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chadwick boseman. and chadwick boseman won posthumously for his role in me rainey�*s black bottom. john boyega, small axe. john boyega won for his role in small axe and daniel kaluuyah forjudas and the black messiah. that's for my mum, my sister, my niece, love my friends back home, london town, what's happening? rosamund pike, i care a lot. rosamund pike and anya taylor—joy were among other british winners in a ceremony where celebrities made speeches from their sitting rooms and bedrooms wearing anything from ballgowns to pyjamas. it may have lacked the normal glitz, but we got a glimpse into celebrity homes and it was more of a family affair. sophie long, bbc news, los angeles. time for a look at the weather, here's louise. look at this, some beautiful spring
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sunshine and warmth for many of us, because of some high pressure, which will stay with us this week, but a change in direction will bring quite a dramatic change in the weather story over the next few days. there will be quite a lot of low cloud and fog around. this is the story for sunday, the high—pressure centre that was us, now veering towards the near continent and allowing ali south—easterly flow that has been drawing on cloud off the north sea. it has been rather murky across parts of eastern england down into south—east england. you can see where we have the best of the sunshine so far, not too bad across scotland, north—west england and parts of northern ireland, and although the fog will lift and that low cloud will thin and breaking places, if you are under it, it will have quite an impact on the feeling of the weather. temperatures underneath a cloud sitting at a maximum of around seven celsius, but where we see sunshine we will see double figures. going through the night tonight that high—pressure drifting off into the near continent. more of a south—easterly
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feed driving and more cloud than moisture off the north sea, and that means more extensive folk first thing tomorrow and some of that could be pretty slow to play. not looking too bad in sheltered western areas of scotland and north—west england. the fog will lift by the middle part of the day, perhaps in some places again into low cloud, so a real contrast with the feel of the weather, perhaps 6—8 celsius where the cloud lingers and a maximum temperature for tuesday afternoon of 14. moving into wednesday, this little fellow was driving some showers, some of them heavy, possibly thunder eco south—west england and wales and stretching up the midlands, so we will be seeing some showers for a while. again the further north and west you go, the best of any brighter weather. it looks as though we will continue to see a change in the feel of the weather story. 10—15 celsius across central and southern england, and noticeably cooler, to the north.
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this cooler fuel will dominate as another area of high pressure moves in, this time from the north. this will allow a more easterly flow to descend across the country, pushing that milder air back over to the near continent, so say goodbye to those double digits, because it will stay relatively quiet but noticeably cooler by the end of the working week. simon.— cooler by the end of the working week. simon. ., , ., ., ~ , ., week. simon. louise leah, thank you very much- — a reminder of our top story... moving hospital — the duke of edinburgh is taken to st bartholomew's in london for treatment for a pre—existing heart condition. 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.
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good afternoon — it's just after 1.30, and this your latest sports news. the french sports minister has threatened to withdraw france from the six nations if the country's rugby federation does not get to the bottom of a covid—i9 outbreak in the camp. they're due to travel to england a week on wednesday, for their next game. their game against scotland was postponed after 11 players tested positive, as well as staff members including head coach fabien galthie. it's emerged that he left the squad bubble, to watch his son play rugby after the first round of matches — but the federation has backed him, saying he was allowed to leave as long as he wore a mask. former england batsman marcus trescothick — has been appointed batting coach by the england and wales cricket board. trescothick scored over 5 and half thousand runs in 76 tests, and helped england to their famous ashes triumph in 2005. he'll step down as assistant coach of county side somerset to start the new role later this month. leading racehorse trainer gordon elliott has apologised for a photograph that emerged on social media, showing him sitting on a dead horse. he admitted the picture
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was genuine and said it was taken "some time ago". elliott, who has trained the winner of the grand national three times, released a statement, saying the welfare of every horse under his care was paramount. the irish horseracing regulatory board, has begun an investigation thejockey club and the british horse racing authority said the image was totally unacceptable. british number three cameron norrie continued his good start to the year, with victory in the first round of the atp event in rotterdam. he beat nikoloz basilashvili in straight sets — the georgian is ranked 40th in the world, 25 places higher than norrie but he failed to win a single game in the opening set, before putting up more of a fight in the second. andy murray plays robin haase later. but he says he's still struggling to get over the disappointment of missing last month's australian open due to coronavirus. he says he's in good shape physically. he'd completed a io—week training schedule and was ready to play, so it was a big blow when he was unable to travel to melbourne in time to complete the required quarantine period. i was really excited and looking forward to australia and was feeling good. i missed quite a lot of big tournaments in recent years with injury and that happened and i was really disappointed and i was
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playing a challenger when the australian open was going on and that was frustrating for me so still something i am getting over from the disappointment and mental side of things but physically feel good. tiger woods said he was touched, after players showed their support during the latest tour events in florida. he's continuing to recover after a serious car crash in california last week. a number of players wore woods�* famous final—round colours at the wgc tournament — including rory mcilroy, who finished six shots behind winner collin morikawa woods tweeted "it is hard to explain how touching it was when i turned on the tv and saw all the red shirts." for everyone to show their appreciation of what he means to us out here. you know, if there is no tiger woods, there'd be... i just think the tour and the game of golf in general would be in a worse place. he's meant a lot to us, he still does mean a lot to us and i think that was just a way
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to show a little of that. that's all the sport for now but there's more on the bbc sport website — including the news that police in spain have searched the offices of barcelona football club and made several arrests, after an investigation into financial issues at the club. more now on that breaking news that in the past half hour the former french president, nicolas sarkozy, has been found guilty of corruption and influence peddling. the court has sentenced him to three years�* imprisonment, two of which are suspended. our correspondent hugh schofield has the latest from the paris courthouse. he went into this court fairly confident he put up a strong defence and the trial but the judge summing up and the trial but the judge summing up was damning, she said that he and his lawyer had colluded with a seniorjudge to pass on six at
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information with the promise of a promotion for thatjudge to a post in monaco. the defence had said throughout the case that whatever conversations had been taken with anecdotal and were not a conspiracy and nothing happened, thejudge did not get the preferential post and monaco, nothing happened at the court which worked and nicolas sarkozy�*s away, he did not get anything out the conspiracy but the case rested on the fact that in order for there to be a conspiracy that has not have to be a result, it does not have to end with success, it can still be a conspiracy. the judge summing up was quite damning that they knew perfectly well what they were doing when they had these conversations, they knew they were trying to subvert and sell influence to a seniorfigure in trying to subvert and sell influence to a senior figure in the justice system and therefore they were
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guilty and the guilty verdict is not just that, it comes with a sentence of three years, two suspended but one year of pleasant which can be served with an electronic tag at home but nonetheless he will undoubtedly see this as a highly shaming moment of his career, no question he will appeal so he will not leave this courthouse and chains but at is nonetheless deeply embarrassing for him, a moment which will no doubt confirm for him and his supporters on the right that there is at the heart of the justice system a cabal, a left—wing conspiracy trying to get in, that is the conviction that the camp has. more on the news that we've had an update on the condition of the duke of edinburgh. it comes after an ambulance was seen leaving the king edward vii hospital in central london this morning. prince philip has been transferred to another london hospital — rather than returning to windsor
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castle. prince philip — who is ninety—nine — continues to receive treatment for an infection and will have tests for a pre—existing heart condition. our correspondent helena wilkinson is in windsor. we all thought that this problem with that he would be heading back the queen being kept up—to—date on his condition. she will be, the royal standard is flying at the castle meaning the queen is in residence at it was just under two weeks ago that her husband the duke of edinburgh was had been feeling a little bit unwell for a couple of days and that is the reason why he was taken by car to the private hospital and central london, he spent his 13th night there last night and the queen will have been kept up—to—date, and terms of her husband is doing and will continue to be now that we know he has been transferred to saint bartholomew's
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hospital, also in london. the palace statement which we got at 1230 pm said the duke was being treated or continued to be treated for an infection but also he is going to be tested and observed for a pre—existing heart condition and we're told by the palace the duke remains comfortable and is responding to treatment but they do not expect him to be discharged until at least the end of the week. why saint bartholomew's, we know it is a specialist for cardiac treatment and that is where he will get that care but the duke and the queen have been isolating here at windsor castle for much of the past year, since the first lockdown with a small household staff, they celebrated their 73rd wedding
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anniversary here last november, the duke also celebrated his 99th birthday lastjune, he is going to be 100 and just underfour birthday lastjune, he is going to be 100 and just under four months. the queen here of course she will be no doubt concerned even though we are told the duke is comfortable, responding to treatment, she will no doubt be wanting her husband back home as soon as possible. thank you. boris johnson insisted the government had acted as fast as it could to get the uk's quarantine hotel scheme going,
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and it was a "very tough regime". he said a "massive effort" was being made to contain any spread of the brazilian variant and that the uk is going at the right pace on reopening. he was speaking during a visit to a primary school in stoke—on—trent. i think that these schools have done an amazing job of getting ready and it is fantastic to be here at saint mary's primary school in stoke—on—trent were literally every single person i have talked to is so keen for children to get back on march the 8th. part of that is making sure we have got enough testing kits for, well, for secondary school pupils but also for teachers and for parents and we have got 50 million testing kits available and i think people do understand how to use them and we are very confident there will they will be of use in keeping the disease under control and keep it going down as we get schools were open. but if it isn't, if we aren't able to keep the disease under and there are surges is there a possibility that schools would have to close in those areas? we're doing now is embarking on a journey, a one—way road back to freedom and it is decidedly cautious in order to be irreversible. that is what we are hoping to achieve in some people say we should go faster,
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some people say we should be more hesitant. i think we are going at the right pace. education is the priority. getting all schools open on the eighth is something that we have set our hearts and for a long time and i'm confident we will be ready. everyone here at this school is certainly ready and very keen to get on with it. you have appeal to try to find the person involved in the brazilian variant. is this a failure of our border controls on track and trace? we have got one of the toughest border regime is anywhere in the world for stopping people coming into this country who may have variants of concern and if you look at what we have done in the case of the south african variant a massive effort went on there and is the same as going on now to contain any spread of the brazilian variant. i should just say to anybody who is concerned that just a couple of things.
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first of all, we have no reason not to think that our vaccines are effective against these variants of concern full at the present time so, people should take that is some evidence of confidence, and then also listen to what public health england are also saying. they don't think that there is a threat to the wider public but obviously we are continuing to do everything we can to stop variants coming in at our borders. that is why we've got a tough regime. but were we not too slow with the hotel quarantine? i don't think so. we have moved as fast as we could to get that going. it is a very tough regime, you come here, you immediately get transported to a hotel where you are kept for ten days, 11 days, you have to test on day two, you have to test on day eight, and it is designed to stop
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the spread of new variants while we continue to roll out the vaccination programme. i will repeat that key point. we don't have any indication at the present time to believe that our vaccines are ineffective against me variants of all types. against new variants of all types. but there was a member for sage speaking this morning to say that the variant may actually mean that we need to roll back on opening society again. is that a possibility? i haven't heard that and our whole strategy, as you know, is to go forward in a way that is cautious but irreversible and we don't think that there's any reason on this basis to change on another matter, over the weekend there was a big spike in the number of people illegally crossing the channel. how worried are we about the numbers of people do seem to be able to cross the channel?
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my feeling about this is really that it is outrageous that the gangsters, the people smugglers, these folks smugglers, these thugs are still putting people's lives at risk in the way that they are, taking money to help people to cross the channel in unseaworthy vessels, risking their lives, and what we are going to do is crackdown on them absolutely ruthlessly and we will stiffen the sentences for anyone who was involved in this kind of people smuggling, trafficking of human beings across the channel, as well as working with the french authorities and others to stop the trade. one final question on the budget, is now the time to be raising taxes? i am not going to anticipate what the chancellor is going to say on wednesday but i am absolutely confident that it will be a budget that builds on everything we've done
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to look after the businesses and the people of this country throughout the pandemic but that also paves the way for a strong jobs led recovery. that is what our focus is going to be on. but what about paying for the financial cost of the pandemic? is now the time to be doing that? everybody has heard what rishi has been saying about the importance of being frank with ourselves about the state of the public finances. yes, of course, it has been expensive to look after everybody throughout the pandemic but i have no doubt that if we get it right, as i'm sure we can, we have strong jobs lead recovery that i think could be, could be, much stronger than many of the pessimists have been saying over the last six months or so. three scottish residents
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tested positive for the new brazilian strain of coronavirus after flying into aberdeen from brazil, via paris & london. scotland's health secretaryjeane freeman says "much effort" is being made to find cases of the strain. she added that passengers who were on a ba flight from heathrow to aberdeen are being traced the three individuals concerned had travelled from brazil to scotland via paris and london. they self isolated on their arrival in scotland and when they tested positive for covid that they all stayed in isolation for a further ten days. because they had arrived from brazil a designated high—risk country the test results were selected for genomic sequencing. that is why we now have been able to confirm that they had the p1 variant. as a precautionary measure test and protect teams are now identifying all possible contacts of these cases and the contacts of those contacts so that they can take tests. we are also contacting other passengers who were on the flight the individuals took from heathrow
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to aberdeen. that is flight ba 1312 which departed heathrow on the 29th of january. which departed heathrow on the 29th ofjanuary. if which departed heathrow on the 29th of january. if you are but on that flight and have not yet been contacted you will be shortly so please wait for that. i want to stress that is currently no reason to believe that the p1 variant of the virus is in circulation in scotland, however i hope this summary reassures you that we are doing everything we can that is necessary to check whether this variant of the virus could have been transmitted within scotland and to identify and break any possible chain of transmission. more now on the news that the duke of edinburgh has been transferred to london's st bartholomew's hospital in london for continued treatment. our correspondent,
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daniel sandford is there. one of the reasons why he might have come to saint bartholomew's as is the largest cardiovascular centre and europe, asia centre opened here in 2015 and we do know from the statement put out by buckingham palace that one of the things they will be looking at is an ongoing heart condition. you may remember backin heart condition. you may remember back in 2011 the duke of edinburgh had an angioplasty and stent put in because of a blocked coronary artery so he did have some problems with his heart ten years ago and it now seems as well as this infection which buckingham palace has been talking about for some time, there is perhaps some issue needs to be sorted relating to his heart condition. they are talking about doing some tests and the nearest super specialist cardiovascular
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centre see that saint bartholomew's in the city of london in the shadow of st paul's cathedral, one of the most famous old hospitals and angled. —— in england. back to coronavirus — and in the past hour or so the first minister of wales has given an update on the situation there. mark drakeford said the r number in wales remains below one, with the latest figures indicating there are 64 cases per one hundred thousand people. the first minister said "every vaccination is a small victory", as he announced news that more than one hundred thousand people have now had their second dose of the coronavirus vaccine. the latest figures, which have just been published, show that more than 100,000 people have now had both doses of the vaccine here in wales. more than 3% of the population have now had the two doses of the vaccine and that is a higher proportion
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than any other part of the united kingdom. and, of course, every vaccination given is a small victory against this virus and our incredible vaccination programme is helping to provide a path for us to a better 2021. the next slide shows the huge progress we have made together in bringing coronavirus under control since those difficult days before christmas. the public health situation in wales continues to improve, and that is thanks to all your hard work and sacrifices. it is because of the actions we are taking together that you can see that rapid decline in the circulation of the virus here in wales. overall, the seven day rate has fallen to below 65, 64 cases now per 100,000 people
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in wales, and in every part of wales the rate is now below 100 cases for every 100,000 people, and in five local authority areas it is now below 50 cases, and that is the first time we have been able to report news of that sort since the period before christmas. the r—number remains below1 in wales and, very importantly, the total number of coronavirus—related patients in hospital has fallen to below 1,500 for the first time since early november. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise. high pressure dominates the weather story but a subtle change of the position will bring dramatic differences to the story. yesterday we had some of the spring sunshine and warmth
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across much of the country, today we start with low clouds and fog which will be the story of the next few days. because the high pressure is starting to slip away, now moving into the continent and that means a subtle change in wind direction, more south—easterly flow developing, driving in the cloud and moisture off the north sea. this has been the story earlier today, the thickest of the cloud and fog lingering and that will be the story through the afternoon, slowly lifting into low cloud potentially, the best of brighter and sunnier moments across scotland and northern ireland, wales and southern england but not quite as warm as the cars couple quite as warm as the last couple of days, we should see temperatures peaking between nine and 11. through the night the high—pressure continues to push off into the near continent, more of a substantial south—easterly flow drives in cloud and moisture, and a lot of fog developing through the night, fairly extensive as you can see across eastern areas, some of the fog pushing
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further inland. it will slowly lift through the morning into low grey cloud for some but when you get the sunshine coming through you should start to see a pleasant day, temperatures 6—14. out of tuesday into wednesday, a little weather front pushing into the south—west could actually trigger a few showers possibly thundering downpours so i changed to the way the story across south—west england, parts of wales and the south midlands as well, it's rather murky conditions across the north sea facing coasts, the best of any sunshine further west but a difference with the feel of the weather through the middle of the week, 10—15 across the south but only 5—7 further north. that will be the story moving towards the end of the week, another area of high pressure building from the north—west but this one is dragging the wind direction down from the north and that will bring a change to the feel of the weather so a good
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this is bbc news i'm simon mccoy. the headlines at 2... the duke of edinburgh has been transferred to another london hospital to be treated for an infection and tested for a heart condition. a surge in covid testing in gloucestershire as the hunt continues for someone who's carrying the new brazilian variant of covid and may not know it. the prime minister's been defending the government's border policy. we've got one of the toughest border regimes anywhere in the in the world for stopping people coming into this country who may have variants of concern. the 9—year—old with a lesson for the world. we report from a school in yemen, where, after years of conflict around them, they are learning against all odds. the former president of france, nicolas sarkozy, has been found guilty of corruption and faces a possible jail term. harry tells oprah he was scared "history was repeating itself," before he stepped back
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