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Hello, it's Wednesday, it's 9.15, I'm Norman Smith in for Victoria. | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
New money for housebuilding, cuts in police, social care | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
and welfare - some of the announcements the chancellor George | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Osborne is going to make when he sets out his spending plans today. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
I'm David and I run a small business and unfortunately we are going to | :00:30. | :00:46. | |
have more cuts. I'm Amanda, single parent, I received working tax | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
credits. I'm a student, and I'm worried about getting on the housing | :00:52. | :00:52. | |
ladder. Also on the programme - | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
why are babies born during weekends in England more | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
likely to die in the first seven We found there was a raised | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
complication level at weekends, but also on Thursdays and Fridays. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
And after being in lock-down for four days over fears of an | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
imminent terror attack - schools, public buildings and the metro are | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
We'll speak to some of those affected. | :01:20. | :01:34. | |
Hello, welcome to the programme, I'm Norman Smith in for Victoria | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
this morning - and quite frankly anything could happen. | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
As always we're on BBC 2 and the BBC News Channel until 11 and we'll | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
bring you the latest breaking news and developing stories. | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
The programme will be dominated by the government's planned | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
Plus, more on how GPs are being urged to report older drivers they | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
And we'll get a rare insight into life under so-called Islamic | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
As always, keen to hear your views on all the stories we're covering - | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
do get in touch in the usual ways - texts will be charged | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
And of course you can watch the programme online wherever you | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
are - via the Bbc News app or our website bbc.co.uk/victoria | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
and you can also subscribe to all our features on the news app, | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
by going to add topics and searching "Victoria Derbyshire". | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
How is the Chancellor going to make cuts of ?20 billion to government | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
departments and a further ?12 billion | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
We'll find out at around 1230 today when George | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
Osborne stands up in Parliament to outline his latest spending plans. | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
It's called a comprehensive spending review - but is effectively | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
So what can we expect from the announcement? | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
Overnight we have had a briefing about a huge push and housing. Today | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
is more than about individual announcements -- huge push on | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
housing. It is about what the next five years are going to be like, the | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
benefits we may or may not get, the taxes we pay, the public services we | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
received, how the economy takes long. How our businesses do. Today | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
is big bananas for all of us. Let's have a look at what the Chancellor | :03:32. | :03:42. | |
might do. He is likely to give cash to house-builders. We had a briefing | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
about 400,000 affordable homes which the government would like built over | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
the next five years, they will put aside ?6 billion worth of taxpayers | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
cash to pay for that. Who else might benefit? The generals, soldiers, the | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
military, they will benefit. Just the other day we have the Strategic | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Defence Review where there was the promise of an extra ?12 billion for | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
the Armed Forces, and the military will be getting more. Spies, we are | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
going to recruit around 2000 more spies to deal with the emerging | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
terror threat, and if you're looking for a job, you could do worse than | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
that at MI5. -- than look at. Nurses and doctors in the NHS, they could | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
do well, we know Jeremy Hunt announced yesterday he was bringing | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
forward spending on the health service, front loading it to try to | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
ease it through some of the reforms. We have got the doctors strike | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
coming up and winter is always a difficult time. But how do you pay | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
for this? Huge pain elsewhere, I'm afraid. The police looked like they | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
could be one group hit hard, and certainly the Chancellor, when he | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
has been pressed about this, he has given no indication that he will | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
protect the police, even though we know that these are very difficult | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
times in terms of security. Who else might be hit? Social care, the help | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
we give to our elderly, that could face a squeeze with signs that much | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
of the burden will be shifted onto local authorities. Lastly, working | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
families, in the budget we have the plans unveiled for cuts to tax | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
credits which caused an almighty stirrer, suggestions that around 3 | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
million families, some of them could be losing up to ?1300 per year, and | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
so there was a big row about that, the Chancellor under massive | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
pressure to have a rethink. What do you want to hear from the | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
Chancellor? We have an invited audience. We'll so have a Labour MP, | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
Rebecca Long-Bailey, Chris Philp 's from the Conservatives, and Hannah | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
Bardell from the SNP. -- Chris Philp from the Conservatives. We want to | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
start with some of the people who have direct experience of the | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
biggest round we are likely to get at this Autumn Statement, that is | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
tax credits -- the biggest row. What difference do they make to you and | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
what would be the implications if you lost them? I'm a secondary | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
school teacher, and a single-parent 282 and a half -year-old. Under the | :06:38. | :06:47. | |
plans which were unveiled -- single-parent to a 2 1/2-year-old. | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
Tax credits go to pay half of my childcare costs which enable me to | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
physically get out to work and that means that there is money left over | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
the month for things like food, clothing and transport, which would | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
not have been there because my salary is taken up by rent, council | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
tax and childcare costs. Amanda, you also get tax credits, is yours a | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
similar story? I'm a single parent, I work part-time for a small | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
business, and I've been told I could lose between ?750 and ?1000 each | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
year, which, although it is less than you, really that is food on the | :07:28. | :07:37. | |
table. I don't save any money, because I just about budget | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
correctly. What would you say, Chris? What would you say to Chris, | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
a Conservative MP, and it is his government which is looking at, what | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
is your message to him? First of all, I would say, I remember David | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
is your message to him? First of do this before the election, so I'm | :07:59. | :07:59. | |
confused as to how come do this before the election, so I'm | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
through this again. What I would like to know, what am I meant to do? | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
It is so deep and so quick. At the moment, working tax credits is | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
calculated, it sees what the poverty line is and whether you are just | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
above it, so how comes this cut can be half which means I will be below | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
the poverty line, so have you changed the calculation? Chris? The | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
reason the Chancellor has proposed these changes originally, and that | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
become onto the changes in an we are spending ?30 billion a year and tax | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
credits and some employers are effectively underpaying their staff, | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
and then relying on tax credits to top it up, and it seems unfair that | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
the general taxpayers have got to stop this up. The minimum wage will | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
be increased, and to your childcare point, the plan is to double free | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
childcare to 30 hours a week to sort out the problem that you mentioned. | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
What seems to have come out in the last three months, as you have made | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
What seems to have come out in the softening in terms of the speed at | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
which it gets implemented to give time for the minimum | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
which it gets implemented to give need to give time for those to catch | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
up. need to give time for those to catch | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
understands, you are working very hard, struggling to raise a child on | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
your own, we understand you are doing the right thing by working, so | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
we do want to make sure you are helped in the best way to do that is | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
to increase wages. Is that OK? You did not answer my question about why | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
David Cameron, before the election, to get people onside to vote, said | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
he was not going to do this? He said he would not reduce the absolute | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
level of child tax credits cover which stays the same, but these are | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
technical changes about the way the withdrawal rates work. He said we | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
need to find ?12 billion of welfare savings, that was in the manifesto | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
and he was quite clear. As a country, we are 1% of the world's | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
population, but 4% of the economy, and 7% of the world's welfare, and | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
the key thing is to replace that with higher wages, and that is why | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
the massive increase in the minimum wage is so important, and also free | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
childcare, wage is so important, and also free | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
rising, as well. The Chancellor needs to understand their needs to | :10:38. | :10:38. | |
be softening in terms of the timing. needs to understand their needs to | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
A bit of softening, that will sort you out? I don't think it will sort | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
the art, but anything would be better than what was proposed mast | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
and -- sought me out, but anything will be better than what was | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
proposed last time. I'm a teacher, the government is paying me, so how | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
is the government subsidising low wages? I'm a teacher. I still can't | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
pay my childcare. Childcare, that is welcome, 30 hours, but my son is two | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
and a half and I was able to go back to work when he was four months old, | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
I needed to to work when he was four months old, | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
people are not helped, in the three-year-old thing, do you see | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
what I mean? David, the argument is that business should be putting up | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
wages, it should not be the taxpayers subsidising people. I | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
agree. As long as you are doing a profit and turnover, you can | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
increase wages, and my son works for a big chain of stores, very ethical, | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
and they are increasing the minimum wage, but there is a way that the | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
government can raise money very quickly and help soften the cuts, | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
and that is cut the international development fund. How can we support | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
third World countries... Not even third World countries, but | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
dictators, why can't we help in this country? Can we go to the other MPs. | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
The government takes the view that tax credits are philosophically a | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
nonsense, because what is the point taking money off low-paid people and | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
then giving it back to them? You don't buy that argument? Absolutely | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
not. The fundamental point, as Amanda said, the Prime Minister gave | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
a guarantee a head of the election, people did not vote for the | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
Conservatives across the UK on that basis and they did not vote for them | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
in Scotland on that basis, they by and large voted for the SNP. | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
However, you don't pull the rug from under people's feet before you have | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
given them the opportunity to get better jobs and to invest, we | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
believe that we stood on a manifesto platform that a modest increase in | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
spending, 0.5% would bring ?130 billion into the economy and that | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
would also help reduce the deficit and the debt in a responsible | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
manner. There are many academics who think, including a couple from city | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
University, who said the Chancellor is not going to meet his plans to | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
reduce the deficit, he will miss them significantly, but we will | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
drive down in the meantime people who are some of the poorest in | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
society, and some of the poorest children. The government is also | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
wiping off child poverty targets. It is getting rid of child poverty and | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
making people poorer. Rebecca, your leader Jeremy Corbyn is opposed to | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
cutting tax credits, but John Donnell, the Shadow Chancellor, he | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
said you would oppose all of the benefit cuts -- John McDonnell. We | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
have got to reduce the deficit, but we do this in a sustainable way and | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
we need to have that sitting alongside a long-term industrial and | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
economic plan which we have not been shown by the Chancellor. This | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
country is at the bottom of EU countries in terms of its spending | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
on research and development, we were once a leader in manufacturing and | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
industry, and I want Britain to be at the forefront of industry once | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
again, that will only come with investment and innovation. To finish | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
on that point, many people don't realise, in terms of the iPad. Dot. | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
The iPhone, rather, it was put on the funded by American state funded | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
investment, but there are no similar plans and the Chancellor and that is | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
quite shocking -- in terms of the iPad... . You came from Ukraine, one | :14:27. | :14:38. | |
of the other big announcements today is housing, and I know my kids are | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
struggling to get on the housing ladder, the plan to build 400,000 | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
affordable homes in the next five years, does that tackle the problem, | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
do you think? It will, to some extent, in my opinion, I run a | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
financial services company and we work with first-time buyers and | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
second time buyers, and on our list we have people who can afford to | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
buy, but there is nothing to buy, and in London this is a big problem. | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
This will not sort out all the problems in the country, we need | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
much more, but the point is, and I agree with the gentle man, we need | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
cuts, we cannot spend money we don't have. Where cuts will come, that is | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
another question. Let me ask you, we know the Prime Minister has been | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
talking about stopping EU migrants from claiming in work benefits for | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
four years, how do you feel about that? Ukraine is not a EU country | :15:42. | :15:55. | |
yet. I'm a financial adviser. I do believe you can claim benefits if | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
you contribute into the economy, I've been in the country 15 years | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
and I think I was entitled to some benefits at some point, but I never | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
did that. I cannot see how you can come into the country for two | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
months, have a job, and then have full support from the country, that | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
is taxpayers money. You are a student at the LSE. | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
Talking to students, friends, colleagues how big an issue is | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
housing for them? It is an enormous issue, especially for a lot of my | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
fellow students who are renting. The price of renting in London is | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
extremely high compared to other places in the country. And a lot of | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
them are worried about getting on the housing ladder in the future. | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
Let's face it, at the moment in London, you probably would not be | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
able to get onto the housing ladder until you are 30, 40 years old. I | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
think this will temporarily sought out the problem but the price of | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
housing will always go up. As long as the economy goes and interest | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
rates remain low, the price of housing will always rise and people | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
will always be... People will always be shut out from the housing ladder. | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
Why don't you just build houses? You go back to the 50s when we had | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
massive pressure on housing. The Government said it was going to | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
build housing. Why did you not do that? The money you mentioned is | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
designed to build a load more houses. The housing bill is designed | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
to make it much easier to get planning permission, particularly on | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
brown field sites in London. We can start building the 250,000 houses we | :17:48. | :18:00. | |
need a year. There is housing problem, particularly in London but | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
across the country as well. The only solution is to build more housing. | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
That is what the Government is determined to do. Jeremy Corbyn does | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
want to build council housing but it is a blow back to the past, isn't | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
it? We need to take a view in terms of strategy regarding | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
house-building. When the welfare state was setup, the ideology was to | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
create mixed communities and not large-scale estates. Perhaps in the | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
60s we lost our way a bit. Going forward, Jeremy certainly would be | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
in favour of creating a mix of housing types. The Government's | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
proposal today, the devil will be in the detail. I would like to see a | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
mix of social housing, to help those greatest need. There is a huge | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
issue. I say this is a huge issue. I say this as one people are not | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
competing against each other but competing against an international | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
market. Many people who buy from the international market, in many | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
countries you have to live there and be domiciled. There is a huge issue | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
in London, which skews the rest of the country. For anyone who is | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
trying to get onto the housing ladder, it is a huge issue. A couple | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
of texts we have received. Why must I work to support the lifestyle of | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
those who can but do not work? Brian in Essex, we do not need or want | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
cuts. Cuts, I guess, will bring us to areas that will not be capped. | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
You are a mental health nurse. You have direct experience of the NHS. | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
Yesterday we saw Mr Osborne and Mr Hunt saying we are planning more | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
money, 8 billion over the next five years into the health service. | :19:50. | :19:57. | |
Within the NHS, is this government supporting you in the way you want? | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
They would argue they are putting in the cash. It comes down to two | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
things. The row in the MA -- in the NHS is quite local. We have a | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
deficit of nurses. With everything NHS is quite local. We have a | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
going on with the junior doctors, it is important that people are able to | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
want to work for the NHS. I love the NHS. I would protect it as much as I | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
possibly could. Yes, money is great, it is helpful. I guess it is | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
about where the money goes and building the reputation of the NHS, | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
which has taken a bit of a beating recently. Also about providing | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
training. I know you were talking about paediatrics and children dying | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
over the weekends with junior doctors going on strike. The | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
Government needs to be doing more to promote the NHS. On the side of that | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
also to say, yes can give money to the NHS. At the same time cutting | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
social care. That will be the downfall. It means the NHS is | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
picking up where social care is not able to provide. That means more | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
people in beds, less people able to be discharged, and subsequently more | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
expense for the NHS. I just ask very briefly, one of the Government's | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
names seems to be too tried to present themselves as on the side of | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
working people. -- to try. They were pointed things like the housing | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
announcement, more free childcare. -- they will point to things. Has | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
George Osborne done enough to convince you he is on your side? No. | :21:36. | :21:44. | |
Straight answer. Yes, on my side. I think the Tory rhetoric that you can | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
pull yourself up by your route straps is very hollow at the moment. | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
-- boot straps. It is pulling opportunities and people's feat. A | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
true politician! It remains to be seen, I have to say. A massive | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
increase in the minimum wage, free childcare and a tax cut for those | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
increase in the minimum wage, free low incomes all shows the Tory Party | :22:14. | :22:13. | |
is on the side of low incomes all shows the Tory Party | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
No, I cannot agree is on my side for that there are quotes about how we | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
need to work harder than people in China and benefit claimants do not | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
have dignity. That is not a true flexion of my life. It is getting | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
there, not quite there but it is getting there. | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
there, not quite there but it is say he is on the side of working | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
there, not quite there but it is people when working people in work | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
there, not quite there but it is are going to have benefits cut. We | :22:44. | :22:43. | |
can call that a mixed are going to have benefits cut. We | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
someone in the Treasury was listening. Thank you. | :22:50. | :22:58. | |
Should doctors be forced to report elderly drivers who are not fit for | :22:59. | :23:19. | |
driving? And we will get reaction after white police officers shot a | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
teenager in Chicago 16 times. The Chancellor, George Osborne, | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
will outline how he plans to cut 20 billion pounds from the public purse | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
when he unveils the Government's There will be a new house-building | :23:32. | :23:44. | |
programme and cuts are expected in police and education. The tax cuts | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
have already been rejected once by the House of Lords. | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
Russia has confirmed that one of the two pilots | :23:55. | :24:04. | |
from its warplane which was shot down and crashed on the | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
Syrian border has been taken to safety | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
A short while ago Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he does | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
We do not have any intention to escalate this situation. | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
What we are worried about is to defend our security | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
In the north of Latakia, there is a migration towards our borders. | :24:26. | :24:38. | |
We are trying to protect our kin, our brethren. | :24:39. | :24:50. | |
A white police officer in the United States, who shot a black teenager 16 | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
Police video footage shows 17-year-old Laquan McDonald walking | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
away from officers before one of them opens fire. | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
Jason van Dyke has been charged following the incident in Chicago | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
To watch a 17-year-old young man die in such a violent manner is deeply | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
disturbing and I have absolutely no doubt this video will tear at the | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
hearts of all of Chicago. I know Laquan's mother and other | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
family members have been opposed to the release of this video and I | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
certainly understand their concerns and their anguish. | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
Schools and metro stations in Brussels re-open this morning, four | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
days after they were shut amid fears of an imminent extremist attack. | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
The Belgian capital remains on the highest alert level, | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
with hundreds of armed police and soldiers on patrol. | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
An arrest warrant was issued yesterday for a man named | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
Mohamed Abrini, who was seen in a car with leading suspect Salah | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
Doctors are being urged to tell the DVLA if they suspect patients | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
are continuing to drive against medical advice. | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
The health watchdog says GPs have a duty to protect the public. | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
But there are concerns that reporting patients to | :26:05. | :26:06. | |
the licensing authority may breach their right to confidentiality. | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
It might also deter drivers with minor health issues | :26:11. | :26:12. | |
Let's catch up with all the sport now and join Olly - and | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
a good night for the English clubs in the Champions League last night. | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
It certainly was. Good morning. We are in the middle of the Champions | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
League week. Arsenal and Chelsea looked really good last night. Had | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
Arsenal lost or drawn at home, they would have been out, failing to | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
qualify for the last 16. They did the business. Bayern Munich beat | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
Olympiakos in the other qualifying match. The gunners live to fight | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
another day. They go to Olympiakos in a fortnight and they need to win | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
by two goals. Jose Mourinho said he needed a calculator after they beat | :26:59. | :27:09. | |
Macabi Tel Aviv. Not really. They have lost John Terry to an injury. | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
Jose Mourinho is not very happy about the state of the pitch in | :27:14. | :27:24. | |
Haifa. You're probably make is -- he will probably miss the match at the | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
weekend. We will be looking at more pressure on Lord Coe. He has been | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
asked to explain what role he played, if any, in Eugene, the | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
American city, getting the 2021 world athletics Championships. The | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
city is very heavily associated with Nike. Coe has an advisory role with | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
them and said he did not lobby on behalf of Eugene and declared all of | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
his interests at the time. Report on a rising British star in | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
weightlifting. Her name is Rebecca Tyler. She is only 16 but she is | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
very strong. That is worth a watch. All coming up at 10am. That is | :28:08. | :28:15. | |
extraordinary. You wait and see ex-commissioner Mark it is | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
incredible. Thank you so much. -- you wait and see! | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
Schools and the metro in Brussels are reopening today, four days after | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
they were closed by the authorities over fears of an imminent attack | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
The Belgian capital will remain on the highest level of alert - with | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
armed police and soldiers patrolling the streets - until Monday. | :28:37. | :28:38. | |
The search for Paris terror suspects goes on. | :28:39. | :28:40. | |
Let's talk now to some of those who have who've been caught | :28:41. | :28:42. | |
Geertrui Segers-de-Smedt is the headteacher at a primary school | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
with 225 children which has been closed but re-opened this morning. | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
Guy Gypens is the director of the Kaai Theatre, they've had to | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
Sumit Gupta, is the owner of the Rock Salt Chilli Pepper | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
restaurant, they stayed open but had lost a lot of trade and AN VAN HAMME | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
from the Brussels Transport Company which has suspended its buses | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
What has been the mood of the children? How have they responded to | :29:10. | :29:35. | |
the lockdown and state of emergency? The past days we had a very | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
important role. We communicated a locked by e-mail with the parents. | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
Just because the fact that a lot of parents did not know how to handle, | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
how to communicate with their children, about the closed school. | :29:53. | :29:58. | |
Was it a day of holiday? Was it a day of party, staying at home? It | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
was not. We had to help a lot of parents just to be realistic, to | :30:04. | :30:10. | |
tell them the truth, but with good words, the words adapted to the age | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
of their children. This was a very important role that we had as | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
educators. This morning at the school door, it was different. We | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
communicated yesterday evening, yesterday afternoon, towards all of | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
our parents. We talked about what the measures were. We transmitted | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
the confidence that we have, that we had, towards the Belgian | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
authorities. Of course there were more persons at the door. For us, it | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
is very important that we transmit that we are very happy that our | :30:48. | :30:55. | |
school door can open again. We only have one school door, which is | :30:56. | :31:01. | |
lucky. For us, security is, let's say, a tricky word, easier to | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
handle. It was very important that we were there. I was there in front | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
of the door with my colleague, the head of School, with a smile on our | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
faces, showing we were happy to see them all back again. Let's talk a | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
little bit, if I make about how people are getting around in | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
Brussels on the transport side of things. After the London bombings | :31:26. | :31:28. | |
there was a real wariness among some people about using the tube. Are | :31:29. | :31:37. | |
there any signs that people are edgy about using public transport, the | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
metro in particular? At the start of the day we noticed it was less | :31:44. | :31:53. | |
crowded and the metro, -- on the metro, but now it is normally back | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
to normal again, we do not have all stations open yet. Only half of them | :31:58. | :32:04. | |
have opened today. That brings less people, that's normal, but buses and | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
trams run normally, and we have guarantees from the government | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
regarding the security of our passengers and our staff. You run a | :32:16. | :32:23. | |
theatre in Brussels, without being flippant about it, people do not | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
really want to go out much and enjoy themselves in this kind of | :32:28. | :32:32. | |
environment? You have two reactions, people who are worried and preferred | :32:33. | :32:37. | |
to stay at home, but also the opposite, people who want to get | :32:38. | :32:42. | |
back to normal again and really want to go out and do something which is | :32:43. | :32:49. | |
something else than worrying. We have two reactions, and of course we | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
have cancellations, but there are people who want us to reopen as soon | :32:55. | :33:02. | |
as possible. Your restaurant, do you have two now put in checks with | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
people coming in? That must be deterrent for people going out for a | :33:07. | :33:12. | |
meal, if you have to be searched. deterrent for people going out for a | :33:13. | :33:18. | |
We're not doing kind of security, we trust the police to do this job, and | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
I think they are doing a great job. We will not put everyone in the same | :33:24. | :33:29. | |
boat, to check them. People are here, when they come to arrest and, | :33:30. | :33:31. | |
they come to a table, if | :33:32. | 0:26:36 |