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and before we talk about the weather here, ben, let's just and before we talk about the weather here, ben, let'sjust look at and before we talk about the weather here, ben, let's just look at the weather in the united states, because that hurricane that's coming m, because that hurricane that's coming in, it is potentially catastrophic, isn't it? absolutely, ben. it may well be that hurricane laura, which has made landfall on the gulf coast, has made landfall on the gulf coast, has been thejoint has made landfall on the gulf coast, has been the joint fifth strongest hurricane on record to make landfall anywhere in the continental usa. it was a category four hurricane when it made landfall, now, only a category two, i say only, it is still bringing sustained winds of 100mph. with that, huge amounts of rain and a storm surge which could flood areas a0 miles inland. that is pretty ha rd to flood areas a0 miles inland. that is pretty hard to imagine. so, we will here are sure plenty of stories of the impact of that storm over the next few days. back here in the uk, things are quieter but it does feel as though summer has made an early departure with the cloud and rain and wind we have had recently. and i
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don't think it is going to be making much of a return this week. more heavy rain at times today and tomorrow. it will turn increasingly cool and windy for a time as well. we have had some really heavy rain across parts of england, the odd flash of lightning and ramble of thunder and that will be working eastwards this afternoon. eastern counties will be turning pretty wet for the second half of the afternoon. further north, a scattering of showers, some of them heavy and thundery. northern scotla nd heavy and thundery. northern scotland perhaps getting away with a dry afternoon although there will be afairamount of dry afternoon although there will be a fair amount of cloud. this evening and tonight, we will have further showers or longer spells of rain, some clear spells as well. 0vernight, temperatures typically holding between 9—13. tomorrow, three slices of weather, really, depending on where you are. we will have this band of rain across northern england which will sink down into parts of wales and the midlands as the day goes on. to the south of that, some sunny spells but
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some heavy, thundery downpours breaking out in the afternoon. for scotla nd breaking out in the afternoon. for scotland and northern ireland, one oi’ scotland and northern ireland, one or two showers, but increasingly dry and bright weather with some sunny spells. but it will be turning windy for all of us, particularly for some eastern areas, with gusts up to 50mph in exposed spots. and these are the temperatures, disappointing for the time of the year. adding in the strength of the wind and it will feel very cool indeed. the low pressure that has been responsible for the rain today and tomorrow will push eastwards into the start of the weekend. high pressure coming in from the west which will slowly settle things down. but as it does so, it will squeeze this northerly wind down over the uk, a brisk wind on saturday morning still. with that wind coming down from the north, yes, it will be turning drier and brighter, but it will be a very cool day indeed. i7 brighter, but it will be a very cool day indeed. 17 degrees in london. 15 in glasgow, very cool for the time of year. if you are out and about on
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saturday night, may be out camping oi’ saturday night, may be out camping orfor any other saturday night, may be out camping or for any other reason, look at the overnight lows, 2—a, it is going to be very chilly indeed. 0n overnight lows, 2—a, it is going to be very chilly indeed. on sunday and monday, a bank orfor many, we are looking at a lot of dry weather, the winds will be lighter, but it will still be cool. it might be that western parts get a little bit of rain late on monday. a reminder of our top story... the white supremacist who killed 51 muslim worshippers in new zealand is jailed for the rest of his life and told he willl die behind bars. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me, and on bbc 0ne, we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon. it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news.
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we start with more on those developments in the us as more athletes and teams refuse to play acoss the country as part of a protest against the police shooting of an unarmed black man in wisconsin. well, later, the la lakers are meeting to decide if they'll resume their nba season. with lebron james amongst the players stating he doesn't want to play again in this campaign. they were supposed to be in action last night, but boycotted that game, as did all the teams. 0klahoma thunder here against houston leaving the arena at disney world. it all started as you heard earlier when the milwaukee bucks — who are from wisconsin — decided to pull out of their game against orlando magic. three wnba games were also postponed, with some players taking to the court in t—shirts with seven bullet holes in the back. those are representing the seven shots police fired into jacob blake. the atlanta dream and washington mystics players then took a knee in protest.
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the players' actions were praised by former preisdent barack 0bama. and it's notjust basketball — five major league soccer matches were also been cancelled. in tennis, naomi 0saka — the highest paid female athlete in the world — pulled out of her semi—final match at a tournament ahead of the us open. the two—time grand slam champion — who earlier in the year travelled to minnesota to pay tribute to george floyd — said on twitter that "watching the continued genocide of black people at the hands of the police" was making her sick to her stomach. the tournament has now been suspended for the day. and three matches in major league baseball were also postponed. the new york mets did take to the field, but the issue is clearly causing great trauma for one of their players. the most difficult part is to see people still don't care. and for this to continuously happen... just
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be hate in people's hearts. —— the hate. that just sucks. be hate in people's hearts. —— the hate. thatjust sucks. being a black man in america is not easy. some breaking newsjust into us — manchester united midfielder paul pogba has tested positive for coronavirus. he was due to be in pre—season training with united ahead of the new premier league season which gets under way next month. pogba has also been left out of france's nations league squad. more on that as we get it and more on our website. britain's tennis players will eagerly be awaiting tonight's draw for the first round of the us 0pen — the grand slam gets underway next week. and british number onejohanna konta — at the bottom of your screen — looks in good form ahead of the tournament.
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she's into the semi—finals of the western and southern which as i said earlier has been paused after the protests forjacob blake. she'll play victoria azarenka in the finalfour. men's world number one novak djokovic is the heavy favourite for the title at flushing meadows — he's also through to the semis after beating jan—lennard struff to extend his unbeaten record in 2020 to 21 matches. the premier league's record appearance holder gareth barry has retired from professional football. barry spent the first 12 years of his career with aston villa before moving to manchester city, with whom he won the premier league in 2012 and the fa cup the previous season. he made a total of 653 appearances in the top flight and ends his career aged 39. england batsmanjason roy will miss the t20 series with pakistan after sustaining a left side strain. he was injured during training for the three—match series, which starts at old trafford tomorrow.
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he had a scan yesterday and will remain with the england set—up during his rehabilitation programme. i'll have more for you in the next hour. no new coronavirus deaths have been reported in scotland in the last 2a hours, the first minister nicola sturgeon has said. speaking during the scottish government's daily briefing, the first minister said 20,056 people have tested positive for the virus, up by 68 from the day before. ms sturgeon also gave an update on the outbreak in cases in aberdeen. let me start with the update on the statistics around covid—i9. an additional 68 positive cases were confirmed yesterday, but that represents just 0.a% of the people who were newly tested yesterday, and it takes the total number of cases now to 20,056. a full health board breakdown will be available as usual later,
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but the provisional information that i have is that 15 of the 68 new cases are in tayside, where we are dealing with a cluster involving the two sisters food processing plant. 21 are in greater glasgow and clyde, eight in lanarkshire and nine in grampian. the remaining 15 are spread across seven different health boards. i can also confirm that 257 patients are currently in hospital with confirmed covid, which is eight more than yesterday, and two people are in intensive care which is the same as yesterday. i am pleased to say that in the past 2a hours, no deaths were registered of patients who have tested positive over the previous 28 days, and the number of deaths under that measurement therefore remains 2,a9a. however, as we were reminded yesterday, people are still dying of this virus, so we must continue to treat the threat it poses very seriously. every death is, of course, a source of heartbreak and grief to many, so again,
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i want to send my condolences to everyone who has lost a loved one. there are a few issues i want to briefly cover today before the chief nursing officer and i take questions from journalists. the first is our latest estimate of the r number, which you will recall as the average number of people infected by one other infectious person. 0ur modelling suggests that the r number is currently between 0.8 and 1.2, which is unchanged from oui’ 0.8 and 1.2, which is unchanged from our previous estimate. we look at the r number carefully, but when prevalence is generally low as it is 110w prevalence is generally low as it is flow across prevalence is generally low as it is now across scotland, it can be influenced disproportionately by the kind of clusters we have been seeing lately. we have seen a rise in daily cases, although many of them are connected with the known clusters, and asi connected with the known clusters, and as i havejust highlighted today, arid daily testing positivity
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rate remains low, around one or as we saw significantly below one. but we saw significantly below one. but we are nevertheless reminded on a daily basis that covid—19 is still out there, it has not gone away, and therefore there is a need for continued caution, and all of us have a part to play in suppressing the virus and denying it, wherever possible, the chance to spread. let me give you a quick update on the most significant clusters that we are currently dealing with. firstly, in relation to the cluster related to the two sisters plant. 20 were contacts to the two sisters plant. 20 were co nta cts of to the two sisters plant. 20 were contacts of those workers... in total, that isn't increase in ten positive cases since yesterday. virtually all of that workforce have been tested. in fact, more than 5000 people in tayside have been tested since the outbreak came to our attention last wednesday, and, at this stage, there is still no
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evidence of wider community transmission, which is very positive news. all employees of the factory and their households, of course, should continue to self—isolate until monday, and i want to thank them and everyone else who is helping us to maintain this outbreak and prevent further spread. let me also update on the situation at kings park school in dundee. in total, 3a cases have been identified as part of that cluster, which is three more than yesterday. of these 3a cases, 21 a staff members, ten are 3a cases, 21 a staff members, ten a re co nta cts 3a cases, 21 a staff members, ten are contacts and three are peoples of the school, all from within the same class. all staff, pupils, has had same class. all staff, pupils, has ha d co nta cts same class. all staff, pupils, has had contacts of peoples and other releva nt had contacts of peoples and other relevant contacts should be self isolating and, again, in this cluster, there is no evidence at this stage of wider community transmission. there is also a cluster of cases that we are dealing with right now, seven positive cases have been confirmed there so far, all of them are from a small number
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of families in the area. control measures are being put in place at a number of workplaces linked to those individuals and the process of contact tracing is under way." are being tested and a mobile testing facility in the area will support that process. finally, in relation to the outbreak in aberdeen, their cases linked to the pub cluster. the outbreak is now under control, so againi outbreak is now under control, so again i want to thank everyone who has played a part in achieving this. the first minister of scotland there with her daily briefing today. in france, wearing a face mask in public will be made mandatory across the whole of paris. the daily number of cases has grown since lockdown was lifted in may, with more than 5,000 reported in the past 2a hours. 0ur paris correspondent lucy williamson has more. he was brought in last month to get
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france back to school, back to work. but how, when coronavirus is picking up speed across the country? today, the prime minister confirmed that new cases had multiplied threefold since the end of lockdown, with the virus again actively circulating in 21 red zones across france. what stopped it last time was lockdown. translation: our objective is obviously to do everything possible to avoid another lockdown, especially a general lockdown, to avoid a massive influx of patients into intensive care units, as we have unfortunately seen already. i want to tell you that this objective is within our collective reach, provided that we are mobilised and responsible. answering a question from journalists, the prime minister said that masks would become compulsory in all public areas of paris. one of the worst hit areas. they are already compulsory across the whole of marseille,
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and the number of cases in the population there has climbed to 177 per 100,000. as of wednesday night, bars a nd restau ra nts are being forced to close from 11pm and across the whole of the marseille region, to try and stem the spread. the government here is hoping local measures like this will target hotspots without stalling its bruised economy again and keep france safe from both a second lockdown and a second wave. the headlines on bbc news... life without parole for the gunman who shot and killed 51 people at two mosques in new zealand — it's the longest sentence in the country's history. hurricane laura makes landfall along the coast of louisiana — hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to leave their homes. sir ed davey wins the race to be the next leader of the liberal democrats — he says it's time for the party to face the facts after three disappointing general election results.
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the widow of pc andrew harper — who was killed after responding to a burglary a year ago — has been campaigning for a new law that would mean anyone convicted of killing an emergency service worker would be jailed for life. lissie harper will meet the home secretary, priti patel, to discuss the change in law. our correspondent helena wilkinson has been to meet her. after the court case, we were really disappointed with the verdict and the sentencing and just not getting thatjustice that andrew deserved really. so that's kind of where harper's law has come from. he was a fighter and he would love to know that, you know, instead ofjust sitting in the corner, you know, feeling sorry for myself, even though i have all the reasons to, that i'm not doing that and i'm doing something to help others,
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mainly the people that he respected and worked alongside. this is the protection that we can offer them and maybe it might act as a deterrent for people considering committing crimes that they are not just going to get away with it. so that is kind of why harper's law is the way we are wanting it to be. not because their lives are more important, but more because they need the protection law. you have a meeting with the home secretary priti patel. first of all, was that difficult to try and arrange? getting that confirmation of the meeting is really, really important. notjust to me, but the almost 500,000 people who had signed the petition. you've had a huge amount of support. what impact, or how has that helped you? it has helped me immensely. even from the early days when andrew was first taken from us, i have had
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so many messages of support. with the campaign, it's just been on a whole other level, and that's really kept me going. it's given me the focus that i needed. if all goes to plan sitting down with the home secretary next month, just imagine you are in that room, what exactly are you going to be saying to her? i think really i want to explain to her my experience, what it is like to sit in a courtroom and witness the people responsible for taking my husband, showing no remorse and knowing that, you know, this has happened because of a choice they've made, because they made a decision to go out and commit a crime. i just want her to truly understand, as i'm sure she already does on some level, just how wrong it is that they can do that and then end up with just such a meagre conviction and sentencing.
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itjust isn't right and that's what i will be saying to her, that we need to do this for all of the people who go out every day putting themselves at risk, just to protect us and to look after us. that goes for all of the emergency services. you wrote an open letter to the prime minister a while ago and he said that he would respond once legal proceedings had been completed and he has now, and has sent you a letter. just tell us what he said in that letter. i had the letter a while ago, so it was before sort of all of this. it was around all of my campaigns for a retrial and a review of the sentencing which now is being reviewed, so it was kind of a general support about that. you just touched on it. the attorney general has referred the sentences of the three teenagers to the court of appeal.
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what was your reaction when you first heard about that? i was relieved, because we have been kind of waiting for a decision about that. there's nothing i can do about that now, it's totally out of my hands. and ijust hope that we reach a good decision about that because obviously the attorney general has seen what we all see, that the sentences are too lenient. 0n the other side of it, two of them, albert bowers and jessie cole, they are... they are seeking permission to appeal against their sentences. yeah. your thoughts on that? everyone knows what they've done. whether they intended to go out on that night to do that or not, this is what has happened. they need to realise that they can'tjust, you know, not deal with any sort of punishment for that.
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i mean, i'm not sure why they think that that's acceptable. i'll do everything i can to make sure that that doesn't happen in the future. what are days like for you now? very different, entirely different actually. andrew was my whole life. but i've got this focus now i and think it sort of got to the point now where i've actually managed to get a little bit of composure and energy to really do something good instead ofjust coping, you know, actually achieving something that might help people in the future. today marks a year since the death of 19—year—old harry dunn, who was killed after his motorbike collided with a car outside a us airbase in northamptonshire.
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the driver of the car left the uk and flew to the united states, claiming diplomatic immunity. since then, harry s family has been everywhere from downing street to the white house, campaigning tirelessly to bring the driver to justice. graham satchell has been to meet them. portland on the south coast of england. it's always been a special place for harry dunn, where he came on family holidays every year. i said to the guys when it's my time to go, you know, for my ashes to be scattered here. and harry said the same. it was like, you know, "same for me, dad, this is where i want to be, as well." and then, unfortunately, you know, a month later we lost him. definitely, it definitely is my special place, it's all our special places.
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harry's ashes were scattered here a few weeks ago. it's become a place for the whole family, parents, step parents, siblings, team harry, to remember and reflect. the pain that you're left with every moment of every day, 24/7, is always there so you can never not realise that he's gone. we definitely know that he's gone. harry dunn was riding his motorbike next to raf croughton in northamptonshire when he was allegedly hit head—on and killed. the driver of the car, anne sacoolas, the wife of an american intelligence officer, claimed diplomatic immunity and left the country. harry's family has been campaigning ever since to get her back to face the british justice system. if she had stayed, none of this would have even come out, nobody would have known who she was, nobody would have known her name, the children's names, the husband's name, whatjob role he had.
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they'd have carried on being able tojust integrate into the community because we were more than willing to do everything we possibly could to ensure that she at least had a suspended sentence so that she could carry on being a mum. all we wanted was for her to go through the ukjustice system. you didn't want to see her in prison? no. not at all. what do we want? justice! when do we want it? the family's campaign has seen some remarkable successes. diplomatic immunity rules have changed. american personnel on bases in the uk will now get driver training. in december, ms sacoolas was charged with causing death by dangerous driving and an extradition request was made.
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