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week ahead with darren. we will see a change of weather type next week, as i will show you later on. it will probably make forecasting more straightforward because everything recently has been slow moving, it's been difficult to get the cloud and the mist and fog right, but over the next few days we should be seeing a lot of cloud over more of the uk, milder conditions as well. still got high pressure in charge but cloudy skies should be moving down from the north, so sunshine much more limited on wednesday across england and wales. probably the best of the sunshine across eastern parts of scotland. damp and drizzly weather across the north of scotland, on the whole it will be dry but even then we are seeing more cloud across england and wales than we had on tuesday. temperatures 13 in the sunshine in aberdeenshire, very mild for the time of year. during the evening we should keep cloudy skies, limiting the frost. as we head into thursday we still have the high pressure in
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charge, light winds for the most part. strong winds coming in, together with that weakening weather front. it will mainly affect the far north of scotland on thursday with rain. fresh breeze picking up across the english channel, otherwise light winds. a lot of cloud around. those temperatures are a shade lower but still pretty good for the time of year. high pressure will take a bit of shifting. the weather front moves into the high pressure and tends to weaken, it get so far and then sta rts weaken, it get so far and then starts moving northwards again as an area of low pressure comes in from the atlantic. there is what's left of the weather front, you can hardly see it. there may be some sunshine across the north of scotland for a while, and again this mixture of generally cloudy skies further south.
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having said all that, saturday for the most part will be a dry day with a little bit of sunshine coming through as the breeze freshens a touch. a few showers breaking out across western part of the uk ahead of the weather front which is still hanging around towards the far north—west. decent temperatures because of the south to south—westerly breeze, nine or 10 degrees. that weather will push across the uk on saturday evening and saturday night and the wetter weather likely to be in the north—west. the weather front pushing eastwards will tend to wea ken pushing eastwards will tend to weaken and they will be patchy rain moving eastwards across england and wales. the first rain for quite some time. behind it, we will get some sunshine arriving, a few showers towards the north—west, wintry over the hills as the air gets a bit colder. but not desperately cold, six or 7 degrees, near normal. and and northern ireland. next week we will fluctuate between milder and cooler north—westerly wind and then milder, south—westerly winds once
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again. that should give you an indication that it is turning much more unsettled. in the cool air, six 01’ more unsettled. in the cool air, six or7 more unsettled. in the cool air, six or 7 degrees. not that cold and for some it will be double figures over the next week ahead. there will, however, be much wetter weather. we have a band of rain sweeping through and then it is sunshine and showers. another area of low pressure spinning towards the north—west of scotla nd spinning towards the north—west of scotland bringing more rain and another one following later on as well. so all change next week. hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment, first the headlines: president trump has mounted a strong attack on the climate change movement during a speech to political and business leaders at the world economic forum in switzerland. meanwhile the impeachment trial has begun. the president is charged with
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abusing the power of his office and obstructing the subsequent enquiry by congress. the nhs in england faces paying out £4.3 billion in legalfees to the nhs in england faces paying out £4.3 billion in legal fees to settle outstanding claims of clinical negligence. the duke and duchess of sussex are threatening to take legal action over photos taken by paparazzi in canada, where they have set up home. and, jess phillips pulls out of the race to be the next labour leader, saying the party need someone who will unite all sides of the movement. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kate andrews, an economic correspondent from the spectator and polly mackenzie, director of the cross—party think tank demos. many of tomorrow's front
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pages are already in. the metro has a picture of president trump and greta thunberg on its front page. it is two pictures after they clashed at the climate change davos summit. new rules coming into force in britain to protect children's online privacy and safety. the independent uses almost identical pictures of trump and greta thunberg. it says the 17—year—old accuse the us president of inaction that is fuelling the fla mes of inaction that is fuelling the fla m es of of inaction that is fuelling the flames of the climate emergency. to the times, it has the quote from donald trump accusing critics of being prophets of doom. trump dismisses alarmist green lobby at climate focus in davos. the i claims donald trump is the earth's number
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one climate change denier. jeff bezos had his phone hacked and there is also a dramatic picture about the spread of the caronavirus. and the daily mirror goes on the revelation by 0zzy and the daily mirror goes on the revelation by ozzy osbourne that he has parkinson's disease. so let's turn to our reviews and i think we are going to start with the guardian and the prophets of doom. polly, you start us off this time. donald trump has called for the prophets of doom which seems to be a thinly veiled reference to greta thunberg, held up as a saint of the anti—climate change movement. and it is an interesting moment, because we are definitely getting close to the moment when catastrophic climate
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change is hard to prevent or even reverse. we talked about attempts to keep climate change to under 1.5 degrees of temperature rising, now it looks like it will be incredibly difficult to do that. i take not greta thunberg's words, but the words of the climate scientists who have been talking at the world economic forum and beyond. the challenges, we should be celebrating the progress that has been made at davos and will be made this year in glasgow. because we are making changes, both driven by the science of green energy, carbon capture and storage, and a huge debate about engineering solutions and what they have announced at davos. and the danger is climate activists, and
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greta thunberg has an extraordinary job of leading the movement, but the danger is, when anybody takes action, always say, it is not enough and that creates despair amongst the people who need to do a lot of the work to change their lifestyles, their boilers and travel habits. coming back to the actual prophets of doom, there is an interesting angle where the scientific narrative and the economic narrative that trump is delivering is slightly talking past each other. donald trump is talking about the need for optimism in terms of economic confidence so he doesn't like people who predict disaster, because that talks down the economy?” who predict disaster, because that talks down the economy? i think there is some element of that. it is interesting to watch trump be pitted against greta thunberg in this way, in the sense that of course it is inevitable, the president has been
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unkind about the teenager in the past. she clearly has not always beena fan past. she clearly has not always been a fan of his. they represent two very different ideologies and they are very open about that. so you can get these wonderful photos head—to—head. in reality, the us has been one of the strongest and most progressive countries in reducing its c02 emissions. if you need to focus on who needs to do more, it isn't obvious... the us has the highest emissions in the world? but if you look at the countries who have done the most, it has been the us and the usa. you need to target countries like china and india. it is not to say the us cannot do more, but they are talking past each other because a lot of the solution probably lie in the middle. trump thinks that greta has a socialist agenda that will lead to is never flying in an aeroplane again. greta thinks the president has an agenda, which is basically to do what he
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wants, and his twitter feed has him doing exactly what he wants, so i have sympathy with that as well. i don't think the perspective of either of those will find the long—term solutions, so we don't lower our standards of living, especially the poorest who have benefited from mass production, infrastructure and cheap flights and the rest. but we have the serious issues facing the planet. we have the photos of the two of them on the front page of the independent and other newspapers. 0ne front page of the independent and other newspapers. one of the things that demonstrates is that this is a generational conflict? yes, 73 and 17, they are at different ends of the life spectrum. i think often the climate change debate plays out like that because it is 17—year—olds and their children he will be at the brunt of dangerous climate change. whereas donald trump, you know, who knows how long he will be with us. probably not more than 20 or 30 yea rs probably not more than 20 or 30 years at most. in wales,
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interestingly enough they have appointed to future generations commissioner, whosejob appointed to future generations commissioner, whose job it appointed to future generations commissioner, whosejob it is to stand up for the voiceless, because they have not been born yet and try and encourage government regulation on business to think about the long—term consequences about the decisions we make now. there is a problem, kate is right, you have to harness business forces, market forces and the investment economy in order to make progress in tackling climate change. but we need to make sure businesses do have to face the real costs of what economists call externalities, the cost they inflict on future generations on the climate, on the physical environment as well. if we did that, you could have a much more environmentally same capitalist economy.” have a much more environmentally same capitalist economy. i think the language here matters as well. donald trump talking about the prophets of doom, as polly says, it is veiled attack on greta thunberg
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and it is unhelpful. but there is a lot of fear mongering in the late 19905 by what would happen by 2020. they said there would be 8 million deaths as a result of climate change. this has not happened. it is not to say estimates coming out now that greta is quoting are not true. but we have to take all of this with a pinch of salt. it is important to acknowledge when you say they said, they said that the ipcc‘s predictions have been very accurate? that is why i am saying we should notjust throw that is why i am saying we should not just throw them out. but we don't know what innovations in technology around green energy and fracking and shale gas will come to the forefront. they have had a massive reduction in c02 emissions. i think all of this negative line to let macro language and bedsides is unhelpful. it is not to say the predictions are going to be wrong, we should say look how far we have come and look at where we are going. we have some great investments coming in, especially in the area of
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green energy and things could get better. let's move on to a different story, a convoluted but interesting story, a convoluted but interesting story, polly, do you want to start us story, polly, do you want to start us off with this story on the front of the guardian, at the amazon boss's phone has been hacked by the saudi crown prince? the suggestion the guardian claims from its investigation is thatjeff bezos, the owner of the washington post was corresponding with the crown prince of saudi arabia by whatsapp and an encrypted message of some sort was transferred via whatsapp that enabled them to then hack his phone and download who knows what, even the guardian in this investigation doesn't set out what information they may or may not have got hold of. it does point out the national enquirer, us kind of tabloid magazine, got hold ofjeff bizos' m essa 9 es magazine, got hold ofjeff bizos' messages later on in the year. this
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is the year 2018? yes, you are right. they could be linked, it is impossible to tell. it raises some serious questions about how business and, you know, the governing powers around the world interact, that these two are having such an informal conversation, if indeed they were at all. particularly around the time of the murder ofjim malcolm sargent, thejournalist who was working for the newspaper, owned byjeff bezos. was working for the newspaper, owned by jeff bezos. it is genuinely remarkable, if it is true. at the moment it is alleged the crown prince played a direct line, he was the direct source in taking jeff bezos' information. it raises serious questions with our overall
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relationship with saudi arabia. the us has had a cosy relationship for the purposes of oil and having a friend in the region. but how long can that be sustained? questions around an attack, not just a man's private phone but a national newspaper who had a journalist killed in saudi arabia's embassy. it goes so much further than having some photos taken off your phone. it could turn into an international news story. they are not saying who their sources are, and obviously, i suppose it is possible the saudis might say, not only that they had nothing to do with hacking jeff bezos' phone, but the crown prince's phone could have been in someone else's hands. i am thinking all along the lines of defence they might bring to this. but it is a fascinating insight into the life of the super—rich and the superpowerful
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and the ways they communicate and what might or might not happen as a result. and the ways they retaliate. and the ways they retaliate, or allegedly retaliate. let's turn to the times and this is an interesting story, polly d want to look at this, johnson lists 30,000 wage barrier on immigrants. it is quite interesting and important. we have had, since 2010, this target to reduce the number of immigrants that come to the uk to less than 100,000, which has never been successfully achieved. that's because we had free movement with the eu. because we had free movement with the eu, in an attempt to get numbers down, theresa may introduced a range of various restrictive measures, including a limit basically saying nobody could come to work here, no matter the job from outside the eu unless they earn more than £30,000. i think boris
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johnson will take a more liberal approach to immigration, perhaps he has the freedom of not having freedom of movement any more. he going to remove that barrier and allow people and potentially lower wages to come to the uk if they score enough points in this proposed new points—based system. so jealous has quotes from iain duncan smith and a migrant sceptic think tank called migration watch and they are hostile to this suggestion. i think he may some hostility from his own party. i think he should be applauded, this is a long time coming. johnson's government is recognising there are so many skilled migrants i could be working in social care and hospitality he will not be making £30,000 initially, that is a high salary. but they can still provide vital skill sets and fill vacancies the uk needs. we will watch an interesting
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debate play out, as many people spoke about controlling borders during brexit. now the debate since the uk will, is did it mean controlling borders or having a sense of what's going on in the feeling of control, of being hostile to immigration. i think signals like this, not bowl the signals are good, by the way. they have been up and down with the points—based system saying they do want to reduce the numberof saying they do want to reduce the number of low skilled workers coming. but this is a positive, liberal sign. kate, we need to move on, metro, they have that photo of trump and greta. radical rules to protect children online? trump and greta. radical rules to protect children online ?|j trump and greta. radical rules to protect children online? i suppose in many ways it is a long time coming because before the election we have the online harms like paper and political chaos, we never got through all of that. but there has beena through all of that. but there has been a push to better protect children online. we don't have loads of details on the front page, but a 15 point list of standards is coming
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from the information commissioner, elizabeth denham. the goal is going to be to protect data and protect their locations from being shared. it does sound positive but the sceptic in me does have to wonder that the tech companies will be liable if this goes wrong. as specific as it, what if a child registers as an adult online. it is so registers as an adult online. it is so easy for children to access so many platforms online now, it doesn'tjust come down many platforms online now, it doesn't just come down to tech companies, it is about parenting and education as well. if we think about the way technician is going to have voice recognition devices in our homes, it is not clear you can protect children's data and the things children say in the home, without also not deleting, basically, the adult‘s data as well. because it is going to be so mixed up, certainly in my hand, the first thing my two—year—old does is wake up thing my two—year—old does is wake up and acts daily—macro ask alexa to
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play twinkle, twinkle little star. it sounds great, we would just stop under 18 is from interacting in dangerous ways with the internet. enforcement with that, especially as technology develops its going to be incredibly difficult. it may lead to wider privacy protections for all of us. wider privacy protections for all of us. talking technology and enforcement, takes us to the financial times, which has an interesting story about the us threatening retaliation against the uk if boris johnson threatening retaliation against the uk if borisjohnson presses on with £500 million a year big tech tax. polly? there is a problem that these huge tech giant, partly because they are able to use what's called tra nsfer are able to use what's called transfer pricing to shift profits from one country to another, end up paying extraordinarily low levels of corporation tax in many, many of the markets they operate in, including oui’s. markets they operate in, including ours. at the treasury has come up with a ham—fisted attempt to deal
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with a ham—fisted attempt to deal with this, which because it has targeted only the very big tech companies, all of which are american, looks very clearly like just an assault on the americans. i think the treasury needs to be a lot more creative and ambitious at looking at how you tax those tech companies. for example, with the way we use business rates, but to contribute to policing. it is based on an office footprint instead of a data footprint. those changes would be more successful and look less vindictive. the president loves a trade row and he thinks his trade i’ow trade row and he thinks his trade row is what got him his deal with china. he is not afraid to launch one on china. he is not afraid to launch one on the uk as well. i don't agree with that tactic but i agree with polly, that this isn't the answer either. it will target specifically american companies. corporation tax is out of date, it doesn't take into account these big, global companies any more. they need to be bold and brave and really reform rather than coming in with the big fish. we
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should maybe be part of multilateral organisations like the european union. it is 2020 now! you can see different pages and they are online seven days a week at the bbc news website. it is also on the iplayer. thank you to kate and polly and thank you for watching. goodbye. good evening. it has been a night of high drama, late goals and some big results in the premier league this evening. let's start at bramhall lane, where the success of the season, sheffield united were taking on manchester
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city. these are the nights at bramall lane has been waiting for. sheffield united, riding high in the table and they were looking for a big result against manchester city. at times, the first half felt like a local derby. big challenges and attempt has made appearances. dean henderson made light work of saving close range efforts. henderson added to their frustrations, range efforts. henderson added to theirfrustrations, saving range efforts. henderson added to their frustrations, saving the gabrieljesus penalty that follow. henderson was off his line and the manchester city bench were incensed that it wasn't ordered to be reta ken. that it wasn't ordered to be retaken. but a little good luck after the keeper's excellent performance so far. city should have beenin performance so far. city should have been in the lead going into the second united's 0liver mcburnie gave them a scare. but players are manchester city's quality only needs a margin to win games like this and when sergio aguero came off the
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bench, he just needed when sergio aguero came off the bench, hejust needed millimetres. they needed to work for it, but that will do for three points. elsewhere, there was a london derby with arsenal going to stamford bridge to take on chelsea. chelsea we re bridge to take on chelsea. chelsea were awarded a penalty and david louise was sent off. judge enia made no mistake from the spot and arsenal pulled one back through gabrielle martinelli. chelsea retook the lead with asprilla quite a's goal. there was some time for late drama as hector bellerin scored in the 87th minute. it finished 22. drama elsewhere tonight and bournemouth had been six games without a win before this evening. but they have managed to steady things just a little with victory over brighton. they remain in the bottom three but only by goal difference. extraordinary scenes at aston villa where they came from a goal down to
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beat watford. it was the fifth minute of stoppage time. southampton beat palace 2—0 and everton were 2—0 up beat palace 2—0 and everton were 2—0 up going into the fourth minute of injury time. newcastle managed to score twice in the last minute of the game to rescue a point. the rfu says saracens' players who move abroad following the club's relegation may be selected for england. it was announced at the weekend the club will be relegated following the salary cap scandal and players are meeting with the club to discuss their futures. the players are meeting with the club to discuss theirfutures. the rfu doesn't normally select english players based overseas, unless in exceptional circumstances. there are no winners out of this, saracens have done a tremendous amount of good for the game. a lot of england players have come from there but they have been found guilty of breaching rules and regulations and they have stamped on that. but nobody wins out of the so it is
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about making sure we recover well. four britons were knocked out on day two of the australian open. 0nly qualify dart her first main draw victory at melbourne park. she fought back brilliantly to be the japanese play. it went all the way toa japanese play. it went all the way to a final set tie—break and she has the current wimbledon champion, simone halep and x. not great news for the rest, cameron norrie, johanna konta and kyle edmund are all out. mo farah says he is happy for any anti—doping body to test any of his blood and you're in samples. the doping agency said they will test all athletes who trained with alberto salazar. mo farah tweeted to say well the anti—doping agency could test any of his samples any time. and that is all your support for now.
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hello, i started this week on a su btle hello, i started this week on a subtle note with sunshine across england, wales and eastern scotland. it has all been down to high pressure. high pressure is still here through wednesday, but we will see subtle changes where we are losing the cooler, blue air and importing something less cold off the atlantic. you can see the orange and yellow colours. today it will be largely dry thanks to high pressure, but because we have more moisture in the air it will be cloudy. across england and wales will see more cloud. best of the brightness will be eastern scotland. there may be the bright spell further south, but leaden skies are missed and work around and wins will be light and there will be nothing to stir up the air. buta milder day, like i there will be nothing to stir up the air. but a milder day, like i showed with the air mass. ten or 11 degrees and it could be very mad across north—east scotland. as we had to wednesday night it stays relatively
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cloudy for most areas. that could be the odd clear spell around and if that happens it will turn chilly in a few places but for most, with the cloud cover, it is going to be a largely frost free night. thursday and friday very similar days. we will continue with high pressure, generally lighter winds and a lot of cloud around, pretty leaden skies with hill fog and mist and murk. then we start to see a change to the weather as we move out of friday and into the weekend. the area of high pressure retreats back to the near continent and we will see low pressure pushing in from the atlantic. more isoba rs pressure pushing in from the atlantic. more isobars on the chart. saturday may start off rather cloudy once again, particularly england and wales and we will see more of a breeze picking up, especially across scotla nd breeze picking up, especially across scotland and northern ireland and this weather front will encroach to outbreaks of rain for western scotla nd outbreaks of rain for western scotland and western parts of northern ireland. maybe the odd shower ahead of it, but we should see sunny shower ahead of it, but we should see sunny spells into the afternoon asa see sunny spells into the afternoon as a breeze picks up and temperatures going from eight to 10 degrees. this weather front spreads across the country during saturday night and by sunday will be very
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wea k feature night and by sunday will be very weak feature by the time it reaches eastern part of bingen. a band of crowd raqqa cloud which are ranger clear away behind it the sky should be brighter with sunshine around. breezy day and a cooler air mass. it will be quite cold across the north west. some of the show is falling as sleet and snow across the high ground. it should be about 10 degrees in the south—east.
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i'm mariko 0i in singapore — the headlines... putting the president on trial — the impeachment of donald trump gets under way in the us senate but so far the democrats aren't being allowed to call any evidence or witnesses. a trial with no evidence is not a trial at all, it is a cover—up. the president himself is thousands of miles away in switzerland at the world economic forum. it's just a hoax, it'sjust a hoax, it it's just a hoax, it is the witchhunt that has been going on for yea rs witchhunt that has been going on for years and frankly it is disgraceful.

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