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hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines. two mass shootings in the united states — the first at a walmart shopping centre in texas in which 20 people died — the gunman is in custody. we are treating it as a domestic terrorism case and we're going to do what we do to terrorists in this country, which is to deliver swift and certainjustice. hours later, america saw a second deadly gun attack — this time nine people killed in ohio. these are two incredible places. we love the people. hate has no place in our country. a six—year—old boy is airlifted to hospital with critical injuries,
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after being thrown from a viewing platform at the tate modern art gallery in central london. a teenager has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. efforts to shore up a damaged dam in derbyshire continue as police urge those who remain in homes within the evacuation zone to leave immediately. those people who remain in that zone are putting their lives at risk. they are also putting the lives of the responders, primarily the police, at risk. because we have to keep going in and speaking to them and asking them to leave. tomorrow's heathrow strike is off — but industrial action over pay could yet take place on tuesday. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
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bringing us tomorrow. with me are the entertainment journalist and broadcaster, caroline frost and the parliamentary journalist, tony grew. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. most of the front pages feature the mass shootings in the us. the independent‘s lead story is the criticism faced by donald trump in the wake of the el paso shooting in texas. el paso is the hometown of presidential contender beto o'rourke, who says president trump bears some responsbility for the attack, as he "stokes racism" in america. that criticism of president trump is echoed on the front page of the guardian, alongside reports that police in el paso are investigating links between the gunman and white nationalism. the main picture on the front of the telegraph is from el paso, from a candlelit vigil held to remember those killed by the gunman. "american nightmare" reads the front of the i, which is also reporting on the 29 lives lost in the two mass shootings.
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onto another big story tonight — "horror at the tate" reads the daily mail, which is leading on the arrest of a 17—year—old after a child was thrown from the tenth floor of the tate modern in london. the photo on the front page of the metro shows the viewing platform at the gallery and the air ambulance arriving to take the boy to hospital, where he is said to be in a critical condition. quite an uncomfortable read, to be frank, in tomorrow's papers and no brexit. it shows there are other big stories happening in the world, other issues that politicians probably need to urgently be looking into. the guardian takes the lead, doesn't it, tony, with the accusations against trump of feeling hate after the deadly shootings. although it's fair to say there was racism and hate in america long before he was in office. it is
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depressing, the regularity with which we are treated to these headlines. you become almost immune to it. more than 250 mass shootings in america and the vast majority of them never make the news because they are just so common. i also think it's important that trump is somehow held to account for the way in which he speaks. it might be difficult for people in this country to grasp the fact that the president of the united states is notjust head of government, he is the head of state. journalists stand up but they don't do that in this country. his and its reputation throughout the world. one of the things about being the president, journalists are naturally quite deferential and that deferential needs to stop. whenever you tell black and minority ethnic women to go back to where they come from, that is racism, not racially charged language, that is racism. the way he has spoken about
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hispanics is disgusting and disreputable and wrong. he should not be directly linked to these crimes but the fact is this young man went out to shoot latinos. we don't know for a fact, we have to say this, tony, whether what donald trump are said about hispanics, what has been chanted at some of the values that donald trump has held in recent weeks, "go back home, send them back home", which has been very uncomfortable for many people to watch around the world, we don't know if it isn't. it certainly doesn't help that the president of the united states makes racist state m e nts the united states makes racist statements and condones the language and abuse that ethnic minorities in america are facing now every day. it's really important to stress this is not the first mass shooting this year and it won't be the last. it is the order and magnitude of the number of people killed means it becomes front page news in this country. caroline, do you find you almost become numb to some of these headlines? donald trump is the president of the united states and
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he is accused of fuelling head, i don't remember in my lifetime that i have read a headline like that about a president or many a leader, to be honest. well, i guess the problem is that because of his chosen method of communicating with the world at large is twitter, it's sort of devoid of any new whence and context. we get these from the gut visceral responses to things over and overagain visceral responses to things over and over again —— devoid of any new ones. notjust from donald trump but a lot of but he does hold a huge platform, unprecedented. you do get this coarsening. things you read leaves a bad taste in your mouth. like when leaders behave badly, when they behave consistently badly, there is this kind of numbing and softening of the edges whereas if somebody does one wrong thing and they operate from a very high pedestal, it is far more shocking than when you just see consistently
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bad behaviour. we have seen people on both sides of the atlantic benefiting from that. this is something when we had the... year ago, that dreadful school shooting? you had those school survivors banding together, we are not victims, we are survivors and incredibly moving. we thought this was the time when the lobby people, when the congress, they are thinking that the election and how this plays out in their home states and as tony said, it somehow dribbled away. america lost its way with sandy hook. when you have 20 young children younger than six gunned down ina children younger than six gunned down in a school in connecticut and nothing changes... that was probably the moment america did seem to be turning a corner on gun control. president obama thought this would do it because there were so many children. but nothing happened. i remember a tweet, no one famous but
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an american tweeting about what happened in el paso and ohio. one of the biggest arguments for carrying guns in america so good people can protect themselves from bad people. there wasn't a single gun in el paso, ohio that protected anyone. but you will find the argument that we gunned down the gunman and we got him. that is what everybody should be armed. this is why, despite looking at the front page of the daily telegraph, which leads on the human emotion and the heartbreak of these gun shootings, despite that heartbreak, nothing is going to change. if a terrorist had attacked two american cities within 12 hours, a terrorist organisation, congress would be meeting in an emergency session, they will be ramping up the rhetoric and they would be demanding action. but this isjust rhetoric and they would be demanding action. but this is just another... there is talk there could be an emergency session. nothing will
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happen. you are right, nothing illegal will happen. the nra have their tentacles so far into american politics, nothing can happen. i remember charleston and watching obama speak at a church. he sang amazing grace and what did it change? nothing. that is the reality of politics in america. the national rifle association fund the politicians and campaigners and politicians and campaigners and politicians do nothing. they are as many guns in america as there are people, staggering. shocking. it doesn't mean every american owns guns, not many do. but it is a staggering statistic when you think about how many americans there are. i was pointing out to tony, on twitter, somebody said another statistic is shocking that the president of the united states said they are now so common he can literally get away with a 24 one tweet. it is such an epidemic of hatred that he literally referred to both incidents in one tweet. i found
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that horrifying, that somehow they didn't have the dignity of an individual response. when you see and these people have just become statistics on twitter. there is the pain on the front page of the daily telegraph. a lot more pay no doubt to be seen in the coming days as well. of course, we don't know all the details. but we know enough to know that yet again america has been hit by its lack of gun control, many will argue. shall we move onto the next story which is also on the front page of the daily telegraph. this is the potential chaos the paper focusing this is the potential chaos the paperfocusing on this is the potential chaos the paper focusing on at heathrow airport, because of the strike action. great timing, of course!‘ classic summer story, chaos at heathrow, i think i have read that almost every summer. and written it. telegraph front page looking light no longer having a borisjohnson
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column to spaff across the front page. that is his word!. he has coarsened our language, i may as well. has strike action been called off? i believe so. you see that a seamless bit of passing up the battle? it seamless bit of passing up the battle ? it has seamless bit of passing up the battle? it has been called off for now. but it could be called back on. it has only been suspended pending extra negotiation by acas. if you are on holiday anywhere, if you have relatives on holiday, your costs of your flight home will be covered and paid for. for people whose flights have been disrupted, they will perhaps be given a full refund or offered alternative flights but they won't necessarily be given any further compensation. that is the current situation. it may change perhaps by the time you read these papers. this strike is airport staff strikes but there are also pilot strikes but there are also pilot strikes may be. wonderful! that to look forward to. how long have these
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talks been going on for? absolutely no idea. months, did you say? a strike is not effective unless it is planned for maximum disruption. we found that with the extinction rebellion, no point in closing down a tiny pocket of london when you can bring oxford circus to a standstill. similarly, no point in going through all of this if you are a hard—working pilot unless we see pictures of queues of players at heathrow stop let's cross our fingers that everybody resolves this swiftly and amicably in time for the bank holiday because that is the next time they are thinking of laying it on. ok. daily mirror... a very different story to a lot of the other newspapers. instagram's shame, sick suicide posts still online six months after bosses vowed to remove them. they don't care. if they cared, they would do something about it was that this is the problem of social media companies, they are allowed to go up in a completely unregulated space to stop when
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television was first invented it was hugely regulated, as was radio. even in the us, there were significant of the federal communications commission came in, in the 1930s and significantly controlled what was a cce pta ble significantly controlled what was acceptable to come in on the radio, who would have a licence. they still are. social media companies have walked into a completely open space. platforms for free speech. so none of our laws apply to them. i find it sick that the government continues to have round tables with google and talk about it. you are talking about suicide, child abuse, people being driven to their wits end by the fact that they are constantly abused on twitter, receive multiple death threats. is it not easy for us to say the internet needs policing? it isa say the internet needs policing? it is a difficult space to police. it is a difficult space to police. it is huge and it is instant and anybody can post anything at any time. the window has been closed, perhaps as tony said, when it was
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being innovative and launching in lots of little pockets in the way that tv and radio sort of came along and spread all over the world. the internet is a c in a way that those things were not. —— is a sea. they had independent providers and creators and makers but this is a pond as it has been described on its worst days. the round table with google, i can see your frustrations but we have to work with them because they are the most powerful players at that table. as mark zuckerberg has demonstrated, when facebook has both the message and the means of conveying the message, that's an awful lot of power in one person. facebook is spending just as much money as the nra on lobbyists in washington, which is part of the problem. we can do our bit as pa rents, problem. we can do our bit as parents, you can police the internet. that is key. we could also do our bit if we were part of a unified european bloc, for example, that might help us. 0k, tony! you had to get it in there, didn't you?
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it is the first paper review we had donein it is the first paper review we had done in ages when we didn't mention brexit. i didn't say that! caroline, tony, thank you very much for now. that's it for the papers this hour. caroline and tony will be back at ii.30pm for another look at the papers, and don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. imight let i might let tony back. depends which story he picks. it's all there for you — seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers — and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, caroline and tony. next on bbc news, it's click.
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i love food. who doesn't? and like everything else in our lives, food has become globalised. we have access to a multitude of cuisines. out of season, a thing of the past. but the true cost of this indulgence is becoming apparent with a spiralling public health crisis and environmental destruction. i've been to a facility in north london where our discarded food ends up. in this country, household waste makes up for at least 70% of what's thrown away. currently, only half the uk's food waste is being processed. if it all came to a place like this, it could power 350,000 households. this place receives about 30 lorries a day. full of waste, mostly
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coming from homes. this whole operation is powered by the waste that comes in here. and, surprisingly, there is actually only one machine. that's because what arrives here is just food waste in plastic bags. so all that needs to happen is the plastic be separated from the food. but that shows just how important it is that we do our bit at home first. after the food is removed from the bags, a kind of soup is created. it even has its own recipe to make itjust right for the next bit of the process. these tanks behind me are actually called the digesters and they work like the human digestive system, breaking down food in just the same way. in fact, the temperature inside there is 37 degrees — the same temperature as the human gut. once the food is broken down, the gas produced is turned into electricity and the rest is sent as manure to the surrounding farms.
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but there is no denying that aside from the waste, we need to be creating more food to be able to feed the world's and to be able to do that, we need to find ways of creating sustainable and efficient farming. so we took a trip to the orkney islands off the coast of scotland to see how 5g is being used to do just that. 5g networks are starting to pop up in uk cities. but for many rural areas, even getting a basic signal remains a challenge. including in the orkney islands off the north coast of scotland, with a population of just 22,000 people. in the past, an argument against setting up mobile networks in remote locations was the high cost of infrastructure, relative to low population. but this could all be about to change. in a revolutionary move, the uk's communications regulator, ofcom, is opening up part of the airwaves, or spectrum, to anyone who wants to use it.
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at cost price on a first—come first—served basis. mobile operators want to provide service right across the country. some places don't use all the spectrum, sometimes it might be available for others to use. we're hoping new innovations will come out of it and new industries will develop. industries will not be constrained by bits of wire, and will be able to use radio. experiments to build local networks are already under way. the 5g rural first trial has brought 5g capabilities to different projects across the orkney islands. one of the most remote and under—connected parts of the uk. but while remote, these islands contribute significantly to uk exports like salmon and whisky. salmon is one of the uk's biggest food exports, worth more than £700 million a year. many salmon farms are located offshore in scottish waters. with up to 25,000 fish in each cage, there's a lot of data that needs to be collected. this box monitors sensors in the water that include temperature sensors,
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salinity sensors and oxygen sensors, so it is seeing how oxygen is going to the fish. the oxygen levels affect when and how much the fish are fed. automatic feeding systems work off that data on a wi—fi network over a 5g connection, with four feeders running at once. just did that feed off your laptop? yes. i am connected to the barge computer via screen connect which is a total benefit to us because we can be out on site and ready to feed the fish rather than have a man just sitting and feeding them all day. he can be out working with us and helping us. and some processes are still done by hand, like checking for sea lice. that could change as well. we will be doing health checks on them and make sure they are nice and clean. that one is beautiful. so if you had a 5g connection you may not need to do this, where you remove the fish from the water? no. we would have hd cameras that
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could monitor the condition. 56 brings a couple of elements that maybe we didn't have with 4g. of course it has higher bandwidth. but it also brings low latency, meaning that the time the signal takes to go back and forth becomes much much faster. we can deploy it in areas that we may not have been able to before. it is all now coming together into a single infrastructure, providing solutions that maybe over 46 was only a dream. while only 22,000 people live in orkney, a further 200,000 tourists come to visit its whisky distilleries and famous neolithic sites every year. many arrive by cruise ship including this disney one, dropping off hundreds of passengers. by selling access to bespoke wi—fi networks over 5g, the local community could pay for the masts needed to get network access all year round. so we are standing in the middle of the ring of brodgar and you can see two masts from here. if you look over here, there are two masts up there. we are running from that right now.
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fantastic. can we see? so... that's us connected now. that is pretty full signal. number 15 is queueing up. the signal strength is impressive. other applications like augmented reality tour guides are being tested, which tourists can also buy while visiting. is it possible to see if you have a signal or a connection to your network here? no, ijust have emergency calls. i have no 4g, no 3g. this is a 5g connection. oh, wow! is this something you would want to use? yes. especially if you have children as well. i think it's a good idea. for important sites like this, yes. the 5g network is also being tested on windfarms. the orkney islands produce over 130% of its electricity demand through renewable energy, selling excess back to the national grid. with sustained winds over 100mph during the winter and farms
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in remote locations, having sensors delivering data in real—time to a central point can help keep the turbines running in dangerous conditions. these turbines are now connected to a smart grid, which mixes renewable energy with battery technology. before, they were connected by copper wire to telephone lines, making them vulnerable to damage from a lightning strike. we're hoping that the 5g system will minimise the amount of outages that the project can have. you can imagine that if we were connected by a simple wire, that can fail and that will stop generation. and we do not want that. we want to be able to provide power whenever it is windy and send it to scotland where it can be used. all these projects are still in the pilot stage. but with ofcom opening up the airwaves, they could soon become reality. in some places like orkney, where spectrum is not intensively used, we want people to be able to use spectrum as a way of deploying new services, be it in rural areas where people are doing
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new and innovative things or inside factories or enterprise offices as we go toward more industrial it and new 5g services. we just want people to be able to use it and do it. ofcom will assess each bid for parts of the shared spectrum to ensure there is no interference with other users. it will start taking bids for these shared case uses towards the end of the year. so we have seen how new ways of farming can solve one problem — but we still need to be wasting less at home. so i have been taking a look at some technology that aims to help. these smart tags and containers are still in preproduction. they are designed to ping you reminders about your leftovers. as for your supermarket shopping, you can track that using apps like kitche or nowaste, which alert you to food that is about to go off,
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and keep track of how much your wastage is costing you. snapping a picture of your receipt creates a digital pantry. kitche did seem better at deciphering the text than nowaste. kitche also suggests recipes for cooking soon to expire food, although you would need to add more ingredients as well. the result made this seem a bit of a novelty to me. we've seen a few smart fridges that let you take a peek inside remotely, but those will set you back thousands. fridgecam is trying to give the same convenience for a couple of hundred quid. the idea is that it will snap a picture every time you close your fridge door, so you can see what is inside from anywhere. it also uses image recognition to keep an eye on the product —
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that is the aim anyway. in reality, in this type of fridge at least, the camera viewjust wasn't wide enough to show more than one or two shelves. as for those snaps, it will tell you who has been opening the fridge. these apps may encourage us to think about how we treat food a bit more, but changing our lifetime shopping and eating habits might be a harder nut to crack. that's it for the short version of our sustainable food special. the full programme can be found on the bbc iplayer. you can keep track of the team on youtube, facebook, instagram and twitter at @bbcclick, and of course we will be back next week. thanks for watching.
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another that rainfall could be quite intense. met office yellow warning still in force through the rest of this evening. from lincolnshire across northern england into scotland, further very heavy showers which could cause disruption and yet another band of showery rain from the west as the night wears on. some clear spells that images that he— 13-16. clear spells that images that he— 13—16. england and wales, things will improve pushing the showers away towards the east and increasing amounts of sunshine. northern ireland and scotland seeing some sunshine but there will be a scattering of heavy and thundery downpours with more persistent rain
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this is bbc news. i'm chris rogers. the headlines at 11:00: two mass shootings in the united states — the first at a walmart shopping centre in texas in which 20 people died. the gunman is in custody. we are treating it as a domestic terrorism case and we are going to do what we do to terrorists in this country which is deliver swift and certain justice. hours later, america saw a second deadly gun attack — this time, nine people killed in ohio. these are two incredible places. we love the people. hate has no place in our country. a 6—year—old boy is airlifted to hospital with critical injuries
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