tv The Papers BBC News December 7, 2019 10:30pm-11:02pm GMT
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says it believes leaked government documents, detailing uk—us trade talks and posted on its site, are linked to russia. the really big question is, how did the leaks get there in the first place? how did they end up online, being amplified by what reddit certainly says is part of a known foreign influence operation? oceans are running out of oxygen, warn scientists, as global temperature rises put many species of fish at risk of extinction. a chinese—american researcher is freed by iran in a prisoner exchange with the us, but president trump says he won't rest until they release all wrongfully detained us citizens. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are nigel nelson,
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the political editor of the sunday people and sunday mirror, and jo phillips, political commentator who was an adviser to the liberal democrats‘ leader, paddy ashdown. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the observer leads with a call for tactical voting to stop borisjohnson getting a majority. the daily mail has comments from the head of nazi—hunting organisation the simon wiesenthal centre, saying the election ofjeremy corbyn would be a disaster for democracy. the digital version of the independent reports that tactical voting could still deny borisjohnson a victory with one in ten voters prepared to switch allegiances and vote tactically. the sunday telegraph's front page features conservative plans for a strict immigration system for unskilled workers.
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the sunday times has leaked internal documents about labour's record in tackling anti—semitism cases. and away from politics, the sunday mirror has a story about the criminal past of one of the i'm a celebrity contestants. we will start off, it is six days away now, goodness! why don't you kick us off with tactical voting? which is what most people funnily enough talking about. i think this is the most extraordinary election in so many ways, but what is probably most extraordinary is that the old tribal i have always voted labour or conservative or lib dems, said that is how i am going to vote, have gone away, and because we have the first past the
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post system, which is not really fair on other parties, i think people are thinking very carefully about how they use their vote. our votes are very precious, how you use it can make a difference. this report has come from vote for a final say campaign, which is a pro second referendum organisation. they say a tenth of the electorate could be prepared to switch allegiances to vote tactically in their poll, 44% of labour remain voters would back the lib dems, while 39% of lib dems supporters are prepared to do the same, and this comes on the back of calls by tony blair and john major earlier today, urging people to think carefully about voting tactically. the front page of the observer also goes with tactical voting. don't you think
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it is concerning that they have to resort to tactical voting? it is not much confidence that they cannot simply vote for labour. what we have got is the whole system of elections has been completely polarised and fragmented by brexit, so if you owe your allegiance more to brexit than to the party you support all the other way round, then it becomes very difficult. we are also seeing a huge reaction against various political leaders out there on the streets. an awful lot of people do not like jeremy corbyn, but then an awful lot of voters do not like borisjohnson either, awful lot of voters do not like boris johnson either, and awful lot of voters do not like borisjohnson either, and that is an awful lot of tory voters. what i am hearing on the doorstep, candidates going out canvassing, is they may get the vote, these are tory candidates, but they are being told,
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we don't like borisjohnson, we might vote for you, and some people who simply won't, so you have that kind of thing going on as well. the tactical voting thing makes sense. if you are working on what you do not want, what you don't want is a majority conservative government. it is unlikely labour would actually form a majority, looking at the polling at the moment, so the tactical vote will go against boris johnson. could the numbers in terms of tactical voting from the brexit party make up the numbers for mr johnson? brexit voters will naturally go to the conservatives because they have basically become a brexit cult! they probably will. it becomes harder in some cases where as nigel says, because the
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two main party leaders are so desperately unpopular and so very divisive, people who are thinking about giving their precious vote to either of those, but if you say, i will not vote for the party i normally vote for because i want to stop brexit, then you are going to give your vote to the labour party where you think, we don't even know whatjeremy corbyn thinks about brexit because he will not say. and similarly, there are other people who may not wa nt there are other people who may not want boris johnson, but they find it very difficult to give their votes to the lib dems because they —— the revoking article 50 is undemocratic. the huge error that nigel farage made was not to stand candidates everywhere so he is languishing bottom at the polls, the brexit party has not quite
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taken off. u nfortu nate title party has not quite taken off. unfortunate title given to the labour leader, the worst anti—semite on the planet! it is quite an extraordinary... it is a damaging story for the labour party, and more on that in a minute, but it is an extraordinary attack from the world's leading nazi hunting organisation. they have said if jeremy corbyn was to win the election on thursday, brittin would become a pariah state, and it goes on to quote a leading rabbi, saying, if it was not for winston churchill in britain leading the fight against nazis, who knows if the allies would have won? britain was at the forefront of defeating hitler and now on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz the person who wants to sit in number 10 is fostering anti—semitism. and this has not gone away, these
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claims of anti—semitism. has not gone away, these claims of anti-semitism. it is fair to say thatjeremy anti-semitism. it is fair to say that jeremy corbyn is anti-semitism. it is fair to say thatjeremy corbyn is not anti-semitism. it is fair to say that jeremy corbyn is not an anti—semite, and may well be... it is that the labour party have handled anti—semitism within the party badly, unfortunate language has been used around israel and palestine because jeremy corbyn and the people who support him tend to be palestinian supporters, but the idea that he is anti—semitic, i do not think it is true. let's turn to the front of the daily telegraph. a seniorjudge attacksjeremy corbyn on anti—semitism. seniorjudge attacksjeremy corbyn on anti-semitism. this in a sense is far less hysterical. it is master of the rolls, and he is saying that he will not say positively that jeremy corbyn is anti—semitic, what he
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says is there is a powerful case he may well be. at least that is more considered. he is a leading chew himself but at least he is coming up with what you would call a more reasonable form of words. he has apologised for what has taken place but many pa pal satyrs apologised for what has taken place but many papal satyrs taken so long. and he was asked outright by andrew neil whether he would like to apologise and he didn't, he then apologised three or four days later, why did he not get the apology out of the way when asked upfront? it is about the handling of it. but the sunday telegraph is very clear in its views. they are urging readers to vote conservative, the observers saying use your vote tactically. we will stay with the sunday telegraph. the tories unveil strict limits on unskilled migrants, this is an australian star system ? unskilled migrants, this is an australian star system? this is something that has been talked about for quite a long
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time, and the tories will announce tomorrow that they want to prevent lower skilled workers coming to the uk unless there is a specific shortage of staff in their sector such as construction. it will be a very interesting to see how that would play out once the freedom of eu movement disappears, if indeed we ever get to that stage. it'll offer fast track entry to migrants identified as high skilled or exceptional but where does it put construction workers, agricultural workers, health workers, people who often a re workers, health workers, people who often are low skilled, low—paid but are absolutely essential? and what it says is they would only be called in forjob shortages, they would have no right to settle here, it would have to be a temporary thing. i think this is a complete disaster. we already have an immigration syste m we already have an immigration system which is points based, you work in different tiers depending
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on the jobs that need to be filled, it works, you do not need this. we will finish with the mirror. i do not know if you heard, any questions this weekend, friday, and one of the compliments given was how hard—working mr corbyn says —— is. compliments given was how hard—working mr corbyn says —— islj can hard—working mr corbyn says —— is.” can attest to the fact he is very hard—working, and i was exhausted by the end of the day! and he was going oi'i the end of the day! and he was going on for four more events after i left him. it is a lovely photograph of the two of you. we went to a retirement village in nottingham to see a brilliant place, and what he was launching was his social care plan, the tories do not seem to have one at the moment, and that would give elderly people free personal ca re give elderly people free personal care at home, save them £7,000 a year on care at home, save them £7,000 a year on average,
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care at home, save them £7,000 a year on average, and he would cap the amount you spent on social care at 30,000. and he would dig up the rose garden at number 10? at 30,000. and he would dig up the rose garden at number10? he at 30,000. and he would dig up the rose garden at number 10? he would like to put an allotment in the rose garden of numberio. like to put an allotment in the rose garden of number 10. michelle obama did something similar. so what is he like engaging with the public? the public love him. he is extremely down to earth, he is somebody who is very easy to get on with, i find he has a great sense of humour, i have always enjoyed interviewing him.“ he prime ministerial?” always enjoyed interviewing him.“ he prime ministerial? i think if you met him he would say yes, and he has come an awful long way from the days when he was a backbench mp and a rebel. the public persona and when you get one—to—one with him presumably is very different. there are so many presumably is very different. there are so many different and conflicting reports. where ever he turns up he is treated like a rock
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star. suddenly people appear out of nowhere! that's it for the papers this hour. nigel and jo will be back at 11:30pm for another look at the papers, and don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers and, if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. we'll all be back for that second review in about 45 minutes.
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this thursday, the general election will give more than 45 million people their chance to decide on the uk's future. is it the brexit election? is it the nhs election? is it an election that will show new divisions that no longer lie along party lines? we'll soon know. please toughen up! amidst all of this, there's the usual mudslinging towards candidates. but with social media now in the mix, a lot of it has transferred to platforms like twitter. here at click, we decided to take a closer look at this outrage in the final few weeks of battle, and we sent carl miller to investigate. i'm a traitor. i'm a vile creature. a lot of it is misogynistic.
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i've had death threats, i've had threats of violence to some of my people here. look, there have been moments in which i've had anxiety attacks because of the level of threats. being called everything from a lying dog to cheat to traitor or death threats — these are some of the 330,000 abusive tweets that prospective mps have been enduring in the run—up to the election. but we wanted to really drill down to how much of this abuse was happening, who it was directed to, the nature of the abuse itself and how it was all connected, so we teamed up with the think tank demos to produce exclusive new numbers for the scale and nature of online abuse in the run—up to this general election. this isjosh. he's trained an algorithm to sift through millions of tweets to identify those that are abusive and aimed at candidates who were previously mps before parliament dissolved. but the algorithm first needs to be trained by humans before it can sift
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through the millions of tweets, sojosh is teaching soila, a researcher on click, to help with this monumental task. crucial to this is how it decides what's abusive versus what's just fair criticism — that's where personaljudgement inevitably comes in. what this gives us the opportunity to do is to say right — right now, in british democracy, that's an insult. the algorithm is about 70% accurate and only includes candidates running for re—election. but after just a few weeks, it revealed some startling results. around 334,000 tweets — that's around 7% of the total received by candidates — were insulting. that's ten for every minute of the campaign, minute in, minute out. and a lot of the abuse the mps received depended on their background, their gender and their stance on brexit. what's causing this insulting behaviour to arise? well, some research suggests it's
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down to organised groups or disgruntled individuals — people who feel isolated from the mainstream but now, thanks to social media, can enter the public conversation more easily than ever before. hate is a tactic used by various types of organisations and individuals. they are unified by a desire for someone to respond to them — and we have. as a society, as individuals, we have been responding, we have been engaging with this kind of hate for far too long. and so, for the first time in this general election, we've seen mainstream political actors using trolling techniques in order to amplify their message on social media. and so, the three primary ones — the three main ones — were honesty, intelligence and this accusation of treachery. when ijoined josh, i was surprised to learn that the main party leaders weren't the biggest targets of abuse — at least as a proportion of all their mentions. borisjohnson is right down at the bottom of this.
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and jeremy corbyn isn't there at all. this is not a one—party issue, is it? right. this is much deeper thanjust a — just single attacks on single people. one candidate who received an awful lot of this was iain duncan smith, as you can see, right down the bottom. he was also sworn at a lot. and if you are white, you are more likely to be sworn at and called a traitor than any other ethnicity you look at. but of course, there are human beings on the other side of the screen, so i visited the constituency of iain duncan smith, who told me his way of dealing with this is to never engage. the problem is sometimes with elections and things, they actually feed this a bit more because they tell everybody, "actually, we all hate each other". we don't. i don't hate labour! i have a lot of labour friends. the problem with the internet is it takes that bit of the anger and then accelerates it in, because makes it immediate, instantaneous and it gratifies, rather like a drug. but abuse, of course, isn't just something that happens online. and a day after i visited his
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office, it was vandalised. one of the most surprising findings was that men overall tended to receive more abusive messages than women on twitter — although, of course, this doesn't mean that what they did receive was worse or more threatening. obviously, these are broad trends. the experience of every candidate is gonna change. take, for example, angela smith. so she is being insulted a lot for her honesty and being called a traitorfour times more than the average candidate. now, this could be because she's recently changed parties — so she is now with the liberal democrats. she also voted against brexit. this was against the majority in her former constituency. and she says she has faced a torrent of abuse, from anti—semitism to misogyny. in order to stay sane, i do not look at most of the abuse that's directed at me on twitter. i just don't think any individual can cope with that. and you can feel the anger behind those tweets and the anger behind the use of capital letters,
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the aggression, and ifind that really frightening. so it seems that whether it's leaving your party or taking a stance on that ultimate of all divisive issues, brexit, can make you a lot of enemies online too. next, i wanted to see whether the type of abuse candidates received also tended to differ based on their ethnicity. what we saw here is that if you are a bme candidate, you are more likely to be accused of being stupid, basically, to be insulted for your intelligence. a good example of this is david lammy, who is insulted for his honesty and his intelligence. he's also sworn at an awful lot. earlier in the campaign, david lammy tweeted about a report he'd overseen, the lammy review, into the disproportionate number of black and ethnic minorities in the prison system. and even he, no stranger to online abuse, was taken aback by the response. i was staggered at the level of abuse that i received. that's an indication ofjust how toxic things have become.
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most of the abusive tweets directed at me are really pushing deeply racist stereotypical tropes. they're tropes about being stupid. they're tropes about being lazy. they're tropes that involve the n word. so what does the research actually tell us? well, there's a scale, of course — ten online insults of every minute of every day of the campaign. these insults cut across the political divide, but they're also determined by what a candidate says and who they are. and for sure, it's notjust happening on twitter and it's not just happening to politicians. so i think one of the big questions we now have is, as politics, with each passing day, becomes more digital, how can we make it less angry? earlier this year, amazon web services ran getit — a kids' competition to design an app to solve a problem.
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the prize — bringing it to fruition. after stiff competition from various mental health and well—being concepts, this lot triumphed with their web app to transcribe school lessons for the deaf and hard of hearing. a few weeks after their win, i've come here to the team's school, bishop's stortford college prep, to find out a little bit more about what they're creating. so this is our connect hearo app, and this is how it would work if you were using it. the app connects to a teacher's phone, and the teacher has a microphone, so it will display what the teacher is speaking in real—time on the student's phone, so it will them learn in class and obviously understand the lesson more. now, ibby, could you tell me about your hearing issues and how this, hopefully, will help? so i have 60% hearing loss and, if you focus on something,
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you get a lot of background noise. so with this app, obviously, because it connects to your phone, you don't have to worry about the background noise, hopefully, and just be able to focus on the person speaking. how much of an issue do you find listening in the classroom? i find it particularly hard if, like, you're sitting at the front and there are people behind you talking, and you're trying to focus on the teacher because often, you just pick up the background noise. and of course, for lip reading, they need to be facing your direction. yeah. there's also the issue of kids regularly needing hearing aids re—moulded as they grow. so how did they get started with creating the app? we looked through the things that we had never done. we thought to ourselves how we could actually put it together so it would be something that works and not a gimmick. so after we found our target audience and everything, we sent the information over to amazon, whojudged it, and then the competition started. the competition started, and you won! how did that feel when you won? it felt amazing. like, no—one could believe it. when ready, the app will be open
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source, so it will be available to other schools. but the process so far — much like creating any tech — has come with its challenges. it's just a bit disappointing that it's not coming up perfect first time. that's an unrealistic standard, but it's just a bit disappointing to know that, like, there's a lot more work to be done on it. this is part of a bigger picture — the direction we push kids in in an ever—changing world. there's a big misnomer, ifeel, about artificial intelligence. when they — everybody talks about al, but they don't actually explain to the youngsters what it actually means. ai is based on data — it's all that is, it's data that's been built up. and they can take — they can create things from data. that is a skill set which they use in any walk of life, going forward. and that's it from the shortcut of click for this week. the full—length version is up on iplayer. you can watch it right now. and if you ever need to get in touch
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with us, don't forget, we live on social media — on instagram, facebook, youtube and twitter at @bbcclick. thanks for watching and we'll see you soon. hello there. the wind is continuing to strengthen overnight, combining with the strength is still there in scotland and has been affecting northern ireland. that rain band will sweep down towards the south—east, clearer skies following overnight, the winds gusting at 60 mph. lots of showers but keeping the temperature is on the mild side. a windy day on sunday, a day of sunshine and
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heavy showers, more frequent out to the west, merging times to give longer spells of rain. a touch wintry over the higher hills as well. those of the higher hills as well. those of the temperatures, 13 towards the south—east but even here the winds will pick up as we head to the day. but into the evening and overnight, we get storm atiyah getting closer and it is a tightening of the isobars, the strengthening of the wind particularly towards past of wales and the south—west, gusts of 70 mph.
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this is bbc news. iam i am lu kwesa i am lukwesa burak. the headlines at 11:00: the belts come back to britain: anthonyjoshua wins back his world titles, beating andy ruiz over 12 rounds in their rematch in riyadh. the online forum reddit says it believes leaked government documents, detailing uk—us trade talks and posted on its site, are linked to russia. oceans are running out of oxygen, warn scientists, as global temperature rises put many species of fish at risk of extinction. manchester united players report racist abuse as player fred is hit by missiles from
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the stands in the derby against rivals city. we keep talking about it every week and it doesn't stop unless it will have consequences. a chinese—american researcher is freed by iran in a prisoner exchange with the us, but president trump says he won't rest until they release all wrongfully detained us citizens. and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with the political editor of the sunday people, and sunday mirror nigel nelson and political commentator, jo phillips. good evening. in the past hour, the british
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