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this is bbc news i'm martine croxall. the headlines at eight o'clock... boris johnson and jeremy hunt face party members on the south coast in hustings to be the next tory leader and next prime minister. this is the scene live in bournemouth where borisjohnson said it of the foley to rule out the parliament to make sure we leave the eve. more than a hundred labour politicians at parliament call onjeremy corbyn to overturn the decision to allow his ally chris williamson back into the party following anti semitism allegations. the labour leader defends the party's approach. we deal with anti semitism very, very seriously. there is no place for anti semitism in our society and obviously not in our party as well. the lee pomeroy murder trial a jury hears that the man accused
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of stabbing him to death held a phone to his face and said "i'm going to kill this man." europe's in the grip of a heatwave. .. with extreme temperatures in france, germany and across the continent. and all eyes on the lionesses as england prepare to take on norway in the women's world cup quarter finals. boris johnson and jeremy hunt face questions from conservative party members tonight in the second official hustings of the leadership campaign. mrjohnson is promising changes to the immigration system if he becomes prime minister. to an australian style model, and
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the opening speech he said any further delay of brexit read the trust. we can come out on october 31 we must and we well, and the way we do it is a good way of getting a great deal, you sort out problems of the backstop, outside of the current withdrawal agreement, you disaggregate the elements of that 110w disaggregate the elements of that now defunct which i'll agreement and do this citizenship first, get ee at 2.2 million eu nationals protections we should have given them years ago, don't you think, why not, absolutely. get it to them. suspend the money in a state of ambiguity, 39 billion over the talks until they get the answer we want, and then use that the period of the after we care and come out october 31 two set of the problems in the technical pieces we can introduce to the justice
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issues whilst we negotiate the free trade deal, that is the logical way of doing it and that by the way, is approaching how we carry support gci’oss approaching how we carry support across her party. uniting people on all wings of the conservative party, and the way to get the idea, of course is to make sure that we prepare for note deal. and there will be people saying it's impossible, they will be people who say the planes won't fly and they will not be clean drinking water and not enough glucose to make way and my spies, but i say nonsense, planes will fly there will be drinking water and whatever happens on november one, there will be glucose and wait for november one, there will be glucose and waitfor our november one, there will be glucose and wait for our my spies where there is a will there's a way as i repeatedly say, and once we do it, once they got out, once they get out, while in the process of negotiating a fantastic free trade, and then we will be able to get on
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and then we will be able to get on and do what the people of this country want us to do. and that is bring united kingdom together. boris johnson, let's listen to some of the hustings now, we can hearfrom jeremy hunt who has onlyjust started speaking. first rule of negotiation, you have to be prepared to walk away. and the second role, figure out what the other people are going to do. this is where we had a challenge. because there are some people and parliament, and i totally deploy this, but there are some people in parliament who have voted and will vote to take no deal off the table —— deploy. we have to recognise that we cannot wish that reality away. the quickest way to get out of the eu is to negotiate a deal i can get the parliament, and
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that's what this negotiator will do for our party and country because we are one of the oldest democracies in the world and in this country, we do what the people tell us and we deliver brexit. applause. and when we do, what incredible excitement awaits. as someone who has set up their own business, i am just championing a bit to turn us into the fastest growing must high—tech degree next most dynamic pro—enterprise economy in europe. and we have got the top universities in europe, some of the top in the world, we have more tech entrepreneurs, we could be the world's next silicon valley. here in the next part of the world, you have the next part of the world, you have the fiber—optic programme in bournemouth, superfast dorset, huge growth in techjobs, you know what this is all about and i will take a
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giant step towards that by cutting corporation tax to 12 and have irish levels, and we are going to do an economicjumbojet levels, and we are going to do an economic jumbo jet on your‘s doorstep so when it comes to the straight negotiations, and they lead as every “— straight negotiations, and they lead as every —— need us straight negotiations, and they lead as every —— need us as straight negotiations, and they lead as every —— need us as much as we need them. jeremy hunt in bournemouth. let's speak to bbc south's political editor, peter henley, who's at the hustings in bournemouth. let's listen in to some of the hustings now. i suppose the first notable thing is we can be grateful both had turned up, how much is brexit dominating the proceedings sfr? it is, not so much talk about character so far, not in the questions on the audience, but this idea that we need to be tough with you is coming from both sides, and borisjohnson in particular in refusing to rule out pro rogaine, dissolving parliament to ensure we leave the eu october
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31, he said provoking is an archaic device, he said he would rather trust the maturity of parliamentarians who are staring down the barrel of public mistrust. in the end, he said no we must not ta ke in the end, he said no we must not take that off the table and we just heard live, jeremy hunt saying the same sort of thing, not about provoking parliament by a particular think that no deal has to be the thing that brings the eu back to the table, something that they are saying they will not do, they do not wa nt to saying they will not do, they do not want to reopen that which i'll agreement at all, and borisjohnson also looked at the break—up of the union, asa also looked at the break—up of the union, as a possible from brexit, it suggested some conservative members may see that as a side effect and he said no, a really good brexit would cement the union, which was interesting i thought, and also on smaller issues, to do with the party and possibly to do with one of the privacy going forward, the property
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ladder, getting people on the property ladder, young people in particular, was the most important issue of our time, two young man, asked him about my house prices. you mentioned character has not featured yet. but knowing dilatory it, the party members in your party in country as he did, how much of a concern is it for them. we spoke to people going and they definitely feel they want to get the right person, and are not sure what that entails. brexit is top of the list, they need these assurances that brexit will happen. they don't seem interested on the beach house on and exactly what will ensure it, and borisjohnson was asked about the connections being foreign secretary, he mentioned his time in brussels, and he said that he could he thought talk to people, but the question of
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character isn't just about the private lives, it's also about whether members trust that person to deliver, whether they feel that things are pretty far red eye things that they would be able to actually follow through on, we are promised byjeremy hunt a's team, much more energy, more energy that may be borisjohnson who seems to be sitting back a little bit. certainly this evening, and jeremy hunt is saying they look at the fight to him, and talking about character as well and laying down the challenge there. for the moment, thank you peter. over a hundred labour mps and peers have strongly criticised a decision to reinstate an mp who'd been suspended over comments about the party's handling of anti semitism. chris williamson, who represents derby north, was suspended in february, after saying labour had "given too much ground" to those who claimed there was anti semitism in the party. his reinstatement has been called "inappropriate and offensive" by seniorfigures, including the party's deputy leader tom watson.
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this afternoon, the leader jeremy corbyn distanced himself from the decision, and said there was no place for anti semitism in the party. our political correspondent jessica parker has more. a staunch ally ofjeremy corbyn‘s, chris williamson is an energetic and outspoken campaigner. the party that has done more to stand up to racism is now being demonised as a racist, bigoted party. but comments that emerge in february about allegations of anti—semitism in the party led to his suspension. in my opinion we have backed off too much we have given too much ground, we have been too apologetic. he later said he deeply regretted the remarks and today said that he is pleased to have been let back in. i've been overwhelmed by an avalanche of messages of goodwill from grassroots members of the labour party and that is what constitutes a labour party, actually. it is grassroots membership, of which there are approaching
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600,000, i wouldn't say the consensus, but the overwhelming majority of opinion is supportive of the decision to reinstate me into the labour party. but over 100 labour mps and peers have in a statement demanded the decision be overturned claiming, "it is clear to us that the labour party disciplinary process remains mired by the appearance of political interference. this must stop. we need a truly independent process. " i wouldn't normally do this but this is so important, the upset and the anger is so great but i think we need to act very swiftly to reassure people we take anti—semitism seriously in the labour party. meeting veterans in hartlepool today before the statement emerged, much of this row centres on jeremy corbyn and the leadership's handling of anti—semitism allegations. labour says it cannot comment on individual cases but takes all complaints extremely seriously.
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i wasn't involved in the decision at all, it was an independent panel set up through the national executive, they examined the case and they decided to admit him back in, albeit with a reprimand. in may, the equality and human rights commissioner announced it would formally investigate labour over whether the party has discriminated against jewish people. they have been demands for action before. those may only grow louder. and we'll find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrow's front pages at the slightly later time of 10:50 and 11:30 this evening in the papers our guestsjoining me tonight are torcuil crichton westminster editor for the daily record and claire cohen women's editor at the telegraph. we are somewhat at the mercy of football. a court has heard that a man accused of murdering a train passenger declared moments before stabbing him: "i'm going to kill this man." darren pencille denies murdering lee pomeroy on a guildford to london train injanuary.
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he doesn't deny stabbing mr pomeroy 18 times but argues he was acting in self defence. sarah walton has been at court today. kayleigh carter told the jury that she saw the two men arguing on the carriage of the train that left the london road station in guildford onjanuary 11th and she remembered hearing lee pomeroy say, i've never dealt with anyone with special needs before. she also said that darren pencille had a phone to his face and shouted, i am going to kill this man, although she admitted she hadn't the barrister asked her if he had been picking on the client and she saidi been picking on the client and she said i wouldn't say it's picking on him but he was taunting him. he also heard from a former girlfriend that —— girlfriend sitting in the hours following the attack she received a phone call saying i did something bad and you will see it on the news later. the court also heard from darren‘s mother saying he was told in his 20s he had paranoid schizophrenia and was admitted to hospital several
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times, she admitted at the cross examination her sun was not good in crowded places and that he had real difficulties with public transport. now he denies murder and the trial here continues. last night we reported on the tragic story of oscar ramirez and his young daughter valeria who drowned while trying to cross illegally into the united states from mexico. they were the latest in a rising toll of migrants who have died trying to make the journey. our correspondent chris buckler reports now from the border, where he's been speaking to other families hoping to get to america. behind the barriers, just across the rio grande, are the families searching notjust for a home but a country. every day they gather here, just on the edge of america, in the searing heat, waiting for the opportunity to cross the border and make their case for asylum, but that can take months and they know many, including president trump, want to reduce the number of immigrants entering the us.
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he says, as central americans we are asking the president to understand we fled our country because it's becoming communist and we are being politically persecuted. this family have travelled from honduras and they spent time here with oscar ramirez and his daughter valeria in the days before they drowned trying to cross the river into texas. translation: she was with us. my children had been spoiling the baby. they were here, right next to me. the baby was so cute. he says, i told them they had to be patient but they shouldn't be taking a decision that could jeopardise their lives. officials from el salvador have arranged for oscar and valeria's bodies to be returned to their home country. lawyers here have also been arranging for practical and psychological help for his wife, tania vanessa. how is she?
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she's, well... i cannot tell you she's good because she's not. she's too young. she's pretty... i don't know how to describe her shape. everyone here is relying on help and it's at meal times you get a sense of the numbers needing that support. this is just one small part of matamoros, a sprawling city that is now full of people who have ended up stranded. they cannot cross this border bridge and they cannot fulfil their american dream. this boy from central america wants to be an architect. he says he would like to build a community of houses because it's very painful to see people living on the streets. but everyone can't have a home in the united states and it's not only president trump who says these borders need to be defended. from the other side of this river, many families will only ever be
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able to look and hope. the german chancellor angela merkel has been seen shaking once again during a ceremony in berlin this morning, eight days after a similar incident. the german leader appeared uncomfortable and gripped her arms as her body trembled. last week, she appeared in a similar state of discomfort when she met the ukrainian president, but blamed the incident on dehydration. a spokesperson says the chancellor is absolutely fine and has set off for the g20 summit injapan as planned. the firefighters' union the fbu has won a long running dispute with the government over changes to pensions. the supreme court refused the government's application for permission to appeal against a ruling in the court of appeal over changes made to firefighters' pensions four years ago. the union argued that the pension scheme was substantially worsened in 2015. it said the protection imposed on younger members was unlawful and discriminatory.
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former liberal democrat pensions minister, sir steve webb joins us now. thank you very much forjoining us, what was your view of the decision that's gone the way of the sbu? what was your view of the decision that's gone the way of the sbu7m was quite surprising because when government made changes notjust her five fighters that the teachers and nurses and so on, it said people close to pension age and should not have them changed and said people should have ten years notice, so that was trying to strike a balance between making changes but making does that protecting those requested pension age and what the court said with the way the government went about it is too crude, does online and you are either on one side or the other disconnect huge repercussions not just the other disconnect huge repercussions notjust for firefighters but many of the public sector workers. huge repercussions but was going to put that protecting those requested pension age and what
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the court said with the way the government went about is too crude, does online and you are either one side or the other disconnect huge repercussions not just side or the other disconnect huge repercussions notjust for firefighters but many of the public sector workers. huge repercussions but was going to put the dull if it means more money will be put in? but was going to put the dull if it means more money will be put imm the short—term government may have to do, we don't yet know what the employment tribunal will now say in response to decision, but it could say for example, pension changes will have to be halted and if that's the case, government has estimated at £4 billion bell attached to it, andi at £4 billion bell attached to it, and i don't government wants to spend that money so in response what they'll do is make the cuts more severe than they would've been to call money back so you can on the money back, so you can almost see a situation where teachers nurses and civil see a deeper pensions to conduct the money that's been lost today. what involvement did you have with this move by government because you were in office until the end of may of 2015. that's right, i left the pension administered air, and i spoke tojohn who led them to quiet inquiry, but the treasury basically drove it and if you think about it, they do have a strong state because we are talking about millions of a
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public sector workers over many decades, i will —— watering down the moneyball commanded the deputy where many people had pensions drying at 65, teachers and nurses and saline we re 65, teachers and nurses and saline were able to drop pension earlier at 60, and world where people live and to 90s, that could not be allowed to that the change was to make public sector workers wait long for the pension as private sectors would, i don't think that was around decision in principle, but the court is saying the way it was done needs to be looked at. given the fact that pensions are fiendishly complicated to understand, superficially, looks like this is nothing but a good thing for the fire brigades union, but you're implying we should not jump but you're implying we should not jump to that conclusion. certainly good news in the short term for them, and if government simply said it's fair we want to any of it, they can have it bigger, but my
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speculation if you like is the way government will respond is to say luck, we did this for a reason, we think public—sector pensions are costing too much, we still need to find that money so they may now come back and find other ways we could deal with it so it could be a short—term win and perp help some people with the cusp, but i don't think it's fairfor people with the cusp, but i don't think it's fair for everyone. steve, thank you very much for talking to us thank you very much for talking to us tonight. sport now and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. hello, thank you very much, and grain are leading norway one male and the quarter cup final after an early goal. jill scored in the third minute after alan white missed her chance at a shot, just got likely that you put it in, as england when thence passed his goal and a well—kept game, they had been going for 20 minutes now, but started
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after respected injury and illness scarce, let's have a look at my pictures now from bdc one, this is london —— england very nearly scoring, just put the ball over the bar, you can watch the game live on bbc one right now, and you can also listen to commentary on bbc radio five and follow all the action on the smart website. cricket now, and a clean sweep of the well—kept continues, this time at the expense of the west indies with they thrashed at old trafford by 125 right and began he hopes they had a qualifying for the semifinals. patrick reports. squint your eyes in manchester, it could've been mumbai, this is the kind of a which follows in the around the country, i well—kept that they intend on making their own. we are going to beat everyone, sorry australia, england is that it is to. i we are so very confident because the team is so
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good. is such an atmosphere, how difficult it hearing anything, it's not out to the empire, west indies reviewed the second night of ending the innings, if not the questions. they took two more wickets but not that of quality, officially the best one day that's been in the wild, and that best one—day team in the world. no wonder they're confident. alongside him, and that's donnie, at the last indian captain charged mixed and not dismissed. they had two chapters, and could grasp neither. india has seen a set big when suddenly, he was gone, and the noise. india only had 180 day needed more, so with the second life and a second attack leaving the site to 268, so the best team on the planet against a dance that spots me because of the universe box, not as exciting as the sounds, mum that i for the west indies and then he came
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for the west indies and then he came for the west indies and then he came for the help. after that, they subsided, powerless in the face in indian excellence, wondering repeatedly and to carefully lay traps. it ended almost gently, as a easy victory is easy at this stage of the well—kept, next up for india, england. the show moves on. same with cricket, because after 27 seasons at somerset, the former england batsman marcus announces his retirement at the end of the campaign, the 4031 played 76 tests for england, going 6000 runs at an average of hundred 44, he was also pa rt average of hundred 44, he was also part of the england side that memorably one ashes into thousand five, he scored 52 centuries by somerset, a record for the county that he was recently dropped from the first team.
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tennis now, british number one call into the semifinals that he had to fight back from the site down to beat his informed compatriot to my band had first set. he served twice to go and take it for my 6—1 a little over half an hour. keep that deep to win the second at 63, and that there is a smart getting inside a confidence boost i had wimbledon playing the american taylor fritz, tamara. drake —— wimbledon trampoline angeline being remained in straight sets, she will face tomorrow the tunisian, who knocked up's tomorrow the tunisian, who knocked ups and joe. when i dared tennis for you, britton lee and brody will not feature in the main dry wimbledon, three time qualifier knocked out a qualifying in the final round, just one went away from the main point and then, he was to set up against the frenchman greg but lost the next three. that's it for me, england are still up in the world cup quarterfinals against norway, more coming for you in sports day at half past ten.
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actually around 10:40 p:m., join fan. scientists say that cervical cancer could come close to being eradicated, following the success of a vaccine against the main cause of the disease the human papilloma virus. a review examined the impact of the vaccine on 60 million people in 14 different countries. here's our health correspondent sophie hutchinson. let's speak to jamie rae the chief executive of the throat cancer foundation. thank you forjoining us it's well—publicized, this vaccine that girls now receive to try and combat cervical cancer, but it also has another application, tell us about that. chance, so first of all when we get to study it highlights the significant impact hpd has on human health worldwide. for most people, they relate the virus to cervical
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cancer, but it's actually responsible for about 5% of cancers worldwide and the biggest impact after several cancer is head and neck cancer. cancers of those are mainly in maine until now, only girls had been getting vaccinated and we started vaccinating girls into thousand eight in the uk, but not painfully boys will be included in that programme from this year. and you know that too well because when you were diagnosed with a form of throat cancer, how much information was available to you? to be frank, and very little was available. when i was first told of micro when i had no idea what it was. said to the consultant so i have a virus, and he said yes, and he explained it was ubiquitous that if you stop 100 people in the street about 80 of them would have been infected by this sexually transmitted infection, which is very easy to catch a fact even if you
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have sex today, at any time really, in your life you are more likely to come into contact with the form of this virus. now that you have done a great deal of work to increase awareness on it, why is it important do you believe that we now have gender—neutral vaccines, i suppose costis gender—neutral vaccines, i suppose cost is going to double now if you wa nt to cost is going to double now if you want to look at it like that. actually we always argued and i want to say that their cancer foundation says it's more cost effective to vaccinate boys and girls, it's also equitable, until now there was no equity for boys with their vaccination only going to the girls, and with the cancer rising it's tripled in last 20 years, it was time something was done, and is another anomaly, even with the vaccination being offered to boys, from this year, when we first did this, the one thing the study showed was quite clear it is that in 2008
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when the uk took the decision to vaccinate girls, be included multiple cohorts of gulf between age of 12 and 18. and i have led to a much greater efficacy of that virus as illustrated by the survey we sent out today, because one problem we saw coming up with the vaccines for the boys is just a saw coming up with the vaccines for the boys isjust a provision to have a catch—up programme for boys between ages of 12 and 18, and again, this is further inequity, it's not protecting enough boys from a horrendous disease and it's not about, it's not doubling the cost to a nswer about, it's not doubling the cost to answer your question. there are economies of scales, we have enough in the health professionals who are looking and getting the vaccine out, due to the increasing number of the vaccine the units are buying in the fa ct vaccine the units are buying in the fact that it's only two doses required now, not three, that are actually reductions in cost, and the human cost, you can't put a price on
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that. jamie, thank you very much for talking to us this evening. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. that evening, scotland and northern ireland to wells, i want to stay in the air, so far. we will see that across england, by saturday particularly, i we had much less i try without a kind of ease, and finally, we also had a brisk wind up bringing my cloud back in, as we go through the evening and overnight, so once again my morning we'll have nifty low cloud shouting many eastern counties. so it's not going to bea eastern counties. so it's not going to be a particularly uncomfortable night for sleeping the humidity is rising. sunshine will work its magic to clear that cloud pressed about, but then we have more strong contract but then we have more strong co ntra ct to but then we have more strong contract to come during the day on friday, and it could be massed again by the strong and gusty wind from the south, not as strong and got sta nces the south, not as strong and got stances pinned during the day today
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but we cease to temperatures lifted up but we cease to temperatures lifted up towards the high 20s across the west of scotland potentially, further east as well, 60s and 70s on the east coast, he transfers to eastern areas by sunday. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines. borisjohnson hello. this is bbc news. the headlines. boris johnson and jeremy hunt faced party members on the south coast and hustings to be the next tory leader and next prime minister, the tension on the policies and approach to brexit. we have got a long way now by going out and asking brussels for this or that and asking brussels for this or that and feeling that we have gotten nowhere else to go. and i think it is time for slight change in our approach. we have had a lot of discussion on these brexit debates about how but not enough discussion about how but not enough discussion about who. who is the prime minister
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we trust to go to brussels and sort this out? more than 100 labour mps and peers: jeremy corbyn to overturn the decision to allow his ally back into the party following anti—semitism allegations. a jury hears that the man accused of stabbing him to death how the font to his face and said i am going to kill this man. europe is in the grip ofa kill this man. europe is in the grip of a heat wave at the extreme temperatures in france, germany and across the continent. and coming up, plastic freak, festival goes out to rely on reusable water bottles this weekend. the second official hustings with the two candidates for the tory leadership is being held in bournemouth tonight. party members have gathered at the pavillion centre to hear jeremy hunt and borisjohnson's views on how the country should be run. the focus tonightm immigration.
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the focus tonight, immigration. thank you very much forjoining us this evening. what struck you about what both of the contenders have been saying. well, a couple of things, firstly the main thing is that we really do not have a lot of detail and allowed the statements have been quite generic and makes it difficult to answer some of those important questions like, what would really change in terms of the numbers of people coming here, the kind of skills they have and will happen family members and so forth. i in general, there isn't actually a huge amount of difference between the two candidates on immigration and but have indicated that they have a system that would lead high skilled people and for work and low skilled people and for work and low skilled people, both of them have said warm things about international stu d e nts said warm things about international students contributing and neither said a huge amount about migration or refugees. mrjohnson does have a
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particular proposal about an australian points—based system that could be a departure from what we currently do in the uk, but we do not have enough detail about what he means by that and being able to judge with the impacts to be at the stage. generally though, it points—based system, how flexible is that for the needs of an economy like braden? there are keys to the system like braden? there are keys to the syste m — — like braden? there are keys to the system —— britain. some of what they do is actually quite similar to what we do here already, to have somebody fill ina we do here already, to have somebody fill in a particularjob. what is really specific about their system is that government has taken a slightly heavier hand in deciding which kind of individuals they want to come in. notjust whatjobs want to come in. notjust whatjobs want to be filled but what qualifications they expect the workers coming in to do thosejobs should they expect the workers coming in to do those jobs should have. the argument that is in favour of that
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approach is that it is valuable for the government to be able to control employers decisions little bit more and specify what they want and what those qualifications they want this worker staff. the argument against it is that employers are the ones in the best what the, who can do the job essentially and that government should trust employers, so their arguments on both sides. they say it should, borisjohnson said it should be democratically controlled, but that does not leave it in the hands of business if it is democratically controlled and ignores the fact that a lot of commentators have said that britain could have controlled migration more fiercely even while inside the eu but chose not to. migration more fiercely even while inside the eu but chose not tolj think the issue of democratic control is a tricky one. obviously,
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any immigration policy, unless you have a completely open policy, the government is going to regulate that in different ways. it is difficult to say exactly what it means to have a democratically controlled immigration system. finally, jeremy hunt talked about wanting to review policies of stopping migrants coming to the uk to work, how feasible is it to have such a requirement? that is the requirement that applies to many non—eu citizens, plenty of exemptions from it. nurses and most of you don't know as much as £30,000 and if you compared to other countries, it is on the stricter end of the spectrum but it is not unprecedented compared to what you see around the world. and it is
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something that can be done, but these are things that the government can do and what of the interesting thing about the evidence that we see in the impacts of that a lot of these policy choices do not have as big an economic impact, positive or negative, as one might expect. thank you very much forjoining us. the french company which owns vauxhall says its ellesmere port plant in cheshire will be one of two sites in europe where it will build the next generation astra. but the psa group has said its decision is conditional on what it describes as "the final terms of the uk's exit" from the eu. the factory on merseyside employs over a thousand workers. the number of transgender hate crimes being reported across england, scotland and wales has nearly doubled in the past three years. figures obtained by the bbc show there were almost 2,000 recorded incidents last year. the government claims the rise is due to victims being more
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confident about coming forward, and changes in the way police record the crimes. emma glasbey reports. friday night in leeds. it's a big event for the transgender community. tonight, people feel safe and supported. but away from here, that's often not the case. so there's lots of different options on there for you to be able to... i get abuse all the time. do you report it? i do most of the time... a group called the lgbt angels is urging people to report hate crime incidents. some of those here tonight tell us they've been through terrifying experiences. a guy came out of a block of flats, called me a paedophile, threatened to stab me, smashed my car up, held a dog chain up to my face. last year, more than 1,900 tra nsgender hate crimes were reported to police forces in england, scotland and wales.
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that's up from 1,073 crimes in 2016 — a rise of 81%. i've got a window alarm here that was supplied by victim support. sue lives near york. she's been the target of abuse many times. i had death threats, and my property was vandalised. i was scared, notjust for myself, but for all the trans community, because it's happening to all of us in different ways. police emergency. press 5—5 on the handset for me. the home office believes the increase is because of improvements in the way hate crimes are identified and recorded. police forces tell us more victims are coming forward and it's important that continues. hate crime escalates. it starts off with words and escalates up. that's why it's important that we target hate crime
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at that early stage. sue runs an internet support group for people who've transitioned and says she's feeling stronger than ever. i don't care what you throw at me and it may be painful and i may get really upset with it, but i'm going to stand here and i'm going tojust say i'm sue, i'm here, look at me and please just go away and do your hate somewhere else, because you're not getting at me. with me is munroe bergdoff a model and trans rights activist. also i'm joined from lincoln by bea wood, founder of lgbt support group ‘banourself‘. thank you forjoining us and what is your response to the explanation as to why we are seeing this increase? i think there are couple of reasons why we're seeing this increase. the first reason is that because people
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like myself and other trans people are in the media, pride is getting bigger and people think it is a new thing but it is not. but because we finally have awareness that we are here, it is like the unknown happening. people are scared and there's no need to be scared. we are just other people. so that is one reason for it and the other thing, i partially agree that more people are coming forward and i think there's a lot more unreported, i genuinely do. iam guilty lot more unreported, i genuinely do. i am guilty of it myself. i have reported if you hate crimes but the majority of them i don't report anything that goes for a lot of people. why do you not report them? what happens when you do go to the police? i've been working very closely with homicide police and their take on it is apsley fantastic. they really are battling to help people come forward and support the victims of hate crimes.
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in the past, with other forces or whatever, i have phoned up to report a hate crime, i have made it clear that i am a trans—female and they would reply with, please can you tell us what is happened, sir. by what i reported ? tell us what is happened, sir. by what i reported? the issue has been recognised and has been dealt with and there is a lot of people that do not know necessarily how to go about it even though there is a lot of awareness as to how to do it. they are like what's going to happen when ido? are are like what's going to happen when i do? are they afraid of repercussions that reporting it? little things like that, there are a lot of reasons why people do not report things and a lot of us feel that if he had just been shafted at a spat out, is it actually going to go any further and is there any point of reliving it in doing the statement? yes, there is every point, but not everyone is as confident to do that, unfortunately. how much likely is a face—to—face
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hate crime to be investigated then something that happens on social media, where it seems rife? will with social media, it is horrendous. face—to—face, it does happen it really does depend on every individual. it is where you are, your circumstances. it's being in the wrong time at the wrong place and we shouldn't have been the uk, we should be safe wherever we are because we are just people. but online, it's a people have something to hide behind and unfortunately there are a lot of people still in there are a lot of people still in the media that have a following so piers morgan has made comments, the hatersjump piers morgan has made comments, the haters jump on it. piers morgan has made comments, the hatersjump on it. so they piers morgan has made comments, the haters jump on it. so they have someone to follow and they can hide behind a keyboard, they can send m essa g es behind a keyboard, they can send messages on facebook, they can send things without a picture or a fake username and don't think people realise the impact i can have on people, seeing these hateful
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comments. those people doing that, when you open the door and walked on the street, it's those people that are doing it but you don't necessarily know who they are. do not necessarily suggesting that the high—profile people are committing crimes themselves, but they might argue as free speech has left upon by the people who then do go on to commit crimes. precisely. there have been comments made by the two people that i've mentioned before which is borderline freedom of speech, but it's things that people latch onto and then can be negative opinions and then can be negative opinions and as long as those negative opinions are there in the media, then people will follow them and what we need is positivity and there's a lot of saying and things like that news cells, good news doesn't. and unfortunately, there are papers and everything else and is given people platforms and things
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to look at and to follow, i think anyway. and unfortunately, notjust the reason my hate is there but that is why it comes out on social media because there are comments. people have a screen to hide behind on social media and it really does have a massive impact on peoples lives, massively. save a piece of advice for police forces and other trans people who are sitting there concerned about being victims of this type of crime. just briefly, what would it be? if you are a victim and you are trans, please report it. reported to facebook if it is facebook or twitter, most of the time they will remove those comments is hateful. if they don't, reported in get your friends to reported. if it happens in the streets or someone you know, you can go to crime stoppers anonymously and report things online to police and from the mob, they will help you and
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sometimes it can be quite stressful going over a statement but what you are doing is by bringing one person to justice and standing up to them, you can be stopping them from hating on another ten or 11 people and that can be really difficult. if you are an ally of somebody who is trans or an ally of somebody who is trans or a friend, stand by and help them do that because holding their hand and saying it's going to be ok will make a massive difference. because us trans people can feel very alone. it isa trans people can feel very alone. it is a message that i can give to police is keep fighting with us and saying it is ok and keep giving a visible message. a lot of police forces are put in media about stopping hate crime, my message will be don't stop doing it, do more of it and stand by us all so we can tell you what is going on so you can help us live our lives more easily. we really do appreciate you speaking with us. the heatwave across much of europe is intensifiying with france reaching 42 degrees celsuis it's
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highest temperature for the month ofjune. germany, poland, and the czech republic also broke their records forjune temperatures. and the uk won't escape over the next few days there could be highs here of 34 degrees. in france, several cities have restricted traffic, and in some areas schools have closed. let's have a look across europe. currently in italy,. with me is dylan saberton from dorset who is currently in bologna, italy. and by lucy mauget who is trying to keep her daughters cool in the outskirts of paris. lucy mauget who has three daughters that she's trying to keep cool in essonne, which is about 40 minutes outside paris. let's start with dylan. how has the weather affected your travel plans? well, we left last tuesday, so it is not really been an issue for us. we
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started off in paris and went down to budapest and now we are in italy where it is been so hot. we have not really been able to get out at all today. we spent most of our date for relaxing in and it has affected a lot of the neighbours. it is very similar. we have normally been green with envy but maybe not this time. it is certainly disappointing because we come out and want to see the sights of italy and not being able to make it out to go see the outdoor swimming pool, we made it to the local shop or a pot a lot of water in the set here drinking it, so it has been a little disappointing. three doctors lucy, how have you been coping in this heat? if you have been 0k until now. water sprays, drinking copious
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amounts of mineral water, tap water and lots of ice cubes and playing lots of water games outside but from five or 6pm and before that it is still, you cannot really go out. our shelters are shut and coming back from school, we are in here. rather fractious night times trying to sleep in the seat. i'm just trying to get my littlest one to sleep because she is not coping too well and we live in an old farmhouse and the rooms are in the roof, so getting to sleep and settled is a little bit difficult stop by court compresses all around. have you ever seen anything like this before? this the first time in central spain that we had to say hello to the summertime and the funny thing is
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that only 20 days ago, we were seen snowing here in the mountains around madrid and the temperature never we nt madrid and the temperature never went over 16 celsius, today we had 42 and the minimum temperature expected for today was 25 degrees. so within 20 days, the weather has completely changed. this is stunning, even for us when we are familiar with the summer situations. where would you normally go to experience this kind of heat? this is normal and typical for mid july until the end of august, but since i would say the start of the century, we are experiencing this kind of extreme weather situation more and more often and it is something that is very familiarand more often and it is something that is very familiar and very typical and no doubt a consequence of climate change and the weather
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pattern for northern africa is jumping to the mediterranean and now we are, no one can discuss it. we are sending you cooling thoughts, thank you very much all of you. the rising temperatures also means that this is going to be one of the hottest festivals on record. the music and entertainment doesn't properly begin until tomorrow but tens of thousands of festivalgoers have already arrived in somerset and for the first time, they'll be facing a ban on single—use plastic, plastic water bottles would not be sold anywhere on the side that people wanting to bring reusable containers. as fiona reports. not surprisingly cues have been building at all of the water stations around the festival. for
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the first time, glastonbury has banned the use of single—use plastics, over 870 taps on site and it is all about refill and reuse. normally will be drinking out of plastic bottles because most of the vendors will be on site, but they're not selling this year so instead i brought a £5 metal cup he can refill it at all the other it is easy. it is nice that you don't have the option as well, so everyone is avoiding it completely. numb that the green bambi five bottles of water as well as lemonade and —— normally we buy five bottles of water. over a million bottles of water. over a million bottles of water were recycled and this is where they all came. already it has made a huge difference. there is considerably less plastic than there was. banning the use single cell plastic is all well and good but should we be doing more but shall we
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prioritise the sale of our tickets, they go and sell out every year and we are increasing that year on year so people are encouraged. we have local buses on our training sessions so people can provide by rail and it is free transport to the festival and they don't have to cue with other ballparks, we have access to a green camping site. both hundreds of thousands travelling here in the mountains of tenants left behind, the group worries about its impact. lam sure the group worries about its impact. i am sure it has a massive footprint and it is a piece, people having the and it is a piece, people having the a good time but from that can come quite a nice the narcissistic site to ourselves will relieve a lot of trash behind. sol think the festivals needs to look at that and do it they can to prevent that and do it they can to prevent that and do it they can to prevent that and also the individuals that are here. a future challenge for
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this festival, but for now, even the police are sticking to the new glastonbury rules. they hoped they we re glastonbury rules. they hoped they were not only take the rubbish but the festivals message. the duke and duchess will undertake an official visit to south africa at the request of the commonwealth office. they have recently brought their sun for the first official tour as a family. they will also undertake a visit to botswa na they will also undertake a visit to botswana while they're in the region. an algerian teenager is being held as a hero for catching a toddler as she fell from the second floor and in toddler as she fell from the second floorand ina toddler as she fell from the second floor and in a city in this temple. seems year in the yellow t—shirt saw two—year—old was about to fall from the window of her home on the second floor and positioned himself beneath her, her mother was inside cooking. the child emerge from the incident unscathed, the image was captured on
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the tv of a neighbouring shop. unscathed, the image was captured on the tv of a neighbouring shoplj caught the child in midair before she hit the ground, i did was necessary for the love of all the. time for a look at the weather for the week ahead. the intense heat wave was to continue across western and southern europe, records have been toppling and that is see that intense heat here in the uk but it will get very warm for a time in boston saturday in the east, all of this seat is coming from the sahara desert which sees temperatures, you have to couple that with the fact that the sun is as high in the sky as he gets in the northern hemisphere and that is the reason why we are seeing this extreme temperature, these records being broken, and westerners of the uk, will be pushing towards 30 in the western highlands but not for the western highlands but not for the release because the sun is to work its magic and get rid of the
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low cloud and use some of its energy, but that end of the sun shine at this time of year, as high as he gets to the sun in the sky and will be strong, very strong indeed and given that we have the brisk wind not the strongest thursday, but still masking the effect of that sun might feel fresher the you normally expect this temperatures. so do be aware if you're out and about. 15 or 16 in the high 20s in the highlands, because of the onshore breeze which will retreat in friday night but still as we pick up more cloud from the west and after that intense heat changes afoot. but as he pick up more cloud, we also increase the humidity that will start to feel more uncomfortable for sleeping. the peak of the heaves are in the uk comes on saturday where as we can see the intense red herejust pushing and nudging across the channel into the southeast of england. we could see 34 degrees but
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we are already breaking down that he'd further west with showers and even some thunderstorms as well, still be quite a contrast after the high 20s on friday where we are looking at the low 20s and in step start to pick up the temperatures further east quite a lot warmer here, particularly across eastern england compared to friday, some parts can push towards 33 or 34 celsius and we turn the tables on where we have the heat by saturday. by where we have the heat by saturday. by sunday it is gone because of this weather front, this cold weather from by its very nature introducing cooler air coming off the atlantic with westerly winds and showers. so looks more unsettled, not all wash—outs certainly, except for the northwest us, that we could see shower to shower and that fresh breeze so if you do not like the heat, do bear with us it is a temporary spell of hot weather and the nights will become more co mforta ble the nights will become more comfortable for sleeping as well but temperatures a background where they should be for this time of year. the
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reason is low—pressure in the little precious to stay at the start of the new week in fact if anything will pick upa new week in fact if anything will pick up a northwestern breeze so it will feel fresher on monday once again, temperatures little bit lower but some showers on the northwesterly breeze so northwest scotla nd northwesterly breeze so northwest scotland and northern ireland coming down to the gap in filtering to the midlands, the most likely areas with lb cloud around and in the mid week we are likely to see another change of high—pressure starting to build and then settles things down to a fairly quiet weather, no sea waves are no extremes, but lisa dampens off the showers for a time and that a lwa ys off the showers for a time and that always looks set to be more u nsettled always looks set to be more unsettled and perhaps showers in the south, but now it is looking like more of a mixed bag as he started into wimbledon, there is more on the website.
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hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. europe's heatwave is intensifying. hundreds of firefighters in spain are battling wildfires. we'll have updates from capitals across europe. late june here in latejune here in rome is not meant to be as hot. we're live on the mexican border where migrants are risking it all for a new life in the us. there have been two suicide bomb attacks in the tunisian capital, tunis. separately, the country's president is seriously ill. we'll hear from the bbc‘s alan johnston. and it's half time in the first quarterfinal of the women's world cup.
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