tv The Papers BBC News June 15, 2019 10:30pm-11:01pm BST
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first, the headlines. nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, the british—iranian womanjailed in iran, has begun a new hunger strike in protest against her imprisonment. hundreds of homes have been evacuated because of flooding in lincolnshire brought on by heavy rain. police are investigating after three people were killed in separate attacks in london in the last 2a hours. there's to be a major review into hospital food after the deaths of five patients from listeria is announced in england. the leader of hong kong has backed down after mass protests over their controversial extradition law to mainland china. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster
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penny smith and john rentoul, chief political commentator, at the independent. some of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the sunday times leads on the conservative leadership race. the paper says tory frontrunner borisjohnson‘s rivals are lining up to pitch for the top cabinet positions, with former contender esther mcvey announcing she's backing johnson for prime minister. the sunday telegraph reports that theresa may is attempting to give the education sector a £27 million cash boost in her last weeks in number 10, in a bid, according to the paper, to tie borisjohnson‘s hands. the mail on sunday alleges that the oxfam boss brought in after the haiti scandal has been accussed of covering up a sex scandal at another charity he previously led. the independent leads with a picture of protestors in hong kong celebrating the news that authorities have suspended the bill to allow extraditions to china.
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let's have a look at, we are going to start with the sunday times, which reports on pole surged. 0h, we do like the word search. it's her favourite word. it's not my favourite word. it's not my favourite word. it's not my favourite word but it is a very nice word. it's also a fabric. it's such a lovely word in the headline but it is not substantiated by the copy underneath. i'm sure burris likes that word as well. the poll puts the conservatives on 21%, behind the brexit party on 24%. it does say that 22% of people are more likely to vote conservative if boris johnson is leader but those findings are pretty unreliable. we know he is possibly the best—known of the contenders, he is likely be prime
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minister, his progress towards downing street appeared inexorable la st downing street appeared inexorable last night. but there are interesting comments here. this poll found he was the only candidate who would persuade voters to turn to the tories, 22% said they would be more likely to vote conservative if he was leader, none of his opponents scored more than 8%. mind you, 48% say that he would not unite the nation. 22% say he would. it's all those sort of things. when you look at that pouring —— poll, the thing is, that is what they are after. they are after the break said... they are after the break said... they are after the break said... they are obviously after the brexit party votes, otherwise they are going to be... in the short term, anyway. it is all very interesting what opinion polls say, what they
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think about boris johnson, what opinion polls say, what they think about borisjohnson, but what opinion polls say, what they think about boris johnson, but the only question is can he deliver brexit and when the brexit party vote rs brexit and when the brexit party voters back? every single thing i have read, and even when i don't mean to be reading about it, i seem to be accidentally reading about it, just seems to mean that they are going to have to not... that they cannot go on october the 31st, no matter what. nothing is ready. and the eu is already saying it already has it in hand and they are probably just rolling their eyes. you put boris johnson's just rolling their eyes. you put borisjohnson‘s problem just rolling their eyes. you put boris johnson's problem in just rolling their eyes. you put borisjohnson‘s problem in a nutshell. an theresa may will be the first to tell them don't read every poll and delivered as well. she certainly didn't get what she was expecting. and let's face it, depends on what sort of mood you are m, depends on what sort of mood you are in, have you ever answered one of these polls? i have, and i was in such a stroppy m— stroppy mood, it
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wasn't about politics anyway, that actually if they had said green was pink, i would actually if they had said green was pink, iwould have actually if they had said green was pink, i would have disagreed. actually if they had said green was pink, iwould have disagreed. or whatever. i know what i mean. we are with you penny. if theresa may has her own way, according to the sunday telegraph, there will be a £27 million booby trap for boris. she wants to spend lots of money in schools. before she goes. can she put that through? i don't think so. last week, she did that this net zero target for carbon, which was an interesting long—term target for the environment. and that is fairly simple, you just have to put a one line piece of legislation through the house of commons. to get a £27
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billion planning amount through the house of commons, you would need the treasury to make a financial statement, that is not going to happen before the end ofjuly. and presumably that is a long spend over a long period of time. whoever is in power would have to put it through and spend it and stick to it. but presumably this is about her wanting a legacy. she was something to go forward so that she is not known as the person who messed up brexit. unfortunately, that is all... prime ministers get remembered for one thing. with tony blair, it was a row, with david cameron it was the referendum, and with her it will be the fact that she failed to deliver brexit. everything else will be a footnote. and she has been pointing out in recent interviews that she has been doing other things, she is not just the has been doing other things, she is notjust the brexit prime minister, she has been trying to portray that legacy, there are other things that
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she has done, like spending on the nhs. the other people in the running are still making their statements so they haven't given up, michael gove saying he would scrap business rates for small businesses, for example. they haven't totally given up and said it is boris, though he does look awfully smug in the sunday telegraph. it is interesting when they start doing public campaigning because you get an insight into what kind of prime minister they would be. a lot of the policies aren't all to do with brexit, notjust to brexit prime minster. but they have to sell the brexit party, or else the conservative party is toast. labour are going to ask, do you want the final say? corbyn could be forced to back a referendum ——... this is another inching towards the labour party adopting support for
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another referendum. jeremy corbyn really does want to do it but he has been forced to consult party members, that means we know what they think so this is alljust going through the motions. if he is forced to consult them, we know what they will say, the question is will he act upon it? didn't he say a referendum is inevitable? yes, but thatis referendum is inevitable? yes, but that is not quite the same to committing the labour party to supporting it. it is very interesting, how carefully the labour party is inching in that direction, but it has not got there yet. well, tom watson hasn't been inching it, the deputy has been very this sos. wouldn't it have been interesting to go back to the actions, the recent elections, and just see how much or how different it would have been at the labour party had come out and said one way oi’ party had come out and said one way or another, because when you look at
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the people, when the lib dems... yes, it would have squeezed the lib dems. ijust wonder yes, it would have squeezed the lib dems. i just wonder how different it would have been. it is about positioning, you know what you are voting for them. that is the point, the one who seemed to do well were the one who seemed to do well were the ones who nailed their colours to the ones who nailed their colours to the mast, instead of running around the mast, instead of running around the edge. that is why i think labour will be pushed in that direction eventually. we're going back to the sunday times, britain sends royal marines to gulf crisis, penny. this is the story that as soon as donald trump racked up the sanctions on iran, ithink trump racked up the sanctions on iran, i think everybody did wonder whether there was going to be any fallout from that. —— fall out. we still don't absolutely no what
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happened. we have been told by the americans that they wear these little limpet mines put on the side. but you know, it is like all of these things, you can't know. in fa ct, these things, you can't know. in fact, it seems from the conversations i had with the people on the boats or ships, that they feel it didn't feel like that. so, we still don't know. all we know is that now britain is going to send royal marines to actually try to just have a show of presence there and say, look, we're watching, we are making sure is safe. a rise of tensions. a lot of oil comes through that. and of course it has got caught up in domestic politics with jeremy hunt, the foreign secretary, using this as a platform to attack jeremy corbyn, you knowjeremy hunt obviously wants to impress conservative party members in the tory leadership election and jeremy corbyn wants to express his suspicion of anything to do with the
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americans. right, back to the independent, interesting, isn't it, the events in hong kong? talking about people power to find people's republic. it's interesting that they decided to lead on this story. to many, it might seem obscure. decided to lead on this story. to many, it might seem obscurem decided to lead on this story. to many, it might seem obscure. it was a very significant development that the hong kong government, presumably... people power never works there, let's face it. well, it has worked now. presumably this is with the blessing from beijing that the hong kong government has decided to suspend this law which does suggest that people power does work and that, you know, the chinese authorities don't want to get into a confrontation with the entire population of hong kong. yes. although sometimes you do wonder if it isa although sometimes you do wonder if it is a case of let's not do it now, let's. .. may it is a case of let's not do it now, let's... may be but it is a case of let's not do it now, let's. .. may be but at least they have backed off at the time being and that is a hopeful sign. we've
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only got a couple of minutes before we have to go to the next programme, we have to go to the next programme, we are we have to go to the next programme, we a re really we have to go to the next programme, we are really keen to go to the story in the times. as of minutes before we have to go to the next programme, we are really keen to go to the story in the times. let's have a quick look at the sunday telegraph. shooting galleries have been approved. this is what they call hardcore heroin users, they are going to start off with these what they call shooting galleries, when i get peer heroin and they try to wind them off because nothing else seems to be working and i have worked out it would save money because it cost £12,000 per addict, and they cost £22,000 in other ways with the chaos that comes with them. so they are saying this may be the way to go and it works they will roll it out to other places. the story i wanted to talk about is fathers day, of course, liam gallagher of oasis, formerly of oasis, pictured there with his long lost daughter. indeed.
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who didn't see him for the first two decades of her life. she 21 now. so she has only recently made contact with him. quite next extra story. it says that she bears him no anger. they had to get that one in. yes, they did. you've got to roll with it. i rather staggeringly, considering how i have been on this earth, did not know that liam was short for william. two things we've learnt. search is a material and liam is short for william. thank you, penny, thank you, john. penny smith and john rentoul will be back at 11.30pm for another look at the papers, and don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website.
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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 penny and john. next on bbc news, it's the travel show. my name is tony giles and i'm totally blind and severely deaf in both ears. my mission is to visit every country in the world. i started off in december planning this recent trip and i decided to get to ethiopia. we are almost near lalibela.
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just minutes to arrive at my home. it's all rocky, really rocky. i like this, this is great. really steep. quite difficult to walk along. if this is what lalibela is all like, this is going to be great. ok, this is my house. the place i'm staying tonight, for me, it's perfect. it's as rough as you can get, as off the beaten track as you can get, as basic as you can get. it is real africa, for me. and it wakes up all my senses. ok, this is the toilet? yes. bit of a walk, if you get caught short. it is nothing new for me. just a bit more difficult with the steps. ijust got to be a bit slower and take my time. if i get stuck ijust shout, there are people around here,
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they will come and help me. it's not a problem for me. i can smell it! i love it. part of the adventure. i'm skyping my girlfriend. happy birthday! # happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, # happy birthday darling—beautiful—lovely. .. # happy birthday to you. i miss you. all right, be good. bye.
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if i want to visit places that are quite tricky i try and find a guide, a personal guide, to show me around. my name's zamed. hi zamed. yeah, i'm a local guide in lalibela. 0k. yeah, today's plan is we will explore the churches for you. ok, thank you. 11 churches. the churches divided into three groups. the first group churches, there are six church. yep. and the second group churches, there are four church. 0k. and the third group church there are only one churches. when were they made? what year? sorry? how old are they? 1,000 years old. 0k. more than, yeah. the church is in front of me? chanting in background. it's pretty rough, big steps. the guide was — probably not guided a blind person before, so they didn't really tell me anything about the steps or the terrain, started telling me
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information when i sort of started asking her. i don't think she could really understand me, and i couldn't understand her at all. this church is one of the biggest in ethiopia. the biggest? the biggest. outside, inside, total 72 pillars. sorry? 72 pillars. seven pillars? yeah, 72. yep. outside, 3a, inside 38, total is 72 pillars. is it this way? yes. what does it look like? just big doors, the main gate, a little bit of windows to get in light on the priestess. and do the windows have glass? no glass. they're open? rock. just rock windows. yeah, yeah, rock windows. so now where are we heading? around there we get inside. is this the entrance, yeah? yeah.
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so we went in the first church and walked around it and could hear chanting. chanting. i tried to explain, but it was very difficult to understand her. this all origanlly rocks. sorry? this originally pillars. right. not collapsed. soa column? yeah, this very cold. 0k. where's your arm? this way. tony sighs. very frustrated, a bit upset. unsure how handle it, how to extricate myself from the guide without being rude and also getting another guide to continue, i probably can't do this by myself. i could probably have a go and follow tourists, but, the terrain‘s pretty, pretty rough.
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i just want to be normal. she is a nice person but, ah. rrgh! i'm not very good expressing my emotions. i've got to be strong all the time. it's the only way i can travel. it's the only way i can cope. i am guiding you now. 0k. 0k? i will be on your left because the wall is on your right. and then, one step, tiny step, and then keep forward and then a big one. yes. well done. another one, that is good. you can feel it either side if you stretch your hands. all right! we got a different guide organised overnight and gently got out of the situation without offending. i felt more confident with him, ifelt more secure, i got the information i wanted.
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it was all explained in great detail, it was very personable with me, he gave me what i needed. this is a moment for you to take a picture, tony. yep. down there is bete giyorgis, it is a shape of a cross. yep. it is made of one rock, completely detached from the surrounding rock. it's one monolith? yes, one monolith. inside there is a tunnel to get to the church. so it's like a fortress, isn't it? exactly. a few steps forward, we are literally in the centre of the church. so we're at the transept? yeah, exactly. the pillars are part of the structure, so it is supporting itself. right, yep. but the space is very peaceful and very calming. 0k. lots of echo because of the shape, obviously. yeah.
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chanting. a big step, like a big slope. yeah. a few more steps and we will get there and we shall see the beautiful ceremony. yep, ok. ready? 0k. let's go. so this morning in lalibela i went to this amazing service up at one of the rock churches. it was almost like being transported back in time. keep coming. always hundreds of thousands of people around me, it's quite calming, ifeel quite emotional. i didn't expect to feel that. the energy here is... quite overwhelming. the last thing we sort of did was light a candle,
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that's when it hit me, really. a very spiritual saying just sort of got to me and i let the emotions go. i thought about the people i love and the people i've lost recently. i love you, brother. just said goodbye to some people. not leaving them behind, ijust — sending them on their way, releasing all the pent—up grief, i guess. that was good. good, i'm glad. i had to give the impression that i was ok and it was good and, you know, i couldn't get my mum worried.
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you can show it's ok to let it go, ok to show weakness. it's been an awesome week, an emotional week, i visited some amazing places. so ow become a better person. i think we made a heck of a documentary, in it. i think it will show people that a disabled person, a blind or deaf person can do incredible things. and so can other people. and hopefully it will make them realise that i had to let them — anything stop them from living their dreams.
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hello, on a day where there have been frequent showers and longer spells of rain, let's find some sunshine first. lyme regis this afternoon, one of the places in the uk that had sunshine for a few hours. others have seen frequent showers and longer spells of rain. the midlands, northern england, we have seen showers merging to give a longer spell of rain, as a frontal system has worked his way eastwards across the uk. we've seen frequent showers across northern ireland, western scotland. they continue in scotla nd western scotland. they continue in scotland overnight. elsewhere, they will tend to fade before showers
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return across parts of wales, southern and western england later tonight. temperatures typically between six and nine celsius, holding up into double figures in wales and southern england. sunday, high pressure is tantalisingly close but we are still under the influence of this area of low pressure and another frontal system working its way across, that will introduce more showers across much of england and wales during the day, some could be heavy and thundery, more showers across northern ireland, also western and northern scotland, eventually working their way eastwards a cross eventually working their way eastwards across other parts of scotland. east anglia and south—east england will have more sunshine through the afternoon but gusty winds associated with the showers and there will be some thunder and the heavier ones too. where you have showers, temperatures will be in the mid teens. the showers keep going through the evening and overnight. they will tend to fade but will linger across north—west england, into northern ireland and parts of
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western scotland as well. as we go into monday, we have an area of low pressure to the west of the uk. there is to be showers going to end monday across wales are northern and north—west england, further south east dry with spells of sunshine. showers across scotland and northern ireland on monday could be heavy and thundery and a slow rain in a short amount of time. —— a lot of rain in amount of time. —— a lot of rain in a short amount of time. many of us will see a respite on tuesday, spells of sunshine, if showers scattered around but heavy rain overnight into wednesday.
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this is bbc news. i'm chris rogers. the headlines at 11:00: nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, the british—iranianjailed in iran, begins a new hunger strike in protest against her imprisonment. the foreign secretary has urged iran to release her. whatever the disagreements you may have with the united kingdom, there is an innocent woman at the heart of this. shejust is an innocent woman at the heart of this. she just want to get back together with her daughter, gabriella, to reunite a family. it comes as a series of attacks on oil tankers in the region has further strained diplomatic relations with iran. flooding forces hundreds more people from their homes in lincolnshire after two months of rain falls in two days. police are investigating after 3 people were killed in separate attacks in london in the last 2a hours.
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