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i wondered what appealed to... i wondered what message you would give to who... the same thing that... the oceans are crucial in, i mean both, it is, of course as every other ecosystem but also in regulating the climate and it gives us much of the air we breathe and. so, i mean, we are in a crisis, not only a climate crisis, but lots of the climate crises happen in the ocean as well. the ocea ns happen in the ocean as well. the oceans are impacted by that. we are also facing an ecologically crisis which affects not only the climate and weather patterns, but
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you inspire many young people, one is here with me, if it is ok, he would like to ask you a question. you inspire me every single day, your message has spread all around the world. what advice would you give to someone like me who is trying to make an impact but once their voice to be louder? i don't, it's, idon't, it's, in i don't, it's, in the beginning i, i mean, my voice wasn't heard at all, as so many others, and ijust tried different ways until i found some kind of method, and that made my voice heard. so i think of course it is individually for everyone, and you just have to be creative and come up with may be something new to do. there are so incredibly many things you can do, and since this is
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such an incredibly big and global problem, it needs to be tackled from every possible angle. so, i mean, you can do so much. what i'm thinking now is that i'm only going to take it step—by—step, andi only going to take it step—by—step, and i will have to do is i feel, of course. i don't have anything planned right now, but i'm going to travel around therefore i don't know how long, and that is intentionally, because i wanted to be very loose and not to have a very tight schedule, because i want to change
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things as time goes by. so i don't know yet how i will get home. peace activist has said you were something more than a human being, saying you are driven by a divine force, and he also says that your message has to be given by a young woman in these times. what is your response to that? i am definitely not more than a human being, and, i mean, i don't, not more than a human being, and, i mean, idon't, i not more than a human being, and, i mean, i don't, ithink not more than a human being, and, i mean, i don't, i think it's good that, i mean, someone's voice is getting heard. there are so many people whose voice aren't getting heard in these matters, so every person who fights for the same thing
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and whose voice gets heard is very important, and it doesn't really matter who that person is, what background that person has, as long as it has dedication and it wants to fight for a better world. are you anxious or worried about anything? what is your biggest challenge in the next two weeks?|j will challenge in the next two weeks?” will just have challenge in the next two weeks?” willjust have to see. i was test sailing two days ago, i think, and we we re sailing two days ago, i think, and we were out for several hours and i didn't feel bad, i didn't feel anxious or anything. i think i felt seasick for like one or two minutes and then it just seasick for like one or two minutes and then itjust stopped. i don't know, i will just and then itjust stopped. i don't know, i willjust have to see, get on the boat and see what happens.
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that is also very exciting, and i have never done anything like this before. so i can't really say what is going to be the biggest challenge, but i willjust have to find that out. how have you found the time you've spent preparing with the time you've spent preparing with the crew, and how thankful are you that they decided to take it with you on this trip? yes, these few days preparing and packing everything has been... i think they have been good. they have been incredibly helpful and i am eternally grateful for what they have done, and for what they are doing. i think it is very brave of them to do something like this, to
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just, i mean, they contacted us because they heard i was looking for a way to get across the atlantic ocean, and we have been in contact with several boats of course and considered every option but they we re considered every option but they were the ones who sounded most sincere and most dedicated. so, yes, iam very sincere and most dedicated. so, yes, i am very grateful for them, for eve ryo ne i am very grateful for them, for everyone in the team and all the volu nteers everyone in the team and all the volunteers helped us. imean, we i mean, we willjust simply have to see that. if they succeed in
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reducing enough co2 emissions than they have succeeded in doing that, and if they won't then they haven't. as it looks now, it doesn't look very good. studio: greta thunberg feeding a huge amount of questions from the media. they have gathered in plymouth before she sets off on that estimated two week voyage on a 60 foot yacht with no toilet, no shower. she knows it's going to be uncomfortable, she is there with a cameraman and her dad as well. she has chosen to travel this way because it will be a zero carbon journey, and appropriate of course for the swedish 16—year—old who cats about climate change. she is making her way to new york later on this afternoon. we will hopefully be back there to see the boat leave as she heads off to that climate change summit later in september. some
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breaking news to bring you now regarding the air accident investigation branch enquiry into what happened to the plane in which the footballer emiliano sala died, along with his pilot david ibbotson. you may recall it came down in the english channel earlier this year on zist english channel earlier this year on 2ist of january. it took some time to find the crash site, but that investigation has established that both emiliano sala and david ibbotson had been exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide in the cockpit of the private plane. that is all the detail we have at the moment. we will bring you more when we get it. you are watching bbc news, our top story this hour. the prime minister has hit back at mps seeking to block a no—deal brexit, accusing them of engaging in a "terrible collaboration" with the eu. borisjohnson said the more eu leaders thought parliament
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could stop britain leaving without a deal, the less likely they were to compromise. the former chancellor, philip hammond, has accused the prime minister of trying to wreck any chance of a new brexit deal by making demands brussels could never accept. our political correspondent, nick eardley, reports. battle lines are being drawn for the latest brexit showdown, and the key players are getting their lines ready. a prime minister adamant we are leaving the eu at the end of october, deal or no deal. a former chancellor who says no—deal would be a disaster and it is not what people voted for. leaving the eu without a deal would bejust as much a betrayal of the referendum result as not leaving at all. the british people were offered a proposition that we could leave the european union while having a close relationship, they were told it would be the easiest deal ever done, and all the evidence points to people wanting to maintain a close trading relationship. some tory mps are worried
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that the strategy in here is making no—deal more likely. they blame people like dominic cummings, boris johnson's key adviser, for demanding too much from europe. pivoting to say that the backstop has to go, in its entirety, a huge chunk of the withdrawal agreement just scrapped, is effectively a wrecking tactic. the people behind this know that that means there will be no deal. some in government are furious. one source accused mr hammond of doing europe's bidding for them. the fact we are in the situation we are in, the fact that we missed the deadline shows that mr hammond wasn't very effective at preparing us for no deal, he wasn't getting the country in ship shape. i have no idea what his motivations
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are, but i do know that when he was chancellor, our policy was that no deal was better than a bad deal. government preparations go on, ministers met again to discuss getting ready for exit day. but many mps are discussing their own strategies too, how to block the government if it does try to leave without ideal. does try to leave without a deal. the speaker of the house of commons, john bercow, has said he will fight any attempt to lock them out. he told an audience in edinburgh, "parliament will be heard and nobody with stopping that happening". it sets the scene for what could be the most important brexit tussle yet — three years on from the referendum, senior politicians are still split. soon, though, a decision will have to be made. our political correspondent, tony bonsignore is at westminster. these skirmishes about the nature of brexit showing no sign of abating.
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not at all, no. as nick was saying, battle lines are being drawn, this is partly about looking ahead to the start of september when parliament returns, and this almighty battle is shaping up between those who want to block no deal and those like boris johnson and those in government who think we should leave on sist of october, come what may, do die, as borisjohnson says. this article today in the times in an article philip hammond gave to the bbc pulled no punches, talked about no—deal brexit being a betrayal of the 2016 referendum because it was never talked about then, philip hammond said, talking as well philip hammond said, talking as well philip hammond about a diminished britain after a no—deal brexit and also talking about borisjohnson wrecking his own strategy by those red lines, by insisting that the northern ireland back strop, the insurance policy, it must go. i have to say, i
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watched that facebook live on the internet with boris johnson from downing street and he did not pull any punches. he essentially accused europe of working in collaboration, a terrible collaboration, he says, with mp5 who want to block a no—deal brexit. no sign of compromise whatsoever, neither side is backing down. you heard john bercow saying he is not prepared to see mps not have their say in september. so it really is shaping up for an enormous battle ahead of the brexit day, the projected brexit day on october 31. thank you very much, tony in westminster. a postmortem examination is under way in malaysia to try to establish how a teenager from london died, during a family holiday. the body of nora quoirin, who was 15, was found yesterday — ten days after she went missing from a jungle resort. her family have released a statement thanking the hundreds of people who'd been searching the area. our reporter, howard johnson, sent this report.
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a senior pathologist arrived at the hospital in seremban this morning to begin a postmortem examination of nora's body. she was found by a group of volunteer hikers around a mile away from the dusun resort, from where she went missing. according to police, her unclothed body was found beside a stream in a hilly area of a palm—oil plantation. the area had previously been scoured by malaysian search and rescue workers. of course, this is a very highly traumatic situation. it's the loss of a daughter and child, and naturally the traumatic levels are very high. it so difficult to describe, but they're really distraught in grief, yeah? and i feel the same, to lose a child, yeah, it's terrible. the teenager, who lived with her parents in london, had been missing for ten days. nora quoirin's family first alerted the authorities to her disappearance
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the morning after they'd checked into the resort for a two—week holiday. nora's father, sebastien, discovered her bed empty and a downstairs window open. the family have always insisted, given nora's learning difficulties, it is very unlikely she would have walked off alone. it's been a long, frustrating day for people waiting to find out the cause of death of nora. what we found out today is that the senior pathologist studying the body has spent at least eight hours. we are expecting to find out more details shortly in a police press conference. the malaysian police have always treated nora's disappearance as a missing—persons case. in a statement released to the media today, the quoirin family said nora had brought people together from france, ireland, britain and malaysia, united in their love and support for her — "she has truly touched the whole world." howard johnson, bbc news, malaysia. hong kong police have condemned
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pro—democracy activists for detaining two people during protests at the territory's airport. the police said the captives, one a journalist from mainland china, were tied up, assaulted and humiliated. beijing has stepped up its criticism of the protesters. our china correspondent, stephen mcdonell, is in hong kong. although there now would only be a handful of prodemocracy activists inside the airport, these new security measures have effectively put an end to the possibility of having these rallies inside the terminal, at least. that's because now you need to have a passport and a travel itinerary in order to get access to the building. those few protesters who are down on the arrivals level, once they leave, they won't be able to get back in again, and so the protest movement, the pro—democracy movement won't be able to refill their ranks. now it doesn't mean in theory you couldn't have a protest outside the building, but even without this new security in place,
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many activists have decided not to return to the airport today after those shocking scenes we saw last night, violent clashes, including one at one point a policeman having shies truncheon removed, at one point a policeman having his truncheon removed, and he was bashed by militant pro—democracy protestors. he pulled out his service revolver, and they fled. i think scenes like that have shocked people, even within the pro—democracy movement, and they have had to try and recalibrate their strategy in order to get people, the general public, back on side. just a bit more information into those are investigation accident reports on the plane in which footballer emiliano sala was travelling when the plane came down over the english channel on 21st of january this year. we were just
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telling you that we heard he and the assumption david ibbotson the pilot we re assumption david ibbotson the pilot were exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide. this follows toxicology tests that have been reported upon, which found a high saturation level of carbon monoxide in emiliano sala's blood. david ibbotson, who was from lincolnshire, his body wasn't found after that crash, but the report says it is likely that he too would have been exposed to carbon monoxide. that is the latest from the aaib. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines. borisjohnson says mps who want to block no—deal are mistaken. the former chancellor disagrees. investigators conclude footballer emiliano sala and his pilot david ibbotson were exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide in the cockpit when it crashed in the channel injanuary. desperately wanting answers: the parents of teenager nora quoirin, whose body was found
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in malaysia, await the results of a postmortem examination. and coming up — the wait is over — tens of thousands of people have been getting their btec results today. in the sport, another inspection on the pitch at lord's in about 50 minutes tieback play has been delayed in the second ashes test between england and australia at lord's. will the weather eased off? jofra archer set to make his test debut for england if we get play. premier league rivals liverpool and chelsea face each other in the european super cup, the first time two english sides have met in the competition's history. and scotland's duncan taylor has been named in the squad to face france in the summer test, his first start in two years. more on those stories in 15 minutes' time. see you then. rail users are set to be hit by a further rise in ticket prices
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which will come into effect next year. the increase will be based on the retail prices index inflation measure forjuly, which is 2.8%. that figure is likely to lead to an increase of more than £100 in the annual cost of getting to work. rail campaign groups have warned that commuters will ‘refuse to pay‘ if season ticket prices continue to increase. our correspondent richard lister is at king's cross railway station with more. this announcement affects just under half of all rail fares. as you said, season tickets, long distance, off—peak tickets and any—time tickets, in and out of cities. to give you some sense of what that means for the average season ticket, if you have one from gloucester to birmingham, it's probably going to go up about £119, barrow—in—furness to preston about £117 increase there, edinburgh to glasgow £114, and if you have a season ticket from the south—east in and out of london, that will go up an average of about £122. and that's at a time when commuters are saying they're still having to deal with overcrowded trains
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and service disruption, and in fact figures in december show that the level of network delays was at its highest level for 13 years, and a survey of rail commuters show that only about a third of them think the existing fares they pay for season tickets represent value for money, and today, the watchdog group transport focus said many rail passengers would be mystified that rail fares should be going up at all, let alone 2.8%. now, the government points to such measures as a new £30 rail card for 16 and 17—year—olds, which will cut their fares in half. it says that's one way which people can find lower fares. but the rail minister chris heaton harris said it's tempting to say fares should never rise, but the truth is that the we but the truth is that if we stop investing in our railway, then we will never see it improved, and king's cross station here is a case in point. there's a £1.2 billion programme of investments on the rail service north of here,
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to improve that, and the rail passenger group says that there are 7,000 new carriages coming on form, there are 6,400 new services coming on stream in the early 20205. a new railcard offering half price fares for 16—17 year olds will be launched next week. it's aimed at those who travel to school or college by train and goes on sale on the 20th august. the 16—17 saver card will cost £30 a year. tens of thousands of people have been getting their btec results today. more than half of all the qualifications awarded to 16—18 year olds in england are for vocational courses. but colleges that provide this type of training have had theirfunding cut by nearly a third in the last decade. the government says it wants to overhaul the sector. our business correspondent, steph mcgovern, spent the morning at a college in boston in lincolnshire to meet students
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getting their results. i got the top grades in my health and social care. it is that time of year again when students are finding out whether they have got the qualifications they were hoping for. congratulations, guys. i know you are buzzing. so, lydia, tell me what you were doing next? i am going to heriot watt university in edinburgh to study architectural engineering. amazing, well done. thank you. you are off to do nursing, aren't you, lauren? yeah, i'm going to sheffield hallam in september. so, you are off to uni. you have sorted yourself out a job, haven't you? in a michelin star establishment in oxford, under raymond blanc, so, yeah. big name drop, i love it! computing for you, isn't it, kirsty? yeah, i am taking a gap year and hopefully go and do my level four next year to get some sort ofjob in it. congratulations. you must be buzzing. these guys are some of the millions of people who have been studying for vocational qualifications, everything from, as you can see here, sport, plumbing, joinery, forestry, bricklaying, computing, health and social care, catering, engineering, the list goes on. a key part of their assessment
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is the practical work they have to do, as well as work placements with local employers. why did you decide to do a btec? as we are seeing with employers, it is not about what you know, it is about what you can do. i think a big part of the btec is actually dipping your toe into the water of the real world and what it is actually going to be like out there. i've got to go to work placements in my btec sport. it didn'tjust amalgamate to one exam right at the end of loads of studying. it was small, manageable chunks in a way that suited me. plus mixing with the real world. last year, more 16 to 18—year—olds in england achieved vocational qualifications compared to a—levels. funding for the colleges that provide this type of training has been cut by nearly a third in the last decade. borisjohnson said in his first speech as prime minister that he wants to change that. it is significantly more expensive to run further education provision because it is specialist and it is technical, so without putting the funding in, we are not going to deliver
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the skills country and industry needs. post—16 education is facing major reform, which includes the introduction of a new qualification called t—levels. and it is not all about money. it is also about making the system less complex so that people can navigate their way through the qualifications options more easily. and for these students and teachers now... cheering. ..is all about celebrating. steph mcgovern, bbc news, boston. let's cross to plymouth, where a press conference is taking place. while they make this vessel ready for its transatlantic journey. while they make this vessel ready for its transatlanticjourney. the swedish climate change activist, 16—year—old greta thunberg, is going to be travelling on that yacht for the next couple of weeks. they are due to set sail later on this afternoon. she was asked earlier, are —— answering a lot of questions
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from reporters. she began her protest when she was 15 outside the swedish parliament last year. it seems longer ago than that, it feels like she has been in our collective consciousness for longer than a year. she was calling for the need for the immediate action to combat climate change, and since then her school strikes she began have inspired a global movement of young people, all calling for urgent action on climate change. she was asked by one of the reporters there what could other people do to try to make a difference if they wanted to be heard on climate change, and greta said in the beginning my voice wasn't heard at all. i tried different ways until i found some kind of method that made my voice heard. it's individualfor everyone. you have to be creative and come up with something new to do. there are so many things. it's such an incredibly big and global problem, it needs to be tackled from every possible angle. she is due to speak at the un climate change summit in
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september and she has chosen to sail on this vessel. there is no toilet, there is no shower on board, but there is no shower on board, but there is no shower on board, but there is a blue plastic bucket. it is going to be a zero carbon journey. we will watch as they set saila journey. we will watch as they set sail a little bit later. time for a look at the weather... here's stav. very stormy in japan. pretty incredible, the west pacific has been very active with tropical storms. we had a typhoon a week ago with some very heavy rain for eastern china. japan has been hit by three storms in the last three weeks. at the moment we are looking at record breaking heat, would you believe, 38.6 degrees in koide in northern honshu. this is breaking the previous record set back only last year, againjust the previous record set back only last year, again just before a
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typhoon. it is because the systems as they move up from the south, the warm waters, they scoop up some very warm waters, they scoop up some very warm tropical air ahead of them on this one is particularly bringing some very warm this one is particularly bringing some very warm air this one is particularly bringing some very warm air from the tropics across into tokyo. very high temperatures before the wind and rain hits with flooding again. and they rely on those high temperatures to power them. that's right, although the heat has into the system, this is just although the heat has into the system, this isjust ahead of it, the heat scooping up into japan, but it is the moisture and the energy in these systems, which do allow them to become very powerful over the warm waters. this is the satellite picture. you can see the eia, quite a ragged eye, meaning it has dropped from typhoon status into tropical storm but it is a tropical storm, it mightjust hit storm but it is a tropical storm, it might just hit typhoon storm but it is a tropical storm, it mightjust hit typhoon status as it gets nearer to japan in the next 12 hours. we are thinking it was day as tropical storm status, but that still means very heavy rain and strong winds. so looking at our
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forecast, a bit changeable the next few days? yes, of course we will have windy weather but nothing as windy as this. that was the graphics there, i will show you that on the next one. for this evening, it looks like it will be a cloudy one. there will be further rain at times across to eastern areas, this is the low pressure system which has brought the wet weather to our shores today. a ridge of high pressure will be building on thursday, not all doom and gloom, another warm and sunny day to come before the series of low pressure systems will be pushing on friday and the weekend. so for the rest of this afternoon, cloudy, further rain across eastern areas, those temperatures disappointing because of the cloud and the rain, high teens, celsius for most. further rain pushing into scotland and northern ireland, a secondary area of low pressure, so overnight not completely dry, if few showers across the west, dryer interludes further west, temperatures 11 to 15 degrees, actually warmer than what we have have had over the last few
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nights. tomorrow starts off rather cloudy, a bit of sunshine around, one or two showers, but as the morning moves away and we head into the afternoon, that ridge of high pressure m oves the afternoon, that ridge of high pressure moves in, it should be dry with plenty of sunshine, north—westerly winds which will be light, strong sunshine allows temperatures to rise higher today, it isa temperatures to rise higher today, it is a short lived a fine spell. again like yesterday's was. here comes the next area of low pressure friday and into the weekend, a more powerful system with stronger winds, so they could be some disruption on friday and again at the weekend for winds and heavy rain. widespread heavy rain pushes in from the west. not a pretty picture when you are talking about midsummer. it will be very wet but we see some showers following in the sunny spells across the north of the country, further rain pushing into england and wales and those winds really will be a feature, gusting at 30 or a0 mph, may be more than that and exposure. temperatures pretty disappointing with the wind and the rain and the cloud cover, 19, 20 degrees at best.
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it stays wet through friday evening across central, southern england and wales, heavy further north, plenty of blustery showers and stays windy as we head into the start of the weekend. there will be plenty of showers around too, windy i mention, but very windy on sunday and this is where we could see some disruption, may be gusts of 50 mph. those temperatures around mid to high teens, celsius, below parfor august. that is how it is shaping up, very unsettled for the weekend with very strong winds. stay tuned to the forecast.
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this is bbc news — our latest headlines. borisjohnson says mps who want to block no—deal are mistaken. the former chancellor disagrees. leaving the eu without a deal would bejust as much as betrayal of the referendum result as not leaving at all. investigators conclude footballer emiliano sala and his pilot david ibbotson were exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide in the cockpit, when it crashed in the channel injanuary. desperately wanting answers — the parents of teenager nora quoirin, whose body was found in malaysia, await the results of a post—mortem examination. flights resume in hong kong as the authorities impose new airport security measures.
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sport now on afternoon live with gavin ra mjaun. still waiting for play to start in the second ashes test at lord's. yes, absolutely, i tell you what it it is like we are watching more of a weather forecast than sport. it has been a wash out so far between england and australia. there has been no play on the opening morning of the second ashes test and it is at lord's, the rain has been unrelenting, the toss has been delayed. an ebbing inspection took place an hour ago, another one is due, this is what the scene looked like a bit earlier on, conditions if they do improve, they will have to check the areas of the field that are important, the bowlers run up for example, but it looks unlikely for example, but it looks unlikely for that to happen any time soon. this is the scene at the old ground, right now. the prospect of any play looks very remote indeed. so, weather it is today or tomorrow, steve smith and jofra archer on the
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right here will surely have a big say in the final result of this test match. the former england international is now part of the test match special team. she says archer's inclusion could be huge for england. you bring so much so the england. you bring so much so the england team, his energy, his confidence, it is incredible to see the amount of confidence he exudes at the age of a. you saw it at this ground a few week ago, when he was happy to take the ball for the super over and won the game for england. soa over and won the game for england. so a fantastic player to have within the group of player, his ability and skill with the red ball. he has spoken about the fact he loves the red ball. he has taken a bucketful of wicket, he will come in to get that ball moving but the pace that he brings and steve smith has admitted that he will pose a threat because of the way he ambles in and it is in yourface, so, really looking forward to that contest in
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particular, but i think it will be a good move to bring him into the side. hopefully we get to see some of the exciting players that will take to field. looking at the weather we might be in for rain and wind in the days ahead. so we will wait to see whether any action happens. itself would be nice for them to get started. the super cup taking place in istanbul, first time it has been contested by two premier league teams and there is another first you will tell us about. yes, the first time two english club also play this match, the past five winners have been from spain but premier league clu bs were been from spain but premier league clubs were all the rage last season in europe. liverpool won the champions league, they beat totte n ha m champions league, they beat tottenham in the final and chelsea beat arsenal to win the europa league. liverpool against chelsea in istanbul later on, there is a bit of history between the two sides in europe over the year, they have had a famous rivalry, it is a match that both teams are taking seriously. it is important as a club like
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chelsea we give everything to win it. it means something. it means something for us, it is another trophy, and for me it would be a really nice start for me, personally but more than that the feeling for the players with the season coming up the players with the season coming up we can compete against liverpool, wina cup up we can compete against liverpool, win a cup that goes down in our history and go on from there. everything is prepared for, the final, obviously, we have to make sure we will be ready for the final, we have to make a few decisions about line ups, yeah, it can unpredictable for the opponent as well because we don't know how they play, why should they know how we play? we will see history made with a female referee taking charge of a major european men's match for the first time: she will be refereeing the final, she refereed the final of the final, she refereed the final of the women's world cup earlier this summerand the women's world cup earlier this summer and she is reffing this match tonight. he is in charge with assistant referees who are both
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female too. duncan taylor will start for scotland for the first time in two years for scotland for the first time in two yea rs in for scotland for the first time in two years in saturday's summer test against france. the saracens player last featured op a 2017 summer tour against fiji after injuries limited his club appearance overs the past two seasons. fellow centre rory hutchinson and lock scott cummings could make their senior debuts as replacements in the first of two match against france. the return is at murrayfield the following saturday. that is all the sport for now. it's a sight parents are all too familiar with — teenagers hunched over their mobile phones. and, with nine out of ten of them regularly using social media, it's led to concerns about the impact that's having on youngsters‘ well—being. but new research published in the medicaljournal, the lancet, suggests social media itself may not be harmful. it found mental health problems were more likely to result from youngsters missing out on sleep
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and exercise, because they were spending too much time on the internet. sophie hutchinson reports. nine out of ten teenagers use it to connect with friends according to the report. the study published in la ncet the report. the study published in lancet tracked my lord than 12,00013—16—year—olds over three year, it found 5 % of bows and a3% of boys used social media more than three times a day. those teenagers had poorer mental health and greater psychological distress. by year 11, girls were more likely to be be less happy and more anxious. but experts say it is not necessarily the amount of time spent using social media that matters. if girls get enough sleep and not cyber bullied they get enough fiscal activity we found no link between the amount of times they are accessing social media. and their mental health or wellbeing.
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13—year—old trinity said she check hers phone round five times a day. but she says it can make her feel a bit low. i try to stay off it, so when i do like, when i have and i have realised it will be like, that was oh, why did i do that? i don't feel great about myself because i feel great about myself because i feel like i don't have any will power when i'm on it. how hard is it to police it and to make sure that your kids are not spending too much time on social media? when they were younger it was easier and you knew which channels they were watching, but, you, she is pretty good, her sister tends to stay up very late doing all sorts of things on social media and facetiming and things, but it can be very difficult to police without being really into their personal business. but as lodge as teenagers are getting the exercise they need, good sleep, and are not being bullied
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online, experts say parents don't need to worry about the time spent on social media. this week marks 50 years since widespread violence broke out in northern ireland. the conflict — which became known as ‘the troubles‘ — lasted for three decades — with more than 3000 people killed. northern ireland now has a high rate of mental illness, attributed in part to the trauma of those affected — and researchers are warning that children are now inheriting the stress suffered by the older generation. our ireland correspondent, chris page, has been bomb blast. half a century ago life in northern ireland took on a grim new abnormality. shootings, bombings and riots became routine. the dreadful rhythm of murders and maimings continued for 30 years. while the conflict can feel a long way in the past, the legacy of trauma is very present.
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denise mullen is one of thousands of people living with it. loyalist gunmen attacked her parents at theirfamily home in 1975. her father dennis was killed. denise was just four. i can see my mother going out through the kitchen window. i can remember going back up the hallway and standing at the side of the cot looking at my brother, he was 13 months at the time. i then went back and sat with my father, which we now know was for over two hours. and i was covered, my nightdress was covered in his blood. she has a form of post—traumatic stress disorder which means a certain smell brings back memories, suddenly, and terribly. once that smell comes over me it‘s like taking a panic attack. i take the shakes, my legs become weak. my mind, just everything becomes a blank. and until that passes, now it can pass within a few seconds, it can pass within a few minutes, but for the rest of the day
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you‘d would just think you were beaten black and blue. mental health is a much more public issue now than it was during the decades of violence. members of the emergency services regularly witnessed appalling scenes, but weren‘t offered official help. bob pollock remembers what happened after he and some fellow firefighters were caught up in a bomb. as we were getting to the station one of the dos, one of the senior officers said, "right, into the officers‘ mess." and he poured us all a brandy and said, "drink that and then go home." that was it. and the boys were back on duty within three or four days. the lack of support at the time partly explains why the psychological impact has only been revealed in recent years. researchers have found 39% of people in northern ireland experienced a traumatic event during the troubles. at least 1a% have mental health difficulties linked to the conflict. post—traumatic stress disorder is particularly common, almost 9% have definitive
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signs of the condition. and experts are concerned about what‘s called transgenerational trauma, the effect on the children of today. it‘s about the parents‘ own mental health, it‘s about the community that that child is raised in. it‘s also about the legacy of the conflict in communities. so we have communities that are affected by unemployment, there‘s drug use, there‘s low levels of educational attainment. and all of these things come together to create an environment that can be quite toxic for a child. northern ireland has the highest rate of mental health problems and indeed suicides in the uk. but it also has proportionally lower levels of funding for mental health. the haunted history of this place is still posing huge challenges for its future. the survivors who have chosen to talk about their grief often didn‘t do so for a long time. many have just recently tried to seek out counselling, like denise mullen. it sometimes pains me to go.
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"oh gosh, i have to go here again." but i know that i have to continue with it because i don‘t want in 20 or 30 years or less, even, to hit the wall. chris page with that report. labour has outlined proposals that would see universities offer places after exam results rather than the current system, which is based on predicted grades. the party says that one report found just 16 % of predicted grades were correct. their proposals would also end the use of unconditional offers. but universities say changes would be complex. (read but universities say changes would be complex. let‘s talk to carl cullinane now — he is head of research at the sutton trust, a charity that seeks to address educational disadvantage and improve social mobility. why is an overhaul necessary? so, as you say, a huge proportion of
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predicted grades are turn out to be incorrect, it is a real, it is not the right basis to base an admissions system on, and the uk is an outliar it is the only country where the university admission system relies on predicted grades. that is for good reason, because having your grades under or over predicted both outcomes are negative for students, because ultimately university choice is about informed choice and if both universities and stu d e nts choice and if both universities and students are making decisions based on flawed information, that leads to sub optimal outcomes. but the universities are saysth would require changes would affect the school calendar? so there is no doubt that implementing this policy will be complicated and previous labour governments have attempted to implement this and run—in to issues but if the political will is there, moving exams, a few weeks further back or university terms a few weeks
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forward is within the realms of possibility. we really feel this is a, it isa possibility. we really feel this is a, it is a reform that is worth making because theed a mission system, it offers up boundaries to people from disadvantaged backgrounds and something about this system needs to be overhauled. how is it then that the predicted grades are so wrong, so often? a multiplicity of factor, you know, teachers don‘t always have the most accurate perceptions of their students, the performance of stu d e nts students, the performance of students changes over time, so some may overperform in exams or some may kind of slacken off towards the end of school but what we see is this rise in unconditional offers and we are seeing an effect that is having in schools, so a huge proportion of young people are getting uncondition aloffers and that is having an impact in the classroom during the final months of their time in school. that similar kitty paing results and leading to less
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reliability predicted grades. how is it that less 56 fluent students are often predicted lower grades than they get, and the opposite is true for more affluent students? some of this will be a certain type ofster you typing, so, teachers may underestimate the skills of their less afflu e nt underestimate the skills of their less affluent students because maybe they don‘t present in the certain way and their gifts are maybe hidden a bit more. also some may be that such pupils are concentrated in less hiring performing schools, and there isa group hiring performing schools, and there is a group of high performing schools that are very ambitious in terms of their students and university application, and teachers kind of behave you know, accordingly to that, so if you go to a less advantaged school, with teachers that are less focussed on getting stu d e nts that are less focussed on getting students into the best universities they may result in lower from
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edicted grades for potential students. thank you for talking to us. first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. borisjohnson says mps who want to block no—deal are mistaken. the former chancellor disagrees. investigators conclude footballer emiliano sala and his pilot david ibbotson were exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide in the cockpit when it crashed in the channel injanuary. desperately wanting answers — the parents of teenager nora quoirin, whose body was found in malaysia, await the results of a postmortem examination. here‘s your business headlines on afternoon live. prices went up 2.1% in the year tojuly according to the office
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for national statistics. that‘s using the consumer price index. the ons says the rise is due to computer games, consoles and hotel prices going up more than they did last year. the alternative measure, the retail price index, went up 2.8% — this is the figure used to set rail fare increases. firstgroup and trenitalia has won contract to run west coast mainline from eight december this year. it will initially operate the existing west coast services and from march 2026 take on the new hs2 services until march 2031. the new partnership replaces virgin trains which was banned from bidding in a row over pensions. tv ads from us food giant mondelez and german car—maker volkswagen are the first to be banned under new uk gender stereotyping rules. a ban on ads featuring "harmful gender stereotypes" came into force injune. the advert for philadelphia cheese showed two fathers leaving a baby on a restaurant conveyor belt. the other, a vw ad, showed men being adventurous as a woman sat by a pram.
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we are talking about the cost of living, which at the moment is pretty high for so many people. yes, these figures out today measure the rising cost of living and prices — as measured by the consumer price index — are rising at 2.1% — according to the office for national statistics. that means prices are going up more slowly than wages — meaning a real terms pay boost. the alternative measure — the retail prices index — is used to determine price rises for rail tickets stands at 2.8%. what does this mean for interest rates? the bank of england seems reluctant to move rates given what we‘re
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seeing with earnings and inflation. i spoke azad zangana from schroders about what this all means for interest rates and the bank of england. you have to take into account not only inflation, but also the direction of future inflation, but also the direction of future inflation, which at the moment doesn‘t look particularly worrisome, especially as the economy has just recently contracted, i think the bank of england will remain cautious for some time, and look to try to raise interest rates perhaps after a successful brexit. we are going to plymouth for a second, where we are hoping to see the swedish climate change act visit greta thunberg, she is about to get onboard this 60 foot yacht which will take her to the united states. we heard her speaking to a group of reporters very keen to get that last interview with her before shetlands often on what will be a carbon zero journey. this is how she has chosen
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to travel to the united states, where she is cue to address a un climate change summit in september, in new york. she is not in a hurry, are they... i wouldn‘t be getting on are they... i wouldn‘t be getting on a rush either. we will go back to that in a minute when we see them on the gangplank or however you get on. i get seasick quickly and easily so it wouldn‘t be the kind of thing i would want to do. however. the bucket they have to got. ok, listen, let us talk about new york. this thatis let us talk about new york. this that is where she is heading. plenty going on in the markets. us markets are looking a bit dicey. signs from the us bond market that a recession cld be on the horizon for the world‘s biggest economy. let‘s cross live to us and samira hussein.
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samira is in new york. talk us there what the markets are worried about right now. well, certainly we have seen a pretty swift reaction from investors here in new york, we see the dowjones has fallen right now it is some a15 point, one point it was a50 and what investors are concerned about is as you pointed out, the bond market. and what this bond market is indicating is that if you invest in a ten year bond, you are not going to make as much money as you would ina to make as much money as you would in a two—year bond. and what that really indicates, is that the long—term bet on the us economy is not as certain as the short—term bet. what that really indicates is the higher pore ten shall for recession, that is why everyone here is so worried and that is eye you are seeing this massive sell off happening. before you go let us ask you about maisie, it is a department
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store that all of news the uk or many of us know about. it is very famous, —— macy‘s. it is having issue, talk us through it. yes, macy‘s has been hammered, their stock price opened 17% lower and it is because they reported iranings and the earnings weren‘t very good. macy‘s is another one of those retailers that is struggling to ain‘t this this rapidly changing environment where people do a lot more online shopping and they don‘t go to stores like macy‘s that carries all the brands. a lot of shoppers go to those individual brands to get what they need. so mace psis is struggling to find its footing in this retail environment. —— mace psis. footing in this retail environment. -- mace psis. thank you. -- macy's. let us be quick and go back to plymouth before we lose sight of her t there is plymouth before we lose sight of her tthere is greta thunberg on this little launch that is taking her
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just over the water to this yacht she is going to get onboard, injust one second. 60 foot yacht. our correspondentjustin is there. i hope he can hear me. he is waving.” can hear you, greta has boarded the rig that will take her out to the malizia, this magnificent racing yacht you can see out there. greta is in the smaller rib to the right here. it is completely electric powered. they want to make sure to o emit as little carbon as possible. the other two rib, fellow members of the media who are making sure they get good shots of this transfer, she will transfer on the malizia and from here, they will make their way to the break water, the opening of plymouth sound and from there they will open up the sails and sail off on this transatlantic voyage. this
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momentous voyage, on this transatlantic voyage. this momentous voyage, it is fair to say, because this is, this is the world‘s kind of most celebrated climate campaigner setting off to this crucial series of conferences in america. there was a very interesting question at the press conference somebody said to you think you can persuade donald trump, someone who has been reluctant to accept the science, she was very modest, she said i am not that special, i don‘t think i will be able to change his mind. but, as i think the sentiment was, if anybody can, greta can, so as you can see now, she is up against the side of the malizia ii. this 60 foot racing yacht, our fellowjournalists are obscuring the view but she is boarding the yacht. everything she needs she has stowed onboard. they have freeze—dried food. it is a very unglamorous start. they will have a
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camp cooker to heat it up. very spartan conditions onboard. no shower, no toilet, no kitchen, no fridge, no heating, a bunk bed but you winch up to pin yourself to the side of the hull, in order to stop yourself fulling out of bed as the boat crashes through the waves. it isa boat crashes through the waves. it is a really exciting sail, but whether you want to be living at that level of excitement for two week, remember it is 2a hours a day. i would like to draw your attention to the symbolic nature of regret the‘s decision to leave from here, but from here, in plymouth, plymouth of course in 1620 was where the founding father, the pilgrims left in the mayflower, this is called the mayflower dock, they left 399 years ago, there is a symbolic value to that. there is another important moment, let us go back to greta. she is on board now. there is another
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important moment for greta which is on the 20th august, she celebrates the first anniversary, just one year since the first climate strike, when she went out, i don‘t know if viewers remember, she sat in front of the swedish parliament building and powerful image, this one small girl, sitting alone with her climate strike poster in front of her and became an emblem for the world of the challenge of tackling climate change. she now has boarded the boat. you can see her in the cockpit at the back. boris said they need to get out before they can put the sails out. the malizia ii is like a thoroughbred racehorse, she is amazing in the wind and in the water, but she is an unwield diin tight environments like this you need to sail past, you can see the headland, that is call royal williams yard, if we put the camera
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there, they sail from the point of land to the right. past the yard which is the old naval dockyard. there is an island round the corner they call the point she is going to sail, devils point. there is a huge break water at the opening of plymouth sound. there is a fort there, she will sail out the break water, that is where they took us on monday, on the boat, they took us out to the break water, when you get beyond there you get bigger waves and more wind. it is exposed to the atlantic, and that is when the boat will really come into her own, they will really come into her own, they will put the sails up and they will open it up. i tell you one of the interesting things having been on the boat is boris her man the skipper of the boat, he loves the speed the boat goes and he enjoys sailing that boat. i am sure he will be delighted to get away from the clamour and be delighted to get away from the clamourand tum be delighted to get away from the clamour and turn multi—of the press conference, all us journalists
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buzzing round trying to get attention, i am sure they will be delighted. they will breathe a sigh of relief as the boat races off into the ocean. so there they are manoeuvring out. ask me some questions if you have any. are you haven‘t spoken for five minutes. questions if you have any. are you haven't spoken for five minutes.” can put my feet up. a huge amount of interest in greta thunberg. let mejust let me just interrupt you, sorry, come back to me again, i‘m sorry! the sale is being put up now for the first time, so that‘s the main sale going up, and obviously soon it will catch the wind and you will see how the boat kind of springs into action. it‘s almost like a kind of animal, i compared it to a racehorse, it‘s really kind of skittish and when the wind gets in the sale is it really leaps forward.
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they have to be quite careful because this is a restricted space for such a big yacht. i interrupted your question. i can't even remember what it was, no, really. just incredible what she has achieved in a year, when you think, as you say, she started on august 20 last year outside the swedish parliament building, and how her call for action has spread amongst young people around the world. and that was really interesting in the press conference, because she was asked about that and whether people were listening to her message more, and she acknowledged she thinks they are, and! she acknowledged she thinks they are, and i think that is true. she has become this really powerful kind of emblem of the urgency of taking action. that is something echoed, what she does, she echoed it in her interviews, she said all i have done is read the science, i have read what the scientists are telling us about what is happening to our world andi about what is happening to our world and i am only communicating what they say about the urgency. but as
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you say she has become this incredible kind of emblem, poster child, if you like, of climate change. she feels as if she is being listened to. she has the feedback, she has a million followers on instagram, she gets feedback, she feels as if she is being heard but she makes the point which is really the absolutely crucial point for all of us, carbon emissions are continuing to increase. if i‘m right off the top of my head i think it was 2.7% last year they went up. so despite the efforts of people like greta thunberg and the efforts of the scientist to raise the profile of this issue, we are not doing enough to tackle it, that is why she made this point again in the press conference, she was asked why not it by video link? she said itjust doesn‘t have the same impact, you can see what she means. this is a hugely charismatic gesture by her to ta ke hugely charismatic gesture by her to take this incredible sailing ship and take it across the atlantic. it speaks to the world of the urgency
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and said something really interesting about the nature of the challenge. it says this doesn‘t have to be boring and kind of yoghurt weaving, it can be a glamorous exercise as well. this boat is the absolute peak of maritime engineering, hydrofoil is lifted out of the water when it catches the wind above about 30 knots to minimise drag. what she is saying by doing this, look, tackling climate change doesn‘t have to be all about giving stuff up, it can be about new opportunities, and that is why i think she felt it was such a good marriage, to use a metaphor, marriage, to use a metaphor, marriage between her and the boat taking her to new york. it looks very sleek, very elegant but inside it is pretty spartan. are you test out that bunk bed, justin, rather snug when you put it into position, isn‘t it? snug when you put it into position, isn't it? it is very cosy, it kind of squeezes you in. it is really a physical experience being on that boat, you really get knocked around.
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isaid boat, you really get knocked around. i said how it is muscular, it essentially is this superlight carbon fibre hull with a massive sale attached and it bangs like a drum against the waves, really very noisy. so she cannot expect to get a huge amount of sleep and also she can expect to get very wet, because as these world picks up, and barrister skipper tommy above about a metre or two metres of swirl, the boat just carves its a metre or two metres of swirl, the boatjust carves its way through it, and the water careens over the top and the water careens over the top and into the cockpit behind. i can‘t tell you, it is a very uncomfortable way to get across the atlantic. two weeks remember, 1a days. way to get across the atlantic. two weeks remember, 14 days. we talk a lot about single—use plastic, don‘t we? there is a piece of plastic on board that will get more than one use, a blue bucket. tell us about that. the bright blue bucket, boris was quite delighted, boris the skipper, he was quite delighted to
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show me the cruise only bracket. the truth is if you are on a sailing ship like that come you don‘t need a toilet. when they set sail they probably don‘t even use the bucket, to be honest, and that has to be the sensible way to dispose of your waste. but again it speaks of the privations that greta will suffer. i said, are you worried about how uncomfortable it would be, and she grinned slightly, she smiled, she has honestly thought hard about this, but it was clear that actually she is quite looking forward to it, both to get away from all the noise and craziness her life has been in the last year, but also i think to spend some time, she said, just want to be in the isolation of the ocean, just with the other people on board, so she is there with her father, boris the skipper, a guy called pierre, who is prince of monaco, whose family own the boat, and a film—maker, a guy called nathan, who will be with them. i think she is looking forward to that sense of isolation that i have never been on
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the atlantic, i have never done it, but apparently you get when you sit out on the ocean, surrounded by the sea, you get a visceral sense of how small you are in the world. she is looking forward to the spiritual aspects as well as the practical carbon saving aspects. she has this really important speech, it is world leaders. she said it will give me some time to think about what i‘m going to say. the cameraman is just drawing my attention to the fact the sale is now almost entirely up, not com pletely sale is now almost entirely up, not completely up, they have probably kept it failed because they said it really is ha rd kept it failed because they said it really is hard to control the boat. it is so fast, they need to keep it going slowly. you will see they have only got the main sail up, they have got one of the jibs up. when the jibs go up you could bring up about two thirds more sail area so it will be even faster. the plan is to sail around here, still surrounded by the little boats, it will come past us
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here, it was raining here in the morning will come here out beyond prince william‘s yard, the old naval dockyard, the prince william‘s yard, the old naval dockya rd, the island prince william‘s yard, the old naval dockyard, the island here, devils point, romantically named, and the bbc has positioned cameras strategically along, so we should get some wonderful pictures as the boat sails past us here. you didn't leave me at all. justin, thank you very much. i think you should get on board and go with them.” very much. i think you should get on board and go with them. i offered myself, i said to boris i will do that if you want me to. and he turned you down. but we‘ve got you. a fabulous view of that yacht as it sets off with greta thunberg on
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board, setting sail for new york. a report has revealed that the footballer emiliano sala and his pilot david ibbotson were exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide in the cockpit of their private plane when it crashed in the english channel in january. let‘s get more from our correspondent in cardiff tomos morgan. tell us more about this report. as you mentioned, the investigation by the air accident investigation branch has been ongoing for some time now, and today we have had a special bulletin release that seems to show the toxicology tests on emiliano sala‘s body show that the level of carbon monoxide was so great that it could have caused a seizure, unconsciousness or a heart attack. they also say they believe david ibbotson would also likely would have been suffering from exposure to the gas, and that could have meant, it could have inhibited his ability to fly the plane, depending on the level of exposure that he would have had to that gas.
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now, usually, they say that a level of around 50% of the gas in an individual could generally be potentially fatal, they felt there was a level of around 58% in emiliano sala‘s body back then. now, if you remember, the plane carrying david ibbotson the pilot and the argentine footballer emiliano sala went missing back injanuary when they were transporting the footballer from his former club na ntes footballer from his former club nantes on two cardiff, one evening. it went down over the channel and took over two weeks for the wreckage took over two weeks for the wreckage to be found and a further week again before emiliano sala‘s body could be recovered from the wreckage. the wreckage itself has not been recovered, and responding to this news today the family of the argentinian have again called on the aaib to pull the wreckage from the water, so a full investigation of the plane can take place so they can
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fully understand what happened to the two individuals when that plane crashed back injanuary. the aaib says that this new line of enquiry has helped some parts of the investigation. they will continue to look into how exactly the gas was able to penetrate the cockpit of the plane, they have also now advising pilots to install carbon monoxide monitors so that pilots can be alerted to any potential deadly threat in the future. do they know where this gas would have come from, why the levels were so high? no, it has been seven months since the tragedy happened on this will now be clearly one of the main lines of enquiry for the aaib. they say they will have to try and find out exactly how the gas has managed to go from the turbines into the cockpit itself into the piper malibu aircraft when it was transporting the footballer from france to south wales back injanuary. it has been a very long process. only the
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argentinian cosmic body that has been recovered from the the pilot‘s body david ibbotson yet to be found. asi body david ibbotson yet to be found. as i mentioned, the aaib have not pulled the plane itself from the water, because of dangers it could u nsettle water, because of dangers it could unsettle things, and discussion is also about the costs. it was a huge investigation to try to find the plane back injanuary. over 1000 square miles of water, trying to find that wreckage and after two and a half weeks it was found but now the investigation continues, the inquest still hasn‘t started and there are several more questions to be answered as to what led to this tragedy back at the beginning of the year. thomas, thank you for the moment in cardiff. the prime minister has hit back at mps seeking to block a no—deal brexit, accusing them of engaging in a "terrible collaboration" with the eu. borisjohnson said the more eu
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leaders thought parliament could stop britain leaving without a deal, the less likely they were to compromise. the former chancellor, philip hammond, has accused the prime minister of trying to wreck any chance of a new brexit deal, by making demands brussels could never accept. our political correspondent, nick eardley, reports. battle lines are being drawn for the latest brexit showdown, and the key players are getting their lines ready. a prime minister adamant we are leaving the eu at the end of october, deal or no deal. a former chancellor who says no—deal would be a disaster and it is not what people voted for. leaving the eu without a deal would bejust as much a betrayal of the referendum result as not leaving at all. the british people were offered a proposition that we could leave the european union while having a close relationship, they were told it would be the easiest deal ever done, and all the evidence points to people wanting to maintain a close trading relationship. some tory mps are worried
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that the strategy in here is making no—deal more likely. they blame people like dominic cummings, boris johnson‘s key adviser, for demanding too much from europe. pivoting to say that the backstop has to go, in its entirety, a huge chunk of the withdrawal agreement just scrapped, is effectively a wrecking tactic. the people behind this know that that means there will be no deal. some in government are furious. one source accused mr hammond of doing europe‘s bidding for them. the prime minister accused some in parliament of collaborating with europe. the fact we are in the situation we are in, the fact that we missed the deadline shows that mr hammond wasn't very effective at preparing us for no deal, he wasn't getting the country in ship shape. i have no idea what his motivations
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are, but i do know that when he was chancellor, our policy was that no deal was better than a bad deal. government preparations go on, ministers met again to discuss getting ready for exit day. but many mps are discussing their own strategies too, how to block the government if it does try to leave without ideal. the speaker of the house of commons, john bercow, has said he will fight any attempt to lock them out. he told an audience in edinburgh, parliament will be heard and nobody is going to get away, as far as i am concerned, with stopping that happening. it sets the scene for what could be the most important brexit tussle yet three years on from the referendum, senior politicians are still split. soon, though, a decision will have to be made.
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our political correspondent, tony bonsignore is at westminster. once again it pits conservative against conservative. yes, blue on blue. borisjohnson against conservative. yes, blue on blue. boris johnson has against conservative. yes, blue on blue. borisjohnson has said that people are bored of hearing tories argue with each other but we have it again today. it has been weak since borisjohnson sat out again today. it has been weak since boris johnson sat out the again today. it has been weak since borisjohnson sat out the crucial parts of his brexit strategy, leave come what may october 31, and crucially his insistence the northern ireland backstop, this insurance policy designed to ensure no hardboard on the island of ireland, that has to go altogether, because he says it has been rejected by parliament, you just can‘t be there. since then i think mps have been trying to get to what this really, really means and what their position should be on that, that‘s what started to see emerge today in a big way. what philip hammond said ina times a big way. what philip hammond said in a times newspaper column this morning and with an interview with the bbc, he ripped apart the strategy. as far as he is concerned, it isa strategy. as far as he is concerned, it is a betrayal of the 2016 referendum because nobody he said
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talked about that at the time. he said it would lead to a diminished england, an inward —looking england if we were to leave with no deal, and crucially he argues boris johnson is setting himself up to fail because this is something the eu cannot agree to, literally for no other reason than time, even if they wa nted other reason than time, even if they wanted to, given how little time we have before october 31. in the last couple of hours, in this facebook event that downing street organised and controlled as well, boris johnson has fought back. he says this isn‘t right, a complete misinterpretation, and he really has again pulled absolutely no punches. he says there is a terrible collaboration between europe and those in parliament, people like philip hammond, who want to block a no—deal brexit, and he says it is hampering his chances of getting a deal, because he says while europe thinks that no deal will be blocked in parliament, he won‘t give any ground. they will stick to every,
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every. about where the battle lines are being drawn. all mine is now moving to september, parliament returning, and there will be an almighty battle. we are now starting to see the shape of that battle when it comes. thank you very much indeed. a postmortem examination is under way in malaysia to try to establish how a teenager from london died, during a family holiday. the body of nora quoirin, who was 15, was found yesterday — ten days after she went missing from a jungle resort. her family have released a statement thanking the hundreds of people who‘d been searching the area. our reporter, howard johnson, sent this report. a senior pathologist arrived at the hospital in seremban this morning to begin a postmortem examination of nora‘s body. she was found by a group of volunteer hikers around a mile away from the dusun resort, from where she went missing. according to police, her unclothed body was found beside a stream in a hilly area of a palm—oil plantation.
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the area had previously been scoured by malaysian search and rescue workers. of course, this is a very highly traumatic situation. it‘s the loss of a daughter and child, and naturally the traumatic levels are very high. it so difficult to describe, but they‘re really distraught in grief, yeah? and i feel the same, to lose a child, yeah, it‘s terrible. the teenager, who lived with her parents in london, had been missing for ten days. nora quoirin‘s family first alerted the authorities to her disappearance the morning after they‘d checked into the resort for a two—week holiday. nora‘s father, sebastien, discovered her bed empty and a downstairs window open. the family have always insisted, given nora‘s learning difficulties, it is very unlikely she would have walked off alone. the it‘s been a long and frustrating day for people waiting to find out the cause of death of nora. what we found out today
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is that the senior pathologist studying the body has spent at least eight hours. we are expecting to find out more details shortly in a police press conference. the malaysian police have always treated nora‘s disappearance as a missing—persons case. in a statement released to the media today, the quoirin family said nora had brought people together from france, ireland, britain and malaysia, united in their love and support for her — "she has truly touched the whole world." howard johnson, bbc news, malaysia. let‘s ta ke let‘s take you to hong kong again. we understand police have fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters who gathered outside a police station in the residential area in kowloon. these are the live pictures. according to colleagues at the
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reuters news agency, reuters photographers and tv journalists reuters news agency, reuters photographers and tvjournalists at the scene, they saw police shoot several rounds of tear gas with very little warning at the demonstrators, and they‘ve been shining laser beams at the police station, and reportedly burning joss papers on the side of the road. we have seen the side of the road. we have seen the demonstrators using these laser beams in various different places where they have gathered. the protests of course yesterday were largely focused on the airport, but certainly temporary security measures, extra measures, have been brought in, which has allowed flights to resume. we are now entering the 11th week of these demonstrations. to begin with, they we re demonstrations. to begin with, they were really confined to the weekends but now we have seen that during weekdays as well the protests have continued, increasingly violent at
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times, meaning that the hong kong territory is facing a very serious political crisis and also posing a real challenge to the central government in beijing. earlier, hong kong police condemned hong kong police have condemned pro—democracy activists for detaining two people during protests at the territory‘s airport. the police said the captives — one a journalist from mainland china — were tied up, assaulted and humiliated. beijing has stepped up its criticism of the protesters. our china correspondent, stephen mcdonell, is in hong kong. a little earlier, our china correspondent stephen mcdonnell joined us from hong kong with the latest. although there now would only be a handful of prodemocracy activists inside the airport, these new security measures have effectively put an end to the possibility of having these rallies inside the terminal, at least. that‘s because now you need to have a passport and a travel itinerary in order to get access to the building. those few protesters who are down on the arrivals level, once they leave, they won‘t be able to get back in again, and so the protest movement, the pro—democracy movement won‘t be able to refill their ranks.
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now it doesn‘t mean in theory you couldn‘t have a protest outside the building, but even without this new security in place, many activists have decided not to return to the airport today after those shocking scenes we saw last night, violent clashes, including one at one point a policeman having his truncheon removed, and he was bashed by militant pro—democracy protestors. he pulled out his service revolver, and they fled. i think scenes like that have shocked people, even within the pro—democracy movement, and they have had to try and recalibrate their strategy in order to get people, the general public, back on side. the advertising standards authority has banned two adverts, which it said broke a new rule designed to prevent harmful gender stereotypes. around 130 viewers complained about an ad for philadelphia soft cheese, and three people contacted
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the asa about a volkswagen advert. i am joined by the head of policy at the fawcett society, ella smillie. thank you very much forjoining us. what was wrong with these, as in your view. where this all comes from really is the understanding that is based on lots of academic evidence that gender stereotypes really are not acceptable, in the way people are enforcing perceptions about how people should look and behave because of their gender, and what those assumptions lead to is all the kind of real—world inequalities and harm we see around us in society all the time, things that we are trying to tackle, like the gender pay gap, lack of quality in government, all of those things are really driven by gender stereotypes, which tellers people should look or behave a certain way because of their gender. the asa has done is it seeks to draw
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a line to understand where a stereotype becomes harmful in an ad, and the new guideline shows where they are going to be drawing the line on that. how much of this is very subjective, because surely we recognise that in an advert, which is usually quite short, this is a short—handed way of telling a story, it is just short—handed way of telling a story, it isjust a short—handed way of telling a story, it is just a hook. short—handed way of telling a story, it isjust a hook. sure, and that is something the asa is very aware of and the guidance it is using to reinforce the interpretation of its rule is very much grounded in the evidence i have just rule is very much grounded in the evidence i havejust mentioned rule is very much grounded in the evidence i have just mentioned to try to understand where that line should be drawn. for example with the ad that features the woman next to the pram, the asa is not saying by any stretch of the imagination you can never show a woman by any stretch of the imagination you can never show a woman with a pram in an ad. the specific problems you have a group of people and it is the men who are performing the kind of adventurous, challenging tasks and then the only women in the ad, there are two, one of them asleep, one of them sitting next to a pram. it is not the woman with the pram in
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and of itself, it is that it is being juxtaposed with these depictions of men being adventurous while the women are being very passive. but won't it mean, though, there is a sort of chilling effect on creativity? an ad agency might think, we have looked at this, we have seen this band, we mustn‘t go anywhere near this ever again? the asa when it introduced its new rule also introduced guidance which is really detailed which does set out the kind of scenario is likely to breach that rule and the kind of rulings we have seen today reflect that. it is also interesting to note the asa has published a ruling today which is around an ad that features three people, one woman, who is a ballet dancer and two men, a rower and a drummer. the asa looked at that and although on the face of it they are gender stereotypes, the asa did not ban that ad because the way those stories were presented really demonstrated that the ballet dancer was pushing herself to her limits
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and that she was really strong and empowered. so actually they did not ban those ads and i think it is really good example of where this rule is being used to make a differentjudgment call on each individual case. thank you very much for talking to us. thank you. now it is time for a look at the weather forecast, and stav hasjoined us. taking you to japan, forecast, and stav hasjoined us. taking you tojapan, a forecast, and stav hasjoined us. taking you to japan, a couple of stories going on. the first is heat come a bit of a heatwave going on across the country, in koide in the north of honshu, seeing record—breaking heat, breaking the previous record set back a year ago. again, interestingly, both these records have been occurring just before a tropical storm moves in. because it is scooping up from the south. scooping up this tropical air
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her head a bit. drier airfor a while. sunshine helping to boost those temperatures and then the wind and the rain moves in as well. heat to start with, then flooding rain and strong winds. they have been quite a few problematic storms, haven‘t they? quite a few problematic storms, haven't they? it was a typhoon, still a tropical storm. still packing quite a punch. it will take a track forjapan move into the sea of japan over the next couple of days. this is the third storm we have had in many weeks, very active in the west pacific and pet of the atlantic, which has been very quiet at the moment. we could see up to half a metre of rain over the higher ground of honshu island and the south of japan as the system moves on. it is a big rain maker, probably the winds will ease down a little bit because it is not a typhoon by the time it makes landfall but there
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are red warnings, the japanese net service service have red warnings. quiet in the atlantic because we have seen plumes of dust moving across the sahara across the central atlantic, and what that does, the dry airand the atlantic, and what that does, the dry air and the dust inhibits very big thunderstorms to develop, and it is thunderstorms which develop together that because hurricane is together that because hurricane is to form. but it doesn‘t mean just because it is a quiet start that the hurricane season will be quiet, they are thinking it could be very back ended, where we could see quite a few over the next few months. what does it mean for our weather? at the moment we don‘t have any x tropical storms heading away but you would think that. it doesn‘t feel very summery. wet and fairly windy weather to the country, a ridge of high pressure will be following on behind, a nice day for thursday for many of us and there you will notice those other areas of low pressure there, they will arrive just in time for friday on the weekend
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u nfortu nately. for friday on the weekend unfortunately. for this afternoon, a lot of cloud around, further rain across england and wales, temperatures a little disappointing, the mids and tight teens. the rain tends to clear away from eastern england as we head through the overnight period. it stays wet for the northern isles, temperatures you will notice 11 to 15 degrees, that is warmer, a warmer night than what we have had in the last few night. there will be a few showers around, it will move away, then into the afternoon a much better picture, thanks to that ridge of high pressure. it will be brighter, more sunshine around, lighter winds, very nice afternoon to be out and about, temperatures 19 to 23 degrees, it will feel warmer than what we have had today. unfortunately, a short lived ridge of high pressure, you will notice the next area moves in, a deeperfeature, this one could have some destructive winds and widespread, heavy rains. a mixture of standing water, localised
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flooding in places, because it has been so wet for quite a long time now. we could be looking at 30 to a0 mph, now. we could be looking at 30 to a0 ay now. we could be looking at 30 to a0 mph, may be 50 in exposure around some of the coasts. you can see those mean wind gusts, heavy rain then moves into central and southern areas later on into the afternoon as well, so that stops temperatures getting much above 18 or 19 celsius. scotla nd getting much above 18 or 19 celsius. scotland and northern ireland will see a major sunshine, blustery heavy showers to end the day but it stays very wet friday evening, central and southern parts of england and into wales. that is how it is looking as we look into the weekend. we keep a low pressure with us, it stays windy or even very low pressure with us, it stays windy or even very windy, especially on sunday, and plenty of scattered, heavy showers around but there will be some sunshine in around too, not a complete wash—out. but it is the winds we‘re most concerned about, especially on sunday where we could get gusts of 50 mph, so stay tuned to the forecast, likely to be some disruption for this. that‘s how it‘s looking, you later.
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this is bbc news — our latest headlines. borisjohnson hits back at suggestions that he is deliberately wrecking brexit negotiations with the eu to force a no deal departure. it follows cricitism from the former chancellor. leaving the eu without a deal would bejust as much as betrayal of the referendum result as not leaving at all.
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investigators conclude footballer emiliano sala and his pilot david ibbotson were exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide in the cockpit, when it crashed in the channel injanuary. desperately wanting answers — the parents of teenager nora quoirin, whose body was found in malaysia, await the results of a postmortem examination. teenage activist greta thunberg sets sail for the united states, to join a climate conference. go to hong kong for a moment, let us show you these live pictures, this time from kowloon, where hundreds of protestors have gathered. they were holding a sort of vigil really,
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shining laser beams at the police station, and we are hearing reports from the reuters news agency that the hong kong police who are there in significant numbers fired tear gas at the protestors who gathered outside. it is in the residential area in kowloon, part of the ongoing protest, entering their 11th week. flights have resumed at hong kong international airport where there was a massive gathering of the demonstrators yesterday but temporary extra security measures have been put in place to allow flights to resume. we will keep an eye on what is happening in hong kong. sport now on afternoon live with gavin, and are we any closer to any play at lord‘s? good afternoon. we are still, optimistically, awaiting the start of this 2nd ashes test
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between england and australia. rain has wiped out the first day‘s play so far at lord‘s, but if it does eventually get going — we set to see an exciting player feature for england. joe wilson is at lord‘s for us.... any chance of play happening today? i will give you a one word answer, no. i have several hours of experience of the lords rain today andi experience of the lords rain today and i can say it has reached its heaviest yet. we must remain hopeful, and positive but really the rain has been teasing us, tormenting us because we reached the stage a5 minutes ago when the covers were off, the umpires were happy. we were going to toss the coin and get under way, three o‘clock, that was scheduled for, just before three, well, the rains returned and so we we re well, the rains returned and so we were back to square one. the only meaningful activity we have seen, actually in the ground, is when
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chrisjordan actually in the ground, is when chris jordan presented jofra archer with his test match cap. it was jordan who as barbados heritage who discovered jofra archer and remitted him to english cricket. that may prove to be this summer, a very decisive move. we will see. right now, all i can say is there is one school of thought in international cricket which suggests that every test match should be limited to four days by default, i am guessing that is what we will get today. thank you for that from lord‘s. it‘s the first time two english clubs will play this match, for the first time. the past five winners all from spain, but it was premier league clubs were all the rage last season in europe. liverpool won the champions league — they beat tottenham in the final. chelsea beat arsenal to win the europa league. so it‘s liverpool agains chelsea in istanbul a bit later. there‘s been a bit history between the pair in europe over the years. it‘s a match both sides are taking seriously.
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it is important as a club like chelsea we give everything to try and win it. it means something, it means something to us as another trophy, as the club, for me it would bea trophy, as the club, for me it would be a really nice start for me, personally but more than that, the feeling for the players with the season coming up, we can compete against liverpool, win a cup that our name, that goes down in our history and go on from there. everything is prepared for, final, obviously so we have to make sure we are ready for a final. we is have to make decisions about line ups, stuff like this, yeah, can be kind of unpredictable for the opponent as well, because we don't know how they play, why should they know how we play? duncan taylor will start for scotland for the first time in two years in saturday‘s summer test against france. teh saracens player last featured on a 2017 summer tour against fiji after injuries limited his club appearances over the past two seasons. fellow centre rory hutchinson and lock scott cummings
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could make their senior debuts as replacements in the first of two matches with france. the return is at murrayfield the following saturday. that‘s all the sport for now. i‘ll have more for you in the next hour. it‘s a sight parents are all too familiar with — teenagers hunched over their mobile phones. and, with nine out of ten of them regularly using social media, it‘s led to concerns about the impact that‘s having on youngsters‘ well—being. but new research published in the medicaljournal the lancet suggests social media itself may not be harmful. it found mental health problems were more likely to result from youngsters missing out on sleep and exercise, because they were spending too much time on the internet. sophie hutchinson reports. there are growing concerns about the impact of social media on children — nine out of ten teenagers now use that to connect with friends according to the report today. the study published in the lancet
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tracked more than 12,000 of those aged 13 to 16 over 3 years and found 51% of girls and a3% of boys used social media more than three times a day. those teenagers had poor mental health and greater psychological distress. by year 11 girls were more likely to be less happy and more anxious. but experts say it is not necessarily the amount of time spent using social media that matters. if girls get enough sleep and they‘re not cyber bullied and get on a physical activity we found no link between the amount of times they access social media and the mental health or well—being. 13—year—old trinity bradford said she checks her phone around five times a day but says it can make her a bit low. i try to stay off it so when i have come up when i realise it will be,
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why did i do that and i do not feel great about myself. i feel i do not have any willpower when i‘m on it. her mum claire says it can be hard to monitor. it was a lot easier when they were younger and you knew what channels they were watching. but she is actually pretty good. her sister tends to stay up very late doing all sorts of things on social media and face timing and things. it can be difficult to police without being really into their personal business. but as long as teenagers are getting the exercise they need, good sleep and not being bullied online, experts say that parents do not need to worry about the time spent on social media. labour has outlined proposals that would see universities offer places after exam results rather than the current system, which is based on predicted grades. the party says that one report found just 16 % of predicted
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grades were correct. their proposals would also end the use of unconditional offers. but universities say changes would be complex. thank you very much forjoining us. what do you think of this idea that labour are putting forward ? what do you think of this idea that labour are putting forward? well, it is not a new idea. it is in representing 19,500 leaders of schools and colleges we have talked about before. the principle i think is one to be admired. it‘s a good principle given the number of predicted grades which are wrong. the problem as ever is in the detail, because if you look at this year alone, 2a0,000 young people have applied to university that, i have applied to university that, i have had a whole year to be able to suss out which university they want, to look at funding, think about accommodation, the thought of that between getting your result and the university starting is challenging.
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but labour point to the fact other countries manage it, why can‘t we? but labour point to the fact other countries manage it, why can't we?” think we probably could, but we would need to change things round, so for example, we would probably need to end the teaching of those young people earlier in order the exams can be taken and be marked. that would mean less teaching time. the children who might be more disadvantaged might be the disadvantaged might be the disadvantaged young people, wow would have you to stop teaching before easter, you would need to mick sure in the summer parent, teachers are on stand by to give advice finally about which places they will choose, and university also be scrambling to get accommodation sorted out. it is not impossible but i think we need to remember that the principally needs to play out in a way and universities might need to start later. research shows that predicted grades are unreliable and
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particularly so for students from less afflu e nt particularly so for students from less affluent backgrounds, they are disadvantage. the grades are predicted lower than they are going to achieve, so how can universities and colleges mitigate against? well, you are right. that is a problem. i was an english teacher and still new that my ability to predict wasn‘tn‘t as strong as it should be. that is not surprising given we don‘t set the exam, we don‘t write the marks scheme, we arejudging based on teaching with have done. i would say there is a decision round four years ago made by the education secretary to scrap as—level, what they did at the end of the first year, was to give you an external validation you got a qualification that showed what markers thought you would do. it seems the simplest way of sorting this, not that even would like it would be to have something external right in the middle of the process, so that those young people and the universityings can say i have achieved that rather than predicted
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this. —— universities. achieved that rather than predicted this. -- universities. thank you very much forjoining us. this week marks 50 years since widespread violence broke out in northern ireland. the conflict — which became known as ‘the troubles‘ — lasted for three decades — with more than 3000 people killed. northern ireland now has a high rate of mental illness, attributed in part to the trauma of those affected — and researchers are warning that children are now inheriting the stress suffered by the older generation. our ireland correspondent, chris page, has been speaking to some of those who are still recovering. (tx bomb blast. half a century ago life in northern ireland took on a grim new abnormality. shootings, bombings and riots became routine. the dreadful rhythm of murders and maimings continued for 30 years. while the conflict can feel a long way in the past, the legacy of trauma is very present. denise mullen is one of thousands of people living with it. loyalist gunmen attacked her parents
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at theirfamily home in 1975. her father dennis was killed. denise was just four. i can see my mother going out through the kitchen window. i can remember going back up the hallway and standing at the side of the cot looking at my brother, he was 13 months at the time. i then went back and sat with my father, which we now know was for over two hours. and i was covered, my nightdress was covered in his blood. she has a form of post—traumatic stress disorder which means a certain smell brings back memories, suddenly, and terribly. once that smell comes over me it‘s like taking a panic attack. i take the shakes, my legs become weak. my mind, just everything becomes a blank. and until that passes, now it can pass within a few seconds, it can pass within a few minutes, but for the rest of the day
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you‘d would just think you were beaten black and blue. mental health is a much more public issue now than it was during the decades of violence. members of the emergency services regularly witnessed appalling scenes, but weren‘t offered official help. bob pollock remembers what happened after he and some fellow firefighters were caught up in a bomb. the lack of support at the time partly explains why the psychological impact has only been revealed in recent years. researchers have found 39% of people in northern ireland experienced a traumatic event
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during the troubles. at least 1a% have mental health difficulties linked to the conflict. post—traumatic stress disorder is particularly common, almost 9% have definitive signs of the condition. and experts are concerned about what‘s called transgenerational trauma, the effect on the children of today. it‘s about the parents‘ own mental health, it‘s about the community that that child is raised in. it‘s also about the legacy of the conflict in communities. so we have communities that are affected by unemployment, there‘s drug use, there‘s low levels of educational attainment. and all of these things come together to create an environment that can be quite toxic for a child. northern ireland has the highest rate of mental health problems and indeed suicides in the uk. but it also has proportionally lower levels of funding for mental health. the haunted history of this place is still posing huge challenges for its future. the survivors who have chosen to talk about their grief often didn‘t do so for a long time. many have just recently tried to seek out counselling, like denise mullen.
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it sometimes pains me to go. "oh gosh, i have to go here again." but i know that i have to continue with it because i don‘t want in 20 or 30 years or less, even, to hit the wall. chris page with that report. after recent criticism of the way it handles racism, the football association now says it "has to modernise itself" to be "fit for purpose for the 2lst century." with the number of reports of racism on the increase, the fa says it needs to change from being ‘reactive‘ to ‘proactive‘ in dealing with such complaints — and is introducing a range of new measures aimed at tackling the problem. imran rahman—jones reports. football is back, with all the passion and excitement that comes with it. but one thing that the bosses of the sport are keen to avoid repeating is the spate of alleged
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racist incidents which cast a shadow over last season. some of the high—profile incidents include abuse from chelsea fans against man city‘s raheem sterling. and this, when a banana skin was thrown at arsenal striker pierre—emerick aubameyang as he celebrated a goal against tottenham. the man in charge of inclusion and diversity at the fa wants to make it easierfor people to report abuse and for incidents to be dealt with properly. the aim is to roll out new plans across england and wales, starting at the home of english football, wembley stadium. we are talking about more effective, efficient stewarding, greater visibility for, obviously, the police, signage. what we have never had inside this organisation is a coherent, collective strategy from the touchline throughout the whole organisation into the boardroom. as well as the changes at wembley, the fa is increasing the minimum match ban for anyone found guilty of racist abuse to six matches. it also wants to increase the proportion of ethnic minority people in leadership roles to 11% and to increase the amount of coaches to 20% by 2021. but for every top tier player
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who draws attention to the problem, there are players lower down the pyramid who are still finding they are at the receiving end of abuse, like peterborough united‘s ivan toney. missing a few games, is that really strong enough? i don‘t think so. whereas missing, not being able to attend a football match again, and people seeing that and thinking, "right, that‘s going to happen if i do that, so i can‘t be doing that." while the fa is pledging to improve the way it handles abuse at matches, it has been criticised for the way it has previously dealt with allegations of racism at other levels within the industry. eni aluko hasn‘t played for england since she accused then manager mark sampson of racism in 2016. she received an apology from the fa following an investigation, but she says more needs to be done to make sure bodies like the fa keep their promises. this needs to be as big as financial fair play or other
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things on the agenda, like corruption in sport, because it fundamentally, you know, brings into disrepute the integrity of the sport. no room for racism... kick it out has worked with players to raise awareness about racism in the sport, but says there needs to be better communication between footballing bodies. imran rahman—jones, bbc news. in a moment the latest business news. first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. borisjohnson accuses mps who want to block brexit of engaging in what he called a "terrible" collaboration with the eu — it comes after the former chancellor, philip hammond, accused him of trying to wreck the chances of reaching a new brexit agreement. investigators conclude footballer emiliano sala and his pilot david ibbotson were exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide in the cockpit when it crashed in the channel injanuary. teenage activist greta thunberg sets sail for the united states, to join a climate conference.
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here‘s your business headlines on afternoon live. prices went up 2.1% in the year tojuly according to the office for national statistics. that‘s using the consumer price index. the ons says the rise is due to computer games, consoles and hotel prices going up more than they did last year. the alternative measure, the retail price index, went up 2.8% — this is the figure used to set rail fare increases. firstgroup and trenitalia has won the contract to run west coast mainline from eight december this year. it will initially operate the existing west coast services and from march 2026 take on the new hs2 services until march 2031. the new partnership replaces virgin trains which was banned from bidding in a row over pensions. ies can i hope all the people who have
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received their btec results have got the results they want. we are covering this today because we cover a—level result, gcse result, btec results affect thousands. just under 250,000 students results affect thousands. just under 250 , 000 students completed results affect thousands. just under 250,000 students completed them in 2019. i had no idea. it is a huge number, you are covering things like the car maintenance health care, completing, engineering, these are important subjects, the problem though has been the colleges where these happen have been underfunded for many year, let us talk tojoe meyer who is principle at boston college. talk me through why btecs are so important? they are critical because they drive the skill feast for the economy, and an industry are telling us the skill shortages particularly with brexit, we don‘t know what is going to happen but irrespective of what happens we know that industry requires a huge propitiation of skilled labour to drive the economy forward. what types of jobs drive the economy forward. what
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types ofjobs do you think the stu d e nts types ofjobs do you think the students go into, and do you think that employers are doing enough to promote vocational courses? employers are clear that btecs are right for them, and we prepare young people to leave college notjust with a certificate but with the competency, knowledge and behaviours they need to uk is seed in the world of work. btecs are critical because they are assessed in the same way as you would at work, with a btec you have real practical elements of on thejob train, and we are preparing young people for pathways across engineering, business, science, nursing so there are so many exit routes for them. further education colleges have been facing funds cuts haven‘t they. colleges have been facing funds cuts haven't they. yes, we faced a 3096 funding cut in ten years and as a result we are struggling nationally to invest in specialist and world class facilities we need to drive that talent forward. that is what
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employers say the gap is. so what needs to be done? we hope the pm and chancellor needs to be done? we hope the pm and cha ncellor follows needs to be done? we hope the pm and chancellor follows through to prioritise further education funding and the association of colleges are backing a call for a student up lift nationally. thank you very much indeed. soa so a big week for students. britain is experiencing a cauliflower shortage after extreme weather killed off much of this year‘s crops. heavy rainfall injune destroyed crops in lincolnshire, and some farmers have suffered financial losses after the destruction of their crops. let‘s talk to professor christopher atkinson now, from the natural resources institute at the university of greenwich. professor at the university of greenwich. atkinson, we have keeping professor atkinson, we have been keeping you waiting a while. i am so
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grateful for you bearing with us while we got to you. how often these days will farmer choose one crop over anything else? that is a good question. i think generally, farming is much more of a sort of specialised operation than it was perhaps 100 years ago and diversity casing was much more imminent. now, we see much more specialism and you have to consider the people are growing call flowers and brassica in general in places like lincolnshire because they is the best place to grow them. and you look at the records and they clearly say that this is the one crop in the uk that really is suited to the uk climate. and yet as we have seen, they have really struggled this year because of the weather. so how in future might farmers choices have to change
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to melt gate against the exposure they will face to changing weather. —— mitigate. they will face to changing weather. -- mitigate. that is of course the big question. and one of the things that climate change brings with it is the level of unpredictability, and we don‘t really know how often these sorts of climatic events will happen, and it is very difficult to actually manage that sort of occurrence, on a real economic scale. i mean clearly, farmers you might think could diversify, and grow different products, different crops, in their environment, but that tends to make them much more inefficient, so there are longer term solutions, but in the short—term, it becomes rather more challenging. how then, how realistic is it to start to grow varieties of
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particular vegetables, and fruit, which can with stand the extremes? well, i think if we know that these, and elose hissed and take into account these thingses are going to happen, then clearly, one can select now, currently varieties that maybe better suited to these condition, but also drive through the interactions with breeding companies for example, the development of new varieties which will be more robust, more resilient to these sorts of events because i think the predictions are, that this is not going to be a one off event, these things will happen with increasing frequency, so it makes sense to actually have both the short—term plan, and something perhaps for the longer term, but breeding new varieties will take a long time. thank you very much for your time this afternoon. pleasure.
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now the weather. was a fine day for many of us bar a few shower, today really quite wet and windy but it looks like it will be better into thursday thanks to high pressure. we hold on to to cloud this evening for many outbreaks of rain, clearing eastern england as we head through the night. another area of pressure bringing to the north particularly in scotland. some drier interludes further east, you will notice the temperatures a lot warmer than recent nights. 11—1a or 15. we start thursday off on a relatively cloudy note. still a few showers round but the day improves as the ridge of high pressure build, we should start to see widespread pressure and it will feel warmer as well. temperatures of 19—23 in the south—east. goes down hill as we head into friday, widespread rain turns windy too. as we head into the
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hello, you‘re watching afternoon live — i‘m martine croxall. today at apm — borisjohnson hits back at suggestions that he is deliberately wrecking brexit negotiations with the eu, to force a no—deal departure. it follows cricitism from the former chancellor. leaving the eu without a deal would be just as leaving the eu without a deal would bejust as much leaving the eu without a deal would be just as much a betrayal of the referendum result leaving at all. investigators conclude footballer emiliano sala and his pilot david ibbotson were exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide in the cockpit, when it crashed in the channel injanuary. in the past hour, police in hong kong have fired tear gas at protestors in the city, in an attempt to move them from outside a police station.
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coming up, all the sport with gavin, and lords, is it happening? doesn't look like so at the moment, a frustrating day for england. rain has ruined the start of the second ashes test against australia at lord‘s. play now highly unlikely. 0h, lord‘s. play now highly unlikely. oh, dear, thank you, gavin. stav has the weather today. yes, it has been a bit ofa the weather today. yes, it has been a bit of a wet and windy day for many of us. tomorrow looking better thanks to a ridge of high pressure and then it looks more unsettled and very windy indeed through friday and into the weekend. also coming up — teenage activist greta thunberg sets sail for the united states, in order to attend a un climate conference. hello — this is afternoon live —
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the prime minister has hit back at mps seeking to block a no—deal brexit, accusing them of engaging in a "terrible collaboration" with the eu. borisjohnson said the more eu leaders thought parliament could stop britain leaving without a deal, the less likely they were to compromise. the former chancellor, philip hammond, has accused the prime minister of trying to wreck any chance of a new brexit deal, by making demands brussels could never accept. our political correspondent, nick eardley, reports. battle lines are being drawn for the latest brexit showdown, and the key players are getting their lines ready. a prime minister adamant we are leaving the eu at the end of october, deal or no deal. a former chancellor who says no—deal would be a disaster and it is not what people voted for. leaving the eu without a deal would bejust as much a betrayal of the referendum result as not leaving at all. the british people were offered a proposition that we could leave the european union while having a close relationship, they were told it would be the easiest deal ever done,
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and all the evidence points to people wanting to maintain a close trading relationship. some tory mps are worried that the strategy in here is making no—deal more likely. they blame people like dominic cummings, boris johnson‘s key adviser, for demanding too much from europe. pivoting to say that the backstop has to go, in its entirety, a huge chunk of the withdrawal agreement just scrapped, is effectively a wrecking tactic. the people behind this know that that means there will be no deal. some in government are furious. one source accused mr hammond of doing europe‘s bidding for them. the prime minister accused some in parliament of collaborating with europe. the fact we are in the situation we are in, the fact that we missed the deadline shows that mr hammond wasn't very effective at preparing us for no deal, he wasn't getting the country in ship shape.
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i have no idea what his motivations are, but i do know that when he was chancellor, our policy was that no deal was better than a bad deal. government preparations go on, ministers met again to discuss getting ready for exit day. but many mps are discussing their own strategies too, how to block the government if it does try to leave without ideal. the speaker of the house of commons, john bercow, has said he will fight any attempt to lock them out. he told an audience in edinburgh, parliament will be heard and nobody is going to get away, as far as i am concerned, with stopping that happening. mps are spending the summer recess working out what making their voice heard looks like. those who appeal —— oppose no deal are confident they have the numbers to stop it, most likely bypassing a piece of
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legislation, which would mandate the prime minister to avoid it if possible. but the stakes are high, and all the while number ten insists no matter what on the 3lst of october, the uk leaves. three years on from the referendum, it sets the scene for what could be the most important brexit tussle yet. our political correspondent, tony bonsignore is at westminster. mr hammond and mrjohnson really locking horns over this. and no sign of compromise or common ground anywhere in all of this. ever since borisjohnson got anywhere in all of this. ever since boris johnson got into anywhere in all of this. ever since borisjohnson got into number ten in the conservative party leadership race and then set down these really are two important central policies, which are leave come what may on october 31 and the backstop, the northern ireland backstop, this insurance policy designed to avoid a ha rd insurance policy designed to avoid a hard border in northern ireland, he said that must go in any agreement. ever since then, we‘ve been waiting for a response to those vehemently
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opposed to no deal, especially those x senior ministers like philip hammond, and today we got it, there was an article in the times newspaper, an interview with the bbc as well. essentially what philip hammond said, backed up in a letter signed by around 20 other mp5 as well, he said a no—deal brexit would bea well, he said a no—deal brexit would be a betrayal, he said, of the 2016 referendum, because philip hammond argues that nobody talked about it then, and he said a no deal would be a disaster for the economy and potentially for the union, and crucially, this is the real key to his argument today, saying the backstop must go, as our stance and has been to the eu, he is essentially wrecking his own negotiating strategy because the eu just cannot do that. so that‘s the argument. since then, we have had borisjohnson responding, argument. since then, we have had boris johnson responding, and responding in a very, very best way to philip hammond and his critics saying essentially all he is doing
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is doing the work for the eu. one of the key reasons the eu won‘t compromise at all, they are sticking to the letter of the withdrawal agreement, borisjohnson says, is that they feel confident there are mps in parliament who want to block no deal so they don‘t think it‘s going to happen, they have no reason to negotiate. hence he says there is what he calls a terrible collaboration between those in parliament who want to block no deal in the eu. i imagine that will not go down well with philip hammond and those other mp5 who are really looking at every way they can to possibly stop us living on 3lst of october without a deal. the rebuttal by the prime minister came to light during a facebook live broadcast, where the prime minister was answering questions. tell us how that was orchestrated. well, there is much speculation on exactly how it was orchestrated. we had a video last week on facebook, a very short
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one, the first one of these from borisjohnson when he made an announcement on visas borisjohnson when he made an announcement on visas and the scientific immunity. today is very different, he called it people‘s pmqs, essentially it was about ten, 15 minutes long, borisjohnson in his office, ipad on one side, red bus model he made beside him and an ipad with questions coming in and borisjohnson ipad with questions coming in and boris johnson answering them. ipad with questions coming in and borisjohnson answering them. they told us right at the start, he made quite a big deal of this, he said the questions would be an unmediated, unpasteurised, he said, and it was an exercise in democracy, direct democracy. well, lots of speculation since then about how unmediated and how unpasteurised those questions were. we have learned that some of those questions in fact came in advance, there was some moderation as well. so it was interesting, it was an interesting experiment, i think, interesting, it was an interesting experiment, ithink, is interesting, it was an interesting experiment, i think, is the way that downing street are talking about that. but i think there‘s going to be quite a lot of dissection over the next few hours about exactly how
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direct it was, because certainly if you look at some of the facebook comments afterwards and some of those that didn‘t make it to boris johnson, they were asking some slightly tougher questions than the ones he actually got. tony, thank you very much. a report has revealed that the footballer emiliano sala and his pilot david ibbotson were exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide in the cockpit of their private plane when it crashed in the english channel in january. our wales correspondent tomos morgan has the latest. the investigation by the air accident investigation branch has been ongoing for some time now, and today we‘ve had a special bulletin released that seems to show that the toxicology tests on emiliano sala‘s body show that the level of carbon monoxide was so great that it could have caused a seizure, unconsciousness or a heart attack. they also say that they believe david ibbotson would also likely would have been suffering from
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exposure to the gas, and that could have inhibited his ability to fly the plane, depending on the level of exposure that he would have had to that gas. usually, they say a level of around 50% of the gas in an individual could generally be potentially fatal, and they found there was a level of around 58% in emiliano sala‘s body back then. now, if you remember, the plane carrying david ibbotson, the pilot, and footballer, argentinian emiliano sala, went missing back injanuary, when they were transporting the footballer from his former club na ntes footballer from his former club nantes on the way to cardiff one evening. it then went down over the channel and crashed, and it took over two weeks for the wreckage to be found, and a further week again before emiliano sala‘s body could be recovered from the wreckage. the wreckage itself has not been recovered, and responding to this news today, the family of the argentinian have again called on the
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aaib to pull the wreckage from the water so a full investigation of the water so a full investigation of the water can take place so they can fully understand what happened to the two individuals when that plane crashed back injanuary. the aa ib say this news i never enquiry has helped some parts of the investigation and they will continue to look into how exactly the gas was able to penetrate the cockpit of the plane, and they have also now been advising pilots to install carbon monoxide monitors so that pilots can be alerted to any potential deadly threat in the future. in the past hour, police in hong kong have fired tear gas at protestors in the city, in an attempt to move them from outside a police station. earlier today, police condemned pro—democracy activists for detaining two people during protests at the territory‘s airport. the police said the captives, one a journalist from mainland china, were tied up, assaulted and humiliated. beijing has stepped up its criticism of the protesters.
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our china correspondent, stephen mcdonell, is in hong kong. although there now would only be a handful of prodemocracy activists inside the airport, these new security measures have effectively put an end to the possibility of having these rallies inside the terminal, at least. that‘s because now you need to have a passport and a travel itinerary in order to get access to the building. those few protesters who are down on the arrivals level, once they leave, they won‘t be able to get back in again, and so the protest movement, the pro—democracy movement won‘t be able to refill their ranks. now it doesn‘t mean in theory you couldn‘t have a protest outside the building, but even without this new security in place, many activists have decided not to return to the airport today after those shocking scenes we saw last night, violent clashes, including one at one point a policeman having his truncheon removed, and he was bashed by militant pro—democracy protestors.
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he pulled out his service revolver, and they fled. i think scenes like that have shocked people, even within the pro—democracy movement, and they have had to try and recalibrate their strategy in order to get people, the general public, back on side. with me now is vincent ni from the bbc‘s china service based in london. described how events have unfolded today. things have quieten down a little bit, as we have seen from steve‘s reported earlier. yesterday there was quite a lot of chaos in there was quite a lot of chaos in the airport, lots of people gathered around within the airports, and there were rounds and rounds of confrontations between protesters and the hong kong police force. today, the situation at the airport has quieten down a little bit, although we can still see dozens of protesters sitting in the airport to
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voice their anger. and we have reached a point i think where neither side feel they can back down from, beijing or hong kong government site, they feel that they have to deal with those protesters, even have to deal with those protesters, even with tear gas, even with police batons, things like that. and from the protesters‘s side, many of them are beginning to feel that they have nothing to lose. what is likely then to happen next? we have seen with the attention moving today from the airport to kowloon. yes, well, this is the question really everyone is asking. there are options on both sides come on the protesters‘s side, they could de—escalate events, de—escalate confrontation with the police force, although they feel if they do so, their demands are still being met, and they fear they will being met, and they fear they will be ad hoc punishment by beijing or hong kong government. hong kong government as well as beijing‘s
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side, they feel as if they don‘t step up their rhetoric at least, they are never going away, and the bottom line is the universal suffrage. so they essentially do not wa nt to suffrage. so they essentially do not want to promise universal suffrage, which was one of the demands proposed by these protesters. what are beijing‘s real options then, because there has been concerned that the army might feature at some point. in theory beijing can send their army to the territory they procedure why is it is slightly more complicated than just letting the army, letting fair tanks into the territory. but for beijing, sending the army is really the last resort because if they do so, that would really mark the end of the one country, two systems, which is something beijing does not want to see. also from the protesters‘s side, they also need to have a bit ofa side, they also need to have a bit of a sole search of what their ultimate strategy is, what they are
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trying to achieve. their demands from what appears to be beijing‘s relu cta nce from what appears to be beijing‘s reluctance to respond to, i think they need to figure out how to get beijing to respond to them, what kind of things beijing would like to compromise on. this is a really difficult catch—22 question for both sides. how is this whole story being reported in mainland china? this is a really interesting question, martin. there is a parallel universe, parallel information universe, parallel information universe being formed in mainland china. in your introduction we have seen a chinese reporterfrom china. in your introduction we have seen a chinese reporter from the global times newspaper roughed up by protesters, allegedly, brutally roughed up by protesters, and this really triggered a sort of nerve in mainland china. a lot of people are sharing this image of this report are being rounded up by protesters, being beaten up by protesters. and
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allegedly this reporter also said, "i support hong kong police, so come beat me up". and this is a quote widely shared on chinese social media, and he is regarded by many as a national hero. so what we can see is that in mainland china, events in hong kong are really perceived differently from the territory itself, as well as internationally, and because of beijing‘s censorship machine, we are going to see the kind of universal kind of parallel information universe going to exist for quite some time. vincent, thank you very much. you‘re watching afternoon live, these are our headlines borisjohnson accuses mps who want to block brexit of engaging in what he called a "terrible" collaboration with the eu — it comes after the former chancellor, philip hammond, accused him of trying to wreck the chances of reaching a new brexit agreement. investigators conclude footballer
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emiliano sala and his pilot david ibbotson were exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide in the cockpit, when their aircraft crashed in january. police in hong kong have fired tear gas at protestors in the city, in an attempt to move them from outside a police station. and, teenage activist greta thunberg sets sail for the united states, to join a climate conference. and in sport, it has been a frustrating day at lord‘s. no play at all. rain has stopped any action in the second ashes test between england and australia. jofra archer was set to make his debut when played does eventually get going. premier league rivals liverpool and chelsea face each other in the european super cup, the first time two english sides have met in the competition‘s history, and scotland‘s duncan taylor has been named in the squad to face france in the summer test of the weekend, his first start in two years. back with more on those stories in around 15 minutes‘ time. a postmortem examination is under way in malaysia to try to establish how a teenager from london died, during a family holiday. the body of nora quoirin,
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who was 15, was found yesterday — ten days after she went missing from a jungle resort. her family have released a statement thanking the hundreds of people who‘d been searching the area. our reporter, howard johnson, sent this report. a senior pathologist arrived at the hospital in seremban this morning to begin a postmortem examination of nora‘s body. she was found by a group of volunteer hikers around a mile away from the dusun resort, from where she went missing. according to police, her unclothed body was found beside a stream in a hilly area of a palm—oil plantation. the area had previously been scoured by malaysian search and rescue workers. of course, this is a very highly traumatic situation. it‘s the loss of a daughter and child, and naturally the traumatic levels are very high. it‘s so difficult to describe, but they‘re really distraught in grief, yeah?
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and i feel the same, to lose a child, yeah, it‘s terrible. the teenager, who lived with her parents in london, had been missing for ten days. nora quoirin‘s family first alerted the authorities to her disappearance the morning after they‘d checked into the resort for a two—week holiday. nora‘s father, sebastien, discovered her bed empty and a downstairs window open. the family have always insisted, given nora‘s learning difficulties, it is very unlikely she would have walked off alone. it‘s been a long and frustrating day for people waiting to find out the cause of death of nora. what we found out today is that the senior pathologist studying the body has spent at least eight hours. we are expecting to find out more details shortly in a police press conference. the malaysian police have always treated nora‘s disappearance as a missing—persons case.
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in a statement released to the media today, the quoirin family said nora had brought people together from france, ireland, britain and malaysia, united in their love and support for her — "she has truly touched the whole world." howard johnson, bbc news, malaysia. climate change activist greta thunberg has set sail from plymouth to new york on a racing yacht, in order to attend a un climate conference. the trip across the north atlantic will take two weeks and aims to be carbon—free, as the yacht produces its own electricity — however living accommodation is very basic with no toilet or kitchen on board. our chief environment correspondent, justin rowlatt, was there, watching, as greta thunberg took off from plymouth. she has just she hasjust got she has just got on board the boat. there is another important symbolic moment for greta herself, which is that on 20th august, she celebrates the first anniversary, just one year since the first climate strike. that was when she went out, i don‘t know,
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viewers probably remember, she went out and sat in front of the swedish parliament building, a really powerful image. this one small girl sitting alone with her climate strike posed in front of her, and became an emblem for the world of the challenge of tackling climate change. she now has boarded the boat. you can see her in the cockpit at the back. they are manoeuvring the boat. boris said to me they need to get a little bit out before they can put the cells up, essentially it is like a thoroughbred racehorse. she is absolutely amazing in the wind and in the water, but she is an unwieldy one in tight environments like this. you can probably see the head land, the old naval dockyard is over here. from the point of land to my right past the royal william, there is drakes island round the corner they call the point here she is going to sell buy, this is devils point. they go out, there is a huge
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brea kwater point. they go out, there is a huge breakwater at the opening of plymouth sound, a napoleonic fort you might be able bit silly out there, and she will sail out to the breakwater, that is where they took us on monday the boat. you get bigger waves, more wind because it is exposed to the great atlantic ocean. that is when it will come into its own. they will put the sails up. i tell you, one of the really interesting things, having been on the boat, is that boris herman, the skipper of the boat, he loves the speed of the boat goes, and he thoroughly enjoys sailing that boat, and i‘m sure he will be delighted to get away from all of the sort of clamour and time out of the sort of clamour and time out of the press conference, all of us journalist buzzing around trying to get people‘s attention, i‘m sure they will be delighted, they will breathe a sigh of relief if the wind catches the sales and the boat races off into the ocean. there they are manoeuvring out there.
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ahead of setting sail, greta thunberg spoke at a press conference in plymouth. she said she wasn‘t going to worry about any of her critics — and that she just wants to draw attention to climate change. i'm not concerned about reactions. what i am concerned about is whether we will do something or not. whether the people in power will react and act with necessary force, and, yeah, of course there are people acclimate to layers, who want to do everything to layers, who want to do everything to shift the focus from the climate crisis to something else, or want to make people question the science, and i'm not worried about that. i'm just going to do as i want to do, and as! just going to do as i want to do, and as i think we'll have most impact. greta thunberg speaking from plymouth. tens of thousands of people have been getting their btec results today. more than half of all
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the qualifications awarded to 16—18 year olds in england are for vocational courses. but colleges that provide this type of training have had theirfunding cut by nearly a third in the last decade. the government says it wants to overhaul the sector. our business correspondent, steph mcgovern, spent the morning at a college in boston in lincolnshire to meet students getting their results. i got the top grades in my health and social care. it is that time of year again when students are finding out whether they have got the qualifications they were hoping for. congratulations, guys. i know you are buzzing. so, lydia, tell me what you are doing next? i am going to heriot watt university in edinburgh to study architectural engineering. amazing, well done. thank you. you are off to do nursing, aren‘t you, lauren? yeah, i'm going to sheffield hallam in september. so, you are off to uni. you have sorted yourself out a job, haven‘t you? in a michelin star establishment in oxford, under raymond blanc, so, yeah. big name drop, i love it! computing for you, isn‘t it, kirsty? yeah, i am taking a gap year and hopefully go and do my level four next year to get some sort ofjob in it. congratulations.
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you must be buzzing. these guys are some of the millions of people who have been studying for vocational qualifications, everything from, as you can see here, sport, plumbing, joinery, forestry, bricklaying, computing, health and social care, catering, engineering, the list goes on. a key part of their assessment is the practical work they have to do, as well as work placements with local employers. why did you decide to do a btec? as we are seeing with employers, it is not about what you know, it is about what you can do. i think a big part of the btec is actually dipping your toe into the water of the real world and what it is actually going to be like out there. i‘ve got to go to work placements during my btec dport. it didn‘tjust amalgamate to one exam right at the end of loads of studying. it was small, manageable chunks in a way that suited me. plus mixing with the real world. last year, more 16 to 18—year—olds in england achieved vocational qualifications compared to a—levels. funding for the colleges that provide this type of training has been cut by nearly a third in the last decade.
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borisjohnson said in his first speech as prime minister that he wants to change that. it is significantly more expensive to run further education provision, because it is specialist and it is technical, so without putting the funding in, we are not going to deliver the skills country and industry needs. post—16 education is facing major reform, which includes the introduction of a new qualification called t—levels. and it is not all about money. it is also about making the system less complex so that people can navigate their way through the qualifications options more easily. and for these students and teachers now... cheering. ..is all about celebrating. steph mcgovern, bbc news, boston. coming up, while your brassicas will cost you more brass in your weekly shop, as the poor weather kills off cauliflowers.
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yesterday was a fine day for many of us barring a few showers, today really quite wet and windy but it does look like it will be better again into thursday, thanks to a ridge of high pressure. we hold onto the cloud for many of us, outbreaks of rain gradually clearing eastern england as we head through the night but we will see another area of low pressure, wet weather to the north of the country, particularly across scotland, further showers running into western parts of england and western wales through the night. dryer interludes, temperatures a lot warmer than we have had in recent nights. we start thursday off relatively cloudy, still a few showers around through the morning but the day improves as the ridge of high pressure builds in. we should start to see widespread sunshine into the afternoon, and with light winds and strong sunshine it will feel warmer as well, temperatures of 19 to 23 degrees in the south—east. it goes downhill as we head into friday, widespread heavy rain, tends very windy too. as we head into the
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this is bbc news — our latest headlines. borisjohnson hits back at suggestions that he is deliberately wrecking brexit negotiations with the eu to force a no—deal departure. it follows cricitism from the former chancellor. leaving the eu without a deal would bejust as much as betrayal of the referendum result as not leaving at all. investigators conclude footballer emiliano sala and his pilot david ibbotson were exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide in the cockpit, when their aircraft crashed in the channel injanuary. police in hong kong have fired tear gas at protestors in the city, in an attempt to move them from outside a police station. teenage activist greta thunberg sets sail for the united states, to join a climate conference.
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sport now on afternoon live with gavin, and we have an all—english european supercup tonight, how much does this mean to liverpool and chelsea? it is going to be a really big match. it is a huge one, liverpool and chelsea going head—to—head for the european supper cup. champions league winners against europa league winners. english sides meet for first time in competition‘s history. the past five winners all from spain. liverpool will be hoping to build on their early season momentum, after victory against norwich in the premier league. chelsea lost a—0 to manchester united. so work to do for them, to get their season back on track. the match takes place in istanbul a bit later — there‘s been a bit history between the pair in european matches over the years. it‘s a game both sides are taking seriously. it‘s important as a club like chelsea that we give everything to try and win it, because yes, it does mean something, it means something for us as another trophy, as a club, and for me it would be a really
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nice start for me personally. but more than that, a feeling for the players with the season coming up that we can compete against liverpool, win a cup in our name that goes down in our history and go on from there. everything is prepared for a final, obviously, so we have to make sure we're ready for a final. we have to make a few decisions about lineup and stuff like this that can be kind of a little bit unpredictable, probably for the opponent as well, because we don't know how they play, why should they know how we play? jane dougal in istanbulfor us. it‘s early in the season, what‘s the atmosphere like for this one? well, we are three—and—a—half hours before kick off and already there are hundreds and hundreds of fans gathering outside the stadium this is normally where besiktas play. there is normally a few of their fa ns there is normally a few of their fans as well. it has to be said, the
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liverpool fans far outnumber the chelsea fans but there is still time to go. there has been a lot of singing, a lot of good natured rivalry between the fans and there isa rivalry between the fans and there is a lot of people who have travelled here who perhaps don‘t normally get to see liverpool at anfield or chelsea at stamford bridge so fans from all over the world who are seeing this as an opportunity to come and see their clu b opportunity to come and see their club ina opportunity to come and see their club in a european competition. now, it is obvious that istanbul has worked very, very hard to stage this match. there is randing everywhere, —— branding, but also round the city centre, also you can see that there is heavily policed as well. you can see behind me there is a few police ca rs see behind me there is a few police cars and the roads have been blocked off as well. we anticipate a few locals will be going to this match as well as fans as well. it is a lit kick off though, so i would imagine it would be busy later on. as for the match itself, well, it is not perhaps the most presentation at
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this stages you of competition but i would imagine neither would turn down a piece of silverware this early on in the season. we heard from jurgen klopp at his news conference where we saw him saying how excited he was at the possibility of another european troughy, he has a taste for it after lifting one a few months ago. istanbul is a very special place for liverpool fans because in 2005 they won the champions league final as well for frank lampard as well, chelsea, didn‘t get a straight start to that season, this would be his second competitive match in charge 58 chelsea and for him to win silver way i am sure that would help boost the morale of the fans as well. thank you, look forward to itjane. the sale of financially—troubled club bolton wanderers is a step nearer. the court order blocking a takeover of the club has been adjourned and amended which will allow
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the comapny football ventures to complete a deal. play has been abandoned at lord‘s, on the opening day of the second ashes test, between england and australia, due to persistent rain throughout. the wash—out which will not help england‘s cause in the series. the delayed toss was due to take place again at three. it didn‘t happen. it has been hammering it down all day at lord‘s. england are 1—0 down in the series, so need all the game time they can get. the pressure will really be on from tomorrow. play will start again tomorrow at 11, with time lost on this first day, made up at the end of the day. duncan taylor will start for scotland for the first time in two years in saturday‘s summer test against france. the saracens player last featured on a 2017 summer tour against fiji after injuries limited his club appearances over the past two seasons. fellow centre rory hutchinson and lock scott cummings could make their senior debuts as replacements in the first of two matches with france. the return is at murrayfield the following saturday.
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that‘s all the sport for now. now on afternoon live, let‘s go nationwide and see what‘s happening around the country in our daily visit to the bbc newsrooms around the uk. let‘s go tojenny kumah in plymouth to tell us about the increase in transgender hate crimes in devon and cornwall. and rob smith is in tunbridge wells to tell us about a group of mothers in kent trying to raise awareness about the levels of male suicide. first of all, tojenny, what is behind this increase in transgender hate crime? the police say it is mainly down to more people coming forward to report these incidents but if you speak to the transgender community there is a sense this type of crime is on the rise, and these figures onlyjust reflect the tip of the iceberg. they point to negative
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media coverage and a rise in online transphobeia. for my report i spoke to bex, she is a thanes gender woman who helps run a support group in plymouth. she told me about her experience of trans phobic abuse, at one point she was so disturbed she began to suffer from anxiety and didn‘t want to leave her house. began to suffer from anxiety and didn't want to leave her house.” have had abuse in the street on a numberof have had abuse in the street on a number of occasions, groups of kids have abused me, i have been shouted at bya have abused me, i have been shouted at by a preacher in the middle of town telling me i was going to hell, you know, i have had people tell me iam you know, i have had people tell me i am disgusting and that you know, people like me shouldn't exist and that sort of thing. bex told me she reported three incidents to the police over the past 12 months and a further four on police over the past 12 months and a furtherfour on behalf of police over the past 12 months and a further four on behalf of others using what is called the third party system. now, the system means that
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an organisation such as the support group that bex is a member of can report incidents of behalf of people who maybe be reluctant to an police themselves, the types of crimes are veriried. i heard about physical attack, people have unpleasant things posted through letter boxes and people having their property set allights. how are police dealing with the crimes? devon and cornwall police say they take the crimes seriously, they have been building relationship with diverse communities so they have the confidence to report incidents and they work with the victim to help them achieved their desired outcome. the force‘s message is that it is important to let them know something has happened. it helps them build up a picture and see if there are any hotspots emerging, it is even if you feel it‘s a minor verbal incident, this should be reported too because things can escalate. but speaking to
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people i got the sense that many people i got the sense that many people just suffer in silence, i was told by one lgbt charity they hear about incidents on a weekly basis and people endure it and don‘t want to report it, so they are calling for greater public awareness and understanding of the transgender community. thank you jenny. to rob in tunbridge wells. rob, tell us about these women in kent who are trying to make sure that no other parents have to go through the agony of losing a son. yes, we are talking to two mums who have had to go through that that agony as you put it. the statistics are stark when it comes to suicide. it is the single biggest killer of men under the age of a5, ahead of cancer, car crashes anything else, men are way more likely to take their own life than women, three—quarters of those are men and the real problem for the authorities that most of them, two thirds have never that most of them, two thirds have never made any contact with the sec
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are dray mental health service, it seems that too many of us keep it inside. don‘t seek help and do ultimately take the ultimate step and take their own life and it comes out of blue for erne around them, so the ladies we are talking to, jackie and jenny, they have had to cope with the death of their son and they are trying to direct other young men to the help and information that is out there that might get through them a crisis, they are setting awe charity called the lost boys. jenny has been telling us ability her son who had been struggling to cope following his parents‘ divorce and the break up of his relationship and jackie talked about her son liam who seemed like the life and soul of the party but was battling depression.” rememberwhen party but was battling depression.” remember when william said he no longer wanted to live, having that shock horror and using the awful words don't be silly, you have got this to live for, you that to live
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for, i should have listened to why he didn't want to live because that has been a big learning for me, i think as a parent i didn't know where to go, what support, and it would have been great if there was a group of people whose children or husband, partners going through the same thing i could have reached out to and said i have problems with will. you wouldn't have known there was anything wrong with liam. he had trouble, he was smiling, always jack the lad, laughing, you know, and after he died i come up with the name the lost boys because you think you are the only one, it was my boy andi you are the only one, it was my boy and i thought there is other lost boy, other mothers out there and we don't want anyone going through it. we are not going to stop it completely, but if we can prevent one, then we have done a good job. how much help is there already out there for people who are struggling with mental health problems? there isa with mental health problems? there is a lot of help out there as it
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happens and it has become more aware in recent years helping people with depression and anxiety, in kent there is the release the pressure scheme and then they can put you in touch with professional councillors touch with professional councillors to talk through your problems and the samaritans say the total number of suicides in the uk is a 30 year low, there has been high profile cases your remember the shock we suffered when gary speed the wales football manager took his own life in 2011 and recently the love island reality contestant mike, so that perhaps increased conversation and awareness round the issue is starting to have an impact. let us hope so. thank you rob. more on stories on south east today and spotlight. thank you both for taking us nationwide.
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you can find more on those stories on the bbc iplayer. the uk is experiencing a cauliflower shortage after extreme weather destroyed much of this year‘s crop. heavy rainfall in june damaged home—grown caulis, and alternative supplies from europe have been badly affected by last month‘s heatwave. and it‘s all having an impact on other salad and veg — as dave guest reports from lancashire. high summer on alastair wilson‘s farm at rainford is not what it should be. the ground‘s become a quagmire and his crops don‘t like it. so these are pointed cabbage. this crop has been in the ground nearly a month now and to look at the state of growth you would say maybe it‘s been in the ground ten days maximum. so we‘re seeing a knock on of what the wet soil does to the plant, it holds it back from growing.
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this field at wright‘s salad farm in lancashire should be full of lettuce right now. this farm supplies some of britain‘s biggest supermarkets, but the baby plants which should be in the ground are still on the back of the truck. because of the rain we can‘t actually get on the field and actually do any planting. you were saying that these plants are getting too big, they should have been in a while ago. yeah, probably a week to ten days ago these should have been in. gathering in the crops they have managed to sow is no easyjob, thanks to the sodden ground. they‘ve decided obviously it‘s too wet to travel in this row, so we‘re going to, we‘re pulling the rig out, towing it out at the moment, they‘re going to go to the far side of the field, where we think it should be a bit drier — well, we‘re hoping it‘s a bit drier on the inside of the field. they‘ve been in the field now since about 6.00 this morning — it is now roughly 10.30. on a normal day in august, by this time this trailer would be full of produce, but as you can see, it‘s far from full. inevitably if these weather conditions continue farmers say shortages are highly likely. dave guest, bbc north west today.
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in a moment, the latest business news. first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. borisjohnson accuses mps who want to block brexit of engaging in what he called a "terrible" collaboration with the eu — it comes after the former chancellor, philip hammond, accused him of trying to wreck the chances of reaching a new brexit agreement. investigators conclude footballer emiliano sala and his pilot david ibbotson were exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide in the cockpit, when their aircraft crashed in the channel injanuary. police in hong kong have fired tear gas at protestors in the city, in an attempt to move them from outside a police station. here‘s your business headlines on afternoon live prices went up 2.1% in the year tojuly according to the office for national statistics.
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that‘s using the consumer price index. the ons says the rise is due to computer games, consoles and hotel prices going up more than they did last year. the alternative measure, the retail price index, went up 2.8% — this is the figure used to set rail fare increases. firstgroup and trenitalia has won the contract to run west coast mainline from eight december this year. it will initially operate the existing west coast services and from march 2026 take on the new hs2 services until march 2031. the new partnership replaces virgin trains which was banned from bidding in a row over pensions. tv ads from us food giant mondelez and german car—maker volkswagen are the first to be banned under new uk gender stereotyping rules.a ban on ads featuring "harmful gender stereotypes" came into force in june. the advert for philadelphia cheese, showed two fathers leaving a baby on a restaurant conveyor belt. the other, a vw ad, showed men being adventurous as a woman sat by a pram.
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markets are taking a battering? yes we have had disappointing economics data out of china and germany and few dicey things going on in terms of bond markets in the us and the uk. london‘s ftse100 tumbled to its lowest in more than two months on wednesday after issues in the uk and us bond markets fuelled fears of a possible recession ahead. sports direct‘s share price has fallen today after it announced grant thornton was quitting as its auditor. they have been auditors since 2007, the markets are worried about what this may mean for the company going forward. simon french is chief econoimst at panmure gordon. first of all explain what is happening on the bond markets and why that is spooking investors. you have a scenario when investors are prepared to give their money over to governments and buy government bonds for long periods of time, such as
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ten years, for a lower interest rate, than the interest rate they are prepared to lend to governments for two years, this is a yield curve inversion and it means that people who normally expect longer interest rates for lending for long period of time are worried about the economic outlook and want to lock their money away. i think why it is obsessed investors today this has been a great predict for of a global recession, in the us over the last 50 yea rs recession, in the us over the last 50 years and therefore the fact it has happened again has people worried about the future. they are worried, however the wider kind of global economic outlook doesn‘t quite tell that story, does it? no, it doesn‘t. if you strip out the signals from the bond market you see the global growth is on track for probably its nineth year in uk is session, of expansion. you see a decent amount of stimulus going into the two biggest economy, yes we have concerns over trade and the break
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down of what has been a fairly good liberal trade orderfor down of what has been a fairly good liberal trade order for 20 or 30 yea rs liberal trade order for 20 or 30 years but i wouldn‘t overstate the economic downturn at the moment. at the moment we are seeing weakness in trade data but sales are fairly healthy. we are looked at sports direct, never long without it being in the new, today its auditorings will no longer be its auditors an investors are will no longer be its auditors an investors a re not will no longer be its auditors an investors are not liking that. the shares are down 8%, this follows a tough four year, their share price we re tough four year, their share price were up at £8, almost £2 today, a 7596 were up at £8, almost £2 today, a 75% lotses. this announcement round grant thornton and the ability of sports direct to identify the replacement has rattled investor, they are worried the accounts which have been a source of concern may have been a source of concern may have hidden demons in them. we
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talked about inflation earlier on today, on bbc news, talk me through why the inflation figures matter to investors and the impact they have had on the pound today. so the 2.1196 print is above the bank of england 296 print is above the bank of england 2% targets. the pound has strengthened a bit on anticipation perhaps the bank of england might have to raise interest rates or at least keep them where they are in order to keep inflation under control. it matters for investors from the perspective of there is, you mention railfares are up rated by the retail price index, that will matter in terms of how much consumers have in their pockets and are able to spend on the high street. good to have your insight. thank you very much. that is the business from me. i will be back tomorrow. tank you. i know you won‘t. is let us not talk about that. nothing is private is it with maryam around! around!
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it‘s a sight parents are all too familiar with — teenagers hunched over their mobile phones, and, with 9 out of 10 of them regularly using social media, it‘s led to concerns about the impact that‘s having on youngsters‘ well—being. but new research published in the medicaljournal, the lancet, suggests social media itself may not be harmful. it found mental health problems were more likely to result from youngsters missing out on sleep and exercise, because they were spending too much time on the internet. glr growing concern about the impact of seoul on children. nine out of tenuous it to connect with friends according to today‘s report. the study published in the lancet tracked more than 12,00013—16—year—olds over three yea rs, 12,00013—16—year—olds over three years, it found 51% of girls and a3% of boys used social media more than three times a day. and those teenagers had poorer mental health and greater psychological distress. by and greater psychological distress. by year 11, and greater psychological distress. by year!!, girls and greater psychological distress. by year 11, girls were more likely to be less happy, and more anxious.
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but experts say it is not necessarily the amount of time spent using social media that matters.“ girls get enough sleep and are not cyber bullied we found no link between the amount of times they are accessing seoul and their mental health or wellbeing. 13-year-old trinity bradford says she check hers phone round five times a day, but she says it can make herfeel a bit low. i try to stay off it, so when i do like, when i have and i realise it it would be like, oh, that was, why did! it it would be like, oh, that was, why did i do that and i don‘t feel great about myself, because i don‘t, file like i don‘t have any will power when i‘m on it almost. file like i don‘t have any will power when i'm on it almost. how ha rd power when i'm on it almost. how hard is it to police it and make sure that your kids are not spending too much time on social media. when they were younger it was easier and you knew which channels they were using, but you, she is pretty good,
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trinity is good. her sister tends to stay up late doing all sorts of things on social media and facetiming and things but it can be difficult to police without being really into their personal business. but as long as teenagers are getting the exercise they need, good sleep, and are not being bullied online, experts say parents don‘t need to worry about the time spent on social media. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. #28d—year—old benjamin field manipulated peter fa rquhar #28d—year—old benjamin field manipulated peter farquhar for financial gain and tried to make his tithed look like an accident. the this afternoon his relatives have been speaking to us. we were duped. we just felt he was,
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they were, you know gave him a bit of company, i felt that ben was a bit sure of himself, but maybe i just think that of young people sometimes so... do you reflect on what happened now and feel that you we re what happened now and feel that you were as what happened now and feel that you were as deceived by ben as peter was? certainly, we were desemi—finaled. especially, i just didn't know or think that anybody could treat somebody like that who was helping them out. it wasjust unbelievable. yes, it is very true because peter was generous, i mean, i think that no students pay as little as he did. he gave him run of the house, and, yes, ithink little as he did. he gave him run of the house, and, yes, i think that he was very cunning, the house, and, yes, i think that he was very cunning, in every way, he, he, he wormed his way into all the
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important parts of peter‘s life, so his literature, his christian warp, his, even his love of wine. all these sort of things, he just wormed his way into them and certainly sexuality, he picked up that was something that peter had always struggled,er is a good word. i mean he made a vow of celibacy because of his christian beliefs and i think that ben pushed at that, until you know he found a weakness, and you know he found a weakness, and you know i have nojudgment on my brother over that. now for the weather. it is proving ha rd to now for the weather. it is proving hard to keep up with the weather at the moment. like summer is playing hide—and—seek, one day it is here
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today we had the rain so tomorrow we are back with some sunshine. but only really for a day. this is the area of low pressure that brought today‘s weather, this ridge of high pressure is what will clear things for tomorrow. this low is what will bring rain and strong winds to the end of the week and keep things windy through the weekend too. overnight most of us becoming dry, quite a bit of cloud round, a little misty and murky, milder in the north east, overnight lows in double figures where it has been chilly in recent nights. so, thursday will start with cloud, but a much drier day in prospect, a few showers possible through the morning across england and wales, the majority of the cloud burning back come the afternoon, perhaps just a the cloud burning back come the afternoon, perhapsjust a little more cloud through the second half of the day moving into northern ireland with the odd shower, but lighter winds, much more sunshine and a warmer feel to proceedings. high teens to the low 205 perhaps up to 23 in the south—east of england. but, it is a brief respite, because
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here comes the low for friday and a deep area of low pressure, really for this time of year, we are talking about gu5t5 of wind, widely up talking about gu5t5 of wind, widely up to 30mph, perhaps 35, a0 in exposure and some heavy rain for almost areas, the east gets away with a dry 5tart. for some areas it look5 with a dry 5tart. for some areas it looks like the front may 5tall across the south—west and wales and the totals will mount up, has to be surface water, flooding and fried evening rush hour, strong gu5t5 evening rush hour, strong gusts potentially damaging and disrupt tough, best of the sunshine through the afternoon for northern ireland, behind the front, and probably our top temperature in belfast up to 20. fingers crossed this front will dive off towards the continent for the start of the weekend, leaving drier weather behind for england and wales, but the low pressure is whirling away so more showers for scotla nd whirling away so more showers for scotland and northern ireland, some of them lively and the winds the big defining factor i think through the weekend, there will be i think a
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today at five, boris johnson hits back at mp5, who want to stop a no—deal brexit. the prime minister accuses them of a "terrible collaboration," with the european union. but the former chancellor philip hammond, warns the public didn‘t vote to leave the eu, without a deal. leaving the eu without a deal would be just as much a betrayal of the referendum result as not leaving at all. butjust how might mp5 stop a no deal brexit? we‘ll have the latest. the other main stories on bbc news at 5pm. investigators find the footballer emiliano sala and pilot david ibbotson, were exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide, when their plane crashed in the channel injanuary. police in hong kong have again fired tear gas at demonstrators
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