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time of year. that will feed in this time of year. that will feed in more low pressure and rain next week. we have the rain and strengthening winds pushing northwards mainly affecting england and wales. i think there will be patchy rain in scotland. it will be on the mild side, 12 or 13 celsius. we start with mild weather and we keep that through tuesday and wednesday but it comes with cloud and outbreaks of rain. as we head towards the latter part of the week, low pressure should move away, pressure should start to rise, it will get cooler but drier.
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hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. jeremy corbyn says under a labour government, there would be another referendum, and as prime minister he would be unbiased,
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and deliver on the result, whichever way it went. i will adopt as prime minister a neutral stance so that i can credibly carry—out the other results of that to bring our communities and country together. the health secretary, matt hancock, rejects calls from gps in england to reduce the number of home visits from their contracts, calling it a "complete non—starter". more businesses turn their back on prince andrew — barclays withdraws support from the duke's mentoring scheme "pitch at the palace." now on bbc news, through the lens features five photographers who have offered glimpses into rarely seen lives, including people on the margins of society in pinochet‘s chile, plus residents of an isolated city.
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photography has the ability to shine a spotlight giving us an insight into people and places we would never otherwise have seen. in this programme i am going to introduce you to find remarkable female photographers working today who have ca ptu red photographers working today who have captured worlds really documented, exploring hidden lives around the globe. coming up... a photographer who befriended saudi women offering exams behind the closed doors of their homes and a jordanian reveals their homes and a jordanian reveals the lives of palestinians in the west ba n k the lives of palestinians in the west bank through moments of document. but first let's meet elena, the russian photographer looked at her residence adapted to living in one of the worlds most isolated cities, 400 kilometres north of the arctic circle where each winter the sun does not rise for two months. you have a feeling that they will appear but that never
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comes. it isa it is a city above the polar circle in russia, siberia, one of the most northern cities in the world with a population of 180,000 people. my mother loved above the polar circle during her youth and told me the studies about it. i was really interested to explore and understand how it is to love with apollo nights and days. and who is a life this attitude. —— how is life at this attitude. —— how is life at this attitude altitude. it is an interesting history, situated and
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kind of preservation, no ground links with other cities of russia. it isa links with other cities of russia. it is a very extreme place. for me the main idea was to talk about this environment and climate. almost inevitably we can find a scenario and people go quite often there, it is not luxury, it is very common and something people need. when there are stronger snowstorms buses are organised and workers go to mines or pla nts organised and workers go to mines or plants by the buses. pollinate comes very slowly, —— polar night comes very slowly, —— polar night comes very slowly. then you understand that as a normal daylight. it is
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very important to see sun for good mood and one moment it is time to be very ha rd mood and one moment it is time to be very hard and heavy, psychologically after two months i started to have this feeling of panic that the sun will never come back. these are a very beautiful time, people are so happy and worked often until late just enjoying the one weather and beautiful golden light. it is hard sometimes to sleep because a lot of people are not used to sleep when that is a delight. it is quite contradictory because the conditions of climate and quite extreme but people are so friendly and so joyful, if any wonderful sense of
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humour. i was surprised to meet several young people who told me that for them the ad in a zone of comfort because they have everything, they have long locations, good salaries, regular salaries but from the other side there are people saying to live any more comfortable region. for me photography is like a control, a key to go to some places to meet certain people and without being a photographer i could not actually be there. elinor whose images show what it is like another one of the cold est it is like another one of the coldest cities on earth. sometimes
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culture rather than geography can mean certain groups are harder to reach. during 2009—10 olivia arthur spent tame and saudi arabia photographing scenes of parties and teachers away from the eyes of the dodgers police. —— religious police. they have this very strong conservative islamic influence as well as what has come with oil money. originally i went to saudi arabia to teach a workshop for young women who invited me to their houses to meet the families. i said can i make a picture of you and your home, something you are comfortable with. some were totally covered and some we re some were totally covered and some were ok to photograph and i didn't show theirfaces. i show their faces. i started making friends and hung out with a man—made other girls was not a state and a hostel, a whole apartment block for women who study or work in the city
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but his family are not there. we hung out together, i should them my work and they said would love to be in your pictures. it must have been won in the morning and the old put their niqab on and made a pretence tea party. i hadn't asked him to do that but it was fun, they started playing around and a girl has a black goldfish and says my goldfish has one as well. we kind of laughed and the when not laughing at themselves but we were having fun and they said thank you that was great, really enjoyed it. that was a great, really enjoyed it. that was a great honour for me that they would trust me and let me into their world and i took that very seriously and try to understand their desire for privacy and what that meant, what they wear and not key with me showing. sometimes i take pictures
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and the litter they asked me not to show their faces was not i make prints and photographs under a bright light. that is great, casual one of her eyes people can see her beautiful she is. it is a curious place, a beach tone about half an alarm from jeddah, people go there on the weekend. it is privately owned to the rows of saudi society somehow do not exist so it is confusing. you can read what you like, women can drive cars and ride bikes, swim in a bikini. in a way this place captured a lot of the contradictions. i didn't really want to see life in this country as this way on this way, one particular thing because i realised it is way more complicated and i did not really have the proper insight only some glimpses. but i tried to do was
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get people my experience to help explain to the viewer the stuff hidden and also the contradictory nature of it all. she comes up to us and a cafe, do you want to come to a dj party question mark i am shocked. no, it is one of those old girls parties, the at legal, the parties flick on every five minutes to make sure no one is misbehaving. not being able to mix into what is going on and only brings a lightness and to what is in part quite a heavy story, my experience was not about women complaining about their lives, it was about having fun and making the most of their lives and their space we are given. photography is intrusive and his people are desperately private but there will be girls who would say show our world, show our lives are not as bad as they think they are. olivia
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arthur whose friendships with young saudi women are glad access to private spaces where cameras are usually shunned. this woman was born injordan and usually shunned. this woman was born in jordan and raised usually shunned. this woman was born injordan and raised there and in texas. her images offer a newish look at those and the occupied territories, finding a unique entry point into one of the places on the planet. find your way and that no one else can tell, do not replicate the news and go deeper. i am working ona the news and go deeper. i am working on a place that is one of the most high put additive places on earth. if you look at the coverage versus anywhere else it is vast but i am bored by the majority of it and does not represent the place that i know. soi not represent the place that i know. so i try to find the intimate, try
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to find a unique entry point into any study, under, over a side door, around the corner because i am not interested in reproducing what it has all ready been done and said because what is the point. it is to because what is the point. it is to be something that has more than one dimension. i married a palestinian and had children and suddenly i was not a journalist coming in and out, palestine was home and i were sitting at checkpoints and experiencing this kafkaesque reality and watching sometimes operatic scenes of ridiculousness and humour to bypass or just scenes of ridiculousness and humour to bypass orjust survive the situations i started to look differently and think what story do i want to tell. that was occupied pleasures. there had been a wedding andi pleasures. there had been a wedding and i had missed it, a woman had come in any wedding dress with the wedding party because she had not been given permission to access gazza because of the blockade.
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iphone tour and she was not the about the husband was and he told me about the husband was and he told me about his love story. he described finding an end eternal, i ran to her and kissed. it was like a bollywood movie and then he paused and said the most sobering something, no matter what they do to us we will always find a way. to live and love and laugh. we did make it in time, the favourite spot as some roman ruins and an idiot become and discourage them. they say they loved was specifically that spot for that reason and they looked to yoga as an resistance. —— in a resistance. the particle boys in a refugee camp and the things they could do, flying and using these ugly woes as a springboard to freedom. it was his
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remark on the absurdity of this place was not he like a cigarette and looked at this ship, he knew the joke added was wonderful. humour is prevalent and i think humour allows you to surprising places that you are dealing with jews, you to surprising places that you are dealing withjews, armenians, lebanese was the black humour as very endemic and surviving mechanism. i succeeded at the federalist being curious just let you slightly don't you assumptions. i was born injordan and raised between texas and that is when i wear the critique of mainstream journalism came because going between texas and jordan as a kid how the news was presented was very different. coming for more or enter but how do you survive this, what is your take on this whether it was black tumour or something more obvious or more subtle, i wanted
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more of the personal. how one occupies the mains to circumvent this reality and also simultaneously refused to wait suffering be the definition of existence. tanya who found that document alone can end to surprising places. —— doctor humour. in 1973 general pinochet overthrew the chilean government and establish a dictatorship. although targeted by the police she defied the curfew to document community persecuted by the regime. this brutal military way of acting, you can work and metaphors and work differently and the way to avoid them.
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at the end of the regime i had to stop my teaching at school, that was my work at that time, i had to work a freelance photographer. those days when many women photographers had to be very brave to do that. things we re be very brave to do that. things were complicated because of curfew and time of how you could work, many young children, two kids. the only way to do my things was to start investigating the street by myself. it was a way to do a sort of political resistance but it was also very scary because the police were
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a lwa ys very scary because the police were always after as. that experience helped me a lot to move around and sort out ways to work, confront the police that was heavy on us. photographers and the street of course my house had been searched so i knew what you had to hide or how. adam's apple was a long essay, it took four years to finish it. i was interested and prostitution in general, men prostitutes, tra nsvestites a nd general, men prostitutes, transvestites and they read extremely keen on photography, they loved it. that was fantastic, how they do seem to me and the first thing i did was meeting the mother of two of them and got very close to her. in fact a dedicated the work to
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her, mercedes. we made a book after four years that of course was censored, the subject was like underground. with my friend claudia we went with them south but they had to leave the capital because of persecution. we went to stay with them for a week while working in another city. that's what we recorded classically, there lives, their experiences at the beginning of the dictatorship, how badly they we re of the dictatorship, how badly they were treated the ones that had survived. i felt very close to them and we were very good friends. i
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have been in touch with the survivors of this project which in fa ct survivors of this project which in fact as a very sad situation since most of them died of aids. it was a very tragic experience for the whole community. to show people or make people learn how to look, the margin will power looks differently. paz for home photography was a form of political resistance. magnum photographer diana is intensely personal. after the four of the soviet union her mother took up to the us without telling her father. they are that photo men armenia 20 yea rs later they are that photo men armenia 20 years later capturing their reunion
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in pictures. my mum walked me up and everything was packed, we had a tiny suitcase my brother and diane my mum said to cure important things and we left. —— take all your important things. we never said goodbye to my father. my mum solution to forget him was simple, she cut his image out of the photographs and my family album and the holes made it harder to forget him. i wonder would have been like to have a father. i still do. my work is often about my own family, the past, memory and this project is one of the first projects that inspired me to look inwards to start exploring my own family
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history. my venus met in university in armenia. my mother had just turned 21, it is strange to look at images of them together, the looks or happy. so in love. all i ever knew was her disappointment. i was born and russia at a time when the soviet union collapsed and my family like a lot of russians became desperate overnight. my mum wanted something more for her life, she a lwa ys something more for her life, she always did. i also had an absent dad, she did not have a relationship, a family beyond my brother and i. and we left. we never thought we would never see my dad again, my friends. we just left and it took me two decades to grow back. this is a should kiss my grandfather put together of things he had
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collected for the last 20 years where we were missing. a shirt from my mother was mike future wedding, dozens my mother was mike future wedding, d oze ns of my mother was mike future wedding, dozens of returned letters, newspaper clippings cold messing point, says we were taken to america bya mum point, says we were taken to america by a mum and he doesn't know we are. anyone who knows anything could write to him. i wanted to find my father, i was separated from him when i was seven, almost 20 years later i wanted as an adult to know who this man was. ijust happen to be in armenia, in brother was with me andi be in armenia, in brother was with me and i rememberfinding his house and we said we were his kids and he said he didn't believe us. this was one of those days where i felt really lucky to be around my dad, on
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a boat and paddling together, teaching me moments when he feels close but all of a sudden he is gone. collaborative photography gives way to better storytelling. i learned this with my mother, the collaboration started not so much he is free to take pictures he is going to rate, more like he is going to think with me. not everything was one study, one truth. when you have two parents one study, one truth. when you have two pa rents it one study, one truth. when you have two parents it is the basic and when you are not given that you are a lwa ys you are not given that you are always trying to find a way to make up always trying to find a way to make up for it. when i look at my dad i think he is the exact person i needed and my life, relationship has really become one of love. they are out on finding her father and redefining their relationship. that is all from three lines at the v&a
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photography centre and wonder, to see the rest of the cities go to the website. —— the rest of the series. last date was the first completely frost free nights and is bonfire night at this milder air comes with cloud and rain, quite heavy earlier and overnight. the steady heavy rain pushes towards the north—east sought the weather going downhill here. let me show you the radar picture, the past few of us treasure for the heavy rain will be an estate of the south—west it is more north—eastern parts of england and increasingly east and scotland. you can see the rain moving north, there is the rain and wales and the south—west turning
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showery, and breaks of rain and to the south—east of england heading towards the midlands. climbed through the rest of the day, rain never too far away and temperatures mild, then to 11. rain moving north to the north—east of scotland, cleaning the south—east of england heading north and then as winds drop we find mist and for forming across northern ireland, england and wales, temperatures six or seven saw another mild and frost free nights. enter tomorrow, should be dry, and between the two weather fronts with the next coming in from the atlantic bringing the rain after dark, still rain to start the day ended north—east, two of the northern isles and you may get show was arriving at an the irish sea coast spot on the whole dry, a lot of cloud again after a misty and rocky start, the best of sunshine in the morning to once the south—east corner in england and east anglia, 12 years, very similar temperatures to today. looking ahead to next
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week, another area of low pressure behind me driven by thejet week, another area of low pressure behind me driven by the jet stream which is unusually far south this time of year and that will keep the u nsettled time of year and that will keep the unsettled weather going so we have this rain arriving from the south—west tomorrow night, continuing to push north entering and wales, strengthening winds as well, not so much rain. in a northern ireland but had pushed find sunshine, although northern scotland should do not too bad, to pitchers mild between nine and 13. mild into wednesday but comes with cloud and for the wednesday but comes with cloud and forthe rain, wednesday but comes with cloud and for the rain, you can see a change through thursday and friday, the low pressure pulling away, turning dry out but at the same time admit on a bit cold and by the end of the week we may see a touch of frost returning.
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this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 2pm... the health secretary, matt hancock, rejects calls from england's gps to remove home visits from their contracts, calling it a "complete non—starter". it isn't going to watch, it isn't going to happen. they say they want to negotiate to and home visits but of course gps need to do home visits. jeremy corbyn defends his decision to remain neutral in any future brexit referendum if labour wins power. i think being an honest broker and listening to everyone as actually a sign of strength on the sign of maturity. calm in hong kong today, but the authorities threaten to suspend voting in tomorrow's local elections if there is more violence on city's streets. railway rebuild. the model display destroyed by vandals — now back on show thanks

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