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showers or longer spells of rain will continue to push eastward through the night, specifically across northern ireland, scotland and northern england, but there could be 1—2 further south. but with largely clear skies and having picked up the atlantic breeze, we've lost the humidity, so the main notable feature — a much more comfortable night for sleeping. as we get up tomorrow morning, plenty of sunshine will be found across the southern half of the uk, with just 1—2 showers first thing clearing quite a lot of cloud further north, particularly in northern england and scotland, which will break up. but then the moisture left will provide the spark for some potentially heavy showers into the afternoon, even thunderstorms. scattering of showers again through northern ireland, just 1—2 further south, but temperatures will be marginally down on those todayjust because it'll be a cooler start tomorrow morning. that gentle breeze, a little bit fresher through the channel, will continue to push those showers eastwards. then through the night, they do peter out — we've got an area of rain close by to the south coast, at the moment on balance it looks as if it'll be rain
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for the channel islands and for northern france. but there'll still be some showers on monday, and we've got pressure brewing once again in the atlantic. so monday looks set to start on a fairly decent note, dry and bright if that's the weather you like, gentle breezes. but, given that there are gentle breezes, when the showers brew up, they will be slow—moving. slow—moving and heavy as we go into the afternoon. but there will also be a lot of dry weather — the majority will have that dry weather. but then monday night into tuesday, low pressure gathers force, and that low pressure is likely to bring some more significant rain in through tuesday and into wednesday, slowly pushing its way southwards, the majority of the rain further north and west. but as ever, we will keep you updated. there's more detail on the website.
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hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment but first the headlines: one of the government's scientific advisers suggests england may have to consider closing pubs if it's to re—open schools as planned. from today, more than two million people considered at high risk from coronavirus, will no longer need to shield in most parts of england. some beauty salons, plus bowling alleys and wedding venues in england face at least another fortnight of closure following the government's plan to "squeeze the brake pedal" on easing restrictions. also today, companies whose staff
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have been receiving up to eighty per cent of their salary through the government's furlough scheme will now have to start making further financial contributions. the most famous trophy of all has its most worn ribbons hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. joining me are iain anderson, executive chairman of the market research agency cicero, and the author and
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journalist, shyama perera. will get to the football in a minute. tomorrow's front pages, starting with the sunday telegraph, which says it has seen what it calls "radical" government plans in order to avert a second national lockdown. the observer has a warning from one of the country's biggest teaching unions — that parents and teachers need further reassuring that schools are safe to reopen next month. the sunday mirror says health experts are questioning the government's strategy to potentially close pubs so that schools can open while new restrictions are imposed for millions of people in the north of england. the sunday times says the defence secretary is being ordered to explain why evidence was witheld from a judge which showed sas troops had killed innocent afghan civilians in 2011. the mail on sunday reports that a conservative mp has been arrested on suspicion of raping and sexually assaulting a commons researcher —
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a conservative party spokesman has said they "take all allegations of this nature extremely seriously". and the sunday express says it's conducted a poll which shows millions of brits say they won't be going away this year due to concerns about coronavirus. so let's begin. the sunday telegraph is where we will begin. ministers are blueprint to avoid a new lockdown. what are they proposing, shyama? they are saying that elderly people and others who are at risk may be asked to stay at home for much, much longer than initially planned while the rest of the country gets on with their lives. but actually, what it also says is that officials have been asked to prepare alternative proposals for keeping it battened down. it's a bit like looking at a
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suite on ebay which has been lived in before. the government is trying to find more vocabulary to say the same thing which is if we continue to get spikes, we will have to rethink shielding. we might have to bring in different types of shielding so that some people are com pletely shielding so that some people are completely locked away and others are allowed to go out on particular days and particular times. if you think about it, that's what we've had all the way through, we've had shops that open early for the elderly and for nhs workers. i belong to the local aid group which does a lot of shopping for the shielded. all of these measures are already in place in different ways and have been managed in different ways and i'm not sure, maybe iain can see something new in this, i can't. the only interesting point for me was they are suggesting that hairdressers and barbers,
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differentiating between unisex and male only her cutters, may not be sufficiently well protected when they are wearing paper masks, that they are wearing paper masks, that they should start wearing visors. we've just had the green light for those who have been shielding for months to start to emerge from their homes and try to resume normal life and then they read this headline. yeah, it's incredibly disappointing news, isn't it? i'm planning to go and see my own parents who have been shielding, i haven't seen them for six months. we've been talking to each other via video calls, every day. almost it's been a lifeline for them, it's been a lifeline for us so really hoping that in a week or so we can go to scotland and be able to
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see them? i think borisjohnson was talking about this being over by christmas and it's pretty clear now that the government is having to move away from that idea and i think there is an effort that is now clearly on to reset expectations. listening to chris whitty, the chief medical officer yesterday in the press conference , medical officer yesterday in the press conference, i think he used the expression that we are just about at the edge of how much of society we can open up without letting the virus go everywhere once again. it looks like that is pretty much the case. the government is trying to avoid what the prime minister referred to two weeks ago as the nuclear deterrent of shutting
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the entire country down but they are clearly working on plans to suppress the virus in local areas in terms of vulnerable groups as well. the observer next. teachers sound alarm over plans to reopen schools in england next month. in scotland it's within the next couple of weeks that some schools are due to be open, all of them in scotland by the 18th of august but teachers are very concerned in light of all the other fears about a rise in infections. teachers have been pretty concerned all the way through this and the government has been trying to nudge them into a place to feel more co mforta ble them into a place to feel more comfortable to be able to get pupils back to school. beyond just learning and the fact that schoolchildren have been missing out on getting their lessons, it's incredibly difficult at the same time to be able to open up the economy because
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mums and dads need to be at home if their children are not able to go to school so union members have been concerned about the rules, the government has had to work hard on the teaching unions over the next two weeks. it's a bit of a seesaw action, shyama, the sunday mirror as saying stop this chaos. if you are opening schools you might have to close pubs again. swings and roundabouts, one door opens, another set of doors must close. i think what this really points to, as they keep saying, we're finding a different vocabulary to say the same thing which is we don't know. we keep trying different things. think the very fact that in the early
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weeks dominic cummings and other ministers did the complete opposite of what they were told, telling you not that they don't respect the health needs of other people but they don't respect the person at the top giving us these ideas and orders. our problem is nobody, not even those closest to the prime minister, really trust the advice or how the advice is being actioned. this is reflected in all our newspapers, this constant will he, won't he? and all we get, really, to me this isjust won't he? and all we get, really, to me this is just another set of scales and we have been seeing it all week. shyama, the sunday express says virus fears put lights back on hold. there are vulnerable people who have been shielding who still don't feel that they want to go out even though now they can. in the same breath we just looked at the daily telegraph, sorry, sunday
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telegraph, when they are suggesting there is a group of shielded her —— who should not be allowed out at all. if in two weeks we are going to say they should go back in, why? i see they are not testing all the elderly that have been put back into ca re elderly that have been put back into care homes, that's another promise that has gone by the by, and these are all part of that very vulnerable group. i think at the end of the day what we come back to is that we all have to make decisions for ourselves. we have to use what we are told as a form of guidance. we have to decide where our consciences are in terms of balancing what we believe and what we think will help others and that's all you can do. half the shops, people are not wearing masks, and the other half they are, and i don't go into the ones where they are not wearing masks. final comment before we move onto the football, seeing what's happened with spain, some people choose not to bother going anywhere
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and accept that this year is the time for a holiday. —— is not the time for a holiday. —— is not the time for a holiday. —— is not the time for a holiday. that's my conclusion, to have a staycation. we are going to go and see family in yorkshire and scotland, try and have some time away, but it's very, very difficult right now to try and contemplate getting on a plane flying out of the uk because it's notjust spain, we are seeing spikes in belgium, we are seeing spikes in luxembourg and in germany where they will be introducing mandatory testing when people land back in the country. we've seen it in asia too. it's difficult when we are trying to get to grips with a new virus. your moment to gloat, iain, arsenal beating chelsea in the fa cup final
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and the duke of cambridge watched it from the comfort of a deck chair. where did you watch it?|j from the comfort of a deck chair. where did you watch it? i watched it here at home. obviously there was no opportunity to be at wembley today but it's pretty obvious. i've got a large smile on my face. the papers are filled with brilliant picture of aubameyang doing his favourite summer “— aubameyang doing his favourite summer “ somersault. aubameyang doing his favourite summer —— somersault. i really happy moment in the midst of all this. the duke holds a party at sandringham, gets one or two celebrities including tony adams. socially distanced, as we can see. shyama is a londoner too, who are you cheering for? i'm a londoner but i'm a bit
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upset about this photograph because i noticed that apart from some sort of assistant behind tony adams in the top picture, there isn't as single women insight which is exactly why you don't get enough women tuning in to the fa cup final. thank you for the moment. we'll talk to you both again in an hour when iain and shyama will be back for another look at the papers but coming up next it is click. hey, welcome to click. hope you are doing ok.
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this week, we have something special for you. you see, every so often we start investigating a subject, thinking it will make a nice, interesting five—minute film, but then we tug on a particular thread and it turns out there is something way bigger and way weirder going on than we thought. talking of way weirder, here's omar mehtab. hey, mate. hey, how's it going? good, thanks. so do you want to start off by telling us what you were originally sent out to look at? we wanted to find out how online influencers, the big personalities you see on social media, have been impacted during the pandemic. it seemed pretty straightforward. yeah, and then things got really interesting, right? yeah, it did. we started doing a little bit of digging and a pattern emerged of influencers abusing the trust of their millions of followers for their own financial gain. our story started here, with some of the biggest social media influencers in the world.
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a group called faze clan, famous for esports and entertainment. put your hands together for faze clan! they have 230 million followers, and were recently valued at $250 million. more people are watching, more people have time to watch more, and they want more even when they're done, because they're still on their phones, looking for content to consume. here is the thing. the majority of influencers don't have hundreds of millions of followers and a slick ceo. there are millions of influencers who are sole traders, and they're actually able to make a living with only tens of thousands of followers.
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the people who are famous to you on instagram may not be the same people who are famous to me on instagram, because there are millions of them, who have varying levels of followers and influence. but those millions of mini influencers depend on smaller brands, smaller deals, and a lot less of them, and we found out that many of them have struggled during the pandemic. zara mcdermott is one influencer who sits in the middle ground. she has gotjust under 1.5 million followers, and she works with a lot of mid—level brands. i've seen influencers taking on jobs that i wouldn't necessarily see them taking on before the pandemic, just because i think there's a little bit of an air of, like, let's take as manyjobs as we possibly can. but this was the moment it became so much more. right at the end of the interview, zara said something which took our investigation in an unexpected new direction. so, since the pandemic began,
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we found that we've received a really large quantity of e—mails from brands selling what i think is counterfeit goods, and basically trying to get influencers to market these on their channels. and ijust believe that a lot of these brands are trying to exploit influencers during this time, by offering them excessive amounts of money for very small deliverables. and not all of these influencers had turned these offers down. as you can see, i have my new wireless earphones in. i literally use my airpods every single day... and they're all wireless. the sound quality is banging, really good, and they connect to any bluetooth device. now, off—camera of zara's interview, her manager, charli paton, told us that her e—mail inbox was flooded by companies offering thousands to get them to advertise knockoff products. so we went to find out more.
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some of the slightly more suspicious brands that reach out to us are often willing to pay, and i know that they do actually pay, a lot more money than the going rate in the industry, sometimes even up to three times the price that we'd usually charge for certain promotions. i think that they prey on the fact that influencers and management companies don't always do this due diligence. so charli was fed up of getting all these scam e—mails asking them to promote knockoff products and put their business at risk. so she wanted to find out — who was behind it all? and there was just one product that kept on coming up again and again and again — knockoff apple airpods. and then we found out that even the biggest influencers in the world were being paid to promote these knockoff airpods.
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each airpod comes with a charging case and a charging cable. so i'm going to check them out right now. their whole site is 70% off, and use code kylie for free shipping. kylie and kendalljenner have a combined following of 337 million followers on instagram, and there they were promoting a company called nova play, whose earphones seem to be an exact copy of apple's airpods. it was about this time that we started talking to some e—commerce experts to find out who was behind this wave of knockoff product and influencer promotions. and there was one word that kept coming up — drop shipping. the issue of drop shipping
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is a relatively new phenomenon. it's a very, very fast—moving business model that's constantly changing. we're constantly seeing new entrants into the market, new platforms that provide the service, so as regulators and enforcers, to a certain extent, we're always trying play catch—up. we started searching and we found hundreds of people saying they were making a fortune drop shipping. but what is it? here's a little rundown. the drop shipper goes to an online chinese marketplace, often aliexpress. they find a low—priced product, set up a website, and add a huge markup. influencers are paid to promote the product and send you straight to the website. when you buy the product, it's shipped directly to you from china. the seller could be on a different continent and never even see the product. drop shippers don't hold any inventory, so there's no financial risk.
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and it's important to be really clear. drop shipping isn't illegal. for example, here's kevin david, who just moved into his pretty sweet new apartment in miami, and he gave us a very honest insight about the insane amount of money that drop shippers are actually making. you can have a massive business without ever going to china. right? like, i've personally sent millions of dollars to china, i've, you know, gotten millions and millions of dollars' worth of products. i've never been to china. those airpods i've actually seen. some of my friends have stores doing hundreds of thousands of dollars a month selling those, right? someone will spend hundreds of millions, however much money it costs to create it, and then china will essentially reverse engineer it. some sharp drop shippers take advantage of that and they create massive, massive incomes by
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leveraging those trends. so we contacted loads of drop shippers, and even chatted to quite a few of them. and there was one thing that really stood out amongst them all. they're just like you and me. some of them even work out of their bedroom. but the difference is, they're making huge sums of money. so fast forward, i grabbed one of the products that took me to, it was a super bowl ring. i made $55,000 in that month, quit myjob, and then fast forward, i made over $20 million in the last five years. drop shipping dramatically changed my life. all we needed to do was look on youtube at these guys bragging about how much money they're making, and sharing tips on how to get in on it. and, when we were going through all these videos, we found something incredible. one guy was even showing other drop shippers a template letter to copy and send influencers. it was that easy. and the template that i give my students, that you can just copy and paste and use for yourself. it's right here.
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instagram influencer reach out script. and i'm going to say "hey", and the name of that person "my name is", and you're going to put your name. that youtube explainer was stunning, and revealed so much. the professional looking e—mails charli showed us, sent from the mysterious companies, were actually just from bedrooms around the world. and the shadowy drop shippers were just entrepreneurs trying their luck. like many things, you've got your good guys and you've got your bad guys. but the problem is, it's really easy to be a bad guy when you're an anonymous person sitting behind a laptop. and gabriel told us how some drop shippers can easily scam people. i see stores that come and goes, they literally steal money from people. one of the stores were selling iron man hat, which was like a real hat that goes up and down, and they were selling it for $29. when you go to alibaba and aliexpress, the selling price is what is real,
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and those stores make millions of dollars within a month and they theyjust wipe the entire store and they collect the money, they disappear and they don't ship any products. and those stores are literally, like, everywhere. so, from zara telling us about the suspicious e—mails she'd been receiving, we delved into a world made possible only by the modern internet. now, a teenager in kansas can persuade an influencer in london to promote a product. then that leads to someone in stockholm buying something from a factory in china which copies the design of a company in california. it's a truly global story. and i'm afraid that is where we have to stop for the short cut of this week's click, but do check omar‘s full investigation. it is on bbc iplayer right now.
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he also did more investigations on the trending podcast. don't forget that we live in social media, on youtube, facebook, instagram, and twitter, and you can trust us. we are @bbcclick. thanks for watching, and we will see you soon. hello there. the heat and humidity had ebbed away today, so a fresher feel. and that fresher feel will continue into sunday as well, the second half of the weekend, when again there'll be some sunshine for most of us, but a scattering of showers all driven by low pressure sitting across iceland, throwing these weather fronts in that are bringing the showers.
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those showers have been crossing the northern half of the uk through this evening. that will continue through the night. just one or two further south, but largely clear skies. the most notable feature, though, is the loss of humidity. temperatures will be significantly lower than last night, so much more comfortable for sleeping. so, a cooler start means temperatures will be marginally down on those of today by the time we get to tomorrow afternoon. and there'll be a scattering of showers, quite cloudy to start in the north, but turning into heavy showers in the afternoon here. very few further south, but still, they can't be ruled out. 17—211, more like average for the time of year, and that breeze coming in from the west. perhaps some more general rain, then, in the north west by tuesday. bye— bye.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. across europe, several governments express concern about a resurgence in the number of coronavirus cases. a uk scientist advising the government on coronavirus says pubs and bars across the country might have to close if schools are to open next month. president trump says he'll ban tiktok, the chinese—owned video—sharing app, in the us, calling it a threat to americans. details of concerns that british special forces may have targeted unarmed civilians in afghanistan in 2011.

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