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this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 3pm: theresa may promises mps a "bold" new offer on brexit, to try to get her deal through parliament before she leaves office. the new national rail summer timetable comes into effect today. train companies say they've learned lessons from weeks of chaos on the network last summer. security sources in egypt say at least 17 people have been injured, in a blast appearing to target a tourist bus. a bbc investigation finds a fall in the number of prosecutions for revenge porn — even though there are more reported incidents. #0h # all i know # loving you is a losing game... triumph for the netherlands in this year's eurovision song contest — but despair for the uk, which finished last.
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kompany parts company with his club — the manchester city captain is off to anderlecht as player—manager. and in half an hour, we'll review this week's victoria derbyshire programme, including an investigation that found four children have been killed by a parent after being granted access by a family court. the prime minister is urging mps to look at what she calls her "new and improved" brexit offer "with fresh pairs of eyes" and to give it their support. writing in the sunday times, theresa may says the brexit withdrawal bill, the legislation needed to take britain out of the eu, will be a "bold offer". but the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, says his party does not currently support the legislation as he has heard
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nothing which suggests it will be "fu nda mentally a ny different" to what was previously put forward. here's our political correspondent, jonathan blake. the ayes to the right, 286. the noes to the left, 344. three times her brexit deal has been rejected, but the prime minister is giving it one more go. a vote next month is her last chance to win parliament's backing. but how? writing in the sunday times, theresa may has promised... a big promise, but no detail on what the offer will be, though one cabinet minister says there is still room to find agreement with labour. we do in many ways agree.
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none of us want to remain in the european union, none of us want a no—deal brexit, which means logically there has to be a deal, and if there is going to be a deal, the labour and conservative positions are about half an inch apart. butjeremy corbyn pulled the plug on talks with the government, and now sounds sceptical about labour helping the deal through before october's deadline. we haven't seen whatever the new bill is going to be yet but nothing i've heard leads me to believe it's fundamentally any different to the previous bill so as of now we are not supporting it. labour is split on holding another public vote. that won't be part of theresa may's offer, although plenty in parliament will keep pushing for it, even if some say there may not now be time. at the beginning of these european election campaigns, we had time to provide for a people's vote on what happens on brexit, which would take at least five to six months. we now no longer have the time to do that by the 31st of october,
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when we are due to crash out. others fighting for remain votes in thursday's european elections say it is possible if the government allows. if the government is going to bring the withdrawal bill before parliament, then what we have said is that if they attach a confirmatory referendum to it, we will support it. but polls suggest it's the brexit party, arguing for an eu exit as soon as possible, that is winning most support — another factor piling pressure on the prime minister to get an agreement for her deal, and quickly. jonathan blake, bbc news. earlier i asked jonathan about whether the results in this week's european elections could cause parties to rethink their positions. possibly, if the polling proves accurate than both main parties are braced for poor results in those european elections, if the brexit party, led by nigel farage,
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commands the most support then they will perhaps be worried that the prospect of a no—deal brexit which he has argued for becomes higher up the agenda because there would perhaps be a high level of public support for it so both theresa may and jeremy corbyn are hedging their bets before there elections, theresa may not coming out with the details of whatever this bold offer turns out to be, jeremy corbyn not saying whether he will support it or not because the detail isn't there yet but the next few days will be interesting and the outcome of the election results will have an impact. we have people saying they will do something they haven't done before, vote for a different party because of the european elections, lord heseltine said he would vote
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lib dems, one occasion. andrew mckinlay, a labour member of parliament for several years, said he would do the same. as pro—europeans but none of that might change the arithmetic at westminster. no, these are european elections for seats in the european parliament and the government has said it never wanted to take part in these, it gives the public a chance to tell the government what they think of what's going on and that will have an impact much more so than the number of meps from each party which may end up sitting in the european parliament, but the arithmetic at westminster stays as it is and theresa may cannot change that, so she has to offer concessions to one side or the other or maybe both, for example on the issue of a customs union which the labour party wants to see in future, conceding to that will turn off as many conservative mps as it will turn on labour mps, if not more, so there are no easy options for her, she has to beg, borrow and steal ideas
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and to pick off bits of support from labour unofficially. and she's clearly at the end of her premiership, these are the dying weeks of theresa may's prime ministership which affects her authority, there are signs of people positioning themselves for the battle for the leadership, we have rory stewart and amber rudd relaunching this one nation caucus, they call it, john major saying the centre of the party has been vacated. there are some interesting fights to come. there is a discussion going on and there has for some time now, the leadership contest has unofficially been under way for a while and barely a week goes by without a cabinet minister inviting journalists into their kitchen and talking about opinions that have nothing to do with their brief and alongside this frantic high—stakes game that theresa may is involved in trying
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to get brexit through in the dying weeks and months of her premiership, there is this contest to appeal to the conservative party membership and the broader public from people who fancy their chances as leader, but what none of them want to do is pick up the pieces of this mess before it's finished. and next week, we will be continuing our series of interviews with meps and leaders from the main parties standing in the european elections in a special ask this. you can send us your questions to put to them. on monday, we'll speak to conservative mep ashley fox and vince cable, the lib dem leader. then on tuesday we're interviewing gerard batten, the ukip leader, and on wednesday it will be the turn ofjohn healey from labour and adam price, the plaid cymru leader. details of how to get in touch are on the screen. security sources in egypt say at least 17 people have been injured
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in a blast appearing to target a tourist bus. the attack happened near the new egyptian museum close to the giza pyramids. the sources added that ten of the wounded are egyptians ranyah sabry from bbc arabic is in cairo and joins us live. the attack happened during rush r for the holy month of ramadan, the explosion was due to a primitive ied or improvised electronic device that went off when the bus was passing and shattered the glass, the majority of the injuries, all of which are light, were caused by the shattered glass. seven arcturus from south africa and the rest are egyptians, passers—by or people who we re egyptians, passers—by or people who were ina egyptians, passers—by or people who were in a car next to the bus when the explosion happened, and it occurred close to the grand egyptian
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museum which is still under construction and will be opened officially in 2022 but part of it remains to be open, things have moved from the egyptian museum in tahir square to the grand egyptian museum and this is why the tourist bus was in the area. it's obviously a popular attraction. how unusual is it for terrorists to be targeted? security in egypt has been stable for the past two years, we haven't seen such explosions in the capital orany seen such explosions in the capital or any explosions targeting terrorists, any violence has been occurring as part of egypt's clamp—down on terrorists and skirmishes between security and these militias or militants, but when it comes to turrets they have not been a target and tourism in
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egypt is picking up, we are talking about a 53% increase this year as they began at campaign on international platforms to attract turrets back again and it has been working. we will see the affect of this explosion on the season of summer this explosion on the season of summerand this explosion on the season of summer and tourism in coming weeks. thank you. the new national rail summer timetable comes into effect today, and train companies say they're making every effort to avoid the chaos of last year's shake—up. but public transport campaigners have warned that train companies must have a "robust contingency plan" in case this latest timetable change leads to a repeat of last year's meltdown. our business correspondent, katy austin, has more. it's nearly summer, so some train times are changing again. new services are being added each year to provide for an increasing number of passengers and boost the economy. today's timetable shake—up makes space for 1000 additional services across the country,
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but these changes are on a far smaller scale than last may. then, a huge overhaul of timetables resulted in chaos for passengers on the northern and govia thames link networks in particular. rail operators will be monitoring this summer's timetable change carefully and they said they can respond quickly if there are any problems, adding that extra staff are on hand to support passengers. train companies and network rail have emphasised that they learned lessons from what happened last summer and have been working together to put those lessons into practice. they have highlighted the winter changes introduced in december which were also deliberately scaled back as a successful example. but the group representing passengers says those paying to travel deserve this time round to go smoothly. we'll know really by the end of the morning commute on monday, that is the kind of acid test when this is really seeing if it works or not. sunday is a bit of a trial run. monday morning, d—day, really, for commuters. let's see what happens. we will be there watching on behalf
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of passengers to see what is happening and see how good the information is in particular. last summer's rail chaos led to apologies from the transport secretary and an official enquiry. the disruption is still fresh in the minds of commuters, who will be expecting a far less stressful experience when they return to the network in their millions on monday morning. katie austin, bbc news. now, the largest election the world has ever seen has taken place in india — where 900 million people were eligible to vote. voting ends today, after an acrimonious and at times violent campaign. this lets give a sense of the scale of the poll and what will happen. earlier i spoke to sangita myska in delhi and asked if the elections we re delhi and asked if the elections were as bad—tempered as reports
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suggested. very much so, so let me recap with some figures to give a sense of scale, there was 900 million registered voters have voted across 29 states from the northernmost parts of india in the himalayas down to the southern tip of this country, it's taken six weeks over seven phases, todayis the last day of polling and it has been an unbelievably fierce and bitter battle, very little debate nationally about policies, instead incredibly a slew of personal insults from the leaders of all the major parties going at each other‘s throats in the last few weeks. why has it been such an angry campaign? this is essentially a poll of the incumbent prime minister narendra modi, a hindu nationalist leaderfrom the bjp party, his critics will tell you he has spent the last five years moving india away
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from its secular constitutional society into a country divided by caste and religion. his supporters, who are equally passionate, will say he is the only man who can deliver sustainable development over another five years and fight the corruption that has plagued this country. results day is on thursday and we should then have some idea who will govern the country over the next five years but there could be a twist. in 2014, narendra modi won the election with a landslide absolute majority, that hadn't happened for the previous 30 years, because india generally has been run on a system of alliances so so we could either end up with the bjp forming an alliance or all the opposition parties could end up aligning themselves against the bjp to have a third party government
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so everything to play for. the headlines on bbc news... theresa may promises mps a bold new offer on brexit, to try to get her deal through parliament before she leaves office. the new national rail summer timetable comes into effect today — train companies say they've learned lessons from weeks of chaos on the network last summer. security sources in egypt say at least 17 people have been injured, in a blast appearing to target a tourist bus. and in sport, england are playing their fifth and final one—day interntainal against pakistan. pakistan need 252 to win after tom curran gave the innings a late push. british tennis number one, johanna konta, was defeated in the italian 0pen final this afternoon, beaten by world number seven, karolina pliskova in straight sets. and vincent kompany has left manchester city to join anderlecht as player—manager. the 33—year—old has signed a three—year deal with the belgian club after spending over
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a decade at etihad stadium. i'll be back with more on those stories in an hour. a bbc 5 live investigation has found that the number of prosecutions for "revenge porn" in england and wales has fallen, despite an increase in reported incidents. laws were brought in four years ago to tackle the problem. but while reports have more than doubled, the number of prosecutions has fallen by nearly a quarter. antoinette raffaela huber is doing a phd at liverpooljohn moores university focusing on imaged based sexual abuse. she explained why there the number of prosecutions were taking place. (read on) i think the rise in the number of recorded cases is probbaly because now we have a law and people are more aware of the fact this abusive behaviour is illegal
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and the criminaljustice system have the means to deal with that, that explains why people are coming forward. in terms of the low level of prosecutions, at the moment the lot we have is not fit for purpose so it doesn't especially, there's too many loopholes in it and that it doesn't particularly help police forces and crown prosecution service to prosecute cases and it doesn't encourage victims to stay within the criminaljustice process, so you will have victims who pull out the process. two interesting aspects, one is the requirement that the prosecution has to prove intent to cause distress, so it's not enough that your ex—boyfriend or ex—girlfriend sticks naked pictures of you on the internet, they have to intend you to feel distressed, how big a bar is that to prosecution? at the moment it's incredibly high, there are a lot of cases where somebody can say that
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for example they were intoxicated or they didn't realise the level of distress they would cause the victim, you also find instances where people don't necessarily share them with the intent of the victim finding out their image had been shared, so gaining status within online peer groups, and if you cannot clearly demonstrate that intent, there's no case for prosecution, so we need a secondary bar that you should have known it would cause distress. what about anonymity? this isn't treated as a sex crime, in the way it protects the victim from the point of the complaint, so victims are publicly identified. some people would make that choice
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but is that a disincentive? what sort of problems does that cause? the issue that many victims fear is not having anonymity, it means they will be publicly identified for a second time, so not only have they been victimised in a public way but that will now be broadcast in the news, and that's problematic because victims fear what will happen is it will cause an incentive for people to try and find those images and further share there images and this is a sexual offence so we should be granting these victims anonymity and if we don't, we are causing them more harm than good within the justice process. antoinette raffaela huber, speaking earlier. voters in switzerland appear
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to have backed the tightening of gun laws to conform with europe—wide rules. an estimated 67% of those who voted in a referendum approved of tougher controls on semi—automatic and automatic weapons. after the paris attacks in 2015, all signatories of the schengen open border treaty were told to restrict such guns. 0ur correspondent imogen foulkes is in the swiss capital of berne. it's an interesting decision by voters, not least because guns are so voters, not least because guns are so prevalent in switzerland. yes, just yesterday morning i was out for my morning run, i could hear gunfire and at my local shooting club and ex army officers getting in shooting practice, very common to see people with guns, it's common to hear the gun club going through its practices ona gun club going through its practices on a wednesday evening or sunday morning. there are an estimated 43 million guns in this city, probably
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many more inherited from fathers and gulf —— grandfathers and pretty lax controls, the line has always been that the government trusts its citizens with guns, gun crime is relatively low but in a country with open borders with the rest of europe, when we see the kind of horrific attacks we saw in paris, europe once more controls, it once police across europe to know who has an automatic weapon, where that is, who has a permit, who hasn't, whether that weapon has been sold and who to, and that is the sort of thing the swiss will have to comply with and they voted by a pretty big majority in favour of those restrictions. a lot of those guns with which people do their military service, they get to keep them, they may not all be using them but have
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not been instances of gun violence that we report on, is this driven by the need to conform with eu rules to remain in schengen? that's a good question because there have been other nationwide votes, by groups concerned about domestic violence, by doctors association and the swiss medical association concerned about suicide asking for greater gun control and these have always failed but now because of the need to keep those borders open with europe to keep good relations and access to the single market, the swiss have said yes to this restriction but in the run—up to this vote i talked to a lot of people primarily women who said at last, now is our chance, i'm voting for this, not really because brussels has challenged us to do it but because i think this will make
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oui’ but because i think this will make our country a safer place and if you look at the figures for done suicide, you can see that switzerland has the highest in europe for that and many people are saying control guns more and people in moments of desperation won't have such easy in moments of desperation won't have such easy access in moments of desperation won't have such easy access to them and maybe suicides could be prevented. a 16 year old boy is said to be in a stable but serious condition after being shot in the leg in sheffield. emergency services were called just after midnight in the the spital hill area of the city. police investigating the shooting have appealed to people who heard or saw anything to come forward. austria is due to hold a snap election in september after vice—chancellor heinz—christian strache resigned over a corruption scandal. the freedom party leader stepped down after secret video footage emerged which appeared to show him discussing government contracts with an alleged russian investor. earlier today, austria's chancellor, sebastian kurz, promised an independent inquiry into possible
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abuse of office and the origins of the video that caused mr strache's resignation. translation: we will work together to create the necessary framework so a full and proper investigation can take place and we will make sure this is independent and transparent. furthermore, the president and i both share the same goal, namely the maximum degree of stability. austria's chancellor, sebastien kurtz. this year's eurovision song contest had it all. russia had singing in the shower, australians were on bendy poles and there was a half—time performance from madonna. the netherlands triumphed for the first time since 1975 — but it was despair for the uk's entry, which finished last. 0ur correspondent, david sillito was there. from tel aviv, israel, this is the grand final
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of the eurovision song contest, 2019! on stage, it was business as usual. but off—screen there were protests from those opposed to israel's occupation of the palestinian territories. chanting: taking part in eurovision means you join a racist mission! i think the world should not allow israel to host events like this because having events like the eurovision here is masking away the reality of the occupation. and injerusalem, police tackled orthodox protesters angered that the contest was being held on thejewish sabbath. in the end there were no major protests. note stage invasions. the programme passed largely without incident. the uk's michael rice sang with gusto, but ended up in last place. and after days of doubts, madonna did perform, but fans were not sure if this
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was a deserving performance. # i'm going to take you there are... the winner was duncan laurence of the netherlands, and among the fans he had been a firm favourite from the beginning. thank you. a wartime bomb caught in fishing nets off the coast of the isle of wight yesterday has been safely detonated. that was the moment the navy's bomb disposal team pressed the button. the explosives had been there for 70 plus years. the seven—foot wartime german sea mine was picked up by a fishing boat off the needles. that must have come as a bit of a surprise. no surprises in the weather forecast, here's surprise. no surprises in the
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weatherforecast, here's darren bett. a bit more warmth in the sun has led to showers developing widely over the past are or two and then those shoppers will linger into the evening and become wider overnight, there is a lot of low cloud in the north sea, lapping onto coast and that will head further inland so a misty and murky start to the morning. that triggered some showers, quite a few for northern ireland, down the spine of england, temperatures similar to today. on monday it may start off chilly out towards western areas of the uk, fewer showers, most places will be dry, one or two showers developing across eastern england, rang for northern scotland, those temperatures aren't changing much,
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once again with light winds it will feel warm in the sunshine. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: theresa may promises mps a "bold" new offer on brexit, to try to get her deal through parliament before she leaves office. the new national rail summer timetable comes into effect today. train companies say they've learned lessons from weeks of chaos on the network last summer. security sources in egypt say at least 17 people have been injured, in a blast appearing to target a tourist bus. a bbc investigation finds a fall in the number of prosecutions for revenge porn, even though there are more reported incidents. triumph for the netherlands in this year's eurovision song contest, but despair for the uk, which finished last. kompany parts company with his club. the manchester city captain is off to anderlecht as player—manager.
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and now on bbc news, victoria derbyshire takes a look back at some of the highlights from her programme this week. hello, and welcome to our programme. over the next half an hour, we will bring you some of our special programmes this week, looking into the secret world of the family courts. on wednesday, it was revealed that in the last five years, four children have been killed at the hands of a parent who had been granted access to the child by the family courts. and, in each of those cases, that parent, the dad, had a known history of domestic abuse. as a result of our findings, more than 120 mps have called for an urgent and independent enquiry into the family court system. first, let's hearfrom three mums who were courageous enough to speak out to us about the impact of the family court

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