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changing, not m2 ‘ur : ‘ur wit mizit changing, notjust for it is life changing, notjust for us, ourfamilies, it is life changing, notjust for us, our families, the it is life changing, notjust for us, ourfamilies, the community, definitely. we will do a lot of good with this. it is too much for it. laughter. the couple are now in britain's rich list, ahead of emma watson on 52 million, ronnie wood at 85 million and gareth bale on a mien £91; million. stephen lenka said the priority is to move house so that children don't have to share bedrooms. whilst lenka has already given up her job bedrooms. whilst lenka has already given up herjob in the grocery store, steve says he will not let its customers down and will carry on building. cheering. steve a nd cheering. steve and lenka, who have been married for 13 years, say their heads are spinning. a pre—christmas present which they sable gift their family and friends a new life.
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duncan kennedy, bbc news, west sussex. lucky people. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz schafernaker. thank you. it certainly looks like november outside, but perhaps what isa november outside, but perhaps what is a little unseasonal is the temperature, temperatures across southern parts of the uk currently around the mid—teens, and for about the next 2a hours also, give or take, we will keep the mild and at times wet weather because of the low pressure sitting over the neighbourhood right now, this is actually an old atlantic tropical to, it has dragged in a lot of subtropical if not tropical air in oui’ subtropical if not tropical air in our direction, hence there is temperatures around the mid—teens gci’oss temperatures around the mid—teens across southern parts of the uk. these are the temperatures at around apm, the low pressure is with us, rain at times but also sunshine gci’oss rain at times but also sunshine across the southern half of the uk. as long as this low is circling
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around our neighbourhood, will the weather continue on its current path? showers, sometimes heavier bursts of rain, a bit of brightness, sometimes clear spells at night, but i think mild is the main story. here is wednesday and the old tropicals no longer is with a still, bringing showers and gusty winds at times gci’oss showers and gusty winds at times across the southern uk and it will bea across the southern uk and it will be a very changeable day, from cloudy skies to brightness, rain, cloudy skies to brightness, rain, cloudy skies, difficult to pinpoint where the best or rainiest weather will be. probably northern england will be. probably northern england will get the heaviest rain tomorrow. now into thursday, finally the low moves away towards the baltic and behind it notice a change, no longer seeing the tongues of subtropical air, instead culture air coming in north from the norwegian sea, so these viking winds are blowing across the north during thursday,
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perhaps preceded by some wet and cloudy weather across the south, but the main feature for thursday is temperatures will drop away in scotland, so we're only talking around single figures, just about holding onto double figures on thursday in the south. when the colder air from thursday in the south. when the colder airfrom the north thursday in the south. when the colder air from the north spreads right across the country, we will start off to a frosty start on friday, and look at the temperatures, five in newcastle, six around the midlands and seven in london. a beautiful, crisp end to the week. most others are informal crisp and sunny weather over the weekend. —— most of us are for more. we are still a little bit unsure about the weekend. a reminder of our top story... the chief rabbi condemns labour's handling of anti—semitism, and questionsjeremy corbyn‘s fitness to lead the country. mr corbyn says his party will not tolerate anti—semitism. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me,
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and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. it's a big night in the champions league. manchester city can seal qualification for the last 16 if they get a point at home to shakhtar donetsk. jose mourinho takes charge of his first home game for spurs knowing a win against olympiakos would seal their passage to the next stage. mourinho has won the competition with inter and porto — and will go into tonight's game confident with his new set of players. with these boys, i will never be afraid of any champions league match
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that comes to our faces. we need to qualify, that is the focus. it is only when my team arrives in the quarterfinals where i start having the feed knowing that we can do it. but in this moment i think we are really, really far from but in this moment i think we are really, really farfrom it. new zealand captain kane williamson says he will apologise in person tojofra archer for the "horrific" racist abuse he received from a fan during the first test. new zealand cricket have also said they would apologise to archer as they seek to identify the perpetrator. williamson said "it's against everything that we as kiwis are about." the second test starts on thursday in hamilton. the oval will host the opening game of cricket's new hundred format in july next year. jason roy's oval invincibles will face a welsh fire side including the likes of steve smith, mitchell starc and jonny bairstow. the match will be one of ten men's matches along with some live games from the women's tournament. rugby union, and scott wisemantel has left his role as
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england attack coach. he is the third recent departure from eddiejones's coaching staff. wisemantel‘s contract with the rfu came to an end after england's defeat by south africa in the rugby world cup final earlier this month. jones has already had to contend with the losses of scrum expert neal hatley and forwards coach steve borthwick. andy murray is not one of those sporting superstars who often speaks about his private life, but a new documentary has captured him at some of his most private moments. the premiere of "andy murray: resurfacing" was held in london last night. the film charts his two—year fight back from a hip injury which threatened to end his career. and while it was a very tough time for him — andy murray told me — it also helped him prepare for life after tennis. tennis obviously has been my whole adult life but also a huge part of my childhood as well, this is what i've done since i was a young kid,
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so when you sort of get to 28, 29 and it looks like you're coming to the end, i think sport doesn't do a very good job preparing athletes for finishing and setting them up for what they're going to do when they finish, but that nice thing about these last six or seven months when i was at home and my pain was gone, i got a glimpse into what my life would be like without tennis, and i'm so much more relaxed about that now that now that i know that everything will be all good when i do stop. and you can see that interview in full with andy murray in sportsday here on the news channel at 6:30. we know andy murray can bring in the crowds in their thousands, but he's never played in front of this many. 42,517 fans turned up to watch an exhibition match between roger federer and alexander zverev in mexico city on monday — an all—time record for a tennis match. federer described it
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as a magical evening. he won in three sets, if you're interested. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport black friday sales start this week and are full of hype but they offer few real deals — that's according to consumer group which? the group found only one in 20 offers are cheaper during this annual sale, and goods can be found either cheaper or available at the same price at other times of the year. here's adam french — consumer rights editor of which? to work out prices, he looked at black friday last year and looked at the prices they were sold at for six months before and the six months afterwards.
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which have done this for about four years, they looked at 83 popular products, speakers, sound bars, of those 83 products, we looked at, only four of those were actually truly at their cheapest on black friday. it really points to how important it is that you are doing your research when approaching this sales bonanza we see around black friday to make sure you're getting something that really is a good deal rather than being sucked into the hype around black friday and potentially a bit of buyers‘ remorse come monday morning. black friday is increasingly becoming this, almost taking over the entire month, there was research at earlier this week that people thought last friday was black friday, in fact, so we‘re seeing these sales grow exponentially year on year. this is research we‘ve four years straight 110w research we‘ve four years straight now and were starting to see a real pattern here of these deals not stacking up to expectations. and not being the best deals of the air. the
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real difference with black friday is that everyone is involved, most retailers are offering some kind of discount this week. but what we have found this year is a fairly clear pattern that there is a lot of hype around black friday, we are encouraged to spend, spend, spend moneyjust encouraged to spend, spend, spend money just before encouraged to spend, spend, spend moneyjust before christmas, when some of these deals may be aren‘t the greatest they could be. the big difference here is that everyone is offering these discounts. i think it‘s really important to make sure it‘s really important to make sure it‘s the right deal for you personally, so do your research, make sure you know exactly what kind of products you are after, and a price you‘re happy to pay. if you‘re just shopping around for bargains more generally, there‘s a chance you could be a bit misled and end up with a touch of buyers‘ remorse. so make sure you know what you want and how much you‘re happy to pay, and if the offer is less than that thenfor you personally that is almost certainly a good deal. a court in washington dc has ruled that former white house counsel, don mcgahn, must comply with a congressional subpoena
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related to the investigations into russian interference in the 2016 us elections. that inquiry is now complete, but the ruling could provide a legal basis for white house officials to testify before the impeachment inquiry into president trump. here‘s our north america correspondent david willis. up to now the white house has insisted that members, former and present, of the trump administration, were immune from giving evidence to congress, but now a federaljudge has decided otherwise. she said, in her ruling, the president is not above the law and not therefore able to command people on his staff not to give evidence to congress. this is significant for a number of reasons, not least because it could heighten democrat demands for people who have thus far been reluctant to give evidence to the impeachment inquiry to come forward.
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mick mulvany, the white house chief of staff, the secretary of state to make pompeo possibly among them. it could lead to morejunior white house aides and stuff is perhaps deciding to come forwards and testify of their own volition. it could bolster any case that house democrats were thinking of bringing against president trump and his administration in regards to obstruction of congress. don mcgahn said for nearly two years in the trump administration and knows a great deal about it. —— served for nearly two years. he told robert mueller‘s inquiry that he was told by president trump on several occasions to get rid of mr muller, and when that story leaked out he was also commanded to hold a press conference and deny that it ever happened. don mcgahn denied to do both of those things, but clearly he has a lot to say to congress. if he gets the chance to, given the white house is now appealing.
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thirty years ago this week, the communist regime in czechoslovakia collapsed following mass popular pro—democracy protests. the velvet revolution was a peaceful transition of power from communism to democracy — it was completed when the leading dissident and playwright vaclav havel became the country‘s president. our world affairs editor, john simpson, who covered the events in 1989, has returned to prague to speak to some of its leading figures. nowadays, prague is relaxed, beautiful, and jam—packed with tourists. you‘ve got to be 50 or more to remember how repressed and poverty—stricken it was under communism. and, how brutal. a small group of intellectuals, headed by the world—famous playwright vaclav havel had kept up their resistance ever since the russian invasion of 1968. they had been spied on,
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beaten up and jailed for years. but by 1989, things were changing. a new generation came out onto the streets to support them. people who didn‘t remember 1968. monika pajerova was one of the student leaders. nowadays, she teaches students herself, and she still remembers how amazed she was 30 years ago to see how many people had turned out to demonstrate. i was the first speaker. i could not believe it. i saw thousands and thousands of people in front of me and i thought, finally, people lost fear. i think it was a change of generations, because people like my parents who experienced 1968, the russian occupation, in their 20s, they were really scared. and we, their children, who were born around ‘68,
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we did not have this fear in us. but the dissidents who had stood out for years against the police state knew how repressive it could be, and when they weren‘t behind bars, people like jan urban could only do manual labour. as a dissident spokesman, he and his family were hounded by the secret police. they came to question my wife the day before she was supposed to go to hospital with a high—risk residency. —— mick high risk pregnancy. she played a hero, being interrogated, and we lost the child that night. can you forgive them now? if they came and looked me in the eyes and said,
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"i‘m sorry," i would forgive them on the spot. if they don‘t? no. jan urban told me this in the theatre which was the dissident headquarters during the 1989 revolution. it was right here that he broke the news to the other leaders that the communist regime had collapsed. it was the best revenge he could have had for the death of his unborn child. the headlines on bbc news: the chief rabbi condemns labour‘s handling of anti—semitism and questions jeremy corbyn‘s fitness to lead. conservative peer michael heseltine urges voters to back independent mps or the liberal democrats to stop boris johnson‘s brexit. anti—lg bt equality teaching protests are permanently banned from outside anderton park primary school in birmingham.
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as you will have seen, my colleague simon mccoy is in pembrokeshire today, and a little earlier he was joined by bbc wales political editor felicity evans for your questions answered. felicity is here with me now, so i may as well welcome you first of all. nice to see you again. let‘s crack on with this because a lot of people with questions. peter white in swansea. first of all, will the government provide wales with grants for infrastructure like we got from the eu, like the swansea bay campus or the valleys? he raises an important question here, which is that wales, or certain parts of it, including the area we are in now, has had billions and billions of pounds in european aid over the years. the reason for that is west wales and the valleys is one of the poorest parts of europe.
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so the money has absolutely porued in. there has been a big question mark over what happens once we leave the eu and will there be any replacement for that money. so the answer depends on two things — who wins the election and whether brexit actually happens. so assuming that the conservatives win, in that situation, they say they‘ll take us out of the eu at the end of january, and they say they will replace the eu aid with something called the shared prosperity fund, and in their manifesto they guarantee to match the money that wales has been receiving. but the question over who will control the spending of that money is a row that still has to be fought. and that‘s a big issue here because people here are feeling very cut off in terms of aid, fromthe eu particularly. basically, areas like this which are poor, which are below the median gdp of the eu, they have been getting the money and there have been question marks over whether the way the money is spent has been as effective as it should be in terms
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of raising areas out of poverty, and that is very much a question you can have discussions about. in terms of what replaces it and who is actually going to make the decisions about how to spend it, that will be a row that will go on and on, i suspect. if the conservatives don‘t win and other parties do, then brexit is slightly more up in the air, so that remains to be seen. another view says, will plaid cymru work with a jeremy corbyn government? that depends what you mean by work. adam price, the plaid leader, says he‘s not interested in formal coalitions, but he is prepared to work on a case—by—case basis if the issue is important enough, but obviously there would be a price for that. very quickly, will the self—building custom house—building act 2015, will wales support having this in wales?
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a bit niche, but probably important. i had to do my homework on that. keeping me on my toes! as he suggests, housing is devolved so it‘s in the control of the welsh government, and they announced a scheme earlier this year which they called self build wales, and it will be administered by the development bank of wales which will give people loans to help them self—build if they meet certain criteria, and apparently that scheme will be taking applications within the next few weeks. this is an interesting one — why are nhs waiting times in wales double those in england? a labour—led devolved government is responsible for health. yes, and this is a real can of worms. this is a can of worms that she is opening here. for many years now, there has been a stand—up row that has been bubbling away between the conservative government at westminster and the
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welsh labour government in cardiff, whereby the conservative government criticises labour‘s supervision of the nhs because it says certain waiting times, particularly in a&e and planned appointments, lag so far behind england. in other treatment times, the picture isn‘t so gloomy for wales because cancer treatments, for example, arguably there is a very good story for wales to tell there because there‘s not much of a difference. the problem with a bold comparison of the two figures is that the demographics of wales and england are very different. wales tends to have a population that is older, sicker, and poorer. therefore that puts a lot more demand on the nhs in wales than in england. arguably, a more fair comparison would be to take a region of england that has a similar demographic to wales
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and compare those, so if you took the north—east of england for example, the performance gap shrinks considerably. that is not to say of course that the political decisions that are made around funding and policy and all of that do not also feed into performance, i‘m not trying to say they don‘t. i‘m just trying to say that actually it‘s a much more complex picture. and the oecd had a look at this about three years ago, in 2016, and they compared the performance of nhs in all four nations of the uk, and their conclusions were that there isn‘t a great deal in it when you take into account all these other factors. though, it did make some criticisms of certain aspects of the welsh nhs at that time which it said could be improved. next, when we see election pledges like more doctors, how does this apply to wales, when we were hear about devolved issues? —— when will we hear about devolved
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issues? as you mentioned earlier, this is very big deal in the devolved nations. there are certain really key things that people care about enormously, like the health service, like education, which are devolved and therefore the responsibility of the welsh government scrutinised by the welsh assembly. so obviously when people hear promises from parties of certain figures of nurses or whatever, they relate only to england, and it is up to the welsh government to decide what to do in wales. very quickly, will welsh farmers post—brexit still be able to export without extra tarriffs? depends on whether brexit will happen and what the subsequent trade deal is like, if indeed there is one. if it is not, we could be back to a no—deal scenario. so we‘re not sure. thank you very much. good to see you, felicity evans. tomorrow, from nine o‘clock we will have a special programme bringing together your questions answered and radio 5live‘s your call,
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as the leader of plaid cymru takes your questions directly. do get in touch. texts will be charged at your standard message rate. a growing number of children arejoining the high iq society mensa. in five years, the number of those aged 11 and under has increased by more than half, from under 200 to 319. and the number of under 18s is also up. getting in puts your iq in the top 2 per cent of the population, but how much of it is about making the parents proud ? bbc asian network‘s anisa kadri has been looking into it. jiya vaducha practices her piano every day, but it‘s not every day an 11—year—olds can say they got the maximum mark of 162 on the mensa test.
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when i went into the room to do the test, i kind of got in a bit late. but i looked around and everyone was so much older than me, and i got a bit worried, like was i in the right place, was i supposed to do this? but when the test came i just did my best and it turned out that i did pretty good. having the vaducha name in mensa makes us feel immensely proud. more than 300 people aged 11 and under are members of the high iq society, a rise of over 50% in five years, and the number of under—18s is also up. butjiya‘s parents say, for them, parental pressure doesn‘t come into it. if your child is bright and you see some traits going on, it‘s worth giving a go. yes, it‘s a long two and a half hour test, but it‘s just a two and a half hour test, and if the results come out fair it will give a huge boost to your child. lyn kendall assesses children under ten and a half. generally people will contact me about their bright spark, and these children will show
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that they are mensa material because they are always on the go, they are always asking questions, their amazing memory, they can solve problems really quickly. here at the heathland school in west london they prepare children for the mensa exam, and to date more than 120 have got in over the past few years. it could come in useful for my future and it could open up opportunities... it is a massive boost of confidence, especially for year sevens, i think. the worst thing would be that it perhaps should be more tailored to younger people. that is something british mensa says it is working on. as this school prepares more children for the test, the society says it has got better at putting on events that cater for its growing younger membership. anisa kadri, bbc news. now it‘s time for a look at the weather with ben rich. today has brought us some rain, windy weather in places, but it has
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been mild. that is something that is set to change. this is the earlier satellite picture, you can see the swell of cloud, an area of low pressure, the winds around it move in an anticlockwise direction and that has brought up air from the south—west. that is why it has been feeling so mild. while many others have been cloudy and damp there has been some brightness around. still some showers they are feeling and from the south, and those showers will continue to drift north through the night. more persistent rain possible, and this band of rain really gets stuck across northern scotland. temperature wise no lower than six to ten. another relatively mild night. tomorrow, the low pressure still in charge, frontal systems spiralling around it, various areas of showers or longer spells of rain. quite a messy weather picture through tomorrow. we will see some showers down towards the south, some rain in northern scotland, and some heavy rain pushing on across parts of
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north—east england, that could cause flooding and disruption. it will be windy across the far north of scotland, could be gusts of 50 mph for the northern isles. some dry weather and sunshine, the best perhaps across the south west of scotla nd perhaps across the south west of scotland and northern ireland. but the heavy rain pushes and across north—east england, it could cause some disruption. further south some brightness but also hefty showers, and the english channel posts in particular the channel islands it is windy. gusts could reach 60 mph. but oui’ windy. gusts could reach 60 mph. but our low windy. gusts could reach 60 mph. but oui’ low pressure windy. gusts could reach 60 mph. but our low pressure slides away as we get into thursday. still close enough to provide some outbreaks of rain, drifting south across england and wales. there could be the odd heavy burst. further north some sunshine develops, some sunshine for northern and eastern coasts where it will also be cold and also, given the fact we have some colder air pushing n. single digits across most of the uk. but as we head into
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friday, that cold air is brought southwards on a northerly wind across all parts of the uk, thrust to start friday morning, it stays chilly into the weekend. chance of some rain in the south but the most there should be some brightness.
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hello, you‘re watching afternoon live. i‘m simon mccoy here in milford haven. today at 2pm: the chief rabbi questions whetherjeremy corbyn is fit to be prime minister, saying he has allowed anti—semitism to poison his party. the labour leader says the party has taken rapid and effective action and says anti—semitism is vile and wrong. there is no place whatsoever for anti—semitism in any shape orform or in any place whatsoever in modern britain. and under a labour government, it will not be tolerated in any form whatsoever. i want to make that clear. i do think it is a very serious business when the chief rabbi speaks as he does. i've never known anything like it.

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