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we have nothing left. i have no more money. with what i had left i paid a taxi $160 to come here from istanbul. that is why we are outside and we have to warm up by burning wood. greek police remain vigilant in the dark. on the other side of the barbed wire, the migrants remain determined. gail maclellan, bbc news. and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers james millar and rosamund urwin — that's coming up after the latest headlines and a full sport update. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav. the extra men from storm hall holgate yesterday brought further issues of flooding across the
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country —— storm jorge. numerous flood warnings across the country, check those out. some strong wins across the north of the uk and across the north of the uk and across the north of the uk and across the rest of the country this afternoon, which will ease down later in the day. plenty of sunshine around, but showers as well of a wintry nature, some snow across parts of scotland with a blizzard on the hills. the wind is quite a teacher, making it feel chilly. temperatures in single figures for most, may be making it to 9 degrees across eastern england. as we head for this evening and overnight, this will skirt the south of the country, outbreaks of rain and a perhaps a bit of sleet to southern counties of england overnight. further north, clear skies, but also at wintry showers and snow on the hills across scotland. it will be cold here, with rust and ice, but less cold in the south because of the rain. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines at 9.30am: an infant school in berkshire
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is the latest place to close, after one of its staff tests positive for coronavirus, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the uk to 23. labour calls for home secretary priti patel to attend the commons tomorrow to explain allegations from her departing civil service chief that she bullied staff. it comes as the prime minister and his partner, carrie symonds, reveal their engagement and a new arrival, which is due at number ten in the early summer. in the us, democrat presidential candidate joe biden wins his first primary in south carolina, boosting his chances of being his party's candidate to take on donald trump in november's election. before the papers, sport and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre, here's ben croucher. with all the latest on the cricket?
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good morning. england know a win in theirfinal group game at the women's t20 world cup will assure them a semi—final spot. they're taking on the west indies in sydney and have just finished their innings. after winning the toss, nat sciver was the mainstay for england scoring 57 atjust over a run a ball. some late hitting took them to 143—5. there's commentary on radio 5 live sports extra now. earlier, south africa beat pakistan to stay top of england's group. liverpool managerjurgen klopp said losing for the first time in over a year in the premier league felt decidedly average. their unbeaten run was ended 3—0 at watford, who are out of the bottom three as a result. with news on that and the best of saturday's action, watford needed three points more than liverpool did. the premier league title is as good as on its way to merseyside. becoming the first team to beat the champions elect this season could be a turning point in watford's fight for survival.
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they dominated at vicarage road to such an extent liverpool only managed a single shot on target. their first goal might have been a bit scrappy, but record signing ismaila sarr followed that up with something far more worthy of his £27 million price tag. this was the finish that finished off liverpool. no comebacks this time, their 44 unbeaten run finally over. captain troy deeney‘s strike was the icing on the cake for watford, lifting them out of the relegation zone on goal difference. we've got ten games left, we are in a battle with five, six other clubs. we've got to do it ourselves and we're capable of doing it ourselves. but what we can't do is have a performance as good as this and then not try to reproduce it. west ham united also jumped out of the bottom three. a goalkeeping error sparked their downfall against liverpool last monday, but they made no mistakes as they beat
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southampton 3—1. they're now level on points with watford and bournemouth, who dropped into the relegation zone after slipping up at home to chelsea. the cherries had come from behind to lead 2—1, but marcos alonso came to chelsea's rescue with the equaliser five minutes from the end. and brighton are just a point above the bottom three after losing 1—0 to crystal palace. nick parrott, bbc news. rangers boss steven gerrard said he didn't recognise his team after they were dumped out of the scottish cup. they lost their quarter—final at hearts by 1—0, with oliver bozanic grabbing the only goal. aberdeen beat st mirren to join hearts in the last four. holders celtic play stjohnstone at 3.00pm. after chelsea beating arsenal to win the women's league cup yesterday, today it's the turn of the men, with holders manchester city facing aston villa at wembley. city are aiming for a third successive triumph in the competition, with manager pep guardiola saying they're "starving" for silverware. guardiola's side start as huge favourites, but after having had
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to play real madrid in midweek, the city boss says they can't afford to take a rather well rested villa side for granted. they had all week to prepare that game. our mentaland... tough game was again against madrid. i know we are going to suffer of that for the next few days. this is normal. this is notjust a game, this is the days before, the weeks before, mentally preparing for a game and how difficult and demanding it is. and after, there is a drop of adrenaline or something, you know, in your mind and your body. it's an opportunity, because... nine years ago, i was becoming the manager of walsall in league one, looking to keep them up. if anybody had told me in nine years i would be sat here, as a premier league manager with aston villa, leading them into a domestic cup trophy, trophy, i would have said, "you are crackers. " so, you know, i see it as a massive opportunity. the lads have done ever so well to
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get to the final and we have always expressed, you know, the tradition of the cup for this football club. and now we have got an opportunity against one of the world's best teams. david beckham's new major league soccer side, inter miami, will finally play their first match today. beckham had a huge impact on the mls when hejoined la galaxy as a player back in 2007, and was the catalyst for other big name european players to move to america. he now co—owns inter miami and they face los angeles fc later — six years after the former england captain bought into the franchise. britain's heather watson has won her fourth tour tennis title and her first since 2016, after victory at the mexico open. she wasted nine match points, but eventually came through in three sets against canada's leylah annie fernandez. she'll move into the world's top 50 again as a result. harlequins moved into the top half of rugby union's premiership, surprising leaders exeter in the dying moments at the stoop. trailing deep into added time,
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and with a man advantage, quins were awarded a penalty try, giving them a 34—30 win, and bonus point too. leicester and saracens also won yesterday. st helens ran in five tries to beat bottom side toronto in the super league and move up to second themselves. jonny lomax scored two tries for the saints and the newly promoted canadian outfit. they were struggling throughout. coach kristian woolf was impressed with their defence as they became the first side to shut out toronto in their short history. tommy fleetwood says winning on the pga tour for the first time would be another step in his career. he's got a good chance too, with a one shot lead going into the final round of the honda classic in florida. he's on five under par, with lee westwood and luke donald a couple of shots behind. that's all the sport for now. now on bbc news, here's
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shaun ley with the papers. hello, and welcome to our sunday morning paper review. with me now is political commentator, james millar, and senior reporter for the sunday times, rosamund urwin. let's take a look at the front pages. we are going to give you an update, so we are going to give you an update, so you we are going to give you an update, so you can we are going to give you an update, so you can keep up with what we are talking about in just a few minutes' time. like many of them, the sunday telegraph devotes much of theirs to newly engaged parents—to—be, boris johnson and carrie symonds. so too does the observer, which also reports on the fallout after the top official inside the home office resigned. the sunday times links both those stories from yesterday, saying, "what a good day to announce a number ten baby". the sunday mirror says ms symonds is expecting a summer baby. the mail on sunday reveals leaked emails by a government adviser, who says farming isn't
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important to the british economy. the sunday express says the government has set up a war room to deal with the coronavirus crisis. and the sunday people has an interview with tyson fury‘s wife, who wants him to quit after fighting anthony joshua. right, let's plunge straight in. we will begin, james, with the telegraph. and that enormous photograph that appears, it appeared on instagram yesterday. carrie simon is published this photograph, shortly after the announcement that she is pregnant —— carrie symonds, and she has been proposed to and will get married. yes, there are a lot of stories around, so journalists can choose what they wa nt to journalists can choose what they want to put on a front pages, so the telegraph alone has chosen to go big on the impending wedding. and the baby. you know, that is kind of it in the story, i have to say. it is
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interesting that i have got my special pan out and i have circled things in red usually, but i haven't circled anything today. nor had i? it is just circled anything today. nor had i? it isjust a circled anything today. nor had i? it is just a very straight straightforward story, that the prime minister is going to get married and they are going to have a baby. but there is more. for example, there is a 2k year age gap. there is some weird stuff that of course, he can't say how many children he has got. and he is a tory prime minister. that seems slightly unusual, for any prime minister to be in that situation.|j suppose you could say he is kind of promoting family values, isn't he?|j don't promoting family values, isn't he?” don't think that if we say that somebody is promoting family values, we have to with her to him having at least five children currently. we don't know how many children this man has. that doesn't strike me as family values. does it matter though? this is a very fair question because i tend to think politician's private lives don't matter, that in
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the case of borisjohnson i think he has crossed a line. he was married for 25 years and it was very clear that he mistreated his ex by having various affairs. she was deeply unhappy with him and she threw him out. multiple affairs, and the fact that he can't answer basic questions like how many children do have? i think that is problem.” like how many children do have? i think that is problem. i think there isa think that is problem. i think there is a political side to it, inevitably because one of the things about this overarching demon in today's papers is that the people who voted for brexit were not left behind. they were the older people of the home counties, that is a simplistic way to look at it. i very happy to have a chap like this behaving like this in another ten? a p pa re ntly behaving like this in another ten? apparently they are, because they voted for him, but it is very weird. it kind of shows doubles of politics... rosamund, in the sense the sunday times catches this with this story on the front page,
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returning at this, as they put it, what a good day to announce a baby! to what are they referring? yes, lots of people have known that she was expecting a child. obviously we can't report that because that isn't right. it is a private matter. and obviously, if you are pregnant you don't want that splash to the world before a certain point because something could go wrong and you can completely understand that. so it was the right decision that it wasn't... people had actually been hinting at it for weeks in the papers, but of course the timing of it is interesting, potentially. this statement was going to be made at them some point, but it is at the same time as they have got this big i’ow same time as they have got this big row about priti patel's behaviour at a home office. and presumably that was the story that downing street would have expected to be pretty dominant on the front pages today, because the whole way they did this was so because the whole way they did this was so explosive, sir philip rutnam spoke to cameras on a saturday morning. well, quite. also,
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completely out of character for him, which i think it's really important. civil servants tend, not uniformly, but overall they are not people who do showy things. he particularly is not known for any of that. no. this isa man not known for any of that. no. this is a man who has dedicated himself to not being seen. no, he is not a fla m boya nt to not being seen. no, he is not a flamboyant figure, even in whitehall. no, he has had a highly regarded as well. and that presumably makes it, the sunday times calls priti patel a home office bully. potentially given his reputation, hugely damaging, because he is not someone who is easily dismissed as a small figure.” he is not someone who is easily dismissed as a small figure. i think thatis dismissed as a small figure. i think that is absolutely right. a lot of people have that differed have mattered when she was the international development secretary, that they were unhappy about her going there. but that was partly
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about her attitude was international development. this is about her behaviour and her character and the idea that he said she did not —— he did not believe her when she said she hadn't been briefing against him. we have the situation with priti patel where she was with. resign from cabinet once before because of suggestions that she was kind of freelancing her own foreign policy, completely differently than the government... gas, stop and think about that. so mark, who is now the man in charge of this, the cabinet secretary, conducted that investigation and presumably recommended that she shouldn't stay in government. that was the impression, that she would be sacked if she didn't... and now he is the man who has to kind of try to bring these two together and resolve this. it is very awkward. yes, it speaks to this idea that things have changed. political rules seem to be
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at that is partly because the tories now have a massive majority said the government can to some extent, do what they want. and they have decided to use that power to start gunning for the civil service. there area gunning for the civil service. there are a lot of rumours that this is only the first of a number of permanent secretaries in this government would like to get rid of. but to a certain extent, we have been here before. i remember in the tony blair years, there was real frustration with the civil service and that communicated itself to civil servants, who now actually say some of the relationships where there are difficult. yes. i think we have to be careful and may be the civil service does need a shake—up, and that is fine, but you don't go about it by being vicious and a bully. i mean, they are obviously allegations. an allegation she has denied. yes, but we know there is a certain atmosphere within the government, with a number ten and we will talk about one at the other special adviser shortly, who has also made the front pages. so we know there is uncertain certain
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atmosphere and a way of operating, and that that i suggest, is not the best way to achieve reform that everybody buys into and thinks is a good idea. what you both think of the observer's front page? that has a slightly more manageable sized version of the photo, a bit more flattering than perhaps both of them blowing it up to large. the patel —— priti patel's future in doubt after sir philip rutnam resigns. is it? she was a really close ally to boris johnson and was a passionate campaigner for brexit. is johnson and was a passionate campaignerfor brexit. is he really going to lose her, two weeks after losing the chancellor? no, but... i don't think she's going to go... the home office is a really difficult to breathe. two theresa may's credit, she clung on in there. of course, she clung on in there. of course, she created a crisis, the windrush crisis, that cost her the success of
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herjob. but it is always the poisoned chalice of ministerial base, along with if you are a tory government minister of health. so it isa government minister of health. so it is a difficult brief, but i don't think this is going to be what cost her herjob. think this is going to be what cost her her job. although think this is going to be what cost her herjob. although there is a ministerial code and how you treat people, which it could potentially be in breach of. yes, she could wither herself to the investigation, couldn't she? yes, but are lying is probably the correct one, which is, what on earth are they going to do with the new policy around immigration? there is speculation already that it will be a disaster, already that it will be a disaster, a mess, it won't be ready. there are going to be problems with borders and all sorts of things like that. that might be what cost her herjob. that might be what cost her herjob. that could be this year, but it could be... and it is not going to go wrong because sir philip rutnam has resigned. it is going to go wrong because it is daft all the time scale for it is unrealistic.
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and priti patel got a lot of criticism when she gave an interview where she talks about the 8 million people who could conceivably be retrained to fill the gaps left by migrant workers who leave or are not replaced. those numbers are silly because some of those people are actually students or carers, and we need carers. a big shortage of carers at the moment. exactly, family carers. so it is impossible that all those people will be retrained. i thought you were going to say the interview where she confused counter terrorism and terrorism, so already we have got a number of interviews that she has done not particularly well, so future is in doubt not because of this guy but because... is a minister is not very good in interviews, that is surely not the measure of success. priti patel is the only politician i've ever interviewed who read from notes during the interview. she should be on top of her breath, whatever it is. that should not happen. you should be able to come up with
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answers to basic questions that journalists are asking you. that doesn't deal very difficult. it doesn't deal very difficult. it doesn't matter if you make a slip of the tongue, i think. because we all do that, but i would what i do think matters... we do here, i tell you! quite. human nature, we are all fallible. but i do think you should be on top of your brief and you should understand what policy is without, you know, getting it wrong. the interesting thing is when this case gets to court, if he sues for constructive dismissal, that is when it is going to get really does destructive. but due to the amount of cuts we have had lately, that may ta ke of cuts we have had lately, that may take a long time. whether priti patel will be in the same place, it might be interesting to bet on that. i think might be interesting to bet on that. ithinka might be interesting to bet on that. i think a lawyer is going to push this all forward because there is a value to doing that, in it is important how we talk about senior politicians treat people because that filters down in society. let's leave carrie and burrows and priti
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patel behind. although we can't quite leave boris because we have got a six page special on the mail on sunday. but we will leave that, we on sunday. but we will leave that, we will turn a paper—thin health and fold them over and talk instead about the second story. leaked e—mails, doesn't need farmers. like boris's dad, stanley, presumably. this is the tories saying we don't need farmers! the tories! they are supposed to be the party of the landed gentry, or at least they were 200 years ago. and now they are saying we don't need farmers, this is insane quite! yes, this is another one of the super brains... exa m another one of the super brains... exam checks, the that dominic cummings used. apparently, he is a powerful voice in westminster, so what that means i'm not quite sure. it doesn't actually have a hands on
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the levers of power, but he is facing the axe he says, which is farming and fisheries are not huge industries. but to go further and say we don't need them is a whole other kettle of fish. yes, i think he is right. they employ a small numberof he is right. they employ a small number of people, but of course, one of the things about brexit as we we re of the things about brexit as we were going to be self—sufficient, apparently, so this does run counter to that. and of course, actually you have got individual communities who are very, very reliant on this. obviously, there are places, for example, on the west coast of scotland, who are entirely reliant on their seafood production.l scotland, who are entirely reliant on their seafood production. a place like grimsby, whether processing of fish is a critical local industry? exactly. so overall they may not be that big, but there are certain communities that are entirely reliant on them and i think that is worth remembering here. but i
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suspect he meant... he was more thinking about it from an economist's point of view and it has been blown up to be this, rather than actually being, let's get rid of all our... yes, i think this was a question about what we expect farming and fisheries to contribute about this post brexit period and in about this post brexit period and in a period where the end of the fisheries and agriculture policies. the government is talking about yes, maintaining subsidies for the lifetime of this parliament. but it is also talking about wanting to see big changes in the way farming is supported. yes. previously, the nfu didn't takea supported. yes. previously, the nfu didn't take a stance in the brexit debate, which i understand from the people i've spoken to in the nfu, they perhaps regret now. farmers are generally regarded as a culture that back brexit generally, but would they have done that if they had known that they would be told a few yea rs known that they would be told a few years down the line, we don't actually need it? clearly not. so
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have they been mis—sold something? the economics minister in new zealand in the mid—i9 805, and the bay two years ago, he said, well, we did kind of get rid of all our subsidies overnight, partly because of the effect of britain joining the eu and saying goodbye to the old idea of the relationship with new zealand and australia. it took 80 years, but he said we did it and some businesses went under. we think the economy was better as a result, but i won't pretend they want people who suffered in that process of transition. that is the challenge, i suppose, how you manage those kinds of transitions. that is quite brutal for those people, isn't it? the welsh assembly was looking at with adding mental health care when we are looking at brexit for welsh sheep farmers because they thought it would be that catastrophic. i think that is worth remembering. it would be that catastrophic. i think that is worth rememberingm is weird. it is this super forecasting like in singapore. i have been to singapore and i have
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been to britain and that is a stupid thing to say. there is a reason that is thinking the unthinkable. because it is daft! let's cheer ourselves up by took a bat coronavirus. i notice this front page of the sunday times. i say cheer ourselves up because it could mean that you don't have to come in here or into oil offices for a couple of weeks. yes, it could. so under this doomsday plan, as it has been put here, millions of workers could be told to work from home. companies would then be told, no unnecessary travel, so companies would then be told, no unnecessary travel, so we companies would then be told, no unnecessary travel, so we could all stop getting on public transport and coughing at one another. james, you are saying to me earlier that you fought this kind of thing actually has quite a positive potential? yes, it making a case for more flexible working, so that families can live in the way they want in terms of their work life balance. this is
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clearly i will would rather coronavirus was not knocking around, but there is a potential upside here, which is that people are having to be more imaginative about how they work on finding that actually, you can work from home and if you let people work from home, they won't just take the mickey and do no work. or if they do, you will find out very quickly because the work doesn't get done. it is not just about turning up at an office. it could fundamentally change the way we work, coming at the other side of this. that could be a good thing. no, for instance, at the moment we had a great deal of sympathy for what people are going through, but looking ahead... it might makea through, but looking ahead... it might make a more positive environment for people. right, go away, both of you. had a lovely day and spend it with your families. thank you very 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 —
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and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, james millar and rosamund urwin. goodbye. i will be backjust after 10p and with the weather. storm jorge brought some disruption up storm jorge brought some disruption up and down the country yesterday with strong winds and heavy rain, which has exacerbated the flooding issues. we have numerous flood warnings in force up and down the country. head online to check these out. this afternoon is not looking too bad, and certainly better than it was yesterday afternoon. quite a bit of sunshine around, a bit of sunshine around, 80 wintry showers in the foreground, so for scotland. chilly winds, certainly for the first part of the afternoon. storm jorge sits to the north of scotland there, lots of isobars on its southern flank, feeding in these wintry showers. we will see longer spells of rain, heavy snow affecting central and southern parts of scotla nd central and southern parts of scotland for the afternoon and significantly relations of snow on
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the hills. strong winds, blizzards and drifting snow as well. further south, a good deal of sunshine around, but if you shower is moving from west to east. most of them will be in the west, driven by that strong and cold winter. they will ease down data any day. temperature 7-10d ease down data any day. temperature 7—10d and south—east. as we head into this evening and because part of tonight, this weather front will move them to bring a spell of wet weather across southern britain. it could be that some of this rain might be quite heavy in places, perhaps some sleet mixed into its back edge as well. to the north, a lot of clear skies and 80 wintry showers and the winds will be lighter. it is going to be a cold night for many, a touch of frost and ice to watch out for. less code across the south because of that rain. this area rain, perhaps with a bit of sleet mixed in, could provide tricky driving conditions for the monday morning commute across the south—east, but it will clear away by around lunchtime. then we are
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looking at her bright day, with plenty of sunshine and one or two showers across northern and western areas, with a wintry flavour, 7—9d. from tuesday onwards, you can see we haven't got any significant areas of low pressure affecting our shores, if anything a bit of high pressure settling things down across the south and may be a bit windier and wetter across the north. as we head on into the following weekend, it could be a spell of wet and windy weather arriving. in the short term, it does look like early march. the first week of march looks mainly dry, with some good spells of sunshine and one or two showers, but each on the chilly side with chilly nights.
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this is bbc news. the headlines at 10am: an infant school in berkshire is the latest place to close, after one of its staff tests positive for coronavirus, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the uk to 23. labour calls for home secretary priti patel to attend the commons tomorrow, to explain allegations from her departing civil service chief that she bullied staff. it comes as the prime minister and his partner carrie symonds reveal their engagement and a new arrival, which is due at number ten in the early summer. in the us, democrat presidential candidatejoe biden wins his first primary in south carolina, boosting his chances of being his party's candidate to take on donald trump in november's election.
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