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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Steph McGovern and Charlie | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Russia warns of retaliation as 35 of its diplomats are expelled | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
from the US over the hacking scandal. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
President Obama's ordered the sanctions after claims Moscow | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
interfered in America's presidential elections. | :00:18. | :00:34. | |
Good morning, it's Friday, 30 December. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Also this morning: Learner drivers will be allowed on motorways | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
The Government says the plans will improve road safety. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
Prescribing pets - why senior nurses are calling | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
for more animals to be used as part of patients' treatment. | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
I guess it is a bit of normality because we have dogs at home, so to | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
have won in hospital is quite nice. It is reckoned we are using 300,000 | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
tonnes of card over the Christmas period. I am at a recycling plant to | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
see what happens to all the stuff we have been chucking into the bin. | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
In sport: Swansea's City's search for a new manager continues, | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
with Ryan Giggs the latest name to be ruled out of the running. | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
Wales boss Chris Coleman also appears to be out of reach. | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
And the challenge of filming series three of Sherlock in front | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
of the fans, Benedict Cumberbatch tells us how he copes with his ever | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
It is kind of peculiar because there is this excitement and expectation | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
and if you raise an eyebrow you get a cheer. | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
Yes, I am at the Tower of London, and it won't be me on ice only this | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
morning, frosty to the south and east with dense patches of fog. Much | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
more mild elsewhere, and all other details to come with the forecast to | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
the end of the year and the start of a brand-new one in 15 minutes. | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
President Obama has ordered the expulsion of 35 Russian | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
diplomats in response to alleged interference | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
in the American presidential election. | :02:15. | :02:15. | |
Moscow has denied the allegations of cyber attacks, and said | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
its response will cause the United States "significant | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
Our correspondent Laura Bicker sent this report from Washington. | :02:21. | :02:35. | |
Russia stands accused of trying to help Donald Trump become president. | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
Moscow had been warned but now it is being punished for interfering in US | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
elections. America's top intelligence agencies believe a | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
cyber attack on the e-mails of Hillary Clinton's closest aides was | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
orchestrated by the highest levels of Russian government. At Mr Trump | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
has always questioned the evidence. Once a hack if you don't catch them | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
in the act, you won't catch them. You don't know if it is Russia or | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
China or somebody, it could be somebody sitting in a bed. At the | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
FBI and CIA both agree the hackers they say were Russian and now Mr | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
Trump is softening his stance. In a statement he said... President Obama | :03:19. | :03:35. | |
said all Americans should be alarmed. He has ordered that 35 | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
officials are expelled. They are believed to have close links with | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Russian intelligence. They had a 72 hours to leave the country. And he | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
is closing two Russian compounds, one in New York and the other in | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Maryland. White House officials said Russia had to pay a price for weight | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
they described as an extra dairy attack on US democratic elections. | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
President Obama warned that further action is to come at a time of his | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
choosing. Russia described the closing of its US compounds as the | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
death throes of political corpses and want it will hit back. | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
Learner drivers are to be allowed on motorways for the first time | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
under new Government plans to improve road safety. | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
The Department of Transport is launching a seven week | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
consultation on the proposed changes from today. | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
It says the idea is designed to improve awareness and experience | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
The proposed changes to both driver and motorcyclist training, | :04:29. | :04:41. | |
says the government, would improve safety | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
For drivers, changes would mean that competent learners will be able | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
to have lessons on motorways with an approved driving instructor | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
The biggest proposed changes are reserved for motorcyclists. | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
The compulsory basic training course, which allows them to ride | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
unaccompanied on roads, would be updated. | :05:04. | :05:04. | |
Motorcycle training would also move more online with novice riders | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
having to take a theory test and those holding a provisional | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
motorcycle licence would also have their CBT certificates revoked | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
if they get more than six penalty points. | :05:13. | :05:23. | |
The motoring organization, the RAC, have welcome the proposals, | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
saying Britain's roads are already amongst the safest in the world, | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
and that changes are needed to help modernise driver | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
And in around an hour we'll be talking to the RAC Foundation | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
A nationwide ceasefire has come into force in Syria | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
between the government and rebel factions. | :05:43. | :05:43. | |
Fighting is said to have stopped in much of the country | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
but there have been reports of some clashes. | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
A number of organisations are not covered by the truce, | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
And we'll be getting more reaction to developments on the ceasefire | :05:52. | :06:01. | |
with a security expert, Afshin Shahi, at 6:40am this | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
The Prime Minister has distanced herself from highly critical remarks | :06:05. | :06:18. | |
made by the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, about Israel. | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
In a speech on Wednesday, Mr Kerry described Benjamin Netanyahu's | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
government as the most right wing in the country's history, | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
and accused it of jeopardising the peace process. | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
But Downing Street said it was "not appropriate" to attack | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
the composition of the democratically elected government | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
National Parks in England have lost a quarter of their government | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
funding in the past five years, according to research by the Press | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
Campaigners warn it could threaten the areas for future generations, | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
but the government says their budgets are protected until 2020. | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
With stunning scenery and rare wildlife, 19 million people visit | :06:47. | :06:59. | |
them every year but England's national parks have had their | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
funding cut in recent times, down by a quarter since 2010. Areas loved by | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
many and described by the government as national treasures simply are not | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
getting the cash they used to. Figures show the grants given to | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
nine out of 10 national parks in England have been shrinking, it | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
reduced by more than ?10 million over five years. With inflation | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
factored in that is a real terms cut of up to 40%. In a statement the | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
department for environment, food and left as says... There are efforts to | :07:32. | :07:43. | |
bring in more money by bringing in more visitors. There is a government | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
plan for encouraging school trips and overseas tourists. Campaigners, | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
though, point to information centres closing, bus services being axed and | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
staff cuts in some national parks. They say they will need to be more | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
cash so the beauty of the parks can be enjoyed by generations to come. | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
Newly released government files shows sentries at Faslane naval base | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
were ordered to shoot suspected intruders, | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
after three people broke into a nuclear submarine. | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
The Prime Minister at the time, Margaret Thatcher, who was told | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
of the order, said she was "horrified" | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
Faslane, home to Britain's nuclear submarines and one of the most | :08:19. | :08:35. | |
secure military establishments in Britain. Also, you would think. Yet | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
in October 1980 83 anti- nuclear demonstrators broke into the base at | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
night and got aboard a nuclear sub. Documents released at the national | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
archives show the Prime Minister was appalled. When Mrs Thatcher was | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
first told of the security breach the thing that evidently horrified | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
her most was that the intruders had managed to get into the core group | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
-- control room of the Polaris submarine. Adviser Charles Powell | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
wrote, had there been armed terrorist the consequences would | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
have been incalculable. And Mrs Thatcher herself noted that the top | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
of the page, I am utterly horrified. We could all have been put in | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Greenwich -- grave danger. Pilares was the forerunner of today's | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
Trident, the vessel was HMS Repulse. Phil Jones, then a young peace | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
activist, was one of the demonstrators. He says they were | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
astonished at how easy it was, and shock. When the commander of the | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
submarine came into the control room, and he was shouting at us, who | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
first F are you? F are you? Over and over again it could have been | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
outrageous because they were still active. The files show a listening | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
or security failures starting with the perimeter fence. As a result of | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
the incident Royal Marines entries were given orders to shoot anyone | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
suspected of trying to damage the sub but it didn't stop the same | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
thing happening again at least twice, once in 2002, once in 2014. | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
If you've been anywhere near social media over the last few months | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
you can't have missed the mannequin challenge. | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
Countless sports stars, celebrities, politicians and even NHS staff have | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
posed for the videos, but now French astronaut | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
Thomas Pesquet has taken the challenge to new heights. | :10:23. | :10:31. | |
Yes, he is on a 6-month mission aboard the International Space | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
Station. Look at this, he showed his crewmates taking part in the | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
challenge. They are 240 miles above the earth. How can you keep still? | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
Well, looking carefully, they have anchored, each of them have anchored | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
themselves, haven't they, to give the effect, and it looks like a | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
still image. Yeah. As opposed to a new moving image. Absolutely. | :11:00. | :11:08. | |
Talking about Swansea city's continued search for a manager. | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
Thinking about Welsh football and you think Ryan Giggs and Kris | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
Commons. You were talking earlier that his wife has macro -- his wife | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
has text to say that she is after a move away from cloudy Wales to some | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
foreign sunshine. Ryan Giggs has been ruled out of the running as a | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
successor to Bob Bradley at Swansea. Giggs had been the early favourite, | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
alongside Wales manager Chris Coleman, who has indicated | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
he'll remain with the national Jonathan Kodjia's late penalty | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
earned Aston Villa a 1-1 draw with Leeds United and maintained | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
their unbeaten home record In tennis, Rafael Nadal makes | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
a winning return from his latest injury setback with a straight sets | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
victory over Tomas Berdych in Abu Andy Murray plays David | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Goffin later today. And in darts, 16-time world champion | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Phil Taylor sets up a quarter-final against Raymond van Barneveld | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
in the PDC World Championship It wouldn't be Christmas, would it, | :12:04. | :12:17. | |
without some darts on the telly. That is a good point, actually. | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
Let's have a look at this morning's papers. | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
What have you got? The Daily Mail is talking about council tax bills and | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
it says thousands of families face eye watering council tax rises or | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
16% and it says here as Town Hall is what super-sized hikes, one of the | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
Whitehall editors in the Daily Mail. On the front of the Daily Telegraph, | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
the main story they have got is Theresa May, the Prime Minister, | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
adding her comments to the comments of John Kerry, who is the outgoing | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
Secretary of State, who you might remember recently spoke about the | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
situation with Israel, and she is distancing herself from some of his | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
comments. Interesting times, of course, with the new president about | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
to come into office. And another story that happen overnight which | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
the paper have picked up on is the ceasefire and it is saving the | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
Syrian regime and the opposition have agreed to a nationwide | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
ceasefire brokered by Turkey and Russia. That is the story we are | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
talking about on the programme this morning and it is on the front of | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
the Guardian. And a lovely picture of the Singing in the Rain star | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
Debbie Reynolds who has died a day after the death of her daughter | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
carry feature. A beautiful picture of them -- Carrie Fisher. In the | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
correspondence page of the Mail, people write in with sports | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
questions. Sometimes little trivia. The question is, is their a | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
disproportionate number of professional cricketers who are | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
left-handers compare to other sports and they have looked at the | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
statistics and 8% - 10% of the human population is born left-handed. If | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
you look at cricket about a quarter of all cricketers are left-handed | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
and many of them actually choose to play cricket left-handed. If you | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
look at the England setup, Alistair Cook, Stuart Broad, Ben Stokes and | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
Moeen are right-handed and they choose to play left-handed and I | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
wondered if there is any other walk of life where you would be | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
left-handed, or right-handed and choose to be left-handed. | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
Ambidextrous. Why would they choose to be left-handed? They are | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
difficult to field against. It is like playing a left-handed tennis | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
player, isn't it, they have a different strength. And then if | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
everyone does it, they are all going to... Yeah, and is at the field for | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
the left-handed batsmen. It obviously give them an advantage or | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
people would not choose to play cricket left-handed. Oddly I am | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
right-handed generally and right-handed if I play cricket. | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
Well, there you go. It is no choice, I cannot play any other way. I | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
cannot play either side equally. See what I mean? I was wondering if | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
there is anyone out there who has something where they are | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
right-handed and they do it left-handed or if they are | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
left-handed and they actually do it right-handed. It is intriguing, | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
isn't it? Yeah. If you think about golf, there are few left-handed golf | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
players and Phil Mickelson is right-handed and he plays | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
left-handed. I wonder if anyone else... Yeah, they will be. Your | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
left-handed righthanders or you right-handed left-handers. I always | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
like these stories about missing dog found, 60 mile journey, a dog made a | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
2-month journey, went missing, a bird -- border collie who | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
disappeared in Lincolnshire, being looked after by a friend, oh, | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
imagine how awful you would feel, it goes missing for two months and had | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
various sightings over a period of time and eventually got a call from | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
a supermarket 60 miles away and the dog was found. Casey is found, has | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
dropped almost half of her weight, her fur was matted. OK? OK. That is | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
a good Christmas story. The dog returns. Exactly. | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
The Kremlin has warned it will retaliate for President Obama's | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats from the United States. | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
Learner drivers are to be allowed on motorways for the first time - | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
under new Government plans to boost road safety | :16:19. | :16:27. | |
With frosty weather across the country this week, | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
we've sent Matt to the ice rink at the Tower of London. | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
It is incredibly blues out. How beautiful. That morning. Good | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
morning. It does look misty as well to add to the eeriness down here | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
this morning. The tower itself, 1000 years of dramatic history has been | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
played out and there will be dramatic skating later on as I will | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
show you. As I said, this morning, we have the highest behind us. Frost | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
around southern and eastern areas but the main problem for some of | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
you, special across the South and East will be fog. Some dense patches | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
of fog this morning across the Midlands and East Anglia, southern | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
England. Nasty on the roads in some places. A few delays at airports | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
once again. It will take awhile to shift. Some good linger all day | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
long. Away from that is actually comparatively mild. The temperatures | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
at -3 -4 across some parts of the south-east. A lot of cloud to the | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
north and west of the country. A wet day to come across the Highlands and | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
the Hebrides. Temperature here is much higher than will be further | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
south. Only around three or four Celsius weather fog lingers across | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
the south and the east. Away from the north of Scotland will be dry. A | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
few spots of rain and drizzle around the western areas but an increase of | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
minus lighting across northern Scotland of rain continues. Breeze | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
will pick up at times as well and then into Saturday morning still a | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
little bit cold and misty across the south and east. A mild start to New | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
Year's Eve elsewhere. A lot of cloud throughout the day and the best is | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
to the east of high ground. For Scotland it rain pushes south into | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
southern Scotland and into Northern Ireland by the end of the afternoon | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
and evening. Breezy conditions with it and starting to turn colder from | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
the north. If your eye out celebrating New Year's Eve just take | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
a look at what you can expect. After a wet day across much of Scotland it | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
looks like the skies will take us towards midnight. A few showers | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
across the north and west but most will be dry the poll. Rain in the | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
northern England through our new youth evening as we head 2017. Wait | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
for one or two but it looks like across parts of East Anglia and the | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
south it will be mild to finish the year. Temperature still around eight | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
or nine degrees as the bells bring in the new year. In Wales, mild but | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
windy and wet as specially across the north and western areas. Cardiff | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
made a dry until after midnight. Northern Ireland will have had rain | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
early in the evening with clear skies to finish the year. Those cold | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
conditions will push through gradually on New Year's Day. Cloudy | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
and wet through parts of New Year's Day across parts of England and East | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
Anglia. Lots of sunshine around at a wintry showers and mixture of race | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
leader Helen Snow into lower levels close parts of Scotland. Away from | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
that there will be sunshine and will fill mightily chilly. Chillier than | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
it is across northern Scotland today although down here look old at the | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
moment, especially on ice. I will have more throughout the morning and | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
so the time being it is back to Charlie and Stephanie. You had a | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
light beam behind your head through all of that that made you look like | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
a Christmas angel. I am an angel. You know that. He looks gorgeous. | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
Now Christmas is over, it's time for the big clean up. | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
Between us we've used 300,000 tons of card and paper during the festive | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
Separating out all the rest cycling. I spent about an hour doing that | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
yesterday. Apparently we use of 300,000 tons of carbon paper during | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
the festive season, or mixed up together. Some can be recycled but | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
not all of it. Sean's at a recycling plant this | :20:33. | :20:33. | |
morning in the West Midlands for us It looks fabulous but I bet it does | :20:34. | :20:45. | |
not smell very nice. Funnily enough you get used to it after a short | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
amount of time. It is not as strong as you might think because it is the | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
recycling stuff that everybody has put in. What they do here at this | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
plant is they separate it all here. People at home do not have to be | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
doing it in all the different bins. It all goes into one, plastic, tin, | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
cups, that stuff and here it goes through machinery and then people | :21:10. | :21:11. | |
are starting to separate it manually. It is a big process. | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
300,000 tons of card as you say being used all across the festive | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
period. That if you take big Benn, a quarter of million Big Benz could be | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
with that amount of card. 2 million of the angel of the north. The good | :21:28. | :21:36. | |
news is around 80% of this card is recycled but processes like this. On | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
the whole of the household was still only recycle 45% of the stuff that | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
is going through our house around the Christmas period. Actually, | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
stuff like this, would you believe, this is going in the big pot. I had | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
to make sure it goes to the right one. General waste. Stuff like that | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
but they need to split here. Over the morning I will look at just how | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
complicated a deal this is for companies like this one. The | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
question of course this week is glitter. If it is now wrapping paper | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
on your present, what you do with it? How of a problem is that in this | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
recycling process and those use the product in the end? That is what we | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
would discuss this morning. Somewhere in here I will probably | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
find a card for Charlie from Steffe. I did not send him one. And I would | :22:26. | :22:36. | |
not throw it away, either. A mesmerising to watch it. The new | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
glitter was a problem. We will find out more later on. | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
Allowing pets in to hospitals can help patients with mental health | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
problems, according to a survey by the Royal College of Nursing. | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
60% of nurses said the presence of animals also seemed to speed | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
Holly Hamilton has been along to Southampton hospital to see how | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
one four-legged friend has been making an impression | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
Meet Leo. He is a volunteer here at Southampton General Hospital and a | :22:59. | :23:21. | |
very popular one at that. Oh, yes. He says hello. He and his handler, | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
Lindsey, have been delivering therapy to patients and their | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
families for the last four years. A dog in a hospital environment is an | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
incredible social lubricant so you end up talking to people you would | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
never ever talked to in a normal course of the day. It is a | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
partnership. Nobody would be interested in me coming along and he | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
cannot drive a car. We come together and it is a privilege for me to have | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
a dog who can come and do this. Hang on. From lowering blood pressure to | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
reducing anxiety and stress the benefits of an animal assisted | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
therapy have been documented. Bringing a smile to the face of this | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
child is enough. We were told he had a condition that was permanent brain | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
damage and he probably would not expect much more than what we had, | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
which was a little bit of eye movement. That is when they | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
introduced Leo and he smiled for the first time, didn't he? It is a | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
medicine in its own right. As soon as you tell Oscar that Leo was | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
coming and he brightens up and he smiles and it is nice to see. One of | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
Leo's says patience he was Alice. When she was initially diagnosed | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
with a rare form of liver cancer she refused to leave her bedroom. And | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
then she met Leo. Took a picture of Leo and took it to show her and I | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
said look, the next time, if you want to see Leo you have to come out | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
of your room and she did. It was lovely. He has been in our journey | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
for four years, almost. It was nice to have a dog in the hospital. How | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
does it help you? Normality. We have dogs at home ourselves so having won | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
in hospital is nice. He is nice to cuddle. And it is not just dogs. In | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
a survey over 50% of nurses said they had worked with animals and | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
nearly all of them agreed it was a benefit to the patient. Despite | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
that, almost 25% said no animals and loud at their pace of work. The | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
connection that people have with animals can be far more profound | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
than it is with the doctors and nurses and their parents or the | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
people who love them. As a nurse and as a human being I think we have to | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
think about what else can we do that would make a difference to helping | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
people get well. Or as they do not get well, make their day better. | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
Some people may have some reservations. It is important that | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
there are rules and regulations around how it works. I have been | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
here all morning watching the way that the children here have reacted | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
to Leo and to Lindsey and it has made their day. It has made those | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
people's day. Say cheese! Some argue that this type of treatment is a | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
temperate sixth. The Leo's patients are happy for him to keep coming | :26:21. | :26:22. | |
back. He is so cute. And you can see Leo | :26:23. | :26:32. | |
absolutely loves it as well. And the difference that the family said that | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
the hospital has made. Quite interesting and thank you very much | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
to the hospital for allowing us into see that. Let's see what's coming up | :26:41. | :26:42. | |
a little later on. Still to come this morning we'll | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
hear from Benedict Cumberbatch about the new series | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
of Sherlock, which is set to be It has been fantastically rich and | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
challenging and that is the thing that keeps us coming back for more. | :26:57. | :26:58. | |
We'll hear more from him later in the programme. | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. | :27:02. | :30:23. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Steph McGovern and Charlie | :30:24. | :30:33. | |
Coming up on Breakfast today: Highlighting the damage smoking does | :30:34. | :30:42. | |
to the heart, a new campaign begins today to get people to quit. | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
Also this morning: Sean will be at a recycling plant to take a look | :30:46. | :30:53. | |
at what happens to all of our waste from Christmas. | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
He'll be finding out what we can and can't send there. | :30:57. | :30:58. | |
And it's being billed as the new Downton Abbey. | :30:59. | :31:01. | |
We'll speak to actor Steven Mackintosh who stars | :31:02. | :31:03. | |
in the new wartime drama, The Halcyon. | :31:04. | :31:05. | |
But now a summary of this morning's main news. | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
Russia has promised to respond to the expulsion of 35 | :31:12. | :31:13. | |
of its diplomats from Washington, amid a bitter dispute over alleged | :31:14. | :31:16. | |
interference by the Kremlin in the American presidential election. | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
Obama believes Russia used cyber hacking to try and discredit | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
Hilary Clinton a claim denied by President Putin. | :31:23. | :31:24. | |
Moscow says retaliatory measures would be considered. | :31:25. | :31:35. | |
Our correspondent Laura Bicker sent this report from Washington. | :31:36. | :31:38. | |
Russia stands accused of trying to help Donald Trump become president. | :31:39. | :31:43. | |
Moscow had been warned but now it's being punished for interfering | :31:44. | :31:46. | |
America's top intelligence agencies believe a cyber attack | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
on the e-mails of Hillary Clinton's closest aides was orchestrated | :31:52. | :31:53. | |
by the highest levels of Russian government. | :31:54. | :31:55. | |
But Mr Trump has always questioned the evidence. | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
Once they hack, if you don't catch them in the act, | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
You don't know if it is Russia or China or somebody, | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
it could be somebody sitting in a bed some place. | :32:11. | :32:20. | |
But the CIA and FBI both agree, the hackers they say were Russian | :32:21. | :32:23. | |
and now Mr Trump is softening his stance. | :32:24. | :32:25. | |
President Obama said all Americans should be alarmed. | :32:26. | :32:37. | |
He's ordered that 35 officials are expelled. | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
They're believed to have close links with Russian intelligence. | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
They have just 72 hours to leave the country. | :32:46. | :32:48. | |
And he's closing two Russian compounds, one in New York | :32:49. | :32:51. | |
White House officials said Russia had to pay a price | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
for what they described as an extraordinary attack | :32:56. | :32:57. | |
President Obama warned that further action is to come at a time | :32:58. | :33:04. | |
Russia described the closing of its US compounds as the death | :33:05. | :33:15. | |
throes of political corpses, and warned it will hit back. | :33:16. | :33:18. | |
Learner drivers are to be allowed on motorways for the first time | :33:19. | :33:21. | |
under new Government plans to improve road safety. | :33:22. | :33:28. | |
The Department of Transport is launching a seven week | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
consultation on the proposed changes from today. | :33:32. | :33:32. | |
It says the idea is designed to improve awareness and experience | :33:33. | :33:35. | |
The proposed changes to both driver and motorcyclist training, | :33:36. | :33:43. | |
says the government, would improve safety | :33:44. | :33:45. | |
For drivers, changes would mean that competent learners will be able | :33:46. | :33:49. | |
to have lessons on motorways with an approved driving instructor | :33:50. | :33:52. | |
The biggest proposed changes are reserved for motorcyclists. | :33:53. | :33:55. | |
The compulsory basic training course, which allows them to ride | :33:56. | :33:58. | |
unaccompanied on roads, would be updated. | :33:59. | :34:00. | |
Motorcycle training would also move more online with novice riders | :34:01. | :34:03. | |
having to take a theory test and those holding a provisional | :34:04. | :34:06. | |
motorcycle licence would also have their CBT certificates revoked | :34:07. | :34:08. | |
if they get more than six penalty points. | :34:09. | :34:19. | |
The motoring organization, the RAC, have welcome the proposals, | :34:20. | :34:21. | |
saying Britain's roads are already amongst the safest in the world, | :34:22. | :34:24. | |
and that changes are needed to help modernise driver | :34:25. | :34:26. | |
A nationwide ceasefire has come into force in Syria | :34:27. | :34:41. | |
between the government and rebel factions. | :34:42. | :34:43. | |
Fighting is said to have stopped in much of the country | :34:44. | :34:46. | |
but there have been reports of some clashes. | :34:47. | :34:48. | |
A number of organisations are not covered by the truce, | :34:49. | :34:50. | |
Jeremy Corbyn has used his New Year's message to warn | :34:51. | :34:56. | |
against a Brexit deal that he says only protects bankers | :34:57. | :34:59. | |
Mr Corbyn said 2016 would be defined by the decision to leave | :35:00. | :35:04. | |
the European Union and warned that Labour would not allow | :35:05. | :35:06. | |
the government to negotiate a deal his party did not agree with. | :35:07. | :35:13. | |
Newly released government files reveal that guards at Faslane naval | :35:14. | :35:16. | |
base were ordered to shoot suspected intruders, | :35:17. | :35:18. | |
after three people broke into a nuclear submarine. | :35:19. | :35:20. | |
The Prime Minister at the time, Margaret Thatcher, who was told | :35:21. | :35:23. | |
of the order, said she was "horrified" | :35:24. | :35:25. | |
Counting down to 2017 will take longer than usual this | :35:26. | :35:38. | |
New Year's Eve as clock experts compensate for a slowdown | :35:39. | :35:41. | |
To be precise, it will last an extra second. | :35:42. | :35:44. | |
For the 27th time the National Physics Laboratory has brought | :35:45. | :35:47. | |
in a leap second to ensure that time based on the Earth's rotation does | :35:48. | :35:50. | |
not lag behind time kept by atomic clocks. | :35:51. | :36:06. | |
Does it mean you have to start at 11 the new countdown? Yeah, or starts | :36:07. | :36:18. | |
10 and leave a gap. Minus one. It is complicated, isn't it? Carol will | :36:19. | :36:24. | |
know. A second making all of that difference? Amazing, isn't it? You | :36:25. | :36:31. | |
know when we were talking about left-handed righthanders and | :36:32. | :36:34. | |
right-handed left-handers. Cricket statistics showed there are more | :36:35. | :36:37. | |
left-handers in cricket than you would imagine. Yes, and around 8%- | :36:38. | :36:44. | |
10% are left-handed, but in cricket one quarter play left-handed, and | :36:45. | :36:49. | |
like you, Charlie, many choose to play left-handed. I have loads of | :36:50. | :36:53. | |
people getting in touch. Our very own political correspondent Chris | :36:54. | :36:59. | |
Mason says everything is left-handed and footed a part from writing, | :37:00. | :37:03. | |
which I blame for my terrible writing. The only thing he does | :37:04. | :37:09. | |
right-handed isn't writing. And Nick Miller, our weatherman, right-handed | :37:10. | :37:13. | |
but play cricket and golf left-handed, which is why I am no | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
good. Same as me. Vince says it isn't a sports based but I play | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
left-handed because when he was little he taught himself to play | :37:23. | :37:25. | |
guitar watching in the mirror. Oh, I get it. He is right-handed, but he | :37:26. | :37:32. | |
plays left-handed. Tina says that both my children do everything | :37:33. | :37:35. | |
right-handed, but they eat left-handed. Don't you eat both | :37:36. | :37:40. | |
handed? Does it mean they hold their knives and forks in different hands? | :37:41. | :37:46. | |
Oh, I see what you mean. Maybe it is specific to eating soup. I will | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
clarify that. Keep sending them in. I will read out some more. We will | :37:51. | :37:52. | |
move on to the sport. Swansea have ruled Ryan Giggs out | :37:53. | :37:54. | |
of the running as a successor to Bob Giggs had been the early favourite, | :37:55. | :37:58. | |
alongside Wales manager Chris Coleman, who has indicated | :37:59. | :38:00. | |
he'll remain with the national team. Bayern Munich assistant Paul Clement | :38:01. | :38:03. | |
and ex-Birmingham boss Gary Rowett are now the front runners | :38:04. | :38:06. | |
to take over after Bradley Whoever comes in has to be the right | :38:07. | :38:19. | |
man. I suppose ideally he would be British, knowing the Premier League. | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
You know, they have to be satisfied he feels the criteria for getting us | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
out of the trouble we find ourselves in. | :38:28. | :38:28. | |
Aston Villa are still unbeaten at home in the Championship, | :38:29. | :38:31. | |
after they denied Leeds United the chance to go third. | :38:32. | :38:34. | |
Leeds have been on good form, and they went ahead in the second | :38:35. | :38:37. | |
But four minutes from time, they conceded a penalty. | :38:38. | :38:41. | |
Jonathan Kodja put it away to level for Villa. | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
World player of the year Cristiano Ronaldo has turned down | :38:48. | :38:51. | |
an offer of ?85 million a year to leave Real Madrid for an unnamed | :38:52. | :38:54. | |
Chinese club, according to his agent. | :38:55. | :38:56. | |
The news came on the day that Argentina striker Carlos Tevez | :38:57. | :38:59. | |
joined Shanghai Shenhua, becoming one of the highest paid | :39:00. | :39:02. | |
The Chinese Super League club will pay him ?615,000 a week. | :39:03. | :39:13. | |
Andy Murray's season starts today, he'll face David Goffin | :39:14. | :39:23. | |
in the semi-finals of the World Tennis Championship in Abu | :39:24. | :39:26. | |
Murray got a bye into the last four but Goffin had to come past | :39:27. | :39:30. | |
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, winning in straight sets. | :39:31. | :39:32. | |
And Rafael Nadal made a good start to his latest comeback from injury, | :39:33. | :39:35. | |
dropping only four games as he beat Tomas Berdych. | :39:36. | :39:38. | |
A wrist injury had troubled Nadal throughout 2016, | :39:39. | :39:40. | |
but there were no signs of rustiness. | :39:41. | :39:42. | |
He faces Milos Raonic in the semi-finals. | :39:43. | :39:44. | |
In darts, Phil Taylor set up a tantalising quarter-final | :39:45. | :39:46. | |
against Raymond van Barneveld at the PDC World Championship. | :39:47. | :39:49. | |
Taylor, a 16-time world champion, beat Kim Huybrechts 4-2 at Alexandra | :39:50. | :39:52. | |
He and van Barneveld are long-standing rivals. | :39:53. | :39:54. | |
The Dutchman tweeted: "El Classico is on. | :39:55. | :39:56. | |
And finally, Serena Williams has used the social media platform | :39:57. | :40:08. | |
Reddit to announce that she is engaged | :40:09. | :40:10. | |
It caps off a year in which Serena won her seventh Wimbledon singles | :40:11. | :40:15. | |
title and 22nd Grand Slam singles title. | :40:16. | :40:17. | |
One of the games greatest ever players made the announcement | :40:18. | :40:20. | |
She said he took her to Rome, where they first met, | :40:21. | :40:24. | |
Of course she said yes! She wouldn't be Reddting at about a proposal in | :40:25. | :40:38. | |
which she said no. It would be a bit awkward. That is lovely news, isn't | :40:39. | :40:43. | |
it? Isn't it nice? It is great to see her happy. Thank you very much. | :40:44. | :40:49. | |
We will see you a little bit later on. The time now is 6:40am. And a | :40:50. | :40:55. | |
bus has overturned on the M40 this morning. A Highways Agency said | :40:56. | :41:00. | |
those on the coaches suffered minor injuries and the AA urges caution | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
for those heading on the roads in these freezing conditions and of | :41:05. | :41:10. | |
course Matt will keep us updated on what's happening with the weather | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
this morning, but AA says to be careful on the roads this morning. | :41:15. | :41:18. | |
Yes, we will bring you any more details as soon as we can. | :41:19. | :41:20. | |
Late last night a ceasefire in Syria came in to force between government | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
Most of the country was calm in the first few hours of the truce, | :41:25. | :41:29. | |
but there have been reports of some clashes. | :41:30. | :41:31. | |
The deal was brokered by Russia and Turkey, | :41:32. | :41:33. | |
but a number of organisations aren't covered by the truce, | :41:34. | :41:36. | |
Joining us now is Dr Afshin Shahi, who's a security and terrorism | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
expert from the University of Bradford. | :41:42. | :41:47. | |
Good morning. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. We have been | :41:48. | :41:56. | |
here before with these fires not holding in the past. Do you think | :41:57. | :42:00. | |
this one will hold? As you know, 2016 proved to be a very green here, | :42:01. | :42:08. | |
not only for the world, but also for Syria -- grim year. We had a number | :42:09. | :42:12. | |
of failed attempts only last year. And of course, in this very | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
desperate situation, when we have to be optimistic, if there is any | :42:18. | :42:20. | |
opportunity to change the situation on the ground in Syria we have to | :42:21. | :42:26. | |
endorse it by all means. Although I am being very optimistic, but at the | :42:27. | :42:30. | |
same time I am being realistic. Despite the fact that there are some | :42:31. | :42:35. | |
good vibes in the international community at the moment, and we have | :42:36. | :42:39. | |
heard some good news from important capitals in the region, and | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
certainly from Russia, but there are some serious challenges on the | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
ground. As we just mentioned, I mean, they called it a kind of | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
nationwide ceasefire, but when you look at it you see that a number of | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
very, very important players, like Islamic State, like Al-Qaeda, like | :42:58. | :43:01. | |
the Kurdish forces in northern Syria, they are completely excluded | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
from this deal. When we are talking about ceasefire, I mean, ceasefire | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
can only be affected when you are dealing with two different clear | :43:11. | :43:14. | |
sides. But the Syrian Civil War isn't conflict between two different | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
sides, it is a multifaceted and multi dimensional conflict. There | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
are in fact too many players and different forces, local, regional | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
and trans- regional forces that are affecting every facet of this | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
conflict. So, the fact that Syria, sorry, Russia and Turkey are | :43:34. | :43:38. | |
endorsing and guaranteeing this ceasefire, that doesn't mean we are | :43:39. | :43:41. | |
going to see a guaranteed result within the next few weeks. We have | :43:42. | :43:47. | |
two parts to the equation, the longer term gain, which clearly is | :43:48. | :43:51. | |
ultimately the most important, and right now, today, tomorrow, the next | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
few weeks, we saw some images are moment ago of the devastation in | :43:57. | :44:00. | |
Syria, there might be some respite, the opportunity for some help to get | :44:01. | :44:04. | |
in and some aid to get into a period of time. It is definitely an | :44:05. | :44:09. | |
opportunity when it comes to humanitarian issues. The other thing | :44:10. | :44:12. | |
which makes the situation slightly more optimistic this time, which is | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
a little bit different from the situation last year, because finally | :44:18. | :44:20. | |
we can see a change on the ground. Because until about last year, when | :44:21. | :44:24. | |
we were looking at the situation in Syria, no one seemed to have the | :44:25. | :44:29. | |
upper hand militarily. And no side has an upper hand, then it is | :44:30. | :44:34. | |
difficult to come up with a political compromise. But now | :44:35. | :44:38. | |
finally we see a paradigms shift, we finally see change on the ground. | :44:39. | :44:43. | |
Clearly, Bashar al-Assad and his allies have the upper hand | :44:44. | :44:48. | |
militarily. So, maybe this is a situation which eventually will pave | :44:49. | :44:52. | |
the way to some kind of political compromise, which obviously can ease | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
the humanitarian situation as well. So, you are cautiously optimistic as | :44:57. | :45:00. | |
blueberry cautiously optimistic. Thank you very much for your time | :45:01. | :45:02. | |
this morning. -- as well. Hitting the weather now from Matt on | :45:03. | :45:17. | |
the ice. You would want to be nice to have a go at this. I do have a | :45:18. | :45:23. | |
certain style, don't I? Thank you for helping me they are. We are down | :45:24. | :45:28. | |
at the Tower of London this morning on the ice of course so down here | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
until Tuesday. Another cold start across the south and east of the | :45:34. | :45:39. | |
country. Wait red frost again with dense patches of fog around as well. | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
All leading to a difficult commute across the south and east of the | :45:44. | :45:48. | |
country. That is have a look at the forecast this morning. The forecast | :45:49. | :45:54. | |
is for dense patches of fog in southern England in particular. The | :45:55. | :45:57. | |
fog will last from good part of the day and it will have problems on the | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
roads and for some of the airports. Away from that it is fog free. Mild | :46:02. | :46:08. | |
as it will be all day long. The best will be to the north-east of Wales. | :46:09. | :46:12. | |
North-east England in the north-east of Scotland. You might as around the | :46:13. | :46:18. | |
Hebrides, Auckland and she learned it will be with you all day long. | :46:19. | :46:22. | |
That average ranges from chilly three or four degrees Celsius | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
potentially 13 or 14 degrees around the Murray Firth. Tonight will be | :46:29. | :46:34. | |
mild except to the south-east corner. Again we could see a touch | :46:35. | :46:38. | |
of frost and fog around. Not as extensive as recent nights but you | :46:39. | :46:41. | |
notice the rain is still there across the north of Scotland? Windy | :46:42. | :46:45. | |
there as well and for most it will be a frost free start to New Year's | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
Eve. If you have plans for the evening, we will see much of England | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
and Wales dry. Scotland and Northern Ireland have a different story. The | :46:56. | :46:59. | |
heavy rain that starts in the north will move down towards the south of | :47:00. | :47:03. | |
Scotland and north Island in the late afternoon and evening. For most | :47:04. | :47:08. | |
a mild end to New Year's Eve and, of course, an important evening ahead. | :47:09. | :47:12. | |
Let's look at what many expect as we head towards midnight. If you are | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
celebrating across parts of Scotland there will be clear skies at | :47:18. | :47:22. | |
midnight after a wet day. Very cold however and with a couple of wintry | :47:23. | :47:26. | |
showers. Expect rain in the north of England and by the end of the day | :47:27. | :47:32. | |
but across much of the Midlands and East Anglia, southern England, | :47:33. | :47:35. | |
compared to the past few nights it will be a good deal milder than it | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
has been. Lots of cloud in most places will be dry to see in the New | :47:40. | :47:44. | |
Year as will be the case in the south-west. Possibly one or two | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
spots of drizzle. If you celebrate across Wales, part Cardiff a new | :47:49. | :47:52. | |
pool be fined a further west in it will be wild and windy. Rain early | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
in the evenings and Northern Ireland with clear skies to take us into | :47:57. | :48:01. | |
2017. It will fill cold across Scotland and Northern Ireland as we | :48:02. | :48:05. | |
did midnight on that cold weather spreads to all during New Year's | :48:06. | :48:09. | |
Day. Across the south of England will be cloudy with patchy rain and | :48:10. | :48:12. | |
a lot of sunshine around but sunshine, rain Tomic fleet and hail | :48:13. | :48:17. | |
across northern England and Scotland. Milder but then cold again | :48:18. | :48:28. | |
as we hit 2017. We were wondering, what are you wearing? It is a retro | :48:29. | :48:37. | |
all in one ski suit. I think I look great. All the kids are wearing it. | :48:38. | :48:43. | |
I love that he had to clarify that it was retro. Charlie, you are lost | :48:44. | :48:49. | |
for words. I think we need a name for it. You sit a weather romper | :48:50. | :48:58. | |
suit? We could market it as a womper. Are you going to go for | :48:59. | :49:06. | |
another shuffle? Would you guys come and take me off again? Let me be | :49:07. | :49:13. | |
whisked away. This year is how we travel on eyes. I will be back in 30 | :49:14. | :49:19. | |
minutes. I love how he is clinging on. It has only just begun. A | :49:20. | :49:25. | |
morning on the ice with Matt. Between us we've used around 300,000 | :49:26. | :49:30. | |
tons of card during the festive season for things like packaging | :49:31. | :49:34. | |
and of course Christmas cards. We've sent Sean to a recycling plant | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
in the West Midlands to find out Good morning. It is all hands to the | :49:40. | :49:57. | |
pump here. The busiest time of year, unsurprisingly, at this recycling | :49:58. | :50:02. | |
plant. What they do here is a load of mixed stuff. People at home are | :50:03. | :50:06. | |
able to put their plastic, their team, their paper, all in the same | :50:07. | :50:10. | |
thing and it is brought here and they do the separating here. Not the | :50:11. | :50:14. | |
same for everybody around the country. But the issue is to get | :50:15. | :50:17. | |
things like this in here that clutter it. That is why we have | :50:18. | :50:21. | |
people here doing a load of the picking. We can talk to Simon who | :50:22. | :50:24. | |
helped run this whole operation. Simon, I am still seeing bits of | :50:25. | :50:27. | |
wrapping paper with glitter shiny bits on it. How big an issue this | :50:28. | :50:34. | |
week is it? If a lorry arrives with glitter, what do you do? Glitter | :50:35. | :50:40. | |
itself does not cause a lot of problems in this plan. What it is a | :50:41. | :50:44. | |
problem for is going into the product that goes to the paper | :50:45. | :50:48. | |
mills. They can work with glitter and contaminates the final product. | :50:49. | :50:52. | |
That is why we do not want to see glitter coming through in our | :50:53. | :50:56. | |
products. This product owing to the paper mill is that how you mean | :50:57. | :51:02. | |
money? Exactly. We extract valuable material out of the stream, | :51:03. | :51:05. | |
separated and they go on to be resold and that is what forms the | :51:06. | :51:10. | |
economics of this plan. I will let you keep an eye on it. Keep an eye | :51:11. | :51:15. | |
out for any of your presence. About 80% of the card we get over | :51:16. | :51:19. | |
Christmas is recycled but how much can the packaging industry do about | :51:20. | :51:24. | |
that to help reduce it? Let's speak to Neil who represents the card and | :51:25. | :51:27. | |
packaging industry. A busy time of year for you? Yes. Sugar industry be | :51:28. | :51:38. | |
doing more to -- sugar industry do more to encourage people to use | :51:39. | :51:44. | |
less? I don't think so. In a way we encourage people to use less because | :51:45. | :51:48. | |
if it were not the correct packaging there would be a long haul waste | :51:49. | :51:51. | |
arising from damaged products and food that was not eaten. The cost of | :51:52. | :51:57. | |
the environment of waste product is immensely more than ever the cost | :51:58. | :52:00. | |
could be of recovering packaging. How about the companies that benefit | :52:01. | :52:04. | |
from the huge amount of packaging? So many online deliveries now, far | :52:05. | :52:08. | |
more packaging than there used to be. Should they be doing more, | :52:09. | :52:11. | |
paying more to help go through this process is so much you need to | :52:12. | :52:16. | |
recognise that what happens in society is that industry and | :52:17. | :52:19. | |
manufacturers respond to what consumers need. If consumers have | :52:20. | :52:23. | |
decided that they need a product delivered to them at home then it is | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
recognised that the packaging will be required to insure the product | :52:29. | :52:31. | |
arrives at home and saying conditions the left manufacturer, | :52:32. | :52:34. | |
will be necessary otherwise would arrived damaged and again you have | :52:35. | :52:38. | |
more waste. Over the rest of the morning we will be doing scrunch | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
testing. That is how you can tell of your wrapping paper is recyclable or | :52:43. | :52:46. | |
not. And try not to put any glitter in the recycle bins. Could I | :52:47. | :52:56. | |
clarify, there is no ban on glitter? No, no. I will doublecheck but I | :52:57. | :53:00. | |
think glitter is still allowed as long as we don't put Carol in the | :53:01. | :53:06. | |
recycling bin. Can you imagine that? She would put up a fight. | :53:07. | :53:08. | |
For fans of the world's only consulting detective the wait | :53:09. | :53:10. | |
The new series of Sherlock begins on New Year's Day. | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
Details and plot lines have been kept a closely guarded secret, | :53:15. | :53:17. | |
but the show's writers have described this fourth series | :53:18. | :53:19. | |
Breakfast's Tim Muffett has been to meet the star of the show | :53:20. | :53:27. | |
Benedict Cumberbatch to see if he can squeeze out | :53:28. | :53:30. | |
Lovely to see you. I am sure there are many things you can not tell us | :53:31. | :53:39. | |
about this new series. Almost everything. What can you tell us? I | :53:40. | :53:46. | |
am in a new series, series four of Sherlock. It is exciting and it has | :53:47. | :53:50. | |
been fantastically challenging and new and that is the thing that keeps | :53:51. | :53:58. | |
us coming back for more. Your daemons have been waiting for a very | :53:59. | :54:03. | |
long time. When you see a script for the first time, what happens? | :54:04. | :54:08. | |
Firstly you are amazed at the imagination of the work that has | :54:09. | :54:14. | |
gone into this. And then you start picking out the details that relate | :54:15. | :54:18. | |
to the original stories and then just a beautiful or character arcs. | :54:19. | :54:23. | |
A screaming demanding they be woken up at all hours. It must be very | :54:24. | :54:30. | |
different. Sorry, what? All you do is clean up their mess, pat them on | :54:31. | :54:35. | |
the head. You to joking? So change since you began this. Social media | :54:36. | :54:40. | |
was around but not as big as it is now. Today we have been seen from | :54:41. | :54:44. | |
the scene is shot outside and there are crowds were tweeting about it. | :54:45. | :54:49. | |
How does that affect production? What we uses Baker Street is | :54:50. | :54:56. | |
peculiar because there is excitement and expectation and if you raise an | :54:57. | :55:00. | |
eyebrow you get a cheer. You also have to complete a day's filming and | :55:01. | :55:06. | |
they are respectful about that. Does it put you off your character | :55:07. | :55:11. | |
rattle? No, no. It could be a lot harder. You have to go pretty far | :55:12. | :55:18. | |
too upset that character. They are incredibly loyal. What is the very | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
worst thing you can do to your very best friends? Tell them your darkest | :55:24. | :55:30. | |
secrets. I don't think some people realise how big globally Sherlock is | :55:31. | :55:35. | |
including us. It everywhere I go I am shocked. I thought I would find a | :55:36. | :55:40. | |
few people who had seen it. It was crazy. The second or third day when | :55:41. | :55:45. | |
they realised there was an Christian Bale or someone else they were just | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
hundreds of people sort of charging Sherlock. I'm always astonished. | :55:52. | :55:58. | |
What is the most unusual place you have been spotted as Sherlock. That | :55:59. | :56:03. | |
would have to be one of them. Visiting Tibetan Buddhist monk. It | :56:04. | :56:12. | |
was bizarre. We were the ones who are the privileged audience and he | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
was acting as if he was privileged. It was very weird. She is better at | :56:17. | :56:23. | |
this than you are. I text at her. She is a retired superagent with | :56:24. | :56:30. | |
terrifying skills. Of course she is better. This programme seems to go | :56:31. | :56:33. | |
everywhere and I am thrilled about that. The stories, they had a | :56:34. | :56:38. | |
massive worldwide audience, the original books. I guess it is an | :56:39. | :56:43. | |
extension of that but with modern media. So... Yeah. That looks | :56:44. | :56:50. | |
exciting. Sherlock returns to our screens on New Year's Day. It is | :56:51. | :56:55. | |
half past eight on BBC One. Time now for | :56:56. | :00:19. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Steph McGovern and Charlie | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Russia warns of retaliation as 35 of its diplomats are expelled | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
from the US over the hacking scandal. | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
President Obama's ordered the sanctions after claims Moscow | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
interfered in America's presidential elections. | :00:30. | :00:52. | |
Good morning, it's Friday, 30 December. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
Also this morning: 17 people are taken to hospital with minor | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
injuries after a coach overturns on the M40 in Oxfordshire. | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Drivers are being warned to use extreme caution in the freezing | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
Prescribing pets - why senior nurses are calling | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
for more animals to be used as part of patients' treatment. | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
I guess it is a bit of normality, isn't it, because we have dogs | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
at home, so to have one in hospital is quite nice. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
It is reckoned we are using 300,000 tonnes of card over | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
I am at a recycling plant to see what happens to all the stuff | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
Ryan Giggs the latest name to be ruled out of the running. | :01:36. | :01:51. | |
Swanswea looking for more experience. | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Yes, I am at the Tower of London, and it won't be me on ice only this | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
morning, frosty to the south and east with dense patches of fog. | :02:03. | :02:11. | |
What are the prospects as we finish the year and head into the next one? | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
President Obama has ordered the expulsion of 35 Russian | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
diplomats in response to alleged interference | :02:23. | :02:23. | |
in the American presidential election. | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
Moscow has denied the allegations of cyber attacks, and said | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
its response will cause the United States "significant | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
Our correspondent Laura Bicker sent this report from Washington. | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
Russia stands accused of trying to help Donald Trump become president. | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
Moscow had been warned but now it's being punished for interfering | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
America's top intelligence agencies believe a cyber attack | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
on the e-mails of Hillary Clinton's closest aides was orchestrated | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
by the highest levels of Russian government. | :02:56. | :02:56. | |
But Mr Trump has always questioned the evidence. | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
Once they hack, if you don't catch them in the act, | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
You don't know if it is Russia or China or somebody, | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
it could be somebody sitting in a bed some place. | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
But the CIA and FBI both agree, the hackers, they say, | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
and now Mr Trump is softening his stance. | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
President Obama said all Americans should be alarmed. | :03:24. | :03:38. | |
He's ordered that 35 officials are expelled. | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
They're believed to have close links with Russian intelligence. | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
They have just 72 hours to leave the country. | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
And he's closing two Russian compounds, one in New York | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
White House officials said Russia had to pay a price | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
for what they described as an extraordinary attack | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
President Obama warned that further action is to come at a time | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
Russia described the closing of its US compounds as the death | :04:03. | :04:15. | |
throes of political corpses, and warned it will hit back. | :04:16. | :04:28. | |
17 people have been taken to hospital after a coach overturned | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
South Central Ambulance Service says the driver and passengers have | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
Let's get the latest from Simon Jones. What's details are emerging? | :04:36. | :04:50. | |
This happened at 2:45am this morning and was declared a major incident. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
17 people taken to hospital, the driver and 16 passengers. The course | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
of it is not clear, but the pictures we can see, people involved had a | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
lucky escape, that was the message from highways England, they say at | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
the moment they feel the injuries are only minor, so people have been | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
lucky. But there was a thick fog at the time and there was a warning for | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
four this morning in the south-east of England and the south of England, | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
so that will be part of the investigation as to what the | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
conditions were like. Just a couple of days ago there was a crash in fog | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
on the A40 in Oxfordshire which involved 20 vehicles, leading to one | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
person losing their life, so 17 taken to hospital in the incident | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
this morning in the early hours but we are told only minor injuries. | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
Thank you for that and of course we will keep you up-to-date on the | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
stories this morning. And we will hear from Matt at about the weather | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
later on too. Learner drivers are to be allowed | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
on motorways for the first time under new Government plans | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
to improve road safety. The Department of Transport | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
is launching a seven week consultation on the proposed | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
changes from today. It says the idea is designed | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
to improve awareness and experience The proposed changes to both driver | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
and motorcyclist training, says the government, | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
would improve safety For drivers, changes would mean that | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
competent learners will be able to have lessons on motorways | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
with an approved driving instructor The biggest proposed changes | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
are reserved for motorcyclists. The compulsory basic training | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
course, which allows them to ride unaccompanied on roads, | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
would be updated. Motorcycle training would also move | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
more online with novice riders having to take a theory test | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
and those holding a provisional motorcycle licence would also | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
have their CBT certificates revoked if they get more than | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
six penalty points. The motoring organization, the RAC, | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
have welcome the proposals, saying Britain's roads are already | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
amongst the safest in the world, and that changes are needed | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
to help modernise driver The Prime Minister has distanced | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
herself from highly critical remarks made by the US Secretary of State, | :07:03. | :07:15. | |
John Kerry, about Israel. In a speech on Wednesday, Mr Kerry | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
described Benjamin Netanyahu's government as the most right wing | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
in the country's history, and accused it of jeopardising | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
the peace process. But Downing Street said it was "not | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
appropriate" to attack the composition of the | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
democratically elected government A nationwide ceasefire has | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
come into force in Syria between the government | :07:31. | :07:42. | |
and rebel factions. Fighting is said to have stopped | :07:43. | :07:43. | |
in much of the country but there have been | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
reports of some clashes. A number of organisations are not | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
covered by the truce, Our correspondent Lina Sinjab | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
joins us from Beirut. Lina, how significant | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
is this cease fire? Well, it is very significant, | :08:01. | :08:12. | |
especially because the announcements came from President Vladimir Putin | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
himself, which means that he is putting all of this weight behind | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
the deal. You know, the fashions on the ground have agreed on this, it | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
is not only rush hour, it is a brokered by Russia and Turkey, Iran | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
is involved, and there were meetings between Russia and many other | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
fighters are agreed and signed this paper -- factions. So far we heard | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
that there was a few cases of sporadic shooting but it is holding | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
and we are still in the early hours of this deal. It is not only a | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
ceasefire deal but it is also laying the ground for political discussions | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
that may take place next month. All the people I have been talking to | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
overnight I really holding their breath because they are really | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
hoping that the ceasefire will work. They are tired of the war. The | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
question is there are some factions not included as you mention. Not | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
only the so-called Islamic State, also for Turkey the codes are | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
considered terrorists. The government, the al-Nusra front and | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
Al-Qaeda, the groups they say are affiliated to them are not included. | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
We have seen in the past government forces have been bombarding all | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
rebel held areas, so the concern is if they will continue to do so in | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
claiming they are fighting terrorists. The question is how | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
Russia will be able to control the government and make them adhere to | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
this deal. Thank you very much. National Parks in England have lost | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
a quarter of their government funding in the past five years, | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
according to research by the Press Campaigners warn it could threaten | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
the areas for future generations, but the government says their | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
budgets are protected until 2020. Newly released government files | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
shows sentries at Faslane naval base were ordered to shoot | :09:55. | :10:09. | |
suspected intruders, after three people broke | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
into a nuclear submarine. The Prime Minister at the time, | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
Margaret Thatcher, who was told of the order, said | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
she was "horrified" And you might hear a little noise in | :10:17. | :10:26. | |
the ground, it is not Charlie, it is a furry friend, Scamp, who has | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
joined us on the sofar. Yes, this is Scamp -- sofa. Scamp had a couple of | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
things to say and he was making his presence felt. Hospitals are full of | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
high-tech equipment to treat people who are ill, but could it help with | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
someone with a visit from a pet? Senior nurses are calling today | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
for much more use of animals Here's an example of how it can | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
change people's lives. Hang on, the gonna go? We were told | :10:54. | :11:03. | |
he had a condition that was permanent brain damage, and he | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
probably -- we probably wouldn't expect more than what we have then, | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
a little eye movement, and that is when they introduced Theo, and he | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
smiled for the first time, didn't he screen it is medicine in its own | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
right. -- did and he? If you tell him Theo is coming in, he brightens | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
up and it is just nice to see. Lovely to see. | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
Our guest Dan McCormack had severe depression after suffering | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
You suffered three years ago a very bad head injury. Yeah. In hospital | :11:39. | :11:51. | |
for a while? I was, yes. How were you at that stage? I was in hospital | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
for several weeks and obviously the recovery continued, obviously, after | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
I came out of hospital. Obviously before the accident I was quite an | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
outgoing chap, and basically resulting from the accident I turned | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
basically into a recluse. Obviously it was mentioned at the time I might | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
occupational therapist at the time that I got a purpose and obviously | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
through looking on the dog trust website at the time, and careful | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
consideration it was thought that obviously, yeah the benefits he has | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
given me and getting me out and about again, meeting people that | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
probably wouldn't speak to me, and doing things like this, basically. | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
It has made a real difference? Massive difference to my confidence, | :12:50. | :12:58. | |
even to the fact of obviously when I am not feeling great I am still | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
suffering from time to time with low mood and Scamp will pick me up, and | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
he picks up on it. Is he desperate to get offset? He can see my mum. | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
Well, I will tell you what, if you want to let him go, he won't go far? | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
Do you want to go and see mum? Oh, look at him go! I was well | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
impressed, that. How common is this story Chris -- this story Chris? | :13:33. | :13:45. | |
They are just not judgemental Musso it is, after brain injury to be | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
mistaken as someone who is drunk, problems with slurred speech or | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
balance, and dogs don't care if you can get the words out, they don't | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
care if you put your make-up on, and it is about having purpose as well, | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
so when my lovely aunt Winnie was around, her motivation to get up in | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
the morning was to feed her cats. And that makes a big difference, | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
doesn't it? Yeah, absolutely. You have felt especially low on Sundays | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
and Scamp has made the difference? Yeah, on quite a number of | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
occasions. The accident was in 2014 and between then and now there have | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
been a good few days. The recovery is still ongoing. And, yeah, like | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
you say, if it hadn't have been for Scamp, I say it from my heart, I | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
would have given up, it has been a tough fight. It isn't easy and I | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
appreciate what people are going through, similar things to what I | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
have gone through, if not worse. It is really clear how much of a | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
difference Scamp has made for you. Is there evidence it makes a | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
difference with people's treatment and welfare? There is anecdotal | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
evidence that people benefit from having animals around, certainly | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
around people having purpose to their day, and often we find they | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
will care for something more than ourselves, so having the purpose of | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
getting up and feeding the dog, things like Tom you know, if you | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
don't feel like going for a walk, you have to go for a walk to get | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
fresh air and feed the dog, and, you know, I worked with a man who had a | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
stroke early in his 20s and he worked with the donkey, he had lost | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
his vision and his donkey would walk him around the field and he is | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
convinced his donkey knew that he was suffering and he would kind of | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
walk slowly within. You see, Scamp has come back, and even having a dog | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
in the studio, one of the things it does is it engages youth, it gives | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
you something, it could be a person ideally, and in this case it is a | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
pet to engage with and that makes a big difference, doesn't it? Yes. He | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
has been so well-behaved sofar. There is a supply of food down here. | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
We saw some of the youngsters in hospital taking dogs into hospital | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
and it was so lovely to see that interaction, I can imagine it making | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
a big difference? Going into a hospital, yeah, I could see why, | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
obviously through my own experience, and even people have stopped me in | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
my local park and they also, there was a lady I know who has had a | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
stroke and she has a dog and that has given her purpose, same as me. | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
Well, it is lovely to see you this morning and, Scamp, look at that, | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
just as we finish, he has come back and it is almost, Dan, as if you | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
have control of him yourself. It is lovely to see you this morning, | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
thank you very much. Thanks, Scamp! If you hear any noise as you will | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
know that we have not got Scamp out of the studio! I don't mind. He is | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
quite comforting, isn't he? You're watching | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
Breakfast from BBC News. The Kremlin has warned it | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
will retaliate for President Obama's expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
from the United States. 17 people have been taken to | :17:22. | :17:35. | |
hospital with minor injuries after a bus crash in Oxfordshire. | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
The update on Scamp is that he is directly beneath us. Come on, come | :17:44. | :17:54. | |
on, here we go. He has found a secret supply of biscuits, hasn't | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
it? With frosty weather | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
across the country this week, we've sent Matt to the ice rink | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
at the Tower of London. Matt has got a penguin as well! This | :18:02. | :18:15. | |
is my Jane Torvill. Good morning from the Tower of London. Lovely | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
scene from the moat of this ancient tower that stretches back to 1066 | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
when it was all sorted out and built. Fairly dramatic scenes have | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
happened here over the years. There could be a bit of drama later if I | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
do eventually take to the ice properly. Very misty atmospheric | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
morning at the moment. Dense patches of fog in the south and east and not | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
just here where it is slippery as well. The forecast. Fog patches, as | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
are mentioned and frost across Midlands, East Anglia. 12 or 13 in | :18:52. | :19:00. | |
around the Murray serve. Another day of great contrasts across many | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
northern and areas. The wettest of all will be the the Highlands. Into | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
tomorrow, could be some minor flooding. North-east Wales and on | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
the east England and north-east Scotland could have the best. | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
Temperatures around 14 degrees this afternoon. Compare two in East | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Anglia whether Mr and fog lingers, three or four. Tonight, Mr and fog | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
could be an issue as well across East Anglia. Missed | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
still raining in northern parts of Scotland with savages holding up | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
around seven or 10 degrees. -- temperatures. England and Wales | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
largely dry. A spot of rain in the West and most should have a fine day | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
and mild. Rain is Priddis way southwards across all parts reaching | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
Scotland and Northern Island. -- Raynet spreads itself. If you are | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
heading out to welcome in the bells across Scotland on New Year's Eve. | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
Here are the conditions. Much clear across Scotland with wintry showers | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
but cold out there if you are heading out. Northern England, it is | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
set to reign as we head towards midnight. -- rain. It should be | :20:25. | :20:33. | |
cloudy with a breeze developing but compared to recent days, a good deal | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
milder. Eight or nine degrees. Newport and Cardiff may stay dry | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
until after midnight. The north and west could be wet and breezy. | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
Northern Ireland, you lose the rain from the evening and we finished the | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
day and finish the year on a largely clear note but a few wintry showers. | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
It will feel cold and feeling much colder for most into New Year's Day. | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
A bit of cloud across southern parts of England and East Anglia with | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
patchy rain and the result. Elsewhere, some of sunshine and | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
showers across the northern half, it could be wintry. Sleet and snow and | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
a covering of snow even lower levels of Scotland. The higher ground of | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
north-east England as well. That's how it's looking. Come on, then. | :21:23. | :21:33. | |
He looks good, doesn't he? He looks the part. That penguin has never | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
looked so scared in its life. I don't blame it, either. | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
Now Christmas is over, it's time for the big clean up. | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
Between us we've used 300,000 tons of card and paper during the festive | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
season - but not all of it can be recycled. | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
Sean's at a recycling plant this morning in the West Midlands | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
for us to find out what happens to it all. | :22:05. | :22:23. | |
What they do here separated at all. It allows people at home to put the | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
recycling all in one box was Doctor plastics, the teams, the papers. A | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
lot of people around the country may be more familiar with using their | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
own separated bins at home. -- all the plastic. It ends up you get | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
worse for wear pics in these boxes and here at other pickers making | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
sure that that doesn't happen. 3.5 thousand tons of card. We are | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
talking a quarter of a million Big Ben could be covered. | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
Or the Angel of the North more than two million times. | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
But according to the packaging industry, manufacturers have been | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
reducing the amount that they use over the years. | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
The big story this year is glitter. Our glitter expert for the day. | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
Wrapping paper expert. How much of an issue is wrapping paper for | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
recycling places like this? Most householders don't know they can | :23:23. | :23:32. | |
recycle not so they assume they can. We probably lose more because we are | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
on the safe side. If householders and new, it would be better and they | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
probably wouldn't buy it. If we go can we show a quick scrunch test? | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
This can be recycled. You scratch it up and it stays scrunched. This one, | :23:47. | :23:56. | |
scrunch it up, it bounces back. That is the big difference. We'll be | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
talking more over the morning to show what you can put in the bins | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
and what you can't and to show why businesses like this are making | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
money. Back with you later, thank you. That is good to know, the | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
scrunching technique. Learner drivers could be allowed on | :24:12. | :24:28. | |
motorways. The Department of Transport says the changes could | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
improve road safety. We are being joined by our London newsroom. The | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
proposition is that you will have L plates on the motorways, is that a | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
good idea? Anything that gives young novice drivers more experience has | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
to be welcome. It has to be done safely of course but when you go on | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
a motorway for the first time, it can be scary. Going on with someone | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
who is a qualified instructor, that is a good ring. But it doesn't get | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
you anything because it is not going to become part of the test, is it? | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
It's just the those who can afford the extra lessons to go on the | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
motorway just because they can? We have to go one step at a time. For | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
many years we haven't allowed people not yet through their test onto | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
motorways. The government said that is something they want to open up | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
and we think it's a good idea. Let's get that going and then possibly in | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
due course we might find changes to the test along. It is extraordinary. | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
Some people might be alarmed about the idea is L plates on the motorway | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
but it seems more extraordinary that you can pass your test never having | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
been on a motorway and then go on a motorway without L plates. Many of | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
us when we think back to when we first passed our test, the first | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
time we went a motorway, going down on that slip road and encountering | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
all the traffic thundering along at high speed, it can be scary. That's | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
why we would encourage people even now before this comes along, if they | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
pass this test, yet yourselves a qualified instructor to coach you | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
through it. Just to be clear, if Mum or dad are sitting alongside you, it | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
doesn't mean you can have a go on a motorway? Absolutely not. This is a | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
carefully introduced idea and many qualified people who are col -- | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
comfortable with what they are doing. Instructor alongside the | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
novice will have to make a judgement in their mind as to whether that | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
novice is fully able to drive on the motorway or whether they need more | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
lessons. One more thing, we are hearing news of another accident on | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
the M4 to, a coach crash, 17 people injured, we understand. Fog is a | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
real issue for drivers. Certain times of year, its particular issue. | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
Are there any guidelines are people dealing with these conditions? What | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
we can say is thankfully our motorways are amongst the safest. | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
This type of year, -- this time of year, when it is faulty or dark, for | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
goodness sake, slow down, take it easy. Thank you for your time. | :27:08. | :30:45. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Steph McGovern and Charlie | :30:46. | :30:48. | |
Russia has promised to respond to the expulsion of 35 | :30:49. | :30:51. | |
of its diplomats from Washington, amid a bitter dispute over alleged | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
interference by the Kremlin in the American presidential election. | :30:55. | :30:56. | |
Obama believes Russia used cyber hacking to try and discredit | :30:57. | :30:59. | |
Hilary Clinton a claim denied by President Putin. | :31:00. | :31:01. | |
Moscow says retaliatory measures would be considered. | :31:02. | :31:08. | |
17 people have been taken to hospital after a coach overturned | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
A major incident was declared as emergency services attended | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
at around quarter to three in the morning. | :31:16. | :31:17. | |
South Central Ambulance Service says the driver and passengers have | :31:18. | :31:20. | |
The AA is urging "extreme caution" for those heading out on the roads | :31:21. | :31:24. | |
Learner drivers are to be allowed on motorways for the first time | :31:25. | :31:43. | |
under new Government plans to improve road safety. | :31:44. | :31:45. | |
The Department of Transport is launching a seven week | :31:46. | :31:48. | |
consultation on the proposed changes from today. | :31:49. | :31:50. | |
It says the idea is designed to improve awareness and experience | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
A nationwide ceasefire has come into force in Syria | :31:54. | :32:02. | |
between the government and rebel factions. | :32:03. | :32:04. | |
Fighting is said to have stopped in much of the country | :32:05. | :32:07. | |
but there have been reports of some clashes. | :32:08. | :32:09. | |
A number of organisations are not covered by the truce, | :32:10. | :32:12. | |
Jeremy Corbyn has used his New Year's message to warn | :32:13. | :32:20. | |
against a Brexit deal that he says only protects bankers | :32:21. | :32:23. | |
Mr Corbyn said 2016 would be defined by the decision to leave | :32:24. | :32:28. | |
the European Union and warned that Labour would not allow | :32:29. | :32:30. | |
the government to negotiate a deal his party did not agree with. | :32:31. | :32:37. | |
National Parks in England have lost a quarter of their government | :32:38. | :32:40. | |
funding in the past five years, according to research by the Press | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
Campaigners warn it could threaten the areas for future generations, | :32:44. | :32:46. | |
but the government says their budgets are protected until 2020. | :32:47. | :32:49. | |
With stunning scenery and rare wildlife, 19 million people visit | :32:50. | :32:58. | |
them every year, but England's national parks have had | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
their funding cut in recent times, down by a quarter since 2010. | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
Areas loved by many and described by the government as national | :33:06. | :33:08. | |
treasures simply aren't getting the cash they used to. | :33:09. | :33:15. | |
Figures show the grants given to nine out of 10 national parks | :33:16. | :33:18. | |
in England have been shrinking, reduced by more than ?10 million | :33:19. | :33:21. | |
With inflation factored in, that's a real-terms cut | :33:22. | :33:32. | |
In a statement, the Department for Environment, Food | :33:33. | :33:35. | |
There are efforts to bring in more money by bringing in more visitors. | :33:36. | :33:44. | |
There is a government plan for encouraging school trips | :33:45. | :33:47. | |
Campaigners, though, point to information centres | :33:48. | :33:54. | |
closing, bus services being axed and staff cuts | :33:55. | :33:56. | |
They say there will need to be more cash so the beauty of the parks can | :33:57. | :34:02. | |
Newly released government files reveal that guards at Faslane naval | :34:03. | :34:12. | |
base were ordered to shoot suspected intruders, | :34:13. | :34:14. | |
after three people broke into a nuclear submarine. | :34:15. | :34:16. | |
The Prime Minister at the time, Margaret Thatcher, who was told | :34:17. | :34:19. | |
of the order, said she was "horrified" | :34:20. | :34:21. | |
Counting down to 2017 will take longer than usual this | :34:22. | :34:31. | |
New Year's Eve as clock experts compensate for a slowdown | :34:32. | :34:34. | |
To be precise, it will last an extra second. | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
For the 27th time the National Physics Laboratory has brought | :34:39. | :34:40. | |
in a leap second to ensure that time based on the Earth's rotation does | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
not lag behind time kept by atomic clocks. | :34:45. | :35:00. | |
So, I can't work at when the leap second is. When is it added on? It | :35:01. | :35:10. | |
has to be specific, doesn't it? When you get to zero, you do another, | :35:11. | :35:18. | |
maybe? You pause? What is an atomic clock? It is a clock we know nothing | :35:19. | :35:25. | |
about. It is the special clock which works best. Oh, OK, I knew Charlie | :35:26. | :35:33. | |
would have the answer. Please send us into tell us about what it is. | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
People have been talking about being ambidextrous and a quarter of | :35:39. | :35:41. | |
cricketers are left-handed, which is higher than the 8%- 10% of the | :35:42. | :35:45. | |
population which a left-handed. Loads of people commenting this | :35:46. | :35:59. | |
morning. Adelaide Callum, my brother was right-handed and turned | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
left-handed. Vincent says one is left-handed and one is right-handed | :36:04. | :36:12. | |
in relation to his brothers. And James Hat Stand, my brother copied | :36:13. | :36:19. | |
his sister when growing up. Lots of people said playing golf and snooker | :36:20. | :36:23. | |
they are left-handed when they write with their right-hand. Sometimes it | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
is as simple as equipment available. You said you tried golf and picked | :36:29. | :36:31. | |
up a left-handed set and... I think it is showing off as well. It was | :36:32. | :36:36. | |
impressive at school when someone could write with both hands, wasn't | :36:37. | :36:44. | |
it? Thing about Rafael Nadal, he is right-handed but he plays | :36:45. | :36:47. | |
left-handed, because playing left-handed is so difficult to play | :36:48. | :36:52. | |
against if you are a right-handed player. Ryan Giggs is right footed | :36:53. | :36:57. | |
or left footed? I am going to guess right footed, but I don't know. I | :36:58. | :36:59. | |
will have a look. Swansea have ruled Ryan Giggs out | :37:00. | :37:00. | |
of the running as a successor to Bob Giggs had been the early favourite, | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
alongside Wales manager Chris Coleman, who has indicated | :37:05. | :37:07. | |
he'll remain with the national team. Bayern Munich assistant Paul Clement | :37:08. | :37:10. | |
and ex-Birmingham boss Gary Rowett are now the front runners | :37:11. | :37:12. | |
to take over after Bradley Whoever comes in has | :37:13. | :37:15. | |
to be the right man. I suppose ideally he would be | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
British, knowing the Premier League. You know, they have to be satisfied | :37:19. | :37:21. | |
he fills the criteria for getting us out of the trouble | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
we find ourselves in. Aston Villa are still unbeaten | :37:26. | :37:28. | |
at home in the Championship, after they denied Leeds United | :37:29. | :37:31. | |
the chance to go third. Leeds have been on good form, | :37:32. | :37:33. | |
and they went ahead in the second But four minutes from time, | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
they conceded a penalty. Jonathan Kodja put it | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
away to level for Villa. World player of the year | :37:42. | :37:50. | |
Cristiano Ronaldo has turned down an offer of ?85 million a year | :37:51. | :37:53. | |
to leave Real Madrid for an unnamed Chinese club, | :37:54. | :37:56. | |
according to his agent. The news came on the day that | :37:57. | :37:58. | |
Argentina striker Carlos Tevez joined Shanghai Shenhua, | :37:59. | :38:01. | |
becoming one of the highest paid The Chinese Super League club | :38:02. | :38:03. | |
will pay him ?615,000 a week. Andy Murray's season starts today, | :38:04. | :38:08. | |
he'll face David Goffin in the semi-finals of | :38:09. | :38:16. | |
the World Tennis Championship in Abu Murray got a bye into the last four | :38:17. | :38:19. | |
but Goffin had to come past Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
winning in straight sets. And Rafael Nadal made a good start | :38:24. | :38:30. | |
to his latest comeback from injury, dropping only four games | :38:31. | :38:33. | |
as he beat Tomas Berdych. A wrist injury had troubled | :38:34. | :38:36. | |
Nadal throughout 2016, but there were no | :38:37. | :38:38. | |
signs of rustiness. He faces Milos Raonic | :38:39. | :38:40. | |
in the semi-finals. In darts, Phil Taylor set up | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
a tantalising quarter-final against Raymond van Barneveld | :38:45. | :38:47. | |
at the PDC World Championship. Taylor, a 16-time world champion, | :38:48. | :38:49. | |
beat Kim Huybrechts 4-2 at Alexandra He and van Barneveld | :38:50. | :38:52. | |
are long-standing rivals. The Dutchman tweeted: | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
"El Classico is on. And finally, Serena Williams has | :38:56. | :38:57. | |
used the social media platform Reddit to announce that she is | :38:58. | :39:08. | |
engaged to its co-founder, She put it in the form of a poem: | :39:09. | :39:11. | |
"I came home / A little late / Someone had a bag packed for me / | :39:12. | :39:17. | |
And a carriage awaited / Destination: Rome / To escort me | :39:18. | :39:21. | |
to my very own "charming" / Back to where our stars first collided / | :39:22. | :39:24. | |
And now it was full circle / At the same table we first met | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
by chance / This time he made it not by chance / But by choice / Down | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
on one knee / He said four words/And She likes of Poland, doesn't she? | :39:33. | :39:45. | |
Has she done that before? What, written poems? She has done that | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
recently with Maya Angelou. -- she likes poems. Congratulations to | :39:51. | :39:56. | |
Serena Williams. Despite multiple public health | :39:57. | :39:58. | |
campaigns against smoking, it continues to be the biggest cause | :39:59. | :40:00. | |
of premature death amongst adults - almost 80,000 people | :40:01. | :40:03. | |
a year lose their lives because of the habit. | :40:04. | :40:05. | |
So in an effort to put people off, 2017 will be the first year | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
when all cigarettes will be sold in standardised packaging, | :40:10. | :40:12. | |
which display graphic Public Health England is also | :40:13. | :40:14. | |
reminding smokers their heart, In a moment, we'll talk | :40:15. | :40:17. | |
to Dr Ranj Singh, but first he's been getting ideas from primary | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
school children on how to encourage Not smoking is the single best thing | :40:23. | :40:40. | |
you can do for your health. How do you stop someone smoking? If you are | :40:41. | :40:50. | |
going to give a message to your dad if he was making, what would you | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
write? It can kill you. I have drawn the heart of a smoker and the heart | :40:56. | :41:01. | |
of a non-smoker. The healthy site is people who smoke and the unhealthy | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
site is people don't smoke. Clark can build up and you could have a | :41:06. | :41:11. | |
stroke. Please, stop smoking. Don't be the smoker, be the stop. Oh, that | :41:12. | :41:19. | |
is so good. Welcome to the program. This is about telling us about the | :41:20. | :41:22. | |
heart problems you can get from smoking. For a long time we have | :41:23. | :41:28. | |
seen pictures of lungs and the damage which can be done. Will this | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
have an impact? I think so. Research shows it does work. A lot of people | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
will be aware of the impact of smoking on your lungs. People | :41:40. | :41:42. | |
automatically think of lung cancer. He might not realise the effect on | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
your heart and arteries. It increases your child of heart attack | :41:47. | :41:52. | |
and stroke, it doubles it. There is a very real impact. 45 people every | :41:53. | :41:57. | |
day die from smoking related cardiovascular disease and we have a | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
lot of work to do. We have 7 million smokers in this country. Fortunately | :42:03. | :42:05. | |
twice as many ex-smokers, but we have work to do. Who are the | :42:06. | :42:14. | |
problem... Obviously anyone smoking, but which groups are listening | :42:15. | :42:18. | |
leased to the messages? It might not necessarily be that they are | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
listening but they are a high prevalence areas in the country, | :42:23. | :42:26. | |
especially with people who work in manual and routine professions, that | :42:27. | :42:30. | |
is who we are targeting as well as everyone else. Another group we need | :42:31. | :42:34. | |
to look at these young people. We need to discourage young people from | :42:35. | :42:38. | |
taking up smoking in the first place and we know that standardised | :42:39. | :42:42. | |
packaging carrying these warnings and these targeted campaigns can | :42:43. | :42:46. | |
work. Do we know that packaging makes a difference? My friend was | :42:47. | :42:51. | |
smoking a cigarette the other day and there was a picture that made me | :42:52. | :42:56. | |
say, oh, doesn't it put you off? He said, I don't notice it any more. | :42:57. | :43:00. | |
Does that happen, smokers don't notice? I think it is a really good | :43:01. | :43:06. | |
point. Lots of studies have been done around the world looking at | :43:07. | :43:09. | |
that and they have shown a positive impact. Australia was one of the | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
first countries to take this approach and they have seen a | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
reduction in smoking rates of between 1% - 2% since the launch of | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
their strategy. We want to see that in this country. It might not sound | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
like a big number but it is 100,000 Australians. If you think about the | :43:28. | :43:32. | |
wide impact on health and family, it is devastating when a carer or | :43:33. | :43:36. | |
parent dies prematurely because of smoking. That is what these kids | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
need to be aware of and that is what these kids are trying to stop people | :43:41. | :43:45. | |
doing. It is interesting what works, and what remains in your mind, and I | :43:46. | :43:49. | |
think you remember the campaign a while ago, it was the blocked artery | :43:50. | :43:55. | |
and the ta that was in there. That really stuck in the memory. Is there | :43:56. | :43:59. | |
an argument for having the very graphic illustrations? I am not | :44:00. | :44:07. | |
sure, the heart campaign, is there an image which shows what smoking | :44:08. | :44:11. | |
does to your heart? The packages contain images of the impacts | :44:12. | :44:16. | |
smoking has. There is also a concurrent mutations campaign which | :44:17. | :44:20. | |
is showing the cigarettes and the kind of mutations people will see | :44:21. | :44:23. | |
when they smoke inside their bodies and those are the mutations which | :44:24. | :44:27. | |
cause cancer and things like that. These hard-hitting campaigns can be | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
controversial. Are you using shock tactics? No, we are using facts. | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
People need to be aware there is no safe level of smoking. Giving up | :44:37. | :44:41. | |
smoking is the single best thing to do for your health and there is free | :44:42. | :44:46. | |
help available. Just go online, search for smoke-free and you'll get | :44:47. | :44:50. | |
loads of tools and tricks. And information about how to do that. | :44:51. | :44:55. | |
And this time of year, music -- new years resolutions. We want to be | :44:56. | :45:03. | |
healthy this time of year. Smoking is the big thing that all of us | :45:04. | :45:07. | |
should be looking at. Thank you for your time this morning. Nice to see | :45:08. | :45:14. | |
you. It is also a good time of year to take something up and Matt is | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
taking up a bit of iceskating at the Tower of London. | :45:19. | :45:24. | |
He is an alien BIS. -- he is enabling this. | :45:25. | :45:38. | |
Cold, misty, foggy. I have just about state on my feet. I will get a | :45:39. | :45:48. | |
triple fracture if I'd stay on my feet. Cold and frosty against | :45:49. | :45:57. | |
southern and eastern parts. It will have an impact on road travel and | :45:58. | :46:00. | |
air travel across the South and east of England. Temperatures in the | :46:01. | :46:05. | |
south and east below freezing. Double figures in the north. Most of | :46:06. | :46:13. | |
you start the day drive but lots of rain across the Hebrides, Walkley, | :46:14. | :46:21. | |
Shetland. Could be increased risk of flooding as we head into the next 24 | :46:22. | :46:26. | |
hours. Dry and bright breaks in the north-east of Scotland where we | :46:27. | :46:31. | |
could around 14 or 15 compare to three degrees across parts of East | :46:32. | :46:35. | |
Anglia where the mist and fog lingers. Still mist and fog through | :46:36. | :46:41. | |
the south-east. Most of you will have mild night. Still wet in | :46:42. | :46:45. | |
northern Scotland and that weather front that is bringing the rain, | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
will bring breezy conditions. A mild enough start to New Year's Eve. The | :46:51. | :46:54. | |
mist will lift as the breeze picks up. The rain continues in northern | :46:55. | :46:59. | |
Scotland and if anything, New Year's Eve, it will work its way south. | :47:00. | :47:09. | |
Turning colder once again from the north. As we head towards midnight, | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
this is what the conditions are looking like. You have clear skies | :47:14. | :47:20. | |
for many, very cold, a few wintry showers, the rain will have cleared | :47:21. | :47:24. | |
that it will be their in northern England at midnight. Largely dry | :47:25. | :47:29. | |
across the Midlands, East Anglia and the south of England. Competitor | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
past few nights, here is not quite as misty or foggy -- compared to. | :47:35. | :47:40. | |
The south-west should be dried apart from the odd spot of rain and | :47:41. | :47:46. | |
drizzle. For the likes of Newport, you might see a dry New Year's Eve. | :47:47. | :47:55. | |
To the north of the weather front, back to Northern Ireland, back to | :47:56. | :47:59. | |
the cold air. Clearer skies for midnight. One or two showers around | :48:00. | :48:04. | |
but most will be dry. The colder weather that we finish the year with | :48:05. | :48:12. | |
head down. Still rain to come. Parts of southern England, East Anglia, | :48:13. | :48:16. | |
patchy rain or drizzle. Whereas the rest of the country, lots of | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
sunshine around stop with the showers in the coastal parts of | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
Scotland will stop a mixture of rain, sleet and snow. | :48:25. | :48:31. | |
Misty, foggy, frosty across the South and east. A milder spell to | :48:32. | :48:38. | |
the run-up of New Year and things are set to turn colder. I am skating | :48:39. | :48:54. | |
off in my lovely suit. Here we go. Don't expect a turn. | :48:55. | :49:05. | |
That made it for me, that. By the end of the morning, we will get a | :49:06. | :49:13. | |
jump out of Matt. He has a jump suit on. Bello it is hard to stop as well | :49:14. | :49:21. | |
and he managed to stop and deliver the weather without falling over. | :49:22. | :49:30. | |
Christmas wrapping, all the cardboard. It takes ages to sort | :49:31. | :49:37. | |
out, working out of the wrapping paper and how much you can recycle | :49:38. | :49:39. | |
and how much Between us we've used around 300,000 | :49:40. | :49:41. | |
tons of card during the festive season for things like packaging | :49:42. | :49:44. | |
and of course Christmas cards. We've sent Sean to a recycling plant | :49:45. | :49:47. | |
in the West Midlands to find out whereabouts are you? They still have | :49:48. | :50:06. | |
all that to go through. It's the busiest time of year. The cards, the | :50:07. | :50:11. | |
gift wrapping, that glitter doesn't help either. That is why these | :50:12. | :50:16. | |
pickers are sorting through everything because the waste that | :50:17. | :50:20. | |
comes here is all in one. Everybody's recycling, all in one. | :50:21. | :50:26. | |
The plastic, the tins, the paper. It gets split here. What makes it | :50:27. | :50:33. | |
awkward, it still end up with DVD players, broadband, hairdryers, | :50:34. | :50:37. | |
getting in there. The machinery can't do it all on its own. Let's | :50:38. | :50:42. | |
talk to a couple of people who know a little bit of why this is | :50:43. | :50:47. | |
happening here. You represent the packaging industry. How much of this | :50:48. | :50:53. | |
here is because of the amount of packaging that your members use when | :50:54. | :50:56. | |
customers are buying certain products? The packaging UC has | :50:57. | :51:01. | |
arisen because consumers have brought products that have to have | :51:02. | :51:05. | |
packaging around them in order for the product to arrive in the | :51:06. | :51:17. | |
condition it was intended. Margaret, you are Professor improve waste | :51:18. | :51:25. | |
management. -- professor in weight -- waste management. People have | :51:26. | :51:35. | |
talked about consumer responsibility. They are being | :51:36. | :51:41. | |
incentivised to produce less, the producers. Is that an incentive? | :51:42. | :51:49. | |
People putting the right stuff in the right bins? Remember, the | :51:50. | :51:57. | |
products that are put on the shelves are done so because consumers buy | :51:58. | :52:00. | |
them and therefore, manufacturers will also produce the product. A | :52:01. | :52:07. | |
majority of packaging, certainly food packaging these days, has | :52:08. | :52:11. | |
information on it so consumers can see how to responsibly dispose on it | :52:12. | :52:16. | |
for recycling. The proportion of recycled material that is in | :52:17. | :52:20. | |
packaging has increased and will continue. To consumers want to use | :52:21. | :52:28. | |
less packaging? I think people want to do the right thing but then not | :52:29. | :52:33. | |
always clear about what that is. We get higher recycling waste | :52:34. | :52:38. | |
considering for most householders there is no benefit. I will be back | :52:39. | :52:43. | |
a bit later. We will be doing more scrunch test and finding out | :52:44. | :52:48. | |
exactly, there is still loads of shiny wrapping paper going through | :52:49. | :52:49. | |
here, these people are working hard. Sean, does it smell? The last time I | :52:50. | :53:00. | |
went to one of those, it absolutely wreaked. I do know whether I'm used | :53:01. | :53:07. | |
to it but these are recyclable so there is not so much food and waste. | :53:08. | :53:12. | |
But I don't fancy sticking my head down there. | :53:13. | :53:13. | |
For fans of the world's only consulting detective the wait | :53:14. | :53:16. | |
The new series of Sherlock begins on New Year's Day. | :53:17. | :53:19. | |
Details and plot lines have been kept a closely guarded secret, | :53:20. | :53:22. | |
but the show's writers have described this fourth series | :53:23. | :53:25. | |
Breakfast's Tim Muffett has been to meet the star of the show | :53:26. | :53:29. | |
Benedict Cumberbatch to see if he can squeeze out | :53:30. | :53:31. | |
I am sure there are many things you can not tell us | :53:32. | :53:39. | |
I am in a new series, series four of Sherlock. | :53:40. | :53:45. | |
It is exciting and it has been fantastically challenging | :53:46. | :53:47. | |
and new and that is the thing that keeps | :53:48. | :53:52. | |
Your daemons have been waiting for a very | :53:53. | :53:57. | |
When you see a script for the first time, what happens? | :53:58. | :54:04. | |
Firstly you are amazed at the imagination of the work that | :54:05. | :54:08. | |
And then you start picking out the details that relate | :54:09. | :54:14. | |
to the original stories and then just the beautiful character arcs. | :54:15. | :54:21. | |
A screaming demanding baby, waking up at all hours. | :54:22. | :54:23. | |
All you do is clean up their mess, pat them on the head. | :54:24. | :54:35. | |
So much has changed since you began this. | :54:36. | :54:38. | |
Social media was around but not as big as it is now. | :54:39. | :54:41. | |
Today we have been seen from the scene is shot outside | :54:42. | :54:44. | |
and there are crowds were tweeting about it. | :54:45. | :54:48. | |
What we use as Baker Street is peculiar because there | :54:49. | :54:54. | |
is excitement and expectation and if you raise an | :54:55. | :54:57. | |
You also have to complete a day's filming and | :54:58. | :55:01. | |
They don't want to be an obstacle to what they eventually enjoy so much. | :55:02. | :55:17. | |
Does it put you off your character at all? | :55:18. | :55:19. | |
You have to go pretty far too upset that character. | :55:20. | :55:24. | |
What is the very worst thing you can do to your very | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
I don't think some people realise how big globally Sherlock | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
I thought I would find a few people who had seen it. | :55:34. | :55:42. | |
The second or third day when they realised that it wasn't | :55:43. | :55:46. | |
Christian Bale or someone else behind the mask, | :55:47. | :55:51. | |
there were just hundreds of people sort | :55:52. | :55:52. | |
What is the most unusual place you have been spotted as Sherlock. | :55:53. | :55:59. | |
We were the ones who were the privileged audience | :56:00. | :56:13. | |
and he was acting as if he was privileged. | :56:14. | :56:15. | |
She is a retired superagent with terrifying skills. | :56:16. | :56:25. | |
This programme seems to go everywhere and I am | :56:26. | :56:32. | |
The stories, they had a massive worldwide audience, | :56:33. | :56:35. | |
I guess it is an extension of that but with modern | :56:36. | :56:40. | |
All it back in half an hour. and weather where | :56:41. | :00:20. | |
Hello this is Breakfast, with Steph McGovern and Charlie Stayt. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Russia says it will retaliate, as 35 of its diplomats | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
are expelled from the US over the hacking scandal. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
President Obama's ordered the sanctions after claims Moscow | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
interfered in America's presidential elections. | :00:34. | :00:50. | |
Good morning, it's Friday 30th December. | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
17 people are taken to hospital with minor injuries after a coach | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
overturns on the M40 in Oxfordshire - drivers are being warned | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
to use extreme caution in the freezing conditions. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Prescribing pets - why senior nurses are calling | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
for more animals to be used as part of patients' treatment. | :01:10. | :01:18. | |
It is a bit of normality isn't it, because we have dogs at home so to | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
have one in the hospital is quite nice. Good morning, it is reckoned | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
we get three 300 tonnes of card like this over the Christmas period. I am | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
looking at all the rubbish which is trucked into our bins. | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
In sport, Ryan Giggs is the latest name to be ruled out of the running | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
The club have suggested they're looking for more managerial | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
And Matt has the weather for us. Good morning, I am an ice here at | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
the Tower of London this morning. It is not just hear that things are | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
slippery. Southern and eastern England is rusty and foggy. It is | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
wet in northern Scotland. Details on all of that and the prospects as we | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
finished 2016 and start 2017. That is all coming up. Thank you. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
Russia has promised to respond to the expulsion of 35 | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
of its diplomats from Washington, amid a bitter dispute over alleged | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
interference by the Kremlin in the American presidential election. | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
Moscow has denied the allegations of cyber-attacks, and said | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
its response will cause the United States | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
Our correspondent Steve Rosenberg joins us from Moscow. | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
A pretty bold move, Steve, by the United States. What has the reaction | :02:40. | :02:50. | |
been like? Pretty furious, actually. Quite a colourful reaction from | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
Russian officials. We have heard President Putin's spokesman of | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
accusing the Obama administration of behaving like an elephant in a china | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
shop. That is what they say here. We have seen a tweet from the Russian | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
embassy in the UK with a picture of a duck with the word name over it | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
and we have heard in the foreign agency who says America has been | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
humiliated by its own president. So an angry reaction. We have not heard | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
what Russia's counter sanctions will be. We do expect there to be some. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
The Kremlin said it will make an appropriate response. The Foreign | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
Ministry here has spoken of countermeasures. What will be | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
interesting I think will be the knowledge within three weeks' time, | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
more pro-Moscow US president walks into the White House, Donald Trump, | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
whether that will soften Moscow's response in anyway. The diplomats | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
will be expelled from the United States. When will this happen? Is it | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
likely to be resolved by then? They have been given 72 hours to leave | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
the United States and I think we can expect probably some kind of | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
tit-for-tat, possibly a similar number of US diplomats to be | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
expelled possibly from Russia, but we will have to wait and see for the | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
official response from the authorities here. Thank you. | :04:16. | :04:26. | |
17 people have been taken to hospital after a coach | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
overturned on the M40 in Oxfordshire this morning. | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
South Central Ambulance Service says the driver and passengers have | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
There were reports of dense fog in the area. | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
Let's get the latest from our reporter Simon Jones | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
What more do we know about what happened this morning? This crash | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
happened around 2:45am this morning on the slip road near junction seven | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
of the M40, that is near Thame in Oxfordshire. We know the driver was | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
taken to hospital along with 16 of the passengers on board that coach | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
which was from the Oxford bus company. We are told the injuries | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
they suffered include broken bones, cuts and bruises and it was declared | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
a major incident because of the number of casualties involved. Six | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
ambulances went to the scene of the crash along with the police and Fire | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
Service, but initially, they had difficulty getting there because the | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
fog was so thick in the area, and there has been a warning issued for | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
fog for large parts of southern England and that could continue | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
until later on this afternoon. This crash happened around 20 miles from | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
the scene of another huge crash in fog which took place on Wednesday. | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
That involved 20 vehicles and a woman lost her life. The cause of | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
this latest accident is still under investigation. Thank you. And we | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
will have an update on the weather throughout the morning as well. | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
Learner drivers are to be allowed on motorways for the first time | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
under new Government plans to improve road safety. | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
The Department of Transport is launching a seven week | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
consultation on the proposed changes from today. | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
It says the idea is designed to improve awareness | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
The proposed changes to both driver and motorcyclist training, | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
says the government, would improve safety | :06:15. | :06:15. | |
For drivers, changes would mean that competent learners will be able | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
to have lessons on motorways with an approved driving instructor | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
The biggest proposed changes are reserved for motorcyclists. | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
The compulsory basic training course, which allows them to ride | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
unaccompanied on roads, would be updated. | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
Motorcycle training would also move more online with novice riders | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
having to take a theory test and those holding a provisional | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
motorcycle licence would also have their CBT certificates revoked | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
if they get more than six penalty points. | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
The motoring organization, the RAC, have welcomed the proposals, | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
saying Britain's roads are already amongst the safest in the world, | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
and that changes are needed to help modernise driver | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
The Prime Minister has distanced herself from highly critical remarks | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
made by the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, about Israel. | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
In a speech on Wednesday, Mr Kerry described Benjamin Netanyahu's | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
government as the most right wing in the country's history, | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
and accused it of jeopardising the peace process. | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
But Downing Street said it was "not appropriate" | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
to attack the composition of the democratically elected | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
A nationwide ceasefire has come into force in Syria between the | :07:30. | :07:45. | |
government and rebel groups. There have been reports of some clashes. A | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
number of organisations are not covered by the trees including the | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
Islamic State group. -- the truce. National Parks in England have | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
seen their government funding reduced by a quarter in the last | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
five years, according Figures show nine out | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
of the ten areas - including the Lake District | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
and Dartmoor - suffered cuts to grants totalling | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
more than ?10 million. The government says National Park | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
budgets are protected until 2020. Newly released government files | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
reveal that guards at Faslane naval base were ordered | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
to shoot suspected intruders, after three people broke | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
into a nuclear submarine. The Prime Minister at the time, | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
Margaret Thatcher, who was told of the order, | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
said she was "horrified" Faslane, home to Britain's nuclear | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
submarines and one of the most secure military | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
establishments in Britain. Yet in October 1983 anti-nuclear | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
demonstrators broke into the base at night and got | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
aboard a nuclear sub. Documents released at | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
the National Archives show When Mrs Thatcher was first told | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
of the security breach, the thing that evidently horrified her most | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
was that the intruders had managed to get into the control room | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
of a Polaris submarine. Adviser Charles Powell wrote, | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
had there been armed terrorist the consequences would | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
have been incalculable. And Mrs Thatcher herself noted | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
at the top of the page, We could all have been | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
put in grave danger." Polaris was the forerunner | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
of today's Trident, Phil Jones, then a young | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
peace activist, He says they were astonished at how | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
easy it was, and shocked. When the commander of the submarine | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
came into the control room, and he was shouting at us, | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
"Who the F are you? Over and over again, | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
it could have been outrageous we could have been the IRA, | :09:42. | :09:53. | |
because they were still active. The files show security failures | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
starting with the perimeter fence. As a result of the incident, | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
Royal Marine sentries were given orders to shoot anyone suspected | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
of trying to damage the sub, but it didn't stop the same thing | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
happening again at least twice - If you've been anywhere near social | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
media over the last few months you can't have missed | :10:08. | :10:22. | |
the mannequin challenge. Countless sports stars, celebrities, | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
politicians and even NHS staff have posed for the videos, | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
but now French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has taken | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
the challenge to new heights. Have a look at this. Thomas is | :10:33. | :10:49. | |
currently on board the International Space Station. This is the video. | :10:50. | :10:59. | |
This is a moving image. His crewmates have taken part in the | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
challenge. They have anchored themselves sufficiently so they are | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
not moving. But the person at the front was | :11:08. | :11:16. | |
totally in midair. That is the best one I have ever seen. | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
We have the weather and sport coming up later on. | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
Learner drivers could soon have lessons on the motorway, under | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
It's hoped the idea will improve awareness | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
The Department for Transport says the changes | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
So, would you welcome the idea or would you be worried | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
about sharing the motorway with a learner? | :11:40. | :11:48. | |
I passed my test last January that I haven't driven on the motorway at. I | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
think it would have been a good idea as part of my lessons, but as a | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
driver without my instructor I don't think I would feel very safe doing | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
it! On the motorway you have to be a little bit experienced and totally | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
switched on and have lots of driving experiences over the years. So I | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
think somebody just learning, I don't think that straight onto the | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
motorway would be a good idea personally. You do need to learn to | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
drive on the motorway. At some point! You have to have somebody to | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
teach you, that is better. Lesley Young is the Chief Driving | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Examiner at the She joins us from our | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
Nottingham newsroom. Good morning. Just to be clear, this | :12:35. | :12:45. | |
is about driver training, not testing. What is your reaction to | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
this? Driving on the motorway for learner drivers is one of a number | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
of initiatives we are putting forward to improve novice driver | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
safety. The DV SA has made changes to their hazard and perception test | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
which includes motorways and bad weather driving and quite a bit | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
about tolerable road users. We have also undergone a trial for the | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
changes to the driving test itself, to better reflect real-life driving | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
and this is further initiatives to broaden new and novice drivers' | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
experience on the roads with a wide range of traffic conditions. It is | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
part of the training initiative rather than testing, because the | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
driving test lasts around 35 to 40 minutes and many of our driving test | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
centres would not have access in that time to motorways, but we do | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
believe that it is important that people have training on motorways | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
before going on them alone. The plan is not to be mandatory, it is | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
something you could choose to do. Some people might not be able to | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
afford the lessons to be able to do it because you would have to be in a | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
dual controlled and so it could not be your dad taking you on the | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
motorway with an owl plate. You are right. It is only in a duel can -- | :14:02. | :14:14. | |
controlled car. There would be few this could not apply to. Once they | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
have passed their test they can gain practice on the motorway under | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
supervision from family and friends. This is an opportunity for those who | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
want to take it up. It might be relevant for those who live in areas | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
where access to the motorway is very likely. Could you ever see a day | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
when it does become mandatory, when people have to do this as part of | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
their training? I doubt this very much. We have to understand there | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
are great swathes of the country where there are no motorways so it | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
would be quite burdensome to make everybody do it. It is a voluntary | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
thing and we would encourage people to take up that opportunity. We know | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
from what we have heard earlier in the clips that young drivers are | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
nervous about being on the motorway and far better that they experience | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
it under supervision rather than going on the motorway for the first | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
time on their own without any previous practice. What about for | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
people who are on the motorway who see the L plates and see people | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
learning to drive, it could make them nervous, couldn't it? | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
Interesting point, and I think people under supervision when they | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
are learning are amongst the safest drivers on the road and they are | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
trying to get it right and don't do dangerous things. But they have | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
those plates on their cars but good reasons, and motorists have got to | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
understand they have got to give them more space and time -- for good | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
reasons. Learners tend to be more hesitant than more experienced | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
drivers and so people need to give them more time and space, not only | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
on the motorway, but in general driving, as well. You might be | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
interested to know, regarding the driving test, there are very few | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
crashes that we get involved with, but a significant number of those | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
are other drivers running into the back of learners. The Al plates are | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
there for a reason and it would be helpful if people gave them more | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
space and time to act -- the learner plates. Thanks for joining us. | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
With frosty weather across the country this week, | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
we've sent Matt to the ice rink at the Tower of London. | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
You are displaying quite a bit of skill. LAUGHTER | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
I'm not sure about that. I'm just about getting by. Not so much | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
Torvill and Dean, more Basil Fawlty and Mr Bean. We are at the Tower of | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
London, very atmospheric and misty. This is the case across many | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
southern and eastern parts of England, be foggy weather is a real | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
issue. We can have a look at the forecast. Dense fog in the East of | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
England and also parts of the Midlands, that will hamper the | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
morning commute and some of the airports, as well. Away from that, | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
we have cloud, and also frost in southern and eastern areas, but in | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
northern Scotland we have temperatures around 10-12. In the | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
far north of Scotland we have rain. It will rain all day long in the | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
Shetlands and the Hebrides, and there could be a risk of flooding. | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
North East Scotland might have sunshine. Sunshine in the north-east | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
of England, and eastern parts of Wales. Temperatures around 3-4 in | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
the south-east and East Anglia. Not as much fog around and not quite as | :17:49. | :17:58. | |
frosty, as well, tonight. White breezy with a weather front, which | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
will still be there in northern Scotland to start New Year's Eve -- | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
quite breezy. This is how it pans out, much of England and Wales will | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
be dry, the best of any brightness in the East. There will be rain | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
edging south in Scotland, reaching Northern Ireland by the end of the | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
afternoon. The far north of Scotland will start to turn cold. As we head | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
towards midnight, conditions if you are out partying on New Year's Eve, | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
midnight with clear and cold weather, take note of the cold, much | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
colder than we have had recently. Clear skies and wintry showers. | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
Northern Ireland, the rain will be setting in. The Midlands, East | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
Anglia and the South, largely dry, fairly cloudy, south-westerly breeze | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
and temperatures will be 8-9. Greater chance of drizzle in | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
south-west England, and across Wales, Cardiff, Newport, it might be | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
after midnight when the rain sets in, but elsewhere it could be quite | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
wet and windy as the year ends. Largely clear and cold in Northern | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
Ireland, with a couple of wintry showers. The colder air reaches | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
everyone as we go through New Year's Day. It will take a while to reach | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
the far south, but elsewhere, crisp and sunny skies. The showers will | :19:27. | :19:36. | |
possibly have rain and hail and also snow which could give a covering to | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
the ground, especially the high areas in Scotland. Colder the of | :19:42. | :19:51. | |
2017. And now back to you. -- colder for the start of 2017. | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
We are impressed with how steady you are on your feet. | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
Now earlier on Breakfast we saw a bit of a tumble | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
You were being held down. One of them skated off into the distance. | :20:07. | :20:20. | |
There was a bit of a tumble. People have written in, saying they are | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
worried. No one has been hurt badly? No one was hurt, the person in | :20:28. | :20:37. | |
question was Eve and she is fine. I am fine, yes. You have had worse | :20:38. | :20:48. | |
than that? Yes, I have. Everything is OK. I have got the style, haven't | :20:49. | :21:01. | |
I? We have a couple of problems with our sound. Matt was catching up with | :21:02. | :21:14. | |
Eve. Can we go back? We had a few problems with the sound. Eve is OK? | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
She is fine. I'm fine, completely fine, yes. Anything hurt? No, I'm | :21:23. | :21:31. | |
completely fine. There you go, she is fine, pride hurt more than | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
anything else. It has been good fun down there, thanks for joining us. | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
So easily done, no matter how good you are. Well done to Eve for | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
carrying on. Now Christmas is over, | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
it's time for the big clean up. A lot of Christmas wrapping paper | :21:50. | :21:59. | |
around the country, where does it go? | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
Between us we've used 300,000 tonnes of card and paper | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
during the festive season - but not all of it can be recycled. | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
Sean's at a recycling plant this morning in the West Midlands | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
for us to find out what happens to it all. | :22:12. | :22:12. | |
It looks very busy. It is very busy, some people are brutal, how quickly | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
they chuck away their Christmas cards. I have seen them go past. We | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
are in Walsall at the recycling plant and this is where they do some | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
of the picking. Much of the recycling comes in one big basket, | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
and they do the separating here. Simon is part of the operation. We | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
can see pictures of these paper bales which are produced at the end | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
of the line. What is the most valuable part of the recycling | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
process? The most viable is the paper bail but the most valuable | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
commodity would be aluminium cans. -- the most valuable. Paper is the | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
best, but is it mostly paper coming through? We are with Margaret, | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
wastepaper expert. Which paper should we put in? Pretty wrapping | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
paper, you can recycle that. If you scrunch it and it bounces back, you | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
can't recycle it. Thank you, Margaret. Please don't put nappies | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
in, they cause a bit of a nightmare. Glitter, of course. Don't put that | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
in your recycling. And that means glitter nappies are the worst thing | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
you could possibly put in. Keep them out of your rubbish! That is so good | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
to know, if you scrunch it together you can recycle it, but if you do | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
that and it bounces back, you can't put it in. That means it is not pure | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
paper. It has got to go in the normal rubbish, then. Did he say | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
glitter nappies? I thought I misheard. | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
Hospitals these days are full of high tech equipment | :24:14. | :24:15. | |
to treat people who are ill, but could they also benefit | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
from something as simple as a visit from a pet? | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
Senior nurses are calling today for much more use | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
Holly Hamilton has been to Southampton hospital to see how | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
He is a volunteer here at Southampton General Hospital | :24:30. | :24:43. | |
He and his handler, Lindsey, have been delivering therapy | :24:44. | :24:53. | |
to patients and their families for the last four years. | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
A dog in a hospital environment is an incredible social lubricant | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
so you end up talking to people you would never ever talk | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
Nobody would be interested in me coming alone and | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
We come together and it is a privilege for me to have a dog | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
From lowering blood pressure to reducing anxiety and stress | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
the benefits of animal assisted therapy have been documented. | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
Bringing a smile to the face of this 4-year old child is enough. | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
We were told he had a condition that was permanent brain damage | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
and we probably would not expect much more than what we had then, | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
which was a little bit of eye movement. | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
But when they introduced Leo and he smiled for the | :25:49. | :25:50. | |
As soon as you tell Oscar that Leo is coming, he brightens up | :25:51. | :26:01. | |
One of Leo's first patients here was Alice. | :26:02. | :26:13. | |
When she was initially diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
Took a picture of Leo and took it to show her and I said look, | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
the next time, if you want to see Leo you have to come out | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
He has been in our journey for four years, almost. | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
It was nice to have a dog in the hospital. | :26:31. | :26:32. | |
We have dogs at home ourselves so having one in hospital is nice. | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
In a survey, over 50% of nurses said they had worked with animals | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
and nearly all of them agreed it was a benefit to the patient. | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
Despite that, almost 25% said no animals were allowed | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
The connection that people have with animals can be far more | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
profound than it is with the doctors and nurses and their parents | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
As a nurse and as a human being I think we have to think | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
about what else can we do that would make a difference | :27:08. | :27:09. | |
Or if they do not get well, make their day better. | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
Some people may have some reservations. | :27:16. | :27:16. | |
It is important that there are rules and regulations around how it works. | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
I have been here all morning watching the way that the children | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
here have reacted to Leo and to Lindsey and it | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
Some argue that this type of treatment is simply a temporary fix. | :27:31. | :27:42. | |
But Leo's patients are happy for him to keep coming back. | :27:43. | :27:55. | |
He is so cute. I wonder if you get the same effect from stroking your | :27:56. | :28:05. | |
hair. I wasn't expecting that! It has been a strange morning. And | :28:06. | :28:07. | |
there is more to come. It's being billed as | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
the new Downton Abbey. We'll speak to actor | :28:14. | :28:15. | |
Steven Mackintosh who stars in the new wartime | :28:16. | :28:17. | |
drama, The Halcyon. I hope you are feeling better. It is | :28:18. | :28:19. | |
very comforting. Now stop. Hello - this is Breakfast, with | :28:20. | :31:46. | |
Steph McGovern and Charlie Stayt. Russia has promised to respond | :31:47. | :32:00. | |
to the expulsion of 35 of its diplomats from Washington, | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
amid a bitter dispute over alleged interference by the Kremlin in | :32:04. | :32:06. | |
the American presidential election. Obama believes Russia used | :32:07. | :32:08. | |
cyber hacking to try and discredit Hilary Clinton, | :32:09. | :32:10. | |
a claim denied by President Putin. Moscow says retaliatory measures | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
would be considered. 17 people have been taken | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
to hospital after a coach overturned on the M40 this morning | :32:20. | :32:24. | |
while driving through heavy fog. The male driver and 16 | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
passengers suffered broken bones, cuts and bruises | :32:29. | :32:30. | |
when the Oxford Bus Company coach crashed off a slip road at quarter | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
to three this morning. The South Central Ambulance Service | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
said thick fog had made access The AA is urging extreme caution | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
for those heading out on the roads Learner drivers are to be allowed | :32:40. | :32:46. | |
on motorways for the first time under new government plans | :32:47. | :32:53. | |
to improve road safety. The Department of Transport | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
is launching a seven-week consultation on the proposed | :32:58. | :32:59. | |
changes from today. It says the idea is designed | :33:00. | :33:02. | |
to improve awareness A nationwide ceasefire has | :33:03. | :33:05. | |
come into force in Syria between the government | :33:06. | :33:13. | |
and rebel factions. Fighting is said to have stopped | :33:14. | :33:17. | |
in much of the country, but there have been reports | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
of some clashes. A number of organisations are not | :33:22. | :33:23. | |
covered by the truce, Jeremy Corbyn has used his | :33:24. | :33:25. | |
New Year's message to warn against a Brexit deal that he says | :33:26. | :33:29. | |
only protects bankers Mr Corbyn said 2016 would be | :33:30. | :33:32. | |
defined by the decision to leave the European Union, | :33:33. | :33:35. | |
and warned that Labour would not allow the Government to negotiate | :33:36. | :33:38. | |
a deal his party did not agree with. Newly-released government files | :33:39. | :33:41. | |
reveal that guards at Faslane naval base were ordered to shoot suspected | :33:42. | :33:43. | |
intruders, after three people broke The Prime Minister at the time, | :33:44. | :33:46. | |
Margaret Thatcher, who was told of the order, | :33:47. | :33:55. | |
said she was "horrified" Counting down to 2017 will take | :33:56. | :34:12. | |
longer than usual tonight as clock experts compensate for a slowdown in | :34:13. | :34:17. | |
the Earth's rotation. To be precise, it will last an extra second. For | :34:18. | :34:24. | |
the 27th time, the National Physics Laboratory has brought in a leak | :34:25. | :34:29. | |
second to make sure the time according to the Earth's rotation | :34:30. | :34:34. | |
does not fall behind the time set by the atomic clock. Have you got back, | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
Charlie? It has taken us a bit to get around this. My sense is that | :34:39. | :34:43. | |
the extra second is in the count down to midnight. But then, at | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
midnight it goes next to second. You see, I think it is the other way | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
round. That's why it it says the countdown is longer. Shall we go to | :34:54. | :34:59. | |
the sport?! I do know what the atomic clock is, thanks to Ray, who | :35:00. | :35:05. | |
sent me a message! Apparently it tells the time using the frequency | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
of anatomy. Whereas other clocks tell the time based on the rotation | :35:11. | :35:18. | |
of the Earth, which use quartz, and that gives a different time, | :35:19. | :35:23. | |
compared to the atom, apparently! Lets stick to something that I know | :35:24. | :35:25. | |
something about! Swansea have ruled Ryan Giggs | :35:26. | :35:28. | |
out of the running as Giggs had been the early favourite, | :35:29. | :35:31. | |
alongside Wales manager Chris Coleman, who has indicated | :35:32. | :35:35. | |
he will remain with Bayern Munich assistant Paul Clement | :35:36. | :35:37. | |
and ex-Birmingham boss Gary Rowett are now the front runners to take | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
over after Bradley Whoever comes in has | :35:43. | :35:44. | |
to be the right man. I suppose ideally he would be | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
British, knowing the Premier League. But they have to be satisfied | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
he fills the criteria for getting us out of the trouble | :35:54. | :35:55. | |
we find ourselves in. Aston Villa are still unbeaten | :35:56. | :35:58. | |
at home in the Championship, after they denied Leeds United | :35:59. | :36:00. | |
the chance to go third. Leeds have been on good form - | :36:01. | :36:03. | |
and they went ahead in the second But four minutes from time, | :36:04. | :36:06. | |
they conceded a penalty. Jonathan Kodjia put it | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
away to level for Villa. World Player of the Year Cristiano | :36:11. | :36:12. | |
Ronaldo has turned down an offer of ?85 million a year to leave | :36:13. | :36:17. | |
Real Madrid for an unnamed Chinese The news came on the day that | :36:18. | :36:20. | |
Argentina striker Carlos Tevez joined Shanghai Shenhua, | :36:21. | :36:26. | |
becoming one of the highest-paid The Chinese Super League club | :36:27. | :36:29. | |
will pay him ?615,000 a week. Andy Murray's season starts today - | :36:30. | :36:40. | |
he'll face David Goffin in the semifinals of | :36:41. | :36:43. | |
the World Tennis Murray got a bye into the last four, | :36:44. | :36:44. | |
but Goffin had to come past And Rafael Nadal made a good start | :36:45. | :36:55. | |
to his latest comeback from injury, dropping only four games as he beat | :36:56. | :37:07. | |
Tomas Berdych. A wrist injury had troubled Nadal | :37:08. | :37:10. | |
throughout 2016, but there He faces Milos Raonic | :37:11. | :37:12. | |
in the semifinals. And finally, Serena Williams has | :37:13. | :37:15. | |
used the social media platform Reddit to announce | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
that she is engaged Back to where our | :37:19. | :37:20. | |
stars first collided. At the same table we | :37:21. | :37:31. | |
first met by chance. This time he made it | :37:32. | :37:34. | |
not by chance. A rare public declaration of what is | :37:35. | :37:47. | |
going on in her private life. Because she's a very private person. | :37:48. | :37:53. | |
It is a very sophisticated way to do it as well, isn't it, a poem? I like | :37:54. | :37:56. | |
it. Earlier this week, we heard | :37:57. | :38:00. | |
about two wild animals that could be Giraffes have suffered a grave | :38:01. | :38:02. | |
decline in their population - But new figures have shown there has | :38:03. | :38:07. | |
been some good news when it comes to conservation - | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
let's take a look. We're joined now by Niki Rust, | :38:13. | :38:50. | |
from the World Wildlife Fund UK. Good morning to you. So, good news | :38:51. | :39:02. | |
for pandas, pangolins and tigers. But it is a mixed picture, isn't it? | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
Why have they done so well when others haven't? Probably just | :39:08. | :39:12. | |
because there has been a dramatic getting together of conservation | :39:13. | :39:14. | |
organisations and governments and local communities that are really | :39:15. | :39:19. | |
championing these species. For example, when it comes to tigers, | :39:20. | :39:22. | |
tigers live in lots of different countries, and there has been some | :39:23. | :39:26. | |
fantastic work in India, particularly by the Indian | :39:27. | :39:29. | |
government and the local people, to try to conserve this beautiful | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
species. We are looking at some of the images there. Is part of it | :39:35. | :39:41. | |
because, and it seems very trite, people see the image and they love | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
looking at the tiger, and it engages people more than with some other | :39:46. | :39:49. | |
species, is part of it are linked to that? It is, definitely, these | :39:50. | :39:54. | |
charismatic species, the giant and a, the tiger, they are faring far | :39:55. | :39:58. | |
better than the pangolins, for example. Most people do not know | :39:59. | :40:05. | |
what the pangolins are. Tell us a bit more about it? It is a scaly and | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
eat. There are eight species in the world. Unfortunately, it is a | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
delicacy to eat in Southeast Asia. Also the scales are used in | :40:18. | :40:20. | |
traditional Chinese medicine. But the scales do not actually work at | :40:21. | :40:25. | |
all. It is just the same material as your fingernails although it is used | :40:26. | :40:29. | |
for various things, but it does not work. | :40:30. | :40:34. | |
With something like the pangolin, new laws have been brought in to | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
protect them but lots of them are being seized and poached? Another | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
great success story of 2016 is that there was a big conference in | :40:46. | :40:48. | |
Johannesburg a couple of months ago to look at the trade in wildlife | :40:49. | :40:56. | |
species, and the pangolin has been uplifted to appendix one, meaning it | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
is illegal to trade internationally in any pangolin species, which is | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
fantastic. However, just these laws alone do not solve the illegal | :41:06. | :41:11. | |
problem of poaching. Unfortunately in china are couple of days ago | :41:12. | :41:16. | |
there was the biggest seizure of pangolins possibly ever in history, | :41:17. | :41:22. | |
about three tonnes of pangolins, which could have been many thousands | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
of them. We were talking about the rubber moulds like elephants, is | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
there a concern that when you put out the good news stories, the | :41:32. | :41:37. | |
successes, the danger is that people go away thinking, job done -- we | :41:38. | :41:40. | |
were talking about other animals like elephants. Do people stop | :41:41. | :41:45. | |
talking about it so much? In a way, but I think these positive | :41:46. | :41:50. | |
stories motivate people. If all we hear is doom and gloom it is quite | :41:51. | :41:53. | |
possible for people to think, well, there is nothing I can do, they are | :41:54. | :41:58. | |
a lost cause, but that is not the case. With, say, the giant panda and | :41:59. | :42:08. | |
tigers, we are showing but with resources, money and collaboration | :42:09. | :42:10. | |
we can definitely help solve this extinction crisis. Thank you very | :42:11. | :42:12. | |
much, Niki. Let's get the weather, | :42:13. | :42:15. | |
with Matt, who's at the Tower of London this morning - | :42:16. | :42:17. | |
and it's looking very festive. He is still on his skates, I am | :42:18. | :42:27. | |
pleased to see. You have opened your belt on your weatherman's romper! | :42:28. | :42:33. | |
Definitely keeping me warm this morning, you need it because it is | :42:34. | :42:37. | |
chilly. We are in the towel of London, we are having fun skating, | :42:38. | :42:43. | |
but serious business here. To tell me more is Jim Duncan, one of the | :42:44. | :42:49. | |
beefeaters here. Good morning. How are you? Very well, thank you for | :42:50. | :42:53. | |
joining us. Tell us more about the tower of London and the ice rink. We | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
are in the ice rink inside the moat, which was billed jeering the reign | :42:59. | :43:03. | |
of Edward the first but it became like an open cesspit and had the | :43:04. | :43:06. | |
reputation of being the largest cesspit in London, all of the sea | :43:07. | :43:11. | |
which use to pour into gear and it stank to high heaven. During the | :43:12. | :43:15. | |
reign of Queen Victoria, the Duke of Wellington made a representation | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
that it was drained and filled in, and it was filled in with shingle | :43:21. | :43:24. | |
and oyster shells about 15 feet below our feet. Then it became used | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
as a parade ground for soldiers during the Second World War it was | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
one big allotment, they grew a lot of their own vegetables. That is the | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
use of the moat, it is iconic that we have an ice rink here, because | :43:38. | :43:42. | |
the River Thames used to freeze over in the winter time. This is the | :43:43. | :43:47. | |
towel of London, where I live. How do you become a Beefeater? You | :43:48. | :43:58. | |
have to be from the military, the Army, Navy, Air Force or Royal | :43:59. | :44:00. | |
Marines. We would have done at least 22 years of military service and | :44:01. | :44:03. | |
achieved the rank of Warrant Officer, then you can apply to | :44:04. | :44:08. | |
become a yeoman water, the nickname is the beefeaters. We all live | :44:09. | :44:12. | |
inside the tower of London. Air spend Christmas and New Year here? | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
The Tower of London is based on tradition and historic events that | :44:18. | :44:21. | |
happen here every single day, 24/ seven. So on Christmas Day, what a | :44:22. | :44:26. | |
venue to usual Christmas dinner, but we have to continue the tradition is | :44:27. | :44:32. | |
every single day. And New Year? Thank you for having us. You're very | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
welcome. Thank you. Amazing, lovely to speak | :44:38. | :44:43. | |
to Jim. It has been a little bit of fun this morning, you will probably | :44:44. | :44:46. | |
notice behind me it is misty and foggy, that is the story across much | :44:47. | :44:51. | |
of southern and eastern England. Looking at the forecast, dense fog | :44:52. | :44:55. | |
around across parts of the Midlands, South East England and East Anglia. | :44:56. | :45:00. | |
Frosty conditions, temperatures below freezing. A much milder start | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
elsewhere, temperatures in double figures across northern and western | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
areas. Rainy across northern Scotland all day long, some of our | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
train happy throughout today, and it will be all the way through to | :45:14. | :45:18. | |
tomorrow. Some brighter spells, north-east Scotland, north-east | :45:19. | :45:21. | |
England, eastern Wales, sunshine at times and temperatures around 12 or | :45:22. | :45:27. | |
13, maybe 14 or 15 around the Moray Firth, weather fog lingers across | :45:28. | :45:30. | |
parts of East Anglia and the south-east it will stay at three deg | :45:31. | :45:32. | |
all day. Staying quite misty across the | :45:33. | :45:38. | |
south-east of the country, a little bit of frost. Mild elsewhere | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
tonight, the weather front will bring raid across northern Scotland | :45:43. | :45:47. | |
into the start of New Year's Eve. -- will bring rain. A mild enough | :45:48. | :45:53. | |
end to the year. Cloud around pretty much all the country on New Year's | :45:54. | :45:57. | |
Eve, there will be brighter spots in east Wales and eastern England. | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
All will see reign at some point, reaching Northern Ireland and | :46:04. | :46:05. | |
southern Scotland by the end of the afternoon at the start of the | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
evening. Temperatures in Shetland and | :46:10. | :46:12. | |
Lerwick, it is set to get colder. If you are at celebrating as we hit | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
midnight, you can expect cold conditions across all of Scotland, | :46:18. | :46:21. | |
clear skies for many, some wintry showers across the north and east in | :46:22. | :46:25. | |
particular. Northern England looking windy and wet with heavy bursts of | :46:26. | :46:30. | |
rain towards midnight, to finish 2016 across the Midlands, East | :46:31. | :46:39. | |
Anglia and the South of England, many will be try, fairly cloudy, a | :46:40. | :46:42. | |
bit of a breeze but not to chilly. Eight or 9 degrees at midnight. | :46:43. | :46:47. | |
Probably more chance of rain or drizzle in the south-west. Cardiff | :46:48. | :46:51. | |
and Newport might escape with a dry ends before the rain arrives, but | :46:52. | :46:55. | |
the rest of Wales is looking particularly wet and windy. | :46:56. | :46:58. | |
Northern Ireland, clear skies, colder weather, one or two showers. | :46:59. | :47:04. | |
Cold into New Year's Day for many, staying mildest for longest across | :47:05. | :47:08. | |
the South with patchy rain and drizzle. | :47:09. | :47:11. | |
Sunny conditions, one of two showers, but temperatures on the | :47:12. | :47:14. | |
drop again. Thank you for joining us, I managed | :47:15. | :47:18. | |
to stay on my feet, but back to Charlie and Steph. Give as your | :47:19. | :47:26. | |
final skate off! Goodbye! Fantastic. Do you think he can go on | :47:27. | :47:41. | |
one leg? He will hurt himself! That is a good point. You are just | :47:42. | :47:46. | |
waiting for me to fall! Sure to happen just after we leave | :47:47. | :47:48. | |
him. For fans of the world's only | :47:49. | :47:50. | |
consulting detective The new series of Sherlock | :47:51. | :47:52. | |
begins on New Year's Day. Details and plot lines have been | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
kept a closely guarded secret, but the show's writers have | :47:57. | :47:58. | |
described this fourth Breakfast's Tim Muffett has been | :47:59. | :48:00. | |
to meet the star of the show, Benedict Cumberbatch, | :48:01. | :48:05. | |
to see if he can squeeze out I'm sure there are many, | :48:06. | :48:07. | |
many things you can't tell us That I'm in a new series | :48:08. | :48:14. | |
of Sherlock, it's series four. It really has been fantastically | :48:15. | :48:20. | |
rich and challenging and new, and that's the thing that keeps us | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
coming back for more. The roads we walk | :48:25. | :48:29. | |
have demons beneath. And yours have been waiting | :48:30. | :48:33. | |
for a very long time. When you see a Sherlock script | :48:34. | :48:36. | |
for the first time, what happens? Pretty much the first thing you get | :48:37. | :48:39. | |
is just overawed at how extraordinary the imagination | :48:40. | :48:42. | |
and the amount of work that's gone into this sort of creation, | :48:43. | :48:44. | |
this furtherment, I suppose, of the Conan Doyle originals, | :48:45. | :48:46. | |
and involves, and then you start picking up the details that relate | :48:47. | :48:49. | |
to the original stories, and then just beautiful | :48:50. | :48:52. | |
little character arcs. At the beck and call | :48:53. | :49:02. | |
of a screaming, demanding baby. Waking up at all hours | :49:03. | :49:05. | |
to obey his every whim? All you do is clean up their mess, | :49:06. | :49:07. | |
pat them on the head... You talk about the beginning, 2010, | :49:08. | :49:14. | |
so much has changed since then, Because then social media | :49:15. | :49:20. | |
was around, but it wasn't as big Today we've been seeing some | :49:21. | :49:25. | |
of the scenes being shot outside, there are crowds there, | :49:26. | :49:29. | |
they are tweeting about it. It's strange when we're | :49:30. | :49:31. | |
on what we use as Baker Street, North Gower Street, because it has | :49:32. | :49:35. | |
become a little bit and expectation and, | :49:36. | :49:37. | |
you know, if you raise an eyebrow But you also have to complete | :49:38. | :49:43. | |
a day's filming, and they are very They don't want to be an obstacle | :49:44. | :49:47. | |
to what they and eventually enjoy so much, which is what we get | :49:48. | :49:51. | |
in the can as a result Does it put you off your character | :49:52. | :49:54. | |
at all, your acting? If it was vitriolic hate, I suppose | :49:55. | :49:58. | |
that would be a lot harder. But there's none of | :49:59. | :50:02. | |
that, let's face it. I mean, you'd have to go pretty far | :50:03. | :50:04. | |
to upset this crowd, they're incredibly loyal, | :50:05. | :50:08. | |
and respectful of what What's the very worst thing you can | :50:09. | :50:10. | |
do to your very best friends? I don't think some people | :50:11. | :50:14. | |
here realise quite how big I mean, everywhere I go, | :50:15. | :50:17. | |
I'm sort of shocked. I thought, "OK, I'll be | :50:18. | :50:22. | |
in Nepal and maybe a few This was when I was | :50:23. | :50:24. | |
filming Doctor Strange. On the second or third day | :50:25. | :50:27. | |
when they realised it wasn't Christian Bale or someone else | :50:28. | :50:32. | |
wearing a beard they were There were just hundreds | :50:33. | :50:34. | |
of people chanting Sherlock. It always astonishes me quite how | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
global its reach is. What's the most unusual place you've | :50:39. | :50:40. | |
been spotted as Sherlock? Kathmandu has to be one | :50:41. | :50:42. | |
of them, I would say. In a Buddhist temple, visiting | :50:43. | :50:45. | |
a Tibetan Buddhist monestary. He's a really important | :50:46. | :50:47. | |
figure in Tibetan culture. And it was bizarre, it was just | :50:48. | :50:49. | |
like we'd entered a sort of fan den. We were the ones that | :50:50. | :50:52. | |
were the privileged audience, and he was acting like he was | :50:53. | :50:54. | |
the privileged audience. Well, she is a retired superagent | :50:55. | :50:57. | |
with a terrifying skill set, It's phenomenal, you know, it seems | :50:58. | :51:07. | |
to go everywhere, this programme. And the original | :51:08. | :51:10. | |
stories did, you know? They had a massive worldwide | :51:11. | :51:13. | |
audience, the Conan Doyle books. So I guess it's an extension | :51:14. | :51:16. | |
of that, but within a modern media. He got through it without giving | :51:17. | :51:19. | |
anything away! Sherlock returns to our | :51:20. | :51:31. | |
screens on New Year's Day Billed as the new Downton Abbey, | :51:32. | :51:36. | |
ITV's new period drama The Halcyon Set in a grand London hotel | :51:37. | :51:39. | |
during the Second World War, it offers us a glimpse | :51:40. | :51:45. | |
into the colourful lives of both those who serve | :51:46. | :51:47. | |
and those who stay there. Steven Mackintosh plays the man | :51:48. | :51:50. | |
who has more insight than most - We'll speak to him in a moment, | :51:51. | :51:53. | |
but first let's see him in action. The Royal Suite is | :51:54. | :52:01. | |
prepared, your Lordship. I'm afraid his Lordship has | :52:02. | :52:17. | |
a rather nasty headache. He made me promise he | :52:18. | :52:51. | |
would not be disturbed. Might I suggest you take some tea | :52:52. | :52:57. | |
in the atrium while you wait? TE in the atrium sounds very loaded, | :52:58. | :53:26. | |
all of a sudden! So, you get a sense from looking at that about the time | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
and place. The grandeur of the hotel? Exactly. That is exactly it. | :53:31. | :53:37. | |
It is a grand, 5-star hotel in central London at the beginning of | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
the war. It is an opulent, grand Palace of a place. And the hotel is | :53:44. | :53:51. | |
owned by Lord and Lady Hamilton, played by Olivia Williams and Alex | :53:52. | :53:55. | |
Jennings. And I'm the manager, Richard Garland. I have raised my | :53:56. | :53:59. | |
daughter on my own for the past ten years, and she's working in the | :54:00. | :54:03. | |
hotel, too. You have the relationships, the conflict, the | :54:04. | :54:06. | |
passions, the desires in the hotel. And then you have the world conflict | :54:07. | :54:11. | |
at the time, this monumental period in history. And so it is about that | :54:12. | :54:16. | |
contrast, really. And inevitably, war will affect everybody | :54:17. | :54:26. | |
within the The Halcyon. But in the meantime, it is about business as | :54:27. | :54:33. | |
usual. For you as well, did you actually do some work with a hotel | :54:34. | :54:36. | |
manager to see what it would be like? I did, actually. I did watch a | :54:37. | :54:42. | |
manager at work in a swanky London hotel. And it was fascinating. | :54:43. | :54:49. | |
Because that level of service is something else. It's a different | :54:50. | :54:57. | |
thing. It's about detail, it's about remembering the detail, and it's | :54:58. | :55:02. | |
about discretion. That the other brilliant thing about this job as | :55:03. | :55:07. | |
well, it's about discretion. And Garland, my character, is brilliant | :55:08. | :55:11. | |
at that. Your secret is safe with violent. I'm loving this image here, | :55:12. | :55:17. | |
trying to guess in advance, because we do not know the characters yet, | :55:18. | :55:23. | |
who are the nice guys, who are the scheming ones, can you give us an | :55:24. | :55:32. | |
insight? So, we have Alex Jennings and Olivia Williams, they played | :55:33. | :55:35. | |
Lord and Lady Hamilton, they own the hotel. That's my daughter Emma. We | :55:36. | :55:45. | |
have the singer in the band. Some of them look a bit scheming. We have | :55:46. | :55:53. | |
Freddie, who's Lord and Lady Hamilton's son. We have an American | :55:54. | :55:57. | |
journalist. So this is the ensemble cast? Yes, a lot of brilliant | :55:58. | :56:03. | |
characters in this thing. But I think this first episode does it so | :56:04. | :56:08. | |
brilliantly. It is tricky in a first episode to introduce everybody to a | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
new set of characters civil you get these teases of all the key | :56:14. | :56:17. | |
relationships, but not at the expense of the drama. And it moves | :56:18. | :56:22. | |
at such a pace Bridger think gives it a distinctive feel. You have been | :56:23. | :56:27. | |
in many dramas - how does this compare? It was a breath of fresh | :56:28. | :56:36. | |
air for me, this. I had not done anything period for quite a long | :56:37. | :56:40. | |
time. I had been involved in quite a lot of temporary things. But of this | :56:41. | :56:45. | |
came along at a perfect time and so I relished every minute of it. The | :56:46. | :56:50. | |
production values on this are so brilliant, it looks fantastic, and | :56:51. | :56:53. | |
everybody was working to such a high-level, it was a joy to do. So, | :56:54. | :57:00. | |
The Halcyon, Monday evening, 9pm, on ITV. Time to go for tea in the | :57:01. | :57:08. | |
Atrium, don't you think?! You say that in such a weird way as well! I | :57:09. | :57:14. | |
actually might just go and do that! Time now for | :57:15. | :58:49. | |
That is it from us for this morning. Tomorrow, we will revisit some of | :58:50. | :59:09. | |
the power. Read you have shared with us here on Breakfast in 2016. Have a | :59:10. | :59:11. | |
cracking day. Bye-bye. The roads we walk have demons | :59:12. | :59:22. | |
beneath them... ..and yours have been waiting | :59:23. | :59:27. | |
for a very long time. | :59:28. | :59:31. |