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But even if they reject the agreement it won't stop some pointing out they say the vote will be a sham unless ministers can renegotiate to reason May has been speaking about Bracks it's Jaring his speech at the old man's banquet in London these are challenging times but I'm confident that a global person has the ability and the responsibility to rise to the moment to work together to secure all the best possible bricks it deal a huge rescue operation is underway off to an earthquake killed at least 400 people on Iran's border with Iraq thousands more have been injured and many a trance beneath rubble. From the Iraqi Red Crescent is helping the recovery we have evacuated some medical cases to the us becomes rather than to be wounded also there are some damages and the houses down houses completely damaged and got burned to her which is why I know that is the exact. Programs we have damages and the hospital. A t.v. 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The 1st installment of extra money negotiated by the DEA you paid in the deal to support a reason May's governments will be released before April $50000000.00 pounds will be available through a Northern Island budgets are islands correspondent is Chris Butler public services have been run out of cash so without a par sharing executive Stallman's really Westminster has had to step in and it was the announcements of my promise of an extra $50000000.00 points for health and education the money has come from the big point the d.v.d. Pollution ships over there haven't helped relationships here and the g.d.p. Remain deeply divided Boris Johnson has admitted he was wrong when he said the British are rainy and woman jailed in Tehran was training journalist when detains the foreign secretary has apologised for his mistake and insisted no stone would be left unturned to secure the release of now that means a gallery Radcliffe. 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Coming to me honestly in the basement was it into our families that. The new c.v. Should they keep blowing to us. Begins Wednesday night at 9 on b.b.c. To. Meet you. On am f.m. Or in the u.k. On digital and online I'm rod shop and we're up all night while President Trump was rowing back on comments a lot of Mir Putin did not meddle in the Us elections he's being slammed for it by his own team there's nothing America 1st about taking the word of a k.g.b. Colonel over that of the American intelligence community said Republican Senator John McCain on the opposite side of the Atlantic on Monday night the prime minister left no doubt about Britain's stance on the allegations in our annual address the Lord Mayor's Banquet Mrs May made a full on attack on Russia's attempts to as she put it so discord in the West we hear about an old Russian espionage technique that may have been revived. The foreign secretary Boris Johnson apologized in the Commons on Monday for mistakenly claiming that a British mother jailed in Iran was training journalists. But 1st of all we're going to talk about Iran I beg your pardon a vast rescue and relief effort has continued into the night after the powerful earthquake that struck in the muchness border region between Iran and Iraq the 7.3 magnitude quake was the deadliest in the world this year more than 400 people been confirmed dead and at least 7000 were injured many survivors are being forced to spend a 2nd night in the open air and cold winter conditions the vast majority of victims were in Iranian territory where the authorities say some places have no water or electricity earlier landslides that cut roads made it hard to reach more remote areas you hard goal from b.b.c. Persian t.v. Has been following the situation on the ground from London I asked if the death toll is still expected the rise well there is fear the number might be much higher than what has been an ounce so far because there are around 1900 villages in that region which has been affected in the earthquake and officials from the government of criminal which is in that region most affected in Iran Iran Iran they said from tomorrow they will focus their efforts on rescue in the villages so far many villages have contacted us they said they haven't seen any rescue teams to go to their region and. I saw a video an auld lady was talking to is a smartphone somebody was recording hair and send it to us he she was saying 21 people killed in his village and they have to pull them out with their bare hands so if we look at the situation most of the villages are mud brick houses and most likely in this earthquake they must be the most affected so far we don't know and also this weekend is a. Mountainous area and it quake have cut off many roads and obviously aid workers to get this it will be difficult and I think by tomorrow most likely the number will rise and load many people are feeling this number to make might be much higher than what has been announced so far but but Access is going to be a problem and so was the story isn't that where the quakes that there are in remote regions and so hard to get the people what's the that the government rescue effort been like so far on the well part of the Iranian government while the Iranian leadership from the 1st hours of the earthquake they called 'd on all governmental agencies military and even drove all ocean Igor's to deploy and put all that resources to help people are obviously the region is one of the most impoverished region and the infinite infrastructure is not in a state to coop with the situation that one of the only hospital in Cyprus which most of the casualties is coming from were crushed in the earthquake in fact the emergency room which supposed to treat those people who were injured themself the nurses the doctors were crushed beneath the building the building was just built a few years ago and that's why when they those resources they have ministry they reach to the region but what we are hearing from the locals they say there is a lot of coordination between different agencies and many people have called us we talked to people underground they said they haven't received any food water or blanket and the region has gone down to his region as it's very cold many are fearing for their lives. And what about the political situation I mean given what we know about the Kurdish territories is that going to be playing a part in this well obviously the region was very close to Iraqi Kurdistan more than the epicenter was in the border between critics region in Iran and Iraq but that region was the victim of 8 here Iran Iraq war already they suffered massively most of the houses there were rebuilt and and definitely their political situation Durant has been contributing to to to the development of to region and as I said is one of the most undeveloped and impoverished region in Iran and so. That's definitely a factor in that region that's why so many buildings collapsed the well and the other side of the border in Iraqi Kurdistan helped and there are many fine there are as far as pretty much the same distance with the epicenter but we see just 7 people have been killed and the damages to the building is much much much less than what happened in Iran and obviously this is shows how is the situation in Iran compared to other cities across the board it. Shows how backward the the building. Codes are in that part of Iran the people the people are prepared for this this this of the fire understand correctly has been an earthquake like this for 100 years there. In that region in the west of Iran we haven't seen earthquake in that magnitude of course in other parts of Iran we witnessed numbers of deadly earthquakes some of them actually took even to the 40000 lives but in that part of Iran in West of Iran we haven't seen this kind of earth quake and people when prepared for and one thing I see people were angry about it to. Be a city in it in Iran there was a there was a government scheme to build affordable low for low income and poor people in Iran and of course inside that city which has been most affected there has been a numbers of complex has been billed by government in the past few years obviously the earthquake none of them and most of them they couldn't resist the earthquake they collapse and many people die and right now even within the current government the asking they calling actually for and this to geisha how on earth the government have built a brand new building pretty much they couldn't survive the earthquake and that's that's the scene in and many people in the region they said those affordable houses in fact became to great for so many people in that region. And who are the most visible N.G.O.s I suppose the Red Crescent as. Well in Iraq Christian is there and some of the international N.G.O.s have expressed actually milling this to go there and help an Iranian military is do and numbers of Iranian institution Iranian health ministry they have said they have so they have sent many numbers of rescue and trained medics to the region but so far many people complaining about. The lack of fruit fuel and also watch out in the region and again we don't have much knowledge about those villages who are remote the roads have been caught I think by tomorrow and the day in the coming days we will see the magnitude and of this earthquake how much they have affected there are areas you Hargrove from b.b.c. Persian t.v. . The foreign secretary Boris Johnson has apologized to the Commons for mistakenly claiming a British mother jailed in Iran was training journalists there misses the gari Ratcliffe or was that on holiday she was not that in any in any professional capacity in so far as people got a different impression when I was saying at the f.e.c. That was my mistake that was my mistake I should have seen I should have been clearer I could listen to what I'm saying Move it was clear I should have been clearer it was my it was my mistake I should have been clearer and I apologize for the distress I politicized the distress and anguish that has been caused to Mrs a Gary Radcliffe and her family and our priority now our priority now is to do everything we can to get out of Iran and humanitarian dramas. And groans Well that was bars Johnson I know as an insecure Iraq cliff stands accused of trying to overthrow the Iranian regime she'd gone there with her one year old child to see her mother. And she denies all charges her husband Richard Cliff says she's on the verge of a nervous breakdown and has been brought to tears what he calls the lies being shown on Iranian television about her case where someone who knows what it's like to be locked up in a Middle Eastern jail for probably open ended sentences David Hague from the campaign group detained in Dubai he is a former managing director of Leeds United and in the end he spent 22 months in jail in Dubai I asked him what he thought was going to happen when he was arrested there was just complete and utter confusion over what was happening when I mean you know what a rest my case was never really used or just kind of you know bundled into a police station. Bashed around then shoved into a jail and nobody told it was going on and it was then for me 15 months before there's any investigation and like I said I mean in a foreign jail you don't understand the language and you know I mean I lived in Dubai a while so at least I had a bit of an idea of Arabic but certainly not to any degree that I couldn't stand it was going on so you know you're completely completely isolated when you you know when you were under the jail as you said what was it like in there I mean that's something that I'll not forget I mean you know I think that the contrast if I can explain I did it 3 steps off the 1st class you know a 380 flight from London to Dubai into community be described as a hellhole I mean from the stench is as they open the doors to the noise crowding you know the size it was you know Bill I think the 32 and has about 150 people in extreme heat so you can kind of imagine or you probably can't imagine what it was like but it was it was horrific. When when you were in there you were you having any contact with anyone at all who was on your side I mean it very timid obviously that there's other inmates you know it was of the British of the European inmates you know and you've probably seen in the newspaper the dickless things that even to find get jailed for you know recently was the Jamie Harris case touching hip or something so you had a lot of a lot of people that city think it was what was he doing it was just passing by somebody any and he brushed them on the hip or something you know I mean got go go through it he went to a bar for a drink as you do and you know also got arrested for that but also brushed someone's hip and was think sentenced recently 3 months. So I mean I mean in terms of contact you know it varies depending on the guards that were wrong and whether or not they were nice or in a bad mood sometimes you would be allowed to see any of your visitors or as or anything you know you were going to you know it all and if you could go it was on they might give you a minute or 2 with a lawyer once a week really dependent but you know you could go days without seeing anybody externally thought the you're in there or did they give you anything to alleviate the border I mean did they give you a pen and paper or anything like that at all and again it was very I mean the rules were simple the rules while you were not allowed even a pen or paper or book it was very clear it was written in Arabic beginning at the front of where we were kept now what would happen like you said again you would get sometimes you would get good guards that would allow you to have one or allow a patron or something like that because they obviously you know they were they were human and but then you would get others that would come in and take away the ones it's given so you know when you have a few reading materials that made it time pass quicker but obviously when there was nothing you were literally staring that Wolf and when did you receive your 1st consular visit. In my case I mean my case was quite high profile from kind of the office and it was all across the press when about week so they came I think after about 5 days maybe but I mean it certainly wasn't something to kind of write home about if anything it was more depressing than useful so in my case and other people find I help at the moment not being very useful tool so you didn't find the you were by dark by that you suddenly thought well there might be insight nothing like that no God No the opposite I mean though the waterproof tieback comes and mind I mean I was told You know I mean like you sit there in the 1st time you know you're pretty you're brought the 1st time you get in trouble 1st we don't expect you know when you do you expect the British embassy to come and rightly or wrongly you expect them to have some kind of authority you know and that they would help you except except for in my case 2 people turned up they weren't actually British night thought they had to be but that's all they were produced they turned off and that the 1st response was look you know the process here is very slow Well they do investigations you know you would have thought they would do investigations before they arrest you but no they do investigations after they arrest you they said to me that they you know could take 2 years so you need to prepare yourself to be here for 2 years. Yeah I mean that's what they said to me the 1st time. I we were told are her husband tells us that Mrs The guy Iraq with is now in a pretty fragile mental state and I'm sure you can understand why. Yeah I mean if you don't think that's what I was going through and certainly from my family on the outside it's hope you're not told anything you know that the Foreign Office if it isn't told anything alone tell you why so you literally don't know anything in my case you know I was kept for 15 months before I was even investigated so you know no charges nothing which obviously is already attention as far as the human rights laws around the world concerned and you know in that situation you are literally locked in a room it's overcrowded in a language you don't understand in a country that isn't yours no one's telling you anything and you don't see it and when they ended 15 months on what kind of that kind of an end war to where the doors just thrown open when the you know my case I mean it. Have to rest is in my case you know the end came I was found guilty of something then 9 days later I was pardoned that I was allowed to go home and then literally a few hours before I'm to get on the plane the other side in my case filed another complaint this case in this time whilst in this hellhole jail I had somehow managed to get a computer and abused them on Twitter so I was held I think in my case for another 5 months for so-called Twitter abuse and then acquitted of that and then ultimately got home after 22 months altogether and that just you know that the economy in that when you think you're getting on the plane and you're going home after having you know experienced hell for a significant about a time already to have that extended and to lose hope after that and this but this might be a naive question how long the take you to get over it. I mean I haven't I mean I got in March last year on Good Friday actually. And since then I mean also my case is quite extreme because I was I was tortured and I was sexually abused you know I spent about 5 and a half months as an inpatient in the hospital various hospitals having treatment personally stress disorder and various bits of my body which were broken and repairs like my knee and shoulder and things like that so you know I still haven't fully go over it I'm getting there but still no David Hague talking about some of his experiences in Dubai well. You may remember a lot of fuss about a u.s. Diplomat in Cuba and the question still remains was an electronic weapon used to disorientate and injure them in fact 24 of them complained of symptoms if it was what was it and who deployed it and why well a lot of work's been done on this by our next guest who has actually walked in this national security correspondent for Politico Hello Ali Hi Thanks for having me thank you for coming to talk to us if you would can you just kind of go over what's known about this and what's not in question. Sure so around November of 2016 we started to see some of these well we did it was publicly disclosed but around the member 2016 last years the u.s. Diplomats in Havana started showing some strange almost concussion like symptoms and they they all reported kind of hearing this very high pitched ringing so there is a strange thing happening with u.s. Diplomats from starting in November of last year and it continued up through August of this year and the u.s. Government has said that its diplomats were targeted by some kind of. Energy weapon they all reported similar symptoms there's been some reports of hearing loss a lot of similar to concussion brain injury. Kind of symptoms and it's been really perplexing to the u.s. Intelligence community and the u.s. Diplomatic community what kind of weapon if it was even a weapon was used to target these diplomats while they were in Cuba. I mean could there be any other explanation I mean it wasn't just just people made a lot of noise you know I'll take dumpsters in the middle of the night something like. Certainly not so we know that there was there was some kind of high pitched sonic element too to these attacks u.s. Intelligence officials still aren't sure on is this weapon of sorts used to specifically target u.s. Diplomats in order to harm them or was it kind of some secondary effect of surveillance that either you know Cuban intelligence was accused or some 3rd party country was trying to be. Right we lost you are you still there only. Here I can hear is good yes we just made just lost it for a minute or so so coming back around you've got into some interesting auld espionage techniques which are actually used by I think going back to k.g.b. And then and then the s.v.r. . Which is Moscow's what the other intelligence services are is that the Cuban intelligence. Theory is that the rest of we're we're going to come back I hope we're going to come back to Allie because she's got a great story to tell us and I'm just so sorry that we've we've we've seen that line that Jerry and what you had political leaders in Poland including the country's president have denounced the anti semitism and xenophobia that accompanied a March in Warsaw attended by thousands of Polish nationalists on remembered state the annual event marked the country's independence day but the Post president under a Duda said there was no place for what he called sic nationalism remarks or people carrying banners with slogans like pure blood clear mind or Europe will be quite are uninhabited Well hold on hearing is professor of contemporary European history at Stirling University asked Professor nearing that's a sign you're marching always been a far right vent or has it been somehow adopted by. What was different was that there were very large scale nationalist demonstrations it's estimated around 60000 people marched in Warsaw those kinds of demonstrations that happened before one of the organizations all Poland you. Stunned this since at least 2010 but it hasn't happened to the extent that it's happened this year and it also hasn't happened in this transnational way that sort of nationalist far right group ings travel to Poland from across Europe this is that any sense in which the government and cottage this that's difficult to say I think what's happened is that they at least condoned it's best saying that the swear that it's meant protests and legitimate celebrations of national independence day and that's in a sense where the problem lies because it sets an extent normalise this kind of rhetoric that some of the protesters use such as creating a white Europe or creating clean and creating a Europe for you Muslims I mean how. Did the March get extremely. The banners the mobs. I mean that's pretty much how how As far as I can see how extreme it got and I think that's already pretty The facts are pretty pretty extreme because we haven't really seen this recently some people already saying this is going back to the 930 s. And showing. The sort of dioxides of also Polish history with anti-Semitism and so on and so forth and also European history more generally coming back to the fall I think this is a bit exaggerated because I think what we have to see years that 1st of all Poland is in terms of the social structure one of the least diverse societies and Europe so it's a bit like Germany was in the 950 s. 960 s. Well before any kind of immigrants came in where almost everyone was white and I think that's a very important context because this is now beginning to change and the 2nd important context really is that. In this sense the government hasn't really encouraged it but they've condoned it and I think back quite similar to what's happened in with some of the protests in the United States recently where President Trump has actually not come out with your condemnation of some Keely racist protests and just let it happen to and then saying both sides were to blame and I think this is what's happening in Poland rather than sort of the 9th and thirty's coming back right now I mean what about the president's stance because the president as is kind of one of the old God doesn't the president do that and and he sits apart from the prime minister and he says very clearly this is sick and nationalism I mean that he's not mincing his words. No he isn't and I mean that's always been a bit of a rift between the pose this president and the current government they have belonging to the sort of same political grouping broadly conceived. But I think what we're seeing here is that the ruling party and Poland basically wants to appeal also to the to the far right and the president is is hesitating Poppy because Heath representing. The whole of Poland and I think. What we're seeing here is is also a sort of power struggle within the Polish government but also more generally a sort of transformation within Polish society where these kinds of things of for the 1st time openly discussed. Because that also hasn't really been the case possibly because it didn't happen but possibly also because there was a sort of very broad consensus that very recently new research came out about Poland in the 2nd World War which was extremely controversial and with been kind of almost shouted down. By by most people was simply ignored whereas now this is actually openly discussed and if one wanted to put it more positive spin on it one could actually say this is essentially a civil society in managing also in reacting to what's happening rather than just taking it and taking it for granted. Professor Hogan hearing from starting university that just after half past 1 at the museum in this year's b.b.c. 5. B.b.c. News comes from Joe Hornby The government says M.P.'s will be given a take it or leave it votes on the final breaks it Dale before the u.k. Leaves the e.u. Bret's it Secretary David Davis says if Parliament rejects the agreements Britain would still withdrawal but without a deal. A major rescue and relief effort is continuing after a powerful earthquake struck the mountainous border region between Iran and Iraq more than 400 people have been killed and thousands oranges a t.v. Producer says she was groped by a government official during a visit to Downing Street Daisy Goodwin he created the i.t.v. Drama Victoria says David Cameron was prime minister at the time and that she was astonished and cross but didn't report it and another woman says she was groped by the former u.s. 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Our Part 2 of a story that was just getting interesting as we were talking about 24 American diplomats who had to be sent home from Cuba with a parent hearing damage and joining us once again as what comes natural security correspondent for Politico now Ali we're just talking about an old Moscow espionage trick which who your sources were telling you about and I haven't really been employed for a long time Hobbit can you tell us about it yes so I mean there were there's been a historic evidence of hell with this. Week in the past there was an incident in the 1970 where Russian intelligence started directing microwave I think u.s. Embassy in Moscow and the people said it was 70 or so. The u.s. Diplomats who were targeted by some of these microwaves during that time frame everything some of the same symptoms that we're seeing in u.s. De Blas In Havana now whether it was hearing the kind of caution dizziness Najah symptoms like so there is this kind of historical precedents of Russian intelligence learning to reveal ways to target u.s. Personnel Now the incident back in the seventy's the microwaves were being used to try and surveil us communities so they weren't necessarily being directed at u.s. Personnel the heart of them which is what makes this video and today so can those as of right now they're trying to figure out if this is some kind of surveillance operation gone wrong or some of these cold war era techniques of and repurposed actually hurt u.s. Personnel Well I would say flippantly Well it's old Dr 950 s. Cause in Nevada so what's the solemne using you know the old school hardware when it comes to this kind of thing well the connection that makes it interesting is that 7 intelligence was hurrying by the cave the During the Cold War and curse Cold War there is this very strong connection between Cuban intelligence and Russian intelligence so this edition of how Cuban intelligence may have got its hands on some kind of similar what they are or whether they even had some help from Moscow is doing it is not necessarily the are the pale here there is this precedent and this established connection between Cuba and Russian intelligence in the 1970 s. Case how was it solved I mean I presume Well we know they didn't close the u.s. Embassy in Moscow so what did they do about it. The incident just kind of went away the u.s. Embassy installed kind of protective screens in the areas of the new were being targeted just graphically on the embassy compound and after that it became. A non-issue so so what's going on here you may ask why couldn't the u.s. Embassy a passion have installed similar screens in the embassy and have up are we all being played because there's a big diplomatic game going on here is part of the. Issue with this particular incident and of its concerned people so much is that the difference between this and the Cold War Moscow incident is that whatever weapon was being used whether it was a microwave weapon or sonic weapon was not just being targeted at the embassy compound you know the 670 s. That microwaves are just being targeted at the u.s. Embassy in Moscow What's different about this incident is that the weapons being used to target them direct personnel and hold them u.s. Personnel staying at hotels so there is this question of you know were worthy people being specifically targeted to harm them and the fact that it's being was being repurposed to essentially not just hit a building but to clearly target specific personnel and we know some of them were not even diplomatic personnel some of the u.s. Officials who were harmed by this was that were CIA and intelligence officials that this has had real consequences has that because it's depleted the size of the u.s. Embassy stuff and I don't. It's depleted the size of the u.s. Embassy staff and on the broader diplomatic spectrum it's effectively no aside any progress that the u.s. And Cuba made over the last 2 years of kind of reestablishing diplomatic relations this incident in the van I had affected we destroyed whatever progress was there we had the Cuban Foreign Minister in Washington earlier this month who kind of. Went off at the National Press Club and just said how the u.s. Was blaming Cuba Cuba's divide any Romita tax is really soured a relationship that was just starting to turn around. What about the health of the individual diplomats and I think more know about they're doing you know it's been a year now since those attacks started and many of them are still being studied by health professionals and several sources I talked to said you know these are not just people walking around with ringing in their ears they're people with concussion like symptoms that persist later whether it's knowledge or disorientation vomiting there is even some talk that some of these cognitive issues could rise to the level of a traumatic brain injury so how how that might have happened you know this list of symptoms are very similar across the 24 u.s. Officials but they're still not entirely sure how it happened. Thanks very much for being with us Ali What concern is national security correspondent for political. Well in London the 2nd sports industry awards were handed out just a few hours ago and Adam Russell was there for up all night competitive video gaming so expect to become a $1000000000.00 industry in just a few years and with audiences for traditional sports getting older there's a lot of interest in computer sports and even talk about it showing up at the Olympics. If there are any big British when they were indeed there was indeed about a young man who brought a footballing crown if you deport are known to many people show much better much better shocks one of the finest tonight which country you know when I today I'm personally nominated in the Sports Personality of the year and broadcaster of the year and then with a company write games where I also nominate in a few other categories so you're working for Roy are you working for the League of Legends people yes obviously every Games is the publisher of league legends and I've been with them for about 5 years now the only thing I'm wondering about is one of very few women were nominated in the awards how do you feel about that it's awesome to be nominated obviously and I am happy that there are more and more women that are nominated very diverse categories and not just personally but also the journalists and of your personal photographers and all that because I do think there's a lot more women working in the industry day by day and it's nice that we're all getting more recognition but not in the competitive categories yes we do think we'll see that soon while there is a female says Go team I believe nominated as well as improving I just hope a lot more females get into professional teams all professional maybe not just the female teams but the mixed teams and all that that's all we can offer really what would it be like to win it would be really nice to win it's just the kind of recognition that we don't really have in this growing industry in a word show is really something new and it out there for us gamers you know but it's really nice to see everyone dressed up and everyone getting some of the praise maybe the serve and the recognition and it would be a wonderful moment if I could win today so well best of luck thank you very much well I get the idea you've got to start young if you're going to be any sports champion. I think for Spencer That's absolutely the case wrote that you do have to start young but earlier on today I was at McLaren downin was king by just launching though Rob I just started the competition to find a new driver of simulations so they got this simulation set up there and a key part of form we won racing now is simulators and so they can get the tracks experience and so on and so forth with the limited track days that they have and one of the guys that are kind to that competition from a free to play game on the i Pad He's in his early thirty's he's a father of 2 children and he's a surgeon and radiographer So yes Spencer makes absolute sense he was flying as a child and now he's 3 years 'd as a professional most and now he's winning these competitions but the guy who was there as a set out to work in today and will be there until Tuesday next week when they actually announce who's going to become the simulator driver is going to become part of the McLaren family not quite so much so it's a horses for courses sure wonderful job though doesn't it anyway we get the idea this is for performances that's not to do with coding or anything like that no this isn't your right this is not quite a prize for for graphics and for old you know that sort of stuff will follow the golden joystick which is actually happening Friday of this week this is about the sports industry celebrates in the back room boys and goes to. The making happen in this this is an industry with a reach and they said the opening in the presentation reaches 85000000 people on social media from the people inside the room son incredible So a network of people watching Heaven knows how many people are actually watching tonight but one of the interesting gongs that was handed out was to be e Sports photographer of the. Joe Brady you've just won the sports photographer at the pools awards I know it's going to sound a bit silly but how different is what you do from say a photographer taking pictures of a soccer match does well I suppose the difference is people playing video games versus people playing real football on a football pitch a lot of patience involved in these sports photography I kind of compare it to wildlife photography actually you know you have to wait and sit and wait for that moment could take an hour the game and you just have to be there at that exact moment of where all the emotion comes out the player whether they win or lose so it's a it's a waiting game you got we got a patient this is a moment lying s.k.t. Xrays losing the match at the bird cage in Beijing and he's breaking down on the side of the stage and the tensions going to the team the one that the real dramas happen there those are the kinds of moments you're going to capture precisely you know you have to be aware of everything you can't just always be focusing on the winners and you know those are always the great photos to get the people holding the trophies in the air but it's always important to look around and see you know look at the losing team see if they're upset see of the crying because some of my favorite photos I've taken have been of people just on the edge of emotion you know they've been so close to the win and it's such joy from your last moment you know those make for some great photos and you also communicate something to the audience it tows then that these people are really invested in the schools event there and yet absolutely you know you see you see a photograph of somebody crying their eyes out and you make you on the Blimey you know this person is obviously going through something here it's not just our last of maybe next week it's it's a real motional investment for these people so it definitely helps portray that to the outside world. Well I guess it narrowed them of course about faces here's me thinking well how many with can you show somebody pushing a joystick her or you know clicking a mouse but value do with really is about their faces and the rapt expression. And catching the moments when they're winning or losing the the guy that I was talking about there was fake I was a member of the s.k.t. Team who was beaten by Samsung Galaxy out sat the bird cage in Beijing so in front of an audience of tens of thousands of people man who'd spent an enormous amount of time working on pairing with his team mates so he'd let them down he suffered a few deaths he did not mind the points he needed to make and he was how trying to hold back tears as he was taken off stage as it was shot to the most so hunched over you knew would tell his in that moment absolutely crushed by the fact that he's not been able to deliver the the success that he expected nice teams expect in these fans expected and that's the sort of job that this award is doing it's saying to people without that photographer there to capture that moment you wouldn't be able to share it it would it would break down to being all that there's the team as one but when you not say in The Losers and that could almost be where the most interesting stuff has happened which are and that's why he was industry was there and what are these awards telling you about the state of the Sports is it now a very big money in the city in other words other people who are being bankrolled in the way thought you know a farmer I want to bankroll to do nothing but train for the stuff and then play it in the big venues Oh absolutely that's been happening for a number of years it really has. Looked at this a sports coverage website of the year in s.p.n. E-sports So that's s.p.n. And we know they're in trouble in the real world because they're there they're saying market share going away from things like n.f.l. And the simple coverage other stuff losing their any sports and they're making a big commitment to a sports we know that people like Spencer. After be supported to dedicate the amount of time that I dedicate to a sport. Trying think the mother is another great example for you for in here's another one new thing which just started and I will watch that's the because it's going so a team based so and I were inspired shooter the buy in to the new I've watched Leakey's $20000000.00 to tame and the by and for the hard stuff and also a list of products that the buyer and there is $10000000.00 to take for the for the thing sucks if you want to be probably replying online if you want people to be watching you will be part of that particular part of the industry a $20000000.00 buying good as a long way from your bedroom isn't it isn't it's not that's the odd thing about the world's fastest game of things I was at McCann a McLaren to see today some of those people are playing in their bedroom now they're playing at McLaren center down in working and they may be getting a job with McLaren same side there are people who dedicates enormous amounts of time to this are people who can play a home and then their been drawn into the more formally sports world and then there are the you know the people in between it's a it's an incredibly so fractured his but the wrong word fragment trees was around but it's kind of amount to speed environment you know it's almost difficult to get your head around exactly how it's all fitting together but the thing to recognise it's gonna be a $1000000000.00 a year business. Another member from out there again could play around and battle grounds which is just one the sports breakthrough game of the year just passed another milestone $2000000.00 concurrent users online to $2000000.00 people all playing one guy not exactly one guy but by the same guy even if they're playing different over arenas at one time huge numbers of people out there doing it. Is there a solo champion online battlegrounds complained that oh my son the question is how do we find that person and will we find that when we say that person child sees all we can we will. Well as Take a look in the pages of USA Today and with Carolyn Saba now locality. Good morning how are you today because good nice to have you with us so it's not too long until I like Sion day in Alabama which is holding a special election suppose we should remind ourselves who who we are who should say we who are. The voters in Alabama replacing who who do who they need to replace in the Senate Ok well this was to replace the Senate seat that Jeff Sessions gave up when Trump. Made him the attorney general nominee him to be the attorney general so now we've had a special election we've had a runoff and now we're going to have the actual special election between the Republican and the Democrat to replace Jeff Sessions then with the Senate in 852248 you know 52 Republicans or 48 Democrats this is a very very very serious election for who's going to control the truth of the Trump agenda going forward so we have one more who is a former Supreme Court justice of Alabama he was ousted from office. He is now. Being accused by I think this is the 5th woman to accuse him. Miss kind of sexual misconduct while they were teenagers and so the 5th woman came forward today and was quite dramatic and her detailing of what happened with her and and the nominee. Got on just about it by the way why was he I was from the Supreme Court of Alabama. I am trying to remember all of. Your high I told you that anyway we have a we have an issue here because he's got I mean being a Republican and being the front running Republican candidate beat President chumps candidate Luther Strange some way remember this in the primaries it looked like he was going to romp home didn't it and then suddenly all of these accusations started to appear not what's wrong moves attitude being to his accusers Well he is very adamant that there was nothing improper and one of the classic quotes from the story is that you know I never gave you the girl without her mother's permission hence everybody is like Earth you're asking the girl's mom for permission maybe she should. Have been a very interesting part of the story and raised girls are saying that they were 141618 when when the. Tried to date them or tried to you know pull some shenanigans on them. Such as this woman today who. Said that. Sort of to go around the back of the restaurant where she worked right you know she was she Beverly Nelson said today that she was 16 years old when this happened in 1077 and that he offered her a ride home and they stopped and. Basically parked between a dumpster in the back of the restaurant and tried to get her do a few things and she fought him and he she said he told her Look you're just a child and I'm the district attorney and if you tell anybody about this number you never going to believe. His saying he's also threatened to sue the Washington Post the city which made the brought up the original report. Featured the original allegations. Brian you threaten to sue them and he's said that he's going to come up with definite proof that these you know that these women were coerced into saying the stuff about him and then the you know never happened and. And there's there's a meeting going on right now on Capitol Hill about with the Senate leadership and they have been talking about you know what are they going to do if he's elected are they going to let him take the seat are they going to try to bring somebody else in or they are trying to back a write in candidate you know the election's only a few weeks away. You know the Republicans can have a mess on their hands an issue we'll be talking more about this after 2 o'clock so one of the questions that you try to oncet is why sexual assaults in Canada don't seem to get the same amount of attention Well apparently they have quite a few quite a few fewer sexual assaults and rapes have been the than we do have here in the United States they're saying that you know part of that is cultural part of it is that there are fewer violent crimes in general as in Canada and they're saying you know that the sex education on average is likely better than what it is in our schools here because it tends to be less ideologically driven I mean if you want to get people riled up start talking about like that occasionally I hear. So that if you're going to get people riled up they're going to the trouble with our blood pressure which Apollo is across all across America. Right I thought this is brilliant how we wind the stories up tonight. 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