tv The Papers BBC News March 1, 2020 10:30pm-11:01pm GMT
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look like coming our way from the atlantic. temperatures, though, will head up a bit. two years ago, it is hard to find temperatures any lower. tredegar in south wales, a high on the 1st of march 2018 ofjust minus 4.7 celsius. our coldest march day on record. the beast from the east. thankfully our beastly february is now behind us.
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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: a patient in scotland tests positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of uk cases to 36. 25 british tourists who were on lockdown at a tenerife hotel arrive at the airport to fly back to the uk this evening after testing
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negative for coronavirus. borisjohnson says he has "confidence" in his home secretary, priti patel, who faces allegations from her departing civil service chief that she bullied staff. greek authorities have been using tear gas as clashes intensify with migrants on the border with turkey. they say they've already stopped almost 10,000 from entering. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are bonnie greer, who's a columnist for the new european and byline times, and mo hussein, the former conservative special adviser to amber rudd when she was home secretary. welcome to you both. don't worry, i
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have disinfected everything. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. like most, the metro focusses on coronavirus, saying the government expects the spread of the infection to continue. the times says the government is preparing for drastic measures after cases jumped by a third in one day. the possibility of cities being locked down if things escalate, is the angle taken by the express. the guardian reports on fears that the virus and the mirror has an investigation on the number of people killed by offenders being monitored by private probation firms, since the service was part—privatised. we start with the guardian and fears that the virus is spreading undetected in the uk. that is not surprising given the incubation period. it is hard to know when someone may have period. it is hard to know when someone may have courted or when they started showing symptoms of it and particularly now we are seeing
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cases of people who have not even travelled abroad and questions around where could they have got it from and who they had contact with. it feels like we might be getting to a point where even containment may be difficult to try and do and there are be difficult to try and do and there a re lots of be difficult to try and do and there are lots of different battle plans and ideas being muted and all of course the papers are looking at what i could look like. it does feel like the numbers willjust continue to grow, especially if it is not just people who will be travelling. there has been this increase, buy there but we are still at 36 cases, it is not thankfully at the moment, as widespread as other countries. it is not thankfully at the moment, as widespread as other countriesm is 36 identified. what we don't want is 36 identified. what we don't want is what is happening in the united states, which is something they think it's called community spread. they don't know where it came from and suddenly it is around. it is a case of trying to understand where
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it came from, how it is spreading and if you're walking around, you don't know what the symptoms are, people don't know the difference between the flu or the cold, they don't know what this is. so,...m will be of concern to people and the daily express headline is much more alarming, cities will shut down in battle plan. that is not what has been announced at all.|j battle plan. that is not what has been announced at all. i live here in the west end and i can tell you that china town for instance has lost a lot of business, people are making judgments about people based on their ethnicity. it is getting very scary and we need some sort of leadership in this and we don't have it. well we have had borisjohnson out of public health england saying we are equipped to cope with it because of the nhs. but matt hancock was asked whether we are going to have to lock down cities and he said he has not ruled it in or out. how
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can he? it is difficult. for government, you have to get that fine line between reassuring people and also not causing panic, but as the health secretary, i don't think this is maybe the headline that he wa nted this is maybe the headline that he wanted to go outwith, but he cannot rule it out you cannot rule anything out because you don't know what will happen. you don't want to be hostages to fortune anything he was right to say that he did. it is that sort of political response, you cannot use a term like lockdown cities, that is the highest note you can hit on the bar. we need to have a bottom—line confidence that the nhs is prepared and ready and the prime minister understands pretty much what is going on and that is not in place yet. let us look at the independent, turkey opens border to europe. more than 100,000 trying to ta ke europe. more than 100,000 trying to take advantage of turkey co ntroversially take advantage of turkey controversially opening its frontier with grace. in 2016, the eu did a deal with turkey and president
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erdogan said to me some money and i will help you with this, but he now needs more help because of what is happening with his forces in the glib province of syria. he has also got to keep the turkish people focused on him. that he in fact, actually, that is the kind of governorship he has. that is how he is ruling the country. he always has to make the turkish people see him as being in control of events. if he is in fact opening a border, that is a control, that shows he is in control of something. what he is not in control of is what rushes alongside the syrian forces. exactly. that is the kind of proxy power play i think we are seeing here. turkey is on the front line of this, they have nearly 4 million syrian refugees, 33 soldiers dead, as bonnie was saying, he has his own people to think about and the message here is if the eu are not
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going to play along and their side of the bargain, why should he be carrying all these burdens? the interesting thing is that greece is turning people away and i'm not sure how effective it will be. we do have to take into his power play, he has lost a lot of traction in the cities in turkey, so he has got to actually play the strongman and keep this going on some kind of way. he is caught between russia and the eu. he is always looking for his own political advantage. the daily mirror. 309 killed in probation scandal. this is aimed at 309 people now have been killed by offenders who are being monitored by private probation firms, since the part privatisation of the service. we have to look at the figures of how many people have died in similar circumstances under the government. that is 196. i think the private
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contingent says 150,000 in the government condition is 160000 and i think the figures can be seen in different ways. the wider point is however, the privatisation for many reasons has not worked and that is why the government is bringing it all back into government control. and those who don't want it in private hands will be expecting to see a decrease in these numbers. but there was no study made by the government before they decided to do this. this was a political decision and now they are reaping the effects of that. there was a study, something had been made to show him taking it out. now we are in a situation, people are going to want this back and the only alternative isa this back and the only alternative is a big ownership. people also want a probation service that is better funded, they say as well, that is not short—staffed and is full of well—trained people. not short—staffed and is full of well-trained people. that again goes back to the conservative government decision that it had to be privatised because everything had to
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be. now we are in the situation where that has not worked and we are where that has not worked and we are where we are. i think what the government is quite good at is distancing itself from the previous government even though it was still a conservative government and even given the priority, you see ministers and prime ministers placing on law and order, i think you will see more resources going into exactly these kind of services and there have already been some announcement to that effect. and there have already been some announcement to that effectm and there have already been some announcement to that effect. it is a scam, in the sense they have been in charge, the conservative party has beenin charge, the conservative party has been in charge of the government in this country for ten years, now different prime ministers have been there... we must spare a thought in there... we must spare a thought in the matter to what has been described as the venice of the north. it has not told us which place this is. it is yorkshire. in these places which just cannot seem to get back to any semblance of normality with storm after storm and all of this rain we have had this
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month. yes, record rainfall. i am sure it does not feel like venice for the people who are living there. it isa for the people who are living there. it is a good reminder that actually this is still happening and not very far away, still within the uk, in spite of everything else that we are focusing on, this is the daily lives of people at the moment. named storm after named storm bringing all this. venice is now a ghost town because of the virus, you do not want to provoke this image. let us stay with the metro, they are not giving as much to play with on the front cover, but not looking pretty at the home office, the bullying claims, priti patel being called by the labour party to answer some questions in parliament tomorrow.|j have lived in this country for three decades and maybe i am wrong, but i have never known a permanent secretary to actually quit. is that what happened? from the home
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secretary, to actually walk off of the job? the permanent secretary is actually the home office, that is the home office, priti patel and everyone else as a politician. to have this happen is pretty catastrophic. what is that look for? i worked in the home office. i know some of the people involved. i think it is unprecedented the way this has happened and it was a very media friendly departure and i think there isa friendly departure and i think there is a lot more going on and it seems to me that priti patel has come in with a much more reform agenda and having been in the home office, there are sometimes struggles in that there is the machine and bonnie ‘s point is right, the home office will be there and the view is that ministers will go, special advisers will do when we will still be here. there will always be this tension. that is not who has gone, it is the
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permanent secretary. the boss. the most civil servant. it is more than that and you know that. he is the home office. dominic cummings, the special adviser, whoever he is full to be, used to have this blog and i was a big fan of it, in which he called civil servants s w one as if they were some sort of virus and you can imagine him walking around someone can imagine him walking around someone like priti patel and sajid javid left because he was told to get rid of everyone. basically, she is going to get under the spell of this man, and the permanent secretary leaves, that is a big deal. he has certainly drawn attention to the concerns that he has about civil servants. that's it for the papers this hour. mo and bonnie will be back at 11:30 for another look at the papers, and don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. i'm hoping we can talk about why dogs have cold noses. and joe biden
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as well. joe biden may have a cold nose. 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 on bbc iplayer. soi so i have told that is what we want for half past 11. at that together. it isa for half past 11. at that together. it is a quicker way of doing it. we'll all be back for that second review in about a0 minutes. next on bbc news it's click. the end of february every year
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is a big time for us. having painstakingly planned for months and fought thousands of other journalists for access to the big stories, we head to barcelona for the mobile world congress. it's where the big companies launch their big new phones and the small companies show off clever new innovations that may one day change the world. only this year, as you may know, mwc is off — cancelled because of concerns over the spread of the coronavirus. it's proved a nightmare for the telecoms industry but our chris fox, who was due to cover it, thinks he's going to get a week off. however, not everyone has cancelled. some companies have gone to barcelona anyway, so i've got a bit of news for chris. the cancellation of mwc has been nothing short of a nightmare, especially for me. i couldn't cancel my flights at such
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short notice and i've been left stranded here in barcelona with no work to do. it turns out huawei hasn't cancelled its flights, either, and are still doing a press conference right now. with the venue already booked and huawei executive richard yu already in town, the company decided to do its launch event, anyway. only this time, it was pre—recorded a day early and played out on the big screen. the big reveal was the follow—up to its first folding phone. and here it is, the folding huawei mate xs. if i open instagram here, there's some pictures of dogs, and if i open the phone out, the pictures expand to fill the view. one thing i can't show you is google maps, because the phone still doesn't have those google apps. in fact, huawei's now added its own app gallery, which it says will be a competitor to the google play app store. snapchat, tiktok, they are on there, but some big ones are
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missing, of course. now, one of the concerns with folding phones is that displays might be easily damaged because they're flexible. now, huawei says since the original mate x, it has made the screen more resistant. although i have seen a display model with a big old scratch on it. huawei says there will be cases available. also revealed was a smart speaker. here it is, it's called the soundex. all you do is tap the phone here to pair, and then you can play your music, including from spotify, because that is in the app gallery. so here we go. loud music plays. that's quite loud. oh, no! so one thing they did tell me is you can put your hand over it to silence the speaker if it's too loud. and that should have silenced it then. now, the company says the way the speakers here are configured is that one faces this way and one faces the other way so the vibrations cancel each other out. so they say you can turn it up twice as loud as the apple homepod without it vibrating itself off the table.
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and that was very loud. while we're here, can we talk about huawei's product names? i mean, we have the matebook, the matepad pro, and the m pencil. i wonder where they got their inspiration from? 0n the outskirts of town, toothbrush giant 0ral—b pressed on with an immersive dinner and light show experience. and if you are wondering why a toothbrush company is at mobile world congress, well, the toothbrushes have bluetooth in them... obviously! the new 0ral—b i0 has a magnetic drive the company says is whisper—quiet. although to test that, i'll have to go somewhere silent, and i knowjust the place! usually at this time of year, this place is full of the world's mobile phone industry but i can't think of a quieter place, this time, to test this toothbrush. so, here we go. i'll hold it the same distance from my mic, so this is the regular 0ral—b.
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whirring. very noisy. and here is the new one. higher pitched whirring. also fairly noisy. they said in their presentation that this is the toothbrush that whispers. i am not convinced that is a whisper. the ultimate test is, of course, whether you can hear it through the bathroom door and whether it will disturb your partner, so we tested that in the hotel and the resounding result of our very scientific test is, yes, you can still hear it through the bathroom door. recently, it has been impossible to avoid 5g at mwc. well, this year, you can, because there is no show, and so the city and these train halls are eerily silent. but one project looking to make its debut for this year's event has still gone ahead, and it's all happening below the surface.
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and before showgoers even reached mwc, they were going to experience the super—fast mobile network coverage on the underground on the way there. the 5g barcelona initiative was set up to provide the city with the next generation of mobile broadband. it's currently available between four stations of barcelona's train service, including europa fira, the closest station to where mwc takes place. but 5g isn't just available on the train platform. it's also available in the tunnel as the train travels, becoming one of the first in the world to do so. so let's just see how fast the coverage is down here. i was getting around 1.1 gigabytes per second on average on the platform, but it was quite a bit lower when travelling on the train.
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the speed does differ between going down the tunnel and being in the station. it's slightly slower in the tunnel and it does vary. sometimes it can be as high as 500 meg or it can be as low as 170 but, saying that, you are still getting decent coverage down in a tunnel! and it meant i could watch a bit of click with barely any loading time whatsoever. but how is this achieved? well, we waited until the train service was closed so we could get into the tunnel and check out the 5g antenna. each set of antennae are roughly 500 metres apart with 15 currently installed between four stations. but only vodafone provides 5g coverage in barcelona, and they own all the masts on the train line. but the plan is to do this for the entire train network. however, there is no clear date when this will happen. 5g requires more masts than previous network connections, so the setup can be quite complex.
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these are the first steps. it's very difficult for us to make all the installations at this moment. it's expensive. but we think it is a good investment for the city. but until then, this 5g setup will act as a test lab for companies to create and test their apps, both to improve the railway logistics and what travellers can do on their phones whilst on theirjourney. so it looks like 5g is becoming part of the daily commute here in barcelona, but we did hit a little bit of a problem. when testing the speeds of the 5g network, we hit the data limit. we used about 10gb in about an hour, so you're probably wanting to switch to an unlimited plan! this little keyboard wants to teach
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you how to read music. so many people come up to me and say, "oh, i really wish i had learned to play an instrument but it's too late for me now," and i really don't think that's the case. certainly, with some technology, it could be easier than you think to play your favourite song. music company roli took me inside their hq to show me its prototype keyboard, a lumi, a light—up bluetooth device which aims to give everyone an opportunity to learn their favourite song. now, light—up keys are available on quite a few entry—level keyboards but the lumi has multicoloured leds so it can make it easier to find where you are if all the c notes are, say, red, for example. now, sheet music has stayed the same for hundreds of years, originating from writing down hand movements of the choir master. roli's ceo, amongst others, feels it's time to bring reading music into the 21st century. still, most people today, when they learn how to play music,
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they learn to read music with a sort of traditional score. that is a quill—based technology. even the shapes of the notes, the fact they are not perfect circles, has to do with a quill pen and the way that you would write with that, and that kind of calligraphy from 400 or 500 years ago. and it's remarkable that that form of notation and that system is still what we use today. the device connects to an ipad and with the help of an app and something that gives you a little bit more than just notes on a page. there's an element of intimacy or even a kind of privacy with the music learning experience. like, if you have a lumi and the lumi app and put on your headphones, you are in your own learning world and you can go at your own pace and the app will give you feedback. it's just between you and the instrument, and you do not feel necessarily that you are being
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judged in a way that you may if you had a teacher or your parents looking over your shoulder. it's likely the software may prove more lucrative than the hardware. choose a song from a list of licensed partners and the app encourages people to learn to read that music. first, blocks that wait for you, a bit like the game guitar hero. then you have to play in time, where the colours help you find the notes. and finally, full—blown, grown—up score reading. i certainly found the device visually pleasing and felt the urge to customise the colours, a feature that may soon become available. bar a few latency issues, i think it is a clever, if slightly pricey way, to gamify learning music theory. those with a little extra cash lying around can buy a few and link them together to get a longer keyboard. regardless, i'm going to take the opportunity to encourage anyone who sees this to get on a piano, keyboard or any instrument. because when it comes to learning, it's never too late to start.
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and that's it for the shortcut of click for this week. the full length version is on iplayer. and it's waiting for you right now. don't forget we live on social media, on facebook, youtube, instagram and twitter at @bbcclick. thanks for watching and we'll see you soon. good evening. with rivers still running high and many a waterlogged field out there, a bit of weather news would go a long way at the moment and there is some to look forward to in this week's forecast in that it won't be quite as wet or as windy. a mixture of sunshine and showers through much of the week, but what we will notice, it will feel that little bit chilly,
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particularly by night, widespread frosts through much of the week. and that will be the case out there tonight. to go with that, we still have some showers around, close to the low pressure in the north, but this onejust running across southern counties overnight will produce some longer spells of rain and mixed in amongst that, across the moors, the cotswolds, the chilterns, for instance, we could see some wet snow, even a temporary covering to take us into tomorrow morning, the rain spreading its way up in towards east anglia. away from that, there will be clearer skies and those showers around, and temperatures close to if not below freezing. this is where we are most likely to see a frost and some icy conditions to start your monday morning commute. a fair bit of sunshine for many, away from east anglia and the south—east where we have got that rain and perhaps a few flakes of wet snow mixed in first thing. that will gradually clear through to allow the sunshine to develop. only a few showers, western scotland, northern ireland and north—west england to begin with. rain, sleet, hailand snow, but more showers developing a bit more widely across western areas through the day. many, though, will spend the bulk of the day dry and some eastern areas completely dry throughout. temperatures around 8—10 celsius, winds lighter, not as cold, perhaps,
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as we saw earlier in the weekend, but winds will pick up through monday night and into tuesday across scotland, northern ireland, they could touch gale force at times. some further rain, sleet and snow, a covering of snow in places. the weather system just pushing down into france, a bit of a near—miss for us more than anything, but devon, cornwall, the channel islands could see some rain around on tuesday, but for the rest of the country, it looks like there will be a shield of cloud making the sunshine hazy across the south, maybe a few spots of rain but elsewhere, sunshine and showers the name of the game again and after a frosty start, temperatures around levels they should be for the time of year. now sunshine and showers also sees us through into wednesday and thursday across the country. a cold start, some frost, some ice around and temperatures by and large sitting in single figures as we go through the afternoon but changes towards the end of the week. through thursday night into friday, we will see a weather front bringing rain across most parts. it should push through quite quickly, but of course, every drop of rain we don't need, and then into the start of the weekend, more weather fronts and a strengthening breeze. the rain won't be as much as we have seen, but don't forget, rivers still running high. they will still respond, of course, to what we've seen
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this is bbc news. the headlines at 11pm. a patient in scotland tests positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of uk cases to 36. the prime minister has been visiting public health england. the coronavirus is a concern, it is a novel illness, but it is something that this country really amply has the resources to deal with. we have state of the art testing facilities and we have a fantastic nhs. we will have to get through this, but believe me, we are going to beat it.
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