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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. steve bannon, the former aide to donald trump, has been found guilty of criminal contempt of congress. he tells reporters he remains defiant. the prosecutor missed one very important phrase. i stand with trump and the constitution, and i will never back off that, ever. ukraine and russia sign an agreement to allow the resumption of ukraine's grain exports from ports on the black sea. the un says the deal could help millions avoid hunger. this is an agreement for the world. it will_ this is an agreement for the world. it will bring — this is an agreement for the world. it will bring relief for developing countries — it will bring relief for developing countries on the edge of bankruptcy
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and the _ countries on the edge of bankruptcy and the most vulnerable people on the edge _ and the most vulnerable people on the edge of famine. gridlock at the english channel as the port of dover is overwhelmed with traffic, and warnings of worse to come. and the more you look at the stars, the more you see! we'll explain how a powerful new space telescope is widening our view of the universe. welcome if you just joined welcome if you justjoined us. i'm shaun ley. we start with some breaking news from washington, where steve bannon, who worked closely with former president trump as a strategist, has been found guilty of contempt of congress. the charges were brought after he defied a summons to testify at the congressional hearings into the january the 6th riots at the us capitol building. he'll be sentenced in october — he could face up to two years in prison. but, speaking outside the courtroom in the last hour, he remained unrepentant.
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i want to thank —— start by thanking thejury. i respect their decision today. we respect their decision. we may have lost a battle here, but we're not going to lose this war. in the closing argument, the executor missed one very important phrase. i stand with trump and the constitution, and i will never back off that, ever. constitution, and i will never back off that. ever-— off that, ever. steve bannon has been convicted _ off that, ever. steve bannon has been convicted of _ off that, ever. steve bannon has been convicted of two _ off that, ever. steve bannon has been convicted of two counts - off that, ever. steve bannon has been convicted of two counts of| been convicted of two counts of contempt of congress, but his failure — contempt of congress, but his failure -- _ contempt of congress, but his failure —— for his failure to give evidence _ failure —— for his failure to give evidence. he could face up to two
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years— evidence. he could face up to two years in— evidence. he could face up to two years iniait — evidence. he could face up to two years injail. it nonetheless makes mr bannon — years injail. it nonetheless makes mr bannon the first member of donald trump's _ mr bannon the first member of donald trump's inner circle to be found guilty — trump's inner circle to be found guilty for— trump's inner circle to be found guilty. for some observers, this is a iitmus— guilty. for some observers, this is a litmus test — guilty. for some observers, this is a litmus test of the justice department's willingness to bring such cases, whatever the sensitivity. speculation that donald trump may find himself in port at the part— trump may find himself in port at the part of— trump may find himself in port at the part of the committee's work. it also shows— the part of the committee's work. it also shows how his shadows continued loom over— also shows how his shadows continued loom over the political landscape. in loom over the political landscape. in court. — loom over the political landscape. in court, mr bannon was accused of putting _ in court, mr bannon was accused of putting his — in court, mr bannon was accused of putting his allegiance to mr trump outside _ putting his allegiance to mr trump outside court tonight, bowing to appeal — outside court tonight, bowing to appeal. he said he stood by mr trump and the _ appeal. he said he stood by mr trump and the constitution. michael goldfarb is a foreign correspondent for the american radio network pbs, and he explained exactly what had happened and why.
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worldview, but i think if you bring up, can you jail the guy, it's - worldview, but i think if you bring up, can you jail the guy, it's a - up, can you jail the guy, it's a test _ up, can you jail the guy, it's a test of— up, can you jail the guy, it's a test of how— up, can you jail the guy, it's a test of how far _ up, can you jail the guy, it's a test of how far you _ up, can you jail the guy, it's a test of how far you can - up, can you jail the guy, it's a test of how far you can take . up, can you jail the guy, it's a i test of how far you can take this. russia and ukraine have signed a deal to resume vital exports of millions of tonnes
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of ukrainian grain. in his nightly address, the ukrainian president vlodomir zelensky said ukraine now has $10 billion worth of grain to sell. the world shortage of ukrainian grain since russia's invasion has left millions at risk of hunger. the agreement was brokered by turkey and the un. for its part, russia will get safe passage for its exports of grain and fertiliser through the black sea. here's the reaction of the un secretary general, antonio gutteres. this is an agreement for the world. it will bring relief for developing countries on the edge of bankruptcy and the most notable people on the edge of famine. it will help stabilise global foot prices which were already at record levels even before the war and a nightmare for developing countries.
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ukraine's wheat is vital for the global economy, but the russian invasion has made growing and harvesting crops a dangerous occupation. our correspondent andrew harding has been visiting front line farms near the heavily—bombarded city of slovyansk. it's harvest time in ukraine's in war—torn donbas. from his perch, vlodyr bukhantsov can the front lines, just one hillside away the north. traces of smoke on the horizon... ..and then this. jet engines roar overhead. two ukrainian fighter jets roar overhead to attack russian positions. you can see a russian rocket blazing upwards, narrowly missing one jet. the planes both launch decoy flares and turn sharply, heading home. "we see this almost every day," says vlodyr. "the pilots do their job, we do ours.
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"my son is fighting on the front line near here, too." farmers and fighters. almost everyone else has left, or is leaving, this region — hurried farewells at a bus stop, to the sound of russian rockets landing nearby. and plenty of those rockets and cluster bombs are hitting ukraine's wheat fields. setting fire to thousands of acres. it's another challenge for the farmers and for a world that is increasingly desperate for ukraine's crops. a farm owner takes me on a tour of his bomb craters. he used to sell almost all his wheat and sunflower seeds for export. but the war has put a stop to that. he shows me more footage of the damage to his farm. this is where the cows were killed by another bomb. in fact, we can just hear a few more in the distance. it's quite a noisy morning here.
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but the biggest problem, sergei tells me, is the russian blockade. "the ports are closed," he says. "we can't export anything, and so the price we get for our wheat "has dropped by two thirds." a deal to end russia's blockade could make a huge difference, but it won't end the war. and so, here in the donbas, ukrainian farmers are racing to harvest and to store what they can, whatever the risks. andrew harding, bbc news, in eastern ukraine. let's bring injoseph glauber. he's an expert from international food policy research institute, and also served as the us department of agriculture's chief economist from 2008—2014. thank you very much for being with us on bbc. what you make of this agreement? i us on bbc. what you make of this agreement?— agreement? i think it's very encouraging _ agreement? i think it's very encouraging news. -
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agreement? i think it's very l encouraging news. obviously, agreement? i think it's very - encouraging news. obviously, for all the reasons in the record, ukraine has not been able to export very much of this grain. it normally exports 5—6,000,000 tonnes a month. that's been down i—2,000,000 a month. that means little lower prices for ukraine farmers and higher prices for everyone else in the world, so this is very welcome news if this and start moving soon. what other practical hurdles? there man . what other practical hurdles? there manv- first — what other practical hurdles? there manv- first of— what other practical hurdles? there many. first of all, _ what other practical hurdles? there many. first of all, you have - what other practical hurdles? there many. first of all, you have to - many. first of all, you have to clear the ports or at least get passage. but the other thing is just convincing the rest of the world, in particular insurers and others, this will be a safe passage. insurance companies right now are still laying back. they want to see how this programme is going to work, whether or not these ships are going to be able to leave and safely transit out
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of the black sea to the rest of the world. then, if that occurs, i think we'll see some hopeful signs that insurance companies will be backing shipping to resume. whether or not it will get back to 5—6,000,000 tonnes a month that we saw in the past, i think that's still very much in doubtjust in the sense that... remember that these three ports were the agreement applies, they're very important. they're about 50% of the capacity that they normally would be using, but again, there's a lot of incentives to get this wheat out and other grains out to the rest of the world. �* , ., , other grains out to the rest of the world. 3 ., , , ., other grains out to the rest of the world. �*, ., i, ., ,�* world. it's only short-term, isn't it? that's _ world. it's only short-term, isn't it? that's right, _ world. it's only short-term, isn't it? that's right, it's _ world. it's only short-term, isn't it? that's right, it's 120 - world. it's only short-term, isn't it? that's right, it's 120 days - world. it's only short-term, isn't| it? that's right, it's 120 days with it? that's right, it's120 days with the provisions _ it? that's right, it's120 days with the provisions that _ it? that's right, it's120 days with the provisions that the _ it? that's right, it's120 days with| the provisions that the agreement could be extended if the parties agree. again, we're talking a middle of the war. this is, again, a very
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hopeful sign. of the war. this is, again, a very hopefulsign. kudos of the war. this is, again, a very hopeful sign. kudos to the dukas government and the un for brokering this deal —— turkish government. hopefully it will work. joseph, thank you so much for joining us. joseph, thank you so much for joining us— the uk's main port for people wanting to cross the english channel, dover, was in gridlock on friday — with delays of up to six hours to get onto a ferry. the port declared a critical incident and blamed inadequate staffing at french border posts. french officials denied the claim, but there are also warnings that the situation could worsen over the weekend. here's our transport correspondent, katy austin. it's the big summer getaway, but no one stuck in these queues today was getting away very quickly. the durnford family took these photos on the way to catch a ferry for the first of a holiday abroad together. so, this was supposed to be a one hour carjourney a one—hour carjourney from sevenoaks in kent. and it'sjust been nearly
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seven hours now and we're still not checked in. we completely missed our 9.30 ferry. i was able to get out of the car with my girls and we got to the shops to get some food because we didn't bring that much food with us cos we thought we were going to be having lunch in france. they were allowed onto a later ferry five hours after they'd expected to depart. dover and the surrounding roads are gridlocked and police were out managing traffic. with post—brexit and covid checks now in place, the port of dover said it had done what it could to prepare for a busy summer and worked with local and government partners. the port also said it had worked with french border police to plan for the expected traffic volumes, but it accused them of providing woefully inadequate resource this morning. what we had requested for the start of the day around four o'clock in the morning, was to have 14 officers in place that could manage, because the traffic starts arriving in place so that we that could manage...
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because the traffic starts arriving that early in the morning. what we did have was six, so we had an inadequate number of immigration officers. the port boss insisted his teams had been providing regular updates on what was needed. i promise you there was no more communication, no more - planning, no more analysis that we could have done. l the french authorities hit back, saying it was not correct that they hadn't put sufficient manpower in place, that the plan had been to man all posts at 8:30am, but an unforeseeable technical incident at the channel tunnel led them to postpone full operational capacity by one hour. then eurotunnel said the incident had nothing to do with officials being delayed. it's now mid—afternoon and things are flowing a bit more freely than they were. but the delays this morning were so great there is a really long backlog. as the blame game continues, the reality is a miserable start to many people's holidays. katy austin, bbc news. the european commission has launched fresh legal action against the uk. it says there's a failure to comply with the post—brexit customs and tax arrangements for northern ireland. the uk government said the latest claims were "disappointing"
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and legal action was "in nobody�*s interest". do stay with us. we'll have the latest health update on president biden as he continues to suffer from covid. coming down the ladder now. it's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. a catastrophic engine fire has been blamed tonight for the first crash in the 30—year history of concorde, the world's only supersonic airliner. it was one of the most vivid symbols of the l violence and hatred that tore apart the state - of yugoslavia, but now, a decade later, it's been painstakingly- rebuilt and opens again today. there's been a 50% decrease in sperm quantity and an increase in malfunctioning sperm
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unable to swim properly. thousands of households across the country are suspiciously quiet this lunchtime as children bury their noses in the final instalment of harry potter. welcome back. this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley with the latest headlines. steve bannon, the former aide to donald trump, has been found guilty of criminal contempt of congress. ukraine and russia have signed a deal which will allow the resumption of ukrainian grain exports from ports on the black sea. the white house has issued an update on president biden's health, after he contracted covid. the headline — his symptoms have improved. the detail came
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in this letter, from the president's personal doctor, kevin o'connor. he says mr biden did suffer from a slight temperature on thursday evening, which was treated with over—the—counter paracetamol — and he still has a slight cough and a runny nose. the president has tweeted this picture of himself at his desk in the white house, and today he has also led a meeting with his economic team on fuel prices via videolink. let's turn to the ongoing crisis in sri lanka. ranil wickremesinghe, after being sworn in on thursday, was to deploy paramilitary police to remove protestors from camps set up outside the presidential palace. tents were torn down and the demonstrators have re—grouped further down the street. they remain concerned at the lack of action taken to end the economic crisis. from colombo, anbarasan ethirajan reports. just after midnight, hundreds of sri lankan soldiers stormed the protest site. tents and banners were torn down, and within minutes, activists were pushed back.
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some faced the brute force of the security forces. they ran towards us with batons, full—on batons. they attacked us. i'm laughing because i can't believe it. i can't believe it now that they just did that without any reason. we were we were peaceful, ioo%. they even broke our guitar, like they were showing it to us. by sunrise, the entire protest area from a section of the road was clear. what is seen here is president ranil wickremesinghe's stern message to the protesters as he was sworn in as the country's leader a day earlier after ex—president gotabaya rajapaksa fled the country last week.
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the early morning eviction triggered an angry response from the activists. a tense situation here in colombo where protesters have gathered, on the other side of the barrier. these are anti—government protesters, so there is a heavy deployment of navy commandos here. then you also have a special police force, and there is another barrier behind which there are dozens of naval commandos and then a water gun van. police are also ready to fire the tear gas if the situation goes out of control. they are prepared. sri lanka is bankrupt and already facing an economic uncertainty. many feel that a raid like this will only revive the movement which was already showing signs of fading away. there seems to be no immediate end to sri lanka's troubles. anabarasan ethirajan, bbc news colombo.
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wildfires are continuing to burn across parts of of europe — with spain badly affected. officials say more than a 190,000 hectares of land have been scorched, with conditions expected to worsen. some 30 wildfires are thought to be burning. these satellite images give an idea of how badly some areas have been affected. these are the salamanca and caceres provinces in spain — around 200 kilometres west of madrid — shown before the fires began, then with the smoke — and finally, the image of the burned areas left behind. last week, nasa released images from the world's most powerful telescope. though a partnership with the european and canadian space agencies, the james webb space telescope produced the deepest, most detailed infrared view of the universe to date. and researchers say the images have revealed ten times many more disk—shaped galaxies, much like our own milkyway in the �*early universe' than previously thought. i'm joined now by the lead author of the study dr christopher conselice, a professor of extragalactic astronomy at the university of manchester.
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someone who knows all about this. professor, if i mispronounce your third —— have i missed announced your surname? it’s third -- have i missed announced your surname?— your surname? it's fine, it's one of the wa s your surname? it's fine, it's one of the ways people — your surname? it's fine, it's one of the ways people pronounce - your surname? it's fine, it's one of the ways people pronounce it. - your surname? it's fine, it's one of the ways people pronounce it. not| the ways people pronounce it. not necessarily — the ways people pronounce it. not necessarily the correct way! that's very generous. tell us about these findings. very generous. tell us about these findinus. ~ �* ., very generous. tell us about these findinus. �* ., ., findings. we've looked at some of the earliest _ findings. we've looked at some of the earliest images _ findings. we've looked at some of the earliest images from - findings. we've looked at some of the earliest images from the - findings. we've looked at some of. the earliest images from the james webb space telescope. with the hubble telescope, we thought these were very strange looking, very distorted in that they were in some mode of formation. but the web images clearly show they are not like that, many of them are actually almost normal—looking. like our own milky way, rotating system which is elongated into kind of asymmetrical disc—shaped. which is surprising
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because we thought those kind of galaxies did not exist, but now we're fighting them in great abundance quite early in the universe of white what's special about those universe of white what's special about thos— universe of white what's special about thos ., ., , ., , about those galaxies, if anything? so, about those galaxies, if anything? so. they're _ about those galaxies, if anything? so. they're very — about those galaxies, if anything? so, they're very special _ about those galaxies, if anything? so, they're very special because i so, they're very special because they're super common. in the local universe, they make up about 75% of all galaxies. our own galaxy is a disk galaxy. our neighbouring galaxies... so, most galaxies are discs, so to understand galaxies, we have to understand how discs form, how galaxies become discs, how they survive it for over 10 billion years as a disk. and don't buckle in themselves or merge with other galaxies to destroy their shape, their structure, which is actually through computer simulation, very precious, very difficult to maintain
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without being destroyed. but somehow these things are either being created through time or surviving for billions of years. so now we have a real kind of mystery that we would like to understand how these discs can survive for so long.- discs can survive for so long. nasa, in order to — discs can survive for so long. nasa, in order to make — discs can survive for so long. nasa, in order to make these _ discs can survive for so long. nasa, in order to make these images - discs can survive for so long. nasa, l in order to make these images more understandable to the eyes, to do a certain amount of work on them in terms of enhancing colours and all the rest of it, and a sense, they're not really photographs at all, or they? not really photographs at all, or the ? , . not really photographs at all, or the? ,.,., , not really photographs at all, or the? �*, they? they are photographs. so, it's not really any _ they? they are photographs. so, it's not really any different _ they? they are photographs. so, it's not really any different from - they? they are photographs. so, it's not really any different from using i not really any different from using a mobile phone and taking a picture of something. it's really no different than that. the only difference is that the light we're seeing is in the infrared, so as not the light we see with our eyes, but it's shifted more towards red light. you colour it? if it's shifted more towards red light. you colour it?— you colour it? if you could see in the infrared, _ you colour it? if you could see in the infrared, you _ you colour it? if you could see in the infrared, you can _ you colour it? if you could see in the infrared, you can see - you colour it? if you could see in the infrared, you can see colourl you colour it? if you could see in l the infrared, you can see colour in the infrared, you can see colour in the same way we see in the optical,
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the same way we see in the optical, the colours that you would see would represent some of the same colours you would see in the infrared. if you would see in the infrared. if you were to look at these galaxies when your own eye, they wouldn't see this same colour in the pictures, but you would see these distinctions between red and blue. brute but you would see these distinctions between red and blue.— but you would see these distinctions between red and blue. we don't know what else the — between red and blue. we don't know what else the james _ between red and blue. we don't know what else the james webb _ between red and blue. we don't know what else the james webb telescope l what else the james webb telescope might reveal, but how much of a leap forward or step change is that on what we were getting from its predecessor, the hubble telescope? this is the biggest advance in infrared astronomy for decades. we have seen nothing like this since the hubble space telescope, and i would say it will probably be even more revolutionary. the power of the telescope, the resolution... it's really one of the most amazing telescopes that astronomers have ever built, at its comparable to the
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first telescope that galileo used. professor, tell me how you pronounce your name because otherwise, somebody might reuse it and keep getting it wrong. it’s somebody might reuse it and keep getting it wrong-— getting it wrong. it's conselice. professor christopher _ getting it wrong. it's conselice. | professor christopher conselice, thank you so much.— now, when the residents of a small town in australia saw a strange red glow in the sky looking just like this, they were a little bit alarmed. i know we've had red sky at night but not usually that red. was it some strange chemical accident — a military attack — or even an alien invasion? the truth turned out to be a little less exotic — it was actually the glow from lights from a cannabis farm, which were visible because the black—out blinds used to obscure its location at night had malfunctioned. the site, near mildura, in northern victoria, legally grows cannabis for medical use, and the blinds have now been fixed.
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what a spectacular image. i'm bbc news, thank you. hi. we are forecasting rain this weekend, but not an awful lot of it, and most of it will fall in western areas of the uk, particularly the northwest. there'll be some sunshine around too, and many of us will actually escape the rain all together, rain that we really need because the gardens are very parched. so, here's the low pressure that will approach us. in fact, it's approaching us right now, the unsettled weather out towards the west. but ahead of this weather front in east anglia, in the southeast, we'll see very warm weather as south—westerly winds develop and tap into some of that heat that's across france right now. but let's have a look at the here and now and the rain approaching northern ireland through early saturday morning. elsewhere, it's generally dry, quite a bright start to the day, a mild one too, 17 celsius in london, 15 celsius in hull and around ia celsius
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in the lowlands of scotland. so, the forecast for saturday shows increasing amounts of cloud out towards the west. you can see that rain moves in, it's a fairly broken area of rain, so it'll wax and wane through the morning, into the afternoon, and in fact, if anything, the skies may clear in northern ireland middle of the day, and it'll be quite sunny and pleasant with temperatures up to 20 degrees. it'll stay dry generally east of the pennines, across east anglia and the south coast. so, a fine day for portsmouth, southampton, brighton, and temperatures will be in the low 20s. but towards evening, notice this lump of rain heads towards northern ireland and south western scotland, and that could really be quite heavy for a time saturday night into sunday. here's sunday's weather forecast. so the low pressure, slow moving and just to the northwest of us, brisk south—westerly winds pushing in clouds and showers, but most of the showers escaping east anglia and the southeast, where warm south—westerly winds will draw in that heat from france. so temperatures temporarily reaching
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30 celsius there in norwich. and by that, i mean it'sjust going to be the one day. in fact, by the time we get to monday, and this is monday's weather map, the low pressure moves out into the north sea. on the back side of it, the winds are coming in from the north, so fresher conditions sweep across the country and it'll cool off. so, here's the forecast for a couple...for a few cities, then, northern areas staying a little unsettled into monday and fresher. further south also cooling off but staying generally dry. bye— bye.
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this is bbc news. welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the daily mirror columnist, susie boniface, and ali miraj, who's a columnist at the article. bringing up to date on tomorrow's front pages. daily mail's headline "wish you weren't here" — as friday's lengthy queues stretch for miles towards the port of dover causing major delays for one of the busiest holiday weekends. the mirror covers the blame game that's erupted from the gridlock. the port of dover said they'd been "let down" by french authorities. but france says the blame lies with an incident in the channel tunnel. the ft describes the dover delays as an anglo—french row over post—brexit border controls. (ani)the telegraph quotes the foreign
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