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although it brightens up their will be showers around, regularly across eastern areas. traders is another band of rain moving. as one could bring localised flooding with snow melts combined with every rain gci’oss melts combined with every rain across southern scotland. the weather has been very wet over recent days. that could tip us over into having some flooding issues. the weather front weakens as it reaches eastern england. last weekend we set a new transatlantic record for subsonic flights with ba flight 112 record for subsonic flights with ba flight 112 taking five hours to cfoss flight 112 taking five hours to cross the atlantic. it was an incredible record, but it is under threat friday and saturday because we are going to get an incredibly strong jet stream moving across the atlantic. the peak winds in this piece, up to 275 mph. that will not only propel planes very quickly gci’oss only propel planes very quickly across the atlantic, it will gouge ata across the atlantic, it will gouge at a very deep area of low pressure and that is storm dennis. storm dennis will be loitering around
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through saturday, sunday, and monday as well, bringing the risk of some disruptive weather. so, weather wise we are looking at very strong winds, gales, severe gales, gossip to 70 mph orso, bringing gales, severe gales, gossip to 70 mph or so, bringing the risk of disruption. every rain brings the risk of flooding. we are likely to see problems saturday, sunday, and monday. the problems are likely gci’oss monday. the problems are likely across different errors. saturday the strongest winds are across western areas, thus of 60—70 mph gci’oss western areas, thus of 60—70 mph across coastal areas. as well as that we will see extensive heavy rain. particularly so across wales and southern areas of england with the risk of some localised flooding. it does milderfor a time. we have another dollop of rain coming in on sunday, affecting the same soggy areas, so the risk of flooding increases. at the same time it gets when you're through the irish sea and on some of the english channel coast. throughout the weekend, really, across inland areas we get gusts of 50—60 mph. that is strong enough to bring down trees and potentially caused problems. sunday
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night, as the area of low pressure begins to track eastwards, we get a surge of even stronger winds, potentially crossing scotland and northern england. that could cause some issues as we head into monday morning's rush hour. what will follow will be a blustery day with plenty of showers around. yes, some sunny spells between this, but probably not too many in scotland every number of showers. it will start to feel a little bit colder. temperatures dropping back closer to normal, high as 8— 11 celsius. beyond that the jet stream stays very active. we're at further u nsettled very active. we're at further unsettled weather next week. 0ften windy with rain or showers around. and it's still cold enough to see some snow across northern hills. and that's your latest weather. bye for now.
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hello. this is bbc news, with carrie gracie. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines: a woman who flew from china to london has tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of uk cases to nine. it's understood that she is being treated at st thomas's hospital in the capital. the chief executive of an nhs trust at the centre of concerns over the preventable deaths of babies has played down the scale of the failings.
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police in northern ireland have charged a 52—year—old man with the murder of the journalist lyra mckee. woman: we're all gonna die! shouting. a 26—year—old woman has been jailed for two years after she tried to open the door of a plane, midway through a flight. crowd chanting: bernie! bernie! in the us, the veteran left—wing senator bernie sanders narrowly wins the new hampshire primary, a key stage of the contest to choose the democrats' presidential candidate. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the former trade minister lord digbyjones and broadcaster henry bonsu.
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welcome, both of you. thank you. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. according to the daily telegraph, the uk defence secretary could be in the firing line, says the paper, as the prime minister is set to reshuffle his cabinet. the financial times has a front page story on coronavirus with chinese authorities accused of under—reporting the number of victims. the metro focuses on the 83 people who've been quarantined at arrowe park hospital on the wirral for the coronavirus. they will be allowed to leave on thursday after their test results for the coronavirus came back as negative. bernie sanders is now the democratic candidate to beat after he came out on top at the new hampshire primary — that's on the front page of the guardian. joe biden now looks to south carolina to try and stay in the race. and the times features a story about how borisjohnson is preparing to water down plans for sanctions on social media companies amid concerns about
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a backlash from tech giants. that is the top story we're to start with with our reviewers. digby, would you like to start us off? i feel a bit confused, we are only just saying you come these curbs on the tech giants, and now we're them down? there are two sorts of things the government is going to do it the moment with tech giants. 0ne the government is going to do it the moment with tech giants. one is taxation, and this has nothing to do with taxation, and that is saying that companies like facebook, who turn over billions of billions of pounds in britain and pay less tax than you and i do, on that basis doing something about taxing their sales, not their profit, because they will shelter the prophet somewhere where they don't pay any tax. that is the one frump is going bonkers about, i don't know why, because it wouldn't give any more money to the americans, and just
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make the shareholders more money. this is about the danger of the abuse of social media or the invidious nature of social media getting into areas of the consumer you don't want to go —— insidious. i know teenage girls, but teenage boys suffer the same, they are bullied through social media and thought how to kill themselves on social media. you get these tragedies... we have been talking about the curves all day but why are they being watered down before being imposed? —— curbs. if you look at the tech giants and add the market cups of apple —— caps of apple, facebook and microsoft, if you others together, you get a sum of money that is more than the gdp of money that is more than the gdp of germany. they are very powerful people. which is an indirect way of
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saying they are lobbying. exactly, but as digby said, they are paying diddly squat tax in this country. but it appears there are some theories in downing street, because as we see from this story, according toa as we see from this story, according to a well— placed source, there as we see from this story, according to a well—placed source, there is a prozac lobby in number ten stop —— prozac lobby in number ten stop —— pro technology lobby in number ten. they are not protecting users, and it would appear the government is of a mind to appoint 0fcom to oversee social media companies. they aren't sure whether 0fcom will be able to do much about social media companies that do nothing to protect their users, particularly vulnerable teenagers was that they want to see notjust fines, but teenagers was that they want to see not just fines, but from the sanctions against executives, perhaps a fine of a proportion of
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the turnover or naming and shaming executives. that is something some people feel, that alone the families of these people bullied. people feel, that alone the families of these people bulliedlj understand of these people bullied.” understand if you said some of the stuff on our that these companies are allowed to go out on their platforms, or if this newspaper published it, the editor would go to prison. so why can mr zuckerberg become a billionaire by doing exactly the same thing as denmark he would say it's because i'm a platform, i am would say it's because i'm a platform, iam not would say it's because i'm a platform, i am not an editor. well, i think it's high time that a country, britain, germany, france, we ought to get together and say i'm sorry, you have a social responsibility here because you have made squillions of the data and people's lives. well we are seeing some of that through the decision to
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appoint 0fcom. the mass of the dark arts, the prime minister's senior advisor dominic cummings, apparently he once written to be the most tech friendly company in the world —— wants britain. that's rubbish. all they have to do is explain that they have a bit of responsibility to the consumer. henry made a good point. when i was talking about taxation, henry said, well i think it is a ridge because they don't pay any tax. when i was a lobbyist that cbi, one of the things you used with politicians was if you don't look after this item, think of all the tax you won't get. well, these guys don't pay tax. well, they do but not a lot. they employ a lot of people. there are various other issues going
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on, presumably, like donations or whatever. we can only speculate. but that's not speculate, let's go do the hard, black and white on the page. henry, take us to the guardian and the coronavirus story. this is significant because it is a metropolis, london, 9 million people. i know braddon is a small city. —— brighton. people. i know braddon is a small city. -- brighton. brighton's great. a chinese woman who lives there, she had been in china, flew into heathrow if you days ago, cold and adjust one—on—one —— nhs 111, but the big question is how many people she may have infected when she was feeling unwell or before she self
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isolated. these are now trying to trace relatives or anyone she may have had contact with. this is relevant, despite digby's objections notwithstanding, it is a high population density area, comparatively. and this other piece in the guardian, the trickle of cancellations of major events. we need to not forget about this, and the effect on the economy. it's interesting. you have this amazing country that has brought so many hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in the last 20 years, china, it is taking its place on the world stage, it is integrating its economy, and the same country having companies so technologically advanced has massive public health issues in parts of its society. because it is now integrating into the world economy in the world as
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you just said, events and such. the formula 1, playtex championships... —— athletics championships... when something like this happens, it happens to her all of ours. —— heard all of us. and when something happens in china, for example, the automotive base, simple things like wheels — if you are making cars in germany or france or whatever, what are you going to do? as a regular on the international developments in, i go to the international developments in, i gotoa the international developments in, i go to a lot of development conferences. you talk about china and how it can do a lot of things about development and lifting people out of poverty, when it comes to health systems we don't have development there was that you cannot eat gdp, you need good, regular basic services for everybody. and then when we have crises like this it won't be out of
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control because of people taking live bouts from markets. they don't ta ke live bouts from markets. they don't take live bats out of market because they are starving, they are taking live bouts out of markets because it is the social norm. —— bats. without increasing gdp, you can't afford to do other stuff you need to but you can have asymmetric development where we only measure the beautiful roads, the great hospitals and forget about... save it for the conference. i agree with you. we just agreed, carrie. you reached agreement, i don't have to do anything. telegraph. let's look at the reshuffle, digby. i will know the reshuffle, digby. we will know what the reshuffle is tomorrow, so just give us what the reshuffle is tomorrow, so just gi them i pal the tories either called them from the tories either to get the story across and prepare
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the way for the defence secretary to be sucked tomorrow —— sacked tomorrow, or a last fling at keeping hisjob. tomorrow, or a last fling at keeping his job. it's quite a dangerous game. in it, it is the last throw. what he is saying is i went in harm's way. i was a soldier. i'm from the north of england. he is pitching for his own job. yes. and, at the same, anne—marie trevelyan, who is tipped to ta ke anne—marie trevelyan, who is tipped to take over, female, good stuff, north england, good stuff, chartered accountant, not a soldier, but ticking boxes for the inclusiveness borisjohnson once ticking boxes for the inclusiveness boris johnson once in ticking boxes for the inclusiveness borisjohnson once in his cabinet. you mean because she is a woman? not just any woman, north of england. it is important. anybody on both sides of this saying it is tokenistic, and everything else, but actually it is important. and how do you measure
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talent? does it come in the shape of someone like ben wallace? backbenchers who i have met a good... we know you are a big fan of hers. gillian keith, who i have never met, is also being tipped. i'm trying to be fair, henry. these are women on the backbenchers who could get their day. another very, very quick point. this guy has only been defence secretary since july. we will have a reshuffle. how long should people be allowed to grow in the job? it was not very much so. backin the job? it was not very much so. back in the day you used to have ministers who would earn their spas, become more experienced, and they would move on for a parliament. now it seems not even a year before you move on. our argument to get more experience and improve anyjob?” move on. our argument to get more experience and improve any job? i do object to political play either way. stopping my secretary of defence going to a big conference tomorrow where you are going to have angela merkel, macron, pompeo from america,
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he is not going because he is standing by the telephone. the country is a bit more important. or he may not have been allowed to go. he may have been told you're not going, we will send someone else. watch that space. henry, take us to the daily mail. a story about camilla going to a safe live ‘s 50th anniversary charity, then going to clarence house. she goes to the reception. it is a fight against domestic abuse. after she spoke she gave an exclusive to the daily e—mail alongside the front page, alongside two women, rachel, shot by her husband, and cilia, mother killed by her partner. deeply personal campaign for the duchess of cornwall, really important. every couple of years we do appear to have a domestic violence bill but it doesn't seem to tackle things at their source. these are really
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important issues that happen behind closed doors. what is the role of the state is the question. some would say it is notjust to intervene but to help those people, those women and children in particular when they need refuge. if you know a little bit about the story you will know there have been major cuts to access and funding, especially since the coalition came into power, about £7 million or so since 2010. so the refuge charities and the domestic violence charities say fine putting it on the front page of the daily mail you are the same newspaper that argues for cuts, which may affect vulnerable people like these here. it will come as no surprise that they don't like this large you've just taken. because, you know, i've looked at it and thought, oh, a royal story. then i read the bottom right—hand side. now, this is the daily mail and it wa nts now, this is the daily mail and it wants the personal thing of camilla, but it says at least two women are killed each week in the uk by
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current or former partners. and killed each week in the uk by current orformer partners. and more than 2 million report domestic abuse each year and those are only the ones that reported. now, if the daily mail, regardless of your allegation of hypocrisy of them, if the daily mail, regardless of the sheu the daily mail, regardless of the shell of the royals, if you like, if you can use with its circulation that a few more people understand that a few more people understand that statistic and think how can our society deal with this? then that is a good thing. i suppose the other point is that the duchess of cornwall is saying anyone can be a victim, it affects everybody, goes on behind closed doors, she has friends herself victims of violence and coercive control. in practical terms, when somebody is in siege in their own home, what do they do? they call the police, often the police don't respond quickly enough. after 30 or 40 years of bad headlines about this we still have cases where the police ignored,
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don't take it seriously, they wait for something serious to happen and thenit for something serious to happen and then it is too late. even when they have had warnings that have been terrible cases over the years. so let's work together. i know i put a particular slant on it, because sometimes the daily mail on the front page... so you want to see action notjust... front page... so you want to see action notjust. .. i want front page... so you want to see action notjust... i want to see action. and the action must be in society. it is for government to do it, but it has to come from within society. we only have a couple more minutes. the ft. interesting story about the oil majors. quickly on this so we can get to the last one as well. this is the first oil major, actually, bp, british company, andy tsang by 2050 we will hit net zero emissions —— it is saying. including the consequences of the fossil fuel we get out of the ground. which is 9096. it's huge. it is saying we will keep the dividend going. quite how he will square the
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circle i don't know. this is the new ceo, bernard loonie, we will keep the dividend going, we will make sure the profits keep going, and he is basically saying i will stop doing the thing that has made us all the money. he has 30 years to get it sorted. the future has to come, if bp is saying this, we have to get them all to do it. the answer will be technology. but where it matters is bp's profits are in your and my pension fund, they are taxed, and they pay for your and my schools and hospitals. so it is all our problem as to how bp gets there. and to get there it is going to need a bit more encouragement rather than all the criticism of the like greenpeace is it is nowhere near enough. interestingly, henry, the markets seem to think you can get there, because the share price rose. that is an instant reaction, of course. let's see what happens over a period of time. their big rivals now will
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probably be looking at bp and watching them and saying how well you do it? the likes of chevron and exxon and shell together, they are among the top 20 worst polluters in terms of carbon emissions. there was a big report in the guardian some months ago which named and shamed. so they have to do more than say here we are, we are going to be the competition. they have to put real investment into this. notjust i think it was 500 million or so they have spent last year on new technology. and we're going to suddenly have leave it on that thought. real action again, your point, henry. second story in a row. we don't have time for the last story. apologies. next time we will get them all in. digby, henry, thank you so much. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later
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for now, from us, good night. good evening. i'm austin halewood. here's your latest sports news. england's cricketers threw away the chance to beat south africa in their first, dramatic, twenty20 international. set 178 to win it, england looked like they were cruising to victory before a chaotic final over saw them lose byjust one run. joe wilson watched the action. this is twenty20. oh, and he's gone again. that is a blinder. south africa's captain quinton de kock hitting the ball miles. what could be more thrilling? but t20 cricket is built around those instance ups and downs. he made 31 and was gone. 0h, too soon. south africa finished with 177. is that enough? can you? jason roy can hit most targets.
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aiming for the grandstands here. bowlers need tricks to make that pull slow. roy waited but could only hit it there, out for 70. eoin morgan took england to the brink of victory with 52 stop well, keep watching for the twist. morgan was gone and moeen ali facing, with three needed off two balls. so adil rashid, two to force the super 0ver. 0ne they made and the second only confusion. south africa grabbed victory. there are many cricket formats in twenty20 but this was classic twe nty20. formats in twenty20 but this was classic twenty20. joe wilson, bbc news. it's been another busy night in the championship and fulham missed the chance to go into the top two. they were held to a 1—1 draw away at millwall. fulham scored afterjust two minutes, but the home side equalised soon after with this goal from jon dani bodvarsson. but it turned out to be a really contentious one. replays showing that bodvarsson
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was clearly in an offside position. meanwhile, leaders west brom won away at reading. in scotland, steven gerrard's rangers side lost 2—1 away at kilmarnock. celtic beat bottom side hearts 5—0, and they are now ten points clear at the top of the premiership. in the women's super league leaders manchester city made it six wins in a row, as they beat bottom side bristol city 1—0. it was man city's first match under interim manager alan mahon, and gemma bonner scored the only goal. they're now a point clear of chelsea, who have a game in hand. all the night's results from the championship, scotland and the wsl are on the bbc sport website and app. the chinese grand prix has been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak. it was supposed to be held on the 19th of april in shanghai which is 500 miles from wuhan where the outbreak started. the request to delay the race actually came from the chinese government and was accepted by formula 0ne's governing body. the fia and the teams now have
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to look at re—scheduling the race, in what is already a very busy race calendar. the future of rugby union's championship has been thrown into doubt after the rfu announced plans to cut the amount of money it gives to clubs by almost half. rugby‘s governing body increased the amount of championship money five years ago, but it's cutting the cash now because they say targets haven't been met. the clubs say they're "disappointed" with the decision. the cleveland browns defensive end myles garrett has been reinstated to the nfl, after being suspended for hitting another player with his helmet. it was one of the most shocking moments of last season. it happened in the browns' game against the pittsburgh steelers in november — quarterback mason rudolph on the receiving end. the suspension was originally indefinite and meant garrett missed the last six games of the season.
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that's all the sport for now. lots more on the bbc sport website and app, including the news that chelsea are finalising a deal for the ajax winger hakim ziyech. that's all from us, good night. hello there. it continues to be a rollercoaster ride in terms of the weather across the uk. there was a brief respite really today from all this harsh weather. we had fewer showers and more in the way of sunshine. but it's still quite a wintry scene across the northern up of the uk, especially in the hills. it is still very cold as well. now, coming in from the south—west we have another area of low pressure. it's not a named storm, but the winds are picking up. we got some rain coming into. very malta was the south—west but that wet weather is moving into colder air as you move further north. and temperatures actually in the north—east of scotla nd actually in the north—east of scotland could get down to —10 overnight. here is the wet weather and it sweeps its way quickly eastwards, but into the cold air
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we've got some snow, particularly over the pennines and over the cumbrian fells. it also central, southern scotland, it may be in the morning for the rush hour there could be so in the central belt too. through the day tomorrow this low levels tend to rise, it will turn drier in northern ireland. some heavy showers or southern england, where it will be windy in the morning, gail houthi english channel. slowly improving no further north as many places become dry. it is still cold and damp for north—eastern parts of england and south—eastern scotland full that area of low pressure should be out of the way by friday. another one they will introduce this rain and they will introduce this rain and the winds will pick up again during friday. this rain may well rain some snow over the tops of the mountains, but elsewhere i think will find the snow tending to melt because we're getting much milder and. southerly winds and temperatures of 8— 12 degrees. as we head into the weekend it stays rather mild. we have storm dennis arriving. that will still be an issue right the way into monday,
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strong winds, very heavy rain, unlikely to be more disruption, especially after storm ciara last weekend. through saturday we will find the winds picking up and we will close and heavy rain coming in, especially across england and wales. and it's really over the western hills of england and wales that the rain will add hills of england and wales that the rain willadd up hills of england and wales that the rain will add up over the coming few days. we've still got rain across england and wales for much of the day on sunday, but further north, actually, it's more showery and here winds start to pick up a bit more for scotland and northern ireland. and what's left of storm dennis will not be far away from the north—west of scotla nd not be far away from the north—west of scotland on sunday night and into monday. and a squeeze in the wind likely through the central belt scotland, by which time it should be a bit dry across england and wales. but certainly some more severe weather on the way during this weekend, perhaps lingering into monday as well. and there is likely to be some further impacts
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i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: china says virus cases are stabilising, but the world health organization warns the epidemic is impossible to predict. that gives us an opportunity to prepare and to react, and still gives us the opportunity for containment and potential interruption of transmission of the virus. it's the economy first, but indonesia's president jokowi denies his country has become less tolerant. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: italy's parliament votes to allow former interior minister matteo salvini to go on trialfor stopping migrants from landing.
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