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morning's papers in a moment with harriet line and giles kenningham — first the headlines: and giles kenningham — china denies an accusation by britain's foreign minister that it's carrying out human rights abuses against its uighur population. can i ask you why people are kneeling blindfolded and shaven and being led to trains in modern china? why? what is going on there? i do not know where you get this video tape. it is deeply, deeply troubling. and the reports on the human aspect of it, from forced sterilisation to the education camps, are reminiscent of something we have not seen for a long, long time. president trump has defended his handling of the coroanvirus pandemic, incorrectly telling fox news that the us has the lowest mortality rate in the world. and the first arab space mission to mars is preparing for lift—off. that will be in half an hour's time, stay with us for live coverage here on bbc news.
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hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are harriet line, deputy political editor at pa, and giles kenningham, political commentator and former conservative party press chief. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. .. the financial times reports on the third day of an eu summit, where european leaders have been working out details of the proposed 750 billion euro response to the pandemic. below a picture of princess beatrice at her wedding in windsor yesterday — tomorrow's metro reports that rail commuters will be offered "fairer" season tickets to help with a part—time return to the office. the uk's relationship with china is front and centre in tomorrow's i — with the paper saying relations with beijing have hit a new low. the times follows suit with an image from the protests
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in hong kong, as the government here announce they will shelve an extradition treaty with the territory, as relations with china sour. the telegraph has a story on their front page saying 200,000 extra deaths might be caused by the knock—on effects of lockdown in the uk. the mirror lead with what they call, "the scandal of hospital cuts" tomorrow, as a new poll reveals that nhs staff work an average of 11 hours a week extra for free. turning to the express — the paper reports that house prices are at a record high, as the property market goes through a mini—boom. a warning from doctors in the guardian, who the paper say are urging the public to help the uk avoid a second wave of coronavirus. so let's begin... with harriet and giles, and let's
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start with the eye. harriet, china and uk trade barbs as relations hit new low, and a paper there i think from the protests. in fact, it is from the protests. in fact, it is from a video that has been released this week of a man apparently handcuffed and blindfolded as they we re handcuffed and blindfolded as they were put on trains to be taken to these re—education camps. what you make of the line that dominic raab has taken to that? yes, we have known for some time about these alleged human rights abuses of the uighur muslims alleged human rights abuses of the uighurmuslims in alleged human rights abuses of the uighur muslims in china and today the foreign secretary described them as gi’oss the foreign secretary described them as gross and egregious human rights abuses against the ethnic minority and said that sanctions cannot be ruled out, which is a fairly strong line, but not quite as strong as labour has been calling for the government to take, as they suggested powers should be used such as we have seen against the perpetrators of of the crime against the rohingya in myanmar. but he is striking quite a strong tone here,
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calling for some form of action, suggesting he will work with international allies on this and of course there will be calls for him to go further. it was really interesting on the andrew marr show this morning where the ambassador was shown that footage you just referenced, which i think anyone watching it would say it has many parallels with concentration camps and he denied it as fake news in a really quite bizarre denial of quite plain facts in front of him, dismissing them, saying that it was a beautiful area and dismissing allegations that they have been sterilisations of members of the uighur. giles, you will know, having been inside the conservative party in the earlier years of the cameron government and the period just before that, when david cameron was leading the opposition, the real effo rts leading the opposition, the real efforts that david cameron and george osborne in particular made to improve relations with china. i can remember going on a visit with george osborne and borisjohnson
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when he was a mayor, yet there was a lwa ys when he was a mayor, yet there was always a bit of attention about how far you should go because at the same time ministers were told don't ta ke same time ministers were told don't take your mobile phones because there is a good chance they will be hacked. yes, i think there was this always this inherent edge and engaging with them because they are a global superpower, but also being very mindful that they have a woeful human rights record and yes there we re always concerns human rights record and yes there were always concerns on a trip to china about your phone or e—mail being hacked, people being photographed in hotel rooms, and you are always told to set up a new e—mail address, are always told to set up a new e—mailaddress, and are always told to set up a new e—mail address, and to take a pay—as—you—go phone. what you see increasingly is the tory party shift toa increasingly is the tory party shift to a much more hard—line position on china andl to a much more hard—line position on china and i think that is only going to get harder and harder. interestingly, we have got the us secretary of state mike pompeo over in the uk tomorrow, where he is going to be meeting 20 very anti—china backbench tory mps there, meeting with the prime minister as well and the us has been very start
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in its position, saying you have got to choose a side one way or another and you are only going to see more and you are only going to see more and more this from president trump in the run—up to the us elections. this is the new cold war and it will carry on for a lot longer. china have said there will be huge recriminations if sanctions are hit oi'i recriminations if sanctions are hit on them, but to be honest i don't think the uk and the rest have much other choice at the moment. the financial times reporting that britain is ready to spend the extradition pact, which allows people, alleged criminals and staff, the hong kong authorities want to take them because there is now a risk they could be taken back to the mainland. that could lead to retaliation presumably. there is a lot of chinese money in london, though, this could hurt the uk when at a time when the economy is already reeling? yes, it is a balance, weighing up security, versus the economic benefit. they have all the baby been reports that tiktok, the big chinese company, won't be heard
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quartering in london. another big chinese company won't be coming here either now. but i think we do have to take a hard line with these things, and ultimately security has to come over any economic argument here to come over any economic argument here and perhaps in the past we haven't been as hardline as we should have been. all the evidence is bearing out that we need to be. harriet, lets move on to the guardian and coronavirus, and a rather dispiriting thought that doctors are suggesting that a second wave is coming and will come in 0ctober wave is coming and will come in october and we need to be taking seriously our preparations right now. what are they saying? exactly, it is in quite stark contrast with these warnings in the guardian, compared to what the prime minister was saying just before the weekend that actually we might be returning to some sort of reality in november, perhaps by christmas. but the doctors quoted here in the guardian, the chair of the academy of the health care workers have felt totally reliant on the public understanding this is certainly not
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disappeared. it seems to be a swipe at the governments's handling of it, as though it is actually down to us to maintain social distancing and to make sure that actually all of us are equipping ourselves to protect against a second wave, almost as though it is not actually the government that are taking a strong enough stance here to protect the nhs and the public. the intriguing thing on the front of the telegraph, giles, is the suggestion that the price we have paid for it the lockdown is a significant number of extra deaths, an extraordinary figure when you put it next to the number of people have died from covid—i9, something over 40,000. but this is stating 200,000 extra deaths, what is it getting this from? they are saying one, is the backlog, people not having had the acute treatment or diagnosis during the lockdown period. they think there has also possibly been a rise in suicides and also people who have falle n in suicides and also people who have
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fallen victim to domestic violence as well. i think this leads us onto as well. i think this leads us onto a widerargument, as well. i think this leads us onto a wider argument, how does the nhs deal with the huge backlog? in my mind, that only leads to one conclusion, you will have to speed up conclusion, you will have to speed up the digitalisation of the nhs. we bank online and shop online, so it should become normal that in some circumstances we see our doctor online, especially for minor ailments going to the gp, which will also take pressure off andy mack as well. i think that is where the argument is, the only way we're going to get through this, especially if you think if we hit the worst case scenario of a second wave and the first battle has not been dealt with, you could see a situation where the nhs could be overwhelmed. i am interested by the amount of stories there are about coronavirus every day, obviously no surprise there. is there any kind of unease or worry among journalists that the public is getting kind of tired and exhausted of the relentless run of quite depressing stories about a subject? that fear
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of people being pushed away from news, perhaps they mightjust switch off altogether? i think there are certainly concerns about that or they were earlier on in the pandemic, when the news really was stark and incredibly depressing everyday, especially when the death toll was nearing 1000 on a daily basis and there was a real drive then to bring out positive stories, so we saw things like the captain tom moore story, which i think ca ptu red tom moore story, which i think captured the hearts of the whole nation. also the thursday evening trap for carers and lots of other small stories that probably got more prominence than they would have ordinarily because people were desperate for something, some kind of to grab onto and stories again like lockdown causing 200,000 deaths is not going to cheer anyone up, especially when the alternative does seem that you have a huge number of coronavirus cases. giles, let's move on to the other story on the front of the telegraph, which is partly good chosen specialist subject, tory
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stories. a bit of a disappointment for those who have shelled out a lot of money and i know there is no link between giving money to a political party and political honours, but they are having to make way for a former labour mp and a former critic cricketer! yes, and i suppose the honours period it has always caused a storm of controversy. i suppose the headline headline grabbing line out of this is that the peerage and going into the house of lords... sur beefy! yes, he clearly has got, when it comes to issues around sport and society he has got a huge contribution to make, but yeah, there are some interesting names in here that have cropped up, ken clarke, obviously a tory grandee, he had fallen out with the party, and it looks like he's going to get a much desire deserved honour, and philip hammond as well, but also
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some former labour mps, sir frank phil, interesting that some of jeremy corbyn's people like tom watson aren't going to get them and i'm trying not to be too partisan here, but someone like tom watson, given some of the outrageous and unfounded allegations he made over the paedophile scandal, i think he doesn't deserve one. harriet, last word on the story on the front of the metro, flexible season tickets, good news for those who have to be commuters still may have to be in the coming months. definitely, no surprise that the metro has chosen to splash this, given it is a commuter paper. it does look like some rail companies, western railway, is considering doing free season passes, so that commuters aren't having to fork out for five a day passes in order to travel on the trains, and that will be welcome news for many workers who are now enjoying the benefits of
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working from home and want to do a bit of that, but a bit of going to work and for companies who are introducing policies where some of the staff are back on some days of the staff are back on some days of the week, but not others... harriet we are going to have to leave it there because we have got this launch coming up from the arab first spacecraft in just a few minutes' time. thank you both. that's it for the papers this hour. hey, welcome to click and wear a mask. that's the advice you are given, just do it, it's not a problem. in fact in some part of the world it is just the norm anyway. so do it. hey, lara.
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hello. i hope you have been bending the metal bit over your nose, now i know about it seems really obvious. absolutely right and i didn't know that, until recently, and it does help it to sit in place so it is very useful information. it does help but it still doesn't fit perfectly although i may have a solution for that later in the programme. it has been a busy week in the world of tech. the uk government has decided to remove all of huawei's 5g kit from the country by 2027. this is a decision with political ramifications and it will also likely delay the rollout of 5g here by two or three years. huawei says the move was bad news for anyone in the uk with a mobile phone. now because the e3 videogames mega trade show was cancelled this year, games companies have been doing their launches at online events instead. and last week saw one of the biggest online showcases, the ubisoft forward event but it
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coincided with three of the company's executives having to resign over an investigation into sexual misconduct. for years the gaming world has been overshadowed by examples of abuse and toxic behaviour. and we report now on how it is not just the pandemic disrupting the videogames industry. games megapublisher ubisoft is currently mired in an abuse scandal centred around its studios. the company put out a tweet before its latest online showcase, acknowledging that it would not be addressing these issues during its event. more on this later. at the event itself, the company did reveal the casting of giancarlo esposito, of breaking bad and better call saul fame, as the villain in the latest far cry title. esposito has been cast as a dictator called anton castillo, the ruler of a fictious island in the first—person shooter
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far cry 6. the player assumes the role of a guerilla fighter attempting to take down the dictator and his government from the island's jungles to the streets of its capital city. i spoke with the actor about donning a performance capture rig to create a villain who is more than a scenery—chewing end of level boss. you have played several characters in recent years who had a quiet menace about them. did you bring that to this game or did you go in a different direction? i always believe that quiet menaces and a reflective menace is the most frightening menace. so you doubt me. he is a dictator, so that whole word, ‘to dictate', the word itself doesn't give us the energy of someone who is kind and gentle. are you a monster? good art often makes us think about our world and what is going
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on in our own lives. do you think this game has the potential to affect the player in that way? oh, my goodness! what a great question. i do. i feel like this storyline is really powerful and without giving anything away it is about relationships. father and son. everything ifeel like i do has some sort of social imprint. my guess is that some of the stuff i thank god that i have been involved with, such as better call saul, the show i do, and breaking bad, godfather of harlem, those statements are in these projects. and there is certainly a statement you can find in this game. what did you think of the virtual version of you created for the game? i was blown away. i sat there amazed. i argued, told them they were full of garbage! if that is me, why not just film me?! we all go boom.
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we are yet to see any gameplay but the title is slated for release in february 2021. the online showcase also got us a glimpse of hyper scape, another addition to the growing ranks of battle royale multiplayer shooters. i got this! as well as bringing us actual gameplay from the viking—themed assassin's creed: valhalla and watch dogs: legion, demonstrating its key gameplay feature — the ability to recruit and play as any characters encountered on the streets of this near future dystopian london. but recent real—world events at ubisoft have cast a shadow over the compa ny‘s activities. over the past couple of weeks, many women and other people working in the games industry have come forward with stories about workplace bullying or harassment and that runs the gamut from toxic workplace culture right through to sexual harassment and quite early in this wave, ubisoft‘s name started
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coming up again and again. this has led to dismissals and resignation with two senior executives resigning and a third leaving their postjust before last weekend's showcase. ubisoft gave us this comment. the problem with a lot of creative industries, not just games, is where you have superstar creative people who are seen as untouchable and indispensable to their companies and sometimes that can create an environment in which those people feel they can get away with anything. ubisoft is not the only publisher with workplace problems.
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last year riot games came into the spotlight. there was a lawsuit launched against them by ex—employees alleging sexist discrimination at that workplace. the cause ripples throughout the game industry. as we approach the next console generation and videogames achieve ever greater technical and artistic heights, it seems the games industry still has work to do with how it conducts its affairs in the real world. now i don't know about you, but as face coverings are becoming a normal part of life, i have struggled to find one that fits and stays on. this slides off my nose, this one is baggy around the ears. so could a personalised 3d printed one like this be the solution? out of the covid we have seen a few companies coming up with 3d printed solutions, but one common problem
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we find is that these masks are not customised so they are a universal size and shape. not these however. this imperial college london research project re—purposes custom—fit 3d printed masks, a concept they were originally working on for people suffering with sleep apnoea. now they hope to create perfect fitting respirators at a time when it seems we could be wearing them a lot. and all you need to get started is a smart phone. first thing i need to do is scan my face. there are a couple of i0s apps that seem to work to do this. the first is scandy pro. i'm going to have to hold very still. although it was a little fiddly to get the image right, i'm told that this app is especially accurate. there is also bellussd which i thought was simpler to use and virtual me did look pretty realistic.
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i guess i'll just find out how the mask fits when it actually arrives. currently you do need an iphone 10 or above to carry out this process but alternatives are being looked into, including some for android users. job done. you then upload your scan to the mensura mask website. specially created code is used to extract the necessary data and that is sent to autodesk‘s fusion 360 platform to tweak and rebuild the model to fit your face. this should provide you with a free file of your mask to print. now assuming you do not have a 3d printer in your living room, there are plenty of companies out there that can print it for you at the cost of around a fiver. but while we might all like a better—fitting mask that does not steam up our glasses, the real aim of this project is a much bigger picture.
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right now, the masks that you can wear are just as good as a face covering if not better. but as we get better, as we get the technology more mature, we will go through the certification process to check that the materials are safe and check the filters work properly. of course, the outcome of each individual mask will notjust depend on an accurate scan but also the quality of the 3d printing. so the mask has arrived. can we have the grand unveiling? ta—da! wow! that is quite space age, actually. how does it feel? how does it fit? it definitely fits well. i can feel it is absolutely moulded to my face and i think it would be ok with glasses, no steaming up. but bizarrely, my ears keep popping. i can tell it is really airtight because your voice hardly makes it out of the mask. can you breathe? that is a filter
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in the end, isn't it? it is and these filters need changing every day but they are standard ones you can buy online and the whole mask can be fully disinfected. is it comfortable? it certainly fitjust right and the edges do feel quite soft so i think if i worked in a job where i had to wear this all day then i could see the benefit. but it does feel a little over the top to just go and buy some groceries. and that is it for the shortcut of click this week. in the full—length version there is also a fascinating look at facebook‘s attempt to clean up its act. that is available right now on iplayer. as ever, you can keep up with the team throughout the week on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter at bbcclick. thank you for watching. we will see you soon! by by!
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hello and welcome to viewers across the world. this is bbc news giving you live coverage of the liftoff of the united arab emirates mission to mars, the very first space programme in the arab world. if the next few minutes, the probe, translating to english as hope, will take off from an island, powered by a rocket. it will arrive on the red planet in february next year, the moment when mars and the earth are at their closest once it has arrived it will study the weather and climate of mars. here is the scene, the mission is being overseen at the dubai space
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centre, where our correspondent is watching and listening. this is the culmination, samia, ofa remarkable project that has taken 14 years. yes, this is the remarkable moment that we have been waiting for, it was announced in 2014 and it has actually taken six years, which is quite soon, considering the scale and ambition of this project and it boils down to this moment a few minutes from now. the rocket, which is injapan, will minutes from now. the rocket, which is in japan, will lift minutes from now. the rocket, which is injapan, will lift off, carrying the space probe called hope into mars. it will take a little more than an hourto figure out whether the space probe is sending sip signals back to the control room here. that is also the time when it will also dismantle all separate itself from the rocket, so
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one never one never tires of that site, does one, of the achievement of getting a craft safely off the ground? so very 90, craft safely off the ground? so very go, hope is in the sky is on its way, powered by that rocket from japan, up through the atmosphere and out towards mars. let's talk again to our correspondent in dubai. was there any indication in delight at this achievement? i said 14 years because that is when the space programme began, as you say six yea rs programme began, as you say six years for this project, but they added an extra impediment, the authorities in the uae, they said to the engineers, you can't use another tech country's technology, you must do it all from scratch. that is
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