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this is bbc news. lam 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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boxer, anthonyjoshua, has regained his three world heavyweight titles. he beat the mexican—american, andy ruiz, on points, in saudi arabia in the so—called clash on the dunes. let's speak to our sports correspondent ben croucher. a shock upset or rightfully deserved? rightfully deserved. very much so this evening in saudi arabia. you will remember six months ago anthonyjoshua was the unbeaten heavyweight champion of the world. he went to new york and fought anti— ruiz he went to new york and fought anti— ruinunior, everyone expected him to win that fight, and he lost for the first time in his career. the rematch took place this evening and al or so ago rematch took place this evening and al orso ago in rematch took place this evening and al or so ago in saudi arabia and joshua was very much the better fighter this evening. it wasn't a classic fight by any means. we didn't see the flurry of punches or the that characterised first fight. what we saw instead was a very tactically astute display from
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anthonyjoshua, boxing tactically astute display from anthony joshua, boxing clever, keeping ruiz at a distance, and making sure he was not getting caught by any of those punches. he reclaims those three world title belts that he lost earlier in the year. he said he is hungry and humble and wants that to come through in his boxing. 50,000 people packed into the arena, a specially constructed stadium just outside saudi arabia's capital, the first—ever heavyweight title fight to ta ke first—ever heavyweight title fight to take place in the kingdom. it was wet for a lot of the evening. but when joshua came to wet for a lot of the evening. but whenjoshua came to the ring the rain had abated and he duly delivered to a very partisan crowd who were all willing him on in saudi arabia. great sportsmanship shown from andy ruiz. he was very graceful in accepting defeat. he said it was his night. very humble in the way that anthonyjoshua conceded when he lost the first fight. ruiz set a
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game too much weight, don't want to give excuses, he won, he booked me around. if we do a third by cubis believe over get in shape and will believe over get in shape and will be in the best shape of my life —— you best believe. joshua was just too smart and too clever for him. we we re too smart and too clever for him. we were talking about anti— ruiz‘s weight before the fight. he weighed 20 stone for this, which in every way boxing is incredibly heavy. freestone heavier than anthony joshua. that excess weight seem to count against ruiz this evening. —— three stone. he did not look sharp in that fight. talking about shape, just described to us what sort of shape anthony joshua's just described to us what sort of shape anthonyjoshua's bank account will be in. to the tune of around about £60 million there or thereabouts, if you believe all the fa cts thereabouts, if you believe all the facts and figures bandied around. crucially, for anthonyjoshua, winning this fight keeps his marketability going forward.
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if he had lost it would have been a long rode but because no longer would he have been able to command those sorts of figures, when he doesn't have any while titles to fight for. now there will be an extra clamour and demands, possibly a third fight with ruiz, although that is unlikely, but potentially a unification fight with deontay wilder, or perhaps a fight with tyson fury. the sums for those fights would be in a similar region. he tries to stay very humble. he keeps his family very, very close as well. i'm sure some of those winnings will be shared around, but joshua's back pocket is going to be put to good use in saudi arabia this evening, we suspect. thank you very much. ben croucher there. as we remind you of our top story, anthony joshua has regained his very wild heavyweight titles. back to one of our other top stories. questions are being raised about russian interference in the election, after possible links emerged between russia
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and leaked documents detailing trade talks between the united states and the uk. the papers were used by labour to claim the conservatives will include the nhs in any deal with the americans after brexit — which they've denied. the documents appeared on the online discussion forum reddit, which said they were linked to a campaign originating from russia. this report from our political correspondent, ben wright, contains some flash photography. a leaked government document, highlighted by labour, containing details of initial discussions on trade between uk and us officials. its authenticity is not disputed. what it proves has been hotly debated. how it came to be made public is unclear. jeremy corbyn, campaigning in wales today as the online news site reddit — where the document first surfaced — said it was posted by an account linked to a campaign originating in russia.
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he insisted publishing the document was in the public interest and argued the government should release a parliamentary report into russian interference. the prime minister has answers to give which he refuses to do about russian donations to the tory party or the report that he is sitting on about russian interference in british politics. of course there should be no interference in our british political system by donald trump or the russians. promoting money for grassroots football in england on a campaign visit in stockport, borisjohnson said the government had played by the rules, but acknowledged the source of the leak needed to be found. i do think we need to get to the bottom of that. as far as i am aware, we have not established the truth about that but what i certainly think is that document, whatever it was intended to prove, did not prove whatjeremy corbyn and the labour party hoped that it would prove. campaigning for votes in st albans, jo swinson said any sign of foreign
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interference was worrying, but singled out borisjohnson for not yet publishing the mps' report. it is shocking that the prime minister is sitting on a report from the intelligence and security committee into this very topic, into whether or not russia or other countries have tried to interfere with our democracy. the prime minister has decided that he will keep that secret and that is appalling. the party leaders sounded serious today on this subject of foreign interference but from now on, expect them to focus firmly on their main messages to voters as the campaign enters its final days. jonathan blake, bbc news. earlier, i spoke to the journalist and analyst ben nimmo, who broke this story. he works for the social media investigations company graphika. i began by asking him how did these documents falls into the hands of the person who leaked them online. that's the big question. it
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has been the question since the resemblance to the russian operation became clear, with red ‘s statement night the question gets even bigger. what we know is that the way that the lea ks were posted we know is that the way that the leaks were posted on amplified online very much look like the russian operation from june. and we know from reddit last night from looking at the stuff on their platform, the resemblance is there because the two operations were linked. the trade links, according to reddit, were pushed by the same operation that had been attributed to rutter early in the air. we don't know how the leaks got there and thatis know how the leaks got there and that is really the biggest question, working out how do they get online in the first place? you put together a report as part of graphika, what we re a report as part of graphika, what were your conclusions in terms of the motivations and how successful this operation was? it's very hard tojudge the motivations
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this operation was? it's very hard to judge the motivations of any information operation because any operation is based on defeat —— deceit and they can have multiple levels. the clearest clue is that the operation use one particular twitter account on the 23rd of 0ctober twitter account on the 23rd of october and onwards and it was tweeting a link to these documents. each time it tweeted it addressed it either to a journalist or to a member of one of the opposition parties, or to the twitter accounts of the opposition parties themselves. it wasn'tjust addressing it to labour, it was addressing it to labour, it was addressing it to the lib dems, and the snp. and the contents of the tweets accused, said this shows the rise that the conservatives and borisjohnson are willing to pay. so it was somewhat negative towards the government. but that's too slow daily to confirm that it was designed to discomfort the government. it does seem to be the impression we would need to have more information on that. these documents actually were released backin documents actually were released back in october. they only gained traction, the story only gained traction, the story only gained traction oncejeremy corbyn brandished them at the news
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conference in october. how risky move was this by the labour leader in terms of verifying them? well, one of the big questions is how the documents actually got as far as the labour leader we know that an unknown persona was e—mailing them to various activists who were interested in the trade talks around the 20th or 21st of november or perhaps slightly later. and we don't know whether that persona was associated with the operations, so there are still questions which have not been cleared up. we can't say for sure it was the operation itself got them as well as the labour party. the bigger picture is that lea ks a re party. the bigger picture is that leaks are a very difficult thing to deal with and they are one of the most dangerous and pernicious parts of any information operation, precisely because they use real documents. the big difference between these leaks and the russian operation in june is between these leaks and the russian operation injune is that the russian operation in june operation injune is that the russian operation injune used fake —— fates, so it is easy to fact check. when you are using a relic there is more complex of questions about this, if they are genuine,
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second if they are newsworthy, are they a political importance, it is a very complex calculation and it really shows how, just as in 2016, it shows how much of an impact leaking can have in an election environment. that was ben nimmo. as the campaign enters its final days let's take a look at some of today's other election news. the conservatives say they're investigating three of their parliamentary candidates over allegations of anti—semitism. the party says it's looking into items they have posted or shared online. labour is planning to make england's entire bus fleet electric by 2030 if it wins the general election. the project would be funded by four billion pounds over ten years from the party's green transformation fund. campaigning in hertfordshire, the liberal democrats have pledged to scrap business rates to help small firms and have promised more more help for entrepreneurs.
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snp leader nicola sturgeon has been campaigning ‘on ice', with a message to voters that there are "five days to stop brexit". she said scotland could be pivotal to denying the conservatives a commons majority. nearly 300 people have been killed over the past two months and two million others are having to cope with unusually heavy rainfall and flooding in eastern africa. in kenya, more than 100 people have died and thousands have been displaced. at least 12 people have been confirmed dead in western uganda. and in somalia, cyclone storm pawan has made landfall on the coast. francesco rigamonti from 0xfam, spoke to us earlier this evening, from the kenyan capital nairobi. the latest information that we received, they are talking about 160,000 people affected
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in kenya, with 18,000 people displaced and over 175 people that were killed. —— 175 is up as a matter of fact, we are witnessing an event that is caused by a phenomenon which is called indian ocean dipole. basically the temperature in the indian ocean closer to east africa is high and this creates more rains and this is affecting the whole of the region and we have witnessed scenes like 0ctober, heavy rains across the region. and there is an expectation it will last up to december, when normally they finished in november in kenya. until august we were in a situation of drought in the northern part of kenya. so this event has been, like, it is unprecedented, have to say
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that. and the people didn't have a lot of time to prepare for it. and the irony, if we can say that, in this case, is that the population thatis this case, is that the population that is now affected by the heavy rains are the people that were previously affected by the drought. so it to a certain extent the community we are serving were doubly hit by this situation, which is quite concerning. the northern part of kenya there were almost 3.1 million people that were facing food insecurity and these floods that are happening at the moment are actually affecting the same geographical zone. at this point in time we need to have... it's not an easy solution. we need to have investment to save lives now, but also maintaining a potentially even expanding medium and long—term investment to reduce the vulnerability of the people
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that are affected now and also to strengthen the capacity at the different level of government to respond to this situation. so we need resources now to help the people that are affected, but we need to strengthen the capacity of the government and the capacity of the government and the local community to be able to respond to this crisis. so it is a double investment and should go in parallel. that was francesco rigamonti of 0xfam. the headlines on bbc news: british fighter anthony joshua regains his world titles in a re—match with andy ruinr, beating him over 12 rounds 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. scientists warn that our oceans are running out of oxygen as global temperature rises put many species of fish at risk of extinction.
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sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. anthonyjoshua is heavyweight champion of the world once more. he beat andy ruinunior in their highly anticipated rematch in saudi arabia. after the first fight in new york injune featured a flurry of heavy hitting and knockdowns, and a shock first professional defeat forjoshua, the second was much cagier and moretactical, with joshua doing more than enough to win the fight on points by unanimous decision. he said: "i'm a man that has made mistakes and when i was on losing path in life, i matured and bounced back." manchester united players say they were targetted with racist abuse during the manchester derby at the etihad stadium. manchester city have vowed to ban
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any fans for life found guilty and are working with police to identify any individuals responsible. 0n the pitch, united massively dented city's title ambitions by winning 2—1 with marcus rashford and anthony martial on the scoresheet in the first half. it leaves pep guardiola's side now 1a points adrift of liverpool at the top of the table. we will remember this. we looked so dangerous when we get the ball and go forward. of course, we are playing against team and arguably the world. for me, just in preparation for this game. the way they can change things tactically. it is not easy to analyse them but they are an unbelievable team and get a result, to defend like we did, to create as many chances as we did in the first half i thought we should have been three or four in the first half i thought we should have been three orfour up apart from
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some great goalkeeping. they are so quick and sometimes when you lose the ball in a position it is more difficult. we tried. we arrived in the final third many, many times. maybe a little bit more than usual, especially in the first minute but in general the team played really good. a growing chasm now between city and liverpool. they've extended their lead at the top of the table to 11 points by beating bournemouth 3—0. alex 0xlaide—chamberlain, naby keita and mo salah helped jurgen klopp's outfit to their 15th win in 16 games this season. they've not lost in the league since the start of january. elsewhere, everton, fresh from sacking marco silva, beat chelsea 3—1. spurs put 5 past burnley whilst watford and crystal palace played out a goalless draw. hearts have named former barnsley boss daniel stendel as their new manager and he's got quite thejob on his hands as they're nowjoint bottom of the scottish premiership.
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it's after a 1—0 defeat at motherwell, who climb to third st mirren are off the bottom. they were one—nil winners at hamilton. hibernian beat aberdeen 3—nil, while livingston beat kilmarnock by the same scoreline. the former aston villa manager ron saunders has died at the age of 87. he guided villa to the first division title in 1981 and also won two league cups during his eight years at villa park. he also had spells in charge of birmingham and west brom. it's been a big day of european champions cup rugby. premiership leaders northampton saints' were thrashed 43—16 at home to last season's runners—up leinster. director of rugby chris boyd said his side were given a reality check. munster meanwhile beat champions sacarens10—3 at thomond park — the only try of the game was scored by ireland's peter 0'mahony. the win means munster sit top of pool 4 and sarries chances of making the knockout stages are slim. there were also wins for glasgow and ulster. scotland's stephen maguire will play ding junhui of china in the uk snooker championship final in york tomorrow.
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maguire looks in great form and didn't allow northen ireland's mark allen a look—in as he thrashed him 6 frames to nil in their semi—final. ding reached the final after seeing off yan bingtao. he's bidding to win a third uk title following triumphs in 2005 and 2009. you're up to date from the bbc sport centre. have a very good night. there's fresh warning that climate change and nutrient pollution are diminishing oxygen levels in our oceans. that's the conclusion of the biggest study of its kind, undertaken by the group the international union for the conservation of nature. while nutrient run—off has been known for decades, researchers say that climate change is making the lack of oxygen worse , and is having an impact on certain species of fish. earlier, i spoke to kaveh madani, an environmental scientist and senior fellow at yale university. he previously served
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as the vice president of the un environment assembly bureau. he says governments must take steps now. telling us that we have another big victim of climate change that we have overlooked, we are killing essentially our oceans and this is really frustrating and it also reminds us that we still do not understand the scale of impacts of climate change and the damages that we are creating. we don't even know the consequences of what can happen if we really kill our oceans. what has been hit the hardest?” if we really kill our oceans. what has been hit the hardest? i think to a big extent this is unknown. what the downstream consequences can be and how the feedback can affect things. we know from
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human nature that you can impact the ecosystem cycle they will be consequences. the ocean does not have the potential to observe oxygen and if it is lost then these species in the ocean would be perfect. if the fish and the marine species are killed, there will be other consequences so we are losing the capacity of the oceans to help us live on this planet and this is frustrating. it is good that we have discovered it. they might still be time to address it but we certainly know there are other things that we have damaged and we still do not know. you are describing a lot of unknown because a lot of it is unseen and taking place away from a lot of people. how do we fix this and how long have we got? this is also the problem that we do not know much about. all we
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know is that we have to immediately cut emissions. what we are hearing in madrid, the europeans are at the forefront for pushing immediate cutbacks to emissions. all we can do at this point is to cut back emissions, reduce our carbon reduction and hope that our understanding of the physics is correct and by doing so we have the chance to live on this planet. cutting back on emissions. you work with the science and policy aspect and society as well. how difficult is that to introduce policy that will help to reverse the effects? to stop what we're doing? what needs to change? this is the hard question that unfortunately many politicians do not like to talk about and many scientists do not address fully when it comes to public discussion. we
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need fundamental reforms to our economic model, our development model around the world and this is something a lot of people are resisting. big businesses, a lot of politicians. these fundamental reforms would be costly. we have to change our lifestyle and those things are costly and most politicians are afraid of losing those because of the rising price of energy and the shutting down of businesses can have consequences. u nless we businesses can have consequences. unless we push the policymakers, u nless we unless we push the policymakers, unless we really want to see a change, we do not see that coming. i strongly believe politicians do not create movements, it is the people and we're the to push the politics. i have been in that position and i know that very well. president donald trump has thanked iran, for what he called "very fair" negotiations with the us, which led to a rare exchange of prisoners
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between the two countries. it involved massoud soleimani, an iranian scientist arrested in the us, after allegedly violating trade sanctions. he was swapped for an american academic, xiyue wang, who'd beenjailed in iran for ten years for spying — a charge he denied. president trump says the swap has proved that they could make deals together. 0ur washington correspondent, chris buckler, has more. a brief thaw in relations between the us and iran saw massoud soleimani return to tehran. it was an emotional homecoming for a university professor who was arrested in chicago a year ago, accused of violating trade sanctions. and just as he was released, an american citizen, xiyue wang, was allowed to begin hisjourney home from an iranian jail. i think it was a great thing for iran, i think it was great to show that we can do something.
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it might have been a precursor as to what can be done. the prisoner exchange marks a rare moment of cooperation between washington and tehran. 0nly months ago, they appeared to be heading towards conflict and confrontation following attacks on tankers in the gulf. both sides can claim success from these negotiations, even if the iranian foreign minister had angry words for america during a news conference following massoud soleimani's release. xiyue wang's family had been waiting more than three years for him to be freed. the princeton university academic was charged with spying as he carried out research in iran. since then, his family have made several appeals for him to be allowed home to his wife and son. he was barely three when my husband left home for his research. and he's now six. he's missed him for half of his life already. iran and the us may have shown some ability to compromise but the obvious tensions
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between the two countries have not gone away. chris buckler, bbc news, washington. a strong jetstream across the atla ntic a strong jetstream across the atlantic picking up areas of low pressure heading towards the uk and it would be a windy few days. the wind likely to have some impact. at times accompanied with heavy rains. all the warnings you can see on line. cloud building in from the atla ntic line. cloud building in from the atlantic bringing heavy rains for the hills of western scotland and it is all wrapped around an area of low pressure out to the west. at the same time as the rain is moving into the uk, the winds are strengthening and that has been happening over the past few hours. we will get a spell of wet and windy area for a time over nine as a reince priebus down towards the south—east. ——
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overnight. the end west of scotland, gusts of maybe 60 miles per hour towards the end of the night helping towards the end of the night helping to keep temperatures on the mild side. a windy day on sunday. a day of sunshine and mastery heavy showers. not too many showers in the east. rain in northern ireland, western scotland. attach wintry over the hills as well. possibly 13 in east anglia and the south—east of england the winds will be picking up even here through the day as we start to see this storm getting closer. essentially it is a squeeze and the isoba rs, closer. essentially it is a squeeze and the isobars, notjust across ireland but over the rsc and the south—west. 70 miles or more. —— i wish c. the
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irish sea. gales here. showers for a while. they will is off and then we will see things coming down. most places dry and sunny. a little chillier and some cloud and patchy rain into northern ireland during the afternoon. more wet and windy weather to come. the next weather system driving in during tuesday and tuesday night ringing heavy rain and some squally winds as well. hello. this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment — first the headlines.
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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. 0ceans 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 the stands in the derby against rivals, city. 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. edward norton is a private detective with tourette's edward norton is a private detective with tourette's syndrome edward norton is a private detective with tourette's syndrome trying edward norton is a private detective with tourette's syndrome trying to work out the murder. find
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