sarah smith, bbc news, glasgow.they‘re facing a shortage of workers to pick the fruit that‘s ripening in the fields. last year 99% of seasonal pickers working in uk horticulture came from eastern europe. nearly two—thirds of those were from bulgaria and romania. this year 75% of uk agricultural and horticultural businesses anticipate labour shortages. our environment and rural affairs correspondent claire marshall reports from romania. in the summer heat, even with skilled hands, it takes hours in this backbreaking position to bring in the strawberry harvest. far fewer seasonal workers from eastern europe now want to travel to britain to pick fruit on ourfarms. the reasons are complex. we catch a few moments with these pickers. she says herfriends prefer to go to germany and spain. this lady says the job opportunities are getting better in romania. it is crazy how difficult it is getting. we travelled deep into the romanian countryside with recruitment agents estrela and doug to try to track down pickers who want to

sarah smith, bbc news glasgow. the time is 6:15pm. our top story this evening.s its end — a grandfather is called a hero for giving refuge to others. and still to come. a crackdown on ticket resale site viagogo — after it is accused by a government minister of misleading customers. coming up on sportsday on bbc news. five time paralympic champion ellie simmonds tells us how she fell out of love with swimming before some time away left her rejuvenated ahead of this year's european championships. farmers are predicting a bumper strawberry harvest this summer, despite the poor spring weather. but they're facing a shortage of european workers to pick the fruit that's ripening in the fields. last year, 99% of seasonal pickers working in uk horticulture came from eastern europe. nearly two thirds were from bulgaria and romania. this year, 75% of uk businesses anticipate labour shortages. our environment and rural affairs correspondent claire marshall reports from romania. in the summer heat, even with skilled hands, it takes hours in this backbreaking position to brin

sarah smith, bbc south east today, brighton. clip of a daring skier performing a mountain top stunt is gaining popularity on social media after he descended a mountain — and ski—ed over a lake. benjamin forthun performed his stunt at a ski resort in norway. his friend filmed the stunt known as "pond skimming". it involves skiing from snow and on to water before finally ending up again on snow. with the speed from his descent of the hill, the skier skimmed the water for about 180 feet, topping it all off with a backflip. don't try this at home. time for a look at the weather with chris. in the south, thundery rain. you can see a whole raft of thunderstorms developing across belgium, the netherlands, swinging west over the next few hours. there is a high chance of seeing heavy downpours overnight. affecting parts of east anglia, maybe the south midlands and southern counties of england. torrential falls of rain, as southern counties of england. torrentialfalls of rain, as much southern counties of england. torrential falls of rain

sarah smith, bbc news, edinburgh.e grenfell tower fire have been speaking of of their loved ones on the fifth day of the public inquiry into the disaster. 72 people died in the fire last year. among the emotional testimonies was one from a nine—year—old girl who paid tribute to her cousin. tom symonds has the story of two of the families killed that day. it has become a symbol of society's failure but this week's commemorations have taken us inside a different grenfell tower, a place that families called home. this family lived on the 21st floor, one was a hospital porter and his wife. our sister—in—law was the anchor of herfamily. she our sister—in—law was the anchor of her family. she had our sister—in—law was the anchor of herfamily. she had a real presence within the community and she was loved by many. she was our family, oui’ loved by many. she was our family, our sister and she will always be remembered for her strength, her kindness and her love for others. we miss her dearly. it is a daunting prospect to be w

sarah smith, bbc news, edinburgh.asingly being targeted by sextortion gangs in africa. the criminals trick their victims into filming sexual activity online and then blackmail them. experts say that ivory coast in west africa has become a hotspot for the gangs. the number of cases reported to police in the uk has more than tripled in the last three years, as angus crawford reports. how scared were you at the time? oh...frozen. meet adrian — once a victim of sextortion, now warning others about the risk. it's very, very suspicious. we set up a fake facebook profile. out of the blue, we get a friend request. i'm asking, "where are you from?" she is very pretty, flirty — in her own words, naughty. the scam develops in minutes, live in front of our eyes. so you are probably moments away from being scammed. yeah, literally minutes away. the trap set, she's keen to move from facebook to skype. now suggesting video calling, and she's said, "i'm going to show you naked and you also." but she's not real — just a pornographic v

sarah smith reports. more sanitary products.in low—income households. it can be a humiliating experience. not something you necessarily want to talk about. to choose between buying food and menstrual products. who often don't like to ask. i think it's just the stigma that surrounds it. stigma, it will make it easier for women and girls to access. so the college bag we're going to fill with mixed products. running a government pilot project in aberdeen. for them it's deeply personal. having to cope with without adequate or indeed any protection. it was quite shameful. products, like toilet roll, socks, etc, it was like absolutely not. 25 years later and i'm still hearing this is an experience for women. so that was where my motivation to get involved came from. believed to be the first government initiative of its kind. sarah smith, bbc news, glasgow. of drones near uk airports. and within a kilometre of airport boundaries. but the pilots union balpa says the new rules don't go far enough. 89 near misses between drones and aircra

sarah smith there.the cabinet's brexit sub—committee is meeting as discussions continue about customs arrangements after brexit. much of the debate is about how open borders will be. technology could help limit disruption at borders, but there may well still be delays. here's chris morris from our reality check team. as we have often reported, one of the most difficult issues in the entire brexit process is how to ensure there is no return to a hard border between northern ireland and the irish republic, once this becomes the external border of the european union, the single market and the customs union. that is what has been promised — no physical infrastructure or checks of any kind at the border, so that it continues to look much like this. so, what can we learn from other eu external borders around europe? first of all, let's head north to the border between norway and sweden. sweden is in the eu, here in blue, norway isn't. it is part of the single market, but not the customs union. now, this is on

you are challenging congressman adam smith who's wife's name is also sarah and your primary and your fellow down that's a lot for voters to sort out how has rep smith failed washington state democrats. representative smith doesn't he's afraid to take a chance he's afraid to stand up for anything he toes the party line he's afraid to take bold stances and in a district that's as dark blue as our district as we swung about seventy two percent for brain sanders in the caucusing in washington he we should expect more and demand more of our representatives we shouldn't just wait for them to take up the mantle of pushing for single payer medicare for all after thirteen years that since its introduction this is the first year he's co-sponsored it and it's also the first series had a progressive challenger that has a strong campaign so i think that we can do better we should do better and we must do better if we want to be better was he a superdelegate for hillary clinton yes he was despite the fact that the district caucus seventy two percent for bernie sanders he's superdelegate for h

sarah smith, bbc news, edinburgh.d by sextortion gangs in africa. the criminals trick their victims into filming sexual activity online and then blackmail them. experts say that ivory coast in west africa has become a hotspot for the gangs. the number of cases reported to police in the uk has more than tripled in the last three years, as angus crawford reports. how scared were you at the time? 0h...frozen. meet adrian — once a victim of sextortion, now warning others about the risk. it's very, very suspicious. we set up a fake facebook profile. out of the blue, we get a friend request. i'm asking, "where are you from?" she is very pretty, flirty — in her own words, naughty. the scam develops in minutes, live in front of our eyes. so you are probably moments away from being scammed. yeah, literally minutes away. the trap set, she's keen to move from facebook to skype. now suggesting video calling, and she's said, "i'm going to show you naked and you also." but she's not real — just a pornographic video operated by a sc

sarah smith, bbc news, edinburgh. time for a look at the weather with stav da naos. hello there.n parts of the uk, whereas further south we will see a mixture of sunny spells but also really heavy and thundry downpours. for the rest of this evening and overnight it is going to be quite cloudy, misty and murky across a good swathe of england and wales, particularly across wales central and northern england, the rain fizzling out here. it should turn a little bit dryer. to the north, it should be clearer and a touch cooler. further south it is going to be really warm and muggy. we will see some of that low cloud and mist returning to some eastern coast, particularly northeast scotland. we start saturday off on a rather misty, murky note across england and wales. any overnight clearing away. then we will see plenty of sunshine developing, a glorious day in fact but there is a threat of heavy showers and thunderstorms developing particularly across southwest england and wales, maybe into northern ireland. top temperatures, 25 or 26 degrees. that threat of thunderstorms continue on in

sarah smith, bbc news, edinburgh.nt plan — a white paper — next month, that will outline the uk's future relationship with the eu, in advance of a critical summit at the end ofjune. 0ur political correspondent vicki young is in westminster. is the government any closer to knowing what will be in its brexit plan? that is the crucial question. the eu has set out what it wants from the future relationship back in march. this is the british government trying to catch up. we are told it will cover a whole range of sectors, things like aviation, agriculture, fishing, financial services. the announcement of a meaty document does not get away from the fact there is a deadlock at the heart of government at the crucial issue of what our customs arrangements are going to be once we leave. there was another meeting about so—called brexit subcommittee today, trying to thrash out where they will go with all of this but so far there is no agreement. it is so important because brussels are saying there must be movement on this issue

sarah smith, bbc south east today, brighton. time for a look at the weather. here's chris.untry. picking at scotland passat warman stayed 2018 so far. stayed 2018 so far. further south lively storms. —— scotland's warmest day. day. both stars haven't been at in the south of inland. the south of inland. i'm casting a nine this lot across the continent. nine this lot across the continent. look at those stores arriving on work —— upwards. work —— upwards. rain on the radar picture slowly but surely tracking towards our shores. surely tracking towards our shores. overnight because we are looking at further downpours coming in. further downpours coming in. anglia and maybe as far north as northeast england. northeast england. south, temperatures staying in the double figures. —— muggy in the south. south. high pressure moves away from the north of the uk. the north of the uk. this area of low pressure to have a greater bearing on our weather. greater bearing on our weather. increasingly shoving showers for the north. north. unsettled day for england and wales with heavy downpour

our scotland editor, sarah smith, is at holyrood with the latest. in uncharted territory. this is an unprecedented constitutional conflict between the scottish and westminster parliaments. if the uk government move to impose the eu withdrawal bill, even though three quarters of the scottish parliament voted against it, it will be the first on anything like that has ever happened in the history of devolution. the regulations that govern how these cows are fed, reared and transported are currently made in brussels. after brexit, we can make our own rules on animal welfare, environmental standards and more and the need to be the same throughout the uk. we've got a few people making big decision that's going to affect a lot of the population here. we are anxious that they get it right. the uk government say they will consult on farming regulations on the breast with all the devolved administrations but thatis the devolved administrations but that is not enough for members of the scottish parliament, who don't wa nt to the scottish parliament, who don't

our scotland editor, sarah smith reports. most important issue when choosing your country's future what currency your country's future what currency you might use to purchase that beer oi’ you might use to purchase that beer or anything else in independent scotla nd or anything else in independent scotland is a big question that needs a clear answer before there is another vote. the idea is you would still pay for a scottish beer with british pounds. just like you do now. that is meant to reassure voters that the muggy will not change. there is still the option of setting up a new scottish currency at some point in the future.|j setting up a new scottish currency at some point in the future. i think in time it is entirely credible that the people of scotland would move to its own currency it would be considered to be in the best interest of scotland and the people of scotland. even the most ardent supporters of that position recognised that there would require a period of preparation and transition. in 2014, the uk government

time tonight because i know how busy it is waging this scrappy campaign and you are best of luck sarah smith and rosa called arone and when you get elected come visit us here in washington won't you absolute i don't know what you will walk there. all day and like other good luck yes thank you you thank. coming up the debate on immigration it's a polarizing issue but there's one aspect both sides agree on the system is broken you're watching the big picture on our team. the global economy is so tightly wound that these sanctions don't work like they used to because the supply chains are completely overlapping the what is sanction in one country drives economic problems that another country that you're not trying to sanction suffer get sanctions to spell longer workable than the global economy has to come to integrate at fragile it's too. interdependent. when he was candidate donald trump he vowed to build a wall in that mexico will pay for it although few issues are more divisive than immigration one thing both sides in this often loud conversation agree on the system is broken how to fix it

please join me in welcoming sarah karlin-smith and the medical pinup to come up. we have the #for this, # political health. sarah, come on up. >> good morning everybody. i am sarah karlin-smith politicos health care reporter. as a reminder if you are watching over the livestream will take questions over twitters it can feed them to # "politico" health and we'll get to some of those later. i have a tablet on stage and now without further delay a want to welcome our panel is. we have sherry anderson at johns hopkins university. we have kristin bass the senior vice president of policy and federal affairs at the pharmaceutical care management association. anthony barrueta the senior vice president at kaiser permanente. stacie maass with pharmacy practice and government affairs. everybody's titles are thought producing. and dr. angus worthing a clinical assistant professor of medicine at georgetown university medical center. each of our panelists plays a different role and brings a unique if to this pharmaceutical supply chain. we are going to jump right in. you guys ap

sarah smith/ from london: i think it's lovely, i think he's such a lovely man, you know.alues coming together. i think it's amazing. there are no official numbers on the cost of security for the wedding -- or the number of officers involved --- but it is thought to be more than $10-million dollars. from barriers to prevent vehcle attacks to police dogs on high alert.... britain knows how to pull out the protection along with the pomp and pagentry....sergeant andy turner/ search coordinator for hampshire and thames valley police: at the end of the day it is a royal wedding for two people who have fallen in love and should have a happy day..... we all want to make sure it's a happy occasion for everybody.a happy occasion, for what many are calling a fairytale ending. in windsor, i'm rylee carlson reporting. ( james ) now to bay area baseball... madison bumgarner is getting closer to making his way back from a broken pinkie... ( darya ) the giants expect madbum to start throwing off the mound today.. and he could come off the disabled list by may 25th... as for the rest of t

sarah sue will, wanda smith, brian walsh, michelle raimi, and shiman, for preparing and making logistical details for making today work. i thank vice-chair good son for today's briefing and. i caution all speakers including our commissioners to refrain from speaking over each other, for ease of transcription and allow for sign language translation to my right. for any individual who might need to view the sign language translation, there are seats available in clear view. i ask every one present to silence your phones and not take flash photos to minimize health risk to persons present. after our four panels and afternoon break, we will reconvene at 5:00 p.m. for a public comment period. if you're interested in participating in the public comment period, during which each person will have up to three minutes to speak we would be honored to hear from you. in total the oral public comment period will last no longer than hour 1/2, with 30 spots allotted on first-come-first-serve basis. if you did not sign up for the first spots on line, sign up at registration desk at 3:30 p.m. the spots wil

sarah: tom, i know you mentioned tommie smith and giancarlo -- john carlos.'m sure many people are familiar with that, but could you give an overview of that and maybe talk about some other , if there were any locally or not so locally that connected to this? tom: sure, there were strong local connections to the black power salute at the 1968 olympics. it started in 1960 evan with -- 1967 with a sociologist at san jose state. he encouraged football players at san jose state to boycott a ofe against utah in the fall 1967. the black power student , andrence in california many representatives from universities and colleges across the country came out, and they decided to form what was called the olympic projects for human rights. they ended up issuing a series of demands, hiring trainers and coaches for the teams. they wanted to bar south africa they wanted to bar south africa from the x because of apartheid. they wanted to reinstate muhammad ali is champ. they wanted the removal of the ioc chair at the time who was handing theeived as 1936 olympics to hitler's.

. >> white house press secretary sarah sanders is wrapping up today's briefing. i'm shepard smith, and this is shepard smith reporting. and reporters are asking the press secretary about president trump's tweet, that the leak of muller's was disgraceful. >> i can't speak to anything regarding those questions. >> what about questions of specifically the white house and being involved? >> is actually specifically about the president and i'm referring you to the president's personal attorney. >> is the white house concerned, as many of the questions point to obstruction of justice? >> we have the white house tried not to be concerned with anything dealing with , and whett knew about it or what he did know. here are just a few examples. what did you think and what did you know about the june 9, 2016, meeting in trump tower, and that it might be disclosed? what knowledge did you have any outreach by members or former members of your campaign to russia, offering potential assistance to the campaign? and it during the campaign, what knowledge or information did you have regarding russian

smiths group, to go back to that story, they would possibly like to combine their health care business with i see you. how would that work? sarahlike a $6 billion merger. it was something that smiths group had an sermon over the weekend that they were in talks with this u.s. business. they had been looking at options for a while for their medical unit. combine it with icu medical would make it a potential $6 billion merger. they have been under pressure for a while and looking to streamline. this could be away but they said they're they are open to talking to other investors. itcould see a merger out of that i think it's still very early stages. matt: we all know there's no such thing as a merger of equals even though so many copies -- companies like to call it that in their press release. elliott may be pushing for a merger. you were talking about that a moment ago. steel business with tata's. who would by whom? sarah: they have been in talks for about two years. it's something that's very frustrating for shareholders. be transpiring. has something elliott caught onto. nothing has happened. inbe the position is to go and eithe

smith and the editorial panel. observations, # politicohealth. sarah, come on up. sera: good morning everybody. i am politico's health care reporter. room and of you in the watching the livestream, we are going to take questions over twitter. you can tweak them to #politicohealth and we will get to those later. panelists.elcome our gerry anderson is a professor of health policy at johns hopkins university bloomberg school of public health. bass from then pharmaceutical care management association. arrueta, kristin bass, maass and stephen ubl. we are talking about this process, the medicine comes from the drug manufacturer and goes through the whole process until it gets to the patient and the players involved, from wholesalers to insurers to the pharmacy counter or your doctor and then the patient, and how each part of that plays a role, and the costs that are charged and the process of getting it to you. will start with a quick fly around so everybody has a one-word answer or short phrase. keep it fast so we can go down the line. right now there is a lot of focus on the supply chain. in a year

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smith county, and he also served as postmaster and worked for woodrow wilson's campaign and was the chairman of the democratic committee for many years as well. his wife, annie, was a suffragette, and sarah can remember her going to rallies -- you know "vote for women" -- and , i look of a dining room, and i think about her parents talking about local, national, international events, so they would know. the breadth of what they read i think means that they were open. they did not have one particular idea about the world and life. they opened themselves up and took on a lot of different. ideas. this was a very eclectic reading family. they just did not look at murder mysteries. they ran the gamut. they did have a lot of different books, subject-wise. sarah: i was told -- i first started working in washington, i would have to ask about the international questions and things like that. you bring up something new, something different, that people want to know about and ask about that. there are plenty of questions they want to know. so i always try to pick out some question that the people outside of washington want to know about. and believe me you, they appreciate it. they really do. they

smith on the live news desk. live look at the white house. sarah sanders expected to take reporters' questions at any moment. we'll see if she comments on president trump's doctor telling nbc news that the president's bodyguard and lawyer raided his office last year and took the president's medical records. plus, more on the leaked questions from the special counsel robert mueller. that is top of the hour on "shepard smith reporting." see you then. >> dana: fox news alert. nine journalists were among at least 25 people killed in two suicide bombings in afghanistan yesterday. officials were rushing to the scene of one explosion when a suicide bomber pretending to be a journalist detonated a second device. benjamin hall is in the london bureau. benjamin? >> hi, dana. sadly, this is one of many deadly attacks that took place in afghanistan yesterday, including one which left an american soldier dead. we have very few details about that at the moment but it's a sign, reminder of the increasing pace of the attacks carried out by the taliban and isis. we have seen it ramping up in recent weeks. the first major att

smith. the nunes memo released and fizzled out. spygate, briefed to democrats and republicans. none of these have worked out. why does sarahe sanders use that podium to spread the president's conspiracy theories? >> nicolle, i can't expect to her motivations. he see the white house seizing on this charged language, infiltrate the campaign, spying on the campaign. that is a distraction from the reporting questions that we still have about this whole matter. who put the fbi informant in motion? what did the fbi informant learn? who did the fbi informant report to inside of the fbi and the department of justice? as a reporter those are legitimate questions to ask. we've been spending a lot of time at the post here on this story. yet there is the political element which the white house is taking up and you saw the president talking about it as his rally. he knows it plays to a crowd to use the charge language. there are questions about the origin of this investigation, but the white house is choosing to use -- to say the least -- charged language. >> i guess what i'm getting at, jonathan, is where does the a.m. bic -- ambivale

smith. this comes as the white house continues dealing with the fallout from rudy giuliani's media blitz on the mueller investigation. white house press secretary sarah sanders taking a lot of incoming from reporters yesterday. take a listen. >> did rudy giuliani do harm to the president today and last night in his conversations to fox? >> i don't believe so. >> why didn't he tell the white house press office about what was happening? >> the white house press office wouldn't coordinate with the -- >> you were blind-sided. >> you don't know much about me in terms of what i feel and what i don't. i think we're just -- >> sandra: peter doocy is live at the white house this morning. what do we know about the president's trip today? >> today the president goes to see the nra in texas. around the time the nra came to see president trump as republicans after the parkland shooting were trying to figure out what kind of gun control measures they could stomach the president chided members of his own party for letting the nra pressure them into not taking serious votes about guns. so the president said at the time to lawmakers you are afraid of the nra. they ha

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