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of tomorrow morning, we will see gusty west or south—westerly winds along the southern flank, gusting to maybe 55 or 60 mph in the most exposed spots. on sunday, the most persistent rain settles across northern england. a thoroughly soggy day to come here. to the south of that, sunny spells and heavy showers. northern ireland and scotland will have some showers, but a decent amount of dry weather and some sunshine. feeling cool for aberdeen and newcastle. as this area of low pressure clears away eastwards, notice how, on its back edge, the white lines, the isobars really squeeze together. we will have another swathe of strong winds across some central and eastern parts of england, hello. particularly down the east coast. this is bbc news. we could see gusts of 55 or 60 mph. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow that, combined with high tides, morning's papers in a moment. first the headlines: could cause some coastal flooding. the prime minister learns he could face a vote of no confidence as early as next week on monday, the area of low pressure as he arrives for the slides away and we get conservative party conference.
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a quieter window of weather. there will be mist and fog patches around to start monday, but then a decent amount of dry and fine weather with some "a politically motivated attack." spells of sunshine. downing street's verdict however, notice down on borisjohnson being referred to the south—west, here is our next to the police watchdog over his links to an area of low pressure. american businesswoman. more heavy rain piling in across pressure grows on president trump england and particularly wales. and there is again the risk as secretary of state mike pompeo is ordered to hand over documents of localised flooding. on ukraine linked to the impeachment investigation. on tuesday, the area of low pressure will slide eastwards and, as it tear gas and water cannon are used clears, we will follow the isobars northwards. by hong kong police to disperse that is where our air will be coming protestors holding a rally to mark from for the middle part the fifth anniversary of of the week, a plunge the pro—democracy umbrella movement. of really chilly air, temperatures dipping across all parts of the uk. let's look at some city forecasts. 00:01:41,639 --> 2147483051:37:35,534 and then for the end of the week, 2147483051:37:35,534 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 it could turn wet and windy again. voting has been taking place in afghanistan's presidential election amid heavy security and bomb attacks from insurgents. the results won't be known until the middle
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are henry mance, who's chief features writer at the ft, and the broadcaster penny smith. a few of tomorrow's front pages are already in. actually, hardly any. what are they waiting for? conservative mps have warned borisjohnson that the party risks falling into terminal decline if hard—line brexiteers take over, according to the independent. the mail on sunday says downing street has launched a major investigation into alleged links between foreign governments and the mps behind the so—called surrender act, which could force a brexit delay. and the prime minister announces plans to build a0 new hospitals, says the sunday telegraph.
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let's start with the mail on sunday. apparently, the paper is exposing a plot, which is a word that only journalists use. this is a strange one for me. this is about how the law constraining borisjohnson‘s ability to take britain out of the eu without a deal, how that was drafted. the allegation being made by downing street is that foreign governments were involved. by foreign governments, it seems to mean france. and it seems to say that mps like oliver letwin went and consulted with the french about the particular dates they put in. apparently, we are led to believe that downing street has launched an investigation into this. so you might think that with a month to go before leaving the eu, they had other things do you like negotiating a deal to leave the eu or preparing in case they don't have a deal, but in fact, we are meant to believe there is a major investigation. there is no allegation that any laws have been broken. events are going well pass that law, which is already
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on the statute book and probably has to be complied with by boris johnson, no matter what happens. the mailon johnson, no matter what happens. the mail on sunday also reports that there is anti—nodal mps may be preparing for another piece of legislation which could constrain boris johnson's hands further. legislation which could constrain borisjohnson's hands further. so this is a lot of froth and i think the major investigation may be less major than we are led to believe. two things. one is the source, who is it? there is a suggestion that perhaps it is dominic cummings, who is described as the downing street enforcer, which makes him sound like clint eastwood. wasn't he the enforcer? i did like the line about dominic cummings. there were some commentator who said he always looks like he lost a fight with a raccoon to the bins. it was such a funny way of describing it. he always looks a bit furtive, doesn't he? he has a
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debate with photographers everywhere he goes. this new law, though, the second when you mentioned, henry, would allow the speaker to bypass the prime minister, supposedly. but they said they were going to look at they said they were going to look at the legal loopholes, didn't they? we are in uncharted territory. it is like the fight for the northwest passage, we don't know what is coming out on the other side. are we going to be eaten by who knows? i wasjust looking i was just looking at a country that loves a referendum. i know hindsight isa loves a referendum. i know hindsight is a marvellous thing. you know has switzerland loves a referendum. how many do they have? 300, on 600
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subjects. since the 1800s. that is a great bit of pub quiz knowledge. subjects. since the 1800s. that is a great bit of pub quiz knowledgem april, the switzerland supreme court overturned a referendum for the first time in modern history on the grounds that the info given to vote rs grounds that the info given to voters one insufficient. admittedly, this was about whether the tax regime unfairly penalised married couples. a bit niche. a smaller matter. but they had a referendum on it. let's look at the sunday telegraph, a policy that is not to do with brexit. i will build a0 new hospitals, says the prime minister. not personally, i think. we have seen him a lot in those hard hats. the tory conference is starting tomorrow. while parliament is still in session. the house of commons has rather spitefully decided to continue sitting while borisjohnson
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and the toys try to make these big policy announcements. so this is back on the ground he wants to be on, saying, i'm going to spend more than theresa may, i'm going to get back to the themes that won the referendum, ie the nhs. the one controversy will be, when is the money to be spent and is it really new money? £i.8 money to be spent and is it really new money? £1.8 billion of new capital investment in the nhs was announced in august, but that was quickly picked apart and it was said that a lot of that was already promised. they had got it, but they we re promised. they had got it, but they were not allowed to spend it. exactly. this is a £2.7 billion cash injection of five years to six new hospitals, and then a lot of other projects that would happen in five to ten years' time. so probably when borisjohnson is to ten years' time. so probably when boris johnson is not to ten years' time. so probably when borisjohnson is not prime minister. they were mentioning rural hospitals as well. i was very grateful for a rural hospital when i almost cut my thumb off making coconut pyramids when i was 11.
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i thought, look, ithought, look, this i thought, look, this condensed ithought, look, this condensed milk is already pink. tell us about the matte coating. i love it. you can't go matte coating. i love it. you can't go wrong with a matte cartoon —— with a matt cutting. it is to people looking down saying, first we better labradoodle, then we crossed a remainer with labradoodle, then we crossed a remainerwitha labradoodle, then we crossed a remainer with a speaker. and it is just a dog chasing its own tail. —— crossing a remainer with a. the independent. philip hammond said the tories' convulsions over brexit had left the party unrecognisable. every
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timel left the party unrecognisable. every time i say stripped of the whip, i can't help myself. ijust imagine a proper whip. is thatjust me?m can't help myself. ijust imagine a proper whip. is thatjust me? it is just you. give me that with immediatelys that whip. they say those who have been stripped of the whip say they have to use the party gathering to show that it is more thana gathering to show that it is more than a narrow ideological sector. the problem is that at the moment, as the matt cutting says, we are chasing our tails. and we are in this brexit maelstrom stop how terminal is the decline that is being talked about in this article about the conservative party? the conservatives are still ahead in the polls, so it's not as terminal is the decline of any other parties, but there are two visions of how the conservative party will win the
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election which is probably coming this year, or very soon afterwards. one is that foreign collision hit brexit very hard, and the other is to reach out and be brought. don't kick people out of the party, especially when they used to be your cabinet ministers. and you need the numbers. you certainly need the numbers. you certainly need the numbers right now. these people will not be at the conservative party conference, but they are trying to send a warning from outside of it.|j wonder what they will be doing instead. sitting and eating a better quality of biscuit, i would suggest. have you never been to these party conferences? it is a poor show on the biscuits. is it? and the custard creams are always the first to go. finally, if you haven't sent us your paper tonight, please send us your paper. the uk's policy on tax is
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doomed to failure, warns google's t. he would, wouldn't he? philip hammond said to all these big tech companies who had lots of salespeople here but then booked their sales in ireland are places where it is much lower tax, we will clamp down on that by saying 2% of big companies' online sales is going to be taxed. what is interesting is that companies like google, which normally when they are asked about the low tax bill, they say, we comply with the law, start lobbying against the law. so they are not going to lay down whatever the law is. there's an interesting contradiction in the rhetoric of companies like google who for years have said they are complying with the law, but now they are trying to prevent the law from being changed so that they pay more. their tax bill has gone up. their argument is that they want to happen at at an international level, the oecd, multilateral level. but agreement has been difficult to come by. they
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know that that is going to be very difficult to broker. exactly. the organisation for economic cooperation and development can carry on with its machinations. cooperation and development can carry on with its machinationsm will take a while. but many people are saying they have to do this. their profits went up in britain from 201 to 246 million. their profits on the tax they paid? the text that they paid went up to 67 million last year after profits went from 201 to 246 million. that doesn't sound like a loss of profit to me. yes. maybe they meant something else. we will check it out. do i have to show my workings in the margin? no, i trust you.
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that's it for this hour. henry and penny will be back at 11.30 for another look at the papers, and don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you 7 days a week. next on bbc news, it's the travel show. hello and welcome to the travel show with me, ade adepitan. this week, we are kicking off in iceland. it is a country famous for its natural beauty. but as cat moh has been finding out, things there are changing.
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we've all seen it on the covers of magazines, and the footage of nature documentaries. stunning images of a landscape from which iceland takes its name. but these glaciers are more fragile than they may seem, and they have a story fit for a storyteller. "there was an immense crack. the ensuing earthquake was greater than any experienced since man first walked the planet. my name is andri magnusson, i am a writer in iceland, i have written children's books, poetry, plays, science fiction and non—fiction. we are in an example of what has to happen to all coal—fired power stations in the world. i am part of a group who made
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a creative place out of it. what is your connection to glaciers? my connection to glaciers is more through my grandparents. my grandparents were founding partners of the icelandic glacial research society. and they went on a glacial honeymoon in 1956, for three weeks. and they were stuck in a tent in a blizzard, and i asked them when i was a child, weren't you cold? and they said "cold? we were just married." i didn't understand how you get warm when you get married. but i found out later. this has been family mythology, our brave grandmother, a pioneering woman on the glacier.
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but if i had written 20 years ago that glaciers would melt in the lifetime of a single human being, that would have been sci—fi at the time. well, now it is not sci—fi any more. it's just sci, science. andri, hello. welcome. hi, i'm cat. welcome to my power station. thanks! it's not every day i get invited to a power station. so these are your grandparents. yes, this is iceland's highest peak, 2119 metres. grandma is not even wearing a coat, is she? no, it's good weather there. so i slightly interrupted you, can i help you hang these up? i am choosing what photos i would like to use in my book. i will put this one up here. andri, how does looking at these photos make you feel?
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they have always made me feel nostalgic, proud, but they are also a slice section of time, that is, this is the first generation that was able to enjoy glaciers, and we only have three generations that will live that period. so then the glaciers will go, and after 300 years, these photos will be totally alien to that generation, especially in iceland. when the ice has left iceland. andri wanted to take me somewhere to show me just how quickly the landscape is changing. about 10% of iceland is covered in glaciers. but glaciologists now believe that all of iceland's glaciers will be gone in just 200 years. we meet a guide to help navigate us on a long walk high up into the clouds.
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"here are the colours replacing the flowers. "here are the bulbs replacing the stars, "here are the brands replacing the species, "here are the freezers replacing the glaciers. "this is the eye of the storm, the reason for everything is right here in my cart." tell me about where we are standing right now. we are standing at this memorial plaque which is where ok glacier used to stand. 50 metres above us, should have been an ice sheet across here, 30 years ago. but that has now completely vanished, and we only have these remains of dead ice around us. five years ago, when ok glacier was no longer heavy enough to lift itself up and move, it was declared dead.
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the amount of ice here has decreased dramatically. researchers from rice university in america recently drew attention to the loss. they approached andri to write the inscription for the plaque, commemorating the dead glacier. it's a strange situation, because how do you memorise the sky? it is something big, firm, eternal, it pushes in two directions. it points from here to the future, and it points from the future back to us. will you read me what you wrote? yes. here it says, "a letter to the future. "0k is the first icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. "in the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected "to follow the same path. "this monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening, "and what needs to be done. "only you know if we did it.
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"august 2019, a15 ppm of co2." that's the amount of co2 in the atmosphere, and actually the cause of the melted glacier. and that is rising, about 2—3 ppm every year. but still, hundreds of glaciers remain here. i left andri and went with my guide to solheimajokull glacier, the icy tongue of iceland's fourth—largest glacier, which covers nearly 600 kilometres square. it's also suffering under global warming. leifur runs carbon neutral tours here. do you think it is necessarily a good thing to encourage tourists to come to places where it might be their last chance to see it?
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notjust here, but anywhere around the world, isn't thatjust making a bad situation even worse? i think you can always question to fly and travel. but if you do, whether it is to spain or to iceland, then at least i think it is good that people are educated about nature, about glacier behaviour and how global warming is affecting the glaciers. but step down from the glacier to its lagoon, and here you can find a whole new perspective. you can actually see how quickly the ice is melting —
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look at all the waterjust dripping down into the lake. while a certain amount of meltwater each year is normal, it's the rate of loss at glaciers like this that is unsustainable. so how deep is this? close to the glacier, it is about 60 metres deep. has it changed much in the time you have been coming here? oh, yes, enormously. the lake didn't exist, just recent, it is just ten years old. this lake is ten years old? yes, it was starting to form in 2007 as a tiny pool, and now the glacier is melting at 100 metres per year. first, i found it really interesting to be living in a land where you could see the changes. but then, when you see it at this scale, it is frightening and a bit sad.
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i have a gift for you. what is the gift? a rare diamond. (laughs). a rare diamond! inside, there is trapped air that has been there for hundreds of years. that is incredible. it's so clear, isn't it? it's crazy. the ice may be beautiful, but it is a stark reminder that unless something changes soon, seeing and experiencing iceland's iconic glaciers is a privilege that few further generations will have the chance to enjoy. the weather has been going downhill through this evening
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and across many parts of the uk. the earlier satellite picture shows this curl of cloud. you can see the way it has been developing, an area of low pressure spinning up in our direction, bringing heavy and potentially flooding rain, driving northwards across england and wales through the evening and into early sunday. really strong winds towards the south. some of that rain is getting into northern ireland and southern scotland, northern scotland escaping with just a few showers. that is where we will have the lowest temperatures. but as the low pressure slides through during the first part of tomorrow morning, we will see gusty west or south—westerly winds along the southern flank, gusting to maybe 55 or 60 mph in the most exposed spots. on sunday, the most persistent rain settles across northern england. a thoroughly soggy day to come here. to the south of that, sunny spells and heavy showers. northern ireland and scotland will have some showers, but a decent amount of dry weather and some sunshine. feeling cool for
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aberdeen and newcastle. as this area of low pressure clears away eastwards, notice how on its back edge, the white lines, the isobars really squeeze together. we will have another swathe of strong winds across some central and eastern parts of england, particularly down the east coast. we could see gusts of 55 or 60 mph. that, combined with high tides, could cause some coastal flooding. on monday, the area of low pressure slides away and we get a quieter window of weather. there could be mist and fog patches around to start monday, but then a decent amount of dry and fine weather with some spells of sunshine. however, notice down to the south—west, here is our next area of low pressure. more heavy rain piling in across england and particularly wales. and there is again the risk of localised flooding. on tuesday, the area of low pressure will slide eastwards and as it clears, we will follow the isobars northwards. that is where our air will be coming from for the middle part
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of the week, a plunge of really chilly air, temperatures dipping across all parts of the uk. let's look at some city forecasts. and then for the end of the week, it could turn wet and windy again.
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this is bbc news. the prime minister learns he could face a vote of no confidence as early as next week, as he arrives for the conservative party conference. "a politically motivated attack" — downing street's verdict on borisjohnson being referred to the police watchdog over his links to an american businesswoman. pressure grows on president trump as secretary of state, mike pompeo, is ordered to hand over documents on ukraine linked to the impeachment investigation. doctors hail the results of new clinical trials that have dramatically increased the chances of long—term survival for some people with advanced melanoma skin cancer.
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teargas and water cannon are used by hong kong police to disperse protestors holding a rally to mark the fifth anniversary
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