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she decided they could be shared with those who might be forced to rely on more traditional tinned and dry supplies. for some of our more unusual products, then people have actually started labelling, writing recipes, telling people what to do with them, so everybody can access good, fresh produce. oh, that looks brilliant. is it ready for the pan? rosie is a single mum of three on a low income. the food bank has enabled her to give nutritious food to her children. she was quite excited about it because i have tried growing vegetables myself, which i'm not very good at, but being able to receive free produce, it is fantastic and it is a good way of showing the kids where the food comes from. it is hoped other growers will follow suit across the country, sharing not only their food but their sense of community. and all this is happening with food that might have gone to waste.
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exactly, it was just from a couple of packets of seeds in my cupboards that i wasn't going to use this year. alison freeman, bbc news, northumberland. time for a look at the weather. here's stav da naos. thank you, good afternoon. it is a brightening up afternoon for many. we have low pressure sweeping into the north of the uk, that will increase the breeze across the uk and also bring plenty of showers. here it is, this low pressure moving to the north of scotland. there is a lot of cloud through the afternoon, murky conditions with outbreaks of rain from the south—west of england up rain from the south—west of england up towards the wash. that will eventually slide away into the near continent as we head onto the latter pa rt continent as we head onto the latter part of the day. skies brightening up part of the day. skies brightening up behind and cooler air moving in as well. showers affecting scotland and northern ireland. temperature wise, quite muggy in the south—east
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at 22 degrees, generally the high teens further north you are, despite the sunshine. tonight the low pressure will bring windy weather to the north of the country, lots of showers here, some of them heavy, but elsewhere are drier night to come. should be breezy with clear skies and it should be a fresher night tonight than the previous night tonight than the previous nightjust gone. friday morning starting off on a cooler, fresher note. it will continue to be windy for all but especially the north of scotland. lots of showers, into northern ireland as well and northern england. further south, we will see this weather front pushing into southern counties bringing more cloud and outbreaks of rain here. temperatures in the mid to high teens, so turning coolerfor all. into the weekend this high pressure from the azores bumping up against that area of low pressure so we will see a run of cooler, fresher winds
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with a mixture of sunshine and showers. saturday starts on a fresh note. dry with lots of sunshine around, the breeze not quite as strong either on saturday. it is still quite windy for the north—east of scotland. temperatures 14 to 17 oi’ of scotland. temperatures 14 to 17 or 18 degrees of scotland. temperatures 1a to 17 or 18 degrees in the south—east. saturday night an area of organised, showery rain pushing into scotland, moving across the irish sea into sunday morning and spreading across england and wales. some could be thundery and heavy in the far south—east, probably the best of the drier weather in the north. that area of high pressure next week is likely to bring settled and sunny weather to our shores, and also we will see temperatures on the rise. particularly in the south. good news, thank you. a reminder of our top story... the health secretary, matt hancock, insists coronavirus testing is working well but admits he's very
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worried about an increase in cases. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me, and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon, i'm john watson, it'sjust after 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. there's been a 42% rise in reports of discrimination in english football over the past year. the report out by the equality and inclusion charity kick it out found racial and homophobic abuse has also increased as has abuse across social platforms. there were a total of 4116 reports of discrimination in the professional game, compared to 313 last year. racial abuse is up by 53% from 184 incidents to 282. and there's been a 95% rise
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in reports of abuse based on sexual orientation. at grassroots level while overall figures fell from 113 to 94. however, there were no matches from march due to the pandemic, so comparing the season until then saw an 11% rise. yorkshire say they're in contact with the former england youth captain azeem rafiq — who claimed "institutional racism" at the club left him "close to committing suicide". the spin bowler said that as a muslim he felt he was made to feel like an "outsider" and that he dreaded going to work. rafiq alleges the problem of racism at the club is as bad as ever. the club say their equality and diversity committee chair, hanif malik, is working with rafiq. claire williams will leave her role as the deputy team principal
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of the williams formula one team after this weekend's italian grand prix. it means the williams family will leave the team founded by her father sir frank more than a0 years ago. it follows the sale of the outfit to a us investment group, dorilton capital last month after several difficult seasons. the team enjoyed huge success in the 1980s and ‘90s, winning nine constructors championships and seven driver's titles and released this message to their fans. ijust i just wanted to send ijust wanted to send a very personal messages to you all, to say thank you so much for all the support that you have given us over so many years of racing. i know so many of you have been by our side through thick and thin, then with us in the good times, in many bad times and we could not have got through it without you. we genuinely, genuinely appreciate support that you have a lwa ys appreciate support that you have always given us. claire williams about that impending
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into the williams family involvement in the team. it's a big night in the nations league as the republic of ireland take on bulgaria in new boss stephen kenny's first match in charge. while wales play their first game since november last year as they take on finland. it'll be a chance for gareth bale to take to the field — something he's not done sincejune the 24th at real madrid. the forward says he's been denied moves away from the spanish club — and seems to be happy to be on international duty. i always want to feel loved and wanted, it is great to be back. we have not had too much training in the off—season and that, we are coming back, everyone is probably not much fat, we have prepared as much as we can in the last few days. lionel messi's father has met with barcelona officlas after declaring it would be ‘difficult‘ for his son to remain with the club. jorge, who acts as his son's agent, landed from argentina ahead of talks with presidentjosep bartomeu in a bid to resolve the stalemate
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between player and club, with barcelona demanding his £623 million relase clause is met. messi's team believe there's a contract loophole allowing him to leave for free. his team mates hopeful he'll stay. translation: of course it will be a pity if messi eventually leaves, it will be a blow not only for the team but the entire club. it will have a huge impact but it is difficult for me to comment if the rumours are true. i don't know what the club wa nts true. i don't know what the club wants or what messi once, i haven't spoken to him personally about this. former sprinter christian malcolm has been appointed as head coach of british athletics. the welshman represented gb at the 2000 and 2008 olympics and is a world, european and commonwealth games medallist. he will lead all the senior teams at the major championships when he leaves australia athletics to take up his role later this year.
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some breaking news before i go. fans will be allowed back into english football league matches next week with two games picked as test events, both at cambridge united's abbey stadium.. first there will be 1,000 supporters at their game next tuesday against fulham under—21s. then next saturday 2,500 fans will be allowed into their opening game of the league two season against carlisle united. football fa ns football fans edging ever closer to seeing the clubs back in play. you can find more on all those stories — plus live coverage from stage six of the tour de france, on the bbc sport website. britain's adam yates of course the overall leader. i will be back with another little update later on. to you, jane. john, thank you. you are watching bbc news. i am jane hill, taking you through the next few hours of coronavirus coverage
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and all besides. the scottish first minister, nicola sturgeon, has said there's more evidence that coronavirus is spreading again in scotland. she told her daily briefing that the r figure — the average number of people estimated to be infected by someone with the disease — was believed to have risen above one last week, to as high as 1.11. i've got two issues that i want to briefly update on. the first is that the scottish government will today publish a weekly report on the r number. you'll recall that the r number is the average number of people who we estimate would be infected by one other infectious person. that report will confirm what recent figures have probably already suggested to many of you. we think that the r number in scotland increased last week and that it is probably now above one, perhaps as high as 1.11. now, i've said recently that the r number is of slightly less concern when overall prevalence of the virus
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is low and overall prevalence of the virus is still low in scotland right now. but nevertheless, this is a further remainder that the virus is spreading again here, just as it is elsewhere in the uk, across europe and indeed in the wider world. so it is a reminder of the need for us to take this seriously and do all of the right things. and that really relates to the first issue or the other issue, rather, i want to talk about today. and as i talk about this, i'll obviously make particular reference to the parts of the greater glasgow and clyde health board area — glasgow city, west dunbartonshire and east renfrewshire — that have restrictions in place right now. but i want to reflect a little bit on how as we come out of lockdown and cases inevitably rise, as we always predicted they would, how we nevertheless try to keep transmission under control and what part test and protect plays in that.
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the really important role test and protect has to perform for us, but also what the limitations of that are and the responsibility that still rests on the shoulders of each and every one of us. now, you will recall that we tried to use the summer period and did so effectively to reduce covid in scotland to as low a level as possible. and that was because we knew that as we started to move out of lockdown, there would be more opportunities for the virus to spread. and as has happened in other countries, we may see cases begin to rise. but by getting it to low levels and trying to keep overall transmission as low as possible, what i've often referred to as our elimination strategy, we then give our test and protect teams the best possible chance of identifying local cases and clusters when they do occur and through contact tracing and advising people to isolate where necessary breaking the chains of transmission.
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and so far, our test and protect homes across the country are doing an excellentjob and i want to take the opportunity today to thank them for that. our test and protect teams. but the other crucial thing test and protect does, working, of course, with local incident management teams and local health protection teams, is give us much more intelligence than we had at an earlier stage in this pandemic about the causes and sources of outbreaks and is able to make assessments of whether these outbreaks are contained or risking wider spread. and that intelligence then informs the decisions we have to take about when we need to take further action, impose restrictions and what form that further action should take. nicola sturgeon speaking at lunchtime. with uncertainty over whether quarantine restrictions
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will be applied to more countries, uk travellers continue to face some difficult decisions. our europe correspondent, gavin lee, is at faro marina in the algarve and has been speaking to people on holiday there. it's interesting because since the travel corridor opened for portugal in the uk, which was only 12 days ago, because bear in mind, during the pandemic, portugal was the one place where it was closed in terms of quarantine was still necessary when people go back to the uk. so the portuguese saw a drop in numbers, but since august the 22nd, we are told that there are between 25,000 and 30,000 british tourists who have come out here to portugal for that late summer sun. let me bring in two people who have decided to come out and play quarantine roulette, as it were, jim and kathy, you flew out from edinburgh. jim, first of all, tell me about your story, because you have been looking at different countries. you had actually booked several other countries before you came here. well, first, i had a holiday booked for canada in june, which wasjust cancelled end of... we had this originally booked early on in the year, and this was subsequently cancelled,
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went on to book croatia, croatia cancelled. they opened portugal back up, ijumped on the bandwagon. the 27th of august, flew on the 315t and now we're here. and we may have to quarantine when we get home. and kathy, you are due to come back next week. i think you've got to keep with the original flight, that is that right? but you're going to be affected for your job? yes, i am, i've already got a plan in place to take two weeks off on return anyway because we highly suspected this may happen, so we put that plan in place before we came. so i'm fine, i won't lose myjob. your whiskey company know, clearly, that's in place. now, just briefly, clearly the government mantra at the moment is to only travel if you're content that you might have to unexpectedly cancel. so you are relatively ok with the fact that this has suddenly changed you now? reasonably comfortable.
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it just means that you're restricted when you go home for a fortnight, and bearing in mind we have done quite a bit of lockdown prior to this. thank you both, let me give you a quick elbow bump and say thank you. i should just say, actually, the law here in portugal is that face masks aren't mandatory and they are inside, but not for outside in public places, providing you keep at 1.5 metres. it is also worth saying, there are lots of british tourists that i've also spoken to who are unhappy because the flights back, if they do want to avoid quarantine, are really much more expensive. between £1100, £500. we are talking about faro flights, only about four on friday if people do have to quarantine, course, we're still waiting. it is likely, the british ambassador to portugal has said, has hinted at this is likely to happen today, and portuguese figures have gone over that 20 mark now per 100,000, so we should see. very briefly as well, they call this the silver season because many british tourists, all the tourists, wait till the children and pupils are back at school and the golfing season starts here as well. so it will be a big loss if it comes
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today for quarantine on return, and of course, this country becomes a no—go zone. we will keep you up—to—date if there are any updates around that story of quarantine and travel. five years ago, more than 1 million migrants and refugees crossed into europe. nearly three quarters were fleeing conflict in syria, afghanistan and iraq. we're looking at one extraordinary week in 2015, when each day revealed new tensions that tested european solidarity. the european union voted to launch an emergency scheme to relocate hundreds of thousands of migrants. sweden was one of the most generous countries, but its asylum policies quickly became stricter. the bbc followed nour ammar, a young syrian woman, as she made the perilous journey north. maddy savage has been to sweden to see how her life has changed? coffee with mum, a simple pleasure nour ammar doesn't take for granted. they were separated
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as she travelled alone across nine countries to make it here. her father died in the war in syria. now, she's learnt swedish, got her driving licence and a job in a food warehouse. i have my apartment, i have my family, i have myjob, so i feel like i'm a stable, confident person right now. what about making friends, settling in? they are a close group, the swedish people, so you can't just go in and be friends with some swedish people. you can't do that. do you have any swedish friends? no, i don't have any. she'd hoped for deeper connections, but still feels lucky to be here. that's because sweden, one of the most welcoming countries to migrants, changed its approach soon after she arrived, limiting numbers and making temporary permits the norm. for a centre—left government, it was a major shift in policy. of course it was a tough decision
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to make, but on the other hand, there was nothing else to do. there arrived 114,000 people to sweden injust four months, and it would have been impossible for sweden to keep on that pace, so we had to be very clear that, well, if you're going to apply for asylum in europe, you have to choose other countries. crime is also a big issue here in sweden. in city suburbs like this one, rinkeby, where almost everyone has an immigrant background, there have been high—profile shootings in recent years, and that's led increasing number of swedes to vote for anti—immigration parties, even though police say most of the crimes are carried out by gangs and people who've grown up here, not new arrivals. and lots of locals say they do feel safe even if they've lost friends in the violence, like this 16—year—old. normal people don't have to be scared about that. if you don't... if you aren't involved in a gang, you don't have to be scared for nothing. but if you are involved,
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then you'd better run. how easy is it to...to be successful if you come from a place like this, to have a career, education? it's...you only have two ways — either you play football or you do music. you don't have any other ways out. there is a strong push to improve life with a new police station and projects to help more people into work here and other segregated neighbourhoods. it's a big challenge to enter the job market in sweden if you don't have a network, and also, to progress up in the market. we facilitate meetings with just ordinary swedes, but we match demand that they have the background in the same sector, and since the immigration wave five years ago, we have facilitated for over 58,000 people to meet this way with a great impact, 24% get the job or an apprenticeship through our programme. while some new swedes are making their way even in neighbourhoods that were already
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troubled, no—one disputes that the decision to take in so many has brought challenges that are shaping this country's future. maddy savage, bbc news, sweden. a record number of migrants crossed the english channel from france on wednesday according to the uk borderforce. authorities say they've dealt with 27 incidents so far, involving 409 people. the previous daily high was 235. a new case outlining allegations of police violence has emerged in the united states. camera footage obtained from police in new york state shows an unarmed black man being hooded by officers and held down with his face to the road for two minutes. 41—year—old daniel prude was suffering from mental health problems when his family called the police for help in march. his brotherjoe spoke to the media on wednesday. i placed a phone call for my brother to get help, not for my brother to get lynched.
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you're here to protect and serve. but you're basically here to protect and lynch. cbs correspondent laura podesta in new york explained what's known about the case. another case causing outrage, this one in the rochester new york community, a bit further north of where i'm standing here in new york city. this happened back in march but body camera footage was just released which shows this man, daniel prude, being held down by rochester police, face down, with a spit hood over his head. a spit hood is like a mesh bag, and it was being used on him because this was while coronavirus was ramping up. and there are reports that daniel prude told officers he had coronavirus so they put the spit hood on him as a precaution so they would not get his saliva on them
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and contract the coronavirus. but daniel prude held down for over two minutes, face down, he became unconscious, he was taken to hospital and died seven days later after being taken off life support. so now there is an investigation, an internal investigation into the police officers involved, we are told they are still on the force, they have not been suspended orfired. this is in contrast to the george floyd case in minneapolis that you will remember back on memorial day in may. those officers have been either suspended or fired and are facing charges now. laura podesta with cbs news. a ship carrying nearly 6000 cattle and with more than 40 crew has gone missing off the coast of japan. coastguards have rescued just one seaman, who was found drifting in rough waters in a life jacket. but strong winds and torrential rains from typhoon maysak are hampering efforts to locate
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the other crew members. the freighter, which was on its way from new zealand to jingtang in china, sent out a distress signal call from nearby amami oshima island late on wednesday. the bbc‘s shaimaa khalil says the rescued crew member has been giving details of what happened. we heard from serino edwards, the 45—year—old crew member, chief officer, who was the only crew member to be rescued from the ship. he spoke to the japanese coast guard after he was rescued he said that one of the ship's engines had failed before the ship hit a wave and capsized and that he and other crewmembers were directed to wear life vests, even jump off into the water. but he said he didn't see any other crewmembers. as you say, we know that the ship was headed from new zealand to china, it was due in china by next friday, but overnight on wednesday it sent out this distress signal. the japanese coast guard has told
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the bbc that the search continues, they are using five planes, they are using three rescue ships, but they are working in extremely difficult conditions captain richard meikle is a master mariner and accident investigator who has worked for britain's marine accident investigation branch. he says ships like this are very hard to handle in rough seas. cattle carriers such as this do bring their own challenges, particularly with the large area of deck space where the cattle are obviously stowed, and so the cattle are able to move and also the water in the area produces a large surface area that when the ship starts to get into trouble has an impact. a lot of these vessels have been modified from existing vessels and some have been built for the purpose, but
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the transportation of cattle around the world is well—known and very well established. i think it is extraordinary, particularly in this, in 2020, that we've got a large vessel, modern, certificated that is found and the fact that this still goes on is quite extraordinary. it's not unknown, there have been previous vessels such as this which have also been lost in the past, so this certainly isn't the first time, but extraordinary that it still happens. richard meikle. much more coming up from 2pm. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos hello there. it warmed up briefly through the day today, certainly early on, but through the day we've seen sunshine and showers push down from the north—west and it's gradually turning cooler once again. it will remain breezy as well.
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all areas, but especially across the north of the uk north—west scotland seeing winds touching 40 miles an hour or so as this area of low pressure edges ever closer. you can see a real squeeze in the isobars here as we head on in towards the evening. we eventually lose that weather front from the south and the east later in the day, so we could see a little bit of brief brightness before we head on into the evening. it turn windier, though, gales in the far north, certainly for the northern isles and plenty of showers here, some of them on the heavy side. temperatures not quite as high as what they were overnight last night, so a cooler feel to things certainly out of towns and cities. for friday, then, it's a fresher start to the day, it will be bright with some sunshine, still quite breezy, lots of showers piling into the north and west of scotland, northern ireland, far north—west of england. some of these could be heavy and thundery and we could see some rain returning into southern counties of england through the day. a bit of uncertainty to this, but it does look like it's mainly southern counties that will see the rain moving in, tending to be light and patchy and those temperatures still on the cool side. as we head on into the weekend,
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high pressure begins to build in from the south—west, squeezing in against that area of low pressure to the north—east. so that means we'll see a run of fairly cool and at times, brisk, west, north—westerly winds. there'll be plenty of sunshine around too, but also some showers. this is the picture for saturday and a rather cool start. again, a breezy day for all, windy across the far north—east, close to that area of low pressure. most of the showers will be affecting northern and western areas. again, the odd heavier one, tending to stay dryer the further east that you are, but those temperatures low. it will feel cooler, 14 to 18 degrees in the south—east. through saturday night, we see another feature push into northern ireland, southern scotland, that could bring more organized showery rain and that will then spread south—eastwards as we head on into sunday into large parts of england and wales. so a bit more cloud round, few showery bursts of rain, a bit of sunshine in between, could see the odd, heavy, maybe even thundery one in the south—east, dryer for scotland and northern ireland. but again, on the cool side, 14 to 18 celsius. quick peek as we head on into next week. it does look like high
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pressure is going to bring a lot of dry and settled weather certainly across england, wales and then for all areas it is going to feel a little bit warmer too.
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this is bbc news. i'm jane hill. the headlines. coronavirus testing is working well, says the health secretary — despite some people with symptoms travelling more than 100 miles to get a test. if people need a test, the vast majority get it quickly and close to home, but when those testing centres are full, then obviously people are offered a test at the nearest place which one is available. the prime minister said we would have a world beating system, we haven't got an effective system, and what we are now seeing is a postcode lottery. confusion about quarantine for travellers — airline bosses call for testing at airports, to prevent what they say will be the death of the industry. scotland's first minister says the coronavirus reproductive —

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