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of the new working week, but there is an area of low pressure starting to push in the isles of scilly and into cornwall by the end of the day. in terms of the feel of things, if you keep the sunshine, we will see some pleasant warmth, 24—26 degrees, but it will turn increasingly windy down to the southwest. something worth bearing in mind. this area of low pressure, quite a deep area of low for this time of year, will drift its way slowly eastwards for the next couple of days, with gusts of winds 45—50 mph, which is certainly worth bearing in mind, if you are under canvas. so there will be some rain, some of it heavy, maybe even thundery across southwest england, moving its way up through wales, the midlands, and showers into scotland. sheltered eastern areas will see the best of the weather, with highest values of 2a degrees. as we move out of tuesday into wednesday, that low continues to drift its way steadily eastwards, so that's where the real emphasis of the showers are likely to be, and stretching up into southwest scotland. it means a better day for northeast scotland, and for wales and southwest england. highest values by wednesday of 22 degrees.
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hello. this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines. riot police in hong kong clash with thousands of protesters who defied a ban and marched through the streets for an eighth weekend. part of the riot police coming in here. tear gas, rubber bullets, pepper spray, and every week it seems to get worse. michael gove, the minister who has to prepare the uk for a no—deal brexit —
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says it's a "very real prospect". getting ready for it — is now the government's number one priority. democrats in the united states have renewed accusations of racism against president trump — after he criticised an african—american congressman. rain causes chaos at the german grand prix, lewis hamilton spins, while max verstappen wins. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejohn rentoul, chief political commentator at the independent and the broadcaster lynn faulds wood. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the financial times reports car—maker vauxhall will close it's
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uk operations if brexit hits it's profits. the metro has a picture of two men wanted in connection with a homophobic assault in london. the daily mail says a growing population and an nhs recruitment crisis is making it harder to get a gp appointment. the telegraph reports the government is going to launch a public information campaign about the effects of a no—deal brexit. the guardian leads with a warning from a think tank that a no—deal brexit would make the government's domestic spending pledges unaffordable. the mirror says british holiday—makers are at risk of violence in some popular holiday destinations. so a varied set of front pages, let's take a look at some of them in more detail. i saw you frantically looking at them, it is brexit heavy. the papers
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have dropped a bit late for us to scrutinise them totally but already i'm thinking, where are the women in this? let's start with the express. it's all about "beefing up". we'll come onto the second biggest advertising campaign since the second world war. on the front page of the express we've got the cobra committee which sounds like it should be something exciting. all it stands for is cabinet office briefing greens. they talk about a bunker. they are just briefing rooms. boris wrote a book on churchill so maybe he thinks this is going to work well for him but max hastings said he was less churchill and more alan partridge. as a woman
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i'm offended by the fact the six men are going to run the country now, officially, it looks like and also that they get all this match own language. what do you think is a man? i don't like it very much. what puzzles me is how borisjohnson thinks he's going to overcome the opposition in parliament to no—deal brexit. you can prepare for it all you like but if parliament won't let you like but if parliament won't let you do it, he'sjust going to be wasting money. there's a lot of scenarios about how he can get around all of this. its magical thinking. where is all this money coming from and the magic money tree that will deliver all the things he's promised? it's the money that philip hammond the previous chancellor put aside in hate make a case of a no—deal brexit, boris johnson is spending it —— put aside
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in case of a no—deal brexit. johnson is spending it —— put aside in case of a no-deal brexit. we have this on the front of the telegraph, the ad campaign. this is about sending leaflets to all the households in the country to terrify the life out of european negotiating partners. the aim of this is to convince europeans that boris johnson is mad enough to take us out without a deal in order to get some compromise on the brexit arrangements. i don't know that it's going to work. do you get the impression, cobra briefings every day, money throwing at it, is it coming across we've got a handle on this, the headlines he wants to show that he's managing it? it's coming across as great headlines for him because working very well in a lot of the papers, giving him very good
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press. i don't know where all this money is going to... it might be raiding the war chest that was meant to be helping britain survive all of this. at the same time, he's giving money to towns, 20 million each to towns in labour areas. it looks to political commentators like you that there's an election brewing. he claims he's not going for an election but it might be forced upon him and you can only think a lot of this is sweeteners to soften us up. he's going to be in scotland tomorrow, offering to spend more money. good luck! turning to the guardian, there is a warning for him not no—deal brexit would leave spending plans in tatters copley that's the argument against a no—deal brexit because it would be huge economic disruption. and it would put all the government
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spending plans out of kilter. that's why so many conservative mps are opposed to it. the fact is, i don't see how borisjohnson can opposed to it. the fact is, i don't see how boris johnson can actually ove i’co [t] e see how boris johnson can actually overcome the opposition in parliament to this. i think the opponents of a no—deal brexit led by philip hammond and others will find a way to stop it. the guardian have this institute of government. that isa this institute of government. that is a think tank, there are lots of think tanks out there, left, right, once from dubious places. this one is very respected and they are saying there is no such thing as a managed no deal. they use, i'm going to call him mrjohnson now not boris because boris makes him sound cuddly. max hastings says, if you think he's nice, you've never met him. max hastings really doesn't
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like him. you're right, we shouldn't be calling him boris, mrjohnson. prime ministerjohnson. yes, exactly. possibly our final brexit story is on the front of the financial times. this is a real... this story has been worrying people for some time, the idea that voxel in ellesmere port might move the astra —— vauxhall in ellesmere port might move the astra. it's made in ellesmere port and the mp there is justin madders, he was asking theresa may about it the other day. this is an if story. if the brexit fallout effects the profitability of that plant then that's 1000 jobs at
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risk. but that's not necessarily a no—deal brexit story, that isjust a brexit story. if brexit leads to a lost of profitability in the plant then those jobs are at risk. 80% the then those jobs are at risk. 8096 the of cars produced in the plant go to europe so it is doubly at risk. the society of motor manufacturers and traders who represent all car dealers were warning a couple of weeks ago that this could be catastrophic for britain if we go for a hard no deal, catastrophic for britain if we go fora hard no deal, hard catastrophic for britain if we go for a hard no deal, hard brexit. let's turn to the daily mail. why is it so hard to see your gp? because the numbers of people going to their gp have risen dramatically. in some areas of the country like kent, they see numbers of people wanting to sign up with their gp go up by 31%.
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one of the problems we had was that people were going straight to a&e and a&e was getting full of people. they were trying to stop people do that. now the gps are... i've tried to see my gp, i have to wait a couple of weeks. it's a good job my leg is in dropping off stop me this story says there are fewer gps. said the inevitable result is it's harder to see them. in the way the nhs works is, you've got to go through yourgp to gain works is, you've got to go through your gp to gain access to health care. and gps take years to train and these days it's too complicated and these days it's too complicated a job. you're expected to know everything and you can't. gps also are expected to run their own gp practice more than they've ever had to, so you've got a perfect storm of gps having to do a lot of other
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stuff. going back to the front page of the telegraph, i didn't realise this was a first. it's been set by the duchess of sussex. this is her going to edit vogue magazine. the duchess of sussex. this is her going to edit vogue magazinelj would going to edit vogue magazine.” would have thought guest editor would have thought guest editor would have thought guest editor would have been in that position a long time ago but it's a first. she's not putting herself on the cover because that would be boastful, she says, but the issue is including 15 inspiring women, including 15 inspiring women, including michelle obama and doctor jane goodall the primatologist. you're good at doing fashion stories, have you thought of doing more of this? laughter she's on the front page of several papers. what do you think of her being guest
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editor? i think it's great because the editor is black and a man, so there's two firsts for vogue magazine. to comment... does she have the credentials? who has? laughter it's not for me to say but the daily mail has got her feminist icons and asks its readers if they agree with her is modern choices stop she has form on rights and feminism. maybe we could ask you to join cobra. laughter thank you. lynn and john will be back at 11.30 for another look at the papers, and don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — seven days a week. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. next on bbc news it's click.
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when california told uber that there were going to be some new regulations they needed to adhere to, governor ducey, in a public announcement, said... california may not want you, we want you to know that arizona does. we are a state that is open for business. welcomes business and new people and technology. our governor, governor ducey, had basically opened wide the arms of our state to welcome them there and it was a no—brainer. chandler is a hub where autonomous vehicles are growing and having more miles mapped on our roads than any place else in the galaxy. it's kind of great to be the centre of that. well, chandler, i believe, was chosen because it has very wide streets, it's very clean streets, they're on a grid, and the people would be very accepting of this
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kind of technology. and so it was that the technology that will one day change our society, our landscape, and our lives found a home in arizona. the makers of self—driving cars have flocked to the town of chandler, which has fast become the industry's testbed. today, i'm taking a ride in one of the most prolific types of self—driving cars here, made by google's subsidiary waymo. now, self—driving cars come kitted with loads of sensors so they can see in every direction, and sometimes in ways that we can't with our eyes. on top, we've got loads of normal cameras looking in every direction. and the fact that there's loads of them means that they can judge distances by seeing how different objects move in relation to each other. now, there's also radar — four of those, one on each corner, and these spinning things,
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these are the interesting things — these are lidar sensors. there are five a round and a big one in the black bump on the top, which can see three football pitches ahead and behind. right, let's go for a ride. ooh, we have our safety driver. 0k. and away we go. computer: please remember to buckle your seatbelt. we've just pulled out in front of quite a fast—moving car there. we made it. i call that quite a human manoeuvre. companies like waymo are experimenting whether their technology can avoid hitting you. i mean, that's the experiment. when you go out on the streets here, when you cross on the crosswalk, and there's a waymo, waymo is actively testing whether or not its cars can avoid an accident, and avoid an accident with you if you happen to be on the roads. and some people also are, clearly, offended by that notion.
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and last year, the fears of the community became a reality. a self—driving uber vehicle failed to detect her crossing an empty road at night and the safety driver failed to hit the brakes. it was the first case of a pedestrian being killed by a self—driving car. the uber was — the vehicle was a volvo again. it was a self—driving vehicle. it was in the autonomous mode at the time. and our investigation did not show at this time that there were significant signs of the vehicle slowing down. the uber vehicle hit elaine herzberg at 38mph. this was a huge moment for the burgeoning industry, which led to uber having to immediately halt their self—driving programme. so, what exactly happened and whose fault was it?
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we went to the site of the crash in tempe, arizona, with the news editor of the phoenix new times, ray stern, to find out more about the incident. ok, it's on the other side. she took her bike from this area, walked it across this lane and then entered this lane. the uber vehicle was in this lane. and itjust kept staying in this lane even though the pedestrian is here. it should have swerved. it had time and place to swerve, but it didn't. so, before she made it to the sidewalk, it impacted her. i absolutely would have seen elaine as she started to cross the road and i would have absolutely braked for her. most reasonable drivers would have. in fact, any driver who was paying attention would have not hit elaine herzberg. in order to entice uber and other companies into arizona, governor ducey relaxed regulations, which meant companies faced no requirement to disclose anything about their programmes, including crashes.
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basically, the governor invited uber in. that was one problem. they were operating here without any real transparency in terms of what they were actually doing, when the vehicles were in autonomous mode, what their criteria were for it. and then, so the vehicles were doing whatever they wanted and uber had free reign. tempe police called the crash "entirely avoidable" after investigations found that the safety driver was watching television on her phone at the time of the fatal incident. ms vasquez could still face charges of vehicular manslaughter. she looked down, they estimate, 160 times during the circuit that she was doing. the evidence showed that she was streaming the view, which is a tv show, on her phone at the exact time of the impact. so, what exactly went wrong with uber‘s self—driving technology on that night?
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it can't really be to do with poor visibility, can it? one of the messed up things about this whole incident has been the video that was released by uber after the accident. and if you've seen this video, it looks like this street is very dark and then at last second, the woman on the bike suddenly pops out of the darkness — right before the impact. in fact, this area is not as dark as that video shows. this drive—through at night follows the same route as the uber vehicle. it shows that the street lighting makes the road clearly visible far into the distance. the new york times reported that uber were not living up to expectations before the crash. as of march 2018, uber was struggling to meet the targets of 13 miles per intervention in arizona. as a comparison, gm—owned cruise reported to california regulators that they went more than 1,200 miles per intervention and waymo said that their california test cars went an average of nearly 5,600 miles before driver intervention.
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reports said that the uber vehicle actually detected elaine herzberg six seconds before the crash, but the perception system got confused, classifying her as first an unknown object, then as a vehicle and, finally, as a bicycle. those volvos came from the factory with an accident avoidance system, one of these new semiautonomous systems that a lot of the new cars have. 1.3 seconds before impact, the self—driving system realised emergency braking was needed. however, uber had disabled the emergency braking system on the volvo to prevent conflict with the self—driving system. nevertheless, prosecutors have determined that uber were not criminally liable in the death. if uber hadn't disabled the technology, then, potentially, the vehicle would have detected the pedestrian even without the uber autonomous technology, just with the volvo technology,
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and stopped the vehicle. but uber disconnected that because apparently the vehicle was being a little too jerky in its motions, and it didn'tjibe correctly with the autonomous vehicle system that uber had in there. a safety driver supervising an imperfect system should ensure its overall safety. however, that only works if they're paying attention. with self—driving cars being tested live on busy streets, accidents are inevitable. so, this may not be the last incident that we see on the road to a driverless future. but the number of accidents involving self—driving cars is very low for the millions of miles of testing that have taken place. while the advancements that we've seen in the last few years are more than impressive, getting a computer to fully understand the real world and drive
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safely through it will be a monumental achievement. they're not saying it's done, because it's not. this not a solved problem, this is a hard problem, it is many years before you can buy a car that has no steering wheel and you can say, "i'll have the car with no windscreen," and it has the same functionality as your car does now. to start with, they will have subhuman capacity and superhuman capacity in other things. subhuman in their ability to reason, about all the extraordinary things that can happen on a road that has nothing to do with driving. superhuman in their ability to concentrate and never ever, ever get distracted. to see in ways that humans don't see with radar and laser, to sense distance, extraordinary things and above all, the ability for these vehicles to share and acquire competencies, not because of their own experience, but because of the experience of all the other vehicles everywhere else in the world — that is an extraordinary thing
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and that is the compelling reason why these vehicles are coming. they will be better than us, because there is nothing in our evolutionary history that makes us good at controlling 1.5 tons of metal at 70 miles an hour. here in arizona, i've seen the benefits of — and the resistance to — the idea of the machines taking over another part of our lives. so, i think the question is not if or when this will happen, but will we let it? good evening. sunday has been a day of contrasts, so while some sunshine was to be
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found, and the best of that in terms of sunshine and warmth was along the south coast, temperatures peaking into the mid—20s, a beautiful weather watcher pictures sent in along that dorset coastline, but for parts of the midlands, and northwest england, it's been a disappointing weekend. cloudy, with some persistent, and at times, heavy rain, a couple of inches of rain falling, now this weather front really quite slow—moving, as you can see, and this is where the recent rain is sitting through the midlands, northwest england, into northern ireland, with the scattering of showers ahead of it, into western scotland. now that's going to continue through the night, but it will gradually drift its way northwards, at the same time, we could see a few sharp and thundery downpours across the far northeast of scotland. but to the south of that weather front, it stays relatively quiet, and more comfortable night for getting a good night sleep, with overnight lows of 12—16 degrees. so we start off the new working week, still with that weather front there, but it is drifting its way into scotland, and it will weaken all the time to a band of showers, as we go through the day. a ridge of high pressure builds across england and wales, that's where the best of the weather is likely to be at the start
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of the new working week, but there is an area of low pressure starting to push in the isles of scilly and into cornwall by the end of the day. in terms of the feel of things, if you keep the sunshine, we will see some pleasant warmth, 24—26 degrees, but it will turn increasingly windy down to the southwest. something worth bearing in mind. this area of low pressure, quite a deep area of low for this time of year, will drift its way slowly eastwards for the next couple of days, with gusts of winds 45—50 mph, which is certainly worth bearing in mind, if you are under canvas. so there will be some rain, some of it heavy, maybe even thundery across southwest england, moving its way up wales, the midlands, and showers into scotland. sheltered eastern areas will see the best of the weather, with highest values of 2a degrees. now as we move out of tuesday into wednesday, that low continues to drift its way steadily eastwards, so that's where the real emphasis of the showers are likely to be, and stretching up into southwest scotland. it means a better day for northeast scotland, and for wales and southwest england.
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this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 11pm: riot police in hong kong clash with thousands of protesters who defied a ban and marched through the streets for an eighth weekend. it's coming in here, teargas, rubber bullets, pepper spray. and every week it seems to get worse. the government says it's still hopeful, but is working on the assumption there'll be a no—deal brexit. the injured refugees and migrants beaten by croatian police and refused asylum hearings. could cannabis be legal in the uk within a decade? a group of mps says the law should change. slip—sliding in germany, with rain taking it's toll on formula one.
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