12/01/2017 BBC News at One


12/01/2017

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 12/01/2017. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

American intelligence agencies did not leak claims that Russia has

:00:00.:00:10.

compromising material on Donald Trump, says the head of US

:00:11.:00:12.

James Clapper say he spoke to Mr Trump and they had agreed that

:00:13.:00:17.

such leaks were damaging to national security.

:00:18.:00:20.

The man behind the report claiming Russia has compromising material

:00:21.:00:22.

on the US President-elect is understood to be a former MI6

:00:23.:00:25.

More festive cheer for the high street as Marks and Spencer,

:00:26.:00:31.

Debenhams and Tesco report better than expected figures

:00:32.:00:33.

Dozens of flights are cancelled at Heathrow as heavy snow starts

:00:34.:00:40.

Creating a tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay - the government

:00:41.:00:47.

backs the idea to boost the Uk's energy supplies.

:00:48.:00:52.

And coming out of retirement - the 72-year-old former rally driver

:00:53.:00:55.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News:

:00:56.:00:59.

High hopes for British number one Johanna Konta,

:01:00.:01:01.

who warms up for the first tennis major of the year -

:01:02.:01:04.

by reaching the final of the Sydney International.

:01:05.:01:27.

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

:01:28.:01:30.

The US Director of National intelligence has rejected

:01:31.:01:34.

suggestions made by Donald Trump that official agencies may have

:01:35.:01:36.

leaked unconfirmed claims that Russia had compromising

:01:37.:01:38.

In a statement, James Clapper said he had called the President-elect

:01:39.:01:45.

to say the leak had not come from the intelligence services.

:01:46.:01:47.

This morning, that was flatly denied by the president elect himself.

:01:48.:01:52.

The Kremlin said they hoped that Donald Trump and Mr Putin would give

:01:53.:01:58.

along and there would be more mutual respect between the two countries.

:01:59.:01:59.

Eight days from now, Donald Trump goes into battle as the next

:02:00.:02:07.

commander-in-chief. Never before has an incoming president been warring

:02:08.:02:13.

on so many fronts. Not you, not you. Your organisation is terrible. Your

:02:14.:02:17.

organisation is terrible. Let's go. Go ahead. Quiet. Quiet. He is in

:02:18.:02:23.

conflict with the press, the ethics committee, pharmaceutical and

:02:24.:02:29.

defence industries, some of his own Senators, and of course the

:02:30.:02:33.

intelligence agencies. The dossier they investigated was an open

:02:34.:02:36.

secret. Journalists had been working on it for months. It is a tale of

:02:37.:02:41.

sordid sexual escapades, Russian espionage multi-million dollar cash

:02:42.:02:48.

payments funded to the Trump campaign. The question for

:02:49.:02:53.

Washington insiders is whether it is fact, part fact or fiction. And was

:02:54.:02:57.

the leaking political? I think it is deeply misguided for anybody at any

:02:58.:03:07.

level to question the integrity and motives of the patriots who serve in

:03:08.:03:10.

our intelligence community. It doesn't mean they are always right,

:03:11.:03:14.

but questioning the motives is another thing altogether. The man

:03:15.:03:22.

who first compiled the intelligence is 52-year-old Christopher Steele, a

:03:23.:03:28.

former British buyer who works here. He is now in hiding with his wife

:03:29.:03:32.

and children, in fear of his life. Mr Steele had worked on the Russian

:03:33.:03:39.

desk at MI6 for 20 years. In the 90s he spent time at the British Embassy

:03:40.:03:44.

in Moscow. More recently he had been hired to gather information on Mr

:03:45.:03:48.

Trump, first by Republicans and later Democrats. The allegations his

:03:49.:03:53.

undercover war -- he uncovered were handed to the FBI. With nothing to

:03:54.:03:57.

report, the media steered clear until a 2-page summary was handed to

:03:58.:04:01.

President Obama this week and Mr Trump himself. As early as last

:04:02.:04:04.

summer, there were reports circulating that the Russians had a

:04:05.:04:12.

tip. Whether or not the sources were telling the truth, we wait to see.

:04:13.:04:16.

These allegations are being treated as credible by the US intelligence

:04:17.:04:17.

community. Compromat, is how the Russians

:04:18.:04:31.

describe it. This year, the former Prime Minister, now a leading

:04:32.:04:34.

opposition figure, was allegedly taped having sex with his assistant

:04:35.:04:40.

behind his wife's back. He blamed the FSB. Even if there is no film,

:04:41.:04:45.

Mr Trump's presidency might already be compromised and not only by his

:04:46.:04:48.

dealings with Russia. Yesterday he ceded control of his business empire

:04:49.:04:53.

to his two adult sons, but in the eyes of the ethics committee in

:04:54.:04:57.

Congress, there is not enough distance to absolve him of any

:04:58.:05:04.

conflict of interest. In short, there are more questions than

:05:05.:05:06.

answers and no amount of tweeting from the President-elect, this is

:05:07.:05:09.

the latest, is going to remove the clouds that are circling next week's

:05:10.:05:10.

inauguration. Gary O'Donoghue is our

:05:11.:05:13.

correspondent in Washington. He joins me now. An extraordinary

:05:14.:05:21.

situation just days before he becomes president. How problematic

:05:22.:05:24.

that this fractious relationship with the US intelligence services

:05:25.:05:27.

before him? He has gone to a new low. The war of words, a public war

:05:28.:05:33.

of words between a President-elect and the people that he is meant to

:05:34.:05:38.

trust to keep the country safe. It is really unprecedented. I think the

:05:39.:05:43.

only light at the end of the tunnel, potentially, is that the leadership

:05:44.:05:47.

of many of these organisations, the CIA, for example, will change when

:05:48.:05:52.

Donald Trump comes in. As will the head of the director of national

:05:53.:05:56.

intelligence, he will be a new man in that job, as of January 20. And I

:05:57.:06:01.

think Donald Trump will be hoping he can rebuild the relationship,

:06:02.:06:04.

because recently cannot afford to be at war with these people. They are

:06:05.:06:09.

his eyes and ears, not just at home in terms of protecting the country

:06:10.:06:13.

from terrorism but also abroad as well. Protecting America's national

:06:14.:06:20.

interests around the world. It is a serious situation for him and the

:06:21.:06:24.

problems are piling up. The office of government ethics says that his

:06:25.:06:28.

business plans do not pass muster in terms of the standard expected from

:06:29.:06:33.

the president. I'm sure he will try to write that out because he has a

:06:34.:06:37.

Trump card in that regard, the idea that presidents cannot be the

:06:38.:06:43.

subject of a conflict of interest. Our security correspondent is with

:06:44.:06:46.

us now. How much do we know about this former MI6 officer who has

:06:47.:06:52.

compiled this dossier? Quite a lot. Normally there is a blanket ban on

:06:53.:06:59.

putting any details out into the public about former members or

:07:00.:07:03.

current members of the intelligence agencies but that has effectively

:07:04.:07:07.

been lifted as of ten o'clock last night. Christopher Steele is a

:07:08.:07:11.

52-year-old father of four with three cats. He lives in Surrey and

:07:12.:07:16.

he is a former Russian specialist at MI6. He was -- it is more accurately

:07:17.:07:21.

known as the secret intelligence service. He left ten years ago and

:07:22.:07:24.

set up a business intelligence firm and was hired by a firm of

:07:25.:07:33.

Washington lobbyists to look into allegations of Donald Trump's

:07:34.:07:37.

relations with Russia, and what he discovered in his report alarmed him

:07:38.:07:42.

sufficiently that in August he gave his findings to the FBI. They then

:07:43.:07:47.

sat on them, but they leaked out from October. And as you have heard,

:07:48.:07:51.

the US intelligence people are saying that they did not leak it but

:07:52.:07:55.

in those allegations, included in that are allegations that Donald

:07:56.:07:58.

Trump was in a room with Russian prostitutes, and that they have got

:07:59.:08:02.

what is called compromising material on him. Sex espionage, it is an all

:08:03.:08:11.

trade in Russia that has been going on for quite some time. There is no

:08:12.:08:17.

substantiation so far. I think what we may be looking at is a repeat of

:08:18.:08:22.

the so-called WMD dossier scandal where somebody has put out in their

:08:23.:08:26.

report what has been said, without any proof, and the caveats had been

:08:27.:08:30.

stripped out of it. Probably more has been made of this than is

:08:31.:08:33.

actually there. Thank you, Frank Gardner.

:08:34.:08:34.

There was a lot of festive cheer for many of the UK's high street

:08:35.:08:37.

Marks and Spencer saw a return to growth in its clothing

:08:38.:08:43.

division and homeware, after years of decline.

:08:44.:08:44.

Tesco, Debenhams and John Lewis all reported better than expected

:08:45.:08:47.

Our Business Correspondent, Emma Simpson, reports.

:08:48.:09:00.

Mrs Claus was popular this Christmas, delivering presents in

:09:01.:09:07.

Marks Spencer's glossy campaign. And this business served up a far

:09:08.:09:11.

bigger surprise present then just shoes. For the first time in two

:09:12.:09:19.

years, clothing sales are up by more than 2%. It is getting back to

:09:20.:09:25.

serving its core customers. The close are stylish, but without being

:09:26.:09:30.

too cutting-edge, and it has brought down clothing prices. It has also

:09:31.:09:34.

focused on getting the price right the first time so that when you buy

:09:35.:09:38.

something, there is less risk of the price being reduced in a couple of

:09:39.:09:42.

weeks and you have to ticket back to get a better deal. Too soon? Nah,

:09:43.:09:56.

bring it on. And King good for Britain's biggest retailer, enjoying

:09:57.:09:58.

an increase in sales, more proof that we have splashed out on food.

:09:59.:10:04.

On Christmas Eve, Tesco was serving 266 customers a second. If you look

:10:05.:10:09.

at the picture, on the whole it looks like retailers have done

:10:10.:10:13.

pretty well. Some had OK Christmases, some had really good

:10:14.:10:17.

Christmases. What that means is that consumers as a whole have gone out

:10:18.:10:20.

and spent a lot in the shops. Here is where the real growth is. Online.

:10:21.:10:28.

Today, ASOS reported a huge surge in sales. And John Lewis, a whopping

:10:29.:10:34.

40% of its business this year came from internet sales. But these

:10:35.:10:37.

department stores are also costly to run. Although festive trading has

:10:38.:10:41.

been decent, the staff bonus will be lower this year. The chairman told

:10:42.:10:45.

me that he is preparing for challenging times ahead. There are

:10:46.:10:48.

pressures on costs, pressures on prices, and those things are

:10:49.:10:54.

happening, and we have a consumer, who knows what happens next year,

:10:55.:10:57.

but the predictions are that we will see a slowdown in the growth in

:10:58.:11:02.

consumer income. Christmas was not sparkling but spending was solid

:11:03.:11:06.

overall. The questionnaires, can it be maintained? -- the question is.

:11:07.:11:11.

Dozens of flights of been cancelled at Heathrow Airport amid warnings

:11:12.:11:14.

that blizzard conditions will hit parts of the UK today.

:11:15.:11:17.

Heavy snow has already hit parts of Northern Ireland and snow showers

:11:18.:11:20.

and strong winds are also being forecast for Scotland,

:11:21.:11:22.

Our correspondent, Frankie McCamley, is at Heathrow.

:11:23.:11:29.

Let's be clear, this is pre-emptive because there is clearly no snow at

:11:30.:11:36.

Heathrow at the moment. Absolutely. Heathrow Airport says that they made

:11:37.:11:42.

this decision yesterday. They wanted to give passengers time to move on

:11:43.:11:46.

to earlier flights. Or time to change their plans completely. What

:11:47.:11:50.

the report says is that these runways operate up to full capacity,

:11:51.:11:54.

so they needed to decrease the number of flights to make sure that

:11:55.:11:58.

when these delays happen, when the snow falls, they will be able to

:11:59.:12:02.

keep flights consistently taking off. Elsewhere, Gatwick has also had

:12:03.:12:09.

to cancel four flights. We are looking at Birmingham, Manchester

:12:10.:12:11.

and Edinburgh. They say their business is running as usual. Here,

:12:12.:12:16.

British Airways is the main operator and it is offering passengers that

:12:17.:12:19.

have had their flights affected refunds or the chance to change onto

:12:20.:12:23.

other flights. The advice for passengers travelling later on this

:12:24.:12:27.

afternoon is to check before you travel but as you mentioned, there

:12:28.:12:31.

is no snow here at the moment. It has just started raining. How big

:12:32.:12:36.

the disruption is, that will depend on how much snow does fall over the

:12:37.:12:40.

next few hours. Thank you. No snow at Heathrow but a different picture

:12:41.:12:41.

in Stirlingshire. Lorna Gordon is in rural

:12:42.:12:42.

Stirlingshire for us. How disruptive is it expected to be?

:12:43.:12:53.

When the snow showers sweep through, the conditions here are proving a

:12:54.:12:58.

little unpleasant. It is leading to isolated incidents on the roads

:12:59.:13:04.

around rush hour. Earlier today on the M74 south of Glasgow, there was

:13:05.:13:10.

gridlock. The road had to be closed for a time to allow the gritters to

:13:11.:13:15.

get in. The lorries trying to travel on that stretch of motorway finding

:13:16.:13:21.

the icy conditions quite difficult. There has been some jackknifed

:13:22.:13:25.

lorries across Scotland, some cars skidding off the roads, but for the

:13:26.:13:29.

most part, those 200 gritters of that were out overnight have been

:13:30.:13:34.

managing to keep the roads clear. The road that you see behind me, it

:13:35.:13:40.

is the Anine, that runs up the spine of Scotland, towards the Highlands

:13:41.:13:46.

and further north. I have been driving on it today and when the

:13:47.:13:50.

snow showers pass it is a little tricky but for the most part

:13:51.:13:56.

conditions are OK. This has been a relatively mild winter here in

:13:57.:14:00.

Scotland. And this has been described as a short, sharp blast.

:14:01.:14:06.

It has not been a good season so far but the ski slopes, they will be

:14:07.:14:09.

hoping that some of the snow settles for a while and it is forecast that

:14:10.:14:14.

on higher ground, there may be up to eight inches of snow. Lorna Gordon,

:14:15.:14:17.

thank you. For the first time in a decade,

:14:18.:14:19.

ministers from Greece, Turkey and Britain are sitting down

:14:20.:14:22.

for talks on re-uniting Cyprus. The island has been divided

:14:23.:14:26.

for forty years between the Turkish controlled north and the Republic

:14:27.:14:28.

of Cyprus in the south. One of the main sticking

:14:29.:14:31.

points is the presence of 30,000 Turkish troops,

:14:32.:14:35.

something Greek Cypriots Jonny Dymond has been looking

:14:36.:14:37.

at at the roots of the conflict. Cyprus was once a British colony but

:14:38.:14:55.

by 1974 the Greek and Turkish sides were at war. Turkey launched an

:14:56.:14:59.

invasion, after Greek Cypriots declared a union with Greece. Ever

:15:00.:15:07.

since independence, Britain, Greece and Turkey have been guarantor

:15:08.:15:12.

powers with a role in the island's future. Turkey conquered one third

:15:13.:15:20.

of the island. Its troops stayed put. And one of the world's longest

:15:21.:15:29.

frozen conflicts began. The capital is divided between Turkish and Greek

:15:30.:15:36.

Cypriots. The so-called greenline runs through the city, controlled by

:15:37.:15:42.

the UN, it is a daily reminder of the island's division. The Turkish

:15:43.:15:48.

controlled north declared independence in 1983. Only Turkey

:15:49.:15:54.

recognises the territory as a country. The rest of the world shuns

:15:55.:16:03.

it. In 2004, a UN plan to reunify the island was put to a vote. The

:16:04.:16:08.

Turkish Cypriot north said yes. The Greek Cypriot south said no. And a

:16:09.:16:14.

divided island joined the European Union. In the talks in Geneva, there

:16:15.:16:22.

are still serious obstacles to be cleared. But there is a chance, a

:16:23.:16:27.

good one, but this time the frozen conflict will end.

:16:28.:16:33.

Those talks are taking place in Geneva, and our

:16:34.:16:35.

diplomatic correspondent, James Landale, is there.

:16:36.:16:39.

How likely is that they will strike a deal? The official position from

:16:40.:16:47.

the awareness that a deal is within reach, but there's still a lot of

:16:48.:16:50.

work to go. Clearly there are some positive signs. You've got everybody

:16:51.:16:55.

saying the leaders of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot

:16:56.:16:58.

communities are determined to get a deal. Turkey and Greece have so many

:16:59.:17:02.

other issues on their plate, but I think there's a determination better

:17:03.:17:06.

get a deal, so they can solve one of their problems. The international

:17:07.:17:09.

community is piling into Geneva. You've got Boris Johnson and his

:17:10.:17:13.

Turkish and Greek counterparts, Theresa May, the Prime Minister,

:17:14.:17:16.

says she is willing to come if that would help. Similar signals from

:17:17.:17:28.

Athens and Ankara. There's a huge amount of good intention here.

:17:29.:17:31.

However, as Jonny Dymond said, there are still obstacles. The big

:17:32.:17:33.

obstacle is the question of how you guarantee the security of both sides

:17:34.:17:35.

once there's been some kind of reunified power-sharing federal

:17:36.:17:37.

government. It's a big issue. It centres on whether or not the

:17:38.:17:40.

Turkish army would be allowed to keep 30,000 troops on the island in

:17:41.:17:44.

the North on as they do now. It's a lot of work to be done on that. The

:17:45.:17:47.

thing that is really constraining these talks is that whatever is

:17:48.:17:52.

agreed here at in this extraordinary building behind me has to be

:17:53.:17:56.

acceptable to the people of North and south Cyprus in a referendum

:17:57.:18:00.

that would happen later this year. So nothing here is going to be

:18:01.:18:04.

definitively agreed and sorted out, until that moment happens. So they

:18:05.:18:09.

can make some kind of political framework agreement here, but the

:18:10.:18:11.

real test will be whether or not they can sell it to the people back

:18:12.:18:15.

home in Cyprus. James Langdale in Geneva, thank you.

:18:16.:18:19.

The head of America's National Intelligence Agency says

:18:20.:18:22.

they weren't the source of the leak that Russia has compromising

:18:23.:18:25.

Back behind the wheel - the 72-year-old rally driver making

:18:26.:18:29.

Coming up in the sport at 1:30pm: Refusing to play -

:18:30.:18:41.

High hopes for British number one Johanna Konta who warms up for the

:18:42.:18:46.

Australian Open by reaching the final of the Sydney Cup

:18:47.:18:47.

International. Tidal lagoons - could they be

:18:48.:18:56.

the answer to ensuring secure power A review is recommending that the UK

:18:57.:18:59.

should build tidal lagoons And today, the government

:19:00.:19:03.

gave its backing to plans to build one in Swansea Bay -

:19:04.:19:07.

after the report said it could provide clean,

:19:08.:19:09.

reliable electricity for more than 150,000 homes for

:19:10.:19:11.

more than a century. Here's our environment

:19:12.:19:13.

analyst, Roger Harrabin. Will this be the UK's latest source

:19:14.:19:19.

of low-carbon energy? The tides in Swansea Bay are some

:19:20.:19:24.

of the highest in the world, and utterly predictable,

:19:25.:19:28.

so why not build a sea wall The sea wall will trap the outgoing

:19:29.:19:32.

tide, then hydroelectric turbines will generate power as the water

:19:33.:19:43.

flows through the gaps The cost was thought too high

:19:44.:19:45.

for bill payers to bear. But a review says the annual subsidy

:19:46.:19:52.

isn't as high as it first appeared. If you spread the cost

:19:53.:19:57.

of the subsidy over the 120 lifetime, bear in mind these

:19:58.:20:00.

will last two times as long as a nuclear power station,

:20:01.:20:04.

three or four times as long as an offshore wind farm,

:20:05.:20:07.

if you look at it in that way, then essentially the cost of this

:20:08.:20:10.

for a consumer is less than a pint of milk

:20:11.:20:13.

on their electricity Supporters hope we'll see lagoons

:20:14.:20:15.

dotted along the western shores. That'll bring down

:20:16.:20:22.

the cost, they say. We need the government

:20:23.:20:25.

to get on with it. We need manufacturing scale

:20:26.:20:29.

to support industrial regeneration. It's great renewable energy and it's

:20:30.:20:32.

great for supporting jobs, Friends of the Earth support

:20:33.:20:35.

the lagoon for the clean The bird charity RSPB

:20:36.:20:41.

are cautious about the impacts. It would stop up fish,

:20:42.:20:49.

it would delay their migration, it could have impacts

:20:50.:20:54.

on seals and dolphins, with loss of habitat

:20:55.:20:56.

in the Severn estuary, but furthermore the economics

:20:57.:20:59.

on which this scheme is based and that's a huge time

:21:00.:21:02.

during which other technologies could come on stream,

:21:03.:21:08.

and we just don't think the lagoons will last that long before they get

:21:09.:21:11.

clogged up with silt. Today's report suggests

:21:12.:21:14.

the government should agree terms for one lagoon,

:21:15.:21:18.

then wait and see. Some breaking news. In the last few

:21:19.:21:33.

minutes it's been confirmed that the former England manager Graham Taylor

:21:34.:21:37.

has died. He was 72. Let's speak to other sports correspondent Andy

:21:38.:21:40.

Swiss, who is at the BBC Sports Centre. He was a player, then a

:21:41.:21:45.

manager, a pundit. He's been a big figure in the world of football for

:21:46.:21:50.

a long time now. That's right, yes, this is very sad news which has just

:21:51.:21:57.

broken within the last few minutes. Graham Taylor first rose to

:21:58.:22:00.

prominence as manager of Watford between 1977 and 1987. He was hired

:22:01.:22:03.

by the then new owner Sir Elton John. He guided Watford from the

:22:04.:22:07.

fourth division to the First Division in just five years, an

:22:08.:22:10.

extraordinary achievement. He guided them to the FA Cup final. He became

:22:11.:22:15.

manager of Aston Villa before in 1990, he took over as England

:22:16.:22:19.

manager from Sir Bobby Robson. He suffered a difficult few years in

:22:20.:22:24.

the England job. He took them to the European Championships in 1992,

:22:25.:22:27.

where they were knocked out in the group stages by Sweden. He

:22:28.:22:32.

controversially substituted, you might remember, Captain Gary Lineker

:22:33.:22:35.

in his very final match. That prompted the famous tabloid

:22:36.:22:41.

headline, Swedes two, turnips one. He stayed on but he resigned in

:22:42.:22:47.

1993, after failing to guide England to the World Cup. He suffered huge

:22:48.:22:51.

personal criticism during his time as England manager, particularly

:22:52.:22:54.

after a fly on the wall documentary, which was broadcast shortly after he

:22:55.:23:00.

resigned as England manager. You remember his famous quote in that,

:23:01.:23:05.

do I not like that? After that, he returned to club management and

:23:06.:23:09.

Watford, enjoyed more success there, guided them into the Premier League

:23:10.:23:12.

will stop and after that he became a radio pundit with BBC radio, hugely

:23:13.:23:19.

respected for his views, a very popular figure across football, with

:23:20.:23:24.

fans, with players, with other managers. This is very sad news

:23:25.:23:29.

indeed for the game. Andy Swiss, thank you. Some reaction from the

:23:30.:23:34.

former player Stan Collymore, who has treated saying, extremely

:23:35.:23:36.

saddened to hear the news that Graham Taylor has passed away. A

:23:37.:23:39.

genuinely kind, funny man, condolences to his family and

:23:40.:23:41.

friends. There was more evidence

:23:42.:23:45.

today of the pressures Figures for November show

:23:46.:23:47.

big increases in delays in discharging patients,

:23:48.:23:50.

because of the pressures The number of patients

:23:51.:23:52.

going to A was also up, The figures show there

:23:53.:23:55.

were an average of 31,000 emergency Our health editor,

:23:56.:23:59.

Hugh Pym, is with me. And the crucial thing here is these

:24:00.:24:03.

are just November figures. That's right, we only get these

:24:04.:24:14.

official figures from NHS England a couple of months after the event. Of

:24:15.:24:19.

course, the BBC got leaked document couple of days ago about how bad

:24:20.:24:24.

things were in January. This is looking back a couple of months,

:24:25.:24:27.

showing that then, things were not great either. All the key targets

:24:28.:24:32.

missed in terms of weights for cancer treatment, waits for

:24:33.:24:37.

operations, and that key four our weight in accident and emergency,

:24:38.:24:41.

95% of patients should be seen or assessed in that four hours, in

:24:42.:24:46.

England in November the figure was just 88.4%. That target hasn't been

:24:47.:24:50.

hit since the middle of 2015. England is slightly ahead of Wales

:24:51.:24:53.

and Northern Ireland on that measure, though they cover slightly

:24:54.:24:58.

different time periods. Scotland is above 90%, 92.3%. Once again, a

:24:59.:25:05.

considerable number of patients in hospital beds who could not be

:25:06.:25:08.

discharged, so-called delayed transfers, up nearly 30%

:25:09.:25:10.

year-on-year. That's because of difficulties out there with social

:25:11.:25:15.

care. A lot of them are down to social care, the inability to find a

:25:16.:25:19.

place for an elderly patient, so the patient is less -- left in hospital.

:25:20.:25:23.

All those problems in November, never mind where we are now. Thank

:25:24.:25:25.

you. The trial of Rolf Harris has been

:25:26.:25:28.

played the tape of a phone call, made by a woman to the NSPCC,

:25:29.:25:32.

alleging the entertainer The woman describes

:25:33.:25:34.

the alleged incident The 86-year-old is on trial

:25:35.:25:37.

at Southwark Crown Court, accused of indecently assaulting

:25:38.:25:40.

seven girls and women Let's speak to our correspondent,

:25:41.:25:42.

Sian Grzeszczyk, who's there. Today, the court heard from three

:25:43.:25:59.

women, the first alleging that Rolf Harris indecently assaulted her at a

:26:00.:26:02.

theatre when she was a teenager. The jury heard that recording of the

:26:03.:26:09.

cult of the NSPCC, which was made in July 2014, in which she describes

:26:10.:26:13.

the alleged incident as horrendous and said it had taken her years to

:26:14.:26:17.

come forward and have the courage to talk about it. She was being

:26:18.:26:21.

cross-examined by Rolf Harris's defence counsel about the timing of

:26:22.:26:27.

her making this call to the NSPCC. The QC said in the call, you said Mr

:26:28.:26:32.

Harris is being charged tomorrow, were you referring to his sentencing

:26:33.:26:36.

at the time? I can't remember, she replied. The QC said, we know that

:26:37.:26:42.

you did, do you accept you were following Mr Harris' trial in the

:26:43.:26:48.

media and press? She replied, I was following it intently. The

:26:49.:26:52.

prosecution then asked her if there was a financial motivation for her

:26:53.:26:58.

deciding to make the call. She said, no, I work full-time. Rolf Harris

:26:59.:27:03.

denies all of the charges. The trial at Southwark Crown Court is expected

:27:04.:27:05.

to last for five weeks. Thank you. More than 3000 American troops,

:27:06.:27:17.

tanks, and armoured vehicles arrive in Poland today -

:27:18.:27:19.

the United States' biggest military presence in the region

:27:20.:27:21.

since the Cold War. It's to support a Nato operation

:27:22.:27:23.

to deter Russian aggression, following fears from neighbouring

:27:24.:27:26.

countries since the Their arrival comes just days before

:27:27.:27:27.

the inauguration of Donald Trump, who's signalled he wants to improve

:27:28.:27:31.

relations with Moscow. This morning the Kremlin has said

:27:32.:27:33.

that the US military build-up in Poland is a threat

:27:34.:27:36.

to Russia's national security. A 72-year-old female rally driver

:27:37.:27:39.

is coming out of retirement to drive the original car

:27:40.:27:42.

in which she competed in the World Rally Cup

:27:43.:27:44.

almost 50 years ago. In 1970, Bronwyn Burrell

:27:45.:27:46.

was the youngest driver in the race Now she's been reunited

:27:47.:27:49.

with her Austin Maxi sports car, and is preparing to get behind

:27:50.:27:53.

the wheel again to She's currently in training,

:27:54.:27:56.

and John Maguire went Wembley, 1970, and a car

:27:57.:27:59.

rally marks the handover of the World Cup hosting duties

:28:00.:28:05.

from England to Mexico. Sir Alf Ramsey waves them off,

:28:06.:28:10.

and in car 20, three women We were going to be

:28:11.:28:14.

away for six weeks. It seemed like a lifetime, but

:28:15.:28:22.

wasn't a lifetime, it was a flash. This is us both in our lovely green

:28:23.:28:25.

C dresses and red puffer It was a stupid thing not to have

:28:26.:28:30.

short hair for that. The team was well-prepared,

:28:31.:28:47.

mechanically and personally. So we decided the best

:28:48.:28:51.

bet here was to have paper knickers, so we had

:28:52.:28:53.

colour-coded paper knickers. I think Tish was pink,

:28:54.:28:55.

and Tina was blue. So we could discard,

:28:56.:29:01.

didn't have to worry Such ingenuity may now return,

:29:02.:29:03.

as almost 50 years on, Bron has recently brought their original car,

:29:04.:29:08.

nicknamed Puff the Magic Wagon, What a shame Tish

:29:09.:29:13.

is no longer with us. I know, she'd love this,

:29:14.:29:20.

she'd love to be doing it all again, We're going to miss her,

:29:21.:29:23.

we are going to need The joy was she'd be pumping up,

:29:24.:29:27.

jacking up the tyre, you'd be loosening the nuts,

:29:28.:29:32.

I'd be getting the wheel off. Give me the wheel, back

:29:33.:29:35.

on the roof or in the car. I tell you what, shall

:29:36.:29:39.

we take her out on the track? Bron hasn't driven competitively

:29:40.:29:46.

since the early '70s, As you can see, Bron definitely

:29:47.:29:53.

comes from a rallying background. She's certainly not lacking

:29:54.:29:57.

in confidence out there in the car today, but you also see as well

:29:58.:29:59.

she's making quite a lot of little mistakes and that's why she's coming

:30:00.:30:03.

back to us a little bit In April, they'll drive

:30:04.:30:06.

to Portugal once again, It's a bit more controlled,

:30:07.:30:10.

because of health and safety. We used to do rallies and have one

:30:11.:30:14.

night's sleep in five days. The sport may have

:30:15.:30:19.

changed, but the car - and especially the driver -

:30:20.:30:23.

look as fast and furious as ever. Today, we have all sorts of weather

:30:24.:30:44.

happening across the UK. It's miserable across southern areas

:30:45.:30:46.

right now. We have some heavy rain around as well. Other parts of the

:30:47.:30:51.

country are experiencing some snow. The rain in the south could be

:30:52.:30:55.

turning to snow over the next few hours or so. We could have some

:30:56.:30:59.

heavy snow for a time across the South and Southeast in particular,

:31:00.:31:03.

as we had unfortunately to the rush hour. This is the nasty weather

:31:04.:31:06.

system across the South. We've also got frequent snow showers, wintry

:31:07.:31:12.

showers, across the north of the country, and also some very strong

:31:13.:31:16.

winds. We have a mix of weather happening out there today. Let's

:31:17.:31:19.

focus on the South first, because this is where the weather could be

:31:20.:31:22.

quite disruptive during the course of the rush hour. We were talking

:31:23.:31:25.

about this yesterday, the cold air mixing in with the milder rare.

:31:26.:31:29.

Let's see whether snow zone could from around about the South

:31:30.:31:35.

Midlands, going eastwards, across the south-east, and further north

:31:36.:31:38.

we've got those snow showers carried in by the really strong winds. We've

:31:39.:31:41.

seen pictures of Northern Ireland where we've had snowfall, also

:31:42.:31:45.

across parts of Scotland and in the North a little bit later on we could

:31:46.:31:48.

have blizzards across Scotland, so gales combined with the heavy snow.

:31:49.:31:53.

Let's focus across the south first. These are rough amounts of snow.

:31:54.:31:56.

It's so difficult to predict this. I'm not going to tell you we are

:31:57.:32:03.

going to get this absolutely spot on. It could be zero, it could be

:32:04.:32:06.

double that. Just be prepared. Going halfway. Most of that will probably

:32:07.:32:08.

settle across the hills but there could be some settling in towns and

:32:09.:32:12.

cities. That's one area of weather that should clear out eventually.

:32:13.:32:15.

These snow showers will affect other parts of the country through this

:32:16.:32:18.

evening and into tonight and tomorrow. Northern Ireland, parts of

:32:19.:32:22.

Wales, particularly the hills, Scotland, and another band of wintry

:32:23.:32:26.

weather crossing Yorkshire, moving southwards. Some of these Eastern

:32:27.:32:30.

counties as well. These are temperatures tonight, freezing. Any

:32:31.:32:32.

slushy stuff on the ground will look like this first thing tomorrow

:32:33.:32:37.

morning. This is probably the extreme. If you get this, it will be

:32:38.:32:41.

quite nasty. Look at this wintry weather affecting Eastern East

:32:42.:32:45.

Anglia, south-eastern areas through tomorrow morning, further wintry

:32:46.:32:48.

showers in the North, then it's actually a bright day. If you get

:32:49.:32:53.

one thing out of this weather forecast, the main thing is, just be

:32:54.:32:58.

prepared for some snow. Don't necessarily expect any, but be

:32:59.:33:01.

prepared for some nasty conditions and some delays as well. Now, how

:33:02.:33:06.

long is this weather going to last? Well, Saturday is looking pretty

:33:07.:33:09.

bright, but by the time we get the Sunday it looks like milder weather

:33:10.:33:11.

on the way. A reminder of our main

:33:12.:33:14.

story this lunchtime. The head of America's National

:33:15.:33:21.

Intelligence Agency says they were not the source of the leak that

:33:22.:33:25.

Russia has compromising material on Donald Trump. It's been announced

:33:26.:33:28.

that former England football manager Graham Taylor has died. He was 72.

:33:29.:33:34.

More on that throughout the day, but that's all from the BBC News that

:33:35.:33:37.

one. It's goodbye from me. We'll

:33:38.:33:38.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS