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for the third time in a row. obviously, there is a lot of players, for a solheim cup experience, so i will be looking to them to kind of help guide us through the week, and you know, provide us with any, you know, advice here and there of certain situations that they have experienced. but, you know, just going out and being myself, and hopefully, you know, provide a lot of support to my team—mates as well. dyla n of support to my team—mates as well. dylan has one of three of the five stages so far the tour britain was dylan groonewegan has won three of the five stages so far at the tour of britain. the dutchman came first in the final sprint into birkenhead today. british rider matt walls wasn't far behind, and a day after losing the leaders‘ green jersey, matteo trentin regained the overall lead after coming third. finally, boxing and former world heavyweight champion tyson fury fights in las vegas on saturday night. he's up against the unbeaten swede otto wallin. get through that and a rematch against deontay wilder is on the cards. he's been talking to steve bunce.
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i'm looking forward to putting on a show, enjoying myself, i'm having a fight camino? being active. that's all he wanted to do in my career was be very active and be happy, that's exactly what i'm doing at the minute. i'm happy. and what about this february 22 fights? is it really on, or is it still being talked about, or is it signed and sealed was the? element get signed and sealed, we both know all the details of the contract, we have both signed up. it was signed just after that last fight, what it has been signed for a while, and that was it. i have had the biggest fights of my generation. and ifought the biggest fights of my generation. and i fought while there. so, the biggest fights of my generation. and ifought while there. so, this is just like bonus now. and ifought while there. so, this isjust like bonus now. it's like, 0k, isjust like bonus now. it's like, ok, funfights. isjust like bonus now. it's like, ok, fun fights. let's have wilder again, do it again. and almost three yea rs of again, do it again. and almost three years of being very unhappy, the lowest a ny ma n years of being very unhappy, the lowest any man could go, and i knew it was the training that i wasn't doing, that was giving you that void. in trading gives me a purpose in life, and i love to do it. and evenif in life, and i love to do it. and even if i wasn't getting paid millions to do it, i would still be
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training every day for free. a tray now and i fight now, training every day for free. a tray now and ifight now, i don't fight for money, don't fight for glory, i don't fight for belts, i fight for happiness. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster and authorjohn kampfner, and caroline wheeler, deputy political editor at the sunday times. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. welcome both of you, and was on for braving this. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. we begin with the metro — "another fine mess",
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the paper says borisjohnson was accused of lying to the queen, afterjudges ruled he unlawfully suspended parliament to shut down debate on brexit. that story also dominates the front page of the daily mirror — its headline, "brexit bombshell: boris lied to the queen". the guardian leads on the publication of those yellowhammer contingency plans — writing that a no—deal brexit could result in rising food and fuel prices, disruption to medicine supplies and public disorder on britain's streets. meanwhile, the telegraph claims tory rebels who were expelled from the party have been offered an "olive branch" by the prime minister, as he's apparently allowed them to appeal the withdrawal of the whip. the paper also features news that british scientists have discovered the first planet warm and wet enough to support life. so that's a look at the front pages.
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now, let's look in more detail. caroline, why don't you take us to the guardian, first of all, because this is a story that i think may look a little familiar to you. over it, carolyn, this is your story. so this is based, the document that was released today is very familiar to me, because just coming up to three weeks ago, the sunday times was leaked a copy of the yellow hammer documents, which looks surprisingly similar to the one which has been published today. i'll for one particular phrase, which has been changed. so at the top of the leaked document that we had, it was very clearly labelled, base scenario, which is as you would reasonably expected, the realistic expectation of what might happen. so not worst case scenario at all, in fa ct, not worst case scenario at all, in fact, michael gove was picked up on this ina fact, michael gove was picked up on this in a select committee last week, because he immediately came out when we publish this document and said it was old, and also that it was worst case scenario, which is how it's been billed this evening.
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now, this is the same document. i have been through this document, i have been through this document, i have checked it pretty much word for word. thomas all in the same place. ican even word. thomas all in the same place. i can even tell you what i think the redacted section says. because i have seen it. and my fabulous collie, whoever wrote this story with, has also treated this, if you wa nt with, has also treated this, if you want to find it on twitter, you can. it basically related to the oil refineries, so there was a suggestion that if they reduce the tariffs around petrol, this would relate, cause a problem with the oil refineries, which could lead up to 2000 job losses, and fears around the petrol and fuel supply chain. so, it's a really interesting that the government has chosen to publish what it described as an old document, and a document which it told us was worse case scenario, when we know it to be base case scenario, which begs the question, where is the worst case scenario? and where is the up—to—date document? they told us that this was a document that was pulled together
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by the previous administration. would you publish in early august. so it's an end ofjuly document. this is the same date on this document. it's under borisjohnson's administration. so, i mean it actually raises i think more questions than it answers. and john, why don't you come up with those who don't remember that piece back in august that caroline wrote. just run us august that caroline wrote. just run us through the kind of key headline points in this piece in the guardian. i mean this is incredibly important, because there are just make sides to this story. there is one, the process side, and that is who is telling the truth, government trying to pull the wool over people's eyes him etc, we will talk about that when we get to the mirror headline. it sometimes come up little journalists and people involved in the village can lose sight of the actual substance, and it is truly, truly shocking, all of theissues it is truly, truly shocking, all of the issues around shoot for... food
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shortages come around medicines, around transport chaos around ambulance times. i mean the list is copious. and there is a tendency when you are told things again and again and again, psychologists call it habituation. you just get used to it. and you think something that is com pletely it. and you think something that is completely unnecessary and abnormal, sometimes becomes the new normal. 0h, sometimes becomes the new normal. oh, don't worry, we are doing loads of scenario planning. operation stacked in kent, everything is being on hand to mitigate the problems. of the problems themselves are seismic. and coming back to the point that you were making caroline, but the redacted bit, which is quite interesting why you would reject that bit. i suppose one clue may be, well, you tell me, but the suggestion that thejob well, you tell me, but the suggestion that the job losses that you mentioned might trigger strike action, which might triggerfurther disruption to fuel supplies, is that it? that seems to be with the government was suggesting, was that there was this sort of political sensitivity around it, or a
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commercial sensitivity around it. i mean, equally, it's fairto commercial sensitivity around it. i mean, equally, it's fair to say, anything andrea lets and sort of raised some of this in her broadcast around this morning, was that actually you know, there was a concern that if you publish this, that it would lead, and sparked sort of stockpiling. and of course, you know, one of the things that we don't want to happen is that people start stockpiling fuel, which can also be extremely dangerous to stockpile as well. so i imagine that there is a combination of factors here. the difficulty here, of course, is that we published the document in its entirety. so this information is already in the public's hands. yeah, people just have to look at the tweets to see it. to make absolutely. ok, it's possible that that is one bit of a document that has been changed from the one that we saw. element but given that everything else is so similarto given that everything else is so similar to the document that i have personally seen you know, it is my strong belief that that is the case. right, let's get on with some of the front pages. the metro, john, so this is another fine front pages. the metro, john, so this is anotherfine mess headline. it is not talking but the yellow hammer document, or the prospect of a no—deal, and all the things that
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might befall us then. this is talking about the suspension of parliament, and the scottish court of session saying unlawful. it's on strict two extranet, and in a given day now, they're probably 6—8 that ta ke day now, they're probably 6—8 that take place in normal times, would be the story of the year, rather than the story of the year, rather than the story of the year, rather than the story of the day, or the story of the week. we had the extraordinary scenes on monday night going into tuesday morning of protests among mps during prorogation, and government trying to getan prorogation, and government trying to get an election through, and all the different votes, boris johnson has still not one of the vote since the coming —— becoming prime minister, all of the major votes he has lost, and we have the scottish court now saying in terms, the three judges that the information he gave to the queen would have qualified as being unlawful. the, i mean, this is one of the great problems that britain has is our unwritten
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constitution. both, i mean this all stems back from the referendum, what isa stems back from the referendum, what is a relationship between direct democracy and from entry democracy, and everything that stems from that. at the role of courts, and the role of the monarch are completely nebulous. i, you know, iam no lawyer, but listening to various judges today, he it is in the ballots for the uk supreme court next tuesday. my hunch is, somehow, that they will argue that whatever the political, the sort of disreputable nature of the decision to prorogue parliament, just to avoid discussion about brexit, everybody knows that that is why they did it. but somehow, to use the legal term, it's notjudicial, they did it. but somehow, to use the legalterm, it's notjudicial, in other words, it's not an area of jurisdiction for judges, other words, it's not an area of jurisdiction forjudges, but i may be wrong. and if the supreme court
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on tuesday corroborate, or agrees with the scottish court, then all bets are off or borisjohnson. with the scottish court, then all bets are off or boris johnson. and also, the e—mails that have come out in the context of this court case have really been the difference between the cases that we have seen from heaven they? in what we were discussing isn't that you know, it is about willful about whether he willfully lied will stop and i think the e—mails that we have seen coming out suggested that there had been lots of conversations about the reason for which they would prorogue, which were much more political. so they were initially... obviously trying to keep a grip on some of those medications. well that question of, you know, the motives, the character question, as it were, on the front page of the mirror, caroline? yes, and it's quite a striking headline, isn't it? with that picture there with the queen. and just very plainly, you know, the extrapolation of the court case is that that is what he did. he, you know, in effect, told the queen that we we re know, in effect, told the queen that we were not prorogue them for a political reason, we were prorogue
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and because that is what we do in this country, prior to a queen's speech. and as i said before, these e—mails have emerged, which basically, you know, put a? over the motive for the prorogation. and so it will be... it is going to become a sort of row between courts and the supreme court. and it is also fair to say, you know, number ten are making it very clear that they have great faith in the judicial system. you know, they are not... after one of the, and we all know who it was, something close to boris johnson this morning responded in a way that only he can come basically slapping off the judiciary, way that only he can come basically slapping off thejudiciary, and implying the scottish judiciary were biased. but since then, they have ran back from that, and they don't wa nt ran back from that, and they don't want to see us return to the front pages, where we had you know, members of the court and the judiciary blasted over our front pages with, you know, suggestions that they were traitorous. imean that they were traitorous. i meanjust that they were traitorous. i mean just on this, that they were traitorous. i meanjust on this, the mirror headline, the picture is a very compelling, and that is what headlines are supposed to be. my only reservation about it, and i
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have got sort of previews on this, is when you use the l word. when you accuse somebody of lying. during the whole tony blair road to war with iraq, i had to appear before the butler inquiry, which was the first of several during that whole period. and i was asked outright, do you believe you lied? and this was on camera. and it's a very simple question, but it's also an incredibly quick to enact difficult question, because to light means you willfully go in there, and you say black is white, and you know it to be alive. whereas my contention, and i'm just using this illustratively about 20 blair, was that he suspected it wasn't true, and he willed it to be true. so while accusing somebody of lying is great cow, accusing somebody of lying is great copy, it's setting the bar too high. you don't have to go that high. it's another category, which is wishful thinking... thinking. the element or it's just not telling the truth, which is the exact same as lying. we are going to look next at the
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telegraph, because this is quite, it's an interestingly, kind of different angle on the political story. a different dimension. it's a question of whether they can be, rebels can be hugged back into the fold somehow. again, going back to whatjohn fold somehow. again, going back to what john was saying about stories, that you know, would've been the story of the year, imean would've been the story of the year, i mean the fact that only last week, it was last week, wasn't it? it seems like an eternity ago, 21 conservative mps were expelled from the party. for voting to stop and no—deal brexit. and the ramifications of that have been enormous. obviously, again, and the sunday times, we saw amber write it resign as a cabinet minister in the wake, in the fall out of this, has been massive, and obviously there have been other cabinet ministers who have expressed grave concern and reservations over the idea that you would expel moderates for doing this, particularly when half the government voted against the previous government. over brexit, themselves. so it's interesting, when we, one of the sort of narratives that has been developing
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here, is that actually, this was also a shot across the bows for the spartans, the 28 erg members who voted against... the hard brexiters. to sake, hang on a second, when we bring our deal back to me but her toe the line, because if you don't, the same will befall you. so it's interesting that we are now seeing a little bit more leeway here. suggesting that the chief whip is now, you know, going to write those mps, and possibly offer some kind of appeals process. and certainly from having you know, had conversations from numberten, my having you know, had conversations from number ten, my understanding having you know, had conversations from numberten, my understanding is this will not be an immediate, you know, development. it certainly, the position has softened somewhat from the sort of no surrender position that... and how many of them... that... and how many of them. .. we are running out of time. well, that was going to be a question i was going to ask. how many of them will be getting back into that embrace? but we don't have time to deal with that now. we will deal with that in the next hour. at on the express, john, i won't do a deal with for roche, says boris. so he is having to make
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difficult decisions on who he will have to do a deal with, will he deal with the previous rebels? will he deal with the brexiters? orfor roche. imean, the roche. i mean, the previous days paper farage had taken a wraparound add in the express, which is the brexit pa rty‘s the express, which is the brexit party's in—house paper, in a way that telegraph is borisjohnson's in—house paper. and it's interesting that they then run with this story. imean, to that they then run with this story. i mean, to be honest, it's not really a n i mean, to be honest, it's not really an johnson's gift, it's i mean, to be honest, it's not really anjohnson's gift, it's much more in farage's gift. if farage doesn't do a deal withjohnson and it stands candidates in earnest all across the shop, then the difficult election thatjohnson is boxing himself into is going to get all the more difficult. but it also depends on timing as well, doesn't it? whether we have left the european union or not. if we have left by the time we have an election, than to a certain extent, he will have sort of neutralised the threat of the brexit party, if we have it. then that will become a big
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question mark for him. got to leave that? right there. and we will come back to some of those issues next hour. john, caroline, thanks so much. that's it for the papers this hour. join us again for half past 11 for another look. i'll be back with tonight's headlines in a couple of minutes. first, it's time for weather with philip avery. hello once again. it wasn't that serious dove days, at some point for many of us, it took a while to get going, but eventually, we got there, and it really helped once this weather front had cleared some of the southern counties of the british isles. that link spec to what i am going to call thursday's weather for some of us, that is an area of the pressure, which is going to gradually work its way towards us into the wee small hours of thursday, here it comes all over northern ireland. the western side of scotla nd northern ireland. the western side of scotland as well. what it's also going to import, apart from cloud and rain, is quite a bit of humid air, because it is starting way down in the atlantic, not quite on at the equator, but not 1
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in the atlantic, not quite on at the equator, but noti million miles away. and hence, what you will notice through thursday is a really humid feel, if you don't see the rain, which will through scotland, northern ireland, the north and west of england as well. eventually, the north of wales. it will be a blustery day, 44 miles per hour, and up blustery day, 44 miles per hour, and up over the pen eyes, perhaps over the western coast, but at least all of that wind is coming in from the southwest, so the greater part of england and wales, 19—23d, fresh shirt with summit lake sunshine for scotla nd shirt with summit lake sunshine for scotland and northern ireland. the french continues its journey through tomorrow evening, and a way through the wee small hours off into the near continent. the skies clear behind, and where the skies are clear, you will be well—done and single figures. that one to be the case across the south, you keep the cloud for any length of time. so behind that weather front, the high pressure builds, and it does is stop for the greater part of the british isles, but not for the far north of scotland, macleod, breeze, showers here. but this is a glorious autumn day for many parts. a wee bit of cloud developing here and there, but
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there is a lot of sunshine to be had. but because we are behind the weather front, and the had. but because we are behind the weatherfront, and the humid air had. but because we are behind the weather front, and the humid air has gone away for a time, we will lose 2-3d, but gone away for a time, we will lose 2—3d, but anyway, gone away for a time, we will lose 2—3d, butanyway, it's gone away for a time, we will lose 2—3d, but anyway, it's a sumptuous sort of day. now as i take you into the weekend, we are going to have a high pressure with us. and that certainly is going to tap into some milderaircoming upfrom certainly is going to tap into some milder air coming up from the mid atlantic. moisture laden, i'm afraid, again across northern and western parts of scotland, wept throughout the day on saturday, but elsewhere, look how glorious that is. and the temperatures are just beginning to tip back, where you might have had 17 on friday, it will be closer to 20, perhaps on saturday. on saturday into sunday, we will drag the remnants of that front down through the heart of the british isles. since really the southern counties will see the very best of the sunshine, further north, cloudy, fair, and temperatures around around the mid teens or so, and there still could be some heavy pauses of rain. take care, bye—bye.
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this is bbc news. i'm carrie gracey. the headlines at 11pm: the government has published details of its contingency plans forfood, medicines and other supplies in the event of a no no—deal brexit. anti—brexit mps demand that parliament be recalled after scotland's seniorjudges rule the five week suspension to be unlawful. the advice given by the government to her man steve according to prorogue parliament from the ninth of september to the 14th of october was unlawful, and therefore the prorogation itself is unlawful —— her man the queen. -- herman the queen. the case was brought by a group of opposition mps in protest against monday's 5—week
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