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the bomb attacks in sri lanka — eight british nationals are new thought to be among the 290 people killed. police have arrested 2a people in a series of raids — as the government blames a local islamist extremist group the majority of the security forces say that they are suicide bombers. so, with that, we are doing all the raids, and one by one, we are catching. a large hillside fire in county down sees hundreds of holidaymakers at a caravan park spend the night in emergency accommodation. a warning that older women are being exploited by some ivf clinics who, the fertility watchdog says, are "trading on hope." meeting our demand for takeway — the online company setting up their own kitchens
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making food directly for delivery. good afternoon. the sri lankan high commissioner says eight british nationals are among the 290 people killed in a series of bomb attacks. more than 500 others were injured in the blasts which targeted churches and hotels on easter sunday. police say they've arrested 2a suspects and that the bombings were carried out with the support of an international network. the government has blamed a local radical islamist group, although no—one has yet admitted carrying out the attacks. there has been another explosion today in the sri lankan capital, colombo, as security forces were defusing a bomb inside an abandoned van near a church. nick beake reports.
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the christians of colombo should have been celebrating rebirth this easter, but its death, on an horrific scale, which has confronted them, this was one of three churches bombed, shouts and screams rang out where there had been singing and prayers. the victims of a carefully coordinated strike which has plunged hundreds of families into mourning. among them, 36—year—old here, his brother said he rushed him to hospital but there was nothing that could be done for him and his relatives are grieving. the scale of the attacks and the planning that went into them have stunned the country but already the prime minister has admitted that intelligence has received more than ten days ago about possible attacks on churches so already some people are asking could these bombers have been stopped? —— was. visiting one of the bomb sites, a senior official defended the authority's actions. -- the authority is's actions. what i have to say, it is very unfortunate,
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very u nfortu nate. have to say, it is very unfortunate, very unfortunate. at saint anthony is in colombo, disbelief, more than 1500 worshippers had packed into the easter sunday service. the chief priest told us he had left his church to pick up some papers when the bomb ripped through his congregation and that it was a miracle he survived. how does that touch you this morning, knowing you have been saved and 300 others lost their lives? i i don't understand it yet, he has saved me. many are on edge, with good reason. explosions this device has just exploded near one of the church is targeted yesterday, as the bomb squad was moving in. —— church's. no group has yet admitted it was behind the attack, the perpetrators may remain in the shadows but the carnage they have wrought is painfully clear.
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0ur correspondent sharanjit leyl is in thh sri lankan capital colombo for us now. what is the latest? well, the mood on the ground here is still, very much a country in shock, and morning, over those deadly blasts that just happened yesterday, morning, over those deadly blasts thatjust happened yesterday, and of course, they continue today, very much an active situation as we saw in the report. in the last few hours we have been seeing repeated broadcasts of those explosions, we don't know if they are detonated, controlled explosions or not, of course, that particular one, that van blowing up at saint anthony is a shrine, a target of one of the blasts, one of the deadly blasts, just yesterday, there was some 87 devices that were detonated at the biggest bus station here. —— st anthony's shrine. we are told that people are still being evacuated, reports of the evacuation happening here. the lotus tower, the little,
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the lotus —shaped tower that you see behind me, a lot of this is still happening as we speak, there is tension and concern in this active situation here and investigation is continuing about what led to this, you heard in that report as well some suggestions that the authorities were aware that an attack was about to happen. that they might have been aware as early as april 11. that such an attack was going to happen. reports suggesting the prime minister, and his team we re the prime minister, and his team were not made aware of the situation and perhaps more could have been done to prevent these horrific attacks. —— ranil wickremesinghe. huge investigation under way, security investigation, we know what happened but we are not sure who did it or why. we heard from the secretary of the cabinet earlier,
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talking about a small islamist radicalised group, unheard of really, very little known about them, they may have been linked to them, they may have been linked to the randomisation of some buddhist statues last year, which also led to a state of emergency then. —— vandalising of some buddhist statues. and some linked to an international network because it was such a coordinated attack that happened in the space of a few hours in colombo, other places in sri lanka. seven suicide bombers all local, we have been told, that somehow they had international connections. thank you very much. climate change protesters, who've staged a week of demonstrations in london and edinburgh, will meet this afternoon to discuss the next phase of their campaign. more than a thousand people have been arrested since the protests began.
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our correspondent caroline davies is at marble arch. caroline, what's the latest? you can see behind me, the main stage is starting to get into full swing, a crowd gathering. since we arrived this morning, there has been arrived this morning, there has been a ceilidh band and some political speeches by green mp caroline lucas, there has been 100 tents, looking over to the side, that have been set out on the grass, also some people stayed in their cars overnight, and others, a steady stream that have been arriving into the sunshine to protest today. extension rebellion have stopped from closing streets in 0xford have stopped from closing streets in oxford street, they were closing traffic, parliament square, and also waterloo bridge last night was reopened. 0ver waterloo bridge last night was reopened. over 1000 waterloo bridge last night was reopened. 0ver1000 people have been arrested as part of this protest, 1065 in total. —— extinction rebellion. that includes the gold 0lympic medallist at ian scott, he said he had been put into the back ofa van
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said he had been put into the back of a van and was released in the early hours of the morning, he then came down here to address the crowds. —— etienne stott. sadik khan has said that he wanted individuals to stop causing disruption, get back to stop causing disruption, get back to business as usual, having spoken to business as usual, having spoken to the organisers, that does not seem very likely to happen anytime $0011. seem very likely to happen anytime soon. thank you. in northern ireland, hundreds of holidaymakers in county down have spent the night in emergency accommodation after a large hillside fire forced them from their caravan park. the wildfire happened in the mourne mountains above the seaside town of newcastle. they're now under control. chris page reports. 0n the mountainside, a fire front a mile long threatened some houses as it burned through the gorse. eyewitnesses described it as a running wildfire. fifty fire fighters worked to bring the blaze under control. the flames came close to a caravan park. police went from one mobile home to another, telling people to get out quickly.
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buses took around two hundred holiday—makers to a leisure centre. it wasn't how expected to be spending their easter. very frightening. people were told to get in to their cars, move their cars. then you got in and you were told to get out of your cars and run to the front gates. the wind was blowing it towards the caravan site. once it hit one caravan, then they were worried about the gas bottles. once the gas bottles are hit, it would have made a chain reaction. they have now been allowed to go back to their caravans. the mourne mountains provide some of the most striking scenery in northern ireland. the hilltop scrubland adds to the rocky beauty. but when fires break out here, the wind and the terrain mean they spread rapidly. it isn't clear yet how this one began. but the emergency services have pointed out the vast majority of gorse fires are started deliberately, and pictures like these show how dangerous that can be. chris page, bbc news. older women are being exploited by ivf clinics,
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who are "trading on hope", that's according to the head of britain's fertility watchdog. sally cheshire, chairwoman of the human fertilisation and embryology authority, has accused some private clinics of using "selective success rates" to persuade middle—aged women to undergo treatment. 0ur correspondent jenny kumah is here. what has sally been saying? she says that she is worried about the sales tactics used to pressure vulnerable women into undergoing treatment, now she herself is 50, she says that she recently experienced sales pitches when she went to a fertility show in manchester, by people who were unaware of what she did for a day job, she herself is a former ivf patient, she went on to have a family using adoption. she would like to see clinics be more open about success rates for older women, we can go through some of the figures: they show that women over 40, the number of women over 40 having ivf has doubled in the last
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decade and of those women having treatment with their own eggs, not frozen from when they were younger, those aged 40 to 42 had a success rate of 9%. those one year older, they saw their chances of getting pregnant. can, just 3%, and those aged 44 had a success rate ofjust 196. aged 44 had a success rate ofjust 1%. that equates to two live births per year. a lot of people paying privately for this treatment and it is costly. in many areas if you are over 40 you will not qualify for ivf on the nhs, because of your age. sally cheshire says that some private clinics are charging as much as £20,000 orfour times the private clinics are charging as much as £20,000 or four times the actual cost of the treatment. she is also worried about some clinics offering so—called add—on services, embryo
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groom, endo neutral scratching, they claim it increases your chances of getting pregnant but there is no conclusive evidence that is the case. a british charity worker has been killed in northern nigeria. faye mooney was shot dead on friday, along with a nigerian man, when gunmen stormed a resort in kaduna state where she was visiting on holiday. three other people were also kidnapped. no—one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. two teenagers arrested in connection with the murder of thejournalist, lyra mckee, have been released without charge. the 29—year—old was shot dead during violence in londonderry on thursday night. police said support from the community has been positive, but appealed for "tangible evidence". there's been a powerful earthquake on the island of luzon in the philippines. the quake, which had a magnitude of 6.4 and lasted for around 30 seconds, caused office buildings to sway in the capital, manila. the full extent of the damage
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caused is still unknown. britons spend close to £5 billion a year on orders for take—away food, and online orders now account for more than half of all deliveries. this has prompted the online company deliveroo, whose riders normally collect from restaurants, to get their own premises with kitchens to supply directly for delivery. these so—called "dark kitchens" have been criticised as a way to get around council rules on takeaways. consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith reports. it's lunchtime at the office and grub‘s up. deliveroo. in the last year, 773 million deliveries were made to homes and offices like helena, isabel and martin's. it's quite normal here, isn't it? yeah. every single day, there's a delivery here. i kind of know what i want and by the time i'm looking through it, it will be, "i fancy a chinese tonight" or "i fancy an indian tonight". i wish i did know — ijust go on and see what can come fastest because i'm normally absolutely starving by the time i get to deliveroo.
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i don't order directly from the restaurant. you'd never pick up the phone? no. and there's no washing up, like you say. i hate washing up. but to keep up with that demand, orders are now coming from surprising places. this is a dark kitchen — or an additions kitchen, as deliveroo call them. they do an amazing burger. then, got chinese as you walk a bit further down. they're all individual sort of pods that this kitchen‘s based... yeah, no, exactly. so, individual kitchens but then, some of this space in the middle is shared. 0ne warehouse owned by deliveroo handing orders straight to a rider. what the kitchen allows us to do is to gain access to a market in a much more cost—effective way. the landscape of food is changing anyway — more and more people are sort of ordering online or through the app. but deliveroo have faced criticism. they class their dark kitchens as industrial sites, and not takeaways. but some councils are currently challenging that.
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deliveroo say they are engaging with councils and residents to ensure that they set high standards. with high—street restaurants facing increasing costs, are dark kitchens making life too difficult for anyone else to compete? it's always better to go to the restaurant than having it delivered to your door. when a customer eats our food, i want it to be as perfect as it can be, and if it's been on a moped for 15 minutes and it gets to the customer's house, it might be cold, it might be soggy, it might have spilt. so, you don't think deliveroo and kitchens like this are a threat to high—street restaurants? the restaurant experience is never going to go away. we absolutely are not looking to replace that. it's still a small part of our business but certainly it's something that seems to be working really well for everyone, so, why not continue to expand it? as our appetite for takeaways grows, more are likely to be made in warehouses, rather than restaurants. colletta smith, bbc news, in salford. the prime minister is set to face a no—confidence challenge
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from conservative grassroots campaigners. more than 70 local chairmen, angry at the government's handling of brexit, have called for an extraordinary general meeting to discuss theresa may's leadership. 0ur political correspondent nick eardley is here. how much trouble could she be in? westminster returns tomorrow but many of the tensions will feel familiar. there are conservatives furious about the brexit plan from the premise —— and that she is working with labour which is why this group of activists is forcing a no—confidence vote. they will take that to the body which represents tory volu nteers that to the body which represents tory volunteers and it is likely to ta ke tory volunteers and it is likely to take place in the next few weeks. evenif take place in the next few weeks. even if it did pass it would not bind the prime minister and force her to quit, it would be an indication of their displeasure. it isa indication of their displeasure. it is a real sign of the tension and pressure on the prime minister. there are conservative mps who want
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to change the rules to allow them to have another no—confidence vote if they can in the next few months. talks with labour are likely to continue in coming days but those brexit tensions will be back at the top of the agenda soon and i suspect easter goodwill will last long. it'll please some and outrage others — cars that make sure you stick to the speed limit. under rules being finalised by the eu, new vehicles will have to be fitted with limiters from 2022. but how will they actually work? theo leggett has been finding out. speed limits — they're a fact of life and they will soon become even harder to ignore. from 2022, all new cars will be fitted with intelligent speed assistance systems. basically, on—board speed limiters designed to prevent you from breaking the law. now, that might all sound a bit futuristic, possibly a bit big brother as well, but you might be surprised to learn that lots of cars, including these two, already have intelligent speed
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assistance systems set as standard. so, the best way to find out how they work is to use them, and i'm going to start with this ford. so, this car has a fairly basic speed assistance system fitted. it relies mainly on the camera up here which looks at the road ahead and tries to pick out speed limit signs and respond to them. there is the 40 limit sign now. just going past it, and i can see the car has recognised it. it is on my dashboard, and the car is slowing down as well. so, we're not breaking the law. and now, i am approaching a 30 mile an hour limit. let's see if the same happens. i can see on my dashboard the car has recognised it, and now i am doing 30 miles an hour. i can go faster if i really want to by stamping on the accelerator. given we are going through a village, there might be children around, there is a school over there, probably not such a good idea. that is one form of
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intelligent speed assistance. there are others. let's try what this car has to offer. now, this car is a little bit different. it does have a camera, but it also relies on gps data, so, it knows when limits are coming up. and right now, i'm doing 50, approaching a 40 zone and the car has warned me of what to expect. and it has now told me that there is a 30 zone coming up, so, i can slow down in advance. i don't need to risk speeding. if i get it wrong, the system is there to help me out and help me avoid a speeding ticket. most people want to stick to the speed limit, but they need help in understanding what is the speed for any particular road. these systems help them do that. but the systems are not infallible. systems like these won't stop determined speeders. there is an off switch. they do make you more aware of what you are doing. so, if you get a speeding fine, you probably deserve it.
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the queen's 93rd birthday has been marked with gun salutes in central london. a 41—gun salute took place in hyde park at midday. and within the last half—hour, a 62—gun salute was performed at the tower of london. although her actual birthday was yesterday, tradition dictates that the salutes never take place on a sunday. that's it. we're back with the teatime news at 6.30. now on bbc one it's time for the news where you are. you're watching bbc news, i'm 0lly foster at the bbc sport centre. shaun murphy has completed only the second whitewash at the world snooker championship. the 2005 champion resumed this morning 9—0 up against chinese debutant luo honghao and rattled off the first frame to breeze through to the second round. john parrott was the first
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to complete a 10—0 victory at the crucible back in 1992 against eddie charlton. murphy will face another former champ neil robertson in the last 16. snooker is a funny little game. really you can only really concentrate on yourself. i can only work on what i'm doing, worry about my game. if i make the most of the chances that come my way, i won't sit in my seat for 13 frames. i will get chances. if i make the most of them it could be a classic. these are live pictures from the crucible where the three—time champion mark selby is in trouble against another chinese player making a first crucible appearance. zhao xintong took the first three frames. up up mark selby pulled one back but he is now down in his.
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the five—time champion ronnie 0'sullivan plays his first—round match against james cahill this afternoon. cahill stunned mark selby at the uk championship last year and he is the first amateur to qualify for the world championship, but 0'sullivan is world number one with five tournament wins this season. he was going to give me the trophy 110w he was going to give me the trophy now and say your world champion, then fantastic, but if i don't win it it's house what goes sometimes. you have to be in it to win it. if you have asked me when i was 25 would i when one? i would have been doubtful. you have to kind of think back to them days and to have five, i don't want to get too greedy and sound too big headed but i'd have settled for one, so i'm more than happy with five. great britain are celebrating promotion to the fed cup world group for the first time in 26 years after beating kazakhstan. as it stands they'lljoin the eight—team second tier of the world's elite
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although proposed changes to the competition structure could see them play the very top teams. a former british number one thinks that they will be able to compete. when players sometimes put their home country's tracksuit on it brings out different passion, different levels of performance. anything can happen. i think with both konta and boulter, it is a strong team. we have someone injo konta who has beaten some of the strongest champions. she's beaten 0sa ka. she's beaten venus williams, wozniacki. you know, all of the players she has beaten out on the tour, she has enormous self belief. i think this team is very, very strong and i think every time they step out onto court against anybody, i think they probably feel they have a great chance of winning. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. lots of football on easter monday,
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as well. full programme in the championship. some ligue one promotion and relegation issues. that's on your sport for now. you're watching bbc news. a comedian, who has never held political office, has won ukraine's presidential election. exit polls suggest that volodymyr zelensky took nearly three—quarters of the vote. the incumbent, petro poroshenko, has conceded defeat. mr zelensky is best known for starring in a satirical television series, in which his character accidentally becomes the ukrainian president. jonah fisher reports. this was the first time volodymyr zele ns ky this was the first time volodymyr zelensky was told he'd become president. it was three years ago and the first episode of his television show. servant of the people. last night, action became
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fa ct people. last night, action became fact and the music from the tv show was played as volodymyr zelensky was told for the second time. this time for real, that he was ukraine's next president. translation: to all former soviet countries, look at us. everything is possible. across town, the president conceded while muttering darkly that the kremlin would be celebrating the comedian‘s when. the kremlin would be celebrating the comedian's when. ukraine could be quickly returned to the russia orbit. relations with russia will 110w orbit. relations with russia will now be the key issue for the soon to be president zelensky. can we expect any change in ukraine's relationship with russia? the population is pretty decided upon towards what russia is. the vast majority sees it
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as an aggressor. so there's no real scope for president zelensky to try to strike some sort of deal over the conflict in the east or it negotiate over crimea, for example. he may try to do that but at the same time i think it would create a public outcry. what of the activists? from the street revolution. what do they make of ukraine's comic turn? when i'm looking at this from the angle of the change in the elite, ukrainians wanted change. and if only zelensky happened to be someone who can deliver this change... so we should work with what we have. its a step in the right direction, you think? i would say this is a step and we have to make it right! there are still plenty of unanswered
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questions about mr zelensky, not least his relationship with a controversial oligarch. but for now it's important to reflect on a peaceful campaign, a fair vote, it's important to reflect on a peaceful campaign, a fairvote, and what looks set to be a smooth tra nsfer of what looks set to be a smooth transfer of power. the world may be laughing at ukraine's comic choice of leader, but this country has lots to be proud of, too. time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good afternoon. most of us clinging on to warmth and sunshine for what's left of this easter monday, but we have seen a bit more high cloud streaming from the south, turning that sunshine a little hazy. these clumps of cloud will continue to work northwards through the night. in fact the cloud across the far south—west of the uk may be thick enough to produce just the odd shower. pretty mild in the south and the west. temperatures in london, cardiff and plymouth holding up at 12 degrees through the night. chillier further north and east. in fact, across north—east scotland, we could just see a touch of frost in one or two places. tomorrow for many will bring sunshine with some high cloud again turning that sunshine a little hazy.
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chance for a shower in northern ireland and also the potentialfor this band of cloud here to develop, working in off the north sea into eastern scotland, turning things grey in aberdeen through the afternoon, pegging temperatures back to 12 degrees. elsewhere in the sunshine, again up into the mid 20s, but not quite as warm as it has been. that trend continues through the week — it turns significantly cooler with the chance of some pretty heavy rain at times.
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hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: eight british nationals are now thought to be among the 290 people killed in a series of bomb attacks in sri lanka. police have arrested 24 people in a series of raids, as the government blames a local islamist extremist group. a large hillside fire in county down sees hundreds
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of holidaymakers at a caravan park spend the night in emergency accommodation. the head of britain's fertility watchdog accuses ivf clinics of using "very selective" information to persuade middle—aged women to undergo treatment let's get more on yet another explosion in the sri lankan capital colombo, this time as security forces were difusing a bomb inside a van near a church. bomb blast it comes the day after 290 people were killed in a series of suicide bomb attacks. eight british nationals, including a mother and her two young children, are amongst the dead. more than 500 others were injured in the blasts which targeted churches and luxury hotels. bomb disposal experts are trying to dismantle 87 devices found in colombo bus station.
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police say they've arrested 24 suspects. they believe that most of those involved are part of a radical islamic group, operating locally. my colleague, simon mccoy, spoke to thejournalist, lisa fuller, who lives and works in colombo. she began by talking about the latest bomb explosion. the bomb was outside one of the churches that was bombed yesterday. it seems like it was just left over from the attack. even though it was being diffused, there was mass panic. that was obviously understandable. everyone is quite scared. what is being made of the targets ? we scared. what is being made of the targets? we are talking about churches on easter sunday, and then luxury hotels? no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. we are getting the latest information
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from the government that it was an islamic group called national thowheed jamath. that is just within the past few hours. i can't speculate on the motives other than christians were part of it. 290 people dead, many more injured. your own sister—in—law was close to the attacks? yes, she was parking her motorcycle outside one of the churches when the bomb exploded. she is ok. she had children in the church are getting thrown out quite near her. it sounded very gruesome. we are talking about a country that for yea rs we are talking about a country that for years was riven by civil war. and then a period of relative peace. this must reawa ken and then a period of relative peace. this must reawaken many fears in sri lanka? yeah. the war ended almost exactly lanka? yeah. the war ended almost exa ctly te n lanka? yeah. the war ended almost exactly ten yea rs lanka? yeah. the war ended almost exactly ten years ago. since then there has been violence on lower
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levels. the biggest incident was last year, there were anti—muslim riots. they destroyed 400 muslim properties but only killed two people. we haven't seen anything like this since the war ended. this type of violence doesn't even look anything like it one. in those sensesit anything like it one. in those senses it is quite unprecedented. what about the very... there will be concerned about the long—term effect this will have on tourism, which is important to sri lanka? absolutely. already people are talking about that. sri lanka was named the top tourist destination for 2019 by lonely planet. we have seen an upsurge in tourists. i am sure that the trend will not continue, at least in the immediate future. some talk of revenge attacks already happening? yeah, and a very small
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scale i have heard some unconfirmed reports of attacks on people who are perceived to be muslim. a few properties that were destroyed... given the recent history of anti—muslim violence, it is concerning that within 24 hours of the attacks we are seeing those types of incidents. that was lisa fuller speaking to simon mccoy. more now on the fertility watchdog warning older women are being exploited by ivf clinics "trading on hope". sally cheshire, chairwoman of the human fertilisation and embryology authority, said some private clinics are using "selective success rates" to target older women. sally cheshire is joining me now. thank you for speaking to us. what concerns you the most about what these private ivf clinics are doing? we know that a lot of older people
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are now coming forward for ivf treatment. and we are concerned that some of those women are not being given a realistic chance of success. the explanation they are given... we mandate all uk clinics to be absolutely transparent with their patients about their treatment plan, the cost of that, and the likely outcome for them. you have had first—hand experience of those. perhaps to explain what these women go through, can you tell us what happened to you ? go through, can you tell us what happened to you? yes. our treatment was a very long time ago, 20 years ago. there has been greater commercialisation in ivf since that time. we have seen a massive change in the last five years. but every patient who comes forward, whether asa patient who comes forward, whether as a single person or a couple, is incredibly vulnerable. this is the time in your life when you want to have the family that he really long
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for. and everybody will do whatever they can to increase their chances of success and to go home with a baby. we wa nt baby. we want all of clinics, we'd like all clinics, in fact we mandate them in the uk in our code of practice, to be honest with patients, to give them the real facts about their treatment because it is an emotional roller—coaster. emotional, physical, psychological, it disrupts your relationship with your partner. and really, it preys on the hope and vulnerability of all those people coming forward for treatment. when you talk about selective success rates, and these success rates not openly success —— accessible to the public? aren't ivf clinics having to be honest about that? is there some where a woman can go to and find out the truth? so, every single cycle of
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ivf treatment in the uk, more than 1 million cycles, is monitored by us and the outcomes are measured. so we are the go to place for all independent information about every clinic, whatever your age or your type of treatment. we mandate all our clinics to be honest about the success rates and to display them on their own website. but on occasion, evenin their own website. but on occasion, even in the uk, we find that they are using selective statistics, which might give you the impression that you were going to be more successful tha n that you were going to be more successful than you might be. that you were going to be more successful than you might bem there any form of comeback for women who have been the target of these blatant who have been the target of these blata nt sales who have been the target of these blatant sales tactics that you describe? and what can they do about it? i know the website does have a green traffic like system on it. why aren't women going and finding out for themselves? yes. i need to be
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clear, if you have treatment in the uk, all those clinics are regulated by us. and by and large it is a good sector and clinics are being dishonest with the women. what we are concerned about are the foreign clinics coming to the uk, who are investing here because there are returns to be made. they absolutely are not being honest with women. the advent of social media and other outlets were people can find their information, means that we can't a lwa ys information, means that we can't always provide those patients with the right accurate information that they have. i would encourage them to come to us and ask very searching questions of the clinic about the cost of treatment, about any ad ons to ivf that may be offered to them. and as you pointed out, we have a traffic light system that rates the most common and suggests that actually there is no evidence that any of them are effective. what hopes do you have of achieving this
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tighter regulation? on add-on treatments in particular and on prices we are making lots of progress, with all of the professional bodies and with the government. so every person who works in the sector, the stakeholders, professionals and ourselves, have signed a consensus statement recently about the way to offer adult treatment ethically. we will do the same on price and we will do the same on price and we will do the same on price and we will do the same through media opportunities like these to get our message across. thank you very much. thank you. a landslide in south—western colombia has killed at least 17 people. five others were injured, as eight houses in the village of rosas were buried by the mud. the landslide happened early on sunday, after days of torrential rains in the area. but as ramzan karmali reports, many are still missing. a scene of utter devastation has hit the small village of rosas. a landslide swept through the village, destroying eight homes and leaving residents shocked and bewildered.
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now firefighters have beenjoined by the army and locals in their desperate bid to find the missing. translation: we are working on the rescue of victims. the report we have seen at the moment has the number at 15. we are looking for other missing people. this situation in the rosas municipality is very u nfortu nate. five people have also been taken to nearby hospitals for treatment. authorities say that the landslide was caused by several days of heavy rain, and that parts of the pan—american highway, whichjoins panama to ecuador, have also been blocked. but these landslides are common in mountainous colombia, especially during the rainy season. just two years ago, torrential rains triggered one of the worst disasters to hit colombia in recent times. at least 300 lost their lives as entire neighbourhoods in the south of the country where washed away. as rescue attempts continue in rosas, the president has said on twitter that the government was in solidarity
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with the families affected, but for the people of this village, the rebuilding of their homes and lives will be a long, hard struggle. now, 10 months after the spectacular cave rescue that gripped the world's attention — two of the divers have returned to thailand. australians richard harris and craig challen met members of the wild boars football team — who they rescued from inside the tham luang cave injuly last year. the boys and their coach were trapped inside the cave system for 17 days after rains flooded the tunnels. harris and challen were among the team of foreign and thai divers who brought them out to safety. a former monk from north london has gained an online following in the millionsafter becoming a motivational speaker. jay shetty is considered one of the most influential people on social media — and has recently been awarded for his achievements.
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bbc asian network's, haroon rashid met jay, to find out more about his journey. so there's good news and there's bad news. the bad news is time flies. the good news is you're the pilot. jay shetty describes himself as a storyteller who makes wisdom go viral, and has notched up hundreds of millions of views on inspirational videos about lifestyle, relationships and well—being. when i started making videosjust under three years ago, i never thought any of this was possible. he has been honoured for his achievement online of the asian awards in london. but jay's spiritual journey initially took him nearly 5000 miles away from the uk to india. i was always fascinated by rags to riches stories. but when i met a monk when i was 18, i felt it was the first time i'd met someone who was really having an impact in the world, doing something incredibly positive. so i spent a lot of time with him over the next four years.
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when i was 22, i decided to turn down my corporate job offers and decided to be a monk, because i felt that would help me live a life of service. was it difficult when you came back to london? was it difficult to adapt back to normal life? i actually went back into the corporate world, which is what i would have done originally, and i ended up learning about social media. and so in 2016, i realised i wanted to use all of my corporate training, and my monk training, to see if i could put the two together and use social media monk to share these messages online. people think depression is being quiet. depression is when we smile but when we want to cry. it is when we talk but we want to be quiet. it's when we pretend like we are happy but we are not. that video did, i think, something like 125 million views. a lot of people saying, this gave me permission to talk my friend. or this forced me to reach out to my friend and then i realise that he or she was going through this. you grew up in north london. you have said that you lost a close friend to gang crime. right now in the uk there has been an increase in knife crime. what would you like to say to young teenagers in britain today?
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you are going to think at that age, that what you are into and what you're up to is really cool and it makes you feel amazing and it maybe makes you powerful. but really, when you look at it back when you are older, you are going to think you made a lot of stupid decisions. go and spend time with people who have actually lost people because of it. from knife crime, gun crime, any violence, there is nothing positive that comes out of it. and if you go and spend a moment with somebody who has lost someone, it will put everything into perspective for you. imagine spending your whole life with someone... with three videos and two podcasts published weekly, jay is making the most of his growing online community. now on bbc news, a special report. paul adams investigates illegal fishing off the west coast of africa, to find out how one of the most fertile ecosystems on earth has been pushed to the brink.
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in the hunt for fish, just how far are we prepared to go? the global trade is worth billions. some countries like china centre a fleet halfway across the world. they don't leave much behind. resentment is growing. foreign trawlers are destroying what should be one of the richest marine ecosystems on earth. the ecosystem is disturbed. when thatis the ecosystem is disturbed. when that is destroyed, it is almost impossible to restore it again. we have come to sierra leone in west africa, home to nearly 8 million people. it is one of the poorest countries in the world. it is not such a long time since civil war tore it apart. then there was a bowler. but another crisis has been growing under waterfor years. bowler. but another crisis has been growing under water for years. in villages up and down the atlantic coast, whole communities depend on
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