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by the that should get blown away by the time we get into thursday. another weather front streaks in from the atla ntic weather front streaks in from the atlantic turning wet and windy in western scotland. this is what is to come. after a cold start mata from the north. the head of frost and fog patches before it turns wet and later on.
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this is bbc world news today. i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories... the woman killed in the london bridge attack has been named as 23—year—old saskia jones. her family say she was funny, kind and will leave "a huge void" in their lives. her university's vice chancellor says he's "devastated". this is an attack on our community in many ways and it was intended as such, it was meant to produce a form of terror and sadness and it has clearly done that. new images reveal the bravery of members of the public — tackling the terrorist on the bridge and in the hall where his attack began. malta's prime ministerjoseph muscat, says he will resign following mass protests over the murder of an anti—corru ption journalist. another day of protest in hong
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kong. some demonstrators were met with tear gas and pepper spray while a smaller march to the us consulate passed off peacefully. and we'll get all the news from the bbc sport centre, including a dramatic win for leicester city over everton. hello and welcome to world news today. the second victim killed in the london bridge attack has been named as 23—year—old saskia jones from stratford—upon—avon. she was a volunteer with the prisoner education charity learning together. her family describe her as a "wonderful and positive influence at the centre of many people's lives". jack merritt,
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who was 25 and from cambridgeshire, was also murdered, while three other people were injured. the attacker, usman khan who was later shot dead by the police, was a convicted terrorist, who had served half of a 16—yearjail sentence. today the conservatives and labour blamed each other for his early release. more on that in a moment, but first for the latest on the investigation, here's, daniel sandford. saskia jones, 23, a cambridge graduate who wanted tojoin the police. herfamily said her family said she herfamily said she had a passion for helping victims of injustice. she was named today as the second person murdered in friday's attack. running from fishmongers' hall where he had just killed two people, usman khan on london bridge on friday afternoon, pursued in an astonishing act of bravery by a man armed only with a fire extinguisher and another wielding a narwhal tusk, an arctic whale.
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he is brought to the ground and held before armed officers arrive and realise that he is wearing what looks like a suicide vest. they shoot him dead. this afternoon, toby williamson who runs fishmongers' hall where the attack took place, was at the scene and told the bbc about the bravery of his staff who had been helping people at this conference when the bloodshed began. this is extraordinary things happening done by ordinary people. let me just bounce you round. in rece tion ou've got dawn and gareth, one trying to keep that door closed against a vicious knifeman, the other calmly placing the emergency calls.
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alla and sandra, normally dealing with coats and serving coffees, now fighting a life moment, and famously you've got andy and lucas starting a fightback using fire extinguishers, chairs, they used narwhal tusks ripped off the wall in the heat of the moment and they took the game back to the knifeman. usman khan also killed jack merritt, another cambridge university graduate who worked with prisoners to help them reform. usman khan was one of the people he had assisted, a man who was released last december after serving eight years in prison for terrorism offences, but turned on jack meritt and stabbed him to death. this afternoon, some of jack's friends came to london bridge to mourn him and lay flowers as the head of cambridge university paid him tribute. we're devastated. i only metjack once but he impressed me as a person of tremendous charm, but also extraordinary commitment. he really believed that the work that learning together is doing
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is fundamental for the future of our society. fishmongers' hall remains closed, a crime scene being poured over by counterterrorism detectives. because although there will not be a trial, there will be a detailed inquest into the deaths of those who were killed here on friday afternoon. the investigation was continuing as night fell. police determined to gather every piece of evidence to help the families of two young people at the start of their adult lives understand exactly how they came to be killed. well, borisjohnson faced questions today, over why usman khan was released early from prison. the prime minister blamed legislation introduced 11 years ago by the last labour government. he said in future, serious offenders would serve their full sentences. however, labour claimed tory budget cuts were responsible, for what it described as "missed chances to intervene". our political correspondent,
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jessica parker has more. visiting the scene yesterday. today, borisjohnson wanted to talk more about tougher sentencing, saying those convicted of serious terrorist offenses should serve a minimum term 01:14 years. i think it's ridiculous. i think it's repulsive that individuals as dangerous as this man should be allowed out after serving only eight years and that's why we are going to change the law. on the issue of early release, borisjohnson pointed the finger at a labour government, but it's a complicated picture. in 2008, labour changed the law so that more offenders could be released halfway through their sentences. however, dangerous offenders could still be given an indeterminate sentence with no fixed release date. and in 2012, usman khan was given this kind of sentence. it was the court of appeal which chose to change khan's sentence to a fixed term, which meant he could be released on licence after eight years. of course, a conservative
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or coalition government has been in charge since 2010. for ten years you've done nothing to change the system. i'm talking about... now you're saying, now we will. ..what we are going to do. i've been in office for 120 days. we're going to bring in tougher sentences for serious sexual and violent offenders. we've seen it before — unexpected events taking general election campaigns in an unexpected direction, but the manner in which friday's terror attack has quickly become politicised will be seen by some as unedifying, but perhaps also by others as unsurprising. arriving in york today, the labour leader set out his concerns about the impact of cuts to public services such as in probation and policing. when those public services are cut back, as they have been during the past decade of austerity, they leave behind huge gaps and that can lead to missed chances to intervene in the lives of people who go on to commit absolutely inexcusable acts.
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after friday's terror attack, politicians across the board have expressed their sympathies for the affected families and paid tribute to the emergency services. but parties will also want to persuade you that they are best placed to keep people safe. jessica parker, bbc news. malta's prime minister, joseph muscat, has said he will stand down. in a television address he said he'd ask his governing labour party to start the process of electing a new leader in january. mr muscat had been under growing pressure to quit over an investigation into the murder of the journalist daphne caruana galizia two years ago. several of his close associates have resigned and protestors have once again been on the streets of valletta calling for his resignation. danny aeberhard has more. joseph muscat‘s resignation has been widely expected for days and it's unclear if it will be enough to
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lance the boil. his government has beenin lance the boil. his government has been in crisis with two senior figures linked to the investigation, including his chief of staff, having resigned in recent days. .joseph muscat says the process to choose a new leader will begin in january muscat says the process to choose a new leader will begin injanuary the 12th but protesters who again fill the streets of malta's capital want him gone now. they accuse the government of being a mafia. they are unlikely to be convinced of joseph muscat‘s claim in his televised address that he had kept his word about bringing justice for daphne caruana his word about bringing justice for daphne ca ruana galizia. his word about bringing justice for daphne caruana galizia. so far, although several people have been charged in connection with the case, no one has been convicted. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. thousands of people — including judges and lawyers —
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have been protesting across poland against widespread changes to the country's legal system, which are being implemented by the governing law and justice party. they've called for the reinstatement of one judge who was dismissed earlier this week. the government has clashed with the european commission over its changes to the judiciary. the nato secretary—general, jens stoltenberg, has defended the alliance two days ahead of its 70th birthday summit. in a bbc interview, he said it remains strong, agile and very active. his remarks came weeks after the french president, emmanuel macron, said nato was suffering what he called "brain death" because the us and its european allies weren't co—ordinating properly. residents of venice have been voting on whether to break away from its neighbouring city. supporters say venice needs its own administration to tackle rising sea levels, mass tourism and failures to build flood defences. but so far only 18% of residents have voted in the poll that requires a 50% turnout.
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to hong kong now. hundreds of pro—democracy activists marched to the american consulate to show their appreciation for washington's support for the movement. that's because last week president trump signed a bill supporting their demands for greater freedoms. elsewhere though, police used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse demonstrators as tensions increased. thousands of protesters were marching through a shopping district in kowloon. 0ur correspondent in hong kong, nick beake, has been following developments. it has certainly given a big boost to the pro—democracy movement here. talk encounters in hong kong. president trump sign this bill during the week which these people... they had a spring in their
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step as they marched through the streets. as you mention, there was some violence, and a pretty low scale. the police fired a bit of tear gas, they also used pepper spray at one point after coming under attack from certain protesters but we have not seen the widespread violence of previous weekends during this long five or six months of crisis are hong kong and i think that's because there was a debate at the moment among the pro—democracy movement. people are saying, what do we do next? people are feeling they have got the wider support of the hong kong people through the elections last weekend and international support as well from the united states significantly and they are saying, do we take stock, do we hang back, to be try and come up with a better strategy which is going to bring some kind of political reward? 0n the other hand some people are saying we need to keep on going and if that means violence being the answer, we have to do that.
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separated britain from continental europe. it took the drill is a few moments to cut through the final obstacle. then the miners were shaking hands and exchanging flags. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: british police have named the second person killed in friday's attack near london bridge. saskia jones was 23 years old, and worked in prisoner rehabilitation. malta's prime minister is stepping down after a member of his office was arrested as part of an investigation into a journalist's murder. let's return to the london bridge attack on friday. it's raised questions about how de—radicalisation programmes work in the uk. steven greer, is a professor of human rights at the university
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of bristol. do these de—radicalisation programmes work? it's very difficult to say. we have to distinguish different types of de—radicalisation programmes or contexts in which they operate. there is one which operates outside of the criminaljustice system and society at large. the one thatis system and society at large. the one that is most implicated in the tragic events in london on friday as the one that operates in the present context. it's very difficult to determine. it's easy to see when they haven't worked, as would appear to be the case with the prison one in respect to usman khan, but it's very difficult to tell whether they have worked or other factors very difficult to tell whether they have worked or otherfactors might have worked or otherfactors might have deterred those involved from returning to or engaging in terrorism. this is probably
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very difficult to summarise briefly but how do they work? what are some of the processes to try and steer people on the right direction? the prison one is called assistance and disengagement programme. it's only beenin disengagement programme. it's only been in operation in prisons since december 2018, around the time that usman khan would have been released although there was a pilot study in 0ctober although there was a pilot study in october 2016. the way it works is some people and the present context —— in the present context have a conditional expectation of release and how it works is, they had engaged in psychological and ideological and, in some cases, in the case of the islamist ones, theological debate and, if you like, re—education to try and alter the way they think about their
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place in the world and their relationship with wider society. do they need more resourcing? do events like the tragedy that we have just witnessed add to calls that, actually, we need more resources on is thatjust a knee jerk more resources on is thatjust a kneejerk reaction? more resources on is thatjust a knee jerk reaction? i think that is a legitimate concern because a former prison governor who conducted a study for the ministry ofjustice in 2016 came to the conclusion that they were all kinds of deficiency throughout the system in terms of how terrorist suspects and prisoners we re how terrorist suspects and prisoners were managed. he made 69 recommendations which were implemented and in an article in today's sunday times, he's been highly critical of the fact that many of the difficulties have not been properly addressed and that has allowed people like usman khan to
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slip through the system. thank you for your thoughts. gavin has all the sport. they won the premier league title in 2016, to give us one of the greatest sporting stories of all time and leicester city are hinting at that sort of form again after scoring a stoppage time winner against everton. it closes the gap on the leaders liverpool to 8 points. delight at the end, for the former liverpool manager brendan rodgers whose side went behind in the first half butjamie vardy got the equaliser, and in the fourth minute of injury time. this man — kelechi iheanacho — sent the home fans wild and his team—mates with a great strike for the winner. difficult first half. against any team, it was very, very difficult but we tried to stay positive and play our offensive game.
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to then have to come from behind as well, that really demonstrates the spirit and the quality in this team and this mindset to keep going and keep going and by the end, we thought he deserved it. no one can say nothing about the attitude of my players, about their commitment, about their ambition to come here and to show a reaction from the last game because the last game, we know inside our dressing room, and the situation is not to be behind me, because they know what they are doing, but to be behind everton as a professional football club. elewhere, arsenal — under their interim manager freddie ljungberg — drew 2—all at norwich. it's now 8 matches without a win for them in all competitions. manchester united were held to a 2—all draw at home to aston villa, while wolves and sheffield united drew 1—all well, earlier, there was another managerial casualty in the premier league. watford have sacked
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quique sanchez flores. club bosses met earlier to decide on his future after watford lost again yesterday, 2—1 to southampton, leaving them well adrift at the bottom of the league table. they've only won once in the league since sanchez flores re—joined the club in september. the club said in a statement the appointment of a new head coach is imminent. despite cristiano ronaldo's first goal forjuventus since october. they could only manage a 2—2 draw at home to sassuolo in serie a. two goals from lautaro martinez helped antonio conte's inter to a 2—1win at home to spal, which means they're now top of the table by one point. elsewhere napoli may have got a good draw at liverpool in the champions league but their disappointing league form continues, they were beaten 2—1 at home to bologna. ac milan won 1—0 at parma. he'd already wrapped up the formula one world driver's title for a sixth time, but lewis hamilton ensured he ended the season on a high with victory at sunday's abu dhabi grand prix. the mercedes driver led
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away from pole position, and cruised off in the distance, untroubled by anyone behind thereafter. red bull's max verstappen was second, charles leclerc‘s ferrari third but the day belonged to hamilton who dominted throughout to win the 84th grand prix of his career, moving him to within seven of michael schumacher‘s all time record. what a great year of teamwork, team effort and i'd like to think that i've been able to raise about again this year. i've had to because i've got all of these younger drivers stepping their game up so i've had to come up with an extra ace this year and so it has not been too far offa year and so it has not been too far off a full house. that's all the sport for now. rugby star gareth thomas says he wants his "everlasting legacy" to be greater awareness of hiv, after revealing his own positive diagnosis back in september. the former wales rugby captain has been speaking
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to prince harry in an interview for the terrence higgins trust, as part of world aids day. you've got any purpose in i always felt that my life was to play rugby and represent wales, which i did with all the passion i have. i actually feel that my rugby gave me the platform to do what i'm doing now and i believe what i do now“ what i cared about. there are not many people from a simple life that i come from who can have the power to change other people's life's.“ one of the most fulfilling things, it blows me away. a i
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sit down with my parents sometimes and we look at my parents sometimes and we look at hy my parents sometimes and we look at my trophy cabinet which i'm really proud of. it's big! i look at it and i think, it will gather dust and they will go away and be forgotten about but i'd like to think, where we are going on thisjourney of education on breaking stigma around hiv is something that will have an ever lasting legacy. you've nowjust signed up as a commissioner. i'm going to sit on a panel with a good of—— going to sit on a panel with a good of —— group of people with a common goal that in ten years time, within england, they will be zero new transmissions of hiv. this whole thing might be bizarre anyway, sitting in a rugby ground, me and you, having a chat about hiv, talking about zero transmissions of hiv in ten years time. i can't believe that we are actually at a point where that's a reality, but it is reality, and it's
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something that, for me, it's my next step. there's a lot to do about what you have managed to do in the space ofjust six or eight weeks has been transformational, genuinely. from my perspective, all i can do is thank you for the difference that you've made, the life's that you are saving ona made, the life's that you are saving on a daily basis now and you have every single one of us backing you the whole way. you're not in this alone. you put the trust in the british public and quite rightly, they support you all the way. the secretary general of the un, antonio guterres, has called for greater political will to tackle climate change. he was speaking ahead of the 2019 un climate change conference, known as cop25, which formally begins in madrid tomorrow. mr guterres praised young people for their efforts to improve the road map to stay below
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1.5 degrees is still within reach. the technologies that are necessary to make this possible are already available and the signals of hope are multiplying. public opinion is waking up everywhere. young people are showing remarkable leadership and mobilisation. what is still lacking is political will political will to put a price. political will to stop subsidies on fossil political will to shift taxation from income to carbon, taxing pollution set of people. we simply have to stop digging and drilling and take advantage of the vast possibilities offered by renewable energy and nature —based solutions.
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this is bbc news. bye—bye. it's been a cold start to the new month, frost and some areas tonight. the showers toward south—eastern england should get pushed away. 0vernight will have clearer skies for england and wales but there is more cloud coming into northern ireland and scotland which is why, by morning, it will be quite a bit milder here with some rain in the north of scotland but a frost widely across england and wales. here we are underneath this cold area of high pressure. the position of the highest changing slightly which is allowing this milder air to come in from the atlantic and bring all the cloud into scotland and northern ireland later in the night and through monday as well. some more rain to come, particularly for the highlands and islands, some of the cloud will push over the irish sea in two parts of england and wales
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through the day, the best of the sunshine continuing towards the southeast after the frosty start. temperatures of six or seven celsius, milder in northern scotland where we are seeing the rain. the rain should get pushed away during the evening, high pressure dominates again but the centre of the high is more towards parts of southern england and wales and this is where we got the risk of fog returning into tuesday morning, particularly towards the southeast of england, parts of wales and that could linger through the morning, perhaps into the afternoon and it might feel quite chilly if so. elsewhere, the wind should push there enemy from scotland, we've got some sunny spells in scotland, northern ireland for england and wales away from the mist and fog and temperatures look similaron mist and fog and temperatures look similar on tuesday. into the middle pa rt similar on tuesday. into the middle part of the week, high pressure retreats towards continental europe, a weakening weather front toppling in from the atlantic but ahead of that, still enough moisture, light winds and clear skies overnight to give some more fog around,
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perhaps more widely on wednesday, linking into the rain some rain towards cumbria is up for scotland to northern ireland with one or two showers, still quite mild here but cold mist and fog lingers into the afternoon. that should get blown away by the time we get to thursday. we've got another weather front from the atlantic turning wet and windy in western scotland. this is what is to come. after a cold started turns mild from the north with fog patches before it turns wet and windy later on.
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this is bbc world news, the headlines: the woman killed in the london bridge attack has been named as 23—year—old saskia jones. the cambridge university graduate was fatally stabbed alongside another ex—student, jack merritt. her family said she was funny and kind. malta's prime minister, joseph muscat, has said he's planning to hand over power once his governing labour party has chosen a new leader. he's been under intense pressure over the investigation into the murder ofjournalist daphne ca ruana galizia. thousands of people have been protesting across poland against widespread changes to thejudiciary being implemented by the governing law and justice party. they've called for the reinstatement of one judge who was dismissed earlier this week. thousands of protesters have returned to the streets of hong kong to maintain pressure on the territory's
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