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the snp say there could be a confidence vote in the government as early as next week, in an attempt to avoid a no—deal brexit. meanwhile, downing street reacts angrily as borisjohnson is referred to the police watchdog over his links to an american businesswoman when he was mayor of london. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, promises to replace the government's controversial welfare policy, universal credit, should they get into power. renewed pressure on the trump administration over its dealings with ukraine — the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, is ordered by democrats to turn over documents connected to the impeachment investigation. sport, and now a full round—up from the bbc sport centre, with olly foster. hello, this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre.
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coming up on this programme: to the rugby world cup, where the hosts japan will be celebrating long into the night after beating irealnd19—12 in shizuoka. the irish came into the world cup as the number one side in the world. their coachjoe schmidt congratulated the japanese for "furious and intense performance". our sports correspondent andy swiss was at the match. a memorable night for the fans here. four years ago it was south africa, now it was ireland on the end of another remarkable giant—killing. ireland seem to have taken control in the first half, they scored two early tries, the first from garry ringrose as he collected a fine kick and then set up the second try for rob carney. ireland seemed in control, they were 12—3 out. japan upped the tempo. they came back before the break, three penalties meant ireland led only 12—9 at half—time. that much a fan had all the momentum and then with 20 minutes to go japan the momentum and then with 20
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minutes to gojapan scored the try that sent their fans into raptures, that sent their fans into raptures, that gave them the lead, ireland could find no way back as japan landed a late penalty to make it 19-12 at the landed a late penalty to make it 19—12 at the final whistle. such disappointment for ireland. but the japan it is now two wins out of two and after a memorable night here they are on course to make the quarterfinals. earlier argentina beat tonga south africa are in action against namibia at the moment, it is currently 57—3 to south africa.
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the women's athletics, ruth chepnyetich crossed the line at around 2:30 in the morning local time — the european champions have a 100% record in the league so far, but sheffield united had a good start their first season back in the top flight their first season back in the top flight since 2007 and the liverpool manager is wary. we just want to go to sheffield and make their life as uncomfortable as possible. that is the plan. maybe we are considered as a top team but we do not want to behave like a top team, playing, if possible yes, but fighting like a proper challenger.
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that is it because i do not see any reason why there should be any advantage for sheffield apart from playing in their own stadium. that game is getting under way. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. now it's time for protecting 0ur planet. how can we best protect our precious planet? climate change and pollution are taking their toll. that much is now scientifically evident. but for all the uncomfortable truth, we hold the future in our hands. in this film, we will be exploring sustainable solutions around the globe and depleting the individuals driving change in their communities. —— meeting the individuals. from construction to energy, to conservation. these are some of the unique and surprising ways in which people from all walks of life are working to protect our planet.
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for much of the year, the peruvian capital lima is covered with a blanket of dense fog. this is a teaming mega city built in the desert. it has one of the least stable water resources systems in the world, and lima's population is at constant risk of shortages. in villa lordes, on the outskirts of the city, abel cruz has been working to bring water to those living off the grid by harvesting the clouds.
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in 2016, 60 fog nets were installed in this part of lima. they provided free water to 250 families. the water collected was mainly used for small—scale farming.
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he lived in a slum and got tired of waiting for the water to arrive. an engineer by training, he searched the internet and connected with fog net experts. hundreds of thousands of people on the outskirts of lima do not have access to secure supply of drinking water. they have to buy water brought in from trucks.
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the nets require specific climatic conditions. consistent fog, light winds, and land to site nets on. forecasting projects have been established in other parts of the world including southern morocco and northern chile. —— fog harvesting. today, there are over 1800 fog nets all over peru, and abel has won awards for his pioneering work. the water from the fog nets in the inland provinces of peru is being treated and is now drinkable. and scientists around the world are continuing to develop new technology to harvest water from fog.
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over 7,500 miles away, across the south pacific on the tropical island nation of vanuatu, it's not a shortage of water that is presenting a challenge, it's what it washes up. the scourge of marine pollution has caused her to to introduce one of the toughest plastic bans in the world. since the plastic bands started, yes, i seen a lot of since since the plastic ban started, yes, i seen a lot of changes. big changes. it does not only affect the animals on land, or the soil, but also marine life, especially turtles and fish. to protect its reefs, forests and rivers, the nation band —— banned is single use plastic bags, straws and polystyrene food boxes in 2018. in our data from the clean—ups we've
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done, we've definitely seen plastic bags go from the number one item that we pick up and dropping down, and even the last clean—up drop out of the top 20 in things that were picked up. this market chef was one of many campaigning for change. when you clean up somewhere like in a river or in some water, you will see that there is plastic. in december, seven more items will be outlawed. polystyrene trays for food packaging, mesh for fruit and vegetable packaging, plastic cups, plastic cutlery, knives and forks. it's without a doubt that people have been getting used to using plastics. the challenges are there. the thing that has made it easier for vanuatu to ban
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so we either need to have good collection systems in place or we ban the plastics. with no recycling plant, most plastic ends up in landfills. currently we don't have the capacity, technology wise to take our post—consumer pet and turn into brand—new bottles here in country. alternatives including traditional bags have received a boost since the band. the plastic ban has helped us a lot. especially with the economic empowerment. it has increased and the demand is very high. the women at home, around the towns, doing their living. it is becoming their business. their real business at this time. there are obviously other things that you cannot ban, so the number one thing
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that we are seeing at the moment is food wrappers. we cannot, being a net importer of food were we don't manufacture lots of things ourselves here, it's very difficult for us as a country to ban plastic food wrappers or encourage different packaging. like a monster, if they can ban a concert bottle, or if they can ban it that would be great. i would be happy. but happy mostly for my country, mostly for my environment to be clean and happy for nature. protecting marine life on the coastal environment for pollution is also crucial work for scientists in southern chile. each year, hundreds of blue whales migrate here in the coastal waters provide a rich feeding ground.
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but according to scientists of the department of oceanography at the university, marine mammals face many potential threats in these waters. blue whales are the largest animals to have ever existed. they were hunted to the brink of extinction in the 20th century and are now an endangered species. knowing where the whales are could help keep them safe. researchers are hoping to learn more about their behaviour by developing autonomous underwater gliders that can detect and record whale song. the gulf, and the inner sea of northern patagonia is a very unique marine habitat. and we have one of the most important blue whale feeding areas of the southern hemisphere. whales inhabit this acoustic environment which is the ocean, which is a really acoustic more
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than visual environment. they have evolved to use sound and produced a received sound and really depend on sounds just in the way that we depend on vision. blue whales for example and others are making very loud low—frequency songs that travel over long distances. so, really, acoustically it's the only way that we can get 2a hours a day, every single day of the year information on the whales‘ whereabouts. and, really, the future of ocean exploration and observation are these autonomous vehicles. the glider dives silently to depths of up to 200 metres. its detector can distinguish whale songs from other sounds. it returns to the surface every two hours and sends its findings back via satellite link.
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as the glider is flying through these areas it detects whales, and it will log the position of all of those detections. and in this case, with the glider, we are getting a picture in real time of where the whales are, so i can be in my apartment porin my office and be looking at the whale detections coming in and knowing that blue whales are off the island, or humpback whales in the inner sea. the team hopes this technology will be used to protect the whales.
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what we would like to do with an acoustic alert system is to be able to make that technology available for decision—makers so that the ships in an area would be told when whales are present and they can slow down, they can be on the lookout and reduce the risk of collision. from marine ecosystems to the urban environment, the impact of pollution and climate change is all around us. we believe waste is waste. but you can use it and change it. an area here in uganda, young people have established an initiative to establish new solutions to the challenge problems they face. they call it the ghetto research lab. it's trying to find solutions to some of the problems that are associated with ghetto communities. around uganda and africa.
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we are trying to fight poverty and enhancing and promoting sustainability among the ghetto community. the slum area was once a rubbish dump but now home to over 10,000 people. part of the idea behind the ghetto research lab is to get young people involved in the projects and clean up their local environment. starting the ghetto research lab came to me as i was realising a number of problems in the ghetto communities especially here where we are living. trying to empower people and remain united, that's our mission. most of the youths we are with in the ghetto research lab have a long history and when it's that you down and tell you their story you feel like crying. i see an organisation based on saving the environment, and it's
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all about empowering the youth. they come together to bring youth in the community. “ new —— new things in the community. last year they build public toilets for the local community. we have the compost toilet to come up plastic management for renewable and recyclable energy. we raise rabbits and goats, and local chickens. they are all local. we are trying to also teach people how to learn urban farming in limited space. the work is epitomized in one unique building. we are at the environment and so they came up with this idea of picking those up and putting them in the bottle and that bottle becomes a brick to build the house. the building contains 25,000 discarded plastic bottles. each bottle contains over 200 plastic bags thus removing over
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6 million plastic bags from the environment. the community so that if you have your bags come your plastic ones, no, don't dump them into the drainage, just bring them to us for us to use them. as an example, the malnutrition is a problem. the fishing around lakes and rivers is a problem. it combines fish farming and vegetable growing using waste from the fish as a fertiliser. it enables crops to
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be grown soil free. water comes here when it's oxygenated to the fish, it's used by the fish and it becomes toxic to the fish, so it goes to the plants, the plants absorb the acidity and turn it into nitrogen, and then oxygenating it back to the camp to fish. you find families with enough fish, they don't need to go to lakes and rivers to get their fish, and they are growing vegetables alongside the fish. leading to good nutrition for their families. the group now has several hundred members and finances their projects by donations. i would like to see the project becoming a very big project that helps not only youth, not only single mothers, not only the people living in the slums, but think about the people that, the young girls that are on the streets right now. right now in technology i'm working
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on wind turbine electricity. we see the ghetto research is changing. it's giving people skills and giving them ideas at home. ——ideas —— ideas and hope. i want to reach all the areas which are most heard by the plastics. share ideas with people run this communities and find solution to their problems. we don't have to go to the shops and markets and buy those. 0ur markets are our dustbins down here. in the southern australian mining town here residents are working to create a model of sustainable living. take an even more radical approach of the changes of their environment. 60% of the residents live underground. they are the smart ones. i'm an opal minor, been mining opalfor 53 years. i've got a good crack at it. my name isjohn, my father,
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back in early 1968, he says i want to go here and change. i want to try my luck. so he shifted the whole family up here and i stayed. once you are used to living underground, you would never live in a house again. he never need heating or cooling, it's peaceful. last year, last summer, we recorded 53 celsius. that's hot, that's bloody hot. most of the world's opal come from this remote town. for decades it has drawn minors from all over the world but the endless desert and harsh climate posed a considerable challenge. feels like a furnace when the winds are coming from the north. could be a nuclear war outside for all i care. it's pretty much a consistent 24. a four—bedroom dugout, the two bedrooms upstairs,
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this is one of the bedrooms we use as a spare room. it was a mine that has been converted. one of the only places in the world where you can do renovations or extensions and make money rather than lose money because we had opal as well as other things. it ends up bigger to get the opal out of the wall. it's obviously famous for its opal, and so really we are probably sitting on the world's largest deposit of opal. 0ur heyday for coober pedy was back in the 70s and 80s. we had over 1000 miners living here. today we've only got about 100 miners left. in 2017, coober pedy introduced
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a new hybrid renewables project. in the last year they power the town with 70% renewable energy. coober pedy is really unique so were on her own grid and have an opportunity where we can have a massive penetration. we did recently 93.2 hours running just off of renewable energy. that's pretty remarkable. and itjust keeps on getting better. this town stunk of diesel depending on which way the wind was blowing and if you lived near the power station it every country in your back to working with the smoke. it was terrible. lots of siding here. —— lots — — lots of —— lots of sun. i reckon australia is one of the best places for solar panels in the world. some of the best solar panel locations. it's a very remote. one of the good things that happened a few years back when the whole
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state was out of power and we were probably the only people that had power. they are paving the way for other mining towns to go off grid, as a model for sustainable living in the australian outback. over the last six months to 12 months there's already been a lot of new people moving into town. that's what we need in town. i don't even know how people can live in the cities. bloody rat races. why would you want to live there? you got a beautiful place like coober pedy out in the middle of nowhere. no stoplights, and it's fabulous. i would never swap. never. across the world, there are people striving to provide sustainable and innovative solutions to some of our biggest‘s challenges.
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high and low tech, large and small scale, they're working towards preserving the earth's natural resources and protecting our planet. hello. whilst there is some sunshine in the forecast this weekend, there is also further wet and windy weather, particularly across england and wales, through this evening, overnight and into tomorrow. some heavy rain falling onto already saturated ground, so we could see some flooding in places. gales too, so the potential for some travel disruption. and it's all tied in with this bank of cloud in the atlantic, heading its way towards us. that's associated with an area of low pressure and its frontal systems. and we have another area of low
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pressure to the north—east of the uk, pulling away through this morning, still bringing some outbreaks of rain across the eastern side of scotland and northern england. that will slowly start to pull away, and behind it most of us will see some spells of sunshine. still a scattering of showers, they could become a little bit more frequent through the day across northern parts of wales, into the midlands, the far south of northern england, ahead of our heavy rain arriving into the south—west approaches later on this afternoon. the winds will be strengthening here as well, becoming quite gusty. elsewhere, a fairly breezy day, lighter winds across scotland and northern ireland. and temperatures generally in the mid to high teens, locally up to 20 celsius across east anglia and south—east england. turning wet and windy initially across south—west england and wales through this evening and overnight, that then extends its way north and eastwards, perhaps as far north as southern scotland by the time we get to the early hours. the strongest of the winds will be across central southern england and wales, where you could see those gusts touching 50 mph in places. it's a very mild night across much of england and wales — temperatures here not much lower than 13 or 1a celsius.
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a little bit cooler across scotland and northern ireland. still quite wet through tomorrow across northern england and the midlands, that rain slowly starting to pull away north and eastwards. to the north and south of this, some spells of sunshine, a scattering of showers, particularly across england and wales, but not too bad a day for much of scotland and northern ireland. but a cooler feeling day here and starting to feel colder too across northern england, particularly where that rain is slow to clear. that rain does pull away north and eastwards through tomorrow evening, but notice the squeeze in the isobars — so once again some windy conditions, particularly across central and southern england, where those gusts still touching 50 mph for a time. that system pulls away into the north sea as we go through monday. behind it, something drier and brighter for many before our next atlantic system approaches as we go through monday afternoon. so still unsettled to start next week. things looking drier but colder through the middle part of the week. bye— bye.
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to watch. season over, a few beers, it has to be arsenal, win, 2—1.
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good afternoon. labour leaderjeremy corbyn says a minority labour government is becoming more likely every day, as opposition parties consider whether to call a vote of no confidence in the prime minister.

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