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sunshine but also some will see some sunshine but also some showers as the air gets colder. turning wintry over the hills. it will feel colder because the winds will feel colder because the winds will strengthen, we may well have some gales around west coast. temperatures back to 5—6d for scotla nd temperatures back to 5—6d for scotland and northern ireland. when one weather front moves out of the way, it remains windy over thursday night and the wind strengthens again on friday as another weather system comes in from the atlantic. this one moving fairly quickly, gales quite widely, maybe severe gales towards western h ills widely, maybe severe gales towards western hills and coasts. that rain, probably wettest across north wales. south, largely drier. temperatures 11- 12 south, largely drier. temperatures ii— 12 degrees. that band of rain sweeps its way southwards during friday night comedy weather front weakening, the rain becoming lighter. so not too much rain for south wales. then we still have some strong winds to come for the first half of the weekend. this time we're getting into cooler hour, back into
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the showers, again wintry over the high especially to scotland. and if anything, the temperatures dropping away bit throughout the day. 13 early on towards the south—east but 6- early on towards the south—east but 6— eight further north. for the second half of the weekend, that showery airstream is going to be replaced by another area of rain, another area of low pressure. uncertainty about the exact position of the low pressure area, it looks like it will be in the northern half of the uk that sees most of the rain in the morning. some snow of the mountains of scotland, the rain moving southwards, probably turning more patchy. it will be pretty windy, that rain. milderand more patchy. it will be pretty windy, that rain. milder and colder towards the north. we have got the jet stream sitting very close to the ukfor jet stream sitting very close to the uk for the weekend and it is bringing milderair uk for the weekend and it is bringing milder air across southern areas, cold add to the north. the position is going to change and sweep colder air across all areas of next week, but we still essentially
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have a strong jet stream across the uk. for the most part we end up with low pressure driven towards the north with higher pressure towards the south—west. some uncertainty again about the positioning of areas of low pressure but essentially the theme is still there, unsettled, wettest further north and it will be pretty windy at times as well. ship is moored.
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hello, this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first the headlines: storm dennis forces mass evacuations as parts of the uk are devastated by flooding. the level of water we're talking about is actually quite humbling, and it's quite phenomenal. i mean, 160 acres by fourfoot of water, it's millions and millions of tons. the government has published details of its proposals for a points—based immigration system in the uk, saying visas will not be available for low—skilled workers.
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passengers quarantined on a cruise ship over the coronavirus will be allowed to leave. a british couple infected are being taken for treatment. tackling islamist extremism in malaysia. but human rights groups criticise deradicalisation programmes. black is beautiful, black is excellent. black is pain, black is joy, black is evident. music and politics. the brits get serious at the annual awards. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are broadcaster david davies and talkradio presenter daisy mcandrew. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. coronavirus is putting jaguar land rover plants at risk of shutting down as chinese
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components are in short supply, says the financial times. concern about radicalisation behind bars leads on the front of the times. —— of the times. and the mirror's front page reports of six "danger to life" warnings, as the paper says flooding is expected to worsen tomorrow. meanwhile, the mail looks at life after brexit, reporting that migrants from the eu will be required to speak english and have a job offer, under new government reforms. the plans will also include a salary threshold and an australian points—based system, says the guardian. and the metro adds that the home secretary's ban on low—skilled workers from the eu could lead to a crisis in health and social care, and the paper also features a picture of one of the winners from tonight's brit awards, stormzy.
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so let's get more. david, do you wa nt to so let's get more. david, do you want to start us off. immigration revolution is the big front page headline in the daily mail. and boris's border loop rent, we are told. no messing around. this is, i still think, most people i think believe, that immigration was a huge factor in the outcome of the referendum, the surprise outcome to a lot of people, of the referendum. and now we are getting tangible change. there is no doubt about this, and indeed, the daily mail and i think the guardian, which we are going to talk about, spell out the proposals which are coming tomorrow and which will be brought forward from priti patel in particular, who will be fronting up this, with matters like we are told britain is
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to close its borders to unskilled workers and those who cannot speak english. it is part of the fundamental overhaul of our immigration policy. the question is, and we were talking about it a short time ago, is it as easy as all this? and if it is as easy as all this, why didn't something like this happen before? well, of course it did happen before, and tony blair tried a similar thing and it didn't work, and a lot of people are saying this is fraught with complexity and difficulty, that it sounds very, very good, which i think to most people, and certainly we know it focuses the focus groups very well, people like the sound of an australian style points system, because they think it sounds fair and you will get people with real skills who will offer this country something in return for citizenship or in return for working here. a lot of the experts, including the government's own advisory committee, have said it is far too complex, has far too many loopholes, is really just a soundbite, and that is
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actually what they called it, and not a proper policy. i think so many of these very complicated issues are overly complicated by politicians, and then the more complicated they are, the more loopholes there are, the more difficulty there isn't actually enforcing it. just this evening i was looking at what the points system really means, and you to have 70 points to get access. you get 24 having a job offer, you get 24 having skills, and ten four having english. now, that adds up to 50. you have to have those three, no matter what. so you have to have those 50, then obviously you have to have another 20. you can get 24 having that pretty well paid job, 45,600 pounds, —— £25,600, having that pretty well paid job, 45,600 pounds, -- £25,600, 24 having that pretty well paid job, 45,600 pounds, —— £25,600, 24 going into employment in what they call a shortage occupation. so again, this is if you are in social care,
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nursing, engineering, computer science and social work are all considered shortage areas. you get 24 that. you get 24 having a phd in a stem, a science subject, then you get ten four having a phd. and if you do your maths, it still doesn't add up. that only pushes you up to 80. even those bald figures don't work and a lot of people are already saying on social media, even that doesn't add up. how is the rest of it going to add up? sorry, david. it makes immigration from non—eu countries easier than it currently is, because it is lowering. it used to be 30 grand and employers had to prove that no brit could do that job. that is all going. so there are real swings and roundabouts that a lot of anti—immigration people won't be happy about. but i will tell you who will be happy tonight and is punching the air, my landed friends. this is going to be a bonanza. and
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the australians, of course, have experience that —— learned friends. and the question is is the points system that you describe so well there... i mean, is it the same as there... i mean, is it the same as the australian points system? because my understanding, some of the papers today are saying, actually, it's not the same as the points system. and many will say the australian system doesn't work very well. so australian system doesn't work very well. 50 among all these people who are not liking the prospect of this system, some of those mentioned in the guardian's story, it says fears for the uk economy, and it has labour, lib dems, unison, you name it, employers lining up. care sector, i mean, this is going to be the acid test. are some of the prophets of doom who were there 3.5 oi’ prophets of doom who were there 3.5 orfour prophets of doom who were there 3.5 or four years prophets of doom who were there 3.5 oi’ four years ago, prophets of doom who were there 3.5 orfour years ago, saying prophets of doom who were there 3.5 or four years ago, saying that these shortages that we are bound to have, and fruit pickers, i mean, who is going to save our strawberries?
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there is another exclusion or exemption, seasonal farmworkers are exempt. but they are seasonal, they have to go home again after they have to go home again after they have picked fruit. but there are so many exemptions and priti patel is saying to those industries who say we rely on these low—paid workers, she is saying tough. you have got to stop relying on these low—paid workers, which i do understand, but we're almost at full employment, so it is not the case that we have got all these unemployed kids lying around who could do jobs. are you both being a bit negative? moi? you are joking! would increase productivity in the economy if we didn't have so many people to be paid exploitative low wages? productivity is a huge issue, you're absolutely right. but as the industry moves and becomes more and more hi—tech, even the way we measure productivity is very out of date. and again, a lot of people in whitehall are accused of measuring
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things ina whitehall are accused of measuring things in a very outdated way. so when they use productivity as a reason for doing this, people who i trust on these issues say the whole syste m trust on these issues say the whole system is out of date, and we need to get... $0, system is out of date, and we need to get... so, you know, a lot of these engineering and computer science which are in the exceptions, i would much rather see our kids being trained in those industries, because they are the industries of the future. they are the ones that we need. the speed with which actually... the plan currently is to introduce this relatively quickly. yes, january 2021. now, that is asking a lot. and i think that is adding weight to the critics that are in this guardian story. and yet, david, the government is saying as the guardian points out, they are delivering the brexit demanded by the electorate. well, you can argue that point for sure, and that's what you will expect to hear. i think it is very hard to argue that that is
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not happening. the question is, who is right and who is wrong? we will find out. and i think it is also very interesting to see them doing this at the moment, because we have seen, post—election, a lot of policies coming out of downing street which are very clearly aimed at that redwall which has become the blue well. and this is actually another policy is aimed both at those constituencies, the new conservative constituencies, most of which did vote leave and are very concerned about immigration, particularly benefits, and so on, but also aimed at the torrey heartlands which most people would see as anti—immigration. so it is a 2—pronged attack from them. quite smart. i 2—pronged attack from them. quite smart. lam 2—pronged attack from them. quite smart. i am just worried about the practicalities of it. and the practicalities of it. and the practicalities will come home to roost, i suppose, practicalities will come home to roost, isuppose, if practicalities will come home to roost, i suppose, if they are as you two have both rather eeyoreishly set out. and let's turn to another somewhat grim headline in the... you
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wa nt to somewhat grim headline in the... you want to start us off with the times story, fears overjihadist attacks in jail. what has emerged is an attack in the segregation unit at winchester jail. attack in the segregation unit at winchesterjail. a convicted killer with no history of extremism launched a copycat jihadist with no history of extremism launched a copycatjihadist attack onjail launched a copycatjihadist attack on jail staff last week. the wider issue here for some of us is, again, you have to ask, to prisons actually work, achieve their objectives, and actually what are those object gives in the year 2020? security sources, the background of this, say that number ten has called for a deep dive into jail radicalisation and is considering far—reaching reforms. so it will be interesting to see what those reforms actually are. but for sure, some of the stories, some of the anecdotal stories coming out of prison is currently, are scary. and
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we saw after the streatham attack that d radicalisation programmes are not working as they should be. many people involved with them say it is a losing battle because within prisons radicalisation is so prevalent. and this kid, and he was a 20—year—old, had never shown signs of... isn't in on terrorist charges, but has clearly been radicalised and has said that this attack he did, he pretended to have committed suicide and they came in and he had strapped home—made weapons and attacked prison guards. he said immediately that it was a sort ofjihadi attack. it is another example, as you say, of things in prison going so terribly wrong. but going back to taking lessons from australia, as we are in immigration, the times as saying discussions have been held about post— sentence detention order similarto about post— sentence detention order similar to those used in australia,
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under which inmates will continue to be detained after serving their time if intelligence assessments deemed them to be a security threat. you can see the lawyers having a huge amount of fun with that one. indeed, that kind of lock them up and throw away the key is kind of not something that our human rights lawyers are going to particularly appreciate. back to the daily mail, we're going to go round and round with these papers today. we are going to the picture at the top. the queen bans harry and meghan from using sussex royal brand. the repercussions of harry and meghan's exodus across the land it continues. the queen has banned them from using the quotes sussex royal, brand as they look to develop their new lives. now, the use of what i assume the word royal is at the heart of this. either they are royal
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oi’ heart of this. either they are royal or they are not royal. there was some suggestion they could be half royal, that seems to not have been abandoned. you could say it is not showing much kindness towards harry and meghan. all kinds of people call themselves royal and all sorts of ways. exactly. the queen who is, i mean, when we had another divorce this week. two. two. i mean, regardless, as a sign — if you had any humankind this is all —— at all, the battering the queen has been taken in recent months is quite astounding. the fact it is still going on, maybe this was expected by most people. i think they had said they wanted to be half in and half hour and that was roundly poo—pooed by buckingham palace. i think having
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royal taken by buckingham palace. i think having royal ta ken away was by buckingham palace. i think having royal taken away was inevitable. but they have allegedly invested a huge amount in getting the website up and running and the branding and marketing and they have to unravel all about. it is quite a big deal. if you have been a royal all your life. they are very canny. they have been thinking about their brand and their brand was very, very centred oi'i their brand was very, very centred on being royal. having taken away will be a big deal. i think meghan was a bit more about brands. there was a bit more about brands. there was a bit more about brands. there was a little piece in the telegraph that also talks about meghan. i was surprised by this. they interviewed the national theatre had, rufus norris, who has told the telegraph that meghan will continue to be the royal patron of the national theatre despite not living in this country. was i think is extraordinary. i
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totally understand she is the perfect fit given her acting background and so on, but i do think thatis background and so on, but i do think that is very odd that she can continue to be patron when she doesn't even... it will be interesting to see how many times she turns up. how many board meetings she goes to. we shall see. now, the guardian, going back to the guardian again. boy or girl, blind luck in the family. what does that mean? i just hate, luck in the family. what does that mean? ijust hate, i love a survey. this is the university of queensland. basically what we have been told is researchers have found thanks to the university of queensland, having several offspring of the same—sex doesn't run in the family. call me a little cynical about this stuff, brought up by my mum and my sister with a wife of 32 yea rs, 43 yea rs mum and my sister with a wife of 32 years, 43 years now, counting, going up years, 43 years now, counting, going up by years, 43 years now, counting, going up by the minute, and two daughters
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and one granddaughter, my whole life has been about women. so i don't believe this. but hang on, at the bottom of the story, in some other animals such as wasps, sex ratio is clearly not random. we are told. my father is similar to you. he had three daughters and no boys. and i'm pretty certain he is to tell the story which might explain it, but i was always told that men who have a light, and it is particularly men, men who have a light or clearly old daughters does make a light or clearly —— daughters does make a light or clearly — — a daughters does make a light or clearly —— a lot or clearly all daughters have more just lost their owi'i daughters have more just lost their owfi “— daughters have more just lost their own — — have daughters have more just lost their own —— have more testosterone or are more macho. i think a university survey is coming on again. back to
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the times. the vegans to get their own self in the office fridge. this was inevitable. i don't know if you remember that ruling that happened la st remember that ruling that happened last month where a guy cold geordie chasm adhere to his employer to court and was saying, or the judge that ethical vegans were protected under quality laws does make a quality laws. it effectively made veganism late —— it effectively made beginners a religion. they are saying that is not a religion —— made veganism. they feel it is a real calling. so they are a different category. anyway, the big society nothing ethical begins should be given their own self in the office fridge —— ethical vegans,
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and if the office party is something like going to horse races, then they shouldn't have to go. so the other vegans don't get a shelf? you could self identify as an ethical vegan. so the idea is establishing a general rule sense of respect towards vegans. of course. and i can almost hear in the early morning brea kfast tv, almost hear in the early morning breakfast tv, the presenter going nameless, saying the world has gone mad or something like this. there is a lot of vegan bashing.|j mad or something like this. there is a lot of vegan bashing. i don't see how you can discriminate between the ethical ones and the so—called unethical vegans. i'm sure ethical ones and the so—called unethicalvegans. i'm sure if ethical ones and the so—called unethical vegans. i'm sure if they wa nted unethical vegans. i'm sure if they wanted a shelf they can have a cell.
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i had wanted a shelf they can have a cell. ihada wanted a shelf they can have a cell. i had a flatmate who didn't let me even keepa i had a flatmate who didn't let me even keep a tin of tuna in the cupboards because she hated this so much. so it wasn't an ethical thing, the very idea it was there. so it has memories about coming back to me. we have just got a few seconds to talk about the metro's front page. it references stormzy was my performance of the night. your correspondent you spoke to just before ours said... did you watch the whole video? i was reading the newspapers. i think it's astounding. the brits is back to 1977 does make go back to an it was won by the beatles and people like them. now it is huge and the coverage is
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tremendous. dave, a big wrapper, got a huge following after glastonbury went viral —— rapper. he accused borisjohnson of went viral —— rapper. he accused boris johnson of being went viral —— rapper. he accused borisjohnson of being racist, so it was as ever quite political. billie eilish talking about social media... sorry, we're going to have to lead it does not leave it on that thought. that's it for the papers tonight. thank you, david and daisy. goodbye. thanks for watching. good evening, i'mjane dougall, here's your latest sports news. we start with the champions league where the defending champions liverpool have been beaten 1—0 by atletico madrid in the first leg of their last 16 tie. it was a frustrating night
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forjurgen klopp's side, who didn't have a shot on target all match, as olly foster reports. same stadium and pretty much the same team. ten of the liverpool 11 in richardson note, also started in the champions league final eight months ago. continuity has been key to their many victories since then, but in the first knockout tie this season but in the first knockout tie this season they suffered an early blow. offering atletico madrid a goal on a plate to open for sound goes. marrazzo, the former chelsea striker should have doubled their lead by alison stood in the way. atletico's keeper was largely redundant but liverpool were getting close. mo salah was wide with a head—butt, gordon volleyed the wrong side of the same post but they were slipping to that rarest of results, a defeat. that explained juergen klopp is my frustrations as he was booked for dissent. the girls will properly come in the second leg at anfield but this title does make defences
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farfrom but this title does make defences far from straightforward. olly foster, bbc news. in the night's other match, dortmund's teenage sensation erling haaland once again stole the show as he scored both goals in their 2—1 victory over paris st—germain. joe lynskey was watching. if psg have the money than dortmund have the soul. this is the other wall, one of the barriers put before the world's drop prized 12, neymar and backpay. but to stop psg strikers takes more than noise. daughters and engaged with slight clips and tough collisions. for an hour, this game crackled with noise and waited for lift—off. it came through one of football's new superstars. this is early in holland, a 19—year—old norwegian who was born in leeds but has now settled down in the cauldron. is opening was soon settled down in the cauldron. is opening was soon cancelled out. psg found a way through and equalised through neymar. but it was just brief setback on portland's big night. he signed for dortmund just
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six weeks ago, this remarkably is his 11th goal in seven games. he is a teenage star still on the rise, just as this tie could reach its peak. joe lynskey, bbc news. tottenham face rb leipzig in the first leg of their last 16 tie tomorrow night, but they'll be without son heung—min, who has broken his arm. he injured it during the victory over aston villa on sunday, a game in which he scored the winner. managerjose mourinho thinks he may miss the rest of the season. goals galore in the scottish cup fifth round replay tonight at fir park. motherwell came from 4—1 down to take it to 4—4 against st mirren. it then went to extra time, but neither side could break the deadlock so it went to penalties and st mirren won it 3—2. they'll now face either aberdeen or kilmarnock in the quarterfinals, they play their replay tomorrow.
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to womens football now, and the england head coach, phil neville has named everton striker chloe kelly in his squad for the shebelieves cup. kelly is everton's top scorer this season so far and has only made one senior appearance for england. grace fisk also get her first senior call—up. england face spain, japan and the hosts america in the four—team tournament, which starts on the 5th of march. wales have called up cardiff blues back hallam amos to their six nations squad for this weekend's match against france. he initially missed out on selection because of an ankle injury but returns to the squad with owen lane ruled out of saturday's game, with fellow wingerjosh adams also a doubt. there is more on the bbc sport website. hello there. the weather doesn't look like it will be settling down any time soon. rain in the forecast looks like it will be exacerbating problems in the western part of the
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country. this series of weather fronts moving through mean that a lot of rainfall for north england and northern and western wales in the next few days, so there will be a chance of more flooding. we reach that point for wednesday, we start off on that point for wednesday, we start offona that point for wednesday, we start off on a dry, bright, chilly note. temperature—wise, 9— 10 degrees in the south, close to seven or eight further north. do wednesday night it stays very wet across northern and western areas and that rain really sta rts western areas and that rain really starts to mount up across northern england, northern and western wales which is where we could start disease issues. do thursday that rain starts to move through quite quickly with sunshine following on behind. a few showers, which will be wintry, in the north it will be cold. gillian the south, too. —— chilly in the south.
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i'm karishma vaswani, in singapore. the headlines: hundreds of passengers quarantined over coronavirus on the diamond princess cruise ship are preparing to leave. as china struggles to deal with the virus, new incentives are announced for health care workers on the frontline. i'm nuala mcgovern, in london. also in the programme: new york's former mayor michael bloomberg qualifies for his first democratic presidential debate on wednesday. music and politics — the uk brit awards gets serious. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news — it's

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