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good morning. welcome to breakfast with rogerjohnson and rachel burden. 0ur headlines today: judgement day — manchester city and liverpool bid for premier league glory, as a record breaking season comes down to the wire. what an incredible title race it's been — the lead has changed hands 32 times. city are looking for their fourth title in 10 years, good morning. but liverpool fans have to go back welcome to breakfast with rogerjohnson and rachel burden. our headlines today: judgement day — manchester city and liverpool bid for premier league glory, as a record breaking season comes down to the wire. what an incredible title race it's been — the lead has changed hands 32 times. city are looking for their fourth title in 10 years, but liverpool fans have to go back to 1990 when their team last won the league. elsewhere this morning — the former cabinet minister gavin williamson, sacked over a national security leak, launches a scathing attack on the government's cross—party brexit talks. how the rich are getting richer. there are more billionaires
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in the uk than ever before according to the annual sunday times rich list. good morning. chile to start and mist and fog for the next hour or two but it is promising to be a drier day with far fewer showers than yesterday and you will probably feel warmer. join if you in 15 minutes for the details. —— joined me if you can in 15 minutes. it's sunday the 12th of may. our top story. one of the most dramatic title races in premier league history will be decided this afternoon with manchester city and liverpool separated byjust one point with one game to go. it has been a title race of the highest quality. with city on 95 points and liverpool on 94, whoever finishes second will have the highest points total of any runners—up in english top—flight history. ben croucher has the story. and then there were two. 0k, we have
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known that for a while. we might not have expected to reach the final day to have both still in it that blow after blow since august, come five o'clock, just one, liveable or manchester city will still be standing. the odds for liverpool are longer. they were relying on city slipping up in brighton. and in one of those i was therefore my moments, they defeated barcelona. it is a challenge because you have messages and nobody speaks about the weekend. unbelievable how we have played and stuff like that and all the best and i'iow stuff like that and all the best and now you do it but we played well and we know that. whoever misses out this afternoon, unwanted history awaits. no team has ever scored as many points as these do not won the league. it's seen cities hands for 110w.
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league. it's seen cities hands for now. the bolt from the blue to defeat leinster could come to define the season but it won't mean much if they do not defeat brighton. we have had 30 games in a row, we have to win one more tomorrow in the premier league and that is what we have to do. you have to rewind seven years to find the last final day decider. city won it in the final minute. it seemed unthinkable, unrepeatable. until this week. exciting times. so jane, we know the lead has changed hands many times in the last few months, but what point in the season do you feel was crucial? i think both sets of fans will agree the january free when they played each other. at that point liverpool we re each other. at that point liverpool were seven points ahead. had they won they have gone ten points clear. psychologically that is difficult to come back from but they did not. manchester city won 2—1 and showed the quality that the manchester city
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side had that even though they were facing their closest rivals and had seven points between them they had the depth of squad to come back and defeat them to—1. it shows the quality that the manager has. they built on that and since then they have won their last 13 games. they have won their last 13 games. they have not been behind once. they have had six clean sheets from the last seven and today they are away at brighton who have struggled this season so brighton who have struggled this season so i would not bet on manchester city losing stop however, liverpool are hosting wolves and they have to hope that manchester city slip up if they are to have any chance. i imagine there are still bound to be nervous. both clubs tweeted last night, looking at the tweeted last night, looking at the tweet from manchester, they tweeted a video with the words the calm before the storm and the words fight till the end. 0bviously making it clear that it is not over until the fat lady sings. the bull tweeted as well they said one more game with
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that image of their manager who has been so dynamic this season, running over and doing that fist pump three orfour over and doing that fist pump three or four times over and doing that fist pump three orfour times to over and doing that fist pump three or four times to excite the crowd. i think the fact that both of them have had such quality sides has been exceptional this season. both have come back against all the odds. we saw what happened mid week as well. anything can happen today. both sides have more than 90 points and thatis sides have more than 90 points and that is the first time that has ever happened. whatever happens today we are very excited about it. and you can are very excited about it. and you ca n follow are very excited about it. and you can follow that on five live and the non— sports extra. can follow that on five live and the non- sports extra. you chose a good day, didn't you? wow. the former defence secretary gavin williamson has made a scathing attack on cross—party brexit talks. writing in the mail on sunday mr williamson, who was sacked over a leakfrom a meeting of the national security council, described the talks as a "grave mistake" and "politically naive".
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a downing street source said mr williamson had been supportive of the brexit strategy while he was in cabinet. 0rganised crime is a "chronic and corrosive" threat to the uk and more money is needed to tackle it. that's according to the national crime agency, which says organised criminals are killing more people a year than terrorism, war and natural disasters. it comes ahead of an annual assessment on tuesday which will look at how gangs are exploiting advances in technology. iran—backed houthi rebels have begun withdrawing from a key strategic port in yemen, to allow in humanitarian aid. it's the first major step since a ceasefire agreement was signed in december. but the country's internationally—recognised government has accused the rebels of staging a "ploy". at least 6,800 civilians have died in yemen's four—year civil war. south africa's president, cyril ramaphosa, has promised to build a democratic, prosperous and united country. his anc party won another five years in office, albeit with a reduced majority.
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he acknowledged they had made mistakes in government — and it had lost the trust of many people. the opposition democratic alliance also saw its share of the vote fall. the annual list of the richest people in britain is out this morning, and it reveals that there's now, a record, 151 billionaires in the country. together they hold a combined wealth of 525 billion pounds, and london is home to more billionaires than any other city in the world. that's according to the sunday times. john mcmanus reports. if you woke up this morning to find that once again you haven't made it onto the sunday times rich list, well, don't be too envious. the very well, don't be too envious. the very well healed can afford large yachts that life is not all plain sailing for the captains of industry. monaco was the home to the wife of sir
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philip green who fell out with the british establishment over the colla pse british establishment over the collapse of his high street chain and harassment claims that he denied. it is notjust his reputation that plummeted. the sunday times says he lost over £1 billion and is now merely a multimillionaire. the top dogs of the list for the third time other hindu brothers who made their fortune in energy, property and finance. at number five fortune in energy, property and finance. at numberfive is sirjames dyson under some flak for deciding to move his head office to singapore. he who had up an extra £3 billion bringing him a tidy sum of 12.6 billion. 25—year—old prime artist storms the is a new interest to the list. he is a some of his money to support two scholarships for black students at cambridge. fellow musician ed sheron has doubled his net worth which is now
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£180 million. and if you do find some spare old bars down the back of the sofa the equality trust says it is asking the ritualistic members to support higher taxes on their wealth to solve inequality. the stars of the small screen will gather this evening for the bafta tv awards in london. the bbc‘s killing eve is leading the way with six nominations. the ceremony, hosted by graham norton, will be shown tonight on bbc one. here's our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba. are you 0k? killing eve was one of the most talked about shows 2018. it leads the way with six nominations including one for best drama and two in the best actress category for its two leads, sandra oh and jody kommer who plays a charismatic assassin. there are three nominations for the yea rs there are three nominations for the years most watched show, bodyguard
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including best drama and best actress. it is time for me to say hello. and did not take part in the final episode of saturday night ta keaway final episode of saturday night takeaway following his drink—driving arrest and subsequent conviction. he and his co—star nominated for best entertainment performance, however, in the itv show for best entertainment programme where it will be up against the beast one's strictly come dancing. there are also four nominations for a very english scandal, the miniseries about the jeremy thorpe scandal including a best actor nomination for hugh grant and best actress for ruth wilson who played her own grandmother in the drama mrs wilson. in this year, the highest accolade, the bafta fellowship most of the journalist and broadcaster joan ba kewell, recognising journalist and broadcaster joan bakewell, recognising her huge contribution to tv. and that is on
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bbc one later tonight. they say a dog is man's best friend, and we think these pictures prove it. 96—year—old feliks oszczyk had just come home from a two week stay in hospital, and his dog ben couldn't hide how much he'd missed him. so gorgeous. ben has been in the family since he was one. feliks' grandaughter jane was the one who shared the video online. it is just such a beautiful moment, it really is. welcome home. 11 minutes past six. it's been called the olympics of the art world and a tt ra cts the olympics of the art world and attracts big names and big money. the venice art biennale opened this weekend with unusual exhibitions representing britain and ireland. 0ur arts editor will
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gompertz has more. if a city could ever be called a work of art, surely it is venice. that man—made masterpiece rising out of a salty lagoon, with its magnificent palazzos, shimmering canals, and napoleonic gardens — at the end of which is the british pavilion — a neoclassical building that plays host to a disturbing and at times brutal installation by the artist cathy wilkes, whose display of eerie mannequins and household objects is representing britain at the 2019 venice art biennale. she trained in belfast, as did the sculptor eva rothschild, who has filled the irish pavilion with an array of materials and shapes that create a sort of landscape of art to wander through, and to climb on, to talk about the biennale's founding idea, dating back over 100 years, an artist representing a country. is there an argument against it, that it's an anachronism? i think there could be, if it happened everywhere. i think it's the fact that it is anachronistic, and it is the only thing. i mean, if every major art exhibition was themed around
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national identity, i think that would be deeply problematic. but this is the only one, and venice itself is an anomaly. i mean, who can believe it exists? not far away, across a narrow canal, is a welsh pavilion, where the cardiff—based artist sean edwards has created a forest of art. it's based on woodlands on the estate where i grew up, in llanedeyrn in cardiff, and how these woodlands that were the boundary of the estate as you grew up... so there was this idea that what is actually a boundary suddenly becomes an open space that leads you on to somewhere else. i've come from the welsh pavilion, which is just down the canal there, walked over this wooden bridge and arrived at this spot, which is the scottish pavilion. up until a couple of months ago, it was a working boatyard. but the vessels have moved out and art has moved in, with charlotte prodger, the turner prize—winning artist, showing the third in her trilogy of films, which is a memoir on love, loss and queer identity. and it's in this space, which is a rather disorientating black hole. voiceover: you understood what that meant, don't you? idid. and after that, it was like a switch
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went off, and i didn't go back. there are 90 national pavilions competing for this year's prestigious golden lion. every one is fascinating in its own way, revealing not only how a country sees itself, but also how it wants to be seen. will gompertz, bbc news, venice. will we have as much to admire in the weather today? it look nice driving in today. just as he lightened the dawn came up you could see some blue sky. we will all see some good sky, good morning. very chilly heading towards the middle of may. this is a bit of frost in shropshire. it won't last very long but just to show you, we shropshire. it won't last very long butjust to show you, we are under chillier, temperature is below average in the last couple of days we are also seeing a bit of morning mist and fog but that's been in the forecast for the last couple of
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days. there will be, as roger hinted, some sunshine today for most of us. the clouds are towards the west being captured day by high pressure. putting a bit of a lead on the atmosphere and stopping the growth of the showers were seen in recent days. some intense downpours yesterday but it's cold this sunday morning. got frost, temperatures, _3’ morning. got frost, temperatures, -3, -4. it will morning. got frost, temperatures, —3, “11. it will be a bit chilly. a couple of hours it will take but it's not for everyone. almost, we will keep a good deal of sunshine today, just the chance, come the afternoon, it's difficult to pick out on this chart because we are seeing mostly sunshine. just the outside chance. high ground in the east. temperatures a little higher than most but i think it will still feel a bit fresher on the south coast, onshore breeze. this cloud in the north will ensure it won't be quite so cold across scott under northern ireland overnight but we will still have a clear enough night
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or temperatures to dip close to freezing across central and eastern areas so we freezing across central and eastern areas so we could wake up to a touch of frost tomorrow morning with a bit of frost tomorrow morning with a bit of mist and fog but gradually speaking, as things warm up by day, temperatures fall a certain amount by night but because they are hired by night but because they are hired by day, they would fall to foster level so we start to lose that ground frost risk on monday, with hazy sunshine in the north and west, looking like a decent day for most of us, all the time we have this southerly wind developing across the western side of the country. just that onshore breeze for east anglia limiting the temperatures but it looks like we will see the peak of the temperatures as we head towards the temperatures as we head towards the middle of the week, that high pressure, as the winds circulate clockwise, the high pressure still sat across the uk. the warmest weather expected in the north and west so good news for some. not good news for all because that high—pressure means we will be very limited with our rainfall amounts.
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very little rain for the next four or five days. we do still need that rain. it's been very drive late. if you like that warmth, it's developing in the north or west. sunshine for many of us, but in southern and eastern areas, not quite as warm just because of that onshore easterly breeze. some good news in there for many who get out and about for the all today. i noticed the sun in particular is shining and liverpool. a bit of time to come before we can read into that. i think it's going to last for most of the week. it's strong sunshine. it's not good news, many still wanting rain. the sun will be shining in brighton today. 22 billion, top of the ridge list. you've got to have 120 million to make the top thousand.
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time now for this week's film review with mark kermode and ben brown. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. and taking us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so mark, what do we have got this week? something for everyone, hopefully. we have the hustle, which is a new take on a familiar story. we have pokemon: pikachu detective — i know you're a huge fan. high life, a science fiction film directed by claire denis. that a was very telling look. i know you're a huge fan of the hustle! did you see dirty rotten scoundrels? yeah. that was already a remake. now we get another version of the same story, in which we have a gender flip.
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so now we have rebel wilson, who is a low level scam artist, who meets anne hathaway's much more upmarket con woman on a train. they are both headed to a similar destination. their paths cross. they are forced against their will to work together through a strange mixture of coincidence and blackmail. and what they will end up doing is working together, but also against each other in a competition. here's a clip. i work alone. i get it. but what you're not getting is that a girl like me can make it real uncomfortable for you in this town. itjust takes one phone call. hello, interpol? tell me, penny. why are women more suited to the con than men? because we're used to faking it? it comes down to one universal truth.
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no man will ever believe a woman is smarter than he is. we'll always be underestimated, and that is what we use. does this mean you're going to teach me? i'm teaching you now. yes! wait, what was that last part? i couldn't hear you, you were talking into the ocean. i'm loving anne hathaway's very posh english accent. it's a terrible english accent! which is weird because she can do great accents, but it's kind of ear—scraping. here is the thing — when comedy doesn't work, it is like the worst thing to happen. particularly when a film's been made almost with gaps in the dialogue for the laughter to happen. and the strange thing with this movie is — it's two stars who i really like who are really funny and really sharp in other movies, and it is a story that has been done a couple of times before. but what happens is there's laughs in the first 5—6 minutes, and you think, "this is great, i can turn my brain off". and then suddenly, it all stops.
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and there is like 90 minutes of arid, desert — tumbleweeds blowing through the auditorium as gag after gag just fails to land. there is nothing like being in a pretty packed cinema and watching a comedyjust suffocating, just sucking the air out of it. it's one of the unfunniest mainstream comedies i've seen in a long time. sometimes mainstream comedy, i'll find stuff gross or offensive, or annoying, but this was just completely dead. you have a test, don't you? six laughs? six laughs. did it get any laughs out of you? what is weird is that in the first five minutes, there was a couple of parts i thought, "this is fine — two laughs". but then — finished. as i said, comedy is really hard, and i think it comes down to directing. you and i were speaking before we came on air about how sometimes a movie that bad can get. it's because a script can look funny, the cast can looks funny, the setup can look funny — but when you actually get it
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into the editing room, it is all to do with timing. is the script funny though, or is itjust the directing? you know... i would like to say that the script is funny, except now that i'm thinking of it, i can't think of a single funny line in it. so the script is awful, and the direction is awful. it is terrible. detective pikachu? it isn't terrible. so i'm not the target audience for a pokemon movie. noram i! this has been hailed as — this sounds like damning with faint praise — it's been hailed as the best—reviewed live action film adaptation of a video game, which is pretty damn specific, frankly. but actually, it's pretty good. the story is that you have a young man who has to team up with pikachu, played by ryan reynolds, in order to follow the trail of his father, following a tragedy. and it takes place in this future city in which pokemon and humans live side—by—side, but there is still an underground wargame going on. one of the reasons it works is that ryan reynolds is basically doing a much more pg orfamily—friendly version of the character that he did to some extent in deadpool. there's a certain amount of the live action animation interface — do you remember who framed roger rabbit? remember the first time you ever
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saw, that it was astonishing, what they were doing with it? actually the live action animation stuff works really well here. actually, it is designed really nicely. some of the cityscapes look — dare i say it — a little bit blade runner—y. and for someone who has absolutely nothing invested in the idea of watching a film based on pokemon go, ifound myself laughing — i laughed more times in this than in the whole of the hustle in the first ten minutes of it. it's a little bit shambolic and a little bit ricocheting in terms of the plot, but i enjoyed myself and nobody was more surprised than me because i had thought at the beginning of the week, "i'm going to like the hustle, i'm going to endure detective pikachu". it was completely
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the other way around. life is full of surprises. it really is, and good for it. so is the cinema. high life — i'm rather intrigued by this, actually. it's a sci—fi drama, convicts sent into space, part of a social engineering experiment. it's a science fiction film directed by claire denis who made trouble every day. funny enough, his does have a connection to trouble every day, because at one point claire denis was thinking of vincent gallo as a lead for it. as you said, it is — this strange cargo freight—like spaceship which is heading towards a black hole. there is some form of social experiment going on. because the story is told nonlinearly, we are told information out piecemeal. an awful lot of the film is to do with you having to put together what order the story is in, how all the characters fit together. what we know is that robert pattinson is on board
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and he leads this kindke of monk—life celibate existence. juliette binoche is the doctor who is running strange reproductive experiments. as they move towards the black hole, the crew starts to fall apart. they all start to fragment, and it becomes a sort of existential film in which outer space is really inner space. here's a clip. do you have the baby dog? i had to leave it. why didn't you take it? we could have kept it. we couldn't have kept it. i wanted a dog so bad. you know what? step away from the door. i've got to clean myself, i've got to disinfect. it'll die in there. it's cruelty! what do you know about cruelty? you don't know anything about it. i have to clean — i have to disinfect myself.
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step away from the door. move away from the door! get out. i love the, "what do you know about cruelty? you don't know anything about it." whenever you see this type of science fiction film, you automatically think about things like solaris, which is the perfect embodiment of outer space and inner space. and black holes have been something that science fiction has used since the discovery of black holes. we recently saw films like interstellar, and there is that idea that if you move towards an abyss, it will reflect yourtself back to you. it is the case that if you try and do a simple linear version of what happens in the story, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. what i liked about it was that, as i was watching it, i found some of it frustrating and some of it really mesmerising. i found some of it a bit chilling. afterwards, ifound myself sifting through individual fragments of the narrative and finding connections with claire denis' work that i hadn't initially seen. the first thing is — it is a film you need to give time.
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second thing — this is a very good cast — i think robert pattinson is really good. ijust take great pleasure in looking back at the twilight movies and looking back at the amount of sniffiness they got from mainstream critics. and when you look at the two key players in the twilight movies, they have forged paths where they have sought out proper film—makers who make challenging movies. they have used their high profile to work in projects that could really benefit from that high—profile involvement. and they are both willing to take risks. i think pattinson — i have always been a fan of him. if you look at him in david cronenberg's cosmopolis, a strange, deep and tortured movie, he is great in it. i think is really great in this. i don't pretend to understand what the whole film is about. there are things in it which are ludicrous, but i don't mind any of them
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because i think the film is reaching for something which it occasionally manages to grab. i find it hard to believe you didn't understand what it was about. i thought you knew everything! what's the best 0ut? have you seen eighth grade? yes, i really loved it. isn't it great? tender and beautiful. directorial debut of bo burnham — doesn't it look like a film made by someone who's been making films all their life? the anna meredith score is great, really gets into the head of its central character. but the most important thing is — both you and i are nothing like the central character, but didn't you feel the depiction of the anguish of being a 13—year—old was universal? absolutely. it felt like me as a 13—year—old. yeah, which is astonishing! when you think of it — it's13—year—old growing up facing problems that neither you or i know anything about on a first—hand level, it puts you right in the middle. i loved it. highly recommended. best dvd? the favourite is out on dvd.
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we should always remember that the dvd and home viewing market is enormous, particularly compared to cinemas. the favourite was a big winner at awards season, and rightly so. many people will be seeing it for the first time now. it is a historical drama, but it's the least historical drama i remember seeing. and anna meredith, who does the score for eighth grade — some of her experimental music turns up in the favourite, so the two are connected. i enjoyed that one a lot as well, also very highly recommended. thank you very much, that is it for this week. thanks for watching and goodbye.
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hello, this is breakfast with rachel burden and roger johnson. good morning, here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. one of the most dramatic title races in premier league history will be decided this afternoon with manchester city and liverpool separated byjust one point. jane will be here with more on that in a few minutes, but first the rest of the day's news. the former defence secretary
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gavin williamson has made a scathing attack on cross—party brexit talks. writing in the mail on sunday mr williamson, who was sacked over a leakfrom a meeting of the national security council, described the talks as a "grave mistake" and "politically naive". a downing street source said mr williamson had been supportive of the brexit strategy while he was in cabinet. 0rganised crime is a "chronic and corrosive" threat to the uk and more money is needed to tackle it. that's according to the national crime agency, which says organised criminals are killing more people a year than terrorism, war and natural disasters. it comes ahead of an annual assessment on tuesday which will look at how gangs are exploiting advances in technology. the sunday times rich list is out this morning, and it reveals that there's now a record 151 billionaires in the country. top of the list for the third time are brothers sri and gopi hinduja, who work in in energy, property and finance. hoover tycoon james dyson is in the list‘s top five, while topshop owner philip green has plummeted to 156th place —
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and is no longer a billionaire. the stars of the small screen will gather this evening for the bafta tv awards in london. the bbc‘s killing eve is leading the way with six nominations, while one of the year's most watched programmes, bodyguard, is also a top contender for bafta accolades. the ceremony, hosted by graham norton, will be shown tonight on bbc one. members of a primary school football team have met up to recreate a ao—year—old photo. the team met up for a 50th birthday party and decided to re—stage their original team photo. here are the 15 players today — and this was them during their school days. they said reuniting was "quite emotional" and that they're now hoping to make it a more regular thing.
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they are looking quite fit and well stop many people watching will have been part of a primary school team, however many been part of a primary school team, however ma ny yea rs been part of a primary school team, however many years ago. mrs johnson, if you're watching at home, please dig out the photo. and it is all about the football today, it is so exciting. going right down to the final day. how good is that?! it does not always happen. so this it it. one of the most memorable premier league titles races comes down to two matches. liverpool host wolves. manchester city play brighton. city know that whatever happens at anfield, they'll retain their title if they win. these are pictures after monday night's1—0 win. no side has ever missed out on the title, having gone into the final day leading. no side has ever picked up as many points as liverpool and city and not
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won the league. it isa it is a dream to be here. honestly i did not expect one month ago when we we re did not expect one month ago when we were seven did not expect one month ago when we were seven points against this liverpool, being in the position we are now. and that is why it is a dream come true. and we are showing many things now to say how good we have done. and to have the chance to be champion if we win our game, that is what we have to do. the boys did an unbelievably consistentjob the boys did an unbelievably consistent job and being the boys did an unbelievably consistentjob and being consistent is the most difficult thing in life and in football as well because many good footballers are out there but to show your quality, that is the most important thing to be successful and that was the biggest step. saracens beat leinster in the biggest game in european club rugby, winning the champions cup for the third time in four years. they won by 20 points to 10
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in a close final in newcastle. patrick gearey spent an eventful day at st james' park. in rugby, the final stretch can be the hardest. yet something keeps dragging saracens and leinster back to this stage. in newcastle, a meeting of the two biggest beasts in the game. the toughest of all, the toughest to call. a match above all matches. saracens have been in this competition all season. they have won two years in a row but leinster took it off them. these two are the dominant forces in european rugby. went to such forces collide, much sound and fury follows but initially more bruises than points. it took until one player was in the sin bin for leinster to batter a way through. this dreisbach saracens and they freed themselves from our phobia. sean maitland went over and saracens were level by the break full the intensity never lifted. the
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red army rumbled forward, a game of spot the ball. no tribe at a penalty. when farrell did the necessary. it was still tight when lei nster necessary. it was still tight when leinster was struck by a bowl by billy. a moment of skill and strength that england may need at the world cup. even in this wild wea ker the world cup. even in this wild weaker sporting comebacks was too much for leinster. their rain as european champions ended with this kick. with these games you are running on emotional energy and there is a huge amount of resilience that you have to show but to be part of this team, you get energy from the players on either side of you and today there were monumental performances. this team can now be considered amongst britain's most successful sporting sides. saracens, the strongmen of europe. it was a day for the batsmen as england beat pakistan in southampton in the second one—day international. joss butler hit a spectacular century off just 50 balls.
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then, chasing 374 — pakistan's opener fakhar zaman made 138. but england edged it, winning by 12 runs — and making selection for the upcoming world cup tricky. i think they are all pushing each other. it is a bit like our batting unit over the last two or three yea rs. unit over the last two or three years. guys come in and do well and they miss out and unfortunately a couple of guys from this squad of 17 will miss out. it will be a tough decision regardless of how they perform in the rest of the series because of what they have contributed over this last long period of time. leeds united have the advantage in their championship play—off semi—final, after a controversial win in the first leg. dutchman kemar roofe scored early in the second half — his 15th goal of the season and derby were incensed when they had a penalty decision overturned, the referee was persuaded by his assistant to give a free kick instead after a collision in the box. they meet again on wednesday.
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aston villa beat west brom 2—1 in theirfirst leg — conor hourihane scoring the second against their west midlands rivals. the second leg is on tuesday. salford city — the club part—owned by manchester united's class of ‘92 — have been promoted to the football league — for the first time in their history. they beat afc fylde 3—0 at wembley in the national league play—off final. it's salford's fourth promotion in five seasons. inverness are through to the play—off final for promotion to the scottish premiership after beating ayr united 11—2 on aggregate — and kilmarnock are up into the all—important third place in the table, thanks to victory over kilmarnock. —— hibs. dundee, already relegated to the championship, earned their first win for three months, with victory at livingston. kenny miller was injured in the act of scoring the only goal of the game. women's super league champions arsenal finished the season on a high — by inflicting a first league defeat on their closest
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rivals manchester city. the only goal of the game came from emma mitchell, who surprised even herself with a brilliant strike. let's hope she takes that with her to france next month. mercedes continue to dominate formula 1 this season with another first and second in qualifying for the spanish grand prix. valterri bottas secured a hat—trick of pole positions ahead of his team mate lewis hamilton. the finn has a one point lead over the briton in the drivers' championship. i enjoy the adrenaline rush we get from those laps and i am very pleased. it was difficult but i forgot that and moved on. pleased. it was difficult but i forgot that and moved onlj pleased. it was difficult but i forgot that and moved on. i did not put a lap together. the last few laps, particularly in q3 put a lap together. the last few laps, particularly in 03 were not strong. i had to go out first ahead of everyone because i had a low battery pack and this was not a good job. england's matt wallace has a share of the lead
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at the british masters at southport going into the final round. wallace — who's chasing a fifth european tour title — was three shots ahead early in the third round, but he dropped his first shots of the tournament on the back nine to finish on 1a—under par. he sits tied with sweden's marcus kinult going into the final round. rafael nadal‘s chances of winning a sixth madrid 0pen are over, after he was knocked out in the semi—finals by stefanos tsitsipas. tsitsipas is one of the most exciting young players in the game — he beat roger federer at this year's australian open but this is the first time he's defeated nadal. his reward is a final against novak djokovic, who beat dominic thiem. and simona halep missed the chance to go back to the top of the world rankings, when she lost the final to kiki bertens in straight sets. it's the biggest win of bertens' career and it'll take her up to fourth in the world, making her the highest—ranking dutchwoman in history. the iaaf world relays are currently taking place in tokyo. the event acts as a qualifying for the world athletics championships this year in doha. gb's men qualified for the four by 100m final, which takes place later today —
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running the fastest time in the world this year in their heat. gb's men and women both qualified for the 4 by 400 metre relay finals later today. but, the women's 4 by 100 metre team didn't make the final, after failing to pass the baton in the change over zone. great britain were beaten by germany in their opening game of the ice hockey world championships in slovakia. that was despite this goal from great britain's mike hammond, which levelled the match at 1—all in the final period. germany scoring two late goals to secure a 3—1victory. great britain — who are appearing at the world championships for the first time in 25 years — play canada later today. that is busy. it will be a great day. there is a lot to look forward to as well as a lot from yesterday. at 641, the recent attacks intra— languor, new zealand and the us have shown the places of worship are now targets for terrorists. now an app has been launched which aims to help people feel safer by showing congregations how to protect themselves against an attack. it's called alaris, and we can
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speak to its creator, counter terror expert chris phillips who joins us from our london newsroom. thank you very much for your time. how serious do you think the threat is? it is ludicrous that we have to do this but what we have seen time and time again across the road is not only religious sites at a church a mosque or any other site, not only being involved in terrorism but being involved in terrorism but being properly targeted by the terrorists. and this is a worldwide issue. it is something that will not go away in the short term and some advice is probably needed. can you give us an idea of what the app says and how it can better help protect people? it is basic stuff. it is about helping the people who run the mosque or the church to understand that they do need to have some security in place. it gives them a basic step—by—step guide on the types of security they should look at and having a security plan in place is a good start, as an example. the second aspect is how
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they react should something bad happen, whether it is a postal package delivered that is suspicious or whether it is someone, u nfortu nately or whether it is someone, unfortunately as we saw in new zealand, that may be running around with firearms. these events are a lwa ys with firearms. these events are always unexpected and can take many different forms. i don't know how you could plan for every pen ten shall scenario. that is a difficulty. —— potential scenario. but even having plans is a good thing. even thinking through what could actually happen and what would we do in those circumstances, there are no hard and fast rules for anything. the run hide tell that the police are putting out is a good message and that is within this app. an as message and that is within this app. anasi message and that is within this app. an as i say this is a worldwide issue. something that is not only happening in the uk or overseas, it is right across the world. all sides could do with something to help them be pushed towards understanding the threat and then protecting themselves and their congregation.
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run hide tell is interesting because we have seen run hide tell is interesting because we have seen cases run hide tell is interesting because we have seen cases where individual a cts we have seen cases where individual acts of bravery have made a difference. unfortunately it is difficult to suggest to someone faced with a gun or a knife that it isa faced with a gun or a knife that it is a good idea to go and attack them. if you have no other opportunity than that is the way forward. and attack as a group. but generally the further away you are from an eye for a gun, the more likely you are to survive. what is the basic message then that should be in the back of your mind? 0ne thing people could take away? the ta keaway thing people could take away? the takeaway is to think it through. have a plan. have the ability to lock your building down. make sure there are cctv cameras, normal security stuff. but have that plan for any scenario you can come up with. and if you think through two or three scenarios with the management team all the people who work in the mosque or the church then actually you will come up with
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some ideas as to what you can do and you will react like that in the event if something bad happens. you will react like that in the event if something bad happensm there anything specific to learn from the new zealand experience do you think? there is a lot to learn. what we know is that churches and mosques are open places, designed to be open and allow people to come and go as they please. but in the current threat of terrorism and crime that is not always feasible. and we have seen attacks across france in churches, we have seen these things happening time and time again and we should not be caught out now because actually we should have thought this through and have the ability to, for example, lock some doors. and the app is there free of charge for anybody to use. it's just it'sjust approaching it's just approaching 645. it'sjust approaching 645. let's have a look at the weather forecast. a nice bright start for most of the
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country. it is. a nice, bright, chilly start this morning. this is a frost photo taken about half—an—hour ago in shropshire. temperatures below freezing in quite a few parts. notjust in south wixom, there is a bit of mist elsewhere. basically today, it is settled. we've got high—pressure across the country. the sunshine, high—pressure putting a lid on the sphere. showers recently developing. because we've had clear skies, it's widely cold out there. ground frost is out again, gardeners this morning might bea again, gardeners this morning might be a bit shocked if you haven't covered those plans but it looks like an easy day. lots of sunshine
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will be enjoyed. it's a bit hazy in the north and west but still dry and it's still sunny. 0utside, afternoon shower, the peak district, the pennines, the south downs. most of us, pennines, the south downs. most of us, warmer. pennines, the south downs. most of us, warmer. we've got more sunshine. that will have some impact on temperatures. it won't be as cold. it will still be with frost levels. clear skies, light winds. the risk of mist and fog. the next 4— five days, not great news for everybody. there is a need for rain. at the moment, it's looking dry again for the next four or five days. what we will find is temperatures gradually rising. monday sees temperatures higher than those of today.
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temperatures are rising higher. tuesday, as you can see, the easterly breeze, just picking the temperatures back. with that reason it means we're going to see the warmest weather so into the low 20s. that high—pressure sitting just to the east of us. when we see the highest temperatures but for all, it's dry and for all, it will feel warmer. temperatures below average. we are getting towards where they should be for this time of year. the warmth developing midweek further north and west. they do tail off again. back to you too. thanks very much. i'm liking all that yellow that we are seeing. that's a good sign.
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now it's time for the travel show. this week on the show: the remnants of france's nazi occupation. in some ways, this place is immaculate. it feels in some areas as though the germans have just stood up and walked out of here. and a bird's eye view of california. it's called the ‘jug' when you do this. he grunts. that one wasn't so good! it's incredible up here. the normandy coast in north—west france. next month marks 75 years since it saw the biggest seaborne invasion in history. 156,000 american, british
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and canadian troops landed along this was the bloodiest flash point of d—day — 0maha beach, where 43,000 american troops stormed the beaches straight into the teeth of the german guns — and really well defended positions here, as well. it took ten hours of brutal fighting before the beach was secured. looking around today, it is a really peaceful scene. it is incredible to imagine the horror of that day. there are museums here, but on the actual sands there is no evidence left, except for these. slowly being reclaimed by mother nature now, these bunkers formed part of the atlantic wall — a series of german fortifications which stretched from scandinavia along the dutch and belgian coasts and all the way around france. designed to repel an allied sea attack, many of the bunkers are still in place. like this one, hidden behind
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the beach huts and under the dunes on sword beach, metres from where the british forces landed. has sentiment about structures like this changed since the end of the war to today? would people after the war have been so keen to commemorate, do you think? but for the most visible bunker in the area, you have to go inland slightly, into the town of quistreham. inside, five floors have been restored and put to use as a museum showing what life would have been like inside this thick concrete shell. the story goes that this place wasn't liberated on d—day, three days later british forces came up, thinking it was an amunitions bunker, and when they blew the doors open there was a voice coming down upstairs, lo and behold, 50 german soldiers who had been hiding out. from up here you can see sword beach, where the british arrived. further along you've gotjuno. further along you've got gold, 0maha, utah. quite an extraordinary sight. here, in lorient, just across the peninsula from the landing beaches, there is this, the keroman submarine base. it was the biggest structure in the atlantic wall. in fact, it's the biggest germanic construction outside germany. there's enough space for 30 submarines inside. this place was designed to withstand allied bombardment and, looking around, it was pretty successful, but the result is,
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years later, it's almost impossible to destroy. so, after a long time spent scratching their heads and wondering quite what to do with this behemoth on their doorstep, the city of lorient decided to put it to rather a different use. some of the site is already used by sailing clubs and people come here for guided tours at weekends, but this spring, a company called hydrophone moved into one of the submarine bays here and turned it into a studio space and a concert hall, though it's virtually impossible to remove the history. that's impressive. that's a door. that's a door?! a door, yes. a big door. has there been any controversy or sensitivity around using this space for a modern purpose?
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in the past, these fortifications held too many traumatic memories for them to be put to use in this way. but there is a new generation in charge now who have a different relationship with the wall. oh, wow! look at this. and this is the concert hall. yeah. i think it's lovely that this space, that was built for not so good a purpose, is actually now being used as a lovely cultural centre for people to enjoy themselves. yes, it is motivation for us. the difference between the past and the future here, it's a motivation for us every day. we're hopping to the other side at the atlantic now to meet some
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of the giants of the natural world. california's redwood trees are the tallest living things on earth and amongst the oldest too. but they are far from invulnerable. mike corey's been to big sur to find out why climate change is causing some to fear for the future of this amazing species. here in western california, there are complex beings that have lived for over a millennium. redwood trees have become an icon of the state, but some fear that our changing climate might threaten their survival. and today, we'll be climbing this. it looks like it's ok. pretty good. so, ready for the bestjug yet? yep. it's called the ‘jug' when you do this. that one wasn't so good! 0k.
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that's a lot more work than i thought it was going to be! just wait till you get to 70 metres! so these are coast redwoods. they're the tallest tree species in the world, reaching currently about 380 feet tall are the tallest ones. they are incredibly tough and resilient. they‘ re really important ecologically. they support the habitat and provide habitat for a lot of plants and animals and they're also just incredibly beautiful and iconic. so, i've been here trying to get a better understanding of how they're responding to climate change and how they might respond to future climate change. and how are they responding to climate change? so as the climate changes, temperatures are increasing, it's drying things out as temperatures get warmer. that's a big consideration for these particular trees because they need so much water, it's affecting their water balance and their ability to transfer more water to the tops of the trees. but now it's time to get to work. there we go. so, first we need a sample of the tree's core. this is the halfway mark. when you get to the ground,
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we'll be able to pull that spoon out with the core on it. and so all the hidden secrets beneath the bark will be ours. yes! the knowledge will be ours. earlier on, anthony showed me some of those secrets this tree had already revealed. wow! these are the rings here? yeah, yeah. so each one of those is an annual ring, one year's worth of growth you can see here. so it really only grows a couple of millimetres a year. and sometimes it is even less than a millimetre a year, depending on how the conditions are. so we are back hundreds of years right now. yeah, yeah. once we polish this up and sand it and get a better view of the rings, there could be 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700 maybe years here. so this section up here hasn't seen sunlight for 600, 700 years. yeah. it's an amazing archive. all right, so i have one end of the tape measure.
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yeah. we're doing the circumference measurement. yeah. so wrap it all the way around there, underneath the tubing there. 0k. so we are at 7.84 metres circumference. that's a big tree. it is a big tree. 7.84 metres around and we are five metres off the ground. this redwood stands at over 70 metres tall. climbing redwoods is forbidden in most places, but in this reserve we have special permission and what a privilege it is. ok, 40 metres. i can't get over how beautiful this tree is. we have got up to the canopy, so there are burn marks on this tree at 40 metres, which boggles my mind. it's incredible up here. anthony told me that wildfires are another threat these trees are increasingly facing in the modern world. a bird's nest. i don't think there's
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anybody home, though. there's nothing else like this on the planet. i'm getting an appreciation for that right now. i'm also getting quite sweaty! it's not easy work. with anthony already at the top collecting samples, i make my final push upwards. this view is definitely one of the wildest, most incredible views i have seen in my entire life. i can't believe we are 71 metres off the ground right now. condors get this view. it's incredible. this is 700—years—old, which is before the colonisation of america, before the taj mahal, before machu picchu. it makes me feel like a speck of sand in a sandbox — insignificant. yeah, it's a pretty humbling experience, isn't it? if the climate change conditions dry things out sufficiently, than they might start to feel some impacts, they might not grow as well, they might not get as tall. they might, in the future, even start to die back and that is what we are trying to figure out.
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do i feel the tree shaking a little bit? it's moving. this is a normal thing, i'm assuming?! right, well, that's it for this week. coming up next time: lucy is in new york for a special look at a brand—new museum dedicated to one of the world's most recognisable names. liberty island receives nearly 4.5 million visitors each year. on a busy day, as many as 25,000 people come over and, right now, we've got it all to ourselves. and we go off—grid in norway to meet the man with an island all to himself. "well, this is it, this is the place". 0ur dreams became reality. meanwhile, you can catch up with us on social media. just search bbc travel show on any of the major platforms and feel free to tag us in your travel posts too. for now, though, christa larwood and the rest of the travel show 00:59:54,783 --> 2147483052:06:42,106 here in northern france, 2147483052:06:42,106 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 it's au revoir.
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