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you're watching bbc news at nine with me, annita mcveigh. —— with me, carrie gracie. the headlines: heathrow airport reveals its masterplan for a third runway, which includes diverting rivers and re—routing the m25. the proposals are now open for public consultation. borisjohnson gets the backing of former rival andrea leadsom ahead of a second round of voting this afternoon in the conservative leadership race. the united states will send more troops to the middle east in response to what it calls "hostile behaviour" by iranian forces. the former egyptian president mohamed morsi is buried in cairo — hours after he collapsed and died in court. plans to clean up the environmental impact of fast fashion are rejected by the government. puppy eyes — new research suggests
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dogs‘ eyes may have evolved to help them bond with humans. and coming up in sport: england are back in action at the cricket world cup. they take on afghanistan at old trafford in just over an hour's time. good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. heathrow — one of the world's busiest airports — will publish details of its expansion plans this morning. the project to build a third runway is expected to cost £14 billion, but is facing fierce opposition from environmental campaigners. the public will have 12 weeks to comment on the plans. our transport correspondent, tom burridge, reports.
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they queue at heathrow. 99% of landing and take—off slots at britain's main airport are full. they're notjust queueing up to take off, they're queueing up in the sky to get in. a plane will arrive or leave heathrow every 45 seconds. it's why heathrow says it needs a third runway. and this is the airport's vision. the new runway will run over a new section of the busy m25. 761 homes will have to be moved, their owners compensated. local roads will be moved, rivers diverted. a new low emission zone around heathrow could mean additional charges for many vehicles. and the airport hopes it will be linked up to great western and southern rail. a new runway means potentially 260,000 more flights per year. 0pposition groups say it will mean unacceptable levels of noise and pollution. but heathrow says at night every local community will have at least
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seven hours when a plane is not flying overhead. it insists reducing its carbon footprint is a priority. one of the things we'll be producing as part of the consultation today is our preliminary environmental impact assessment, which sets out the implications from an air quality, noise, and carbon perspective. they are really important factors and we have worked hard to make sure that we mitigate those. and, clearly, we won't be able to expand unless we deliver on those environmental limits. heathrow also plans to develop its terminals to cope with the additional traffic. the next step is a planning application. the airport hopes work will begin on the third runway in 2022. tom burridge, bbc news, at heathrow. well, tom burridgejoins me now. spades in the ground, 2022, are you putting a lot of money on that? in
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short, yes. it has got to a stage now that it has been signed off by parliament last summer with a pretty big majority, the political climate now, i think, big majority, the political climate now, ithink, is more big majority, the political climate now, i think, is more in their favour. boris johnson now, i think, is more in their favour. borisjohnson is reported to have indicated in a private meeting recently that if he became prime minister he would take away his opposition. he famously said a few yea rs opposition. he famously said a few years ago he would lie down in front of the bulldozers. the project is in this next phase, essentially this is the last step before a planning application goes into a national inspectorate because it is a big infrastructure project team to be of national importance, it is not considered on a local level. it is now more of a question of in what form will be project go through to construction, beginning in 2022? you talk about all the forces on its side, the countervailing forces have been growing in the environmental
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lobby? we had seen the extinction rebellion threats, the enormous profile of the climate change crisis argument and movement? that is the enormous question this project has to answer. it is private money, it is not facing the big public expenditure questions that hs2 faces. but in terms of the environmental impact there is no doubt that as aviation technology currently stands, the carbon footprint at heathrow, given the vast number of flights, potentially a third runway would give it the capacity to bring in, potentially over a number of years, 260,000 more flights. it is a huge number. heathrow says they have a vision, they are looking into the future and saying that in a few years we will see a vision where all short—haul flights are powered by electric batteries. i personally think that is still quite a long way off. it is true that planes are getting more
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environmentally friendly, airbus and boeing are in a race to produce the greenest plains, we have heard much about that recently for other reasons. and then you have the air operation, the airport are basically saying that by 2020 its operation, minus the aeroplanes, the biggest polluters, the terminals, all airside vehicles, will be carbon neutral by next year. terminal two is completely powered by renewable energy and all outside vehicles by 2025 will be lower nation, so electric hybrid or euro six, which is the benchmark for green vehicles. they themselves are talking decades ahead right the way up to 2050, are they outrunning in terms of their strategic vision the strategic vision of the climate change crisis lobby? they are saying that emissions from aeroplanes are not sufficiently taxed, aviation fuel is
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not sufficiently taxed, there is a growing push from a clash of forces? heathrow is part of a planet saying they will keep airport charges close to current levels. they are not saying they will definitely keep them at current levels into the future in this plan. i think they are under pressure and saying we are taking this incredibly seriously, we can only expand if we mitigate the impact on the environment. they are talking about bringing in a low emissions zone around the airport, lots of cities around the uk are looking at this to have in the city centres, polluting vehicles get charged. a lot of people going into heathrow in the future could face additional charges on their cars. they are saying we are doing everything in our power to mitigate this and we hope the aerospace industry will make rena planes, they are, but we hope it will really take off in the coming years, from that sense we can mitigate our impact. there will be people who say you
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can't get away from the fact that air travel is dirty and polluting and the carbon footprint of heathrow, if you put loads more flights on, it's very much likely to increase significantly. tom, i know you will keep us across the development throughout the day. tom obviously mentioned the tory leadership frontrunner boris johnson suggesting he will drop its long—standing opposition to a third ru nway long—standing opposition to a third runway at heathrow if he became prime minister. it's something of a change in tune to what he said in 2015. i renew my pledge to all of you which i made many times to work absolutely flat out, and i have listened to the enhancements of the other constituencies in the borough of hillingdon and john mcdonald, yes, john, i willjoin you. i will lie down with you in front of those bulldozers and stop the building, stop the construction of that third
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runway. boris johnson. well, the mp for chelsea and fulham, greg hands, joins me now. i believe you have a strong view on this, that we should not do this?” think it is a big mistake, i think london is better served by a series of airports around the edge rather than one big hub airport at heathrow. the other thing about heathrow. the other thing about heathrow is the flight path means all of these planes are coming directly over the most residential and most densely populated parts of london. it is almost unique in the world in that regard. the proposal foran world in that regard. the proposal for an extra 700 planes a day potentially coming over central london, including my constituents in chelsea and fulham, i think it is a very, very bad idea fundamentally disagree with the proposal. and yet they have attempted to answer that problem, in part by saying there will be 6.5 hours overnight that
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everybody will get peaceful sleep with no flights? there should not be night flights at all. night flights offer the convenience of a few thousand passengers flying from the far east, but for 30 am in fulham planes can start coming overhead and they wake up hundreds of thousands of people on the ground. —— eight is 4:30am when flights can start coming over fulham. we have the balance wrong, convenience for thousands of passengers rather than convenience of hundreds of thousands of people living under the flight path. this argument has been hard and has effectively been lost, the government backs, mps back, in general you are in the minority now? that maybe, obviously there will be a vote across all the mps right the way across the united kingdom. but i
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am fighting for my constituents, i resigned from the government last year to fight this recommendation. either way, it was in the conservative manifesto in 2010 and other years to stop this, so i think i'm being true to the conservative ma nifesto to i'm being true to the conservative manifesto to fight a heathrow expansion and i will continue that fight. obviously for people in the uk and viewers who are not resident in chelsea and fulham, lots of them are considering the environmental argument. is that climate change argument, the cost to the environment, is that persuasive to you? i think it also has an impact. if the government will become zero carbon by 2050, a very laudable aim which i agree with, i think the decision on heathrow makes that a little bit more challenging.
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principally i think that for aviation reasons this is the wrong decision. it is said that london is competing with frankfurt and amsterdam but london is ten times the size of frankfurt and amsterdam, london is better served by a series of medium—sized airports around it rather than one giant hub airport located at one edge of london. the travel time across london to get to heathrow from east london, south london, they are typically longer than the flight times themselves. that is why this is a bad decision for london and for aviation. thank you forjoining us, greg hands. in the past hour, andrea leadsom has confirmed she's backing the frontrunner, boris johnson, for the leadership of the conservative party. mrs leadsom failed to make it through the first round of voting for the job — the second round takes place later today. the second tranche will take place later today. six candidates will compete, with whoever finishes last — or fails to secure at least 33 votes — being eliminated. the successful contenders will go on to appear on a debate
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on bbc one this evening. 0ur assistant political editor norman smithjoins us now. he is in westminster. norman, a big day, as ever? huge day, getting more and more interesting because the signs are we may be shaping up for a real contest. i think everyone for borisjohnson was pretty much on cruise control but there are beginning to be signs that one rory stewart could be developing a bit of momentum behind him, notjust outside of parliament where obviously his campaign seems to have got a lot more traction, but inside parliament too. he has won the backing of david lidington, mrs may's number two, and caroline spelman, the former party chairwoman. what seems to be going on is that rory stewart is becoming, if you like, the remain, the soft brexit, the note your candidate, but crucially the stock boris johnson
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candidate. this morning he was quite open, saying he is happy to be seen as the stop borisjohnson candidate. that matters because he has a pretty clear position for anybody who wants to stop borisjohnson, they want to think about backing him. it seems his achilles' heel is his brexit plan, which basically amounts to trying again with mrs may's deal. we know mrs may's deal crashed and burned three times spectacularly, mr stuart seems to believe that he could get it through. lam could get it through. i am saying it because it is true, we live in a parliamentary democracy and we only have one deal, and if you want to leave quickly and legally, and the main thing we want to do in this country, i think, is get on with it, get brexit done, and the quickest and most legal way is to do what we had to do, take a deal, the only deal, through parliament, and once it is through, people will realise it has achieved
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a lot. i don't want to overstate its prospects, he starts from way back, many tory mps view him as an u psta rt, many tory mps view him as an upstart, a new kid on the block and that works against him, but interestingly nerds are beginning to jangle. in the times, michael gove said, pretty much, please, please, please do not put rory stewart into the final ballot because we do not wa nt to the final ballot because we do not want to polarising contest with borisjohnson on want to polarising contest with boris johnson on one want to polarising contest with borisjohnson on one side and rory stewart on the other. in sajid javid this morning took a pop at the likes of rory stewart in the background. this is what he said. if we end up ina this is what he said. if we end up in a situation where the final two, three, four even our people from similar backgrounds... private school, 0xbridge, all that? similar backgrounds... private school, 0xbridge, all that7m similar backgrounds... private school, oxbridge, all that? it is like a debate at the oxford union, i do not think it is healthy for the tory party and what we need is not just to look like we represent modern britain, i think when we get
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to the final two, whoever emerges, some of my colleagues say, listen, saj, it will be paris anyway. if it is him,| saj, it will be paris anyway. if it is him, i unhappy to work with him, i don't have a problem, ferrand square. —— i and i don't have a problem, ferrand square. —— land happy idon't have a problem, ferrand square. —— land happy to work with him. but he needs to be tested, they cannot be a coronation. young boris will be put through his paces tonight when he takes part for the first time in a live television debate. crucial will be the details that will be pressed over on his brexit plan, which seems to just be to keep pressing little harder in the hope he can get the eu to think again on the backstop. he will be pressed for an absolute 100% confirmation that he will leave on october 31, although he has intimated, said it is his intention and we must leave, it seems he has not quite nailed that down. he will be tested over things like heathrow,
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does he stand by his previous pledge about lying down in front of bulldozers? he continues to pick up crucial support from andrea ledson. i will be backing borisjohnson crucial support from andrea ledson. i will be backing boris johnson for the next prime minister. there are two key reasons, i think is the best place to get us out of the eu at the end of october, his few and minor very closely aligned. and secondly l believe he is an election winner, somebody who can bring the country and the party back together and take us and the party back together and take us forward in a positive way. so borisjohnson still very much out in front, but interesting, we always say these contests never go according to plan, there is always a twist, a surprise element, maybe rory stewart could yet emerge as the surprise element. i thought it interesting that last night he was
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lodging jeremy corbyn‘s successful leadership campaign when he too came from absolutely nowhere, a relative outsider, to seize the leadership. —— he was lauding jeremy corbyn‘s successful campaign. it seems rory stewart seems to want to fight a similarcampaign. is stewart seems to want to fight a similar campaign. is interesting to say anything positive about anything in the universe ofjeremy corbyn! we'll be keeping you across all the developments in the conservative leadership race here on the bbc news channel. the result of the second ballot is expected at around six o'clock this evening — we'll be building up to that announcement throughout the bbc news at five — bringing you the result live, and you can watch tonight's live tv debate between the remaining candidates here on the bbc news channel at eight o'clock. that's our next prime minister, hosted by emily maitlis, followed by a full reaction programme from 9pm.
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the hong kong chief executive carrie lam has offered what she calls a sincere apology at a news conference two days after another major process no protest over an extradition bill. the bill would locate by case extradition to mainland china, and despite its postponement about 2 million people, according to organisers, spilled onto the streets on sunday demanding that carrie lam scrap the bill entirely and step down. i have heard you loud and clear and have reflected deeply on all that has transpired. the concerns over the past few months have been caused by deficiencies in their work of other government over the amendment exercise. i personally have to shoulder much of the responsibility. this has led to controversies and
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anxieties in society. for this, i offer my most sincere apology to all people of hong kong. we will see what the people of hong kong make of that news conference in the next few hours and days. the united states is to send 1,000 extra troops to the middle east, amid rising tensions with iran. the white house said it was in response to what it described as "hostile behaviour " by iranian forces. yesterday iran revealed it was close to breaching a key part of the international agreement to restrict its nuclear acitivities. our north america correspondent, peter bowes, has this report. more evidence that iran is to blame. these are the photographs the pentagon says offer further proof that the attacks on two tankers in the gulf of oman were carried out by iranian forces. this image shows what the us military describes as the remnants of the magnetic attachment device of an unexploded limpet mine placed on one of the tankers. the pentagon says it proves that
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iran has the resources and proficiency needed to quickly remove the unexploded mine. iran continues to deny any involvement in the attacks. announcing a further 1,000 troops to be sent to the middle east, the acting us secretary of defense, patrick shanahan, said the recent iranian attacks validated credible intelligence on hostile behaviour by iranian forces, threatening united states personnel and interests across the region. you have to get to the bottom line of what the united states is trying to accomplish, this whole thing about maximum pressure and bringing pressure to bear on the regime and pointing fingers when these things happen, whether iran did this or not, because it is conflicting information, it could have gone either way, what is clear is that when you put too much pressure on, you could cause the very things we are trying to prevent, and the
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objective should be stability in the middle east, not pushing closer towards war, which is what i think we're closer towards. the extra troops come on top of 1,500 announced last month. the us military says their role will be defensive, addressing air, naval, and ground—based threats. the us is insisting it does not seek conflict with iran, but with tensions rising, the region is looking increasingly unstable. peter bowes, bbc news. our correspondent mark lowen joins me now from fujairah in the uae. it isa it is a very tense moment, what next? it is very tense. i think this deployment of another thousand troops which the usa's is in a defensive capacity is, as you heard in report from peter, part of this maximum pressure strategy by the us. they had squeezed iran economically, they have crippled around's economy with sanctions, iranian oil exports
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are down by about 80%, so people in iran are hurting very badly, the iranians government is struggling to pay public sector salaries and the like and now you have the beefing up of us military assets in this region. and we simply don't know where this will lead. both sides say they don't want war, but the fear is that there could be a slide towards an accidental, unintended conflict in this region when you had two very, very entrenched positions that are not coming together, when you have the world's oil industry passing through these waters and when you have the more hawkish elements goading the us, like the israeli prime minister yesterday benjamin netanyahu, urging western countries to slap more sanctions on iran. it makes for a pretty worrying compostable next. at the same time, i suppose it is fairto at the same time, i suppose it is fair to say that the escalation,
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what the americans call diplomatic escalation, seems to be having the contrary effect to the one that they want, because both on the nuclear escalation on the iranians side and on the escalation of attacks on tankers, if the iranians are responsible, things are going in the wrong direction? i think perhaps the original intention was to try to bring the iranians regime to the mediating table by imposing this maximum pressure strategy. that is not happening for now and on the day that the two tankers were attacked in the persian gulf on thursday the japanese prime minister was meeting iran's supreme leader, parting on a note from donald trump saying the us is open to talks. he was rebuffed by the iranians supreme leader who says he does not want talks at the menu. the calculation in tehran is that if they can show what they are made of and flex their muscles, that is a
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way of perhaps either scaring the us to the mediating table, knowing that the core elements of the us administration do not want war, although hawkish elements likejohn bolton, the national security adviser, has been pushing for military retaliation. it is a high—stakes game of brinkmanship and nobody quite knows where it will lead. the phase high—stakes, high risk. thank you very much. a lack of training for doctors on how to treat eating disorders is contributing to avoidable deaths, according to a committee of mps. their report says that medical students may getjust a few hours of training on issues such as bulimia or anorexia, and that the nhs has failed to act on recommendations to improve services. our health correspondent, dominic hughes, reports. for the past decade, hannah has lived with an eating disorder. it's a potentially very serious condition, and yet she struggled to get the help she needed. there was a long wait, actually,
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when i was 19, to get help. so the wait was about six months for some cbt group therapy, and by that point, that wasn't really sufficient. and also, within six months i was extremely unwell, and by that point i was having, you know, suicide attempts. for those suffering with an eating disorder, getting treatment quickly is vital. but the eating disorder charity beat says, last year, one in five adults in england had to wait longer than 18 weeks, while one in ten had to wait longer than 2a weeks. the average waiting time in england was nine weeks, but the charity says patients face a postcode lottery for treatment. what we found was that, for some areas, people are being seen within two weeks. for others, they're waiting almost six months. it's a real variety across the country, and that's having detrimental impacts upon people's health. for those like hannah, who are living with an eating disorder, a clear understanding of their illness is key. but a report from a committee of mps
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says the training medical students receive can amount to just a few hours. they warn that, without better training and more joined—up services to help people like hannah, the nhs is risking avoidable deaths. dominic hughes, bbc news. the royal college of gps says training in mental health, including eating disorders, makes up a key part of the gp curriculum — but that more resources and funding are needed to deliver the best possible care. it would take £3.8 billion to reverse the cuts in school spending in england over the last ten years, according to analysis by the institute of fiscal studies. the ifs says to restore funding on sixth forms and colleges would cost almost a further half a billion. the government insists every local authority has been given more money for every pupil since 2017, and schools are getting help with cutting costs. ina
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in a moment, the weather, but let's hear what victoria has coming up at 10am? we talk to gay men who are secretly breaking the rules on donating blood. there are people that daily, weekly, monthly, yearly need blood. why shouldn't they be able to have my blood, or other gay people's blood? ourfulfilment and people's blood? our fulfilment and in an exclusive interview ex—eastenders star daniella westbrook tells us that five months ago she was a drunken, drugged up mess, her words, taking four grams of cocaine a day, sometimes followed by a bottle of vodka. after her sixth stint in rehab she rehab she says she is clea n, rehab she rehab she says she is clean, sober and happy for the first time in years. join us that five months ago she was a drunken, drugged up mess, her words, taking four grams of cocaine a day, sometimes followed by a bottle of vodka. after her sixth stint in rehab she says she is clea n, stint in rehab she says she is clean, sober and happy for the first
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time in years. china's attorney. thank you. now the weather, with carol kirkwood. good morning. things fairly quiet for much of the uk. across northern ireland and scotland, breezy with sunshine and showers. northern england, claridge breaking, you will see sunshine. the cloud is building across southern england this morning. —— northern england, cloud breaking. some showers coming from the channel could be heavy and sunny and it will turn humid. as we go through this evening, overnight and tomorrow, the met office has a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms. we could see 15 to 50 millimetres of rain, anywhere within this area. indeed, we could see non—in some parts of the country but the reason i am highlighting this is because it is falling unsaturated grand for some, so there is the risk of localised flooding. the met office weather warning lasts until 9pm tomorrow, so we are at risk of thunderstorms tomorrow. you can see more coming behind, driest conditions further west, even here there will be
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showers with highs up to about 20. hello, this is bbc news with carrie gracie. the headlines: heathrow airport reveals its masterplan for a third runway, which includes diverting rivers and rerouting the m25. the proposals are now open for public consultation. borisjohnson gets the backing of former rival andrea leadsom, ahead of a second round of voting this afternoon in the conservative leadership race. the united states will send troops to the middle east in response to what it calls "hostile behaviour" by iranian forces. the former egyptian president, mohammed morsi, is buried in cairo, hours after he collapsed and died in court. plans to clean up the environmental impact of fast fashion are rejected by the government. time now for the morning briefing, where we bring you up to speed on the stories people
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are watching, reading and sharing. as we've been hearing this morning, heathrow, one of the world's busiest airports, will publish details of its expansion plans this morning. the project to build a third runway is expected to cost £14 billion, but is facing fierce opposition from environmental campaigners. the public will have 12 weeks to comment on the plans. paul mcguinness, a resident affected by heathrow flight path and the chair of the no 3rd runway campaign group, says the airport is already to disruptive to local people's lives. well, like many other residents who live in the surrounds of heathrow, honestly we feel very perturbed. there is no other way of putting it. it is 20 years since the last sort of master plan was presented by heathrow, which was for terminal five. what got in over the line back then was a promise not to apply to increase flight numbers and a
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promise not to apply in any circumstances for a third runway. so what this latest consultation is about is how heathrow intends to renege on their promises to planners and two communities back then. and what's in prospect is pretty terrifying. i'm someone who lives underflight terrifying. i'm someone who lives under flight paths. i terrifying. i'm someone who lives underflight paths. i live in teddington. we find that our daughter is being woken up far too early in the morning and being kept up early in the morning and being kept upfartoo early in the morning and being kept up far too late at night. statistically speaking heathrow is already the world's most highly disruptive airport. it over flies and is based at the heart of our country's most densely populated residential region. and it's the only major airport to overfly a global capital city. now currently 750,000 are adversely impacted by
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aircraft noise. but if you look at this consultation, and you look at the areas impacted by the new flat path —— flight path, and we know from a new secret government document, which we got hold of through a freedom of information request, it is estimated up to 2.2 million will be impacted by adverse aircraft noise. pregnant labour mp stella creasy says women are forced to choose between doing thejob and being a mum because of parliament's rules. she says that ipsa, the body which regulates mps' pay, told her it does not recognise when members go on maternity leave. consequently, no paid cover is available for work done outside the house of commons. on the today programme this morning, stella creasy says the lack of proper maternity leave in parliament means constituents could miss out on support from their mp. i have always tried to make sure my personal life and my professional life are separate. i have given the best service i can to the people of
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waltha mstow. best service i can to the people of walthamstow. it's not me saying parliament doesn't recognise mps go on maternity leave. it's ipsa, the organisation that manages our budgets. they don't recognise mps going on maternity leave, which means i am in a terrible position when, hopefully, if this pregnancy is successful, terrified that i will be, when i seek to go away for six months, my community will not get the same level of service, the casework of the community events, the support i try to give the local residents, it doesn't seem right that a community should be penalised for having a woman as its mp in that way. you are highlighting the casework rather than your activities voting in the house of commons. just be clear on that first of all? if you go to the parliamentary website it tells you you canst contact your mp and they will support and help you. thanks to harriet harman we now have proxy voting. it's one element of what mps can do. they say they allow you to do that. your point is
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allow you to do that. your point is all the other vital work you do there is no coverfor? all the other vital work you do there is no cover for? in the last three years i have handled 133,000 queries from local residents myself, as well as my staff handling a similaramount of as well as my staff handling a similar amount of work. that work will not be covered unless there is a locum. it is that low composition ipsa don't recognise and i have to beg them for some additional funding so walthamstow does not miss out. are they suggesting, because the content are they suggesting, because the co nte nt we are they suggesting, because the content we have had suggest they might be, that you pay from your salary, because you don't lose a salary, because you don't lose a salary when you go on maternity leave as a member of parliament because you are paid automatically for the whole of the year? as you would do with statutory maternity pay, that would be a fair thing to do. i would pay, that would be a fair thing to do. iwould pay pay, that would be a fair thing to do. i would pay for —— i would take a salary cut if walthamstow was properly served. but frankly, this is about what job properly served. but frankly, this is about whatjob we want mps to do. ipsa i acting like a perhaps this ipsa are acting like a perhaps this is like appointing a wet nurse or a
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few hours extra childcare. this is about a proper job few hours extra childcare. this is about a properjob being done properly for a community like waltha mstow. if you're a dog owner, you'll be all too familiar with giving in to the demands of those big puppy eyes. now, scientists think that dogs have actually evolved their expressions over the years, in order to manipulate the bbc‘s breakfast programme spoke to a dog behaviourist this morning, but before they did they couldn't help sharing pictures of their pets — and their big puppy‘d09 eyes. this is when e. dan's dog.” this is when e. dan's dog. ijust give in to whinny all the time. with those eyes you can't help it. look at these two. oh my goodness, ruby! that is ruby when she was little. and waffle on the left. this is yours, sally. how can you not give
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into those eyes? at that. well, researchers have found that dogs have evolved muscles around their eyes, which allow them to make expressions that particularly appeal to humans. a new study says such "puppy eyes" helped domesticated dogs to bond with humans. dog behaviourist phil campbell says selective breeding ha selective breeding of thousands of yea rs. selective breeding of thousands of years. more recently dogs are not used for working any more. years. more recently dogs are not used for working any morem years. more recently dogs are not used for working any more. it could be that we as humans like the dogs that seem to be able to communicate with us better? cute dogs. dogs with expression, dogs with droopy eyes. dogs with more pronounced years, fluffy ears, the tilt of the head, not unusual in a dog, to be fair. oscar is putting a show on for you now. he is giving you his puppy dog eyes. you can see the selective
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breeding over the years. everyone has got a dog now. a lot of working dogs, working type dogs in the home, not working any more. so conceivably they may be right. we will see when they may be right. we will see when they finally finish their studies. is it always for affection? not a lwa ys is it always for affection? not always for affection. sometimes they just want you to feed them. we have clients where the dog will pester them to death until digg gave in and go to the biscuit barrel and when they get when they don't want to know you any more. until they want to know you again. i was thought cats were like you. dogs sort of look after you. they reckon cats don't really care about you. how do you not give into it? you don't give attention for the sake of attention. you don't have to entertain your dogs 2a — seven. people constantly,
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the dog's expectation will become that you have to entertain him 2a hours a day. there is a time of the place. you give your dog exercise, love, affection, some training. access to food and water and a place to sleep. right, the other stories you have been watching, if you have time you should definitely take a look at the story byjohn sudworth and the team in beijing. it is currently the most watched. it definitely deserves to be. this is an extraordinary story which is undercover —— under covered, inevitably. this is the first time foreign journalists have been allowed into the so—called vocational training centres where hundreds of thousands, possibly up toa hundreds of thousands, possibly up to a million muslims, are in these
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camps and the chinese are basically saying this is voluntary. but in my experience that is very unlikely. john certainly finding a lack in his reporting of any ability to leave. he has got interesting... if you watch the piece you will see some chilling moments when he is interviewing some of the people in charge of the camp and he is asking what happens if somebody wants to leave. the official says, we have never had anyone not want to come. john says, what if they didn't want to be there? what if they wanted to leave ? to be there? what if they wanted to leave? the answer is, we guide them. the answer is not, we would let them out. these people have not committed crimes, it is worth saying. and this one, you can't see the watchtowers here and the barbed wire and the high fences. the suspicion, john says, and he has got a lot of satellite photos in there, to say
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fences were taken down before foreign journalists arrived. but when he went to camps where it had not been given access, the watchtowers and barbed wire are still there. i will leave that. i could go on about that forever, as everybody knows. i will spare you would do watch the piece if you get time. on the most read, it is worth having a look at this one, the third story down. money meals, rising numbers in middle age. —— money mules. the uk prod —— fraud prevention services saying that the cases which bore the hallmarks of money mule activity where those aged between 41 and 60. that is because it thinks fraudsters are targeting people without a criminal background. in the hope that payments will go unnoticed. typically, money meals, as they call them, recruited on social media site
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and via messaging apps, offer payments they allow the bank accou nts payments they allow the bank a ccou nts to payments they allow the bank accounts to be used to transfer cash. well worth a read. i will leave it there. we need to move on. those are our stories. the former egyptian president, mohammed morsi, has been buried in cairo, hours after he died suddenly following his collapse in court. amnesty international has called on egypt to order an impartial investigation into his death, and raised serious questions about his treatment in custody. egyptian state television said he suffered a heart attack. sebastian usher joins me. sebastian, the whole independent impartial investigation question, how seriously are we likely to get that? i would think they are unlikely. —— very unlikely. what mohammed morsi once represented was the change that we saw in the arab spring in 2011. very briefly, when
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he became president he almost looked like a he became president he almost looked likea man he became president he almost looked like a man who had taken that on board, his first speech as president seemed to speak directly to the egyptian people in a way that hadn't happened before. it didn't follow through. the muslim brotherhood essentially, which you belong to, but their interest ahead of the interest of the rest of the country. when he was deposed, obviously it was very much to do with the military, and the political elite. but also massive protests on the street. what is interesting is that that moment that he represented very briefly, that moment of hope, is long gone. what we are seeing now is a return to the kind of authoritarianism that people rose against, that got him into power, moved him from power, and now we are seeing a stronger clamp—down on press freedom, justice, and that is why it seems very unlikely that we will see a transparent investigation ta ke will see a transparent investigation take place. we are seeing also the kind of reaction internationally that would push for that. we are not
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seeing reactions from western capitals in any way. because mohammed morsi, essentially, has been imprisoned since he was deposed. i am afraid we have to leave it there because we have a lot going on this morning. thank you for that fascinating analysis. now the sport with sally. good morning. england play afghanistan at the cricket world cup in manchester today. good morning. they'll be without a key man — injured openerjason roy. and there's been talk of a recall for alex hales. hales was dropped because of off—field misdemenaours, but has an outstanding one day record for his country. england's director of cricket told me an hour ago, that he believes everyone should be considered for selection. we would never rule alex hales out in the future. and that has got to be the way. i don't think you can
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just put a line through anyone. but that will be a decision for the selectors and the captain and the coach, and the big talking points, i guess, will be time. is it long enough between exit and re—entry into the team ? enough between exit and re—entry into the team? we hope everyone stays fit and we get everyone through the tournament. but if we are to get an injury, than i am sure the selectors will consider everyone. one of the things this tea m everyone. one of the things this team has worked on really well, and the captains, is the culture of the tea m the captains, is the culture of the team and how they behave. we have had some incidents in the past that don't reflect well on cricket. it is imperative to us in the future that we are seen on the pitch and off the pitch to be behaving in the right way. you can follow england's match with afghanistan across the bbc today. coverage starts at 9.30 over on test match special on five live sports extra. and you can see in play video clips on the bbc sport website. another controversial decision by the video assistant referee at the women's world cup — and it could be a huge boost for scotland's chances of progressing.
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hosts france beat nigeria 1—0, thanks to a penalty, originally missed by wendie renard, but ordered to be taken again after replays showed the goalkeeper was off her line by a few centimetres. that gave renard the chance to score again and, in denying nigeria a point, it means if scotland win their final group game, they would finish as a better placed third placed team than the african side, keeping alive scottish hopes. norway go through to the last 16 as group runners—up. they beat south korea 2—1. germany finish top of group b after thrashing south africa 4—0. spain and china are also through from group b. there's going to some frantic maths over the next few days. scotland know they need to beat argentina tomorrow. then they need to watch results on thursday — the main one being chile, who would need at least five goals to better scotland. scotland may have lost
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both their games, but the goals they got against england and japan in defeat could still be the key to a potential place in the last sixteen. i always thought when we came here that three points would, probably, depending on goal difference, might be enough. think that is still going to the case. it is certainly heading that way. so we definitely are looking at scenario planning and what the other groups are looking like. i think most coaches will do the same. british number one johanna konta got her grass court season off to a great start with a straight sets victory over annett kontaveit in the birmingham classic. the french open semi—finalist was always in control, winning 6—4, 6—2 to move into the second round. fellow brit heather watson was beaten by czech player barbora strycova. in the men's tournament at queen's, cameron norrie went a set up against kevin anderson. but anderson, who was runner—up at wimbledon last year, won the next two to move into the second round.
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james ward was later beaten by gilles simon. defending champion marin cilic saw off the challenge of chile's cristian garin. cilic won in straight sets. british number one kyle edmund plays top seed stefanos tsitsipas later. let me show you these great pictures you may have seen on social media. toronto raptors turned out in their thousands for the nba champions parade through the city. it's the first time the trophy has been won by a team from outside the united states. let's have a look at some of this morning's back pages. the times reporting marcus rashford close to a new deal with manchester united. but also a story about rafa benitez having an offer to go to manage in china. his contract with newcastle runs out at the end of the month, and he has yet to sign a new deal.
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the guardian has a picture of bangladesh all—rounder shakib al—hasan, after his unbeaten century took his side to a win over the west indies at the world cup. and the mirror is writing about frank lampard, and if he goes to chelsea how he will want to hang on to some of their stars like willian, especially with their transfer embargo in place. that's all the sport for now. more from the bbc sport centre at 11:15. we will look ahead to england and scotland's final group games at the women's world cup tomorrow. that is all the sport for now. thanks, sally. proposals designed to tackle the environmental impact of the fashion industry, have been rejected by the government. the recommendations put forward by mps on the environmental audit committee, hoped to end the culture of throwaway clothes
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and poor working conditions. but the government says many of the proposals are already covered by government policy. joining me now to discuss the government's decision are chair of the environmental audit committee mary creagh, and money blogger lynnjames. mary, are you disappointed, are you surprised? is mary, are you disappointed, are you surprised ? is it mary, are you disappointed, are you surprised? is it to the government has already got a handle on this? we are very disappointed. coming hot on the heels of the prime minister's announcement last week she wanted to get to a net—0 carbon economy, we will have to change how we do business in this country. we thought a report offered a road map to that. banning textiles to landfill and incineration. burberry was incinerating its bags and shoes. that's ridiculous. and also a 1p tax on every garment, so that we can set up on every garment, so that we can set up the recycling point in every store and make sure that we create those green jobs across the country, stopping text is going to landfill
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and incineration. none of those things does the government have policy for. so we are very disappointed. are you also disappointed? i am incredibly disappointed. i think the government is working hard to put in policies for plastic use. what about the clothes? what about the landfills? and what i have learned today in conversations, it is more shocking than what i knew, to be honest. so what is more shocking, mary? is it getting worse? i we becoming more throwaway? we are. the amount of close we produce in this country has doubled. —— my clothes. voluntary initiatives have failed. they have got a voluntary initiative to tackle carbon, water and waste. even if they meet those standards, which they meet those standards, which they haven't, that is far surpassed by the volume of clothing doubling in the last 15 years. we have seen an increasing mountain of clothes and no action to tackle it. if you
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are going to report on your carbon emissions and we get to net—0, you need to report on your water and waste emissions as well. loads of them don't do it. is thisjust a question of the government not joining the dots and getting up to speed? they say they are dealing with this agenda? they have got a ways to consultation which has just closed. they said they will consider an extended producer responsibility and they have given a menu of five different things. textiles are in there. they are vying for attention with tires, furniture, mattresses and carpets. what we are saying is, it is not a choice of one or the other. it is all of them. they say they will do a couple by 2025. scientists say we have 11 years to tackle devastating climate change. we need to get on with this. lynn, in your view, what is the thing that shoppers should be doing? a lot of people watching this programme this morning are the people in the frame in terms of throwing away clothes. we all occasionally do it. what should we be doing instead? yeah,
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andl should we be doing instead? yeah, and lam guilty of having far too many clothes at home. firstly, don't just throw them away. recycle them. give them to the local charity shop in your village. we have a small charity shop where l in your village. we have a small charity shop where i live and the clothes go there or to my local school, or to people, clothes go there or to my local school, orto people, not necessarily the bags that come through your letterbox, because we never trust them, give it to somebody you know. i buy stuff from h&m. i know h&m are working hard to become more environmental. l h&m. i know h&m are working hard to become more environmental. i know they are not perfect yet but they have ta ken steps. they are not perfect yet but they have taken steps. you can take a bag of clothes into h&m and they will give you some money off your shop. it isa give you some money off your shop. it is a small step but it is in the right direction. so it is looking, would you agree mary, at best practice among fashion retailers? we had a list of leaders on the environmental website. tesco's are doing good things. so is primerica,
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actually. so is a source. some of these companies have been cut up big scandals. they have had to big changes. the big factory were 1100 people were killed making clothes for our high streets. the lifeguards are the unnamed brands, tk maxx and amazon, for example. not only does amazon, for example. not only does amazon not pay taxes, they have no sustainability policies at all. that is really difficult and damaging for the environment. go a and demand more from your clothing retailers. what we really feel though is that with the —— without the government regulating and saying, if you want permission, you have to tackle these issues, and if you are not, you can't do business in this country. modern slavery? they all have to have a statement on their website. we found big jan —— to big brand is simply not doing anything about it.
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and the government not taking them to task. do you think consumer practice can make a difference? there is a huge public appetite for this. people are realising that the quick click, wear it, bin it model is no longer sustainable. it is driving unhappiness. and debt among young women. getting kids to learn about where their clothes come from, making and mending their clothes, and really the manual labour, the women's manual labour that goes into making clothes, is really important. what is your view on that end, on the supply and? you are talking a moment ago about how to recycle your clothes at the end of the day, how to deal with the clothes that you no longer want? what do you think on the manufacturing end and the buying and? absolutely, do some research into the companies that you are buying from. it will be on their website. where do they flop —— saucer clothes from? what countries are they responsible for the labour
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going into their clothes? i did some research this morning on responsible clothes sourcing and came up with some amazing resources on who is doing well and who is not doing well. it was the first page of google. it's not hard. mary, if you had a message for the government, what is the one key recommendation you want them to look at it again and say, actually, we change our minds on this? we want them to put a ip minds on this? we want them to put a 1p levy on every garment. we will create thousands of newjobs. we will take hundreds of thousands of clothes out of landfill and set fashion on a sustainable footing. thank you both very much. we have to leave it there. so interesting to talk to you. now let's get the weather with simon. thank you. some of us started with sunshine this morning. some welcome warm sunshine. but it is going to change because we have got some thunderstorms moving from the south today. warm and humid air across
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spain to the bay of biscay is moving its way north. with all this cloud you can see here associated with it. we have some heavy showers affecting the channel islands this morning. thunderstorms. putting its way into southern parts of england. we will see some intense rainfall throughout this morning as these showers work further north and east. certainly some interruptions likely at queens today. further north, sunny spells in northern england, northern ireland, eastern and southern scotland. a few showers in the north and west. warm and humid, particularly down towards the south east. temperatures getting into the high teens. low 20s. old trafford for the cricket world cup to date looking largely fine. the chance of a few showers later on into this evening. many more of us will see some thunderstorms pushing their way from the south. we could get 15 to 50 millimetres of rain in some places. through tonight you can see as these blobs of green and white
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come up from the south, really intense downpours, certainly to wake you up in the middle of the night or the early part of wednesday morning. frequent lightning associated with that. warm and muggy in the south—east. during wednesday quite a bit of rain towards northern and western areas. you can dodge the heaviest of the showers towards the east. some heavy showers towards north—east england towards wednesday. further west, some sunny spells, heavy showers in northern ireland and the west of scotland. it will feel quite warm and quite humid. temperatures getting up to 18 to 21 degrees. into thursday that humidity will disappear with a cold front moving its way eastward. a fresher north—westerly wind coming in across the uk. on that north—westerly wind we will see some showers into western scotland, a few showers into western scotland, a few showers into western scotland, a few showers into northern ireland, western wales and northern ireland. plenty of dry and sunny weather on
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thursday for many. temperatures will get up to 16 to 20 celsius, that will feel one. we have lost that humidity. into the weekend it is looking largely fine and dry. on sunday we start to see a few more showers coming into the south—west. that is it. bye—bye.
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