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she also had video. bleep. this judgment on the sun article could hardly be clearer. of the 1a allegations, thejudge said 12 had been proved. he said amber heard was no gold digger, there was no hoax. this case was prompted by questions over his casting in the fantastic beasts franchise. johnny depp hoped he could restore his reputation. chanting: justice forjohnny! each day at court, he arrived surrounded by fans convinced that he was the victim. his gambit has failed. his reputation is destroyed. i didn't think this was a case that needed to be brought. i think it was ill—advised and certainly was unhelpful. you have given me so much strength. and for amber heard, who has in recent years taken on a public role speaking out about domestic violence, this is a judgment that
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goes beyond hollywood. thank you. to have this result, particularly now, just as we are about to go into another lockdown, i think sends a clear message to victims that, actually, do come forward — you will be believed. and for me, that's the most important thing. johnny depp‘s lawyers have described thejudgment as perverse and bewildering. he had hoped to restore his reputation. this judgment has torn it apart. david sillito, bbc news. a three—year—old girl has been rescued alive from a collapsed apartment building in the turkish city of izmir, following friday's earthquake, which has killed at least 91 people. after nearly three days under the rubble, rescuers thought elif perincek was dead, but the little girl reached out and grabbed the thumb of one of her rescuers. she has had an extraordinary escape and is now being treated in hospital. her mother and twin
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sister also survived. england's latest lockdown will leave different parts of the uk facing markedly different restrictions, as we reflected on earlier. the latest polling in england suggests there's increasing pessimism about the immediate future, and unhappiness with the way politicians have handled coronavirus. with the help of analysts at britain thinks, bbc news has assembled a focus group of people drawn from all parts of the united kingdom. they've been speaking to our home editor, mark easton. politicians cannot argue or reason with covid. instead, forced to respond to its resurgence with fire breaks, restrictions, and, for england, the return to lockdown. so, do people still believe that sacrificing freedom remains the best way to appease the pandemic? i don't feel very confident in my future. i'm self—employed. my business is gone, it's wrecked. i'm in the process of... i'm going to have to stop paying my mortgage. i'm in a household with my mum, who's extremely vulnerable, and it's really, really difficult
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for me, being very young. i want to see my friends, but i know i can't. you do want to go out, go and see your mates or go and see your partner, or go for a meal. lots of people's birthdays are coming up. snap polling conducted this weekend by comres suggests 72% of people in england are in favour of the lockdown, with just 15% against. are you in favour of the lockdown, or do you think it's too tough? the lockdown is irrelevant. the government is focusing on one thing when they're failing on so many other parts, that if they did the job in all of the other parts, then we wouldn't need to be going into such a severe lockdown right now. theyjust need to make lockdown even tighter, if anything. really? go harder still? yeah. it's kind of been pointless. they should have just gone into lockdown earlier, like the scientists have said was the right thing to do.
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i also think it doesn't help that politicians haven't followed their own rules. that has been a slap in the face for a lot of families. what was the point of it all? is this just going to keep rolling on and on and on? it has to stop. more than half of voters, some 53%, think the uk government has handled the pandemic badly in the last months, according to weekend polling. 23% say it's been handled well. i want you to be honest now. do you think there is a chance that you might twist the rules, or even break the rules? i think i would break the rules so that i could see my sister because i'd rather make sure she's ok, because she's only 22 and really struggling. the question we should ask is, what should i do, not what can i do. itjust seems like there's no light at the end of the tunnel this time. i think it's even tougher, it's dark nights now, the days feel so much shorter. so mentally, i think it's
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going to be far, far tougher. there is, it seems, a mixture of resignation, frustration and trepidation, as the country prepares for a long winter trying to thwart an invisible enemy in the dark. mark easton, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. let's bring you the latest news from vienna — at least one person has been killed and several more are feared dead after a shooting vienna. austria's interior minister ' police have urged people to avoid the area and not to take public transport.
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let's speak to our correspondent bethany bell — who's in rome. bethany, up—to—date, please. the austrian chancellor has condemned this as an impulsive terror attack. in recent years vienna has been spared the kind of attacks that have been seen in paris, berlin and london. but very strong words being used tonight by chancellor. the police operation is still ongoing. we know at least one person has been killed. there are fears that more people may have died in these shootings which broke out in the centre of the city around eight p:m.. in an area near the centre of the city around eight p:m.. in an area nearthe main synagogue in vienna. but the head of the austrian jewish synagogue in vienna. but the head of the austrianjewish community has said it's not clear whether the synagogue was the target. he said it was empty at the time of the
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shooting. this area is also home to a large nightlife area. and there weren't many people out in the evening taking advantage of the last night before austria goes into a second lockdown. police have urged people to stay inside. to stay away from the centre of town as they continue to search for suspects. and public transport is not actually stopping in the centre of the city at the moment. do we have any idea how many attackers there may have been and how many locations may have been and how many locations may have been targeted? the police say several people were involved in the attack. they were armed with rifles, they are talking about six different locations. unverified video, you could see shots being fired in a big
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square where there are a lot of public transport connections. at the moment, we know that the search is still ongoing. the chancellor said ina still ongoing. the chancellor said in a tweet that he has asked the army to take over some normal police duties while the police continue to search for suspects in this incident. you know vienna extremely well, it is your home. for the authorities prepared to face something like this? people have been on alert for a long time. especially when there were big attacks in other cities like paris and london. and we had the recent incidences in france. people were perhaps a little bit more on edge than usual. vienna has not seen these big type of attacks in recent yea rs these big type of attacks in recent years there have been attacks in the past in the 1980s, there have been smaller attacks in recent years but this is something that is really shocked people. especially now in
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this condition now where everybody is about to go into lockdown in the middle of a pandemic. this is something that people really find ha rd to something that people really find hard to believe is actually happening in vienna. thank you so much forjoining us. leaders in europe have been responding to news from vienna. let's look through some of those reactions. we start with the president of france. you can see the president of france. you can see the translation in german that i go to has written. we share... and we also have response from the head of the eu.
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just fun more and bethany said the chancellor of austria had responded by calling the attacks repugnant. the chancellor said i'm glad that oui’ the chancellor said i'm glad that our police officers have already been able to eliminate a perpetrator. we will never allow ourselves to be intimidated by terrorism from top we will fight these attacks resolutely by all means. the words of the austrian chancellor. we will keep you up—to—date with this story. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster and authorjohn kampfner and caroline wheeler, deputy political editor at the sunday times, tomorrow's front pages. starting with. according to the daily telegraph —
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entire cities will be given weekly covid testing, starting this week in liverpool, as part of new efforts to track and stop the spread of the virus. the guardian says up to half a million people in liverpool are due to be tested and the paper also understands that the self—isolation period for those who test positive for coronavirus, and their contacts, could be cut from the currentili—day period to seven days as early as this week. the ‘i' reports results in the pilot scheme in liverpool can be provided within an hour without a lab and testing will be made available through home kits and in locations across the city. the metro says the prime minister has defended test and trace boss dido harding, despite contact tracing falling to a record low, and rejected calls to sack the head of his vaccine task force, kate bingham, after she was accused of revealing confidential information to us financiers. the financial times boris johnson has tried to quell anger over his handling of the pandemic by insisting that a new national lockdown in england would not herald a winter of open—ended closures,
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claiming that the virus could be beaten "by the spring". and the times carries a picture of the presidential candidate joe biden — and says president trump capped is warning that any delay in declaring the result tomorrow would "put the country in danger" as businesses boarded up and citiesbraced for unrest while americans went to the polls. so let's begin... when we look first of all at the daily telegraph, mass testing plan to offer a way out of lockdown. i promise you i looked at the date on this newspaper wondering was is actually in old newspaper left from april or may? and it turns out know. we are still talking about the same things we talked about a long time ago. first of all, it's important to say that it's incredibly difficult for the prime minister or early leader in the world to know how to calibrate the very fast, all embracing lockdown response with all
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the comments and damage that that does to the economy and two peoples lives, livelihoods, physical and mental health. it's incredibly difficult. and some in the conservative party, the libertarian wing are accusing borisjohnson of overreacting to being taken hostage by the scientists. and many others are saying it's too late and he should have heeded the words of sage and done more with a two week fire break in september. what bothers me about this telegraph headline, just as you say, it's displacement news management. the idea all the way through since march, borisjohnson and his ministers have overpromise, under delivered, everything was good to bea under delivered, everything was good to be a world beating, our track and trace our testing, provision of ppe, everything has been the opposite. it has been pretty much an object
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lesson in how not to deal with a pandemic. and no country has done it perfectly but a lot of other leaders have both behaved differently and responded differently. in the chaos of saturday evenings press conference and then the house of common saying it does not inspire confidence in whatever he may promise. pardon me for being cynical. when we talk about mass testing, i did look a little earlier at britain's mass testing is greater than france's, italy and germany. so the uk has done something there. is this the way out of lockdown?“ the uk has done something there. is this the way out of lockdown? if you listen to what experts are saying about the benefits of mass testing, they suggest that in this case being liverpool the first city with a chart doing this, and they're thinking about doing a weekly basis critically in schools and hospitals and the expert seem to be saying that if you know who's got coronavirus, because of course eight
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out of ten people are eight 39 asymptomatic. they don't know they have the virus and are happily spreading it around without knowing it. if you know you've got coronavirus and you self—isolate, you can actually cut the spread of the virus down to half. so that's the virus down to half. so that's the kind of efficacy of the idea behind mass testing. i think what john says is right, one of the issues we've seen time and time again around testing is we have struggled to reach capacity. i take oi'i struggled to reach capacity. i take on board your point that we've actually done better than some other european countries. but this is all pa rt of european countries. but this is all part of borisjohnson's noon european countries. but this is all part of boris johnson's noon shot strategy. which ultimately wants to wrap up to 10 million test today. a vast swathe of the population is being tested on the daily basis was up being tested on the daily basis was up that's being heralded as the way out of lockdown. given the problems that we've seen with test and trace and all sorts of other things in
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terms of capacity. with promising and on delivering

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