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it's not right. we came in half—time, we said it. we are lucky we won, also that we know how to beat them. it was a good goal. it was once again, great pass from bruno, good finish from rishi. that wasn't a lot. and then second half was all ours. elsewhere, tottenham have called on social media companies and authorities to take action against racist abuse suffered by striker son heung—min. it followed spurs 2—0 win over west ham. emerson royal opened the scoring for spurs who are once again missing boss antonio conte as he recovers from surgery. son started on the bench but came on to good effect, linking up with harry kane to score his 98th premier league goalfor the club. tottenham have called the online abuse directed at him utterly reprehensible. england's lionesses survived a scare to beat italy 2—1 in the arnold clark cup in coventry, extending their unbeaten run to 28 matches. jane dougal reports.
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facing a far lower ranked team. this was a chance to see a different england line up. katie robinson making her debut in front of a 32,000 strong crowd, and she made an early international impact. a perfect ball in to set up england's first. defender rachel daly enjoying a spell up front. but then controversy. the ball looked to have gone out before italy crossed. then dismay as the ball clearly did bounce over the goal line. oh, the goal is given! but no var, no whistle and italy had equalised. that looks really close indeed. england's response was quick, daly and the perfect position once more. another victory for manager sarina wiegman. and with the world cup this summer, a positioning headache
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from the player of the match. jane dougal, bbc news. england are through to the semi—finals of the t20 world cup after the west indies secured a dramatic final over win against pakistan. the windies total of 116 was built upon their three — top three batters. they contributed 72 runs, with rashaad williams leading the way with 30 runs from 3a balls. the wicketkeeper was later reprimanded for breaching the icc code of conduct in a previous match. in reply, pakistan looked all set for victory after scoring 13 runs from the first four balls of the 20th over. but the wicket of ali riaz from the penultimate ball swung it to the west indies way. and new zealand have kept their hopes of reaching the women's t20 world cup semi—finals alive at the same time preventing sri lanka from reaching the last four. they won the match between the two convincingly in south africa, winning by 102 runs. they can make the semis if bangladesh beat south africa in the final group. 0ne game. ali baker has broken zola budd's
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championship record to win the uk indoor 1500 metres title. the 24—year—old from hertfordshire said she is in shock after running a time of four minutes, 6.73 seconds, a 14th of a second quicker than the record set by budd 37 years ago. it was also more than three seconds faster than baker had ever run the distance before. and this season just gets better and better for britain's men's bobsleigh team, who've won the country's first overall two man world cup medal. led by driver brad hall, they clinched the bronze by finishing fourth in the final round in latvia. it's been a phenomenal season after gb won overall silver in the four man event, as well as european gold and world silver. and that was the first world championship medal for britain in 84 years. that's all the sport from us for now. you can, of course, get more in all those stories at the usual place. the bbc sport website. bbc.co.uk/sports
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hello and welcome to news watch with me, samira ahmed. has the bbc�*s reporting from turkey and syria following last week's earthquakes been too intrusive? and how many london—based journalists were needed in edinburgh to report on nicola sturgeon�*s resignation? as the rescue operation after last week's earthquakes has continued this week, there have been many tales of destruction, loss and survival on bbc news, with a warning that we will be showing some upsetting images. here are some examples from the past ten days of the bbc�*s output, which has at times been
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uplifting, harrowing, distressing. translation: it was then that i saw my wife and seven—year—old daughter alive. i kept on running in the streets until i saw them. she told me my children were gone. they were gone. under a flattened building in adiyaman, a child cries. fatima! "fatima," a man shouts into a hole in the debris. we don't know what happened to her. here, there are no emergency services. nobody can help. how do you feel about what's happened to your country? armageddon.
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behind this blanket, an arm reveals a body. slowly, carefully, it's uncovered. and then the moment of realisation. a father lost. we mentioned last week that there have been plaudits for the bbc teams on the ground, but some viewers had reservations about the coverage. two of them recorded their thoughts for us on camera. first, john carberry reacting to that last clip we saw, and then clive shelley. during the filming of the results of the turkish earthquake on the early evening news of february the eighth, a man discovered the remains of his whole family crushed into the rubble. the camera closed in on him and continued to film. this was a prolonged and disgraceful intrusion on private misery, and whoever sanctioned it should be
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ashamed of themselves. we don't need to be so close to what's happening on the ground to know how bad it is. so please, please, bbc, can you act with some dignity, notjoin the race as some news companies are trying to be, which is to be as closest to the diggers, as closest to the bodies, as closest to the rubble as possible. but give some space, give some dignity. these individuals, these families are just having enough without our imposition into their lives as well. linda hilson also expressed her concern to us.
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well, let's talk to richard burgess, who's the director of news content for bbc news. richard, can you see why some viewers feel that the coverage has been intrusive? i think some of the coverage has been really difficult to watch. and, you know, of course, it's really important that we respect the dignity and the privacy of those involved. but at the same time, it's really important that our reporters faithfully show what they are witnessing on the ground. and it's worth saying that, you know, people on the ground have been really grateful to our teams for bringing news of this appalling tragedy to to a wider audience. can we talk about a specific example, which is the father who has just found out that his whole family have been killed? that moment when people first receive news of death. many viewers felt could be seen as voyeuristic. well, we think really hard about all the sequences we show. and obviously, you know, when you're watching
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a television package, you don't see the bits that we haven't shown. you don't see the conversations that we have away from the cameras. we don't see when we withdraw the request of people on the ground. i think that incident really, truly showed the full horror of this crisis. and as i said, you know, that has been an important part of ourjob as reporters on the ground. some viewers concerned about this coverage would say they don't think the bbc would everfilm british families caught in a disaster in the uk this way. they've got a point, haven't they? no, i don't think so. i think when we have covered disasters in the uk, we have also adopted the same principles which is showing respect, respecting privacy, but also being faithful to what we're witnessing, showing what's actually going on. and it's not ourjob to sanitise the reality of situations that sometimes frankly are really terrible.
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another aspect of this is interviews, very distressing interviews, microphones being thrust into people's faces, asking them how they feel. they may have given consent at the time, but given their trauma, is it really informed consent, and should the bbc really be broadcasting that? well, we've got very experienced people on the ground who are used to dealing with these situations and have done many interviews over many years. and they make those types of decisions over whether somebody can give informed consent or not. and as i said, i'll say again, you don't see the instances where we decide not to do things, when we step away. there are many instances like that and we are really, really careful. but at the same time, as i said before, you know, those people on the ground have really welcomed our coverage. they want this story told to as broad an audience as possible. what about concerns about potentially affecting rescue efforts?
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certainly in the days past, i heard an example of a reporter saying, "0h, they want us to be really quiet because they think they can hear someone," but was then continuing to talk. no, we've been — that much have been laura becher, who i also heard the following day explaining how, despite her continuing to talk really quietly, she was not interfering with any of the rescue efforts. and, of course, we would, you know, that would be our absolute priority, that we would not want to jeopardise anybody�*s safety or, of course, jeopardise any of the potential rescue efforts. one of the other questions viewers will have after a terrible disaster like this is how long the bbc chooses to stay in the region and stay on this story. i think it's really important that we continue to stay on the story. we absolutely are committed to doing that. you know, there is a humanitarian crisis following these earthquakes. we need to continue to tell those stories. to bring that story to as wide a possible audience. there will obviously be concern
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about the welfare ofjournalists, too, seeing some of this traumatic stuff, but then thinking about local people. there was the amazing story on the first day of that taxi driver who helped a reporter film her report. what support are you giving to turkish people who are working with the bbc as well as your own teams? well, we have systems that are designed over many years for how we support our staff and those local staff that work with us. i think that was anna foster, who was one of the firstjournalists to get to the epicentre of the earthquake. and she did that alone with her taxi driver. and i think, you know, as she said, he was part of our team and we treat them absolutely as such. richard burgess, thank you. thank you. the big political news of the week was the surprise announcement by nicola sturgeon that she would be standing down from her post as first
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minister of scotland. for wednesday's news at six presenter reeta chakrabarti was in edinburgh, speaking to the bbc scotland editor, james cook. and james joins me now. a resignation completely out of the blue, this. what are we to make of it? and political editor chris mason. a huge political figure, as you say, reeta, here in scotland, but a big political figure on the uk stage as well. those two were still on duty at 10:00, by which time huw edwards was there to present. we are live in edinburgh, where the first minister, nicola sturgeon, has taken everyone by surprise by announcing her resignation. this gave rise to a familiar complaint to regular newswatch viewers, expressed here byjeff hardy.
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interestingly, we did discuss this back in the past with a bbc manager, who said on newswatch that they would be rethinking some of these kinds of deployments. do let us know what you think. the storm surrounding the bbc chairman richard sharpe, which we discussed on the programme a couple of weeks ago, grew this week after a committee of mps found he had made significant errors ofjudgment in failing to divulge his role in facilitating a loan for borisjohnson while he was applying for the bbcjob. mr sharpe insisted he had acted in good faith to ensure that the rules were followed, and that he got the job on merit. but some people are concerned about the knock—on effect of this row on bbcjournalism. here's davy g.
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drjeff bartley agreed. finally, on tuesday, a number of bbc outlets reported that the soft drink lilt is going to be rebranded next week as fanta, pineapple and grapefruit. not for the first time, there were accusations that journalists had fallen for a pr stunt, confusing a marketing ploy with actual news. s werner emailed. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc news, on tv, radio, online and social media, email newswatch at bbc.co.uk or you can find us on twitter at newswatch bbc.
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and bright going on in north london. come on in and we'll show you. this is an exhibition called luyang netineti. chinese multimedia artist luyang takes us on a journey through their weird world, the company by avatars created using motion capture and 3d game engines. what i like is the artist has created all—new video games in the classic style but they've retrofitted them to existing arcade game hardware. how are you doing over there? oh, i'm glad this isn't an actual motorbike — i crashed into something i'm not meant to! is that a good thing or a bad thing? oh, this really takes me back to a time when i'd turn up to a place like this with a pocket full of coins, ready to do battle with space invaders, ghosts and centipedes. that was, of course,
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until home computers and then, home games consoles came along, which meant i didn't need to go out any more. these days, you don't even need to be tied to your home to be a gamer — you canjust use one of these. yeah, the mobile gaming industry is huge. it's worth £120 billion and it's growing, and it's freed us all up to play on the go — in bed, on the bus, even on the loo. oh, you don't, do you? no, i absolutely don't. good. well, steffan powell has been to the unlikely city at the heart of the mobile gaming world. when you think of the cities of the world that are hotbeds for innovative tech, you're probably imagining silicon valley, tokyo or maybe singapore. you might not be thinking of this place. but it's these streets here in helsinki, a cityjust the size of glasgow,
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that house some of the most innovative, influential and successful mobile games companies in the world. this place is home to some of the best games talent out there. so, how has this happened? who better to start giving us answers than someone with over a decade of game—making experience? well, nokia is an obvious answer — the big name in the 1990s. yeah, the heritage, yeah. yeah. it actually showed the example that, you know, we could build something big from finland orfrom helsinki, because we didn't do — as i said, like, we didn't really have any, like, big publishers or studios. we don't need the connections with the publishers. we don't need to travel the other side of the world. we canjust do it, like, from here, with nokia's support. does the fact that there was such a successful mobile product from finland encourage people from finland to want to stay in that space? yeah, of course, yeah, because i think that was the example — like, you can
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actually make it big. people here do seem proud of the city's success in mobile tech, always happy to chat about it in bars and cafes. but heritage and goodwill only get you so far. well, this is really kind of where we have... reaktor is a company that helps tech businesses, game studios included, makes sure they have the right infrastructure in place to succeed. i think we're just generally very interested in technology. i'm sure that you could also then say that that comes from some, like, war background or something back in the day but then, i think in very many ways, it's about the cultural sort of situation that we've had here — that essentially, finns, we have this ability of — and it's in the culture — that we can try and then we can fail and then we try again. you don't have to worry about failing. and when you don't have to worry about failing, you're obviously much braver. and then also, the government is supporting gaming companies a lot. nobody wants to come to helsinki because of the climate, for example, so we have to have other reasons to attract people here.
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this blend of history, public investment and talent chasing is working for helsinki. the 200 game studios here made £2.8 billion in 2022. now, to put that into context, the games market in the uk was worth £4] billion in the same period — but that's a country with a population 12 times bigger. finland is punching well above its weight here. but really, it shouldn't be a surprise. the first—ever angry bird was flicked across the screen of an ipad in this city. last year, netflix said it was setting up its first—ever internal games company here because it has some of the best talent in the world. and then, there's supercell. supercell are a giant of the mobile game space, responsible for some of the most famous titles in the world. and it's a man from scotland who's in charge of arguably their most celebrated, clash of clans.
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yeah, ithink, you know, like, many people, i remember playing snake on the nokia 3310. what a game! yeah, you know, and i heard that it's a finnish company and, you know, working in the mobile games industry in particular, you know, kind of be aware of, like, all these great companies that were based in finland. finland wasn't that wealthy a country not that long ago. people had, like, computers, maybe, but not, like, consoles and things. people were like — just the pc and they maybe weren't the best computers at the time, either, so it led to this kind of like cool kind of demo scene of trying to make the most of not very much. people hear — you know, they heard so much about the stories of companies like supercell that have been, you know, very successful and really punching above their kind of weight for, you know, a country this size, so i think, you know, people know it's more of a thing, you know? maybe back in the uk, when you sort of said you're working in games, you get more of this, "oh, so you just play "games all day
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kind ofjoke, and you're like, "uh, no," you know? i think people here, like, respect it as, like, a real, important industry. now, cities in the uk won't be able to replicate that nokia heritage but there are plenty of lessons here that show big things can happen in small places. in the heart of scotland, this is a city packed full of history. stirling is somewhere many people from all over the world choose to come and visit. itjust so happens to be the place where i grew up. but today, i'm forgetting everything i know about this place to become a tourist again — with the help of this. because stirling now has an augmented reality layer to its streets, allowing visitors to explore and learn about its history.
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you get directions to different historic attractions, it lets you explore more around the city, inspect information about each building, get who built it, when it was built — all those sort of things that you might be wondering as you're walking around but you actually get to see that in a visual way. it's using google geospatial anchors, so what that does is it anchors the augmented reality experiences direct to pinpoint accuracy within the city. 0n the ground there, on the cobbles, it says the new port gate. this is an old gate that used to block off the city. click on this coin and then, it recreates it in front of you. incredible. the app is free to use but developing it has cost the local council £200,000. they're hoping that will prove worth it. our economy relies upon visitors, especially of tourism. the key thing about the app is the fact that you cannot view, you know, everything that it has to offer from your home or from anywhere else in the world — you physically have to be
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here and you physically have to move around stirling, which also impacts the businesses as well. for stirling, the short—term success will be if the app attracts visitors in the coming summer season. but the long—term success will be determined by how it is developed over the next decade. of course, it wouldn't be a trip as a tourist without something for instagram. both: freedom! echoes: freedom! now, then, movie fans, it's award season. and i know, spencer, that one of your favourite films of the year is... everything everywhere all at 0nce. this is right up your street. yeah. but what do you think it is about it that made it stand out? well, i mean, it isjust great fun. i mean, it's totally bonkers. but also, the best thing about it is how the film was made. i mean, the visual effects do look great but they were, for the most part, made by five guys in their bedroom. i just think every so often, a movie comes along which gives us all hope that we can do our own vfx.
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so, we spoke to the team behind it to see what tools they used from home to smash through the multiverse. pow! distant: mrs wang... mrs wang... mrs wang, are you with us? i am paying attention. starman from david bowie plays. it does not look good. screams. this film told its story with a very special visual language that used these effect shots to really communicate a lot. and we even had to rely mostly on 2d effects over 3d effects, simply because we didn't have the computing power or the time or the resources or even the expertise to do anything so fancy. sometimes, a good movie can be madejust through,
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i think, tasteful application of simple choices. i think the coolest thing about the visual effects on this film is that they're all feasible on a budget — for the cost of a subscription to adobe, and a 3d programme like blender's free. there's no price point on it_ that's particularly high, it's just about learning how to craft the shot. i think that's the big secret here. we found a way to pare it all down into a very modest and workable pipeline, using off—the—shelf prosumer technologies, and it sort of is a sign of the times that now, a movie like this can be made in this way and ten years ago, that was not the case. it's all about the bagel.
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it's making me hungry. don't eat that bagel — and stay away from the hot dogs in the film as well! if you've seen it, you know what i'm talking about. and we'll be looking at another nominee in a few weeks�* time. meanwhile, that is it for the shortcut of this week's click. the full—length version is, of course, waiting for you right now on iplayer. thanks for watching. we'll see you soon. bye— bye. hello. well, it remains very mild out there, rather on the cloudy side. breezy, too. and the gales continue in northern scotland. it's also quite wet in the western isles. the morning temperatures on monday around eight degrees in london, but perhaps no lower than around 12 in belfast and in hull. so the forecast then for monday,
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a lot of cloud across the country, particularly across these western areas and also western scotland where the rain will continue through the day. gales should eventually ease from the north and we'll see a few sunny spells developing almost anywhere, but more especially to the east of high ground across the midlands and the south. temperatures could reach 16 degrees celsius in one or two spots, but in the cloudier areas, i think more like 12 or 13. how about tuesday and wednesday? well, tuesday is going to be a pretty overcast day. i don't think there's going to be much in the way of sunshine. on wednesday, we're expecting a weather front and outbreaks of rain for most of the day.
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welcome to newsday — reporting live from singapore — i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines... north korea is accused of firing ballistic missiles into the sea of japan — just a day after a similar launch. police looking for nicola bulley — the british woman who's been missing for more than three weeks — say they've found a body. nearly two weeks on from turkey and syria's devastating earthquakes — the search for survivors is to come to an end. will russia soon be buying chinese weapons for its war in ukraine? that's what the us says — and they're warning beijing not to do it. and — going with a bang — the film about the first world
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