tv BBC News BBC News December 15, 2019 4:00pm-4:31pm GMT
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this is bbc news. the headlines. jeremy corbyn apologises for his part in labour's performance at the general election — as wigan mp, lisa nandy — becomes one of those hoping to succeed him as party leader. the reason i'm thinking about it is because we've just had the most shattering defeat where you really felt in towns like mine that the earth was quaking, and we've watched the entire labour base just crumble beneath our feet. as boris johnson prepares for thurday‘s queen speech, the government is to enshrine in law, a commitment to raise spending on the nhs in england. the national health service is the number one focus of this government when it comes to domestic policy. nicola sturgeon renews her call for a second referendum on scottish independence, saying the people of scotland
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mustn't be kept in the union — against their will. you cannot sort ofjust lock us in a cupboard and turn the key and hope that everything goes away. a marathon un climate summit in madrid ends in a compromise — leaving many delegates unhappy. there are millions of people all around the world who are already suffering from the impacts of climate change. denying this fact could be interpreted by some to be a crime against humanity. china's state broadcaster drops its plan to show arsenal's match against manchester city this afternoon — in the wake of comments by mesut ozil, criticising the country's treatment of the uighurs. and coming up at 16:30 — bloodhound: chasing the land speed record. how 22 years on, a british driver is trying to break his own world record.
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good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. jeremy corbyn and john mcdonnell have apologised over labour's defeat in thursday's election, which saw them lose 59 seats. mr corbyn said he was sorry that they "came up short", while mr mcdonnell told the bbc he "owns this disaster". speaking to the bbc‘s andrew marr — he said it was unfortunate the party hadn't been able to articulate its message more effectively. he also blamed the media's portrayal ofjeremy corbyn — insisting that he'd been demonised "for four years solid". here's our political correspondent tony bonsignore. three days on and labour is still trying to work out what went so catastrophically wrong. i'm just sorry that we've let some people down. in today's observer,
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jeremy corbyn offered an apology. but the labour leader remains convinced that the campaign wasn't a total failure. from the shadow chancellor this morning, a fuller apology. let me make it clear that it is on me, it is on me, let's take it on the chin. i own this disaster. but again, a belief that the core message was a good one. and other factors were also to blame. i think it was brexit that did it. we were in this dilemma, we couldn't move either way or if we did and we tried to compromise, it didn't work. that is the first thing. the second, we have to recognise that, look, the media did a number onjeremy forfour years solid, everyday. attention is now turning
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to the election of the next labour leader early next year. many, including john mcdonnell, think it should be a woman. some argue it should be someone who represents a break with the current leadership. wigan mp, lisa nandy, says she is seriously considering running. we have to think seriously about how we rebuild that coalition that has propelled us into power three times in the last 100 years. the lewishams and the leighs and how you speak for both. i think i definitely have a contribution to make, i come from one part of that coalition, i have lived in and represented another part for the last decade. before that election, it is back to business in the commons. later this week, it is the queen's speech and shortly after that, borisjohnson‘s brexit deal is expected to be passed by mps. our intention is to bring the withdrawal bill, the legislation, back to parliament before christmas. this week? ideally before christmas but as as soon as possible would be perfect.
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0bviously those conversations are happening between the relevant parties and the house authorities as we speak. but it is not all plain sailing for the conservatives. even without brexit, there is a looming row with the other big winners on thursday, the snp. they want another independence referendum. borisjohnson has ruled it out. if he thinks saying no is the end of the matter then he is going to find himself completely and utterly wrong and he cannot, as i was saying yesterday and again it is quite a fundamental point of democracy, you cannot hold scotland in the union against its will. as a new crop of mps prepare to take their seats, the only certainty is that more tough decisions lie ahead. tony bonsignore, bbc news. jill rutter is from the think tank uk in a changing europe. she's also a former senior civil servant who worked across a number of departments and also number 10.
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she told me that borisjohnson‘s huge majority means he will have no problem getting his eu deal through by the january deadline. he can be pretty confident he'll get his legislation through by the end of january. the european parliament will ratify the deal. we saw at the european council on friday that the leaders now are keen to get on with it. they've got a government with a big majority, they want to move on as well. so... so 31st ofjanuary is a done deal? ithink... 31st of january, i think it's pretty much a done deal. and then the next problem is trade relationship. there seem to be different interpretations of this. some seem to think that mrjohnson, because he has this huge parliamentary majority, can now pretty much play this as he'd like. and that his instincts are more towards a softer brexit than threatening to leave without a trade deal agreed at the end of the year. others think that actually he's in his pomp, and being in his pomp at the strongest point in any prime minister's premiership, that he actually can afford to play hardball. what would be your perception on that? the truth is, we don't know. the conservative manifesto,
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for all it was about getting brexit done, was incredibly vague about the future relationship. it just set out what we didn't want. no single market, no customs union, no extension to the deadline. and i think... we've seen that the prime minister isn't necessarily bound by his commitments, but that was setting us towards the course of a pretty loose relationship with the eu. bizarrely, for a conservative manifesto, it didn't mention security cooperation. that's the other big thing we need to negotiate, it wasn't mentioned at all. there are people, i think, who are saying he can now face down the... i think what is true is it's down to the prime minister. i mean, this is very much his government, it's his triumph. and certainly for the next couple of years, he is in command. so, if he wants to move towards a softer brexit, he could. but actually, there's no real evidence he wants to. after all, he resigned over theresa may's deal. theresa may's deal was the door to a softer brexit if he wanted it and he decided to eject himself out of government rather than go through that door with her. let's talk about something else there's a lot of coverage of in the newspapers this morning,
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which will have come, doubtless, out of number 10 briefings, and that is that the prime minister is being encouraged to think radical thoughts about whitehall. he's not the first prime minister of recent years to talk about thinking radical thoughts about whitehall. they often don't come to anything. what's your reading of it, given that he also has in his office, dominic cummings, who had such an interesting experience when he worked as a special adviser for michael gove in the coalition government? we've all sort of slightly known that dominic cummings is keen on reforming whitehall, so dominic cummings is keen on reforming the civil service. they are two things, one of which is their a big agenda about civil service reform, bringing in more business people, more sort of political appointments. so you get more people who are supportive of the government's agenda rather than impartial civil service. it's quite a big constitutional change. that may be the cummings agenda. he also wants more people, usuallym with a science background, cos he thinks that whitehall is too dominated by fluffy social scientists and arts and humanities graduates and he has actually has got a point about that,
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so let's concede that to dominic. i think the other thing is whether there are going to be a very big machinery of government changes. negotiators have reached a compromise at the un climate talks in madrid. they extended their stay in the spanish capital for two extra days to try to resolve divisions on how to implement the 2016 paris climate agreement. 0ne contentious issue is how to compensate developing countries affected by climate change. the pacific island nation tuvalu accused the us of trying to block a deal. here's the negotiator, ian fry. if they get their way with the governance of the whim, they will wash their hands of any actions to assist countries which have been affected by the impacts of climate change. this is an absolute tragedy and a travesty. 0n those affected by the impacts of climate change. there are millions of people, all around the world,
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who are already suffering from the impacts of climate change. denying this fact could be interpreted by some to be a crime against humanity. 0ur environment correspondent matt mcgrath is at the conference in madrid. he explained what the stumbling blocks were to reaching agreement. yeah, the real difficulty here has been this question of ambition. how much do countries up their game, if you like, on what they promised in paris in 2015 to tackle the urgency of the science? now, all countries put a plan on the table in paris in 2015. some of them strong, some of them not so strong. the idea was that they would come here to madrid and then onto glasgow next year and improve those plans. well, getting an agreement on that proved very difficult. a lot of countries, the eu
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and small island states, were very keen on high ambition, getting countries to promise to do much more and much more quickly. others, including the united states and australia and brazil were not so keen. ultimately, they made a compromise, there will be encouragement by all countries to address the gap between what the science is telling us and what the emissions plans at the moment are doing. that should lead to some more improved plans on the table by the end of next year. lots of criticism presumably for that wording from campaign organisations? that's right. a lot of campaigners are very unhappy, they think it is a missed opportunity here in madrid. they had hoped that given the presence of greta thunberg, they had hoped with the science and the marches in the streets, that countries would seize the moment and a step forward boldly but the reality of this is it is a 200 country process, nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, it is by unanimity. and countries can block things and block they certainly did.
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some of the bigger countries did a lot of blocking at this particular conference. ultimately, though, they kept the show on the road. it lives to fight again, that will be in glasgow next year and the hope amongst many campaigners is that the uk government can steer a better ship than perhaps was done here under the presidency of chile. a british man has been killed and his son wounded after being shot during a suspected robbery in argentina. it happened outside a five star hotel in the capital buenos aires. with more here's our correspondent angus crawford. moments before a brutal attack in broad daylight. see the white minibus. the british men are inside having just arrived. the driver moves to get their luggage. they don't notice the man on the motorbike. at the top of the screen, his accomplice attacks the tourists who fight back. what happens next is too distressing to show. it took place yesterday morning in one of buenos aires‘s most affluent neighbourhoods, outside the five—star
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faena art hotel. one man, in his 50s, died in hospital. his son, aged 28, was shot in the thigh. the foreign office says it's supporting their family and helping the authorities. the attackers fled on a motorbike. police have made no arrests. a life cut short in a senseless act of violence. angus crawford, bbc news. a man is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot by armed police in hull. officers were called out to a man believed to be in possession of a firearm in the early hours of this morning. crispin rolfe reports. one of hull's main streets, hessle road, shut after police shot a man reported to be carrying a firearm. the man at the centre of this incident is now, police say, in a critical condition in hospital after being shot by officers in the early hours of the morning. as is standard practice,
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this is now being referred to the independent 0ffice of police conduct as further investigations continue. all i've heard is that they shot somebody in the middle of the night, about 2am. if he's been waving a gun about, that's the only thing they could do. shocking in this day and age but you get used to it, don't you? you hear it every other week on the news now but obviously not down hessle road. it's not very good, i mean, i was born on hessle road, my mum was as well. to see something like this, it is terrible. no—one else was injured in the incident, which police say they don't believe to have any connection to terrorism. a teenager will appear in court tomorrow charged with the murder of a 15—year—old boy in cheshire. the body of 15—year—old alex rodda was discovered on friday morning. matthew mason has been remanded in custody and will appear before magistrates on monday. thousands of properties are still without water in and around leighton buzzard in bedfordshire, after supplies failed on friday night.
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an initial problem, caused by a broken valve, has been fixed. but anglian water says air, trapped in pipes, means supplies haven't been restored in some areas. jenny kirk reports. queues at tesco today, but these aren't christmas shoppers. queues at tesco today, but these aren't christmas shopperslj queues at tesco today, but these aren't christmas shoppers. i wasn't even aware that this water station was around, so this is my first trip. i'm guessing one of many. around 20,000 homes were left without water when the problem started on friday evening. a faulty valve was found and repaired, but this morning, 5000 people were still not reconnected. businesses have been hit hard, forced to close at what should be a busy time of the year. the owners of the white horse pub and b&b have said it has cost them thousands in lost trade. also close, the nearby italian bistro, which is had to cancel a christmas party of 20 planned for tonight. we
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have a business to run first, but i'm looking at all the families around the area, maybe with kids as well or old people, water is a primary need and we really need it. an airlock is primary need and we really need it. an air lock is unusual and difficult to resolve. first you need to find and remove it from the network. that is why we have had teams today literally walking the network to try and find that airlock and remove it. to help the most vulnerable people, tankers were brought in pumping drinking water directly into the mains. after two days without water, this care home was giving its own supply from a 9000 litre tank. anglian water has apologised. the headlines on bbc news... the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has apologised to supporters, for his party's heavy defeat in the general election. as boris johnson prepares for thurday‘s queen speech, the government is to enshrine
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in law, a commitment to raise spending on the nhs in england. nicola sturgeon has renewed her call for a second referendum on scottish independence, saying the people of scotland mustn't be kept in the union — against their will. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. good afternoon. manchester united have extended their unbeaten run to four league matches — after drawing 1—1 with everton. they had to come from behind though — victor lindelof‘s own goal putting everton ahead. the goal was checked by var — but it was deemed dominic calvert—lewin hadn't fouled goalkeeper david de gea in the build up. but united made sure of a point — mason greenwood with his eighth goal of the season — 13 minutes from time for a 1—1 draw. spurs snatched the three points at molineux with a late header from a jan vertonghen header to give
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them a 2—1win over wolsves. the victory means tottenham are now in fifth place, three points behind chelsea, who are their opponents next weekend. arsenal's game against macnehster city kicks off at 11.30. arsenal women will finish the year at the top of the super league after beating everton 3—1. vivianne miedema scored twice, taking her tally for the calendar year to an incredible 53 goals but the victory was tainted by an injury to england's beth mead. arsenal are three points clear of manchester city in second. that's after city thrashed brighton 5—0 at home and chelsea could only draw at liverpool. there were five different scorers for city including england captain steph houghton, ellen white and georgia stanway but the pick of the goals was the final one from pauline bremer. rangers are temporarily top of the scottish premiership after beating motherwell 2—0 at fir park. rangers bounced back from losing their last domestic game —
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the league cup final to celtic. nikola katic opening the scoring just before the half hour mark. alfredo morelos completed the comfortable victory, but was then sent off after gesturing to motherwell fans during his celebrations. he'll now miss next friday's match against hibernian. celtic will return to the top of the table with a win or a draw against hibernian today. they kicked off at 3pm — so around 15 minutes into the second half it's1—0 at celtic park, jeremie frimpong with the goal. exeter are on the verge of qualification to the quarter finals of rugby union's champions cup — after beating sale 35 points to 10. the chiefs had to battle against the sharks and the weather... with play briefly suspended in the second half due to heavy hailstone. but five tries in the match sealed a bonus point win — it's the first time the chiefs have won their first four matches in european competition.
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tiger woods led his united states side to a 16 poitns to 1a victory in the presidents cup in melbourne. his team had trailed 10—8 going into the final day's play but turned it round with a dominant performance to win an eighth successive trophy. this week, as the captain and a player, it was a juggling act, but the guys understood that. we communicated that going in. there were a lot of different plans that could happen, and i trust all of them, from all the 11 players, with sticks and coups and zach as our vices. it was trust in each other. that is what ultimately won us the cup. ahead of the main event later, eliud kipchoge has been revealed as this year's bbc‘s world sports star of the year after winning the public vote. the kenyan marathon runner became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours in october. in winning the award, kipchoge came ahead of, amongst others, gymnast simone biles
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and the south africa rugby union captain siya kolisi. and bbc sports personality of the year is on from 7 o'clock on bbc one this evening. the bbc sport website will build up to the show from 5 o clock. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour. china's state broadcaster has cancelled the screening of arsenal's match against manchester city this afternoon, after the arsenal midfielder mesut 0zil criticised the chinese government's treatment of uighur muslims. 0zil used instagram to say that muslims were being sent to camps in shin—jiang. arsenal insisted the comments were just 0zil s personal opinion. earlier our asia pacific editor michael bristow explained why china are annoyed with the comments. the topic he was talking about, very critical about what china has been doing there. up to perhaps i critical about what china has been
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doing there. up to perhapsi million people put in detention centres and re—education centres as china tries to crack down on what it says is terrorism in the region. particularly recently, it has raised a lot of international criticism on this issue. china have pushed back against that, it doesn't want anyone commenting upon it. you might say why is it getting annoyed about a footballer? it is because they don't like anyone commenting on politics, it is notjust politicians or nations or companies, they don't wa nt nations or companies, they don't want anyone commenting on what it doesin want anyone commenting on what it does in its own country. that is why it has got so annoyed. it doesn't seem it has got so annoyed. it doesn't seem to have been up for china to arsenal has distances and some cell from the comments. —— distanced themselves from the comments. they we re themselves from the comments. they were due to show arsenal's match against manchester city live on chinese tv. english premier league foot ball chinese tv. english premier league football in china is very popular. it is the most popular european league and china. i think the
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premier league sold the rights to watch football there for about £500 million, so it is big business. of course, arsenal moved away quickly from its player, try to distance itself saying we don't get involved in politics, but the chinese government hasn't taken that is good enough, so it has pulled the match. wright we had a similar example of this in autumn with the nba in the united states. e series of tweets in support of the protesters in hong kong immediately cause problems. there was criticism of the nba saying they were so willing to politically submit to china. arsenal could get similar criticism, presumably, as there sense that in britain the politicians don't really wa nt to britain the politicians don't really want to get involved? arsenal hasn't yet been criticised quite as much as much as the nba was a couple of
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months ago when the incident you we re months ago when the incident you were talking about happened. politicians in britain, is not so connected with china as you indicated there. china and the united states, at the moment, are embroiled in a trade war. the united states has also had a lot to say the legislation about what is going on in hong kong and the process there. and shinjang, in hong kong and the process there. and shin jang, the in hong kong and the process there. and shinjang, the subject we have been talking about. china is more sensitive about its relationship with the united states than its relationship with britain. it's worth mentioning another point, china came quickly up the ante on these kind of issues because it holds that the levers of power in all public life, really. for example, in britain the government would be able to tell a broke as to ta ke would be able to tell a broke as to take off a football match, in china they can. when the chinese government is angry about something, you can quite easily and quite quickly escalate that dispute and bring ina quickly escalate that dispute and bring in a lot of pain to anyone it
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doesn't leak. one of the people injured in last week's volcanic eruption on white island in new zealand has now died in hospital in sydney. it brings the confirmed death toll to 16. rescue teams returned to white island earlier today but didn't find the bodies of two people who are still missing. japanese officials have proudly unveiled the country's national stadium ahead of next year's olympic games. it's grand in size but not quite as big as originally planned. freya cole has more. a bird's eye view of tokyo's national stadium. it is ready, set, go ahead of next year's olympic games. translation: it is 220 days to the opening of tokyo's 0lympics. i can already imagine the scenes where the athletes are sprinting in this field and spectators are cheering for them in this auditorium. hello, our stadium! "hello, stadium," that's the words on everyone's lips as anticipation builds ahead of the opening ceremony injuly.
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it has five floors above ground and two underneath which engineers say has the latest earthquake protection technology. the grand space has the capacity to fit 68,000 people and it cost almost 1.5 billion us dollars, but it is a far cry from the original design. this masterplan, which critics likened to a giant bicycle helmet, was scrapped due to its hefty 2 billion us dollar price tag. local residents demanded the stadium be scaled back and this is the end result. japanese officials say its universal design is suitable for all athletes and abilities. translation: it blends with its surrounding natural environment, and is equipped with unique japanese character. the 2020 olympic games will be the stadium's first major international event after it missed the deadline for the rugby world cup, but now it's finally here, excitement is in the air
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for the biggest sporting event in the world. freya cole, bbc news. hello, it has been a blustery, chilly and showery weekend. some of the showers has been falling as snow over higher ground in the north. further south, we have had rain and hail. this is the picture from devon recently with some big showers, some heavy hail as well and the odd rumble of thunder which is pushing its way further east. through this week, still unsettled so a mix of sunshine and showers, wednesday looking like the drier day before things turn milder and windier once again towards the latter part of this coming week. into the evening, heavy showers with hill snow and hail, pushing east across the uk. there could be ice for parts of northern england and southern scotland in particular with further snow over the higher ground, too. temperatures across northern areas falling to freezing or a little below but staying above freezing further south. you have enough of a breeze to keep things largely frost free
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to start monday morning. monday brings a day of sunshine and showers, fewer showers than we've seen around today. most of the windy showers will be pushing in across northern ireland and western scotland where once again it will fall as snow over higher ground. much of england and wales having a largely dry day, less windy than the weekend, some sunshine, but clouding over towards the south—east later in the day with the odd spot of rain possible thanks to this front which looks like it pushes its way north and east as we head into tuesday. elsewhere, tuesday morning, away from the south—east, we are likely to see conditions like this, mist and fog likely under clearer skies and lighter winds. mist and fog slowly clearing away through the day on tuesday, that area of rain also clearing from the south—east. it should be mostly dry with some sunshine by the afternoon. still rather chilly with temperatures stuck in single figures, 4—9 degrees for most of us on tuesday. into the middle of the week and a ridge of high pressure which will quieten things down as we move into wednesday. it could be a cold start to wednesday morning, frost and the odd misty patch,
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so scenes a little like this first thing wednesday morning. the frost and mist should clear quickly, and a largely dry, sunny day in store on wednesday before it turns wet and windy from the west once again so rain for south—west england, wales and northern ireland later in the day. further north and east, you should stay largely dry. temperatures about 4—10 degrees, turning milder from the south—west. unsettled as we look towards the end of the week but not as windy and milder than it has been this weekend. bye for now. hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines: the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has apologised to supporters, for his party's heavy defeat in the general election. as boris johnson prepares for thurday‘s queen's speech, the government is to enshrine
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in law, a commitment to raise spending on the nhs in england. nicola sturgeon has renewed her call for a second referendum on scottish independence, saying the people of scotland mustn't be kept in the union against their will. the longest united nations climate talks on record have finally ended in madrid, with a compromise deal, on the key question of increasing the global response to curbing carbon. now on bbc news — chasing the world land speed record. well, the thing about the land speed record is it is the last of the amateur corinthian sports. it is done purely for the love, the fascination of it. some people argue, well, the old cars are no more, but forget it is a car, we are pushing the boundaries of engineering to its absolute limit. every day i go, why are we doing this?
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