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which usually affects older adults. it's a progressive condition and currently there are no treatments that can slow it down. specialists say tens of thousands of people in the uk are living with less well—known forms of dementia. yes, this diagnosis draws attention to the many, many different forms, over 100 different types of dementia that are out there and the importance that getting the right diagnosis has for finding the right support at the right time, meeting other people in the same boat and getting to contribute to research efforts to really find a treatment for these different conditions. welcome to the party, pal. bruce willis' family said continued compassion, understanding and respect would enable him to live as full a life as possible. fergus walsh, bbc news. so, as we've seen, there's been some fierce weather from storm otto in parts of the uk today. here's ben rich.
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thank you. it was parts of north—east england and scotland that bore the brunt, the strongest dust of all recorded on the coast of aberdeenshire, 83 mph, but further south across the uk it was mild weather making its presence felt with temperatures in worcestershire climbing above 17 celsius. this small of cloud, that was storm otto, now hurtling toward scandinavia and behind it another weather system bringing rain, not as potent as storm otto but moving its way through with snow ever higher ground in scotland with the potential for some ice. it will be chilly across northern parts of scotland but further south, very mild, 10—11 celsius, the overnight lows for many. the heaviest rain clearing
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quickly eastwards tomorrow. some rain hanging back across parts of central and southern scotland and the far north of england, perhaps northern ireland for a time, with a band of drizzle towards the south of england but in between some spells of sunshine, just the odd rogue shower, 17 celsius for aberdeen, 15 for norwich, so still very mild in the south. that rain likely to pep up the south. that rain likely to pep up across scotland and north—east england briefly on saturday evening then this ridge of high pressure gives a drier interlude, the higher pressure holds on in the south for sunday but further north, yet another weather system bringing further rain, this time focused across the north—west of scotland, some patchy rain for northern ireland and northern england, brighter skies for the cell. it will be breezy and windy across the far north but it remains mild, top temperatures between 10—13 celsius. thanks, ben. and that's bbc news at ten.
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good evening. i'm lizzie greenwood—hughes, here with your latest sports news. and we're starting with the news this evening that the chairman of one of qatar's biggest banks has confirmed his consortium will bid to buy manchester united. the move came ahead of today's 10pm soft deadline for proposals and it follows last month's stated interest from british businessman sirjim ratcliffe. united's current owners since 2005, the glazer family, are considering selling as they explore strategic alternatives. earlier, our sports correspondent andy swiss spoke to our presenter olly foster. we were expecting a bid from qatar. he's the chairman of the bank, which is one of the leading banks in
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qatar, he's a former prime minister and he says the bid plans to return the club will seek to place the fans at the heart of manchester united football club once more. he says there will be completely debt—free which will look to invest in the football teams, the trading centre, stadium and wider infrastructure. he says the vision of the bid is for manchester united football club to be remounts for footballing excellence and regarded as the greatest football club in the world. there will be few questions about this because a qatar consortium already on the champions, could that lead to a potential conflict of interest because my best one that will have to look like. but this is clearly a fairly significant move. 18 years under the glazer �*s,
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18 years under the glazer 's, they've _ 18 years under the glazer 's, they've been criticised heavily for burdening — they've been criticised heavily for burdening the club with a lot of debts — burdening the club with a lot of debts i— burdening the club with a lot of debts. i think a lot of' fans ears prick— debts. i think a lot of' fans ears prick up~ — debts. i think a lot of' fans ears rick u -. ., , debts. i think a lot of' fans ears --ricku. ., , ,., debts. i think a lot of' fans ears --ricku. ., , �*, prick up. the only way the glazer 's could buy it — prick up. the only way the glazer 's could buy it was _ prick up. the only way the glazer 's could buy it was plunging _ prick up. the only way the glazer 's could buy it was plunging into - prick up. the only way the glazer 's| could buy it was plunging into debt. the words debt—free in that statement leap out. when you bear in mind the sums of money we're talking about, which is colossal, and the fact they're talking about investing in the infrastructure of the stadium, all of which desperately needs redeveloping and would cost perhaps billions of pounds, that would be attractive to manchester united fans despite some of the other questions they might have. our correspondent _ questions they might have. our correspondent andy swiss there. the man who admitted attacking the arsenal goalkeeper aaron ramsdale at the north london derby last month has been banned from football for four years. joseph watts pleaded guilty to assaulting ramsdale
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and also admitted throwing coins onto the pitch during the game at the tottenham hotspur stadium on 15th january. ramsdale was kicked in the back after arsenal beat spurs 2—0 in the premier league match. one of the referees involved in last week's multitude of var errors will no longer officiate in the premier league. lee mason has left the referees' body pgmol by mutual consent. it comes days after his mistake during arsenal's 1—1 draw with brentford. mason, seen here in the centre, was the video assistant referee, but failed to draw the required guidelines to check for offside on ivan toney�*s equalising goal. pgmol chief refereeing officer howard webb contacted arsenal to acknowledge and explain the significant error that occurred. meanwhile, the football association have announced they'll trial the use of referee body cams for the first time in the sport. the trial begins at grassroots level in middlesbrough this weekend and is being introduced as a measure to try to reduce abuse at officials.
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body cams have been used in rugby union for over a decade. the trial follows a bbc survey which revealed almost 98% of the referees who responded had experienced verbal abuse from spectators, players, coaches or managers. now, we'll see if the title race takes another twist tomorrow. manchester city are ahead of arsenal on goal difference after beating them on wednesday night. city are at nottingham forest and arsenal have a lunchtime kick—off at aston villa, arsenal's manager has criticised the tight schedule. when it's playing on wednesday night, you cannot play. i think that's like any competition. following the same principle, physiologically, that is very difficult to turn around. to get the best outcome and get reduce injuries for players. tiger woods has apologised for any offence caused after he gave his playing partner justin thomas a tampon during the opening round of the
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genesis invitational in california. woods described it as a prank. he didn't have a great time of things on the course today anyway, following his first round 69 with a three over par 7a, which included five bogies to finish on one over par overall. rory mcilroy is well in contention, though, making three birdies and just one bogey in his 69, which puts him on six under going into the third round. making three birdies and just one bogey in his 69, which puts him on six under going into the third round. gloucester narrowly beat play—off rivals harlequins 28—26 in one of two matches in rugby union's premiership tonight. wales wing louis rees—zammit scored the winning try four minutes from time, after coming off the bench in his first game after a long injury lay—off. he should be fit for wales' six nations game against england next week. the result moves gloucester into third place in the table. elsewhere, bristol comfortably beat newcastle. two games as well in the united rugby championship, and glasgow extended their unbeaten run to ten matches in all competitions after a hard—fought 17—11 home win over ulster.
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jack dempsey with the pick of their three tries. in the other match, munster thrashed ospreys 58—3. it's the opening week of the new superleague season and salford spoiled leigh's big return, winning the local derby 20—10. leigh, rebranded the leigh leopards, are back in the top flight after winning last year's championship, but salford were too much for them and their winning try came from the former leigh player ryan brierley. at the women's t20 world cup, ireland's hopes of reaching the semifinals are over after losing to the west indies in a match that went right down to the wire. batting first, ireland started well, but then collapsed, losing seven wickets forjust 21 runs, as they set their opponents 138 to win. there was a period where it looked like it would be enough, but an unbeaten 66 from hayley matthews guided the west indies to victory, with just one ball to spare. that's all the sport for now.
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this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all main news stories of the top of the aber trait of hope is important and that's the thing. all of those rescuers and teams were all there because they had hopeful some that people had survived. even now, as we talk today, they're still finding survivors and those stories are so
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important. it is also... and to say that the moments are incredibly important. but they're also rare. i'm the middle eats correspondent for the bbc, which means i can cover the whole the region. i go anywhere at any time. lebanon is a beautiful place, but right now, as problems are putting some tourist offer. there's been a lot happening in lebanon. the country is falling apart. things with israel and palestine has been really busy. there was a period of time injuly last year where wejust there was a period of time injuly last year where we just travel constantly for about a month. we
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were in turkey talking about cross—border aid to syria. i think i'm doing thejob if i'm telling you about as much of the region as possible because there were so many middle east thirds... so important and there were so many stories going on there. we and there were so many stories going on there. ~ , ~ , on there. we begin in turkey with thousands of _ on there. we begin in turkey with thousands of people who - on there. we begin in turkey with thousands of people who have - on there. we begin in turkey with l thousands of people who have died across the country and in northern syria following a major earthquake struck in the early hours of this morning. i struck in the early hours of this morninu. . struck in the early hours of this mornin. ., ., ,., struck in the early hours of this morninu. ., ., ,., , morning. i heard about the news, i was on the — morning. i heard about the news, i was on the way _ morning. i heard about the news, i was on the way somewhere - morning. i heard about the news, i was on the way somewhere else i morning. i heard about the news, i l was on the way somewhere else and morning. i heard about the news, i i was on the way somewhere else and i was on the way somewhere else and i was rdn & airport. —— istanbul. the message of the top, the first unread message of the top, the first unread message was my boss, saying is everybody ok? as soon as i saw that,
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i just felt this tightening in my stomach. i went down and the messages and it became apparent that it was an earthquake. the problem was there have been really bad weather in turkey, and that's why i was stuck in the airport, because i miss my flight. i was in really good place to to where i needed to be, but also these cancelled flights where a huge problem and everybody else worse trying to get on cancelled flights, and i need to run to get to it. fortunately, i think i got the last seat on that flight, and that took me to i,, the nearest city which had airport —— adana. i had a trusted driver waiting for me. he knew he was picking up a bbc
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correspondent and that we were going to head towards the earthquake, the epicentre. the journey was difficult for a couple of reasons. it was physically difficult because the earthquake had damaged a lot of the roads. at the same time, you also had people trying to leave as well because if you've got a car, and the availability —— ability, you want to get out of that zone. a lot of people have loaded up their cars. it just created a huge trafficjam. so, we spent maybe three hours in this trafficjam to do a journey that
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would have taken maybe 30 minutes. indistinct people have asked why they left me to go on my own. it was they left me to go on my own. it was the fact that i got there first. if i would have waited for more team members to arrive, it would be maybe 24 members to arrive, it would be maybe 2a hours. it might be even longer. the thing with a natural disaster like this is until somebody arrives, and filming things, it takes days. people here wonder if they can ever rebuild. my rash is finished, they
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told me. —— marash. did you feel any sort of pressure? i felt the pressure to go out and let people know what was happening. you can really see the size of the effort that's going on you're on top of this. you can see them throwing down blocks... this used to be us 12 story apartment building. they've only found three survivors. one thing i really noticed on the first night was that there were so many collapsed buildings and only one rescue team. i knew in the back of my mind that it wasn't that those buildings were all empty. there weren't enough people there. it was
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only on the second day as we were moving at the same time as rescue teams, medics, equipments. there was nobody else there. there's something about an earthquake that creates a particular level of disruption. everything is just stripped away. there are just these great piles of concrete and dust. a lot of the humanity is being stripped away from it. itjust looks like a pile of masonry and rubble. as he moved around from area to area, there is just more and more and more. and you
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feel that you seen the worst of the devastation. then you may turn a corner and there's more. you can show pictures of that, and they all melded into one. you then have to get those across. one thing i always find in stories like this, when there are so many people affected or such a big place affected, for me, it's always about individuals and details. i think of this one woman who was waiting for news about her daughter, and somebody passed a bag
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out of the ruins. i can picture it, it was pink. stuffed full of somebody�*s lipstick, mascara, whatever it might be. this woman took hold of it and she tucked it under her arm. she was crying, obviously, because this meant that they were getting closer to what she knew was the body of her daughter, because they said it nobody had survived. they were very clear that they were only looking for bodies to bring back to the relatives. it's those tiny details, things that you... same things that you have in your life. it hits that sudden collision of your life and somebody else's, and those connections where you think to yourself, "that could be near anybody." standing there at that moment, waiting for the most
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awful news. for so many disasters, people have id on them. they have a purse or a phone or something that can tell you who they were. for this, everybody is asleep in bed and you don't have those things. when they were going through those robles, it would often be the colour of its... and people would think, "i think my daughter was wearing purple pyjamas, so this might be." this was an entire neighbourhood, and is completely destroyed. it was hundreds of apartments, thousands of people and the majority are still buried. those tiny things feel really out of place when you're talking about that. i think those are the things that i used to try
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and give people an understanding. it's one person. one family. one home, one life. i have to cough, i'm so sorry. can i have some water? she coughs this is the dust. there is a bitterly cold here today and it is a bitterly cold here today and it is whipping up the smoke. it goes in your eyes, your throat and the rescuers are still here on top of this pile of rubble. the amount of dust isjust this pile of rubble. the amount of dust is just constantly in your throat and in your chest and it makes you cough a lot. dust is really problematic, and that's one thing i'm still, even now... keenan
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travelled here from doncaster as soon as he heard the news. his brother than her some hair. == brother than her some hair. -- somewhere- — brotherthan her some hair. -- somewhere. you see the concrete like this. ., ., ., ., ., this. you never want to leave a sto , this. you never want to leave a story. especially _ this. you never want to leave a story, especially not _ this. you never want to leave a story, especially not a - this. you never want to leave a story, especially not a big - this. you never want to leave a l story, especially not a big story, and to leave a big story like that is always a massive emotional ranch. it's really hard because you want to... you going to the effort to get there —— emotional wre. i came back to the uk because it was my daughter's birthday. i tried really hard to always be at home when it's the kids' birthdays. everybody was really, really supportive and brilliant and making sure. it was
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quite a long turning as well. —— long journey. you look at the people around you who lost loves ones, lost homes, who will not spend another birthday or another moment like that with their child. the story will still be told by the people behind, but i have to realise that this is a moment when i need to be a mum first and a journalist second. and a moment for your taxi driver, he's a big part. he and i were a team,
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because normally you would have a sizeable team of people. some spoke turkish, which i don't. we sort of developed our own little language. but he was fantastic. in foster arrived this — but he was fantastic. in foster arrived this morning. - but he was fantastic. in foster arrived this morning. i - but he was fantastic. in foster arrived this morning. i work. arrived this morning. i work him into do a few — arrived this morning. i work him into do a few extra _ arrived this morning. i work him into do a few extra bits - arrived this morning. i work him into do a few extra bits and - arrived this morning. i work him i into do a few extra bits and pieces. the first light we did was that evening. in that particular city, there was no power at all. it was simply dark. i got him to park the car behind me and use the headlights to light the scene. i was then trying to hold my phone in a way that throws a shadow onto my face,
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and it was pouring with rain. there was lots of manoeuvring to try and get that in the right place. this really is a picture of devastation here. this city is complete darkness to light. there is no power at all. this is not what he signed up for, but he was incredibly willing. every conversation we've ever had has been through a translation app, but we did, there was one — maybe the second or third night, i was facetime in my family and he gave them a wave. and he was facetiming his family and i gave him a wave. we share food, we managed to get supplies and chocolates and things for my petrol station, so we would sit and eat together.—
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for my petrol station, so we would sit and eat together. what does the future look like _ sit and eat together. what does the future look like for _ sit and eat together. what does the future look like for him? _ sit and eat together. what does the future look like for him? for- sit and eat together. what does the future look like for him? for so - future look like for him? for so many people — future look like for him? for so many people who _ future look like for him? for so many people who live - future look like for him? for so many people who live there, i future look like for him? for so i many people who live there, things have become incredibly different that might difficult. we said goodbye and he's going back to his life now. a, ., " i: i: i: , .,, life now. more than 11,000 people are now confirmed dead _ are now confirmed dead across southern — are now confirmed dead across southern turkey and northern syria. i southern turkey and northern syria. i could _ southern turkey and northern syria. i could see the number of bodies and the regularity with which they were being brought out. none on their own without the human stories. they don't engage in the same way. well you can hear the number, in order for it to mean something, you need to know about those who are risking their lives. people were trapped in
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their lives. people were trapped in the rubble like he was. but it's of people like us and what they're going through that is the bit of the story that makes it mean something to you. the devastating power of the earth scene from the air. swathes of the city lie in ruins. when i was filling with my phone, sometimes on the other side, i'm crying. when the rubble shows a sign, the digger stops. behind this blanket, and arm reveals a body, slowly, carefully is uncovered. i think for this one, certainly, the man at the moment of just having identified his dead
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father in the rubble... it was just a very powerful moment. i will take that one with me. if you were to ask that question again in 20 or 30 years, i know that i would still talk about the moment. this is more than anything, a huge, huge tragedy, and i hope is there. but it is sadly and i hope is there. but it is sadly a small part of the bigger picture.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. five former police officers in the us plead not guilty to murdering the young black man tyre nichols last month. his mother demands justice. i want each and every one of those police officers to be able to look me in the face. they haven't done that yet. they couldn't even do that today. anger rises over shoddy construction in turkey — we investigate why so many buildings that should have withstood the tremors collapsed. the ukrainian president urges world leaders gathered for a security conference in munich to speed up their support for his country. a former security guard at the uk embassy in berlin is sentenced to 13 years in prison for spying for russia.
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