot earlier and deciding that they had enough. when it comes to their marriage. yeah. things must be pretty grim if you want to start divorce proceedings on christmas day. you could not even wait until... be mulled wine had worn off. this is because there is now an online portal that allows you to, basically, speed up the justice process, the legal process, before you had to feel in a paper form and the court would obviously be closed on christmas day, ordinarily. this has made it much easier and some people are taking full advantage on it and filing for divorce. 13 people on christmas day. dating is still quite small. if you look at the figures between christmas eve and
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new year's day it is a65 entitled —— 13 issel quite small. 0nce new year's day it is a65 entitled —— 13 issel quite small. once on christmas day must have been pretty extreme of somebody having a com plete extreme of somebody having a complete strop after christmas dinner. thank you so much for your chat this evening. lovely to see you both. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers — and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you to kevin and dawn. coming up next — the latest from the bbc sport centre. good evening.
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here's your latest sports news. it's fa cup third round weekend, when the big clubsjoin—in and the lower league teams dream of a big cup shock. tranmere and tottenham got things under way this evening — but the league two team never looked like causing an upset as a ruthless spurs — flying high in premier league team thrashed them 7—0. 0ur sports correspondent natalie perks reports. friday night lights at prenton park, league two tranmere's fans were up for this one. the big boys were in town, spurs may be title contenders but they haven't won the fa cup for 28 years but one mistake was all that spurs needed to pounce. scores. there would be no giant—killing, in fact it was about to get a whole lot worse for tranmere. three goals in nine minutes saw spurs go a—0 up, heung—min son in irresistible form. their sixth was also fernando llorente's hat—trick. how many is this going to be at the end of the night?
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there was only one thing for spurs to do, of course, bring on harry kane. harry kane mike gapes one here. —— might get one. talk about adding insult to injury. 7a league places separated the sides, seven goals showed a chasm in class on a night where spurs turned on the style. natalie pirks, bbc news. and there's plenty more fa cup third round action ahead this weekend. here's a pick of some of the other ties. it might be a bit of a ghost town at bloomfield road for blackpool against arsenal because of an ongoing boycott from the home fans. chelsea have had a bit of blip in the premier league recently. and they'll be keen to get back to winning ways at home to nottingham forest. frank lampard's derby will be hopeful of an upset with his championship side at home to southampton. and can 0le gunnar solskjaer make it five wins from five? his side are at home to reading tomorrow. and assuming they can avoid an upset, former england striker ian wright says all the premier league clubs should be out to win the fa cup. and staying with football, while the fa cup third round gets
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going, many people are still talking about last night's premier league showdown at the etihad where manchester city beat leaders liverpool — and city boss pep guardiola has been warned by the football association about his behaviour during the game. guardiola threw his scarf to the ground and shouted at the fourth official after a decision had gone against his team. it's his first warning — if he gets to four he would have to serve a touchline ban. now, they may still be licking their wounds after defeat by manchester city last night, but liverpool have been busy in the transfer market today — selling striker dominic solanke to bournemouth for £19 million and also loaning out defender nathaniel clyne to bournemouth until the end of the season. the england right—back has struggled with injury and played only five games last season. the head of the united states anti—doping agency, travis tygart, has repeated his call for russia to be suspended from competition, after officials refused to grant investigators access to a moscow laboratory amid the doping scandal. tygart says the situation
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is a "totaljoke" — and has urged wada — the world anti—doping agency — to reverse a recent decision that would potentially allow russian athletes to compete in international competition. when are we going to wake up, stop getting played by the russians who perpetrated this scheme, and put an end to it, and at least give clean athletes a clear message that we have their back, and their decision to compete clean is the right decision? and we are sorry the russians did this. make no mistake, it was nobody‘s fault but the russians that they attempted to pull this original scheme off to begin with. they got away with it, but now is the time to hold them accountable, that is what the 0lympic values absolutely demands. that is what the rules, when enforced fairly but firmly, that is what it demands. london 2012 gold—medallist katherine copeland is retiring from rowing after an 11—year career. the 28—year—old — seen here on the left — competed at two olympics and secured gold alongside lightweight double
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sculls partner sophie hoskings. copeland also claimed a european title and a world silver medal in 2015. and that is the sport for you. hello. a very good evening to you. nearly done with the fall. it was a mixed bag across the british isles as our weather watchers as ever ca ptu red as our weather watchers as ever captured quite beautifully. let me ta ke captured quite beautifully. let me take you to the western side of wales towards the area around more. you may know it. beautiful they are. very still across the lakes. that is the best that could probably be said about the lakes, it was pretty cold. a lot of dry weather around at the moment but it is often really very cloudy. the satellite imagery from earlier on shows lots of cloud circulating under the influence of the area of high pressure which is
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giving us this pretty settled look to our weather at the moment. a lot of cloud but essentially it is a great picture and will be for the rest of the night. here is the thing, if you lose that cloud at this time of year underneath the clear skies the temperatures will tumble away quite smartly. i don't just mean sheltered glens of scotland, i am just mean sheltered glens of scotland, iam building up just mean sheltered glens of scotland, i am building up at the wales into the south—west of england, as was the case last night. if you keep hold of the cloudy could stay in positive territory. a lot of cloud around, a lot of dry weather to be had during the course of saturday. i think these holes in the south meat filling during the day cook during the course of the morning. was the north—east of england and the eastern side of the high ground in scotland that is where we will see the best of the sunshine. but it does nothing for the bridges. a—7. mother across the north and north—west of scotland —— temperatures. some brain to the great north —— to the north of the great north —— to the north of the great glen. that is the waterfront. not much about it as regard to rain
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because it is coming to the high pressure during because of sunday —— the front. perhaps cloud across most of the heart of england and wales. the odd spot of rain from that, perhaps. they returning back into northern ireland late in the day. best of the sojourn up in scotland. the top temperature of the day around 10 degrees was the south—western port of the british isles, picking up on that mahle donna south—westerly air. monday into tuesday, a bit of a change —— mild air. an showing new big gust of wind. i don't doubt that some people exceed these values —— i am showing you. could see gusts of 70 mph through monday and tuesday will be low was close by. not every body sees that. further south, a more settled regime and not so much in the way of wind. lots going on eventually into next week, but a quite weak and install. —— quite wea k quite weak and install. —— quite weak and —— weekend in store.
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