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this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first the headlines. the un says houthi rebels in yemen appear to be honouring a pledge to withdraw troops from key ports, opening a lifeline for millions of people facing famine. concerns over climate change might restrict the growth of flying in the uk, according to a senior civil servant. a 74—year—old man who was shot with a crossbow bolt in north wales last month has died. jeremy corbyn announces that labour would pay 16 and 17—year—olds the same minimum wage as everyone else if they win the next election.
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are nigel nelson, who's the political editor of the sunday mirror and sunday people, and the political commentatorjo phillips. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. sacked minister gavin williamson criticises the cross—party brexit talks in the mail on sunday. the former defence secretary says the prime minister has "betrayed" the conservative party by negotiating with labour and that talks will "end in tears". senior conservative and labour mps have called on voters to support them in this month's european elections, as a new opinium survey for the observer suggests nigel farage‘s brexit party has more support than the two main parties put together.
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the sunday telegraph's lead story features a comres survey which gathered views on if a general election campaign was to take place now, with the headline brexit party beats tories in general election poll. it's that time of year again. the sunday times headlines its rich list and reports that some of the uk's wealthiest people might leave the country and take around £1 trillion with them ifjeremy corbyn becomes prime minister. and the sunday express has spoken to the half—brother of the duchess of sussex. let's start off. we are going to start with the sunday times. not something thatjeremy corbyn is going to enjoy reading on the front
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page. i think it is something he expected to happen. the whole thing is that these are scare stories about millionaires and billionaires leaving the country. the same thing happened in harold wilson's time when he put tax up hugely. britain carried on and it was ok. it is not a huge problem. one of the things that the rich list shows is that the wealthy are not getting wealthier so they have an extra £48 billion this year. if you look at boardroom pay it has gone up in 20 years from 80 times average salary to i40 it has gone up in 20 years from 80 times average salary to 140 times and jeremy corbyn says he will make the whole thing more fair. i rather support that. i think you will probably be rather pleased about this. —— you will be. most of this
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wealth is beyond our imagination. when you read that the steel magnate's wealth fail... james dyson for instance, he has gone up seven places to number five with his fortune of only 12.6 billion. we know he is relocating to singapore already. rich people at this level, and they are companies, already have the mechanisms and expert advice to minimise theirtax the mechanisms and expert advice to minimise their tax bill and things like that. didn't jim minimise their tax bill and things like that. didn'tjim davidson promised to leave the country and neverdid? promised to leave the country and never did? let's have a look at some of the people who have been highlighted on the front page. for the first time going in, great news
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for ed sheeran. 160 million. i wouldn't like to be publicised on the list. none of us are! it is interesting to know that ed sheron has made 160 million. also interesting that philip green is no longer a billionaire. how sad! there is something a bit voyeuristic about it and actually it doesn't tell you a lot, i don't think, because what would be more interesting would be looking at the corporate make up of these companies. and the amount of tax that they pay. if you are going to say, blimey, aren't they rich, it feels a little outdated. what is
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gavin williamson saying? hell hath no fury like a minister sacked. this is the one—time defence secretary and one—time chief whip who was fired because he was blamed for a security leak. he wrote an article in the mail on sunday which they describe as incendiary. he said cross—party talks with labour is a grave mistake and naive. as you mentioned earlier, this comes at a time of the polls showing disastrous news for the conservatives and not great for labour either. mr williams and's remarks, his first comment on brexit since... he ran to raise a's
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campaign and was seen as a queen maker. this is putting the knife in. —— theresa maker. this is putting the knife in. — — theresa may's maker. this is putting the knife in. —— theresa may's campaign. maker. this is putting the knife in. -- theresa may's campaign. will she be bothered by it? it is no different to the language that half of the tory mps are using regarding the talks. curiously he is not talking about his sacking. last weekend he was telling everybody about it. we have been waiting for him to be me some sort of speech —— to make some sort of speech. we haven't had his personal statement where he puts his side of the case to mps. it is odd in a sense that he is having a go at brexit rather than defending himself. and not saying anything different to anyone else. let'sjuggle anything different to anyone else. let's juggle the figures, turning to the sunday telegraph and the polls. the first one is a comres poll in
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the first one is a comres poll in the telegraph looking ahead to if we had a general election. 49 seats for nigel farage. this is with theresa may leading the conservatives, if a general election took place, the tories would have the worst result of their history. labour would have 137 c this of a margin. —— seats. this will put the wind up both parties because nigel farage is attracting a lot of people at the moment. if you look at this, they have done a breakdown here. some key figures. brandon lewis, the chairman of the conservative party, penny mordaunt, defence secretary, matt hancock, they are among 47 seats lost to the brexit party. it was
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only launched a month ago. boris johnson, and the chairman of the 1922 committee, ousted by labour. ukip interestingly no seats. they are jolly ukip interestingly no seats. they arejolly figures ukip interestingly no seats. they are jolly figures but they don't meana are jolly figures but they don't mean a great deal because there is a huge difference between contesting a general election and a european election. for a european election you need no party structure or funding strategy, simply find bodies to stand in the regions. general elections are bigger and more organised. it would be difficult for nigel farage to put this number of people up. he says he will put up 650 candidates and what we expect is that come the general election he will target about 46. there isn't a general election, if you are just
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joining us. please, no! we are looking at a comres poll which said the brexit party could do well if there were to be a general election. let's turn to another poll in the sunday papers tomorrow. the observer. this was a survey of 2004 people and it is an opinium poll. looking at the euro. what we get here is bad news for the tories, they only got 11%, whereas the brexit party are on 34%. it puts them in the lead with labour on 21%.
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but there will be meps who probably will not take their seat. i think in his previous incarnation with ukip we have seen that some of the people who sail under his flag or under the flag of his party, they don't stand up flag of his party, they don't stand up to close scrutiny. how much more diplomatic can i be? we have still got ukip left in tatters after nigel farage. now many leaders have they had? it is gesture politics. that is the opinium poll in the observer looking at the figures in the european parliament elections which are on the 23rd of may. not long
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110w. are on the 23rd of may. not long now. quite a sharp gear change. royalty. specifically archie. we start with the sunday express. what is the latest? they have been talking to meghan‘s half brother and he hopes archie will heal the family rift. quite a burden to bear. for one so rift. quite a burden to bear. for one so young! so he hopes she will start talking to her father again. it is what many families hope, that a new baby will unite people. i'm sure i saw something saying do not let archie meet somebody or other. let's turn to the next somebody or other. the sister has also made a
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plea in the sunday mirror this time. it says that archie looks unlikely to meet his us family. he has met his grannie, meghan's mum. he is only five days old. if you are into that sort of thing, people like to read about it. he has even got his nose, apparently. these things come in threes, don't they? our last royal story of the night. please, let's go back to brexit. the sunday times. harry is changing nappies. if thatis times. harry is changing nappies. if that is news in 2019... a bloke changes his baby's nappy, that is news on the front page of a newspaper? i am speechless. news on the front page of a newspaper? i am speechlesslj news on the front page of a newspaper? i am speechless. ithink we have done that. did you notice
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that nigel was very quiet in that segment? i used to change nappies. real ones are disposable? —— or disposable. that's it for the papers this hour. nigel and jo will be back at 11.30 for another look at the papers. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you to nigel nelson and jo phillips. next on bbc news it's click.
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in the uk are pushing ahead with... facial recognition. it has become a highly controversial issue with civil liberties groups claiming the technology is inaccurate, and infringes on an individual right to privacy. for the last year, jeff white has been following the uk police deployment of facial recognition. the front line in facial
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recognition. police cameras in an e. london st, everyone gets scanned. if you refuse, anything can happen. this man didn't want to be caught by the police cameras so he covered his face. police stopped him, photographed him anyway, and an argument followed. what is your suspicion? the fact that he walked past... i would do the same. it gives us grounds to stop him. the police said it was disorderly behaviour so they gave him a find. —— fine. behaviour so they gave him a find. -- fine. i walked past like that, it is also a cold day. the police officer came past. i got my bike up.
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isaidi officer came past. i got my bike up. i said i don't want my face shown. ifi i said i don't want my face shown. if i want to cover my face i will. i have got to pay a £90 fine. thanks, lads. £90. well done. he was caught up lads. £90. well done. he was caught up in the last of ten trials carried out by the metropolitan police. they have had successes, three arrests from facial recognition on this test day. but the trials have proved controversial. opponents claim they are taking place in a legal vacuum. there is nothing in uk law that has the words facial recognition, there is no legal basis for the police to be using it. there are no legal limitations on how they can use it, no policy or regulation. it is a free for all. we don't know who is on the watch lists, how long the images would be stored and the police are kind of making up the rules as they go along. my ultimate fear is that we would have live facial recognition capabilities on
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oui’ facial recognition capabilities on our gargantuan cctv network, about 6 million cameras in the uk. if that happens, the nature of life in this country would change and it would mean that everywhere we go we could be identified and tracked and we would be leaving a location data trail and yourface would be leaving a location data trail and your face could be searched under detailed record of your movements gained. the police argue that in a time when every smartphone camera has facial recognition why should they be left behind? i believe, as does the commissioner and management board of the met, not trialling the technology would not be good. we wa nt to technology would not be good. we want to know how it could make policing more effective. we are aware of the concerns raised and we are trying to understand those better with these trials so we can protect human rights and keep people safe at the same time. we are reviewing all capabilities in terms of live facial recognition and
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absolutely the technology is therefore a body worn or smaller devices to be fitted with facial recognition technology, as is cctv, so recognition technology, as is cctv, so absolutely we will look at that but the right safeguards, reviews and learning has to be put around that. it is notjust cameras on vans. last summer outside one of london's biggest shopping malls police cctv scanned thousands of shoppers, aimed, they say, at sporting known criminals. this is about making our streets and communities safer and people who are unlawfully at large may well be reoffending and it is clear we need a tactic, another tactic, which is why we are deploying this technology now to apprehend these individuals and bring them to justice. that is what the people want and what we are responding to. i want to be absolutely clear that the technology is very accurate and reliable. their human intervention side is to
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safeguard what we have in place. despite the warning signs many passers—by didn't know what was happening. when they found out the reaction was mixed. some thought it was an improvement on current methods. it's better than stop and search. at least. that was a little bit creepy. i would like to feel like i am being watched all day long. it is notjust in london it is being tested. south wales police have carried out a dozen trials including at the champions league final. you have two cameras on the roof of the vehicle, one on the front and one on the back, 360 ability, all around the vehicle.
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it has come up withjuliet gardiner, her name. once checked the alert can be given to an officer in the street. the system is incredibly sensitive. the technology works with motorcycle helmets as well. using facial recognition is not new for the police but what has changed is that systems like this one work in across massive numbers. the system acts as a big filter and enables officers to find a needle in a haystack. with thousands of people it would be incredibly difficult for the human eye to spot who you are looking for.
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gives officers an indication that it could be that individual. the system works by matching camera footage to a database works by matching camera footage to a data base of works by matching camera footage to a database of file photos and that is part the controversy. so—called intelligence databases is part the controversy. so—called intelligence data bases include people who have never been convicted, as does the police national database including convicted, as does the police national data base including 10 million photos. that could include people who were found not guilty, innocent people. at the moment they can have their image removed. only if they apply. measures are afoot to automate that process. wales police and the met have finished their trials but both forces are facing legal action from privacy campaigners over the use of surveillance. london assembly member baronessjennyjones surveillance. london assembly member baroness jennyjones has strongly backed the legal challenge and has had personal experience of the issue. the police national database
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has all sorts of people, like me, and you don't have to have committed and you don't have to have committed a crime or even been arrested to be on the database and it suggests to me that it is an extremely flawed way of keeping track of people and once your image and information is once your image and information is on there, you have to request that it should come off, which is what i did, finally, but you have to know that it did, finally, but you have to know thatitis did, finally, but you have to know that it is on there. if you don't then you can't get it remove because you can't make a request. there will be all sorts of false positives on the system and so for me it is a very foolish move. even worse, it is so very foolish move. even worse, it is so inaccurate that on a previous trial it has been 2% accurate, 98% inaccurate. policejudgment trial it has been 2% accurate, 98% inaccurate. police judgment at times is very poor and i can see why they think this might be a good thing to do but actually it is disastrous and the sooner they listen to people who are saying they have got to, if not
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stopped completely at least pull back a bit, have a pause and make sure they are using it on the right way. that was baroness jones finishing the report. facial recognition is really controversial but the police are still going ahead. their argument is that it is not new. police officers have always had the usual suspect in the back of their mind. the speed and scale is different. it is not about the police officer looking out for a few people in a hundred it has a camera scanning thousands of faces and comparing them instantly to a database. that comparing them instantly to a data base. that has comparing them instantly to a database. that has got campaigners worried. you mentioned the usual suspects which implies police are only scanning previous suspects' images but where do they get the facial data from? this is the other controversial bit. a lot of forces are using the police national database, millions are using the police national data base, millions of are using the police national database, millions of images police have accumulated over the years. there are controversies over how they have accumulated it and whether they have accumulated it and whether the database should exist and also
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who is on it. some people who have been arrested and cleared of any offence. one thing we hear is the problem of bias in the training data where a lot of ai is trained in white men so it isn't as good at recognising the more diverse range of people in the world. are the police aware of any bias is and what are they doing about it? they have on several occasions had golden opportunities to check how well the softwa re opportunities to check how well the software and systems deal with black and minority ethnic faces. they have failed to investigate on each occasion. the problem is there is already controversy on how those communities are dealt with with stop and search by the police. it is another controversy brewing for the police in the future with this technology. thank you for those brilliant reports and if you have any views on the subject, which i'm sure you will, why not get in touch with us on facebook or on twitter. that is it for this week thank you
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for watching. we do have better weather on the way. today we had quite a few showers around, one or two thunderstorms earlier on, but those are fading away and we are going to find clearing skies and light winds overnight tonight. it is going to turn quite chilly as well. probably a frost across some parts of scotland, even further south. temperatures won't be far away from freezing in a few rural areas. high pressure is building right the way across the uk and that will bring an improvement in the weather. we will find this weather front brushing the far north—west, so a bit more high cloud coming into the western side of northern ireland, later into the north west of scotland. as temperatures rise elsewhere, we will see a little bit
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of cloud building up, a little bit of convection, it could give an isolated light shower over the pennines, perhaps over the downs in the south—east, but on the whole drier, sunnier and it will feel warmer as well. temperatures should be a little bit higher for most areas on sunday. that's really the theme as we head into next week. high pressure around, a lot of dry weather, more in the way of sunshine and, because of that, it will feel warmer.
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this is bbc news. the headlines: the un says houthi rebels trying to topple the government in yemen are honouring a pledge to withdraw troops from key ports in the country, the first signficant step in a ceasefire agreement. the signs on the ground are people saying it's the ball is in the court of the un and the so—called government and the people of the un who are trying to pressurise and obstruct the agreement. labour says it plans to introduce a £10 an hour minimum wage for all workers, including those under the age of 18. scores of migrants are rescued from the mediterranean, as dangerous crossings to europe increase, with better weather. the venice art biennale opens — with english, scottish,

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