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This is Breakfast, with Louise Minchin. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Too many young carers are going "under the radar" | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
A study by the Children's Commissioner for England says four | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
out of five young people don't get the help they should from local | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Some voters in England will have to show photographic ID before | :00:21. | :00:43. | |
casting their vote as part of efforts to reduce electoral fraud. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
His private life was very much public knowledge, | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
but details of George Michael's quiet generosity begin to surface | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
Chelsea extend their winning run to 12 games | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
as they go seven points clear at the top of the Premier League. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Good morning. It is a frosty start for some of us this morning with | :01:08. | :01:20. | |
patchy fog as well. For most, dry with hazy sunshine, except in the | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
north and west, where we have more clout and spots of rain. Further | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
details in 50 minutes -- cloud. The Children's Commissioner | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
for England says the vast majority of young carers receive | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
no support from local Anne Longfield says four out of five | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
are "going under the radar". The Local Government Association | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
said funding cuts meant councils were being forced to make | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
difficult decisions. This is Daniel, one of thousands | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
of young carers in England. He's ten and lives with his mum, | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
Florella, who has a brain tumour. When he's not at school, | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
he helps around the house, but he constantly worries | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
about his mum when he isn't there. I started becoming more responsible | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
and I started doing the cleaning. I started paying more attention | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
to what my mum was doing. Then, because I wasn't around, | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
I was always worried Today's report by the Children's | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
Commissioner found of the 160,000 young carers in England, | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
just over 128,000 children aged 5-17 may not be known | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
to local authorities. And councils identified 160 young | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
carers in England who are under This is often systematic support | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
for vulnerable family members who may have mental illness | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
or physical disabilities. They need to be able | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
to flourish at school, they need to be able to enjoy | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
childhood and grow up, whilst they're still offering | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
the familial support that The Local Government Association | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
says funding cuts to children's services means councils have been | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
forced to make difficult decisions about what support they | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
are able to provide. But it says all young carers should | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
receive an assessment to find out In just over an hour, | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
I'll be talking to Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield, | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
and to a teenage girl who looks England's chief nursing officer has | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
urged the NHS to invest more in caring for people at home | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
to reduce the amount of money being wasted keeping elderly | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
patients in hospital unnecessarily. Jane Cummings says | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
the health service has a responsibility to change | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
"outdated models of care" and ensure patients don't "fall | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
into cracks" between different parts Some voters in England will have | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
to show photo ID before being allowed to cast their ballots | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
vote as part of a new trial. It's one of a number | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
of efforts being introduced Our political correspondent | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
Tom Bateman is in our Tom, why has the government decided | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
this change is needed? Who will be affected? This came | :04:15. | :04:26. | |
after allegations that there had been fraud during the vote back in | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
2014 for a mayor in Tower Hamlets in east London. The Electoral | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
Commission after that said they had been election fraud, and that former | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
mayor was then stripped of office. The former Conservative minister, | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
Sir Eric pickles, was asked by the government to look into this, and | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
said there should be some sweeping changes to the law around voting in | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
England. One of the things he is recommending or has recommended is | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
that voters should show some sort of identification when they are on | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
their way into the polling booths. That could include things like a | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
passport or driving licence, but also perhaps a bus pass or even a | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
bank statement or your bank card. The government this morning has said | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
it is accepting the majority of those recommendations. In 2018 at | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
the local elections in England, it will trial some of these ideas, | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
especially those around having to show identification. We do not know | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
the exact areas that will take place, but certainly, it will be | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
piloted. The Labour Party say they welcome ideas such as these, but are | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
accusing the government of trying to break the system, saying business | :05:36. | :05:46. | |
more about getting votes for the Conservatives than anything else, | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
and they want the government to look at the issue of how we registered to | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
vote in the first place. Thank you very much. | :05:54. | :05:54. | |
The Magistrates Association has expressed concern about plans | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
to allow people to go online to enter guilty pleas and pay fines | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
It says an internet-only system could lower public confidence. | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
Details are emerging of George Michael's charity work, | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
as tributes continue to pour in since his death on Christmas Day. | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
For years the singer had donated money to organisations, | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
and worked undercover at a homeless shelter. | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
He was a huge personality whose life played out in the headlines. But | :06:19. | :06:35. | |
behind this onstage persona, details of George Michael's charitable | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
donations are now emerging. He had volunteered to work in a homeless | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
shelter, provided it was kept quiet. He paid for a game show contestant | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
to have IVF treatment. And gave Sport Relief ?50,000 and David | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
Whalley 's son the English Channel in 2006. Children, cancer patients | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
and many other charities also received donations -- them out. Last | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
night, tributes came from those close to him. His partner said: | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
His former long-term partner Kenny paid tribute to an extremely kind | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
and generous man, saying he loved him very, very much. At his home in | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
Oxfordshire, friends came to remember their icon. There were | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
emotional scenes at another of his houses, Highgate in London, from | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
people struggling to come to terms with his death from suspected heart | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
failure. I know 2016 has been a bad year, and it is very sad for a lot | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
of artists, but it was George Michael Beck got me. I think we grew | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
up with him, was the main thing. George Michael's career spanned | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
nearly four decades, and these fans will make sure his music lives on. | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
We will be talking about George Michael a little later as well. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
A search operation is continuing for a Russian military plane | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
which was carrying 92 people and crashed over | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
are involved in the operation near Sochi. | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
The Defence Ministry said the bodies of 11 people | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
and parts of the plane's fuselage have been recovered so far. | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Liz Smith, the actor best known for playing Nana in the sitcom | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
The Royle Family, has died at the age of 95. | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
A spokesperson for her family announced she passed away | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
Peter Ruddick has been looking back at her life. | :08:37. | :08:47. | |
She's a vegetarian, Nana. Could you have some wafer thin hand? Could she | :08:48. | :08:58. | |
have wafer thin hand, Barbara? No! From Dottie Nana to the eccentric | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
baker in the figure of Diddley, this Smith carved out a niche playing | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
scatty but hilarious older ladies. -- Liz Smith. It is chocolate | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
spread! Chocolate? You promise? Yeah. All right, I will. Very | :09:19. | :09:29. | |
unusual taste. I put in a little something extra as well. She had | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
been through a tough childhood, and an even tougher early career as a | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
single mother of two with a series of part-time jobs. It was only when | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
she was nearly 50 that she got her breakthrough after being offered a | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
theatre role by Mike Leigh. It was like a wonderful realisation that at | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
last I was being given a chance. It had come, it had come at last. She | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
may have started late, but she made up for lost time with award-winning | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
roles in TV and film, resulting in her being awarded the MBE in 2009. | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
But it will be as Nana, the Queen of Sheba, for which she will be most | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
remembered. The actor Liz Smith, | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
who has died at the age of 95. Only about half of the families | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
in Britain own their homes, according to new analysis | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
by the Resolution Foundation. Although official housing figures | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
suggest a much higher number, the think-tank believes the people | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
living in private rented accommodation has | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
been underestimated. Owning a home is something many | :10:31. | :10:45. | |
people aspire to. Official figures showed 64% of us are owner | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
occupiers. That is down from a high of around 70% just over ten years | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
ago. But the Resolution Foundation says those figures don't reflect the | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
true picture. Take for example a person who buys a house and then | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
takes in three voters. The official figures would count that as one of | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
owner occupier. The three people renting would disappear from the | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
picture. We massively overstate home ownership in this country by looking | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
at properties rather than families. It suggests we need to think lots | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
more than we already do about how the other half live, the half of the | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
country that are not in a home owning family. The Resolution | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
Foundation says the number of people who rent privately has doubled since | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
1992. In London, that figure has trebled. The think tank also says | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
there are 5.8 million families who are missing from the official | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
figures because they live in someone else's home. The foundation says we | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
should concentrate a little less on home owners and think more about how | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
the other half of the population lives. | :11:54. | :11:54. | |
A number of roads remain closed in Scotland after the disruption | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
Wind speeds in excess of 90 miles an hour were recorded | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
on the island of Shetland on Boxing Day while large parts | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
of the north experienced heavy snowfall. | :12:05. | :12:05. | |
The Scottish Transport Minister has been chairing extra meetings | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
of the government's resilience team to deal with the situation. | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
The Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo A-bay, is in Hawaii, | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
for an historic visit which will see him pay his respects | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
at the site of the attack on Pearl Harbor. | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
He'll become the first sitting Japanese Prime Minister | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
to visit the memorial that honours the hundreds of sailors and marines | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
A group of conservationists say that the world's fastest land | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
animal, the cheetah, is rapidly heading for extinction. | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
The Zoological Society of London says cheetah numbers | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
in the wold are falling because of human encroachment | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
They say it's "crunch time" for the cats, with only an estimated | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
7000 left in Africa and just 50 in Iran. | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
should we have a quick look at the papers this morning? Most of them | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
still talking about George Michael. The front page of the Times, | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
pictures again. Flowers, cards and candles being left outside his home | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
as the pop world pays tribute to George Michael. Their main story is | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
about the nuclear safety regulator. It is accused of turning a blind eye | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
to dozens of serious mistakes at power plants and military bases. A | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
quick look at the other papers. And need my glamorous assistant, who is | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
currently not here. The front page of the Daily Telegraph. It is a bank | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
holiday. A lovely picture of George Michael. Neil McCormick talks about | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
his conflict that made him so compelling. And talking about the | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
NHS as well, it should spend more money on patients in their own homes | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
instead of hospital beds. We have spoken about that on BBC Breakfast | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
as well. A couple of the other ones, I will just get organised. The front | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
page of the Sun. You were someone special, George. That is in the | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
Daily Mail, George Michael again. Talking about comments allegedly | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
said by the Queen. Any front page of the Daily Mirror, comments by George | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
Michael's heartbroken partner. On the inside pages as well, if I can | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
find them, I don't know if anyone of you were going shopping yesterday, | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
but foreign shoppers apparently queued through the night for a | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
bargain. Millions of Britons breading huge crowds for the Boxing | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
Day sales. But the pound meant many foreigners came over to take | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
advantage of the prices. I don't know if that lady has bought all of | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
that, but that seems an extraordinary amount of close to | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
buy. -- clothes. You're watching | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
Breakfast from BBC News. A study by the Children's | :14:50. | :14:50. | |
Commissioner for England says the vast majority of young carers | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
are getting no support from local Some voters in England are to be | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
asked to provide ID before The requirement is to be | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
trialled as part of efforts Also coming up in the programme - | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
2016 will be a year astronaut We'll review his space mission | :15:08. | :15:18. | |
in a look back over the last twelve Very glad to say that Carol is here | :15:19. | :15:38. | |
with me this morning. In spirit, at least. It is quite cold, isn't it? | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
Good morning. Yes it is quite cold. Frost around if you head out early | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
you may find you need to scrape your windscreen. For most of us today it | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
will be largely dry and there will be sunshine around as well although | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
turning hazy through the day. High pressure in charge of the weather. | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
After the storm moved away from the Scottish shores. Not a lot of wind | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
around. Shallow pockets of fog that should clear redly and for many | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
parts of the UK we are off to a driver cold start. At the moment it | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
is -5 in Bournemouth the temperatures is below freezing. As | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
we move northwards across northern England and Northern Ireland and | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
Scotland here and there there is a little more cloud around. In the | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
Scottish north-west that will be the odd spot of rain but nothing too | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
substantial. The rest of the UK has hardly a breath of wind. Once again | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
through the day we will enjoy a lot of dry weather and sunshine. Turning | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
the sunshine hazy at times. Improving across the north-west as | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
we go through the day as well. Temperature- wise if you are heading | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
out for a walk or going shopping it is going to be cold. Overnight we | :17:02. | :17:10. | |
will see some fog developed. High-pressure starting to push away | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
a little bit onto the continent that we have the ridge across us. The | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
other thing we have is a weather front not too far away from the | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
north-west. Tomorrow morning we start off with dense fog. It may | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
prove to be disruptive. Some of it will lift into low cloud and if you | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
are stuck under it will feel cold. Fog across many parts of England. | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
Out towards the west it will brighten up and we will see | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
sunshine. The rumour but when we had a weather front not too far away | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
from north-west Scotland? It all come along and bring more persistent | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
rain throughout the day. As we move from Wednesday into Thursday more | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
front start to show. Look at the squeeze up here. It will become | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
windier and as we go through the end of the week for many it will be | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
cloudy and you will find some spots of rain across the north-west. | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
Temperature wise 11 degrees in Belfast by Friday. Into the weekend | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
it looks very much like it will turn a little bit colder. In some ways I | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
like it like that. Thank you, Carol. For many of us, it's the time | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
of year to be either sat around the dinner table of in | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
front of the television. But with a rise in streaming | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
services, gone are the days of the whole country watching | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
the same programme at the same time. Breakfast's Sean Farrington has been | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
looking at the boom in on-demand. We have been gorging this Christmas, | :18:35. | :18:49. | |
not just on food but an dater. We consume hundreds of gigabytes of | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
data each month, the equivalent of 200 episodes of planet Earth too. | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
The way we get that data into our households is through broadband and | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
the faster the connection the more likely we are to download our | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
favourite programmes. The better the connection, 30 or 40 megabits a | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
second, the more likely we are then to use online video like sky TV, | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
Amazon prime, I play or Netflix. I watch Netflix and YouTube. I watch | :19:17. | :19:25. | |
mine craft. I want to binge. I want to start at the beginning, watch it | :19:26. | :19:35. | |
all night. I watch on the computer and sometimes on my phone. In the | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
evening I will sit here and watch Netflix with my husband. I will do | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
something on my phone and my daughter will be upstairs with her | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
laptop and occasionally, not every night, and occasionally the youngest | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
will be in this bed with this best babysitter, the iPad, and he may | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
just watch a bit of YouTube. Although there has been a big | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
improvement on 2015, the regulators is that large parts of the UK are | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
still not able to get a decent broadband connection. Over 1 million | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
homes not able to download fast and offer a modern family's needs. Band | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
is so important now to families, particularly younger families where | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
every body wants to be online at once doing their own thing. It is | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
now is important to them as electricity and isn't running water. | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
The problem is that there are still frowned a thousand homes cannot | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
stream one video will own two or three videos. It is important | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
because the availability of faster broadband has met were taking more | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
control of what we watch and more particularly when it suits us. The | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
number crunchers at the BBC's I play things they see traffic on their | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
website increased by 36% around the Christmas period. Whether it's | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
Christmas time you watch more together. Because there is nothing | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
else to do. I don't mean that. You are around each other more. You | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
don't go to school, you have no homework. As we enter 2017 we notice | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
that the children spaces underserviced at the moment so we | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
will invest heavily in high quality content that does not patronise | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
young audiences. On average we watch over what hours of television a day. | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
Mostly through the familiar TV channels. Still lots of room for | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
growth for the likes of Amazon and Netflix with a particular talent for | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
2017- can they get the whole family together in the same room to watch | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
something online? Tell us what you've been watching and whether | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
you've been able to watch coming together of Christmas. | :21:43. | :21:43. | |
A survey of GPs has suggested that almost half of them don't believe | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
that it's in the best interests of dementia patients to know that | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
They say many support services are poor, and the diagnosis can | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
Joy Watson was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
I feel I have benefited from knowing. And I can walk around -- | :21:59. | :22:14. | |
work around my relationships better. I can inform my grandchildren so | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
that they know what is going on. They have gotten used to the idea | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
that nanny says silly things and gets in a muddle. Many needs a | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
couple. And it is adapting, I think. It is a confusing illness so if you | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
do not have the diagnosis it does not open doors that are vital that I | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
have support networks for myself, carers groups, support groups that I | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
need but if I didn't know that Chua had Alzheimer's, I would not have | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
access to those. Joining me now is Kathryn Smith | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
from the Alzheimer's Society Good morning to you both. Thank you | :22:52. | :23:01. | |
for joining us. The Alzheimer's Society has done the research. You | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
shocked or surprised? I would not say I was particularly surprised | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
because this is the kind of information that we hear from the | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
people who speak to is on the helpline that they found it | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
difficult to get a diagnosis and we have had stories of people who have | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
known something is wrong for five years before they could get a | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
diagnosis. So while it is shocking it does back at some of the | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
anecdotal evidence that we have are from people we work with. Other | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
doctors you think that are not trying to have a diagnosis or | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
passing one on? Not at all. As doctors, I think, the diagnosis is | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
almost like the endpoint. Everyone can look and see it. But a patient, | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
when people have trouble or worries you have to help them and help them | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
get to the right place and get the right diagnosis. Sometimes you have | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
to do what suits them and when it is the right time for them. Sometimes | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
you will have people who do not want to pursue an active diagnosis and | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
you need to back off sometimes. You try really hard to get a diagnosis | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
that you cannot get them into memory clinics or secondary care. It is far | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
better than that is certainly, doctors are not... Something | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
interesting fare about some people not wanting the diagnosis. Tell us | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
about these conversations. Have you even start a conversation like that? | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
It is a difficult conversation. A diagnosis of dementia is... It is a | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
fairly serious life changing diagnosis not only to yourself but | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
for your loved ones and people around you. There are people who do | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
not want an answer. And I'm sure you probably see this. You sometimes | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
have family or carer 's come in being worried and sometimes you have | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
to come if you have a chance to meet them and discuss that from different | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
points, they do not want to see you all come around to see you. | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Sometimes it is just giving them the space and knowing that you are there | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
how much difference that diagnosis mate? I appreciate that if somebody | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
does not want to go to a GP then that is different that if somebody | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
does what go to see a doctor, that means they are worried and stop that | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
something is not quite right. So for somebody to find out that they have | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
a diagnosis, it is not the news they wanted to hear but having said that | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
they then at least know what the problem is and that there is an | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
issue and get the right care and support things like a lasting | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
power-of-attorney seek to make arrangements for your own future | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
care planning or your financial situation and being able to get | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
information about about your condition about how might affect | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
you. For certain types of dementia there are medications that can help | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
delay symptoms. And then finding out the available support. Asking the | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
family to support you. Or people who have been worried about their family | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
for quite some time, getting a diagnosis sometimes gives you a | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
relief, lets you feel you can move on to do what needs to be done next. | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
The diagnosis is not simple as that? What is the process you need to go | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
through? In a way it is a little bit easier if they approach you. That is | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
like one of the big things. There are, I mean, there is a huge | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
incentive at the moment for doctors to improve and increase the | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
diagnosis of dementia which they are doing. Initially when you probably | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
go and see your GP they do so memory tests with you, they do some cloud | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
tests because the research and conditions that are treatable, | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
reversible. But then a formal diagnosis is a whole input from | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
getting scans, getting a psychiatrist's import, plucking | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
people into support services. It is arranging all of that that is | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
important as well. And that is a lot harder to access. Thank you very | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
much for coming to join us today. If you're someone who suffers | :27:07. | :27:08. | |
from regular aches and pains, scientists in Oxford think they may | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
have found the reason why, It's all to do with the way | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
humans have evolved, as Smeetha Mundasad | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
has been finding out. 3-D printing the bones of our | :27:20. | :27:31. | |
distant ancestors and imagining how we might look in thousands of years | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
time. An unconventional way to approach an everyday problem. | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
Where's that the humans of today get so much joy and pain? To answer, | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
scientist looked back at hundreds of ancient skeletons and say evolution | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
could be partly to blame. This is a 30,000 -year-old fighter and it is | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
this area he which has changed. We call it the neck of the cyclone. As | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
we have gone through revolution this area is getting sicker and sicker | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
whereas we know there is a direct link between this area are getting | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
sicker and early arthritis. That is not all. They can nudge their model | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
forward, having a guess at how humid skeletons made change in 5000 years | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
time. These 3-D printed models show what the bones of the future humid | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
could look like. Scientists say by studying them closely this clear | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
that the humid skeleton is changing and they say current trends continue | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
its likely that our riders and pain will get more common. -- arthritis | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
and pain will get more common. Consider the shoulder. As we began | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
walking on two legs the shape of the shoulder shifted to compensate for a | :28:52. | :28:58. | |
new gate. Look at this space getting narrower and narrower over millions | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
of years. Scientists say this leaves less room for tendons attach muscles | :29:02. | :29:08. | |
to bone to move. Leading to more pain as we reach overhead. And if | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
this pattern continues, it is set to get worse in the future. Researchers | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
say while abolition may have left us with some an harmful hangovers, | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
physiotherapy and using the right posture can help conquer some of the | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
downsides of our design. They hope that projects like this one might | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
help design the joint replacements and surgeries of the future. | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
Very interesting. This is breakfast. Coming up we have a review of the | :29:36. | :29:43. | |
year in the world of science. First, however, I would just remind you of | :29:44. | :29:45. | |
the morning's main news stories. England's chief nursing officer has | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
urged the NHS to invest more Jane Cummings says money | :29:53. | :29:54. | |
is being wasted on keeping elderly Four out of five young carers are | :29:55. | :30:08. | |
going under the radar. Funding cuts have meant local councils are forced | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
to make difficult decisions. Some voters in England for aftershow | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
photo ID before being allowed to vote as part of a new trial. It is | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
one of a number of schemes being introduced by the government to | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
reduce electoral fraud. The councils involved will use the measure in the | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
2018 local elections. It comes after a report into photo corruption in | :30:30. | :30:31. | |
Tower Hamlets last year. Details are emerging | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
of George Michael's charity work, as tributes continue to pour | :30:35. | :30:36. | |
in since his death on Christmas Day. He was found dead at home on | :30:37. | :30:46. | |
Christmas Day. It is revealed he went undercover at a homeless | :30:47. | :30:48. | |
shelter in spent years donating money to different organisations. | :30:49. | :30:55. | |
The actor Liz Smith has died at the age of 95. She was best known for | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
comedy roles, playing often eccentric older ladies, including | :31:00. | :31:07. | |
Nana in The Royle Family. She only began acting professionally at 49, | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
enjoyed a career lasting more than four decades until her retirement in | :31:12. | :31:18. | |
2009. The number of roads remained closed in Scotland after disruption | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
caused by storm,. Wind speeds in excess of 90 mph were recorded on | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
the island of Shetland on Boxing Day while large parts of the North | :31:28. | :31:29. | |
experienced heavy snowfall. The Scottish Transport Minister has | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
been chairing extra meetings of the government's resilience team | :31:33. | :31:34. | |
to deal with the situation. I'm not wearing blue because of | :31:35. | :31:48. | |
Chelsea, but I might as well be. What a difference a year makes for | :31:49. | :31:50. | |
Chelsea. Hello. It's 12 wins in a row | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
now for Chelsea, They were missing key players | :31:54. | :31:55. | |
Diego Costa and Ngolo Kante for their match against Bournemouth, | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
but they came through as 3-0 winners thanks to goals from Pedro, | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
Eden Hazard and a late own goal off They're seven points | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
clear now at the top, and in those 12 games they've | :32:08. | :32:09. | |
kept 10 clean sheets. We had chances to score more goals, | :32:10. | :32:28. | |
but for the players, today we played a game without two important | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
players. But I think we played very well. | :32:33. | :32:34. | |
Manchester City are up to second place. | :32:35. | :32:36. | |
They won 3-0 win at bottom of the table Hull, in a game | :32:37. | :32:40. | |
that was closer than the scoreline suggests. | :32:41. | :32:42. | |
But after Yaya Toure had opened the scoring from the penalty | :32:43. | :32:45. | |
spot, gaps appeared in the Hull defence. | :32:46. | :32:47. | |
This goal from Kelechi Ihenacho made it 2-0. | :32:48. | :32:49. | |
Things got worse for Hull in injury time when Curtis Davies scored | :32:50. | :32:52. | |
This stunning finish from Henrikh Mkhitaryan helped | :32:53. | :32:56. | |
Manchester United to a fourth straight win in the league. | :32:57. | :32:58. | |
They beat Sunderland 3-1, meaning defeat for David Moyes | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
on his return to Old Trafford for the first time since | :33:02. | :33:04. | |
he was sacked as United manager in 2014. | :33:05. | :33:06. | |
Sam Allardyce's first game in charge of Crystal Palace ended in a 1-1 | :33:07. | :33:10. | |
Elsewhere Arsenal beat West Brom 1-0. | :33:11. | :33:13. | |
Burnley saw off Middlesbrough by the same scoreline. | :33:14. | :33:15. | |
Champions Leicester lost at home to Everton 2-0. | :33:16. | :33:18. | |
And West Ham won away at relegation-threatened | :33:19. | :33:20. | |
Sam Allardyce's first game in charge of Crystal Palace ended in a 1-1 | :33:21. | :33:32. | |
Later today, Liverpool take on Stoke. | :33:33. | :33:37. | |
The favourite Thistlecrack claimed an impressive win in the big | :33:38. | :33:40. | |
Boxing Day race at Kempton Park - the King George VI Chase. | :33:41. | :33:43. | |
Ridden by Tom Scudamore, Thistlecrack charged clear | :33:44. | :33:45. | |
on the final circuit to ease to victory ahead of Cue Card | :33:46. | :33:48. | |
It was only Thistlecrack's fourth race over fences. | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
It took them until Boxing Day, but Bristol Rugby have their first | :33:54. | :33:56. | |
win of the Premiership season, beating Worcester 28-20. | :33:57. | :33:59. | |
The table's bottom side played much of the match with ten men, | :34:00. | :34:02. | |
but a hat-trick from Tom Varndell helped them close the gap | :34:03. | :34:05. | |
on their opponents at the foot of the table to just two points. | :34:06. | :34:10. | |
There were three derby matches in the Pro12. | :34:11. | :34:13. | |
Glasgow ended a run of three straight defeats by beating rivals | :34:14. | :34:16. | |
Cardiff Blues beat Newport and Munster beat Leinster | :34:17. | :34:23. | |
I'll be back at 0700, but now on Breakfast, | :34:24. | :34:33. | |
Rebecca Morelle looks back on the year in science, | :34:34. | :34:45. | |
From the mission of a lifetime, this was the year British astronaut | :34:46. | :34:48. | |
In 2016, the world's largest radio telescope was unveiled. | :34:49. | :35:03. | |
We also learned about the secret life of seals | :35:04. | :35:05. | |
And saw advances in a controversial new genetic technique. | :35:06. | :35:16. | |
Human organs are growing inside these pigs. | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
This was also the year a global climate deal came into force | :35:21. | :35:24. | |
but the election of Donald Trump placed a question | :35:25. | :35:26. | |
And after decades of searching, scientists have detected | :35:27. | :35:35. | |
It's been called the discovery of the century, making 2016 a truly | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
I'm here at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the north of England. | :35:40. | :35:48. | |
For more than half a century, scientists have been using this vast | :35:49. | :35:51. | |
telescope to gaze up into the heavens, transforming our | :35:52. | :35:53. | |
Some people have been lucky enough to experience the wonders | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
This year it was the turn of British astronaut Tim Peake. | :36:00. | :36:07. | |
Blasting off, the start of a remarkable mission. | :36:08. | :36:14. | |
He was heading for the space station to join its international crew | :36:15. | :36:23. | |
The first British astronaut now on board | :36:24. | :36:29. | |
In his first live broadcast, he said the experience | :36:30. | :36:35. | |
We always talk about seeing the view of planet Earth | :36:36. | :36:41. | |
But, when you look the opposite direction and you see how dark space | :36:42. | :36:51. | |
is, the blackest black, and you realise how small the Earth | :36:52. | :36:54. | |
His space moves, though, still needed a bit of work. | :36:55. | :37:03. | |
But before long, Tim got a chance to put on his space | :37:04. | :37:10. | |
suit and head outside, joining Nasa astronaut | :37:11. | :37:12. | |
Tim, it's really cool seeing the Union Jack going outside. | :37:13. | :37:22. | |
It's explored all over the world, and now it's explored space. | :37:23. | :37:25. | |
Their task was to carry out essential repairs. | :37:26. | :37:32. | |
At 400 kilometres above the Earth, what better place to take a selfie? | :37:33. | :37:37. | |
Science was also key for this European Space Agency mission. | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
Tim became a human guinea pig, seeing how the body changes in this | :37:42. | :37:45. | |
He even found time to squeeze in the London Marathon, and, | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
But after six months, it was time to say goodbye | :37:50. | :37:58. | |
Strapped into the Soyuz capsule, Tim and his crew mates | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
Awaiting them, a support team circling above the grassy | :38:04. | :38:10. | |
Then suddenly, above the clouds, the capsule appeared. | :38:11. | :38:18. | |
And with a firing of its thrusters, it finally touched down. | :38:19. | :38:21. | |
Weak after six months in space, but happy to be home. | :38:22. | :38:30. | |
And it's wonderful to be back in the fresh air. | :38:31. | :38:39. | |
Since his return, Tim's been meeting schoolchildren around the UK. | :38:40. | :38:48. | |
He hopes his mission might just inspire the next generation | :38:49. | :38:58. | |
Jodrell Bank was built back in the 1950s and this dish | :38:59. | :39:05. | |
In China, the Government is investing heavily in science | :39:06. | :39:15. | |
and they've decided it's time for their own record-breaker, | :39:16. | :39:17. | |
a radio telescope that's half a kilometre across. | :39:18. | :39:26. | |
Hidden in the remote mountains of south-west China, | :39:27. | :39:28. | |
This is the largest radio telescope ever built. | :39:29. | :39:41. | |
Earlier this year, as it neared completion, I was given rare access | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
and a chance for a view unlike any other. | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
It's only when you get up close that you really get a sense | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
Bigger is better when it comes to astronomy. | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
The larger the dish, the more signals can be | :40:01. | :40:03. | |
collected from space, helping us to see deeper | :40:04. | :40:05. | |
In China, astronomy, we are far behind the world. | :40:06. | :40:14. | |
I think it is time for us to build something in China and used | :40:15. | :40:18. | |
by a lot of Chinese users, and also welcome the | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
The telescope works by listening to radio waves emitted | :40:23. | :40:30. | |
The dish is so big it will reveal the first stars and galaxies | :40:31. | :40:36. | |
and even hunt for signs of extraterrestrial life. | :40:37. | :40:40. | |
Building it has taken the Chinese just five years. | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
At a cost of $180 million, it is part of the country's | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
unprecedented investment in science, that's on the verge | :40:49. | :40:50. | |
By September, the final pieces were slotted into place. | :40:51. | :41:01. | |
China is now hoping its super-sized project will transform it | :41:02. | :41:07. | |
For the medical world, it's also been a year of breakthroughs. | :41:08. | :41:19. | |
These miniature brains, called organoids. | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
They're grown from a single cell, donated by patients. | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
And they're helping scientists to understand | :41:29. | :41:30. | |
We can actually compare the organoids to the patient and see | :41:31. | :41:38. | |
if we can see some of the features of the disorder | :41:39. | :41:41. | |
and try to understand what caused those features. | :41:42. | :41:43. | |
I think it's a really huge step toward some hopefully really amazing | :41:44. | :41:46. | |
breakthroughs in what has been a desert in the field | :41:47. | :41:49. | |
And in Poland, this man was completely paralysed | :41:50. | :41:56. | |
Now he is relearning how to use his legs. | :41:57. | :42:03. | |
Two years ago, he had a cell transplant to | :42:04. | :42:06. | |
Now scientists want to see if these outstanding results can | :42:07. | :42:09. | |
And in America, the technology called gene editing | :42:10. | :42:16. | |
Here, human stem cells are being injected into a pig embryo. | :42:17. | :42:23. | |
Scientists are attempting to grow a human pancreas inside a pig. | :42:24. | :42:30. | |
Our hope is that this pig embryo will develop normally. | :42:31. | :42:34. | |
But the pancreas will be made up almost exclusively out of human | :42:35. | :42:38. | |
So that then that pancreas could be compatible with a patient | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
These pigs are pregnant with the embryos. | :42:44. | :42:51. | |
They won't reach full term - they will be removed after a | :42:52. | :42:54. | |
Every organ we try to make - be it kidney, liver or lung, we will look | :42:55. | :43:01. | |
If we find it is too human like, we won't let those foetuses be born. | :43:02. | :43:10. | |
The hope is this technology could eventually solve organ | :43:11. | :43:13. | |
shortages but it also raises profound, ethical questions. | :43:14. | :43:23. | |
In 2016, we've also been learning about | :43:24. | :43:25. | |
These incredible animals were found in the Mariana Trench, | :43:26. | :43:35. | |
as scientists explored the deepest place on the planet. | :43:36. | :43:41. | |
And an animal that's a record-breaker. | :43:42. | :43:44. | |
Scientists believe the Greenland shark can reach 400 | :43:45. | :43:46. | |
years old, making it the world's longest living vertebrate. | :43:47. | :43:57. | |
And this year, we learned about the secret lives of seals. | :43:58. | :44:02. | |
Beneath the waves, these animals are a mystery. | :44:03. | :44:06. | |
They spend two thirds of their time in the water. | :44:07. | :44:09. | |
But down here, they have been little studied. | :44:10. | :44:14. | |
We travelled to their home in the north of England, | :44:15. | :44:17. | |
It was a chance to join these animals in the | :44:18. | :44:29. | |
The animals seemed as interested in us | :44:30. | :44:36. | |
these incredible animals up close, you do have to get into the water. | :44:37. | :44:46. | |
Around the coast of the UK, nearly 40% of the world's | :44:47. | :44:49. | |
There are 5000 here in the Farne Islands. | :44:50. | :44:58. | |
This is Ben, who has been diving with seals for years. | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
Recording behaviour that surprisingly has never been | :45:03. | :45:06. | |
What we are seeing is a lot of mating behaviour under water, | :45:07. | :45:13. | |
down to depths of nearly eight metres. | :45:14. | :45:16. | |
A lot of bull seal activity where they will wrestle each other, | :45:17. | :45:19. | |
pushing each other and turning each other. | :45:20. | :45:20. | |
By having these competitions underwater, whether that reduces | :45:21. | :45:25. | |
that conflict on the land and they remember that behaviour. | :45:26. | :45:32. | |
We are getting an intriguing glimpse of a hidden world. | :45:33. | :45:36. | |
Understanding these animals could be the key to keeping | :45:37. | :45:39. | |
With this beautiful and intricate model, you can | :45:40. | :45:47. | |
see our solar system at a glance and explore how the planets | :45:48. | :45:50. | |
There is one world that dominates all others, that's Jupiter. | :45:51. | :45:56. | |
It's the biggest planet in our solar system | :45:57. | :45:59. | |
Beneath its swirling clouds, Jupiter is a world shrouded in mystery. | :46:00. | :46:12. | |
These images, though spectacular, were taken from afar. | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
Nasa wanted to see this giant up close. | :46:18. | :46:19. | |
The spacecraft called Juno embarking on an epic journey. | :46:20. | :46:36. | |
As it neared its destination, it faced its biggest challenge. | :46:37. | :46:40. | |
To get into orbit, it had to slam on its brakes and survive | :46:41. | :46:45. | |
everything Jupiter could throw at it, including its deadly radiation. | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
When Juno goes into orbit around Jupiter, we're going to go | :46:51. | :46:54. | |
through a really nasty, hazardous region, | :46:55. | :46:56. | |
radiation belts that are very close to the planet. | :46:57. | :46:59. | |
They are nasty and can destroy and attack all | :47:00. | :47:03. | |
Scientists faced a tense wait at mission control in California to | :47:04. | :47:11. | |
learn the fate of their billion-dollar spacecraft. | :47:12. | :47:15. | |
The mood is pure elation here. | :47:16. | :47:24. | |
After more than a decade of work and a | :47:25. | :47:27. | |
journey through space, Juno is the closest we have ever been to | :47:28. | :47:30. | |
For the first time, its South Pole was revealed. | :47:31. | :47:52. | |
Covered in storms, many even bigger than the Earth. | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
In the north, it's blanketed by a thick atmosphere. | :47:57. | :47:59. | |
In this infrared view, at the top you | :48:00. | :48:02. | |
And the sound was captured as the spacecraft flew through | :48:03. | :48:09. | |
We're flying over the pole for the first time. | :48:10. | :48:21. | |
Scientists say Jupiter is like nothing they have ever seen before. | :48:22. | :48:40. | |
But Mars was the destination for the European Space Agency. | :48:41. | :48:44. | |
Firstly to get a spacecraft into orbit, which went | :48:45. | :48:48. | |
Scientists also wanted to set down a lander on the | :48:49. | :49:03. | |
But a signal was never sent back to Earth. | :49:04. | :49:06. | |
Days later, these images revealed a crash site. | :49:07. | :49:08. | |
The spacecraft had failed in the final moments of its descent. | :49:09. | :49:15. | |
This year we have been pushing the boundaries of space exploration. | :49:16. | :49:18. | |
Our focus has been very much on our own planet. | :49:19. | :49:21. | |
2016 has been declared the hottest year on record, | :49:22. | :49:25. | |
putting climate change and how to tackle it in the spotlight | :49:26. | :49:28. | |
This year, our planet united, at least for a while. | :49:29. | :49:37. | |
For the world's countries, a plan to cut | :49:38. | :49:40. | |
greenhouse gases became international law. | :49:41. | :49:48. | |
The groundwork was laid at a climate summit in | :49:49. | :49:51. | |
After years of negotiations, an historic global | :49:52. | :49:57. | |
Countries must now move away from fossil fuels and instead adopt | :49:58. | :50:03. | |
But just as the Paris deal came into force, | :50:04. | :50:09. | |
Donald Trump was elected as the US President. | :50:10. | :50:14. | |
He once called climate change a hoax. | :50:15. | :50:17. | |
In 2012, he tweeted it was invented by the Chinese to | :50:18. | :50:20. | |
During his campaign, he said this is what he would do. | :50:21. | :50:29. | |
We are going to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement and stop all | :50:30. | :50:33. | |
payments of the United States tax dollars to UN global | :50:34. | :50:35. | |
Island nations affected by rising sea levels pleaded with | :50:36. | :50:44. | |
President-elect Trump, I formally invite you to Fiji and promise you | :50:45. | :50:50. | |
We will show you how we are already having | :50:51. | :50:57. | |
to move entire communities out of the way of the rising seas. | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
With its reliance on fossil fuels like coal, | :51:04. | :51:06. | |
the United States is the second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. | :51:07. | :51:10. | |
Its participation in the global climate deal was seen as vital. | :51:11. | :51:16. | |
He has recently appointed a climate sceptic to lead on the environment. | :51:17. | :51:23. | |
Some fear the future of the Paris deal now looks uncertain. | :51:24. | :51:27. | |
In 2016, protection for the animals living in | :51:28. | :51:34. | |
the icy wilderness of Antarctica was also a focus. | :51:35. | :51:40. | |
In October, a great swathe of its ocean was declared a | :51:41. | :51:43. | |
marine protected area, the largest in the world. | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
It is hoped, even for tiny creatures like krill, the | :51:49. | :51:50. | |
foundation of the food chain, the future of this unique | :51:51. | :51:54. | |
and fragile environment will be preserved. | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
And this will be vital for the continent's most | :51:59. | :52:04. | |
These penguins started nesting here just ten years ago. | :52:05. | :52:12. | |
It is thought they may have moved because of climate change. | :52:13. | :52:16. | |
Now scientists have set up a network of cameras to monitor them. | :52:17. | :52:19. | |
It shows how the colony is changing, hour by hour, | :52:20. | :52:23. | |
At another site, scientists are counting the birds | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
This particular region, this particular species, has seen a | :52:29. | :52:39. | |
Those declines are likely associatd with climate change and there may be | :52:40. | :52:47. | |
a link with competition from fisheries, as in humans | :52:48. | :52:50. | |
obtaining the same food, krill, as these penguins | :52:51. | :52:52. | |
Scientists say only by tracking these birds will we see how they | :52:53. | :52:56. | |
And coming soon to Antarctica, Boaty McBoatface, well, almost. | :52:57. | :53:06. | |
While the polar research ship was under constrction, | :53:07. | :53:10. | |
the British public overwhelmingly voted for Boaty to be its name. | :53:11. | :53:16. | |
Instead, opting to dedicate the vessel to Sir David | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
Attenborough, a more fitting title, they said. | :53:21. | :53:24. | |
Boaty McBoatface is now the name of the ship's robotic submersible. | :53:25. | :53:36. | |
In the world of tech, there was a battle | :53:37. | :53:38. | |
A champion player of the ancient game of Go | :53:39. | :53:47. | |
went up against an artificial intelligence programme developed by | :53:48. | :53:50. | |
After four hours, the human resigned. | :53:51. | :53:57. | |
Advances in AI are also enabling developments in driverless cars. | :53:58. | :54:06. | |
This vehicle was made by Tesla, a company owned by tech | :54:07. | :54:10. | |
Only a car that is not self-driving in the | :54:11. | :54:20. | |
long-term will be like owning a horse. | :54:21. | :54:21. | |
You would own and use it for sentimental reasons but not for | :54:22. | :54:25. | |
But the burgeoning industry came under the | :54:26. | :54:33. | |
Joshua Brown was a huge fan of Tesla cars | :54:34. | :54:39. | |
But his vehicle collided with a lorry and he was killed. | :54:40. | :54:47. | |
It seems his car failed to recognise the truck crossing in | :54:48. | :54:50. | |
The vehicle's safety features have been upgraded and Elon Musk | :54:51. | :54:57. | |
maintains they're still safer than a car with a human in control. | :54:58. | :55:10. | |
In 2016, it was time to take a last look at this comet, as we said | :55:11. | :55:14. | |
farewell to the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission. | :55:15. | :55:16. | |
It had given us these stunning images, | :55:17. | :55:20. | |
revealing an alien world in incredible detail. | :55:21. | :55:32. | |
Two years before, scientists attempted something many | :55:33. | :55:34. | |
Landing a robot on the comet's surface. | :55:35. | :55:41. | |
It was a moment of space history in the making. | :55:42. | :55:44. | |
The robot stopped working after a few days but | :55:45. | :55:58. | |
Continuing the mission was the Rosetta mothership, which remained | :55:59. | :56:03. | |
This year its power began to fade and it | :56:04. | :56:06. | |
was time to bring the mission to a close. | :56:07. | :56:09. | |
The spacecraft would go out with a crash landing. | :56:10. | :56:12. | |
The Rosetta spacecraft was designed to fly to | :56:13. | :56:14. | |
the comet, around the comet, but not to land on it. | :56:15. | :56:20. | |
There is no doubt that as soon as it touches down, it | :56:21. | :56:24. | |
It gives scientists the chance to squeeze | :56:25. | :56:27. | |
every last drop of science out of this mission. | :56:28. | :56:29. | |
All the way down it will be taking close-up photos and | :56:30. | :56:32. | |
We will be listening for the signal from Rosetta. | :56:33. | :56:37. | |
This time the mood was emotional, as scientists waited | :56:38. | :56:39. | |
And so, this is the end of the Rosetta mission. | :56:40. | :56:47. | |
You just know when you do these things it comes to an end. | :56:48. | :57:03. | |
But, you know, it is the end in a long, long mission. | :57:04. | :57:08. | |
But with more than 100,000 photos and countless scientific | :57:09. | :57:16. | |
observations, the work for the team is not over. | :57:17. | :57:19. | |
The mission has captured the world's imagination and | :57:20. | :57:21. | |
we may well be hearing about its discoveries for years to come. | :57:22. | :57:31. | |
For researchers at this observatory, and around the world, | :57:32. | :57:34. | |
2016 is a year that will go down in history. | :57:35. | :57:38. | |
After decades of searching, scientists finally discovered | :57:39. | :57:40. | |
gravitational waves - invisible ripples that pass through our | :57:41. | :57:45. | |
It is a breakthrough of simply astronomical proportions. | :57:46. | :57:53. | |
This is the equation behind his theory of general relativity, | :57:54. | :57:59. | |
It told us everything from the motion of the | :58:00. | :58:11. | |
planets to the presence of black holes. | :58:12. | :58:13. | |
But this year, the final piece of Einstein's puzzle was found. | :58:14. | :58:19. | |
We have detected gravitational waves. | :58:20. | :58:23. | |
The idea is, as any object moves through the fabric of | :58:24. | :58:29. | |
the universe, it gives off waves of gravitational energy, | :58:30. | :58:31. | |
much like the ripples that emanate across the surface of | :58:32. | :58:34. | |
the water when you throw a stone into a pond. | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
And the ones we have spotted emanated from this | :58:41. | :58:47. | |
cataclysmic event which took place 1.3 billion light years away. | :58:48. | :58:50. | |
Two black holes moving ever closer together. | :58:51. | :58:52. | |
Eventually they smashed into one another, merging. | :58:53. | :58:55. | |
The collision generated a surge of gravitational ripples that | :58:56. | :58:58. | |
They were spotted by this vast experiment in America. | :58:59. | :59:04. | |
Tunnels carrying laser beams, sensitive enough to pick up | :59:05. | :59:08. | |
the minute disturbances caused by the oscillations. | :59:09. | :59:12. | |
These black holes actually spiralled in over a billion years ago. | :59:13. | :59:15. | |
The signal has been travelling to us since then and we | :59:16. | :59:18. | |
turned on our detectors at just the right time | :59:19. | :59:21. | |
It is a discovery that not only provides another feather | :59:22. | :59:30. | |
It also heralds in a new era in science. | :59:31. | :59:37. | |
Gravitational waves provide a completely new way | :59:38. | :59:39. | |
The ability to detect them as the dead shall to | :59:40. | :59:53. | |
-- The ability to detect them has the potential | :59:54. | :59:55. | |
Until now, even our most advanced telescopes could show us | :59:56. | :00:00. | |
Now we can detect gravitational waves, we | :00:01. | :00:05. | |
will be able to look deeper into space and further | :00:06. | :00:07. | |
back in time than ever before, perhaps all | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
We end the year with a brand-new perspective of the universe, | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
one that will usher in new discoveries | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
This is Breakfast, with Louise Minchin. | :00:17. | :00:37. | |
Too many young carers are going "under the radar" | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
A study by the Children's Commissioner for England says four | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
out of five young people don't get the help they should from local | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Some voters in England will have to show photographic ID before | :00:48. | :01:09. | |
casting their vote as part of efforts to reduce electoral fraud. | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
His private life was very much public knowledge, | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
but details of George Michael's quiet generosity begin to surface | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Chelsea extend their winning run to 12 games | :01:21. | :01:29. | |
as they go seven points clear at the top of the Premier League. | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Good morning. It is a cold and frosty start to the day, but for | :01:35. | :01:47. | |
most of us, it will be dry with hazy sunshine, except in the north and | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
west, where they will be a bit more clout at times and spots of rain. | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
More details in 15 minutes -- cloud. The Children's Commissioner | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
for England says the vast majority of young carers receive | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
no support from local Anne Longfield says four out of five | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
are "going under the radar". The Local Government Association | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
said funding cuts meant councils were being forced to make | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
difficult decisions. This is Daniel, one of thousands | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
of young carers in England. He's ten and lives with his mum, | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
Florella, who has a brain tumour. When he's not at school, | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
he helps around the house, but he constantly worries | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
about his mum when he isn't there. I started becoming more responsible | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
and I started doing the cleaning. I started paying more attention | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
to what my mum was doing. Then, because I wasn't around, | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
I was always worried Today's report by the Children's | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
Commissioner found of the 160,000 young carers in England, | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
just over 128,000 children aged 5-17 may not be known | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
to local authorities. And councils identified 160 young | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
carers in England who are under This is often systematic support | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
for vulnerable family members who may have mental illness | :03:10. | :03:18. | |
or physical disabilities. They need to be able | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
to flourish at school, they need to be able to enjoy | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
childhood and grow up, whilst they're still offering | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
the familial support that The Local Government Association | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
says funding cuts to children's services means councils have been | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
forced to make difficult decisions about what support they | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
are able to provide. But it says all young carers should | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
receive an assessment to find out Coming up before 7:30, | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
I'll be talking to Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield, | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
and to a teenage girl who looks England's chief nursing officer has | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
urged the NHS to invest more Jane Cummings says money | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
is being wasted on keeping elderly She says reform is needed to make | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
sure people don't get caught between different | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
parts of the system. Some voters in England will have | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
to show photo ID before being allowed to cast their ballots, | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
as part of a new trial. It's one of a number | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
of efforts being introduced Our political correspondent | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
Tom Bateman is in our Tom, why has the government decided | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
this change is needed? Who will it affect? Good morning. | :04:41. | :04:53. | |
This began a couple of years ago when the mayor of Tower Hamlets in | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
east London was kicked out of office because a court found he was guilty | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
of voting fraud. There were allegations and concerns about | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
voters being bullied and intimidated into voting a certain way. The | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
government as the former Security secretary Eric Pickles to this | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
issue, and he came up with several recommendations, such as showing ID | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
when they go into the polling both. He was worried about the post of | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
rights and opportunities for people to fill those in four other people, | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
and for fraud to take place there -- polling booth. The government says | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
it will trial voters in England at the local elections in 2018 having | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
to show some sort of idea. This will only happen in a few areas, and it | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
might be things like passport or driving licence, or perhaps a bus | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
pass or even a bankcard. Something like that. The government said it is | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
determined to try to crack down on this. There are people in the Labour | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
Party who say, this is not really as big an issue as the government is | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
making out. It is potentially trying to rig the system to help people | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
very conservative. They say in much bigger issue is how we registered to | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
vote. They worried that lots of people have fallen off the voter | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
register and in their view it is particularly Labour voters. I think | :06:15. | :06:15. | |
this debate will go on. Thank you. Details are emerging | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
of George Michael's charity work, as tributes continue to pour | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
in since his death on Christmas Day. For years the singer had donated | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
money to organisations, and worked undercover | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
at a homeless shelter. He was a huge personality, | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
whose life played out But behind this onstage persona, | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
details of George Michael's charitable donations | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
are now emerging. He had volunteered to work | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
in a homeless shelter, He paid for a game show contestant | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
to have IVF treatment. And gave Sport Relief ?50,000 | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
when David Walliams swam Children, cancer patients | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
and many other charities Last night, tributes came | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
from those closest to him. George Michael's partner, | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
Fadi Fawaz, said he'd never forget this Christmas, having found him | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
dead, peacefully in bed, His former long-term partner | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
Kenny Goss paid tribute to an extremely kind and generous | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
man, saying he loved him At his home in Goring-on-Thames | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
in Oxfordshire, friends came There were emotional scenes | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
at another of his houses, Highgate in London, from people | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
struggling to come to terms with his death from | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
suspected heart failure. I know that 2016 has been a bad | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
year, and it is very sad for a lot of artists, but it was | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
George Michael that got I think we grew up with him, | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
was the main thing. George Michael's career spanned | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
nearly four decades, and these fans will make | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
sure his music lives on. Russian media is reporting | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
that the black box flight recorder has been recovered from the military | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
plane that crashed into 3000 people are involved | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
in the search operation, Liz Smith, the actor best known | :08:14. | :08:23. | |
for playing Nana in the sitcom The Royle Family, has | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
died at the age of 95. A spokesperson for her family | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
announced she passed away Peter Ruddick has been | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
looking back at her life. Could she have wafer | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
thin ham, Barbara? From dotty Nana Norma Speakman | :08:42. | :08:52. | |
in The Royle Family to the eccentric baker Letitia Cropley | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
in The Vicar Of Dibley, Liz Smith carved out | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
a niche playing scatty Yeah, yeah, yeah. | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
Yeah. Well, I put in a little | :09:04. | :09:15. | |
something extra as well. She had been through a tough | :09:16. | :09:27. | |
childhood, and an even tougher early career as a single mother of two | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
with a series of part-time jobs. It was only when she was nearly 50 | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
that she got her breakthrough after being offered a theatre | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
role by Mike Leigh. It was like a wonderful | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
realisation that at last She may have started late, | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
but she made up for lost time with award-winning roles | :09:46. | :09:57. | |
in TV and film, resulting in her being awarded | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
the MBE in 2009. But it will be as Nana, | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
the Queen of Sheba, for which she will be | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
most remembered. The actor Liz Smith, | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
who has died at the age of 95. Only about half of the families | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
in Britain own their homes, according to new analysis | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
by the Resolution Foundation. Official housing statistics point | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
to a much higher figure, but the Foundation believes | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
the number of people living in privately rented accommodation | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
has been underestimated. A number of roads remain closed | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
in Scotland after the disruption Wind speeds in excess of 90 miles | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
an hour were recorded on the island of Shetland | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
on Boxing Day while large parts of the north experienced | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
heavy snowfall. The Scottish Transport Minister has | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
been chairing extra meetings of the government's resilience team | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
to deal with the situation. A group of conservationists say | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
that the world's fastest land animal, the cheetah, | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
is rapidly heading for extinction. The Zoological Society of London | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
says cheetah numbers in the world are falling | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
because of human encroachment They say it's "crunch time" | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
for the cats, with only an estimated 7000 left in Africa | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
and just 50 in Iran. Let's take you back to our main | :11:20. | :11:28. | |
story. The death of George Michael | :11:29. | :11:37. | |
dominates the front pages That is the front page of the | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
Telegraph, a lovely photograph of him. Norma Corby commenting that it | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
was his inner conflict that made him so compelling -- Neil McCormick. You | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
were someone special, George, in the Sun. The Daily Mail talking about | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
him on the front page of the Mirror, the words of his partner as well. | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
influential music stars in 2016, including David Bowie and Prince. | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
Here's a look back at what's been a sad year for the world of music. | :12:11. | :12:20. | |
# The bestselling show # Is the life on Mars #. | :12:21. | :12:36. | |
Breaking news, sad news, that the singer David Bowie has died. | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
Prince's home and recording studio is awash with tears and tributes as | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
fans of all generations come to pay their respects to a musical genius. | :12:47. | :12:55. | |
# You look like you are having fun # Watch out, here I come | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
# You spin me right round, baby, like a record, baby, right round #. | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
Give its tone of the most influential singer songwriters of | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
all time, Leonard Cohen, who has died at the age of 92 -- tribute to | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
one of the most influential. # Hallelujah... #. | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
# Down, down, did the end down # Down, down, get down, deep end | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
down #. George Michael, one of the biggest | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
stars of his generation, has died at the age of 53. | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
# I need someone to hold me, but I will wait for something more | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
# Because I have to have faith # I have to have faith | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
# Because I have to have faith, faith, faith | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
# I have to have faith, hope, faith #. | :13:57. | :13:57. | |
So what legacy will George Michael and other stars leave behind? | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
Sid Griffin is a musician, songwriter and author and joins us | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
Let's talk about George Michael first. He death really seems to have | :14:04. | :14:14. | |
quite an impact on people. It does, but I think it is because he has a | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
greater cultural impact than just a singer-songwriter. On many of his | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
obituaries, he has sold millions of records, but not everybody has a | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
cultural impact to match their musical impact. George Michael did. | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
He represented something greater than just being a pop star who sold | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
a lot of records. He represented something that the gay and lesbian | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
community and something to left-wing politics, because he was an arch | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
anti- Thatcherite. He was suspicious of new Labour. He wrote songs making | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
light of his own situation and songs for the downtrodden. He never forgot | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
the dance beat and the musical hooks, but he meant something more | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
than just selling a lot of records. I think that is why George Michael | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
has been such a painful loss these last 36 hours. Absolutely. So many | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
of his songs are memorable for many different reasons, because he made | :15:10. | :15:10. | |
an extraordinary comeback. He did, George Michael was on the | :15:11. | :15:19. | |
cusp of them even greater comeback, he claimed to have a new solo album | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
in the works 97% done and I'm sure we will hear it in one form or | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
another over the next 18 months or something, it wouldn't be the final | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
product he wanted. The loss of George Michael, you've heard the | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
story, I'm sure all of Britain has, he gave ?15,000 to a woman who | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
wanted IVF treatment, ?5,000 to a woman weeping in a cafe about her | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
debts and couldn't get on top of her finances, he worked in a soup | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
kitchen of a homeless shelter. This is an extraordinary man even by pop | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
star standards. Lots of pop stars have a problem with drink, drugs and | :15:57. | :16:05. | |
fame, it goes with the territory, the public eye brings that public | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
pressure onto your private life but George Michael, the way he dealt | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
with it openly and the way he led his life and he was an open book, he | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
may not have liked it but I thought he dealt with it very well. It is | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
just absurd that he has... He's only 53, so young! I wish there were more | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
pop stars we could talk about that worked in homeless shelters! It does | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
seem to have been quite a year, with David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Prince, | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
just to name a few. What do you make of it? Louise, let me do this really | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
quickly. Rick Parfitt from status quo and George Michael, David Bowie, | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
Glenn Frey the Eagles, by Clarke from Nashville in Austin, Texas, | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
Belfast own's Kennedy, Ralph Stanley, the red Army plane crash | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
yesterday and the ensemble, George Martin, Pete Burns, a tribe called | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
quest, Leonard Cohen, and the great Merle Haggard of country and Western | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
fame. It has been a ghastly year for fans of pop music. Those are pretty | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
darn big names. Let's hope next year is a bit better. I don't see how it | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
can be any worse! Thank you for your time this morning. | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
Carol is talking about cold temperatures this morning? | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
Good morning. A cold and frosty start if you haven't yet ventured | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
out, temperatures got two -5 last night at Bournemouth airport but | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
widely across England and Wales in particular they are below freezing. | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
Mostly dry, high pressure in charge of our weather, a bit more of a | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
squeeze for the north in the isobars, breezy so not as much of a | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
problem with frost and fog. Some fog possible this morning in England and | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
Wales and if it forms it will lift readily, leaving us with a cold | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
start but also a sunny one. The temperatures by 9am, no great | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
shakes. Sunshine in East Anglia, the Midlands into Wales, more cloud at | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
times in northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland but | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
nonetheless, some of us will see some sunny spells and we have | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
showers in the north and west of Scotland first thing. Those showers | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
will continue for a time yet but eventually they will fade and it | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
will dry up in the north and west of Scotland and here too we will see | :18:27. | :18:36. | |
sunshine. More cloud coming in during the day and the sunshine will | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
turn that bit hazy. Temperature wise, no great shakes, six, seven, | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
maybe eight or nine at best. As we head through the evening and | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
overnight, quickly we see a return to frost and fog, the fog will form | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
more widely than last night. High pressure keeping things fairly | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
static, look at the isobars, so widely spaced in England and Wales. | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
Not much of a breeze to move the fog along. Early tomorrow morning there | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
will be dense fog potentially leading to destruction, if you're | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
travelling tomorrow there that in mind and keep in touch with your BBC | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
local radio station or the travel pages online on the BBC where you | :19:11. | :19:19. | |
will find the latest. It will be slow to clear, someone to clear at | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
all, some will lift into low cloud. If you're stuck in an area without | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
fault, temperatures will struggle to get above freezing but it will | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
brighten up in the west, south-west, Wales, a grey day in western | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Scotland -- with that fog. A weather front in the north-west will bring | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
more persistent rain. On Thursday, Windy especially in the north, not | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
to the extent some have already seen. The weather in Edinburgh, | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Belfast, Cardiff and London, the capital cities, fairly cloudy and | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
temperatures again nothing to write home about. We might get 11 on | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
Friday in Belfast but the trend is onto the weekend, turning colder and | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
the wind will turn to more of a northerly and some in the northern | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
half of the country could see some wintryness in our weather as well. | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
Lucky I got my gloves for Christmas then, Carol! Very handy. Thanks for | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
keeping us company. See you in about an hour. | :20:17. | :20:17. | |
For many of us, it's the time of year to either be sat around | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
the dinner table or in front of the television. | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
But with a rise in streaming services, gone are the days | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
of the whole country watching the same programme at the same time. | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
Breakfast's Sean Farrington has been looking at the boom in on-demand. | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
We've been gorging this Christmas, not just on food but on data. | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
This year the average household has consumed over 130 gigabytes of data | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
each month, the equivalent to more than 200 episodes of Planet Earth, | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
the iPlayer's most popular programme of the year. | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
The way we get that data into our households is through broadband | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
and the faster the connection the more | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
likely we are to download our favourite programmes. | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
The better the connection, 30 or 40 megabits a second, | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
the more likely we are then to use online video like Sky TV, | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
Amazon Prime, BBC iPlayer or Netflix. | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
I want to start at the beginning, watch it all night. | :21:14. | :21:33. | |
I watch iPlayer on the computer and sometimes on my mum's phone | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
In the evening I will sit here and watch | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
I will do something on my phone and my | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
daughter will be upstairs with her laptop and occasionally, | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
not every night at all, and occasionally the youngest | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
will be in this bed with this best babysitter, the iPad, | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
and he may just watch a bit of YouTube to settle him down | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
Although there has been a big improvement on 2015, | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
the regulator, Ofcom, says that large parts of the UK | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
are still not able to get a decent broadband connection. | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
Over 1 million homes not able to download fast and offer | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
Broadband is so important now to families, | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
particularly younger families, where every body wants to be online | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
It is now is important to them as electricity | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
The problem is that there are still frowned a thousand homes | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
cannot stream one video will own two or | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
It is important because the availability of faster | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
broadband has meant we're taking more control of what we watch | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
and more particularly when it suits us. | :22:34. | :22:34. | |
The number crunchers at the BBC's iPlayer | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
think they'll see traffic on their website increased by 36% | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
When it's Christmas time you watch more | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
You don't go to school, you have no homework. | :22:48. | :23:03. | |
As we enter 2017 we noticed that the kids and family space | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
is underserviced at the moment so we will invest heavily | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
does not patronise young audiences. | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
On average we watch over four hours of television a day. | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
Mostly through the familiar TV channels. | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
Still lots of room for growth for the likes of Amazon and Netflix | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
with a particular challenge for 2017, | :23:27. | :23:27. | |
can they get the whole family | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
together in the same room to watch something online? | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
Throughout England, there are around 160,000 children who care | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
But the Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield says that the overwhelming | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
number of these do so without any help from their local council. | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
She joins me now, along with 16-year-old Leah, | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
who cares for her mum when dad Jonathan is working away. | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
Good morning, thank you for joining us. Leah, we will start with you, as | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
a young carer yourself, I know you help with your mum and your younger | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
brothers and sisters as well, what does it involve? It can involve the | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
cleaning, the cooking, the washing, minding the children so my mum can | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
have a bit of a break. And that's it. That's an awful lot to be doing. | :24:14. | :24:23. | |
How old are you? 16. Presumably you're studying for your GCSEs? | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
Yeah. How do you fit that in with all your other duties? It depends on | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
what I'm doing, when my dad is working, I help my mum, when I come | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
home from school I carry on helping her and I do my homework around | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
7:30pm when everyone has gone to bed. How does that compare to your | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
friends who don't have caring responsibilities, presumably they | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
have a different light? Yeah. I don't think they give them the | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
medication, they don't look after children -- different life. Your | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
household chores they do but you don't do it as much as I would do. | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
Do you feel the heavyweight of responsibility, how do you feel | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
about doing it? It can be a bit stressful at times but I don't | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
really mind because I know it's helping my mum at the end of the | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
day. Jonathan, she's doing an amazing job? She certainly is. She's | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
not in any way alone and the figures you have are extraordinary. What | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
struck me most, some of these children identified, 160,000 young | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
carers under the age of five. I wash up by that number, I didn't expect | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
it, this is new information from the local authorities -- I was shocked. | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
It is likely to be an underestimation as well! They said | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
30 councils said 160 children under the age of five. That is something | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
we need to know more about. You need to know what they're caring | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
responsibilities in tail. They haven't given that information so I | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
need to know what they are doing -- involve. Are you worried about these | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
children taking on these responsibilities or that they aren't | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
getting support? It's the fact they are under the radar and they aren't | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
getting support. You heard from Leah, she loves her family, doing | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
amazing things and without complaint, but they are heavy | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
burdens and we know young carers are more likely to fall behind at school | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
and have poor health and actually more likely to not have the freedoms | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
of friendship that children of that age will, and those are heavy | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
burdens and they need more help. Why are they going under the radar? | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
Partly because local authorities don't know they are there so the | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
information isn't good, that needs to improve. Partly because the | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
emphasis on identifying them and assessing them rather than on | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
providing support as well, that's an emphasis that probably needs to | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
change so this poses real questions for local authorities about how they | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
know more about carers, how they offer support and how schools can | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
help as well. Can there be a role to install people to say they are | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
carers? That is surely the case, that families will often be | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
reluctant to say this. -- can there be able items. Possibly there could | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
be bullying at school when they stand out. When schools do know | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
about this -- can there be reluctance. They can offer | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
additional support and raise the issue in assemblies. In the | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
south-west for example, 40% of children who are carers get help, in | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
London that drops to 17% so it is possible. Leah, you do get help, | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
what kind of things are you given help with? With the young carers, | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
you can go on a break or something, so if you need to give them a call | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
they are available 24/7. You have been on breaks as well, haven't you. | :27:59. | :28:06. | |
Do you talk with your friends about your responsibilities? I don't talk | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
to them about what I do but they have heard the expression young | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
carers before but I don't tell them what I've done. With your other | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
young carers, does that help when you talk about your experiences? | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
It's not just me, there's hundreds of people there as well. What kind | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
of support would make a big difference or have you got enough? I | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
think I've got enough but it would be good if it was in school is a bit | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
more and stuff. That means people would be more aware about it. -- in | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
schools. Is there a stigma? There could be but I don't think there | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
should be, this is exactly what other young carers say. This is | :28:49. | :28:55. | |
about acknowledging, recognising and providing the understanding and | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
support when needed. Thank you all. Good luck as well with your exams, I | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
know it's really important. Thank you very much. | :29:05. | :29:06. | |
From a suitcase, to a military jacket, | :29:07. | :29:09. | |
we'll hear the remarkable stories behind the ordinary objects, | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Louise Minchin. | :29:13. | :30:06. | |
Coming up, we've got a special edition of Click, | :30:07. | :30:09. | |
looking back on what new technology was unveiled this year. | :30:10. | :30:12. | |
But first, a summary of this morning's main news. | :30:13. | :30:14. | |
The Children's Commissioner for England says the vast majority | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
of young carers receive no support from local | :30:18. | :30:19. | |
More than 160,000 young people in England are carers | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
but Anne Longfield says four out of five of them | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
The Local Government Association said funding cuts mean councils | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
are being forced to make difficult decisions. | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
Some voters in England will have to show photo ID before | :30:38. | :30:40. | |
being allowed to vote, as part of a new trial. | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
It's one of a number of schemes being introduced | :30:45. | :30:46. | |
by the government to reduce electoral fraud. | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
The councils involved will use the measure | :30:50. | :30:51. | |
It comes after a report into voter corruption | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
Details have emerged of George Michael's charity work, | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
as tributes continue to pour in after his sudden death. | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
He was found dead at home on Christmas Day. | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
For years the singer had donated money to organisations, | :31:10. | :31:12. | |
and recently worked undercover at a homeless shelter. | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
The actor Liz Smith has died at the age of 95. | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
She was best known for comedy roles playing often | :31:22. | :31:24. | |
eccentric older ladies, including Mrs Cropley in the Vicar | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
of Dibley and Nana in the Royle Family. | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
Her breakthrough role only came in her late 40s but she enjoyed | :31:32. | :31:34. | |
a career lasting more than four decades until her | :31:35. | :31:36. | |
A number of roads remain closed in Scotland after the disruption | :31:37. | :31:45. | |
Wind speeds in excess of 90 miles an hour were recorded | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
on the island of Shetland on Boxing Day while large parts | :31:50. | :31:52. | |
of the north experienced heavy snowfall. | :31:53. | :31:56. | |
The Scottish Transport Minister has been chairing extra meetings | :31:57. | :31:59. | |
of the government's resilience team to deal with the situation. | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
Coming up on the programme, Carol will have the weather. | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
coming up next it's Match of the Day, so just a brief round up | :32:11. | :32:21. | |
It's 12 wins in a row for Chelsea at the top | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
They were missing key players Diego Costa and Ngolo Kante | :32:27. | :32:30. | |
for their match against Bournemouth, but they came through as 3-0 | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
winners thanks to goals from Pedro, Eden Hazard and a late own goal. | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
They're seven points clear now at the top, | :32:37. | :32:38. | |
and in those 12 games they've kept 10 clean sheets. | :32:39. | :32:48. | |
We had many chances to score more goals, but today we played a game | :32:49. | :33:03. | |
without two important players, but I think we played very well. | :33:04. | :33:06. | |
Here are the rest of yesterday's results - | :33:07. | :33:08. | |
as you can see, there were also wins at the top end of the table | :33:09. | :33:12. | |
for Manchester City, Manchester United and Arsenal. | :33:13. | :33:14. | |
Liverpool play Stoke later, Jurgen Klopp's side will go second | :33:15. | :33:17. | |
The favourite, Thistlecrack, claimed an impressive win in the big | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
Boxing Day race at Kempton Park, the King George VI Chase. | :33:22. | :33:24. | |
Ridden by Tom Scudamore, Thistlecrack charged clear | :33:25. | :33:27. | |
on the final circuit to take an imperious victory ahead | :33:28. | :33:30. | |
It was only Thistlecrack's fourth race over fences. | :33:31. | :33:38. | |
It took them until Boxing Day, but Bristol rugby have their first | :33:39. | :33:41. | |
win of the season, beating Worcester 28-20. | :33:42. | :33:44. | |
The Premiership's bottom side played much of the match with ten men, | :33:45. | :33:47. | |
but a hat-trick from Tom Varndell helped them close the gap | :33:48. | :33:50. | |
on their opponents at the foot of the table to just two points. | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
There were three derby matches in the Pro12. | :33:56. | :33:59. | |
Glasgow ended a run of three straight defeats by beating Scottish | :34:00. | :34:02. | |
rivals Edinburgh 25-12 at Murrayfield. | :34:03. | :34:05. | |
Cardiff Blues beat Newport and Munster beat Leinster | :34:06. | :34:07. | |
I'm staying on the BBC News Channel until 9.00 this morning, | :34:08. | :34:21. | |
Find out why more of us are streaming our favourite TV shows | :34:22. | :34:27. | |
From a suitcase to a military jacket, we'll hear the remarkable | :34:28. | :34:32. | |
stories behind the ordinary objects, featured in a new series on Radio 4. | :34:33. | :34:35. | |
And we sort out the crackers from the turkeys in a look back | :34:36. | :34:39. | |
at the cinema releases of the past year. | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
This is where we say goodbye to our viewers on BBC One. | :34:44. | :34:50. | |
Thank you for joining us this morning. | :34:51. | :34:52. | |
on the News Channel, it's time now to see | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
what Spencer Kelly and the rest of the Click team got up to in 2016. | :34:57. | :34:59. |