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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. but first the headlines. people are arrested in londonderry last name people believe the republican group the new ira may have carried out the attack. the prime minister... minister briefs her cabinet ahead of a statement to mps tomorrow about the ‘next steps‘ on brexit. more than 20 years ago. driving withoutaseat—bettfl in a crash near sandringham. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are entertainmentjournalist and broadcaster caroline frost and the parliamentary journalist tony grew. it's amazing how the stories
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following you are in you two. we seem to have a nice mix of politics and entertainment, many of tomorrow's front pages are already the telegraph leads with claims that theresa may is considering amending the good friday agreement to solve the brexit deadlock. the ft doesn't see it that way though, they say theresa may is now on a collision course with parliament after refusing to shift her position to secure a brexit deal the express meanwhile focuses on a warning by one tory minister to pro—eu mps that they should not attempt to "don't hijack brexit", by delaying the withdrawal procedure. the daily mail reports that millions of of women are putting their lives at isk because they are too embarrassed to be tested for cervical cancer. the guardian has an exclusive report that claims spice girls t—shirts sold to raise money for comic relief‘ were made by women earning the equivalent of 35p an hour and finally the sun has a full page splash on the aftermarth of tv presenter ant mcpartlin‘s drink—driving car crash. we are starting with brexit, there's
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quite a lot of it. here's the daily telegraph, pms plan b, good friday deal could be written, theresa may considers breaking deadlock by altering agreement to replace the backstop. we know caroline that this backstop. we know caroline that this backstop has been genetically problematic, but necessary in the view of many people. absolutely. to make sure there's no ha rd absolutely. to make sure there's no hard border. it's become increasingly, nobody, i don't remember ireland being mentioned, good friday being mentioned, good friday being mentioned, none of this was at the forefront of anybody‘s pr campaigns leading up to the referendums and those early few months after it. obviously now it's become the sticking point, that was at the centre of the ignominious vote results last week at westminster. so now the minister. keep now the prime minister, they keep using. rate, resilience, i would say rabidly keen to keep on to power, with what she's calling her plan b, which seems to go against my
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power, with what she's calling her plan or which seems to go against my power, with what she's calling her plan or no iich seems to go against my power, with what she's calling her plan or no deal, ems to go against my power, with what she's calling her plan or no deal, aparto go against my power, with what she's calling her plan or no deal, apartfézrgzz a ainst my power, with what she's calling her plan or no deal, apartfézrgzz a new: my deal or no deal, apart from a new $50 deal or no deal, apart from a new % so we'll deal or no deal, apart from a new a so we'll see how this dell. ok, so we'll see how this goes. so effectively, what she's not talking about is a ratification of good friday agreement, some sort of new treaty they will note the minutiae, which means somehow, she hopes to satisfy the dup, edmonds means leaving labour behind trying to across the floor and bringing perhaps some of the labour party with her this time last week. now it's all about going the other way and looking to how she can effectively keep that board or at least soft, if not open. it's a bit glad his indent? that agreement that took decades and decades to come up with. yeah, it's a plan, i don't think it's a particularly incredible one. as he said, the prime minister will come back to the house of commons tomorrow, she's expected to set out her version of plan b, and which is ano her version of plan b, and which is a no deal, even though she said that was better than a barred deal, although she probably feels that her deal is still a good deal, she has several options, one that is
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favoured by some in her cabinet and some of her advisers was that she should do it every other tory prime minister has done when they need to try to get european keynote legislation through, what he did when he brought us into the eu, which is rely on labour votes. now, she has come down with the majority after a cabinet who seemed to think that's a bad idea, what they are going to try and focus on is bringing those 118 tory mps who voted against her deal back into the fold by concentrating on that, what you might call the heartbreak that sort of dup approach, which is try to get island to move on the backstop. it says here, that she said she is considering rewriting parts of the agreement to give reassurance to the irish government about the hard border, which is in fa ct about the hard border, which is in fact what the backstop is for. there's multiple problems at this, one of which is that of those tory mps who voted against her deal, some of them are hard brexiters, a lot of them actually come from the other side of the party. thus soft
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remainders as they are called, those who would prefer to go with the labour option. so it's a high—risk strategy, either way, labour option. so it's a high—risk strategy, eitherway, she's going labour option. so it's a high—risk strategy, either way, she's going to annoy, upset, some of her eye mps, strategy, either way, she's going to annoy, upset, some of her eye mp5, i think it's curious that she's decided to do something that irish government certainly are going to say no to. sources have said reopening the good friday agreement is total nonsense, which takes us the ft, after refusing to budge on brexit, would this effectively be a bilateral agreement between ireland and the uk? the negligence of the good friday agreement is. so what they're talking about what they are hoping to do is rewrite parts of it to ensure to write into the treaty into the agreement guarantees of no ha rd into the agreement guarantees of no hard border, i don't understand how that's going to happen in relation to the fact that ireland is a member of the european union, asari says ireland negotiates as part as a group of 27 european nations, i've never really understood what it is about that that the british government to still having trouble with. in other words, this will have to
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involve the eu, and i don't think that you are going to allow ireland to signa that you are going to allow ireland to sign a bilateral treaty that touches on issues such as the integrity of the customs unit and the integrity of the single market. in orderto the integrity of the single market. in order to help another government who can't get legislation to their own house of commons, and it's unclear whether or not theresa may's party was a partner in that, and it's unclear that the irish government would want to talk about it. all the parties in northern ireland, which is also likely completely impossible to achieve. ireland, which is also likely completely impossible to achievem comes back to the eu 27, said we've done this, we told you what you can have, we are not changing it. they keep saying, i mean they do know that part of bargaining is that nobody puts all cards out at the beginning of a deal, even in the middle of the game. so perhaps if there is going to be a magic in any direction, we will see it in the coming days, however, this has all gone haywire because after that strange election decision, theresa may called the election, she's propped up by the support by people who are most effective. if anybody has a strong opinion about that
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border it's the dup, and those are the very people she is having two courts, to keep happy, we have seen or talked to let out the vote, that didn't happen, then the legal advice on the games there, you know, there's so many times where she's had to change her mind. so i would expect her to have to change it again in the coming weeks. don't huack again in the coming weeks. don't hijack our brexit, theresa may mps plot... we are edging closer and closer to the point at which we are supposed to leave. at 68 days, i think that was clear this morning, it's interesting how it got two papers here we've got do not hijack our brexit, obviously the daily express. there are people who have never changed their views. they must be commended for that, the i making the point that plan b is clearly not going to go down as tony said, it perhaps people calling it a nonsta rter said, it perhaps people calling it a nonstarter already. but, yeah, said, it perhaps people calling it a nonstarteralready. but, yeah, i don't, i've run out of adjectives. this is the plan b blowfi this is the plan b blow for theresa may as mps plot . take control, goth... amendments we've got several amendments that we
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likely to see brought are likely to see brought forth. annette that's right. tomorrow the minister will lay down neutral prime minister will lay down neutral motion, and mps will be able to attach amendments to that we are expecting them to have a range of options, some of them will be the so—called people's mode, second referendum, others will be explicitly trying to stop no brexit, theresa may is in, a situation like that in terms of politics, whichever way she turns, it's going to end up slitting her party. she doesn't have a majority, and she's only got ten du bmps as a sort of her own backstop. and labour aren't united on this issue. whatever she goes for, is likely to cause issues in the tory ranks. this is, they say they want a no deal taken is, they say they want a no deal ta ke n off is, they say they want a no deal taken off the table. there are others in the commons, such as those who want no brexit, and the clock is ticking. it's notjust about, even if theresa may manages to get this through their significant pieces of
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legislation that we should have by the end of march, we've gotten an immigration bill, an agricultural bill that are making any progress. we've got hundreds of pieces of secondary legislation that they have to get to the commons, so the idea that we are going to lead on the 29th of march, whatever situation we are in is starting to let increasingly unlikely to me, just from the sheer logistical point of view. amendments are a perfectly normal way for mps to influence legislation, aren't they? we and brought forward all the time, but when it comes to brexit, whether it's going to affect the date that we leave, whether we leave, holly lee, it's so much more contentious than an amendment for any other bill. his correspondence has been making it to that front pages today. he was immediately accused of espionage levels of plotting and almost trees and levels of somehow undermining the government. and as he was painted, it's completely reasonable
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way where mps consult with parts of parliament to say, as you say, by which instruments they can use to put forward their perfectly reasonable points. but everything is heightened, these last weeks, we've seen heightened, these last weeks, we've seen it, because everybody‘s having to sort of defend their position, and suddenly we're hearing about instrument environment that we have never heard about previously. as you say, it's a really bubbling time. here's one thing to point out, it's a normal circumstance, we have majority governments, none of this is ofany majority governments, none of this is of any relevance or what backbenchis is of any relevance or what backbench is put down, the government eases its majority to knock us out of the way. theresa may has managed to put yourself in this position, where she has no majority, she has no working majority in the commons, she's reliance on the dup for votes, but she's also reliance on the left upper party, people who wa nt on the left upper party, people who want to take a softer brexit to get that through. it wasn't just 118 year sceptics who rebelled against her last year, it was people from all over stop wherever she moves, she will alienate someone. the
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independents are saying this is where it starts to bite. facing christ as big and a wind rush, we know now this is the new settled status that people can apply for, if they can prove of christ that they are they have a right to do it. the neckis are they have a right to do it. the neck is a lot of concern about this scheme, the wind rush scandal, we are responsible for deporting people that a legal right to be in this country. so there is some concern that they are running it, it's also a government it system, which again to have a terrible record on. and it would require, it will require, up to} would require, it will require, up to 3 million people, including children, to register with the home office through an app that they've designed and pay £65, and there's no guarantee that they will be granted that settled status at the end of it. we've already seen a significant problem with it in individual cases has approached the specific is that the eu nationals, it is not a surprise me that the independents are why... for some people, they are being asked to apply for status that
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they effectively already have. young and not only did they already have that status, but they've been contributing by paying huge amount of tax who knows how many of these people have been your for years and yea rs people have been your for years and years and years we have friends who are married, one of them is english, one of them is german, though suddenly one of them is seen as a lesser citizen, it's just, suddenly one of them is seen as a lesser citizen, it'sjust, it's a very emotive issue. this act as tony said this is this is the very first sort of manifestation, everything else we've fret about brexit is abstract, it's all its politicians basically having some sort of armrests all this israel. couple stories on the natural for the last couple of minutes, first, sorry is the hardest work for the duke, the woman who is involved in this crash within feel that they had not been treated well enough. they have not had an apology. it's bad pr, isn't it? we know that there's been no sort of awful cover—up, the duke of attenborough as well, uninjured, and has
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effectively said i was dazed by the sun, the immediate reports... this isa sun, the immediate reports... this is a bad pr, well which is where perhaps exchanged and a phone message of support. it's clearly been handled badly. it's clearly been handled badly. it's obviously created a lot of chatter about whether people of a certain age to be driving, and whether or not members of the royal family are treated differently. with relation to making life for example and not wearing seat belts but the police insist in a situation where there is a report when someone wasn't wearing a seat belt, as opposed to the police and observing someone opposed to the police and observing someone not wearing a seat belt, that that protocol is to have a where do with them. i don't really think that much of it to be honest. and finally in the natural, returning for the latest auditions for britain's got talent. coasting after him, what is interesting is that he and his band has been once again nominated for an ncaa best presenter award, they won
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it 17 years running. ridiculous. they are nominated again, they were having this tuesday, they aren't actually going, and i would be surprised if they did win this year. other people have quite rightly pointed out that they are other contenders who have done more work and have appeared on screen. this is his big comeback campaign, as you say, we saw and had 90s done a big interview in the sun and also he is wanting to come back. not everybody gets rehabilitated like this. everybody gets a chance to do it again. the neck now. i think it's a sign of how famous they are that they actually have seven pages on this story in the sun. and again, the front page in the sun today. that to me as a real indication of what scale a star they are in britain. that's it for the papers this hour. caroline and tony will be back at 11:30pm for another look at the papers. next on bbc news it's click. they are an unusual place
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to work, i have to say. in seattle, washington. they are an unusual place to work, i have to say. there'd be a rainforest?
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say "amazon", think what? jungle? online shopping? or do you think of alexa? this is, after all, the company that has brought voice control to the masses. now, as a human being, you'll know that you can tell quite a lot from someone's voice — not just what they mean but also how they are feeling and possibly whether they're ill. now, that's obviously really hard for a computer to do, but nick kwek has been looking at some technology that is working towards just that. i've come to tel aviv, israel, to see a doctor with a difference. no cold stethoscope, but i do need to say ahh, as well as make a bunch of other sounds. it's a early decay of the voice. today, dr levanon is going to give me my medical purely by listening to the way i talk. ..see anything beyond verbal
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of what my state of health is. he isn't a doctor of medicine, but of research he's been working on it for more than 2a years, which has culminated in a new piece of software. it's a tuesday morning. we've got to catch a flight later back to london. by analysing my vocal intonation, dr levanon says his algorithm can infer my mood, attitude and personality. you are ambitious, you are curious, a little bit adventurous, and a little bit conservative. it is something in between. ifeel like i'm getting my palm read by a psychic. 0k! and the graph is saying, "oh, you are very tired." i am very tired! but the reason i am here is the something far more important, because dr levanon says his system can also be used to diagnose whether i have a disease, and even how bad it is,
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just by listening to my voice. we can show the early signs of parkinson's, heart problem, autistic children, early signs of prostate cancer. he's comparing the audio wave patterns of someone's voice against an archive of recordings of people with known illnesses. how are you analysing the wave patterns? these are the signs of ill person and you can see decay of the voice, the deterioration — is ill, tired, can't express himself well. if you are combine all the signs together, we can see how severe is problem and what is his health problem. ok, reality check time, because as amazing as this sounds, you might be thinking this is all too good to be true. but the thing is voice is already used to diagnose certain conditions, and medical professionals do see
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that this could have more potential. in london, i went to meet dr nijjer, a consultant cardiologist at hammersmith hospital, and honorary senior lecturer at imperial college london. well, there's no doubt that doctors use a patient‘s voice as a way of diagnosing certain conditions and there are neurological conditions like motor neurone disease or parkinson's that have characteristic changes to the voice to help us make a diagnosis. but whatever a voice's potential, today beyond verbal has had only one paper published, in conjunction with the us—based mayo clinic, investigating the connection between voice and coronary artery disease. what this study has done is attempted to make a diagnosis of coronary artery disease using the voice alone. this is a completely new avenue and i would say that the technology at present needs a lot more work. the study that's been published doesn't give us definitive proof that this technology can make that diagnosis. the study has been performed in a highly enriched and highly
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selected group of patients. and actually, i would say the capacity of voice to be able to detect the severity of an individual lesion, as they've proposed, is a little far—fetched. california—based telemedicine start—up salubermd has begun incorporating beyond verbal‘s mood analysing system into its gp appointment app. one second, bear with me while i bring up your data here. whilst remote doctors listen to problems over video call, the software can inform them about their patient‘s emotional state. how accurate is beyond verbal around the mood? very. how is accurate regarding the acute coronary syndrome? we don't know yet. at present, there is a very good feel around it but i, as a doctor, cannot trust a feel. i need to trust real correlation or real demonstration. beyond verbal isn't the only business claiming to understand our health via our voice. healthymize, sonde health, peakprofiling and even ibm are just some researching the connection between voice patterns and disease.
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we believe that we are better than 75% in many diseases. however, it's still not enough to say "that's it!" it's still enough to say alert, be — take care of yourself, go to the doctor, make other checks. further trials are being conducted in israel, china and soon, the uk. and whilst it might be simply sci—fi, the idea of alexa in the future alerting me about my health is at once appealing, yet unsettling. that was nick. and now, we're gonna go back in time to the consumer electronics show in las vegas from last week, where voice was a massive deal. and we asked lara lewington and richard taylor to check out the big talk at the show.
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it's only taken a few years for voice—activated smart assistants to become an integral part of every self—respecting techie's lifestyle. amazon's alexa started out as a small, self—contained box today, it's enjoyed a phoenix—like rise, compatible with over 28,000 smart devices and myriad gadgets of all shapes and sizes. alexa, run the video. this bot vector isn'tjust cute, it can also order you a pizza. and when you're feeling the creative juices flowing, you can always kick back with your smart instrument. if you're a keyboard player, you know it can be really frustrating navigating your way through menus just to get where you want. but with alexa built in, there's a world of possibilities that open up. so, for example, i can say "alexa, ask go:piano to select strings." alexa: the tone is tuned to strings.
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and with this particular device, there's a number of built—in commands that work offline. so, for example, "head up display". and there we go! ready to roll! google assistant may have been late to the party but is trying to catch up. it's built into this alarm clock with internet phone... hey, google. what's the weather? ..or is around for a chat whilst you get ready. google assistant: currently in las vegas, it's 57 and partly cloudy. meanwhile, apple — and to a lesser extent, microsoft — are making a play for voice domination too, but amazon and google remain clear front—runners. not that you need to commit to just one. with this bluetooth headset, you can simply say "ov phone" to activate either siri on google, and "ov alexa" to activate its amazon rival.
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play gorillaz. but other voice—activated assistants are hoping to break new ground in specific environments. chris is supposed to work when in the car, even when you're offline, letting you control music and even navigation with your voice. and, somewhat curiously, with a few gestures too. elliq: i enjoy sharing interesting facts. and back in the home, some specialist devices are aiming to use voice function for slightly more human purposes. this is a social companion robot for the elderly. it combines google's voice recognition technology and elliq's own ai platform to be able to not just respond, but also initiate conversation. we all need a little nudge from time to time. it can actually provide notjust reminders, but also goals for its users. so if somebody has been sitting down for too long, then motion sensors will alert it and may get them to get up and do a bit of exercise.
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it could also be helping them keep in contact with their family through the tablet element. je m'appelle lara. i will speak to myself. but, of course, these devices do have a way to go before they provide a totally seamless experience. and now, it is going to pull out one of the bach... ..sebastian bach station from i heart radio. um... this is a gesture—controlled speaker, which works like this. the company behind it are hoping to install their technology in virtual assistants. and it's notjust about being able to wake them up by tapping, it is also going to track how far away you are in the room so that the volume can be adjusted accordingly. a device's built—in speaker emits ultrasound waves and its microphone receives them, mapping where you are. the software acts on this information, maybe pausing or playing something you're watching or listening to, or in the case of a virtual assistant, turning heating or lighting on or off.
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but whilst there are ideas aplenty about how the future of voice could play out, for this year's ces, google and amazon certainly seem to be enjoying having the last word. thank you very much, goodbye. i'm afraid that's where we have to stop the shortcut of click for this week. the full length version is waiting for you right now on iplayer. and don't forget, we live on social media too — youtube, facebook, twitter and instagram at @bbcclick. thanks for watching and we'll see you soon. hello, it has been a brighter day for many of us today but more in the way of clear weather overnight, that will lead
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to a widespread frost. here is sunday sunshine from north wales. we have had a week by the front with wet weather in scotland and northern ireland. this area of cloud known to england and wales, a little patchy rain but hardly anything associated with that. where you have the biggest cloud the temperature might hold out. a lot of blue showing up in map on monday morning so that is the frost. be sharp frost in place. prolonged clear weather. in rural spots could be minus six or seven. there will be some viewing of the total lunar eclipse in the morning but we are watching this as we go into monday morning. a more vigorous weather system. to end the day but a quiet start... for much of england and wales it will stay dry with variable cloud and he the brightness. cloud thickening all the wealth and northern ireland and scotland. winds picking up in the western isles added to the afternoon for northern ireland and western scotland, the rain and
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snow on the hill fog, especially for scotland. single figure temperatures for many of us, another cold week to come. this rain and hill still in scotland and the pennines, maybe some snow in the workplaces. witching southwards going into the early hours of tuesday, wintry showers following to the north—west and a frost for many of us as tuesday begins. there is a flow of cold air coming in on tuesday and the showers may have rain along the coast, but a lot of these have sweet, snow and hail. northern ireland, wales, western england on tuesday. we are going to see some lucky relations out of this, notjust on hill fog, billy on heavier showers to lower levels. temperatures are coming down a bit, a strong north—westerly wind which does make for quite a call today on tuesday but there will be some sunny spells around.
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frosty night to come for the rest of the week, there will be few showers around but quite a bit of dry sunny weather. word of note, wednesday night into early thursday there could be some snow showers in parts of east anglia and south—east england. the week ahead is cold but by friday little cold. , a little less cold. this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 11:00: the prime minister briefs her cabinet ahead of a statement to mps tomorrow about the next steps on brexit. four people are arrested following a car bombing in londonderry last night. police describe the attack as unbelievably reckless. a highly unstable crude device that could detonate at any time. a callous act, a deliberate act against the people of derry. a funeral is held in hertfordshire for six unknown auschwitz victims whose remains were handed to a british museum more than 20 years ago. police speak to the duke of edinburgh after he was seen
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driving without a seatbelt two days after being involved in a crash near sandringham. astronomers are hoping for clear skies early tomorrow morning, to view a total lunar eclipse known as a super
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