tv Outside Source BBC News January 21, 2019 9:00pm-10:00pm GMT
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this is outside source. after her brexit deal was defeated last week in house of commons — theresa may was supposed to be presenting her plan b to parliament today. the only problem is — it still looks a lot like plan a. contrary to what the prime minister has just contrary to what the prime minister hasjust said, there contrary to what the prime minister has just said, there was no flexibility, there were no negation nations, nothing has changed. zimbabwe's president heads home early from a foreign tour to deal with protests in his country, the opposition accuses his government of a brutal crackdown. the chinese geneticist who claims to have created the world's first genetically edited babies has been sacked by his university and denounced by chinese state media. and whatsapp limits sharing on its messaging service to combat the spread of fake news. theresa may has has been outlining her "new" brexit plan to mp5.
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though you may struggle to hear anything really new. here she is addressing the house of commons earlier today. when people say rule out no deal, the consequences of what they are actually saying that if we in parliament can't approve a deal, we should revoke article 50. mr speaker, i believe this would go against the referendum result, and i do not believe that is a course of action that we should take all which this house should support. labour leaderjeremy corbyn is still refusing to take theresa may up on her offer of talks — unless there's a change in the law to close down the possibility of leaving the eu without a deal. the prime minister seems to be going through the motions of accepting the
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result, but in reality is in deep denial. the logic of that decisive defeat is that the prime minister must change her red lines, because her current deal is unbelievable. —— undeliverable. no surprise that reaction has been coming in thick and fast. the conservative mp sarah wollaston tweets; "it's like last week's vote never happened. plan b is plan a." and here's a condensed read of theresa may's statement by our bbc brussels reporter adam fleming: "backstop: more of the same. future relationship talks: less of the same.” but as you can see, there was one big announcement for eu nationals living in the uk. the £65 fee for settled status has been scrapped. our political correspondent jonathan blake is at westminster. apart from that fee, pretty much of a thing else is still the same, jonathan? yes, if you were hoping for a complete list of bullet points, which set out a change of strategy and a brand—new policy on
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brexit from the prime minister, you would have been disappointed today. we got more of the same from theresa may. there was that offer to continue talking to opposition parties, and also to involve parliament more in the negotiations on britain's future relationship with the eu, but as to the substance of her deal and what is going to change when she tries to go back to brussels to win concessions or to work out a new agreement of some sort, it doesn't seem like it's going to go much beyond attempts to twea k going to go much beyond attempts to tweak the backstop, that controversial part of the deal, which is really an insurance policy on avoiding a hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland if a trade deal can't be done with the eu by the end of next year. she says she will talk to the dup, her allies in parliament, who pf°p up dup, her allies in parliament, who prop up her government, about that, to try to find some common ground or perhaps a way forward, but when you
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look at what has been said about it in the past, theresa may herself saying there will not be a deal that doesn't have a backstop, and the eu saying that any backstop that has a time limit, which a lot of people in the conservative party and the dup are calling for, then that's not a backstop at all. so it's very hard to see how those two things for the way, although it may be that they we re way, although it may be that they were negotiating positions at the time and the eu is feeling in an accommodating mood. but certainly at the moment the prime minister didn't have anything to say in parliament this afternoon that was going to persuade enough of her mps or anyone on the other side of the house to support her deal. jonathan, don't go away, because i'm going to look at that issue of the backstop in a little more detail, and continues to bea little more detail, and continues to be a major stumbling block for theresa may's deal. it is the safety net that, under the prime minister's proposal, guarantees that if there is no trade deal between the uk and the eu by the end of next year, there would be no return to a hard
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border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. but it's very unpopular among brexiteers because under it, northern ireland would have to be treated differently, and remain tied to some eu rules. now if theresa may could get a guarantee the backstop would be temporary then perhaps some brexiteers would look again at her deal. here's the irish foreign minister. i made it very clear that putting a time limit on an insurance mechanism, which is what the backstop is, effectively means it is not a backstop at all. so i don't think that reflects eu thinking in relation to the withdrawal agreement. back to jonathan. we have the polish prime list are talking about a timescale, but that has been backed away, theresa may doesn't want to hear about that because objectively, ultimately, if you put some kind of time limit on this insurance policy it becomes null and void. that's the argument
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the eu has certainly made, and the government here has made, to an extent as well. the whole point of the backstop being there is to prevent a worst—case scenario. if all else fails, if a trade deal can't be done, the two sides can't agree on how they will work together in the future, then that is the back—up, with the aim of preventing what neither side wants to see, and thatis what neither side wants to see, and that is a return to any kind of physical checks of goods or people even passing over the border between northern ireland and the republic violent. why? well, because it is there in the good friday agreement, there in the good friday agreement, the agreement between the uk and the republic of ireland and various parties in between, which was reached in 1997 to preserve peace at the end of what had been a very violent few decades in northern ireland. so that is what is at the heart of this but it has been so universally unpopular on all sides here in westminster that it's very difficult to see how short ofjust
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dropping the idea altogether, which seems incredibly unlikely at this stage, theresa may will be able to change it or when any form of concessions that enough people will be happy with. that said, there is room and time, precious little, but there is some time for things to change between now and next week, when the house of commons will vote on the prime minister's revised plan, such as it is, and when she then goes to brussels to try to talk to the other side, talk to the eu negotiators, to see if they can reach some sort of new or changed agreement. little time, jonathan, but lots of different opinions. today presenter nick robinson... "theresa may is inviting mps to dip their hands in the blood by sharing responsibility for finding an acceptable brexit deal or sharing responsibility for a damaging no—deal brexit. not surprisingly they don't seem all that keen on the idea." this is a poll conducted after last week's government defeat. it asked 2,000 voters what should theresa may do next.
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the most popular option was a no—deal brexit, with 28% of people supporting that. 24% backed starting the process of holding a second referendum. just 8% of voters thought mrs may should press ahead with trying to win support for her deal in parliament. however, this is what the imf said today about a no—deal brexit. leaving without a withdrawal agreement, the so—called no—deal brexit, so leaving without a withdrawal agreement and a framework for the future relationship with the
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eu is the most significant near—term risk to the uk economy, as we see it. so the imf once again warning about a no—deal brexit. back to jonathan, those warnings are very loud and clear. they are, and the threat, if you like, all the risk of a no—deal brexit is something which jeremy corbyn, the leader of the labour party, is using as his own bargaining chip really at the moment. the prime minister in the wa ke moment. the prime minister in the wake of that devastating defeat in the house of commons last week over her brexit deal, the prime minister has extended a hand to opposition parties to say let's talk, i want to hear what you have to say, to try to find a consensus and perhaps some common ground. jeremy corbyn is the only leader of the parties here at westminster who has so far refused that offer, and he has done so on the basis that he won't get round the basis that he won't get round the table with theresa may until she rules out a no—deal brexit, because, as he sees it, it would be too
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damaging to the uk, and specifically the uk economy to contemplate. the counterargument to that that theresa may puts is firstly it is important to have no deal on the table as a strengthening negotiating position, something that strengthens her hand in the negotiations, because the eu don't like the idea any more than the uk do, and also she says to rule out no—deal brexit me is you are effectively accepting that the uk is either going to stay within the european union indefinitely, or leave on the basis of a negotiated deal, and uses it as very important on delivering on the result of the referendum and leaving the eu one way or another. and it should be said there are people in parliament and in government that are if not excited about the prospects, content, maybe even relaxed about leaving the eu without a deal in place. no decisions thus far, the clock continues down to that 29th of march
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deadline, jonathan many thanks. lots more on the website. zimbabwe's opposition has complained of a brutal campaign of suppression following protests over a rise in the fuel price. these are pictures from the protests — they've been going on for about a week. they started after the government put the price of fuel up — this is a table that shows just how expensive fuel prices are in zimbabwe. it completely goes of the page. uruguay, almost double the price of fuel in uruguay, so this is really expensive. this is how the story has been unfolding. it's the worst violence seen in zimbabwe for a decade. in the past week, police and soldiers have beaten civilians, shot dead 12
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people, and arrested hundreds of others. the un has called on the government to halt what they describe as the excessive use of force, amid reports of home searches, and the use of live ammunition, but the government is warning that this is just a taste of things to come. it all started last month, shortly after the cash—strapped country needed for a billion—dollar emergency loan from neighbours south africa. they said no. soon after, with fuel supplies running low, prices were ramped up, making it the most expensive fuel in the world. inflation is running at 40%. it's the highest rate since abandoning its currency ten years ago. millions of zimbabweans increasingly unable to buy basics like food and medicine, now can't even afford the bus to work, and so prompting calls for a national strike last week. and the
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government's response? a security clamp—down, and a block on the internets. the government has blamed the opposition, movement for democratic change, for the violence. but the party's leader says many of its members have been detained, including four mps. the trade union umbrella group that called the protests, the zimbabwe congress of trade unions, says its leader, japhet moyo, has also been arrested. president mnangagwa has returned early from a foreign trip, saying, "the first priority is to get zimbabwe calm, stable and working again". we've also had this intervention from jeremy hunt, the uk foreign secretary. he said, "people should have right to peaceful protest without fear of violence. full access to internet must be restored, security forces must stop use of disproportionate force & all cases of alleged human rights abuses investigated." well, one way the president has tried to stabilise the situation was through that loan from south africa, which he believed would boost the economy.
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for more on that, here's our correspondent pumza fihlani in johannesbourg. they asked for a loan of $1.2 billion back in decemberfrom the south african government and this loa n south african government and this loan request was rejected because when i spoke to a spokesperson today, he said that south africa simply could not afford that amount of money. he said that while zimbabwe was in a dire financial situation the country would not be able to assist in this form, which is obviously terrible news for zimbabwe, who are desperate to get their hands on a cash injection to help boost their ailing economy. stay with us on 0utside source — still to come... we'll be in the us to talk about democrat kamala harris — she says she'll run for president in the 2020 us election, which would make her the first non—white woman to be a major party nominee.
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police in northern ireland have confirmed they're dealing with a second security alert in londonderry today, involving a two hijacked vehicles. on saturday night, a bomb exploded in a hijacked delivery vehicle outside the city's courthouse. 0ur ireland correspondent chris page has this update. a controlled explosion has been carried out on one of the vehicles, and army bomb experts and police are also dealing with the other van too. a number of residents had been evacuated from their homes nearby. local politicians again blaming dissident republicans who are opposed to the peace process. on saturday night, a car bomb, as you say, exploded outside a courthouse in derry. it was a crude device, nobody was injured, no damage to the surrounding buildings either but nonetheless it has reawakened memories of very bad days. derry suffered a lot during the troubles,
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that 30 year conflict. there still remain paramilitary groups on the republican and paramilitary side, and the new ira are particularly as one the police have been concerned about for a number of years. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is? theresa may presented her plan b to parliament today after her brexit deal was defeated. she promised more consultation but there was no radical change of direction. some of the other news stories we're covering at the bbc newsroom... reports from afghanistan say a car bomb attack inside a military base in maidan wardak province has killed at least 20 members of the security forces. the taliban in afghanistan said they carried out the attack. it comes as the taliban have been meeting the us special envoy to afghanistan in qatar for peace talks. ten crew members have died when two ships caught fire in the kerch strait, near crimea.
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1a others were rescued, after crew members jumped into the sea to escape the flames. crew members included citizens from turkey and india. the fire reportedly occurred while transferring fuel from a gas transporter to a tanker. a lookalike of friends star david schwimmer has been arrested, after failing to appear in court. the first police bid to trace abdulah hussein went viral over his apparent resemblance to character ross geller. that's on our website. this is huh jen—kway. he's a chinese geneticist who last year claimed to have created the world's first genetically—edited babies. at the time, the claim was met with outrage — and scepticism, because it hadn't been verified. today, chinese state media reported that his work had resulted in the birth of twin babies, and that another woman was currently pregnant. we also have this —
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a statement from his university saying that he has been sacked with immediate effect. the media reports said he "sought personal fame and fortune" and acted alone. kerry allen specialises in chinese media for bbc monitoring — here she is with more details. well, there has been a lot of attention on this professor, he jiankui. we know he was working with eight couples. the father of the child was hiv positive and the mother wasn't, and the plan behind this was to see, this whole experiment was to ces children could be born that did not have the hiv virus. and so the case that we know about back in november was where he was successful with two young girls,
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that they did not have the hiv virus. we don't know of any other, we know that another couple was pregnant, but of the eight couples we don't know any more. but today in chinese media has a lot of emphasis on this professor, lots of very angry media basically saying that what he did was unethical, and that he will face a serious investigation. and where is the professor himself? we've seen reports he is under house arrest at the moment but we don't know much more than that. it became clear in november, i mean, originally chinese media was saying this was almost a breakthrough for the scientific community, and they were really very positive about this. but since it became clear from other academics that there was some syria ‘s concerns about the ethics of his work, and also social media users, who were concerned —— serious concerns. that the technology might
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be exploited and used by wealthy chinese to basically tamper with other children's genes, that he started to distance himself. his university said they weren't involved in his work, and he involved inrhis werk.—and~he—hadj_ that's involved inrhie work.—eed~he—hedj_ that's the been of ddietr , . case. there has been elot‘of‘quiet ever so case. there has been elot‘of‘quiet 15,” ever scwfiith the : a 7 w” 7 fl ‘ a could he in :ould he in factl he in fact do prison time. did he in fact do something illegal? absolutely, yes, in china he could be prosecuted for this, but back in november, chinese media were not anticipating this. they thought this would be received very positively by the international community, they thought this was going to be us showing the world that we are making waves in this field of human gene names. it was shortly before a key summit in hong kong that they were going to announce this, that they announced these findings that they had been
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able to produce these two girls without hiv. so, yeah, this wasn't expected, and now chinese media are very much doing a u—turn, and very kind of basically saying that what he did was wrong. kerry alan from bbc monitoring on a story really making headlines in china. now the focus on business news. tomorrow the annual get—together of thousands of business and political leaders, officially known as the world economic forum but more commonly known as davos, kicks off in the remote swiss resort town that gives its name. in case you've forgotten from last year what this meeting is all about, joe miller has this refresher. it's that time of the year again when you start hearing an awful lot of this word. davos. in davos... but what is davos? it is actuallyjust a swiss mountain resort, but every year thousands of world leaders, business executives and heads of charities descend on the town for something called the world economic forum. there's plenty of panels and talks,
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but the real reason most people attend is to network. many a corporate deal has been hashed out in front of a chalet fireplace and there has even been the occasional beet. seer; the grttzedd blew-dim not unless you are invited, and have quite a bit of spare cash. businesses get chargedsupsmilsfim! swiss frenos'per person; thets about £21,000, to attend. that's about £21,000, to attend. so who is lucky enough to go? bill gates, david attenborough, and even
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prince william this year. if that sounds like a lot of men, that is because women have always been outnumbered at davos. the number of female delegates is up 1% this year but still just 22% of those who attend are women. continuing with davos, earlier today the international monetary fund released this report on the world economic outlook, which shows growth is slowing down. the imf‘s chief economist gita gopinath told the bbc from davos about some of the challenges she sees coming this year. so the revisions we have made this year are fairly modest, but the risks are very high. the risks are quite important, one is escalation of trade tensions, and the second is a further deterioration in financial conditions. the reason the two of them are particularly costly is because they have becoming intertwined, which was not the case for much of 2018. given that many countries in the world still have many high levels of death that ——
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debt, it will be very costly for them, and the trade and the disruption in global supply chains those would have much more effect on the global economy. of all the countries whose growth is concerning global observers, china is perhaps the one most closely watched. this morning beijing released figures showing the slowest growth in decades, but what does that mean for the global economy? dr you jee—ye is china research fellow at chatham house. a lot of foreign companies or american companies based in china, they have removed their perfection line in china. that really caused a global supply chain disruption. if we are looking for alternatives to replace china is a very important hub for the global supply chain and we haven't really found that out yet. we have all become the victim the got smurf
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bejustify—f , f f is" justify the f f of a text card to justify the ratio, it will not really reserve ratio, it will not really ta ke reserve ratio, it will not really take effect overnight so we shall wait and see, but it is very worrying indeed. coming up... who's going to take on donald trump to be president next time? in the last few weeks, we've had a rush of candidates throw their hats in the ring for the democratic nomination, and today, one of the more heavyweight players declared she's also running. i'm talking about democrat camara harris. if she wins the party's nomination, she would become the first non—white woman to be a major party nominee. i will be talking to jane 0'brien about this. lots more as always on the programme, and lots more on the website. you can get in touch with me and the team, the hashtag is bbc 0s. we will see you inafew hashtag is bbc 0s. we will see you in a few minutes, goodbye.
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i know there are quite a few of you that quite enjoy the cold and snowy weather, there might be a bit of snow in the uk over the next few days, but nothing on the scale of what has just happened across the united states and eastern canada, where we have had a major winter storm. this area of cloudy can see here working in. we have had well over a0 centimetres of snow in parts of maine, and across eastern areas of maine, and across eastern areas of canada we could see 50 to 60 centimetres of snow, blizzard conditions as well. the winds have been gusting up to 100 kph. some serious problems actually across this part of the world with transport disruption. there have been power supply problems as well. and then we have had some dangerous levels of cold as well. following all of this snowy weather, we have had those strong winds bringing large and battering waves to the coastline. as well as all of that, we have had some freezing rain mixed in. for some, it we have had some freezing rain mixed in. forsome, it has been we have had some freezing rain mixed in. for some, it has been a very icy experience. the strong winds combining with some astonishingly low temperatures, as low as —25
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degrees in parts of call—back. as we go through monday afternoon locally. we can see the cold edgily easing but it will be back as we head on into the weekend. at least it turns a bit marlborough for a time. across indonesia, widespread shower activity over the last 2a hours, 129 millimetres of rain fell over eastern part of java and indonesia. it is enhancing the shower activity, so more it is enhancing the shower activity, so more of those heavy showers and thunderstorms as we look at the weather forecast, notjust thunderstorms as we look at the weather forecast, not just through wednesday but for the next week or so. wednesday but for the next week or so. in australia, we have had a big heatwave over recent weeks. that there are signs of a big change in there are signs of a big change in the forecast across western australia, as we look at the weather picture over the next few days, we will increasingly get winds from the west, which will really dropped the temperature significantly, but still some hot air across central and eastern areas of australia to watch out for. take a look at the outlet,
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in perth, we have seen temperatures into the high 30s, but it will be quite cool for the time of year through wednesday and into thursday, just the low 20s, before those temperatures recover into the weekend. i did tease you early onset there might be some snow, it could be. we have a weather front initially bringing outbreaks of rain across the north of the uk with some mounting snow across scotland and the pennines but ultimately through tuesday much colder weather will be spreading in. we will see some snow showers particularly accumulating over the hills, wales, pennines, parts of northern ireland and scotla nd parts of northern ireland and scotland as well. meanwhile across into europe, this band of snow pushing into france could give five to maybe ten centimetres of snow as we look through the weather picture through tuesday. that is your forecast. hello, i'm kasia madera, this is 0utside source. after her brexit deal was defeated last week in the house of commons — theresa may was supposed to be
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presenting her plan b to parliament today. the only problem is — it still looks a lot like plan a. there was no flexibility, no negotiations, nothing has changed. senator kamala harris says she will run for the democratic nomination for us president in 2020. we'll speak to jane 0'brien about that. after decades of fighting between separatists rebels and the government — people from one of the poorest areas of the philippines queue to vote in a referendum for greater autonomy from manila. and whatsapp limits sharing on its messaging service to combat the spread of fake news. it's now 67 days until the uk leaves the european union on the 29th march.
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theresa may promised mps in london more consultations but no radical change of direction for her brexit plan. the prime minister also announced she would be returning to brussels to ask — once again — for changes to the irish backstop. the eu has so far blocked any attempt to renegotiate the backstop. here's damian grammaticas in brussels. eu foreign ministers from all the countries we hear and watching closely what theresa may had to say in london. they were hoping to hear some new direction from her and i think that what they got was disappointing from their side. she said that she would go to northern ireland to talk to parties there and then come here to try to re—negotiate the irish backstop, that crucial difficult issue at the centre. but it does not give any
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clear direction, the eu side has said clearly today, the foreign ministers and eu chief negotiator michel barnier has said that that is not up to re—negotiating, that part of the deal must stay as it is they say. but they do point to the potential of the accompanying document laying out a kind of ideas for future relationship and they said if theresa may could come with a vision for a closer partnership and they could help solve the irish issue. they would be open to looking at that. but it is unclear whether that will help her win any vote spike in parliament and whether she could deliver that and her party would back it. in the meantime the eu is clearly maintaining its unified position saying that it will continue to negotiate as one and the uk cannot try to strike a deal on the side with ireland on its own. so very much standing firm and saying
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that london still has to, with the a nswe i’s. that london still has to, with the answers. we did get some clarity, eu citizens in the uk found out but theresa may would scrap the £65 application fee for several status. that has been welcomed by guy verhofstadt, the european parliament chief brexit negotiator. for the millions of eu nationals living in the uk — they will now be asked to apply for a new legal status to stay in the uk after brexit. bbc reporter helene daouphars, who is french, looks at the process. with the possibility of an no—deal brexit now looming, many eu citizens like me are now wondering what we should do to stay in the uk. malika, you are german. what are you doing about brexit? why, do yob have to do something.l actually i just hope it doesn't happen.
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i am leaving the country. ijust got my permanent residence. what are you doing about brexit? i don't know, to be honest, it is stressing me out. i don't know, you tell me. from today eu citizens can apply for settled status. but how do you do it? so what do you need in order to apply for settled status? you will need proof of identity, your passport, and then you will need a proof of residence in the uk for the last five years. and for that you can use your national insurance number card. and then you download this app. eu exit id document check. no results. well, at the moment the app only
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works on android so if you don't have one, you're going to have to borrow one, otherwise you can send your documents by post. as easy as online shopping? not sure about that. who's going to take on donald trump to be president next time? in the last few weeks we've had a rush of candidates throw their hats in the ring for the democratic nomination, and today, one of the more heavyweight players declared she's also running. truth. justice. decency. equality. freedom. democracy. kamala harris is from california, she's 5a,
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she was elected to the us senate only two years ago, and her voting record puts her on the liberal wing of her party. jennifer rubin, describes herself as a conservative blogger, wrote this in the washington post — that harris will be a "formidable challenger". and she tweeted... "harris's greatest strength... might be her ability to talk about politics in terms of values — empathy, fairness, personal responsibility." but there's another side to her too — before politics she was a prosecutor, pretty doggedly sending a lot of people to prison, and that could work against her. here's a different view from another conservative who's not a fan. @kamvtv "bring it on kamala harris. we in california have a lot of facts about your behavior in this state. 2020 is going to be fun reminiscing."
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jane 0'brien is in washington for us — i asked if she was a strong contender. president barack 0bama himself described her as brilliant, dedicated and tough, so she has already caught his eye. she of course endorsed him when he ran for president. but she does have two sides to this particular story. she is a rising star in the democratic party, but as you pointed out she made her name as a career prosecutor, sending people to prison. and her critics say enforcing legislation that at times undermined things like transgender rights. so she has a lot of baggage that will not appeal to the progressive left of the party which does seem to be in the ascendant right now. however she also represents the more diverse face that the party is trying to put forward at the moment. she is the daughter of an indian mother and a jamaican father. she is one of three women who now
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has put their hat into the ring. and she also made a name for herself during the brett kava naugh hearings when he was being confirmed to the supreme court, when she grilled him very aggressively on allegations of sexual misconduct. so she is a rising star and she is making her name known and at this early stage that is what she's going to hope to do in the run—up to the nomination. it's a crowded field already — including for the first time four women who've either formally declared or set up a campaign committee — as well as kamala harris, two other senators on the liberal wing of the party: elizabeth warren, and kirsten gillibrand — and a congresswoman, tulsi gabbard. others too — julian castro, who served in 0bama's cabinet and former congressman john delaney. those are just the best known. there are of course others.
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this is the federal election commisison's website. more than 1a0 people — of greater or lesser standing — all seeking the nomination. i asked jane why they were all coming out now. because they need the time, the next two years, to get their names better known. and also to test their credibility. this is likely to be a huge field. you didn't mentionjoe biden, former vice president, who may well declare he is running. bernie sanders, another big name. what is interesting about the ones you have mentioned, in particular going back to harris, she did not launch an exploratory committee that a lot of these people are doing, she dived straight in so she needs to hit the ground running and campaign and do a lot of handshaking, policy platforming, to get her name up there.
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so i think that is why you're seeing a very early entry in a very crowded field. it is also going to be interesting to see how this will dictate which way the democratic party plans to fight 2020. are they going to look for a candidate who can take on donald trump, is that going to be the priority, or are they going to look for somebody who represents the ideology of the party and the policies that the party want to put forward. which is it going to be and can the candidate they select actually do both? whatsapp is limiting all its members to forwarding any single message up to five times. it's part of an effort to tackle the spread of false information on the platform. here's the bbc‘s technology 0nline editor leo kelion. what whatsapp is doing here is it is going to limit the number of times that you can forward a message to five. previously it used to be 20. that did not mean you could only send a message to 20 people, you could send it to a group where
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you would have hundreds of people. so if you look at the figures, under the old scheme you could be forwarding a message to i think about 5120 people. under the new scheme you will only be able to send it to 1280. it still sounds like quite a lot of people but the idea is that it will put a limit on how quickly fake information is able to spread. and that is important because in the west a lot of the time when we talk about misinformation or fake news a lot of the criticism is of facebook and the efforts it is taking to address this. in other parts of the world the problem is associated with whatsapp. there was a study last year that talked about in zimbabwe,
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in pakistan and brazil, specifically whatsapp was the main way that the fake news was being distributed. there are organisations trying to tackle this, fact checkers work if you get a message on whatsapp you're not sure if you can send it in, they will come back and let you know if it is fake so you can then share that information yourself. but there has been a feeling that whatsapp needs do more itself. part of its problem has been its messages used end—to—end encryption and basically that means only the recipient and the sender can read it and that means it is not like the whatsapp fact checkers can go in and have a look and see if what is there is accurate or not. but this is a concrete step, that its owner facebook will hope sends out a message that it is taking the problem seriously. the policy isn't new. whatsapp introduced it six months ago in india, where there'd been several mob lynchings blamed on fake reports spread by the messaging service.
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the bbc‘s ishleen kaur has more. injuly 2018 whatsapp made an announcement saying they were going to limit the number of times a message can be forwarded on whatsapp in india. this came after a number of lynching incidents were linked to whatsapp messages being circulated around. so there were videos of children being kidnapped, various killings happening. a particular incident was where two men were seen kidnapping a child and that led to a lot of violence in the country and eventually ended up with strangers being attacked. this is where police said it was getting out of their control and it was getting harder for them to make people believe that this information was fake news and wasn't true. with over 200 million users india is the largest market for whatsapp. and for indians a very personal
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it has been six months that the tool was introduced, however we have no numbers to prove that it has actually worked. in fact at the end of last year the indian press reported that the indian government is considering changing the law, so getting facebook to monitor the unlawful content of whatsapp which could mean a challenge to whatsapp and their encryption technology. stay with us on 0utside source — still to come... we're in the philippines where people in mindanao have been queieng to cast their votes in a referendum for greater autonomy from manila. victims of domestic abuse could receive a wide range of new protections in england and wales under what the government is calling "landmark" legislation for england and wales. our correspondent frankie mccamley has been speaking to a survivor of domestic abuse. when you are talking
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to a child you say, "one, two, three," and expect them to stop what they're doing. he used the same theory, there was the threat of violence but it was never used, although i thought that he would use it. sarah, not her real name, survived years of non—physical domestic abuse. in isolation, it is a little thing, but as a course of conduct, every day, you start to feel ugly, you start to feel that you are not good enough. she finally left him but had to face her abuser in the family courts, where he was allowed to cross—examine her. it re—traumatises you. you believe them more than yourself because they are allowed to tell you how to think and he was allowed to tell me how to think for three years, so by allowing him to cross—examine me in the court for three hours, it took me back to a place i thought i had got away from. a draft domestic abuse bill now aims to stop this practice, it includes a ban on abusers cross—examining their victims, economic abuse, where victims have no control over their finances, and new orders that could force abusers
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into rehabilitation programmes. polygraph tests will also be piloted on domestic abuse offenders who are at high risk of reoffending to check they have not broken their conditions of parole. the purpose of the bill is great, but i think when you see the fine detail, we need to know where the money is coming from because we have been told that for these issues to be raised, and for these measures to be brought in, there is no money. and it's not going to happen without a massive cash injection. and some, including sarah, say further steps could still be taken to focus on the prevention rather than dealing with the consequences. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story. theresa may presented her plan b to parliament
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today after her brexit deal was defeated. she promised more consultation but there was no radical change of direction. at the bbc newsroom. an egyptian tv presenter has been sentenced to a year of hard labour for interviewing a gay man on his show last year. he was charged with promoting homosexuality. mohamed al—ghiety has voiced homophobic views on a number of occasions and during the interview the gay man expressed regret over his sexuality. authorities in sudan have removed accreditation the two journalists work for saudi—based al arabiya and turkey's anadolu news agencies. for those of you following our brexit coverage you might find this tweet from the bbc‘s gabriel gatehouse a breath of fresh air. he tweets ‘referendums are always
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divisive," some say. but in the philippines, they're hoping for the opposite.‘ he's referring to the poll today on the island of mindanao. here are people queing, literally around the block to cast their votes. it's a referendum for greater autonomy from manila. and it follows decades of fighting, between separatist rebels and the government, which took the lives of more than one hundred thousand people. mindanao is one of the poorest areas of the philippines and people there are predominantly muslim. the rest of the country is mostly catholic. the plan they're voting on has been agreed jointly between the government and the separatists. and a strong ‘yes' vote is predicted. howard johnson is in manila. this all goes back to the late 19605 when this armed conflict began between the national liberation front which later became the islamic liberation front and the philippine army. this area of the philippines
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in the south is one of the poorest areas and they have always wanted their own autonomy, they have wanted more of a share of the pie from imperial manila as they put it. for years they have been demanding more political self—determination and that has caused a lot of armed conflict, a lot of fighting has been going on. in fact colonel gaddafi of libya once intervened to try to bring about a peace deal and successive philippine governments tried to bring about a peace deal as well but it was only when president rodrigo duterte took on the reins of this peace process and said he wanted to make this a campaign pledge that he would be elected to deliver peace in this part of the world and today we have seen millions of people turn up. the polls have now closed at about three o'clock local time and we expect to hear the votes in around, the result of the vote in around four days. turkish media has been reporting on thousands of fake voters who appear on the country's electoral roll. this newspaper reports there are apparently more than 6,000
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people over 100 years old who are notjust living but registered to vote — including one 1a8 year old and another aged 165. and this headline says "voters in the stables and in the ruins" — reporting nearly 100 voters are registered living in just six empty houses — and dozens more apparently living in barns and haylofts. 0ppostion parties are trying to clean up the records. 0ne tweeted "as a result of our applications, the number of voters cancelled has passed 57 thousand. we will continue our work for an honest and fair choice." this is all ahead of local elections in march. aylin yazan is from the bbc‘s turkish service. we have seen this situation before but this time it seems like the scale is bigger.
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for example especially the opposition parties are alleging that there are a suspicious number of people registered at the same address or as you say there are people over 100 years of age, like some of them 165. older than the oldest person on earth. so more than the ghost voters the main issue now is the shift in voter addresses. so more than1.5 million voters change their address since the last election which was injune 2018. and in six months there are that many people who have changed their address. and also president erdogan claims that they will be the victim of this change. interesting, so where are we seeing these ghost voters, these addresses, other areas that will particularly gain from this? especially in different cities and districts, opposition parties claimed that these changes happen in the favour of the ruling party.
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and the alliance that it made with the nationalist party. but these claims have been rejected and the electoral committee members say opposition parties are just trying to hurt the government and the opposition party will be the biggest victim, they say. but i don't know how, they don't explain how. and when it comes to erdogan in general, he was immensely popular at one point, is his popularity waning in any way? not that i can say. after more than 16 years in office as prime minister and president he is still the most popular politician in turkey. and it all started in istanbul for him, the biggest city in turkey. he was selected as the mayor of istanbul in 199a and since then istanbul is in the hands of conservative politicians in terms of local elections and as we know erdogan has
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been in power since then. if it comes to the local elections, the results, istanbul and the capital ankara will be closely watched because in ankara akp has the potential to lose this time. it is tricky for them. but in istanbul it looks like they will win. the "super blood wolf moon" was visible around the world last night. and it will be another ten years before we get the next one. here's our science editor david shukman. an experience that left everyone amazed. wow. you can see the moonlight on your eye. the moon closer to earth than usual, and hour by hour being transformed, from its normal brilliant white to a darker and more mysterious red. the sequence of pictures shows how the shadow of the earth gradually fell across the moon. the sunshine, passing through our atmosphere, looking red on the lunar surface. it produced a mesmerising sight for millions.
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this image was taken in argentina, but dozens of different countries were also blessed with clear skies. the czech republic had some exceptional views. so did many in germany, where photographers braved freezing temperatures to get these remarkable scenes. many parts of britain were lucky with the weather atjust the right time. from conisbrough castle in south yorkshire, to this stunning scene in brightlingsea in essex. to another extraordinary vision at seaford in east sussex. david shukman, bbc news. thanks for watching, goodbye. it is rather chilly out there at the moment and for the most part it is going to stay that way through the next ten days. we look to the jet
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strea m next ten days. we look to the jet stream that separates cold air from the milder error and at the moment we are on the american side of that so we are on the american side of that so stuck in the cold air. —— the northern side of that. we have some icy stretches just about anywhere across the country and it could be a slippery start to the day and then we have wintry showers migrating further east. snow over even quite modest hills. but there will be some sunny spells between those showers. a keen breeze making it feel chilly. some wintry showers across the far south—east going into tuesday evening and through tuesday night
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watch those temperatures drop away. some parts of scotland could get down to as low as —10 degrees. but the wind is not as brisk by wednesday and not as many showers either. many places having a dry day with some spells of sunshine but temperatures still struggling. as we move into thursday high pressure trying to build in from the south—west and this frontal system toppling its way around the top of the area of high pressure. behind that we start to get into some milderair that we start to get into some milder air but ahead of that it is another chilly day on thursday. mostly dry with some spells of sunshine. we have some rain later in the day and as we move through thursday night that warm front moves further east. the wind strengthening and we also get into some milder
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air. and by friday thejet and we also get into some milder air. and by friday the jet stream is to the north. so we get to feel the effects of some slightly milder air just temporarily. some outbreaks of rain across scotland, still some snow over high ground but temperatures a little bit higher. but on saturday we see a frontal system driving south—east and behind that we start to bring in the wind from the north—west. then we start to see the reappearance of some wintry showers. the frontal system clears away to the south and then look at the jet stream next week, moving along way south and we are stranded on that lovren slide in the cold air. and also quite unsettled,
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low—pressure likely to be in charge. so into next week looking cold with widespread frost but because of the low— pressure widespread frost but because of the low—pressure always the chance of some rain and perhaps a little bit of snow. the chilly weather looks set to go on. the prime minister promises mps a more open and flexible approach to her brexit deal after last week's historic defeat — but labour says nothing has changed. addressing mps today, theresa may refused to rule out a no—deal brexit, and said there'd be no new referendum but said she would seek changes to break the deadlock over the irish border. i will be talking further this week to colleagues, including in the dup, to consider how we might meet our obligations to the people of northern ireland and ireland in a way that can command the greatest possible support in the house. what makes her think that what she tried to renegotiate in december will succeed in january? mr speaker, this really does feel a bit like groundhog day. but there was something new,
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