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this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 5: the prime minister appeals tojeremy corbyn to resolve their differences and help her deliver brexit, but the shadow chancellor says trust has been lost. in a word, a single word, do you trust the prime minister? no. sorry, not after this weekend, when she has blown the confidentiality she had. i actually think she has jeopardised the negotiations for her own personal protection. israel and militants in the gaza strip engage in a deadly exchange of rocket fire, as tensions between the two sides continue to escalate. the newly—crowned king of thailand takes part in a procession through the capital, in a second day of ceremonies to mark his coronation. the illegal puppy trade exposed — the treasury recovers more than £5 million in unpaid taxes, in an operation to tackle the black market trade.
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labour's shadow chancellor has accused the prime minister of breaking the confidentiality and trust surrounding brexit negotiations between labour and the government. writing in a newspaper today — theresa may has called on labour leaderjeremy corbyn to "put their differences aside" and agree a brexit deal. the uk was due to leave the european union on 29th march, but it was delayed to 31st october after mps failed to agree a deal. our political correspondent, nick eardley reports. the most unlikely of brexit pairings, but could theresa may and jeremy corbyn unite and agree a compromise deal in the coming days? the prime minister hopes so, recovering after her party was thumped in the local elections. she believes the public now wants
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politicians to deliver. writing in the mail on sunday, theresa may appealed directly to labour leader jeremy corbyn, saying... her party's scottish leader believes agreement is within reach. we need to start walking ourselves back to an agreement where we can get the majority of people in the house of commons on board, and i think there is a deal there to be done, i genuinely do. but it takes two to tango. talks with labour will resume on tuesday, but one of its key negotiators is less than impressed with the pm. do you trust the prime minister? no, sorry, not after this weekend, when she's blown the confidence i actually had. and i actually think she's jeopardised the negotiations for her own personal protection. labour has real concerns that even if it can secure its demands, whoever replaces theresa may could rip up the deal. trying to enter into a contract with a company that's
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going into administration and the people who are going to take over are not willing to fulfil that contract. we can't negotiate like that. and it's notjust labour mrs may has to convince. this morning, graham brady — the chairman of the committee of tory mps — warned accepting labour's demand for a customs union could lead to a split in the conservative party. the tories are worried, too, about losing further political ground to unambiguously pro—brexit parties. if they push forward with this, it will be seen as a coalition of politicians against the people, and i think millions of people would give up on both labour and the conservatives, i really do. labour also has a tough sell. dozens of its mps won't back a deal that doesn't include another referendum. they warn against a stitch—up, and fear losing votes to anti—brexit parties, even if labour secures a closer relationship. even that should be put back to the people. and that's the problem,
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i think, that particularly the labour party is facing, because on their side, a lot of their supporters are deeply angry. differences remain between these two and many other rows are waiting in the wings. at fractured westminster, brexit solutions don't come easy. any deal between the conservatives and labour will need both sides to make considerable compromise, which could cause problems for the leaders, as our political correspondent nick eardley explained a little earlier. the two sides aren't that far apart. downsides need to agree to a deal, the government is prepared to go some way of meeting labour's demands for a customs union of sorts. an arrangement close to a customs
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union, although, ithink arrangement close to a customs union, although, i think you can safely bet they will call it something else to save face. it is farfrom something else to save face. it is far from clear that will be enough. we heard john mcdonnell talking about doing a deal with a company thatis about doing a deal with a company that is going into administration. that is a real fear in the labour side, that even if they agree something with theresa may, she has said she will stand down if they withdraw the deal goes through, and the next prime minister, labour fear, could be borisjohnson or dominic raab, they could come in and ripped that up. it is difficult, because it has been said today that the suggestion is the government would offer a deal that will run until the next election, which is at least two years away full stop that is all fine, but how do you guarantee when the prime minister goes that that deal with stand? that requires trust and that is the thing john mcdonnell says is lacking. that isn't a good omen for the next few days, if you want to get a deal. the
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labour party is worried that it can't trust the government, the government is worried about going too far, alienating its own site. i can't emphasise enough how important party discipline is in this. if theresa may goes too far and goes to close to labour's proposal, she will lose potentially dozens of tory mps. on the labour side, if they don't include another referendum in any deal, they potentially could use dozens on their own side, too. —— they could lose dozens on their own site. if a deal could get through parliament, —— couldn't get through parliament, —— couldn't get through parliament, there is no point in doing it. yesterday, it was suggested that the prime minister should name a date now if she was going to go, and if she wasn't prepared to do it, the 1922 committee might move against her. is there any indication this has picked up
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there any indication this has picked up any resonance? some do sympathise, but we often see a cacophony of calls for the prime minister to do something, some have been holding fire until after the european elections, when the tories could do even worse than they did in the locals. but there is, perhaps, a question of whether if the prime minister dotted at there is a risk, if she comes back with a deal, she goes towards labour's position, this week, many will be furious. there is another risk, if she doesn't get a deal done in time by the european elections, the voters will punish the conservative party again and then, her critics might come calling. that was our correspondent talking earlier. let's move on now. israel's prime minister has ordered the military to continue with massive strikes on the gaza strip and to deploy tanks, artillery and infantry forces around the territory. palestinian officials say 11 people have been killed in gaza over the weekend —
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israel says it's responding to hundreds of rockets fired into southern israel. three israelis have been killed in the town of ashkelon, and several others wounded by the barrage. the bbc‘s middle east analyst alan johnston reports. on through the night it went, yet another israeli strike on gaza. and the militants there unleashed rocket after rocket. israel's air defence shield worked to try to intercept the missiles, blasting them out of the night sky. and israel struck repeatedly at what it said were militant targets like weapons caches all down the gaza strip. in the light of day the extent of the damage, the impact of the pounding, was clear to see. where people should be shopping and working, coming and going, there is rubble all around. and on the other side of the conflict in the israeli city of ashkelon a similar scene.
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a man in his 50s died here when a rocket from gaza slammed down on his home. israel's leaders are watching and making their plans. there is no talk of stepping back. translation: this morning i instructed the israeli defence forces to continue with massive strikes against terrorists in the gaza strip. and i also instructed that forces around the gaza strip be stepped up with tanks, artillery and infantry forces. hamas bears responsibility not only for its own attacks and actions, but also for those of the islamic jihad for which it pays a very high price. a funeral in gaza, it's very likely there will be more of these. behind the scenes, egyptian and united nations diplomats will be trying to mediate. they may well seek a deal that eases israel's very tight economic blockade on gaza in return for calm
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from the militants. but for now at least there is no sign of any imminent truce. crowds gathered to watch thailand's newly crowned king being carried through the streets of the capital bangkok — in a four mile royal procession. king vajiralongkorn was crowned in an elaborate ceremony yesterday, becoming thailand's first new king in 70 years. our diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. dawn in bangkok, and the streets brightened by a stream of royal yellow. thousands up early to get a good vantage point, all keen to catch a rare glimpse of their new king, their first for almost 70 years. king maha vajiralongkorn was crowned yesterday, so now it was time to show himself
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to his people. carried by 16 soldiers on a gilded palanquin, a cavalcade involving thousands of people, stretching some 500 metres long, slowly processing round the heart of the city. a chance for his people to pay homage and celebrate his ascension to the throne, but also a chance for many thais to see their monarch in person for the first time — a much remoterfigure than his much—loved late father, spending much of his time abroad. this elaborate three—day coronation is as much religious as it is ceremonial and, as the king processed, he visited sacred temples, where he could offer up prayers before golden images of buddha. in thailand, the monarch is revered as an almost godlike figure, the official protector of the buddhist faith, and even members of his family prostrate themselves before him as they receive their royal titles.
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but he's more than a spiritual leader and many thais wonder how the king will use his huge political influence as his divided country emerges from military rule. james landale, bbc news. dog breeders selling puppies on the black market have been forced to pay back more than £5 million in tax as part of a clamp—down on illegal puppy farming. customs officers found fraudsters making huge profits by breeding puppies on a mass scale — with little regard for their welfare. simonjones reports. distressed dogs kept in appalling conditions by breeders not paying their taxes, treating animals as a commodity rather than with humanity, selling them on in huge numbers. the impact of the illegal puppy trade on dogs is one of absolute misery and animal welfare problems, from disease to over—breeding, it really does cause suffering, and some of these people are moving dogs around, travelling great
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distances when they are sick and injured, and it really is a miserable trade. a task force from hm revenue and customs set up in 2015 has recovered almost £5.5 million in lost taxes. it identified 257 separate cases of tax evasion across the uk. one puppy breeder in scotland was handed a bill of £a25,000. animal welfare groups say tens of thousands of puppies are being reared in unregulated conditions. the task force says it has made inroads into what it calls a brutal trade, but it is a growing problem. the government was unable to say how many of the breeders who had been fined were still operating. the advice from the rspca for anybody considering buying a dog is to do your research on the person selling it, or to consider a rescue dog. you saw dermot murphy in that report. he's been telling me more about the work the rspca is doing to tackle illegal puppy farming.
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animal welfare is our main driver, but one of the ways of achieving that is to ensure we put some of these people out of business who are the worst possible offenders causing suffering to animals on an industrial scale. when you say industrial scale, what sort of things do you have? how widespread is this practice? two years ago we broke a gang that were responsible for turning over £2 million and last year we broke a gang who were responsible for turning over £2.5 million. a huge amount of dogs were involved in that and they had very little regard for the animal welfare or for people buying those dogs. how are they accessing customers? most of it is online, 87% is online, that is where they attract their customers. people do not help this because people are often buying on impulse rather than doing their research to see what dog is best for them and taking a much longer lead—in time before bringing a dog into the house.
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we advocate taking on a rescue dog, they make fantastic pets. in terms of how this operation is carried out, is most of the breeding done here or on the continent and animals brought in? what is the balance? it is mixed but in recent years there have been more dogs in effect smuggled in. they would be smuggled in with underlying health problems and travelling great distances which exacerbates the problem and makes the situation far worse. what about the measures in place to try and prevent this? people are supposed to chip their animals and have a record of their origins. presumably that is bypassed? there is a fraud side to this as well? the rspca can catch them for animal welfare offences, but we have also moved into offences for fraud because they give out paperwork for nonexistent insurance or vaccinations. often these animals are not vaccinated and have
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not been cared for. it is a multi—agency approach which is why the rspca is so pleased to see hmrc taking such a tough line on the worst offenders. what cooperation do you get from the legitimate dog breeding world? that is something that is licensed by local authorities. if somebody wants to go to a breeder, they will take a while before they let a dog go to somebody. they will make sure all the welfare is in place. that is regulated by the local authorities and where the best of it is working it is very good. these are criminals and animal gangs. what advice would you give to people who are thinking about buying a dog? we run a campaign called puppy smart and on our website there is a lot of information about getting a dog. i would consider getting a rescue dog, there are hundreds and thousands of dogs around the country looking
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for the perfect home. the headlines on bbc news: let's do a deal — the prime minister appeals to jeremy corbyn to resolve their differences and help her deliver brexit. israel and militants in the gaza strip engage in a deadly exchange of rocket fire, as tensions between the two sides continue to escalate. the newly—crowned king of thailand takes part in a procession through the capital, in a second day of ceremonies to mark his coronation. let's get more on one of our top stories. the israeli army and palestinian militants have stepped up their attacks on each other, in some of the most intense exchanges of recent years. the gazan health ministry says 11 palestinians have been killed over the weekend. the israelis say three people have been killed in the town of ashkelon. our middle east analyst alan johnston is with me now. first thing to talk about is the
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report we have heard through the course of the afternoon, suggesting that a senior hamas commander has been killed. that is right, we often see the israelis strike and hamas targets in gaza, and the strike rate it has massively increased in the last 48 hours of violence. very often, what the israelis hit is a training ground for some sort of barix type setup, a rocket launch site, something like that. they don't tend to go for senior figures, thatis don't tend to go for senior figures, that is regarded, on both sides, as a sign of an escalation, and that is what the israelis have done in the current circumstance. they killed a man in his car, who hamas said it was one of their commanders, who the israelis say was channelling iranian money into gaza for the use of militants there. so, as i say, the
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targeting of a senior hamas man, the first, we reckon, for some years, is a sign of the escalating situation as we speak. the unknown fact is, does that accelerate things or does it make hamas say, we need to pull things back? that is the danger, isn't it? escalation and building up to something much worse. exactly, we don't know how it will play out, but you may well here i have hamas talking of the need to avenge this man. although, everybody who knows this conflict best will agree that neither side really wants an all—out conflict. there really is a danger of gradually stumbling in that direction. the leaderships on both sides hostage to avenge, as casualties figures rise and attitudes towards this conflict harden on both sides. we have seen it three times in the past ten years just how serious these situations
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can get. we have seen three wards, which really devastated gaza. and it didn't really change anything, you could argue. in terms of the overall dispute, very little has changed. you are right, everybody recognise there is a pattern. then, behind the scenes, there are efforts to mediate, led by the egyptians and un diplomats, those will be going on right now. what they always focus on is the issue of the blockade of gaza, this is the crippling economic embargo, which makes life of 2 million guys in —— gaza citizens horrible. they say they have to pose this blockade to stop the militants arming themselves and strengthening themselves, being in a position to attack the cities of israel, as they are doing at the moment. it seems like a long time ago that donald trump, during one of his visits to washington, promised a plan for
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peace in the middle east, he said his son—in—law would unveil this. is there any sign of anything concrete being announced? there is a lot of this effort to achieve what donald trump called the deal of the century a lot of talk a build up of seeing this at the end of the month, the end of the fasting month of ramadan. he said we might see that at some point afterjune the 6th, and that would be the trump administrations to set out a peace plan, as they see it. the palestinians have entirely rejected all preparations for that plan, very likely indeed to feel that whateverjared kushner comes up with, it is way too heavily weighted in favour of israel. the palestinians simply don't see the americans as any sort of fair arbitrary referee in this dispute. the americans would say, wait to see
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what is in the plan. thank you for joining us. a 17—year—old girl who was murdered in wiltshire on friday has been named. ellie gould was pronounced dead after emergency services were called to an address in calne near chippenham. wiltshire police are continuing to question at 17—year—old boy who has been arrested on suspicion of her murder. a 24—year—old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was repeatedly stabbed in the leg. the assault happened in beswick, east of manchester, in the early hours of this morning. the suspect is said to have fled the scene in a car. the victim, in his 20s, was taken to hospital where he later died. bell's palsy is a condition which causes paralysis to the face and it can be life—changing for sufferers, causing them anxiety and depression. a lack of awareness means some aren't getting the treatment they need in time, which can make things worse — that's according to the charity, facial palsy uk. geraint thomas has more. people have called me a freak, sloth, after goonies, ugly, tramp. claire will always remember christmas 2003.
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it's the night, she says, that stole her smile. she woke up the following day with bell's palsy. 15 years later she still has a weakness of the muscles of the right side of her face, which can be painfulfor her. some days i can't open my eyes. some days i slur when i speak. i dribble when i drink. i try to act like it doesn't bother me, but it's your face. if you have spot on your face it's ten times worse for you than it is to everyone else. it's not life—threatening, but it is life changing. claire's been frustrated with her treatment, having been wrongly referred to in ear, nose and throat specialists on numerous occasions. every time i'd would get there, the doctors would not know why i was there, discharged me, would go back to my doctor a couple of years later and be referred again to ear, nose and throats. and it went round like that. i had structure and direction in my life until bell's palsy struck me, which stopped
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me dead in my tracks. the condition changed everything for marcus. he was an army sniper when he developed bell's palsy in january last year and says the anxiety and depression was instant. he says he was mistakenly diagnosed with meningitis at first, despite suggesting bell's palsy to medics. it ultimately meant he couldn't carry on in his dream job and left him suffering both physically and mentally. eating, speaking. i couldn't say bs and ps properly. so i had to go onto youtube and research that. and eventually taught myself how to speak properly again. i was drinking through a straw for about one year. the pain is a daily thing. it does get worse when i am tired or if it has really affected me that day. it would be really bad. it's not known what exactly causes bell's palsy and the symptoms vary from person to person. but neither marcus nor
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claire received steroids, which could have helped with recovery. the importance for patients is to pick up the bell's palsy early, because there's very effective treatment for it. but the most effective treatment is oral steroid tablets, but they need to be started within 72 hours of the onset of the weakness. marcus is moving on with his life. alongside his newjob he does everything he can to help others, like claire, with bell's palsy. and things are looking up for her as well, having been recently accepted onto a botox programme on the nhs. they want to share their experiences and raise awareness that more support is needed when the sudden and instant onset of bell's palsy has a lasting impact. geraint thomas, bbc news. a 13—year—old boy has died after getting into difficulties in the sea off llandudno in north wales. the coastguard pulled the child from the water at pigeon's cove just after 9pm last night. he was airlifted to hospital in bangor but died there.
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police are not treating the death as suspicious. every year hundreds of thousands of people suffer brain injuries. some of those can be life—changing or mean a long and difficult road to recovery. now a new rehabilitation centre, based in the lake district, is looking to combine advanced neurological treatments with outdoor activities. megan paterson has been to visit. it's a landscape which inspires adventure. and, for more than 40 years, the calvert trust has used lake district activities to challenge disability. the latest guest, the headway group, a charity for people who have experienced brain injuries. just been outdoors, i suppose, it's a confidence boost as well because you lose a lot of that and then it's just acceptance. i was involved in a car crash in 1997, left me in a coma for two weeks and i've just been in recovery ever since then really. it's good to mingle with people with similar issues that you've got. i have anxiety, so it helps with that. it helps us be more confident.
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you just have a laugh with everybody. those positive benefits will now be transferred into a rehabilitation centre — more than £1 million raised to transform this tithe barn on the outskirts of keswick. a former base for wordsworth, its new function is a uk first. people with a brain injury, it's a very compact injury. —— a very complex injury. the brain needs lots of physical activity to get lots of oxygenated blood pumping around the neurons. we know that the brain needs to learn new things, preferably in a physical way, so cognitive skills development. we know that a social interaction is a really important thing for the brain to recover and develop. so we're looking to bring all those things together. and it's a building site now, lots of work going on. what will it look like when you finish this project? the inside of the building will be very different, so it will be a ten bed facility initially. the upstairs will then be all the social spaces, kitchen, dining, treatment rooms. but what we're very clear about is that we want it
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to remain characterful. so we want people to be stimulated just by being in the environment, by looking at the old beams, thinking about the heritage of the building and thinking about the interesting space that they are in. more than 300,000 people suffer a life changing brain injuries every year. it's hoped this space can play a significant part in rebuilding some of those lives. it makes you feel good because you can actually achieve something and you can actually, you know, do things that you maybe thought that you might not be able to. it's hoped calvert reconnections will open its doors by the end of this year. megan patterson, bbc news. a rare brooch has been uncovered in norfolk. the 800—year—old treasure features two lions and is studded with two pink stones. it was found in a freshly ploughed field by a newly qualified archaeologist but it wasn't his first find. tom ‘luck‘—ing unearthed a anglo—saxon pendant worth £145,000 pounds when he was still a student in 2014.
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archaeologist tom lucking explained why the brooch was so special. this find was made during an organised gathering which is paid for the weekend when you get access to a farmer's field and the proceeds go to a charity of the farmer's choice. this was on a particular field of his. there was a moat in one corner of the filed, which drew a lot of attention and it was in this same field where this brooch came up, about 150 metres away from the moated site. when did you realise you might have something of particular historic interest? when i first dug it out, i saw the back of it. i was not sure of what it was. when i saw the two amethyst settings staring at me, i thought it was probably medieval. then i knocked a bit of the dirt off and saw the two lines and realised it was a nice example of a medieval brooch. you cleaned it up and you must have
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realised it definitely was a very beautiful object? yes, we didn't give it a proper clean, we let the dirt fall off. you could see it was a really nice example. a lot of the silvergilt examples that are medieval, the gilding has gone and on this one, most of the gilding survived, it is like new, almost. i read it was not that far below the surface when you discovered it? no, it was only a few inches because the field gets ploughed every year. tell me about your other find back in 2014, is it in a museum now? that was an early anglo—saxon burial assemblage of a very high—status female and it featured a golden garnet pendant and it has just come back from the british library, and is on display in norwich now. that will be on display
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very soon or is already on display in norwich castle. it was voted the uk's most favourite piece of art and it must be nice to think that you were the person responsible for bringing it back to public attention after hundreds of years. yeah, it was a nice reward to have. i think it was the art fans' favourite acquisition of 2018, voted by the public. something like that is in a completely different league of finds compared to the usual medieval coins and broken bits of broken buckle. you have been doing this since you were 11 and it clearly is a lot of commitment and a lot of time and a lot of occasions when you find absolutely nothing of interest. there are days when you go out and you don't find very much, but you have to balance out that with the good days. do you have to wait for this to be evaluated under treasure trove laws or has it been resolved? this was only declared
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treasure by the coroner at an inquest on thursday. because norwich castle are interested in acquiring it, they have started the evaluation process and at the end of that, the reward money is split 50—50 between the finder and the land owner. then it should go on display in norwich castle. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. temperatures below where they should be at this time of year, still a few showers around, certainly as we go through the evening and tonight, snow drifting, snow over high ground, cloud around overnight, for most of us,
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temperatures above freezing. into tomorrow this area of cloud and showers drifting slowly southwards into northern ireland, northern england, perhaps the midlands later in the day. to the south of that, patchy cloud and sunny spells. to the north, beautiful blue skies across scotland, equally, wintry skies in aberdeen. this week it will stay cool by day and night, rain at times but not all the time. breezy by the middle of the week but some sunshine. hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines. the prime minister appeals to jeremy corbyn to resolve their differences and help her deliver brexit — but the shadow chancellor says trust has been lost. in a word, a single word, do you trust the prime minister? no, sorry not after this weekend when she has blown the confidentiality she had.
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i actually think she has jeopardised the negotiations for her own personal protection. israel and palestinian militants in the gaza strip engage in a deadly exchange of rocket fire, as tensions between the two sides continue to escalate. the newly—crowned king of thailand takes part in a procession through the capital. the illegal puppy trade exposed — the treasury recovers more than £5 million in unpaid taxes, in an operation to tackle the black market trade. it has been a busy afternoon for that sports team. good evening. manchester united won't be playing champions league football next season. they've missed out on a place in the top four after being held to a 1—1 draw by huddersfield — which also means ole gunnar
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soljkaer‘s side have now gone five games without a win. four already relegated huddersfield that was a game of goodbyes. this was partly the result of an error. cracks and united's defence did start to appear. david daguerre showed he was still awake. others in the squad. the terriers were beginning to bite in the second half and managed to create something out of nothing. six minutes later it was eventually replaced. not the atmosphere you would expect in the stadium of a condemned side. on the outside his side remain sixth. major
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rebuilding next season. we have not deserved to be top four. we have not deserved to be top four. we have not deserved to be top four. we have chased the pack. that leak is so tight. loads of good teams. when we got the opportunities we we re when we got the opportunities we were not able to grab them. today was just confirmation of a long season. in the end of the table does not lie. chelsea have boosted their chance of securing champions league football with a win over watford. .. they move above tottenham into third. another win on the final day of the season will guarantee thair place in the top four — should they not qualify by winning the europa league of course. we said at half—time that they had too much time on the ball. we were slow, too much time on the ball. we were sloppy, giving the ball away. we had to press more aggressively, not give them too much time on the ball. we did that. we won the ball back in
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their half and put them under pressure. once we started doing that the chances came and the eagles game. a really good second half performance. chelsea would also ensure their place in the top four if arsenal lose to brighton. so far unai emery‘s side are still in the running — they lead at the emirates 1—0 after a penalty from pierre emerick aubameyang within the first ten minutes. second halfjust getting under way. and in the championship norwich sealed the title with victory over aston villa, while derby have secured the final play off spot on the final day of the championship season. frank lampard's side just pipping middlesbrough who face another season in the second tier, amid plenty of drama. as james burford reports. if ever there was an afternoon for looking over your shoulder, this was it. frank lampard's players started on the front foot. the crispest of crosses, the coolest of headers. the man they can count on when time stands still.
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the pride of pride park clearfor all to see, time to tuck in and buckle up. these players have been on quite a ride in this roller—coaster of a championship season. fans started checking the scores, middlesbrough two up, a nightmare scenario which seemed unlikely but then threatened to become a reality. the goal that could put derby out of the play—offs. frank lampard in his days as a player played his hand. could mason bennett craft a chance? he scored one. just look at what it means. there was even time to seal it from the spot and harry walton did. now they spy a reunion with leeds. james burford, bbc leeds. here's confirmation of how the championship play—offs are scheduled. the semifinal first legs will both be played on saturday — aston villa host west bromwich albion, and derby will be at home to leeds. in the scottish premiership,
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rangers have beaten hibs1—0. despite going down to ten men. that winning goal was scored byjermain defoe just before half—time. winning goal was scored byjermain defoejust before half—time. it winning goal was scored byjermain defoe just before half—time. it was a simple finish. the game was not without controversy as rangers goalkeeper allan mcgregor was sent off as just goalkeeper allan mcgregor was sent off asjust a goalkeeper allan mcgregor was sent off as just a few minutes remaining. he will now miss next week's old firm match with celtic. the final of the world snooker championship is under way in sheffield. and its level pegging at the crucible. judd trump and john higgins are all square at four frames each after the first session. trump led 3—1 early on but higgins pegged him back. both players have compiled two centuries each. the evening session begins at 7pm and it will be live on bbc two. cricket and england are playing a one off t20 international in cardiff against pakistan, and jofra archer has impressed yet again. england are chasing pakistan's
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total of 173 for six. sid kohli has been watching the action. the world cup starts later this month but there is still a chance to impress for some, england handed out three new caps. captain eoin morgan snatched this one—handed stunner. archer strap on debut as england dominated the power play. pakistan came back. —— archer‘s debut. archer just as came back. —— archer‘s debut. archerjust as been used as the batsmen. in the same over he chanced his arm and triggered a pakistan collapse. with 174 to chase, james vince set the pace. but with wickets in hand and a strong batting line—up it may still
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bea strong batting line—up it may still be a good day out for the english fans. here's the very latest from cardiff. elsewhere west indies produced a record opening partnership of 365 against ireland in their tri series match in dublin, john campbell and and shai hope both hitting centuries in passing the previous best of 304. windies finished on a mammoth 381—3 from their 50 overs. hermosa won the 1,000 guineas at newmarket this afternoon — another classic victory for trainer aidan o'brien. the irish champion trainer completed a guineas double for the fourth time when the 14—1 shot, ridden by jockey wayne lordan, held off lady kaya by a length. o'brien also won the 200 guineas yesterday with magna grecia. for the first time in 145 years of the kentucky derby, the winning horse has been disqualified for interference.
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maximum security was penalised for veering across the track on the final turn, impeding two of the other runners. the decision saw 65—1 outsider country house, ridden by flavien prat declared the winner. he is the second biggest—priced winner of the race, which is the first leg of us flat racing's triple crown. britain's piggy french has won the badminton horse trials and it's herfirst major title. riding a mare called vanir kamira french beat overnight leader oliver townend by a single time fault in a dramatic final show—jumping phase. it was a good week for british riders with six finishing in the top ten. britain's chris lawless has won the tour de
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yorkshire. the team ineos riderfinished second behind defending champion greg van avermaet on the final stage in leeds, but that was enough for overall victory. geraint thomas has finished third at the tour of romandy in switzerland. defending champion primoz roglic won the tour de romandie after victory in sunday's time trial stage. the slovenian claimed his third stage win of the six—day race ahead of the giro d'italia, which starts next weekend. former ski jumper roglic finished 49 seconds ahead of second—placed rui costa of portugal in the overall standings. britain's tour de france world champion marc marquez won his home motogp in spain to move to the top of the championship standings. marquez started from third on the grid and took the lead by the first corner and kept it until the chequered flag injerez. britain's cal crutchlow was eighth. world champion saul "canelo" alvarez has unified three of the middleweight belts with a unanimous points victory over american danieljacobs in las vegas. the mexican took
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jacobs' ibf belt to add to his wbc and wba titles, canelo could now go after the wbo champ demetrius andrade or a third meeting with kazakh fighter gennady golovkin. the two drew their first bout in 2017, before canelo took a controversial points win last year. rory mcilroy is in contention at the wells fargo championship heading into the final round in north carolina this evening. the northern irishman, who turned 30 yesterday, is on nine under par for the tournament, england'sjustin rose and paul casey are also in contention. it's not been a good week for spurs fans. down a goal to ajax in the champions league semifinals, and two players sent off as they lost to bournemouth yesterday. and now an ex tottenham player hasn't been faring too well off the pitch. one time spurs midfielder rafael van der vaart suffered a comprehensive defeat to per laursen at the denmark masters darts today. laursen beat van der vaart by four legs to nil. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website.
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we also have scotland's women's hockey cup final as well. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. time for click. whenever you're out and about, your mobile phone communicates with the rest of the world through these. calls, messages and data are sent from masts like this to hundreds of phones within a few kilometres and each of those phones send calls and data back again. it's a lot of work for one mast to do and it kind of explains why if there are too many phones in any one area, things start to slow down.
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but it won't always be like this. our next mobile network will be the fifth generation, called 5g. and it will be very different to what's come before. 1g was about the analogue phone, allowing us to make calls to one another. 2g allowed us to do things like send sms text messages and do voice recording. 3g was about the promise of the smartphone, allowing us to access digital broadband services. and 4g, which is what we've had since 2009, allowed us to do all those first three things but faster. 5g is like going from earth to mars. it's not a faster world, it's a different world. it's going to be a world that is connected, in which machines will be talking to each other and talking to you. and to achieve that, we are going to have lots and lots of antennae everywhere. from lamp posts,
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buildings, you name it, it is going to have an antenna on it. and that's because there are billions and billions of new devices waiting to be connected that will communicate with each other, work with each other and make our lives easier in ways that we can't yet imagine. tv off, lights off. machine: tv off, lights off. it will allow you to control your energy consumption in your smart home. it will allow your fridge to decide when to order groceries for you and have them delivered by a self—driving truck. it will allow your dishwasher to decide when it washes dishes, your laundry machine decide when it washes clothes. so right now, we have to instruct our machines but in a 5g world, our machines might decide to communicate directly to us or with each other. the machines will start communicating simply to regulate the flow of human activity. your car is going to be connecting and thinking, interacting and communicating
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with every other sensor that happens as it's walking down the street as it passes a building, as it passes a somebody on a bicycle. information from a traffic light three blocks down that you can't even see yet. it's going to be completely seamless. 5g will enable all these devices to have superfast data connections but we also need them to be stable connections as one device hops rapidly between all of these antennae. how rapidly? well, maybe this rapidly. this is the millbrook 5g test bed. one of the things they're testing here is how well 5g antennae can follow a moving target. there is an antenna and i'm the target. i am making a live video call to the computer trackside which is actually really hard to do when you're moving at speed. at 140 miles an hour, each antenna can only
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send stuff to my special 5g hotspot in the car for about four seconds and so here, each one has to form a beam which targets the car exactly and then hands over the service seamlessly to the next antenna, all without interrupting the video stream. the kind of technology that blu wireless is testing here will eventually enable high—speed trains to stay connected to the 5g network and provide superfast internet to their passengers. to coverjust this small area, they are using 11 antennae here so if you want to blanket the whole uk with 5g, you are going to need a huge number of the things. i mean, this is a massive infrastructure rollout. and the scale of all this is something being grappled with around the world. in the us, verizon has stepped up its trials in us cities, albeit only over small areas.
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speeds, when it works, are impressive, although the trials are said to have had some teething problems. cities in south korea and china could well get the first meaningful services but what about if you're not in a city? well, back in the uk, jane copestake has been looking at what 5g might mean for rural areas. in this idyllic patch of british countryside, the birds are cheerfully singing and the cows are peacefully grazing. but look closer and you will see there is something very different about these cows linking them to a unique experiment. this dairy farm in somerset is one of the first test beds for 5g in the uk. the cows are wearing sensors and all this data is being sent to the cloud and then back to the farmer who can make decisions based on this data. almost every task on this farm can be automated.
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these cows are queueing up patiently to be robotically milked. this system allows the cow to choose how many times a day and at what time it wants to be milked. the robot picks up on how much milk is coming from each of the cows udders and can control the sensitivity of the milking as well. the cows here come and go as they please, with little human interaction in their movements. so one of these cows has just taken itself for a massage. the feeding system is also done by machine, and that's not all. there is even a robot that scrapes up excrement, putting it into these channels which can quietly operate around the cows so as not to disturb them. duncan forbes runs the farm. he's been working with cisco on this project which is part of the uk's 5g rural first strategy. the farm has chosen to demonstrate how 5g would help bring together
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the many different points of data across a herd of cows. low latency and the ability to cover large distances with 5g means that the cows can be monitored in real time, even if they're grazing in the field. what sensors is she wearing? can we see any of them? on the collar, there is a little black square that says "milk silent herdsman" on it so that's one of the sensors and it's an activity monitor. like a wearable, like a watch. yes, but the sort of thing it does is tell you when the cow was eating, so there's an inclinometer, so when her heads down, it says ok, she's eating. she's got the green one, the transponder underneath her chin. and that's the one that controls the gates and so on inside the building. it's an electronic identity. the third one isjust inside her ear, the little white button on the top of the ear is holding the sensor. so these cows have got more sensors than you would necessarily have on an ordinary cow because we are trying it out, we are testing them and we are checking out
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their connectivity. here, we're on a dairy farm and we're using the technology to help us with our animals but we're also going to have sensors around the fields telling us what the soil moisture is, what the temperature of the soil is, measuring the grass growth, using satellites or hyperspectral imaging to measure how much grass we've got but also saying, maybe we don't need to use quite so much fertiliser. 5g could revolutionise the farming industry, connecting notjust the uk farms but farms around the world so best practices can be compared and new techniques developed. imagine if you would be able to cross—correlate data, not only about how a cow is doing well, if it's sick within the farm, but across multiple farms, across multiple areas. imagine the efficiency you could get if you were able to manage the robots based on the best possible efficient way of doing it instead ofjust within a farm. one of the biggest challenges for farming worldwide is the expected increase in world population where we're going to need to produce 70%
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more food than we were producing in 2009 by 2050. that's a massive increase. we've got to produce that food without additional impact on the environment, preferably less. a by product of bringing the 5g network outside of cities could be a revolution in connection speeds of the countryside. a recent national farmers' union survey showed only 17% of respondents reporting a reliable outdoor mobile single and only 16% saying they had access to superfast broadband. the farmers here hope to make a strong economic case for bringing connectivity to all parts of the country, no matter how remote. hello, welcome to the week in tech. a drone has, for the first time, delivered a human organ. surgeons in maryland received a kidney transplant from about three miles away. and facebook ceo mark zuckerberg announced new measures to improve
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users' privacy as he laughed off his company's recent failures. the strongest reputation on privacy right now. updates include a friend feed free of adverts and an encrypted messenger service. meanwhile, the uk government is preparing to plan new laws that will mean that all internet—connected devices need to have cyber security features built in. it proposes all devices sold in the uk come with unique passwords, state how long they will receive security updates for and provide contact details to report vulnerabilities. we may have seen ai—generated faces before but how about entire ai—generated people? well, meet this lot. these photorealistic images by japanese company datagrid come complete with faces, hair and even outfits. and finally, if you haven't worked up an appetite for lab—grown meat, then how about a spot
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of lab—grown fish? singapore start—up shiok meats won't be scrimping on the shrimps after raising $4.6 million to keep working on their cell—based delights. but are you ready to dive in? and that's it for the shortcut of click this week. the full version is up on iplayer where you can see our 5g adventures in china, where we visit the most advanced manufacturer of 5g in the world and ask — just who are huawei?
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it is hard to believe that two weeks have passed since that easter weekend that had as basking in warmth and sunshine, because this bank holiday weekend feels a world away. some of us have seen some sunshine. there have been if you showers. in swansea this is the satellite picture from earlier. you can see cloud streaming from north and south. coming down from the north also a continued feed of cold air. the winds today not as strong as yesterday across eastern coast of england so it has not felt quite as raw. this evening and tonight there will be a mixture of patchy cloud and clear spells but more generally cloudy conditions across scotland, northern england, northern ireland, some snow over high ground in scotland. temperatures just above freezing. the north of scotland, south—west of england most prone to seeing a touch of frost. that is where we will have the clearest of
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skies and best of the sunshine tomorrow morning. a band of cloud and showers will drift southwards as we go on through the day, making very little progress, only getting as far as northern england, may be the midlands. to the south of that, patchy cloud, sunny spells, wintry showers across scotland. tuesday, the band of cloud and showery rain still sitting on essential areas. bright skies in northern scotland. late in the day some rain approaches the far south—west. this is probably the far south—west. this is probably the most turbulent weather we are going to see this week. wednesday, low— pressure going to see this week. wednesday, low—pressure spinning itself in. outbreaks of rain. but it looks like that local track to the south of the uk. that will keep as in some rather chilly air. as we go through wednesday we see these outbreaks of rain circulating around the area of low pressure, fringing england and we'll. northern ireland and scotland are seeing something brighter, a
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mixture of sunshine and showers. it will be windy for northern england with that wind coming off the north sea. it will feel very chilly. with the cloud, rain and brisk winds. this week it stays cool by day and night. rain at times but not all the time. breezy mid week. but some sunshine.
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this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 6: the prime minister appeals tojeremy corbyn to resolve their differences and help her deliver brexit, but the shadow chancellor says trust has been lost. in a word, a single word, do you trust the prime minister? no. sorry, not after this weekend, when she has blown the confidentiality she had. i actually think she has jeopardised the negotiations for her own personal protection. israel and militants in the gaza strip engage in a deadly exchange of rocket fire, as tensions between the two sides continue to escalate. the newly—crowned king of thailand takes part in a procession through the capital, in a second day of ceremonies to mark his coronation. the illegal puppy trade exposed , the treasury recovers more than £5 million in unpaid taxes, in an operation to tackle the black market trade.

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