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in tanzania itself. it's hard to say goodbye to a rhino that's loved by visitors and staff alike. but the time has come for chanua to start a new life and bring renewed hope for the world's black rhino population. luxmy gopal, bbc news. time for a look at the weather, here's susan powell. good afternoon. some very windy weather on the way for the uk in the days ahead. probably the strongest winds in the next 2a hours. some heavy rain as well and very stormy particular to the irish sea. it is this developing area of low pressure out in the near atlantic that is going to bring these stormy conditions in the short—term. but we remain with low pressure even as we
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look further through the forecast. we could have some brighter spells this afternoon in the early evening but that window strengthening all the while. so once you step outside you will notice that and it is those gusts of wind but are likely to be damaging. those other figures gusts of wind but are likely to be damaging. those otherfigures in the black arrows behind me. after 85 miles an hour along the coast of wales. into mid—50s inland elsewhere. overnight some of the heavy rain is getting swept in courtesy of this low pressure. the peak of those wins are likely through the small hours into the early part of thursday and the irish sea in particular will experience some very rough waters. then for thursday still the low pressure dominating the weather picture. the more organised bands of the way of rain, showers driven in on the westerly wind and they could move east. likely to be quite squally
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with some hail and thunder and something a bit more wintry across the hills of scotland. feeling chillier for scotland the hills of scotland. feeling chillierfor scotland —— the hills of scotland. feeling chillier for scotland —— for thursday and comparing this afternoon with tomorrow afternoon, some of the heavy rain has but the wind could be stronger so a very stormy 24—hour period. the low stairs to the north of the uk right the way through into the weekend. thursday, friday, saturday and sunday all blustery days. friday's heavier showers coming in to england and wales and for scotland and northern ireland also a parts of northern england, colder air and showers training wintry at times. we could see some help further south. damages in the mid—single figure across parts of scotland. but we can still initially windy on saturday but things do start to come down through the course of sunday and sunday i think will bring a fine date for mother sunday across the uk. a reminder of our top story...
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a serving police officer has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of sarah everard in south london. this of sarah everard in south london. is a serious and development this is a serious and significant development in our search for sarah. and the fact that the man who has been arrested is a serving metropolitan police officer is both shocking and deeply disturbing. 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 chetan pathak with your latest sports news. wales manager ryan giggs will be missing again for their upcoming world cup qualifiers against belgium and the czech republic, as well as a friendly against mexico. he'll remain on leave, with robert page continuing in his caretaker role.
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the welsh fa says it was a mutual decision. giggs was arrested on suspicion of assault at the start of november, and last month his bail was extended until the 1st of may. everton have confirmed that their goalkeeper robin olsen and his family were the victims of an armed robberty at their home over the weekend. they were threatened with machetes as a masked gang stole jewellery from the house in greater manchester. olsen, who's on loan from roma, was at home with his wife and two young children when the attack occurred. they were said to be shaken but not physically harmed. everton say they're offering the family their full support. liverpool may be on a dreadful run in the premier league, but they're going well in europe, and they're on course to reach the quarterfinals of the champions league tonight. they've only won once in their last seven league games — their latest defeat was at home to fulham at the weekend — but they take a 2—0 lead into their last 16 match against rb leipzig in budapest.
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it is half time, and we have to play the game to give us the opportunity to go to the next round. if we play that good, then we can do that, and we deserve it, and if not, then not. that is the situation, so i have no doubt about us. i do not know that we will go through 100%, but we will give rb leipzig a proper fight, that is the only thing i need to know at the moment. there is no guarantee for nothing, not for them, not for us. chelsea's women are bidding to make the quarterfinals of the champions league — they took a 2—0 lead into the second leg of their tie with atletico madrid, and that's still the aggregate score — no goals yet in monza. the second half is about to start. it's been confirmed that hege riise will take charge of the british women's team at the tokyo olympics this summer. riise will combine the job with her current role as interim england boss. she says she's "enormously proud," and hopes the power of the games will help women's football continue to grow.
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riise is leading england until the netherlands head coach sarina wiegman takes permanent charge in september. ican i can only say it will be hard work to pick the squad, hard decisions to make, but i am pretty confident that with the staff being at the games, seeing all the players, that we can in the discussion get to the 18 players plus four that will travel. former world number one roger federer returns to competitive tennis today for the first time in over a year. at the age of 39, he says he feels the story's not over yet. he plays his regular practice partner, british number one dan evans, in the last 16 of the qatar open. federer has had two knee operations in his time away. i'm really curious to find out how it will go, there's still obviously an amazing amount of question marks surrounding my comeback. for me personally i don't know what to expect.
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i know that expectations from my side are extremely low and i'm just very happy that i'm playing a tournament again regardless of the outcome of this event. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. good afternoon. you're watching bbc news. the next few hours of our includes the latest around coronavirus. the welsh health minister has said the public health situation in wales is continuing to improve and the welsh government will set out the results of the current restrictions review on friday. vaughan gething also said that contact tracing and testing were being expanded and that anyone who comes into contact with someone who later tests positive
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for coronavirus must get tested themselves. we are strengthening our testing regime to help identify more people who have coronavirus at an earlier stage as well as those who don't have symptoms. we are expanding testing to include everyone identified as a close contact of someone who has tested positive for coronavirus. this will mean that when people are contacted by our test trace and protect service, they will be advised to self—isolate, but also to take a test as they start self—isolation, and again on the eighth day of their isolation period. this will help us to identify more people with coronavirus, and their close contact who would otherwise be unknown to test trace and protect. this helps has yet again to break chains of transmission is to help stop the
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virus from spreading. but taking a testis virus from spreading. but taking a test is not an alternative to self—isolating. if you have a negative test, this does not mean you can go back to work or school. if you've been identified as a close contact, it is really important that you do complete the ten days of isolation, and do the two tests. mr gething welcomed the fact that more than one million people in wales have now had a first vaccination against covid, and said that all people experiencing homelessness will now be included in priority group six for vaccination. today i can also confirm that all people experiencing homelessness will be included in group six stop this includes people who are sleeping rough, people in emergency accommodation, and people who were recently homeless but are now in supported accommodation. many people in this group will be living with
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underlying health conditions, which put them at risk of coronavirus harm. it is important that they are offered vaccination to protect them and the wider community. we will be working closely with local authorities, the third sector, and housing organisations to make sure we reach all of those who are eligible. and we will be taking the vaccine to people who are —— rather than expecting them to visit clinics for vaccination. more now on one of your main stories. there are reports that the duchess of sussex formally complained to itv about presenter piers morgan before the good morning britain co—host quit yesterday. piers morgan left the breakfast show after an on—air row with a colleague, after he said earlier this week he "didn't believe a word" of meghan�*s oprah winfrey interview. pa media is reporting the duchess'
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main concern is how piers morgan's comments may affect the issue of mental health generally and those attempting to deal with their own problems. alastair campbell is a former labour director of communications and now a mental health campaigner. earlier, my colleague victoria derbyshire spoke to him and asked him his views on the interview and piers morgan. when we watch somebody like meghan markle speaking, it is possible, i got nothing against people saying they don't like her or that they think she is doing wrong, that she is minute built of, all the things people are saying, and i know no more than anybody else about what went on in her head in the incident that she was describing. none of us do. but i would never passjudgment on that either way, and i think when
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people are talking about their mental... forwhat people are talking about their mental... for what it is worth, as somebody who has experienced suicidal thoughts, somebody who has experienced suicidalthoughts, i somebody who has experienced suicidal thoughts, i sensed the resonance, isensed suicidal thoughts, i sensed the resonance, i sensed that the resonance, i sensed that the resonance, i sensed that the resonance, isensed resonance, i sensed that the resonance, i sensed that there resonance, i sensed that there was resonance, i sensed that there was a resonance, i sensed that there was are was a sincerity resonance, i sensed that there was a sincerity there. i don't know her, i know harry a bit, i don't know her at all, but anyway, it is for none of us to make those judgments. we can all havejudgments, and pearson certainly gotjudgments about her as a person, the damage she may or may not be doing to the institution of the monarchy, but... you call me a friend of piers morgan, we have had an up—and—down relationship over many years, but i'll say something majorly in his defence — i think he has been one of the few broadcastjournalists who really has tried to hold this government to account on covid, i think he had done a good job on that, but part of what makes him do that and do it well is also what makes him sometimes go over the top and with meghan and other situations he goes over the top. he is framing it today
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as a freedom of speech issue. this whole thing about... i'm thinking of getting a t—shirt printed saying "proud to be woke". i don't even know what it means any more, and it seems that people who complain about their freedom of speech being limited do so live on tv and radio 2a hours a day. i don't buy that. piers is never going to be silenced, he will always find a platform for his voice. again, just as we don't know what happened between meghan and the palace, we don't know what the discussions were between morgan and itv yesterday. discussions were between morgan and itv yesterday-— itv yesterday. sure. but what is the effect when — itv yesterday. sure. but what is the effect when somebody _ itv yesterday. sure. but what is the effect when somebody as _ itv yesterday. sure. but what is the effect when somebody as influentialj effect when somebody as influential as piers morgan, with his platform, effectively calls meghan markle a liar? , ., , ., , effectively calls meghan markle a liar? , ., , effectively calls meghan markle a liar? , ., ~ liar? plenty of people can talk about that- — liar? plenty of people can talk about that. i— liar? plenty of people can talk about that. i am _ liar? plenty of people can talk about that. i am much - liar? plenty of people can talk about that. i am much more l about that. i am much more interested in the whole kind of mental health agenda. for example, i do think there are questions for the royals to answer about the fact that... i think one of the best things they have done, actually at
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any time but in recent years, was william and harry and kate, the heads together campaign, william and harry had a massive impact on the mental health debate, and i think that was a really good thing. i think there is a problem if, as that is happening, as that was going on, as they were doing some amazing work on this, if at that time they have got somebody in the midst of the whole thing who is actually saying, i can get help, and i am struggling. and the other thing i would say about the impact that interview had on me, i could hear echoes of princess diana in both of them. i could hear echoes of princess diana when prince harry was saying that he didn't feel properly supported by his father, i could hear echoes of princess diana in the meghan saying she was made to feel like an outsider, and she was struggling and didn't know where to turn. now, i think it is possible to be able to say, just as it is possible, as i do, to be able to say i like what pierce morgan has done on covid, but i don't like what he has done on
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meghan, some of what he has done on meghan, some of what he has done on meghan max, so it is possible to say i like what the royals have done on mental health and the campaigning what they have done, but it's possible that institutional weight, they are not really up to speed in terms of how to deal with people when they are struggling. alistair cam - bell when they are struggling. alistair campbell speaking _ when they are struggling. alistair campbell speaking to _ when they are struggling. alistair campbell speaking to bbc - when they are struggling. alistair campbell speaking to bbc news l when they are struggling. alistair i campbell speaking to bbc news this morning. the international red cross says that nearly half of young syrians have had a close family member orfriend killed during ten years of civil war. that is one of the findings of one of the most comprehensive surveys on the damage done to a generation of young men and women. the research, which questioned ia hundred people aged 18 and 25 in syria, lebanon and germany, suggests that more than 70% suffered anxiety in the past year. educations were cut short or never happened. and almost 40% said they were illiterate, never went to school, or at best only reached primary level. the one positive is that 70% of those surveyed said they were optimistic
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about the future. wafa moustafa is a syrian journalist and activist. earlier, we asked her if she was surprised by the findings. it's not surprising at all, but still it is shocking to see it in numbers. i mean, although i know it and i live it, and i know that every single person from syria i know is actually living part of that suffering, for years now, but it is still terrifying to read it and to know that by today, the whole world knows about it, but we are still doing nothing to change that. on the 2nd ofjuly 2013, my father was forcibly disappeared by the assad regime in syria, and the only information we got from him since then is through the neighbours who actually witnessed a group of armed men attacking our place and then kidnapping my father.
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and the only information we got is that a friend of his who was with him that day was actually forcibly disappeared with him, and his family was told years ago that he got killed in a security branch in damascus. while we've never heard from my father, we've never heard why he was taken from us, what is he being charged of. for years now... i mean, today he completes 2,808 days. for almost eight years, we have been trying to get one single information — is he alive or not? but no one is telling us, and this is unfortunately the case of millions of syrians in syria.
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the headlines on bbc news — a serving metropolitan police officer has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of 33—year—old sarah everard in south london. the government defends the use of the test and trace system in england following a report by mps which finds its impact is still unclear, despite billions of pounds of investment the broadcaster piers morgan says he stands by his criticism of the duchess of sussex — there are now reports that meghan complained to itv about his comments on mental health// the brother of ghislaine maxwell has told the bbc that the conditions of her detention in a us federal prison are degrading and amount to torture. ghislaine maxwell is awaiting trial, accused of helping the convicted sex offenderjeffrey epstein to groom young girls.
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she denies the charges. in an interview with radio 4's mishal hussein, ian maxwell has called for her to be released on bail. she is under 24—hour round—the—clock surveillance. with ten cameras including one that moves and tracks her movements and on top of that, there are four guards that are looking at her and presumably there is another guard looking at the camera feeds. she is not allowed to move into the corners of her cell and she is not allowed to be within 2.5 feet of the cell door. that is her existence. every day. the water that is provided through the prison is brown and the food that she is given
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is very highly microwaved and basically inedible. on the conditions that she is held under, the authorities say that what you describe is in place to prevent other inmates from harming her and to stop her harming herself, hence the cameras and isolation. well, this is ridiculous. she is not a suicide risk and has never been a suicide risk. there are daily mental evaluations of her, and she has shown no indication that that is her intention. she is being completely overmanaged. why is that? because jeffrey epstein, who was under federal custody at the time of his death, died in federal custody. so this is a grotesque overreaction.
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do you think she has been unfairly perceived or portrayed because of her name, because of the maxwell name and the notoriety surrounding it in the wake of your father's death? i think the most important point is that she is notjeffrey epstein but she is paying the price that he should have paid or could have paid. the lawyer gloria allred is acting for 20 women injeffrey epstein related civil cases. some of them had contact with ghislaine maxwell. gloria allred was asked on the today programme whether she thought the difficult prison conditions meant ghislaine maxwell should be allowed to leave prison on bail. a cell is not a palace, a cell is not a wealthy estate
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with all the amenities in it, but she is injail and she is going to have her trial injuly and the court has determined earlier this year, mishal, that she was a flight risk and that was a main reason why bail was denied. earlier this year, mishal, that she was a flight risk and that was a main reason why bail was denied. i am not convinced at this point that anything has changed, that she's no longer a flight risk and i think she needs to stay where she is, in custody. she can prepare for trial there, she can meet with her attorneys and i understand that she has access to information that she can read in order to be prepared for trial, so i do not think that any new request for bail should be granted.
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the global pandemic has highlighted the value of having grocery stores close to where we live. in sweden, a new startup has come up with a solution to help neighbourhoods that lost their local shops before covid—i9. maddy savage has this story. it is cold, it is gloomy and if you run out of milk, it is a 15—minute drive to the supermarket. but this wooden container offers a lifeline. you use an app to open the doors. your phone scans whatever you need, and the bill is charged to your bank card. we moved here three years ago and we have not had any shops here during the time we lived here and getting this now is perfect.
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you don't need to get into the city to buy this, small stuff. critics argue it is a less sociable shopping experience but during the pandemic, that is a bonus. translation: it is a good way to keep further - distance from people. there is not the same kind of crowding here as in the big cities. a manager stocks the shelves once a week but with no other staff to pay, it is saved the firm's founders a lot of money. we have had great interest in other countries and we have been expanding the chain in sweden. interest from england, spain, portugal, germany, so we would definitely expand outside of sweden in the future. cities are the next target for the business and they are not alone. amazon is testing unmanned stores in the us and in the capital of sweden, a major supermarket chain
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is also trying the concept. this shop is right in the middle of stockholm's business district and connected to a major start—up and innovation hub. the idea is that people working he can pop in for snacks and act as a test group, trying out new technologies. many of the entrepreneurs think unmanned stores will be mainstream. the challenge is the older generation, that have gone to the stores and meet people. i also think that we have seen a rapid growth due to the covid—i9 situation, is that we are changing the behaviour of the consumers. so far, there are no plans to take stuff away from it and is biggest supermarkets where retail bosses say customers want advice and inspiration, notjust something to snack on. back in hummelsta, nine out of ten adults have already tried
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the unmanned store and anyone struggling with technologies offered help, so it is easy to pick up the carton of milk or perhaps to sweeten the taste of sweden's dark, bitterwinter. maddy savage, bbc news, hummelsta, sweden. weather prospects now with susan powell. some very windy weather on the way for us in the next few days, potentially wind strong enough to cause some damage and some disruption in the next 2a hours where it is likely to peak. deal is widespread across the uk, get very gusty winds courtesy of low pressure —— deals widespread. the wind will continue to strengthen, as we have so this evening and overnight. —— gales. the figures in black show you the gusts of wind, those other important figures because it is the
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gusts that do the most damage when we see these powerful blows coming through. 70 to 80 mph round the coast of wheels, most persistent and perhaps even to the south of the uk, certainly looking very wet in the north. and looking like the other part of those diluents will reach their peak. the sea is becoming increasingly rough as they do so, the irish sea particularly looking churned out thanks to that strong wind as we move into thursday morning. it will not look too bad in some areas on thursday, but some of these showers that get fed in only one could have hail and thunder wrapped up in them, could turn a bit more wintry across the higher ground of northern ireland and scotland. ——northern england. feeling cooler than it has through wednesday afternoon. and actually, if we compare like for like, thursday afternoon with
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wednesday afternoon, if anything tomorrow could see stronger gusts of wind during our daylight hours. and even on into friday, well, yes, still low pressure driving the story. we are left with a more direct westerly flow, lessen the bands of rain, but some of these showers pushing on across england and wales could really mean business on friday. and again for scotland and northern ireland may amid increasing whistle for northern and would come a chance of things turning wintry. and that wind is not to be underestimated, later that will be in the next 2a our spot still in notable breeze, the showers will be scrawly. and it stays windy into the weekend, perhaps becoming just a little less windy by sunday.
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this is bbc news. i'm jane hill. the headlines at 2pm: a serving police officer has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of sarah everard in south london. the 33—year—old was last seen leaving a friend's house a week ago — the officer was detained in kent last night. this is a serious and significant development in our search for sarah and the fact that the man who has been arrested is a serving metropolitan police officer is both shocking and deeply disturbing. despite a £37 billion budget, the impact of the test and trace scheme is unclear, say mps who've criticised unimaginable spending. broadcaster piers morgan says he stands by his criticism of the duchess of sussex — there are now reports that
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meghan complained to itv about his comments on mental health.

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