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this is bbc news the headlines: the summer wave of industrial action in the uk continues — with criminal barristers to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike in england and wales from next month. barristers have been saying this for years, that if you do not invest, people walk away. courts have been closed down, simply weren't enough judges sitting. so the backlog has built up and built up and we are now unfortunately at a critical point. a bbc investigation unmasks the man responsible for a huge online community which traded non—consensual sexual images and videos of more than a hundred woman. cinema chain cineworld confirms it is considering filing for bankruptcy in the us after days
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of speculation about how it will deal with an estimated $5 billion of debt due to pandemic losses. pressure intensifies on the exam board, pearson, to explain why hundreds of students have still not received their btec results, four days after they were due to be released. the duke and duchess of cambridge say they will permenantly move to adelaide cottage in windsor and send their children to school in nearby ascot from september. good afternoon. criminal barristers in england and wales have voted for an all out strike next month — joining a wave of industrial action as workers seek pay rises to keep up with high inflation. some barristers say they earn less than the minumum wage — the government claims strike action will simply delay justice for victims of crime.
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railway workers, dockers, postal workers and refuse collectors are among those who've already gone on strike in what's been called a summer of discontent — while nurses are to be balloted on industrial action. our legal affairs correspondent dominic casciani reports. its a dispute that has been a decade in the making. criminal barristers saying they can't make a living any more and the government saying it has made a fair and generous offer. this morning the criminal bar association announced 80% of members have voted for a complete walk—out, an unprecedented escalation of a summer of legal discontent with ministers. discontent over funding for the legal aid system that pays for most criminal cases. the row has had a huge impact already on the justice system. now it going to get worse. there have been 19 days of strike action so far, that's affected more than 6200 separate cases and delayed m00 trials. now from the 5th of september
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there will be an indefinite strike. the government says its offer of 15% to barristers here at the old bailey and other courts is far more than other public sector pay deals. but barristers say it falls far short of the 25% needed to correct a decade of cuts and won't apply to existing cases. the upshot, the delay means to trials, criminals going to jail and victims waiting forjustice. it's taking at the moment 3.5 years for a rape case to come to trial. that means 15%, we don't get paid until the case is concluded. that's15% if i am lucky by the end of 2024, by which time i'm already looking at 10% of inflation now but i don't think it's unfair to say we would simply like this 15% to apply to all cases. we are willing to talk to government about this but please come to the room, don'tjust do this by the way of press releases and e—mails. dominic raab, thejustice secretary here on the left, will not meet barristers to negotiate.
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ministers say today's vote is irresponsible and unjustified. judges too are alarmed but some also privately is a pathetic. barristers predict that unless more cash is injected into criminaljustice, more and more young lawyers will switch to other branches of law to earn a living. their leaders say if that becomes an exodus from crown courts it won't just mean justice delayed. it will mean justice denied. dominic casciani, bbc news. let's speak now to dame vera baird qc, victims�* commissioner for england and wales. good for england and wales. afternoon. you were a crim barrister, good afternoon. you were a criminal barrister, you now speak on behalf of victims, how do you react to this strike? it of victims, how do you react to this strike? , , ., ., strike? it needs resolving and it needs resolving _ strike? it needs resolving and it needs resolving quickly. - strike? it needs resolving and it i needs resolving quickly. payment strike? it needs resolving and it - needs resolving quickly. payment is being made by victims. there is already, as your report said, huge backlog, 59,000 cases. so people who
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say they have been raped, people have been stabbed, people whose child has been mown down by a car cannot get on with their lives. if this strike is not stopped because a settlement is reached, then it will be infinite. people will not stay, of course not. they have to find some other way of getting on with their lives and where is justice then? their lives and where is 'ustice then? . . ., ., . ., then? the vice chair of the criminal bar association, _ then? the vice chair of the criminal bar association, kirsty _ then? the vice chair of the criminal bar association, kirsty brimelow, i bar association, kirsty brimelow, have said barristers have had to endure a collapse in their income, cuts and on the funding so their income has decreased by over 28% since around 2006, which is why they are asking for a 25% rise in tay for legal aid work. the strike, the justice minister says, is irresponsible, do you agree? i justice minister says, is irresponsible, do you agree? i am not sure if— irresponsible, do you agree? i am
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not sure if you _ irresponsible, do you agree? i am not sure if you are _ irresponsible, do you agree? i —n not sure if you are asking me to agree, it's not up to me to sort it out. i can only rely on the immediately past lord chiefjustice, lord thomas, who was on the radio only last week saying that he felt barristers had been sadly left behind in their pay. i can tell you, 20 odd years at the bar when i was there, there was only one really short, very quickly resolved strike. barristers don't go on strike, they are committed to the causes of justice. they go in it because they are excited by the idea to help justice to be done properly. the truth is, they are not that far apart but the government doesn't seem as though it wants to talk to them. there was a review and it was mentioned earlier in your programme by a man called bellamy, who recommended 15% as an absolute start
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last november and there should be no delay. the government has agreed to the 15%, but has said it will only start with new cases. as i have already said, there are 59,000 cases in the queue. so that is at the contrary to what bellamy said. if the question of delay can only be resolved and then the pay review body that bellamy recommended and the bar want to take it on, i thinking that is what is up to follow. meanwhile, where are the victims and all of this? the government has a victims bill, so what is the point of saying on the one hand, you will put victims at the heart of the process and are not talking to the people who simply cannot be involved in putting them in the process at all. the courts are fractured because of the queues
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already. realistically, they are almost certain to collapse before very long unless this is revolved. people need to start talking and start talking now.— people need to start talking and start talking now. thank you very much for talking _ start talking now. thank you very much for talking to _ start talking now. thank you very much for talking to us. _ start talking now. thank you very much for talking to us. dame - start talking now. thank you very l much for talking to us. dame vera baird, the victims commissioner for england and wales. an investigation by the bbc�*s panorama programme has uncovered a vast online community, secretly sharing and trading sexual images and videos of women from across the uk, without their consent. the group, on the social media site, reddit, has now been closed. but concerns are growing that this is just the latest part of a disturbing new trend. and a warning that you may find this report from monika plaha upsetting. i felt so objectified and i felt as though i was their property. when i saw it, i wasjust shocked myself because i was like, is that even me? these are the voices of the women whose pictures were shared online without them ever knowing.
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hi, guys! hope everyone's having a good saturday. tanvi is an influencer. a photo from her instagram account had been posted on the social media site reddit, in a group dedicated to men leering at south asian women. i saw so many men commenting about, trying to find out information about me — my name, where i live, the things they would do to me, which were both degrading and sexual. they were calling me names. some of the images in this group are explicit and private, probably originally sent between partners. in other posts, women appear to have been secretly filmed while having sex, like aisha. we've changed her name and voice to protect her identity. i stopped socialising. i stopped going out of the house. i was in and out of psychiatric units. it was just always self—harming, suicidalattempts, because it's coming to a point where i can't bear life any more.
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the group was hosted by reddit. the social media site has 50 million daily users worldwide. people can set up their own communities and discuss almost anything, but i found several groups on this site where users are trading images — some of a sexual nature — without consent. two years ago, a stranger contacted georgie on social media to say a folder of her explicit images were being shared online. this time, it wasn't on reddit. i remembered those pictures, and they were ones that i shared with an ex—partner many years before that i was assured by that ex—partner had been deleted. despite having a written admission of guilt in a text message, because he doesn't claim to have wanted to hurt me, i was told by the police that there was nothing they could do. the law currently offers limited legal protection to any women whose intimate images are leaked on the internet.
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"collector culture" is the term - that's used because many of the men collect these imagesj in large repositories. the problem is, the law only focuses on the kind of malicious _ ex—partner sharing an image, the kind of revenge porn, - and this only covers a small number of cases of intimate image abuse. . back on the same reddit group tanvi and aisha were posted on, our investigation also found explicit images of at least 150 different women, as well as thousands of non—consensual images and videos. reddit told us its safety teams regularly take action against communities and users for this behaviour. my message out there for all the people that are doing this — please, just stop this. and anyone that's obviously going through this, just speak up, and you do have a voice. when you are held accountable, when it is illegal and when the government does impose bills and laws, that's when you're
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going to be in serious trouble. for now, the law and the tech companies are struggling to combat this abuse, but ultimate responsibility lies with the thousands of anonymous users trading, selling and sharing these explicit images. monika plaha, bbc news. joining me now is professor lorna woods. she regularly gives evidence to mps about this issue of online harms. professor of internet law at the university of essex, thank you. how do you respond to these revelations? i don't think they are actually very surprising. reddits had a long history of problematic reddits, including creep shot sites and the like. and as your report said, reddit is not alone, there are a lot
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of other social media sites that have similar problems, so sadly it is not a surprise.— is not a surprise. what is a creep shot sites? _ is not a surprise. what is a creep shot sites? that _ is not a surprise. what is a creep shot sites? that is _ is not a surprise. what is a creep shot sites? that is where - is not a surprise. what is a creep shot sites? that is where you - is not a surprise. what is a creep i shot sites? that is where you have is not a surprise. what is a creep - shot sites? that is where you have a shot sites? that is where you have a shot of a woman _ shot sites? that is where you have a shot of a woman taken _ shot sites? that is where you have a shot of a woman taken without - shot sites? that is where you have a shot of a woman taken without her. shot of a woman taken without her consent. it is not necessarily explicit but the main idea behind it was to treat her as a sexual object rather than a person and that leads to lots of discussion about her as such on the site. is to lots of discussion about her as such on the site.— such on the site. is it to do with the site there _ such on the site. is it to do with the site there aren't _ such on the site. is it to do with the site there aren't enough - the site there aren't enough moderators on sites like reddit to nip this in the blood? i moderators on sites like reddit to nip this in the blood?— nip this in the blood? i think moderation _ nip this in the blood? i think moderation is _ nip this in the blood? i think moderation is one _ nip this in the blood? i think moderation is one problem. | nip this in the blood? i think| moderation is one problem. i nip this in the blood? i think- moderation is one problem. i think there is another issue, which is about the response to complaints and whether the services have invested enoughin whether the services have invested enough in that aspect of their product. it is also a question about the design of the service
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themselves, what safeguards are being built in. i think the sad fact is, the companies, because they are immunised from prosecution to a large extent, just have not had the incentive to think about how their sign up process is, how their recommendation tools and all the sorts of features actually facilitate the problem. it sorts of features actually facilitate the problem. if you are the platform. — facilitate the problem. if you are the platform. if— facilitate the problem. if you are the platform, if you _ facilitate the problem. if you are the platform, if you are - facilitate the problem. if you are the platform, if you are the - facilitate the problem. if you are l the platform, if you are the social media platform, are you responsible for the actions of your users? i think there is a distinction between the liability of the user and the responsibility of the platform. because the platforms are facilitating the problem. they are allowing groups to be formed, they are allowing the dissemination, very, very easily, to large groups. it is that aspect of the problem, the facilitation where i think
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platforms have some responsibility. i am not saying they should be liable for every single instance or action of their users, but i think they should take greater care about how they design and resource their services, so they are not inadvertently creating spaces where this sort of behaviour five sand, is in fact, encouraged and rewarded. thank you for talking to us, professor. and you can watch the full story of how panorama unmasked the man behind this group on the secret world of nudes at 8pm on bbc one or on iplayer now. and if you've been affected by anything in this report or would like help, you can contact the bbc�*s action line online. you can find help and support at bbc dot co dot uk the headlines on bbc news: the summer wave of industrial action continues as criminal barristers vote to go on an indefinite,
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uninterrupted strike on england and wales from next month. as we have just been reporting, wales from next month. as we havejust been reporting, a bbc investigation asks the man responsible for a huge online community which traded nonconsensual images and sexual videos of 100 women. and the world's second largest cinema chain and employer of 28,000 people, cineworld has considered filing for bankruptcy in the us. what does that mean, consider filing for bankruptcy? this what does that mean, consider filing for bankruptcy?_ for bankruptcy? this is quite a tale, for bankruptcy? this is quite a tale. one _ for bankruptcy? this is quite a tale, one point _ for bankruptcy? this is quite a tale, one point before - for bankruptcy? this is quite a tale, one point before the - for bankruptcy? this is quite a - tale, one point before the pandemic this was a business valued at more than $4 billion. it is now at something like 60, £70 million and as you say, staring at possible bankruptcy proceedings. it staved off bankruptcy twice already in the last two years and it is a story
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about that, way too much of it, over expansion. the fallouts from covid—19, the rise of streaming services and not enough blockbuster films. but the real big thing for cineworld is the debt mountain. it has got nearly £5 billion worth of debt and that is just not sustainable. it is looking at a number of options, it has got to come up with a solution, some sort of financial restructuring with its lenders to put itself on a more sustainable footing. so possible bankruptcy proceedings in the us, they call it chapter 11 proceedings. that is one option very much on the table. as to what it would mean to cinemagoers here and 4600 staff, the company is saying these operations will be unaffected, it's business as usual. this is a financial
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restructuring. 50 usual. this is a financial restructuring.— usual. this is a financial restructuring. usual. this is a financial restructurinu. ., ~' restructuring. so if you work there, ou don't restructuring. so if you work there, you don't need _ restructuring. so if you work there, you don't need to _ restructuring. so if you work there, you don't need to be _ restructuring. so if you work there, you don't need to be worried? - restructuring. so if you work there, you don't need to be worried? i - you don't need to be worried? i think the sound of any company heading for a possible bankruptcy must raise some concern and alarm with staff throughout the uk. it has got more than 120 cinemas, including the picture house chain. but the company's the picture house chain. but the compa ny�*s clear the picture house chain. but the company's clear message is they have got to sort out its balance sheet, this is going to take some time, but its operations will remain unaffected.— its operations will remain unaffected. ., ~ , . tory leadership contender rishi sunak says his rival liz truss cannot afford both tax cuts and economic support for households struggling with the cost of living crisis. he says it would risk putting the public finances into "serious jeopardy". 0ur political correspondent ione wellsjoins me now. what is rishi sunak saying? two weeks today we will finally learn the identity of the next prime
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minister. ,., ., ~' the identity of the next prime minister. ,., ., ~ _ , minister. the bookie say it will be liz truss. rishi _ minister. the bookie say it will be liz truss. rishi sunak, _ minister. the bookie say it will be liz truss. rishi sunak, as - minister. the bookie say it will be liz truss. rishi sunak, as the - liz truss. rishi sunak, as the underdog is using this time to put focus on her economic plans. we know that liz truss wants to scrap the national insurance increase that rishi sunak introduced. she thinks tax cuts all the way ahead to help people with the cost of living. but rishi sunak has seized on the truss campaign decision that although they wouldn't have an emergency budget, it would be back by an independent forecast for budget responsibility, the spending watchdog. rishi sunak is saying that would be flying blind, to have those tax cuts without looking at the forecast and without looking at the forecast and without looking at the forecast and without looking at the wider impact of the economy from an official but independent source. find of the economy from an official but independent source.— of the economy from an official but independent source. and the response from liz truss' — independent source. and the response from liz truss' camp? _ independent source. and the response
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from liz truss' camp? they _ independent source. and the response from liz truss' camp? they say - from liz truss' camp? they say althou:h from liz truss' camp? they say although there _ from liz truss' camp? they say although there will _ from liz truss' camp? they say although there will be - from liz truss' camp? they say although there will be a - from liz truss' camp? they say although there will be a need l from liz truss' camp? they say l although there will be a need for from liz truss' camp? they say - although there will be a need for an and urgent action, there won't be time to prepare an official forecast. the office for budget responsibility would normally take about ten weeks to do a forecast that would tie in with a budget or spending review. we now know that sources in the office for budget responsibility say that they could come up with some figures in time for an emergency budget from liz truss, but the argument from the foreign secretary's campaign is the need to act is so urgent that she is going to go ahead and take action as soon as she can if she wins the race for downing street.— for downing street. thank you very much, for downing street. thank you very much. david- _ the former boss of formula one, bernie ecclestone, has indicated a plea of not guilty to a charge of fraud at westminster magistrates' court. the 91—year—old is accused of failing to declare overseas assets worth around £400 million to the government. 0ur correspondent angus crawford was in court.
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a very brief hearing this morning, a preliminary hearing. he arrived flanked by his lawyer, the diminutive figure of bernie ecclestone sporting a beard, a dark suit, dark tie. he appeared in court for less than about ten minutes and confirmed his name, age, 91, and address. and he pleaded not guilty, he said he would plead not guilty to the charge at crown court at southwark. this charge relates to one charge of fraud by misrepresentation. the allegation is, he simply didn't declare to the tax authorities the existence of a trust based in singapore which contained more than £400 million. he was told he should appear again at southwark crown court in september. from next month, state schools in england will have to remove unnecessary branding from their uniforms — to make them cheaper. the children's society estimates parents have to spend around three hundred pounds to kit out a secondary school pupil, as colletta smith reports.
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the start of another busy day at the uniform project. this is our uniform room. this is all our primary stock. emma's suiting and booting children from across nottingham, as more children than ever turn to herfor help. we've got summer dresses. we've also got our blues, navies, and we've got reds just over there. she's frustrated so many secondary schools are still insisting on branded clothes. you've got to cater for your parental community within the school and you're not doing that if you're insisting on logos and expecting everyone to have a spare 300 quid for each child they have. many are embarrassed to be asking for help. i've never been in this financial situation, ever. i lost myjob at the start of the holidays. this mum of four didn't want to be identified but was really grateful of the help.
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secondary, for my son, it's going to cost me £98, because he has to have logoed everything except shirts. my son can get the same education in a standard white shirt and a standard grey blazer. he doesn't need a logo. new government guidance for schools in england kicks in at the start of this term, which should make sure that uniforms are reasonably priced and that there aren't too many logoed items. but lots of parents are still frustrated that they don't know how to challenge schools whose uniforms are still really expensive. i think the school blazer is between £45 and £60. it's just a phenomenal amount that you just don't prepare for. with two boys in secondary school, she has already spent £350 kitting them out this summer. it's just so unnecessary. if it means i can buy something from the supermarket at £3 or now with a logo from a uniform shop and it's now £20, it's really not fair on, you know, hard—working families and families that are struggling.
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it is just crazy, if i'm honest. those leading the campaign for uniform changes say parents should raise it with governors if schools aren't following the rules. schools are required to implement the legislation right now for this september, and if parents think that their school uniform policy hasn't changed in their local school they should contact the head teacher and ask why. failing that, they should contact the governing body of the school and ask why. and failing that they should contact their mp or the department for education, who can write to the school and require them to follow the legislation. audrey, can you try this on for me, poppet? yeah. the government say the new guidelines will help keep costs down as uniforms should never be a burden for parents or a barrier to pupils accessing education. for more families than ever, second hand has become first choice as the costs pile—up. colletta smith, bbc
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news, in nottingham. i am joined now by natalie frankland, the founder of a community group new perspectives, she with her colleages run the project uniform recycling scheme. hello to you. what you think about these new rules so unnecessary branding goes and uniforms are cheaper? i branding goes and uniforms are cheaer? .., , , ., cheaper? i completely agree with it and it will make _ cheaper? i completely agree with it and it will make school _ cheaper? i completely agree with it and it will make school life - cheaper? i completely agree with it and it will make school life a - cheaper? i completely agree with it and it will make school life a lot - and it will make school life a lot more inclusive, especially in the current climate when uniform is such a big cost. it shouldn't be a factor at stopping children accessing education or whether the parents choose to go out and buy a uniform of whether it is gas, electrical food. ., , ., ., , of whether it is gas, electrical food. ., , ., ., food. how big a deal is buying new uniform for— food. how big a deal is buying new uniform for the _ food. how big a deal is buying new uniform for the kind _ food. how big a deal is buying new uniform for the kind of _ food. how big a deal is buying new uniform for the kind of mums - food. how big a deal is buying new uniform for the kind of mums and | uniform for the kind of mums and dads you are helping? it is massive. yesterday we _ dads you are helping? it is massive. yesterday we ran _ dads you are helping? it is massive. yesterday we ran a _ dads you are helping? it is massive. yesterday we ran a scheme - dads you are helping? it is massive. yesterday we ran a scheme where i yesterday we ran a scheme where parents could come in and get the uniform and the amount of feedback we had from that, they hadn't had
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anything like that before, they hadn't had any support. as a mother of three schoolchildren, i know how much uniforms cost and the impact it can have on the household. it was nice to be able to let parents know that we're all in that situation. i5 that we're all in that situation. is it older pupils who donating their uniform to projects like yours? yes. uniform to pro'ects like yours? yes, we have had — uniform to projects like yours? yes, we have had a _ uniform to projects like yours? yes, we have had a massive _ uniform to projects like yours? 15:3 we have had a massive influx of uniform donations which has been fantastic. to be able to kit out those families, families from all backgrounds, working families, families who are not working, everybody is finding that impact. what we are finding more of is secondary school uniforms, because thatis secondary school uniforms, because that is where the higher cost is. we are lucky we have had a lot of secondary school uniforms donated and that is where we have had the huge feedback from, from parents who have said it has helped so much because they were panicking about being able to blight the blazers,
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the pe kits with those logos on. thank you very much for talking to us, natalie. take care. now it's time for a look at the weather with elizabeth rizzini. hello there. rather mixed fortunes weatherwise across the uk so far today, grey skies, some outbreaks of rain for the central belt for scottish borders and northern england. but it's been mostly dry with some sunshine further east, however, our weather front continues to push eastwards as we head throughout the rest of the day. it will eventually clear into the north sea. top temperatures today in the low 20s and celsius, maybe 25 celsius for east anglia, where the sunshine will last longest. the high teens for much of scotland. now overnight tonight will see some increasingly warm, humid feeling airjust moving into the far southwest of devon and cornwall. so it is a milder night across the board. coastal hill fog towards the far south west. this is how we'll start off the day tomorrow. now, there will be some showers
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tomorrow across western areas of scotland moving eastwards throughout the day and starting to approach western wales and the south west of england. but for many the sunshine will hang on. in the best of that, temperatures could get as high as 27 degrees.
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this is bbc news. the headlines...
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the sum wave of industrial action continues. —— the summer wave of industrial action continues as criminal barristers vote to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike in england and wales from next month. we've been saying this for years, if you do not invest, people will walk away and things will close down as there will not be enough judges sitting saudi back—up is built up and now we are at a critical point. —— so the back—up is built. an investigation by the bbc�*s panorama programme has uncovered a vast online community, secretly sharing and trading sexual images and videos of women from across the uk, without their consent. cinema chain cineworld confirms it is considering filing for bankruptcy in the us after days of speculation about how it will deal with an estimated $5 billion of debt due to pandemic losses. pressure intensifies on the exam board, pearson, to explain why hundreds of students have still not received their btec results, four days after they were due to be released. prince william and
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katherine say they will permenantly move to adelaide cottage in windsor and send their children to school in nearby ascot from september. just under six hours away now from one of the biggest games in english football is more than a couple of intriguing sub—lot, too. manchester united host liverpool in the premier league, both without a win in two games this season and off the field protests are expected again. manchester united start the day in the premier league's bottom three. most fans say the cause
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is at the top of the club. last year when they played liverpool, they made that clear. two police officers are injured after a major security breach at old trafford with hundreds of fans invading the pitch. it was the first premier league match called off due to protests and since then it's got worse. liverpool won here 5—0 last october. last week united lost 4—0 at brentford. now there are plans to protest again in a march before the match aimed at the owners, the glazers. they're notjust greedy leeches, but they're incompetent greedy leeches. and what they've done is install within the organisation second rate people at every level. and it's meant that, yes, sure, united have spent a lot of money on transfers, but an awful lot of it has been wasted. and i think that's what the anger is about. they're notjust taking money out, they're also running the place into the ground. they have spent a lot of money and that has revived the thought that the glazes are at fault. i really hope it will not happen. but if it happens, i think we should get the points. i don't think and i really hope this will not happen. i have no idea what what could happen. don't think about it.
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but in a situation like this, always the other team should get the points. the owners want to win and the fans, we want. them behind the club. and i can understand sometimes, but i'm not that long in the club. that i can see all the backgrounds, but we have to fight together. - united are set to sign a real madrid midfielder, but the fans say the big names cover the cracks. tonight, both they and liverpool go for their first win of the season. most of all at old trafford, they want change — on the pitch and at the top. joe lynskey, bbc news. you can listen to that one in five live sport tonight from 7pm. england have confirmed their schedule for the three test tour to pakistan this winter — their first test matches in the country for seventeen years. they'll play three test matches in rawalpindi, multan and karachi, with the first scheduled for the first of december. it adds to the t20 series already
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in the calendar for next month. white ball captainjos buttler is expected to be fit for that tour and the t20 world cup, after being ruled out of the rest of the hundred due to a calf injury. he picked up the problem during manchester 0riginals win over southern brave last thursday. boxing promoter frank warren expects a world heavyweight unification fight between tyson fury and 0leksandr usyk to go ahead. usyk retained his three belts beating anthonyjoshua on saturday whilst fury holds the other — and warren believes he'd be tempted out of retirement for the bout. it's a fact that i think will be made because both teams, which is usyk�*s team and our team. tyson i think would want it as well. it's just a matter of where it can generate the most income because it's a unique fight in the first time for god knows how long before belts are on the line, is thought right. both fighters undefeated in
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the whole world would be captivated, anyone interested in boxing would be captivated by this fight and as i say it would be about where these guys can maximise the income from the fight. that's all the sport for now. russia's security service, the fsb, says it has established that ukraine was behind the killing on saturday of daria dugina — daughter of the prominent ultranationalist thinker, aleksandr dugin. the fsb says a ukrainian intelligence agent and her daughter came to russia injuly and rented a flat in moscow so as to monitor daria dugina's movements. they also allegedly attended the fateful patriotic festival outside moscow, where daria and herfather were guests of honour. she died in a car bomb on her way back from that event. ukraine has vehemently denied any involvement.
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i am joined now by 0leksiy melnyk who is a security analyst at the ukrainian non—governmental think tank razumkov centre. thank you very much for talking to us. what do you make of the fsb's claim? ., ~ us. what do you make of the fsb's claim? . ~' ,, us. what do you make of the fsb's claim? ., ~ i. ., claim? thank you for inviting me. well, it was _ claim? thank you for inviting me. well, it was absolutely _ claim? thank you for inviting me. well, it was absolutely expected | well, it was absolutely expected that all the blame would be put on the ukrainian side. i assume there could be ukrainians by nationality originally but definitely the ukrainian special services would not take this great risk because who is aleksandr dugin, let alone his daughter? for ukrainian interest, it's better to have aleksandr dugin at the future criminal court or tribunal, not at his death in any
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ukrainian interest.— tribunal, not at his death in any ukrainian interest. some claim he is an all , ukrainian interest. some claim he is an ally. close _ ukrainian interest. some claim he is an ally, close ally, _ ukrainian interest. some claim he is an ally, close ally, president - an ally, close ally, president vladimir putin and influences his thinking. 0thers vladimir putin and influences his thinking. others say absolutely not the case and he is nowhere near the inner circle of badly your putting —— michael vladimir putin. i inner circle of badly your putting -- michael vladimir putin. -- michaelvladimir putin. i agree with the experts _ -- michaelvladimir putin. i agree with the experts who _ -- michaelvladimir putin. i agree with the experts who know - -- michaelvladimir putin. i agree with the experts who know the - with the experts who know the internal situation much better than us that his role is estimated and he might not be the ideologist of the so—called russian war but all the damage he could do he has done already so i repeat there is no benefit or interest in the ukrainian side to organise this assassination. if you are right and it's not the ukrainians, what other groups might it be? ., , it be? there are different speculations. _ it be? there are different speculations. it _ it be? there are different speculations. it could - it be? there are different speculations. it could be | it be? there are different - speculations. it could be done by some criminal structures and it could be done by russian specials, so like fsb and one of the reasons
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might be internal competition in russia, one of the reasons could be to distract public attention from real actions being performed by ukrainian special services in occupied crimea and i do believe that this could be worse to kill someone, very famous public figure inside russia, i mean to kill by the russians. ,., inside russia, i mean to kill by the russians. ., , ., russians. right, so are you saying it could be — russians. right, so are you saying it could be the _ russians. right, so are you saying it could be the russian _ russians. right, so are you saying it could be the russian security . it could be the russian security services or what russian dissident group? i services or what russian dissident arou - ? ., ., services or what russian dissident i rou . ? ., ., , group? i would rather believe in the 'ob of the group? i would rather believe in the job of the russian _ group? i would rather believe in the job of the russian security - group? i would rather believe in the job of the russian security service i job of the russian security service because fsb grew so—called military intelligence, they have a pretty long record of assassination so they have situations, and they... why
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should they have any mercy? thank ou for should they have any mercy? thank you for talking _ should they have any mercy? thank you for talking to _ should they have any mercy? thank you for talking to us. _ the duke and duchess of cambridge have announced they are moving their family from kensington palace in west london to a cottage on the queen's windsor estate. their new home, adelaide cottage, is a ten minute walk from windsor castle. alongside announcing their move, the duke and duchess also confirmed their three childreen would be switching schools. a new home and a new school. and i think it tells us that as we know that the cambridges are absolutely determined that their three children should have as normal an upbringing as possible and preferably in a rural setting. so they're moving to adelaide cottage, which is on the home park just about 10 minutes away from windsor castle here. and the three children,
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george, charlotte and louis will be starting at lambrooke school next month. this is described as a leading co—educational prep school not far from ascot. it's been in existence for about 160 years. it has 600 pupils aged between three and 13. it's set in 52 acres of its own grounds. the other thing that i think this move tells us that william and katherine are content to live in what by royal standards is a pretty modest home. it is adelaide cottage, the clue's there in the title four bedrooms. so there will be no live in staff i suppose. inevitably there will be comparisons drawn with the kind of accommodation that the sussexes have chosen for themselves, very much more spacious accommodation in california. the other thing, of course, that it says is that this brings the cambridges right here into windsor. it means that prince william will be very close to his grandmother. and she, of course, is relying more and more on prince charles and william for advice on the future, not just of the monarchy,
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but of the royal family. so although the cambridges will keep their home in norfolk, anmer hall, they will keep their apartment at kensington palace, a spacious apartment, it should be said their home. from now on, their main home will be here in windsor. some students across england and wales are still waiting for their btec grades, five days after they were due to be released. the exam board pearson, who are responsible for the grades, have apologised. they added that only a small number of students are affected by the delay. let's get more now from our education reporter vanessa clarke in leeds. do we know how many students are still waiting? what is causing the delays? it's quite hard to know because the exam said it's a very small percentage of students. around 200,000 students _ percentage of students. around 200,000 students take - percentage of students. around 200,000 students take btecsl percentage of students. around - 200,000 students take btecs every year and they did this year as well. 100,000 of them normally go on to university so they say around a
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small percentage of the student and we must also say that cambridge technical as well have been delayed so the exam board looking after those, and they think it is a few hundred in each case, really hard to know because most exam boards refuse to give us a number but i've been contacted today and all weekend by students around the country who are really concerned because they are still waiting for the university place to be confirmed and even though the university place will be held until september, they may not get the results they want or cannot get the results they want or cannot get through clearing, so if they do better than they think, they can actually apply for a space to left on a university case but they've all been taken up. accommodation is going on around them and they cannot do anything about that because they cannot access student loans until they get the result, so they are stressed as can be. and they will be
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sitting the exams and having a results day, so as they went on thursday, they were all expecting to be celebrating that night but many were still sitting.— were still sitting. really stressful for them. what _ were still sitting. really stressful for them. what is _ were still sitting. really stressful for them. what is behind - were still sitting. really stressful for them. what is behind the - were still sitting. really stressful i for them. what is behind the delays smack for them. what is behind the delays smaci for them. what is behind the delays smact ,., for them. what is behind the delays smaci ,., ., , , ., for them. what is behind the delays smac ., , , ., smack well, both examples of said it's a bit different _ smack well, both examples of said it's a bit different when _ smack well, both examples of said it's a bit different when it - smack well, both examples of said it's a bit different when it comes i it's a bit different when it comes to btec and cambridge technical because the vocational courses, the courses modular and the results are very much little of it is done by formal exams are written exams, they are done by a number of assessments so where there is a unit or a module mixing, they have to chase the couege mixing, they have to chase the college or school. the association of school and college leaders say that schools have submitted this and they did so at the beginning ofjuly so if there was a problem there, they should be rectified weeks ago,
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so there is a bit of toing and froing about where exactly the blame lies but what is being said is for any students that are concerned to please contact the exam board or else to contact the university so that place can be held.- else to contact the university so that place can be held. sewage discharges at popular british seaside resorts are not being monitored properly. that's the claim from the liberal democrats, who say that, 90% of the time, monitoring devices have not been installed or don't work. last week more than 40 beaches and swimming spots in england and wales were hit by pollution warnings, after heavy rain. today, downing street accused water companies of a "completely unacceptable" failure to reduce sewage discharges. a spokesperson for number 10 said the companies should put "customers before shareholders" or face fines. richard galpin reports.
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here in sussex, sewage continues to pour out into the sea. and this, an area popular with both swimmers and families. many other parts of england and wales are also affected, like these — allonby, southport, paignton, cleethorpes and tynemouth. all this the result of heavy rains overwhelming the sewer systems. but now, the water companies stand accused of failing to monitor the discharges of sewage. when you've got £2.8 billion of operating profit, £1 billion being given to shareholders in dividends, and the executive staff of the water companies are getting a 20% pay rise last year, and at the same time, you see a complete lack of investment either in monitoring or in the infrastructure that would stop the sewage outflows in the first place, then you see that really, they haven't got a leg to stand on. and according to the liberal democrats, the monitors used to measure the amount of sewage being pumped into the sea across the uk are faulty or not even installed. the former lead singer of the band the undertones, feargal sharkey, who now campaigns
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for clean rivers, is also sharply critical of the water companies. water companies have now spent almost 9.5 million hours over the last six years dumping sewage into the environment. and if the data is as faulty as it seems, that number could be a multiple of that by another multiplier of your choosing. it is just a desperate sign of the extraordinary state of chaos that this industry has managed to get itself into. a spokesperson for the water regulator 0fwat told the bbc nobody wanted to see raw sewage being discharged, particularly when it's close to a beach. "that is unacceptable," he said, "which is why we have a life investigation into all waste water sewage works run by the companies." richard galpin, bbc news.
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the headlines on bbc news... the summer wave of industrial action continues as criminal barristers vote to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike in england and wales from next month. a bbc investigation unmasks the man responsible for a huge online community which traded non—consensual sexual images and videos of more than a hundred woman the world's second largest cinema chain — and employer of 28,000 people — cineworld, has announced it's considering filing for bankruptcy in the us, pakistan's former prime minister, imran khan has been charged under the country's anti—terror laws. he hasn't yet been arrested and hundreds of his supporters have gathered outside his home in islamabad. they have promised to take over the capital, if police try to detain him. earlier today, a court granted him three days of bail which protects him from immediate detention. the row centres over comments made by mr khan at a rally on saturday when he condemned islamabad's chief
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of police, and a female judge, for the detention and alleged mistreatment of a colleague. the words which triggered the charges — 'you should get ready as we will take action against you' — which appear to have been interpreted as a direct threat. television news channels have been banned from broadcasting mr khan's speeches live — saying he was inciting hatred against the state. speaking on sunday evening after learning of that ban, he remained defiant. translation: they are using the re . ulator. translation: they are using the regulator- it _ translation: they are using the regulator. it says _ translation: they are using the regulator. it says imran _ translation: they are using the regulator. it says imran khan - translation: they are using the i regulator. it says imran khan cannot be broadcast live. what crime has imran khan committed? i will never accept this gang of thieves, that is all imran khan is guilty of. 0ur reporter farhat javed sent this
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update from outside his house. this is former prime minister imran khan's residents and people came here when they got the calls from the party leader, after hearing imran khan might get arrested. this whole situation developed within a few hours and imran khan was arrested on terrorism charges for threatening senior officials and a femalejudge. he was making a speech at a public rally and earlier this morning, he has been given a bail until 25th august at the court ordering him to move to... , imran khan accused... of one of his close companions of being tortured. it has been denied. these people have gathered here to show solidarity with him and there have been a number of hashtag trending on social
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media in pakistan since last night, one of them was imran khan is... and this is where supporters say imran khan is a red line. —— imran khan is a red line was one of the hashtags. that is them saying they will now hold protests across the country. electricity use in some parts of china has been further restricted as a prolonged drought continues to limit power generation. in central hubei province, they have used rockets to sow the clouds with catalysts such as dry ice to make rain. the lack of water means many hydro—electric power stations have been unable to operate. reduced power has forced shopping centres to close early, factories to temporarily shut down and the lights on shanghai's famous waterfront to be turned off. 0ur correspondent in china, steve mcdonell, told us more about how the drought was affecting production there. you've had this ongoing heatwave for months in china, which has resulted in a drought in half of china's landmass, if you can imagine. so a huge impact on crops, a huge impact on even shopping centres because they're being restricted in terms of the electricity they're able to use. it's just like one thing has been flowing on to another because there's not enough water
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in the yangtze river. this is restricted hydropower. now, sichuan province relies on its powerfrom hydro sources to the tune of 80%. so you can imagine what a huge impact that's having on the electricity on top of that inland shipping. the yangtze river is also a place where, apart from people travelling, there is a lot of commercial shipping as well, which has stopped because of the drought. not enough water in the river and unfortunately no sign of any rain to come. so, you know, quite devastating impact of the drought and heat wave across china. and chinese scientists are warning there could be more of this in the years to come because of climate change, unfortunately. nottingham is one of 11 areas of the country to begin trialling new "social prescriptions" to improve mental
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and physical health. it involves gp's surgeries doing more to enourage people to get on their bike or walking. rob sissons is in nottingham. yeah. there's a big move in the nhs of instead of prescribing tablets getting people to exercise more, get on their bikes, maybe join a walking club as a prescription. and social prescribing has been taking off. well, here at the victoria embankment in nottingham i met loads of people who are big fans of the power of exercise and actually think prescribing exercise is a good idea. when you're sat at home all day doing nothing, you're not going to feel good so getting out on your bike is going to make you feel a whole lot better. hannah says getting a dog's got her moving more typically walking with alfie six miles a day. it's that incentive to go out because you have to do it for them.
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so it makes you get out of the house and you're kind of walking with purpose rather thanjust going for a stroll that you actually do it for a reason. in their eighties, this couple need no convincing walking every day. just give me fresh air away from everybody, you know. but it's good for your health. nottingham city council is getting one and a half million pounds of government cash to encourage us to move more. we want to make sure that walking and cycling, we think it's accessible, it's affordable to everyone. and for some people there are just extra barriers. and we want to make sure that we're prescribing through social prescribing ways in which we can bust the barriers. and as well as encouraging people to get on their bikes, the money from the department of transport is also aimed at gathering evidence about the impact it has. the power of exercise. rob sissons, bbc east midlands today, nottingham. charities that care for stray, abandoned and unwanted dogs say they're struggling to cope
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with increased demand. 0ne dogs' home in wales says the problem is being caused by a "perfect storm" due to an increase in dog ownership during lockdown, and a growing cost—of—living crisis. bbc wales today's garry 0wen reports. rolo, terrier and a bundle of energy was brought to the hope rescue centre by the dog warden as a stray. but like dozens of other dogs here, rolo was looking for a new home. the centre says that the cost of living crisis has led to a sharp rise in the number of dogs coming into their care. the situation is worse than it's been in the 17 years since the centre opened. in the last three months alone, they've had over 300 calls from people asking for help. i think it's been this perfect storm. we had a huge surge in dog ownership during lockdown. lots of those were bought by first time dog owners, little bit less experience. that demand was met by low welfare breeders, so not breeding for health or behaviour necessarily. now we've got the cost of living crisis on top, which is further
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compounded it and it is that perfect storm. now we are having to turn dogs away and that's the hardest bit. it's heartbreaking. centres across wales are struggling to cope with demand, but though many are full staff stress, there's still help at hand. some people unfortunately do find it quite difficult to ask for help, but it's just that one. don't be embarrassed. it is a difficult time at the moment. everyone is struggling and we are in a position at the moment where we can offer support and offer advice. and as we've said, it's always the most responsible thing to do. just to pick up the phone, just call and ask for advice. even if you're struggling with the decision of whether to hand your dog over or not, we can offer that support there and then to get you on the right track of knowing what to do. it's a similar story at the cardiff dog's home. every inch of space is being used to house dogs. ragnar, a two year old american bulldog, is described as a lockdown dog, a pet bought during a surge in demand in the covid pandemic
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lockdowns, but now unwanted. there are many more like him. we shouldn't have a waiting list, but we do. so we try to prioritise people in desperate situations in the cardiff area because we are part of cardiff council. and then after that we look at the surrounding areas, penarth, barry and we try to help people, you know, accordingly. veterinary charity, the pdsa estimates that depending on which dog you have, their potential lifetime cost could be £30,000. and for many dog owners that's just too high. that means more pets being given up or abandoned and looking for new owners. now it's time for a look at the weather with elizabeth rizzini. hello. there are rather mixed fortunes weatherwise across the uk today, with a weather front gradually moving eastwards, introducing rather grey stormy skies, some heavy downpours of rain for much of southern scotland, the central belt and into the scottish borders, also northern england too. but for eastern england there has
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been a lot of sunshine. we will see some outbreaks of light, patchy rain and drizzle though even here by the end of the day in places for the next few days, we'll continue to see quite a messy picture. showers at times, especially towards the north and the west with some sunny spells and the air will feel really rather humid, especially towards the south. now, this is where our weather front is gradually spreading eastwards for the rest of the day today. it will pull out into the north sea this evening. temperatures are in the low twenties in celsius, maybe 25 degrees celsius in the best of the sunshine across east anglia. the high teens for much of scotland and overnight tonight, it will be a lot milder than it was last night. we've got this moist, very humid air moving into the far southwest of devon and cornwall here. some hail and some coastalfog, a few showers just edging into western scotland there, northern ireland and perhaps towards western wales. but these will be the temperatures as we start off tomorrow morning. so very mild indeed. now for tuesday then most of us
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are between weather fronts, but there will be some showery outbreaks of rain just moving eastwards across scotland into eastern areas of scotland through the afternoon there and starting to approach western wales and the far south west of devon and cornwall. but for many of us it will be dry. variable amounts of cloud, the best of any sunny spells out towards eastern areas. here we could see highs of 26 or 27 degrees celsius. the air will feel warm and humid and there could be some further showery outbreaks of rain for northern ireland and scotland, some of which will be heavy throughout the night on tuesday. but that then clears on wednesday. then this cold front starts to slip its way southwards and eastwards. this will be the position of the rain more or less on wednesday, but it is fizzling out much fresher feeling conditions out towards the north and the west on wednesday. still, the heat, the humidity hangs on towards the south and the east, 29 degrees celsius possible for many in norwich on wednesday. now these are the temperatures in our capital cities. as we head through the rest of the week. there could be some heavy thundery downpours maybe in the south east of england and east anglia on thursday night. we're all into fresher feeling air by friday.
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hello, this is bbc news good afternoon i'm victoria derbyshire. here are your headlines: the summer wave of industrial action continues as criminal barristers vote to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike in england and wales from next month. the courts are fractured because of the queues already. they are, realistically, almost certain to collapse before very long unless this is resolved and they are not far apart, this is resolved and they are not farapart, people this is resolved and they are not far apart, people need to stop talking and talking now. a bbc investigation unmasks the man responsible for a huge online community which traded non—consensual sexual images and videos of more than 100 women. the world's second largest cinema chain — and employer of 28,000 people — cineworld, has announced it's considering filing for bankruptcy in the us.
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pressure intensifies on the exam board, pearson, to explain why hundreds of students have still not received their btech results, four days after they were due to be released. the duke and duchess of cambridge say they will permenantly move to adelaide cottage in windsor and send their children to school in nearby ascot from september. criminal barristers in england and wales have voted for an all out strike next month — joining a wave of industrial action as workers seek pay rises to keep up with high inflation. some barristers say they earn less than the minumum wage — the government claims strike action will simply delay justice for victims of crime.
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0ur legal affairs correspondent dominic casciani reports. its a dispute that has been a decade in the making. criminal barristers saying they can't make a living any more and the government saying it has made a fair and generous offer. this morning the criminal bar association announced 80% of members have voted for a complete walk—out, an unprecedented escalation of a summer of legal discontent with ministers. discontent over funding for the legal aid system that pays for most criminal cases. the row has had a huge impact already on the justice system. now it going to get worse. there have been 19 days of strike action so far, that's affected more than 6200 separate cases and delayed 1400 trials. now from the 5th of september there will be an indefinite strike. the government says its offer of 15% to barristers here at the old bailey and other courts is far more than other public sector pay deals. but barristers say it falls far short of the 25% needed to correct
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a decade of cuts and won't apply to existing cases. the upshot, the delay means to trials, criminals going to jail and victims waiting forjustice. it's taking at the moment 3.5 years for a rape case to come to trial. that means 15%, we don't get paid until the case is concluded. that's15% if i am lucky by the end of 2024, by which time i'm already looking at 10% of inflation now but i don't think it's unfair to say we would simply like this 15% to apply to all cases. we are willing to talk to government about this but please come to the room, don'tjust do this by the way of press releases and e—mails. dominic raab, thejustice secretary here on the left, will not meet barristers to negotiate. ministers say today's vote is irresponsible and unjustified. judges too are alarmed but some also privately sympathetic. barristers predict that unless more cash is injected into criminaljustice, more and more young lawyers
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will switch to other branches of law to earn a living. their leaders say if that becomes an exodus from crown courts it won't just mean justice delayed. it will mean justice denied. dominic casciani, bbc news. earlier i spoke to dame vera baird, the victims' commissioner for england and wales — who gave her reaction to the strike. sadly, it is not a surprise. what did you say, creep shot site?
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yes, it is not necessarily explicit but the main idea behind it is to treat her as a sexual object rather than a person and leads to lots of discussion about her as such on the site. is discussion about her as such on the site. , ., ., .,. site. is it to do with the fact there aren't _ site. is it to do with the fact there aren't enough - site. is it to do with the fact - there aren't enough moderators on sites like reddit to nip this in the bud. i sites like reddit to nip this in the bud. ., sites like reddit to nip this in the bud. ~ ., ., ., , ., bud. i think moderation is one problem- _ bud. i think moderation is one problem. there _ bud. i think moderation is one problem. there is _ bud. i think moderation is one problem. there is another - bud. i think moderation is one i problem. there is another issue which is about the response to complaints and whether the service just hasn't invested enough in that aspect... just hasn't invested enough in that asect. .. ., just hasn't invested enough in that asect... ., .,, just hasn't invested enough in that asect... . ., , aspect... that was actually professor _ aspect... that was actually professor lorna _ aspect... that was actually professor lorna woods - aspect... that was actually. professor lorna woods from aspect... that was actually - professor lorna woods from the university of essex talking about our next story, an investigation by the bbc�*s panorama programme which has uncovered a vast online community secretly sharing and trading images and videos of women across the uk without their consent.
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the group, on the social media site, reddit, has now been closed. but concerns are growing that this is just the latest part of a disturbing new trend. and a warning that you may find this report from monika plaha. i felt so objectified and i felt as though i was their property. when i saw it, i wasjust shocked myself because i was like, is that even me? these are the voices of the women whose pictures were shared online without them ever knowing. hi, guys! hope everyone's having a good saturday. tanvi is an influencer. a photo from her instagram account had been posted on the social media site reddit, in a group dedicated to men leering at south asian women. i saw so many men commenting about, trying to find out information about me — my name, where i live, the things they would do to me, which were both degrading and sexual. they were calling me names. some of the images in this group are explicit and private, probably originally sent between partners. in other posts, women appear to have been secretly filmed while having sex, like aisha.
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we've changed her name and voice to protect her identity. i stopped socialising. i stopped going out of the house. i was in and out of psychiatric units. it was just always self—harming, suicidalattempts, because it's coming to a point where i can't bear life any more. the group was hosted by reddit. the social media site has 50 million daily users worldwide. people can set up their own communities and discuss almost anything, but i found several groups on this site where users are trading images — some of a sexual nature — without consent. two years ago, a stranger contacted georgie on social media to say a folder of her explicit images were being shared online. this time, it wasn't on reddit. i remembered those pictures, and they were ones that i shared with an ex—partner many years before that i was assured by that ex—partner had been deleted.
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despite having a written admission of guilt in a text message, because he doesn't claim to have wanted to hurt me, i was told by the police that there was nothing they could do. the law currently offers limited legal protection to any women whose intimate images are leaked on the internet. "collector culture" is the term - that's used because many of the men collect these imagesj in large repositories. the problem is, the law only focuses on the kind of malicious _ ex—partner sharing an image, the kind of revenge porn, - and this only covers a small number of cases of intimate image abuse. i back on the same reddit group tanvi and aisha were posted on, our investigation also found explicit images of at least 150 different women, as well as thousands of non—consensual images and videos. reddit told us its safety teams regularly take action against communities and users
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for this behaviour. my message out there for all the people that are doing this — please, just stop this. and anyone that's obviously going through this, just speak up, and you do have a voice. when you are held accountable, when it is illegal and when the government does impose bills and laws, that's when you're going to be in serious trouble. for now, the law and the tech companies are struggling to combat this abuse, but ultimate responsibility lies with the thousands of anonymous users trading, selling and sharing these explicit images. monika plaha, bbc news. a moment ago we played you an interview i did with professor lorna woods from the university of essex who is an expert in this area. so let's watch the interview in full. i don't think they are actually very
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surprising. reddit�*s had a long history of problematic sub—reddits, including creep shot sites and the like. as your report said, reddits is not alone so sadly it's not a surprise. is not alone so sadly it's not a surprise-— is not alone so sadly it's not a surrise. ~ ., . , surprise. what did you say, creep shot sites? _ surprise. what did you say, creep shot sites? what _ surprise. what did you say, creep shot sites? what is _ surprise. what did you say, creep shot sites? what is that? - surprise. what did you say, creep shot sites? what is that? that is| shot sites? what is that? that is - where you have got a shot of a woman taken without her consent. it's not necessarily explicit, but the main idea behind it is to treat her as a sexual object rather than a person and it leads to lots of discussion about her as such on the site. is it to do with — about her as such on the site. is it to do with the _ about her as such on the site. is it to do with the fact _ about her as such on the site. is it to do with the fact there aren't enough moderators on sites like reddit to nip this in the blood? i think moderation is one problem. i
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think moderation is one problem. i think there is another issue about the response to complaints and whether the services haven't simply invested enough in that aspect of their product. but i think there is also a question about the design of the service themselves, what safeguards are being built in. i think the sad fact is, the companies, because they are immunised from prosecution to a large extent, just have not the incentive to think about how their sign up process is, how their recommendation tools and all these sorts of features actually facilitate the problem. if sorts of features actually facilitate the problem. if you are the platform. — facilitate the problem. if you are the platform. if— facilitate the problem. if you are the platform, if you _ facilitate the problem. if you are the platform, if you are - facilitate the problem. if you are the platform, if you are the - facilitate the problem. if you are l the platform, if you are the social media platform, are you responsible for the actions of your users? i think there is a distinction between the liability of the user and a
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responsibility of the platform. because the platforms are facilitating the problem. they are allowing groups to be formed and they are allowing the dissemination very, very easily to large groups. it is that aspect of the problem, the facilitation, where i think platforms have some responsibility. i am not saying they should be liable for every single incident and actions of their users, but they should take greater care about how they design and resource their services so they are not inadvertently creating spaces where this sort of behaviour thrives and is, in fact, this sort of behaviour thrives and is, infact, encouraged this sort of behaviour thrives and is, in fact, encouraged and rewarded. and you can watch the full story of how panorama unmasked the man behind this group on the secret world of nudes at 8pm on bbc one or on iplayer now. and if you've been affected by anything in this report or would like help, you can contact the bbc�*s action line online.
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you can find help and support at: the world's second largest cinema chain, cineworld, has announced it's considering filing for bankruptcy in the united states, as it continues to struggle with with £4.2 billion worth of debt. the firm, which also owns the picturehouse chain in the uk, said its cinemas remained "open for business as usual". our business correspondent emma simpson has more. this is quite a tale, one point before the pandemic this was a business that was valued at more than $4 billion. it is now at something like 60, £70 million and as you say, staring at possible bankruptcy proceedings. again, it staved off bankruptcy twice already in the last two years
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and it is a story about debt, way too much of it, over expansion. the fallouts from covid—19, the rise of streaming services and not enough blockbusterfilms. but the real biggie for cineworld is the debt mountain. it has got nearly £5 billion worth of debt and that is just not sustainable. it is looking at a number of options, it has got to come up with a solution, some sort of financial restructuring with its lenders to put itself on a more sustainable footing. so possible bankruptcy proceedings in the us, they call it chapter 11 proceedings. that is one option very much on the table. as to what it would mean to cinemagoers here and 4600 staff, the company is saying these operations will be unaffected, it's business as usual. this is a financial restructuring. so if you work there, you don't need to be worried? i think the sound of any company
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heading for a possible bankruptcy must raise some concern and alarm with staff throughout the uk. it has got more than 120 cinemas, including the picturehouse chain. but the company's clear message is they have got to sort out its balance sheet, this is going to take some time, but its operations will remain unaffected. the headlines on bbc news... the summer wave of industrial action continues as criminal barristers vote to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike in england and wales from next month. a bbc investigation unmasks the man responsible for a huge online community which traded non—consensual sexual images and videos of more than a hundred woman the world's second largest cinema chain — and employer of 28,000 people — cineworld, has announced it's considering filing
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for bankruptcy in the us. the former boss of formula one, bernie ecclestone, has indicated a plea of not guilty to a charge of fraud at westminster magistrates' court. the 91—year—old is accused of failing to declare overseas assets worth around £400 million to the government. 0ur correspondent angus crawford was in court a very brief hearing this morning, a preliminary hearing. he arrived flanked by his lawyer, the diminutive figure of bernie ecclestone sporting a beard, a dark suit, dark tie. he appeared in court for less than about ten minutes and confirmed his name, age, 91, and address. and he pleaded not guilty, he said he would plead not guilty to the charge at crown court at southwark. this charge relates to one charge of fraud by misrepresentation. the allegation is, he simply didn't declare to the tax authorities the existence of a trust based in singapore which contained more than £400 million.
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he was told that he should appear again at southwark crown court in september. some students across england and wales are still waiting for their btec grades, five days after they were due to be released. the exam board pearson, who are responsible for the grades, have apologised. they added that only a small number of students are affected by the delay. let's talk now to the labour mp toby perkins, the shadow minister for skills and further education. toby perkins, the shadow minister have toby perkins, the shadow minister you had studen�* with have you had students get in touch with you to say they are still waiting? with you to say they are still waitin: ? ~ ., with you to say they are still waitin: ? ~ . , ., , , waiting? we have several students directl aet waiting? we have several students directly get in _ waiting? we have several students directly get in touch _ waiting? we have several students directly get in touch but _ waiting? we have several students directly get in touch but we - waiting? we have several students directly get in touch but we have i directly get in touch but we have seen much larger numbers on the internet and so on. it is impossible for us to know, only tears and possibly the government know how many people are affected and i think it is important that pearson and the government come clean and tell us how many people are waiting, because it has an application in terms of their access to university places
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and going through clearing and so on. ., , and going through clearing and so on, ., , ., and going through clearing and so on. . , . , and going through clearing and so on. . _, and going through clearing and so on. . ,. and going through clearing and so on. . ~ ., on. tears and say, as you know, "onl a on. tears and say, as you know, "only a small — on. tears and say, as you know, "only a small number _ on. tears and say, as you know, "only a small number of - on. tears and say, as you know, i "only a small number of students on. tears and say, as you know, - "only a small number of students are affected". is that supposed to be some sort of consolation? the very fact they have _ some sort of consolation? the very fact they have refused _ some sort of consolation? the very fact they have refused day - some sort of consolation? the very fact they have refused day after- some sort of consolation? the very| fact they have refused day after day to say how many we are talking about means that people are not reassured by that. i have been aware of students from at least 15 different colleges. there are dozens and dozens, possibly hundreds on social media. but the way of resolving and understanding this issue isn't to sort of trolled twitter and see who is complaining, it is for the organisation who knows how many people have received these results, to come clean about it and for the government to let us know how long they have known there was going to be a problem and what the scale of that problem is and what they are doing to ensure that universities are making sure places are held back
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for the students, who, let's remember are falling behind in the queue through no fault of their own. do you know why pearson are not telling people what the number is? no, i spoke with them on saturday and i was fobbed off with things like, numbers are changing all the time of the numbers are falling. but they are refusing to actually say and they have refused to say ever since thursday when the results originally were supposed to come out. the government have also refused to say, the education secretary has said nothing on this on saturday and we need some leadership from the government and we need some honesty from the exam board and it is notjust pearson, ocr board and it is notjust pearson, 0cr exam board have similar problems. ocr exam board have similar problems-— ocr exam board have similar roblems. ., ., ., . , problems. what would your advice be to students who _ problems. what would your advice be to students who are _ problems. what would your advice be to students who are waiting - problems. what would your advice be to students who are waiting and - to students who are waiting and don't know whether they have got the grades they need, got better than they needed, not as good as, what should they do? if they needed, not as good as, what should they do?— should they do? if they are waiting
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for university _ should they do? if they are waiting for university places _ should they do? if they are waiting for university places and _ should they do? if they are waiting for university places and this - should they do? if they are waiting for university places and this is - for university places and this is holding them up in that regard, i am told if they contact pearson, pearson will contact the university on their behalf and say the results are imminent. if it is not specifically linked to a place, then just continue to push with pearson. but really, it shouldn't be left to students to be chasing their own results like this, it should be for exam board, who are paid to do this to provide a competent service. thank you very much, mr perkins. the former prime minister of pakistan has been charged under anti—terror laws. he hasn't been arrested but hundreds of supporters have gathered outside his home in asland the bad and they have threatened to take over the capital if he gets to ten. he condemned the
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chief of police and the female judge for the detention and is alleged mistreatment of a colleague. speaking on sunday night after learning of the ban on him, he remained defiant. translation: , ., , translation: they are using the re . ulator. translation: they are using the regulator- it _ translation: they are using the regulator. it says _ translation: they are using the regulator. it says imran _ translation: they are using the regulator. it says imran khan - translation: they are using the i regulator. it says imran khan cannot be broadcast live. what harm has imran khan committed? i will never accept these gang of thieves, that is all imran khan is guilty of. i will never accept this crime. fiur will never accept this crime. our re orter will never accept this crime. our reporter sent — will never accept this crime. our reporter sent this _ will never accept this crime. 0ur reporter sent this update from outside imran khan's house. hundreds of supporters — outside imran khan's house. hundreds of supporters have _ outside imran khan's house. hundreds of supporters have gathered _ outside imran khan's house. hundreds of supporters have gathered to - outside imran khan's house. hundreds of supporters have gathered to show i of supporters have gathered to show solidarity with their leader. this is outside his residence in these people came here last night when they got messages and calls from their party leaders that imran khan might get arrested. the situation developed within a few hours after imran khan was booked under
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terrorism charges for threatening senior police officials and a senior judge when he was making a speech at a public rally. imran khan moved to the high court and he has been given a transit bail until the 25th of august. imran khan accused senior police officials and the judiciary of detaining and torturing one of his close companions, which is something the police and interior ministry have deny. people have been gathering to show solidarity and there have been a number of hashtag trending on social media last night and one of them is imran khan is our red line. this is where supporters say imran khan is their red line and if he is arrested that will be unacceptable for them and they would hold protests across the country. the duke and duchess of cambridge have announced they are moving their family
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from kensington palace in west london to a cottage on the queen's windsor estate. their new home, adelaide cottage, is a ten minute walk from windsor castle. alongside announcing their move, the duke and duchess also confirmed their three childreen would be switching schools. a new home and a new school and i think it tells us that as we know, they are determined that their three children should have as normal an upbringing as possible and preferably in a roaring setting so they are moving to adelaide cottage, which is on the home park about ten minutes from windsor castle and the three children, george, charlotte and louis will be starting at lambrook school next month. this is described as a leading co—educational prep school, not far from arscott. it has been in existence for about 160 years and has 600 pupils aged between three and 13 and set in 52 acres of its own grounds. the other thing this move tells us is william and catherine are content to live in,
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what by royal standards is a pretty modest home. adelaide cottage, the clue is in the title. four bedrooms, so no live on staff and i suppose there will be comparisons drawn against what this sussex have chosen for themselves, against what this sussex have chosen forthemselves, more against what this sussex have chosen for themselves, more spacious accommodation california. but it brings cambridges into windsor and it means prince william will be very close to his grandmother and she of course is relying more and more on prince charles and william for advice on the future, notjust of the monarchy, but of the royal family. although cambridges will keep their home in norfolk, they will keep their apartment at kensington palace, their home from now on, their main home will be here in windsor. from next month, state schools in england will have to remove unnecessary branding from their uniforms —
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to make them cheaper. the children's society estimates parents have to spend around £300 to kit out a secondary school pupil, as colletta smith reports. the start of another busy day at the uniform project. this is our uniform room. this is all our primary stock. emma's suiting and booting children from across nottingham, as more children than ever turn to herfor help. we've got summer dresses. we've also got our blues, navies, and we've got reds just over there. she's frustrated so many secondary schools are still insisting on branded clothes. you've got to cater for your parental community within the school and you're not doing that if you're insisting on logos and expecting everyone to have a spare 300 quid for each child they have. many are embarrassed to be asking for help. i've never been in this financial situation, ever. i lost myjob at the start of the holidays. this mum of four didn't want to be identified but was really
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grateful of the help. secondary, for my son, it's going to cost me £98, because he has to have logoed everything except shirts. my son can get the same education in a standard white shirt and a standard grey blazer. he doesn't need a logo. new government guidance for schools in england kicks in at the start of this term, which should make sure that uniforms are reasonably priced and that there aren't too many logoed items. but lots of parents are still frustrated that they don't know how to challenge schools whose uniforms are still really expensive. i think the school blazer is between £45 and £60. it's just a phenomenal amount that you just don't prepare for. with two boys in secondary school, she has already spent £350 kitting them out this summer. it's just so unnecessary. if it means i can buy something from the supermarket at £3 or now with a logo from a uniform shop and it's now £20, it's really not fair on, you know, hard—working families and families
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that are struggling. it is just crazy, if i'm honest. those leading the campaign for uniform changes say parents should raise it with governors if schools aren't following the rules. schools are required to implement the legislation right now for this september, and if parents think that their school uniform policy hasn't changed in their local school they should contact the head teacher and ask why. failing that, they should contact the governing body of the school and ask why. and failing that they should contact their mp or the department for education, who can write to the school and require them to follow the legislation. audrey, can you try this on for me, poppet? yeah. the government say the new guidelines will help keep costs down as uniforms should never be a burden for parents or a barrier to pupils accessing education. for more families than ever, second hand has become first choice
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as the costs pile—up. colletta smith, bbc news, in nottingham. now it's time for a look at the weather with elizabeth rizzini. hello there. rather mixed fortunes weatherwise across the uk so far today, grey skies, some outbreaks of rain for the central belt for scottish borders and northern england. but it's been mostly dry with some sunshine further east, however, our weather front continues to push eastwards as we head throughout the rest of the day. it will eventually clear into the north sea. top temperatures today in the low 20s and celsius, maybe 25 celsius for east anglia, where the sunshine will last longest. the high teens for much of scotland. now overnight tonight will see some increasingly warm, humid feeling airjust moving into the far southwest of devon and cornwall. so it is a milder night across the board. coastal hill fog towards the far south west. this is how we'll start off the day tomorrow. now, there will be some showers tomorrow across western areas of scotland moving eastwards throughout the day and starting to approach western wales
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and the south west of england. but for many the sunshine will hang on. in the best of that, temperatures could get as high as 27 degrees.
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this is bbc news. the headlines... the summer wave of industrial action continues as criminal barristers vote to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike in england and wales from next month. barristers have been saying this for years, that if you do not invest, people walk away. —— the courts are going to collapse if they are not sorted and people need to start talking and talking now. the world's second largest cinema chain — and employer of 28,000 people — cineworld, has announced it's considering filing for bankruptcy in the us, a bbc investigation unmasks the man responsible for a huge online community which traded
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non—consensual sexual images and videos of more than 100 women. pressure intensifies on the exam board, pearson, to explain why hundreds of students have still not received their btec results, four days after they were due to be released. the duke and duchess of cambridge say they will permenantly move to adelaide cottage in windsor and send their children to school in nearby ascot from september. time for the sport now. here is ben. good afternoon. manchester united manager erik ten hag has called for fans to unite behind the club as they prepare to face liverpool in the premier league tonight — amid the backdrop of expected fan protests. sections of the supporters are unhappy with the way united are being run. 0n the pitch — both teams are looking for their first wins of the season too. joe lynskey reports.
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manchester united start the day in the premier league's bottom three. most fans say the cause is at the top of the club. last year when they played liverpool, they made that clear. two police officers are injured after a major security breach at old trafford with hundreds of fans invading the pitch. it was the first premier league match called off due to protests and since then it's got worse. liverpool won here 5—0 last october. last week united lost 4—0 at brentford. now there are plans to protest again in a march before the match aimed at the owners, the glazers. they're notjust greedy leeches, but they're -- i think —— i think the feeling is nothing other than yes there is an interesting appointment as manager but still be recruitment looks awful, haphazard, throwing huge amounts of money at whoever they can find, not getting top—level target that liverpool and manchester city, chelsea and tottenham have got.
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and understanding that the glazers are at fault. i really hope it will not happen. but if it happens, i think we should get the points. i don't think and i really hope this will not happen. i have no idea what what could happen. don't think about it. but in a situation like this, always the other team should get the points. the owners want to win and the fans, we want. them behind the club. and i can understand sometimes, but i'm not that long in the club. that i can see all the backgrounds, but we have to fight together. - united are set to sign a real madrid midfielder, but the fans say the big names cover the cracks. tonight, both they and liverpool go for their first win of the season. most of all at old trafford,
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they want change — on the pitch and at the top. joe lynskey, bbc news. clare connor — the ecb's interim chief executive — says england's test tour to pakistan this winter will be an historic occasion. the schedule has been confirmed for england's first test tour to the country in 17 years. they'll play three tests in rawalpindi, multan and karachi — starting on the first of december. a t20 series is already in the calendar for next month. white ball captainjos buttler is expected to be fit for that tour and the t20 world cup, after being ruled out of the rest of the hundred due to a calf injury. he picked up the problem during manchester 0riginals win over southern brave last thursday. southern brave are in action in the hundred today against welsh fire. the women are up first in cardiff. welsh fire are played two lost two whilst the brave are played three won three. you can watching this right now on bbc two.
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cameron norrie has moved to a career high of ninth in the world rankings following his run to the semi finals of the cincinatti 0pen. he moves up two spots ahead of next week's us open. that's nothing though compared to borna coric. the croatian is up 123 places in the world rankings after beating stefanos tsitsipas in the cincinatti final. coric dropped down the rankings due to a shoulder injury that saw him miss most of last year. he's now inside the world's top 30. that's all the sport for now. meanwhile workers at felixstowe — the uk's biggest container port — are on strike for a second day. nearly two thousand members of the unite union began an eight—day walk—out yesterday, in a dispute over pay. the union described a 7% pay offer from the port operator as "significantly below" the rate of inflation — which is currently just over ten per cent.
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and rubbish is continuing to pile up on the streets of edinburgh as a strike by the city's bin collectors enters its second week. the industrial action — which is set to last 12 days and coincides with the edinburgh fringe festival — comes after unions rejected a pay offer equivalent to a 3 and a half percent rise. 0ur scotland correspondent james shaw reports from the city. just a few days since the start of this strike and already edinburgh and its famous castle are looking very different. 0verflowing bins and rubbish strewn across pavements throughout the city. the areas where festivalgoers gather and enjoy the nightlife are the worst affected. this is the grassmarket, one of the centres of the old town of edinburgh where people who are coming to enjoy fringe events come to drink at this row of bars all the way down the street here. but you can already see the impact
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of this refuse strike. piles of rubbish just beginning to mount up as they have over the last four days. people arriving at waverley station are confronted by the new reality of this city, sometimes called the athens of the north. i love scotland, i love edinburgh. but this is really sad. we will do what we have come here for but, yeah, it's not optimal. terrible. well, they should pay the people what they're asking for. a new pay deal for refuse workers is on the table, but the strike will not be called off unless they accept it. the leader of the council is pleading with tenants, housing associations and businesses to do what they can to help. but many will be wondering how it could all have gone so wrong. james shaw, bbc news, edinburgh. since russia began its invasion of ukraine nearly six months ago, its forces have suffered a high number of losses in the fighting. as a result, the kremlin has launched a large—scale campaign to recruit new volunteers to replace those who've been killed or wounded. the volunteers are promised huge sums of money and other perks but many are given little or no
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training and are sent straight into the combat in ukraine. will vernon reports. —— russia's security service, the fsb, says it has established that ukraine was behind the killing on saturday of daria dugina — daughter of the prominent ultranationalist thinker, aleksandr dugin. the fsb says a ukrainian intelligence agent and her daughter came to russia injuly and rented a flat in moscow so as to monitor daria dugina's movements. they also allegedly attended the fateful patriotic festival outside moscow, where daria and herfather were guests of honour. she died in a car bomb on her way back from that event. ukraine has vehemently denied any involvement. an adviser said ukraine is not responsible for this attack. and the russian foreign minister said if any ukrainian leak was found, it would amount to state terrorism. if you look at... and attacks on crimea and
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although there is no evidence, and in ukraine president zelensky said russia could preparing for something thus disgusting during ukraine cosmic independence day. kharkiv has been under constant _ cosmic independence day. kharkiv has been under constant russian - been under constant russian bombardment. curfew is in place until thursday and you're in kyiv, there is a ban on public gatherings until thursday with the curfew not being extended but the city is on high alert. the kremlin tells russians their soldiers are heroes. professional, well—trained troops, fighting in ukraine. but western officials say that russia's running out of men — 70,000 to 80,000 killed or wounded. the solution, signing up volunteers. yevgeni was one of those whojoined up. his mother, nina, says that her son was given a gun and sent straight into ukraine.
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days later, he was killed. —— since russia began its invasion of ukraine nearly six months ago, its forces have suffered a high number of losses in the fighting. as a result, the kremlin has launched a large—scale campaign to recruit new volunteers to replace those who've been killed or wounded. the volunteers are promised huge sums of money and other perks but many are given little or no training and are sent straight into the combat in ukraine. will vernon reports. kharkiv has been under constant russian bombardment. curfew is in place until thursday and you're in kyiv, there is a ban on public gatherings until thursday with the curfew not being extended but the city is on high alert. the kremlin tells russians their soldiers are heroes. professional, well—trained troops, fighting in ukraine. but western officials say that russia's running out of men — 70,000 to 80,000 killed or wounded. the solution, signing up volunteers. yevgeni was one of those whojoined up. his mother, nina, says that her son was given a gun and sent straight into ukraine. days later, he was killed. translation: theyjust send them in,
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like dumb little chickens. _ they'd hardly even held a gun before. they're cannon fodder. the generals think, "we've got a volunteer, great in you go." in these videos, volunteers are promised huge sums of money and even plots of land. they're now a common sight on social media. but recruiting is being done in more traditional ways, too. this announcement talks about the creation of two new volunteer brigades. it's urging local people here to sign up to fight in ukraine. and this is a message that's being repeated right across the country — on tv, on social media, on billboards. it's a large—scale recruitment campaign for the russian army. "we should bomb them. i'd give them what for," this man said. "if i were young, i'd go." "it's too painful to talk about," this lady told me. "why go? 0nly their bodies will be brought back." but can russia win this war with a volunteer army? this is, i think, not the type of soldiers that are needed for a victorious war.
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the main problem is with the quantity of people, but the qualities, with their motivation, and this is not a thing that you can change quickly. you can't bring thousands of people in to teach them how to work with modern weapons, tanks and aircraft. the russian military has not released casualty figures since the end of march, but nina knows that large numbers are dying in ukraine. translation: you read the news| and it's all about men being killed, but people are going there. i don't know why they go. president putin says he ordered his forces into ukraine to protect his people, but the kremlin is now sending even more russians there, into mortal danger. will vernon, bbc news, moscow.
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millions of children in the philippines have returned to school after one of the longest covid lockdown is in the world. half of the schools have received face—to—face classes but the rest remain partly online reopening has been delayed by slovaks in roll—outs and elections earlier this year and there is concern about the impact. i like attending face—to—face classes because it's fun to see my classmates and i finally got to see my teacher in person.— classmates and i finally got to see my teacher in person. here we can actually enjoy _ my teacher in person. here we can actually enjoy learning _ my teacher in person. here we can actually enjoy learning and - my teacher in person. here we can actually enjoy learning and act - my teacher in person. here we can actually enjoy learning and act the | actually enjoy learning and act the person— actually enjoy learning and act the person we — actually enjoy learning and act the person we see in due date mixing classes _ person we see in due date mixing classes and when you are learning online _ electricity use in some parts
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of china has been further restricted as a prolonged drought continues to limit power generation.|n central hubei province, they have used rockets to sow the clouds with catalysts such as dry ice to make rain. the lack of water means many hydro—electric power stations have been unable to operate. reduced power has forced shopping centres to close early, factories to temporarily shut down and the lights on shanghai's famous waterfront to be turned off. 0ur correspondent in china, steve mcdonell, told us more you've had this ongoing heatwave for months in china, which has resulted in a drought in half of china's landmass, if you can imagine. so a huge impact on crops, a huge impact on even shopping centres because they're being restricted in terms of the electricity they're able to use. it's just like one thing has been flowing on to another because there's not enough water in the yangtze river. this is restricted hydropower. now, sichuan province relies on its powerfrom hydro sources to the tune of 80%. so you can imagine what a huge impact that's having on the electricity on top of that inland shipping. the yangtze river is also a place where, apart from people travelling, there is a lot of commercial shipping as well, which has stopped because of the drought. not enough water in the river
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and unfortunately no sign of any rain to come. so, you know, quite devastating impact of the drought and heat wave across china. and chinese scientists are warning there could be more of this in the years to come because of climate change, unfortunately. the headlines on bbc news... the summer wave of industrial action continues as criminal barristers vote to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike in england and wales from next month. the world's second largest cinema chain — and employer of 28—thousand people — cineworld, has announced it's considering filing for bankruptcy in the us,
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a bbc investigation unmasks the man responsible for a huge online community which traded non—consensual sexual images and videos of more than a hundred woman —— images and videos of more than a hundred women. sewage discharges at popular british seaside resorts are not being monitored properly. that's the claim from the liberal democrats, who say that, 90% of the time, monitoring devices have not been installed or don't work. last week more than 40 beaches and swimming spots in england and wales were hit by pollution warnings, after heavy rain. today, downing street accused water companies of a "completely unacceptable" failure to reduce sewage discharges. a spokesperson for number 10 said the companies should put "customers before shareholders" or face fines. richard galpin reports. here in sussex, sewage continues to pour out into the sea. and this, an area popular with both swimmers and families. many other parts of england and wales are also affected, like these — allonby, southport, paignton, cleethorpes and tynemouth.
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all this the result of heavy rains overwhelming the sewer systems. but now, the water companies stand accused of failing to monitor the discharges of sewage. when you've got £2.8 billion of operating profit, £1 billion being given to shareholders in dividends, and the executive staff of the water companies are getting a 20% pay rise last year, and at the same time, you see a complete lack of investment either in monitoring or in the infrastructure that would stop the sewage outflows in the first place, then you see that really, they haven't got a leg to stand on. and according to the liberal democrats, the monitors used to measure the amount of sewage being pumped into the sea across the uk are faulty or not even installed. the former lead singer of the band the undertones, feargal sharkey, who now campaigns for clean rivers, is also sharply critical of the water companies. water companies have now spent almost 9.5 million hours over the last six years dumping sewage into the environment.
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and if the data is as faulty as it seems, that number could be a multiple of that by another multiplier of your choosing. it is just a desperate sign of the extraordinary state of chaos that this industry has managed to get itself into. a spokesperson for the water regulator 0fwat told the bbc nobody wanted to see raw sewage being discharged, particularly when it's close to a beach. "that is unacceptable," he said, "which is why we have a life investigation into all waste water sewage works run by the companies." richard galpin, bbc news. nottingham is one of 11 areas of the country to begin trialling new "social prescriptions" to improve mental and physical health.
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it involves gp's surgeries doing more to enourage people to get on their bike or walking. rob sissons is in nottingham. yeah. there's a big move in the nhs of instead of prescribing tablets getting people to exercise more, get on their bikes, maybe join a walking club as a prescription. and social prescribing has been taking off. well, here at the victoria embankment in nottingham i met loads of people who are big fans of the power of exercise and actually think prescribing exercise is a good idea. when you're sat at home all day doing nothing, you're not going to feel good so getting out on your bike is going to make you feel a whole lot better. hannah says getting a dog's got her moving more typically walking with alfie six miles a day. it's that incentive to go out because you have to do it for them. so it makes you get out of the house and you're kind of walking with purpose rather thanjust going for a stroll that you actually do
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it for a reason. in their eighties, this couple need no convincing walking every day. just give me fresh air away from everybody, you know. but it's good for your health. nottingham city council is getting one and a half million pounds of government cash to encourage us to move more. we want to make sure that walking and cycling, we think it's accessible, it's affordable to everyone. and for some people there are just extra barriers. and we want to make sure that we're prescribing through social prescribing ways in which we can bust the barriers. and as well as encouraging people to get on their bikes, the money from the department of transport is also aimed at gathering evidence about the impact it has. the power of exercise. rob sissons, bbc east midlands today, nottingham. charities that care for stray, abandoned and unwanted dogs say they're struggling to cope with increased demand. 0ne dogs' home in wales says the problem is being caused by a "perfect storm" — due to an increase in dog ownership during lockdown,
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and a growing cost—of—living crisis. bbc wales today's garry 0wen reports rolo, terrier and a bundle of energy was brought to the hope rescue centre by the dog warden as a stray. but like dozens of other dogs here, rolo was looking for a new home. the centre says that the cost of living crisis has led to a sharp rise in the number of dogs coming into their care. the situation is worse than it's been in the 17 years since the centre opened. in the last three months alone, they've had over 300 calls from people asking for help. i think it's been this perfect storm. we had a huge surge in dog ownership during lockdown. lots of those were bought by first time dog owners, little bit less experience. that demand was met by low welfare breeders, so not breeding for health or behaviour necessarily. now we've got the cost of living crisis on top, which is further
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compounded it and it is that perfect storm. now we are having to turn dogs away and that's the hardest bit. it's heartbreaking. centres across wales are struggling to cope with demand, but though many are full staff stress, there's still help at hand. some people unfortunately do find it quite difficult to ask for help, but it's just that one. don't be embarrassed. it is a difficult time at the moment. everyone is struggling and we are in a position at the moment where we can offer support and offer advice. and as we've said, it's always the most responsible thing to do. just to pick up the phone, just call and ask for advice. even if you're struggling with the decision of whether to hand your dog over or not, we can offer that support there and then to get you on the right track of knowing what to do. it's a similar story at the cardiff dog's home. every inch of space is being used to house dogs. ragnar, a two year old american bulldog, is described as a lockdown dog, a pet bought during a surge in demand in the covid pandemic lockdowns, but now unwanted. there are many more like him. we shouldn't have a waiting list, but we do. so we try to prioritise people in desperate situations
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in the cardiff area because we are part of cardiff council. and then after that we look at the surrounding areas, penarth, barry and we try to help people, you know, accordingly. veterinary charity, the pdsa estimates that depending on which dog you have, their potential lifetime cost could be £30,000. and for many dog owners that's just too high. that means more pets being given up or abandoned and looking for new owners. researchers say they've worked out what triggers children's bad temper on carjourneys. experts at nottingham trent university carried out a survey of two—thousand parents of under twelves. drjames hind led the research coming up with this formula — t=70+o.5e+15f-ios. he told us what it means. it means that you can't really
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buy your way out of a tantrum with entertainment, so you'll only get 30 seconds of tantrum free time for every minute of entertainment you give. food will help. it won't surprise anybody to know that you can bribe children with food, but there's an upper limit. so any more than two snacks an hour and you're looking at sugar crashes, bathroom breaks, car sickness and the last party siblings. i'm afraid they don't help. so any time you've got siblings in the car, you're having to fight for attention. and that, again, speeds up tantrums. he's already appeared before crowds of more than 20—thousand people, but now the world's youngest club dj hopes his new found tik—tok fame could take him to the very top. dj archie, who's from essex, is just seven years old but already he holds a world record — and he's attracting a new wave of followers on social media. let's hear more from him now... my name is dj archie and i'm seven years old. my favourite music is drum and bass because i like the beats and the drop. the biggest crowd i have
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played to is 20,000, and i felt quite scared for first because there was a lot of people everywhere. and then ijust got into it, like, always, and then ijust played with the tunes and they get hyped up. he started by accident, really. one day i was out of the room and i came back in because i heard music, and he was djing, moving the cross metre from side to side, and the more i looked, i could see that the things he were doing were in time with the music, so it seemed like he knew what he was doing even though he was onlyjust three years old at that point. the thing with the guinness world records, you have to play in a club with a certain amount of people and play for an hour —— he has played lots
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of festivals now. he has played at boomtown, he mostly djs at festivals in the summer but the dream is to play at glastonbury or edc or something like that in las vegas, i don't know. but i'm extremely proud of archie. he is an amazing kid. when i'm older, i want to be a famous, really famous dj. and show off to people and a lot of other stuff. newsjust in from british news just in from british airways, they are _ news just in from british airways, they are cutting more flights this time during the winter period and they say— time during the winter period and they say they are cutting roughly 10,000 — they say they are cutting roughly 10,000 short—haul flights or 5000 return— 10,000 short—haul flights or 5000 return trips to and from heathrow from _ return trips to and from heathrow from late — return trips to and from heathrow from late october and late march next year — from late october and late march next year and they say this is meant to building _ next year and they say this is meant to building resilience over the winten — to building resilience over the winter. �* ., , ., to building resilience over the winter. �* . , ., ., to building resilience over the winter. ., ., ., to building resilience over the winter. �* ., ., ., ., ., winter. and a small of a long haul fliuhts winter. and a small of a long haul fli . hts will winter. and a small of a long haul flights will also _ winter. and a small of a long haul flights will also be _ winter. and a small of a long haul flights will also be affected - winter. and a small of a long haul flights will also be affected so - flights will also be affected so british airways is also cutting
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another 10,000 short—haul flights between october and march next year. now it's time for a look at the weather with elizabeth rizzini. hello. there are rather mixed fortunes weatherwise across the uk today, with a weather front gradually moving eastwards, introducing rather grey stormy skies, some heavy downpours of rain for much of southern scotland, the central belt and into the scottish borders, also northern england too. but for eastern england there has been a lot of sunshine. we will see some outbreaks of light, patchy rain and drizzle though even here by the end of the day in places for the next few days, we'll continue to see quite a messy picture. showers at times, especially towards the north and the west with some sunny spells and the air will feel really rather humid, especially towards the south. now, this is where our weather front is gradually spreading eastwards for the rest of the day today. it will pull out into the north sea this evening. temperatures are in the low twenties in celsius, maybe 25 degrees celsius in the best of the sunshine across east anglia. the high teens for much of scotland and overnight tonight,
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it will be a lot milder than it was last night. we've got this moist, very humid air moving into the far southwest of devon and cornwall here. some hail and some coastalfog, a few showers just edging into western scotland there, northern ireland and perhaps towards western wales. but these will be the temperatures as we start off tomorrow morning. so very mild indeed. now for tuesday then most of us are between weather fronts, but there will be some showery outbreaks of rain just moving eastwards across scotland into eastern areas of scotland through the afternoon there and starting to approach western wales and the far south west of devon and cornwall. but for many of us it will be dry. variable amounts of cloud, the best of any sunny spells out towards eastern areas. here we could see highs of 26 or 27 degrees celsius. the air will feel warm and humid and there could be some further showery outbreaks of rain for northern ireland and scotland, some of which will be heavy throughout the night on tuesday. but that then clears on wednesday.
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then this cold front starts to slip its way southwards and eastwards. this will be the position of the rain more or less on wednesday, but it is fizzling out much fresher feeling conditions out towards the north and the west on wednesday. still, the heat, the humidity hangs on towards the south and the east, 29 degrees celsius possible for many in norwich on wednesday. now these are the temperatures in our capital cities. as we head through the rest of the week. there could be some heavy thundery downpours maybe in the south east of england and east anglia on thursday night. we're all into fresher feeling air by friday.
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this is bbc news — the headlines: the summer wave of industrial action continues as criminal barristers vote to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike in england and wales from next month. the courts are fractured because of the queues already. realistically, they will collapse before long unless this is resolved. they really not far apart, but people need to start talking and talking now. a bbc investigation unmasks the man responsible for a huge online community which traded non—consensual sexual images and videos of more than 100 women. the world's second largest cinema chain — and employer of 28,000 people — cineworld, has announced it's considering filing for bankruptcy in the us. pressure intensifies on the exam board, pearson, to explain why hundreds of students
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have still not received their btec results, four days after they were due to be released. it is for the organisation who knows how many people have received these results to come clean about it and for the government to let us know how long they've known there was going to be a problem and what the scale of the problem is. the duke and duchess of cambridge say they will permenantly move to adelaide cottage in windsor and send their children to school in nearby ascot from september. criminal barristers in england and wales have voted for an all out strike next month — joining a wave of industrial action as workers seek pay rises to keep up with high inflation. some barristers say they earn less than the minumum wage. the government claims strike action will simply delay justice
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for victims of crime. railway workers, dockers, postal workers and refuse collectors are among those who've already gone on strike in what's been called a summer of discontent — while nurses are to be balloted on industrial action. our legal affairs correspondent dominic casciani reports. it's a dispute that has been a decade in the making. criminal barristers saying they can't make a living any more and the government saying it has made a fair and generous offer. this morning the criminal bar association announced 80% of members have voted for a complete walk—out, an unprecedented escalation of a summer of legal discontent with ministers. discontent over funding for the legal aid system that pays for most criminal cases. the row has had a huge impact already on the justice system.
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now it going to get worse. there have been 19 days of strike action so far, that's affected more than 6200 separate cases and delayed 1400 trials. now from the 5th of september there will be an indefinite strike. the government says its offer of 15% to barristers here at the old bailey and other courts is far more than other public sector pay deals. but barristers say it falls far short of the 25% needed to correct a decade of cuts and won't apply to existing cases. the upshot, the delay means to trials, criminals going to jail and victims waiting forjustice. it's taking at the moment 3.5 years for a rape case to come to trial. that means 15%, we don't get paid until the case is concluded. that's15% if i am lucky by the end of 2024, by which time i'm already looking at 10% of inflation now but i don't think it's unfair to say we would simply like this 15% to apply to all cases. we are willing to talk
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to government about this but please come to the room, don'tjust do this by the way of press releases and e—mails. dominic raab, thejustice secretary here on the left, will not meet barristers to negotiate. ministers say today's vote is irresponsible and unjustified. judges too are alarmed but some also privately sympathetic. barristers predict that unless more cash is injected into criminaljustice, more and more young lawyers will switch to other branches of law to earn a living. their leaders say if that becomes an exodus from crown courts it won't just mean justice delayed. it will mean justice denied. dominic casciani, bbc news. earlier i spoke to dame vera baird, the victims' commissioner it needs resolving and it needs resolving quickly. the payment is being
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made by victims. there is already, as your report said, huge backlog, 59,000 cases. so people who say they have been raped, people have been stabbed, people whose child has been mown down by a car cannot get on with their lives. if this strike is not stopped because a settlement is reached, then it will be infinite. people will not stay, of course not. they have to find some other way of getting on with their lives and where is justice then? where victims and all of this. you cannot have a victims bill going through in one hand and then not be involved in putting them in the process at all. the courts are fractured because of the queues
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already. they are realistically almost certain to collapse before very long unless this is resolved and they are really not far apart. people need to start talking and talking now. joining me now is norman l reimer. he's a former criminal defence practitioner and now global ceo of fair trials, an international group which campaigns for fairness, equality and justice in the criminaljustice system. thank you for talking to us, your reaction first of all?— thank you for talking to us, your reaction first of all? thank you for invitin: reaction first of all? thank you for inviting me- _ reaction first of all? thank you for inviting me- my — reaction first of all? thank you for inviting me. my reaction - reaction first of all? thank you for inviting me. my reaction isn't - reaction first of all? thank you for inviting me. my reaction isn't it'sl inviting me. my reaction isn't it's not a wage issue, it is a social justice issue. it is an precedent but inevitable consequence of two fundamental problems that reflect a broken system. first of all it devalues the importance of the defence function. civilised countries recognise the right to counsel but they don't have the resources and to make sure we have
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fully qualified, fully resourced council who are not labouring under the burden of caseloads and under compensating to the point where they cannot render the kind of service thatis cannot render the kind of service that is necessary. it is penny wise and pound foolish because the barrister, the defence lawyer is the person that is best able to address the needs of the client and get to the needs of the client and get to the root causes of the problems that has brought somebody into the criminaljustice has brought somebody into the criminal justice system has brought somebody into the criminaljustice system in the first place. ii criminal 'ustice system in the first lace. , ., criminal 'ustice system in the first lace, , ., ., �* criminal 'ustice system in the first lace, .,�* criminal 'ustice system in the first lace. .,�* . place. if you don't pay defence barristers _ place. if you don't pay defence barristers a — place. if you don't pay defence barristers a fair— place. if you don't pay defence barristers a fair rate _ place. if you don't pay defence barristers a fair rate of - place. if you don't pay defence barristers a fair rate of pay, i place. if you don't pay defence. barristers a fair rate of pay, one that copes with the fact we have big inflation so on and so forth, what is the impact then on the justice system? is the impact then on the 'ustice s stem? ,., . is the impact then on the 'ustice s stem? . , is the impact then on the 'ustice s stem? , ., �* system? the impact is, you won't have people _ system? the impact is, you won't have people doing _ system? the impact is, you won't have people doing that _ system? the impact is, you won't have people doing that kind - system? the impact is, you won't have people doing that kind of. system? the impact is, you won't i have people doing that kind of work, you will have increased backlogs, you will have increased backlogs, you will have people waiting for justice, the accused, victims. the whole system is in danger of
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collapsing. again, i come back to the idea that if an investment in the idea that if an investment in the defence function is notjust to defend the individual, it is to bring about a just result and restore families and communities and individual human lives. and the second part of this, what we are seeing here this catastrophe that is about to fall the system is a reflection also of the fact that we clog the system. we are prosecuting too many people for two little things. we are relying on the criminaljustice things. we are relying on the criminal justice system things. we are relying on the criminaljustice system to regulate all manner of personal, social and economic behaviour and therefore we have flooded the system with too many cases. so we don't have enough resources to ensure that the council are adequately compensated and able to do the rightjob. in are adequately compensated and able to do the rightjob.— to do the right 'ob. in england and wales we to do the right job. in england and wales we have _ to do the right job. in england and wales we have a _ to do the right job. in england and wales we have a backlog - to do the right job. in england and wales we have a backlog of- to do the right job. in england and i wales we have a backlog of 59,000 cases right now. this is before
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these barristers go on strike, so what is the impact going to be, do you think? it what is the impact going to be, do ou think? , ., ., , ., , you think? it is going to be awful. eve da you think? it is going to be awful. every day a _ you think? it is going to be awful. every day a person _ you think? it is going to be awful. every day a person waits - you think? it is going to be awful. every day a person waits to - you think? it is going to be awful. | every day a person waits to resolve the case, it puts them at risk of losing jobs, the case, it puts them at risk of losingjobs, homes the case, it puts them at risk of losing jobs, homes and family members and it simply is an intolerable situation. and i would just say in terms of some of the data that we have uncovered, we have over 1800 people who have been on remand for more than a year. 500 waiting for two years and significantly, on my point about how we need to really address this problem by turning off the spigot, which is reduce the cases coming into the system, is to recognise that over half of these people on remand, over half, 54% are being held on non—violent charges. this is a human catastrophe that can only be redressed when governments recognise that they have to invest in the
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defence infrastructure if they really wa nt defence infrastructure if they really want to have what they can really want to have what they can really call it a criminaljustice system. really call it a criminal 'ustice s stem. ., ., really call it a criminal 'ustice s stem. ., ~' , . the vote by barristers for industrial action comes as workers at felixstowe — the uk's biggest container port — are on strike for a second day. nearly 2000 members of the unite union began an eight—day walk—out yesterday, in a dispute over pay. the union described a 7% pay offer from the port operator as "significantly below" the rate of inflation — which is currently just over 10%. and rubbish is continuing to pile up on the streets of edinburgh as a strike by the city's bin collectors enters its second week. the industrial action — which is set to last 12 days and coincides with the edinburgh fringe festival — comes after unions rejected a pay offer equivalent to a three and a half percent rise. our scotland correspondent james shaw reports from the city
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just a few days since the start of the strike and already, edinburgh and its famous castle are looking very different. overflowing bins and rubbish strewn across pavements throughout the city. the areas where festivalgoers gather and enjoy the nightlife of the worst affected. this is the grassmarket, one of the centres of the old town of edinburgh, where people are coming to enjoy fringe events, come to drink at this row of bars all the way down the street here. but you can already see the impact on this refuge strike. piles of rubbish just beginning to mount up, as they have over the last four days. people arriving at waverley station are confronted by the new reality of this city, sometimes called the athens of the north. i this city, sometimes called the athens of the north.— athens of the north. i love scotland, _ athens of the north. i love scotland. i _ athens of the north. i love scotland, i love _ athens of the north. i love scotland, i love edinburgh| athens of the north. i love i scotland, i love edinburgh but athens of the north. i love - scotland, i love edinburgh but this is sad. brute
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scotland, i love edinburgh but this is sad. ~ ., scotland, i love edinburgh but this is sad. ~ ~' ., _, is sad. we knew what we come here for, but this — is sad. we knew what we come here for, but this is _ is sad. we knew what we come here for, but this is not _ is sad. we knew what we come here for, but this is not optimum. - for, but this is not optimum. terrible _ for, but this is not optimum. terrible. , , ., for, but this is not optimum. terrible-_ for, but this is not optimum. terrible. , , ., ., terrible. they should pay them what the are terrible. they should pay them what they are asking _ terrible. they should pay them what they are asking for. _ terrible. they should pay them what they are asking for. a _ terrible. they should pay them what they are asking for. a new— terrible. they should pay them what they are asking for. a new pay - terrible. they should pay them what they are asking for. a new pay deall they are asking for. a new pay deal for refu . e they are asking for. a new pay deal for refuge workers _ they are asking for. a new pay deal for refuge workers are _ they are asking for. a new pay deal for refuge workers are on - they are asking for. a new pay deal for refuge workers are on the - they are asking for. a new pay deal for refuge workers are on the table j for refuge workers are on the table but the strike will not be called off unless they accept it. the leader of the council is pleading with tenants, housing associations and businesses to do what they can to help. but many will be wondering how it could have all gone so wrong. james short, bbc news, edinburgh. an investigation by the bbc�*s panorama programme has uncovered a vast online community, secretly sharing and trading sexual images and videos of women from across the uk, without their consent. the group, on the social media site, reddit, has now been closed. but concerns are growing that this is just the latest part of a disturbing new trend. and a warning that you may find this report from monika plaha i felt so objectified and i felt as though i was their property. when i saw it, i wasjust shocked myself because i was
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like, is that even me? these are the voices of the women whose pictures were shared online without them ever knowing. hi, guys! hope everyone's having a good saturday. tanvi is an influencer. a photo from her instagram account had been posted on the social media site reddit, in a group dedicated to men leering at south asian women. i saw so many men commenting about, trying to find out information about me — my name, where i live, the things they would do to me, which were both degrading and sexual. they were calling me names. some of the images in this group are explicit and private, probably originally sent between partners. in other posts, women appear to have been secretly filmed while having sex, like aisha. we've changed her name and voice to protect her identity. i stopped socialising. i stopped going out of the house.
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i was in and out of psychiatric units. it was just always self—harming, suicidalattempts, because it's coming to a point where i can't bear life any more. the group was hosted by reddit. the social media site has 50 million daily users worldwide. people can set up their own communities and discuss almost anything, but i found several groups on this site where users are trading images — some of a sexual nature — without consent. two years ago, a stranger contacted georgie on social media to say a folder of her explicit images were being shared online. this time, it wasn't on reddit. i remembered those pictures, and they were ones that i shared with an ex—partner many years before that i was assured by that ex—partner had been deleted. despite having a written admission of guilt in a text message, because he doesn't claim to have wanted to hurt me, i was told by the police that there was nothing they could do. the law currently offers limited
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legal protection to any women whose intimate images are leaked on the internet. "collector culture" is the term - that's used because many of the men collect these imagesj in large repositories. the problem is, the law only focuses on the kind of malicious _ ex—partner sharing an image, the kind of revenge porn, - and this only covers a small number of cases of intimate image abuse. i back on the same reddit group tanvi and aisha were posted on, our investigation also found explicit images of at least 150 different women, as well as thousands of non—consensual images and videos. reddit told us its safety teams regularly take action against communities and users for this behaviour. my message out there for all the people that are doing this — please, just stop this. and anyone that's obviously going through this, just speak up, and you do have a voice.
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when you are held accountable, when it is illegal and when the government does impose bills and laws, that's when you're going to be in serious trouble. for now, the law and the tech companies are struggling to combat this abuse, but ultimate responsibility lies with the thousands of anonymous users trading, selling and sharing these explicit images. monika plaha, bbc news. professor lorna woods from the university of essex regularly gives evidence to mps about the issue of online harm. i don't think they are actually very surprising. reddit�*s had a long history of problematic sub—reddits, including creep shot sites and the like. as your report said, reddit�*s is not alone so sadly it's not a surprise. what did you say, creep shot sites?
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what is that? that is where you have got a shot of a woman taken without her consent. it's not necessarily explicit, but the main idea behind it is to treat her as a sexual object rather than a person and it leads to lots of discussion about her as such on the site. is it to do with the fact there aren't enough moderators on sites like reddit to nip this in the blood? ——bud. i think moderation is one problem. i think there is another issue about the response to complaints and whether the services haven't simply invested enough in that aspect of their product. but i think there is also a question about the design of the service themselves, what safeguards are being built in. i think the sad fact is,
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the companies, because they are immunised from prosecution to a large extent, just have not had the incentive to think about how their sign up process is, how their recommendation tools and all these sorts of features actually facilitate the problem. if you are the platform, if you are the social media platform, are you responsible for the actions of your users? i think there is a distinction between the liability of the user and a responsibility of the platform. because the platforms are facilitating the problem. they are allowing groups to be formed and they are allowing the dissemination very, very easily to large groups. it is that aspect of the problem, the facilitation, where i think platforms have some responsibility.
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i am not saying they should be liable for every single incident and actions of their users, but they should take greater care about how they design and resource their services so they are not inadvertently creating spaces where this sort of behaviour thrives and is, in fact, encouraged and rewarded. and you can watch the full story of how panorama unmasked the man behind this group, on the secret world of nudes at 8pm on bbc one or on iplayer now. and if you've been affected by anything in this report or would like help, you can contact the bbc�*s action line online. you can find help and support at: the world's second largest cinema chain, cineworld, has announced it's considering filing for bankruptcy in the united states, as it continues to struggle with with $4.2 billion worth of debt. the firm, which also owns the picturehouse chain in the uk, said its cinemas remained "open for business as usual". our business correspondent
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emma simpson has more. this is quite a tale, one point before the pandemic this was a business that was valued at more than $4 billion. it is now at something like 60, £70 million and as you say, staring at possible bankruptcy proceedings. again, it staved off bankruptcy twice already in the last two years and it is a story about debt, way too much of it, over expansion. the fallouts from covid—19, the rise of streaming services and not enough blockbusterfilms. but the real biggie for cineworld is the debt mountain. it has got nearly £5 billion worth of debt and that is just not sustainable. it is looking at a number of options, it has got to come up with a solution, some sort of financial restructuring with its lenders to put itself
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on a more sustainable footing. so possible bankruptcy proceedings in the us, they call it chapter 11 proceedings. that is one option very much on the table. as to what it would mean to cinemagoers here and 4600 staff, the company is saying these operations will be unaffected, it's business as usual. this is a financial restructuring. so if you work there, you don't need to be worried? i think the sound of any company heading for a possible bankruptcy must raise some concern and alarm with staff throughout the uk. it has got more than 120 cinemas, including the picturehouse chain. but the company's clear message is they have got to sort out its balance sheet, this is going to take some time, but its operations will remain unaffected.
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imran khan has been charged with terrorism offences and contempt of court. it comes after he said he would sue police and a female judge after he claimed they had detained and tortured a former colleague. he has now been granted pre—arrest bail until thursday. walking into a sea of unwavering support, this is imran khan's first major appearance since being charged with terrorism at the weekend. it is this a dress that started it all. in the speech, he condemned islam a bad's police chief and a female judge for the detention and alleged torture of his close aide. he is
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currently being investigated over extradition charge. politically, his supporters have defiled to defend him and say they will not back down. we are outside the former prime minister's home, about 500 metres from where we are standing is where his houses. there a barrier that are keeping his supporters going any further. they have told us the reason they have come out here, some have been here since last night, is to show their support for the former prime minister who they say has been unfairly targeted. there has been temporally for them, which has been in the form of bail being granted for the former prime minister. it gives him a few days to strategise and plan his next move. it is at a time when political tensions are increasing in pakistan with mr khan's supporters believe he is the victim of a witch, hunt. translation: victim of a witch, hunt.
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tuna/mom- victim of a witch, hunt. translation: ~ ., ., , ., translation: we will not lend anyone to near translation: we will not lend anyone go near him- — translation: we will not lend anyone go near him. imran _ translation: we will not lend anyone go near him. imran khan _ translation: we will not lend anyone go near him. imran khan is _ translation: we will not lend anyone go near him. imran khan is our - translation: we will not lend anyone go near him. imran khan is our last - go near him. imran khan is our last ho e, go near him. imran khan is our last hope. they — go near him. imran khan is our last hope. they will— go near him. imran khan is our last hope, they will have _ go near him. imran khan is our last hope, they will have to _ go near him. imran khan is our last hope, they will have to walk - go near him. imran khan is our last hope, they will have to walk over i hope, they will have to walk over our bodies — hope, they will have to walk over our bodies to arrest him. the country's _ our bodies to arrest him. the country's police _ our bodies to arrest him. he country's police have our bodies to arrest him. iie: country's police have accused the former cricket star of causing fear amongst pakistanis and want him to be made an example of. it is early stages in the case, but if found guilty, as stipulated by the terrorism act, he could face several years in prison, life imprisonment or even a fine. the case is seen by some as a stand—off between mr khan and the new coalition government coming to a head. there are concerns, however, if things come down this path, it could lead to civil arrest. down this path, it could lead to civilarrest. let's down this path, it could lead to civil arrest. let's talk to a betra newspaper and tv journalist, civil arrest. let's talk to a betra newspaper and tvjournalist, a newspaper and tv journalist, a former newspaper and tvjournalist, a former liberal legislator and a former liberal legislator and a former captain in the pakistani army. he was attacked last month by unidentified people a day after he
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criticised pakistan's military establishment in a speech. thank you for talking to us. i wonder if you can tell our british audience what you think is going on right now? it is a very confused situation in pakistan. they removed imran khan from power, there was ostensibly a no—confidence motion but behind it there were those orchestrating the whole move. the move was orchestrated, he was toppled from power, but they can't control the consequences. the consequences are out of their hands. no one, those who did all this for thinking there would be such a fierce, popular, public reaction. but that is what has happened. in rally after rally, he gives the call and people assemble and there are huge crowds wherever he holds a rally. this is
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what is unnerving the government, which is causing disquiet amongst the government. because they cannot get a handle over the situation. if these rallies continue to grow, if these rallies continue to grow, if the support for mr khan from pakistani citizens continues to grow, what could be the consequence of that? the grow, what could be the consequence of that? ., , . ., , of that? the only thing, elections are to be held, _ of that? the only thing, elections are to be held, if— of that? the only thing, elections are to be held, if not _ of that? the only thing, elections are to be held, if not this - of that? the only thing, elections are to be held, if not this year, i are to be held, if not this year, next year. but that is precisely what powerful people are afraid of. they don't want the electoral option because given the current state of public opinion, the fear is that imran khan will sweep the polls. they are trying to remove mr khan from public life, is that what you are saying? i from public life, is that what you are saying?— from public life, is that what you i are saying?_ the are saying? i beg your pardon? the establishment _ are saying? i beg your pardon? the establishment is _ are saying? i beg your pardon? the establishment is trying _ are saying? i beg your pardon? the establishment is trying to _ are saying? i beg your pardon? the establishment is trying to remove i are saying? i beg your pardon? the i establishment is trying to remove mr khan from public life, is that what you are suggesting? ida. khan from public life, is that what you are suggesting?— you are suggesting? no, if they could do it. _
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you are suggesting? no, if they could do it, they _ you are suggesting? no, if they could do it, they would - you are suggesting? no, if they could do it, they would remove| you are suggesting? no, if they - could do it, they would remove him from public life this evening. but thatis from public life this evening. but that is what they are unable to do because of the popular support he has. they would dearly love to have him removed from the political arena, but it is not easy. elections will have to be held this year or next year and they are afraid of that. ., ., , ., ~' next year and they are afraid of that. ., ., , ., ~ , ., that. ok, what do you think is going to ha en that. ok, what do you think is going to happen over— that. ok, what do you think is going to happen over the _ that. ok, what do you think is going to happen over the next _ that. ok, what do you think is going to happen over the next few - that. ok, what do you think is going to happen over the next few days? i to happen over the next few days? well, the situation in pakistan is that no one knows. there is so much uncertainty, no one knows what is going to happen. three orfour days, 15 days, the end of the year, the beginning of the next year? that is the kind of uncertainty in which pakistan is caught. no one knows.
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those who are supposed to have the answers, they don't have any answers. the answer should be a political one, hold elections. but as i said, they are afraid of elections, so what do they do, what are the other options, i will leave that to your imaginations. llllul’hat are the other options, i will leave that to your imaginations. what do ou think that to your imaginations. what do you think the _ that to your imaginations. what do you think the option _ that to your imaginations. what do you think the option is? _ that to your imaginations. what do you think the option is? i - that to your imaginations. what do you think the option is? i don't - you think the option is? i don't want to spell _ you think the option is? i don't want to spell it _ you think the option is? i don't want to spell it out _ you think the option is? i don't want to spell it out but - you think the option is? i don't want to spell it out but when i you think the option is? i don't i want to spell it out but when you stop the democratic option, the political other constitutional option, then you go for something else. but pakistan, fortunately, is not egypt's unfortunately pakistan is not burma. any solution has to be within the constitutional framework. this is a different country, this is a large country, people are more aware of things. social media is very in pakistan. most of it is in favour of imran khan. the situation
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is not in control of those who orchestrated to have imran khan removed from power. ok. orchestrated to have imran khan removed from power.— orchestrated to have imran khan removed from power. ok, thank you for talkin: removed from power. ok, thank you for talking to — removed from power. ok, thank you for talking to us _ removed from power. ok, thank you for talking to us today. _ hello there. we started off with sunshine towards eastern areas of england and scotland but we are seeing low grade cloud and a weather front moving eastward throughout the day today and it will eventually pull out into the north sea and it is giving heavy outbreaks of rain, particularly to northern areas of england. towards the end of the day sunny spells across the south—west of england, northern ireland western wales and potentially temperatures in the late 20s. through this evening and overnight, moist air moving into devon and cornwall, summerhill and coastal fog devon and cornwall, summerhill and coastalfog here. look, is as we start tuesday morning. temperatures no lower than the mid—teens in celsius for most. tomorrow, we will
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see showery outbreaks of rain towards western scotland, xiao was moving eastward throughout the day and elsewhere it is mostly dry, thickening cloud for western wales and towards the far south—west of england. the best of tomorrow's sunshine will be towards eastern areas of england and we could see highs of 26 or 27 degrees. this is bbc news. the headlines... the summer wave of industrial action continues as criminal barristers vote to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike in england and wales from next month. the court are fractured because of the queues already. i mean, they are realistically starting to collapse before very long unless this is resolved, they are really not far apart and people need to start talking and talking now. a bbc investigation unmasks the man responsible for a huge online community which traded non—consensual sexual images and videos of more
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than a hundred women. the world's second largest cinema chain — cineworld, has announced it's considering filing for bankruptcy in the us, pressure intensifies on the exam board, pearson, to explain why hundreds of students have still not received their btec results, four days after they were due to be released. the duke and duchess of cambridge say they will —— time for the sport now. good afternoon. starting with some breaking news. england's all team leading goalscorer ellen white has announced her retirement from football, saying it was the greatest honour to play the game and represent her country. with 52 goals in 113 games for her country, white bows out at the very top — having helped england secure a famous european championship last month. in a lengthy social media post entitled 'thank you football'. she said her dreams came
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true on the 31st ofjuly but that she wanted to go out on her terms. she ended the post by calling on everyone to build on the momentum of the euros to make sure all communities have the opportunity to play and feel connected to all teams. teammate rachel daly described her as one of a kind. the rain has been pouring in manchester for the last few hours — a suitable metaphor maybe for manchester united's start to the season. they'll be hoping the clouds lift when they face liverpool later. there were waterworks in madrid earlier as brazilian midfielder casimiero bid an emotional farewell to real ahead of an expected move to old trafford. united have agreed to pay up to 70 million pounds in a four year deal for the 30—year—old. when he eventually did compose himself, he said that he wasn't joining for the money. casemiro's expected arrival has done little to appease some section of the united fanbase — some of whom are expected to protests against the clubs owners ahead of tonight's game. 0n the pitch — both united and liverpool are on the hunt for a first win. the owners want to win anti—fans, we want them behind the club and i can understand sometimes but i'm not
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that long in the club that i can see all the backgrounds, but we have to fight together. i really hope it will not happen and if it happens i think we should get the points — if it happens i think we should get the points. i don't think and i really— the points. i don't think and i really hope this will not happen and i really hope this will not happen and i have _ really hope this will not happen and i have no— really hope this will not happen and i have no idea what could happen, don't _ i have no idea what could happen, don't think— i have no idea what could happen, don't think about it, but in a situation _ don't think about it, but in a situation like this always the other team _ situation like this always the other team should get the points. the ukrainian premier league kicks off tomorrow — the first time the country has seen football since the war broke out during their winter break. games will be played behind closed doors in kyiv and in the west of the country. shakhtar were top of the table — before the season was abandoned — and their director of football — the ex croatia international darijo srna — has been speaking to the bbc�*s world football podcast. four hours, the was that in 2014, not 24th of february. we lost our home city, donetsk, fans, stadium, houses. we are a team without an address. i think shakhtar is the
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only team in the world that has passed two wars and we are still alive. the welsh fire are chasing 123 to beat southern brave for their first win of this year's women's hundred. captain alex hartley impressed with the ball for the cardiff based side. she took one wicket and conceded just 12 runs off her 20 balls. boxing promoter frank warren expects a world heavyweight unification fight between tyson fury and 0leksandr usyk to go ahead. usyk retained his three belts beating anthonyjoshua on saturday whilst fury holds the other — and warren believes he'd be tempted out of retirement for the bout. i think the fight will happen but obviously tyson had a terrible tragedy and his family over the weekend, his cousin was starved, so i haven't had a proper chance to talk with him and nor would i because it is not the appropriate time prior to that happening, that tragedy, he was very much up for it
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and hopefully we will get this fight on. �* ., . ~' and hopefully we will get this fight on. back with sports day at six but i will be on. back with sports day at six but i will be back _ on. back with sports day at six but i will be back before _ on. back with sports day at six but i will be back before them - on. back with sports day at six but i will be back before them at - i will be back before them at 5:30pm. that's all the sport for now. sewage discharges at popular british seaside resorts are not being monitored properly. that's the claim from the liberal democrats, who say that, 90% of the time, monitoring devices have not been installed or don't work. last week more than 40 beaches and swimming spots in england and wales were hit by pollution warnings, after heavy rain. today, downing street accused water companies of a "completely unacceptable" failure to reduce sewage discharges. a spokesperson for number 10 said the companies should put "customers before shareholders" or face fines. richard galpin reports. here in sussex, sewage continues to pour out into the sea. and this, an area popular with both swimmers and families. many other parts of england and wales are also affected, like these — allonby, southport, paignton, cleethorpes and tynemouth. all this the result of heavy rains overwhelming the sewer systems. but now, the water companies stand accused
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of failing to monitor the discharges of sewage. when you've got £2.8 billion of operating profit, £1 billion being given to shareholders in dividends, and the executive staff of the water companies are getting a 20% pay rise last year, and at the same time, you see a complete lack of investment either in monitoring or in the infrastructure that would stop the sewage outflows in the first place, then you see that really, they haven't got a leg to stand on. and according to the liberal democrats, the monitors used to measure the amount of sewage being pumped into the sea across the uk are faulty or not even installed. the former lead singer of the band the undertones, feargal sharkey, who now campaigns for clean rivers, is also sharply critical of the water companies. water companies have now spent almost 9.5 million hours over the last six years dumping sewage
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into the environment. and if the data is as faulty as it seems, that number could be a multiple of that by another multiplier of your choosing. it is just a desperate sign of the extraordinary state of chaos that this industry has managed to get itself into. a spokesperson for the water regulator 0fwat told the bbc nobody wanted to see raw sewage being discharged, particularly when it's close to a beach. "that is unacceptable," he said, "which is why we have a life investigation into all waste water sewage works run by the companies." richard galpin, bbc news. some students across england and wales are still waiting for their btec grades four days after they are due. the exam body pearson has said only a small number of students are
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affected. a a labour mp says many people have contacted his office for help. you might be seen much larger numbers on the internet and so on and i think it's impossible for us to know, only really pearson and possibly the government know how many people are affected and i think really it is important that pearson and the government come clean and tell us how many people are waiting because obviously it has an implication in terms of the access to university places and going through clearing and so on. pearson says only a small number of students are affected. is that supposed to be consolation? the are affected. is that supposed to be consolation?— consolation? the very fact that they refuse day after _ consolation? the very fact that they refuse day after day _ consolation? the very fact that they refuse day after day to _ consolation? the very fact that they refuse day after day to say - consolation? the very fact that they refuse day after day to say how - consolation? the very fact that they. refuse day after day to say how many we are talking about, i think that means people are not reassured by that, i'm aware of students at least 15 different colleges and there are
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dozens and dozens, possibly hundreds that obviously are on social media but the understanding this issue is not too sort of troll twitter and see who is complaining, it is for the organisation who knows how many people see new results to come clean about it and the government to let us know how long they have known it was going to be a problem and what the scale of the problem is, and what they are doing to make sure universities are held back for new students and remember they are falling behind on their own. [30 students and remember they are falling behind on their own. do you know why they _ falling behind on their own. do you know why they are _ falling behind on their own. do you know why they are not _ falling behind on their own. do you know why they are not telling - falling behind on their own. do you i know why they are not telling people what the numbers? ila. know why they are not telling people what the numbers?— what the numbers? no, i spoke with them on saturday _ what the numbers? no, i spoke with them on saturday and _ what the numbers? no, i spoke with them on saturday and i _ what the numbers? no, i spoke with them on saturday and i was - what the numbers? no, i spoke with them on saturday and i was fobbed i them on saturday and i was fobbed off with things like numbers are changing all the time or the numbers are falling what they are refusing to actually say and they have been ever since thursday when the results originally was supposed to come out
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and the government have also refused to say, education has said nothing on this on saturday and i think we just need to have some honesty from the government and exam board. but the government and exam board. but the exam board also have similar problems. the exam board also have similar roblems. ~ ., ., , ., the exam board also have similar roblems. ~ ., ., ., . the exam board also have similar roblems. ., ., ., . , problems. what would your advice be to students who _ problems. what would your advice be to students who are _ problems. what would your advice be to students who are waiting - problems. what would your advice be to students who are waiting and - problems. what would your advice be to students who are waiting and do i to students who are waiting and do not know whether they have the grades they need, better than the grades they need, better than the grades they need or not as good as, what should they do? if grades they need or not as good as, what should they do?— what should they do? if they are waitin: what should they do? if they are waiting for _ what should they do? if they are waiting for university _ what should they do? if they are waiting for university places - what should they do? if they are waiting for university places and | waiting for university places and this is holding them up in that regard then i'm told if they contact pearson, pearson will contact the university on their behalf and say the results are imminent, and i think if it is not specifically linked to a place then just continue to push with pearson's contact, remember parliament, who often may be able to get assistance in but really it should not be left to students to be chasing their own
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results like this, it should be for the exam board who are paid to do this and provide a competent service. since russia began its invasion of ukraine nearly six months ago, its forces have suffered a high number of losses in the fighting. as a result, the kremlin has launched a large—scale campaign to recruit new volunteers to replace those who've been killed or wounded. the volunteers are promised huge sums of money and other perks but many are given little or no training and are sent straight into the combat in ukraine. will vernon reports. the kremlin tells russians their soldiers are heroes. professional, well—trained troops, fighting in ukraine. but western officials say that russia's running out of men — 70,000 to 80,000 killed or wounded. the solution, signing up volunteers. yevgeni was one of those whojoined up. his mother, nina, says that her son was given a gun and sent straight into ukraine. days later, he was killed.
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translation: theyjust send them in, like dumb little chickens. _ they'd hardly even held a gun before. they're cannon fodder. the generals think, "we've got a volunteer, great in you go." in these videos, volunteers are promised huge sums of money and even plots of land. they're now a common sight on social media. but recruiting is being done in more traditional ways, too. this announcement talks about the creation of two new volunteer brigades. it's urging local people here to sign up to fight in ukraine. and this is a message that's being repeated right across the country — on tv, on social media, on billboards. it's a large—scale recruitment
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campaign for the russian army. "we should bomb them. i'd give them what for," this man said. "if i were young, i'd go." "it's too painful to talk about," this lady told me. "why go? only their bodies will be brought back." but can russia win this war with a volunteer army? this is, i think, not the type of soldiers that are needed for a victorious war. the main problem is with the quantity of people, but the qualities, with their motivation, and this is not a thing that you can change quickly. you can't bring thousands of people in to teach them how to work with modern weapons, tanks and aircraft. the russian military has not released casualty figures since the end of march, but nina knows that large numbers
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are dying in ukraine. translation: you read the news| and it's all about men being killed, but people are going there. i don't know why they go. president putin says he ordered his forces into ukraine to protect his people, but the kremlin is now sending even more russians there, into mortal danger. will vernon, bbc news, moscow. electricity use in some parts of china has been further restricted as a prolonged drought continues to limit power generation.|n central hubei province, they have used rockets to sow the clouds with catalysts such as dry ice to make rain. the lack of water means many hydro—electric power stations have been unable to operate. reduced power has forced shopping centres to close early, factories to temporarily shut down and the lights on shanghai's famous waterfront to be turned off. our correspondent in china, steve mcdonell, told us more about how the drought was affecting production there.
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you've had this ongoing heatwave for months in china, which has resulted in a drought in half of china's landmass, if you can imagine. so a huge impact on crops, a huge impact on even shopping centres because they're being restricted in terms of the electricity they're able to use. it's just like one thing has been flowing on to another because there's not enough water in the yangtze river. this is restricted hydropower. now, sichuan province relies on its powerfrom hydro sources to the tune of 80%. so you can imagine what a huge impact that's having on the electricity on top of that inland shipping. the yangtze river is also a place where, apart from people travelling, there is a lot of commercial shipping as well, which has stopped because of the drought.
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not enough water in the river and unfortunately no sign of any rain to come. so, you know, quite devastating impact of the drought and heat wave across china. and chinese scientists are warning there could be more of this in the years to come because of climate change, unfortunately. nottingham is one of 11 areas of the country to begin trialling new "social prescriptions" to improve mental and physical health. it involves gp's surgeries doing more to enourage people to get on their bike or walking. rob sissons is in nottingham. yeah. there's a big move in the nhs of instead of prescribing tablets getting people to exercise more, get on their bikes, maybe join a walking club as a prescription. and social prescribing has been taking off. well, here at the victoria embankment in nottingham i met loads of people who are big fans of the power of exercise and actually think prescribing exercise is a good idea.
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when you're sat at home all day doing nothing, you're not going to feel good so getting out on your bike is going to make you feel a whole lot better. hannah says getting a dog's got her moving more typically walking with alfie six miles a day. it's that incentive to go out because you have to do it for them. so it makes you get out of the house and you're kind of walking with purpose rather thanjust going for a stroll that you actually do it for a reason. in their eighties, this couple need no convincing walking every day. just give me fresh air away from everybody, you know. but it's good for your health. nottingham city council is getting one and a half million pounds of government cash to encourage us to move more. we want to make sure that walking and cycling, we think it's accessible, it's affordable to everyone. and for some people there are just extra barriers. and we want to make sure that we're prescribing through social prescribing ways in which we can bust the barriers. and as well as encouraging people to get on their bikes, the money from the department of transport is also aimed at gathering evidence about the impact it has.
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the power of exercise. rob sissons, bbc east midlands today, nottingham. charities that care for stray, abandoned and unwanted dogs say they're struggling to cope with increased demand. one dogs' home in wales says the problem is being caused by a "perfect storm" —— due to an increase in dog ownership during lockdown, and a growing cost—of—living crisis. bbc wales today's garry owen reports rolo, terrier and a bundle of energy was brought to the hope rescue centre by the dog warden as a stray. but like dozens of other dogs here, rolo was looking for a new home. the centre says that the cost of living crisis has led to a sharp rise in the number of dogs coming into their care. the situation is worse than it's been in the 17 years since the centre opened. in the last three months alone, they've had over 300 calls
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from people asking for help. i think it's been this perfect storm. we had a huge surge in dog ownership during lockdown. lots of those were bought by first time dog owners, little bit less experience. that demand was met by low welfare breeders, so not breeding for health or behaviour necessarily. now we've got the cost of living crisis on top, which is further compounded it and it is that perfect storm. now we are having to turn dogs away and that's the hardest bit. it's heartbreaking. centres across wales are struggling to cope with demand, but though many are full staff stress, there's still help at hand. some people unfortunately do find it quite difficult to ask for help, but it's just that one. don't be embarrassed. it is a difficult time at the moment. everyone is struggling and we are in a position at the moment where we can offer support and offer advice. and as we've said, it's always the most responsible thing to do. just to pick up the phone, just call and ask for advice. even if you're struggling with the decision of whether to hand your dog over or not, we can offer that support there and then to get you on the right track of knowing what to do.
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it's a similar story at the cardiff dog's home. every inch of space is being used to house dogs. ragnar, a two year old american bulldog, is described as a lockdown dog, a pet bought during a surge in demand in the covid pandemic lockdowns, but now unwanted. there are many more like him. we shouldn't have a waiting list, but we do. so we try to prioritise people in desperate situations in the cardiff area because we are part of cardiff council. and then after that we look at the surrounding areas, penarth, barry and we try to help people, you know, accordingly. veterinary charity, the pdsa estimates that depending on which dog you have, their potential lifetime cost could be £30,000. and for many dog owners that's just too high. that means more pets being given up or abandoned and looking for new owners.
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the duke and duchess of cambridge have announced they are moving their family from kensington palace in west london to a cottage on the queen's windsor estate. their new home, adelaide cottage, is a ten minute walk from windsor castle. alongside announcing their move, the duke and duchess also confirmed their three childreen would be switching schools. a new home and a new school. and i think it tells us that as we know that the cambridges are absolutely determined that their three children should have as normal an upbringing as possible and preferably in a rural setting. so they're moving to adelaide cottage, which is on the home park just about 10 minutes away from windsor castle here. and the three children, george, charlotte and louis will be starting at lambrooke school next month. this is described as a leading co—educational prep school not far from ascot. it's been in existence for about 160 years. it has 600 pupils aged
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between three and 13. it's set in 52 acres of its own grounds. the other thing that i think this move tells us that william and katherine are content to live in what by royal standards is a pretty modest home. it is adelaide cottage, the clue's there in the title four bedrooms. so there will be no live in staff i suppose. inevitably there will be comparisons drawn with the kind of accommodation that the sussexes have chosen for themselves, very much more spacious accommodation in california. the other thing, of course, that it says is that this brings the cambridges right here into windsor. it means that prince william will be very close to his grandmother. and she, of course, is relying more and more on prince charles and william for advice on the future, not just of the monarchy, but of the royal family. so although the cambridges will keep their home in norfolk, anmer hall, they will keep their apartment at kensington palace, a spacious apartment, it should be said their home. from now on, their main home will be here in windsor. researchers say they've worked out
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what triggers children's bad temper on carjourneys. experts at nottingham trent university carried out a survey of two—thousand parents of under twelves. drjames hind led the research coming up with this formula — t=70+o.5e+15f-ios. he told us what it means. it means that you can't really buy your way out of a tantrum with entertainment, so you'll only get 30 seconds of tantrum free time for every minute of entertainment you give. food will help. it won't surprise anybody to know that you can bribe children with food, but there's an upper limit. so any more than two snacks an hour and you're looking at sugar crashes, bathroom breaks, car sickness and the last party siblings. i'm afraid they don't help. so any time you've got siblings in the car, you're having to fight for attention. and that, again, speeds up tantrums.
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he's already appeared before crowds of more than 20—thousand people, but now the world's youngest club dj hopes his new found tik—tok fame could take him to the very top. dj archie, who's from essex, is just seven years old but already he holds a world record — and he's attracting a new wave of followers on social media. let's hear more from him now. my name is dj archie and i'm seven years old. my favourite music is drum and bass because i like the beats and the drop. the biggest crowd i have played to is 20,000, and i felt quite scared for first because there was a lot of people everywhere. and then ijust got into it, like, always, and then ijust played
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with the tunes and they get hyped up. he started by accident, really. one day i was out of the room and i came back in because i heard music, and he was djing, moving the cross fader from side to side, and the more i looked, i could see that the things he were doing were in time with the music, so it seemed like he knew what he was doing even though he was onlyjust three years old at that point. he has played lots of festivals now. he has played at boomtown, he mostly djs at festivals in the summer but the dream is to play at glastonbury or edc or something like that in las vegas, i don't know. but i'm extremely proud of archie. he is an amazing kid. when i'm older, i want to be a famous, really famous dj. and show off to people and a lot of other
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stuff. now it's time for a look at the weather with elizabeth. hello. it is looking quite unsettled over the next few days are many and there will be showers at times which will mostly be out what western areas because the best of the sunshine will be further east and low pressure not too far away but there will be a lot of dry weather around as well and it is feeling quite warm and humid particularly towards the south and that will be replaced by fresher air towards the end of the working week and today we've seen it with a friend move eastwards with the radar picture from earlier showing heavy downpours of rain in much of northern england and this could continue for a while in the rest of the afternoon before eventually going eastwards towards the north sea so bright a spell developing by the well fan out towards as is well at western areas of wales in two of the west of cornwall, chu, and some sunshine by the end of the day that the best of
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it out towards the east era temperatures of 26 celsius. overnight tonight, still if you showers in coastal areas but the relevant players into the north sea and its mostly dry so we will see is approaching cloud to the far parts of cornwall and ust and it's different to the mile start today, a lot milder than over the weekend with temperatures no lower than the teens in celsius, let's take a look at tomorrow and to most of us we are between weather fronts but it will between weather fronts but it will be a feature approaching western areas of scotland, the showers pushed eastward through the day and... 0f pushed eastward through the day and... of devon and cornwall through the afternoon the showery outbreaks of rain here but lots of dry weather in the forecast and the rest of the sunshine again from eastern areas in lincoln, norfolk, maybe 27 celsius. there will be heavy rain in the forecast across northern ireland and western scotland on tuesday and it clears away by wednesday afternoon and a cold front sync southward and
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eastward but it is fizzling away as it goes and really quite fresh feeling air, lighter and through the afternoon behind weather front towards the north and west but humoured with more warm air hanging on towards the south and east there. the cold front sees it reach east anglia where it could pick up on thursday night because of the chance of heavy country downpours and lots of heavy country downpours and lots of uncertainty in the forecast, fresh feeling air for all as we head into friday, here are the temperatures from our capital cities and as we head into the bank holiday weekend, then it will be cooler.
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