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the floods have been cruel to the people of pakistan. they've been especially devastating for those who had little to start with. the people in this community usually worked as extra pairs of hands on farmland. a lot of that farmland has been destroyed, so, many of them are now out of work. they've travelled for kilometres to try and get to higher ground. this is where they've settled for the time being, for about two weeks, some of them say they've been living here out in the open on the side of the road, they have not received any relief, they have not received any aid. there are many children and they don't know what they are going to feed them. these floods have been devastating because they've taken whatever little means of survival they had and laid that completely to waste. they say they don't know how long they will be here... car horn blares. ..and they don't know if help is even coming. uk newspaper editors have expressed alarm at police guidance — which has not been released publicly —
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telling officers to declare any relationship with a journalist, in the same way they would disclose links with a criminal. the advice was issued by the college of policing several years ago, but has only recently come to light. our correspondent sean dilley has the latest. because there is a context and history that's important. we think terms of anti—corruption, ac—12 and line of duty don't we. in real life the ac—12 department are called professional standards or in london, for instance, the director for professional standards, but basically it is lumped in as a term to combat potential corruption, or some might say conflicts of interest. the history to this is that her majesty's inspectorate of constabulary and fire and rescue services had done a report into the metropolitan police investigation into the daniel morgan murder in 1987. now, he was a private detective. if you follow that web, it's very tangled, but very much the actions of a private detective, journalists and corrupt police officers in particular, were very much under the spotlight
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and it was in the context of that where the report that her majesty's inspectorate had said that they recommended the metropolitan police require officers to declare associations with journalists and extremist groups. and that's something they've apologised for and now something that newspaper editors are concerned about. yeah, tell us a bit more about the concerns of newspaper editors? i certainly will, so the crime reporters association, as well as the newspaper society... society of editors, i should say, have written to andy marsh, who is the chief executive of the college of policing. they have something called an authorised professional practice and this is, we should say, for england and wales. they don't cover police scotland, for instance, or the police service of northern ireland, obviously, they'll have their own procedures. they have said they are concerned this lumps journalists in with others and it equates the actions ofjournalists to a source of corruption and behaviour that they, themselves as journalists, would want to root out.
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now the college of policing say that they will listen to representations that the media have and that they are working with the national police chiefs�* council. but there is one thing that's fairly certain, i think what's indisputable is, there is historical tension between media, who scrutinise power and policing, who obviously do the job they do, sometimes in difficult circumstances, of course. police believe a teenage boy who died after collapsing at the leeds festival had taken ecstasy. the 16—year—old fell ill on saturday night and died yesterday in hospital. west yorkshire police is investigating whether he had taken a particular type of ecstasy tablet — described as a grey or black oblong. let's talk about paul pogba who has made allegations that he is being black mailed by an organised group.
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i spoke earlier to a french journalist. french football journalist sara menai has been keeping up to date with the developments of this story. now, from what we know, as you said, french prosecutors have opened up an investigation in paris at the beginning of the month, beginning of august. paul pogba is understood to have said that he was trapped by childhood friends and two men armed with rifles during an incident that apparently took place in paris in march. so the player today claims to be the victim of threats. he said to the french police officers who interviewed him that the gang demanded 13 euros million from him. so apparently those people came to manchester, but also to turin, where paul pogba plays now, to try and intimidate him. and that's when at the juventus training centre in italy, he recognised his brother mathias pogba among the suspects and that's whenjuventus
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lawyers decided to notify the police about it. more than 1,000 palestinians could soon be evicted from their homes in the south of the occupied west bank by israel's army. in may, the israeli high court sanctioned plans to expel them to make way for israeli military training in an area known as masafer yatta. un experts have warned israel that if it goes ahead with the mass eviction it could amount to a war crime. 0ur middle east correspondent, yolande knell, has been to masafer yatta. you see now, they are demolishing houses. it takes just seconds and a palestinian house is gone. a family is homeless. israel says they built here illegally. abu mohammed had pleaded with the israeli soldiers and police to stop. the family that was living in this house, abu mohammed's relatives, they don't even know that the house has been demolished because they were away at a wedding.
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no—one�*s been able to call them and get in touch. the routine is all too familiar in this part of the west bank under full israeli control. it's virtually impossible for palestinians to get a building permit here, so most people build without them. come, come, come. we realise today's demolitions aren't yet over. so we've raced up to the top of this hill, really breathless, because the roads have been closed off, and you can see here it's animal pens that are being demolished. there's a big flock of sheep just over there. arguing. there are scuffles with anti—demolition activists, who are threatened with arrest. everything is going be confiscated so that the shepherds can't easily rebuild. and just look how many security forces there are up here, keeping us all back. but such losses aren't the only problem in masafer yatta — jewish settlements are expanding here. they're seen as illegal under international law, but israel disagrees.
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for basil, it's a double standard. these settlers come here, steal our land, there's palestinians digging on it, and build their homes. i mean, the state supports them doing that and providing the infrastructure for the settlers on my land, but the same state and the same government is, like, approaching us from here by demolishing our homes, schools and water well, and roads. the israeli army doesn't agree to an interview but has a large presence in masafer yatta. this sign up here is telling us we are about to enter into a firing area and israeli military zone. it says, "danger." well, "entrance is forbidden." i see more demolitions along the road. israel's supreme court recently ruled that this army training area was legal. hundreds of palestinians now face eviction. this is where the family lives. i'm off to meet one couple
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who insist they won't move. they live in a cave created by na'aman's grandfather before his birth. "if the army sees the solar panels, they'll remove them," he tells me. they live under tight israeli restrictions. and suheir, who's days from giving birth, is afraid. what's the future for you? "what future?", she says. "we're living in fear. "we have no future, nothing." if israel's mass eviction goes ahead, it will be one of the biggest in the west bank in decades. the international community's warned against it but for those trying to stay here, that is little help. yolande knell, bbc news, masafer yatta. the uk's largest warship — the aircraft carrier, hms prince of wales — has broken down off the isle of wight. the £3 billion warship left portsmouth naval base on saturday heading for training exercises
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with the us and royal canadian navies. but the carrier broke down and the royal navy says it is investigating the "emerging mechanical issue". now it's time for a look at the weather. 0ver over the next couple of days high pressure remains in charge. by the end of week, things turn unsettled. today we have cloud, the odd sharp shower and the odd rumble of thunder in the highlands. the best of the sunshine in the west, especially the south—west. along the north sea coastline and the english channel coastline and the english channel coast a brisk wind that will peg back temperatures. tonight a fair bit of cloud in northern and eastern areas, producing some showers, showers travelling south across scotland and these are the overnight lows between nine and 13. tomorrow,
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we start off with this cloud in scotland and eastern england. we see the showers, some pushing inland, so once again the west is best in terms of sunshine, with highs up to 24.

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