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that's required to see big scale visionary changes in how we manage the environment. the message is clear — it's up to us all to save the fragile and beautiful ecosystems of our island nation. justin rowlatt, bbc news. that series starts at 7pm this sunday on bbc one. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. there is more snow across the forecast, and notjust across scotland, where it has been a wintry scene. we have snow following this band of wet weather, which is going to stick across southern parts of england and wales. could be a bit of sleet and snow as well. i see
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conditions further north. more snow to come in northern scotland. not quite so cold in the south, where we have still got that cloud that will linger through the day in southern england and south wales. a lot of that wet weather will peter out. further north, some sunshine and more snow showers pushing into northern ireland, particularly across the north of scotland on that cold wind from the arctic. whether you have got the sunshine in the north or the cloud in southern parts of england, it's going to be cold everywhere. these weatherfronts are sliding in slowly from the atlantic. and marking the boundary between two different air masses in that battleground between this milder atlantic adder stays across the channel and the arctic air that is going to be in place. it's going to get very cold very quickly tomorrow night. a widespread sharp frost. could be as low as —10 in parts of scotland. we may see snow across
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england and wales, a few centimetres in places. it does tend to ease off, but in the south—west it gets wetter and windier later with more snow over the moors. further north, we pick up sunshine across northern england, scotland and northern ireland. some will have a dry day, but it's going to be cold again. things get interesting as we head into thursday. this area of low pressure is developing, and that is going to push the wetter weather further north into the cold air. there could be significant snowfall all the way from the north midlands and north wales northwards into scotland and some heavy falls of snow over the hills. thanks, darren. and that's bbc news at ten on monday the 6th of march. there's more analysis of the day's main stories on newsnight with kirsty wark, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one as now it's time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are —
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but from the ten team, good evening i'm tt and this is your sports news where we start in the premier league and brentford's push for european football next season was strengthened with a 3—2 win against fulham. the home side took the lead afterjust six minutes when ethan pinnock�*s strike deflected past bernd leno fulham pulled one back just before half—time, andreas perreira's free kick hitting the crossbar and landing at the feet of manor solomon for his fifth goal in five games. ivan toney�*s penalty saw brentford regain the lead and then mathiasjensen made it three in the 85th minute. carlos vinicius scored for fulham in stoppage time but brentford take the win. they're ninth but only three points from newcastle in 6th. attention turns to the champions league this week — and the pivotal game for chelsea tomorrow night against dortmund. the blues are 1—0 down from the first leg, and struggling domestically — despite being europe's highest spenders in the january transfer window, and their manager knows they�* re under the microscope.
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merseyside police says a 16 year old has been arrested following the incident. well paris saint german play in europe this week as well — but a blow for them. they're without striker neymar who's set to miss the rest of the season — after the club announced he's to have surgery following an ankle injury. the brazil forward suffered ligament damage during psg's domestic clash with lille last month. he'll be out for their crucial champions league last 16 tie against bayern on wednesday, with the german side one—up from the first leg. psg say it'll be 3 to 4 months before he can return to training. england's cricketers have missed out on a one—day international series clean sweep against bangladesh. they lost the final game earlier by 50 runs in chittagong. patrick geary reports. stea my tests steamy tests of hydration and motivation. even with the series
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donein motivation. even with the series done in a world cup year, every game has an angle to find. bangladesh was still searching, looking for every run, but not by completing the mall. just too slow and run out. england experimented, just 18, the youngest ever polar and wicked taker in this cricket. we know more ofjeffrey archer but he still supplies that he makes a price of the board after 256. for once, the sun had gone, troubled look for england. that was jason royce, score of the super century in the last match and both bewitched and his nation's greatest cricketer. bangladesh built a web by spinning silk and entangling josh butler. england bullied out 50 short and finished this series winners who could do better.
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let's hear from the england captain now who explained the thinking behind some of those changes and how it fits in with their long—term plans. absolutely, it's a day to give them congratulations on their debut coming out at number five and it's the last odi we play until september and so, especially as conditions in felt like a great chance to try and get as much information as we can and expose people to different situations and if we lost the game then, so be it. there were a few england stars on show as mumbai indians beat royal challengers bangalore by nine wickets in their women's premier league match. heather knight was bowled for a duck as the challengers slumped to 155 all out. the indians responded, with nat sciver—brunt hitting a half—century and securing the win with a boundary, with 3a balls to spare. one of the biggest tennis
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tournaments of the year begins this week, the atp 1000 series at indian wells. but the men's number one — novak djokovic — will not be there. he's withdrawn as he's unable to enter the united states. the us requires international visitors to be vaccinated against covid 19 and proof will be required, at least for another month. 22—time grand slam winner djokovic had applied for special permission to enter the us because he's not vaccinated. he also missed last year's us open and australian open because of his vaccination status. that's all the sport for now.
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guide dogs. for thousands of blind and visually impaired people, they're the difference between independence and isolation. she's my best friend, my constant companion, my means of independence. i couldn't imagine my life without rio. since 1931, around 36,000 guide dogs have been matched with visually impaired people. but during the pandemic, the breeding programme shut down overnight. the charity lost a third of its puppy—raising volunteers, and the guide dog service was paused... people like us are needed, so much, to help people like you. ..leaving more than 1,000 people waiting to be matched. it is really, really difficult not having the dog. practically every step you're thinking, "this is impossible.
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i don't know how i'm doing with this." but with around 1,100 puppies now in early training, is recovery around the corner? we are hopeful for the future, but we do need a little bit of patience for a little bit longer, as these dogs make their way through the system. we visit puppies at the national breeding centre and ask what needs to be done to fix britain's guide dog shortage. archie! good boy. let's go! meet new arrival archie... good boy! are you my little star? ..and his puppy raiser, lisa. hers is one of more than 2,000 households giving their time for free to help raise guide dog puppies for around a year. it's opened up a whole new world. i've met lots of new friends, i'm part of... i feel part of a community that i wasn't before. not only that, obviously you're
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doing something very good, at the end of the day. it sounds exciting, but it's a big commitment. puppies like archie live at home and often need attention around the clock. as much as it's your instant reaction, "puppy, puppy, puppy," you know, "let's go for it. a cute little puppy," you've got to remember that it's a lot of work. it's... being a puppy raiser is hard work, especially at the beginning. volunteers take their puppies with them to everyday places, from restaurants to supermarkets and on buses and trains, to help get them ready for their future working lives. at the end of the day, ijust remember i'm doing this to enable somebody who's not as fortunate as me, that can't see, to actually get some independence. archie, touch! volunteers like lisa are supported by the charity guide dogs, which works across the uk. lovely. just keep doing exactly what you're doing, rewarding on the left
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there so he always knows where to come. that's absolutely fantastic. good boy. today, puppy development adviser beth has come to see how lisa and archie are getting on. so the reason that we use hand touch is so when archie is placed with a visually impaired person, obviously they can't see when he's running back, when he's coming, so they can pop out this hand as a target. these routine visits are as much about supporting lisa as they are for training archie, but these are the building blocks he'll need if he's to earn a working harness. good boy! perfect. good boy! learning through play is encouraged... ..but there are some things archie will need to quit before he finishes his training. you're going to have to learn what this is for. but he's just got such a wonderful nature. he's a heart of gold, and hejust loves people. really loves people. happy times, but every puppy raising volunteer knows that if all goes to plan, the day will come when they have to give them back to guide dogs.
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later, we'll follow lisa and herfirst pup, fergall, as she hands him in for the next phase of his training. what are the emotions that are going through your head today? if i'm honest, i'd say proud. i think that's my biggest one. so proud of what i've done. really proud of him. voice breaks lisa hopes that both of her dogs will go on to give someone their independence. just proud. forward, rio. forward! go on, then. i couldn't imagine my life without rio. she's so important. she's my best friend, my constant companion, my means of independence, of getting about wherever i want to go, whenever i want to go, and living the life i want to lead. go forward. good girl. ella caulfield is a first—time guide dog user. she was matched with rio in 2018.
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good girl. well done. she's very open aboutjust how much she benefits from having a guide dog in her life. she gives me that independence that i do kind of need, and i crave, that i need to live the life i want...i want to lead. she's good for a cuddle at the end of an evening if i've had a bad day, and she's an excellent guide. she's very rarely led me astray. it's not a one—way street, though. ella looks after rio's needs and wants. today, she's grooming and cleaning her coat. it's one of the responsibilities ella has as a guide dog user to make sure that rio is loved, happy and well cared for. if they didn't have each other, ella says she'd never have been able to study maths at oxford university. ella started to lose her sight at four years old. when she was 15, she received some devastating news. i think because it happened gradually, it wasn't, like, an immediate shock of "you're not going to see again".
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i was told i had a retinal detachment, and i definitely broke down then. i was with my dad. i can remember him hugging me and the nurses kind of bringing me a cup of water, just kind of comforting me. and then i got booked in for surgery the next day. doctors operated to see if they could save any sight they could, but those attempts failed. nothing came of it. so i've been left withjust minimal light perception in my right eye. but it's...it's not useful. i can only see light if i, like, look directly into the sun or into a light bulb. for ella, a new reality. she learnt new life skills and how to read braille. she applied for a guide dog in may 2017, and then around a year later an exciting call came. it was actually my mum picked up the call, so... i hadn't got home from school yet. my mum picked up the call. it was someone from guide dogs saying, "we've got a match for ella." i think ijust got very giggly and very kind of... yeah, very excited. like, "yes, this is happening."
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ella and rio spent around five weeks training with guide dog mobility specialists. can you tell me what it felt like the first time you were guided by rio? i felt lighter. i felt like i was definitely kind of more smiley, more confident. icould... i could move freely and independently without relying on somebody else being there. like many guide dog users, ella would never want to be without a four—legged friend again. just feeling so much more confident and independent and happy that, like, i had this friend with me who was going to be there permanently with me. rio provides such a kind of welfare support to me. ella and rio are one of 3,695 partnerships currently working in the uk. that's down from around 5,000 before the pandemic. more than one in five people who had a guide dog before then now do not. i honestly think they are doing their absolute best.
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like me, kelly nasir is waiting to be matched with a new guide dog. we are among more than 1,100 people on the ready—to—train list. kelly's last dog, river, retired eight months ago. her mobility has been seriously impacted. walking with a cane is like walking with one hand tied behind your back. it makes everything harder. not having the dog, that's what makes you feel disabled. because when you have the dog, you just... you get on with things. kelly keeps a busy social and work diary. she's a barrister, but also a mum. not having a dog doesn't only affect her, but her very young daughter. i'm the one who can't take her out when i want to, i have to say, "well, let's wait for daddy," or, "let's wait till we go see nanna and grandad." and i can do everything else she needs and i'm her mummy, and i love her and i'm the one that's there when she has her
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nightmares, and i play with her and it doesn't impact on our relationship, but i think it impacts on how i feel about thejob i'm doing as... ..as a mum. watch the tree. so why do guide dog users like me and kelly find ourselves between dogs? puppy: puppy! the answer lies here at the charity's national breeding centre in warwickshire. bill's been explaining to me that the waiting lists are currently a bit longer than guide dogs would like them to be for life—changing guide dogs. purely for research purposes, you understand, i might have to stroke puppies like bill and many, many other puppies. is this the bestjob in the world or what? this is where a guide dog puppy'sjourney begins_ before the pandemic, as many as 1,500 dogs were bred here in a year. in 2020, the breeding programme shut down overnight when social distancing was introduced. it was the first time in the charity's 92—year history that the guide dog service was suspended.
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archive: guide dogs show their paces along one - of the centre's obstacle courses. although training techniques have changed over the years, the aim to match visually impaired people with guide dogs has not. archive: and thousands of blind | people who have benefited from it will agree with her. nowadays, the charity trains more assistance dogs than anyone else around the globe. puppy! little ones like paige spend the first weeks of their life here. for them, they're just having fun... she's currently nibbling the camera at the moment. ..but staff are watching closely to see how suited they are to guide work. she's got the brains, for sure. she air kisses puppy. paige! hi, pup! are you a good puppy? yes, you are! look how cute you are! look at those big eyes and floppy ears. you're such a good puppy!
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sniff it. 0k! becky and anna are paying close attention to see how paige reacts to human interaction. right... they laugh they're looking to see how she deals with problem solving. yes, she's... she's... she knows. that's a good sign because a guide dog's ability to find their way around a problem is, well, just part of the job. good girl. that's also interesting that she's... she's been to that one, smelled that one. she's like, "mm, it's not there." and she's actually worked out to go to the other one. so, in itself, that's interesting. during the pandemic, all training and breeding here stopped. guide dogs say they needed to protect their staff and volunteers. so that is our puppy reception. it is really unfortunate. our breeding programme is fantastic, it's world—class and it's always been able to produce the number of puppies that we've required to meet our service users' needs. and unfortunately, that pause
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in our breeding programme has really affected us. and there's been other combinations as well. bearing in mind that obviously our puppies, when they were out with our amazing puppy—raising volunteers, weren't able to experience the environments that they would experience with a guide dog owner as yourself. so unfortunately, it's been a combination of things that have meant that we haven't produced the number of guide dog partnerships that we really want to. breeding numbers are getting back to normal. in the past year, around 1,000 puppies have passed through here. we are in recovery mode and we are hopeful for the future, but we do need a little bit of patience for a little bit longer as these dogs make their way through the system. as you said, these little puppies here that we saw today, it will take about two years for them to make partnership. around 1,100 puppies are currently in early training. guide dogs says what it needs now is volunteer fosterers who can look after dogs in advanced training, dropping them off and picking them up from the charity's offices on weekdays. our volunteers are our lifeblood. guide dogs could not do what we do without our volunteers, across the board, across all of our services.
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and unfortunately, after the pandemic, we did lose a lot of volunteers as people wanted to have a break, being the situation, we also kind of reduced the numbers that were reapplying. so we are at the moment looking very heavily to recruit lots of volunteers, and we've been very lucky that a lot of people have been so generous with their time. come on then, sam. let's go. head. good boy! reporter: after more than eight years of working with sean, - guide dog sammy is set to retire, and sean may have to wait two years for his next dog. that was six months ago. when sammy leaves me, it will leave a huge hole in my heart. a few hours later, sammy left me to retire with family. much of my confidence and mobility left me too that day. sammy is more important to me, and you always will be, sammy. i know you'll always be my boy. a month later and it's clear i was still in trauma. you are actually quite moved today, aren't you? you know, we...
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sharing my story is by far the hardest thing i've ever done in my career. the impact, though, has been huge. i would like to say to bbc breakfast viewers, thank you so much to everyone who's already applied to volunteer at guide dogs. since coverage, we've seen a peak in applications. so injanuary alone, we received almost 3,000 volunteer applications. 2,500 of those were to raise puppies, compared with 2,000 for the whole of 2019, the last pre—pandemic year. for lisa's first pup, fergall, it's the end of one journey, but the start of another. all this, i'm packing the three trays up from home. his biscuits that i always give him, half a biscuit at bedtimes.
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they've been together forjust over a year. this, i've had it made and had his name put on it, and his id number. she's packing up things that she hopes will remind him of their time together. and his christmas present. i can't tell you what it is — he'll hear! sean laughs the day has come for fergall to start his advanced training. that means lisa must say a painful goodbye. hello! hi! i want him upset as little as possible. they're his toys, he's got his biscuits that he has half a one at night. i mean, if she's generous, she might like to give him one at first, because he deserves it. any time he's not with shelly, working and learning, learning what he's got to do, he'll be in there having a good rest. and then we've got some fab free—running sandpits out the back as well, so we'll show you them, where he can have his downtime and have some good sniffs. yeah. nice doggy hotel and playground, fergall. this may be a sad time for lisa, but for fergall,
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a new adventure awaits. here you go, you get big boy lead now. bye—bye, sweetheart. many guide dog users stay in touch with their puppy raisers, but many do not. tearfully: thanks for that. you're welcome. i'll ring you tomorrow. lisa knows this could be the last time she sees fergall. crying: i am fine. woman: you've set me off, anyway. the one question that i get asked all the time or people say to me, all my friends, family, people i meet in the street, "i'd love to do what you're doing, but i couldn't do it, "because i couldn't give the dog back." he's ultra cute. he's a good boy. if i can do it, anybody can do it. as a guide dog user of more than 23 years, i know the theory of what volunteers like lisa go through, but being there for the moment of handover was as beautiful as it was poignant.
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it's hard, but you've got to remember why you're doing it. you know, people have to help people. there's not enough of it in this world. we're needed, people like us are needed so much to help people like you. the tears are worth it. hello there. it's been a very wintery day across northern parts of the uk, particularly the north and east of scotland we've seen significant showers and accumulation of snow in the high ground. into tuesday, we hold onto this snow and ice right across the northern half of scotland, north east england and northern ireland.
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we have arctic air firmly in place across the northern end of the country it's not his court for the south for this type of air seeking its way southwards into south for this type of air seeking its way southwards into tuesday. and in the northern _ its way southwards into tuesday. and in the northern for— its way southwards into tuesday. and in the northern for the _ its way southwards into tuesday. and in the northern for the country, - in the northern for the country, particularly where further showers on coastal areas of northeast england in northern scotland and northern ireland know be cold here as well as subzero values and in southern england in south wales, the band of cloud and rain could turn to sleet and snow over the high ground but i think it will be mostly of rain. it holds on into tomorrow morning in a rather great picture with further genetics of rain, sleet and snow with the rest of the country away from the northern coasts is where we will see a peppering of snow showers and an icy start to begin with a newbie quite a bright day on tuesday with more sunshine around even into large parts in england and wales but recorder data come across the board and factoring in the window feel serial because northern aisles that can lead to very cold night for
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tuesday night and across the board and he could be done to minus double digits across parts of sunshine maria of snow. then the games begin on wednesday and a? on this battle ground of air masses, milder airfor the south containing low—pressure and rain, cold airfirmly in place across the uk. first leg of the weather front starts to pushing to the south of the country during wednesday it will likely to some snow here but there is a? on it. initially, could be ran coast ran coast to coast as a bumps in the court there, we can see an area of widespread snow developing across southwestern areas, particularly down to lower levels as well and this can be disruptive. so, stay tuned. further north, core data come with plenty of sunshine and for the snow showers from the coast. later in the week on thursday and friday, we can see more of that rain in the sub pushing northwards to bring in another area of disruptive snow. both thursday and friday as it turns
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milder in the south.
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