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i didn't really ever have discussions about it. did some people know it was going on? i'm sure they must have. what is it, something troubling? no, it's fine, it's fine. what is it, is there something troubling you? tell me. yes. the allegations against harvey weinstein field the metoo movement which saw people coming forward with allegations of abuse in the film industry and elsewhere. do you think we've heard the west or is there more to come? do i think it's the last of it? well, i doubt it. it's very tough. what's to end unless bad behaviour ends? and i don't see bad behaviour ending soon.
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time for a look at the weather. we have three different zones in the weather today, a chance of some storms in east anglia but for scotla nd storms in east anglia but for scotland and northern ireland we have further showers which are widespread to the afternoon. across many parts of england most places will become dry and sunny but staying quite humid further east. the heaviest of the showers across east anglia and south—east england and particularly parts of kent and sussex. around 17, 20 celsius most further overnight if we get any storms they will move away from east anglia and then we see further showers come and go across the of the uk. elsewhere clearing skies.
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temperatures between eight and i2 degrees overnight. tomorrow another day of sunshine and showers, the showers disappearing quickly. but in the afternoon the showers developed and some are quite heavy. but we do have some sunshine as well. temperatures between 15 and i9 degrees. feeling fresher. then something we've not seen for the whole of the month, high—pressure friday into saturday. that means that the weather finally is going to become settled for many of us. on friday any showers tend to be confined to parts of the northern isles and highlands of scotland, away from that largely dry with some spells of sunshine coming through. and temperatures between 16 for northern areas, and 21 towards the south—east. through the weekend for most of us and dry weather is here
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to stay with more sunshine and getting warmer with temperatures reaching 2a degrees around the london area and feeling a bit more humid across the south of england and southern parts of wales. during sunday night another area of low pressure comes in from the atlantic which will threaten some rain late on sunday and sunday night across western areas. but we could see at least a couple of days of dry weather finally this summer. (a reminder of our main story this lunchtime for men are to be charged of the shooting down of a malaysian airliner nearly four years ago, almost 300 people died. that is all from the bbc news at 0ne almost 300 people died. that is all from the bbc news at one and we joined the bbc news teams where you are. have a good afternoon.
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hello. you're watching bbc news. i'm 0lly foster at the bbc sport centre. scotland and england play theirfinal games in group d at the women's world cup. england are top of their group and can stay there with a draw againstjapan in nice, but it promises to be a nervy night for the scots in paris — they have to beat argentina. let's cross live to the parc de princes and speak to jane dougall who has been following the team in france. jane, two narrow defeats for scotland, they are going to have to go for it tonight? yes, a draw or a loss will not do, scotla nd yes, a draw or a loss will not do, scotland have to beat argentina and then they still have to rely on other results if they want a chance of getting through to the knockout stages. theirfirst of getting through to the knockout stages. their first match against england, it was understandable they might have played defensively, they
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lost 2—1 but i have seen them play far better than they played in the first half, and the second half they played much better and claire emms late got the first ever scotland goal ina late got the first ever scotland goal in a world cup and then against japan in their second match they did something similar because again they set up defensively, they weren't attacking and they conceded two goals in the first—half and in the second half they played far better, they seem to play for more attacking football, a couple of good substitutions helped and it was lana cleland who got goal and tonight they have to play differently and get goals, they have to win to get through to the knockout stages. get goals, they have to win to get through to the knockout stagesm would be huge, it's amazing being here but it would be even more amazing to prove a point and achieve something while being here and that
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in that form would be for us getting out of the group and it's great that people can see us being here but for people can see us being here but for people to see us be successful here would mean even more. the lifeline for scotland is that a decent third place finish gets them into the last 16 but when you look at the permutation, it gives you a bit of a headache. it does get slightly complicated. if they lose they are going home and argentina go through but if scotland win then they have three points in their group and are in contention for two remaining qualification spots. the other teams in contention are cameron and new zealand, who play each other tomorrow, then thailand and chile, who also play each other tomorrow. if scotla nd who also play each other tomorrow. if scotland beat argentina and
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progressed to the next round, they have a tough next match because they will have to travel to grenoble and played germany who are ranked second in the world so even if they do get through, it will be a tight turnaround and a tough match against a very decent side, but this is all academic because if scotland don't win tonight, they are going home. jane, many thanks. we will catch up with jane for the rest of the afternoon in the build—up to those matches. paul scholes has apologised for breaking fa rules and betting on football matches. the former england and manchester united midfielder has been fined £8,000 after it was found that he placed 140 bets from 2015 to january this year totalling over £25,000 and making a £5,000 profit. scholes says he didn't realise that he wasn't allowed to bet on matches. south africa are batting against new zealand in their game at the cricket world cup.
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the start at edgbaston was delayed by a wet outfield so its reduced to 49 overs each. painfully slow, the south african batting, 91—2 off a little over 20 overs. the black caps are still unbeaten in theirfirst four games and can overtake england at the top with a win. the french open champion ashley barty is the second round at the wta eventin barty is the second round at the wta event in birmingham. its first match since winning a week and a half ago at roland—garros. playing catch up at roland—garros. playing catch up at queens today after yesterday's com plete at queens today after yesterday's complete wash—out. these are live pictures, it's over on bbc two now. kyle edmund, the british number one, plays a little bit later. we will
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have updates on that and the rest of the sport on afternoon live in the next hour. let's bring you the latest from westminster now. the prime minister has been facing questions from mps in the commons. the snp's westminster leader, ian blackford, has described the conservative leadership candidate, boris johnson, as who is unfit for office. does the prime minister agree with the front runner set to succeed her that the scottish people are a verminous race that should be placed in ghettos and exterminated? prime minister. can ijust say to the right honourable gentleman that the conservative and unionist party takes the people of every part of this united kingdom not only seriously but we welcome the contribution from people of every part of this united kingdom because that is what makes it
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the great country it is and long may scotland remain part of it. ian blackford. of course words matter and actions matter. the man who published those words in his magazine, the prime minister thought was fit for the office of her top diplomat, and he hasn't stopped there. he said scots should be banned from being prime minister and that a pound spent in croydon was worth more than £8 spent in strathclyde. this is a man who is not fit for office. it has been said, the ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy. this is a time of challenge and so i ask, does the prime minister realise, not only is the member racist, he is stoking division in communities and has a record of dishonesty.
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does the prime minister honestly believe... order! if the right honourable gentleman is referring to a current member of this house, i don't know whether he is, but if he is, he should be careful in the language he uses and should have notified the member in advance but i would urge him to weigh his words carefully. mr ian blackford. and i think it would be better if he withdraws any allegation of racism against any particular member. i don't think this is the right way to behave. mr ian blackford. mr speaker, i have informed the member. the member has called muslim women letter boxes, described african people as having watermelon smiles and another disgusting slur that i would not dignify by repeating.
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if that isn't racist, i don't know what is. does the prime minister honestly believe this man is fit for the office of prime minister? prime minister. can i say to the right honourable gentleman, he has been leader of the snp here for some time. he might understand the purpose of prime minister's questions which is to ask the prime minister about the actions of her government. that is what he should be asking us about and i can say to the right honourable gentleman that i believe any conservative prime minister in the future will be better for scotland than the scottish nationalist party. an excerpt there of prime minister's questions today. norman smith was watching it and he
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said it had been quite a feisty and charged prime minister's questions. a lot of tory mps calling on the speaker to force mr blackford to withdraw his allegation that mrjohnson was racist but it was quite a combustible pmqs which was funny because you can imagine mrs may might have been tempted to say let's forget it today and take it easy, but she got quite a hard time from jeremy corbyn who challenged her over the lack of progress in removing grenfell cladding from numerous tower blocks and schools, asking about what was happening about retrofitting sprinklers and she also got a bit of a googly from ken clarke, who warned her against spending vast amounts of money in the last few days of her premiership on schools and carbon emissions and
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maintenance grants and all this, in other words binding the hands of her successor. that was interesting because sitting next to mrs may was the chancellor, p hammond, who we know has been uneasy about money going out the window in mrs may's last few days so a funny old pmqs because there were savannahs of green benches on the tory sides, a lot of people's focus elsewhere but quite a bruising pmqs for the pm. the rate of inflation fell slightly last month, due in part to lower travel costs after the easter break. the consumer prices index was at 2% in may, down from 2.1% in april. the rate was in line with economist expectations and was also dead on the bank of england's 2% inflation target. the retail prices index, a separate measure of inflation, was 3%, unchanged from april. more people may be in work than ever before — but there's been a big increase
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in the number of working households in poverty. a new study released today by the think tank the institute for fiscal studies found a 40% increase in the proportion of working households in poverty since the 1990s. the former uefa president michel platini has been released from custody after questioning by french anti—corruption custody after questioning by french anti—corru ption investigators looking at the decision to award the 2022 world cup to qatar. he denies any wrongdoing. public confidence in life—saving vaccines is worryingly low in some parts of the world, according to a new report. the wellcome trust has carried out the biggest ever global study into people's attitudes on immunisation. it found that about a fifth of people in europe either felt vaccines weren't safe, or were unsure about their safety. 0ur health reporter
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michelle roberts has more. vaccines are one of our best defences against deadly and debilitating diseases. but some preventable illnesses like measles are making a resurgence, and experts at the world health organization say people avoiding immunisation is a major concern. now the world's biggest survey to public attitudes reveals where vaccination confidence is low. the wellcome trust asked the opinion of more than 140,000 people in over 150 countries. worldwide, eight in ten people agree that vaccines are safe. a similar proportion agree that they are effective. but while most people in lower income areas feel vaccines are safe, confidence in higher income regions is more varied. around one fifth of people in europe either disagree or are unsure of whether vaccines are safe. the lowest confidence globally is in france, where one third disagree that vaccines are safe.
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in ukraine, which reported the highest number of measles cases in europe last year, only half of people agree that vaccines are effective. so what's making people sceptical? in the survey, people with more trust in scientists, doctors, and nurses were more likely to trust vaccines. but the researchers say there will be many factors at play. vaccination is a personal choice, but it does more than just protect an individual. it can defend whole communities and the most vulnerable, including babies and young children. michelle roberts, bbc news. in the moment we will have all the business news but first a look at the headlines. three russians and one ukrainian are to be charged with the shooting down of malaysia an
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airliner over ukraine, killing 298 people. more votes are expected this afternoon in the latest round of the conservative leadership contest. un investigator finds that saudi arabia was responsible for the killing of the journalist jamal khashoggi. good afternoon, i'm jimmy robertson. poverty among people who are working has risen sharply since the mid—1990s, partly driven by higher housing costs and lower earnings growth, according to the institute for fiscal studies. the uk's biggest gambling firms are offering the government a significant increase in the money they contribute to tackling problem gambling. the firms said they would also consider increasing the amount of safer gambling messaging and reviewing the "tone and content" of its advertising. and what is a sausage and what is a
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burger? simple questions but the a nswe rs a re burger? simple questions but the answers are getting more complex as food producers increasingly offer these items with no meat in them. the eu is proposing that you cannot call something a sausage unless it has meat in it. if you have a pair of trainers with three stripes on them you might assume they were adidas shoes but a european union court has ruled they cannot be considered a trademark. the court said it was not a patent but an the court said it was not a patent butan ordinary the court said it was not a patent but an ordinary figurative mark, saying it had not acquired a distinctive character. adidas says it will appeal. joining me now is a property lawyer, go into more details about why they decided this isn't a trademark. this is a long—standing dispute between sports
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branding in europe and a company called patrick, and adidas. adidas successfully travelled there to stripe trademark so they challenged adidas's three stripe trademark and the big issue is around the confirmation by the general court that the evidence was not sufficient to establish use of the trademark so it was three black stripes and most of the evidence submitted showed that in reverse, i eat three white stripes, so if you think about the clothing you see on the streets. this is very fine pointed judgment, as there are some basic principle at work here so we can say certain things are trademarked and certain things are trademarked and certain things cannot be trademarked? for a trademark to function to be registered it needs to be able to distinguish your goods from those of others. some are inherently
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distinctiveness but others need to acquired distinctiveness. how do you earn distinctiveness? here we have trademarked you since the 1940s extensively but it's quite a simple graphic and in recognising that, what's registered are the three black stripes and a court says because it is quite a simple trademark of its use when establishing distinctiveness needs to be close to it so they are seeing three white stripes and site it is not sufficient to provide evidence, it needs to be the black stripe so it's it needs to be the black stripe so its specific but it goes to the nature of the trademark. you couldn't say the same thing about a ticket, say, if you know what i'm referring to? nontraditional trademarks have lots of cases around them, kit kat was talked about, with huge commercial value as they have been part of the brand since 19110
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because they pushed awake this company that was trying to sell to stripes there is big commercial value but the courts do not want to grant very wide rights because this can stop innovation and competition so it's an interesting case but i would expect the story to be appealed to the court ofjustice. we will come back to you as the case progresses. a quick look at the markets. the ftse is a little bit slack, smith ds is an interesting shower, it's been going down and then coming back up over the last there —— year, it had some good results recently, it's a packaging company but they say they are worried about the effect of brexit but with the development of the packaging industry looking toward sustainable packaging, smith ds says it is up on that stuff so from that point of view it may be a good bet.
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the pound against the euro, a little bit stronger than yesterday. nearly half of all pregnant women are overweight or obese, according to official nhs figures, which can present serious health risks to both mother and baby. they include a greater chance of miscarriage or still birth. for the past decade, a special clinic has been working with women to help them have a healthy pregnancy. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes has been to find out more. for meg, these are anxious times. she is 32 weeks into a long—awaited pregnancy and things have been complicated by health problems related to her weight. it's an issue she has dealt with for most of her life. i was on a calorie—controlled diet from when i was 11 so weight has always been an issue for me but this is the biggest i've been and the heaviest and obviously when i fell pregnant, i thought that i really needed to start watching what i was putting in my mouth and it wasn'tjust about me anymore, it was about both of us.
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i'lljust check your blood pressure. the ba by's heartbeat is normal today. carrying too much weight when you are pregnant can be risky for both mother and baby — a greater chance of stillbirth, miscarriage, gestational diabetes and high blood pressure, the list goes on. but meg is attending a special clinic in edinburgh where women who are very overweight can see a range of specialists all in one place, helping her to focus on what's important. i think it's just about concentrating on the fact that you are carrying another person inside you. and really having to think about them rather than yourself. the edinburgh clinic is one of the first in the uk to bring together specialist doctors, midwives, nutritionists and other experts to help women through what can be a tricky time and over the past decade, demand has soared and in scotland, nearly half of all pregnant women are now overweight or obese. levels of obesity are rising
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throughout developed countries and it's complex why it's happening — it's diet, it's exercise, it's lifestyle but essentially, when a woman is pregnant, we all want the same thing and a woman, regardless of size, deserves the same care and attention as anybody else. and this is what success looks like. giuliana is now 18 months old after mum nicky attended the edinburgh clinic. now expecting another baby, nicky's advice to other women is simple. listen to yourself and listen to your doctors because you've got to tell yourself that they've given you that advice for a reason so you've got to tell yourself that, because you know you are going to get a beautiful bundle ofjoy at the end of it. helping overweight mums have healthy babies requires specialist skills and, as obesity levels rise, demand for those skills is set to grow. dominic hughes, bbc news, edinburgh.
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well done, her. rather than well done, her. ratherthan me. let's see what the weather is doing. hello again. we saw some active thunderstorms across parts of england last night, some of the more active ones going through the east of sussex. today's weather comes in three flavours, the risk of a few further storms across parts of eastern england, a drier slice of weather but then showers coming back into scotland and northern ireland and they will be reasonably widespread, for the most part north west england and wales should stay dry for the evening, south—east england at risk of seeing a few more downpours coming up from france and some of those could bring quite a bit of rain and some surface water flooding is possible. temperatures ranging
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from 17 in newcastle to 21 towards south—east england. feeling quite humid for some. 0vernight tonight showers will tend to be confined to northwest areas as the shower risk recedes, we will see fresher air moving in and for thursday a day of sunshine and showers, showers with us from the word go in western scotland, getting going in northern ireland throughout the morning and then into the afternoon in england and wales, some could be heavy but there will be gaps in between so some sunshine, a fresher feel especially across england, temperatures reaching a high of 19 degrees. now, for this very soggyjune, this has been something we haven't seen before— an area of high pressure on friday and saturday and that means the weather will become more settled
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and right for most of us. on friday there will still be a few showers across north—west scotland, especially for the highlands and the western isles,, but away from that north—west corner it is a largely dry picture with some decent spells of sunshine, temperatures from 16 to 21 degrees and we keep that fine weather into the weekend, temperatures climbing towards the mid 20s on sunday and it will start to feel more humid across southern parts of wales and england as we go through the weekend but late on sunday more rain works into western areas and some could be heavy and thundery. that's your weather.
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hello, you're watching afternoon live, i'm simon mccoy. today at 2pm... wanted for mass murder — four men are identified charged with shooting down malaysian airliner mh17 over ukraine, killing almost 300 people. we suspect conservative mps prepare to vote again this afternoon in the latest round of the tory leadership contest. a un investigator says there's evidence the saudi crown prince was behind the murder ofjournalist jamal khashoggi. smart money: £150 million is given to oxford university for a new institute that
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