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this is bbc news, i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 7pm: police charge lorry driver maurice robinson with the manslaughter of 39 people found dead inside a trailer in essex. he's also been charged with conspiracy to traffic people. the arrest comes as police appeal for anyone concerned about family members to get in touch. if you come into us, we will do everything we can to put our arm around you and take you through this process, identify as quickly as possible to see whether or not we do indeed have one of your loved ones involved in this tragic incident. one of the most authoritative and famous victories in english rugby history! england reach the finald of the rugby world cup with a stunning win against defending champions new zealand in yokohama. that's how we thought they were going to play and we hoped they'd play,
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and they did. the dup leader arlene foster vows to keep opposing borisjohnson‘s brexit deal unless changes are made. we will not give support to the government when we believe they are fundamentally wrong and acting in a way that is detrimental to northern ireland and taking us in the wrong direction. millions of californians face having their power cut as the state battles a surge in wildfires. and coming up at half past six, sportsday will bring you up to date with all of today's premier league results. police have charged a man with 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people
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after 39 bodies were discovered in a refrigerated lorry container in essex. maurice robinson, the 25—year—old driver, will appear at chelmsford magistrates' court on monday. severalfamilies in vietnam have contacted the bbc fearing relatives are among the dead. a fifth person wanted by police has been arrested in dublin. jon donnison reports. this morning, at tilbury docks, more bodies driven away by private ambulance. all 39 have been removed from the container. they've been taken to broomfield hospital in chelmsford for postmortem examinations. but essex police say identifying those who died will take time. the focus, though, is now on the vietnamese community. i've met with the vietnamese ambassador, and we are building a really good and rapid rapport. again, we have agreed and i have made it clear to the ambassador
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that at every stage, we'll be treating these individuals with dignity and respect. but underlining all that, we don't know exactly the nationality of the individuals, but i will focus and engage as much as i can within the vietnamese community. in vietnam, the family of one victim was already grieving. he left behind his wife and young son to head to the uk. his father says he feels certain his son was inside the lorry. translation: he was on that truck, all 39 are dead and he must be one of them. he's gone now, there's nothing left of him, he died. father anthony is a vietnamese priest who's been speaking to families whose relatives are missing. translation: they were on their way to a new life, but they lost their lives.
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the district is in sorrow, it's a tragedy for the whole country to bear. a 21—year—old is another feared victim. in glasgow, we spoke to a friend who was hoping to see her once she arrived in the uk. he didn't want to be identified. translation: i have spoken to some of the families. they told me their daughters and sons travelled on that day. they know about the news, but they don't want to believe it. they are waiting for a miracle. in central vietnam, another makeshift shrine, set up at the home of a possible victim. her family are also fearing the worst. all they can do is wait for confirmation of what they think they already know. our correspondentjon donnison is in grays. quite donnison is in grays. a few developments over the last quite a few developments over the last few hours so bring us up—to—date in detail the people who
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are currently in police custody, please. 25-year-old maurice robinson from northern ireland was arrested on wednesday morning. he is the lorry driver. we had the news in the last few hours that he has now been charged by essex police with 39 cou nts charged by essex police with 39 counts of manslaughter, conspiracy to traffic people, conspiracy to assist with illegal immigration and money laundering. we also had news today that a man in his 20s wanted in connection with the deaths has been arrested at the poor in dublin by irish police. three of the people continue to be held and questioned by police on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people. 0k, thank you very much. england's rugby team produced one of their greatest ever performances to beat defending champions new zealand and reach the rugby world cup final injapan.
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the all blacks were clear favourites before the game, but england dominated, taking the lead in the second minute and eventually winning by 19 points to seven. they'll face either wales or south africa, who play tomorrow, in the final. our sports editor dan roan is in yokohama. not since 2003, when the world cup was won, has english rugby enjoyed a moment as enjoyable, as significant, as the one we've just witnessed here in the yokohama stadium. they came into this match very much as underdogs, they ended it as top dogs. you know, four years ago, england were humiliated on home soil in their own world cup when they crashed out at the group stage. in the wake of that failure, the rfu invested heavily, they brought in the australian coach eddiejones, and they tasked him with putting the pride back into english rugby and reaching the semifinals of this tournament. well, here this evening, he just went one better, and in doing so, his team have
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dethroned the superpowers of world rugby, the all blacks. this ends a run of six defeats against them. the last time england beat the all blacks was in 2012. they will have to wait untiltomorrow, of course, england, to discover who they will play in next week's final, either wales or south africa. but after a performance and a win that will never be forgotten, they now know they'll go into that final as firm favourites. as you would expect, england fans leaving the match were delighted with the team's performance. we caught up with a few of them. the way those boys played today out there for us was absolutely incredible. it was relentless from start to finish. bearing in mind that was the all blacks they were playing against, is that as good as you've ever seen them play? yeah, i would say the defence was amazing. absolutely amazing. theyjust didn't give an inch. and it was superb, fantastic. if you pick the one to 15 now, every single one of them who wears the white shirt is unbelievable. how would you sum up that performance? breathtaking.
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amazing. if we play like that again in the final, you don't want to count your chickens obviously. but fingers crossed, it all goes well. if we can repeat that performance, then who knows? relentless was the word. right from start to finish, absolutely fantastic. a brilliant performance from the boys. you can see them winning the world cup now? who knows? i don't like to count chickens. never count your chickens. if they play like that again, they win it. it's as simple as that. the atmosphere was amazing. we had a whole load of all blacks supporters next to us at one side, and we totally drowned them out. it was just superb right from the beginning. wonderful. a really positive atmosphere as well. how good were england? really good. incredible. really, really good. her first international rugby match. a good start, yeah! fantastic. the team has been praised on social media for their heroic display. the prime minister borisjohnson said...
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former england player will carling said... and jonny wilkinson, the player who scored the winning points in england's last world cup triumph 16 years ago, said... somebody else who cannot wait either dominant ——... mark cueto played 55 times for england, including the 2007 world cup final against south africa. he's now commercial
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director at sale. thank you very much. the fans were excited. what is your assessment of how they performed and therefore?” thought it was incredible. from literally the opening minutes, the way they addressed the haka. so much talk of how do you address it, how do you stand up to it, how do you respected. we saw eight totally different address from the england tea m different address from the england team today. and from that first kick—off, i think it was less than 90 seconds later, we go over for an early try. just set the tempo. set the speed. the aggression, everything dye i think they outplayed the all blacks in every department of the game and it was an incredible performance. youjust said how do you address it? how do you face that? what did they do differently as a team? just set up
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differently. i think because the all blacks have been so dominant for a decade, if not longer, you forever are trying to break them down. not just aspects of what they are doing in the game but the week up but the haka is become such a big part of the early stages of the game. it allows them almost to get that mental high ground from even before the kick off some of the whistle goes. so i think for england to set up goes. so i think for england to set u p slowly goes. so i think for england to set up slowly differ into almost challenge them, they were in the v formation, the point of the formation, the point of the formation at the back protecting, from that second, it showed that they were mentally up for this game. and throughout the game, let's bear in mind that there was at least
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another ten if not 14 points left out there. which is incredible really. they'll be watching tomorrow very closely. what will they be hoping for? what do they hope to see? i think a lot of their focus will be purely on themselves. when you get to a world cup final, he does not matter who you face, he will be a tough game, a tight game. they have played south africa a lot over the years, only recently in last yea r‘s autumn over the years, only recently in last year's autumn internationals, we got beat by them by one point. that was the last time we have played them. more recently, we have played them. more recently, we have played wells a lot more. probably argue and know a bit more about the welsh because we play them that much more year in and year out. but i think certainly at the moment, they will be completely focused on themselves. i think they seem to be picking at the right time, the pool stages of this world cup were not worrying but they did not look to be
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on top form. everything did not quite seem to fall into place but certainly last week against australia, it was a step up, a fantastic performance last week and another step up this week. and today against the all blacks. i think if they perform as well as they did today, they have got a fantastic chance of winning next week.” suppose a lot of it is based on their form. suppose a lot of it is based on theirform. i know eddiejones has some concerns about their fitness coming into this. they have a week to go now. where will they be doing to go now. where will they be doing to prepare for that final?” to go now. where will they be doing to prepare for that final? i think at this stage there is not a huge amount tactically or in terms of systems, defence, attack, place, not a lot they will work on or looking to change. a few tweaks here and there, a few different options but i think this week is all about resting up. they have had a tough six or
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seven games in the world cup and build up to the world cup. and if anything, today i thought the fitness looked incredible. after that 20 minutes, that first 20 minutes, the biggest worry for me, fantastic to see how well they had done and dominated in every aspect of the game, breakdowns, set pieces, everything but the worry was how long can they keep this tempo of? they managed to keep it up for the full 80 plus minutes commit which is massively impressive against the all blacks. i think this week, they will be spending probably more time in the classroom that on the training field and making sure they have got enough energy in their legs and their body for the game next week. 0bviously their body for the game next week. obviously if wells to get through to the final, it would be quite impressive because in all the northern hemisphere final. the imagine there will be any changes to the line—up? imagine there will be any changes to the line-up? difficult to see changes at this stage. but i said that last week after we beat
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australia in the quarterfinal. and then obviously eddie made changes at ten, 12 and i3. i was not sure if it was the right thing to do but obviously eddie knows better than me and he get the performance today. i will be really surprised barring of the odd injury, not sure withjonny may, look like were his hamstring is, he began with a heavily strapped it had an opportunity to open his legs early on i had one of the all blacks back wrote sort of cornered and you would normally see him just go at him but he looks like he was carrying the hammy a little bit. i think he was changed to him if not shortly after. barring injury, i cannot imagine there be many changes that team. 0k, thank you so much for that. and we'll find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:1i0pm and 11:30pm this evening in the papers. 0ur guestsjoining me tonight are jo phillips, political commentator,
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and nigel nelson, political editor, people and sunday mirror. the democratic unionist party in northern ireland has vowed to oppose the prime minister's brexit deal in the coming weeks. dup leader arlene foster told the party conference today her mps would use their votes in westminster to defeat the prime minister. it was a marked contrast to last year, which saw a star turn from mrjohnson. here's our ireland correspondent emma vardy, and a warning, there's some flash photography in her report. what a difference. this time last year, it was boris johnson walking onto this stage to rapturous applause. today, he was scolded by the dup leader. rather than have boris with us today, we have had to send him to the naughty step in parliament twice in this last week. twice! the party has refused to back the government on crucial brexit votes,
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saying borisjohnson sacrificed commitments he made to the dup in order to get a deal. we will not give support to the government when we believe they are fundamentally wrong and acting in a way that is detrimental to northern ireland and taking us in the wrong direction. last year, borisjohnson was warmly welcomed when he said no government should put a border down the irish sea. but his revised brexit deal requires new checks at northern ireland's ports to keep frictionless trade over the irish land border. it's a concession that for the dup undermines northern ireland's place in the united kingdom, which arlene foster has promised to uphold. now more than ever, let us stand strong for the union. thank you very much. arlene foster was keen to remind delegates the dup's votes in westminster have made a difference in recent days. and despite what members see as borisjohnson‘s betrayal
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of promises that he made here last year, they continue to hope the party can wield enough influence to get the prime minister to change course in the days ahead. just going to have to go back and think very hard about how he will get back our ten votes. it's as simple as that, there's arithmetic to be played. if he don't, i don't see any future for boris, i have to say. the price for an agreement with the eu has been losing the support of allies here. emma vardy, bbc news, belfast. the headlines on bbc news: police charge lorry driver maurice robinson with the manslaughter of 39 people found dead inside a trailer in essex. he's also been charged with conspiracy to traffic people. england are into the final of the rugby world cup after beating defending champions new zealand 19—7 in yokohama. and the dup leader arlene foster vows to keep opposing borisjohnson‘s brexit deal unless changes are made.
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dr renad mansour, project director of the iraq initiative at chatham house, said the protesters' ultimate aim is to change the entire political system in iraq. these protest continuing in iraq. for some time, there has been a sort of gap between the people and the rulers in iraq. it was for many seen that the next fault line, the iraq that we once thought was a fault line between sunnis and shias and kurds has actually shifted to a fault line between a majority of the population and the rulers. the rulers who have ruled since 2003 without any accountability and also without any ability to provide basic services. so, over the past few years, iraqis have really realised that the only voice they have is not in the ballot boxes or in going to parliamentarians,
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but through protests. so they've gone to the streets to protest, famously last year in basra and this year in baghdad, but something has changed and violence has entered into the equation. what we've seen in baghdad is over 150 earlier in the month being targeted and killed by the state security forces and their paramilitary allies. so the situation is tense, and the sort of post—2003 iraqi state is on the brink at the moment as most of these protesters, they don't call for the end of one leader, one prime minister, one party, even, they're talking about anti—system change, they want to change the whole entire post—2003 structure that they feel was imposed on them by both the americans as well by the foreign iraqi elites who came to iraq after 2003. a third man been arrested over the deaths of two teenagers at a house party in milton keynes last weekend.
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i7—year—olds ben gillham—rice and dom ansah died after being attacked at a birthday party in archford croft. two suspects have now appeared in court. both have been remanded in custody. the family of a british student who disappeared after a party on a cambodian island has flown out to join the search for her. 21—year—old amelia bambridge from worthing was last seen in the backpacker resort of koh rong on wednesday. her handbag has been found on a nearby beach. demonstrators are back on the streets of barcelona torrential rain has caused flooding and landslides in japan, leaving at least ten people dead. the chiba and fukushima regions have been badly affected, with a months worth of rain falling in half a day in some areas. the prime minister, shinzo abe, said the authorities were doing everything possible to help people in the affected areas. it comes just weeks after typhoon hagbis left almost 80 dead and caused widespread damage.
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millions of people in california face having their power cut as the emergency services continue to battle two rapidly—spreading wildfires in the state. 50,000 people have already been forced to leave their homes, and a state of emergency has been declared in two counties. angus crawford reports. through smoke and flames, help from the skies. emergency services at either end of the state tackling wildfires driven by 70 mph gales. wine country north of san francisco under threat. everyone evacuate! the fire's coming up! and fear further south in santa clarita. 50,000 residents forced to evacuate. two days now, two very long, sad, disappointing days.
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there's nothing to burn in my area. it all burned out. literally around 2am, 3am in the morning, it felt like it was a train ripping through my car. even pets had to seek sanctuary. there's been limited damage, no injuries reported and most fires are under control. but rising winds may stoke the flames. we're potentially going to see a historical wind event. and it has us highly concerned that the vulnerable areas of california could see some explosive fires. for now, then, firefighters must watch and wait. angus crawford, bbc news. the bbc spoke to mike dewald, a reporter for local radio station ksro in sonoma county in california. he says the danger is not over yet. not yet. it is a critical day here in sonoma county. the next 2a hours as crews prepare
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for that wind event, very high level winds, up to 90 mph in the high elevations. they're really looking to make gains, get those containment lines down before those winds come through and potentially push it toward more developed areas. 25,000 acres is the size of the fire currently. 10% containment it's up to. the people of sonoma county are probably the most prepared for wildfires anywhere in the country. the residents here have gone through this five years running. there was a preparedness event a few months ago, 5000 people showed up. everyone is used to this. they know the protocols, they know what to do. and everyone... it's still a very tense time, people are worried, people are scared, but in the event they have to evacuate, people are ready to go and know what to do. it's something we've never experienced before. i mean, people are throwing around words like "historic". so there's some question
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as to what to expect. people who are even well away of the area of the current fire still getting readyjust in case any new fire events pop up. 0bvoiusly, we don't want to see the kincaid fire move toward the area south, some of the cities with higher populations, so, yes, i would say a wider swathe of the county is getting prepared in the event they need to evacuate. demonstrators are back on the streets of barcelona as a backlash over spain's jailing of separatist leaders continues. those are live shots there. police say the crowds are up to 350,000 this evening. the region has been gripped by unrest since nine seperatist leaders were jailed earlirt this month by spain's supreme court, unleashing a week of huge demonstrations that quickly turned violent.
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around 200,000 people have joined a gay pride march in taiwan, the first since the island legalised same—sex marriages. taiwan is the first place in asia to allow gay people to marry. rachel stanton reports. celebrating in style. the island has long hosted the region's largest pride marches but this year there is a difference. taiwan will now allow same—sex couples to get married. it isa same—sex couples to get married. it is a first for asia, as same—sex marriages are not legal in other parts of the region. since the law was changed in may, more than 2000 couples have ta ken was changed in may, more than 2000 couples have taken advantage of this. translation: we hope everybody can understand that way people are around them. they are your neighbours, families in france was that we can all be good neighbours and marched together. despite this change in the law, the lgbt
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community says further steps need to be taken. translation: marriage equality is the beginning. it is not the end. we have to keep pushing for many other issues, including internationalway marriage recognition, parental and adoption rise as well as a surrogacy. adoption rise as well as a surrogacy. and most importantly, gender equality education. taiwan's for ministry posted his support for the parade online, early people to put on their glad rags. with plenty of rainbows and music come of this year parliament parade is a march of progress. now it's time for a look at the weather with phil avery. i have a bone to pick with phil avery. have the taps turned off yet? so you got a bit damp on the way to work. have a word with your driver. just hold that broadly a bit closer to you. very good evening to you. you would think we were married. it
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has been that way. this is the london scene that i think she may have a bit of an objection to. the rain is set the clear i suspect when she sachets off in her light air crack about things be much better. it was notjust crack about things be much better. it was not just the southeast crack about things be much better. it was notjust the southeast but very wet for a time of some late sunshine in wales. and there have been showers throughout the day across northern parts of scotland and that is because you are quite close to an area of low pressure there and that will keep you both pretty shallow and also pretty windy. a lot of isobars there and that frontal system that dampens not just our host but others of course even though it is her show will eventually quit the scene and then we are left with the wind. at its strongest, i would've thought later tonight with the winds drop from the values for the values further south. clearing skies and the winds beginning to lighten somewhat and that could mean a really chilly at night if you would see in a second for the south. showers keep going across the north and gusts up to 50 mph and exposed locations across
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jalisco limited front takes the cloud and rain today but the last of the amountair cloud and rain today but the last of the amount air into the near continent as well. leaving behind all of us come sunday and a much cooler and fresher regimes and it sta rts cooler and fresher regimes and it starts from the word go. as i saw himi starts from the word go. as i saw him iforget starts from the word go. as i saw him i forget about 12 and i3 starts from the word go. as i saw him i forget about 12 and 13 last night, it is closer to zero or one or2 night, it is closer to zero or one or 2 degrees for many. further north than what you will keep the wind so the a wee bit higher. the night a bit cooler because it is a bit longer so don't forget the clocks go back. and here we are, at last probably no complaints from everyone tomorrow because england wells, scotla nd tomorrow because england wells, scotland and northern ireland, dry, sunny and cooler in the shower still there and that gusting wind from northern end of this impartial skull and wanted to showers on the northern shores of northern ireland and perhaps one or two from the irish sea as well so no more of the i8 irish sea as well so no more of the 18 of kent today. hello 13 if you are lucky. single figures may be the maxed in the aberdeen area. and then having had that change from the mild phase of autumn and the wet and windy, we go to something cooler and
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