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this is bbc news. the headlines at 5pm: the death toll from the coronavirus in china rises to 56. officials warn the spread of the virus is accelerating and the country faces a grave situation. as the united states announces plans to fly some of its citizens home, the foreign office is urging britons to leave the province where the outbreak began, and advising against further travel there. a member of the grenfell tower inquiry panel resigns over links with the firm that supplied the tower block's deadly cladding. more than 35 people are dead after the powerful earthquake in eastern turkey. more than 1,600 are injured. three million brexit coins go into circulation on friday, to commemorate the day britain
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leaves the european union. harry maguire‘s first goal for manchester united sets them on their way in the fa cup against tranmere, as they win 6—0. that and rest of the day's sport in half an hour. the government has said it is looking at all options to help britons leave areas of china, where the coronavirus has killed 56 people and infected at least 2,000 more. the united states is flying its consular staff out of wuhan, where the virus first emerged. china has stepped up travel restrictions and banned the sale of wildlife, as it attempts to control the spread of the disease. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield
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hayes has sent this report. 0n the outskirts of wuhan, the race is on to beat the coronavirus. every bulldozer and excavator that can be found is being used to clear land for a 1,000—bed isolation hospital. it must be finished in two weeks. the trouble is, it's needed now. chinese officials today admitted the virus is spreading faster and that it can be passed on by people who show no symptoms. there are now growing calls for the british government to evacuate its own citizens from the city as the us is already doing. i think the uk government is aware now that all the transport links are closed so i find it a little bit surprising that we're being told to leave if we can when there is no possible route. chinese state tv is showing scenes like this, of people treated in modern intensive care units.
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but videos like this one uploaded to the internet claim to show a different picture of hospitals overwhelmed and staff unable to cope. in beijing reporters mobbed the head of china's cdc as he tried to calm the growing sense of panic. translation: this virus is not as strong or as dangerous as the sars virus was, he says, but it's a new virus so we need time to develop treatment. while the chinese government is now taking decisive measures to contain the spread of this virus, many experts think it is already too late. 0nce study suggests that in wuhan city alone by the end of next week there will be nearly 200,000 infections and that is why senior doctors in hong kong are calling on the government to close the border with mainland china. many places in mainland china are not waiting. these pictures on the internet appear to show villages and towns putting up their own improvised
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borders, shutting themselves off, making sure travellers from wuhan cannot come in. wuhan itself is now a ghost town. today this was the centre of a city of 11 million people during the biggest holiday of the year. and rupert also explained how weary we should be about the spread of the virus. certainly people should be watching the development of this virus coarsely, but panicked, no. there are always two things with normal viruses like this thatjumped from animals to human. two questions to be asked. 0ne animals to human. two questions to be asked. one is how easily do the spread from human to human? and the other is how fatal, how deadly, are they? in the case of this coronavirus, it seems to spread very easily from human to human. that's why we are seeing and spreading so fast in china. but the good news is the mortality rate seems to be very
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low. around 2% or 3% of people who catch it. so it is possible we will see it spread across china and it is possible it will spread around the world, but the good news, as i said, the mortality rate seems to be low and there are doctors now working on and there are doctors now working on a vaccine. we do have good viral treatments now, much better than in previous pandemics, if you think back to the 1980 flu virus that killed upwards of 20 million people -- 1918. killed upwards of 20 million people —— 1918. people should be concerned and watch out for developments, but there is no need to panic. meanwhile here, the department of health says that it has carried out 52 tests for coronavirus. all have come back negative. the government says it is monitoring the situation closely and will continue to work with the world health organization and international community. earlier we spoke to professor peter piot who is the director of the london school of hygiene andtropical medicine. he explained more about the virus and how it spreads. there are so many unknowns
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still about this new virus. it is a completely new virus, and it is remarkable that less than two weeks after the first cases occurred on december 29th, that on the 9th of january already the virus was isolated. one of the big questions is, how infectious is it? can you contaminate someone when you are still in the incubation period? if that is the case, we would go for a major epidemic, if not a pandemic. we are at the early stages, let's not forget that this virus was isolated only a few weeks ago and it is very new, but we can't take any risks. what is clear is that the virus is spreading much faster than we anticipated at the beginning. it is all over china, we have cases in a number of countries, although no secondary cases have been documented in countries like thailand or france or singapore. that is a big unknown as well, but we can't take any risks and we need to make some really serious contingency planning in case there is a major spread
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of this new coronavirus. families of people who died in the grenfell tower fire have welcomed a decision by a member of the inquiry panel to resign. benita mehra stepped down yesterday, after it emerged she had links to a company that supplied the cladding on the tower block. our home affairs correspondent danny shaw reports. every year since the grenfell fire, people come to remember those who lost their lives. they hope the public inquiry that's been set up will provide answers as to how the fire took hold, but now there are fresh concerns about the process from survivors and the bereaved after an inquiry panel member resigned with hearings about to resume.
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benita mehra, who is an engineer, was going to provide expert advice to the inquiry. but it emerged she had a past link to arconic, the company which supplied the external cladding for the tower block. the inquiry has found the cladding did not comply with building regulations and was the principal reason for the rapid spread of the fire. ms mehra said herformer role as president of the women's engineering society, which had accepted a donation from arconic‘s charity, had caused a serious concern to the families. it's highly unfortunate that this has now happened. the bereaved and survivors should not have been put in this situation. we should be starting the inquiry for phase two with two panel members and now we only have one.
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the grenfell united group welcomed ms mehra's resignation but accused the government of failing to carry out basic checks before appointing her. it said a new panellist with expertise in community relations must be found urgently. the cabinet office has responded by saying that due process was followed in this appointment and that all procedures and checks which should have taken place did take place. officials have also made it clear that the do not believe that benita mehra's links with our conic would have affected her impartiality in any way. the second phase will go ahead tomorrow without her. joining me now to comment on that is a man who lost six members of his family in the grenfell tower fire. thank you very much forjoining us. what is your response to what the cabinet office has set? it was very upsetting and disrespectful in the
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way that we found out. that they hadn't done their cheque. it is a big embarrassment. they should have done thorough checks well before. big embarrassment. they should have done thorough checks well beforem is totally disrespectful, you know. how has it affected your confidence in the process? well, itjust soars. by in the process? well, itjust soars. by then not doing theirjob in the enquiry, but they're supposed be doing, everyone has the position what they're supposed to be doing, if they're not doing it, it doesn't give you much confidence. shame on her because she should... she knew she received funds and she knew well before and kept quiet about it. obviously, her account may be slightly different to that. and certainly she would say that her impartiality was never in question. would you like to see her replaced with someone else or would you like to see a pause before the second
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phase of the enquiry, before someone else is fine too as engineering expertise? that definitely needs to bea expertise? that definitely needs to be a pause. the prime minister promised this extra panel. this is what the families have been fighting for. i hope they keep to their word. this was another failure in what they see and do, two different things. would you like to see someone things. would you like to see someone who has a —— engineering expertise or community relations expertise? you definitely need someone expertise? you definitely need someone with community, but then again you have to look at the terms of reference. if the terms of reference a re of reference. if the terms of reference are going to be changed, they have to suit the terms of reference. and that is what we and everybody must be looking at. it's very important. do you believe this can go ahead tomorrow as planned?m shouldn't do. the government made a promise for the extra panel and it's not there. so it shouldn't do. that
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will be totally disrespectful and unacceptable for a lot of everybody, as core participants. tells about your situation now. it's two and a half years on. have you been rehoused? are you beginning to get your life back on track? it's very ha rd your life back on track? it's very hard because there are always recurring problems are new problems that come up. so we are never having time to ourselves. the housing is another big problem. i am waiting to be hosed. it's not acceptable what they're doing and how they are treating people. you certainly have our sympathies and thoughts. thank you very much for your contribution. so, as you can see here, one person is saying that enquiry should not go ahead tomorrow, despite the government's claims it will go ahead on time. the second phase of the enquiry which is looking at the refurbishment of grenfell tower and issues regarding building
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regulations. danny, thank you very for that. the government has given its clearest indication yet that the hs2 high speed rail project will go ahead. a formal review of the new line from london to birmingham and the north of engand is taking place, following concerns over rising costs. but today the brexit secretary stephen barclay said the rail link will be a vital part of the uk's transport network... we have a strong commitment to levelling up all parts of the united kingdom. hs2 has that from a capacity point of view on the line. gut feeling, yes or no? yes. our political correspondent iain watson says ministers are usually more cautious — on such a divisive subject. some of these new northern mps want the project cancelled on the money
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diverted elsewhere. other influential voices, diverted elsewhere. other influentialvoices, such diverted elsewhere. other influential voices, such as the conservative mirror in the west midlands and seeing this project must go ahead. what i thought was significant about what steve barclay said, he said this was a key part of the levelling up agenda. boris johnson's attempts to close the north— south gap. the implication being the government feeling to deliver on a key promise, if hsz hits the buffers. after stephen barclay said yes it would go ahead. downing street emphasised this was a gut reaction. apparently politically if not anatomically, you shouldn't read too much into the entrails. the government is set to overhaul the smart motorway network after revealing 38 people have been killed on them in the last five years. smart motorways don't have a hard shoulder and drivers who break down can be trapped in the speeding traffic. bbc panorama has found that on one section of the m25, near misses have increased 20—fold since the hard shoulder was taken away.
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richard bilton reports. smart motorways were meant to ease congestion, open up the hard shoulder for traffic, monitor with technology, close a lane when there's a problem. we've got huge problems on the m1 at the moment near sheffield... but lives are being lost. jason mercer stopped on the m1 after a bump with another driver. the cameras didn't see them. the lane wasn't closed. they were both killed. they should have been picked up stationary picked up as stationary on the motorway by detectors, camera operators and they weren't, and that lane wasn't closed until after they were dead. without a hard shoulder, the vehicle in trouble has nowhere to go. this van on the inside lane doesn't spot a car in trouble. jesus! and this one onlyjust misses
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a broken—down vehicle. this is a police officer trying to divert cars out of lane one... and nearly being hit. there are emergency lay—bys but they can be miles apart. we put in a freedom of information request for one stretch of the m25. one warning sign was out of action for nearly a year, 336 days. there was also a 20—fold rise in near misses — 72 in the five years with the hard shoulder, 11185 in the five years without. the government has told panorama that 38 people have been killed on smart motorways in the last five years. a review into the smart network is under way. if we are going to have smart motorways, we have to have smart motorways that are safe and in my view they need to be safer than the conventional motorway.
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the results of the review will be announced shortly but panorama understands radar technology will be introduced across the network, along with more emergency lay—bys, to try to improve safety on the motorways where a breakdown can kill you. richard bilton, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news: the death toll from the coronavirus in china rises to 56. officials warn the spread of the virus is accelerating and the country faces a grave situation. a member of the grenfell tower inquiry panel resigns over links with the firm that supplied the tower block's deadly cladding. more than 35 people are dead after the powerful earthquake in eastern turkey. more than 1,600 are injured.
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emergency teams in turkey are continuing to search for survivors of friday's earthquake in which more than 35 people are known to have been killed. with the latest, here's richard galpin. she is just five years old, and covered in blood, but this girl is now safe. the rescue team pulling her out from under the smashed blocks of concrete and other debris brought down by the earthquake. for the rescue teams, speed is now essential to save lives in freezing temperatures. this emergency worker using a mobile phone to speak to a family trapped underneath the debris, telling them they must keep awake. in the light of morning, the extent of damage was revealed. this, just one of 30 buildings to have been brought down.
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and hundreds of aftershocks over the past 2a hours have added to the fear in this earthquake—prone region. some of the homeless have now found shelter, as the temperature at night drops to —10 degrees. others, though, are out on the streets. richard galpin, bbc news. a man has been awarded £100,000 in compensation from police scotland after he was wrongly arrested, handcuffed and spent four nights in custody. gary webb — from dumfries and galloway — said when police arrested him in 2015, they had a warrant for someone else. the police have offered an unreserved apology. a murder investigation has been launched after the death of a non—league footballer in nottinghamshire. 25—year—old jordan sinnot, who played for matlock town, was found unconscious in retford after a night out. a 27—year—old man has been arrested
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and remains in police custody. the baby food manufacturer cow and gate is recalling 15 of its products sold in tesco stores because of concerns that some of them could have been tampered with. customers who bought 200—gram jars of food for babies aged over seven months are being told not to use them as they may pose a safety risk. cow and gate products sold in other supermarkets are unaffected. police in south east london say they are aware of racist and anti—semitic graffiti which has been scrawled across a number of buildings. the graffiti, which has appeared on a bank in blackheath and outside a takeaway in charlton, depicts stars of david, swastikas and white supremacy insignia. local mp matthew pennycook says, these crimes are a stark reminder of the rise in white supremacism and jew hatred in our country. greenwich council has described the defacements as shocking. people in two italian regions are voting in elections that
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are being seen as a showdown between the government and the far—right party of matteo salvini. his anti—immigrant and populist league party is hoping to make big gains in northern emilia romagna, and the southern region, calabria. emilia romagna is considered the spitirual home of italian socialism, and has been governed by the left since the second world war. a victory there could help the league leader to become prime minister. president trump's defence team have opened their case in the senate impeachment trial, accusing the democrats of seeking to overturn the result of the 2016 election. mr trump denies allegations that he abused his power and obstructed a congressional inquiry. from washington, our correspondent chris buckler reports. as the future of his presidency has been facing a congressional challenge, donald trump has been to davos to meet world leaders, to florida to speak to supporters, and ignored other events in washington to attend
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a pro—life rally. perhaps a sign he is looking past this impeachment trial and already thinking about drumming up votes for the november presidential election. inside congress, his legal team have been arguing that, in bringing this case, the democrats were not really concerned about his behaviour in office. instead they claim that they are trying to overturn the vote that put him there in the first place. they are asking you to tear up all of the ballots across this country, on your own initiative, take that decision away from the american people. at the start of proceedings, democrats delivered a more than 28,000—page record of evidence and arguments that donald trump abused his power. the republican majority inside the senate makes it inconceivable that president trump be removed from office.
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what i have learned from all my years in politics and life, if you are right and keep fighting for the truth, you will prevail. a couple of miles away in the white house, a confident mr trump is tweeting and encouraging his supporters to tune into televised proceedings. he also made some comments about the democrats his lawyers would not have got away with inside congress. they will continue making their case tomorrow and you can expect their arguments to become a little more pointed and a little more political and perhaps a little nastier. chris buckler, bbc news, washington. it's pretty tough for any teacher trying to keep a classroom full of primary school children fully engaged — so imagine how hard it must be for one who's profoundly deaf, relying on sign language and lip reading. but that's exactly the challenge for alysha allen at a school in north london, and she'sjust won an award for her achievements. our reporter has been to meet her.
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they were looking at my hands and already i had got them... this is a typical maths lesson for year twos in alysha's class. even though she's profoundly deaf, she teaches at a mainstream school using british sign language and lip—reading. she has just received a national award for her outstanding teaching methods. itjust breaks it down for them visually. so today... it's notjust for maths, it helps the skills to grow. we have to say, good morning, look at each other during the register. their friends look at them. they say good morning to each other, eye contact. alysha's is not the only class that uses british sign language at this school. every single pupil learns it.
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we are going to have a little peek at the zebras, a year five class, and see what they are up to. it is very rare for all children in a uk school to learn british sign language. the head teacher here introduced it 2.5 years ago. initially there were some reservations from some parents when she started. however, i think when they see how amazing she is and the progress the children make, and how quickly they pick up the different signs, and for a lot of the children now, they have learned sign language for a couple of years, so they have already got some of that knowledge as well. and then there are other adults in the classroom, supporting different children and supporting across the whole classroom, and they see that actually, it's a team effort as well, and everybody is supporting and working together for the best of the children. it's my favourite thing to do at school! it makes me feel happy. if you learn how to sign, you can
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communicate with deaf people. alysha started as a teaching assistant at a special needs school before training as a teacher. anybody thinking about becoming a teacher, think about it and do it. because children need more role models. and anybody who's deaf and is thinking they can't do it, you can! the queen has made her weekly visit to church in sandringham this morning, days after pulling out of a public appearance because of a cold. the 93—year—old missed her annual meeting of the women's institute in norfolk last week because she wasn't feeling up to it. the queen wasjoined by princess anne at the service in st mary magdalene church. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. hello. it has been a day of big
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changes in our weather. the grey, gloomy, benign conditions of the last few days have been swept away by this band of cloud and rain. behind that, a real change in the feel of the weather. some cold air pushing in from the north—west and you can see these speckled clouds on the satellite picture. a lot of showers waiting in the wings, some of which will be wintry. the colder air has brought more sunshine across parts of northern scotland, for instance, but also a scattering of hefty showers. and that is the sort of weather we can expect really over the next couple of days, rain clearing across the south—east corner this evening and then some clear spells, and then here come those showers. some real downpours in places, with hail and thunder, and across the northern half of the uk, where temperatures will be at their lowest, there is going to be some wintriness mixing in. not only over the highest hills either. even to relatively low levels, say down to as low as 100 metres in parts of scotland, we could see some snow.
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it is an awkward wintry mix of rain, sleet and snow that could give rise to some really icy conditions across parts of scotland, northern ireland and northern england for the monday morning commute. further south won't be quite as cold, so most of the showers here will be falling as rain, or maybe a bit of hail included in those showers. much of central and eastern england will start the day dry, and for eastern england and eastern scotland, they will have the lion's share of the dry weather for the day. still wintry in the north—west, and quite a lot of snow piling up in the northern parts of scotland. and the showers really start to get going for wales and the south of england later in the day. it is a chilly day, quite a windy day. those winds will strengthen through the evening, if anything, particularly for the english channel. lots more showers to come, and it could be quite an icy start to tuesday morning. and then this little frontal feature could bring our next area of rain, sleet and hill snow. quite a small feature, so uncertainty about exactly where it will turn up, but the northern parts of the uk could see some further wintry weather through the day on tuesday. it is again a day of sunshine and showers, quite a breezy day and highs of 8 degrees. so a cold start to
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the new working week, with snow and ice for some of us. mid—week it will turn a little bit drier, but then another change. it turns milder, but wetter for the end of the week. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines — the death toll from the coronavirus in china rises to 56. officials warn the spread of the virus is accelerating and the country faces a "grave situation". as the united states announces plans to fly some of its citizens home, the foreign office is urging britons to leave the province where the outbreak began, and advising against further travel there. a member of the grenfell tower inquiry panel resigns over links with the firm that supplied the tower block's deadly cladding.
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more than 35 people are dead after the powerful earthquake in eastern turkey — more than 1,600 are injured. three million brexit coins go into circulation on friday — to commemorate the day britain leaves the european union. time now for a full round up from the bbc sport centre. good evening. joe root has been england's star man with the bat today — the england captain's half century helping his team to a massive lead in the fourth and final test in south africa. they're ahead by a65 runs in johannesburg, meaning south africa need a record test run chase, to sneak the most unlikely of victories. patrick gearey reports. this is the trumpeter billy cooper's last test after 16 years of playing for england. was he some tracking the closing credits already? vernon
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philander did not last long. more than 300 runs behind, no point looking back, thought clinton to cockrell stop him aiding in weight and chase, but it's difficult to get away from mark wood. that was so quick, it broke one of the bills. wood smashed 35 with the bat yesterday, now five wickets to go with it. south africa 183 all out. england could have made the south africans bat again, but instead decided to have a go themselves, to further stretch tiling limbs. to their credit, south africa stuck at it. that noise will not have helped the migraine. and the headaches around jos buttler‘s batting are not going away. that wicket was england's sixth, but they were soon batting on a cushion of 400 runs, a lead that should secure the series. the hard work has been run, they still have two days to finish the
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job. three fa cup fourth round ties today. the most goals coming at prenton park, where tranmere rovers of league one were on the end of a 6—0 hammering by premier league manchester united. six different players on the scoresheet for united, who were relentless throughtout. craig templeton reports. tranmere might have had lofty ambitions after knocking out premier league opposition on thursday, but all the pre—match talk had been at ground level, and the state of the pitch. ole gunnar solskjaer said united could have no excuses about the playing surface. his side were clearly listening. good hit, and what a terrific goal from harry maguire! not a bad way to score your first united goal. and this was not a bad way to make it two. this trick and hit was not in the script. jesse lingard then put forward his contenderfor lingard then put forward his contender for goal of lingard then put forward his contenderfor goal of the lingard then put forward his contender for goal of the match. everything they had is going in! and
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if you haven't scored in six years, this was looking likely time to do it. step forward, philjones. and to round off a breathless first half, go for a more regular scorer, anthony martial out enough to raise a smile. when five goal two have already gone in, you can do without your goalkeeper doing this. mason greenwood, 6—0, united unable to miss. so with all the noise that has surrounded their league form, united were, for today at least, pitch perfect. fa cup holders manchester city enjoyed their afternoon at the etihad, with a dominant 4—0 victory over fulham. the championship side were reduced to 10 men early on, and never recovered as pep guardiola's side cruised into the fifth round. our sports correspondent joe wilson was watching. left of screen, the fulham captain
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wearing, notices shorts, number13. an experienced international set for a big game. off they went for 90 minutes. he only lasted six. a tangle with manchester city'sjesus, and the referee immediately confirmed it was a penalty. he also showed the red card, and no mistake from gundogan with the penalty. the question already became, how many? 2-0 question already became, how many? 2—0 versus ten men thanks to bernardo silva. would you swap places with filament‘s manager, scott parker? pep guardiola up with a one shoulder, good luck. if fulham play here next season, and they are pushing for promotion, they will aim to keep a on the pitch. as much as they served, as hard as they tried, city overrun them in the second half. 2224jesus. city overrun them in the second half. 2224 jesus. every city overrun them in the second half. 2224jesus. every game is a learning that aim. —— two goals four
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jesus. pep guardiola has called on more fa ns to pep guardiola has called on more fans to back his side on wednesday in the efl cup. it is a semifinal, second leg, the chance to come back to wembley for three years in a row. hopefully our fans can come, more people than today, to support us more. and make an intelligent game to qualify for the final. did you feel today there is not as many fans today as you would have liked here? yeah, ido today as you would have liked here? yeah, i do not know the reason why, but there was not that many. liverpool are half an hour into their match against league one shrewsbury at the new meadow. as expected, the premier league leaders resting several big names — withjurgen klopp fielding a young side — including 18—year—old curtisjones, whose stunning goal knocked out merseyside rivals everton in the previous round.
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liverpool are 1—0 up at the moment thanks tojones. around ten minutes to go till half—time. 15 matches in the women's fa cup fourth round to tell you about today. liverpool women the big winners of the day, thrashing women's championship side blackburn 8—1. tottenham also dished out a hammering, they beat women's national league side barnsley 5—0. and arsenal got the better of west ham, winning 2—0. the rest of the results on the bbc sport website. in the scottish premiership, hearts came from behind to beat rangers 2—1. ryan kent opened the scoring for the visitors, but former rangers player steven naismith equalised before debutant liam boyce scored the winner.
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the gimmick between st mirren and aberdeen finished goalless. —— the game between. over to the australian open now, where15—year—old coco gauff‘s fairytale run at the tournament is over. ashleigh barty, though, is still carrying the hopes of the home crowd, while roger federer and novak djokovic are both into the last eight. john watson is in melbourne. roger federer is on to another australian open quarterfinal, not the most straightforward, once again, as he came through in four sets. we know that roger federer was given a real test of the previous round against the australian john millman. but he came through in four sets against marton fucsovics. novak djokovic came through in straight sets, such as dominance on the hard courts. he is only lost three matches here in the last ten
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yea rs. three matches here in the last ten years. in the women's, ashleigh barty has reached the quarterfinals. she did at the hard way, she had to come through over three sets against alison riske of the united states, looking a little uncomfortable at times out on caught, perhaps the expectation on her shoulders this year starting to tell, as she attem pts year starting to tell, as she atte m pts to year starting to tell, as she attempts to become the first australian to win a singles title here in 42 years. a lot of expectation as i was saying on her shoulders, but with everyone, that expectation grows. and a huge amount of love and support, as you can imagine, from the australian public for ashleigh barty, the world number one. sojust for ashleigh barty, the world number one. so just what is it that they love so much about her? i've been speaking to jackie, who has been charting her progress. as industrial and have really got behind her, because it has been such a long time since we have had a number one. she plays the game so beautifully, such a classic game that she plays, she is so amazing to watch. we'll try to get behind her as well, because in
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the past we have had nick kyrgios our number one ranked player, to place such a different game, and has such a different personality, so she is really unique, such a kind person when you talk to her. she really thinks about him she says, she is just a great ambassador for australian tennis. what a story it would be if ash barty can win the title this year. but coco got‘s run has been ended after impressive victories against naomi osaka, the defending champion, before that, venus williams. —— koko gauff. one step too farfor venus williams. —— koko gauff. one step too far for the 15—year—old, so much expectation already on her shoulders, but surely a grand slam champion in the making. —— coco gauff. we are starting to expect so much from gauff because she has shown us so much, she has been incredible in big moments, she has
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so little experience and she has approached those situations pushing through what she is a real veteran. you consider the win against naomi osaka, which was huge, beating the defending champion and world number one, and then trying to come back and take out a tough competitor, it was just a little too much to ask. the moment got to gauff a little bit, and she struggled to adjust and recover, which is powerfully natural for a 15—year—old. she has a game thatis for a 15—year—old. she has a game that is bigger than a 15—year—old's, but i expect her to continue to learn from this as she has come so many of her experiences. surelyjust a matter of time before we see coco gauff ina a matter of time before we see coco gauff in a grand slam final. plenty more excitement to come tomorrow, not least because we have nick curious in action against rafael nadal. no love lost between these two, and when it nick curious text of the court, it is never dull. it is always box office with the australian. —— when nick kerry
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sticks to the court, it is never dull. —— nick kyrgios takes to the court. rugby union now, and the premiership champions saracens were heavily beaten in their first league game since being relegated for salary cap breaches. they lost 41 points to 14 at harlequins, the win moving quins up to sixth in the table. adam wild has more. saracens are, for the moment, a club in confusion. relegation is a certainty, but the future of their players remains much less certain. punished severely for the salary scandal, harlequins seemed intent on making them pay once more. it took them little over a minute to score them little over a minute to score the game at‘s opening try. this would always be a derby with a difference, but few expected it to go quite like this. the game rapidly got to saracens. the second half began just like the first. harlequins got a fourth try. they
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still have plenty to play for this season. if this was saracens' first step towards relegation, it may well bea step towards relegation, it may well be a long, painfuljourney. harlequins showed little sympathy, saracens will need plenty more clubs like that along the way. —— will meet plenty more clubs. england edged a dramatic bronze medal match at the copperbox arena in london to come third at the netball nations cup. their opponents, south africa, came back from a seven—goal half—time deficit to lead with just a couple of minutes remaining. but a thrilling final quarter saw england return the fight, eventually winning 65 points to 63. they were helped by a match winning interception from stacey jayne francis. it's five wins out of six for england now against the south africans. worcester wolves are the new british basketball league cup champions, after victory in the today's final, against bristol flyers. amir williams starred for the 2018 runners up as they closed out the game, winning 67 points to 59 at the birmingham arena.
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in the women's cup final, sevenoaks beat durham 74—64 robert paxton has won his first world indoor bowls championship. the commonwealth games bronze medallist beat fellow englishman nick brett in a close final at potters resort in great yarmouth. this shot in the tie—break set proved the key moment as he claimed his first singles title. neil robertson needsjust one more frame to complete a whitewash victory in the final of the european masters. the australian is 8—0 up against china's zhou yuelong in austria, requiring just more frame in tonight's session to clinch victory. yuelong appeared to be struggling with fatigue after his semi—final match finished in the early hours of sunday morning. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website.
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that's bbc.co.uk/sport. now it's time for click. three, two, one, zero. getting into space is an expensive, dangerous, highly complicated business, where hundreds of thousands of precision—made parts all have to work together perfectly. if they don't. ..
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but as the race back to space hots up, commercial ventures are looking for simpler, cheaper, quicker alternatives to building spacecraft. and here in la, ifound a startup trying to solve all of those problems in the unlikeliest of ways — by 3d printing rockets. this is relativity space. existing rocket bits are not 3d printed. what is the advantage of 3d printing? a lot of it, from our perspective, is flexibility. traditionally, factories are made of tonnes of fixed tooling. it's then very expensive, very hard to change, then where you have to retooling factory in order to make a new product or even change a product slightly. for us, we can change all of that in software. so it's digitising the manufacturing process and providing flexibility, where, if you push new code to the printers and the hardware on the factory floor, you can actually make an entirely different product without changing
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anything in hardware. after a stint at spacex, jordan formed relativity space with his friend and ex—blue origin engineer tim ellis. the two twentysomethings realised that 3d printing could help in several ways. because it builds up objects layer by layer, it can produce complicated structures out ofjust one part. also, much of the manufacturing can be done autonomously, which leads to a rather remarkable aim. the team wants to send robots to mars which can then build rockets on the surface. and that means that the astronauts who eventually land there will have a way of getting home. it's both better, cheaper, faster. it's going to actually evolve more quickly than other technologies and we'll launch factories to mars, actually build things like housing, spare parts and infrastructure, and eventually leading up to printing the first rockets.
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why has no—one done this before? no—one's had a printer big enough to print something that big. and a lot of the challenge we had as a company was making printers big enough to make entire rockets within them. this is what the printing process looks like close up. a robot arm weaves backwards and forwards to lay down a thick layer of special high—strength aluminium alloy. so this is it, the world's largest metal 3d printer. it's currently printing the top of the first stage of the rocket, or the first bit that burns its fuel and is then jettisoned. this is the top of that. and if you look really closely, you can see that it's very slowly rotating. it takes about an hour to go all the way around at the moment, and that means that the robot arm — with all the hot stuff and liquid metal stuff — can stay relatively still as it
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weaves each layer. and that means you get a lot more precision. the whole thing will take about ten to 12 days to print. i can wait. i don't know about you. and why have one giant 3d printer when you can have several running in parallel? they're basically off the shelf robot arms, all arc welding different rocket stages that, when put together, can stand 30 metres high. in its first five years, relativity space has already secured contracts with nasa and others. and next year, it hopes to make its first launch from cape canaveral in florida after becoming only the fourth commercial company to secure a launch there alongside the united launch alliance, blue origin and its la compatriots spacex. and, sometime after that, mars beckons — and the promise that anyone who journeys to the red planet is not making a one—way trip after all.
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hello, and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week saudi arabia was accused of hacking the phone of amazon's billionaire founderjeff bezos. crown prince mohammad bin salman is alleged to have sent an encrypted video file via whatsapp, which saudi arabia denies. it was revealed that the introduction of gdpr in 2018, the eu has imposed 114 million euros in fines, with regulators in france, germany and austria handing out the biggest fines so far. is it a bird? is it a plane? yes and no. it's a pigeon bot. researchers at stanford university have built a robot bird using real pigeon feathers. the team believe their findings could inspire future aircraft wing design. quite the coup! a how would you feel about sharing a ride in a driverless car without a steering wheel?
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the origin, made by general motors' own crews, is also missing pedals and a rear—view mirror. its developers, which also include honda, hope that multiple—occupancy electric vehicles will reduce emissions, accidents and congestion. and finally, spending too much time on your smartphone? google suggests popping it in an envelope. google envelope is an app used in conjunction with a paper cover you can print out at home. the combo can dumb down your device so it can only make and receive calls or transform it into a photo and video camera with no screen, although it only currently works on the pixel 3a. will it work? answers on a postcard. now, much earlier than normal, we find ourselves in oscars season. it's the academy awards in a few weeks' time. and between now and then, we are going to be meeting the people behind the most innovative developments
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in the movies that are up for the awards. and we start with this monster hit. whatever it takes. this show had so many challenges, i think, because it's such a pinnacle of the marvel universe. excuse me, mr hulk? yes. can we get a photo? smart hulk in particular was a real challenge because we were taking our facial animation to places we hadn't been. and to get that level of performance was definitely a real challenge. so, when they were shooting, they shot with mark ruffalo in place as smart hulk. he would wear a motion capture suit and also some head—mounted cameras to capture his facial performance. so that meant, once we got the shots turned over to us, we had a good amount of reference to get started with. although we had this amazing performance for mark, if you put 100% mark onto smart hulk, it wouldn't look like smart hulk. it would look like mark ruffalo pretending to be smart hulk. so there's some amount of refinement we had to do to find that performance,
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to find the character. we used some machine learning techniques to enable us to capture his performance very quickly off of that footage and put it onto our initial model. we tried to get that really finessed human performance, which is probably one of the hardest things to do in cg. something else we took from our machine learning information was some of the really small micro movements. although we did most of it had animation, it was very important we could take these tiny little micro movements, like just very small bits of eyebrow movement, cheek movements, just really subtle so you can feed it back over the top of the hand animation to really capture the performance. the biggest problem, i think, we faced was actually the quantum suits that the avengers wear because, when they shot it — way back before infinity war — there was no design for the suits. so nobody was wearing a suit and no suit was ever built. so we had to work out several things. one is how we were going to place everybody‘s costumes? because they were being shot in whatever costume the avenger happen to usually wear. in some cases, that created quite a few problems.
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some of the costumes that they were wearing have very high collars, so the newer suits that they would've been wearing wouldn't be covering all of that costume. so there'd be bits of their next would be visible, which we have to recreate either in cg or in painting it back. and in some shots... the establishing shot when they first walked into the hangar altogether was actually shot with stand—ins. they've done the lines... we ended up replacing their heads as well. sometimes using a double, sometimes using pieces of plate from our shots. we could find a nice side view and stick that in because it was quite wide. but the other thing to bear in mind is in these shots, because we had to integrate the lighting on the suits into the plate as well, we built a full cg hangar — which we needed anyway... there was a green screen behind them, where the windows are. and even though the green screen was outside the windows, we had to replace all the windows simply because we needed the reflections of what we are
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putting into the building anyway. so by the end of the day, the only thing that's actually left in those shots from what was filmed, is their heads and part of the ceiling. so we replaced the hangar as well. so, actually there was one shot in particularfor ant—man right at the beginning of the time travel testing. ant—man introduces the quantum van. that shot was originally in a different sequence, shot in a different part of the hangar, so the background was all wrong. so we had to take that and completely change it and change the environment, change the van. and then it was like, "oh, he's also in the wrong costume." so we ended up replacing his costume as well to put him into the ant—man quantum suit that he was wearing for the rest of the sequence. so that was another sort of last—minute, single—shot design of a costume to match what it was exactly like in the rest of the shots. people like to see the big flashy effects. but the satisfaction comes a lot of the time from doing work, good work, that nobody realises is there.
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and we'll look at the secrets behind another oscar nominee next week. now, this is the end of the short version of click for this week. the full—length version is available to watch on iplayer right now. and we'll be back in la in a few weeks' time for the academy awards. in the meantime, follow us on social media. we live on youtube, facebook, instagram and twitter at... thanks for watching and we'll see you soon. hello, it has been a day of big changes in our weather. grey, gloomy, but benign conditions of the last few days have been swept away by this band of cloud and rain.
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behind that, a real change in the feel of the weather. some cold air pushing in from the north—east, you can see these speckled clouds on the satellite picture. a lot of showers waiting in the winds, some of which will be wintry. the cold air has brought more sunshine across parts of northern scotland, but also a scattering of hefty showers. that is the sort of weather we can expect over the next couple of days. drain cleaning the south—east corner this evening, then some clear spells, and then hear from those showers, some real downpours and places, with hail and thunder, and across the northern half of the uk, where temperatures will be at their lowest, there is going to be some wintriness mixing in. not only over the higher ground, even to relatively low levels, as was 100 metres in parts of scotland, we could see some snow. an awkward wintry mix of rain, sleet and snow which could give some wintry conditions across parts of scotland, northern ireland and northern
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england for the monday morning commute. further south, not england for the monday morning commute. furthersouth, not as england for the monday morning commute. further south, not as cold, but most of the showers falling as rain, maybe some hill included, and much of central and eastern england starting dry. eastern england and eastern scotland, that is where the lion's share of the dry weather will be during the day. still wintry in the north—east, quite a lot of snow piling up for parts of highland scotland, and the showers will start to get going for wales in the south of england later in the day. a chilly day, quite windy, strengthening of anything through the evening, particularly through the evening, particularly through the english channel. lots more showers to come, you'll notice, so it could be quite an icy start on tuesday morning, and then at this little frontal feature could bring our next area of rain, sleet and hill snow. uncertain exactly where it will turn up, but northern parts of the uk could see some further wintry weather through the day on tuesday. again a day of sunshine and showers, quite breezy and chilly, highs of between three and eight celsius. a cold start to the new
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working week, with snow and ice for some of us. mid week, turning a bit drier, and then another change, turning milder but wetter for the end of the week.
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