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tv   Sportsday  BBC News  March 12, 2019 10:30pm-10:45pm GMT

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hello and welcome to our look ahead well to what the the papers will be why is it —— important to them. well there will be arguments about data bringing us tomorrow. and they have have to present with me are sebastian payne content about self harm and suicide from the financial times and lance price, former that was on her phone. and the tech director of communications for the labour party. companies can afford to buy in the many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. and no prizes for guessing what's most prestigious legal firms. but dominating the morning's news. ian russell chose to speak out for theresa may's brexit deal defeat leads the daily telegraph. the families of the 200 other the paper says losing the vote children who take their lives each by a majority of 149 in the commons tonight leaves the prime minister yearin children who take their lives each year in this country. they rarely clinging to her premiership. get a ccess year in this country. they rarely get access to legal aid. the legal aid agency says it will grant "driven to despair" funding in exceptional circumstances. thank you. declares the times — police investigating historic abuse at medomsley detention centre in county durham in the 1970s which features a picture of theresa and 80s, believe more than 300 teenagers were may leaving parliament tonight sexually abused there. the shocking extent of abuse can now be revealed following a six—year where she earlier told mps — police investigation. it concluded today with with a slightly croaky voice — the conviction of five former prison officers for misconduct in a public that they had to face up to some
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office and physical assaults. unenviable choices after her heavy defeat. 0ur correspondent chris jackson has the daily mirror follows suit, been following the trial. writing that the nation now faces this was a detention centre months of chaos with a history of abuse allegations. due to a likely delay its true scale only emerged when police in the brexit process. in the north—east re—opened their inquiries into medomsley near the guardian describes tonight consett in 2013. some of the boys would lay as another huge defeat for the prime minister on the bottom of stairs and looks ahead to the free vote given to mps and ask other boys to jump off tomorrow on whether to reject the stairs and jump on to their legs the option of a no—deal brexit. so they could break their legs so they out of control, says the i, could be removed. which carries reports that downing street has denied it is gearing up for dave stoker was 17 when he was sent a general election. the daily mailfocuses its ire to medomsley for theft. on mps who the paper says have dave ended up working in the prison plunged the country into chaos kitchens, they were run by after letting the opportunity to deliver brexit slip this man, neville husband, through their grasp. "how much more of this can britain take?" asks the daily express. a violent sexual predator. it says tonight's result in the commons has crushed the hopes of those who voted for brexit he took me upstairs in the eu referendum. and the financial times says and he told me to take me the prime minister's authority clothes off and sit on the bed. is in shreds after losing control of the brexit process. and he told us, he says if this gets let's start off with the i, what did out, he said he would make me life
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hell. you make of that, out of control, i was just frightened to tell anybody, because i didn't think does that sum up where the prime anybody would... minister is? i think so, does that sum up where the prime minister is? ithink so, butjust about keeping her hands on the husband, who has since died, process , about keeping her hands on the process, nudging it in the direction was convicted of nine the prime minister wanted to, but rapes and served five years in jail. she has finally lost control, now it the police now say he abused more than 300 teenage inmates. is going to be in the hands of mps i felt dirty and ashamed of myself and as i and the house of commons to describe say, i have been married 30 year what kind of brexit we have, and and i didn't even tell me wife. dave died in 2017 from liver indeed if we have brexit at all because theresa may's package, which disease, caused by heavy drinking. she put together meticulously over the last few years has been rejected it was medomsley, for the second time today, medomsley, it killed my davy stoker. fourth—largest defeat in house of the governor at medomsley commons history. the idea that she when police say the abuse was at its height was tim newall, he can come back for a third time, went on to have a successful career which is somewhat —— what some in in the criminaljustice system. up until now, he's refused to be interviewed. westminster are talking about seems mr newall i wonder if i could ask far—fetched. we will have more you about your time as votes, but clearly, theresa may, it governor of medomsley and how is it... sorry... is totally gone over this, she has not won over her party, she has not how is it when you were in charge, one labour mps over and i don't think anyone can see what is going to come next. if it is parliament neville husband could abuse
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that controls the process, does it have a consensus view on where it hundreds of men with a widespread abuse and yet you say you knew goes? no, it isn't in controlyet, nothing about it. i did knowing nothing about it. there are amendments down that might i'm very sorry it did happen. give parliament how is what possible. it was common knowledge among the staff. it wasn't. well under oath, under oath officers said in court that they didn't report neville husband because they felt he was protected at the top. well ultimately that is you. that's rubbish. i was not protecting him at all. we've learned that 273 of husbands victims have been compensated by the government costing £3.5 million. that figure is expected to rise. and viewers in the north east of england and cumbria can see more of that story on an inside out special programme on bbc one at 11:35 tomorrow night and everywhere else on the bbc iplayer. 0n the opening day of the cheltenham festival, espoir d'allen, ridden
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by mark walsh, was the surprise winner of the champion hurdle, a first triumph at cheltenham for trainer gavin cromwell. but in the last race of the day the favourite, ballyward, had to be put down after falling. tomorrow's racing at cheltenham is under threat following warnings of strong winds. manchester city have reached the quarterfinals of the champions league after a comfortable victory over schalke. already leading after the first leg, they thrashed the german side 7—0 at the etihad tonight — 10—2 on aggregate and are now one of three english clubs already in the last eight, as patrick gearey reports. they might be reigning english champions, but manchester city's european inexperience makes them champions league teenagers, according to their manager. you wouldn't want to catch them in the wrong mood, like schalke did. this foul meant a city penalty. that meant sergio aguero and that meant one thing, this time with added style. tie effectively over,
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city then got beautifully brutal. three minutes later, raheem sterling knew exactly where aguero was. the only thing holding city up was the video assistant referee's checks. another three minutes later, the screen tells you when to scream. in pocket money terms, city are in another world to schalke. they bought leroy sane off them don't have years ago, two and a half years ago, and he made it three. raheem sterling's movement for city's fourth was so fast even the assistant couldn't keep up. he gave offside. the technology corrected him — goal. city were strutting through to the quarterfinals. bernardo silva five, phil foden six, gabrieljesus 7—0. if manchester city are champions league teenagers, they're anything but awkward ones. patrick gearey, bbc news. more now on tonight's business at westminster and the government s failure once again to get its key brexit policy through parliament. events have once again highlighted how polarising and paralysing brexit has been to the political process. my colleague reeta chakrabarti
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looks now at the effect the brexit vote has had on the westminster political system and its future. the british people have spoken and the answer is we're out. the message from voters seemed clear. brexit means brexit, and we are going to make a success of it. but, after numerous trips to brussels and showdowns with the cabinet, nearly 1,000 days on, there's deadlock and division. has brexit proved too much for our political system? i sat down with three experts to get their take. it's the most difficult issue for parliament to resolve because, for the first time ever in our constitutional history, mps are being asked to enact something they do not believe in. the vast majority of mps were for remain, the majority in the cabinet voted remain, but the british people voted to leave, so we have a clash between sovereignty of parliament and the sovereignty of the people.
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theresa may hoped by calling an early general election in 2017 to strengthen her hand with brussels, but it was a gamble that went badly wrong and she now leads a minority government. her political weakness is part of the current impasse. both parties are very split on this issue. the cabinet is split. it's taken a long time to try and make decisions on what sort of leave do we want, and the government lost its majority. and the system is set up on the assumption that we have strong majority governments that can get their business through parliament, and this government can't. and the process has shown a country split, with the traditional left right division reconfigured as leave and remain. polls show attitudes have, if anything, hardened over time. the real problem we face is that public opinion has polarised in the wake of this process. the two most popular options are either to leave without a deal or to hold another referendum in the expectation we will vote to remain.
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both our politicians have been trying to seek the middle ground but the problem is on brexit the middle ground is very thinly populated. can i ask you to step back from all of this and consider this moment, and rank it really in terms of crises — what level of crisis is this? it's the most deeply divisive issue in british politics since the dispute about foreign policy in the 1930s, about how to deal with the dictators. butjust as we overcame those, to find ourselves united in the war, there is not going to be a war, but i think we can find ourselves equally united once this issue is finally settled. at the end of the day, government is unable to make a decision, it's not necessarily a problem. we usuallyjust say, well, 0k, we will reserve with the status quo until we can make a decision. the difficulty of course with this issue is that the clock is ticking
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and by the 29th of march we do have to make a decision. i think we have to move to a position where politicians start confronting people with very real choices and being prepared themselves to say they are making those choices and why they are making them, and hope that can rebuild a degree of public trust. my colleague reeta chakrabarti reporting there. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg joins us again. these two big votes coming up and then what? that is a good question. tomorrow mps are likely to vote to say we must not leave the eu at the end of this month if there isn't a formal deal. that is almost certain to happen. if it does, on thursday, then mps have a chance to vote to delay the whole process and vote for an extension to use the jargon. it is less clear that will sail through parliament, but it is likely to happen. but ministers tell me that theresa may is almost certain to
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keep going to try to have another crack, yes, a third attempt at getting her deal through at some point in the next fortnight before we are due to leave. after two years of investing in this deal and her genuine belief it is maybe not perfect, but the best compromise. she is not going tojunk it, although a lot of people in that place think it is crazy to continue like this. the reason why no 10 believes she should go on with this, because there is no other easy way out. that place does not agree on the other alternative, whether that is going to have have a general election, going to a closer relationship with the eu or having another referendum. there is no consensus in there on any of them. but you if you're watching at home tonight, whatever way you voted in the referendum, if you felt you should be able to trust parliament to manage this process properly, you would be perfectlyjustified in
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wondering whether you had been wrong to do that. we will see what they do tomorrow. thank you. that's all from the bbc news at ten so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one we can nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are.
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