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day-to-day life, of this care home. day—to—day life, alongside celebrating easter, the day and many, many birthdays. and they had kept the virus out. but after 12 weeks, they finally feel it is safe to go back home. time for a look at the weather, here's susan powell. semblance of brightness at the top and tail of the uk, sunshine along the south coast earlier, but the climate is piling in elsewhere. dark skies across wales and some rain and i were also a go. that cloud is tied into a weather front that snakes all the way back into the atlantic, a series of weather fronts jointure, even the remembrance of a tropical system in there somewhere, the front will continue to snake across southern reaches of the uk for the next 48 hours. for some areas it is
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a case of stubborn pride and fairly relentless rain through wednesday and into thursday —— stubborn cloud. note what you expect forjuly. the best of the brightness is towards the south coast, looking much further north across the remainder of england and wales. northern ireland not faring too badly, northern ireland becoming drier, sunshine for parts of scotland that sharper showers at times here. the front is still producing rain through the evening, sinking cells overnight. it will turn misty and murky with that moisture in the air, overnight blows 13 or 14, clearer skies to the north, chilly and the scottish glens, perhaps close to freezing. sunshine for scotland and northern ireland on wednesday morning, further south, gloomy prospects, rain on and off, using a bid for north wales and the north midlands but there is your next batch, just in time for wednesday evening, working eastwards overnight
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into thursday. temperatures fairly unremarkable throughout this. thursday perhaps don't drier across england and wales but still the front is here so i anticipate some rain through the course of the day. temperatures will struggle, probably the high teens at best. you will have to wait until friday until eventually we break the chain, high pressure starts to build from the west, that will become increasingly extensive west, that will become increasingly exte ns ive a cross west, that will become increasingly extensive across the uk as we look towards the weekend. friday a little breezy about the next couple of days, showers in the east considerably drierfor days, showers in the east considerably drier for the lion's share of england and wales. some of the showers in scotland could be heavier. temperatures left, we could get into the low 20s for the south of the uk, we see things begin to settle down for the weekend, high pressure builds, things will dry up and started to warm up for many others. a reminder of our top story... social care leaders criticise borisjohnson for his suggestion that "too many" care homes didn't follow coronavirus procedures.
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that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me, —— downing street insists mrjohnson and nobody knew what the correct procedures were at the start of the crisis. on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. hello, i'm sarah mulkerrins at the bbc sport centre. former england international eni aluko says targets are needed at the top level of sport to improve the inclusion of people from black, asian and minority ethinic backgrounds. aluko is sporting director of aston villa's women's team and was speaking to the digital, culture, media and sport committee this morning, where she suggested a target of 30% representation from these communities. recent data shows thatjust 3% of all national sporting governing body board members are black.
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for me, it is two—pronged. you have to encourage the pool of talent. we have lost a lot of black coaches from the game who just don't believe that the pathway is there. so that is that. we need to keep driving black players to get their qualifications, make sure that they are top candidates with the opportunity comes, but on the flip side we need to make sure that we are intentionally making pathways for those people to come through. now to the incident that dominated the match between tottenham and everton in the premier league last night. it wasn't the winning goal for spurs, but an argument between two team mates, son heung min and hugo lloris, at half time. spurs were actually leading when it happened. hugo lloris was angry with son and a perceived lack of effort. the two had to be pulled apart as the row rumbled on, before settling their differences ahead of the second half, as tottenham won 1—0. managerjose mourinho said
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the spat was "beautiful". the adminstrator for wigan athletic has said the championship club have appealed against their 12—point deduction for going into administration. the football league said the punishment would apply this season if wigan avoided finishing in the bottom three. gerald krasner also confirmed that 75 support staff were made redundant on monday and that senior club executives have agreed to work for nothing until the situation is resolved. we've had an interesting insight into the demands of being an elite cricketer from england's opening batsman dom sibley, who has been really honest over how he felt he needed to lose weight. this is him on the left during the tour of sri lanka in march, and how he looks now on the right ahead of england's first test against the west indies which starts tomorrow. he says hes lost 12 kilograms — that's almost two stone. he's been really candid about how
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he feels he needed to make a change. in sri lanka ifelt, a little bit for the first time in my career, i felt self—conscious about my physique, my weight. especially training in that heat, i saw a few of the lads running after a big session and it was an eye—opener for me. i have had a tap on the shoulder before and not done anything about it when i was younger, it was probably a bit overdue having that wake—up call. during lockdown and we couldn't improve anyway cricket —related, it was an opportunity for me to improve that side of my game. finally, what would you do with £403 million? that's the sum being paid to american footballer patrick mahomes after he signed a new contract with the kansas city chiefs. he took them to the superbowl last year and has now committed to the nfl franchise for another 10 years. it's the most lucrative contract in the history of american sports — mo wonder he's smiling!
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it works out at £40 million a year, £2.3 million for each game he plays, providing he plays every game over the length of the 10—year contract. that's all the sport for now. there is lots more on the bbc sport website and app, including all the build up to tonight's three premier league games. scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon, has told her daily briefing there has been one death from covid—19 in the past 24 hours. ms sturgeon said there had been just two new cases identified, taking the total over the outbreak to 18,302 people. earlier, she gave her daily update. this is what she said. let me make a couple of points. firstly, i want people to be able to travel freely as quickly as
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possible. i don't like having a situation where we have got restrictions, or asking people to consider carefully where they travel to and how they travel. none of us wa nt to to and how they travel. none of us want to be in this position. we want to get into a better position as quickly as possible, but we have to do that safely. if you are keen to have a holiday and you have the wherewithal to do so, then consider at staycation this year. our tourist industry badly needs that support. on the issue of air bridges, i absolutely want to see us move away from a situation where we have quarantine restrictions as quickly as possible, but we have to guard against the risk that the chief medical officer hasjust against the risk that the chief medical officer has just spoken about, which is important in cases of the virus here. if we are doing
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that, during that in a way that doesn't have the mitigations in place to try to stop on word spread. these are really difficult judgments. they are not easy in any way. all countries are having to grapple with this and it is important that we apply as much reason and objective evidence to that as possible. i am not prepared to simply be a rubber stamp on decisions taken by another government. i'm not criticising those decisions, but i have to assess them and applyjudgment on them here. i understand the views of them here. i understand the views of the airline industry, but to its great credit it is rigorous when it comes to safety in its own operations and we mustn't forget that this decision—making process that this decision—making process that we are going through is seeking to bea that we are going through is seeking to be a carefully considered one to try to make sure that we continue to contain a virus that has, since march, taking the lives of more than 4,000 people in scotland. that is
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why i take very seriously my responsibility to apply good judgment and as much objective evidence to this as possible. as unemployment rates in most corona—hit countries skyrockets, the officialjobless number in china has hovered around, but not above, the government's target. a wave of more lay—offs is expected however, as companies struggle to stay alive, just as millions of fresh graduates start looking for work. robin brant travelled to one factory near china's eastern coast. this is a business that's desperately trying to keep the lights on. there are a few workers on the factory floor every day, but it's mostly stacked—up cardboard boxes and rusty inventory. a handful of staff tucked away in a corner and the boss stranded in europe. up until now we haven't received any substantial mass production order to keep the factory running and to be able to pay salaries and stay afloat. lotus makes the rails
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and the racks for the shops that some of you go to, or at least they used to. most of the staff are now at home. the last thing that i would want to do is really fire and let go employees. i still prefer to put everybody at home on the minimum wage as the law allows me to do, because i am hopeful that after one, two, three months, let's say in the near future, i am hopeful that we can restart. this man is one of the workers who is hanging on. he has had a 50% pay cut, but his family has been hit hard. his wife works at the factory too and if this company goes under they will lose their pay and their free lunch. there will be nothing to send back home to their daughter.
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private companies like this are the biggest creators of newjobs in china, but the government and the party are more focused on protecting the state—owned entities at the moment, so when this virus hit firms like this, particularly ones so dependent on the us, were very, very vulnerable. an impending unemployment crisis is the stuff of nightmares for china's leaders. this protest in wuhan back in april was about rent that people could no longer afford. the ruling communist party worries incessantly about the effects on social stability. a year ago, its economy was already slowing. now the world's most populous nation is facing an employment crisis. as well as those struggling to find a newjob, there are those just trying to hang on to the one that they have got. beauty salons and nail bars re—opened in northern ireland yesterday, but in the rest of the uk
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they remain closed. beauty industry leaders are warning of huge job losses unless they can get back to work within two to three weeks. keiron tourish reports. hi, michelle! how's you? good to see you! it's the moment eileen breen has been waiting for — a visit to her local beauty salon to have her nails manicured. for more than three months, this business has been on lockdown. the owner admits her clients do have concerns about coming back. yes, i think there is going to be apprehension, but i do think, as time goes on, people's confidence will grow. we are doing absolutely everything we possibly can to get our businesses and our economy back up. it's a bit different because people have to wear face masks and you are two metres apart and hand sanitisers and stuff to use, but it's really good to be back. other customers appreciate the efforts being made by businesses to keep them safe. well, it's good and it gives the customer that wee bit more confidence and that there too.
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this city centre nail bar was inundated with requests for appointments, all keen to take advantage of yet more easing of the lockdown measures across northern ireland. there is no doubting the popularity of this sector, and while there remains some apprehension out there, for many it is just great to be back in the salon. the nhs is failing women with medical complications who need late term abortions, according to nhs doctors and abortion providers. the british pregnancy and advisory service says it has to turn women away because there aren't enough trained doctors or hospital facilities to treat those at risk of haemorrhage during their pregnancy or who have conditions like epilepsy, which means they need to be seen in a hospital whilst having a termination. the bbc has seen evidence which suggests that some women are trying to end the pregnancies themselves. this report by charlotte hayward contains some content you might find distressing.
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last year, emily, like hundreds of thousands of women across the uk, wa nted thousands of women across the uk, wanted an abortion. at the time i was 18 and had a gut feeling i was pregnant. even though it was ordered to be only 18 or 19 weeks, it was very overwhelming. emily had to wait a month for an appointment. at the time she was calm she was much further along than she thought she would be. i had less than a day, on the last day of the procedure it would have been too late for me to do it. my ex partner give me so much abuse. if he had found out i was pregnant and giving it away to somebody else, that could have caused me danger. i attempted suicide because he found out. emily was able to get the legal abortion that she wanted, but not everyone in her position is able to get an appointment. new figures from the
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british pregnancy advisory service show it is having to turn away more women each year. in 2019 it was not able to find a permit for 27 women, up able to find a permit for 27 women, up from 26 and 2018, up again from 2017 and 2060 minute was 23. campaigners believe these numbers may be higher because this isn't the only abortion provider in the uk. it isn't a new problem. in 2015 a task force was set up at the royal couege force was set up at the royal college of gynaecologists and a specialist pathway was supposed to be established to help women with underlying medical conditions get access to illegal late term abortions, but nothing has changed. for many people, abortion is something they don't want to discuss. may find it upsetting, not something they want to be involved with, but the reality is that if you make abortion care difficult to access,it make abortion care difficult to access, it doesn't go away, itjust goes underground and becomes dangerous and as a result girls and
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women die. but not everyone would agree. les patterson is from the charity life, which gives pro—life advice to women. there are a number of alternatives to abortion. adoption. we also know through our services the difference are practical support can make. we offer free baby supplies to anyone who needs it. we got in touch with nhs england who told us that... emily bravely spoke to us about her experience, but she was one of only a handful who would because of the stigma associated with abortion. a handful who would because of the stigma associated with abortionm ididn't stigma associated with abortionm i didn't speak to my dad or my best friend at the time, i honestly don't
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know how i would be. if you've been affected by any of the issues we've been talking about, sources of information and support are available at bbc action line. that's at bbc.co.uk/actionline. today marks 15 years since 52 people were killed in series of coordinated terror attacks targetting commuters in london. usually, survivors and relatives of those who died gather at the various sites to remember those who died, before gathering at the 7th july memorial in hyde park. this year, though, social distancing rules mean the commemorations have to be held online. earlier, my colleague annita mcvey spoke to two survivors of the attack, sudhesh dahad and georgina ferguson, who were both travelling on a piccadilly line train when a bomb was detonated between king's cross and russell square stations. she asked them how they would normally mark the anniversary. normally, we would all meet up at the various sites, so king's cross,
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russell square, edgeware road, tavistock square, whichever site we we re tavistock square, whichever site we were affected by. we would meet at 9:50am or10:50am, in were affected by. we would meet at 9:50am or 10:50am, in the case of tavistock square, to commemorate that moment. then we would normally all congregates in hyde park at the permanent memorial. at the permanent memorial we have a surplus of about 30 minutes consisting of survivors orfamilies of 30 minutes consisting of survivors or families of victims speaking, saying a few words about what the day means to them and sometimes we have some public officials there, as well. we have acquired singing a few songs, as well and a minute? silence. georgina, how will today be
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marked? today, sudhesh and i am a group of people, survivors and bereaved, have come together to create a video which will be on you tube at noon today. i think we can let viewers see a clip of that. let's do that. on this day in 2005, 52 innocent people were murdered in a coordinated terrorist attack across london public transport infrastructure. no one who was in london on the 7th ofjuly, 2005, will ever forget what they experienced that day. no one wants to be part of the 7/7 community. it not for our twist of fate that the rate would be of their loved ones and we would all be four years on someone else was myjourney. and we would all be four years on someone else was my journey. the 7th ofjuly, 2005, is a day london will
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never forget. the ofjuly, 2005, is a day london will neverforget. the indiscriminate targeting of londoners on our public transport system was an act of unspeakable evil. so, just a little bit of the film that the two of you have made. sudhesh, why did you decide to make this film? for many of us, even though we might have the most loving and supportive families, friends or colleagues, there is really no substitute for the understanding that comes from that shared experience that we have all been through, and the pandemic has had fairly mixed effects in our community, some obscene it is positive, some less so, but a lot of people felt increasingly isolated. because of the families wanted to come together on the day to share
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the moment with people who understand them, understand that they better, we wanted to do something to help facilitate the coming together of the families and survivors, so this was our best effort to try and do that. georgina, you didn't come forward as a survivor until the 11th anniversary, i understand. i know there were lots of people who walked away from those horrific scenes that day he didn't present themselves, or have never presented themselves, as survivors. how important has the community of fellow survivors been to you over the last few years? it was the tenth yearl the last few years? it was the tenth year i came forward. the last few years? it was the tenth yeari came forward. i beg the last few years? it was the tenth year i came forward. i beg your pardon, ten years, not 11. but! didn't go to any memorials until the 11th year. it has been great to be able to share that experience with people over the last four years, and
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this process of making this film has been really good, good experience for me because got to know people a bit better, better than i did before. so it is been quite nice for me for that reason. so it has been really helpful to share these experiences, to express these experiences, to express these experiences perhaps in a different way. sudhesh, the same question to you, how important has that community of survivors been to you over the years since those bombings? it has been absolutely critical. over the 15 years, some of the survivors have become my best friends and they have seen... we have all seen each other go through other experiences, births, deaths, marriages. we have all shared those
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moments since then. they are almost like a second family. you will see people in the video, other survivors saying the same thing, how critical the community is to their well—being, to feeling less alone. more than a million people injapan have been ordered to evacuate their homes due to the threat of severe flooding, which has killed at least 50 people. the worst affected regions have, so far, been in the west, but with forecasts of more torrential rain in the coming days, there are fears of more landslides and floods in other parts of the country. rupert wingfield—hayes reports. japan isa japan is a wealthy country with modern, well built infrastructure, but it has been no match for the extraordinary amounts of water that have fallen over much of the island of she shoe in the last few days. this large steel road bridge swept away by the power of the raging
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waters. first to be hit was this prefecture. river there are overwhelming the flooded embankments in many places, inundating whole towns and villages. today it was the turn of this prefecture, a massive range swelling the rivers they are two terrifying levels, sweeping away whole buildings. many people are thought to be trapped in flooded and damaged buildings, including a group of schoolchildren, reported to be sheltering on the upper floors of their flooded school. a sheltering on the upper floors of theirflooded school. a huge operation is under way to rescue them and others, tojoin a local official are calling a race against time. translation: about 80,000 members from the police, fire department and coast guard are on a search and rescue mission. our policy is saving people's lives first, and we will make our very best effort in our mission. the death toll already stands at around 50. officials say that number is likely to rise. among
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the dead, 14 residents of an old people post my care home, who were wheelchair—bound and unable to escape from the ground floor when the floodwaters rushed in. japan is no stranger to torrential rains were flooding, but these sorts of very extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and they are causing more frequent and they are causing more damage. only two years ago, the same region of western japan was hit by devastating floods that killed more than 200 people. now it's time for a look at the weather with susan powell. cloud is not piling into the uk, but it is coming in quite a well—defined band. this is a chain of weather fronts that are going to wriggle their way across the southern half of the uk throughout the course of the next three days. wet weather for southern britain through this evening and overnight, on into wednesday and
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thursday. some pretty significant rainfall totals in some areas courtesy of these fronts, perhaps 60 millimetres on the western slopes of wales. certainly a wet evening to come for the south of the uk. clear skies across northern ireland, northern england and scotland, and a pretty chilly into the night for the scottish clans with temperatures in one or two spots getting close to freezing. milderfurther one or two spots getting close to freezing. milder further south, one or two spots getting close to freezing. milderfurthersouth, but there is a lot of cloud around and there is a lot of cloud around and the rain which will be there for wednesday morning. perhaps the front drifting further south through wednesday, aligned the north midlands to brighten up for a while, but incomes are next pulse of rain through the afternoon, surging eastward through the evening. 16 degrees we have the rain. in northern scotland, struggling to recover temperatures after the cold start. thursday looks drier initially across england and wales, but i think we will see another pulse of rain before we are through, so turning wetter again come the afternoon. sharper showers in the
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north and east, as well. friday, finally, we break the chain. high pressure starts to build them from the west. not entirely dry on friday with some sharper charge around in the east, and a bit more of a breeze and a bit more of a reason we have been used to, but generally, for many southern areas, it will be considerably drier and brighter than the next few days. some of the showers could be rather punchy. temperatures around average for the time of year or temperatures around average for the time of yearora temperatures around average for the time of year or a little below. it is all to play for come the weekend. here is the high, it starts to establish and we have a dry weekend in prospect. it could be lumbered with some thick cloud across the northern half of the uk, affecting scotla nd northern half of the uk, affecting scotland and northern ireland. to do so, we should see some decent sunny spells and it will be drier than the next few days, and it will become a little bit warmer.
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