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Struggling to cope - a major alert in almost half | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
of all NHS trusts in England in the first week of the year. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
No beds were available, routine surgery was cancelled, | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
There have been moments in the last two weeks, | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
like the whole country has had, where it's been quite frightening | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
for the members of staff, for the nurses, doctors, | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
for the ambulance crews who are bringing patients in. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
And six trusts issued the highest alert - | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
meaning patient safety could be at risk. | :00:33. | :00:33. | |
As a storm surge hits the east coast of England, | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
thousands of people are evacuated from their homes. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Twitter storm - Donald Trump blames US intelligence again, | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
for releasing allegations linking him with Russia. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
The Labour MP Tristram Hunt resigns - triggering a potentially difficult | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
And Lord Snowdon, the former husband of Princess Margaret and celebrity | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
Diego Costa is dropped by Chelsea. | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
The striker has been left out of the Premier League leaders' squad | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
for their match at Leicester, amid rumours of a big | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
There's been further confirmation of the difficulties within the NHS, | :01:12. | :01:35. | |
as it's emerged nearly half of all hospitals in England | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
declared a major alert in the first week of the year. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
That means they had no more beds available, | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
all routine surgery was cancelled, and doctors were | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
Four out of ten trusts were forced to raise the alarm, | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
as hospitals and accident and emergency departments | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
NHS England says six of the trusts overall issued the highest alert, | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
meaning patients' safety could be at risk. | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
It's still sore but a lot better than it was. | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
Here a fractured wrist is dealt with. | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
Patients waiting and NHS staff doing the best they can | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
The story here at Northwick Park Hospital in London | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
Things are a little quieter today, but they know bad weather | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
could bring a surge in patients this weekend. | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
This A consultant told me it was the busiest she'd known | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
There have been moments in the last two weeks, | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
like the whole country has had, where actually it's been quite | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
frightening for members of staff, for the nurses, for the doctors, | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
for the ambulance crews who are bringing patients in, | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
and there have been moments where it has been very sticky. | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
But we have managed as best as we can and everybody has | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
Today's figures from NHS England showed that last week 43% | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
of hospitals had declared a major alert. | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
That means when help's required to handle patient numbers | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
16% faced this serious pressure every day of last week. | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
After a difficult few days, the Prime Minister was asked again | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
We have acknowledged that the NHS is under pressure. | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
We always see increased pressures in the NHS over winter periods. | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
That is why in preparing for winter the period this time ?400 million | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
was put in to ensure that winter preparedness. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
But the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will argue in a speech tomorrow | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
that the government must invest more in social care to ease | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
the pressure on what he calls a danger zone for the NHS. | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
In Northern Ireland, nearly four in ten patients waited | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
more than four hours in A during the Christmas period. | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
In Wales, latest data showed nearly one in five patients were waiting | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
Scotland was performing better than those levels and England's | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
in the holiday week, but at this Glasgow hospital | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
pregnant women were turned away yesterday and sent to other | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
maternity units, because of a high level of general admissions. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Management said safety was maintained at all times. | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
Back at Northwick Park, a traffic light style | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
screen monitors hospitals across the capital, | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
As you can see there are some hospitals under | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
real pressure right now, and that's indicated by the black. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
This is the sort of thing you will find in most | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
hospitals each day - ambulance crews queueing | :04:29. | :04:29. | |
in a corridor with patients, waiting to hand them over. | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
They are in a safe situation, but there is no room in the accident | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
and emergency unit at this stage for them to be treated or assessed. | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
The message is they're coping for now, but they know a flu | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
outbreak could make life even tougher on the front line. | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
Thousands of people living on the east coast of England have | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
been evacuated and had an anxious wait, as the emergency services | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
prepared for severe flooding caused by a tidal surge. | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
Preparations have been underway since yesterday, | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
with the Army helping police forces and volunteers to bolster | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
But tonight, as high tide has peaked along most of the coast, | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Sophie Long reports from Great Yarmouth. | :05:11. | :05:20. | |
Right along the east coast of England waves battering seaside | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
towns. Streets have been submerged in water, as the tidal surge | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
breached the wall. Hearing Great Yarmouth people build sandbags late | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
into the evening. Last-minute precautions to protect their | :05:37. | :05:37. | |
properties. From early this morning people | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
in Great Yarmouth braved the cold and snow to prepare for worse, | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
potentially life-threatening, Emergency services knocked | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
on thousands of doors, A little bit worried, | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
but this happened a couple of years ago and we got evacuated | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
and it was all OK, thankfully, because they'd | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
built the defences up. Fingers crossed the Environment | :05:59. | :05:59. | |
Agency have done a good job and built the defences well enough | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
to protect us, but who knows? We live over the road and we do get | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
flooded quite a bit. As long as we've got | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
the sandbags for now... We've moved everything upstairs | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
so it's a waiting game. In Essex, police activated a full | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
evacuation plan at Jaywick, And emergency services were poised | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
to assist anyone in need. The Environment Agency warned people | :06:17. | :06:26. | |
not to be complacent. The issue with a storm surge is it | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
really is about the high winds coinciding with what would be | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
high tides anyway. And if you get that, | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
you get really high levels, but that can be very changeable | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
through the day. So we're forecasting as closely | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
as we can and watching it through, but it is really important that | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
people stay alert because some of these high tides will happen very | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
late through tonight. Police urged people to comply with | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
their instructions, to head to centres like this one, in the | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
relative safety of daylight. Some needed less persuasion than others. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
There was no question, the moment I needed to go, I left, I left my | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
phone behind, everything else, more or less. As long as I was safe, that | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
was all that mattered. Earlier, waves crashed over the lighthouse | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
here and breached the walls in Scarborough, forcing those who chose | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
not to stay away to run for cover. And much of Whitby has been drenched | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
in water, as communities up and down the country battle against the | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
elements. You can see how high the water got here but that is now | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
starting to recede. And tomorrow, people will be able to return to | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
their homes and hopefully breathe a sigh of relief. Further down the | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
coast, to the south of here, people are still bracing themselves. In | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
Essex high water is not due until after midnight. People there are the | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
worst still could be to come. Sofia Great Yarmouth, thank you. | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
Donald Trump has accused political opponents - | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
including members of his own Republican Party - | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
of putting together a dossier of what he called "totally made up" | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
In a series of tweets, the President-elect | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
described those behind the allegations as "sleazebags". | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
He also singled out the former British intelligence officer | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
believed to be responsible for the dossier, calling | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
From Washington, Nick Bryant reports. | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
They are storylines that could easily come from a Cold War spy | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
thriller and plot twists involving sex allegations and potential | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
Russian blackmail that even the TV series House of Cards might baulk | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
But this is reality, not a show, and the first episode of Trump, | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
The Presidency, airs in just one week's time. | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
At Trump Tower today, he was commending his nominees, many of | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
whom have been fiercely critical this week of Russia. | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
I could have said, do this, say that. | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
Before dawn came a gale force Twitter storm. | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
It turns out the phoney allegations against me were put out by my | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
political allegations, totally made up facts by sleazebag political | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
operatives, both Democrats and Republicans. Russia says nothing | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
exists. Footage has come to light | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
of Christopher Steele, the former MI6 officer who produced | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
the dossier, at an event He is now in hiding, | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
apparently fearing for his life. Former colleagues have | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
defended his professionalism. It is certain that what he has | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
reported is something He recognises that this is raw | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
intelligence and needs validation, and it needs | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
further explanation. On Capitol Hill today, | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
lawmakers received a behind closed doors briefing on the unverified | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
dossier, and Russia's alleged interference in the | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
presidential election. And many left demanding | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
more answers. The American people | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
are owed the truth. And there is a great deal | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
of evidence to say that this is an issue of high interest | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
to the American people, the strength, the integrity | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
of our own democracy. And there is yet more intrigue, | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
a senior US official confirming today there were frequent contacts | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
between Donald Trump's top national security | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
adviser and Russia's ambassador here in Washington, and that the contacts | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
took place on the day that President Obama expelled dozens | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
of Russian officials in retaliation for | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
the alleged hacking. It again raises questions | :10:20. | :10:20. | |
about the Trump team's All this as Barack Obama | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
performs his final acts, one of which took his deputy | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
completely by surprise. I am pleased to award | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
our nation's highest civilian honour, the | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
Presidential Medal of Freedom. Joe Biden couldn't | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
contain his emotions. It was a parting | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
presidential gift that I can say I was part | :10:48. | :10:48. | |
of the journey of a remarkable man who did remarkable | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
things for this country. It has always been a city | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
of political farewells, and this time next week, this | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
capital, this country, will be under This time next week Donald Trump | :11:02. | :11:17. | |
will have taken his oath of office, delivered his inaugural address, sat | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
behind his new desk in the Oval Office. We got a clear sense tonight | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
of how dramatically things will change. The house of Representatives | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
voted to start the process of dismantling and destroying | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
Obamacare. Now that was the signature domestic achievement of | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
his presidency. What he hoped would be the centrepiece of his | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
legislative legacy. Now arguably to be a truly transformative president, | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
your major reforms need to stay on the books, to stand the test of | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
time. But the Republicans set a deadline tonight for preparing the | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
legislation to repeal Obamacare and that timetable is two weeks. Nick | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
Bryant in Washington, thank you. Labour's former education spokesman | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
Tristram Hunt is resigning as an MP, triggering a by-election | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
in his Stoke constituency, an area which voted for Brexit | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
and where Ukip came second Mr Hunt, who's leaving to become | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
had been critical of Today, Mr Corbyn said he was looking | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
forward to the by-election campaign. Stay with Labour, convinced | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
they will lose, or walk away His leader doesn't like it | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
but for this famous TV historian, when I caught up with him in Stoke | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
today, this job offer It's a very tough decision | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
to leave Stoke-on-Trent. But being director of the Victoria | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
and Albert Museum, the greatest museum of art and design, | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
was my dream job and was not You have been clear that Labour | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
is heading for trouble You haven't changed | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
your mind, have you? I have had differences with Jeremy | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
in the past but I am off to be a museum director, | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
an impartial director of a great museum, and so it is not the time | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
to rehearse those differences now. You told Jeremy Corbyn you were | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
stepping down earlier today. I spoke to Jeremy this morning | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
and he was incredibly gracious, he was interested in the job, | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
he was interested in the Victoria... And also, I imagine, | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
rather disappointed? He was pulling his punches today | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
but his verdict on Labour's leader We are facing an historic wipe-out | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
of the Labour Party. Today, Jeremy Corbyn is glossing | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
over troubles ahead. No, I do not want anyone to resign, | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
I don't want to lose MPs but he has taken this position as director | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
of the V Good luck to him, and we | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
will have a by-election. Yet here in the Staffordshire | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
potteries, Stoke is just the kind of industrial city where many | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
working class voters feel overlooked, on the wrong side | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
of the global economy. Most voted for Brexit | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
here and Ukip came second by 5500 Labour has never lost | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
here but ask anyone, this will be a hard test for Labour | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
and its leader. Ukip, Labour, it will | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
always be in the balance Is Labour going to have a tough | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
time holding on here? Traditional Labour voters do not | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
know how to vote now, Tristram Hunt has left fundamentally | :14:15. | :14:23. | |
because he feels he has a brighter future away from Jeremy Corbyn | :14:24. | :14:37. | |
and the Labour Party. We are confident there | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
is a large number of voters in the Stoke Central constituency | :14:41. | :14:42. | |
that will feel exactly the same way. For Labour, this is a difficult | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
time for a by-election. It is in a tough place, | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
and it is not the only one. Some Labour MPs I have spoken | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
to have told me they are either preparing to quit politics before | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
the next election, or resigned Labour will have to throw | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
everything into this campaign, which, if they fail, | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
will make losing all Just now, this fight will gauge, | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
can Labour hold its ground, or are traditional supporters | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
turning their backs Lord Snowdon, the former husband | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
of Princess Margaret and celebrity The first commoner to marry a king's | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
daughter for 450 years, the then Anthony Armstrong Jones | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
married Princess Margaret in 1960. Theirs was the first royal | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
marriage to be televised. But they separated after 16 years | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
and eventually divorced. Nicholas Witchell looks | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
back at his life. He was the society photographer | :15:42. | :15:51. | |
who took pictures of the royal family, and who married one | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
of its leading members. It was in 1960 at the start | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
of a decade of considerable social change, that the then | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
Anthony Armstrong-Jones married the Queen's younger | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
sister, Princess Margaret. He was an untitled commoner, | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
she was the princess who, a few years earlier, | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
had had to renounce her love for a royal official | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
because he was divorced. With unbounded enthusiasm, acclaimed | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
Princess Margaret and her husband, The couple brought glamour | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
to the British royal family. This was them on a visit | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
to San Francisco. A-list celebrities before the term | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
had really been invented, presenting an image of Britain more | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
in keeping with the Although he became the Earl | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
of Snowdon, he continued This was a portrait he took of his | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
wife wearing a tiara in the bath. He photographed many | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
showbiz figures. One of his proudest achievements | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
was the aviary at London Zoo. The Queen wanted above all else her | :16:54. | :17:02. | |
sister's happiness and her sister seemed to have found happiness | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
with this very different young man who was extremely artistic, | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
very talented, and I think people By the late 1960s, the couple had | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
two children, but their marriage was in serious difficulty - | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
both were having affairs. In 1976 Lord Snowdon announced | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
that he and Princess Naturally, desperately | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
sad in every way. Throughout his life he campaigned | :17:29. | :17:38. | |
on behalf of disabled people and in latter years, | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
despite his own increasing frailty, he retained his | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
passion for photography. I like these ones | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
because they are simple. He could look back on a life | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
notable for his marriage into the royal family, | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
but which had also produced many Memorable images, among them | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
this one of the Queen, which ended up on Britain's postage | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
stamps, or this relaxed 80th birthday portrait, | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
taken at his home. As for the photographer himself, | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
he shared the view of many I'm always relieved | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
that they come out! Lord Snowdon, who has | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
died at the age of 86. A brief look at some of the day's | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
other other news stories. Turkey has ruled out withdrawing | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
all of its troops from Cyprus as part of any reunification deal, | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
unless all Greek troops The two sides have been | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
holding talks aimed The island was divided | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
between Turkey and Greece in 1974. The FTSE 100 index of leading shares | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
has closed at yet another new high. It's finished the day | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
up 45 points, at 7338. It's the 12th record | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
high in as many days. The record-breaking run has been | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
driven by the weakening pound, due to the ongoing uncertainty over | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
Brexit. French authorities have launched | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
an investigation into Renault, over allegations they tried to cheat | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
emissions tests with some A newborn baby girl abducted from a | :19:03. | :19:21. | |
hospital in Florida 18 years ago has been found safe and well. Police say | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
DNA tests have proved her true identity. Her real family cried with | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
joy when told she had been found in a house in South Carolina. A | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
51-year-old woman has been charged with her kidnap. | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
Theresa May is expected to deliver a key speech on Brexit next week, | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
with just two months left until she's expected | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
to trigger the formal process of leaving the European Union. | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
One of the areas up for negotiation is freedom of movement, | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
which allows EU citizens to live and work here, and vice versa. | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
Many who voted Brexit oppose it, claiming it costs British jobs. | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
It's a debate that's also being played out in the Netherlands, | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
where the Deputy Prime Minister has told the BBC he believes | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
the system is open to abuse and needs reforming, | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
500 years old, a fort in Amsterdam and a reminder of a time | :20:02. | :20:10. | |
when Europe's borders were the subject of wars, not | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
Those borders are open now, open to workers who live | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
in the EU to work within any other member state. | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
But that has led to controversy over wages being undercut, | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
I met one of the Netherlands' top politicians and asked him why | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
You can find a Romanian or Portuguese painter doing | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
the exact same work as a Dutch painter who is standing | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
right next to him, who is allowed to earn 200, | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
300, 400 euros less than the Dutch worker. | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
But that means, of course, that the Dutch painter is out | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
And it means that the support for the principle, | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
which is in essence good, is eroding. | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
Immigration is not a new issue for Europe. | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
This hotel was built 100 years ago to house economic migrants | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
from Eastern Europe on their way to South America to pick coffee. | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
The search for an economic better life is as old as history. | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
But today history is dominated by that search, a core part | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
The free movement debate has become increasingly controversial. | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
It is one of the four principles of the European Union. | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
The other three are free movement of money, goods and services. | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
Agreeing to all four principles is necessary to be | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
a member of the economically important single market. | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
For some sectors, like flower picking, immigrants are necessary, | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
but union leaders say there is a problem of cheap Labour | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
The Polish worker is hired by a Dutch employer in the Netherlands, | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
there is full and equal treatment, according to Dutch | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
But if this Polish worker is hired by a temporary agency based | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
in Warsaw and then he is brought with a bus to work in | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
the agriculture, then all of a sudden he is falling under | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
different rules and that is really creating havoc. | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
With leading politicians in the Netherlands at least willing | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
to have a debate about free movement, could Theresa May | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
find some willing allies as she launches her battle to keep | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
open trade relationships with the EU without keeping open borders? | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
We have always been allies and we are very important trading | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
We should not go out there to punish the Brits. | :22:31. | :22:47. | |
He wants Europe to reflect on why Brexit happened. | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
He doesn't want to close borders, he doesn't want Britain | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
But he does want to make reform of free movement a key | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
part of the UK's exit from the European Union. | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
It was intended as a light-hearted drama about a rumoured road trip | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
which Michael Jackson, Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
But the choice of a white actor, Joseph Fiennes, to play Jackson, | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
The programme prompted criticism from the late | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
pop star's daughter, an online petition, and today, | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
Sky decided to drop the show, as Colin Paterson reports. | :23:31. | :23:40. | |
I sensed danger. This is all that audiences are going to see Joseph | :23:41. | :23:50. | |
Fiennes playing Michael Jackson, two clips from a trailer for a new sky | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
show, urban myths. Today, sky announced they will no longer be | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
broadcasting the episode. The reason, concerns expressed by | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
Michael Jackson's immediate family, adding that they never intended to | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
cause any offence, and that Joseph Fiennes fully supports the decision. | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, was asked on Twitter what she made | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
of a white actor taking on the role of herb black father. She said she | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
was incredibly offended and it made her want to vomit. The Scottish | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
actor, Brian Cox, plays Marlon Brando in the show and thinks the | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
decision for it to be dropped is ridiculous, especially when this | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
year's hottest ticket is Hamilton, a musical where a predominantly black | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
and Hispanic cast play America's White founding fathers. It is a | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
celebration of a historical event from a very extraordinary | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
perspective, so it is telling an amazing story, but doing it in a | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
diverse way. So the idea that people get hot under the collar about | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
Joseph Fiennes playing Michael Jackson, I think is truly, truly | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
ridiculous. It is almost a year since Michael Jackson died but he | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
still has legions of devoted fans, many of whom come to the National | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
football Museum to see this statue, which used to be outside Fulham's | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
ground. Stories about him make headlines around the world, but this | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
is far from the first time a white performer has played him in a | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
comedy. Lee Francis' take on Michael Jackson was a huge part of a Channel | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
4 comedy show. While one of the biggest names in US comedy, Amy | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
Poehler, regularly impersonated him on Saturday Night Live. It's just | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
the flu, Liz Taylor, I'll be back on my feet soon. When probably the most | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
famous black performer certainly ever is being cast, they still cast | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
a middle-class white guy. I can understand why people would be | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
annoyed by that. It's believed that the decision for Sky to drop the | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
episode was made at the top of the organisation. They insist it is a | :26:05. | :26:05. | |
matter of taste, not censorship. Now on BBC One, it's time | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
for the news where you are. | :26:09. | :26:12. |