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distinguished ladies and gentlemen, may i now ask everyone to take their seats. any moment, the full speakers, survivors of the state delegations will be asked to get ready to go to the monument to the victims. the people who will remain here in the tents in front of the gate of death will be able to watch the ceremony. once again, i am requesting that all of you depart from the survivors and the heads of state delegations may say. —— may stay. now on all mosh will be paid to those murdered in auschwitz. wet the whites that we are going to
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leave be a sign of commemorating and paying homage to all the victims. —— let the lights. after the ceremony, the delegations will remain to the tent. studio: 7 7 the delegations will remain to the tent. studio: 7? transmit 7? capnext 7? tent. studio: 7? transmit 7? capnext ? ? linebreak tent. studio: 7? transmit 7? capnext 7 7 linebreak you're tent. studio: 7? transmit 77 capnext 7 7 linebreak you're watching a ceremony which is under way now in poland to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation via soviet troops of the death camp. today, survivors, many of them there you can see have been back at auschwitz, they have beenjoined by presidents, prime ministers, and ambassadors and princes from around the world. today, 75 years after it was liberated by the soviet army, some 200 survivors were among those laying wreaths in honour of the many victims of the auchwitz death camp. at the commemoration ceremony this aftertoon, survivors warned of the dangers
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of forgetting the lessons of the holocaust. translation: what else should i say? may be that i would like to cry. because only with tears i shall tell you about this part, i can see some people here, you are a source of comfort to us. here, you are a source of comfort to us. i hope you will all try to preserve the memory of this place and other sites where people, millions of people died. people of various nations. i hope that you will make sure, you will bear this responsibility so that this terrible thing will never happen again. after 1945, the genocide committed against
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roma workers largely ignored. it took a private initiative by vincent rose one of the early activists of the civil right movement to erect a modest memorial on the side of the former camp to commemorate the trauma and murder at auschwitz. today, it is the setting for memorial services like the one attended last august. those that we re attended last august. those that were murdered and those that survived the camps must never be forgotten. hopefully, this memorial site and museum will remain here for many years to come as a warning to people not to let racism and insane ideologists backed by wrong sciences like for example eugenics gain power again. may ijust say one thing that is very near to me. in times like
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this when minorities have to feel vulnerable again, i can only hope that everyone would stand up for democracy and human rights. translation: do not be indifferent when you see lies, historical lies. do not be indifferent... do not be indifferent... do not be indifferent... when you see that the pastis indifferent... when you see that the past is stretched to fit the current political needs. do not be indifferent when any minority is discriminated because the essence of democracy is that majority governments but democracy hinges on
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the rights of minorities being protected, and they have to be protected. at the same time... do not be indifferent when any power or government infringes on the social compacts that are there that are already in existence. and keep the commandments 11, "thou shall not be indifferent" because commandments 11, "thou shall not be indiffe re nt" because if commandments 11, "thou shall not be indifferent" because if you are, you won't even notice when you come up when your heirs, will suddenly see an auschwitz jumping down when your heirs, will suddenly see an auschwitzjumping down from the skies straight on them. translation: so, the ashes of those people were scattered by the winds of history by their immortal souls were made in
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this zone invisible to humans. and they came here in great numbers and they came here in great numbers and they are circulating here among us. if we open our hearts, we will hear their cries, their moans, and their complaints to god. in a place such as this, words fail. and the hurt cries out god in this dreadful silence was a lord, why did you remain silence7 silence was a lord, why did you remain silence? in this silence we bow our heads for the countless people suffered and were murdered here. yet, this silence is a loud cry for forgiveness and reconciliation, a prayer to the living god to prevent it from ever happening again.
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some of the survivors thereof auschwitz talking at today's anniversary commemorations. we can show you life pictures now of some of the survivors and indeed some of those world leaders walking in procession now towards the monument at auschwitz that remembers all of the victims there and they are walking towards that monument to pay tribute to them. and this is the international monument erected in 1967 at the auschwitz two note —— to camp known as birkenau. 1.1 million people, more than 1.1 million people infected altogether most of them jewish parish and the huge gas chambers at auschwitz. some of them also died from starvation, from
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cold, and disease, all part of hitler's final solution of course to kill all the jews hitler's final solution of course to kill all thejews in hitler's final solution of course to kill all the jews in europe. auschwitz, the biggest of the network of death camps set up by the nazis in occupied poland in 1940 and at first, it just nazis in occupied poland in 1940 and at first, itjust house polish would go prisoners but then became the biggest of adolf hitler's of extermination camps. let's go to our reporter. and incredibly moving ceremony today, jenny. a profoundly moving day for everyone i think of when here at auschwitz. not least of course those 200 survivors who made it difficult to journey back here, very few of them want to come back, very few of them want to come back, very few of them want to come back, very few of them really want to talk about what happened to them here. they do it of course because to them it isa they do it of course because to them it is a way of trying to ensure that
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the world that never forgets what happened within the barbed wire and concrete perimeters of this camp and of course other camps. and a way too to try to ensure nothing of its like ever happens again. you can see some of the delegates, we are not sure how many survivors are among them because so many of the survivors are 110w because so many of the survivors are now elderly and getting very frail. but you can see people there walking through the darkness of auschwitz on their way to light candles at the monument here. this is perhaps the most moving part of today's ceremony because those people are walking along the railway tracks which of course were used to bring cart loads of terrified prisoners, men, women, and of course children, babies too, into auschwitz. the path they're taking now is the path that those ra ilca rs taking now is the path that those railcars would have rumbled along. those people then at the end of
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their journey those people then at the end of theirjourney suddenly those people then at the end of their journey suddenly thrown out into the bright light or into the darkness of night surrounded we are told by many survivors by all sorts of terrifying noise. dogs barking, ss guards shouting, families forcibly, horribly ripped apart, not a chance to say goodbye very often as the lines of men, wingmen, and children separated into one line of course off to slave labour, difficult, dangerous potentially deadly life here in the camp. the others sent off to the gas chambers and a horrible, unspeakably cruel death there. and so it is hard to know what is going through the mind of those people as they walk through the bitterly cold night here on their way to that monument but one can only imagine that they are thinking of what on earth must have passed through the heads of those people who were brought here under pressure, underforce,
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people who were brought here under pressure, under force, under duress, all those years ago. they did not know where they were going, they did not know where they were going to end up but of course for so many, more than a million people here in auschwitz, it would end in death. we have heard a lot from survivors and speakers today who describe some of the horrors that were perpetrated and endured here in auschwitz and of course other death camps. it is hard sometimes when talking about this to really find the words to describe what happened here. people started to death, people experimented on, people operated on, people beaten and sent i am just standing not far from what they call the death block, people sent to that set of cells forced to stand because the cell was so forced to stand because the cell was so small or sent there to starve to death knowing they were going to die. no one came out of fact of life. it is very hard to tell the stories and i think that is why those survivors feel that their
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voices really matter and although as i say it is very difficult for them to tell the stories, what is very striking about the survivors is not only their advancing age and for some of them their frailty but also the fact that so many of them to the day suffer physical and mental ill health as a result of what was done to them in this camp and yet, they do their best. they struggle here, they hold back the tears, and they tell their stories. and as a result i think, we are all far more informed about what happened here. we have a far better understanding of what happened here, and that is what the survivors want. they want us what the survivors want. they want us to know and they want us to ensure that this will never happen again. jenny as you were saying, so difficult for many of those survivors who have been talking a lot of them so traumatised because they were just children when they
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we re they were just children when they were seeing all of this horror that they have barely spoken about the horrors of auschwitz for most of their wives and yet many of them feeling compelled to speak today to address all the delegates there. because they don't want this ever to be forgotten or effort to be repeated. yes, and a number of them have said that they are really concerned and i think their concerns are twofold. concerned and i think their concerns a re twofold. first concerned and i think their concerns are twofold. first of all we are starting to see research which suggests that perhaps public awareness and knowledge of the holocaust is beginning to diminish as it fades into history 75 years after the liberation of auschwitz. but secondly and i think the survivors feel this even more strongly. jewish communities around the world are reporting an increase in anti—semitism. we know for example even the president of germany and couple of days ago said that whilst he really wished he could say that germany had learned from the past, he couldn't because
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of what he described as the current wave of hatred that stems from the same evil that we saw here in auschwitz and other parts of europe during the holocaust. and i think the survivors are horrified when they either encounter that themselves or they hear about it themselves. and that is one of the reasons that they are here. and it is difficult when you look at these people now walking through the darkness along those old train tracks knowing what happened here but a living memory knowing that anti—semitism is rising again, knowing that racism is an issue in many parts of the world still. and you can see why those survivors struggle on despite the physical and mental distress it causes them. you can see why they're here and i imagine that some of them may have if they were able to joined those people walking along the rail tracks ready to get to the monument at the
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end of the strain tracks, a stone monument at the end of the train tracks, where they will light their candles too i suppose shine a light, a small white if you like but a light none of the west into the darkness which many will help. —— a small light. not only of the memory those who died and suffered here but also will be think about how to ensure it never happens again. jenny, thank you so much. jenny hill, our correspondent at auschwitz. there were be further coverage from auschwitz this evening. and there'll be further coverage this evening in a special programme, holocaust memorial day presented by huw edwards, on bbc two at 7pm. some breaking news to bring you this hour. we are hearing from the health secretary matt hancock who is asking anyone in the uk who has returned from the province of china affected by coronavirus or suspects that they
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have to disease to "self isolate". he said that the uk government is currently trying to trace people who have been in wuhan surrounding area in china the last 14 days. he said there are an estimated 200 british citizens in the affected area. he told the house of commons that as of this afternoon there are no confirmed cases in the uk of coronavirus but just confirmed cases in the uk of coronavirus butjust asking people to self isolate if they have come back to britain from that part of china. some of the breaking news just coming into us concerning prince and sure. and this is according to a us prosecutor speaking in new york for some —— prince andrew. us attorneyjeffrey berman is saying that prince andrew has provided "zero cooperation to the jeffrey epstein has provided "zero cooperation to thejeffrey epstein sex trafficking
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inquiry." he has said that prince enter has provided zero cooperation to that inquiry say that and your‘s lawyers have been contacted by prosecutors and the fbi who asked to interview him as per the investigation but he said to date, prince andrew has provided a zero cooperation. we will bring you more on both those breaking stories which are on as more news comes into us. in the meantime, vigils have been held in los angeles after the death of the basketball legend kobe bryant — killed when his helicopter crashed in california. the 41—year—old died alongside his teenage daughter and seven other people. a shrine for the five—time nba champion has been set up outside the stadium of the la lakers, the team he played for his whole career. sangita myska reports. a sporting legend and an american cultural icon. the death of kobe bryant at the age ofjust 41 has shaken america and basketball fans world over.
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one of the greatest basketball players of all time, tributes have poured in for kobe bryant from those who set the record he had set out to break. he inspired a whole generation of young athletes. he was one of the first ones to leave high school and come to the nba and do so well, dominating the game and becoming one of the best scorers that the los angeles lakers have ever seen. kobe brya nt‘s accomplishment are legendary. five nba championships. the 2008 most valuable player. and two olympic gold medals. he spent his entire 20—year career at the los angeles lakers before retiring four years ago. he burned so competitively hot and desire to win, he brought it each and every night on both ends of the floor and not too many guys can say that throughout nba history.
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we will see both teams do what we have seen all day here. at nba games across america yesterday, teams paid tribute by stopping play for 24 seconds, the number of kobe bryant'sjersey. as bryant's former team, the la lakers, returned by plane from a match in philadelphia, its current superstar player, lebron james, was visibly overcome. it was on a remote hillside in california that the helicopter carrying kobe bryant crashed. what brought it down is unknown. with him was his 13—year—old daughter gianna, who he had been coaching to play in a game at a sports academy he co—founded. according to us media reports, also on board were another player on social media, former stars described their friend. shaquille o'neal praised him as a family man. magicjohnson talked of his passion
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for serving the homeless and promoting women's basketball. kobe bryant died as final preparations were being made for last night's grammy awards at the staples center in los angeles, also home of the la lakers. as the show got under way, alicia keys dedicated the night to kobe bryant. we are literally standing here heartbroken. in the house that kobe bryant built. outside, thousands of fans converged to pay their respects at a makeshift memorial, still numb with the shock of losing their hero. i still can't believe it. it is like a bad dream and you feel you won't wake up. like a lot of people are saying, today is a day part of la died. it's painful, we lost someone legendary and it is felt. today america is mourning kobe bryant, a supreme athlete, a role model, an american hero.
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let's talk about kobe bryant puffing wife now with —— kobe bryant's life brian mahoney is a basketball journalist for the associated press — he has been covering the nba for the last 15 years, covering much of kobe bryant's career, and hejoins me now. thank you very much indeed. you wrote about him, you knew him. tell us more about him and why he was such a legend notjust in basketball but i suppose in all american sports. his popularity was pretty incredible around the world. i saw much more his popularity in the nba outside, the only pics and things that it was more noticeable. he lived part of his life in europe, grew up in italy and whenever they played in asia or europe, the fans alljust played in asia or europe, the fans all just flocked to played in asia or europe, the fans alljust flocked to him. and he made them feel like he cared about what
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they did as well. beyond one of the great players we have seen, he also was a person who was certainlyjust, a lot of people love being around. you enjoy being around him, what was he like personally when you talked to him? you heard the quotes from tiger woods how competitive he was, he was like that even answering questions to us journalists. his voice would raise, he would really get into it a little bit, if he had a bad game, maybe you would see his bad mood. if he was in a good mood he would laugh and joke with you but you certainly saw how driven and focused he was all the time. you never saw him not caring. one way or the other his passion was always very noticeable. what made him such a special sportsman do you think and such a huge star7 a special sportsman do you think and such a huge star? i don't know exactly what it was, even he struggled exactly to say what it was, why everyone liked him so much and why he was so respected by the young players. a lot of it was how
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ha rd young players. a lot of it was how hard he worked, he is not the biggest, strongest guy. it takes a lot of talent to become the kind of player he was, the way he scored from many different ways. the level of footwork and concentration that a lot of players don't have to play offence and defence like that. so i think he was respected for that. he was being respected for being a worldly guy. he loved to talk about not just passable, he worldly guy. he loved to talk about notjust passable, he loves soccer, tennis, things of that nature, all the things we don't get to see from players a lot but we saw from kobe how much diverse interest he had. players a lot but we saw from kobe how much diverse interest he hadlj think everyone around the world has been shocked by his death. what you think of the tributes to him today, the extraordinary tributes from barack obama, tiger woods, so many, so many others? it showed how many people cared about him beyond basketball when you talk about politicians, entertainers at the grammy awards talking about him, and
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as far as the nba games yesterday at the tributes with the players holding onto the ball for 24 seconds or eight seconds, his jersey numbers, that was incredible because news was just coming in about his death as these games were getting ready to start. it was not like it was a long time to plan these things. players did not know if they we re things. players did not know if they were going to play at the moment. to come up with tributes like that on the court in real time, a really give a lot of credit to them for thinking those things. great to talk to you. think is so much for giving us to you. think is so much for giving us that assessment of the wife of kobe bryant. brian mahoney basketball journalist for the associated press. many thanks was i —— the assessment of the life of kobe bryant. the second stage of the public inquiry into grenfell tower disaster has begun. the panel of three has been reduced to two after the resignation of one of its members, over a potential conflict of interest. the first part of the inquiry was to discover what happened, this stage is to find out why —
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and the key focus is the cladding used on the high—rise block. jon donnison reports. more than two and half years after the grenfell fire, relatives and supporters of the 72 people who died are still looking forjustice. two and half years, and we still have not been heard! they gathered outside the enquiry this morning. we need a commitment that actually the voices, the concerns, the questions that are raised by the bereaved and survivors will be taken seriously. because we know that before the fire this is one of the complaints that will be levelled against the council, that they did not listen to the concerns of the residents. this second phase of the enquiry will focus not so much on what happened that night injune 2017, but why. chaired by sir martin moore—bick, a former high courtjudge, it will involve a forensic
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examination of the design decisions made in the lead up to the fire. this morning the enquiry heard so far almost all those involved had tried to pass the buck. each core participant who played a material part in the refurbishment of grenfell tower has laid out a detailed case for how it relied on the work of others and how in no way was the work it did either substandard or noncompliant. in every case what happened was, as each of them would have it, someone else's fault. the second phase of the enquiry has got off to a rocky start after one of the panel members had to resign. benita mehra, an engineer, stepped down after it emerged she had a past link to the company which supplied the external cladding for the tower block. today the enquiry heard the grenfell families
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had had no word from the government about a possible replacement. many of them have met with borisjohnson, others have met members of the cabinet office and others have written to the cabinet office. solicitors have written to the cabinet office. there has been a stunning silence, not a word about whether there will be a replacement. the government has defended the appointment of benita mehra but for the families and supporters of those who died, the controversy will do little to give them confidence that their voices are being heard. john johnson, bbc news. we can speak to our news correspondent, dan johnson, who is at the inquiry. bring us up—to—date, dan. bring us up-to-date, dan. this afternoon we started hearing the opening statements from firstly the lead barrister on behalf of the enquiry and that representatives of
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some of the companies and organisations involved in the refitting of the tower. other than the london borough of kensington and chelsea the barrister on behalf of the enquiry said there had been no organisation prepared to accept any fa u lts organisation prepared to accept any faults for causing the greenfield tower, for the faults that meant that fire spread so quickly and claim so many lives. he suggested what we were going to see was a merry—go—round of passing the buck where companies tried to blame each other. it seems from the start of the evidence, that that is what is happening because the london borough of kensington and chelsea was in charge of inspecting the building and they have admitted they failed to ask for comprehensive details of the cladding being used, they failed to request an up—to—date version of the fire strategy and failed to spot material in the insulation and cladding system was capable of catching fire and did not meet regulations. the london borough, the council, effectively omitting some
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of its mistakes but other companies starting to say that they do not believe they did anything wrong —— admitting some of its mistakes. one of the companies involved in the refurbishment, they are representative give this evidence. i will let you hear it and then explain what is being said, it will give you an idea about complicated and detailed the evidence will be. we proceed recently information that suggests the company knew, and cassette form in particular was dangerous. to highlight what might be just the tip of an iceberg we draw the following to the attention of the enquiry. on the 30th ofjune 2011, an e—mail was sent to the sales and marketing think director of the company stating, amongst
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other things this," the classification obtained for the cassettes is the same as that of competitors. therefore not suitable for use on building facades." that is one company which was responsible for fitting the panels are blaming another company which manufactured the panels saying they have seen internal e—mails from that company yea rs before internal e—mails from that company years before the grenfell tower fire saying they knew the panels were not suitable for high—rise buildings. we've not heard much evidence from the other company and much more detailed evans didn't —— evidence to go through and it will take well into next year to hear the complex and technical evidence, to understand the web of safety inspections and regimes are perhaps we re inspections and regimes are perhaps were not followed and understand where the gaps work that allowed such a dangerous situation to come
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about. —— understand where the gaps we re about. —— understand where the gaps were allowed the dangerous situation to come about. lets get all the latest sports news with ollie foster. good evening. england have won their test series against south africa 3—1 after wrapping up a comprehensive victory by 191 runs in the fourth test in johannesburg. they did it with a day to spare as well. chasing what would have been a world record 466 to win, south africa started the day solidly, with rassie van der dussen leading the way for the home side. he was in sight of a century before being dismissed for 98. two more wickets fell before mark wood got vernon philander in what was his final test match for south africa. the remaining wickets went quickly, wood with the last of them his ninth of the match. it is only england's second series win away from home in four years and the first time they have won three matches in south africa in over 100 years.
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we've had a lot to deal with on and off the field, we've stayed a very tight as a group, as a unit and showed a huge amount of courage for a young set of players, to take opportunities like we have and for the senior players to provide an environment where they felt co mforta ble environment where they felt comfortable to do that is a sign of a growing team in a team that has got the sky is the limit. it looks like your team now. do you think you have turned a corner, captaincy wise7 it has felt like my team for a while. we've probably not seen results, it might have looked different from your point of view but we've made it clear and the guys have all bought into it. we know it will not happen overnight and not necessarily going to be straightforward to the whole way through but as long as we keep going on an upward curve and taking chances when we get them, like here, and don't try and stand still as a tea m and don't try and stand still as a team and always look to push each other forward, improve all the time,
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then i believe the sky is the limit for us as a group. nick kyrgios paid tribute to kobe bryant at the australian open today. the home favourite was up against the world number one rafael nadal in the pick of the fifth round ties, the spaniard progressing to the quarterfinals in 4 sets. rob heath reports. nick kyrgios's emotional tribute to kobe bryant put the australian's supported feud with raff and adele into perspective, sometimes life really is too short. —— feud with rafael nadal. he cheekily impersonated rafa nadal‘s mannerisms early in the tournament but he could not copy his stroke play. nick kyrgios's tennis can change like his mood, on a. he broke the second and went on to level the match. back came for us, third set tie—break, all too much for nick kyrgios. everything seemed to be unravelling.
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the crowd probably would have preferred a new one, they did not even get a broken one. 2—1 up nadal seemed anything but broken. nick kyrgios had one last goal. one last nod to kobe he forced another tie—break but in truth he had run out of steam. the dial power is on in search of that record equalling 20th grand slam. —— nadal powers on. you can see the full quarterfinal draw from the australian open on the bbc sport website. defending champions england will be without world cup winning flanker marlie packer for the women's six nations. she's had an ankle operation and will miss the championship which starts this weekend. wasps back row harriet millar—mills returns after almost two years out with a knee injury, while the uncapped amelia harper and morwenna talling are both named in the squad. we'll have more for you in sportsday at half past six.
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we will have the fifth round draw of the women's fa cup, amongst other things. let's get more on the death or american basketball star kobe bryant. vigils have been held in los angeles after the death of the basketball legend kobe bryant — killed when his helicopter crashed in california. the 41—year—old died alongside his teenage daughter and seven other people. we can assess his life now, we have retired professional basketball player who played nine seasons in the nba during his career, playing against kobe bryant. hejoins me now. thank you so much shopping with us. what was he like to play with, to play against? —— thank you so much for being us. we were pa rt much for being us. we were part of the same high school class, in 1996, he went straight to the nba and i went to syracuse
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university. it was amazing to see him grow from a 17—year—old coming into the leak to being a family man. lots of people speak about his accomplishments on the courts and he had many what i really got to see him asa had many what i really got to see him as a father and admired him as a father, how he was with his daughters. he coached their team and the images of him working out with his daughter and showing her the ins and outs and really being present in their daughters‘ lives is really touching. it is really a sad day, you so lots of nba players sharing on social media at different kobe brya nt on social media at different kobe bryant stories at interactions they had with him. myself included. it is really a sad day all around the nba. i think he was particularly kind to you because you had to undergo heart surgery and he talked to afterwards,
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didn‘t he? he did,i didn‘t he? he did, i had open heart surgery and i was he did, i had open heart surgery and iwas in he did, i had open heart surgery and i was in recovery for the following year and about to play at the la la kers year and about to play at the la lakers and he came up to me and gave mea lakers and he came up to me and gave me a big hug, warm embrace and said that he was keeping me in his prayers and he has been praying for me ever since he heard about my heart surgery. and thatjust meant a lot. he was kobe bryant, a superstar, mvp of the league and for him to embrace me that way meant lots. you say he was a superstar, he became maybe even more than that, a kind of a legend of the sport, of all american sport. what elevated him to that position? it was really his work ethic and drive. he had unreal passion, he studied michaeljordan and watched tapes of him and how he drives himself and pushes himself. he really had that thirst for excellence and if he was really good
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he wanted to be even better. here different team—mates of his talking about how he would work out relentlessly in between their own practices or come in three hours early from a game if you wanted to work on something else from the previous game. he really had that drive. sometimes he pushed his team—mates, some people say he pushed them a little bit hard but he a lwa ys pushed them a little bit hard but he always had that push for excellence. so special on the court but also off the court. if you look at the tributes today, from people like barack obama. definitely. he touched so many people‘s lives and he wanted to elevate beyond and above being a basketball player. he wanted to be delve into film, he wanted to own a team, is foundation donated $1
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million to the african—american museum smithsonian hewden dc. he was doing things to try to make the world a better place. that is what made him really special off the court. he has a good example of how you can transform yourself in basketball —— from a basketball player to eat and goal and business—wise on how you conduct your business —— from a basketball player to eat mogul. it‘s really a sad day. it is more thanjust on player to eat mogul. it‘s really a sad day. it is more than just on the court what he accomplished. tremendous run with the la lakers, the championships, titles, all of that, that is all great, but he was so much more than that. fantastic to speak to you. thank you for your time and thank you for being with us. thank you for having me. let‘s bring it more under breaking news, the health secretary at matt
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hancock saying people who have returned to the uk from wuhan in china should self isolate even if they have no symptoms of coronavirus. in ramping up of the proportion in the uk about divide virus hancock said officials could not be 100% certain that the virus is not spread by people who are not displaying symptoms, around 1500 people have returned from wuhan since january the 10th. coronavirus does not usually spread if people do not have symptoms however we cannot be 100% certain. from today, as concerns have been raised about limited free symptom transmission, we are therefore asking anyone in the uk who has returned from wuhan in the last 14 days to self isolate and stay indoors and avoid contact with other people and contact nhs111. in northern ireland you should phone
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yourgp. matt hancock. let‘s go to our health corresponded at westminster. self a solution, that means talk to anyone else or see anyone else for a period of time that‘s what matt hancock wa nts 7 he is saying you should try to stay at home, do not go to work, try not to go out, try not to be around people if at all possible. obviously you have to be as practical as you can be and if you‘re living in your family then you take new measures as best you can. it is not a strict self a sorting measure, it is just to try and reduce the number of people who you might be exposed to, exposed to anything you might catch. that is really, as he was explaining court because of the concern around the fact transmission of the virus
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might be even if a person does not have any symptoms or it makes it far harder to contain the virus. if somebody is sick you can see they are sick and you need to isolate them. if people are potentially able to transmit the virus and infect others when they are not sick that is much harder. the chief medical officer earlier today who is directing the government in these measures are said this was an ultra—cautious measure. they are taking this precaution just because of the possibility that there might be presymptomatic transmission which is what it is called. the government is what it is called. the government is not at all sure if that is definitely the case and if it were to be the case of the chief medical officer says he thinks it is a very low risk of that kind of presymptomatic transmission. sophie, many thanks.
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the government is expected to decide tomorrow whether or not to ban equipment made by the chinese technology giant huawei from britain‘s sg networks. borisjohnson will chair a crucial meeting of the national security council in the morning. president trump is calling on mrjohnson to exclude huawei on the ground of national security. speaking on a visit to a london school today the prime minister said that the government would be looking to develop 56 network without compromising national security. i think that is a very important strategic win for the uk and the way forward for us is clearly to have a system that delivers for people in this country the kind of consumer benefits that they want, through five g technology or whatever, bots does not in any way compromise our critical national infrastructure and security or jeopardise
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critical national infrastructure and security orjeopardise our ability to work together with other intelligence powers around the world. the five eyes security relationships, we must keep them strong and safe. let‘s get the american perspective. tim morrison was one of president trump‘s senior advisers and on the white house‘s national security council until the end of october. he‘s now a senior fellow at the thinktank — the hudson institute. borisjohnson boris johnson saying borisjohnson saying it looks like he thinks huawei, he did not explicitly say but seemed to hint we could have far way as part of the sg network without compromising national security, what do you say to that? i heard the exact opposite. he mentioned the importance of protecting britain‘s privacy and the importance of protecting the security of the british people, the only way to do that is exclude huawei. i took it as an encouraging
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sign. there are some politicians here who are saying we should embrace this because 56 is a vital for britain‘s interests, especially post—brexit, vital for the economy and we cannot afford not to do this. i think that is right, there‘s often a tension in terms of and trade, lennon had a saying capital still sell the rope with which we will hang them. —— lenin had a saying. the security of the five eyes and western alliance, we cannot allow it to get in the way of protecting health data, personal data, financial data of the british people and in order to do those things and protect those key equities you have to exclude huawei, as the united states has and australia has come as japan has a new zealand.
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one tory politician here crispin blunt says the americans are trying to thinly disguise a protectionist trade position built on supposition against china, what do you say to that? i have not seen the statement soi that? i have not seen the statement so i cannot speak to it. i think there is nothing thinly veiled about what our respective intelligence community is now about the security risk posed by huawei so i would hope everybody steps back and looked at the importance of the western alliance and the special relationship. what that is based on, our culture, shared security interests and if we look back and examine the totality of what we share, the americans and the british people, there is really only one appropriate answer and that is to block huawei. for anyone who is not followed this, explain to them why exactly you are so worried about huawei and china, the chinese government‘s influence on that company.
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we have a saying in national security circles here, there is the right way and there is the huawei. the chinese communist party passed a law in 2016 requiring every chinese person and every chinese company to be responsive to the chinese government when they ask for citizens to steal intellectual property and ask for companies to give the party access, you have to do it, it is the law of the people‘s republic of china. and it really gets back to the values that china has if you look at what‘s going on in the uighur concentration camps, millions of muslims being detained, what‘s going on with the so—called secure cities initiative, social credit scores, while wei is a key enabler of everything the chinese communist party —— huawei is a key enabler in helping china create the
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most pervasive security apparatus this site of the george orwell book. they are counter to the expectations of the british and american people as to what to expect from our governments. you think the chinese would use huawei and for us to spy on us? it's huawei and for us to spy on us? it‘s not a matter of thinking, we know they would because it caught them doing it before. —— because we have caught them doing it before. thank you forjoining us. billie eilish took pump five awards in all, she thank thanked her fans
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—— billie in all, she thank thanked her fans -- billie eilish in all, she thank thanked her fans —— billie eilish took home five awards in all. scottish violinist nicola benedetti took the granite for best instrumental solo. —— took the grammy. who got the best weather forecaster, chris7 it wasn‘t me! some of us have a taste of winter round the corner. plenty of showers working in today and already some snow settling down on the roads and highlands and temperatures will fall overnight and showers get heavier. the risk of snow is set to increase over at the northern half. shower clowns to the north—west, the rain we‘ve seen in southern and eastern england is clearing an that will be followed by rain showers overnight and blustery winds in the south. showers having a wintry flavour to them over northern ireland, hills of northern england
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and scotland the snow could reach low levels drop potentially sea levels with fairly significant accumulations. risk of disruption. these are the main areas at risk of seeing snowfall. high ground of northern ireland, northern england and wales and notjust the hills of scotla nd and wales and notjust the hills of scotland but some lower elevations. five centimetres in places, ten scimita rs five centimetres in places, ten scimitars —— ten centimetres or more higher up. if the snow does not cause you problems on tuesday morning for us is another factor. the weather slowly improves, it will bea the weather slowly improves, it will be a day of sunshine and showers. cool air across northern areas and wintry showers continue to feed in. further south are seven or eight celsius, showers coming through as a rain. during the middle of the week low pressure moves in. uncertainty as to how far north or south this
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rain will be which is significant because to the south of this it will turn more mild. southern england and wales tend celsius on wednesday afternoon but with the cold air out looking across northern scotland to the north of this system we could see more snow. that soon fades because by thursday and took much milder at south—westerly winds for a time although continuing to be u nsettled, time although continuing to be unsettled, cloudy with outbreaks of rain. cooling down across scotland and northern ireland but before that happens it is quite mild. for the weekend look at the temperatures. potentially reaching highs of 14 celsius in london, not what we would normally expect to see in february. the kind of temperatures would normally see during early spring to this we can look set to be very mild but also pretty windy, cloudy with rain at times. that is the latest
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the world remembers the victims of the holocaust, 75 years after the liberation of the nazi death camp at auschwitz. a ceremony held here at the former concentration camp in poland has heard from world leaders and those who survived. translation: i can hear them screaming, i can hear it in my subconscious when i remember those events. more than a million people died at auschwitz, most were jewish. we speak to one survivor who played in the auschwitz women‘s orchestra, about how the cello saved her life.
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