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Pistorius has had his prison sentence more than doubled for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Its been claimed that youtubes system for reporting sexualised comments on videos of children hasnt been working properly for a year. Australias captain lead the recovery in the ashes. Im here in brisbane, with all the latest from the first ashes test between england and australia. And the first furlong of a new career. Former footballer and the first furlong of a new career. Formerfootballer michael owen saddles up for ascot. Coming up in the sport on bbc news, australia winger balla ntyne coming up in the sport on bbc news, australia winger ballantyne homes scored a record six tries as the holders beat fiji to reach the Rugby World Cup final. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Zimbabwe has a new president. Emmerson mnangagwa was sworn in this morning in a packed stadium in the capital harare. It follows the dramatic departure of Robert Mugabe, after 37 years in power. President mnangagwa told the crowd of 60,000 that he vowed to serve all citizens, and said corruption must end. For decades, Emmerson Mnangagwa has been shoulder to shoulder with Robert Mugabe as one of his closest aides. He was the countrys spymaster during the 1980s civil conflict, in which thousands of civilians were killed, although he has denied any role in the massacres. The man nicknamed the crocodile because of his ruthlessness was also accused of masterminding attacks on opposition supporters after the election in 2008. Ben brown is in harare. Yes, the inauguration ceremony took place a few hours ago but people, as you can see, still in this stadium here on the outskirts of harare, just enjoying the party. The atmosphere has been electric and euphoric, and when it came to the inaugural address from the brand new president of zimbabwe, many people here said it was absolutely inspiring. It was also inclusive, he said, we are all in this together. He said that democratic elections next year would go ahead, he promised to create jobs and stop corruption, and even some of his opponents who were here in the stadium to watch the speech said it was statesman like and inspirational. In short, just what zimbabwe was looking for. John donnison reports on the events so far. A new dawn for zimbabwe. And a day to be up early. People cramming onto buses towards the countrys national stadium. Outside, a mood of celebration. I, Emmerson Dambudzo mnangagwa. Millions of zimbabweans this week have been celebrating the end of the mugabe regime. But, after being sworn in, the new president gave a remarkably warm tribute to the man he ousted from power. To me, personally, he remains a father, mentor, comrades in arms, and my leader. We thus say thank you to him and trust that our history will grant him his proper place and accord him his deserved stature as one of the Founding Fathers and leaders of our nation. But he said now was the time to look to the future. Whilst we cannot change the past, there is a lot we can do in the present and the future to give our nation a different, positive direction. As we do so, we should never remain hostages of our past. I thus humbly appeal to all of us that we let bygones be bygones. The crowd lapped it up. Ijust want i just want to ijust want to say i just want to say to ijust want to say to our new president , mr Emmerson Mnangagwa, we are very happy, and i would like to say to the general, mr chua manga, thank you so much. Thank you so much thank you so much many in this country have known no other leader than Robert Mugabe. So what changes do people want . We are expecting a lot from the new president , we expect him to deal with issues of corruption, issues of unemployment, and also issues of health. The new president has promised democratic elections will go ahead next year. But the opposition wanting to do things properly. I want him to realise that we are all zimbabweans. He must not ignore us. We want parties that are respected in zimbabwe. Emmerson mnangagwa was Robert Mugabes right hand man, a key ally in decades of oppressive rule. But, at least for today, people were prepared to believe this was not about continuity, but change. John donnison, bbc news. Lets get some reaction from one of the spectators, one of the 60,000 people packed into this stadium. What did you think of that speech from the new president . It was very inspiring because we got the opportunities that we are going to havejobs, and opportunities that we are going to have jobs, and that is one thing i was waiting to hear. Also they are going to fight corruption, which is one thing that was drowning of as a nation. So, for me, this has been a new start, a new beginning, and cannot wait to see my children, my grandchildren, and all the future generations that had no Brighter Future and now i am very optimistic there is going to be a Brighter Future for zimbabwe. Do you think he will keep his promises . For now, i think everyone will be, their eyes will be on him such that i dont think he will repeat the same mistakes. I think, for now, we are good. We have to be hopeful, because once we are not hopeful, that will get negative responses, so for us, we are happy with Emmerson Mnangagwa as our president for now. Thank you very much indeed. As you can see here, they are partying and dancing in celebration of the fact that they have a new president. He said, let bygones be bygones. He wants no retribution, no revenge. But, of course, zimbabwe will be waiting to see whether he does keep his promises. Jane, back to do. Then, thank you, ben brown in harare. Theresa may will meet the president of the European Council donald tusk in brussels later. It will be the first time theyve met since the Prime Minister secured the backing of her cabinet to increase britains divorce payment from the eu. The summit will address the eus relationship with its eastern neighbours, but discussions on the fringes will focus on brexit. Adam fleming reports from brussels. Shes here to talk about helping the eus eastern neighbours. The Prime Minister is also trying to give a boost to the Brexit Process. These negotiations are continuing, but what im clear about is that we must step forward together. This is for both the uk and the European Union to move on to the next stage. That next stage is talks about the future relationship with the uk, but eu leaders wont talk about trade until britain answers some Big Questions about its departure, such as how it will avoid customs checks on the irish border. Were focused on a credible road map, or the parameters at least for a credible road map, to ensure that we dont have a hard border on the island of ireland again that not only undermines trade but, more importantly, undermines the normality on the island of ireland that has been the very basis of a successful Peace Process for the last 20 years. The president of romania and his eu colleagues wont move without money, either. They want the uk to make specific written commitments about how it intends to live up to its financial obligations. The cabinet has, in theory, agreed to make a more generous offer, although earlier this week downing street dismissed reports that could be a sum worth £40 billion. The Prime Minister wont talk precise numbers as she hobnobs with her counterparts. This is about small steps in a bigger diplomatic dance that will go on for weeks. I will meet the british Prime Minister on 4th december and then well see if there has been sufficient progress. Are you at all confident progress will be made . Yes. And the eu has other things on its mind. Chancellor merkel of germany is finding it hard to form a Coalition Government at home. Theres a political Crisis Brewing in dublin. Are these distractions or opportunities for britain . For the Prime Minister, the meeting that matters today is with the president of the European Council, donald tusk. Hell chair the summit in december which will decide whether the Brexit Process takes a giant leap forward. Lets get the latest from adam in brussels. As you alluded to there, these are extraordinary times for a lot of countries now, adam . Yes, the summit is meant to be about helping the eus eastern neighbours, it has been dominated by other things instead. The meeting will happen around 3 30pm your time, between theresa may and donald tusk, and it is important butjust a small step in the diplomatic process that will go on to the next few weeks where they are trying to solve remaining problems between the eu and uk. There are issues outstanding on the rights of eu nationals living at the uk, about the Northern Irish border, about how bad is handled, and a big issue outstanding which, asi and a big issue outstanding which, as i mentioned in that piece, is the money. What is fascinating is when you look around this massive Eu Press Room , you look around this massive Eu Press Room, half thejournalists press room, half the journalists on this site are glued to twitter to find out if germany will get a new government. Thejournalists find out if germany will get a new government. The journalists on the other half are glued to twitter to find out if ireland is going to lose its government. So there are lots of reminders the Brexit Process is not just governed by what happened in meetings between the british Prime Minister and the president of the European Council, it is governed by lots of other factors as well and all of those factors will come together in a big finale in this building in about three weeks time when there is an eu summit on the 14th and 15th of december where the 14th and 15th of december where the crucial decision will be made, has there been enough progress in the first phase of talks about divorce to move onto the next stage, about the future relationship between the eu and the uk. Adam fleming, thank you. Oscar pistorius has had his prison sentence for killing his girlfriend more than doubled. Prosecutors had argued that the original six year term for shooting Reeva Steenkamp was shockingly light. The former olympic and paralympic athlete must now serve 13 years and five months. Milton nkosi is injohannesburg. Explain more about the developments . Yes, what we saw today was the Supreme Court of appeal overturning that six year sentence and increasing it all the way up to 13. 5 yea rs increasing it all the way up to 13. 5 years for Oscar Pistorius. The family of Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot on valentines day in 2013, has already said that they welcome this change in sentencing, and said this shows that justice change in sentencing, and said this shows thatjustice can be achieved in south africa. On the other hand, from the Oscar Pistorius family, his brother Carl Pistorius tweeted three words, shattered, heartbroken, gutted. That summed it up, really, for the athlete, who is still behind bars, and for his family and friends. Milton, thank you, milton nkosi in johannesburg. Youtubes system for reporting sexualised comments left on childrens videos has not been functioning properly for more than a year. Thats according to volunteer moderators, who say there could be up to 100,000 predatory accounts leaving indecent comments. Companies including mars, cadbury and lidl have suspended advertising on the site. Youtube says it reviews the vast majority of reports within 2a hours. Mike wendling reports. These comments were left on completely innocent videos of young people, emulating youtube stars. But the simple fact that they featured children attracts predatory comments. Youtube relies on users to report illegal and inappropriate behaviour, but bbc trending has been told of a flaw in that system. Youtubes volunteer moderators say that not all information in public reports is getting to the company, which can result in sexual comments remaining on childrens videos, sometimes for months. We picked out 28 accounts which left such comments and flagged them using the public system. Over several weeks, five were taken down. The rest stayed up, until we identified ourselves as journalists and provided youtube with the full list of accounts and comments. Anne longfield, the childrens commissioner for england, says something needs to be done. I am really, really concerned that the Public Function of reporting isnt seemingly working. Its something i will be writing to youtube about straightaway and i will want them to take immediate action and have that resolved within literally a matter of hours. Childrens charity the nspcc wants the government to step in, and major brands have begun to pull advertising. What wed encourage parents to do is to have conversations with their children about how to stay safe online and for that to be a regular part of the conversation they have with children. Parents would ask children how their day at school was. Ask about what they are doing online and if they have encountered any risks. The government says it expects Online Platforms to act swiftly to remove offensive content. Youtube denied there is a technical fault and told us. Youtube says it recognises it needs to do more, and has pledged to get tougher on predators. The company says it has removed hundreds of predatory accounts this week alone and that it will disable comments on videos targeted by predators. Mike wendling, bbc news. Our media editor amol rajan is here. It is not the first time there have been concerns about youtube . Earlier this year there were concerns not about material related to children but about jihadists content. About material related to children but aboutjihadists content. There are two different stories, one is commercial, where big brands who advertise on youtube, like mars and adidas, said they do not want anything to do with youtube when it isa anything to do with youtube when it is a forum for sexual predators and paedophiles. Another one, as in the report that, bbc trending finding their mechanism, the system by which you can flag that something is wrong, that is not working as it was meant to for a year or so which means that some things that were meant to be taken down simply were not. And the Parent Company is doing what about a . Not. And the Parent Company is doing what about a . We have been speaking to senior people in the world of advertising and they say google has taken this seriously, they find this abhorrent and in the last few months have acted to try to take this stuff down. They have disabled accounts which should not be there, taken thousands of comments which should not be online down as well and hired human moderators to prejudge whether certain things should be online. But a key point here is the sheer volume of material online, 400 hours of video uploaded every minute, this will be solved by machines rather than human beings and im afraid this is a war without end. Amol rajan, thank you. Our top story this lunchtime. Zimbabwe has a new president Emmerson Mnangagwa is sworn in, and promises to rebuild the country, and repair its economy. Coming up guess who . Tom baker returns as the timelord, to finish filming an episode of the hit series, nearly four decades after it had coming up in sport, honours even as debutant jake ball impresses for england, taking the prize wicket of Australias David Warner on day two of the opening ashes test in brisbane. British shoppers could spend up to £2. 5 billion today as many shops and online retailers offer discounts. The so called black friday binge began in the us as a way to try to boost spending as christmas approaches. Barclaycard, which processes nearly half of the uks debit and credit card payments, said by 10 oclock this morning, the volume of transactions was up by nearly 30 compared with last year. Emma simpson is at a warehouse in tilbury in essex. The friday morning commute from essex. Bargain hunters in every carriage shopping on the move. Ive been shopping online this morning. Already . I managed to get a discount for my son for a monitor. Already . I managed to get a discount for my son for a monitorlj already . I managed to get a discount for my son for a monitor. I bought a dyson. It seems to be getting bigger and bigger, its mental. Ive been thinking about it for the past week, waiting for today, and the first opportunity ive got ive logged on. It is 9am, but what most shops are open but it is reckoned we will already have quietly spent half £1 billion online. Those orders are already on their way here at amazon with robots moving thousands of items from the shelves to the pickers and they have been doing deals all week and so too have many others. Anything to get shoppers to spend. Personal finances are others. Anything to get shoppers to spend. Personalfinances are under pressure and Consumer Confidence is beginning to falter but this is an important time of the year with black friday the starting gun for christmas and retailers will be hoping it spurs consumers to spend. That is what they are banking on at this Small Electronics business in cambridge also they have bought half £1 million worth of stock to sell, exciting bit nerve racking as well. If we dont operate in black friday they will buy off somebody of that is not an option, we have to cell on black friday. It is nerveracking, the more people rely on black friday, the more people buy and consume is wet, the more you sit there in the weeks leading up to it thinking, is it going to happen this year . But the boss of this clothing chain is not taking part. For the high street it is bonkers. I cant think of a better word to describe it. All it is doing is moving sales from december into november, it is not growing the market and everything is having to be sold at a reduced margins. And the deals are everywhere, on a high street that feels it is permanently on the sale. Like it or loathe it, black friday is here to stay. Emma simpson reporting. A teenager who killed a seven Year Old Girl has been given a life sentence for manslaughter, and been ordered to be detained for a minimum of five years. Katie rough was found on a Playing Field in york with severe injuries to her neck and chest injanuary. She died from her injuries in hospital. Her killer, who was 15 at the time of the attack, cannot be named for legal reasons. Reports from egypt say more than 100 people have died in an attack on a mosque in north sinai. Many others are thought to have been wounded. The state News Agency Says a bomb exploded before gunmen opened fire on worshippers. It is not yet known who carried out the attack. A new therapy which allows people with schizophrenia to talk to a computer representation of voices they hear in their head, could help them cope better with hallucinations. A trial of 150 people suggested that confronting an avatar was helpful. Our health correspondent, james gallagher, explains. Stupid. Look at you. Threatening voices fill the heads of schizophrenia patients. A quarter of them cant even escape them with medication. Stupid. A new experimental therapy is bringing patients face to face with their imaginary tormentors. Youre pathetic. Youre rubbish. Youre a waste of space. This avatar is being controlled by psychiatrists at the Maudsley Hospital in london. They have worked with the patient to match the voice. He wouldnt say yes and he wouldnt say no either. You just tell me which is the best. And the look of their hallucinations. Patients then spent six sessions learning how to stand up to their avatar. Tell him you dont want to hear this rubbish any more when he comes in with his usual statements. Youre a waste of space. Go away. Youre pathetic. Professor tom craig developed the therapy and has done trials on 150 people. He said it produced rapid and lasting improvements with patients having fewerfrightening hallucinations. I think its the business of bringing it from a voice that is detached and you have no control over, into this experience that is immediate and you control so you get power and it loses power. Experts say the trial, published in the lancet psychiatry, is impressive but add that patients will still need to take medication. This treatment is specifically designed for those with treatment resistant auditory verbal hallucinations, orvoices, so you wouldnt be looking to provide it routinely i guess unless patients wanted this kind of approach. I think the other rider to consider is that it is quite a high tech approach which thus far is only available in a couple of centres in the uk. Making an avatar of your imaginary voices is still experimental therapy. Further trials are needed to see if it could become a powerful new way of treating schizophrenia. James gallagher, bbc news. Theres been success for englands bowlers on the second day of the first ashes test in brisbane. The tourists, who were all out for 302 in theirfirst innings, reduced the home side to 84 4 at one stage. But australia fought back to end the day on 128 without further loss. Our sports correspondent, andy swiss, was watching. After a patient opening day, the ashes were about to hit the fast forward button. Long queues outside the gabba and at first england also played the waiting game. For an hour and a half they were calm, composed. A 50 for dawid malan. What could possibly go wrong . Well, pretty much everything as it turned out. Malans swish sparking a collapse in the grand english tradition, losing 6 56. Moeen ali next to go as nathan lyon sent the visitors spinning. Chris woakes was utterly bamboozled, jake ball brilliantly caught by david warner. And by the time stuart broad holed out, england hadnt even lasted the morning, all out for 302. Well, lunch will be tasting pretty good for these australian fans after that horrible collapse by england. Six wickets in barely an hour have transformed the mood of this match. But that mood was about to swing once again. A chance and gone as the gabbas glee was silenced. Stuart broad with the breakthrough before a bit of moeen magic, trapping Usman Khawaja and suddenly it was australias turn to tumble. Warner inexplicably serving up catching practice. And although Peter Handscomb thought he had survived, the video umpire decided otherwise. Australia four down and in deep trouble. But they recovered thanks to an unbeaten half century from captain steve smith to cap a day of fluctuating, fascinating fortunes. We feel were in a decent position. I think if we can come out in the morning, get a good nights sleep and a bit of rest and come at them hard in the morning, if we nick couple out and youre into the likes of starc and cummins, i think thats a good position for us to be in. The match then perfectly poised in an enthralling start to this ashes series. Andy swiss, bbc news, brisbane. Now, most of us probably think of him as a star striker responsible for many an england goal, but it seems Michael Owens sporting talent extends beyond football. Since retiring from the beautiful game, hes become a successful racehorse breeder, and this lunchtime hes been making his debut as a jockey at ascot. Joe wilson reports. Approaching on four legs come unmistakably a racehorse but cube is the human being on board . Recognise him . Who is also it may be more recognisable doing this come almost a furlong from goal in the 98 world cup and a sprinters finish. Michael owen has scored a wonderful goal when you have scored over 300 times you need a new goal and horse racing became Michael Owens business in retirement. Owning horses in one thing, riding them, initially he thought it might have been easy. Dressed in the suck at ascot it was all very real. This was just a charity race but he had trained hard and lost a lot of weight. Calder prince has come through to have the lead under michael owen. There he was, closer to the rails, the dark blue colours on board calder prince and as they turned for home there was a chance to win and now surely these sportsmens instinct would kick in but if he had the world for victory lacked the expertise as a horse called golden wedding clicked on. Second place in a highly respectable on debut and it gets you a place in the parade ring where they hand out the recognition. In front of esteemed spectators, michael owen had done himself justice so will there be another race as a jockey . Hopefully, he said cautiously. At the age of 83, tom baker has returned to the tardis. Hes filmed part of a dr who episode which was never finished. He donned his trademark long stripy scarf and returned to Bbc Television centre to shoot a scene from an episode which was abandoned because of a strike. Our entertainment correspondent, colin paterson, reports. Shada, a doctor who stole it would start to be filmed in 1979 but had to be abandoned halfway through due to be abandoned halfway through due to an engineering strike. There have been many attempts at finishing it novels, audio plays, even a vhs version with tom brake explaining what happened in the scenes which we re what happened in the scenes which were never completed. Tom baker. Doctor, your mind shall be mine. Im not mad about your tailor for the version released today, members of the original cast including tom baker recorded the actual script to go with animated versions of the missing parts. And what has got fans particularly excited is for the conclusion, tom baker went back to Bbc Television centre, stepped onto the set from 1979 and filmed two lines of dialogue. He had no qualms about returning to the role. |j lines of dialogue. He had no qualms about returning to the role. I think it was that probably it never left me and that is why i cant stay away from it. It was a lovely time of my life. I loved doing doctor who because it was life to me. Tom baker are proving you dont have to be a time lord to travel back to the 19705. Time lord to travel back to the 1970s. Wonderful. Time for a look at the weather. Heres tomasz schafernaker. We have been getting a lot of snowy pictures in the last few days,

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