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voters over brexit talks while offering nothing new to the eu. the south china morning post illustrates the increase in violence in hong kong's anti—government protests with a photograph of a policeman pointing his revolver at protesters. it reports that at least three police officers who were being chased by protesters pulled their revolvers, with one firing a warning shot into the air. the paper adds that water cannon were deployed for the first time against protesters. the guardian has the story that british mps are pushing for clear workplace policies to protect women going through the menopause — which, they say, exacts a hefty personal and professional toll on as many as one in four women. they report that the mps say the policy should be as commonplace as maternity schemes in businesses and organistaions. and finally, the story which leads almost all of the london papers — england miraculously still in with a chance of winning the ashes cricket series. the i says ben stokes saved the ashes in one of the ‘greatest
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ever test innings‘ and he is bound for sporting immortality. with me is eileen burbidge. welcome back. let us start with the headline in le figaro which basically says that macron is pushing for a diplomatic breakthrough with iran. the arrival of the iranian foreign minister seemed to catch donald trump offguard. le figaro was pointing out how all this diplomacy went on behind the scenes. none of the other world leaders were told or briefed in advance. there was a conversation a p pa re ntly in advance. there was a conversation apparently at dinner saturday evening and a consensus reached that eve ryo ne evening and a consensus reached that everyone would like to see some progress made on potentially getting the us to commit to the nuclear deal. the foreign minister came in
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on sunday afternoon. i think this is sort of just on sunday afternoon. i think this is sort ofjust reiterating the fact that this is one of macron‘s greatest foreign initiatives, he wa nts to greatest foreign initiatives, he wants to be the mediator and he landed a surprise and there is more another paper is about whether that was successful. trump was very clear to say that he will do their own outreach and did not agree to any communique that might have been discussed. forcing macron to say that he speaks for france but hopes everybody else will get onboard. between these two pieces of coverage, definitely seeing, as alluded to before, this isn't really alluded to before, this isn't really a formal mandate. it is a lot of bilateral conversations and hopefully an opportunity for the leaders to reach consensus to show
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similar messaging about key issues. that is what happened in this case. perhaps surprising he came, given he was on a list of people targeted by the united states for sanctions. that's right, the us has imposed travel sanctions. and increased sanctions against iran. iran has retaliated. i guess this is another point of not necessarily retaliation, obviously they are wanting to regard additional us sanctions or saying that they can come to france at the invitation of macron. francis is trump's pressure is doomed to fail. they are waging economic terrorism against the country, say iran. others say the people are really suffering. —— francis says. it affects the ability for them to shift their oil. a fifth
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of the world's oil passes through these straights. iran and certainly macron in france savoured trump needs to compromise a bit or exercise a bit of subtlety, not something we have really seen from him. a possible deal between britain and the eu in the i. it's going to be touch and go says borisjohnson but the headline here is interesting. it's as the prime minister has been accused of slighting voters over brexit talks over the fact that he offered nothing new. the le figaro is saying, the prime minister is suggesting that the british media or british constituents are the ones who maybe have it wrong, is the use of this term gas lighting because taskis of this term gas lighting because task is saying there is nothing you would also boris johnson task is saying there is nothing you would also borisjohnson is saying there has been any kind of warming up there has been any kind of warming up any compromise reached or any more realistic prospect of a deal
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being reached before the 31st of october, tusk ‘s warning that the prime minister is setting it up for him to maybe suggest the british public what it all wrong. nothing new has come out. that will be part of the problem. if we haven't put anything else on the table. south china morning post, the latest demonstrations in hong kong but there seems to be a dramatic escalation with a gun fired as a warning shot by the police, the first police officer involved in this to do so. these are kind of firsts in a 12— week stand—off. it's problematic given how long it is going. it seems like it's getting more and more problematic. if we see warning shots and live rounds used, it takes the question of where next. the protesters have made five
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demands and it seems like it will be difficult this to go away. it doesn't seem like anybody is near to agreeing. according to the paper, a senior hong kong official says the mainland military could intervene but let's move on in the front page story about amp ‘s calling for compulsory menopause policies. —— mps. it's cross-party support. they are taking this very seriously and the suggestion of course is that menopause has been for too long something not spoken about, people are embarrassed about it, gps don't write down the reason. it may be embarrassed as the women or women in the work place of which there is 5 million working women in the uk between the ages of 45 and 60, so menopause affects all of them. two different levels. there are mild
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effect but for others, it's very debilitating. one in four according to the guardian have very severe symptoms. anywhere between the two different studies decided that 20 and 50% have had to have time off. these mps are sort of suggesting, you wouldn't dream of penalising people in the work place for being pregnant, for example. this is really no different. it affects more women who are pigment and it's time to have a conversation about it in the workplace so you can continue to have working women feel they are able to contribute. is there a danger that men could call this out, how could we expect women to contribute in the way we need to into whatever job you contribute in the way we need to into whateverjob you would be doing, taking time off. it's very unpredictable. there is always a danger that men are people who don't agree with policy would call things out but i would be disappointed by that. it is absolutely a certifiable
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health issue. something that i've been thinking about, something that would be reprehensible if men called it out, the same about pregnancy rights or maternity leave. let's talk about a story that is dominating the papers. ben stokes saves the ashes. my children and their dad were keeping me posted and they were ecstatic and over the moon. my partner was listening to it as well. i had personally been following it over the test match and thought that it was lost, i must admit. to go to the very final innings and what was remarkable, the headline is about ten stokes saving it. he is probably ready for a knighthood, people are saying. what a remarkable year he has had because just a year ago, he was in court and
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had been cleared of public affray because of what had happened in that bar in bristol. he saved the world cup for england. the golden boy of sport. everyone is saying one of the best innings in history. who knows what accolade he is going to get. thank you for taking us through the papers, we will see you a bit later. stay with us here on bbc news — so much more to come. plenty more from the g7 and what has or hasn't come out of it. inks were watching. —— thanks for watching. hello there. this week is set to bring some
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pretty big changes in our weather. there's something cooler on the way, something a bit more unsettled as well. but the weekend brought a real burst of heat. sunday's temperatures got all the way up to 33 degrees just to the west of london. that heat being drawn up from the near continent around this area of high pressure. the south—easterly winds affecting most parts of the british isles. it was a bit different and the west, though, the air starting to come in from the atlantic, a cooler source of air, and that cooler atlantic air will make more inroads over the next couple of days. firstly behind this little weather front here, things will turn a bit cooler. this big dangling weather front in the atlantic will eventually bring some much cooler air for all of us around the middle of the week. so, those temperatures gradually, slowly but surely, dipping away, will be a slow process, though, particularly in the east. and with that change we'll see some
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outbreaks of rain and perhaps some thunderstorms for a time. through monday morning, some quite poor visibility. a mixture of mist and murk, and low cloud, some fog patches too, especially through wales, the west midlands, north—west england, south—west scotland. it is a bank holiday for most, but if you are travelling early, bearthat in mind. that should clear, then we see some long spells of sunshine again, the odd shower in the far south—west, some rain and the strengthening breeze across the western isles, and generally it will be a cooler day in scotland, northern ireland, the western side of england and wales. further east, though, in the sunshine, it could again get to 32 or 33 degrees. now, a lot of dry weather and clear skies to take us through monday night into the early hours of tuesday, but there is the ongoing chance of a shower across the south—west, maybe up into wales as well. those temperatures overnight between 11 and 17 degrees. so, for tuesday, this frontal system which will eventually, remember, bring that cooler air, will just stall out to the west, not making a lot of progress eastwards, so we will see plenty of dry weather, some spells of sunshine but the increasing chance that we'll see some showers breaking out and some thunderstorms too, some of which could be heavy. the heat‘s increasingly getting squashed eastwards, could still get to 31, 32 degrees in the south—east, but it will be cooler futher west,
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and we'll see some rain later in the day into northern ireland. now, during tuesday night, a scattering of showers and thunderstorms looks likely to push across the british isles, quite hit and miss but some of these storms could bring a lot of rain. and then as we get into wednesday, that front, which will have been lingering out to the west for a couple of days, well, finally it make its move. it slides eastwards, it takes some rain with it, and we're all left with some cooler, fresher weather by the time we get to thursday. some wet weather, too, particularly in the north—west.
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good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and louise minchin. our headlines today: an emergency deal to help fight the devastating amazon fires could be agreed today by world leaders at the g7 summit. and in sport, ben stokes keeps england's ashes hopes alive with one of the most dramatic innings in test history. ——, of the most dramatic innings in test history. the prime minister tells the bbc to "cough up" and pay for tv licences for all over—75s, notjust those on low incomes. ariana grande plays manchester pride, telling fans, including survivors of the 2017 terror attacks, that she's

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