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across eastern parts of scotland. and then beyond that for a few days, still low pressure around, so there will still be further spells of rain or showers, and as that starts to pull away late in the week, the sting in the tale of next week's weather is quite a significant drop in temperatures. hello. this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment withjoe twyman and lucy beresford — first the headlines. conservative mps urge the prime minister to refocus his government after the departure of his top adviser, dominic cummings. a thumbs up from president trump as thousands of his supporters line the streets
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of the us capital in support of his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud financial pressure builds for the 2.9 million people in the uk who are still excluded from the chancellor's coronavirus income support schemes and diwali with a difference — the festival of lights is celebrated in a socially—distanced way by hundreds of millions of people around the world. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. joining me are the director of datapoll, joe twyman,
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and the broadcaster and psychotherapist, lucy beresford. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. the telegraph is among the papers to report on the fallouts that have ensued in politics over the weekend. the paper says that downing street has slammed ‘vicious and cowardly‘ attacks on the prime ministers fiance, carrie symonds. it comes after reports of a ongoing feud between ms symonds and the pm's now ousted senior adviser, dominic cummings. the sunday mirror carries the headline ‘princess nut nuts‘ a reference to an insult believed to be used by some in downing street to describe ms symonds. it says the fued between the two was the reason mr cummings was "axed" from his position. the express urges the pm to ‘hold his nerve‘ as it claims brexiteers continue to back mrjohnson after what it describes as a "week of turmoil". the observer reports on claims that the prime minister‘s new press chief — allegra stratton,
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was left in tears after negative briefings made by the former director of communications, lee cain. so, let‘s begin. first off, what do you make of that headline? well, it's bordering on the misogynistic, really. not so much that headline itself but it references an apparent nickname that dominic cummings and lead to an a p pa re ntly dominic cummings and lead to an apparently used about kerry simmons, the fiance of boris johnson apparently used about kerry simmons, the fiance of borisjohnson and it speaks to the counter briefings encounter, counter briefings that we have a nation have been subject to over who said what‘s, who thought what, who was on whose side and the one version of events as to what led to dominic cummings leaving very dramatically through the front door of number ten was a borisjohnson had been shown text that had been
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sent by dominic cummings which referenced kerry is being described by this nickname of princess nut nuts and we do not know whether that is actually true and they have said, thatis is actually true and they have said, that is definitely not what happened and allies have said that this is pa rt and allies have said that this is part of the picture that they were fighting against, but it does speak to the factions, the tension that has been going on behind that locked door in downing street but we do not necessarily know and in human relationships, you also do not know who was right and who‘s wrong. it can be 6—1 and have a dozen in another, it can often be about that. but a couple of commentators tonight, obviously three of them in this marriage, kerry carrie symonds, boris johnson
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carrie symonds, borisjohnson and one of them had to go and for this headline, it was payback time. one of them had to go and for this headline, it was payback timem one of them had to go and for this headline, it was payback time. it is a fascinating story that has dominated the newspapers now for a few days and it is fascinating that it offers an insight into what was going on in downing street. we do not know however, how accurate the various reports we had in today's papers and tomorrow's papers, we have known for the previous reports that some have accused dominic cummings of operating with a lavish culture. with others, it would appear from the mirror, that opponents are given quite different nicknames. this all takes place in the context of the conservative party losing the lead to labour in the polls and also the proportion of people who believe that the government is doing the right thing on the coronavirus pandemic falling
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and falling and falling. with all of this happening, the last thing that borisjohnson wants this happening, the last thing that boris johnson wants with the government facing bricks in negotiations and the heartbreaks in the next couple of weeks is having to deal with such in her strife. they do not like the parties in the papers today consist ofa parties in the papers today consist of a story of division. turning to the sunday telegraph. what do you make of the thought that many of the british public will think damage done, we should not be during our prime ministers partner all of this. yes, she has worked in number ten, but she should not be mentioned at the level of governance, lucy. i'm in two minds about this because as stated earlier, there have been rumours of a rather bullying macho
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culture and what we see it happening gci’oss culture and what we see it happening across the pond, we tend to disapprove of and the white house currently and when we think that might‘ve been the case in number ten for quite some time with certain characters that seem to think they we re characters that seem to think they were above the rules for the lockdown and perhaps talking down to ministers and may be, a different kind of politics is being ushered in and someone who is going to be the new chief of staff, not the chief of staff. but hosting the press conference for number ten, a strong ally of kerry simmons —— carrie symonds, perhaps we need a more feminine touch to these policies and some of the strategy that has been one might say very aggressive and very supportive, ruthless. it is ha rd to very supportive, ruthless. it is hard to know whether this is
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actually a bad thing if it means that the bullies are out in quite a lot of the tory mps are very glad that a lot of the vote leave cabal have been forced out and they might see this is betterfor the park in the long run. i think everybody doesn‘t see it as a bad thing that behind the scenes, some people and one of them might have been the fiance herself actually going to boris and saying saying enough is enough, you cannot actually run a functioning government, all the while you‘ve got these really aggressive people around you and are pulling you down. some people say he should‘ve been fired at time of. pulling you down. some people say he should've been fired at time of. lot of people were negative in their response to dominic cummings around that time in the majority people did think it was reasonable that he should leave hisjob. with regards
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to carrie symonds, she is a former director of communications and conservative party headquarters, so she is not a completely a political figure. and also the suggestion that the telegraph says that she was responsible for what it describes as governing by what's app, other messaging services are available, but doesn't appear that the government uses those. instead, the suggestion is that there have been discussions flying around on messages about various things but might might not be happening but also changes in mind that were reported in the suggestion is that some of the u—turns that we seen may be as some of the u—turns that we seen may beasa some of the u—turns that we seen may be as a result of that. the role of the first lady in british politics and we do not have a first lady role or first gentleman as we have with philip and dennis thatcher, that is not very well defined in this country we have had people who played a more active role. it always
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creates tension, it always creates difficulty and adding to the layers of uncertainty within downing street, which none of us were aware of. let us turn to the independent, the donald trump rally in dc. lucy. yes, he is not going quietly. i think thatis he is not going quietly. i think that is still the message from the photograph and it is an enormous rally, big photos of him giving the thumbs—up from the car and obviously to support her saying that we are not going quietly and, that photo just shows quite how many people he has been able to galvanise to get out onto the streets in washington, dc to be able to support his cause of the election has been stolen from them and perhaps they still need to pursue this in the courts. and it is a shame, really because in many
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ways, it feels like the caravan has moved on and actually a lot of people are pivoting tojoe biden that if you‘ve got china saying that we are welcoming joe biden and joe is calling boris johnson we are welcoming joe biden and joe is calling borisjohnson and they are making their plans for the next climate change summit, it feels like we are already moving on and get donald trump and his supporters are really not going to let this go without a fight. a lot of the cove rage without a fight. a lot of the coverage coming of the united states talks about the fact that donald trump loves the theatre of this and he is turning it into this season finale of his particular reality show. there's also nothing he loves more than a rally and it's no surprise that we have seen literally thousands of people turning up, but it is easy to confuse noise with volume. there's a lot of things to suggest that most of the american population believe that joe suggest that most of the american population believe thatjoe biden won the election and i do not see in
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the long term, a strategy for donald trump that means he can stay in office and at the same time, not because huge problems for himself and also for american democracy. clearly, he likes to drag it out in the way that reality star sometimes do. the lasting effect this will have on american democracy, however is something worth considering. you have 80% who believe that joe biden won the election that each of 20% who do not. if those people lose touch with democracy, for those people believe that democracy is no longer the best form of government and the best way of governing, and that raises very serious and very important questions for the united states and for the presidency ofjoe biden. notjust states and for the presidency ofjoe biden. not just in states and for the presidency ofjoe biden. notjust in the first 100 days which is concentrates on, but essentially, the four to eight years. and it is perhaps not
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unusual, paying close attention st of long ramifications of his actions. we have a few more weeks of this. lucy, if you can take us to this, a bit of a litmus test for the prime minister. gas, he is rumoured to be announcing very soon that he is going to be bringing forward the date whereby we should not be allowed to buy a new petrol or diesel cars, but he is being urged to go even further particularly by the chair of the committee on climate change and i believe it is another interesting angle which ties in to the story around where is borisjohnson getting his information from? is it from carrie symonds? we know she works for a green oriented organisation and it actually, it‘s something that he could share with
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joe biden and their passion for the environment and many mps in particular are hoping that we are going to see the borisjohnson that we had when he was mayor of london when he was proposing greener policies like boris bikes that this could be a real gear change for him and for the tory party but nevertheless, he has been urged to do more. it would still like we cannot win, he is damned if he doesn‘t damned if he doesn‘t but i believe he is going to the right direction. if you could ta ke the right direction. if you could take us to our final paper, the observer. and boring that the pandemic will double the demand for counsel homes. counsel homes, people on waiting list for counsel homes have doubled to two million and the foundation that is referenced in this and many fear that they may not be able to afford their housing over the next few months, the st is one of the many many areas that the impact of the coronavirus is only
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really starting to be felt. obviously, we have concentrated on the health aspects to a lesser extent, the economic aspects but in every area of government, whether it isjustice, whether it is crime, whether it is housing, whether it is transported, all of these areas are affected in different ways. it is clear that for this article, that housing is going to be a massive, massive problem if people are unable to pay their bills and the question is, what, ifanything is to pay their bills and the question is, what, if anything is the government willing to do a can it to to deal with this, so this isjust one of a number of areas which has huge problems associated with that. that‘s it for the papers this hour. joe and lucy will be back at half past eleven for another look at the papers. next it‘s time for click.
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hey, welcome to click. hope you‘re doing ok. at the moment, we are all online much more than we used to be — i‘m talking about us, the adults, but also our children too. and for many parents, there have been huge challenges trying to work from home at the same time as supervising children. and that has meant, in some cases, handing over devices before the proper parental controls are in place. and that‘s compounded by the fact that they may not have had enough time to supervise in the way
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that they would‘ve done in an ideal world. so with my youngest, it‘s simple — i‘m there, i operate the computer for her, i know she‘s not gonna see anything that she shouldn‘t. but my son is starting to get to the age where i want to give him a bit more independence but i also want to keep him absolutely safe. so — so what do i do? can i rely on parental control software to block all harmful content? i feel that i also should be teaching him how to spot and possibly even become resilient to the stuff that he will still encounter online. yep, that‘s a dilemma that all of us parents have to face, so we‘ve been taking a look at some of the tech that aims to help, but also how companies and legislation could perhaps do more. this is sophie. she was just 13 when she took her own life. sophie had been suffering from depression and had had suicidal thought. like many parents, we‘d given sophie a phone,
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and we gave her that at the age of 12, and we discovered a few months later that sophie had been accessing really difficult material, really completely inappropriate for, well, in my view, anyone, but certainly a child of her age. recently, a video of a young man taking his own life was posted on facebook and subsequently spread to other platforms, including tiktok, where it took days to be removed. just this week, instagram announced that it will extend the use of artificial intelligence to spot this type of content to its eu users. it can then make it less visible and, in extreme cases, remove it. but this is a problem that exists across the industry. even with sophisticated tools, harmful content still gets through. so, i‘ve been looking at safetowatch, a new ai video—tracking
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platform that aims to help, which i‘ve tested on an episode of the bbc‘s harlots. so, the software is set to detect sensitive imagery and if it detects it, then it will grey the image out, thus prevent it from being seen. now, it‘s currently in alpha so it hasn‘t got its full functionality, but the general idea is that it can track video in real time. now, that could be something that‘s being streamed directly from a phone‘s camera, or some video that‘s being streamed from the internet, but it can block any nudity or any violence that a child shouldn‘t be seeing before it ever reaches their device. so, this is all about semantic understanding, so the artificial intelligence isn‘tjust looking at the image, it‘s basically contextualising everything around
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it, including audio, so safetowatch also can analyse, detect and prevent threats in cartoons and anime. it‘s picked it up, it‘s saying it‘s picked it up, but it‘s not hashing it. it‘s very early days for the tech, it is glitchy and full functionality is still being built, but its aims are big. it hopes to work across all content providers, including home—made video. while the video tool is still being worked on, the company‘s ai—powered monitoring keyboard has been available since last year. once you‘ve downloaded safetonet‘s keyboard app, you can select it as you default. now, if i start to type something unpleasant, like "i hate you", for example, it comes up with the warning, saying "watch out! high risk content". and you can tap on that warning for more information. of course, it‘s pretty clear what i‘ve written is just simply nasty. so, let me try a few other things
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and show you how it would respond. so, "i feel depressed". and from there, it offers some advice. "oh, no! would you like some advice? you‘re not alone — others do feel like you." we can all do simple things to try and protect children from harmful content. most isps offer the facility to switch parental blocks on, that will stop some sites being visited, and most devices come with parental control settings that are easy to enable. but perhaps throwing tech solutions at tech problems isn‘t the answer, and we should be going back to basics. first thing is what does it mean? you know, what does inappropriate mean? secondly, even if you do not, you know, know if it‘s inappropriate, if it makes you feel uncomfortable, come to me. and thirdly, take a pause before you react. children, you know, unfortunately will be exposed to harmful and inappropriate content and potentially to harmful behaviour from others online.
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and if that happens, the most important thing to do is to sit and work through that with your child. to take away devices would not only be an overreaction, but it does not then help to make sure that your child is safer in future. there‘s no denying the new playstation is weird—looking. forget what the ps5 looks likejust for a moment. we‘ll come back to that in a minute. take a look at the games. under the skin, the ps5 has custom amd ryzen gpu, which supports ray tracing — a method of creating more realistic lighting effects. this means more visual whiz bang for your buck! and it has an 825 gig ssd, which means load times should be drastically reduced.
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whoa! it comes in two flavours — the full—fat, full—price version, which features an ultra hd blu—ray drive, and a cheaper digital—only version, which lacks the optical drive. watch it! he‘s throwing something! as well as ray tracing, the gpu is technically capable of 8k graphics, although for now, 4k is all we‘ve seen. it should be able to pump out 120 frames her second visuals as well, although so far, everything that i‘ve been playing has been at 60 frames — although very smooth. i‘ve been testing this machine for a couple of weeks and i‘ve mainly playing spider—man miles morales... whee! ..and astro‘s playroom, which comes bundled free with the machine. both titles demonstrate what the next generation is capable of, but in different ways. spider—man is simply gorgeous to look at. and the way in which spidey traverses the big apple, web—swinging, wall—crawling, running and leaping from building to building, as well as taking out bad guys with his trademark
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athleticism, spider—sense and web slingers are all great calling cards for sony‘s new machine. astro‘s playroom casts the player as a cute little robot who embarks on a series of adventures inside the console. while some experiences are no doubt influenced by any number of platformers and adventure games, they do serve to showcase the ps5‘s new dualsense controller. so here, i have to use my little robot to pull out this cable, and i can feel the feedback and the elasticity of the cable through the controller. it feels weird to be impressed by that, but i really am! something i‘m less impressed with is the playstation 5‘s physical box. the ps5 has has variously been described as "looking like a router or an air—conditioning unit" which is fair enough, because it is one weird—looking console. but i think all of its strange styling quirks are to try
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and mask its massive bulk. this is a big console. it‘s so big that it has its own postcode. in fact, i think it‘s so big, it‘s probably visible from the international space station. houston, i can confirm i can see the playstation 5 from space! over. of course, the biggest challenge the ps5 will face is not from its own massive dimensions, but from the xbox series x. like the ps5, the series x has better graphics and a superfast ssd, which drastically reduces loading times. it also comes in two versions — the series x and the less powerful, cheaper, series s. one feature that sets it apart is the brilliant quick resume, which lets you switch between games in seconds, picking up where you left off. and perhaps the ace up microsoft‘s sleeve for the xbox is game pass — a netflix—style subscription service which gives players access
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to hundreds of titles for a monthly price. we think xbox game pass is a critically important part of our platform. we are trying to make gaming more seamless, easier to try new games, easier to experiment with new games. it‘s reallyjust offering a ton of choices to players right now. so, which of the two new next gen machines to choose from? well, they are actually pretty different. the ps5, at the moment, feels like the most next gen of the two — that‘s because the games that are available for it at the moment really do show off what this machine can do. the xbox series x, on the other hand, is the more powerful of the two machines here, and game pass really does open up a whole world of video games to people that don‘t want to spend as much money per month on titles. this is an evolution, rather than a revolution.
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but on this evidence, it‘s off to a strong start. that was marc, and that‘s it for the shortcut of click for this week. the full length version is up on iplayer as usual. just before go, though, a word on something big that we‘re doing next week. every year, the bbc‘s 100 women project shines a light on women‘s issues and women‘s achievements and click has invited some of the most inspiring female tech leaders to a special event, and we would love you to be there. so if you‘re a woman just setting out on your career in tech, get in touch. tweet us @bbcclick and you can be in the audience and ask your questions to our special guests. look forward to seeing you. that‘s it for now, though. thanks for watching and we‘ll see you soon. bye— bye.
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hello. further spells of rain or showers to see out the weekend. very windy on sunday for some of us again, as well. now overnight, we will continue with some heavy downpours, particularly across parts of western scotland, northern ireland, wales, western england along the south coast into southeast england at times, too. nowhere particularly cold through the night and into the morning. we start with another spell of rain sweeping eastwards across england and wales on sunday. following on behind, there will be some sunshine and showers, with further rain at times in northern ireland and southwest scotland. and then, another zone of rain arrives towards south west england as we go through the afternoon. this one‘s accompanied by some particularly squally winds, so right across the south coast of england with gusts near 60 mph, it may be near 70 in the channel islands. at times, lighter winds in northern scotland, where you get to see a bit of sunshine here. it will be a cooler day compared with today. while monday starts fine,
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we will see some more rain heading in from the west later on monday.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the conflict in northern ethiopia spreads, with rocket attacks on two cities and reports of fighting across the eritrean border. cheering thousands of people march through the streets of washington to show their support for donald trump‘s unfounded claims of fraud in the presidential election. meanwhile, a counter—rally has been taking place in black lives matter plaza as crowds there march in support ofjoe biden. here in the uk, conservative mps urge the prime minister to reboot his government after the departure of his top adviser, dominic cummings.

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