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the eu tells the uk, give us new acceptable proposals on brexit by tomorrow to break the deadlock. with the clock ticking, the chancellor told brexiteers they risk a delay to the uk's departure if they don't back the prime minister's deal. if we don't get theresa may's deal done on tuesday, clearly there will have to be a consensus for the way forward, there will probably be an extension of time. we'll bring you the latest from our correspondents in westminster and brussels. also this lunchtime... as politicians and police link pupil school exclusions to knife crime, the father of one of the 17—year—olds killed at the weekend speaks out. if you have any conscience whatsoever, what you have taken
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away, the pain you have caused and the beauty you have taken from this world, just give yourself up if you have any conscience whatsoever. a tale of two retailers profits plunge atjohn lewis but surge at greggs. offshore wind will provide 30% of the uk's electricity by 2030, following a new deal with the government. and the queen posts her first image on instagram, on a visit to the science museum in london. and coming up on bbc news... a late var penalty — an historic win for manchester united in the champions league — what next for their manager ole gunnar solskjaer? good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the government has been urged
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by brussels to table fresh proposals on brexit by tomorrow to try to break the negotiating deadlock. tomorrow marks three weeks before the uk is due to leave the eu and officials in brussels said they'd work non—stop over the weekend if "acceptable" ideas were received on the issue of how to avoid a hard border on the island of ireland. theresa may's withdrawal deal is to be voted on again on tuesday and today the chancellor, philip hammond, warned brexiteers in his own party that voting against it would land them in highly uncertain territory and would jeopardise their preferred option of leaving the eu on time. here's our political correspondent nick eardley. three weeks tomorrow, the uk is due to leave the european union, but 22 days before brexit day, things are not clear. negotiations are stock and getting a reworked deal through parliament still looks like a huge ask. the government's top lawyer is trying to get changes on the irish border, but talks this week have not
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gone well. he says they will start again soon. it is government policy to achieve the necessary change in the backstop, which will cause me to review and change my advice. but there was time for a joke about changes not amounting to much. there was time for a joke about changes not amounting to muchm has come to be called cox's codpiece. i want to make sure what's inside the codpiece is in full working order. ministers are not laughing, they say the uk has been farfrom laughing, they say the uk has been far from clear. we are waiting for a proposal from the british government. we have heard what you don't want, we are willing to know what you want. the government is desperate to get changes on the irish border. brussels says it will look at any new proposals it receives by tomorrow, but as things stand there just isn't a reworked deal to put to parliament next week. there aren't the concessions the
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prime minister needs to win over the back benchers who say without changes they won't back the plan. there are warnings, senior ministers saying if they vote down the deal next week things are very uncertain is in next week things are very uncertain isin- next week things are very uncertain is in — uncertain. next week things are very uncertain is in - uncertain. it would likely lead to an extension of time and an uncertain outcome, more uncertainty for the british economy, more uncertainty for people across the country so i would urge my collea g u es country so i would urge my colleagues to think very carefully. and behind closed doors, there are talks about trying to force a closer relationship with europe. last night jeremy corbin met with senior conservatives who want to stay in the european single market and keep a close trading relationship. what we are looking for is in agreement with the european union that would give us a customs union, trade access and legal protection of our rights. what exact form that takes
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is the subject of negotiation. time is the subject of negotiation. time is running out. next week parliament will have its say again. the pm still has work to do if her plan is going to become reality. nick ea rd ley, going to become reality. nick eardley, bbc news, westminster. in a moment we'll hear from adam fleming in brussels, but first our chief political correspondent vicki young is in westminster. not much sign of progress? no, that's right. both sides describing the latest talks as difficult and government insiders sounding very gloomy about the prospects of any kind of imminent breakthrough. of course that is important because without those significant changes to the withdrawal agreement, the prospect of another heavy defeat for the government next week in the vote on tuesday, they go up, hence this stark warning from the chancellor philip hammond saying to pro—brexit mps in his own party, effectively be careful what you wish for. because if the deal is voted down, it triggers this series of events.
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partly as likely to rule out a no—deal brexit, they will then possibly delay brexit altogether, meanwhile you have the labour leader talking to senior conservatives about a completely different kind of brexit deal so the prospects not looking good for the government. as they look ahead to the end of next week, they could be in a position where with two weeks to go on till brexit, they have completely lost control of the process altogether. adam, with eu officials are saying give us new proposals by tomorrow to the uk government, they are pointing the uk government, they are pointing the fingerfirmly as the uk government, they are pointing the finger firmly as the ball being in the uk s court now? that's right, we have a notional timetable about how things could work in an ideal world. this is if everything goes to plan. you would get the brexit secretary and attorney general coming back tomorrow with fresh proposals which, if they meet with the approval of the eu, their negotiating teams would work through
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the weekend to finalise them and then you could potentially see the prime minister coming here for a meeting with jean—claude juncker to put the finishing touches to whatever has been agreed, which would then be presented to mps to vote on next tuesday. that is in an ideal world. we have also learnt about why the talks went badly this week, it come down to the idea that the arbitration panel, made up of judges and lawyers independently appointed to deal with disputes that arise from the brexit treaty in future, be given the power to decide whether the irish backstop was needed anymore if it ever came into force. that is what the uk is thinking about, the eu has said that is not what the arbitration panel is designed for, it is too big a decision to give to some judges and lawyers meeting behind closed doors so lawyers meeting behind closed doors so that is the problem is the two sides will have to solve and pretty quickly. thank you, adam fleming and
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vicki young. even though this was not my intention, it was deeply insensitive to many of those who lost loved ones, karen bradley said. the mayor of london sadiq khan, and eight police and crime commissioners from england and wales say the way pupils excluded from school are dealt with is contributing to knife crime. they've written a letter to theresa may calling for pupil exclusions to be more tightly regulated. the government said permanent exclusions should be a "last resort". frankie mccamley reports. dance class for pupils in this college. all have struggled with mainstream school, some were excluded. it's not getting in the way of their high aspirations but today the prime minister is being warned a broken system support for
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troubled youngsters is at the heart ofa troubled youngsters is at the heart of a rise in violent crime, something sandra disagrees with. there's people who do it for the sake of doing it, then there's people who do it for protection. everyone has their own motives and reasons so you can never actually label a person for the reason why they carry a knife. despite losing a friend to knife crime, she wants to become a performer. you don't have to be in education to make it in life because in a way that is what the media is perceiving that if you don't go in education you are not going to make it and that's not really the case. there's so many different ways for people to create and make new things in life. just last someone was stabbed by power loss's home. it wasn't even a stabbing, it was a shooting because you don't know who is going to be next. it's the way young people are
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pushed, with exams, they get so annoyed. but i don't think exclusions in schools are the reasons for stabbings. the principal thinks exclusions play a part in youth violence. i understand why there is a correlation between those things, that exclusion from mainstream schooling is symptomatic of wider problems which also lead them into gang—related activity and carrying knives and so on, but it is not causation, it is notjust because you have been excluded you are going tojoin a gang. that is simply not true. with the recent spike in knife crime, the spotlight is being put onto schools. exclusions might not be helping the situation but in reality the reasons young people are turning to violence are much more complex. in a joint letter to the prime minister, the london mayor sadik khan hasjoined crime commissioners claiming poverty and budget cuts are adding to the
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rise in violent crime and they are calling for an end to off rolling, as well as new powers for local councils to intervene on exclusions. what we are saying is earlier support given to schools with more accountability to schools will hopefully lead to fewer children being excluded. we know from a report from her majesty is inspectorate of prisons that nine out of ten young people in custody in secure training centres are young offenders institutions had been excluded. the government insist police budgets are rising and calls knife crime and immediate problem, but for many who have lost friends, family and their children, these words may not be immediate enough. for them, action is needed to stop more headlines like these. frankie mccamley, bbc news. this morning the father of 17—year—old jodie chesney spoke publicly for the first time since she was fatally stabbed in east london last friday. peter chesney made a direct plea
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to whoever was responsible, to give themselves up. the ferocity of the attack, how violent it was, he meant to kill her. no doubt about that. it wasn't an accident. i don't know how you tackle this sort of thing going on. what makes it so hard as there is no reason, we don't know why, no motive. that is a problem. you can almost come to terms with it if there was a reason of any kind. i don't know if anything i'm going to say is going to install any conscience on this guy, i doubt it. if you have any conscience about the pain you have caused and the beauty you have taken from this world, just give yourself up if you have any conscience whatsoever. honestly, the pain this guy has caused. martyn patterson in the headteacher at newhaven pupil referral unit and joins us from brighton.
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martyn patterson, heartbreaking interview with the father ofjodie chesney and clearly knife crime is ruining so many lives. politicians have been speaking about excluded pupils being sucked into criminality, what do you think? firstly my heart goes out to those who have lost loved ones, i couldn't begin to think what that was like but that response is quite a naive, simplistic and perhaps a convenient way for society to lay blame at schools' doors. the sad fact is the vast majority of students that are permanently excluded from schools and certainly those that end up in my school, the vast majority of them have already shown potential anti—social behaviour and have already been sucked into criminality before they have been excluded. so actually the reason they have been excluded is due to those factors so to suggest exclusions is the cause of that kind of criminality is i
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think convenient. you look after pupils who have been formally excluded but we know there have been others who have been oft rolled, meaning they are effectively ghosts in the system. do you blame the schools for doing that? —— off—rolled? schools for doing that? —— off-rolled? if there are teachers that are doing that without following due process and more importantly without doing all they can to help the individual child, the teacher needs to be held accountable for that. some of the responsibility for this has to be with the local authority who are responsible for every child's welfare. in the authority on which i work in greenwich, there are significant safeguards the authority put in place in order to stop head teachers and schools doing that, and that stops students that you are suggesting falling through the net. so yes, schools have a
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responsibility but local authorities also have a role to play. in the last week we have heard a lot about a fresh new method in scotland to tackle knife crime using a public health approach instead of the criminal justice health approach instead of the criminaljustice approach, is that something you support? without question. glasgow and other cities in scotland seem to be leading the way in reducing knife crime. although there are societal differences between glasgow and london where i work, there is no doubt the root causes of these problems, criminality and knife crime are the same. it is a sad fact to point out the vast majority of stu d e nts to point out the vast majority of students that do head down a criminal route can be identified at a very early age and sometimes even before birth. the adverse childhood experiences the majority of these stu d e nts experiences the majority of these students have suffered can be picked up students have suffered can be picked up very early, so to me, if we can get resources to the problem at an earlier stage and begin to tackle those problems and change the lives
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of families that early, that is the way to begin to deal with it. martyn patterson, many thanks for joining us. they're down 45% to £160 million. it means that staff will have their bonuses cut for the sixth year in a row. but there have been betterfigures for the bakery chain greggs where its annual sales have broken through a billion pounds for the first time. our business correspondent emma simpson is here. so, what has been behind the success ? so, what has been behind the success? what a record year for greggs. it is a milestone when sales breakthrough that billion pound mark for the first time. its sales, annual sales were up more than 7% on the year, which is a strong performance. especially when it wasn't that long ago that greggs was really struggling. it was a bakery business which managed to then reinvent itself, into delivering more food on the go. healthier options like salads as well as pasties, so it is doing well at the
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start hoff this year too, thanks to a saivet social media marketing campaign witha a saivet social media marketing campaign with a vegan sausage rolls that have got it off to a flying start this year. but it's a different story behind what is going on atjohn lewis. different story behind what is going on at john lewis. remember it covers the waitrose supermarket chain and the waitrose supermarket chain and thejohn the waitrose supermarket chain and the john lewis department stores the waitrose supermarket chain and thejohn lewis department stores and their annual profits are down. that was expected and the main reason is a really big fall in profit at the department store, and i think several reasons are behind this. wea ker sales several reasons are behind this. weaker sales in home furnishing, people aren't buying as many big ticket items and then they have to price match, the high street has been awash with discounting, with its rivals and that has knocked profits. also, that cherished staff bonus cut to 3%, the lowest in more than 60 year, the company said it could afford to pay more but it is focussed on reducing debt and bolstering its finances, to make itself more resillient for
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the labour party has been warned it could face a formal investigation by the equalities watchdog into claims of anti—semitism. the equalities and human rights commission has said it's considering using enforcement powers against labour and has asked the party to respond. our correspondentjonathan blake is at westminster. what could this mean for labour? well, this is the first step to what could end up being a full blown formal investigation of the labour party, overanti—semitism, formal investigation of the labour party, over anti—semitism, within its ranks and the equalities and human rights commission which oversees the law regarding discrimination and equality has been looking into material sent to it but various jewish pressure looking into material sent to it but variousjewish pressure groups including the jewish variousjewish pressure groups including thejewish labour movement and the campaign against anti—semitism and as a result they have said they believe labour may have said they believe labour may have unlawfully discriminated against people because of their ethnicity and religious beliefs and that i have formally written to the
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party, seeking a response. labour has 14 days to respond and depending on how they do, this could end up being anything from a voluntary agreement where labour agrees to change or adapted its policies and processes to a full blown formal investigation, but labour have indicated they will co—operate fully, saying in a statement today, they completely reject any suggestion the party has acted unlawfully. whatever happens it will mean more soul searching for labour, and more scrutiny on those at the top of the party to demonstrate as they have struggled to do they have a handle our top story. the eu has urged the uk to table new acceptable proposals on brexit by tomorrow, to break the negotiating deadlock. and coming up. back to the bucket. while climate change scientists have looking at this most basic of coming up on bbc news.
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olympic champion callum skinner retires from cycling. he says he is now focussed on reforming the way sport is run. 30% of the uk's electricity will generated by offshore wind farms by 2030, in a new deal the government has signed with the wind industry. it's another step towards the aim for almost all of the uk's power to come from low carbon sources by 2030. sarah corker reports. on the east yorkshire coast, hundreds of these huge wind turbine blades are stacked up like dominoes. soon they will be shipped off to what will become the world's biggest wind farm in the north sea. they are made in our blade facility to the right, so these are made in hull. this is one of only two factories in britain that makes these blades. and today's offshore wind deal
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between the government and the industry is set to accelerate this green revolution. it's the coming of age of renewable energy, it will become the backbone of the uk energy supply so i think it's a huge step from government signalling what they want do with energy policy and the industry getting ready to provide it. at the moment offshore wind provides around 7% of british power but that is due to increase to more than 30% by 2030, tripling the number of green collarjobs to 27,000. and the industry will invest £250 million in a growth fund. we are high above the humber estuary here and coastal communities in yorkshire and lincolnshire have greatly benefitted from the rapid growth of wind power and now the industry is expected to double in size by 2020. the danish firm which builds the winds farms has expanded its base on the east coast,
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transforming grimsby‘s fishing port. it's just a whole new lease of life, in the area and for grimsby that has struggled for some time but is really going through this renaissance and it is a sustainable future for grimsby if we are securing green energy. but environmentalists warn that as plans to expand nuclear are delayed these wind power targets don't go far enough to keep our lights on. britain, though, is the world's biggest offshore wind market. the deceits out plans for a five fold increase in exports to the far east, europe and the us and it is not just about the product, east, europe and the us and it is notjust about the product, these huge blades, it is about exporting technology, services and knowledge too. some people started here as operative, using skills from previous industries, so anything from joinery, to welding, nobody was an expert in making blades three yea rs an expert in making blades three years ago, we have learned it and we have honed our skills. and this expansion in wind energy means more jobs and investment for these
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coastal communities, as the industry goes global. sarah corker, bbc our environment analyst roger harrabin is here. how are we going to keep the lights on while tackling climate change? absolutely. previously the government xhitss suggests that 30% of our low carbon fuel would come from offshore wind. —— economists. we have heard that is going to be realised possibly more so. they projected that 30% would come from nuclear, and we know what a mess nuclear, and we know what a mess nuclear is in, maybe we might end up with just one nuclear is in, maybe we might end up withjust one more nuclear nuclear is in, maybe we might end up with just one more nuclear power station, and that would be very bad news on the energy front. the other 30% of the main sources was going to come from gas, with a carbon capture technology fitted to grab the co2 emissions out the stack, the ciccone and bury them under ground. that technology is still in its infancy
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and the plans have not got off the ground. we are only a few years left to go. so the question is now, has the government done enough with this, the green groups insist it has not done enough and should be investing even more in offshore wind, other people are more sanguine and think there is other different sources of electricity coming on the market, maybe we needn't worry but it will be a while yet before we know which of those assessments the giant chinese telecoms company, huawei, has announced that it is suing the us government over a ban on its products. the us claims that huawei s equipment presents a security risk — a claim the uk is still investigating. our correspondentjohn sudworth is at the company s headquarters in the southern chinese city of shenzhen. officers investigating the grenfell tower fire in london say that criminal charges will not be considered until 2021, at the end of the public inquiry into the disaster. representatives of relatives and survivors of grenfell say they are frustrated and disheartened at the news. 72 people died in the blaze in west
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london in june 2017. public satisfaction with the nhs is at its lowest level in more than a decade, according to a new survey. waiting times, staffing levels and funding were the main causes for concern. the department of health says its recently announced long term plan coupled with extra money would "safeguard" the future of the nhs. dominic hughes reports. satisfaction levels with the nhs have varied over the years, but the latest survey of public attitudes in england, scotland and wales shows growing concern over the state of the health service. in 2010, the annual survey revealed overall record levels of satisfaction — a high of 70%. but last year that figure fell to its lowest point since 2007 — just 53%. with waiting times, the number of staff and a lack of funding being the main factors behind dissatisfaction.
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people who have recently used the service are much more satisfied, so i think a big issue here is access to care, getting those appointments, getting in to see a gp for example. i think a lot of us have struggled with getting a gp appointment and that's really having an effect on satisfaction. while being free at the point of use, the quality of care and the range of services were the main reasons people were happy with the nhs, patients do recognise the difficulties the health service faces. i'm satisfied with the service they provide, i'm not satisfied that they've got enough funding to have enough people to do thejob properly. a few years ago actually changed my gp, because i rang up and the first appointment they could offer me was in 21 days' time. people like to take the nhs for granted, and they criticise it relentlessly it seems, but i think we need to put into perspective the work behind the scenes. there will be particular concern that almost a quarter of respondents were unsatisfied with gp services, but it seems that direct personal experience of the nhs, for example as a hospital inpatient, gave people a more positive view
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of the health service, dominic hughes, bbc news. now, the simple bucket is not usually linked with climate change technology, but since the early days of seafaring it's been used as a tool to measure sea temperatures. scientists are now scouring through log books going back 200 years comparing temperatures recorded then to what they are now. our science correspondent, richard westcott, explains more. only by looking at the past could you understand today's climate. it's fairly obvious. if you know the temperature the sea used to be, you can work out how much it's warmed up. for hundreds of years sailors have been taking the sea temperature to help them navigate.
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it was all quite basic. so it's 1863, here i am, a ship's hand. here we go. bringing up now. it's not light. they wrote the temperature in their log books, and now scientists have been comparing those old temperatures to today, to see how much they've changed. well, obviously the sea is 70% of the earth's surface, so knowing what the temperature of the ocean is is really important for us to understand how global temperature is changing. getting hold of the old weather readings is harder than it sounds, though. it's dull cloudy weather and they passed two bergs. this is the scott polar research institute in cambridge, and these are the log book hunters. sally and clive wilkinson have spent years scouring the globe, photographing sailing logs and putting them on line. they are part of a project looking for volunteers from the public to log on and help transcribe every snippet of information.
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trimming coal, and also theodolite instructions. and it's not always easy. it looks like "petrel", and, er... something gigantic. gigantic petrel. i would estimate there could be as many as a million ships' logs and related documents in the world. we have onlyjust begun. after its been checked several times, the information will be made available for scientists around the world to use. some of those scientists have already spent years making the old data more accurate. adjusting for different bucket types, for example. the wooden buckets get the water a bit warmer than the canvas ones. and then there's the human factor. you can see how there's lots of room for error really, the amount of time you put the bucket in, how long before you pull it out, how quickly you pull it out. how you take the temperature reading. we have millions and millions of these observations,
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and we're trying to understand exactly what effects all these variations have on the data, so that we can get to underlying true temperature changes in the ocean. so generations on, the temperatures taken by old sailors and their buckets are helping to shape global decisions on climate change. richard wescott, bbc news, southampton. the queen has passed something of a social media milestone posting an image on instagram for the first time. she was at the science museum in london formally opening its new smith centre. the queen also met children taking part in computer coding sessions, and was shown an enigma machine from the second world war. time now for a look at the weather. not a particularly pleasant afternoon. it is windy we have blustery showers and it is feeling chilly. this picture comes from one of our weather watchers, big cloud
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