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tv   The Papers  BBC News  October 20, 2019 10:30pm-11:00pm BST

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hello, this is bbc news
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with martine croxall. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines: the government says it's determined to press ahead with efforts to approve boris johnson's brexit plan. a double murder investigation has begun in milton keynes after two 17—year—old boys were stabbed to death at a house party last night. kurdish—led forces in syria say they have left a strategic border town under a truce with turkey. there's been more violence on the streets of hong kong as police fired tear gas at demonstrators marching in defiance of a police ban. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the financial times chief feature writer henry mance, and the uk correspondent at the french broadcaster france 2a and president of the foreign press association,
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benedicte paviot. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. let's start with the metro. it says borisjohnson‘s brexit deal will again be put to parliament, amid rising confidence in number ten that he has the numbers to get it through. the same story is in the financial times. the newspaper has crunched the numbers and suggests the government is on course to win by a majority of five. it's a guerilla war — so says the telegraph, which warns a rebel alliance of mps is threatening to again stop brexit happening by the end of the month. it also carries a picture of the duchess of sussex, who has spoken of her unhappiness about life in the media spotlight. the guardian says labour is seeking the backing of rebel tories and the dup for amendments that would force mrjohnson to drop the deal or accept a softer brexit. the i leads with a call from the shadow brexit secretary, sir keir starmer, for the brexit deal to be put to another referendum. a different story in the mirror. it says workers at amazon's biggest uk warehouse are accusing their managers
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of modern slavery. so a varied set of front pages, but brexit dominating most. let's see what our reviewers make of it all. that is where we will start, with the metro, now we have the numbers, i think you have been covering this all weekend, haven't you, benedicte? yes, being in parliament square for 16 hours yesterday! very interesting to watch the build—up to it, there has been so much build—up, and yes, a bit like humpty dumpty, we went up a bit like humpty dumpty, we went up a very high mountain, we thought it was a historic day, first time in a 37 years that there was the special setting, we thought there was going to be this meaningful vote, and then the letwin amendment really rained on borisjohnson‘s the letwin amendment really rained on boris johnson's parade, the letwin amendment really rained on borisjohnson‘s parade, and what was interesting is to speak to joanna cherry shortly after the vote, interview her, and she said thatjohn bercow had just agreed,
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she had asked him if borisjohnson didn't write to the eu last night, ifjohn bercow was prepared to write, and he had agreed to do it, which i think in itself is quite interesting. the letter did go, saying we have to have the extension. several! about the one i am particularly referring to hand been signed, had it? the letwin amendment is to stop the withdrawal agreement without ideal, as it currently stands it will not be approved until it is passed through parliament, we have legislated for it. yeah, the key principle, can you ask mps to vote on the same bill twice, and parliamentary procedure is that you cannot, and so oliver letwin and his friends, many of them remainers, who won on saturday, will not really be asked to win again on monday, i think they have won their
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victory, and if you read between the story in the metro and the financial times, the government does not think it will get a vote tomorrow, but it is paving the way for introducing legislation, the withdrawal agreement bill, on tuesday, and that will give it a chance to get over the line. at the moment, boris johnson thinks he has a majority for this deal, but he cannot find them to get a way to vote on it. you have dinner cooked in the oven, but someone dinner cooked in the oven, but someone has taken your oven gloves away! your colleagues at the financial times have looked at the numbers, they think he has got them, johnson sticks to brexiteer as fight rises in westminster victory. johnson sticks to brexiteer as fight rises in westminster victorym says a majority of five based on who is announced, very few conservative eurosceptics look like is announced, very few conservative eurosce ptics look like they is announced, very few conservative eurosceptics look like they will vote against the deal, some labour people coming across, so that may even outweigh the dup opposition, and a majority of five means three people changed tack, a couple of people changed tack, a couple of people get ill, whatever happens, you have a very different result,
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andl you have a very different result, and i think the anti—dale brigade feel the longer they can string this out, the more chance that something will happen. if they were to vote right now, it might go boris's way. there will be late night sittings and a weekend sitting in the lords, because we are 11 days away from brexit today, we are told, the 31st of october. and to cross all of those hurdles, there has to be time set aside to do it. gap that is one thing i want to say about the letters, like everybody, we have heard about it extensively. it is like a magician, we are looking over there, signed, not signed, whatever, but the prime minister who said he would never write a letter to seek an extension did send a letter, which is being treated as an official communication of the united kingdom and of the united kingdom
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prime minister to the eu, to the president of the eu council, donald tusk, and therefore that is being examined carefully. they will take their time. and he was saying i would never negotiate a brexit extension, he didn't need to, he had to write a letter to get one. the eu are taking theirtime, to write a letter to get one. the eu are taking their time, they were likely come back if they see this play out in the next few days, especially against the government, they will come back with a doubt, sometime in february, give us three months more to stew over this. at the data can be brought forward if the data can be brought forward if the government manages to get through all this legislation. there is no appetite in the eu, there is brexit exhaustion, i think that is the word, not just brexit exhaustion, i think that is the word, notjust in the united kingdom, there is brexhaustion as far as the contingency planning, the money, the summits, operation yellowhammer, it is all kinds of contingency planning, you know,
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customs, border checks, and if the united kingdom were to leave without a deal, it would become a third country, and all of that takes so much time in summits, so much time in meetings et cetera. let's look at the two stories about the rebel alliance, benedicte, in the guardian, labour seeks new alliance to kill deal, we know sir keir starmer is trying to get to the point where we would have a referendum on the current withdrawal agreement as it stands. it was very interesting, quite a line—up on the andrew marshall, sir oliver letwin, keir starmer and then dominic raab, all in the same hot seat. —— sarah —— on the andrew marr show. keir starmer was talking about a confirmatory vote, the condition in which they would vote for the new
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brexit deal of the prime minister, only obtained on thursday in brussels, but very much wanting to soften some of the economic effects, once in the united kingdom to stay, well, northern ireland to stay in the customs union, and clearly there is this new line about an alliance with the dup, and that is why, i think, the fact that borisjohnson chose at the nth hour to dispense with those ten bouts has so angered with those ten bouts has so angered with the dup that this is not over. —— those ten votes. it is going to be very interesting, clearly guerrilla warfare going on, and meanwhile the clock is still ticking. that is the way the telegraph is talking, this rebel alliance scuppering the withdrawal agreement. what are the limitations of amendments if people are not
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happy with environmental and employment protections, which some people think could be diluted over time? it is incredible, that quote is coming from the dup, who are the only reason that the conservatives are able to have a majority in the house of commons,... that old confidence and supply thing! confidence and supply guerrilla war! on tuesday, if this bill gets introduced, you have the potential to introduce lots of amendments, and the customs union one is one that is potentially attractive to people in favour of brexit but a softer brexit, and so could they team up with people who don't like brexit and therefore effectively implode the government's deal, maybe even of the government's deal, maybe even of the government, because we know that tory eurosceptics will not swallow a customs union. shall we talk about something else? a picture of the duchess of sussex, talking about how
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unhappy she is being in the media spotlight as a royal. you know there is going to be a lot of scrutiny, but you have to cope with it would bea but you have to cope with it would be a wholly different prospect, i would imagine. that is exactly what she says, that when she started dating prince harry, she was warned the tabloids would make her life hell, and even as a famous actor in the us, she couldn't really understand what it would be like, and now she can, and it seems to be taking a huge strain on her and her husband, these quotes, these pictures are from an itv documentary, an interview with tom bradby, and i think the rollers of her feelings come across very well. —— the rawness. her unhappiness, saying it is not enough to survive asa saying it is not enough to survive as a royal, i really want to thrive, and it is clear she does not feel she can do that. harry, for his part, has said i will protect my
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family, iam part, has said i will protect my family, i am not having them handed like my mother was hounded. clearly, well, it is almost a cane, in the way that he is expressing it, i think he feels tortured, actually. -- it is think he feels tortured, actually. —— it is almost akin. it is as if with every click on the camera, he is reminded of his mother's tragic death, it must be a living hell. the duchess's words will be commented on a lot, it is on the front page of the daily telegraph, where she insists she really tried to adopt the british stiff upper lip before concluding it was internally really damaging, and that is, of course, all of this at the same time as during the successful trip in africa, both harry and meghan announced that they were suing the daily mail, the sun and the daily mirror. this is... out there clearly isa mirror. this is... out there clearly is a real problem. i think there
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will be lots of conversations and more comment, and it seems they will be taking an extended period at the end of the air, six weeks, from royal life, initially as a family, to spend time between the uk and the us. —— at the end of the year. i think there was talk about going to africa more. harry and william on different parts, —— different paths, the fact that one of them is due to be king at some point. it is not that immediate, but clearly it is different, there has been talk of a rift in the past, indeed there is a talk of that at the moment, between them and their wives, this is an attempt to make things seem a bit happier, but it is clear the royal family is under real strain. a couple of stories on the sports pages of the guardian, wales
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reaching the semifinals of the rugby world cup after beating france by one point, it was a bit dirty, wasn't it? will the french dominated at the beginning, when i hear commentators saying, we do not know which france turned up, do we ever know which wales or england...? it was a riveting match, i think the lack of conversion of two tries, those points cost france to victory, but bravo, wales, very exciting, and not happy at one of the players who we can see in this excellent picture, on this back page, clearly did need to be sent off, that was really u na cce pta ble, did need to be sent off, that was really unacceptable, and rugby has really unacceptable, and rugby has really become really violent, i have to say. hasn't it always been no, my stepbrother, who was and am in doubt, tells me it wasn't. now we have got england and wales through
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to the semis. wales have never made the final, they actually were not the final, they actually were not the better side today, they were lucky to get through. nice of you to say that! i thought france were a better team. i think they will be seen better team. i think they will be seen as better team. i think they will be seen as underdogs against south africa. as england are against new zealand, so neither england or wales may end up in the final. and a nod tojapan, may end up in the final. and a nod to japan, extraordinary that they got so far, may be rugby could become the national sport, who knows? they have taken to it with plenty of enthusiasm. finally, a first title since injury for andy murray, to be in the mess he was in, have a hip operation and then win this. it is a bit strange for anyone who has read a newspaper or written for the sports pages in recent months, we have all written professional obituaries of andy murray, but in antwerp he beat stan wawrinka, won the european open, a
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real achievement, back to the top table. i wonder how much further he will want to carry on going, the drivers extraordinary. —— the drive is extraordinary. that's it for the papers this hour. henry mance and benedicte paviot will be back at 11:30 for another look at the papers. thank you both. next on bbc news, it's click. over the years on click, we have seen devices get smaller and smaller, yet with more storage and more processing capabilities. this miniaturisation of devices has touched everything from our computers to phones, and even revolutionising areas of medicine.
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one area of medicine which has a lot of demand and could potentially benefit from miniaturisation is medical imaging. in the uk, over 41 million scans take place every year in the nhs using x—rays, mri and ultrasound. in an emergency, at the bedside or even in an ambulance, it can be complicated to get a patient to one of these large machines. but now a portable medical device has been made available in the uk which could change all that, giving doctors and patients instant access to ultrasound at dramatically reduced costs. jen copesta ke has been to take a look. the intensive care unit of southampton children's hospital admits hundreds of patients each year with a range of medical conditions, from heart disease to trauma and neurological emergencies. effie was admitted with a lung
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infection and needs constant monitoring with tests like x—rays and ultrasound. usually, these scans are performed by specialist radiologists, and they are not always immediately available. this ward has four point—of—care ultrasound machines. these two cost over £50,000 each. but now the same test can be carried out using a smartphone app and probe which fit into a doctor's pocket and cost a fraction of the price. effie had heart surgery yesterday for a condition called tetralogy of fallot, which is a problem in the heart where there's four different issues. and one of the complications of that is sometimes fluid around the lungs. and so at southampton, we routinely do an ultrasound scan of children's chests before taking out chest drains, to make sure that all the fluids gone. this ultrasound system is called the butterfly and consists of a hand—held probe which attaches to an i0s
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smartphone or tablet. this is now filming where the lung meets the diaphragm. but that lung looks completely normal. there is no fluid around the lung, there is no fluid in the lung, the lung is moving well. it costs only £1,699 — a fraction of the cost of the larger machines — and its small footprint means it's less invasive at a child's bedside. one of the problems with most ultrasound machines is that they're designed with adults in mind. and so all of the presets are designed for adults. and what we've actually got here is a whole variety of paediatric settings as well. so i can select paediatric lung, paediatric heart, paediatric abdomen, but also, flip into standard adult lung, and it allows us to jump between, using one probe, with the press of a button, rather than having to change the probes in our ultrasound machine over and over to get the right probe. let's get rid of all this jelly. good girl. well
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done. traditional ultrasound machines use piezoelectric crystals, individuals crystals cut into different shapes and sizes as different frequencies are used to image different parts of the body. but this also means that different probes are needed. the butterfly uses ultrasound on a computer chip and needs only one probe for different body parts. we are the world's first ultrasound on chip, a single probe, whole—body imaging system. instead of the typical 124 imaging elements that are in a pzt probe, there are almost 9,000 elements in this. and so we can recreate all the different types of probes with just one. and that becomes really important as you scan different areas of the body in an emergency. you don't have to keep shifting probes. just with a simple change within the application itself, you can go from heart and lungs very quickly, and make rapid decisions on what's actually wrong with the patient. the information from the app can be anonymously sent to a secure server for different doctors to review quickly. the implications for global health for a portable and relatively cheap
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solution for scanning are clear. an estimated 5 billion people around the world don't have access to medical imaging of any kind. in sub—saharan africa, the device is being used to check for pneumonia — the leading infectious cause of death in children under five. in fact, the company's chief medical officer made his own alarming discovery when scanning himself during the device's testing. when we were doing the studies for fda clearance, i noticed some fullness in my neck. so i put the probe up to my neck and looked at my phone and shockingly, saw a very large mass which ultimately turned out to be a metastatic cancer. yeah, so i'm patient number one of the butterfly and living proof that having an immediate access to an image can change your health and your life. southampton has bought four of the devices and plan to always have one available in its children's ambulance. when you are stood in front of a child that is critically unwell, and you desperately
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need information, and you are relying on a third person, and you're watching a child deteriorate and you feel powerless, actually, this gives you the power. this gives you the information to look inside the kid's chest. it gives information to look at their heart. you can decide yourself within seconds. and suddenly looking after sick children is a bit less scary. for now, the butterfly is only available to medical professionals, but tests are currently under way with a group of cardiac patients scanning themselves at home. the artificial intelligence built into the device will help guide the patient to the right area to scan, and perhaps with regulatory approval, one day at—home ultrasound scans could be a reality. tate modern in london opens a major show of the work of the korean visionary namjune paik, which brings over together 200 of his pieces. here is someone who made a career
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out of being ahead of his time. he was the ultimate early adopter. he came up with the idea of wearable tech, he co—developed the first video synthesiser in 1970, he coined the term "electronic superhighway" in 1976, and he vjed a live global videocast via satellite in 1984. although paik was korean, he spent an awful lot of time injapan, and a lot of his work is influenced byjapanese culture. i mean, no—one loves a robot more than the japanese, am i right? and in fact, japan is where we are heading now for its annual tech extravaganza, ceatec. dan simmons and emily bates are waiting for us on the show floor. modulated: hello, and welcome back to ceatec. this is ridiculous. some things at japan's annual tech shindig can leave visitors speechless.
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unfortunately, not so for emily. # i have no idea what i'm doing. # now, over to the kitchen, and is your robot dog trying to tell you something? sony's aibo is now faithful to hitachi's appliances. if you leave the fridge door open or the washing machine finishes its cycle, he will come and find you and bark and wag his tail, because an alarm going off isn't as cute and won't sell products. he even rides the robot cleaner, just like real dogs. how do we know whether we've got a cold or whether we've got a virus or maybe whether it's a bacterial infection? often our doctors take best guesses but they don't really know. and part of the reason for that is any sample they take — if they do — takes a few hours or maybe even a couple of days to tell us what we've got.
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murata at 0saka prefecture university have developed a portable device that gathers bacteria, making it easier and quicker to to analyse. a laser is pointed underneath the sample that is on a substrate — basically a plate that is placed on this device — and we can see here what the microscope is seeing. now, look closely and you will see the movement of the water that surrounds the sample. that movement of water is causing a concentration of the bacteria — or indeed the virus — down to the bottom, towards that plate. so there's no need to grow anything. sony devoted its entire stand to show off health tech this year, including this cell analyser that tracks cell type and biomarkers which can help to detect cancer, and it uses lasers that may be familiar to you. we are actually using the blu—ray player's technology.
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we are detecting the cancer by laser and then detecting the scattered light from the cells. that is exactly the same as blu— ray players. dan, what on earth is going on over here? just trying a little bit of surgery. surgery? mmm. you're a brain surgeon now? well, with these 3d glasses and that 3d screen there, this has one of the best resolutions for any surgery. this is actually used... this camera here is actually used in surgeries. and the trick is not to look down at what you are doing inside this brain, for example. it is to keep looking up at the screen until you've got the piece that you want. very good! and then look at how small that is! that is absolutely tiny! yeah, look at this. that is so small. i'm no brain surgeon, emily, i can tell you. clearly! i'm busted. but this is child's play.
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please put his head back on now. and finally dan found a visual way to converse with the locals here that didn't involve flapping his arms around. konichiwa. hajimemashite. no idea what that means, but with a swipe of the finger, there's the japanese. and there's the english. "hello, nice to meet you." a brief look at this year's ceatec injapan there. more from ceatec and more from this programme in the full—length version of the show, which is available and waiting for you right now on iplayer. that is it for the short version, apart from our big announcement, and that is that tickets for this year's click live — the show are now available. this year, we're coming to dundee in scotland, and we would love to see you there. so if you would like to see us in the flesh, then go to bbc.co.uk/showandtours and apply for tickets.
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can't wait! thanks for watching, and we will see you soon. we will keep a few showers into the night across england and wales, and we had some in northern scotland, but most of those will fade away. scotland and northern ireland will find clearer skies overnight and light winds with temperatures dipping away. there is a breeze with cloud and a few showers in england and wales and rain arriving towards kent later in the night, keeping temperatures up. how cold in scotland? frost in aberdeenshire, minus three celsius as we start tomorrow. scotland and northern ireland looking fine for the most part
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with cloud increasing from the west later and outbreaks of rain by evening pushing into the northern isles with a freshening south westerly. some rain for east anglia and south—east england, especially the further east you are, and elsewhere in england and wales the odd shower on the north—easterly breeze, though most will stay fine, with more sunshine developing through the afternoon. temperatures in the mid to low teens and it looks mainly dry as well. and that's your weather.
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gillham—rice this is bbc news. the headlines... the government says it will push ahead with efforts to get a brexit deal through parliament this week. borisjohnson is expected to seek the backing of mps tomorrow or tuesday. he's defied the doubters, got a deal. and we also now, notwithstanding the shenanigans in parliament, appear to have now the numbers to get this through. all this after the prime minister was forced in a letter to ask the eu for another brexit delay. labour says the public should have its say. whatever deal gets through, it should be subject to a referendum where that deal is put to the public.

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