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this is bbc news. i'm rita chakrabarty. the headlines at 11:00pm: the duke of edinburgh is involved in a car crash in norfolk. he's said to be shaken but uninjured. some labour mps attend talks with ministers on the brexit stalemate, despite their leader's instruction not to engage. last night's offer of talks with party leaders turned out to be simplya party leaders turned out to be simply a stunt, not a serious attempt to engage with a new reality thatis attempt to engage with a new reality that is needed. thousands ofjobs at risk, as hitachi suspends its multi—billion pound plans to build a new nuclear power in north wales. the planetary health diet that's designed to improve human health and the state of the planet. stay with us for that. close to the queen's estate
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at sandringham in norfolk. a statement from the royal family said prince philip, who's 97, was not injured in the crash. he is understood to have been driving a land rover when it was involved in a collision with another car and overturned. local police and ambulance crews attended the scene. eyewitnesses said the duke appeared very shocked and shaken when he was helped out. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell has the latest. our correspondent daniel sandford gave this update from the scene of the crash. the a149 here is a busy road and
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vehicles have been going up and down this road all evening at really quite a speed. this is not a place where vehicles drive slowly. what appears to have happened is that duke of edinburgh driving his land rover pulled into this road and was struck by a vehicle down the road. his vehicle was hit with such force that his vehicle was forced on its side and ended up with the drivers side and ended up with the drivers side door down, this is the broken glass and the broken wing mirror from his vehicle. the vehicle that struck his then ended up in the trees and frankly it is fortunate that people were not more seriously injured. daniel sandford. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell has the latest. this could have been so much worse. the duke as we know a man of trenchant views, the duke as we know a man of trencha nt views, notable determination. no elderly person likes to have their independence
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constraint. i would likes to have their independence constraint. iwould imagine likes to have their independence constraint. i would imagine that the duke and the queen might be pondering the sort of message this sense in terms of self—discipline, responsibility, commonsense, and wondering whether it isn't time to let the policeman and a chauffeur to the driving and literally to take back seat. the other thing that we have to consider of course is norfolk police and whether they are just tonight weighing in at with due ca re just tonight weighing in at with due care and attention was being fully exercised on that stretch of road in norfolk this afternoon. the prime minister has been holding talks with other political parties to try to break the current deadlock over brexit after her withdrawal agreement was rejected by mps earlier this week. but labour'sjeremy corbyn hasn't joined in, having called the talks a stunt, and saying he won't take part unless a no—deal brexit is ruled out. the prime minister will publish a new plan on monday, with a full debate and key vote scheduled for tuesday 29 january, as our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. there is reason to rush.
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against a hard border in ireland that's part of the agreement. a move is vitalfor the northern irish mps who support number ten needs. we are optimistic, we want to see a withdrawal agreement that works for the whole of the united kingdom, one that works for the european union. the way to do that is to deal with the backstop. the scale of the defeat on tuesday night i think allows the prime minister to take a very clear message to the european union around that issue. but like anything demanded in the prime minister's study or in whitehall rooms around the corner, that is a lot easier well. we met. with 1333-455; , —— , , — , 5:72:27 $75.77 7777 but if they rule out no deal, thendaesn‘t the uk'thenjgeee
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all its bargaining power in the rest of the negotiations? i think the damage no deal would do would be so huge to our manufacturing industry but also to our policing and security. it's really important that we keep urging her to do so. 511” e e e5;,7,7»,:;,77__ rfi to find a way out. sign up to, there's someone rather important who just isn't here. despite now repeated invitations from the prime minister, jeremy corbyn is refusing to talk unless she makes that big move. a no—deal brexit is actually the most dangerous and very damaging
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thing to our country and our society. so i say to the prime minister again, she may even be listening. prime minister, simply do this. take it off the table. some labour mps believe refusing to talk now is deeply wrong. and those on the guest list today have told me the government and their opponents both need a way to save face. the prime minister has been having plenty of meetings with people from across the political spectrum today following her genuine offer to all mps and all political party leaders in the commons to come and have conversations with us and see if we can get to a point for a negotiated deal that delivers on the referendum. but another day ends here with no solution, when there are few left to spare. the french government has unveiled its plans for managing the impact of a no—deal brexit. the prime minister edouard philippe said 50 million euros were being invested in preparing french ports and airports, as there were strong fears that britain would leave the eu without an arranged withdrawal.
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our correspondent lucy williamson has been to calais to see what is happening with the preparations there. eurotunnel is used to the pressures of just—in—time eurotunnel is used to the pressures ofjust—in—time manufacturing. eurotunnel is used to the pressures of just—in—time manufacturing. ten weeks before brexit it is starting work in calais on a new site for extra checks on lorries after march. a multimillion pound insurance policy, with space for a few dozen vehicles. no point in building more capacity, the company says, until it's clear what the future looks like. we are kind of in a - of like. we are kind of in a period of fijé have to like. we are kind of in a period of ’i:$ have to do something limbo where we have to do something by 77 nothing 7 limbo where we have to do something by 277; nothing we 7 limbo where we have to do something by 277; nothing we are e because by doing nothing we are trying to, you know, that isjust the getting there is a problem. but where we want to be is somewhere ee‘ee—e 25752 egg-e? 47-77 l7; i; e7-77-7—7e-777-l-7e7-e much more advanced than the systems that are in place today. building that arem—pleefiedef at that arerfl—plaeetedar at euretunee! here that arerfl—plaeetedar just . euretunee!’ here that arerfl—plaeetedar just . euretunee!’ he says
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onlyjust begun. the company says it will be ready, but the - system will be ready, but the new system will be ready, but the new system will rely on the efficient coal operation of thousands of companies and customs officials each day and it is not just and customs officials each day and it is notjust infrastructure that ta kes it is notjust infrastructure that takes time to prepare —— co—operation. at the moment, the eeeefe‘eee ont777l 777 ~ 7. ' 77 n- others it is others - it is too late to but others want it is too late to get the systems and staff in place. —— warn. we're waiting from a clear —— fora clear —— warn. we're waiting from a clear —— for a clear answer from —— warn. we're waiting from a clear —— for a clear answerfrom our friend and we won't have time to prepare to build all these big facilities, so obviously it means we won't be able to perform all the controls we are supposed to perform. ministers have been working on no controls we are supposed to perform. mini plans |ave been working on no controls we are supposed to perform. mini plans since een working on no controls we are supposed to perform. mini plans since april, )rking on no controls we are supposed to perform. mini plans since april, and g on no controls we are supposed to perform. mini plans since april, and if on no can't pass europe minister agreement, the europe7r~;1ir‘.ister7tetal there agreement, the europe7r~;1ir‘.ieter7tetel there are only two options agreement, the europe7r~;1ir‘.ieter7tetel th theree only two options agreement, the europe7r~;1ir‘.ieter7tetel th theree only deal, iptions agreement, the europe7r~;1ir‘.ieter7tetel th theree only deal, or ons
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ne esreeit7 we are'ereeering fe‘the of no deal. because we option of no deal not because we like it, but because we had a brexit by accident. there could very well bea no by accident. there could very well be a no deal by accident as well.m calais be a no deal by accident as weltm calais they still don't know what they are preparing for, but people involved in the discussions have privately suggested that both sides will keep traffic moving across the channel after brexit, even if that means simply waving lorries through. thousands ofjobs are at risk following a decision by the japanese firm hitachi to suspend work on a new nuclear power station in anglesey in north wales. hitachi says rising costs have put the future of the site at wylfa newydd in doubt. some 9,000 workers were expected to be involved in building two nuclear reactors which were due to be operational by the mid 2020s. the news comes two months after another japanese company, toshiba, abandoned its involvement in a plant in cumbria. colletta smith has been speaking to some of those affected. in less than a decade, this site should have been powering
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6% of the uk's homes, but not anymore. and that's a big blow for everyyone who had been banking on that huge investment into this corner of wales. edward farms just down the road from the wylfa site. of course, we've had some people that didn't want it to come and some people that wanted it to come because of the jobs it would bring. people in the region, they were preparing themselves, they were upskilling, ready for these jobs. but also there were a lot of local businesses were getting ready to supply goods to the local nuclear power plant. preparing themselves by employing new staff, new skills and new machinery. all that is gone now, unfortunately, and no one is too sure where to go. the 400 staff already working for the company have now been put on notice of redundancy. a new nuclear build is a very difficult thing to finance. and that is the glimmer of hope
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that we must keep in our minds. and that story has been repeated across the eight coastal sites new nuclear plants on. although building has two sites had no interest at all, two are still at the talking stages, so it's back to the drawing board for those in charge, and the clock is ticking. nuclear has an important role to play as part of a diverse energy mix, but it must be at a price that is fair to electricity bill payers and to taxpayers. we will work closely with hitachi and the industry to ensure we find the best means of financing these and other new nuclear projects.
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the energy market has changed a lot since plans for those new nuclear schemes began. we now import a lot more cheap shale gas into the uk. the products that we use in our homes have become a lot more energy efficient recently, and renewable technology has become much cheaper, meaning we can do it on a much bigger scale. even though we've made great strides with renewables, there's always the intermittency issue to have to deal with. and, yes, renewables have come down in cost, but nuclear can also come down in cost. if the government decides to invest more in nuclear, it could be that those costs are passed on to current customers, adding a little extra to all of our bills now to keep the lights on in the future. the headlines on bbc news: the duke of edinburgh has been involved in a road traffic accident
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with another vehicle. buckingham palace says he was not injured. some labour mps attend talks with ministers on the brexit stalemate, despite their leader's instruction not to engage. in the trial at preston crown court. mr duckenfield is charged with manslaughter by gross negligence of 95 football fans who died in the hillsborough disaster in 1989. he denies the charges. his barrister said he'd been unfairly singled out, and that many other people and other factors played a part in the disaster. 0ur correspondentjudith moritz has more details. two versions of david duckenfield were offered to the jury today.
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the prosecution said his failings were extraordinarily bad. his defence argued that he's been unfairly singled out for blame. there is no dispute that he was the man in charge at hillsborough. he ran the operation from this police control box. thejury was told he had a bird's eye view and a host of cameras and screens to assist him. the court heard police radio recordings from the disaster. as the crowd built up outside the ground one officer warned "it's bloody chaos in leppings lane, thousands can't get in". another is heard to say, "seriously, open the gates, open the gates". having allowed more than 2000 fans to pour in through an exit gate, the court heard that mr duckenfield didn't stop them from going towards the already full terraces. the prosecution say that minutes later it should have been obvious to him that a major incident was unfolding, but he did nothing. the jury heard that the pens where the crush happened
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were a scene of horror. survivors described being swept down the tunnel. one said his feet didn't touch the ground. he was pushed towards the front of the pen as if on roller—skates. then there was no room to move, and survival was a narrow margin of fate. the life was crushed out of 96 men, women and children. defending david duckenfield, ben myers qc said it was natural to leak, fareemeene the peliee feeeretiew 77 7
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at a eiaerette eatéfita ee'it failee'i the winter weather means that once on nhs hospitals. to help relieve a&e departments, patients who don't need emergency 7 7 7 i, § but that's putting greater demands on family doctors at a time when their numbers are falling. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes has the story. good morning, hall green health. sarah speaking, how may i help you? it's dr ashraf calling from hall green health. the start of another busy day for dr sonia ashraf. i will ring the first patient and just get their consent. today, on the phone or face—to—face. .. so, this was the higher dose... ..she will talk to dozens of patients. how long have you been feeling like this? it's a big operation, home to more than 20 gps, as well as nurses, physios and pharmacists, contacted by around 1000 patients every day. ..and what's this
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about going homeless? what's happening there? this surgery will see more patients in a day than the local a&e. you mentioned it on your rings. but compared to hospitals, gps work on a much more limited budget. the amount of investment put into general practice is stilljust not enough. we then have to start thinking of ideas for smarter working. i can't guarantee... can i take a date of birth, please? and this is what smarter working looks like. making sure enough call handlers are working when the lines are busiest. any time between 8:30am and 6:30pm, the phones are live and there's not many periods throughout the day that it goes quiet enough for them to be able to do anything else. data around call numbers, test results, prescriptions — all the complex tasks of a modern surgery are analysed to save time and money. that also means rethinking who does what. so, the majority of patient house calls are now carried out
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meanwhile, back at the surgery, dr nashat qamar is running the busy afternoon clinic. take a deep breath in. each consultation requiring a quick and accurate medical judgment in a system under pressure. this is the sort of area where it's hurting, yeah? we are getting a lot of work being pushed through to us by hospitals. and they are asking us to do a lot of the work that they used to do. certainly the administrative side of things, over the last five years, has significantly increased. managing that increased workload has changed the relationship between patients and family doctors, with a greater emphasis on help that's available across the community. but we have evidence to show one third of contacts made into general practice could have actually been dealt with safely elsewhere.
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the same pressures that are driving change here are seen too in scotland, wales and northern ireland. so, as this little patient grows up, the transformation of gps' surgeries across the uk looks set to continue. dominic hughes, bbc news, birmingham. president trump has refused to grant the use of a military plane for the speaker of the house of representatives, effectively cancelling an overseas trip for his chief political opponent. mr trump said that the democrat nancy pelosi should stay in washington because of the government shutdown. mrs pelosi had planned to visit us troops in afghanistan and meet with nato allies. a new diet has been developed that promises to save lives, feed billions of people, and all without causing catastrophic damage to the environment. ‘the planetary health diet‘ doesn't completely rule out meat and dairy foods but it does recommend that most protein should come from sources such as nuts, beans and lentils. it's being billed as a diet that's good for human health and good for the planet as our science editor david shukman explains. all over the world there are 7
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billion people to feed. some in developing countries struggle to afford one meal a day. while others in richer nations overindulge on mass produced food that could do the real harm and at the same time damage the environment. the challenge outlined in the report is how to sustain a global population of ten billion by 2050, and prevent the 11 million premature deaths every year because of bad diet. in north america, for example, people eat six and a half times more meat than is recommended. but switching to a new diet won't be easy. how practical is this for let's say a single parent with a busy life and lots of kids? virtually impossible, i would say, because very often firstly this depends on really good home cooking and on planning. if you're feeding your children instant food — impossible.
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it says no more than 174 - that's this little tiny piece here. no more than 13 grams of egg. that isn't a whole egg, it's just a quarter of one. now for whole grains it says we should have 232 grams — we've represented that with this rice and these rolls. and for veg, they say 300 grams a day — but it's got to be colourful. red, green and orange. the authors reckon that if we all stick to this diet, it will be not only good for our health but also good for the planet. it corresponds to roughly one fairly good—sized hamburger per week, or if you like big juicy steak once a month, and so it's not eliminating red meat by any means.
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beef in particular has an impact because cattle give off methane, which adds to global warming. and eating too much can lead to heart trouble and obesity. so choosing what we eat has implications for us and for the planet. david shukman, bbc news. patients with a rare disease that can cause strokes, are being given radical brain surgery than can cure their condition. it's thought one in a million people suffer from moyamoya disease which is caused by narrowing or blockages of the four main blood vessels in the brain. the new surgery is being carried out a hospital in bristol, from where our correspondent matthew hill reports. how are you feeling? i'm very well. amyjones has travelled from west wales for her was when she was diagnosed—magma i knew i wasn't right.
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i didn't go to school. i phoned the head and tried to explain to her that it was really bad, but my speech was veryjumbled up and didn't quite make sense, to speak to people. and that speech problem was the sign of a bleed in her brain. patients like amy have blockages in the main artery in their brain. a puff of smoke — that's what moyamoya means injapanese, the country where it was first discovered in the ‘60s. tiny blood vessels form around the blocked artery in the brain. her operation involves harvesting a blood vessel on the outside of the scalp, then making an opening through the skull to connect to a recipient blood vessel. for amy, this is her second 12—hour bypass graft, as both hemispheres of her brain have blocked arteries. in her case, the graft is just two millimetres wide. this is the most critical part of the operation where mr teo has
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to connect the blood supply with the rest of the brain. now, there's a 5% chance of a stroke with this procedure, but doing nothing is far more risky. if left untreated, half of patients with moyamoya are expected to have a stroke within five years. amy is the 12th patient mr teo has done this operation on, which he learned in america, where patients from the uk can pay eeqqqqq te lee treetee7 7= it's something that's under diagnosed or in the past even misdiagnaeed, 7 so therefore patients gem is; in’ 77 page; 7 six days after her surgery and amy is beginning to feel better. today is probably the best day i've
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been feeling more like myself. 2115—5358? e 7eevse7§ specialised operation. matthew hill, bbc points west, bristol. a five—year—old woman at rest into the end durance records. she completed a course in a three hour with terrific that the previous record for the mountains by race by over 12 hours to get not only that but in even managed to express
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breast milk for her baby daughter at checkpoints along the way to tick jasmine, who lives in edinburgh, had just three hours sleep in four days. she said the race was brutal and that she was hallucinating by the end. an extraordinary achievement. now, he is a highly paid sports star that he is too afraid to leave the united states. he should be in london playing for his basketball tea m london playing for his basketball team tonight but instead he has remained in new york, fearing that he could be arrested or attacked if he could be arrested or attacked if he travels. turkey has issued a warrant for his arrest, claiming he has links with armed groups linked to the failed coup in 2016. he's the nba star who's not afraid of confrontation,
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both on the court and now off. enes kanter is a wanted man in turkey. the government there claim he's linked to a failed plot to overthrow the turkish president, which he denies. speaking to me in his home city of new york, enes kanter explains his fears have been justified. are you worried you'll be sent back to turkey? yes because everyone was saying you're just talking about it, you don't have any evidence, but when my team was flying to london the turkish government put a red notice under my name with interpol. as soon as i left the plane they would send me back to turkey. do you feel you've been proven right? yes. kanter has been a long—standing critic of president erdogan, seen here with theresa may. the turkish government believe he is part of the group that wanted to oust him in 2016 but he believes mr erdogan is a dictator who will target anyone who criticises him. if i step in turkey, you probably won't hear a word from me ever again. so you fear you will be killed?
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i don't know what they would do but i know it will be ugly. with his parents in turkey for fear of reprisal. he's worried about even going to the shops in the us on his own. the new york knicks play at madison square garden, one of the world's most famous arenas, and the nba wants to take basketball around the world but it seems going global means getting
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