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tv   The Briefing  BBC News  October 31, 2019 5:45am-6:01am GMT

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because of unrest on the country's streets. so let's begin with british politics. with me in the studio is david buik, market commentator at the betting company core spreads. good to see you. you have taken my breath away with those headlines stop the gosh! i know, so much going on. today was the day we were going to leave, 31st of october. it was never going to happen and if you've been stupid like i have for the last five or six weeks, to watch the bbc politics from the house of commons, you would have every right to be utterly ashamed. it's been a disgrace. all sides, all parties. i can't believe the low standard of behaviour and toxic atmosphere, turning friend against friend, family against family, business against his nose, appalling. sally,
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i honestly think it will take ten yea rs i honestly think it will take ten years to clear this up —— against business, appalling. the times is looking at many tory mps deciding not to stand. it highlights nicky morgan, the culture secretary, saying she is quitting politics, leaving westminster after suffering abuse. her constituency is loughborough in the midlands. decent people like caroline spelman, claire perry, all given their heart and soul to the party, decent people and they want people to have a better standard of living and they are fed up standard of living and they are fed up with it because they are a be used for their moderate views because they don't actually support certain policies of the government that they are in. but people and social media, which you have discussed obviously with twitter,. the political advertising, but if you go on to anything from instagram, twitter, snapchat,
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terrible stuff! we have seen politicians and mps being flanked by police and security when they are travelling and trying to go about their daily business, and looking at their daily business, and looking at the other front pages in the uk, their daily business, and looking at the otherfront pages in the uk, you can see how they are all positioning themselves for this run—up to the general election, whether they are pro— jeremy corbyn or pro—brexit or pro— jeremy corbyn or pro—brexit or pro— tory... pro— jeremy corbyn or pro—brexit or pro- tory... yeah, you could go back to the 2017 election, and labour stole a fantastic run against the rest of the parties by momentum and its online and social media campaign, which was, in my opinion, this role but massively effective! —— visceral. what will happen this time? they will all be involved and what worries me is the whole dialogue and conversation will be more toxic than 2017. nobody comes out with any credit from that. the times talks about iain duncan smith, former leader of the conservative
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party, saying we are the brexit party, saying we are the brexit party now because there's no other space for us to occupy. he did say that i wish he hadn't. is that how you think the prime minister, boris johnson, will pitch the party?” hope not, because we have spent 3.5 yea rs hope not, because we have spent 3.5 years talking highly volatile rubbish about brexit. doesn't matter whether you are remain or leave, i feel so passionately about this, if anyone is going to win this election without outright majority, which is very unlikely, but say one does, if you don't have a fantastic domestic agenda, which we have ignored for 3.5 years, apart from a good dollop of money going into the national health system, educational needs lots of money and police, hundreds of things, defence, things we have not dealt with properly. if it's the time of the end of austerity, and i believe whatever government it is, we need to spend, because if you look at europe, there's the
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possibility of a recession, maybe a global recession, so we need infrastructure spending to keep the economy going. moving on to the telegraph and we will talk about spending when we talk about christine lagarde. this is their headline, butjohn bercow, the speaker of the house, retires today. he said, "i'm going on the 31st of october". a lot has happened since he said that, and today he didn't have... let's try and be objective. in the nine years he has been there, i think he's been an eccentric, unorthodox and very effective speaker. he amuses me and he makes me smile. i don't mind his pomposity because i think it goes with the territory but where he has let his in south down, and i don't care, but he is clearly a remainer and that's come across in the house of commons and frankly it shouldn't have —— let himself down. frankly if that's his epitaph, it's a bit unfair, because for nine years to do
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thatjob unfair, because for nine years to do that job with unfair, because for nine years to do thatjob with gusto, enthusiasm and all that kind of thing... thatjob with gusto, enthusiasm and all that kind of thing. .. it's an extremely difficultjob. all that kind of thing. .. it's an extremely difficult job. impossible! and in these unprecedented, historic times within the house of commons with various mps coming forward with this amendment, that amendment, we are going to debate this again, yes we can, no we can't, we needed someone we can, no we can't, we needed someone with great experience to be in this... grass, absolute grasp, and knowing where to get advice from lawyers about what he can and can't do. it's a great 80. the situation has let itself down in the last 3.5 yea rs has let itself down in the last 3.5 years because, as i say, he's found it impossible to say, "i don't have a view on this". he hasn't done it officially but it's come across in the house of commons. difficult role to ta ke the house of commons. difficult role to take on and we will see who takes on the role. lindsay hall will be excellent —— lindsay hoyle. on the role. lindsay hall will be excellent -- lindsay hoyle. over the
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last few weeks and months, i have wondered how betty boothroyd would have handled the house of commons. she would have had the respect from everybody. a bit of a legend! fabulous woman, fabulous! let's look at this story about jack dorsey's decision. you already touched on it, twitter saying we won't have any political advertising on our platform from tomorrow, thursday of november, ahead of the uk election but also significantly the us election next year. what do you think it will make is a difference? lots of viewers have said it won't make much difference because there's so much political bias on twitter anyway. i would like to look at it from a business perspective, forget the emotional side and also the decency side, which is incredibly important, and bringing influence to bear. twitter had bad figures the week before last, and the share price drop 16%. they need
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advertising. and for want of a better... i salute jack dorsey being holier than thou, it's going to affect his bottom—line because trust me, all the others... but it might not much because their political ad revenue in the past hasn't been that great, unlike facebook and others. you have some in the united states, for example, those running trump's campaign, saying you're just for example, those running trump's campaign, saying you'rejust going to silence voices that are necessary. there is so much anti—trump expression in the media coverage in the united states. but when you get the forward earnings, the way you gauge a share price, where it should be, you take it... with wpp in the past, we've taken into account the olympic games, the world cup, rings that bring you massive revenue. look at how the nikkei has formed have because of the rugby world cup and they have the rugby world cup and they have the olympics next year —— performed.
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you can't say twitter has shown a positive attitude towards this, it will affect their bottom line because the other guys are going to do it. we will see what happens because it affects their bottom line, but is it necessary to enable elections to be free and fair? there is so much misinformation in social media, that's not political advertising, so that's not what's being discussed here. the financial times, we have talked about the fed, but they have another article within about christine lagarde, who i said was the head of the international monetary fund earlier, european central bank. that's what she was. she has a newjob. she is already vocalising her opinion that some governments, germany, denmark, others, need to spend money to get their economies going. if you have a criticism of mario draghi, who had done a fantasticjob since 2011 balancing the economic problems of 27 countries, together with
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independent advice on monetary and fiscal policy, is that he didn't actually do enough kicking saying, "seriously, guys, you've got fa ntastically "seriously, guys, you've got fantastically high unemployment through europe, apart from germany, you need to do something. one of the ways you can do it, even though you will create debt, is to do infrastructure spending". and your creating date at a time when interest rates are so low, it is not expensive for money to be borrowed, make hay while the sunshine ‘s. we will have to leave it there. david, go to talk to you about some of the news in the media —— sun shines. great to hear your thoughts as well. please join great to hear your thoughts as well. pleasejoin in. we would love to hear from you as well. have a great day.
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hello. south—western reaches of the uk have had relentless rain in the last couple of days — cornwall, the channel islands and devon. this was the scene sent in from one of our weather watchers from paignton yesterday. fairly solid, grey cloud and outbreaks of rain on and off throughout the day. still wet weather around here at the moment, but the low pressure centre responsible is going to be pulling away to the south of the uk as the day pans out. so we'll see things becoming drier, not necessarily brighter, and then we await our next weather system, this time coming from the atlantic, that will bring rain to all areas for friday. for today, though, a lot of dry weather to be had. the best of the sunshine to the north and east. the rain clearing from the south—west. quite a bit of cloud hanging back, though, across southern wales and the midlands, and the cloud thickening in the west later in the day as that next system approaches. another breezy day, particularly around western coasts. temperatures — well, we could get up to 1a in plymouth with a bit of brightness and some drier weather. we're typically looking at around 9—10 as we cast our eye further north towards scotland.
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if you are heading out this evening to trick—or—treat, well, central and eastern areas faring pretty well, with a dry story, just one of increasing cloud. further west, patchy rain to start with but turning heavier and more persistent as we get towards midnight. that, of course, is because our next weather system is starting to work its way in. this low pressure centre is going to stay with us notjust on friday but on to the weekend, swirling bands of rain our way. it is, though, also going to bring some much milder airfrom quite a way south in the atlantic our way on a south—westerly wind, so the temperatures will start to go up even though the rain is coming down. some quite heavy rain at times on friday, tending at first to come in showery bursts, then perhaps some more persistent rain running into the south later on in the day. there will be some brightness in between the showers, and with that sunshine, we could push temperatures up to 16 or 17 degrees across eastern england. we're still talking about nine
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or ten at this stage in scotland. friday into saturday, here's our low pressure system with us. some question as to exactly how this picture will evolve. if it goes like this, and we get this deep squeeze to the south of the low running to the south of the uk on saturday, it could be a very windy day, particularly for south coastal regions of the uk. either way, it looks like a pretty windy story really for many of us on the weekend, and outbreaks of rain on and off for both saturday and sunday too. the temperatures slide down a little as well.
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good morning — welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today: party leaders hit the campaign trail as mps warn of a growing toxic atmosphere in politics. culture secretary nicky morgan is the latest to say she won't be running blaming, among other things, the abuse received by mps. the us military releases the first footage of the raid in syria in which the leader of the islamic state group was killed. england keep the faith for the rugby world cup final. they name an unchanged side to face south africa on saturday, as they try to win their first title in 16 years. the battle for subscribers. apple enters the tv streaming business,

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