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stream from we start to see the jet stream from the south wafting up even milder air, could get up to 18 degrees come the weekend. hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment with tony grew and caroline frost. first, the headlines. the family of the british teenager who joined the islamic state group say she's given birth in syria. shamima begum says she wants to return to the uk after fleeing the last is stronghold. it comes as president trump calls on britain and other european nations to put captured islamic state fighters on trial. stranded flybmi passengers speak of frustration after the airline went into administration and cancelled all flights. a man has been arrested in brighton after handing himself into police investigating the murder of a 22—year—old man found stabbed in a car. theresa may writes to every conservative mp, urging them to put aside their personal differences over brexit and come together in the national interest. hello and welcome to our look ahead
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to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are parliamentaryjournalist tony grew and entertainment journalist and broadcaster caroline frost. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the telegraph leads with a story that's been widely covered today — a british teenager who joined the islamic state group, and who is pleading to come home after giving birth to a baby boy. the same story makes the front page of the metro, which says shamima begum is urging the british public to show her sympathy. the daily mail carries an investigation which, it says, reveals that a leading online gambling firm gives losers cash so they carry on spending. the uk could undermine us efforts to ban the chinese telecoms giant huawei from global sg networks — that's according to the financial times. the i reports that universities are facing a funding shortfall, thanks to rising pension costs.
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and the guardian says mps are calling for more regulation to curb the social media giant, facebook. so, a varied set of front pages. let's see what our reviewers make of it all. the and the telegraph both cover the shamima begum story. does she deserve sympathy? in some senses, yes. she was 15 years old, still a child, she has already given birth to and lost two children. i also wonder what sort of restricted life she may have had if she remained in the uk. we talk about a teenage girl but she may have come from a traditional or conservative background controlled her access to things like boys, she goes on an to syria and she is assigned a husband. you see this in the daily telegraph, it is not difficult to get a tory mp saying this is a disgrace but what i
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don't appreciate it our home secretary going around the place talking tough because he thinks it will make him look good because he wa nts to will make him look good because he wants to be the next tory leader. she is a british citizen, unless the government is proposing to make her stateless, which is illegal, she will come back to the uk and i'm not clear what crime it is she has committed. the daily telegraph has a similar headline. she says the british public should allow her to return her to home but it's not up to the british public, it is the rule of law. the international law if she remains a british citizens. the politicians have been out this week saying they will not be extending any traditional rights of trying to help her back in any way however, it is very unusual will stop we see these jihadis women and they are often voiceless and we are in an unusual position of having someone in an unusual position of having someone out there speaking saying all these challenging things, she does not regret going out there in
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the first place, basically demanding sympathy which is unusual because they are usually so passive and we think of them as utterly controlled. yet she is putting her case. we are in this demanding position that taps into our fears about what threat she poses and on the other hand, the la st poses and on the other hand, the last thing we want is somebody like this rootless, stateless, effectively a loose cannon at the mercy of other possibly radicalising element andl mercy of other possibly radicalising element and i think she should come back and be monitored perhaps punished if there is something appropriate to punish poor but certainly monitored, let's go forward and be practical and think about what we do best. she is still only 19 and was 15 when she left, a child. and she was groomed online, thatis child. and she was groomed online, that is a phrase we like to talk about a lot. i understand the media focus on the story i think that will help her in the end. we talked about it earlier but i have no doubt she will be on loose women are when she comes back! what she's doing in a gauche way is putting her side of the story. she is still quite a self
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absorbed teenager and i can literally hear the voice saying i need sympathy! and there is a baby in the mix. very complicated. i think this idea bringing her back, the authorities here can decide what they want to do with her and whether there is a process of de—radicalisation or taking the child into care has been suggested but is our problem and nobody else‘s. but is our problem and nobody else's. we will stay with the daily telegraph. mps demanding a social media watchdog. the pressure is building for some sort of regulation. we have been talking about this, i feel every time we are oi'i about this, i feel every time we are on there is something on facebook or twitter and normally a disaster. we know there have been tragedies on instagram through its self harming images being shared and all that sort of thing. it is clearly overdue and they are falling short of self—regulation. i think they have been shown enough yellow cards over the last few years for which is how long we have been discussing it. i
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don't know if this effectively means a red card but it will depend on things like enforceability to what the fines are and what it comes down to. obviously we have reached a tipping point where everybody has had enough. does it have to have a commercial element to it? the sanction, so the bottom line feels the pinch? for18 months sanction, so the bottom line feels the pinch? for 18 months the digital culture media and sport select committee have been trying to look into this and every time they have been frustrated by facebook and mark zuckerberg has been refusing to come to give evidence. this will be a major news line. for the first time, these mps are saying that we need statutory regulation. facebook is accused of breaking both competition and privacy law, these are crimes they have committed. statute already exist to deal with that, don't they? iagree, exist to deal with that, don't they? i agree, but although those things, they have broken the law, it is clear we have not been able to prosecute them, principally because
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oui’ prosecute them, principally because our politicians for about 20 years from when the internet came along went, this is amazing, and then we we re went, this is amazing, and then we were like, we can't do anything about it because it is facebook and it is too big and something we can't do. even within an eu structure, it was very difficult to try to do something. it is worth pointing out, it is only a recommendation from mps, not the government saying they will take action with the labour party have swung heavily by what the committee concluded. universities facing funding black hole. the 22 million sorry, £222 million worse off because of the cost of pensions. this was discussed in the commons last week and i find it interesting because i was not aware of it but if you create a free market in universities which the government has done, it means some will struggle and some will go to the wall. there are concerns particularly around pensions because something like 100 universities from the lectures are part of a pension
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scheme the government is responsible for but apart from that, they have been charging £9,000 a year, and every university has judged top whack for the courses and it is clear some of those courses are not worth £9,000 a year and the institutions are not as stable as better—known universities. institutions are not as stable as better— known universities.“ institutions are not as stable as better-known universities. if people are deciding to be more particular about whether to go to university, because it costs so much more money and there are options for apprenticeships and we don't have as many foreign students wanting to go necessarily it is all meeting whatever the opposite of a sweet spot is. we already know there is an asymmetry of a purple patch that of the decide universities and the ones that get the benefit of clearing and for many students it works out well but this will only accentuate that. as tony says, if various universities are going to come a cropper and end universities are going to come a cropperand end up universities are going to come a cropper and end up being turfed off a cliff it will mean more competition for the ones that are already highly prized. all those tears into society that we mock and
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worry about are going to be accentuated come up with the possibility of a demise at the numberof foreign possibility of a demise at the number of foreign students, making up number of foreign students, making up those financial gaps will be tough. i feel sorry for students who have invested significant money to go to an institution that then won't exist a few years later and how that affects their career prospects. it is an unintended consequence i think of expanding the university sector. stu d e nts of expanding the university sector. students living in terror over hostile environment, this is to do with accusations of cheating in an english exam. this is obviously not a good story on the back of the other one we just discussed. the foreign students that make up a massive part of the pie or any financial health of any university, all over the world that is the case, to have britain sort of tagged as this hostile environment, we know that this was one of theresa may's home office legacies, to cast out anybody... i think it was reasonable
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enough because it was people pretending to be taking english language courses and it turned out it was a ticket in the country. it did need policing but on the back of the other problems faced by universities, to have us pitched as this very unattractive prospect for a foreign student is very bad timing. it is basically five years on, around 35,000 people at the home office is saying you have cheated in these exam. they don't appear to have any evidence for the claims. it keeps it as the worst government department. this came about, it was when theresa may was home secretary come with this obsessive drive to try to drive down the number of immigration which led to bogus english language college is being targeted, rightly, but also for the concert but whether foreign students will want to continue to come to this country if the spirit is saying you are not welcome. back to the daily telegraph. sunday lunch, if you had one today, i had a sandwich! it should be boiled and not roasted!
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what is the reason? this is a personal disaster! today, for the second time in my life, ijoined the human race and roasted a chicken and now i am clearly behind the ball. they have decided that because of the pollution levels, locking yourself in, mopping your brow with yourself in, mopping your brow with your apron and coming up with a fine bird is not the way to preserve the planet! what they are suggesting, obviously i will be mastering it swiftly, is boiling the chicken. and presumably the turkey and other birds available. roberts, the wise voice in my ear tonight, has asked if anybody has heard of an extractor fan? it is a good point and it is talking about pollution levels occurring when the windows are closed. scientists have been talking about this, apparently toasters are one of the worst offenders. when you turn one on, they sent these
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particulates into the air around you. i would only say that extractor fa ns you. i would only say that extractor fans are extremely noisy so if he wa nts fans are extremely noisy so if he wants one on 24/7... 0pen fans are extremely noisy so if he wants one on 24/7... open a window. if you're making toast first thing in the morning? how much it cost to i’ui'i in the morning? how much it cost to run an extractor fan? you would think it was a light—hearted story! finally, the daily express, dolly pa rton finally, the daily express, dolly parton is back on nine to five duty, she has a show coming to the uk based on the film. it opened this evening and based on the classic film which i actually do really enjoy, one of my favourites. but the point was it was a feminist fantasy when it was made and now she is saying it was the precursor of the #metoo movement. maybe take the message but not the tactic. she is a smarty— pants. the running joke message but not the tactic. she is a smarty—pants. the running joke about dolly parton is that she always is the one who puts the jokes in
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motion, she laughs at herself long before anybody else does ijust want to say, the whole of her home state, every child in teenage years get a book every single year courtesy of her library foundation. there are no flies on dolly parton. she was asked if she had any advice to offer the uk on the issue of brexit and said, we can hardly take care of our own problems, let alone try and solve yours! what a wise woman! we almost got through it without mentioning brexit! we did but she was asked. that's it for the papers this hour. tony and caroline will be back at 11.30pm for another look at the papers. boiled and not roasted! next on bbc news, it's click. massive attack's teardrop plays.
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it is pretty far out there, but it really suits the music and what they're about, i think. in his birmingham studio, artist harley davies is painting a unique work that is much, much more than meets the eye. it's mind—blowing to think that, when you consider how much data there must be out there. it's interesting for the future, i'd say. the artwork is the album cover of the hugely popular and influential mezzanine album by massive attack. and to celebrate its 20th anniversary, the band agreed to have this music encoded in dna and then added to several spray paint cans.
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it means harley's painting will hold thousands of copies of the album and to find out how, i have come here to a lab in zurich to meet one of the pioneers of using genetic code to store data. and so here's the freezer where we keep the dna. right, ok, this is where the magic happens. exactly. so in here. it comes in an enormous box, all really cold. and you buy in dna? we buy in the dna. dr grass has encoded the music already to be sequenced into the dna. that work is done by one of several companies now offering genetic code to order. so they make the dna in the sequence that encodes for the album. so we have the sequence of a, c, t and g and so they take a and then the other c and the other t so that will encode for, i don't know, 0010 or something like that. and then you have to make — because the album is much more
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than just a few zeros and ones — you have to make a lot of those dna sequences. so the whole album is distributed over the tubes, so there is no particular order. it starts at the beginning and at the end and so, every tube contains a million different short dna sequences and every sequence has a number stored in it to tell us where it sits in the overall picture of the album. so inside this tube is effectively about the equivalent of one of the tracks on the album. and how much does this cost? 50 megabytes, $1,000 per megabytes. that's about $15,000 to store the album. it's a lot but you only have to do that once and then you can make enormous amounts of copies of it, because one key advantage of dna, i think, over all storage technologies we have, that essentially for free —
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nearly for free — you can make billions of copies. i don't know if you see it, it's a very small blob. oh, wow, 0k. so that — there's an opaque section at the end of this tube. in there, there's billions of very, very small glass particles and in the glass particles, we have encapsulated the dna. so we have grown glass around — we've directed glass to grow around the dna. and it protects the dna. very similar to what you know from amber. right, and the amber is protecting it from decaying for potentially millions of years. exactly. and here, for millions of years, in our dna in the glass, for probably 1,000 years, it protects the album from decaying. so you can still hopefully play it in 1,000 years. how many copies of the album are inside here then? just the one? no, so we put a million copies inside. even if you don't spray with the whole can, you certainly have a copy of the album in there.
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so harley's picture paints much more than a thousand words. it's not only the first album cover artwork to actually include the album. a painting this size could store enough data to hold every album, picture, photo, book and recording, audio and film ever created in the history of mankind. so how can we read the information? well, that's one fly in the amber at the moment. this machine takes 17 hours to do it. it's come down from about a week but still, imagine pressing play and waiting that long. so we may be several years away from dna being practicalfor storage but at least it will hang around for thousands of years, and in a format we'll always recognise when we see it. 0r hear it. a few weeks ago, we visited
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the amazon spheres — part of the tech giant's headquarters in seattle. we met the people behind its voice recognition tool, alexa, and saw what else we'll be talking to soon. as the tech gets better, it could, one day, become the way that we interact with our devices. now, that prompted this question from a viewer: thanks, simon, that's a really good point and, yeah, apple homepod gives some
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control to deaf users through the use of a touchpad, but nowhere near enough to really use it. google's assistant can control a smart device by typing requests on a smartphone, and the captions feature is available on the versions of alexa with a screen — news, weather and timers can be activated with tap. all of this is quite basic, so abhishek singh has decided to show them how it could be done. he's created a simple algorithm to do this. the camera sees what he signs and turns it into text that alexa can understand and respond to. now, it only does a few words but the point is to inspire the big companies into action. last month, google released a couple of new accessibility apps for deaf users who use its android devices, and lara and click trainee maddie have been putting them to the test. i lost my hearing when i was seven and about a year after that,
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i got a cochlear implant which has helped me a lot, but even now in certain situations, i find it really hard to hear. so when i'm in noisy cafes or at a dinner party, my hearing is not the best. we've deliberately come to a coffee shop where there's real, everyday noise all around us to demonstrate these. maddie here has been testing them in various different environments. we are going to start off with google live transcribe. and it does what it says, instantly and simply creating a script of your conversation. it can do so in 70 languages and dialects — with quite impressive accuracy, it seems. yeah, it seems to do really, really well with people talking. with one or two people talking, it works really well. obviously, the further away you get from it, the worse it gets, and the closer you get, the more accurate it becomes. so the underlying technology is automatic speech recognition technology
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and what that is is that's a way of us taking all sorts of known speech from recordings and basically training algorithms on top of it so that it learns all of the nuances, all of the context that we understand as people. we also have here google's sound amplifier app. you need to attach a pair of headphones to the device and from there, it can turn up the volume on different elements of what you're listening to. so it may be the quieter background noise that you want to make louder, while keeping the main sounds you are listening to at the time, which could be some music, at the same volume. now, how useful did you find this was, maddie? i thought it was quite cool that you could play music and still hear stuff from the outside world at the same time. the phone's microphone picks up the ambient sound and, from there, machine learning and artificial intelligence isolate the elements. that could make it possible to, say,
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make speech louder and the sound of an air—conditioning unit quieter. people with worse hearing, it would be much more useful because itjust boosts that noise around you. so when you're less comfortable with your hearing, it gives you that little bit of security, that you could have that little bit of extra volume. it took me a good 30 minutes, just focusing on the app, playing with all the toggles, because it builds into the settings on your phone, so it took me a while to find the right settings for me. these are what i would call accessibility first applications, in that we're not taking an existing product and making it more accessible. we're making, in both cases, the real world more accessible using these technologies that exist on a smartphone and in the cloud today. the big game—changer was back in 2014, when the first hearing aids with the ability to communicate with an iphone came out. that then opened up a lot of possibilities because you've not just got the processing power
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of the hearing aid, you've got the processing power of the smartphone as well. apple added similar functionality to their airpods last year, with live listen allowing you to place your phone or ipad near the sound you want amplified. and now starkey, one of the leading hearing aid brands, will be adding full detection and a virtual assistant to their device that already features live translation and activity tracking. a live translation feature is promised, along with activity tracking, and an app to host a whole lot of data. it looks at your constant communication with other people and therefore, it's measuring how much social interaction you're having. and there are also sensors inside the hearing aid, so motion sensors inside the hearing aid, which are looking at how much movement you've got. there has been found to be a relationship between cognitive decline and hearing health. but when it comes to google's latest releases, even if they're not proving quite perfect yet, they do harness the power
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of the fiercest weapon most of us have on us all the time. and that's it for the shortcut of click for this week. the full—length version is up on iplayer, waiting for you right now. and don't forget, we also live across social media — instagram, youtube, facebook and twitter. it has been another very mild day across the uk, temperatures got up to 15 degrees, the average this time of year is closer to eight or nine
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so we are way up there. monday will bea so we are way up there. monday will be a bit cooler, more cloud and a chance of catching some showers. the reason is a weather front moving across the uk right now. it is introducing slightly less mild air off the atlantic and with that some showers and bay are evident across scotla nd showers and bay are evident across scotland tonight, one or two in other areas as well but on the whole weather is looking dry for most of us weather is looking dry for most of us and still mild, overnight lows of five or six in the north and 9 degrees in the south and these are the sort of temperatures we should be getting in the daytime and this is early monday morning. monday itself, frequent showers in scotland, some effect in northern ireland and the south and south—east could catch some rain as well but uncertain how many showers. be prepared for at least a little bit of rain and notice the temperatures, around 9—12d at best so not quite the mid—teens we have been enjoying so far. this is tuesday, we are in between weather fronts, one so far. this is tuesday, we are in between weatherfronts, one moving away and another approaching the
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north—west of the country so that means that eventually on tuesday afternoon and tuesday night we will see this weather front brushing the north—west of the uk so that means rainfor north—west of the uk so that means rain for belfast, glasgow as well and sweeping across scotland over night. towards the east and south it will stay dry, the skies will be a bit hazy but the winds are still coming from the south—west. this is wednesday, you can see this milder air stretching out of the southern climes and approaching the uk which means those temperatures are rising. the morning looks to be cloudy with some rain around particularly in northern parts but by the afternoon it will brighten up and the temperatures will start to pick up again at nationwide, 13 or 14 in the south, 11 or 12 in the north. as we head through thursday and into friday, more sunshine on the way, beautiful conditions once again in the forecast. temperatures in the south around 16 in london and in
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fa ct, south around 16 in london and in fact, friday and into the weekend we will start to see that jet stream from the south wafting up even milderairand it from the south wafting up even milder air and it could reach 18 degrees by the weekend. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11pm. a british teenager who ran away to join the islamic state group in syria says she's given birth to a boy — shamima begum's family has asked the british government to help bring their daughter and her baby home. primarily, they'd like the government to recognise its responsibility to a now one—day—old child and to extend every help that can be given to have that child repatriated to the uk. president trump warns the us will have to release hundreds of islamic state fighters unless the uk and other allies can take reponsibility for those jihadists who came from europe. stranded flybmi passengers speak of frustration — after the airline went into administration — and cancelled all flights. a man has been arrested in brighton, after handing himself into police investigating the murder
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of a 22—year—old man found stabbed in a car.
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