tv The Papers BBC News February 16, 2020 10:30pm-11:01pm GMT
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of days and all of that rain over a months worth has been falling off the bracken is and into the valleys. we have a severe flood warning enforce near nice and we have several severe flood warnings between ludlow and a distant. —— neath full dot aside from those major warnings, we have well over 300 flood warnings in force elsewhere. some communities, the flooding could continue to get worse before it gets better even as the rain becomes less intense. storm dennis‘s final swansong as it passes close to the north of scotland is a swathe of powerful winds. it could see gusts in scotland of 75 mph or so and could see disruption as we head into monday morning across the north of scotland
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but otherwise for the rest of the uk it is a blustery day, a day of sunshine and showers, some of those showers will have hail and thunder mixed in with them and certainly the strong winds will continue to make you feel a little bit on the cool side with temperatures between eight and 11 celsius. the week ahead, we are going to see low pressure moving in. miles days in space with cooler days so it will be quite changeable day by day. —— at mild days. there will be heavy showers for all of us at some point on tuesday, showers in the night could be heavier across england and wales was top of that traffic moves through, it turns colder for scotland, northern ireland and the north of england. that system is away and things quieten down for a time of night but then into wednesday we are looking at the next area of low pressure approaching from the west. that will bring a warm front. a band of rain that will put into northern ireland, eventually reaching western
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hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines: a major incident is declared by police in south wales, as flooding and landslides caused by storm dennis lead to a number of road closures. heavy rain and strong winds continue to lash large parts of the uk with hundreds of flood alerts in place including four severe warnings.
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itv cancels tonight's edition of love island out of respect for the family of former presenter caroline flack. the broadcaster says it's devastated by her death. thousands of passengers face major disruption at heathrow airport, after a systems failure affects all terminals. the airport says its experiencing technical problems. now calling only those american guests from emerald deck. us citizens quarantined for days on a cruise ship injapan are leaving after america sends two planes to take them home. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. to what the the papers will be with me are rob merrick, to what the the papers will be the deputy political
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editor at the independent, and ruth lea, who's an economics adviser for the arbuthnot banking group. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. in the times, europe talks tough on trade — a french minister has warned europe and britain will "rip each other apart" during negotiations for a deal. the telegraph says dementia patients are being dumped in hospital and that the closure of care centres puts 100,000 people a year in a and e. leading the guardian, another doctor from the same firm as the rogue breast surgeon, who was jailed for 15 years, is accused of harming patients. the mail's headline is "flack feared a show trial", the paper claims that the tv star warned police she would take her own life after being charged for the assault
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of her boyfriend. the metro also has that story and carries the tribute from caroline flack‘s boyfriend promising to get answers after her death. let's start with the weather. storm dennis has left an impact so soon after storm ciara. the front of the times. storm it in the week causes misery and travel chaos and the problem is the ground is saturated because of storm ciara and it was associated with horrible wins as well and it does say that these two storms coming one after the other do comprise extreme events and it is difficult to plan for them and it is difficult to plan for them and it is difficult to plan for them and it is difficult to mitigate the events although the government has tried to do that and it is little consolation for the people who are suffering. it must be absolutely shocking and
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dreadful to be in a position where your home is being flooded like this, i think it is dreadful. that picture really does tell the story. last year it was —— last week it was yorkshire and this week it is south wales and this picture is in a crickhowell and we saw some pictures of really horrifying scenes in the welsh valleys and people being pulled out of their cars before the floods were about to submerge them and the slurry running down the mountainside in south wales which is all too reminiscent of the disaster. different picture on the front of the telegraph but the angle here is that the government has been told to pull their finger out. that the government has been told to pull their finger outlj that the government has been told to pull their finger out. i was implying my earlier comments it is easier said than done. these are extreme weather events and it would be extremely costly to make precautions for every single possibility and the government has to become clear about that. george,
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the secretary of state who took over last week, says that we can't do everything to control the impact of extreme weather events but we can try and mitigate some of the difficulties and it does a tribute some of the causes it to the nature of climate change so it will be interesting to see what they intend to do about that. i think it is a new development that the environment secretary is acknowledging that these extreme events are related to climate change. i don't remember a minister saying that so it begs the question what are they going to do about it? at the government is miles away from its climate change targets was that it has announced no measures, nothing at all.|j was that it has announced no measures, nothing at all. i don't think that's fair. i don't think they can get anywhere near the figures they are promising. i can't speak to any of the areas that are being flooded today but there were many areas that were promised a
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flood to schemes at the start of the decade, the last decade and they we re decade, the last decade and they were cancelled and we reap what we sow. these floods schemes won't put in because of cuts and now these people are suffering. in because of cuts and now these people are sufferinglj in because of cuts and now these people are suffering. i don't think it's fair, i think the government are doing as much as they can in so far that climate change caused by emissions. it's no good shaking your head. this is great because the big global emitters have absolutely no intention of cutting back on emissions, such as china, and they account for a lot of carbon emissions and we account for i%. evenif emissions and we account for i%. even if we completely decarbonise tomorrow, six months' time, we are back to square one. i'm sorry about that rob, i know you don't agree with me. we love disagreements, that is what it is all about. let's talk
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about the doubts over budget. is what it is all about. let's talk about the doubts over budgetm is what it is all about. let's talk about the doubts over budget. it is i'io about the doubts over budget. it is no biggie, a big date in the political calendar and the government can't tell us whether it is going to go ahead and what is going to be in it. imagine if it was a labour government saying they didn't know whether the budget will go ahead and they would be torn to threads but the last chancellor resigned last week and they seem to be desperately deciding whether to rewrite the budget in order to spend more money and that is why they can't tell us whether it would go ahead on march the 11th. we know that the prime minister is far more keen on increasing spending than the previous chancellor was pulled up if he does that then he will blow his fiscal rules, perhaps he would then not need fiscal rules at all. at the
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time and, what is going to be in there? the timing we don't know. i almost agree with everything that robert said which is devastating for you, only did that to get a smile. 0nlyjoking. butjoking you, only did that to get a smile. 0nly joking. but joking apart, you, only did that to get a smile. 0nlyjoking. butjoking apart, i think the fiscal rules, it did relax head of the general election and there is... a good chance the fiscal rules will be relaxed against their will be more spending on infrastructure spending but i think what is interesting here, they actually say, number ten reported they want to change day—to—day spending rules, the current spending, to increase nhs spending which i think will be their focus. and hammond, in the last budget which was autumn 2018 which seems 100 years ago, did actually increase
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the nhs spend by about 20 billion or two or three years hence so there is already quite a big increase in the nhs in the government is required by law to have that budget by april effect. the prime minister has shown a reluctance in breaking the law in the past. the budget is meant to be oi'i the past. the budget is meant to be on the 11th, if it is much later in march then there won't be the time for the changes to be reduced if there are changes to taxes will stop it is getting very close. a worrying story, pressure felt all round and patients being dumped on a&e and wards. i think social care spend is a priority of this government i'm interested to see what they do about it and now hancock is the minister of social care and the telegraph as saying they've done an investigation
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which is daycare centres for dementia have been closed, several have been closed. these day centres are meant to alleviate the pressure on the carers who have to look out the dementia sufferers —— look after. this coincides with a sharp rise in dementia patients ending up in hospital via a&e so clearly it has to be a priority. the government can't not do something. has to be a priority. the government can't not do somethinglj has to be a priority. the government can't not do something. i think it is unclear to me whether the big increase in the number is going to a&e is because of the closure of the day centres. i think that is possibly a little bit of a stretch. there is a much wider crisis in social care that would explain the increase in numbers. 20 in the past year alone it says have closed and it says the number receiving has falle n it says the number receiving has fallen by a quarter so these are big
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figures without a doubt and there's a wider crisis and social care and there are probably a thousand words here and it has failed to mention in any of them the enormous spending cuts that have caused this crisis. it isn't mentioned in the story which is disappointing. well you are disappointed but the truth is that you have an ageing population so you will have to put more resources into this. talking about resources, front page. this starts from a story a day ago in at the times where an unnamed numberten ago in at the times where an unnamed number ten source ago in at the times where an unnamed numberten source said ago in at the times where an unnamed number ten source said that the government was definitely out to get the bbc and said that the licence fee would be scrapped and the proposals were going to be brought forward and that radio and tv stations would be severely curtailed. it is interesting here there is a backlash against that by
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some risibly well— known conservatives sticking up for the bbc and warning that they would pay a heavy price. i tend to think the story this morning was hugely overinflated. the government is having a review over whether to decriminalise the licence fee, they could have talked about whether to scrap it, they have said it is safe for the moment so you tend to think the real agenda is that people in numberten can make the real agenda is that people in number ten can make inflammatory statements and curve the bbc and i think that is what is going on. we will come to this story again at 11:30pm. we will rackets. i promise we will rackets. that is it for the papers. —— whack out. don't forget you can view those headlines
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online. it's all there for you 7 days a week online. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you to rob and ruth. next it click. last week, youtube revealed for the first time just how much cash it's making parent company google. that was $15 billion last year. announcing its results for the first time seems almost a rite of passage
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— the service has matured, grown up and is standing on its own two feet. i visited youtube's london office to find out how it's come of age. kevin, youtube used to be the place where video went viral, but now it seems that a lot of that happens on tiktok or facebook. how do you feel things have changed? the internet has gotten a lot bigger. it is a lot easier to make a beautiful video now than it was ten years ago. when you look at now what the most popular videos on youtube are, they're often not these one—off, viral hit videos, but coming from channels producing lots of content regularly and that have large audiences. i think youtube has moved from this unintentional kind of quick, short video thing which we all associate with the early years of youtube to this sort of new world in which you have creators who have businesses and build these audiences. and few could have predicted some of the most successful genres.
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tell me about asmr. asmr is short for autonomous sensory meridian response. it is a genre of video people call whisper videos where people whisper or do things quietly to make audiences react. ——feel relaxed. whispering: what sort of things might they do? they might whisper, or cook, or rub things on the microphone. it is a very unusual form of entertainment, but it's not designed necessarily to make you laugh or do the things that we think about for traditional entertainment. it's designed to help you relax and calm down. another big trend is recipes. making something the old—fashioned way can be time—consuming and fiddly. so some of the videos online, particularly many that have gone viral, make it look very simple. but is it always possible to do what you're watching? well, chris fox has been finding out.
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you've probably seen food hacks like these online before — top tips for tasty treats — but are they too good to be true? videos like this have clocked up billions of views on youtube and facebook, but do all the receipes and tips featured actually work, or will they just waste your time and ingredients? here is a milk carton flan from the lifestyle channel blossom. this video's had 17 million views. you put the ingredients in the carton, microwave it, cool it, and out pops a perfect carton flan. now, i followed this video step—by—step. i've used the exact same quantities. now, the first problem came when i tried to put this in the microwave, because the milk carton was too tall, it wouldn't fit. and that got me thinking, well, how did they fit their milk carton full of ingredients in the microwave? and it looks like they didn't, because if you rewatch the video, you'll see that they actually just cut the bottom of the milk carton off. not to be deterred, i poured the mixture into a gym—shaker
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and followed the rest of the video, putting it in the microwave to boil for ten minutes. and did i get a flan at the end of it? no, i did not. next up, gummy bear hacks — easy diy dessert recipes from so yummy. 3.2 million views. in this video, melting gummy bears turns them into jelly which you can use to create deserts. here's my attempt copying exactly what i saw in the video. turns out gummy bears are actually very thick and gloopy when they are melted, not runny like liquid jelly. will my spoon go into the jelly just as effortlessly as in the so yummy video? well, no it will not. because, as you might expect, this gummy mixture at the bottom of the glass is rock solid. let's have one more. this is from 5—minute crafts. if you've run out of popcorn, why notjust shove an ear of corn in the microwave and it
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will turn into popcorn? now, i'm sure i don't need to tell you that if you put an ear of fresh corn into the microwave it won't come out as popcorn but willjust be hot corn. but i was willing to be proved wrong, so i tried it out in the name of science. when it comes out, it is warmer than before! laughs i'm not the only one who has been intrigued by this — ann reardon is a food scientist and runs a cookery channel on youtube, and she's been investigating, too. it's the fake news of the baking world — this is faked baking. the reason why that works is it's more clickable, and clickbait content is currently what's currently working on the youtube algorithm, and apparently working on facebook as well. ann's been trying a lot of these recipes on her youtube channel, too. there's one on so yummy where they make cake frosting out of strawberry ice cream. now, ann tried it, and it didn't work. i've also tried it, and it doesn't work. having a food science degree, i know what properties different things have and whether that would actually work or not.
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it's actually not possible to whip up ice cream, because the fat content isn't high enough. even if you get the most luxurious ice cream you can get, it will not whip and it will not make frosting. that's an example of the faked ones, but there's also some which are going to dangerous territory as well. one on 5—minute crafts, they've one where they put a strawberry into bleach to make a white strawberry. if a child was to watch that and do it, they could consume a lot of bleach, which is obviously not good for them. there is also a so yummy video where molten caramel is poured over a spinning whisk to make a sort of birds nest decoration to put on top of a dessert. molten caramel is hot — like, it's hotter than boiling water. so we made a box and put plastic wrap in front of it. the hot caramel melted right through it. while we're here, those melted caramel cake decorations i showed, that's not the best way to make those, either. it takes a long time to melt one sweet, and usually theyjust burn and stick to the pan. the professional — and just as easy — way, according to ann, is to put your sweets in a blender,
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put a thin layer of that on greaseproof paper and then put it in the oven forjust a few minutes. that's a quick and easy way to make caramel cake decorations that you can try at home. that was chris, and chris is here now. you didn't manage to bring me lunch, though, did you? i should have saved you some of my sweaty egg flan! i'm not sure it looked that appetising! what did the companies have to say? well, 5—minute crafts, which made the popcorn video that didn't pop, they didn't reply to my email. and first media, which runs the so yummy and blossom channel, well, they invited me to the studios in la to prove that the recipes work, but they said i couldn't film them doing it. they told me they only put recipes in the videos that do work, although i suspect not as shown in the videos because we tried it and they didn't work, and the food scientist, ann, she said some of the recipes, there's no way they would work, even if you followed the instructions and used the most luxurious ingredients. so why are people so busy sharing these videos? i think they are obviously very visual, the videos are very nicely produced.
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the companies would say that the purpose of this is entertainment, they are to give you maybe cooking ideas and inspiration. and, crucially, most of the people who watch these videos aren't actually going to try the recipes, theyjust like the visuals. keeping up with the pace of technological change can be difficult at the best of times, particularly for parents who want to be able to keep track of what their children are doing, how much screen time they're having, whether all the content is appropriate. and never has this been more true than when it comes to video games. so mark cieslak has been looking at this very problem with a spot of help from one of the best—known faces in football. father—of—three and ex—manchester united and england footballer rio ferdinand is fronting a campaign to encourage parents to learn about the parental controls they can use in their children's videogames. i was someone who's been fairly involved in gaming throughout my adult life,
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and my children play, and we thought we've got a good balance in our house — you get in, you do your school work, you do your chores about the house, and have a balance between the gaming and being outside. but having an understanding of what your children are actually doing, that's always so invaluable to me to understand what i can actually do in terms of controlling what type of games that they're on. do you think parents have to take more responsibility as far as video games and their children are concerned? you have to take a key interest, like you'd take a key interest in your child's school life, take an interest in their game life because it's an integral part of their lives nowadays, like it or not. the get smart about play campaign is the work of the uk games industry trade body. it provides online guides about parental controls on consoles and computers, controls which can limit play time and prevent children spending real—world money on virtual items. well, we know that more than half of parents in the uk in particular have concerns about the amount of time their children and people
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in their care are spending playing games and on screens in general. this is part of an overall society digital literacy agenda. you know, so, really understanding boundaries, understanding how to protect yourself, understanding how to protect your privacy, it's part of a wider thing in society that i think we need to really pay attention to. research suggests that up to 99% of children in the uk aged between eight and 15 play video games regularly. compare this to research carried out by the nspcc which found only 19% of parents with children between aged of five and 15 actually use parental controls on devices which connect to the internet. but some parents think that the games industry should bear a greater response ability. are they trying to empower parents, or are they passing the buck? they have a purpose and a responsibility to actually protect the mental well—being of our children. that is part of their role as i see it. every company that is producing
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content for our children has to take on that responsibility. features in games like loot boxes, randomised in—game virtual items which can be bought with real—world cash, have been compared to gambling, and have led to increased scrutiny of the industry. so does it need to clean up its act? we are businesses at the end of the day, and these parental controls and family controls are important, because you can turn off in—game spending. that's why the conversation is really important, so it is a shared responsibility. while learning about parental controls improves digital literacy, perhaps some parents who play video games with their children might enjoy the experience as well. well, that's it for the short version of the programme. the full—length show can be found on the bbc iplayer as ever. and throughout the week if you want to keep track of what the team are up to, you can find us on instagram, facebook, youtube and twitter at @bbcclick. thanks for watching.
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we have seen some significant disruption today thanks to storm dennis. the torrential rain led to significant flooding and we still have six severe warnings in force, stretches of the river taff, the river neath and the river teme also affected but there are other warnings in the uk. even as the rain stops falling, we could see the flooding getting worse before it gets better and then storm dennis its final act pushing close to the north of scotland and we get powerful gusts of wind, could be up to 75 mph and that could cause
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disruption into monday morning's rush hour. the monday, we are looking at a day of centre in blustery showers, one of those days when most of us will see a downpour most frequent across western areas where there will be some hail and thunder mixed but nowhere is immune from an odd downpour. it will feel cool in the wind and temperatures between eight and 11 degrees. that is your latest weather.
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this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00: my my god. landslides in south wales and severe flooding in many places as more than a month's worth of rain falls in two days. a major incident‘s been declared by police in south wales, as heavy rain and strong winds continue to lash large parts of the uk. we were trying to block the front door and it was all pouring in through the back door as well and there was nothing we could do. hundreds of flood alerts remain in place across the uk, including four severe warnings. the government says its doing all it can. we are doing more and more than ever before in terms of investing in flood defences, perfecting more homes than we would have been able
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